INTERNATIONAL NEWS
By INFO@MLKP.INFO
May Day, the International Day of Union, Solidarity and Struggles of the working class, led to a fight of will which had lasted for several months in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. The state provides the Taxim Square, Istanbul, the place where 37 people had been killed on May Day in 1977 for demonstrating on that day, this ban continued during this year of 2009.
However after the clashes that took place here last year, this year the Turkish fascist state was forced to make some maneuvers when it saw the determination of the demonstrators to keep on walking to the Taxim Square. The Istanbul governor said that he would only allow an "acceptable mass participation" consisting of only union leaders and representatives to be on the Taxim Square. The other demonstrators were to go to the Kadikoy Square. The aim was very clear - to separate the revolutionary leading forces from the workers in order not to be to together on this May Day Celebration. The first May Day was celebrated in Turkey 100 years ago.
The police hindered thousands from going to Taxim Square and had some of the yellow unions listen and they went to the other demonstration.
Taxim Square resounded with revolutionary slogans and they resisted the police in every street when the police barred them from coming unto the Square. In spite of the state imposed ban thousands managed to fight through the lines of police. Our MLCP militia was in the front ranks and fought the police in order to get the people unto the Square. Our militia was composed of members of the Communist Youth Organization and fought against the police slingshots, rubber bullets, truncheons and Molotov cocktails.
The May Day celebrations finished with the regional rally on May 2 at the Kurdish City of Urfa.
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| Chavez of Venezuela |
President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela addressed on May 21, 2008, 400-strong workers from the industrialized heartland of Guayana where he announced plans for implementing a series of radical measures, largely drawn from proposals coming from the workers' discussions held that day. He said to the workers: "I can see, sense and feel the roar of the working class! When the working class roars, the capitalists tremble!"
To the cheers of the workers, Chavez announced the nationalization of six iron briquette, ceramics and steel companies, one after another, to the great delight of the workers present.
He said that this process was started in order to create basic integrated industries as part of building socialism. He said that "Every factory should be a school, in order, as Ché said, to create not only briquettes and sheets and steel and aluminum, buy also, above all, new men and women, a new society, a socialist society."
The National Assembly passed a law ensuring state control over a range of private companies, land estates and other large companies owned by multinational corporations. The government also expropriated over 300 boats, 30 private barges, 30 sea terminals and docks, 3 hydro dams and workshops where there are large crude oil reserves on Lake Maracaibo.
The program is for revitalization of the entire working class and to stop any exploitation of workers by capitalist owners or multinational corporations.
http://www.aporrea.org/actualidad.Vn134 881.html
The past cannot be undone, but the future can change. As its newly elected Secretary-General, I promise that the United Nations will no longer be a passive enabler of genocide. Therefore I will ask the General Assembly to meet in special session at the earliest possible time to strip Israel of its membership...Ordinarily a motion to expel a member nation would have to come at the recommendation of the Security Council, but this is not an ordinary motion. Because Israel is in violation of its terns of admission, it is not a member in good standing, so the UN has every right to declare General Assembly Resolution 273 as null and void. Since Israel's membership depends on adherence to that resolution, its expulsion is automatic.
Ben Ki-Moon said that on the 60th Anniversary of Israel's entry into the UN. Few people know that that Israel is the only nation to be given a conditional admission into the UN.
Under the General Assembly Resolution 273, Israel was admitted on the condition that it grant all Palestinians the right to return to their homes and to also receive compensation for lost or damaged property, according to the UN General Assembly Resolution 194, paragraph 11.
http://www.gregrfettom.com/intpolitics.200 9.o511.htm
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