"Mubarak in the trash!"
(ag) The people in some Arab countries are in turmoil. Whether young or old, man or woman, an academic or illiterate, they go together to the streets to show that they do not accept oppression any longer.
impetus to the spreading protests in North Africa is the political upheaval in Tunisia. There had since last December, thousands of people repeatedly protested against the autocratic regime of the dictator, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. For years the country was oppressed by his corrupt government. The political opposition has been systematically eliminated through terror and censorship, economically driven the country into ruin. Food prices, especially bread, have exploded since 2008, almost. The youth is facing a dead-end future, because, although well trained, no work place. secured his power, Ben Ali by electoral fraud, the growing discontent of the people he responded with repression and police violence. When the riots came to a head in January, he left hastily after 23 years of rule the country on January 14th. Tunisia is managed since a transitional government under Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, but is still largely of members of the RCD, the party of Ben Ali. The protests continued last.
Similar motifs also finds people in Algeria.
since 1992 is in Algeria are permanently in a state of emergency, banned rallies and meetings since. For the incumbent since 1999, President Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika, a favorable condition to suppress any criticism of his regime. Behind a facade of parliamentary government here there is a military dictatorship.
In Egypt there have long been a dictator, Muhammad Husni Mubarak, who is responsible for the dire situation in Egypt. The education system is catastrophic, a third of the population can neither read nor write. There is poverty and unemployment. The political process is monopolized by electoral fraud and corruption. The opposition parties have only three per cent of the seats in the Parliament. At the moment, even here, thousands of people on the streets to protest for a democratic state and to force the withdrawal of Mubarak. Today was the million mark is reached and the "March of Millions" is a reality.
Everyone looks at the moment in the Arab States. But rarely have the close relationship of the neo-liberal policies of the West with the protests will be addressed the same place. That the U.S. and the EU are mainly responsible for the chaotic situation, is often concealed by all governments. Merkel and Westerwelle, praises the efforts of the Egyptian people for democracy and human rights. Why do people only for those claims to the streets have to go, but it is not just the fault of Ben Ali and Mubarak. In colonialism laid the foundation for economic exploitation of the Arab / African countries was given that persists to this day. Many products such as IKEA are made in Egypt, in slavery-like conditions. To ensure the exploitation of the population, it needs an autocratic regime, where social rights play only a minor role.
play course, geo-strategic interests, no small role. Dictatorial regimes are supported to ensure access to the rich oil reserves. All for the sake of international capitalism at the expense of the indigenous population and their social and political freedom.
French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has a few days ago Ben Ali offered their support and Germany also expressed its mistrust and opposition demonstrators in Egypt. Happy to be justified the rejection of the protests with the fear of an Islamic takeover of the country.
Interestingly, an argument which is used as dictator Mubarak.
For Germany, it is also more. Not only that Mubarak's regime is a key partner in "fighting terrorism" and refugee defense. Egypt is also an important ally of Israel in the Middle East conflict. With an end to the Mubarak regime could also be the foreign policy relations with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ends extremely right-wing government. Thus there may well be another critic who could challenge the inhuman policy towards the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. For Germany, which vehemently for years a critical opinion on the policies of Israel refused, of course not be tolerated. But other Western states its hegemony in the Middle East by the upheavals in Egypt, but also Tunisia, Algeria and Yemen to see threatened.
in North Africa is enormous on-going. More and more nations to defend themselves against dictatorial and autocratic Regime. They fight for social justice, for democracy, for their rights. A state emancipatory movement has emerged which is always inspired each other and thereby releases an enormous revolutionary potential. The SDS
MLU solidarity with the protesters and condemned all forms of dictatorship and oppression. We also sharply criticize the hypocritical attitude of the German government, which has for years hindered the emergence of democratic states on the basis of its own economic and political interests, and now again trying to qualify the historical significance of the protests, instead of supporting them and encouraging.
high international Solidarity!
http://www.jungewelt.de/2011/01-29/016.php?sstr=Tunesien
http://video.zeit.de/video/772451410001
http://www.spiegel.de/ politik/ausland/0, 1518,743026,00. html
http://www.wdm.org.uk/blog/tunisias-struggle-and-ours-battles-same-war
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