Communist Party of Benin: Appeal to the People of Benin against Boni Yayi

Philippe Noudjenoume, presidential candidate of the PCB

Philippe Noudjenoume

The political situation in our country is chaos. Because of the diverse and arbitrary decisions of the Constitutional Court managed to sink into a cesspool.

1. There is no longer the Parliament, because of decisions made by the Constitutional Court, chaired by Robert Dossou. Mathurin NAGO order to apply these decisions for the benefit of Boni Yayi, even by force of arms against the deputies, he dismissed Parliament.

2. The Constitutional Court is discredited. Object to the application of the measures infamous, the majority of MPs has joined the long denounced by the revolutionaries and the people who reject the institution that chokes us with its oppression.

3. There is no government, there is a man named Thomas Boni Yayi greedy for power and wealth, acting on its use and consumption in our country. Today, even the most legalistic bring into question his “kingdom.” Eleven of the fourteen candidates by the Constitutional Court, question the government’s capacity to organize elections valid and moribund demand, according to the ratio of a few weeks ago on the elections’ compliance with the provisions of our Constitution relating to the duration of the mandates of the institutions Republican “Boni Yayi and let the power before the elections.

4. There is no more constitution. And ‘failed for the popular struggle, was taken to pieces by the plots and by disputes between the various cliques of the big bourgeoisie, specifically from that of Boni Yayi. Pua not leave the political turmoil existing judiciary, without knocking down the current constitution, which in fact has already been liquidated.

The building constitutional installed in the country over the past twenty years there has been undermined in the context of acute political crisis, social and moral. We need to build a new building, more democratic, more solid, which is based really on the willingness of workers and peoples, and not on the designs of foreign powers, the Mafia and traitors.

The popular uprisings of 1989, culminating in December of that year, assicucurarono a foundation, then bent to the service of the big bourgeoisie to its present building, now completely drunk. Only a widespread popular uprising can lay the foundation for a new building that will be all the more solid the more it is democratic, based on the aspirations of workers and peoples.

My party calls with all his strength to the general uprising to overthrow Boni Yayi and overcome the current stagnation and chaos. We must be aware of the fact that today the people of Benin has no other way for his dignity and his honor outside of launching from all the general uprising against the left-Trío Boni Yayi Robert Dossou NAGO-Mathurin, his government and its Constitutional Court. Current experiences in North Africa and the Middle East confirmed the correctness of the approach.

I support all the demonstrations of workers, trade unions, political parties, against the State of-fact but not in law – created by the Constitutional Court and the power of Boni Yayi. I appeal to all general and formal workers, youth, women and soldiers to rise up and join the people in order to:

- Break down immediately Boni Yayi.
- Establishment of a Provisional Government of National Salvation.
- Convene a Constituent Assembly elected by the fighters formed to develop and adopt a truly democratic constitution.
- To organize elections truly democratic and transparent.

Viva sovereignty poplar! Long live the popular uprising!
Viva the power of workers and peoples!

Cotonou, February 18, 2011

(Secretary of the Communist Party of Benin)

Site of the newspaper of the Communist Party of Benin: http://www.la-flamme.org/

Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan): Hail the Glorious Struggles of the Iranian Working Class!

The Iranian working class has pushed its struggles to a higher level in the past few years. There have been several united strikes by the workers in different sectors of industry. The most recent strike took place in the city of Mahshahr and continued for three weeks. Six thousand five hundred workers of Petrochemical Complex in Mahshahr went on a united strike. Among their demands were the elimination of intermediary contractors between the workers and the Complex, the elimination of signing temporary and individual contracts with workers, and its replacement with signing official and direct and collective contracts with the Company.

The regime of the Islamic Republic used every effort to suppress and break the strike. The security forces of the regime arrested three representatives of the strikers, but the workers marched forward. The employers offered false promises, but no one listened to them. This section of the Iranian working class was on strike in April of this year for the same demands. The employers officially agreed in April that the demands would be met within three months. But the Petrochemical Complex violated the agreement and continued signing temporary and individual contracts with the workers. This time, the workers of Mahshar Petrochemical Complex went on strike, stronger and more prepared. They formed “Strike Committee” and “Strike Fund” to better organise their united strike. They issued several statements and reported their activities to the media. One such press release read:

“We have come to the conclusion that without forming organisation and having coordination we will not achieve any gains. Even if the strike achieves some gains, the gains would not be maintainable without the formation of workers’ organisation. Therefore, we established the Strike Committee as the first step, and we are seeking domestic and international solidarity. We must mention that the Committee has already set a ‘Strike Fund’ to support the workers on strike.”

The Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) hails the glorious struggles of Mahshahr workers. We sent our greetings to the striking workers.

