After the
two world wars and the great
economic depression the imperialist
Western countries transformed
themselves in the 1950’s to
so-called “welfare states”. These
states presented themselves as ideal
and egalitarian democracies in
contrast to the bureaucratic
dictatorships in the East and this
illusion was not totally destroyed
either by their openly imperialist
interventions or by the opposition
movements emerged in them in the
1960’s. On the contrary these
movements became a mask which
strengthened this illusion when they
integrated more and more into the
system.
“The
welfare states” were founded with
the profits coming from Asia, Africa
and Latin America and form the
working class which grows with the
immigrants coming from those
continents. In the 1970’s “the
welfare states” become unsustainable
for the hegemony of the bosses and
neoliberal screams aiming to steal
even the last cent from the pockets
of the laborers echoed on the whole
world, because the labor movements
are defeated and the USSR proved to
be not a real hope. Neoliberalism
came to power with Thatcher in
England, Reagan in the US and Ozal
in Turkey.
Neoliberal attacks gave the working
class nothing more than
unemployment, casualisation and
social misery. Furthermore the
hypocrisy of the West is revealed
which shows its respect only
according to the skin color and
mother languages of the people. In
the first flush of victory created
by the collapse of the USSR and the
hegemony of capitalism on the whole
world American and European
countries believed that they can
deal with this misery growing next
to them.
The flame
which spread from Paris to the whole
France is not new. The flame of the
immigrants and laborers of oppressed
nations who became the scapegoats of
the social and economic destruction
of neoliberalism burned Lyon suburbs
in France on October 1990, Bristol
in the UK on July 1992 and Los
Angeles in the US on February 1992.
This flame showed to the whole world
the economic and social attack of
neoliberalism and the racism covered
by discourses on integration and
citizenship. This flame became a
light of hope for the laborers of
the Europe and for the millions who
are oppressed in the capitalist
system of exploitation and sentenced
to hunger, poverty and wars. This
hypocrisy and economic misery which
today became apparent after the
death of two kids in French, the
Katrina Hurricane in the US and the
events in Şemdinli in Northern
Kurdistan* can only be stopped by
the united attack of the laborers
and the oppressed.
They
won’t be able to sit comfortably in
their plazas, villas, luxurious
clubs, and sterile streets. They
cannot stop the rage of Seattle,
Genova and Thessalonica with
oppression or fear from “terror”. We
know that they are the source of
terror, violence, deaths and hunger
and we, the laborers of the earth,
can only attain our freedom by
uniting and struggling against them.
One day the flame of freedom and
equality will spread form the
suburbs of Paris and streets of
Şemdinli to the whole world and at
that day they won’t have any place
to hide and any lie to mask
themselves.
Paris was founded
by the products of artisan who was
driven to misery, by the hard work
of the new workers who were banished
from their villages, by the bloody
gold coins coming from Algeria and
by the knowledge of the engineer who
lost his dignity. If burning Paris
will let the founders of Paris to
breathe freely, if it can make them
free even for a while, then we are
shouting from here: Let Paris burn!
Let the world of the oppressors
burn! We can build a new Paris; we
can build a new world. That world is
growing this minute in our heaths!
Anarchist
Communist Initiative |