June 28, 2007

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo totally a puppet to US interest. - K.I.

Reading emails from my email box seems to take me two hours now. My emails are piling up. Many emails are sent to me and to my mind many of them are important. Some are personal, some are political and others are trevia's, that makes you forget for a while the problems in this world. I like reading all of them. I am starting to be so enmeshed with this. This morning my kid laughed at me when I brought my laptop inside our comfort room only to continue reading my emails. My time is so limited and I am time pressed. Will I buy a palmtop so even when I'm on the road I can view my emails? Still thinking. Two factors that hinder me to add a palm top to my list of gadgets, one this will be an added expense. Two, this will again configure my behavior, which is actually already happening to me. Nonetheless, I did get to inquire at cingular wireless two weeks ago at Fairfield Mall. The offer was tempting. I will have a palmtop, and this palmtop offers unlimited internet access whereever I am plus a flat rate for long distances. Well, to be honest presently I do get a free wifi internet signal in my neighborhood . at 56 mbps. This saves me 30 dollars per month and there is no reason to have additional signal except again if I want to do internet inside my car whereever I go, as long there is celphone signal. I can probably avail to this type of service next year.

Re: Human Security Act, Gloria had made the situation worst. She now has a free hand to tag everbody against her and her administration as terrorists. She can easily sends everybody to jail for criticizing her. Lately, she had instructed her local government units to have human right desk or commission not to monitor human rights abuses but to issue arrest papers to those against her. She is thinking that by having the Human Security Act she can prolong her rule as a fake President. Well, she may succeed for a time but of course will not last long. Her Act will just push more peace loving people to join the revolutionary movement in the countrysides. That is why as early as now the US is now
openly announcing that they are willing to help Gloria's fascist military -- the Armed Forces of the Philippines fight the New Peoples Army which is basically a peaseant army. Meaning if permitted they we will see a full scale US intervention in our country with them present in the rural areas assisting the fascist military of Gloria.

Another indicator that Gloria through her adviser Norberto Gonzales is battling for political survival is this: Gloria had sent this psychopath adviser, Mr. Gonzales to lure the NDF back to the peace talks. Mr. Gonzales and Gloria thinks that by publishing her advisers visit to the public and telling the public and the international community that they are willing to talk they can again hoodwink Filipinos into believing that they are for peace! This shwed publicity stunt cannot cover their evil intent. Wither they like it or not they will be continually be isolated from the masses of people as long they continue to be puppets of foreign big business interests.

How can the public believe there intents are sincere when she gives green signal to her death squads through the COCIS headed by General Ermita. Secondly to kill and abduct activists, lawyers, journalists, church people and ordinary people against her. After all who can believe in a fake president?
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June 18, 2007

Watching movies this summer and spending time at Nobles and Barnes bookstore - K.I.

Talking of spending some time this summer. Last Saturday I went to Northgate Mall  with my kids to watch the latest Fantastic Four movie. It was a worthwhile movie. I enjoyed it because I grew reading those comics Fantastic Four magazines when I was small. I liked the part of the movie when Silver Surfer went to save the world. I liked Torch as well, his power to fly and his character. I hate Dr. Doom as he reminds me of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo who pretends to be good. Like Dr. Doom she can be tricky. For example, three weeks ago Gloria went to Rome just to have a pictorial with the Pope and then came home and told  Filipinos “move on” , telling the public to forget all the graft and corruption she had committed, the vote rigging she had done and many more because she had just came from the Vatican! At anyrate putting Gloria aside, I had a time to do some shopping at GAP  and Macy’s. I did visited these stores before because of my wife and kids. I ended up last Sat buying swimsuits for them for the summer. What I really enjoy though is seeing people buy many stuff, the American way.

Now that I have discovered that going to the movies here in the US is quite enjoyable, I am excited to watch upcoming two movies. I am looking forward watching the Transformer and Bourne Ultimatum movies.  I saw Spiderman two week ago but I think it was pretty boring for me. The story was very simple. The Fantastic Four sequel was much more better though than the Spiderman movie in terms of storyline.

