Today's Topics:
1. The Critical Block will return to the streets this year on
May Day by CNT de Valladolid (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
May Day by CNT de Valladolid (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, UCL AL #314 - Culture, Read: Poetry, Victor M., "We,
four-legged humans" (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
four-legged humans" (ca, de, it, fr, pt)[machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. ucadi: Myanmar and Human Rights - What's New, Newsletter,
Issue 145 - April 2021. (it) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Issue 145 - April 2021. (it) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. libertarian sicily: social liberation: The King is naked
(it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
After the exception of the year 2020 in which the situation forced us to stay at
home, next Saturday May 1, International Labor Day, the Critical Block will again
denounce in the street the situation of the working class, who is being, again,
the great pagan of crises, this time the one caused by Covid. ---- The Critical
Block, coordination of collectives among which are CNT, Obrero Bloc, Coordinadora
de Pensionistas, Unemployed in motion and CGT will join this year to the historic
demands of May Day, the new struggles caused by the Covid world and the ERTEs,
layoffs, abuses and new abuses that we are suffering as a society in general and
as workers in particular.
In the absence of 15 days for that May Day, in the next few days we will reel
off, publish and disseminate some of the different situations, abuses and
struggles that we have to face and respond to.
In these moments, more difficult if possible, it is very important that the
working class be united and present a common front against those guilty of the
ruin in which they have sunk us, capitalism and the patriarchal system.
https://www.cntvalladolid.es/el-bloque-critico-volvera-este-ano-a-la-calle-el-primero-de-mayo/
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Message: 2
Here you are, it was already a year ago ... The appearance of the coronavirus and
its procession of liberticidal measures. Instead of a birthday cake, a poem
filled with anger ! ---- We wake up one morning ruled in animal skins / limited
to walks in the block / frustrated with stamping on the leash / the 60-hour week
for the horizon / To gallop with the grace of the hamster / we are locked between
4 walls / What to become goats / Out the fear of blue uniforms / of those who
make the traffic / who can beat up strangle bump mutilate / Outside the fear of
white uniforms / of those who heal and who save / who can sting you at Rivotril
to finish you off / Even the vet wants you dead / comrade ham / When you come
across a uniform / roll a dice to decide your fate / Monstrous ponytails / in
front of Mac Do's Drive filing his big teeth / Everyone at the stable! / The ecus
laugh / to accelerate deforestation / to increase zoonoses and coronatrucmuches /
to suppress the peoples of the South from their food crops / to GMOize the
biosphere / eradicate insects / May birds no longer have land or sea ! / Faster
Mouloud ! Faster Sonia ! / Faster, faster, faster ! / And a smile while serving
the customer ! / The unions out ! Hush ! Break with a smile ! / to carbonize the
atmosphere more quickly / In the tidal wave of hearses / of the climatic unrest
that is coming / we will not eat carbonara pasta on a PQ bed / Because the sheep
that go to the Mac Do stable / confused "carbonize" with "carbonara»/ Let's raise
our paws / Soft tuna throwing ourselves into the nets / It's time for citizens'
mash / It's time to watch the neighbor / It's time to beat of the pitiful / To
fill one's stomach with pitifulness and to confine one's thoughts / The deceitful
scientists who govern us / no longer talk about RFID under the skin / Because we
are doing the beautiful to the sound of the call of progress / To the great
blabla of the theme astral of the God TINA / We accept to be taken monthly to be
slaves / To increase our skin with a flat screen / at a price defying any
criticism in the long term / To quench your fear of this great slaughterhouse
that you have has built / We promise you citizen security that will show you /
the dangers on your flat screen / As we protected Assange even in the toilet /
against the virus of freedom / Invisible handcuffs /People flat - SELL / People
flat on their stomachs / People flattened / This is not the way out of the
slaughterhouse rails / We are confusing the smoke from Auschwitz / with that from
the holiday barbecue / We left Nicolas Chancre -oseur spitting on 1968 / François
Gouda marching on the CNR / Micron sweeping the Popular Front / to bring us back
step by step to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was shooting at
the demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / here we are the face / We are deaf blind /
The din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We stand in solidarity
with tax exiles / Work makes free / Growth makes free / makes free / makes free /
makes death / Now that we must die between work and consumption / Put on masks to
use muzzles / Silence we die/ Flattened people / This is not the way out of the
slaughterhouse rails / We confuse the smoke of Auschwitz / with that of the
holiday barbecue / We let Nicolas Chancre-oseur spit on 1968 / François Gouda
