Category: social revolution

Wukan rebellion to snowball across China?

Adam Ford

Xue Jinbao addressing a meeting before his death at the hands of the state

Xue Jinbo – died in police custody, apparently the victim of a state killing. The state news agency claimed that Xue was the victim of a heart attack, but the bruised knees, bloodied nostrils and broken thumbsreported by his son in law indicate this took place under torture.The furious Wukan villagers banded together and drove the police and Communist Party officials out of town. They then set about running things for themselves.

The struggle began in September, when Wukan residents became suspicious that the local government was in the process of selling common farming land to Country Garden – a company which builds residences for the rich.Protesters began blocking roads and attacking buildings in an industrial park.
Three villagers were arrested at the Communist HQ demonstrations, and the next day hundreds laid siege to the police station, demanding their release. The state responded to this challenge with unrestrained ferocity, with police and mercenaries beating villagers apparently

Wukan VICTORY over State

without discrimination – men and women, children and the elderly.

One of the leaders – respected village butcher Xue Jinbo – died in police custody, apparently the victim of a state killing. The state news agency claimed that Xue was the victim of a heart attack, but the bruised knees, bloodied nostrils and broken thumbsreported by his son in law indicate this took place under torture.

The furious Wukan villagers banded together and drove the police and Communist Party officials out of town. They then set about running things for themselves. Meanwhile, cops maintained a blockade a few miles away. At this point, the central government’s strategy appeared to be one of containment. Despite the blocking of Wukan-related internet searches within China itself, some international media were in town to spread the word, and villagers even set up their own press office. People from nearby villages managed to smuggle food in – their solidarity directly fuelling the resistance. There was also some wealth redistribution from the wealthiest to the poorest, ensuring that everyone would survive the blockade.

Chinese police backed down as Wukan uprising got worldwide coverage

Frustrated, the Communist leadership eventually cut a deal. Though details are scarce and unreliable, the provincial government has reportedly agreed to buy back land it had seized, and allow the peasants to collectivise it once more. Detained villagers have been released, and an ‘investigation’ into the death of Xue Jinbao has been announced.

There are growing indications that the national export-led economy is being dragged down by rising recessionary tides in the western world. Factory bosses have already been compelled to attack jobs, wages and conditions across the country, and a strike movement seems to be gathering pace. During the first recession of this global depression, Chinese leaders threw money at the problem, and seemed to have headed off a broad revolt. But that money has now been spent, and indeed led to more problems, as a property bubble seems fit to burst It it now possible to envisage a largescale uprising of the Chinese industrial proletariat, which would no doubt find support in  villages like Wukan.

read full article HERE  (with thanks!  http://thecommune.co.uk/

La Floresta: Ateneu i Cooperativa desallotjat per Mossos antiavalots

 

Desallotgen l’antiga seu de Caixa Terrassa a la Floresta

Àgata Guinó
Poble Els Mossos d’Esquadra han desallotjat a primeres hores d’aquest matí el local de la Caixa Terrassa a la Floresta, que estava ocupat des de mitjan novembre. L’espai s’utilitzava com Ateneu i com a seu d’una cooperativa ecològica

L’antiga seu de Caixa Terrassa a la Floresta, ubicada a la plaça Miquel Ros, ha estat desallotjada a primeres hores d’aquesta matí de dimecres pels Mossos d’Esquadra. En el moment de l’entrada dels cossos de seguretat, l’espai no estava ocupat per cap persona. Al matí, els ocupants del local han arribat i han trobat els antiavalots que els hi han permès treure els llibres, materials i altres objectes que tenien dins l’antiga seu bancària.

