The Tyrant has fallen down and its only the power of the people who could achieve it!
It is a great historical moment of pride and dignity, of enthusiasm and persistence. It is the time when the people rose up for their inalienable rights, when they fought, revolted and won.
The great Egyptian people have achieved a big victory that can reshape the future of their country and also of the region. After 30 years of tyranny from the Mubarak regime, the puppet of imperialism in the region that worked day and night to protect the interests of USA and Israel in the region was ousted by the people, even if, in total show of hypocrisy, now all the former supporters of Mubarak regime come to the media to salute the achievements of the Egyptian people by overthrowing their ally of yesterday.
In this regard, WFDY highly praises the victory of the people and their organization, and expresses its solidarity with all the demands of the Egyptian people in constitutional amendments, dismantling the parliament and electing a new one and organizing new, free and open presidential elections open for the people to have their choices. WFDY also supports the demands calling for restoring the civil system as soon as possible accompanied by the constitutional amendments and
political reforms.
WFDY calls for the continuation of the struggle until the full achievement of all the rights of the Egyptian people, and also for making the Egyptian revolution as an example for all the youth of the region and the world that change is possible and that the power only lies in the hands of the masses.
The spirit of revolution is spreading in the region, after Tunisia came Egypt and after Egypt the people will continue the struggle for further victories.
Let’s reinforce the struggle and continue the way!
Let’s fight for a democratic progressive Middle East fighting against imperialism!
Let’s support the Egyptian youth and people!
The CC/HQ of WFDY
Budapest, February 11, 2011
Monday, February 14, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
CPI Political Statement
Political Statement
At its regular meeting, the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland discussed the deteriorating economic crisis, north and south.
While people continue to find the ways and the means to resist the onslaught of the state and employers in relation to attacks on the incomes, education, health and public services.
Since our last meeting we have seen small but important steps or green shoots of resistance beginning to emerge. We witnessed the thousands of people who took part in the Bloody Sunday Commemoration in Derry. Their long struggle to expose the role of the British state was well vindicated in the findings of the Saville Inquiry into the events on that day. While elements within republicanism are clearly attempting to step up a method of struggle in the form of armed actions that have in the recent past wrecked such havoc, death and division among our people. A method of struggle that history has shown has not and will not deliver what they claim to be struggling for. Once again we call upon they to stop their action and to step back from this blind ally that they wish to drag the people of the north down, to get involved in building the necessary people resistance to the growing and deepening attacks upon all that they have struggled for and achieved over many decades.
The Peoples Congress that took place on the 5th February in Belfast while at the same time a significant conference took place in Dublin of left and community forces and activists. While at this time much of the concentration in the south has been focused on elections it is important that the struggles and demands are not reduced to solely electioneering. But rather what will the people and their organisations do after the 25th February.
It is clear that Irish and British governments are pursuing similar policies of making workers, their families and their communities pay the price for the deepening crisis. The crisis and the solutions that are being imposed expose the growing class contradictions and antagonisms at the heart of the system itself.
Not only workers are being forced to carry the burden but also small businesses, the self-employed, and family farmers. Nationally and globally, these growing attacks on the hard-won gains of the people are strategically directed to maximise the benefits to capital. Wages, terms and conditions, unemployment benefits and pensions are all coming under sustained attack. The crisis and the ruling-class offensive are to allow them to implement what was unthinkable a short while ago.
The reduction in the minimum wage in the Republic by €1 per hour is a savage assault on the lowest-paid, while there are tens of thousands of workers who are already earning less than this subsistence wage. The attack on the minimum wage is only the prelude to a growing assault on registered employment agreements and P R O.
As the CPI has already pointed out in relation to the punitive EU-IMF “Programme for Ireland,” imposed upon the Irish people, that this would exacerbate an already unbearable debt burden. No amount of “renegotiation” or tinkering with the wording of this or that paragraph can change the underlying savage attack on the people that the outgoing Government agreed to—an agreement that all three main establishment parties and the Green Party actively support, despite their protestations of wanting to renegotiate sections of the deal.
The forthcoming meeting of the heads of EU member-states will see a further tightening of control by the centre while the uneven neo-colonial relations between the centre and the peripheral countries becomes ever more consolidated.
