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From the comrades of Sol Rojo in Mexico we share the following (unofficial) translation of their recently published report about the Third Phase of the Journey for Justice and the Rights of the People, a prolonged campaign that has been reported about on this website several times before.
Report of the Third Phase of the Journey for Justice and the Rights of the People
To the proletariat and the working class, to the poor peasantry and the oppressed peoples, to the deepest layers of the people we want to give the following informative part.
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In collusion with the Chilean government, state owned Norwegian “green energy” monopolist Statkraft, since some years, is digging up ancient graveyards of the Mapuche people, is driving them away and destroying the ecological basis for them to survive. Against this, the Mapuche have deployed various means of actions, such as occupations of land, and for this they face fierce repression. Now, Statkraft is about to the work on a new dam project in Pilmaiken river in Wallmapu – and resistance is mounting against the massive destruction and evictions to be expected.
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Last Saturday marked the anniversary of the founding day of one of the most important unions in Peru, the SUTEP. This occassion was combatively celebrated as a day of struggle of the teachers for matters of education in the interest of the people. As a lot of statements, information and pictures on this year’s June 6 activities have been made available by the comrades of Association New Democracy the following is a brief report on these great activities and their context.
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In a big show of force, comrades from Sol Rojo in Mexico have mobilized, outside of their most vocal base of support that is Oaxaca, for a manifestation last Monday in the Capitol of Mexico, Mexico City. This demonstration, carried out after country wide mobilization, is part of the 3rd phase within the campaign for justice and people's rights.
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In April 2015 the community of Olaria Barra do Mirador, supported by the LCP, celebrated its 15th anniversary of existence, making it more then 19 years old. All these years it remained a hotbed of resistance and a bonfire for the peasantry to take matters into their own hands, take land and develop conditions worth working and living for. Two days ago, a sinister attack was carried out by more then a hundred military police officers against the housing and belongings of the peasants of that community, in an attempt to devastate their livelihood and drive them away. Henceforth, we document an article of Incendiary on these recent developments:
BRAZIL: Latifundio and Military Police Steal Land, Peasants Retaliate
The past several weeks have shown both the villainous actions of the latifundio and police as well as the heroic struggle of the peasants in the Brazilian countryside. The Bolsonaro government has instituted a new wave of land reintegration against peasants who have fought to transform fallow lands, previously owned by large corporations and abusive landlords, into productive farms and communities as part of the agrarian revolution in the country.
Long Live the Agrarian Revolution! Death to the Latifundio! Land to the Tiller!
On July 9 in northern Minas Gerais, in the municipality of Miravânia, a major operation involving more than one hundred military police ended with the seizing of land and destruction of family homes in the Olaria Barra do Mirador Community. Armed military police threatened peasants into signing agreements that legalized the theft of their land, financed and orchestrated by Walter Arantes.
Arantes, known in the region as “Waltinho,” is a notorious grileiro, a landlord who falsifies documents in order to steal land from poor peasants, who was recently imprisoned for money laundering and has faced numerous lawsuits ranging from environmental destruction to illicit enrichment. The reintegration plan was carried out sneakily, with families receiving virtually no warning prior to the police invasion in an attempt to prevent any resistance from the peasants.
The families of the Olaria Barra do Mirador Community, supported by the League of Poor Peasants (LCP) of the North of Minas and South of Bahia, have occupied nineteen previously unproductive lands. The Defense Committee of the Families of Olaria Barra do Mirador stated, “If anyone intends to commit this crime against families, he will provoke the daylight and have no peace in his life! We are not alone in this fight!”
The committee has also made it clear that it will not recognize any judicial ruling other than an immediate suspension of the reintegration and the legalization of the peasant estates in the area.
Supporters of the Olaria Barra do Mirador Community carried out a blockade of the road that connects the municipalities of Januaria and Miravânia with burning planks of wood and banners denouncing the infamous grileiro “Waltinho” Arantes and the military police in response to the illegitimate land grab.
Out Waltinho and Military Police, the Barra do Mirador is ours!
On July 2, in the Barrolândia district in southern Bahia, peasants who had been previously forced out of their land on behalf of the multinational corporation Veracel Celulose, fought back against the armed “private security firm” GPS. The armed paramilitary, known for repeated acts of aggression and intimidation against the peasant families who occupied the region, tried to force families who were camped by the road out of the area, but were met with sticks, machetes, and scythes. The encounter ended with GPS abandoning the area with one “security” officer injured, and six of their cars set ablaze.
On June 25, dozens of workers blocked the highway leading into the city of Pau D’Arco in Pará, in protest against the new threat of reintegration against Camp Jane Júlia. The encampment has resumed production on the same land as the Fazenda Santa Lucia community, which was previously demolished after a police invasion in 2017 that resulted in the torture and slaughter of ten peasants.
Due to strong mobilizations of peasants supported by the LCP of Southern Pará and Tocantins, the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) was forced to recognize the land tenure in the favor of the peasants, months after the slaughter. Even though the state has recognized their claim to the land, the threat of reintegration still looms in the horizon, while many of the police who took part in the slaughter are still free two years later.
Workers block the highway in front of Pau D’Arco (PA) in response to new threats of land reintegration.
