La justicia no sólo es ciega en México, está enferma de muerte y la ayuda militar de Estados Unidos es parte del mal

Declaración del Partido de la Libertad Socialista de EU

FREEDOM SOCIALIST PARTY
Publicado por Partido Obrero Socialista en
El Socialista en la Red # 102
18 de Junio 2015
Seattle, Estados Unidos.- El Partido de la Libertad Socialista de Estados Unidos –FSP, por sus siglas en inglés-  denuncia los arrestos y detenciones de manifestantes en Guerrero y Oaxaca que se opusieron a las elecciones el 7 de junio.

Llamamos al Presidente Peña Nieto y al gobernador de cada uno de los estados donde las detenciones ocurrieron para que liberen a todos los prisioneros políticos.

Entre los detenidos está Heriberto Magariño, líder tanto del Partido Obrero Socialista y de los maestros del Istmo de Tehuantepec.  Margariño fue llevado bajo custodia por una operación conjunta de las policías y del Ejército y la Marina en Salina Cruz, Oaxaca. Fueron también detenidos junto con él Jesús Cabrera Beltrán, Argenis Velásquez Martínez, Gustavo López Lena Gómez, Ángel de la Cruz Gallegos, Diego Armando Cortéz Sánchez y Juan Nakamura Martínez. Otras detenciones ocurrieron en Tuxtepec y en la localidad de Álvaro Obregón en Oaxaca, así como Tlapa, Guerrero, en la ciudad de Oaxaca y en varios lugares más.

Entre quienes languidecen en prisión antes  del 7 de junio están los policías comunitarios de Guerrero –Nestora Salgado, Arturo Campos, Gonzalo Molina—y de Michoacán –el Dr. José Mireles y cerca de setenta más de adherentes de su comunidad.

Estos nombres se añaden a la larga y creciente lista de prisioneros políticos de México. La mayoría están confinados sin tener representación legal, sin saber los cargos que se les imputan, sin garantías de prontas comparecencias  o ningún indicio de debido proceso.

La justicia no sólo es ciega en México, está enferma de muerte y la ayuda militar de Estados Unidos es parte del mal.

Heriberto Magariño y el Dr. José Mireles fueron arrestados por fuerzas militares. Es probable que los soldados que ejecutaron las detenciones portaran armas pagadas por el Plan Mérida, una llamada “alianza” entre los Estados Unidos y México para “combatir al crimen organizado… “. Desde 2008 los Estados Unidos han botado 2 mil 300 millones de dólares en este programa.

Mientras tanto, el pueblo mexicano continúa sufriendo bajo el peso de la violencia gubernamental, la corrupción política, las violaciones de derechos humanos, los secuestros, la brutalidad contra comunidades indígenas y ataques a la educación pública y los maestros. Ésta es la raíz de las protestas electorales del 7 de junio.

El Freedom Socialist Party de los Estados Unidos se mantiene en solidaridad con todas las víctimas de la represión gubernamental en México. Llamamos a la inmediata liberación de los arrestados por sus protestas y actividades políticas, de asociación y expresión. Exigimos la finalización de toda ayuda militar de los Estados Unidos a México y al Plan Mérida. Por la educación pública de calidad en todo nuestros hemisferio para cada niño. Justicia para los 43 estudiantes desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa y sus familias.

(Traducción de Daniel Orizaga)

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Unstoppable revolt in the Middle East

Analysis: the US role and the road ahead

Two of many Kurdish women fighters in the leftist YPG (People’s Defense Units) engaged in fierce and effective combat against ISIS in Syria. Photo credit: Harald Doornbos

Freedom Socialist Party
Monica Hill
October 2014
Two of many Kurdish women fighters in the leftist YPG (People’s Defense Units) engaged in fierce and effective combat against ISIS in Syria. Photo credit: Harald Doornbos

The insurrections of the Arab Spring still live. The revolutionary shock waves that have brought new life to ancient lands, terrifying the powers-that-be, are not spent.