Aside of going to movie houses this summer I also visited some book stores. This afternoon, I went to spend my  whole afternoon  reading magazines at Nobles and Barnes while also having some coffee at Starbucks. It so happen that Starbucks is inside the bookstore.
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Possibilities and opportunities in the political front - K.I.

One of the greatest things I'm doing this summer is spend some time to read books. I have a time going back reading basic books of Lenin especially on dialectics, materialism and many more. I also had a review of my readings before of Mao on practice and contradiction. Rereading these books gives you new insights. It also counters subjectivity while I engage myself in poltical and mass work here in the US.

Re: Trillanes phenomenon.
This phenomenon is simply a reflects on the level of contradiction within the ruling classes. Sonny being the representative of the progressive side of the military echelon wanting for reforms and that of Gloria's side, those wanting to maintain themselves in power. Sonny's winning the election indicates also the level of disgust among the people against the present regime of Gloria Macapgal Arroyo. No doubt he is considered a threat to those in power. First, by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, her coterie of fascist and corrupt generals and her bunch of corrupt politicians who all along has been opening their mouths like crocodiles waiting for their piece of bite.

While Sonny have won the elections, he is still very vulnerable to their attacks. He is inside their dungeon, Gloria continous to gag him to keep him silent. However the more Gloria contains him in her dungeon, the more he becomes popular. This is why Gloria fumes in anger everytime he hears him speak. The only way for her to do away with Sonny is to let him out. As a matter of fact she is starting to tell her generals to start befriending Sonny inorder to coopt him. Gloria’s AFP spokespersons are now trying to lure him to believe that they can work with him while preparing to stab him on the back.

It is forthright that Sonny had positioned himself to immediately investigate GMA and her bunch of corrupt Generals. It was good that he called to investigate the political killings that are happening in the country by her death squads, victimizing activist and ordinary Filipinos. It was a good move or him to reinvestigate the "Hello Garci" case. I was a good for him also to reinvestigate those bombings perpertrated by the military in Mindanao that victimized innocent civilians only to justify Gloria’s stay in power. These pronouncement being implemented can even send Sonny winning the next elections as President of the Philippines. Thus for Gloria to defeat him is to lure him, by letting him join her government projects that are doomed to fail and let him be eaten by the corrupt system.

Of course GMA and her clique are already plotting the move to destroy this young senator. However Sonny is not a one man band show. Sonny represents those good minded Generals who want to put back the prestige of the military to its proper place and wants to reform.

It importamt to note that Sonny should have to go beyond doing reforms within the military. The military is a coersive apparatus of the state. It behaves and moves according to the will who seats in Malacanang. It cannot be separated to the whole state superstructure. Its state reflects the whole semi-colonial and semi-feudal character of the country, that being backward, no industrialization to speak of , no lands reform to talk about. The land reform program of Gloria are scheme to co-opt and reconcentrate the lands to them and the ruling few elites. Thus, it is also important also for Sonny to look at land reform as a means to develop our country while in the short term addresses the need for good and honest governance to put Gloria in a defensive mode. It is also very important for him to address the external forces that precipitates landlesssness, poverty to happen. It is also important for him to consider addressing policies that permits our country to be dictated by the few big foreign businesses whose only concern is to exploit the labor of poor Filipinos. It is important for him to see that our country’s economic system backwardness is due to its orientation which is export oriented, import dependent and debt driven.

It is also important to address workers rights. Workers in factories and government places are not paid the just wages. Government workers including soldiers receive little monthly salary. Money is not going to people pockets but goes to pay external foreign debt. Prices of prime commodities too are increasing thus many are going out of the country to work with many families being separated. It would be worthwhile fore him to address these issues. I know, it not easy to address these issues while Gloria and her fascist generals are still in the picture. Thus, I think it is necessary for him to work to build a united front to get rid of Gloria soonest. An uprising is not a far fetch scenario with people in the helm. Given the support of some Generals who want change and reforms in the government, I think this is doable and a possibility.