walk on the CNR / Micron sweeping the Popular Front / to bring us back step by
step to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was shooting at the
demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / Here we are / We are deaf blind / The din
shopping carts is the sound of our chains / We stand in solidarity with tax
exiles / Work makes free / Growth makes free / makes free / makes free / makes
death / Now that we must die between work and consumption / Let's put on masks
for use muzzles / silence we die/ Flattened people / This is not the way out of
the slaughterhouse rails / We confuse the smoke of Auschwitz / with that of the
holiday barbecue / We let Nicolas Chancre-oseur spit on 1968 / François Gouda
walk on the CNR / Micron sweeping the Popular Front / to bring us back step by
step to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was shooting at the
demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / Here we are / We are deaf blind / The din
shopping carts is the sound of our chains / We stand in solidarity with tax
exiles / Work makes free / Growth makes free / makes free / makes free / makes
death / Now that we must die between work and consumption / Let's put on masks
for use muzzles / silence we dielet's confuse the smoke of Auschwitz / with that
of the holiday barbecue / We let Nicolas Chancre-oseur spit on 1968 / François
Gouda walk on the CNR / Micron sweep the Popular Front / to bring us step by step
back to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army fired on the
demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / We are not the face / We are deaf-blind / The
din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We are in solidarity with tax
exiles / Work makes free / Growth sets free / sets free / sets free / sets people
dead / Now that we have to die between work and consumption / Let's put on masks
to serve as muzzles / Silence we dielet's confuse the smoke of Auschwitz / with
that of the holiday barbecue / We let Nicolas Chancre-oseur spit on 1968 /
François Gouda walk on the CNR / Micron sweep the Popular Front / to bring us
back step by step to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was
shooting at the demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / We are not the face / We are
deaf-blind / The din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We stand in
solidarity with tax exiles / Work makes free / Growth sets free / sets free /
sets free / sets people dead / Now that we have to die between work and
consumption / Let's put on masks to serve as muzzles / Silence we diePopular
Front / to bring us step by step back to / the noise of boots / At the time when
the army was shooting at the demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / Here we are / We
are deaf blind / The din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We stand
in solidarity with tax exiles / Work sets free / Growth sets free / sets free /
sets free / sets dead / Now that we have to die between work and consumption /
Let's put on masks to serve as muzzles / Silence we diePopular Front / to bring
us step by step back to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was
shooting at the demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / we are not the face / We are
deaf blind / The din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We stand in
solidarity with tax exiles / Work sets free / Growth sets free / sets free / sets
free / sets dead / Now that we have to die between work and consumption / Let's
put on masks to serve as muzzles / Silence we diesets free / sets free / sets
people dead / Now that we have to die between work and consumption / Let's put on
masks to serve as muzzles / Silence we diesets free / sets free / sets dead / Now
that we have to die between work and consumption / Let's put on masks to serve as
muzzles / Silence we die!
GENERAL CRÈVE
Victor M.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Poesie-Victor-M-Nous-humains-a-quatre-pattes
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Message: 3
The world is amazed by the military repression in Myanmar, opposed at the popular
level by an entire people, with an absolutely pacifist resistance action, as in
the Buddhist tradition. As a symbol of this resistance by an extremely composite
opposition from a political point of view, Aung San Suu Kyi, formerly a Nobel
Peace Prize winner, but persecutor of the Rohingya, an ambiguous character,
therefore, like the current Ethiopian leader Sahle-Uork Zeudé , also Nobel Peace
Prize. It is evident that this is one of the specialties of the honored with this
title who, like Obama, obtained it in the aftermath of the bombing of Syria or
the Nobel Prize winner Henry Kissinger, specialist in coups and wars.
On February 1, 2021, the Burmese army, called Tatmadaw, which brings together all
the militarized forces of the country, including the police and customs, and owns
and manages the industrial activities of the country which are all nationalized,
regained the power it has managed almost continuously since 1961. Land ownership
is instead allowed to private individuals, excluding those belonging to the
Rohingya component of the country's population,
concentrated in the Rakhine State, which occupies half of the coasts of Myanmar,
starting from the borders with Bangladesh and proceeding southwards.
