VB: [fse-esf]From Alla. Osetia. very urgent.

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Från: alla glinchikova <aglinchikova at yandex.ru>
Datum: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:28:23 +0400
Till: <tord.bjork at mjv.se>
Kopia: <fse-esf at lists.fse-esf.org>, Franco Russo <fs.russo at tiscali.it>,
Raffaella Bolini <bolini at arci.it>, Marco Berlinguer
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Ämne: Fwd: [fse-esf]From Alla. Osetia. very urgent.

Dear Tord,Raffaella, Franco and Marco!
   could you help to send this letter ( with my response ) to general
fse-esf list? Please, help. this is very important.
Alla

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11.08.08, 12:00, "alla glinchikova" <aglinchikova at yandex.ru>:

 Dear friends,
   first of all, thank you for the words of support to South Osetian people
dying under thme bombs of Georgian aggression and for your desire to go
against the existing lie and propaganda of this aggression in Western mass
media. I speak as Russian and I thank for compassion to Osetians, since we
all are first of all  P e o p l e.
   I want to say, that Russian people are deeply concerned with the
situation. And it is not only because of human compassion, but also because
of thousands of refugees, who lost their houses, their close people and are
looking for the protection on Russian territory. Russian society also
historically can not accept any politics and ideology, based on the
principle of phisical extermination of people because of their ethnicity.
All the attempts of any politics, based on such principles constantly failed
in Russian history, because were not legitimate in the eyes of Russian
people. Afghanistan, Chechoslovakia, to some extent Chechnya ( when it
concerned not specially prepared terrorists, well equipped and payed by
American money to destabilize situation in the Caucasus and split nations
living in Russia) - were not successful wars as long as they were not
supported by Russian society and Russian people. But when fascists came to
Russia it was another story. People raised.
   I am deeply concerned with the situation now and i want to attract your
attention to the specifics of this moment, which  can be not immediately
obvious from abroad. Now it is not Russian "imperialist" politicians ( which
i don't have many illusions about and love to), but Russian people are
touched by cynical politics of the US, who constantly try to use their
goals, creating wars o u t of  t h e i r  o w n  territory and involving
people of different regions into killing their brothers. because not only
Osetians, but also Georgians are our brothers, who were fighting with us for
our common human dignity with facists, we were shoulder to shoulder during
all our history! We see very well, what is going on, we swallowed Cosovo, as
all Europe swallowed it, we swallowed Iraq, now they came to us. The bell
calls not for the governments any, now it calls for people - and this is the
specifics of the moment, that you didn't get in your appeal, while putting
to gather Russia and US as the same in this situation.
No, here we are not the same this time. Because, US people are far and don't
even know, where is Osetia and Russian people are here, they are dying in
this conflict, dying, protecting their brothers, dying, killing their
brothers in favour of American interests in the Caucasis.
   Another shock for Russian people was the behavior of UN Security Council
and Western media, which didn't react to Russian appeal to prevent the
conflict and stop Georgians shooting Russian peacekeepers b e f o r e
Russian troops entered Georgia at night from 7-8th. The Security Council and
media were waiting, when Russian troops involve to protect people! They
controll media and think, that they can control truth.
   Russian people do not need Georgian territory, they have enough
territory, they also don't have problems with oil.
But Russian people are very much concerned to be surrounded by American
bases with their outstanding appetites, which stretch all over the world and
not in favour of world prosperity, but in favour of world misery. Russian
people are also concerned with the situation, when brother nations are
hunted kill each other. You say Russians should go out of Osetia. I fully
agree. But who will provide peace there? Nr.Saakashvilly? Americans? NATO?
UN? Are you ready to provide peace there - to feed people, to repairer their
houses, schools and hospitals, to spend and spend money for refugees, for
medicines and to risk your life everyday to protect peace?
   I am sure, that you are ready! And I want to appeal to all people of good
will all over the world to support Osetian, Georgian and Russian people, who
are involved into a deep and bloody conflict by irresponsible American
political clique. Please, influence your democratic governments to prevent
growth of the conflict, which could be very dangerous for all. we shouldn't
allow this conflict to turn into Russian-Nato conflict,when not only
Russian, Osetians and Georgians, but also people of your countries would die
for American Money. I also want to appeal to American people - your
politicians support murders and create conflicts all over the world - it
doens't make honour to the great people.
 
  In solidarity
 Alla Glinchikova
   
  

11.08.08, 02:12, "Dave Stockton" <stockton.dave at btopenworld.com>:

> League for the Fifth International
> Statement on the Georgia- Russia conflict in South Ossetia
> 10 August 2008
> The people of Georgia and South Ossetia have been dragged into a bloody
> power play between the USA and Russia for control of the oil-rich Caucasus
> region. 
> With the eyes of the world on the grand spectacle of the Olympic Opening
> Ceremony in Beijing, George Bush's neoliberal Georgian puppet, Mikheil
> Saakashvili, launched a murderous surprise assault on South Ossetia, the
> majority non-ethnic Georgian region that has been demanding separation from
> Georgia since 1992 and which was until Friday morning under the control of
> pro-independence forces, protected by a 500 strong Russian 'peacekeeping'
> force.
> Video recordings showed Georgian jets and artillery pounding the South
> Ossetian capital Tskhinvali - its war materiel provided by exceptionally
> generous US backing over the last two years to the neoliberal, pro-NATO,
> repressive Saakashvili government. The bombardment and occupation of the
> city killed hundreds of civilians and casualties included a number of
> Russian 'peacekeepers.' Thousands of Ossetian refugees were driven from the
> city and from surrounding villages.
> Russia, however, called Saakashvili's bluff and mobilised special forces and
> regular troops, quickly recapturing the South Ossetian capital. They also
> bombed air bases outside the Georgian capital Tbilisi and military targets
> in the town of Gori where, it seems, troops were massing to enter Ossetia.
> The Georgian parliament declared war and called up reservists. Saakashvili
> appealed for foreign aid but nevertheless called for a ceasefire.
> Whilst the fighting continued, the UN Security Council failed to reach
> agreement on a common statement.
> The hypocritical voices of the USA and its British ally have been raised in
> calls for Russia to respect "Georgia's territorial integrity", by which they
> really mean Saakashvili's right to slaughter and repress the separatist
> forces in South Ossetia. As the Russian media has persistently pointed out,
> the USA and Britain's inconsistent approach to the right of nations to
> independence is as striking as it is self-serving. They recognise Kosovo,
> but refuse recognition to South Ossetia. They demand that Russia respect
> Georgia's borders but themselves violate those of Iraq and Afghanistan with
> impunity.
> The Russian stance is no less hypocritical. Its delegate to the UN piously
> backed the national rights of the South Ossetians, and those of the
> Abkhazians, Georgia's other large national minority in its Western region.
> But who can take as good coin the Russians' commitment to the right of
> nations to self-determination when they continue to bloodily suppress the
> Chechen nation, which has been fighting for separation from Russia for
> years? With a full scale Russian military occupation the independence of
> South Ossetia will be nominal at best.
> Behind this war, on both the Russian and the Georgian sides, lie the
> manoeuvrings of the imperialist powers and their oil multinationals. At
> stake are the oil reserves of the Caspian Sea region and the locations for
> new pipelines to pump it westward, outside Russian territorial control.
> Part of these manoeuvres was the "Rose Revolution" in Georgia in 2003 that
> put Saakashvili, a pro-Western neoliberal, in power. The US-based NGO, the
> Liberty Institute, helped organise it. The USA has been tempting
> Saakashvili's unpopular regime with Nato membership - an offer other Nato
> members recently vetoed. One condition for joining Nato membership  is to
> have no ongoing territorial disputes with your neighbours. This probably
> accounts for Saakashvili's ill-fated attempt to seize South Ossetia.
>  
> Socialists around the world should take a clear stance on the Russia-Georgia
> conflict. Our starting point is two basic principles of Leninism: opposition
> to imperialist powers as they seek the division and redivision of the world
> so that they can plunder its resources and compete with one another for
> regional hegemony, and support for the right of nations to
> self-determination, up to and including the right to form separate states if
> they so wish.
> Clearly this meant total opposition to the imperialist puppet Saakashvili's
> failed attempt to "recover" South Ossetia and meant support for the region's
> armed resistance to it. However the rights of the Georgian minority there
> must be preserved and all attempts at ethnic cleansing resisted wherever
> they come from.
> Only weeks ago, US forces engaged in a huge training exercise with Georgian
> troops. Whether the attack on Tskhinvali was planned in the Pentagon, or
> whether Saakashvili was so emboldened by the USA's backing that he decided
> to engage in a provocation to force NATO's hand and push the US into a
> showdown with Russia, is as yet not clear.
> Whatever, internationalists in Georgia should be struggling for the
> withdrawal of all Georgian troops from South Ossetia, for the expulsion of
> all US military advisers and troops from Georgia, and for the overthrow of
> Saakashvili's criminal regime.
> But socialists cannot support the Russian military intervention either,
> motivated as it is solely by the Kremlin's grand designs for domination of
> the Caucasus, its rich oil reserves and its strategic position in relation
> to the great Caspian oil pipeline. Russia is a capitalist country, an
> imperialist power which itself oppresses national minorities such as the
> Chechens.
>  
> Whilst fully supporting the right of South Ossetians to their independence,
> socialists and internationalists in Russia must oppose Medvedev and Putin's
> military plans. They have encouraged Ossetians to take out Russian
> citizenship, to give themselves the excuse that occupying the tiny country
> is simply protection of "their own" citizens. In fact the Russian
> klepto-capitalists and their bonapartist regime have seized the opportunity
> presented by the crisis to assert regional control. The Russian
> representative at the emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday
> made not only correct calls for the South Ossetians' rights to be respected,
> but also the sinister assertion that, in attacking Tskhinvali, Georgia had
> called into question "its viability as a state". Any attempt by Russian
> forces to bring about regime change in Georgia would be a clear violation of
> the national independence of the country.
>  
> Like the Balkans in the years before the First World War, the Caucasus today
> is emerging as a battleground for inter-imperialist rivalry and proxy wars.
> As the economic storm clouds continue to gather, signs of sharpening
> tensions between the USA and Russia reveal the contours of darker times to
> come. Now, more than ever, the working class around the world needs to be
> guided by the key principles of internationalism: support for the right of
> oppressed nations to self-determination, and resolute opposition to
> imperialism.
>  
> € Georgia - hands off South Ossetia
> € US military advisers out of Georgia
> € Russian troops out of South Ossetia
> € Self-determination for South Ossetia and Abkhazia
> € Down with US and Russian imperialist designs for the oil-rich Caucasus.
> Richard Brenner, on behalf of the League for the Fifth International
>  
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