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June 17, 2007

Sonny Trillanes is on the right track against the fascist and fake President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo - K.I.


I am very happy with Sonny Trillanes as a senator. GMA will be having a hard time justifying his incarceration and the rest of those put to jail becuase they dared to speak. I hope the good minded Generals who are against graft and corruption in the miltary will pin down those reponsible of the political killings throughout the country which have earned the ire of the international community and the united nations. I hope Gloria will be singled out as the master mind in all these with her fascist general and clique doing it with impunity put to jail. The senate has to be expose hese crimes so they will never be commited to the people. Least we forget the bombings in Mindanao should be raised as well, which according to the Magdalo group was an oclhestrated move to justify Gloria's stay in power and more military role.

The call for justice to all victims is immediate. Everyday, as long GMA stays in power many will die. There are many innocent civilians victimized in these covert operations by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Senator Trillanes if making true of his promise, putting words into action can and will contribute enough to making cour country a peaceful with governemnt running its business to serve not to enrich a few. Rightfully he will be considered as the modern day hero by the people, that can even make those Generals fascist and corrupt Generals on Gloria's clique scamper away. Even seeing his shadow will be fearful enough for them.
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June 14, 2007

Gloria unites the factions within the ruling classes, gives go signal for kidnappings and bombing in the south as raison d'être.

The reactionary state represented by Gloria and her faction cannot appease the tension of the factional strife within the ruling classes by revamping her cabinet. While the latest reactionary elections sponsored by her targets to settle the political pie within the reactionary classes in the Philippines, it had only further worsened political conditions. As a matter of fact her senatorial line-up suffered political defeat. She cannot do away with the anger and momentum the mass movement that is heading to the direction to get rid of her. Trying to cast a spell of illusion, trying to hoodwink the people into believing that she is pious and sincere by going to Rome getting a picture of herself with the Pope, her moves are signs of desperation.

Her present maneuver to stabilize the system by revamping her cabinet wouldn’ work at all. As a matter of fact it will further worsen political conditions. The basis for the intra fighting is so intense that it will consume her. The only way to unite factions within their ranks is to further hype terror by indirectly commanding covert political operations such as (bombings in the south, kidnappings) and call all reactionary forces to support her call to crush those against them. US covert operators is well into this with the help of the likes of Norberto Gonzales and the rest. In the last elections trying to neutralize people’s integrative work, that trying to work within the reactionary system, their coercive machinery, the military had been going around doing psychological operations, political and physical hamletting. Aside of deploying their death squads sowing fear and terror, targeting open mass movement leaders of various sectors, it had instructed the rank and file to rig the elections. With the intense factional strife, of course it had spelled defeat and have even sent Capt. Trillanes to the halls of the senate. Now the generals want to do a survey, of course to save their face.

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June 05, 2007

Sustaining power by association - K.I.

Now that the international community is raising a tempo of concerns, focusing on the issue of the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's government human rights rights record, the likes of Norberto Gonzales fondly called the Rasputin in Malacanang acts now like a wet chicken. He has been responsible in openly tagging people’s organizations like Bayan Muna and all the rest of  progressive groups as fronts of the communists or  "enemies of the state". Like a  wet chicken from the cold, he now evades being questioned by the media. Being at the helm of the national Security Council, being vocal against people’s movement against Gloria, he now too seems to hide and alleges that the national security council has not met " long time now".