Across the country, peasants are fighting in the agrarian revolution as part of the struggle for New Democracy against semi-feudalism and the reactionary state. They face repeated attacks to their homes and communities but remain steadfast in their struggle for land and against exploitation.
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Ibarra, the capitol of the Ecuadorian province of Imbabura in the north of the country is of great significance for the country-wide revolutionary movement. Many of the impressive images and actions, such as the mass demonstrations and militant actions e.g. on the 1st of May and for the 200 Years Karl Marx campaign, come from this very city. In the following, we document a translation published by New Epoch on a declaration issued by the Popular Women’s Movement from Ibarra, denouncing the violence against women and the incapability of the cops and the state in the face of it. Due to the deep roots of the women comrades among broad sections of the masses, even the bourgeois newspaper considered it necessary to report on the declaration of the comrades:
MOVIMIENTO FEMENINO POPULAR'S PRONOUNCEMENT IN THE FACE OF AN EXECRABLE CRIME COMMITED IN IBARRA-IMBABURA
A new act of violence has shocked the inhabitants of the city of Ibarra, Imbabura. On January 19, 2019, an individual stabbed his pregnant partner to death in the presence of police officers and passers-by on a downtown street. The absurdity of this fact is that the police proved, once again, inoperative, unable to respond and avoiding an event that ended in tragedy.
Beyond the fact that this type of violence has become a daily occurrence in the country, it must be considered that, contrary to what social media says, the fact that the murderer was of Venezuelan nationality is of no relevance. This generates a kind of xenophobia that does not coincide with objective reality.
A murderer kills for various reasons, not precisely because of his nationality, gender, ethnic group or other reason, he does so because he is a criminal, a liability of the old society. In addition, it is important to consider that the problem also happens because the police, in spite of having the necessary instruments to intervene, did not have the capacity to respond.
It is important to point out that the escalation of violence in which we are immersed is proportional to the level of pauperization, misery, unemployment that the country lives.
The patriarchal behaviors, predominantly are a reflection of a society, like ours, ambiguous, obscurantist, semi-feudal, where the subsistence of social relations is still marked by medieval conceptions, lack of education and corrupt political actors in the governmental, regional spheres, assembly, etc., which have the impudence to speak of morality, dignity, honesty.
We live in a society where women are instrumentalized in all spheres and not only that, exploited and violated for being women, but also for being wives, mothers, daughters, indigenous, black or mestizo and, above all, for being workers.
That, with the murder of Diana in Ibarra, this caducous society and the old state do not show circumstantial signs of regret. We have already experienced it a long time ago, the days will pass and we will return to the course of violence against women. It is not that we are pessimistic, we are just conscious that the problem is not the police, not the laws or the persecution of Venezuelans today, Colombians tomorrow, Peruvians, Nigerians, Chinese, etc. the days after, because we will end up persecuting each other, because the majority of crimes and systematic, permanent aggression against women are we the Ecuadorians ourselves. None of this will change when we manage to shake and destroy the foundations of this old society and raise one where the priority will be the majority of people, where we understand that half of the sky is held up by women and the other half by men, but not just any woman or any man, but we, the common people, the supportive people, those who make history.
It must be understood once and for all; the state and its repressive apparatuses are not there to guarantee the security of the masses, they are there to sustain a regime of exploitation that attacks the most elementary rights of the people. NO TO XENOPHOBIA! A MURDERER KILLS BECAUSE HE IS THE PRODUCT OF A DECADENT SOCIETY, NOT BECAUSE HE IS VENEZUELAN, COLOMBIAN OR AFRO-DESCENDANT.
THE MOVIMIENTO FEMENINO POPULAR (POPULAR WOMEN'S MOVEMENT) OF ECUADOR CONDEMNS THE VIOLENCE THE MASSES ARE BEING SUBJECTED TO AND ALSO DENOUNCES AND CONDEMNS THE INABILITY OF THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS REPRESSIVE APPARATUSES TO PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE PEOPLE.
PEOPLE OF ECUADOR, THE PEOPLE ARE ONLY DEFENDED BY THE PEOPLE. WE MUST ORGANIZE TO DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST CRIME, BUT ALSO AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT AND THE STATE BECAUSE THEY DO NOT RESPOND TO THE INTERESTS OF THE MAJORITY.
WE CONDEMN THE GOVERNENMENT AND THE STATE FOR NOT APPLYING ACTIONS THAT STOP THE VIOLENCE AGAINST THE DAUGHTERS OF THE PEOPLE.
NO TO XENOPHOBIA!
NO TO FEMICIDE!
UNLEASH THE FURY OF WOMEN AS A POWERFUL FORCE FOR THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION IN ECUADOR!
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On occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the Day of Heroism a translations of a poem by comrade Jovaldo, who died in the Shining Trenches of Combat in El Fronton, was published here. Comrades from Struggle Session in the US have taken up the poem and further improved the translation that we will henceforth present in its final form:
FOR A MASS OF POTTAGE[1]
By Jovaldo
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Henceforth, we document a video covering several actions of the past weeks in Brazil, but particularly of the countrywide day of action on May 15, in the context of the protests against the cut-backs in education. The video has been compiled by the comrades of the Revolutionary People's Student Movement ("MEPR"):