The forthcoming general election in the Republic will not solve the many problems facing our people, but it will be an opportunity for the people to vent their anger at the political establishment, particularly Fianna Fáil and the Green Party.
The Labour Party’s much talked-about breakthrough is now melting like snow off a winter’s ditch. Its opportunism and empty policies are increasingly seen through by growing numbers of working people. It has nothing to offer that would give the people leadership and a new direction or a better way forward.
While some important individual trade unions have and are actively supporting the building of alternative social and political actions and alternative. This work in patchy and lacks focus as many leading elements of the ICTU are still wedded to "social partnership" hoping against hope that they can re-build it. There are grave danger in that strategy in that they could well end up being perceived as propping up and in essence adopting a strategy of “better, fairer cuts.”
While only in embromic stage at this time there are positive examples of the role that trade unions in the North working in alliance with community and social organizations attempting to can build affective coalitions of resistance.
The central question facing the people of the Republic is the spiralling sovereign debt crisis. The socialisation of billions in private corporate debt by the Government has made indentured labourers of the Irish people for generations to come—all done under orders from the European Union and international finance houses.
The deepening crisis and the policies that the British coalition government is pursuing have had a disproportionate impact on the people of Northern Ireland. They have exposed the dependence relationship that exists and that is a major factor in making solutions to the crisis much more difficult, if not impossible, if that dependence relationship is not severed and the transfer of fiscal powers is not secured quickly by the Executive and Assembly.
The Communist Party of Ireland calls upon working people in the Republic to vote for left and progressive candidates, to support only those parties or candidates that call for the repudiation of the illegitimate, punitive and perpetual debt forced on the people. There should be not votes for Fianna Fail or Fine Gael.
The strategy adopted by the leading elements within the Labour Party to turn their backs on any left alternative or countening an alliance of left parties either before or after the election has raised serious questions for those contemplating voting labour. Is Labour once again going to wait and become a prop for Fine Gael are they going to confirm what many have suspect for a long time that they are just Fine Gael light. Clearly leading elements of the Labour Party are part of the problem not part of the solution.
The elections are not the end but rather must be seen as the starting-point in building the people’s resistance, in building a coalitions of resistance across a range of issue from privatization of public companies and assets in a fire sale to meet the demands of the EU-IMF. Central must be the build of the broadest coalition of all those affected by the debt to demand its repudiation. The growing illegitimate “sovereign debt” is the weakest link in the EU imperial chain. A campaign of repudiation of the debt by workers’ and people’s organisations across the European Union is the key to degrading and eventually breaking the capacity of monopoly capitalism to impose its will.
The repudiation of the debt is a vital necessity if we are to make progress linked to the building of a national democratic coalition. A Democratic Programme must also include
(1) the repatriation of economic powers from Brussels;
(2) the social and democratic control of capital;
(3) an all-Ireland economic development body to harness the talents of our people, from Antrim to Cork;
(4) the national and social control of all mineral and natural resources;
(5) the planned development of a socially just and sustainable all-Ireland economy.
At its regular meeting, the National Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Ireland discussed the deteriorating economic crisis, north and south.
While people continue to find the ways and the means to resist the onslaught of the state and employers in relation to attacks on the incomes, education, health and public services.
Since our last meeting we have seen small but important steps or green shoots of resistance beginning to emerge. We witnessed the thousands of people who took part in the Bloody Sunday Commemoration in Derry. Their long struggle to expose the role of the British state was well vindicated in the findings of the Saville Inquiry into the events on that day. While elements within republicanism are clearly attempting to step up a method of struggle in the form of armed actions that have in the recent past wrecked such havoc, death and division among our people. A method of struggle that history has shown has not and will not deliver what they claim to be struggling for. Once again we call upon they to stop their action and to step back from this blind ally that they wish to drag the people of the north down, to get involved in building the necessary people resistance to the growing and deepening attacks upon all that they have struggled for and achieved over many decades.
The Peoples Congress that took place on the 5th February in Belfast while at the same time a significant conference took place in Dublin of left and community forces and activists. While at this time much of the concentration in the south has been focused on elections it is important that the struggles and demands are not reduced to solely electioneering. But rather what will the people and their organisations do after the 25th February.
It is clear that Irish and British governments are pursuing similar policies of making workers, their families and their communities pay the price for the deepening crisis. The crisis and the solutions that are being imposed expose the growing class contradictions and antagonisms at the heart of the system itself.