Els ocupes han lamentat l’actuació policial ja que han explicat que el local donava servei d’Ateneu al barri i que ara cap espai cobrirà aquestes necessitats. També han exposat que abans del desallotjament no havien rebut cap avís judicial. D’altra banda, han afirmat que hi havia una quinzena d’agents antiavalots de la policia catalana, però que no hi ha hagut cap incident i han assegurat que els Mossos s’han portat correctament. Segons fonts dels usuaris del local, els cossos de seguretat han esbotzat la porta principal de l’edifici per entrar. A les nou del matí tres paletes tapiaven la porta d’entrada al local amb rajoles.

Fonts policials han explicat que una dotació d’antiavalots, més tres patrulles de la comissaria dels Mossos d’Esquadra de Sant Cugat s’han desplaçat fins a la plaça Miquel Ros per desallotjar el local ocupat a les set del matí. A més han destacat l’ordre pacífic en què s’ha portat a terme l’actuació.

Ateneu i cooperativa ecològica
El local ocupat donava el servei d’Ateneu del barri. Cada dia es programaven diferents activitats i tallers en els quals podien participar els infants. Per aquest dimecres a la tarda hi havia programat un taller de fang per a la mainada. A més, l’espai s’utilitzava com a seu de la cooperativa ecològica el senglar. Els membres d’aquesta utilitzaven el local per intercanviar productes d’horts ecològics de la zona.

Repsol criminales FUERA de Ecuador YA!

Campaña para la retirada de la subvención a Repsol de los fondos de cooperación española

Contra que con fondos de cooperación al desarrollo se financien actividades que refuerzan la presencia de Repsol en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana

Campaña ciudadana para evitar la subvención, con dinero público, de actividades destinadas a la filantropía e imagen corporativa en el área afectada por el Bloque 16, en Ecuador. Los importantes pasivos ambientales e impactos sociales de la actividad hidrocarburífera obliga a esta compañía a realizar campañas en miras de apaciguar los reclamos y el descontento de la población.

La Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, AECID, ha concedido recientemente una subvención a la Fundación Repsol YPF del Ecuador por un monto total de 149.932 euros, para la ejecución de un proyecto en zona de influencia de la operación de Repsol YPF en la Amazonía ecuatoriana. (Resolución de 25 de noviembre, CAP 2º procedimiento, línea II.7) Las actividades de Repsol en América Latina y, específicamente, en Ecuador, han sido ampliamente denunciadas por la sociedad civil a ambos lados del Atlántico por daños ambientales, sociales y violaciones de los derechos humanos de las comunidades y pueblos afectados.

En Ecuador, Repsol opera el Bloque 16, ubicado sobre el territorio ancestral del pueblo waorani, afectando también a población kitchwa, gran parte del Parque Nacional Yasuní y el territorio intangible de los pueblos no contactados Tagaeri y Tagomenani. Repsol ejerce soberanía territorial sobre el Bloque 16, controlando la entrada y salida de personas, en clara violación de los derechos territoriales de los publos afectados. A pesar de la falta de información sobre la situación en el interior del Bloque, Repsol se ha visto obligada a reconocer el vertido de 14.000 barriles de crudo en 2008. Existen denuncias recurrentes sobre el aumento de enfermedades relacionadas con la actividad petrolera y daños hídricos y ambientales en la zona.

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DESTINATARIO: DIRECTOR DE LA AGENCIA ESPAÑOLA DE COOPERACIÓN INTERNACIONAL repsolmemata

scribo para mostrar mi preocupación por la reciente concesión de una subvención a la Fundación Repsol YPF en Ecuador. Repsol incurre en prácticas contrarias a los derechos humanos internacionalmente reconocidos, así como los principios recogidos en la política de la cooperación española, el Plan Director y estrategias sectoriales tales como la Estrategia de la Cooperación Española con los Pueblos Indígenas. Solicitamos que no se utilice el dinero público computado como Ayuda Oficial para el Desarrollo para financiar proyectos de empresas trasnacionales que, además de tener cuantiosos beneficios (más de 4.000 millones de euros en 2010), muestran poco respeto por las normas socio-ambientales y los derechos humanos internacionalmente reconocidos. Confío en que AECID cumplirá con los compromisos asumidos por España internacionalmente.  Atentamente,

Domingo 1ro de enero de 2012, por

http://repsolmata.ourproject.org/spip.php?article212

2011: bad weather or Runaway Climate Chaos?

climate chaos..five hundred million dead trees in Texas

      We can’t say just one weather disaster is Climate change. But when there are dozens of disasters, way over the norm, with 5 of the hottest years ever in the last decade…  that’s runaway uncontrolled climate chaos.