The Rohingyas and Buddhist fundamentalism
Like all religious denominations, the Buddhist one has a complex structure.
Inside there are the pacifist and tolerant component, but the fundamentalist one
is very widespread, which is identified as, in other religions, with cultural and
political phenomena, such as nationalism, ethnic identity and with underlying
economic reasons. The Rohingya are a Muslim faith group and belong to the poorest
strata of the
population. It is an Islamic ethnic group that speaks Rohingya.
Those belonging to this population are not recognized as Burmese citizens, but
are considered Muslim Bengalis, who arrived in the country with the British
colonization. The Myanmar government does not recognize them as citizens and
denies them most of their fundamental rights. They cannot move freely in the
country and live in overcrowded camps located one kind outside the city of
Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine. In recent months the situation has dramatically
worsened due to some clashes with the armed forces. Since the end of August 2017,
about 866 thousand Rohingya victims of violence with hundreds of people killed,
including many children. they fled to Bangladesh, further aggravating the
situation in the refugee camps where drinking water and food are scarce, the
hygiene situation has deteriorated. Thousands of families, including children,
sleep in the open, devoid of everything.
Rohingya do not have access to the same services as Buddhist citizens; they
cannot leave their Rakhine settlements without permission; they cannot own land
and it is estimated that at least 55% of the Rohingya who arrived in Bangladesh
are children.
A divided state
Myanmar is a country divided administratively into 14 states, 5 zones, 1
territory of the Union, but what is more serious is the economic, social and
productive division. In addition, the country is home to most of the so-called
golden triangle, the center of opium, heroin and methamphetamine production, so
the territory is controlled by militias of traffickers who coexist with the
presence of the army. After the 2008 crisis, the country
it had partially opened; the military's control over civil society had loosened
and, thanks also to the development of tourism, a certain well-being had grown.
Now, however, the pandemic crisis has blocked the tourist industry and beyond,
exports have decreased, and the military has felt it necessary to regain direct
control of the country, with the international support of China which for
geostrategic reasons uses the country as an outlet for its presence in the Bay of
Bengal and as a place of production of low-cost goods.
Even if the international media refer to the opposition as Aung San Suu Kyi, the
situation is therefore quite different. The forces of the opposition to the army
have coalesced against the military and to date there are 700 dead, thousands of
injured and arrested. Victims of violence are mainly women - beaten and raped:
the military solidly control power, regardless of the protests of a developing
civil society that is the real opposition. Its left-wing components have, for the
moment, postponed the settling of accounts with the President-elect, herself
guilty of violating human rights to the detriment of the military.
of the literally poor Rohingya. Their battle is fought on two fronts and can be
won, provided they manage to free themselves from the political role of Buddhist
and nationalist fundamentalists.
http://www.ucadi.org/2021/04/13/myanmar-e-diritti-umani/
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Message: 4
Always be wary of the "saviors of the Fatherland", of those who sacrifice
themselves "for the good of the country". Normally these are people who have
buried the homeland and the country, members of brotherhoods that smell of money
and incense, formed between Lyons and sacristies showing off positions of
government and sub-government and presidencies of boards of directors. ---- The
pandemic, the economic crisis, the common enemy, all the bourgeois dialectical
paraphernalia that is thrown up on us every day, has the sole purpose of
justifying the "union sacrée" found among the parties, the end of role-playing
games and the dramatization of the clash. But, once the mask has been dropped,
the costumes and underpants are thrown away, the king returns to appear naked.
And as in Andersen's fairy tale, no one has to say it, indeed everyone, with an
effort of hypocrisy and cowardice we should make our own the false concerns of
the bourgeois masters and the bloodsuckers of high finance, following them
blindly, but to serve as slaughterhouse fodder, as it's always been.
Economic crisis? Come on, even the poor chickens compressed in intensive farms
know that the rich have become richer, that a handful of billionaires have more
economic resources than half of the world's population, and even more in power to
decide on the fate of all. The condition of those who count the few coins in
their pockets to arrive in the evening with something in their stomach is quite
different. There are many other precarious lives to which their policies and
interests have condemned millions of people. What crisis are they talking about,
that of the millionaire dividends that the shareholders of joint-stock companies
continue to share on the one hand, while on the other hand they ask (and get) the
millionaire "refreshments" from governments?
