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Conspiracy 1 Golden Dawn 0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The urban guerillas of The Crazy World of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire have brought fire! fire!<\/a> to the offices of Greek fascist \/ para-state group Golden Dawn<\/a>. In their communique claiming responsibility for the action and explaining their rationale, the group writes “Fire, to destroy all you’ve done. Fire, to end all you’ve become. We’ll feel you burn!” Note that, while there appears to have been some line-up changes<\/a> in the last few months, the band’s tour of Athens is expected to continue to bring their particular brand of musical destruction to venues big and small across the city for some time to come.<\/p>\n

There’s other things happening in Greece apparently, news concerning which is available @ libcom<\/a> and also After the Greek Riots<\/a>. On the road to a global social revolution, a Collingwood premiership is a necessary if not sufficient precondition according to TPTG, a concept elucidated by them in There\u2019s only one thing left to settle: our accounts with capital and its state<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : The Still Crazy After All These Years World of the Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei<\/a> (October 5, 2009).<\/p>\n

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Speaking of armed struggle<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Armed Struggle, the RAF, and Projectiles for the People: An Interview with Andre Moncourt and J. Smith<\/a><\/p>\n

Gabriel Kuhn has interviewed Andr\u00e9 Moncourt and J. Smith, the editors of Projectiles for the People<\/em>, about their book, the RAF, and armed struggle. The complete interview is reposted here; a slightly abbreviated German version of this interview will appear in the German journal Arranca!<\/em>, No. 41, December 2009. A Swedish version is up on the activist website Motkraft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also<\/em> : Walking with the Comrades<\/a>, Arundhati Roy, DAWN, March 21, 2010: “Last month, quietly, unannounced, Arundhati Roy decided to visit the forbidding and forbidden precincts of Central India\u2019s Dandakaranya Forests, home to a melange of tribespeople many of whom have taken up arms to protect their people against state-backed marauders and exploiters. She recorded in considerable detail the first face-to-face journalistic \u201cencounter\u201d with armed guerillas, their families and comrades, for which she combed the forests for weeks at personal risk. This essay was published on Friday in Delhi\u2019s Outlook<\/em> magazine. Arundhati Roy made the pictures in this 20,000 word essay available exclusively to Dawn.”<\/p>\n

Speaking of para-politics<\/strong>…<\/p>\n

Welcome to Parapolitics.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

What is Parapolitics?<\/em><\/p>\n

Most people interested in politics would recognise one of the pictures revolving on the front page of this website as Paddy Ashdown, the former leader of the Liberal Democrats. Most Sun<\/em> readers would recognise him as Paddy Pantsdown, the politician who was shagging his Secretary.<\/p>\n

Anyone interested in parapolitics would be aware of the long running accusations that the former leader of the UK\u2019s third political party was a former MI6 officer \u2013 accusations finally confirmed by Ashdown in his 2009 memoirs \u201cA Fortunate Life\u201c…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, The Discreet Charm of the Petit-Bourgeoisie<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

Petit-Bourgeoisie<\/em>, lit., \u201clittle city-folk\u201d \u2013 the small business people, sometimes extended to include the professional middle-class and better-off farmers.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

It is striking<\/a> that the course on which Hugo Ch\u00e1vez has embarked since 2006 is the exact opposite of the one chosen by the postmodern Left: far from resisting state power, he grabbed it (first by an attempted coup, then democratically), ruthlessly using the Venezuelan state apparatuses to promote his goals. Furthermore, he is militarising the barrios, and organising the training of armed units there. And, the ultimate scare: now that he is feeling the economic effects of capital\u2019s \u2018resistance\u2019 to his rule (temporary shortages of some goods in the state-subsidised supermarkets), he has announced plans to consolidate the 24 parties that support him into a single party. Even some of his allies are sceptical about this move: will it come at the expense of the popular movements that have given the Venezuelan revolution its \u00e9lan? However, this choice, though risky, should be fully endorsed: the task is to make the new party function not as a typical state socialist (or Peronist) party, but as a vehicle for the mobilisation of new forms of politics (like the grass roots slum committees). What should we say to someone like Ch\u00e1vez? \u2018No, do not grab state power, just withdraw, leave the state and the current situation in place\u2019? Ch\u00e1vez is often dismissed as a clown \u2013 but wouldn\u2019t such a withdrawal just reduce him to a version of Subcomandante Marcos, whom many Mexican leftists now refer to as \u2018Subcomediante Marcos\u2019? Today, it is the great capitalists \u2013 Bill Gates, corporate polluters, fox hunters \u2013 who \u2018resist\u2019 the state.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

The Clique and Chavez\u2019s policy towards the IRI<\/a><\/p>\n

Criticism of Chavez by Iranian labour activists and Marxists is nothing new. Over six years ago, in November 2004, Iranian Workers\u2019 Solidarity Network (IWSN) wrote a polite open letter to President Chavez highlighting Iranian workers\u2019 lack of basic trade union and other rights. This was followed by an open letter by the IRSL in July 2006 contrasting the main policies of the Bolivarian government and the IRI and explaining the regime\u2019s role in the crushing of the 1978-79 revolution. There have been numerous open letters and statements (usually on the occasion of state visits) on Chavez\u2019s close relationship with the Iranian regime since then, including an IMT statement which we drafted but the IS, in its infinite wisdom, watered down before publication.<\/p>\n

It is important to point out that this is not merely a hobby-horse of the Iranian left but that Iranian workers are also disgusted by Chavez\u2019s very cosy relationship with the leaders of the Iranian bourgeois state. In July 2006 Chavez visited Iran Khodro, the biggest car and vehicle manufacturing plant in the Middle East. The workers had heard many positive things about Chavez and were excited to meet him in person. To begin with the workers were pleasantly surprised at the President of a country shaking hands with workers and even kissing them on the cheek. They were about [to] read out a statement in his honour, welcoming this revolutionary leader to their factory. But before they could read it Chavez began praising Ahmadinejad, calling him his brother, calling the Iranian regime a revolutionary government and so on. The workers were totally disgusted by him. They tore up the statement and left the hall.<\/p>\n

The refusal of Alan Woods\u2019s Clique to condemn Hugo Chavez for his whole-hearted support of the IRI in its suppression of the post-\u2018election\u2019 street protests, therefore, brought matters to a head. As the regime used increasingly brutal methods to smash the street protests, Mr Chavez became more determined in his support of the repression of what he thought were CIA-sponsored protests.<\/p>\n

Alan Woods\u2019s Clique also tried to pretend that our highly critical position did not exist. In particular, the so-called International Secretariat (IS) refused to publish Maziar Razi\u2019s Open letter to the workers of Venezuela on Hugo Chavez\u2019s support for Ahmadinejad and all subsequent material that disagreed with the totally wrong, indefensible and opportunist \u2018analysis\u2019 of the official IMT position. This made the IRMT\u2019s work inside Iran almost impossible. This official position was decided by the IS, the hard core of Alan Woods\u2019s bureaucratic clique, without consultation with anyone – including neither the IRMT, the Iranian section as recognised by the 2008 World Congress, nor the IEC! Even video footage of demonstrators denouncing Chavez in the \u2018revolution\u2019 that the Clique had predicted did not bring about a change in policy!<\/p>\n

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C’esT La peTITE BourgeOISIe quI BOit dU CHAmpaGNe<\/a>, WheRe ThE LigHtS EnD, September 3, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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