Tract Controversies
NOTE: The situation is extremely tense today Wednesday, February 9. The Egyptian police and army were killed in several locations across the country, video evidence of these new crimes (a young man alone in an alley coolly shot and killed by a cop and a truck that crushed the protesters in a provincial town) Several police stations and public buildings were destroyed in retaliation. We can only share the anguish of writer's blog "cries of Egypt" accessible Libé.A political protest have added several social movements on wages or working conditions in the arsenals of Port Said ( north-east), in several private companies working on the Suez Canal (east) or at the Cairo airport. Our brave
unions called yesterday to go demonstrate in front of embassies throughout Egypt, but that appeal one month after the start of popular uprising is spent in a paragraph so thin and inconspicuous that only rogue historians of the future This snippet will extract to to believe an immediate mobilization of labor aristocrats, unfortunately not followed ...
I reiterate, given the dangerous situation and the risk of repression more incredible, the need to take to the streets around here in public places, not in front of the embassies of shit, but to lobby against our government complicit not because there are few of our ministers would spend holidays with lavish killers today but because I like the breath of an anonymous commentator previous message: THE DICTATORS DO NOT LINING BUT OBEY their Western sponsors. This means that we must leave aside the fable of a dictatorship who cling to power (no way out ... so that Germany is ready to host Mubarak) but we will DIRECTLY to RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY KILLING OUR STATE CITIZEN!
SOLIDARITY WITH OUR CLASS EGYPTIAN BROTHERS! WE WANT
READY TO RESPOND TO SHOOT OF MERCENARIES OF STATE - a state that ours is an accomplice (she has supplied weapons until last Friday) AGAINST PEOPLE WITHOUT ARMS!
What Does North Africa and the Middle East? The shock wave that began in Tunisia (déc.2010) and seems to extend to the entire region, currently has its epicenter in Egypt (February 2011). What these countries have in common for a commotion at one of them produces similar protests and revolts in others?
They first present a characteristic identical: whether monarchies or republics, all are authoritarian or dictatorial, corrupt, where prevailing nepotism and clannish. Despite this, they are not isolated from the rest of the world and suffer the dominant influences. The generalization of the capitalist mode of production and its social relations favors the dissolution of relationships archaic in which these plans have so far drawn their raison d'etre. It is also to consider the role played by the great powers in the permanence of these dictatorships, as well as the tensions that run their politico-economic existence.
The economic crisis and social changes:
The populations of these countries live cultural and sociological changes. These are all new factors in the causes that set in motion the masses opposing modes and social policies. These mutations affect primarily the youth who took advantage of a education has reached a level almost comparable to that of Western countries, an important factor of openness to the world, its realities (cf. the role of Internet in the events) but also its mirages. Most of these countries, apart from the oil monarchies, have no alternative but to try to win a place "workshop" of rich countries in economic competition. This allowed them, while Europe and the United States entered a recession, to maintain. A certain level of development (4.5% for Tunisia). But this is insufficient to ensure integration desirable on the labor market of thousands of Tunisian graduates and others. Worse, most of them have no other choice but to exile or vending, also submitted to bribe the policeman. Moreover, one consequence of the crisis, inflation of food commodities is a recurring factor aggravating the revolts of angry people. The social factors are also new contradictions. The populations of these countries are becoming increasingly urbanized, and made the traditional relationships tend to dissolve in favor of a proletarianization marked by the expansion of slums. Most of the working class saw small business subsistence, small businesses, small crafts, etc.., Workers of small businesses, to "shop" for foreign investors, and the intermittent work due to tourism. These conditions are given by the economic and social structure of these countries.
Despite the presence of opposition Islamist dream-like in these countries, the substitution of monarchical dictatorships theocratic republics, much of the population and youth have other aspirations that were expressed in the movements and revolts in recent months. This is obviously the social nature of the challenge that determines the terms of what to aspire to the masses in motion. This so-called emerging countries proletariat can not rise to the claims that can not be in direct opposition with their perception of the harm done to them. He wants: less corruption, equal justice, less cronyism, work, in short, the establishment of modern values that ensure the freedom of the individual in a market context.
It also wear the power of these dictatorships, for most thirtysomethings, in addition to the above factors, it must understand the simultaneity of protest. Do not try this elementary process of revolutionary ferment of rebellion, anti-capitalist process on which the working class in these countries will start to advance its anti-capitalist demands. Moreover, we can not compare these countries with Europe, both in terms of the proletariat as their place in the global economy, nor in terms of their importance in social relations and political superpowers. It should be noted that the Western proletariat is affected by the crisis, not overreact to the slow deterioration of life of a part of the population, nor to the austerity measures that begin to apply in Europe. The explosions of anger in Greece or eight weeks against the pension reform in France have not resulted in a clear way forward in terms of class struggle, even if some critical unions manifested through the General Meetings held Interprofosionnal.
The protests in Tunisia and Egypt with their means implemented, that is to say the first mass demonstration and peaceful, with few moments of anger face of provocation, then the attack and firing regimes of political symbols, the seats of the ruling parties, demonstrate the determination and strong rejection of state riders. The formation of vigilance committees to protect neighborhoods from the incursions of robbers (Egypt as far as Tunisia) are manifestations of protection from a popular movement, a form of social solidarity, refusal of a destructive disorder. These committees were immediate answers, not more, against the rioters and those of Ben Ali Mubarak to create disorder and justify the repression of corrupt dictators. However, these committees, contrary to the illusions of leftists have nothing to do with embryos of Workers' Councils. In the absence of class struggle, other expressions of solidarity and clarification in relation to youth events and the unemployed have not formed or expressed so ..
The imperialist powers and the countries of the region
Given the relationship between the superpowers and the countries of North Africa as the Middle East (such as their economic arrangements, political and strategic), changes that may occur in this region concerned about Europe and the United States. Europe has significant interests in North Africa where it provides energy. In addition, she wants to stop or at least control the influx of immigrants from the Maghreb and black Africa especially, the main access routes pass through Morocco (Strait of Gibraltar) and the Tunisian coast to Italy. Police and customs agreements in force with those countries that seem to adhere, where overcrowding and mistreatment of immigrants in these camps that contain filtration Morocco and Tunisia. These other areas of non-law are not subject to any interest from any quarter. The U.S., meanwhile, extended their geopolitical influence throughout the Maghreb as before in the Middle East, while France kept its economic interests, however, significantly dehorned with the case of Tunisia, in its former colonies. But the contagion affecting Tunisian Egypt, could shake up the real American strategic device that is the Middle East (Suez Canal, Israel relations ...). Obama shows more circumspect with Mubarak than it was against Ben Ali. He hesitated on the solution called "democratic" to put in place while expressing support for peaceful demonstrations and freedom of the internet.
Where will we
Who will enjoy these popular movements? Apart from those who aspire to the downfall of all dictatorships, that is to say their victims, it is remarkable that these movements are made in Tunisia and Egypt, no leader or political parties at their head. He even expressed within them refusing to see anyone do it the spokesperson or representative. We must deepen this aspect to get a closer appreciation of reality to understand the nature of these events seem to correspond to any predetermined pattern. The aspirations of these people in revolt are certainly not anti-capitalist, and it is unlikely that the future brings any satisfaction, the only perspective is that the class struggle in developed countries makes the junction with the class struggle in the country emerging (or vice versa) when the global crisis of capitalism will be felt all its destructive consequences on the entire planet.
February 4, 2011, Controversies
Controversies
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