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herrien mundurantz
Euskal Herria internazionalista



boga!

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Malmö:

Where is going to the movement of mevements?


The V European Social Forum just ended in Malmö. In it took part with  
enthusiasm a delegation of more than 20 people organized in the  
network 'Herriak Aske', in which the Coordinadora Simon Bolivar  
(Venezuela), Health Work Comittees (Palestine) and Askapena (Euskal  
Herria) take part.

Representatives of various Basque movements and popular organizations  
have been in 5 seminars as organizers. These seminars are a  
reflection of the Basque people's movement for the construction of  
another possible Euskal Herria in another possible Europe and in  
another possible and necessary world, and in some cases, a  
reflection, in turn, of the ongoing repression that is punishing this  
movement, precisely, because fighting for this so necessary another  
Euskal Herria.


  Why are fighting for another Europe?

In Euskal Herria we fight against the Europe of the Union for many  
reasons, the first one is clear: because like the Spanish and French  
states, the EU deny not only the official nature of our language and  
culture, and of our very people, but also of to dozens of European  
nations without state. This is why alongside with participants from  
countries like Païses Catalans, Welsh,  Kurdistan or Flanders we have  
claimed the self-determination of our languages as a tool to decide  
and specify the necessary resources so that people can ensure the  
transmission, development and standardization of their language and  
culture.
Undoubtedly, the self-determination of our languages is inherent and  
is a consequence of the right to self-determination of peoples. It is  
a right which is crucial to understanding almost all conflicts  
worldwide, and a key to its solution. The speakers at this table on  
the right of self-determination were the representatives of the  
Foundation of Nations without State, Fundación Galiza Sempre and the  
Bureau of Social Forum of Hungary (in addition to Herriak Aske), and  
among those attending the seminar there were people of the Tamil  
people, Kurdistan, Germany, the Philippines ... It is clear that  
living in a world with some 5.000-6.000 peoples and just two hundred  
states, the right of self determination is the key to understanding  
the survival of thousands of peoples in the world. Besides, it is  
clear that even peoples with a state have political and armed  
conflicts, precisely because the states / empires violate their  
political sovereignty: the path they have chosen to build their  
country. This is why it is really frustrating to see that the  
European Social Forum and many of the organizations participating in  
it do not give to the right of self-determination the importance it  
has, both at European and global level, in order to regulate the  
coexistence and relations among the peoples.
The participation of the network Kamaradak of young internationalist  
was qualitatively and quantitatively important (undoubtedly the most  
numerous in the Basque delegation). They have taken a stand and  
organized a debate in the Forum with the theme 'The Process of  
Building of an Internationalist Youth Movement ' in which they  
participated along with other youth organizations internationalists,  
such as Fighters + Lovers of Denmark.
Regarding the internationalist field, and taking into account the  
campaign to criminalize this Danish group because of their campaigns  
in solidarity withe  the Colombian FARC and the PFLP in Palestine,  
Askapena launched at the Assembly of Movements a question / request  
so that the ESF will be positioned against the criminalization and  
prosecution of international solidarity among peoples, ranging from  
the imprisonment of Sebas Bedouret or Remedios Albert Garcia (with  
tortures in the first case), to the judicial harassment against  
solidarity as in Denmark,  and the paramilitary threats as in the  
case of a Basque threaten by the paramilitary Colombian group  
'Aguilas Negras'. This has been the prize of denouncing fascist  
states as Israel and Colombia, or of organizing boycott campaigns  
against transnationals stained with blood as Coca Cola.
The fight or the solidarity of the ones who fight in their own  
peoples has also a price, as witnessed the representatives of the  
Network Against Repression coming from Palestine, Colombia, Turkey,  
Greece, Belgium, Denmark and Euskal Herria a in seminar entitled 'The  
liberation struggle is not terrorism,' that showed that the strategic  
policies designed by the states in their so-called 'fight against  
terrorism' aim to deny the most socially and politically committed  
sectors their civil and political rights. Faced with the Europe of  
the Eurowarrant and the black lists, we claim the right to resistance  
and solidarity.

  Which is our stand in the Forums?

  It is easy to understand just looking at the delegation that has  
gone from Euskal Herria: people who are working and struggling every  
day, and in different sectors for a free and socialist Euskal Herria.  
In terms anti-globalization, who are fighting for 'another' Euskal  
Herria.
We understand the 'global' fight only from the 'local' one. So, in  
the case of  our fight in Euskal Herria, only from the struggle for  
social and national liberation of our Basque people we understand the  
construction of a new world where states do not exploit the  
individuals, nor the peoples who live there, nor other peoples or  
states through 'trade', that is, the looting exercised by   
imperialist entities and transnationals.
Taking into account the two previous points, we understand that,  
while in Forums there is room enough for all the people fighting for  
'another world possible', the vanguard of this movement of movements  
are the ones who on a daily basis are facing this world (of the  
capital, the globalization, and the imperialism), and who are  
building real alternatives.

Social Forums are a tool that should enable us to learn first-hand  
the fights and realities of different latitudes, that help mutual  
communication and interaction, and that should be able to coordinate  
and organize the agenda of the various movements. In short, they must  
be understood and developed in a internationalist key: fighting  
together against the injustices committed against anyone anywhere in  
the world.

We must not ignore that nowadays there are people participating in  
Forums who work in, from and for social democracy: for a world that  
'remains the same'. There are also individuals who representing only  
themselves act as censors who veto too important matters.

Therefore, it is the responsibility of all organizations and  
movements that are fighting on a daily basis in our respective  
peoples, to make the forums and the anti-globalization movement in  
general a more effective tool for making possible this another world  
that we need so much, before the managers of the current one get to  
annihilate it.


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