After their defeat in the  Senate elections in the Philippines, with majority of  the opposition candidates winning, her boss, Gloria had took to shield herself by  traveling to the Vatican inorder to take pictures  with her with the Pope. A message is sent to the Philippines with pictures published in the media... that Gloria is religious, that Gloria is not fascist and in fact close to “God” a trick long been used by previous Philippine presidents and quite often inorder to prolong themselves in power. This is a quick relief to political attacks. It is a simple replinishment of political power by assoication. It is a simple tactic of  political and image manipulation and cooptation.  Now, Gloria seems to politically wade in the manner of using these religious gesture. It's worthwhile mentioning to cover the obvious that she had thanked the Pope  for the recovery of his husband. True enough whereby majority of Filipinos are Roman Catholics this political technique  quite well fit in neutralizing against the growing growing isolation she is experiencing. With her with the Pope, her call for reconciliation and her mantra appealing for unity and asking everbody to "move forward lend more credibilty call.  But of course this trick will not last long as this is a one shot deal as political manuever do. While she had  pimped the country to foreign corporationd by freely giving them the freedom to exploite, from mining to labor and export processing,, the basis for her rule is slowly eroding with her becoming so unpopular. Her image building will not help at all whereby many are growing hungry in the Philippines.It is a matter of time in fact that her masks will be teared apart. People will see that the angelic face they are seeing is in fact the devil herself.
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June 04, 2007

Expose the Truth About the G8 Summit Agenda - JMS

Expose the Truth About the G8 Summit Agenda
ILPS Statement on the 33rd G8 Summit

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
3 June 2007

The 33rd G8 Summit will be held in the isolated Baltic resort of Heiligendamm in Germany from June 6-8, 2007. The G8 or Group of 8 is the most powerful alliance of the monopoly capitalist states. The G8 process is the most important way by which these states coordinate on policies for dominating the rest of the world, especially the semi-colonies and dependent countries, particularly in economic matters. Decisions taken by the G8 are subsequently carried forward and implemented by their state agencies (economic, political and military) domestically and internationally as well as bythe major US-controlled multilateral organizations, financial institutions and forums.

This year's summit is held at a critical time for imperialism. On one hand, the economic and financial crisis of global capitalism continues to deepen and its adverse effects are mounting which makes it increasingly difficult for them to maintain their superprofits. US imperialism has unleashed brazen wars of aggression, such as those against Iraq and Afghanistan, to advance its economic interests. On the other hand, the worsening condition of billions of the world's people is generating resistance and struggle against imperialist domination.

Crisis of "Neoliberal Globalization" Reflected by Agenda

The official motto of "Growth and Responsibility" is unable to conceal the critical situation reflected in this year's G8 Summit agenda. The biggest capitalist powers are forced to confront the adverse consequences of recent decades of increasing "neoliberal globalization". Global growth has become uneven, slower and more volatile. Since the "globalization" of the 1980's, the growth rates of the world gross domestic product (GDP) have fallen to less than half of the more than 5 percent annual average in the first three decades after World War II.

Over a hundred countries have suffered 5-year periods of sustained declines in per capita income growth, not only in Africa but also in Asia and Latin America. Unrivaled speculative excesses and financial instability persist. At any time, only 2-5 percent of international financial transactions are related to trade and the productive economy. The US itself is confronted by historically large twin deficits in fiscal and trade transactions. Europe is saddled with collapsing domestic demand, while Japan remains mired in its decades-long slump.

In the face of all these and the resulting threat to their profits, the main objective adopted by the big powers is to push measures to further increase the imperialist export of capital by hastening the removal of investment barriers and of course to accelerate the remittance of profits and repatriation of capital. The number of liberalizing bilateral investment treaties alone has more than doubled from 1,100 in 1995 to nearly 2,400 a decade later.

The global total of foreign direct investment (FDI) has already risen nineteen-fold since 1990 and stands at over US$10 trillion. Yet unbridled greed and the need to combat the ever-present tendency for profits to fall have meant that even this is not enough. Foreign investment regimes in general, mining and natural resource extraction, and the plunder of the African continent are the real key areas for discussion in Heiligendamm.

The G8 is pushing for more open investment policies in the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America which still retain vestiges, however scant, of controls on foreign capital. At the same time they aim to ensure their scientific and technological monopolies in the name of "intellectual property rights" and "promoting and protecting innovation". The big powers will however retain their investment protections for their own monopoly capitalists even as they decry similar efforts of their rivals. US and European monopoly capitalists have already opposed attempted investment incursions and takeovers in their vital industries.