The regime of the Islamic Republic has created harsh economic conditions for the workers and labourers of Iran. There have been many strikes and protests by different sectors of the work force demanding the payment of delayed wages, wage increases, better working conditions, freedom to form independent trade unions, etc. Many worker-activists have been imprisoned and tortured for their attempts to form syndicates. In industry, signing temporary contracts with intermediaries is a policy adopted by employers and supported by the regime of the Islamic Republic to further exploit the workers. This policy stems from neo-liberal policies of World Trade Organization and is dictated to the member parties. This is a common problem for the workers in different sectors of industry.

The workers of Iran, with permanent and formal contracts or with temporary and intermediary contracts, are reaching the conclusion that they have a common interest in eliminating the problem.

Another general demand of the workers is the formation of independent trade unions. The formation of any independent trade syndicate is a nightmare for the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The regime knows that the unity of workers is a mortal threat to its existence. This is why the regime has tried to suffocate any movement towards the formation of trade unions. In spite of this suppression, the persistence and tireless efforts of the activists have resulted in the establishment of unions in some sections of the labour force, and there are strong desires and attempts to form syndicates in other sections.

The Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) strongly encourages all workers to express solidarity with the struggles of their comrades in any sector of the work force. The demands of one sector of the working class are common demands of all workers and labourers. The gains achieved by one sector of the working class are gains for all workers. The final victory for the working class will be manifest in its unity under the banner of the Party. This is the only path for the working class to emancipate itself from the slavery of capitalism.

The Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan), International Relations

October 13, 2011
WWW.Toufan.org
Toufan@toufan.org

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KKE 1918-55: Comrade Stella Delifoti passed away

On July 6 the EAM-ELAS fighter and the glorious Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) guerilla Comrade Stella Delifoti died and buried in her village. She left her last breath in Athens, where she lived after the return from Poland.

Comrade Stella was born in 1926 in the village of Dress Pella, where she grew up.

During the triple fascist occupation (1941-44) of the country by the German-Italian-Bulgarian troops she fought against the invaders in the ranks of EAM-ELAS. She organized in her village in National Liberation Front (EAM) in October 1942 and took active part in the struggle of our people.

After the liberation of our country and the treacherous Varkiza agreement, with peak the delivery of arms, she was expelled, along with tens of thousands of fighters “from the state of the intolerant right”, as she reported in a self-biographical note: “I crawled to prison, was beaten and reviled.”

Later, following the new blare invitational (1946) of the Revolutionary Communist Party, by its great leader communist leader Nikos Zachariadis, she came to the mountains and fought from the ranks of the glorious and heroic Democratic Army of Greece (DSE) the local monarch-fascists and the American imperialists.

After the decline of DSE she went as a political refugee in the great country of socialism, the Soviet Union of the great Stalin, in the city of Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan, where she worked in production. She took yet active part in party life and she always faithfully and consistently defending the revolutionary line of the Communist Party.

During the open, raw and brutal intervention of the traitorous clique of Khrushchev-Brezhnev-Mikogian etc. to our heroic Party in September of ’55, comrade Stella Delifoti actively defended the line of the Communist Party and its Central Committee against a handful of right-wing opportunists traitors of the clique Demetriou-Chatouras-Rossis-Tsolakis etc.

In the bloody conflict in Tashkent (9-10 September 1955), which was directed by the Khrushchevit revisionists and was instrumented by minimum opportunists, she was arrested for defending the revolutionary line by the Soviet Security, along with many hundreds of communist ELAS-DSE guerillas and incarcerated for months in the fascist Khrushchev-Brezhnev dungeons of Tashkent.

After her release, she continued her revolutionary activities like always and kept actively following the revolutionary line and obstinately defending the revolutionary path of Stalin-Zachariadis.

She was expelled, like thousands of communists, but actively continuing the struggle against Khrushchevite revisionism both in Tashkent and later in Poland.

Returning to Greece from exile she continued the struggle against Khrushchevite revisionism, associated with the “Movement for Reorganization of the Communist Party 1918-55”, disseminate and always defended the revolutionary line of Stalin-Zachariadis.

Despite her health problems which she had last year, she never lost her optimism and enviable fighting spirit/

The communist Delifoti Stella was one of those fighters who her companions and comrades appreciated the militancy in the struggle for the interests of the working class and her consistency to the revolutionary communist principles. She was an uncompromising defender of the revolutionary work of Stalin-Zachariadis and all Communist guerillas with courage and frank behavior.

The Political Committee of the Movement for the Reorganisation of the Communist Party of Greece 1918-55

The Political Committee of the “Movement for the Reorganisation of the Communist Party of Greece 1918-55″
PO Box 3689, 102 10 Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 2108621543
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Blog (English): http://anasintaxi-en.blogspot.com
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