We are witnessing, in Italy, the neoliberal revival of the policies that in the
last 40 years have demolished that welfare resulting from the pressures of the
working and subordinate classes, with the pouring of immense wealth into the
accounts of parasitic capitalists. State and institutions act as a piggy bank for
private enterprise, according to a false and destructive ideology that repeats a
deafening refrain: to save industry, production, the economy, to save the
country, to save us all. The logic of profit, of production, first of all. It
happened at the beginning of the pandemic, when the bosses forced businesses not
to close; it still happens, even with the vaccine issue, which is turning out to
be a big binge for some pharmaceutical companies, holders of patents and in a
world-wide quasi-monopoly regime. State and market go hand in hand, and the
second controls the first, decides the public spending and the recovery fund,
drives the same huge expenditure on armaments and war, functional to capitalist
expansion abroad and to the stability of the system.
And when, somewhere, riders or students, VAT numbers or workers thrown on the
street by piloted bankruptcies and company closures, they take to the streets to
shout "the king is naked", and that the real war is not against viruses and
pandemics, but against exploited and subordinates, here is the police abandoning
the role of bridesmaid and unsheathing their batons and nails, thanks to an
emergency regime based on prohibitions, controls, fines, fear, blackmail.
The Draghi government arose to fulfill this function; What is the American
multinational McKinsey doing to advise the government for only 30,000 euros? Her
men should accompany the government in the digital transition; in reality we are
faced with a consolidated action of lobbying conducted through characters (Colao
and his acolyte collaborators) to guide the government and its choices, and
create a resistant wall against the probable riots of "miserable" old and new
poor. An operation to prevent the neoliberal order from going haywire,
reaffirming and imposing the policy of sacrifices and the cancellation of
residual rights (to work, retirement, access to care and services, education and
culture) by consolidating the privileges of the rich, the poverty and insecurity
of the population, and the ability to face anger and discontent by adopting the
usual means of division (protests separated by category) and repression. We have
to get used to: every crisis (and this pandemic in particular) makes capital
strong in its management of the government of things and of the nation. Once
again against the popular masses, according to a class opposition that the bosses
continue to practice in a big way, while on the left many have made mea culpa and
enlisted in their service, selling the battered litany that the fate of the
masses depends on health of the privileged classes.
From these facts we must start to try to overturn a narrative and above all a
concrete situation of exploitation, domination, oppression.
Pippo Gurrieri
http://www.sicilialibertaria.it/2021/04/11/il-re-e-nudo/
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(it) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
After the exception of the year 2020 in which the situation forced us to stay at
home, next Saturday May 1, International Labor Day, the Critical Block will again
denounce in the street the situation of the working class, who is being, again,
the great pagan of crises, this time the one caused by Covid. ---- The Critical
Block, coordination of collectives among which are CNT, Obrero Bloc, Coordinadora
de Pensionistas, Unemployed in motion and CGT will join this year to the historic
demands of May Day, the new struggles caused by the Covid world and the ERTEs,
layoffs, abuses and new abuses that we are suffering as a society in general and
as workers in particular.
In the absence of 15 days for that May Day, in the next few days we will reel
off, publish and disseminate some of the different situations, abuses and
struggles that we have to face and respond to.
In these moments, more difficult if possible, it is very important that the
working class be united and present a common front against those guilty of the
ruin in which they have sunk us, capitalism and the patriarchal system.
