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Sonntag, 20. November 2011

No Time for Losers




Darwinian principles should apply in the euro zone and the rule of survival of the fittest prevail, with the strongest economies having the leading say in how the bloc is run, Finland's Europe Minister Alex Stubb said on Thursday. Setting out his argument for the euro zone's six triple-A rated countries to have more influence in the region's economic management, Stubb said the 13-year-old currency needed to look to its strongest members to secure the future. "We've been looking at the whole debate from the wrong end, we've been looking at countries that we need to save and help all the time," he told Reuters in an interview. "For me, the euro is a Darwinist system, it is the survival of the fittest. The markets take care of that, and I think that's the best way we can keep up market pressure," said Stubb, who is himself a fitness fanatic and frequently completing Ironman triathlons.

- Reuters, 17 November 2011







Welche Werkzeuge findet der Planet-Manager vor? Wie kann er seinen Auftrag wahrnehmen, während ringsumher die überflüssigen Massen nicht nur nach Brot, sondern nach Lebenssinn schreien? Wenn die ständigen Massaker auf dem ganzen Globus sich immer unabweisbarer als Schlachten im Kampf um Wasser und Ackerboden entpuppen?

Zunächst muß überwacht werden, und zwar gründlich und lückenlos. Hitlers Drittes Reich hatte für damalige Verhältnisse einen gewaltigen Lausch- und Spähapparat aufgebaut, aber verglichen mit den Verhältnissen unter Stalin, und natürlich erst recht im Vergleich zu den heutigen Möglichkeiten, war er eine recht altmodische und klapprige Angelegenheit…

Es wird auch selektiert werden müssen. Gut, die Sache der Menschenrechte hat in der zweiten Jahrhunderthälfte Fortschritte gemacht, kein Zweifel…

Dennoch, es wird selektiert. Hier und heute.

Manchmal findet die Auswahl äußerst konkret statt, und dann zeigt sich, daß sie immer noch nach alten Kriterien funktioniert. Rupert Neudeck, der Initiator der „Cap Anamur“-Hilfe, hat erst jüngst darauf hingewiesen, daß bei den großen Massakern in Ruanda zunächst und reflexhaft die Weißen ausgeflogen wurden – einschließlich belgischer Nonnen, die sich solche rassistische Präferenz, die nicht ganz ihren Ordensgelübden entsprach, durchaus gefallen ließen. Es konnte dabei zu der grotesken, aber bezeichnenden Situation kommen, daß ein US-amerikanischer Diplomat zurückgelassen wurde, weil er eine schwarze Haut hat und man ihn deshalb automatisch zu den Überflüssigen rechnete.

Selektiert wird von der transnationalen Finanzmacht schon vorher, wenn es um die Verlängerung von Krediten, die Umschuldung der Ärmsten, die Bedingungen für weiter gewährtes Wohlwollen geht.

Selektiert wird durch die GATT-Abkommen, welche der sicherste und unauffälligste Weg zur Ausrottung etwa noch existierender traditioneller Gesellschaften und Kulturen sind.

Selektiert wird an den Grenzen des Schengener Abkommens, auf deutschen Flughäfen, wo das einst sehr liberale deutsche Asylrecht zu einem bürokratischen Fegefeuer geworden ist. Sinn solcher Selektion ist die Bewahrung des Wohlstandsgefälles, das nicht zuletzt durch die vorhergehende Selektion, nämlich die terms of trade, die internationalen Handelsbedingungen, entstanden ist.

Selektiert wird in nie dagewesener Breite und Gründlichkeit in der Arbeitswelt. Die jahrtausendelang geltende Qualifikation eines arbeitswilligen Normalmenschen, der über starke Muskeln, geschickte Hände und einige Ausdauer verfügt, ist völlig unwichtig geworden. Man geht davon aus, daß die erwünschte Produktion der Weltwirtschaft dank der technisch-wissenschaftlichen Innovation von etwa zwanzig Prozent der Weltbevölkerung geleistet werden kann. Der Rest wird vorläufig von der schon etwas tatterigen Wach- und Schließgesellschaft der Nationalstaaten betreut, aber eines Tages, das ist vorauszusehen, muß er entsorgt werden.