They also want to further open up the mineral and energy resources of neocolonies to foreign plunder under cover of "sustainable mining practices". They will try to do all these through the resumption of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks. Apart from this they will continue pushing bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as take more determined efforts in this regard through inter-governmental venues, such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

Much-hyped by the imperialists and imperialist-funded "civil society" organizations are pretended measures to counter the adverse social effects of "globalization", climate change and volatility in financial markets. Yet there is no recognition or acknowledgment that these are among the inevitable consequences of irrational capitalism and its central dynamic of profit-making. The G8's efforts here are nothing more than embellishments on the system of plunder and peddling of the deception that capitalism can be "humanized" and "refined" to sugarcoat the dire and dismal results of "free market" policies. The misery and problems caused by "globalization" have become so obvious that the big powers have to make a show of addressing these.

Two years ago, during the G8 summit in Gleneagles, the deception peddled by the imperialists and pro-imperialist "civil society" organizations and some rock stars was the supposedly "historic" deal of US$55 billion in debt cancellation for a handful of deeply indebted countries. And yet today the whole of that trifling amount has not been canceled. Indeed, international usury and the crushing neocolonial debt burden of over US$2.8 trillion remain. Today the deceptions include such self-contradictions as "corporate social responsibility" and monopoly capitalists "promoting and developing social standards". But the limits are clear and the G8 cannot but incongruously assert that the only "social protection systems" it is after are those based on privatized "self-responsibility and accountability".

The declarations of concern over accelerating global warming likewise ring hollow. The fundamental cause of adverse changes in the climate is the unrelenting drive for profits of monopoly capitalism which aggressively pushes reckless consumption as well as production heedless of the long-term impact on the planet's finite resources - including its forestry and energy resources - and fragile ecology.

Reflecting this, the single greatest source of destructive greenhouse gas emissions is US imperialism both in its homeland and through its plundering economic operations in semi-colonies and dependent countries, including China, India and Brazil. But not only is the G8 unable to address either of these, indeed it is even trying to use the specter of ecological catastrophe as a bogus basis of unity to further befuddle, co-opt and captivate the less critical segments of social movements.

The instability of financial markets is likewise also a matter of grave concern because of the adverse impacts on the real economy. However financial speculation has served as an increasing and important source of paper profits for monopoly capitalism confronted by its crisis of overproduction. This instability will then remain and can only worsen for as long as the big powers are after such profits. There is no historical precedent for any kind of mutual arrangement by monopoly capitalists to voluntarily reduce their profits. As it is, net capital outflows from the neocolonies or semi-colonies have been drastically increasing since the mid-1990s to the level of US$670 billion in 2006 alone.

The G8 and "Neoliberal Globalization"

The G8 was first organized as the G6 in 1975 with the US, Japan, United Kingdom (UK), West Germany, France and Italy. Canada joined, at the behest of the US, in 1976 to form the G7. And then nuclear power Russia joined in 1998 to form the G8. The alliance was put up as the global crisis of capitalism started to deepen further in the wake of US imperialism's defeat in the Vietnam War. "Neoliberal globalization" and the renewed imperialist offensive on the people of the world soon got underway in 1979 upon the sudden spike of interest rates upon the initiative of the US.

Following the Third World debt crisis of the early 1980s, the G7 used its domination of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) to force "free market" policies on neocolonies through stabilization programs and structural adjustment programs (SAPs). At the same time, monopoly capitalism squeezed the wages, benefits and social services to the detriment of the working people. Come the 1990s, the biggest G8 powers extorted more and more bilateral and regional free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as used the WTO to come up with multilateral trade and investment agreements of unprecedented global scope.

The G8 countries constitute some 14 percent of the world population (with 856 million combined) and account for 63 percent or nearly two-thirds of world gross domestic product (GDP) at the level of US$28 trillion combined. The US is far and away the biggest economic power taking up 28 percent of world GDP followed by Japan (10 percent) and Germany (6 percent). The G8 accounts for half of worldwide trade in goods and, reflecting their increased direct investments in production networks in the neocolonies, import slightly more than they export. They completely dominate the IMF by taking up nearly half of its voting power (48 percent), and likewise the WB by the same measure. In the WTO the biggest factor determining the direction of talks is whether and how far the US and the European Union (EU) give or withhold their assent.

