Benutzereinstellungen

Neue Veranstaltungshinweise

Indonesia / Philippines / Australia

Es wurden keine neuen Veranstaltungshinweise in der letzten Woche veröffentlicht

Stop the Genocide

category indonesia / philippines / australia | indigenous struggles | opinion / analysis author Saturday February 27, 2010 18:00author by Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group - Anarkismoauthor email macg1984 at yahoo dot com dot au Report this post to the editors

End the Intervention

The unions, and all working class organisations, need to come together to denounce the NT Intervention as the racist atrocity it is, and fight to end it. In the course of this struggle, we can develop a true movement of reconciliation. We can build a society which recognises land rights, and abolishes both wage labour and real estate. We can have a revolution.

A Racist Intervention

The Northern Territory Intervention, the so-called “emergency response” to a report into child sexual abuse in NT Aboriginal communities, is nearly three years old. It is a bipartisan policy of the “Labor” Party and the Liberals, introduced by Howard and continued by Rudd. It is not, and never was, about child abuse.

The NT Intervention comprises nine measures, the most prominent of them being:

Compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal land in targeted communities;

Compulsory control of Centrelink benefits of people in the targeted Aboriginal communities; and

Imposition of Government Business Managers to control targeted Aboriginal communities.

To achieve this, and the other measures, the Racial Discrimination Act was suspended. This is as clear an admission of racial discrimination that you can get from any modern government.

Back to Paternalism

The NT Intervention marks a policy turn of historic proportions for Australian capitalism. A decisive fraction of the ruling class has abandoned its inconsistent and often tokenistic support for indigenous self-determination. It is now driving hard at re-introducing the long-discredited policy of paternalism and assimilation.

Land rights and native title have failed to produce a class of capitalist Aboriginal entrepreneurs. Instead, underfunding and racist contempt have created communities, especially around township camps, where many Aboriginal people have neither a functioning traditional culture nor the resources to prosper in white society.

The capitalist class has concluded that Aboriginal people can't manage their own affairs, so they have to have white people control them again “for their own good”. And what is good for them is (according to them) assimilation, to become absorbed into white capitalist society and live just like white people.

Assimilation is Genocide

There are many ways to commit genocide, and putting people into gas ovens is only one. The ambition to destroy Aboriginal culture by assimilating Aborigines into white capitalist society also meets the definition of genocide. If the new paternalists have their way, Aborigines will move into “economically viable” towns and cities, Aboriginal languages and culture will be lost and, most importantly, Aboriginal land rights will no longer be an obstacle to mining companies.

Aborigines are simply to be “Australians” - who happen to be very poor and have dark skin, thereby singling them out for racist treatment by coppers and rednecks. And there's the rub. The genocide of Aboriginal society, even if accomplished, will not mean that Aborignal people become “normal Australians”. Poverty and racial oppression are still to be their lot.

An Injury to All

Apart from those living in remote communities and resisting integration into capitalist relations, almost all Aborigines in Australia are part of the working class. To achieve working class unity, we need to fight all divisions within our class, including racism, and the intended Aboriginal genocide in Australia is racism par excellance.

The unions, and all working class organisations, need to come together to denounce the NT Intervention as the racist atrocity it is, and fight to end it. In the course of this struggle, we can develop a true movement of reconciliation. We can build a society which recognises land rights, and abolishes both wage labour and real estate. We can have a revolution.

END THE NT INTERVENTION

* This article is from the latest issue of "The Anvil", Vol. 2/Issue 1, newsletter of Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG). To download the issue go here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/27506568/Anvil-Feb-2010

This page can be viewed in
English Italiano Deutsch

Indonesia / Philippines / Australia | Indigenous struggles | en

Fri 29 Mar, 00:49

browse text browse image

r0_0_800_600_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg imageInvasion Day 2019 18:13 Sat 26 Jan by Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group 0 comments

So, this year and every year, the MACG joins the call to abolish Australia Day. Our vision is of a stateless communist society, a Workers’ Commonwealth worldwide and operating on the basis of consistent federalism. Here, in the land that is currently called Australia, the Workers’ Commonwealth will be the vehicle through which non-indigenous people work with, and learn from, indigenous people how to live sustainably in the land, as they did so successfully for over 60,000 years before the First Fleet brought British colonialism to these shores.