   So it’s tempting to say  it serves Texas right, when they suffer the worst droughts in their history. Greedy predator Texas politicians and corporations have led the campaign  that’s put back Climate Change control by decades, till it’s almost too late to save 1000’s of species, including even the human race.

Over 1200 people died in last week’s typhoon in Mindanao, and we can’t say that’s just climate change, but Christmas  isn’t even in the typhoon season, only that the sea is hotter than ever before.

    So it must be tempting for the Philipinos, who hardly produce CO2, to blame the Texans in their tank like 4X4’s for their dead relatives, and rejoice that Texas is becoming a desert.

But this would be a mistake, only a tiny minority, the 1%, of the Texans are

1250 dead: climate criminals blamed for xmas typhoon

responsible for maintaining the suicidal capitalist system, the rest have little choice and of course the decimated natural world is entirely blameless.

Every week we hear about a new climate disaster, and it will get worse. Excess CO2 takes decades to work through the system, and this year was yet another record high in emissions.

Very soon it will be time to put the 1% of Climate Criminals on trial for their atrocities against the planet.

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Drought and wildfires: Welcome to climate change in Texas

By Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / December 29, 2011

AUSTIN — If this is not climate change, then this is exactly what climate change will be in as little as a decade. What has been happening in Texas, with these unprecedented (in time frames that matter) droughts and wildfires, is exactly what the climate scientists have been warning us about for over 20 years. We have been building up to this point since about the turn of the century, and now ecosystems have tipped over the edge. Climate feedbacks have kicked in hard.

The Texas Forest Services tells us that a half billion trees have died. Many more will die in the next five to 10 years from disease and insect infestation allowed by the damage that has already been done. These are the trees that have died in the drought, not the fires.

The first of this series of drought in 2005/6 was just classified as extreme. The last two have been one category worse than extreme — the exceptional category. The last 12 months were drier than the worst 12 months of the great drought of the 1950s. This has been a $10 billion drought, with another $1 billion in damages from the fires.

Worse, it’s hotter now. This summer was 4.9 degrees warmer than average. This may not seem like a lot, but think how sick you have been in the past if you have ever had a 102.9 degree temperature. The reason that increased heat makes such a big difference is that extra heat greatly increases evaporation intensifying the effects of drought. In other words, the same drought is much worse if it is only a little hotter…….

READ MUCH MORE HERE.. Courtesy The Rag Blog Tambien en ESPAÑOL  http://cinabrio.over-blog.es/article-hecatombe-climatica-

In Moscow demo: anarchists,feminists, LGBT activists

An open microphone assembly was held within the giant Moscow demonstrations

Almost all the speakers at a makeshift assembly were unanimous that the opposition status, consider themselves the ideologues of the protest movement, just want to get into power and do not intend to defend the interests of ordinary people. It is unlikely that peace, even thousands, meetings will lead to some radical changes. Defend the rights people can only do by fighting against the state and capital, and building around libertarian attitude.

When podium held by the free “opposition” oligarch Prokhorov, in black and red series he shouted, “Get in your Courchevel” and “The Power of millions, not the millionaires.” Anarchists and other participants in the meeting tried to block billionaire. Unfortunately, its passage further provided personal protection, but after Prokhorov flying snowballs.

