[fse-esf] Statement by Socialist Workers Party (Britain) on
Mumbai Bombings
Matyas Benyik
mbenyik at freemail.hu
Thu Jul 13 08:10:03 CEST 2006
Dear Judith,
I fully agree with your e-mail message, but I wish to draw your attention to the fact that also in Athens ESF a lot parties were present openly. So it is a hypocracy to claim "parties are not allowed to participate in the social forum process". From the beginning parties in disguise ( as Tojan horses) have been participated in the social forum process. You know it very well that for example in the Hungarian Social Forum process the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006 is openly participating. Until the Porto Alegre Charter is in force I support your demand. Or is it high time to change the Charter?
Friendly regards,
Matyas Benyik
----- Original Message -----
From: Judith Dellheim
To: Alex Callinicos ; ESF
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 7:29 AM
Subject: Re: [fse-esf] Statement by Socialist Workers Party (Britain) on Mumbai Bombings
Dear Friends,
I ask about the legitimacy of such e-mails on our list. If the Charta of Porto Alegre is the basis of the social forum process we can't accept the permanent offence against it. Parties are not allowed to particiapate in the social forum process and we all should stop tolerating the violation of this princip.
In solidarity
Judith Dellheim
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Bombings in Mumbai, India
12 July 2006
Statement from the Socialist Workers Party (Britain) on yesterday’s bomb attacks on Mumbai on 11 July 2006
We are appalled at the bomb attacks on the people of Mumbai in which so many people have been killed and injured. Our deepest sympathies are with the families of those whose have lost friends and loved ones.
In January 2004, as delegates to the World Social Forum being held in Mumbai, we travelled upon the same suburban trains that were bombed yesterday. Every morning we joined the thousands of commuters packed into the trains from Khar Road, and found that almost immediately upon entering the train that people would want to talk with us. They wanted to know about the forum, and share their belief in the need for social justice - eagerly asking us what we thought of Mumbai, its peoples and their cultures. To hear that Khar Road was among the targets that were bombed leaves us with a heavy heart.
The people who cram into the suburban trains that were hit are among India’s poorest. They live in areas that bear no resemblance to those of the rich in Mumbai. They play no part in the Indian state’s brutal repression in Kashmir. They have never been consulted about the recurring conflicts with Pakistan. Yet it is they, both Hindu and Muslim, who have been made to pay a terrible price.
This tragedy would be further compounded if the bombings were to result in the kind of anti-Muslim backlash that occurred in the wake of the bombings of Mumbai (then Bombay) in March 1993, when more than 200 were killed in a wave of communal violence. It is our greatest hope that the working class people of the city will resist attempts to divide them on religious lines.
The Indian government of Manmohan Singh will doubtless pledge itself to fight against the terrorists who have committed this atrocity with increased resolve. But if what results from this pledge is a greater threat of military conflict with Pakistan, more repression in Kashmir, and an increased willingness of the Indian state to be a partner in the “war on terror”, it would serve only to compound the tragedy of the bombings. It is exactly these actions that have meant India has become a target.
When George Bush visited India in March this year he was greeted by an enormous wave of protests across the country. People of all religions and none marched in their millions against imperialism. We hope that in the wake of yesterday’s bombs that same spirit can be evoked again.
Alex Callinicos, International Secretary, Socialist Workers Party
Chris Harman, editor International Socialism journal
Chris Nineham, Central Committee, Socialist Workers Party
Yuri Prasad, editor Socialist Review
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