https://www.cntvalladolid.es/el-bloque-critico-volvera-este-ano-a-la-calle-el-primero-de-mayo/
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Message: 2
Here you are, it was already a year ago ... The appearance of the coronavirus and
its procession of liberticidal measures. Instead of a birthday cake, a poem
filled with anger ! ---- We wake up one morning ruled in animal skins / limited
to walks in the block / frustrated with stamping on the leash / the 60-hour week
for the horizon / To gallop with the grace of the hamster / we are locked between
4 walls / What to become goats / Out the fear of blue uniforms / of those who
make the traffic / who can beat up strangle bump mutilate / Outside the fear of
white uniforms / of those who heal and who save / who can sting you at Rivotril
to finish you off / Even the vet wants you dead / comrade ham / When you come
across a uniform / roll a dice to decide your fate / Monstrous ponytails / in
front of Mac Do's Drive filing his big teeth / Everyone at the stable! / The ecus
laugh / to accelerate deforestation / to increase zoonoses and coronatrucmuches /
to suppress the peoples of the South from their food crops / to GMOize the
biosphere / eradicate insects / May birds no longer have land or sea ! / Faster
Mouloud ! Faster Sonia ! / Faster, faster, faster ! / And a smile while serving
the customer ! / The unions out ! Hush ! Break with a smile ! / to carbonize the
atmosphere more quickly / In the tidal wave of hearses / of the climatic unrest
that is coming / we will not eat carbonara pasta on a PQ bed / Because the sheep
that go to the Mac Do stable / confused "carbonize" with "carbonara»/ Let's raise
our paws / Soft tuna throwing ourselves into the nets / It's time for citizens'
mash / It's time to watch the neighbor / It's time to beat of the pitiful / To
fill one's stomach with pitifulness and to confine one's thoughts / The deceitful
scientists who govern us / no longer talk about RFID under the skin / Because we
are doing the beautiful to the sound of the call of progress / To the great
blabla of the theme astral of the God TINA / We accept to be taken monthly to be
slaves / To increase our skin with a flat screen / at a price defying any
criticism in the long term / To quench your fear of this great slaughterhouse
that you have has built / We promise you citizen security that will show you /
the dangers on your flat screen / As we protected Assange even in the toilet /
against the virus of freedom / Invisible handcuffs /People flat - SELL / People
flat on their stomachs / People flattened / This is not the way out of the
slaughterhouse rails / We are confusing the smoke from Auschwitz / with that from
the holiday barbecue / We left Nicolas Chancre -oseur spitting on 1968 / François
Gouda marching on the CNR / Micron sweeping the Popular Front / to bring us back
step by step to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was shooting at
the demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / here we are the face / We are deaf blind /
The din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We stand in solidarity
with tax exiles / Work makes free / Growth makes free / makes free / makes free /
makes death / Now that we must die between work and consumption / Put on masks to
use muzzles / Silence we die/ Flattened people / This is not the way out of the
slaughterhouse rails / We confuse the smoke of Auschwitz / with that of the
holiday barbecue / We let Nicolas Chancre-oseur spit on 1968 / François Gouda
walk on the CNR / Micron sweeping the Popular Front / to bring us back step by
step to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was shooting at the
demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / Here we are / We are deaf blind / The din
shopping carts is the sound of our chains / We stand in solidarity with tax
exiles / Work makes free / Growth makes free / makes free / makes free / makes
death / Now that we must die between work and consumption / Let's put on masks
for use muzzles / silence we die/ Flattened people / This is not the way out of
the slaughterhouse rails / We confuse the smoke of Auschwitz / with that of the
holiday barbecue / We let Nicolas Chancre-oseur spit on 1968 / François Gouda
walk on the CNR / Micron sweeping the Popular Front / to bring us back step by
step to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was shooting at the
demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / Here we are / We are deaf blind / The din
shopping carts is the sound of our chains / We stand in solidarity with tax
exiles / Work makes free / Growth makes free / makes free / makes free / makes
death / Now that we must die between work and consumption / Let's put on masks
for use muzzles / silence we dielet's confuse the smoke of Auschwitz / with that
of the holiday barbecue / We let Nicolas Chancre-oseur spit on 1968 / François
Gouda walk on the CNR / Micron sweep the Popular Front / to bring us step by step
back to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army fired on the
demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / We are not the face / We are deaf-blind / The
din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We are in solidarity with tax
exiles / Work makes free / Growth sets free / sets free / sets free / sets people
dead / Now that we have to die between work and consumption / Let's put on masks
to serve as muzzles / Silence we dielet's confuse the smoke of Auschwitz / with
that of the holiday barbecue / We let Nicolas Chancre-oseur spit on 1968 /
François Gouda walk on the CNR / Micron sweep the Popular Front / to bring us
back step by step to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was
shooting at the demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / We are not the face / We are
deaf-blind / The din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We stand in
solidarity with tax exiles / Work makes free / Growth sets free / sets free /
sets free / sets people dead / Now that we have to die between work and
consumption / Let's put on masks to serve as muzzles / Silence we diePopular
Front / to bring us step by step back to / the noise of boots / At the time when
the army was shooting at the demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / Here we are / We
are deaf blind / The din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We stand
in solidarity with tax exiles / Work sets free / Growth sets free / sets free /
sets free / sets dead / Now that we have to die between work and consumption /
Let's put on masks to serve as muzzles / Silence we diePopular Front / to bring
us step by step back to / the noise of boots / At the time when the army was
shooting at the demonstrators / Le Pen - Marshal / we are not the face / We are
deaf blind / The din of shopping carts is the noise of our chains / We stand in
solidarity with tax exiles / Work sets free / Growth sets free / sets free / sets
free / sets dead / Now that we have to die between work and consumption / Let's
put on masks to serve as muzzles / Silence we diesets free / sets free / sets
people dead / Now that we have to die between work and consumption / Let's put on
masks to serve as muzzles / Silence we diesets free / sets free / sets dead / Now
that we have to die between work and consumption / Let's put on masks to serve as
muzzles / Silence we die!