Selektiert wird aber auch in den obersten Stockwerken der Weltökonomie. Die Riesensaurier mit den großen Firmen- und Konzernnamen verschlingen einander in mehr oder weniger freundlichen takeovers, wobei mehr oder weniger klar der Endzustand eines weltweiten Gesamtkapitalisten am Horizont erscheint. Wackere Kartellämter versuchen die Entwicklung wenigstens zu bremsen, aber allzuviel Glück haben sie dabei nicht. Man hat für diese Spielchen die Regeln der grausamen Königin in den ökonomischen Regelkreis hineingenommen; was dabei an Schicksalen den Bach hinunter geht, ist unvermeidlich, also uninteressant, und wird höchstens durch sogenannte Sozialpläne abgefedert. Der Gesamtkapitalist am Ende der Selektionskette kann sich dann als Planet-Manager konstituieren und die große Rechnung aufmachen, die über kurz oder lang fällig ist.

- Carl Amery, Hitler als Vorläufer. Auschwitz – der Beginn des 21.Jahrhunderts ?, Luchterhand, München 1998, Seite 176-179 (gekürzt)





Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland ist ein demokratischer und sozialer Bundesstaat. Alle Staatsgewalt geht vom Volke aus. Sie wird vom Volke in Wahlen und Abstimmungen und durch besondere Organe der Gesetzgebung, der vollziehenden Gewalt und der Rechtsprechung ausgeübt. Die Gesetzgebung ist an die verfassungsmäßige Ordnung, die vollziehende Gewalt und die Rechtsprechung sind an Gesetz und Recht gebunden. Gegen jeden, der es unternimmt, diese Ordnung zu beseitigen, haben alle Deutschen das Recht zum Widerstand, wenn andere Abhilfe nicht möglich ist.

- Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Artikel 20 (der letzte Satz über das Widerstandsrecht wurde 1968, im Zuge der Notstandsgesetze, in den Gesetzestext eingefügt)







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Music: Queen’s "We Are the Champions", released as single the 7 October 1977, is from their studio album "News of the World". It has become an anthem for sporting victories and was recently voted catchiest pop song of all time by some sort of 'rocket scientists' who were relying on ‘maths, science, engineering and technology’… I don't like this song, because for me it’s the secret anthem of neoliberalism.




Donnerstag, 4. März 2010

Greek Revolt: 3rd & 4th March 2010 Media Watch


Change of the social system ? ... We come to talk about it ... !





Greek, Portuguese Workers Strike; Communist Union Members Occupy Ministry in Athens; Protest Against Deficit Cuts (See Maria Petrakis / Bloomberg.com via Business Week; see in German NZZ, Presse, Züricher Unterländer, Red Globe and Tagesspiegel)

Greece: Millions to strike tomorrow against new austerity plans (See SocialistWorker online, UK)

New strikes called as more social cuts are prepared in Greece (See World Socialist Web Site)

Greek workers to stage new general strike (See Morning Star Online, UK)

Crisis, "bankruptcy" and probation are a generalisation of the social and class war: No consent to the austerity plan! (By the anarchist group Resalto in Athens; translation from Occupied London)

Greece: Papandreou announces deeper budget cuts (see World Socialist Web Site)

Backgrounder: Major events in Greek debt crisis (See People's Daily Online, China)

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Photo: The occupied finance ministry where demonstrators have hung a banner which reads ''Rise up, do not let the measures pass'', in Athens on March 4, 2010. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis / Bloomberg.com

Dienstag, 2. März 2010

Greek Revolt: News from today (2)

"CAPITALISTS CAN BUY THEMSELVES OUT OF ANY CRISIS, SO LONG AS THEY MAKE THE WORKERS PAY" - LENIN



Greek union calls strike, cabbies abandon cars (see Reuters, Athens, via Gulf Times)

Greek workers lead the fight against cuts (see SocialistWorker online, UK)

Other news from the social fights in Greece (by CARLOS MARXOS, Indymedia Süd)

* Conflicts in Creta University in the town of Chania. Ioakeim Gryspolakis, rector of the University, was talking with some representatives of constructive companies who are interested to renew a building which belongs to the University for 5,5 million euros. The certain building is squatted by Rossa Nera anarchist team and open as a social centre with political and cultural activities. The certain rector seems to start having a new hobby, such one of trying to give University buildings which are squatted to private companies' interests.

* Around 100 anarchists/antiauthoritarians squatted the offices of PASOK ("socialist"party on government) in Ioannina town asking for the release of the imprisoned comrades during the demonstration in Vyronas district of Athens. A local TV-station team arrived on the spot asking for an interview, event that never happened after the squatters refused to participate in the spectacle of Mass Media.