Not only workers are being forced to carry the burden but also small businesses, the self-employed, and family farmers. Nationally and globally, these growing attacks on the hard-won gains of the people are strategically directed to maximise the benefits to capital. Wages, terms and conditions, unemployment benefits and pensions are all coming under sustained attack. The crisis and the ruling-class offensive are to allow them to implement what was unthinkable a short while ago.
The reduction in the minimum wage in the Republic by €1 per hour is a savage assault on the lowest-paid, while there are tens of thousands of workers who are already earning less than this subsistence wage. The attack on the minimum wage is only the prelude to a growing assault on registered employment agreements and P R O.
As the CPI has already pointed out in relation to the punitive EU-IMF “Programme for Ireland,” imposed upon the Irish people, that this would exacerbate an already unbearable debt burden. No amount of “renegotiation” or tinkering with the wording of this or that paragraph can change the underlying savage attack on the people that the outgoing Government agreed to—an agreement that all three main establishment parties and the Green Party actively support, despite their protestations of wanting to renegotiate sections of the deal.
The forthcoming meeting of the heads of EU member-states will see a further tightening of control by the centre while the uneven neo-colonial relations between the centre and the peripheral countries becomes ever more consolidated.
The forthcoming general election in the Republic will not solve the many problems facing our people, but it will be an opportunity for the people to vent their anger at the political establishment, particularly Fianna Fáil and the Green Party.
The Labour Party’s much talked-about breakthrough is now melting like snow off a winter’s ditch. Its opportunism and empty policies are increasingly seen through by growing numbers of working people. It has nothing to offer that would give the people leadership and a new direction or a better way forward.
While some important individual trade unions have and are actively supporting the building of alternative social and political actions and alternative. This work in patchy and lacks focus as many leading elements of the ICTU are still wedded to "social partnership" hoping against hope that they can re-build it. There are grave danger in that strategy in that they could well end up being perceived as propping up and in essence adopting a strategy of “better, fairer cuts.”
While only in embromic stage at this time there are positive examples of the role that trade unions in the North working in alliance with community and social organizations attempting to can build affective coalitions of resistance.
The central question facing the people of the Republic is the spiralling sovereign debt crisis. The socialisation of billions in private corporate debt by the Government has made indentured labourers of the Irish people for generations to come—all done under orders from the European Union and international finance houses.
The deepening crisis and the policies that the British coalition government is pursuing have had a disproportionate impact on the people of Northern Ireland. They have exposed the dependence relationship that exists and that is a major factor in making solutions to the crisis much more difficult, if not impossible, if that dependence relationship is not severed and the transfer of fiscal powers is not secured quickly by the Executive and Assembly.
The Communist Party of Ireland calls upon working people in the Republic to vote for left and progressive candidates, to support only those parties or candidates that call for the repudiation of the illegitimate, punitive and perpetual debt forced on the people. There should be not votes for Fianna Fail or Fine Gael.
The strategy adopted by the leading elements within the Labour Party to turn their backs on any left alternative or countening an alliance of left parties either before or after the election has raised serious questions for those contemplating voting labour. Is Labour once again going to wait and become a prop for Fine Gael are they going to confirm what many have suspect for a long time that they are just Fine Gael light. Clearly leading elements of the Labour Party are part of the problem not part of the solution.
The elections are not the end but rather must be seen as the starting-point in building the people’s resistance, in building a coalitions of resistance across a range of issue from privatization of public companies and assets in a fire sale to meet the demands of the EU-IMF. Central must be the build of the broadest coalition of all those affected by the debt to demand its repudiation. The growing illegitimate “sovereign debt” is the weakest link in the EU imperial chain. A campaign of repudiation of the debt by workers’ and people’s organisations across the European Union is the key to degrading and eventually breaking the capacity of monopoly capitalism to impose its will.
The repudiation of the debt is a vital necessity if we are to make progress linked to the building of a national democratic coalition. A Democratic Programme must also include
(1) the repatriation of economic powers from Brussels;
(2) the social and democratic control of capital;
(3) an all-Ireland economic development body to harness the talents of our people, from Antrim to Cork;
(4) the national and social control of all mineral and natural resources;
(5) the planned development of a socially just and sustainable all-Ireland economy.
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