GENERAL CRÈVE
Victor M.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Poesie-Victor-M-Nous-humains-a-quatre-pattes
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Message: 3
The world is amazed by the military repression in Myanmar, opposed at the popular
level by an entire people, with an absolutely pacifist resistance action, as in
the Buddhist tradition. As a symbol of this resistance by an extremely composite
opposition from a political point of view, Aung San Suu Kyi, formerly a Nobel
Peace Prize winner, but persecutor of the Rohingya, an ambiguous character,
therefore, like the current Ethiopian leader Sahle-Uork Zeudé , also Nobel Peace
Prize. It is evident that this is one of the specialties of the honored with this
title who, like Obama, obtained it in the aftermath of the bombing of Syria or
the Nobel Prize winner Henry Kissinger, specialist in coups and wars.
On February 1, 2021, the Burmese army, called Tatmadaw, which brings together all
the militarized forces of the country, including the police and customs, and owns
and manages the industrial activities of the country which are all nationalized,
regained the power it has managed almost continuously since 1961. Land ownership
is instead allowed to private individuals, excluding those belonging to the
Rohingya component of the country's population,
concentrated in the Rakhine State, which occupies half of the coasts of Myanmar,
starting from the borders with Bangladesh and proceeding southwards.
The Rohingyas and Buddhist fundamentalism
Like all religious denominations, the Buddhist one has a complex structure.
Inside there are the pacifist and tolerant component, but the fundamentalist one
is very widespread, which is identified as, in other religions, with cultural and
political phenomena, such as nationalism, ethnic identity and with underlying
economic reasons. The Rohingya are a Muslim faith group and belong to the poorest
strata of the
population. It is an Islamic ethnic group that speaks Rohingya.
Those belonging to this population are not recognized as Burmese citizens, but
are considered Muslim Bengalis, who arrived in the country with the British
colonization. The Myanmar government does not recognize them as citizens and
denies them most of their fundamental rights. They cannot move freely in the
country and live in overcrowded camps located one kind outside the city of
Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine. In recent months the situation has dramatically
worsened due to some clashes with the armed forces. Since the end of August 2017,
about 866 thousand Rohingya victims of violence with hundreds of people killed,
including many children. they fled to Bangladesh, further aggravating the
situation in the refugee camps where drinking water and food are scarce, the
hygiene situation has deteriorated. Thousands of families, including children,
sleep in the open, devoid of everything.
Rohingya do not have access to the same services as Buddhist citizens; they
cannot leave their Rakhine settlements without permission; they cannot own land
and it is estimated that at least 55% of the Rohingya who arrived in Bangladesh
are children.
A divided state
Myanmar is a country divided administratively into 14 states, 5 zones, 1
territory of the Union, but what is more serious is the economic, social and
productive division. In addition, the country is home to most of the so-called
golden triangle, the center of opium, heroin and methamphetamine production, so
the territory is controlled by militias of traffickers who coexist with the
presence of the army. After the 2008 crisis, the country
it had partially opened; the military's control over civil society had loosened
and, thanks also to the development of tourism, a certain well-being had grown.
Now, however, the pandemic crisis has blocked the tourist industry and beyond,
exports have decreased, and the military has felt it necessary to regain direct
control of the country, with the international support of China which for
geostrategic reasons uses the country as an outlet for its presence in the Bay of
Bengal and as a place of production of low-cost goods.