After 16 hours, when some protesters began to disperse, and on the prospect of Sakharov became freer, and the column of anarchists and anti-fascists have joined together with her group of feminists, LGBT activists and individual representatives of the organized left-wing organizations has moved closer to the stage. The anarchists chanted “Freedom, equality, anarcho-communism,” “Higher, higher, black flag, the state chief enemy,” “Fascism shall not pass!”, “Our country – all of humanity!”(During a speech to the main podium speakers Nazi views), “All politics – crooks and thieves,” “Our candidate – self-government”, “Come on out, bring us a city,” “Down with fascism and capitalism,” “Path to Freedom – a revolution! “And other slogans.

After the meeting a column of anarchists, along with other protesters managed to arrange a procession from the expanded attributes and lit fireworks in the alley and Orlikova Kalanchevskaia street. Standing in a cordon police decided not to detain demonstrators.

About 18 hours, even at the metro station “Red Gate”, the ultra-right attacked a group of anarchists, who were returning from the rally. Police arrested along with neo-Nazis three anarchists, but they were soon released.

Fascist Crimes crimes in Spain to be investigated

Argentina Investigates Human Rights Crimes of Spain’s Franco Era – IPS ipsnews.net

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Argentina Investigates Human Rights Crimes of Spain’s Franco Era – IPS ipsnews.net: BUENOS AIRES, Dec 28, 2011 (IPS) – A judge in Argentina has begun to investigate human rights crimes committed during Spain’s civil war and the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco (1936-1975).

This month, federal judge Mar�a Servini asked Spain for information on Spanish military officials, as part of a new investigation based on a lawsuit filed in April 2010 by human rights lawyers in Argentina in the name of relatives of victims of the Franco dictatorship.

The judge requested the names of military officers involved in the Franco regime; lists of victims of forced disappearance and summary execution; lists of children who were stolen from their parents during the dictatorship; and the names of companies that allegedly benefited from the forced labour of political prisoners.

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Huelga de Hambre contra el Sistema/ Hunger Strike vs. the System,

Huelga de Hambre contra el sistema/Hunger strike against the system  (in English below)

 La situación económica que prercariza a los más desfavorecidos, no es fruto de una “crisis” sino de una ESTAFA producida por el sistema financiero y respaldada por los poderes públicos de todo el Estado español. A su vez, estos poderes públicos están respaldados por todos los políticos institucionalizados del país, desde la derecha, pasando por los nacionalistas, hasta la “izquierda”, con su muda política de “quien calla, otorga”, quienes, en vez de tener la más mínima decencia de abandonar todos los parlamentos para dejar gobernar a los ladrones en solitario, participan democráticamente del latrocinio institucionalizado.

Los ricos, cada vez son más ricos y cada vez pagan menos impuestos.  Los pobres, cada vez somos más pobres y cada vez pagamos más impuestos.  Los esfuerzos de nuestra supervivencia, sólo están destinados al enriquecimiento de los ladrones institucionalizados.

Por tanto, yo Francisco Javier Cañadas Gascón –Xavi para los amigos- nacido y residente en la ciudad de Barcelona, en plenas facultades mentales decido unilateralmente declararme en “Huelga de Hambre y Sed, indefinida” a partir de 31 de diciembre de 2011, a las 12,00h ante la puerta principal de la Generalitat de Catalunya, situada en Pl. Sant Jaume. Y exijo, porque en esta ocasión no es de recibo pedir a los políticos ladrones institucionalizados, los siguientes puntos, para deponer mi actitud:

1.- Eliminación por Decreto Ley del Copago sanitario.

2.- Absolución sin cargos de los 20 compañeros y compañeras acusados de terrorismo por el juez Eloy Velasco de la Audiencia Nacional, por el “Cas Parlament” del 15 de junio de 2011, porque considero que la disidencia no es terrorismo y sí lo es el “latrocinio político institucionalizado”.

3.- Abolición inmediata de todos los desahucios, con carácter retroactivo desde 2008.

4.- Abolición inmediata de la Monarquía.