freedylanvoller.jpg imageAustralia: Dylan Voller plans hunger strike 19:56 Wed 07 Dec by Dmitri (republishing) 0 comments

At least four guards involved in the tear gassing and other incidents of abuse while Dylan was in Don Dale are currently working as guards in the Darwin Correctional Centre and are continually tormenting Dylan. Some have threatened to have him bashed if he speaks out about his treatment.

textKulon Progo farmers 18:38 Thu 07 Jan by "In Solidarity" 0 comments

SOLIDARITY ACTION FOR KULON PROGO FARMERS
WHEN : 10am, Monday, January 11, 2010 WHERE : Indonesian Consulate General, 72 Queens Road, Melbourne HOW TO GET THERE : By public transport: Take tram numbers 3, 5, 6, 8, 55, 64, 67 or 72. Get off at High St. Walk towards Albert Park, turn left @ Queens Rd.

textStop the genocide! 19:29 Sat 26 Jan by Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group 0 comments

Leaflet of Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group distributed today at the rally of Melbourne Aboriginal community against the so-called Australia Day – better knew as Invasion Day.

imageIndigenous struggles against capitalism in Australia Aug 31 by Black Flag Sydney 0 comments

This article was originally written at the request of our comrades in France, the Union Communiste Libertaire. A translation of this article into French will hopefully be published soon. It is intended to be a follow up to an article by the UCL entitled “1788 : Les générations volées de l’Australie coloniale”, which deals at length with the details of early colonisation and the Stolen Generation. As such, our article does not go into detail about these two things, and is directed more to a global audience instead of a domestic one that already knows about Indigenous struggles.

imageFree West Papua Nov 14 by Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG)i 0 comments

We recognise the right of the West Papuan people to self-determination and we call on the working class in both Australia and Indonesia to join us in this. It is particularly important for the working class movement in Indonesia to recognise the West Papuans’ right of self-determination, because this is the only way in which the question can be resolved peacefully.

imageStrike to stop aboriginal deaths in custody Jan 31 by MACG 0 comments

The movement against Aboriginal deaths in custody is growing. It is growing because the deaths just keep happening, and that’s criminal. We're not just talking about deaths from natural causes. Many of these deaths are far from natural.
From 'The Anvil' newsletter of Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group (MACG), issue 4/1, Feb. 2015.

textThe Land Grab Oct 04 by MACG 0 comments

Non-indigenous people in Australia live on stolen land and a just settlement requires the abolition of capitalist property and the allocation of rights over land on the basis social and environmental need.

textWhite Australia has a black history Mar 06 by MACG 1 comments

The working class is the only force in society which has both the strength and the motive to win this struggle.

more >>

imageInvasion Day 2019 Jan 26 Anarkismo 0 comments

So, this year and every year, the MACG joins the call to abolish Australia Day. Our vision is of a stateless communist society, a Workers’ Commonwealth worldwide and operating on the basis of consistent federalism. Here, in the land that is currently called Australia, the Workers’ Commonwealth will be the vehicle through which non-indigenous people work with, and learn from, indigenous people how to live sustainably in the land, as they did so successfully for over 60,000 years before the First Fleet brought British colonialism to these shores.

imageAustralia: Dylan Voller plans hunger strike Dec 07 MACG (personal capacity) 0 comments

At least four guards involved in the tear gassing and other incidents of abuse while Dylan was in Don Dale are currently working as guards in the Darwin Correctional Centre and are continually tormenting Dylan. Some have threatened to have him bashed if he speaks out about his treatment.

textKulon Progo farmers Jan 07 0 comments

SOLIDARITY ACTION FOR KULON PROGO FARMERS
WHEN : 10am, Monday, January 11, 2010 WHERE : Indonesian Consulate General, 72 Queens Road, Melbourne HOW TO GET THERE : By public transport: Take tram numbers 3, 5, 6, 8, 55, 64, 67 or 72. Get off at High St. Walk towards Albert Park, turn left @ Queens Rd.

textStop the genocide! Jan 26 0 comments

Leaflet of Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group distributed today at the rally of Melbourne Aboriginal community against the so-called Australia Day – better knew as Invasion Day.

© 2005-2024 Anarkismo.net. Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. Opinions are those of the contributors and are not necessarily endorsed by Anarkismo.net. [ Disclaimer | Privacy ]