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Margot Honecker defends East Germany

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Although the liberals at The Guardian try to dismiss her with snide anti-communism, Comrade Margot Honecker’s words are well worth reading.

Margot Honecker, 84, who as education minister of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) served alongside her husband, describes her homesickness for a “lost nation” and calls its demise a tragedy in an interview due to be broadcast on German television on Monday evening.

The documentary, which was years in the making due to Honecker’s dogged insistence she would never give an interview to “West German” media, shows her at home in Chile where she escaped to with her husband after the collapse of the Berlin Wall in the early 1990s.

“It is a tragedy that this land no longer exists,” she tells the interviewer, Eric Friedler, adding that, while she lives in Chile “my head is in Germany”. She does not, however, mean united Germany, rather the “better Germany” of the GDR.

“Margot Honecker showed no remorse, or discernment, she expressed no word of regret or apology,” he said.

“She might be in Chile, but she is very well connected to a whole guard of old comrades. She regularly spends hours reading the internet, knows exactly what’s going on in Germany, but says her desire for Germany is restricted to … the GDR.”

Honecker predicted the socialist Germany for which she and her husband, who died of cancer in 1994, fought for, would have its chance again. “We laid a seed in the ground which will one day come to fruition,” she says. “We just didn’t have enough time to realise our plans.”

Syrian Communist Party (Unified) - Report on the Crisis

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The dangerous situation in which our country is living makes us highlight the basic points made public by our party from the time the crisis has broken out until now:

1. To defend our homeland against any foreign intervention regardless of its name and justification, and to consider this mission as the fundamental circle and a compass guiding our political stances.

2. To restore security, stability and tranquility for citizens; through putting an end to devastation, sabotage murder and terrorism against citizens, public and private installations.

3. The emphasis that a political solution should be based on dialogue with all patriotic powers, which raise the following (no’s); no to foreign intervention; to violence, and sectarianism and ethnic orientations, on one hand and, to persist political dialogue with their powers, on the other.

4. To put an end to all security irregularities, to avoid hurting innocent civilians and to pay attention to the humanitarian and living conditions in areas where tension prevails.

5. To take all measures necessary for regaining the confidence of citizens, through releasing political prisons and detainees holding those who committed security transgressions accountable, and to make public the findings of the committee formed to investigate out law deeds, and to punish those who committed them severely.

6. To quicken the steps taken for the purpose of declaring an all embracing national reconciliation, spread the spirit of tolerance and forgiveness and to remove all the remains of the sorrowful fighting which took place in those areas.

7. - To have the articles of the constitution instantly implemented in letter and spirit once it has been adopted and to continue applying reforms in every field.

8. - To take to take all measures necessary for putting an end to the chaos in prices, to use an iron fist against “war merchants” who exploit the current circumstances to achieve narrow material gains at the expense of citizens.

9. - To strengthen the militancy of the party, widen its contacts with the masses as well as all patriotic forces and parties, whether they be old or new under the motto “Homeland is First”.

Politbureau of the Syrian Communist Party (Unified)
Damascus 22-2-2012

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World’s largest ever strike - India, Feb. 28, 2012: Workers demonstrated, held sit-ins, blocked traffic and more throughout the world’s second-most-populous country.

Photos: International Student Movement

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January 26: Down with “Australia Day” (equivalent to U.S. “Thanksgiving”) and its celebration of the genocide of Indigenous peoples! Long live the Aboriginal resistance!

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So true, it’s painful.

classe: loooool

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On Oct. 25 Vote for Guy Fawkes: The only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions

Revolutionary Socialist Alliance, Brisbane, Queensland, 1969

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(Protesters are arrested by police on the day of the massacre. Photograph: Fernand Parizot/AFP)

Politicians, historians and protesters gathered in Paris to mark the 50th anniversary of a police crackdown on Algerian anti-war demonstrators that has become one of the most shameful episodes of modern French history.

The events of 17 October 1961 are considered a massacre by many Algerians, who claim up to 300 members of their community died at the hands of the Paris police.

Many are angry that the French government has never officially apologised for the bloody attack – which does not appear in school history books – and that the authorities still dispute the death toll.

According to officials, less than a handful of protesters died, while historians say the number of Algerians killed – some of them beaten and thrown into the river Seine – was between 50 and 120.

On Monday, François Hollande chose to mark the tragedy as his first official engagement as the newly elected Socialist party presidential candidate.

Hollande, named as the Socialists’ choice to take on Nicolas Sarkozy in next year’s presidential elections barely 12 hours earlier, on Monday threw a single red rose into the Seine from the bridge at Clichy, the suburb where many of the victims lived.

Afterwards he unveiled a plaque engraved with: “From this bridge and other bridges in the Paris region, Algerian demonstrators were thrown into the Seine on the 17 October 1961, victims of a blind repression. In their memory.”

seriously, in what context are police not an organized terrorist unit?

classe: sono arrivato tardi (qui su tumblr) ma vi assicuro ieri ho letto un articolo sul Morning Star e sono andato ad informarmi su ciò che accadde quel 17 ottobre del 1961, quando la Senna si tinse di rosso.

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this just in: yesterday’s riot in London after police murder a man with four children.

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Tel Aviv (Jaffa, Occupied Palestine): Thousands of Israelis march against the government’s handling of the economic crisis, July 30, 2011.