Flowers and Famine

Mohammad Hassan of the PTB (Belgian Workers' Party) delivers a powerful speech condemning the puppet regime of Ethiopia for selling his country to imperialism, and engineering a famine with its pro-imperialist policy and at the behest of US/UK imperialism.

He was speaking at the CPGB-ML's international BBQ held in Saklatvala Hall, Southall, on 30 July 2011.

The event celebrated the 58th anniversary both of the DPRK's victory in the fatherland liberation war (25 June 1950 -- 27 July 1953), which marked the first defeat of US imperialism, and of the storming of the Moncada barracks, by Cuban revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro, on 26 July 1953. The latter signalled the start of the Cuban revolution and gave its name to the Cuban revolutionary guerilla movement (M 26-7).

Famine in Somalia (Article):
http://lalkar.org/issues/contents/sep2011/somalia.html

Speeches:
Harpal Brar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrY83sD1d9s
Sol Chong Jang: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZeAd5oFomM
Mohammad Hassan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TJZP0p5NcM
Keith Bennett: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBdqo6G937c
Ranjeet Brar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwgDekJTVvc

Music:
Blackleg Miner: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnH2LTipUac

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[HewettT2]

I also have a hard time believing that somehow, the drought that is happening in the horn of Africa is caused by imperialism / capitalism. Sure... it's because of global warming, but I hardly believe that people drive cars to make Africans starve... that's ridiculous.

[ProletarianCPGBML]

@HewettT2 Again, I can’t tell if you’re deliberately or accidentally missing the point!? Climactic episodes are natural events (leaving aside the issue of climate change for now!); human suffering as a result of them is not.

[ProletarianCPGBML]

@HewettT2 Again, I can’t tell if you’re deliberately or accidentally missing the point!? Climactic episodes are natural events (leaving aside the issue of climate change for now!); human suffering as a result of them is not.

[ProletarianCPGBML]

@HewettT2 The potato famine (failure of a single crop in 1850s Ireland); Hurricane Katrina; The famine in Ethiopia, Haiti’s earthquake, etc., etc. The suffering cased was all entirely due to the capitalist/imperialist economic relations that separated the victims, from the means to alleviate their suffering.

[ProletarianCPGBML]

@HewettT2 They had all been impoverished and made dependent on the worst crops, the poorest land, and were simply not recognized by a financially (and racially) motivated system as being worth ‘relieving’.

[HewettT2]

Protip: Stop fcuking selling flowers and start growing and selling food instead.

[ProletarianCPGBML]

@HewettT2 That's kinda the point, mate! Why doesn't it happen? [you: Stop fcuking selling flowers and start growing and selling food instead] Because large monopoly finance capital interests linked to the US and UK prevent it from happening. And when a regime really does look after its people, and 'neglect' the interests of former colonialists/onging financial capitalist bandits, well, well, if they don't become public enemy number one a la ZANU-PF (Mugabe) and Libya (Gaddaffi) What a farce.

[blackiron60]

I had no idea about this flower industry in Ethiopia but it fits in with the coffee and sugar cane industries in South America and all the other cash crop industries around the world that provide luxuries to Americans and Europeans while destroying food producing lands for people who end up starving as a result. It is a policy of murder by exploitation. Naked capitalism in action.

[ProletarianCPGBML]

Who is Marcus GRAVEY!?

[ITHEREONETHATHASNT]

Which korea is this dumb fuck talking about? If its north he is an idiot. If its the south he might want to realize that south korea has very strong ties to the so called imperialists of the US and UK! Blaming other people for your countries fucked up past is like playing with your dick might be fun but its very unproductive! Hello from imperialist canada. Does anyone else get the irony of a belgian/african bad talking imperialism in africa from belgium a former empire! Only in the 21st century!

[ProletarianCPGBML]

@mrslaughter15 Fairtrade is an oxymoron. THere's no such thing as benevolent capitalism. Capitalism is wage slavery, and the relationship between the first and third world, between monopoly capital and the neo-colonies is brutal and exploitative. The idea that a 'nice' company can pay 'a bit more' to producers makes no difference to the general conditions of production and gives rise to reformist illusions that we can solve the problems of imperialism without overthrowing it. We can't.

[Okhlopkov]

Excellent speech from comrade Mohammad Hassan, imperialist countries are exploiting whole Africa for their own selfish gains, keeping the continent underdeveloped and systemically killing off the people in the process. How is it possible that one of the most naturally rich continents in the world is also the poorest? People need to educate themselves about the powerstructures at work here.