Their military spending for defending and advancing their imperialist agenda is enormous and far beyond what might be legitimately needed for self-defense. Combined G8 spending in 2005 of US$707 billion is 71 percent of total world military expenditures. The US takes up the overwhelmingly largest share with US$478 billion in spending (48 percent of world total), distantly followed by the UK and France (5 percent each) and Japan (4 percent). Four of the G8 members - US, UK, France and Russia - together account for 98 percent of the world's some 100,000 nuclear weapons.

Imperialism has used this economic and military might for the last three decades to aggressively push policies of "neoliberal globalization": de-nationalization of neocolonial economies, trade and investment liberalization, privatization and deregulation. These "free market" policies aim to support monopoly capitalist profits and overcome the crisis of global capitalism that has intensified since the 1970s. The imperialists further exploit the cheap labor, natural resources and markets of neocolonial economies.

They have had great success in imposing their plunderous policies on the people. In the last two decades, worldwide cross-border direct investments have increased by some 14 percent annually while world investments have increased by around 10 percent. About a third of these investment flows have been to the neocolonies.

The propaganda that "globalization" would lead to development and a capitalist utopia is a deceit that cannot be sustained. It was not long before the utter failure of these policies to result in any sort of development as well as their real objective of feeding unbridled monopoly greed was exposed by the harsh reality of far worse capitalist oppression and exploitation, resulting from the accelerated concentration and centralization of capital in the global centers of capitalism and the consequent devastation of the general run of neocolonies.

Monopoly capitalists have reaped their profits in the only way possible for them: at the expense of the world's working people and, indeed, of the planet's fragile ecology. The removal of global investment barriers has already resulted in the effective doubling of the global cheap labor force that capitalism can prey on. Even as only scant millions are eventually employed, the effect of the bloated reserve army of unemployed labor is severe. Unions have been attacked to bring about declines in real wages and social entitlements, at the same time as welfare systems are privatized and dismantled. Since 1980, the share of labor's wages and benefits in national income in the G7 has fallen by 4 percentage points even as corporate profits as a percentage of GDP increased by the same amount to reach historical highs.

Backward neocolonial agricultural and industrial producers have been overrun at the same time as scarce natural resources have been exploited by big corporate mining and agri-business investments. Millions of peasants have been economically and physically displaced. This has caused human misery to continually expand. Global unemployment and poverty are massive. Some 3 billion people, or half of humanity, struggle to survive on US$2 or less a day. Over 750 million people are without jobs worldwide. And even among the employed labor force of the 2.8 billion, half are unable to earn enough to bring their families above the US$2 a day poverty line. Nearly a billion people are undernourished worldwide, most of which are in Asia, Africa and Latin America but also including some tens of millions even in the industrialized countries. All these expose the hypocrisy of the G8's showy declarations of pretended support for social standards and decent work for the laboring people.

The injustice of capitalism is affirmed by the worsening living conditions of the people. It is due to the rapacity of the monopoly bourgeoisie that controls the world's resources and production and corners the benefits of economic activity. "Globalization" has resulted in unprecedented inequality. The richest two (2) percent of adults worldwide own more than half of global wealth, while the poorest 50 percent own barely one (1) percent. Meanwhile, nine-tenths of the richest one (1) percent of adults worldwide live in the G7 countries. Indeed the net worth of the richest 500 monopoly capitalists of US$2.6 trillion is equivalent to the annual output of the world's 48 poorest countries or to the income of the world's poorest 416 million people.

The deteriorating plight of the world's people is intrinsic to capitalism and G8 shows of false concern and "social responsibility" cannot ever resolve these. Indeed all the G8 can do is endlessly repeat the deception that "free markets" and capitalism offer the only path to human development.