Bloodthirsty reaction from dictators and jihadists and foreign masters continues to cause grim suffering and death. Gazan children killed by Israeli missiles while playing on a beach; “infidel” men and women in Mosul in Iraq beheaded and raped by ISIS; hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing carnage in Syria, Iraq, and Palestine; U.S. bombs diving: these are the barbaric visions from the merciless summer of 2014.

But the afflicted have had enough. Courage and resistance persevere, producing remarkable fighting skills, grass-roots organizing, and political development.

What is the U.S. relationship to permanent revolution in the Middle East? And what can be done to reinforce these historic uprisings?

History of ignoble U.S. deeds. Peoples of the Middle East have been at the mercy of Western imperialists for nearly a century. The machinations of the United States, which emerged from the two world wars as the richest and best-armed imperialist, have been central in provoking the Arab Spring.

• For example, Washington supported the creation of Israel to help Western powers control the region’s resources. It has plotted to install and fund numerous dictators, including the Shah of Iran, Karzai of Afghanistan, Maliki and Hussein of Iraq, Assad of Syria, several Egyptian rulers, Saudi Arabian royalty, Gadhafi of Libya — among others.

• As the dominant force in the International Monetary Fund, it has imposed neoliberal economics in the area, delivering privatization, drastic social service cutbacks and joblessness — all to benefit big banks and despots. Neoliberalism has robbed young people, the majority in each country, of their futures.

• The crisis-ridden U.S. economy depends on the huge profits from arms sales, especially to the Middle East, the most militarized region in the world.

• Religious violence never plagued the Middle East until the U.S. nourished and armed Islamic jihadists like Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. These religious far-rightists were rabid anti-communists and therefore useful allies against the Soviet Union. Then, during its 2003-2008 occupation of Iraq, Washington promoted murderous sectarianism to help engineer Hussein’s replacement with a Shiite puppet government.

In sum: U.S. policy in the Middle East policy is, and always has been, thoroughly predatory, opportunistic, and committed to repressing popular uproar.

Uneven course of revolution. The Middle East today is not the hopeless shambles portrayed by corporate media. But the fight for radical change is inevitably arduous where dictators have ruled for decades, smashing left resistance and workers’ organizations that in some cases must be rebuilt almost from scratch.

Tunisians and Egyptians were first to dump their tyrants. They continue to struggle: protesting corrupt elections and, in Egypt, an execution-mad military; organizing independent unions; and challenging the sectarianism, misogyny, and general repressiveness of right-wing Islam.

Libyans also toppled a despot, but are beleaguered by the products of the six-month U.S.-led NATO bombardment in 2011: militia wars and a destroyed land. They are striving to shape their country without a Gadhafi or a Grand Ayatollah or Egypt or the USA standing over them with a club.

Syrian revolutionaries persist in taking on both Assad’s military and the ISIS jihadists in a civil war that has created two million refugees, mass homelessness and starvation, and nearly 200,000 dead.

As in any revolutionary course, agonizing lessons are being learned; organizers seasoned; class consciousness heightened. Insurrectionists communicate with each other across borders. Socialist understanding deepens. No matter the obstacles and setbacks, such political advances cannot be underestimated in the long view of revolution-building. They justify hope and solidarity for a secular, socialist, egalitarian Middle East.

A perspective for progress. As a Marxist feminist organization, the Freedom Socialist Party (FSP) has always emphasized that women must be recognized as indispensable leaders in the fight to overthrow capitalism. This is true because of their universal oppression, which generates rebellion on their own behalf and solidarity with others who are abused and exploited.

If revolt in the Middle East is to succeed, revolutionary parties are desperately needed (see special supplement). How can they be built if those who most need change are not integrally involved in defining the goals and leading the struggle?