Even if the international media refer to the opposition as Aung San Suu Kyi, the
situation is therefore quite different. The forces of the opposition to the army
have coalesced against the military and to date there are 700 dead, thousands of
injured and arrested. Victims of violence are mainly women - beaten and raped:
the military solidly control power, regardless of the protests of a developing
civil society that is the real opposition. Its left-wing components have, for the
moment, postponed the settling of accounts with the President-elect, herself
guilty of violating human rights to the detriment of the military.
of the literally poor Rohingya. Their battle is fought on two fronts and can be
won, provided they manage to free themselves from the political role of Buddhist
and nationalist fundamentalists.
http://www.ucadi.org/2021/04/13/myanmar-e-diritti-umani/
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Message: 4
Always be wary of the "saviors of the Fatherland", of those who sacrifice
themselves "for the good of the country". Normally these are people who have
buried the homeland and the country, members of brotherhoods that smell of money
and incense, formed between Lyons and sacristies showing off positions of
government and sub-government and presidencies of boards of directors. ---- The
pandemic, the economic crisis, the common enemy, all the bourgeois dialectical
paraphernalia that is thrown up on us every day, has the sole purpose of
justifying the "union sacrée" found among the parties, the end of role-playing
games and the dramatization of the clash. But, once the mask has been dropped,
the costumes and underpants are thrown away, the king returns to appear naked.
And as in Andersen's fairy tale, no one has to say it, indeed everyone, with an
effort of hypocrisy and cowardice we should make our own the false concerns of
the bourgeois masters and the bloodsuckers of high finance, following them
blindly, but to serve as slaughterhouse fodder, as it's always been.
Economic crisis? Come on, even the poor chickens compressed in intensive farms
know that the rich have become richer, that a handful of billionaires have more
economic resources than half of the world's population, and even more in power to
decide on the fate of all. The condition of those who count the few coins in
their pockets to arrive in the evening with something in their stomach is quite
different. There are many other precarious lives to which their policies and
interests have condemned millions of people. What crisis are they talking about,
that of the millionaire dividends that the shareholders of joint-stock companies
continue to share on the one hand, while on the other hand they ask (and get) the
millionaire "refreshments" from governments?
We are witnessing, in Italy, the neoliberal revival of the policies that in the
last 40 years have demolished that welfare resulting from the pressures of the
working and subordinate classes, with the pouring of immense wealth into the
accounts of parasitic capitalists. State and institutions act as a piggy bank for
private enterprise, according to a false and destructive ideology that repeats a
deafening refrain: to save industry, production, the economy, to save the
country, to save us all. The logic of profit, of production, first of all. It
happened at the beginning of the pandemic, when the bosses forced businesses not
to close; it still happens, even with the vaccine issue, which is turning out to
be a big binge for some pharmaceutical companies, holders of patents and in a
world-wide quasi-monopoly regime. State and market go hand in hand, and the
second controls the first, decides the public spending and the recovery fund,
drives the same huge expenditure on armaments and war, functional to capitalist
expansion abroad and to the stability of the system.
And when, somewhere, riders or students, VAT numbers or workers thrown on the
street by piloted bankruptcies and company closures, they take to the streets to
shout "the king is naked", and that the real war is not against viruses and
pandemics, but against exploited and subordinates, here is the police abandoning
the role of bridesmaid and unsheathing their batons and nails, thanks to an
emergency regime based on prohibitions, controls, fines, fear, blackmail.
The Draghi government arose to fulfill this function; What is the American
multinational McKinsey doing to advise the government for only 30,000 euros? Her
men should accompany the government in the digital transition; in reality we are
faced with a consolidated action of lobbying conducted through characters (Colao
and his acolyte collaborators) to guide the government and its choices, and
create a resistant wall against the probable riots of "miserable" old and new
poor. An operation to prevent the neoliberal order from going haywire,
reaffirming and imposing the policy of sacrifices and the cancellation of
residual rights (to work, retirement, access to care and services, education and
culture) by consolidating the privileges of the rich, the poverty and insecurity
of the population, and the ability to face anger and discontent by adopting the
usual means of division (protests separated by category) and repression. We have
to get used to: every crisis (and this pandemic in particular) makes capital
strong in its management of the government of things and of the nation. Once
again against the popular masses, according to a class opposition that the bosses
continue to practice in a big way, while on the left many have made mea culpa and
enlisted in their service, selling the battered litany that the fate of the
masses depends on health of the privileged classes.
From these facts we must start to try to overturn a narrative and above all a
concrete situation of exploitation, domination, oppression.
Pippo Gurrieri
http://www.sicilialibertaria.it/2021/04/11/il-re-e-nudo/
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