Resistance to the G8 and Imperialism

The unbearable situation wrought by "neoliberal globalization" has fueled ever-mounting people's mass actions and other struggles. There have been protests against the G8 since the mid-1980s with counter-summits held highlighting the crushing debt burden of the underdeveloped countries. Mass demonstrations began to grow in size since the mid-1990s when a broad range of trade unionists, peasant organizations, indigenous groups, women's organizations, church workers and other social activists started coming together to protest during the G8 summits.

By the G8 summits in Genoa (2001) and Gleneagles (2005), up to 200,000 protesters were taking to the streets. All these moreover occurred amidst worldwide and year-round mass actions opposing imperialist "globalization" including demonstrations, rallies, roadblocks and even general strikes involving hundreds of thousands up to millions of people. These struggles have been met with violent political repression and state terrorism not just in Asia, Africa and Latin America but in the imperialist countries themselves.

State security forces in Europe - not just in Germany but also in France, UK and the Netherlands - have been cracking down on anti-G8 organizations in the months leading up to the June summit. Civil and political liberties have been systematically violated and justified as part of "anti-terrorism" campaigns legally sanctioned by repressive post-9/11 laws. Groups that are preparing to hold or protest activities or have already launched build-up activities have been subjected to raids, arrests and detention.

Protest marches and actions have been broken up. In Germany, thousands of police have conducted synchronized raids in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen and other northern towns. Homes and offices have been ransacked and files, materials and equipment confiscated. As it is, the imperialist powers are forced to hold their summit and declare their more intense offensive against the people of the world from behind a 14 kilometer steel and concrete barrier.

Monopoly capitalism is increasingly desperate in its efforts to deal with the deepening global economic crisis. The limits of gfree market globalizationh have been exposed by the relentless worsening of the crisis since the late 1990s. Such a policy have only served to accelerate the concentration and centralization of capital in a few imperialist countries and have resulted in a series of grave economic and financial crisis.

No less than the US, the principal beneficiary of the neoliberal policy, is battered by its domestic economic crisis. It has resorted to gmilitary Keynesianismh in a futile attempt to stimulate the US economy by stepping up military production and pouring state financial resources into gilded contracts with the military industrial complex. To this end, it has stepped up war hysteria, unleashed wars of aggression, engaged in foreign military intervention on a widening scale and promoted state terrorism and fascism on a global scale under the pretext of anti-terrorism.

US imperialism is using its military superiority to expand its economic territory and political hegemony. It tries to maintain the imperialist alliance against the proletariat and people of the world and against the semicolonies and dependent countries. But the crisis of the world capitalist system has become so grave that it disturbs the balance of forces among the imperialist powers and is generating sharper inter-imperialist competition and rivalries.

The pressures for a redivision of the world are growing. The US is facing increasingly strong demands from Russia which has nuclear weapons and massive oil resources as bargaining levers as well as from the European Union and Japan which are trying to overcome decades of military inferiority and submissiveness to the self-aggrandizing initiatives of the US. Direct hostile confrontations among the imperialist powers are not yet occurring but they wrangle more than ever before over the spoils in the semicolonies and dependent countries.

At present, the US is most hard-pressed by its continuing failure to pacify the people of Iraq and Afghanistan and is unable to collect the prize for its wars of aggression. Instead, it is incurring heavy casualties and financial losses and is sinking in a quagmire. It is lessening its ability to pay adequate and timely attention to other countries and continents of the world. Conditions are favorable for the rise of anti-imperialist mass movements and revolutionary armed struggles for national liberation, democracy and socialism on a global scale.

The G8 summit is an opportune time to highlight the grave and insoluble problems faced by the imperialist powers and to bring forward the historic struggle against imperialist oppression and exploitation.

The International League of Peoples' Struggle calls on all its participating organizations to expand their ranks and build anti-imperialist and democratic united fronts at the level of national chapters, global regions and the whole world. The daily worsening conditions of oppression and exploitation require the ILPS to intensify its efforts to arouse, organize and mobilize the people in their millions for the cause of greater freedom, development, social justice and world peace against imperialism and reaction. ###


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