The women garment workers who sparked the Russian Revolution are examples of this necessary leadership. Their descendants include female textile workers in Egypt, who were crucial in the insurrections and formation of independent unions there; women in Syria who helped found the Local Coordinating Committees; and Kurdish women militia fighters.

In the capitalist era, the battle for women’s leadership is always the revolution within the revolution. To win this fight is to guarantee the strengthening of the fight for the freedom, human rights, and democracy that only socialism can bring.

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From Ferguson to Los Angeles: ¡Demilitarize the cops under community control!

Freedom Socialist Party
August 2014
Massive militarization of police forces has intensified a racist Rambo mentality among U.S. cops, as they disproportionately kill young African American men with impunity. Among the latest victims is Michael Brown, an 18-year-old, college-bound resident of Ferguson, Missouri, a poor, highly segregated, black suburb of St. Louis that is under the thumb of a white government and police force.

Michael’s crime? Walking while black. To compound the injustice of this present-day lynching of an unarmed youth, the cops rolled out tanks, tear gas, rubber bullets, and military combat gear in an attempt to stop the justifiable protests that erupted. Evoking images of the Jim Crow south, police turned dogs on the protesters. They jailed news media and set up a no-fly zone to block reporters from filming the assaults. Protesters responded with signs reading “I am a man” and “I am a woman,” echoing those carried by Memphis sanitation workers in 1968.

The brave protesters in Ferguson, surrounded by overwhelming police forces, don’t need President Obama telling them not to yell. They need him to order an end to the massive militarization of police forces and for those responsible for the tragic murder of Michael Brown to be held accountable.

War on communities of color

The assault on the Ferguson community has ignited a national outcry over militarized police abuse and Gestapo tactics. Huffington Post reports that under Obama’s watch, 80,000 SWAT team raids occurred in 2013 alone. Homeland Security doled out $34 billion to outfit police departments with tens of thousands of machine guns, hundreds of armored cars and aircraft, and other surplus military-grade equipment. These weapons were used to kill, create war zones, terrorize whole communities, and jail black men at seven times the rate of white men. Ferguson is the latest neighborhood to know what a U.S. war zone feels like

Tragically, hundreds of Michael Browns are murdered by the cops each year. In July, Eric Garner died in a police chokehold in Staten Island New York. On August 11 in Los Angeles, 25-year-old Ezell Ford was shot in the back three times, although, according to his mother Tritobia Ford, Ezell was lying on the ground, complying with the officers’ orders. Other cases such as that of Florida’s Marissa Alexander, a black woman threatened with a 60-year jail term for firing a gun in self-defense, point out the disparate treatment meted out to people of color by the criminal justice system.

According to Yuisa Gimeno, a resident of South Los Angeles and a Radical Woman organizer against police brutality, “We feel like we have police targets on our backs because we are poor, immigrants, transgender or people of color. From L.A. to St. Louis to New York City, we are beyond tired of cops playing racist roulette with our lives.” Gimeno calls for an elected civilian review board over the police with the power to hire, fire and discipline.

Why is police terror ramping up?

As the economic system confronts an ever-deepening crisis, capitalism relies more and more upon divide and conquer. The bosses need an unemployed or jailed army of workers who can be scapegoated for the ills showering down upon the population at large. Emily Woo Yamasaki, a Freedom Socialist Party activist in Harlem, says NYPD raids on multiple housing projects and mass arrests in Harlem this past June were carried out like a military invasion, terrorizing and brutalizing residents of all ages. She links the raids to city attempts to privatize public housing and to the drive for mass incarceration, which aims to crush resistance to an unjust system while fueling the profits of private prisons. Black and brown men are the new “terrorists;” immigrants are “stealing jobs;” and unionists are “thugs.” These lies fuel the bosses’ continued attacks on everyone’s standard of living. Youth of color bear the brunt through an astronomical unemployment rate and the poverty-to-prison pipeline. The system isn’t “broken” as some claim, it is working exactly as it is supposed to. Capitalism sees only one way out of the economic crisis — to drive down wages and eliminate the social safety net — and it must stifle Ferguson-type protests in order to do that.