5.- Eliminación, por decreto ley de la cámara del senado.

6.- Nacionalización de toda la Banca-Usura.

7.- Reducción del 75% de las retribuciones de todos los “Políticos Institucionalizados” de España.

8.- Reducción en un 200% de los presupuestos de Defensa e Interior.

9.- Requisación de todas las cuentas situadas en paraísos fiscales y expulsión permanente del país de todos sus propietarios.

10.- Aumento en un 200% de las partidas presupuestarias de Sanidad, Educación, Cultura y Servicios Sociales.

¿Cómo puedes colaborar?

Traduciendo el texto al catalán perfecto y enviándolo a esta dirección de mail, para poder fotocopiar el Comunicado en Castellano y en Catalán.Haciendo difusión masiva del comunicado, vía internet y redes sociales, nacionales e internacionales.Fotocopiar el documento en las cantidades que a cada cual le sea posible y llevar las hojas a Pça. Sant Jaume a partir del 31 de diciembre de 2011 a las 12,00h.

Y sobre todo compañía, aunque sea una o dos personas, alternativamente, durante todas las horas del día.

AVISO: Sólo haré declaraciones ante los medios alternativos de información, por tanto, abstenerse mercenarios de los “mass-media”.

¡¡ SEMBRANDO ANARQUÍA, PARA RECOGER KAOS ¡!  En Barcelona, a 22 de diciembre de 2011

http://soliobrera.cnt.es/secciones/social/

 

 

Hunger strike against the system / Hunger Strike Against the system

The economic situation prercariza the disadvantaged, not the result of a “crisis” but a SCAM produced by the financial system and supported by governments around the Spanish State. In turn, these public authorities are supported by all political institutionalized in the country, from the right, to the nationalists, to the “left” with its policy change “who remains silent, gives” who, instead of having the slightest decency to leave all parliaments to stop thieves govern alone, participate democratically in the institutionalized theft.

The rich are becoming richer and more and pay less taxes. The poor, we are increasingly poor and increasingly pay more taxes. The efforts of our survival, are only intended to enrich the institutionalized thieves.

Therefore I Cañadas Francisco Javier Gascón, Xavi for friends, born and residing in the city of Barcelona, ​​in sound mind decided unilaterally declared an indefinite “Hunger and Thirst Strike, undefined” from December 31, 2011, to the 12.00 h at the front door of the Generalitat de Catalunya, located in Plaça Sant Jaume. And I demand, because this time is not acceptable to ask politicians institutionalized thieves, the following points, to depose my attitude:

1 .- Elimination of Copayment health Decree.

2 .- Absolution without charge of 20 colleagues accused of terrorism by Judge Eloy Velasco of the National Court, on the “Cas Parlament” of June 15, 2011, because I think that dissent is not terrorism, and yes it is the “institutionalized political thievery.”

3 .- immediate abolition of all foreclosures, retroactively from 2008.

4 .- immediate abolition of the monarchy.

5 .- Disposal, by decree of the senate chamber.

6 .- Nationalization of the entire Banking and Usury.

7 .- 75% reduction of the salaries of all the “Political Institutionalized” from Spain.

8 .- Reduced to 200% of the budgets of Defense and Interior.

9 .- requisition of all accounts located in tax havens and permanent expulsion from the country of all its owners.

10 .- Increase by 200% of the budget of Health, Education, Culture and Social Services.

How can you help?
 Photocopy the  in Castilian and massive dissemination Catalán.  Statement via the Internet and social networks, national and internacionales.Fotocopiar the document in the amounts that each where possible and bring the sheets to PCA. Sant Jaume Sq, from December 31, 2011 at 12:00 pm

And most of all company, even one or two people, alternatively, during all hours of the day.

NOTICE: I will only statements to the alternative media, therefore, refrain mercenaries of the “mass media”.

 In Barcelona, ​​on December 22, 2011

http://soliobrera.cnt.es/secciones/social/