* Coordination of Base's Labor Unions in Public and Private Sector announced a demonstration on the 4th of March in Athens asking for a new General Strike against the plans of the government, European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF).

* Solidarity actions with the dismissed workers of METKA factory still go on all around Greece. Independent organizations, syndicalist unions, anarchists, squats etc. have already expressed that they are on the side of the struggling workers. (Watch also older updates)

* Also solidarity actions from several organizations and individuals with Ntinos Palaistidis, dismissed from AGRA Publication Company because of his fault to struggle for his co-workers and his own labor rights. Many workers of AGRA company still strike against the decission of the bosses and also blockade many company's bookshops.

Announcement by the Organization of Communists Internationalists in Greece:

THE STRUGGLE FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF NTINOS PALAISTIDIS DISMISSAL CONTINUES

On 13th January AGRA Publication Company dismissed our co-worker and comrade Mr. Palaistidis. Ntinos Palaistidis has for many years exemplary actions in the labor movement, fightingfull and firm, for the rights of workers, for a class and anti-hierarchical unionism. particularly through the Association of Employees in Book-Paper Sector Attica, association which he first worked for together with other employees. This dismissal is not only a blow against the right of a comrade at work, but also against free trade unionism, against any workers' struggle.

As was written on the announcement of his co-workers in AGRA company:

"The dismissal of Mr Dinos Palaistidi surprised us all. We are able to know precisely the large workload that we took all of us (also Ntinos) during the recent years. A workload that was resulted after the growth of AGRA in which we all have helped for! The pressure thus exerted because of the busy work, led our colleague since the past two years to repeatedly requested a meeting with the employer, for the clarify-restatement of his duties, meeting that never took place. However, after meeting with the inspection work, the response of employers was the dismissal of him. We are able to know and for that we say publicly, that our colleague up till the time of his dismissal, he was performing consistently in all the tasks assigned to him."

So this is a purely vindictive and anti-union dismissal. AGRA even spoke provocatively about "unconventional behavior" of our colleague! The Association of Employees in Book-Paper Sector Attica proceeded and organize protests and repeated strikes in AGRA. Solidarity is expressed by dozens of unions, collectives, organizations and employees, with communications, participation in demonstrations, support of the strike action fund. As Ntinos Palaistidis has practical and generously expressed his solidarity during recent past in numerous other workers' action and struggles. Well-fed "personalities of the literature and the arts", among them some supposedly "progressive persons", tried to back up the employer of AGRAS Mr. Petsopoulos, talking about a try of defamation and denigration against AGRA company. "Spiritual leaders" closed inside their own glass towers, who have divorced from the problems and anxieties of the world of working, care only about not to upset their 'own-beloved' publisher-businessman. But also it does not fit any half-hearted attitude, no attempt - as was done by a number of other intellectuals - that presents the dismissal like a misunderstanding which can be solved by "consultation" with employers. Even worse when it is said that "AGRA is not an ordinary capitalist company", distinguished by the "quality of publications and the great contribution to the intellectual life of our country"! And these statements when capitalists, government and EU have declared a straightly anti-labor war without an end. When it is a matter of life or death for the labor movement to regroup its forces, to smash the attacks of the capitalists - first of all stop the redundancies and the antisyndicalistic pogroms - and to fight back.

IT IS A MATTER OF ALL OF US:

- To defend in practice Mr Nt. Palaistidis with all our strength. - To support the Association of Employees in Book-Paper Sector Attica, during the long and difficult struggle for the withdrawal of the dismissal.

Organization of Communists Internationalists, Greece

*Series of protests against the government's economic measures, decided the Board of OLME (Workers Federation of Middle Education).

According to the announcement of OLME, the mobilization actions of teachers will be:
- Protest at the Ministry of Finance of all bases' unionists tomorrow.
- Demonstration on Thursday in Athens.
- Protest at the Ministry of Finace and at the EU's offices on 8th March.
- Protest at the State's General Accounting Office on 10th March.
- Participation in the public sector's strike of 16th March.

* Fotos from the squatted rectorship building of Aristotele University in Thessaloniki (for an announcement here).

Slogans sprayed on the walls & poster (free translation):

"An asylum structure that will not only spread the word of ideas, but also function for:... social struggles, students, workers, unemployed people, immigrants, refugees. Instead of: ... cops, rectors, bosses' contractors, business

KEEP YOUR HANDS AWAY

LOVE OR DEVELOPMENT ?"