Letter to readers of our blog.
We unconditionally support wikileaks against the assault on it by world capitalism and we call for the release of Assange, its arrested leader. We are also democratic socialists and proud to be so. In stating this we need to recognize there are some negative traditions in the socialist movement which we are trying to struggle against.
One of these is the tendency of socialist groups and individuals to develop a position and refuse to consider any other. We are trying to break from this tradition. We are trying to develop positions and learn from the past in conjunction with others. Especially we want to learn from and with this new mainly youth movement that has sprung up to defend wikileaks. In this piece we have on this blog on Wikileaks and Assange from yesterday we made a number of calls for action. We believe we should have made a number of additions to this. We would like to try and rectify this now.
On the one hand we did not explain how we saw the accusations of the two women against Assange being dealt with. This was raised with us on face book and elsewhere by some Comrades. We thank the Comrades very much for doing so. We have thought about the points the Comrades made and developed a proposal which we include below. We think it answers to the need to make sure the women's case is heard and at the same time to defend Assange from the attacks and accusations against him and wikileaks by capitalism.
We have also become more aware of the anger in the US especially against the brutal internal regimes in the US corporations, the fall of living standards of US workers and the need to link the wikileaks struggle to the struggle against this offensive of the corporations, their capitalist system and their managements against the workers. In this regard we also add a clause and demand relating to how workers should act where possible to use this new change in the world situation concerning opening the diplomatic and military cables of capitalism to the need to also open the industrial and financial cables, emails, agreements for all to see. This would weaken capitalism in its offensive against the working class as its dirty offensive would be increasingly seen and understood by the working class.
Please read this our new and amended post/program for dealing with this opportunity we now have to weaken capitalism worldwide. Please also send it on to your friends and fellow workers. Sean.
Wikileaks, Assange, Direct Action, Capitalism, Socialism.
Wikileaks. Defeat capitalism's offensive to keep us from reading the cables and correspondence which it claims are in our name. We want to see its secrets and lies.
Letter to the left, anti capitalist and radical movement.
What should we do to contribute to the fight against US and world capitalism's effort to close down wikileaks and keep its dirty laundry from our eyes? Here are a few suggestions.
First of all the world's union and labor leaders should be leading a movement to defend wikileaks, for the release and the dropping of all charges against Assange and Manning. It should be using its resources to distribute all the material that wikileaks has available not leaving it up to wikileaks with its tiny resources. But this bureaucracy is so intimidated by capitalism, so convinced that capitalism is the only system, so convinced that the working class cannot build a new society, has itself so many perks from capitalism, that it is paralyzed and refuses to act.
We must continue to point out the supine pro capitalist role of this union and labor bureaucracy and call on it to change its ways and to take on the system. We must continue to seek to build an opposition to it in the workplace and unions, to open up divisions within the unions and labor movement which will accelerate the possibility of it or some section of it acting, but in the meantime we must also act ourselves. It is not sufficient to complain about the union and labor leaders.
Capitalism is attacking wikileaks by trying to cut off its funds. Organizations like Mastercard, Visa, Paypay, Swiss Banks are leading on this. They are acting under the direction of US capitalism. This is a coordinated offensive. We are at war. Not a war against terrorism but a war against the effort of capitalism to keep the working class and people of the world from knowing how capitalism rules and acts.
The organization which goes by the name of Anonymous is leading the fight back against this onslaught. It has to be unconditionally commended for its leadership role. It is going after the websites and capabilities of these organizations that are attacking wikileaks. All of us who want to halt capitalism's efforts to keep its wars and exploitation secret should support this organization and its work. And not only support it but join it, become part of it. This is an important first step. This organization is coordinating the fightback. All strength at the point of attack or in this case, all strength at the point of defense.
As part of being involved in Anonymous we should try to give it more structure and to democratize this movement. That it not only should there be chat rooms and electronic facilities where the participants connect, but that all who are on it organize regular person to person meetings in their workplace, unions, neighborhoods and in this way elect democratic representatives who can come together locally, regionally, nationally and internationally and create an international democratic structure. Build Anonymous with a more democratic movement with structure.
Such a movement could mobilize the defense of wikileaks and a free and accessible Internet on a daily basis internationally, but also call regional and international mobilizations and conferences to allow for democratic decision making structures and a democratically elected leadership to evolve. This is what we should aim for.
#Hands of Wikileaks. Release Assange and Manning. Under no conditions support his being held or tried by the capitalist state. To do so would put his life in danger.
#Keep the Internet Free, Unfiltered and Unfettered.
#Boycott all organizations that are attacking Wikileaks.
#Investigate the allegations of the women against Assange in an institution totally independent of any capitalist state. For example in an elected body from a women's union or women's union and organization/s.
#Where possible publicize and circulate all internal agreements and contracts of the corporations so all workers can see what is being done to them daily, can see the daily fraud which capitalism represents in their lives, can see the daily assault on their lives: for example the pace of work, hours worked, cuts in wages, debts piled on debts to survive, foreclosures and unaffordable housing, unaffordable or non available health care, unaffordable education, the poorest sent to fight capitalism's wars, where possible, that is where it does not lead to being fired, access and publicize these secret agreements and emails and daily workings. send them far and wide. The union leadership should pick a date and organize a one day access and print out and circulate day. By shining a light on capitalism's dirty offensive would weaken this offensive, strengthen the working class and increase its consciousness and its tendency to seek an alternative to capitalism.
#Build Hands Off Wikileaks committees in the workplaces, neighborhoods, trade unions, labor organizations, regionally, nationally and internationally. In this way give a democratic structure to the Anonymous movement. A structure which can make decisions democratically and which can have a collective leadership which can replace itself when and if capitalism removes some of its members.
#Explain within this movement that capitalism cannot exist without its secrets and lies, its capitalist so called diplomacy. The working class peoples of the world cannot afford these secrets and lies, this so called diplomacy, this capitalist diplomacy. So we have to work not just to end the secrets and lies, the capitalist diplomacy, we also have to work to end capitalism and build a democratic socialist world.
Sean.
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