Time for united action!

• Demand an end to the police violence in Ferguson. The residents don’t need increased militarization by the National Guard, they need economic and political justice.

• Build a movement that fights for immediate needs such as jobs, education and community control of the police, but don’t stop there —

• Come together to replace the bigoted capitalist system, which forces hardship and want on the many, with a socialist world of shared abundance and equality of all races and oppressed peoples.

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Congreso del Partido de Libertad Socialista. Un mundo por ganar, un planeta que salvar

Freedom Socialist Party
Susan Williams
agosto de 2014
Del 24 al 27 de mayo, miembros, amigos y aliados internacionales del Partido de Libertad Socialista (FSP) de EE.UU. se congregaron en Los Ángeles para discutir los desastres económicos y ambientales que amenazan a la humanidad, y lo que se puede hacer al respecto. Justo unos días antes, se rompió una tubería que derramó 16,000 litros de petróleo, cuyo nivel llegaba a las rodillas, en las calles de una colonia de Los Ángeles, poniendo de manifiesto lo crítico de estas cuestiones.

El Consejo Distrital 36 de la Federación Americana de Empleados del Estado, Condado y Municipio (AFSCME) nos prestaron generosamente sus oficinas para el congreso. Estandartes que exigían la apertura de las fronteras, la libertad de los prisioneros políticos y los derechos de los homosexuales se unieron a los carteles del movimiento laboral que recubren las paredes. Los participantes agradecieron la cordial y atenta bienvenida de la presidenta del Consejo 36, Alice Goff, cuando se preparaban para comenzar su trabajo.

Organización global. El FSP piensa que son indispensables ciertos elementos para lograr una exitosa lucha por el socialismo: la organización, dirección y el poder que puede proveer un partido revolucionario; el liderazgo de las mujeres y de los oprimidos; y la colaboración internacional. Las sesiones desde el primer hasta el último día exploraron estas cuestiones, comenzando con una presentación fundamental acerca de la situación global y terminando con la elección de los nuevos líderes del partido.

Una fuerte vena de internacionalismo dio continuidad al congreso, al cual asistieron personas de seis países, incluyendo a camaradas de la sección del FSP de Australia. Sobre todo, los participantes estaban entusiasmados por compartir la experiencia con los compañeros latinoamericanos del FSP en el Comité por el Reagrupamiento Internacional Revolucionario (CRIR) que se creó hace un año.

Una presentación dirigida por la Secretaria Internacional del FSP, Anne Guerry Hoddersen, les dio a los miembros del CRIR la oportunidad de discutir “Un hemisferio indivisible”. Los panelistas fueron Marcos Adamés del Núcleo por un Partido Revolucionario Internacionalista de la República Dominicana; David Morera del Partido Revolucionario de las Trabajadoras y los Trabajadores de Costa Rica; Cuauhtémoc Ruiz del Partido Obrero Socialista de México; y Stephen Durham del FSP.

Un asunto que se trató fue la participación del CRIR en la campaña para liberar a Nestora Salgado, encarcelada injustamente en México por dirigir una fuerza comunitaria de autodefensa.

Conmoviendo profundamente a los miembros del FSP, los miembros del CRIR de América Latina rindieron su tributo a la co-fundadora del partido, Clara Fraser, por su pionero trabajo teórico sobre la interrelación del socialismo y el feminismo. Para construir el movimiento revolucionario en México y a nivel internacional, Ruiz declaró que, “Necesitamos muchas más Claras Fraser y Nestoras Salgado, mujeres que no sólo se unirán a los movimientos de emancipación sino que los dirigirán”.

Acerca del CRIR, Morero afirmó que, “El CRIR es el embrión de un partido internacional con el cual soñamos y el cual necesitamos”.

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