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Turkey: Debates on the Kurdish Reform in the Wolf’s Lair

Debate on what was initially called the Kurdish Reform and then the Democratic Reform have been going on for quite a while in Turkey now. It is being claimed that the rulers of the state woke up from the dream of Turkism one night, and decided to stop oppressing the Kurds and turn the country into a democratic flower garden. The ruling AKP (Justice and Development Party) and the faction of the Kurdish bourgeoisie existing within it on the one hand, and the liberals who drool whenever the state rings the bell of democracy on the other; bloodthirsty Turkish nationalists lurking around and the PKK-DTP (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, armed Kurdish nationalist group, and Democratic Society Party, its legal wing) line with its hawk and dove wings pursuing its own agenda… What is really going on? How did the DTP, who used to say that the AKP was its greatest enemy, end up negotiating with them? Similarly, when did Prime Minister Erdoğan, who said that whoever is involved with terror will be shot even if he or she is a child, become so concerned with the tears of mothers who have lost their children? Why did the MHP (Nationalist Movement Party - Gray Wolves, Turkish fascists) who used to be the maverick supporter of the AKP respond with such rabid ultra-nationalist hysteria? How did the CHP (Republican People’s Party, Kemalists) which was the toady of the Army end up criticizing the declarations of the National Security Council?

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http://en.internationalism.org/icconline/2009/10/turkey

Devrim

Anyone know of any good folk singers or bands, along the lines of Pete Seeger or Utah Phillips? Preferably pinko commies, please..

Much appreciated!

I am very much interested in the life of Malcolm X, I have recently read a biography of the man but did not detail his later years very much. What I want information on is Malcolm X’s anti-capitalist idea’s. It seems later in his life he moved towards a revolutionary outlook on society. I would like some resources and links to some of his work expressing these idea’s and would like to discuss the man in this thread also.

An Irish republican paramilitary group responsible for hundreds of murders during Northern Ireland’s troubles is to announce it is renouncing violence.
It is expected that the Irish National Liberation Army will say on Sunday afternoon that in future it will pursue exclusively peaceful means.
The INLA is a small but ruthless group that murdered more than 120 people, but has been on ceasefire for 11 years.
The group is expected to decommission its weapons within months.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8301241.stm

Comrades,
I want discuss a matter here with you. A huge lot of people in the today’s world is submerged in poverty and for that, they have forced to quit education to earn their living. But, there are talented people among those people who had very good innovative power and have the capability to contribute for good of mankind.
I want opinions of other comrades regarding that matter. By using the capabilities of those people, perhaps we can get rid of the imperialist control over science and technology today and that will gradually end in the decline of imperialism and capitalism together.

From Libcom</p> Continuing waves of mass police operations in down town Athens set the pace for new era of repression in Greece

Everyone thought it was just a show of power - but it proved to be the Socialist government’s plan for "change" after 5 years of brutal right wing rule.

The police invasion of Exarcheia, the Athens alternative-radical hub, on the early hours of Friday 9 October was evaluated by most journalists, activists and veteran politicians as a power-show of the new government, in response to a limited solidarity attack against banks in the area just out of Exarcheia earlier the same day. Minister of Public Order Mr Chrisochoidis, the notorious anti-terrorist mastermind of the last Pasok administration, appeared to many as just typically determined to show who is the new boss. But the continuing waves of police invasion (3 by Friday 19:00 pm) into an area which is commonly acknowledged as the most vibrant intellectual, student and political hub of the country, with hundreds of people stopped and checked, many manifold times in the same day, shops stormed, and locals humiliated by being made to kneel on the pavement and body-searched, has come to prove the new government’s self-professed "antiauthoritarianism" a bitter joke. read more

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I am Brazilian, but I hardly ever find a good Marxist analysis of Brazil’s history. Do any of you have some sources? Or could you explain it here? Thank you.

I’ve just been thinking about this…

Is it really not imminent that the governments of the world and its’ people(or the people of that nation) are going to start fighting over border control for their own form of government?

Try to follow with me on this…as I know that it’s a long, long ways of.

My order of Philosophy:
People.
People want protection.
People form governments.
Local and civil wars between government-intervention of the people.
Those who lose, travel to more free lands… *cough*western*cough*.
The more free lands grow in population.
Those more free lands, and its’ people turn to protection from government.

Repeat this process until all land is populated(as of today)

The main idea:
Governments formed within all territories.
Population grows, compaction amongst the people grows.
Population spread closer to borderlines.
Borders spread nearer to coastlines.
Coastline population needs to move to more free lands.
All the lands are populated.

War amongst the people for proper government?

:marx: