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Article by: David Ball                                   
Wednesday 29 Aug 2001
                       
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Summary:Up to 65% of South Africa\'s workforce is on strike, in protest
against government plans to sell off $13 billion in state assets. The
strike has come under attack from business, which argues that unions are
hurting foreign investor confidence.

Reference at indymedia website:
http://www.indymedia.org:8081//front.php3?article_id=60926

Article:
Up to 65% of South Africa\'s workforce is on strike today, to protest
against government plans to privatize the country\'s public sector, says
the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). The cities of Pretoria
and Durban are practically deserted, and thousands are protesting in the
streets of Johannesburg.

In the Eastern Cape region, nine out of ten workers stayed away from work,
reports COSATU, which organized the strike. With a South African workforce
of 8.3 million, the trade union congress claim of 65% striking translates
into just under 5.5 million workers in job action.

South African trade unions have rallied against the government\'s plans to
sell off $13 billion of state assets, arguing that privatization will lead
to massive job loss and a failure to deliver services to the poor.

\"We demand an end to the current programme of privatization of basic
services and national infrastructure,\" COSATU said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the strike has come under attack from business. The South
African Chamber of Business denied that 65% were on strike and defended the
privatization scheme, arguing that the unions were undermining foreign
investor confidence.

COSATU\'s General Secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, described this claim as
\"blackmail.\"

\"Everytime we raise a disagreement with a particular policy, everytime we
want to exercise our right to protest, everytime that we are are raising a
harsh criticism against any policy that we don\'t like, suddenly a lot of
questions will be asked about our commitment to the need to attract foreign
direct investment into our country,\" he said.

The plans for two days of strike action coincide with the upcoming UN
Conference on Racism, which begins on Friday. With the world\'s attention
focused on South Africa for the conference, the strike may successfully
attract attention to struggles against neoliberalism in the Global South.

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Dissident Voice

August 18, 2001

White, Zionist, and Hindu Racism: The Durban Question

By Raja Harish Swamy <swamyraj@pilot.msu.edu>

Three violators of human rights in one embrace: white
racism, zionism and hindu racism.

The issues rejected by the three cowards:

* Reparations for slavery and colonialism

* Zionism is Racism, Freedom for Palestine

* Caste system is Racism, Freedom for India's Dalits

On these three issues, the following cowards are afraid of
any open discussion:

* USA's conservative white establishment, led by George W
Bush

* Israel's Zionist establishment and its various racist
defenders, led by Ariel Sharon, the veteran "butcher"

* India's Hindu fascist government, led by AB Vajpayee, life
long member of fascist RSS [* See editor's note below]

Therefore we have three forces: western white supremacy,
Zionist racism and Hindu caste-racism on one side.
Interestingly enough we have today a political component to
this alliance of reactionary forces: the US, Israel and
India's Hindu fascist regime are working hand in hand; the
affinity of like minded ideologies is not a coincidence.

It translates into billion dollar deals on arms, weapons,
colonizing projects, and the subjugation of millions of
human beings. The bottom line is the cruel marginalization
of the most pressing democratic, human rights issues facing
the world in these three important regions of the world:

1) the rights of the millions of Blacks in America, to
demand reparations for more than three hundred years of
slavery and subsequent oppression for generations;

2) the rights of Indigenous Palestinians to self
determination beginning with the complete end of Israel's
illegal military occupation, which is fueled by US dollars
and weapons, as well as an insidious settler-colonialist
ideology and an apartheid system that is intrinsically
racist;

3) the fundamental human rights of hundreds of millions of
India's "untouchables," the Dalits of India, whose lives are
crushed by the ugly Hindu institution of caste, something
made even worse by the rise of Hindu fascism, and its open
hatred towards Muslims, Christians and other minorities of
India.

By opposing the inclusion of these three major issues on the
UN Conference agenda, these three `allies' are only
confirming their fundamental outlook: they are defenders of
racism who have no argument in support of their positions,
just the arbitrary dogma of their disgusting racial beliefs.

Racists are being allowed to determine the agenda of the
conference against race! Therefore the conference devoid of
these three most pressing issues pertaining to racism in the
world today, is nothing but a cocktail party for the rich
and powerful, to cavort among racists blind to the most
blatant cases of racism on the planet today. As all
gatherings of the stone hearted imperialists and their
weak-kneed supplicants, this conference will be a sham even
before it begins. Another nail in the coffin of the United
Nations, in its life as a betrayer of the rights of the
masses of humanity on behalf of the greed and bloodlust of
champion violators of human rights.

None of these three cowards have any counter argument to
dispute the allegations of their victims; they are simply
afraid to debate the issues.


Reparations for Slavery long overdue

White America refuses to acknowledge the fact that for over
three hundred years Black slave labor built America with
bloody fingers and brutally devastated lives. It is the
bones of millions of African slaves that made America, and
not the genius of its slave owning founding fathers. Today,
Blacks in the US face the worst discrimination among all
groups, and live in conditions of poverty and destitution
comparable to many third world countries, prompting many
activists to label Black America, the "third world within."
Even in the middle of New York city, the capital of world
capitalism, archaeologists have recently discovered an 18th
century burial ground for African slaves who built the city.
The very bones of Africans underlie the tall towers of
wealth that rise above them in a nation that refuses to
acknowledge in its blind arrogance, its culpability in the
worst crime in modern history. The debt to Africa that
America owes cannot be truly measured in terms of money;
yet, even the refusal to listen to the demands of
reparations, implies that America is not ready to confront
its sordid past.

American racists feel outraged that Black people would even
bring up the issue of reparations, with the pathetic outcome
that spokespersons for the white establishment like Colin
Powell, himself the descendent of African slaves, reduced
now to demanding that the reparations issue be a non-issue
on behalf of the younger Bush. Incredulously, "liberal"
alternatives being promoted include issuing formal
apologies, which the US dismissed as if this whisper of an
alternative was equally outrageous to the sentiments of the
self-proclaimed leader of the "free world." Other
alternatives being touted include building `monuments' to
remember slavery, as if the actual monuments to slavery
don't exist: in the walls of the very buildings that are
symbols of the white establishment, built as they were by
African slave labor. The `Mall' in Washington DC was a slave
auctioning block; do they need another monument, or is
reparations the just demand of the descendants of those
treated worse than cattle for centuries? Why should the
richest country in the world not see it fit to humble itself
for once in front of those whose lives it rapaciously
devoured for centuries?

Perhaps the most insulting aspect to this refusal to come to
terms with the terrible history of slavery, is the fact that
this conference is to be held on the African continent, the
continent which Europe most heinously terrorized for over
400 years, robbing it of untold numbers of its people, and
wealth. It need not even be argued that the enormous wealth
and prosperity of Europe and America, owes no small debt to
the pillaged, looted wealth of Africa, in addition to the
millions of Africans who built their very countries for
free! The bones of millions of Africans traverse the paths
of the slave ships in the bottom of the Atlantic, and yet,
America can do no better than treat the descendants of these
terribly wronged people with contempt and derision. Racism
is alive and well and George W's arrogance in the face of
this issue only confirms that America is still inherently
and overtly racist.


Zionism = Racism

Israel, in its current war of occupation of Palestine,
refuses to acknowledge the historical crime of dispossession
and genocide that it contuse to pursue under a morass of
lies and illusions efficiently churned out by its wealthy
corporate media friends and allies in the US. The
justification scheme of this colonization, is racist, though
with a religious bent. The religious claims center on the
notion that there was an ancient "Israel" present in
Palestine, which the Jews of Europe are merely "returning"
to after a couple of thousand years. If this logic were
pursued anywhere else, smart bombs and sanctions would
inevitably follow, but Zionism as an ideology is a
counterpart of the white supremacist colonizing venture, and
thus commands great adherence among westerners enraptured by
mythological narratives having little to do with real
history, but grand claims quite contrary to real evidence.
Ancient Palestine was not the homeland of most European
Jews, as Alfred Lilienthal, an anti-Zionist Jew, points out.
Khazaria, a state established in Ukraine and Russia was the
homeland of most Jewish people of Europe. The Khazar people
converted to Judaism in the 8th century, and established a
great civilization, but were in turn displaced by Russians
moving westward into Europe.
[http://www.themodernreligion.com/comparative/jew/race-rel.html]

The Zionist claim to Palestine is based on the implicitly
racist notion that Palestinian people have no history. Like
European colonizers of the last century, the Zionist project
is one of denying the history of the people being colonized,
so as to deny them political rights. Lilienthal even argues
that it could be more likely that Palestinians of today have
more genealogical relationship to the ancient people of
Palestine than acknowledged by the west. The idea that Jesus
was a Palestinian is not merely a slogan.

The Zionist claim to "ancient Israel" is also driven by
mythology as Keith Whitelam points out in his book "The
invention of ancient Israel and the silencing of Palestinian
history".(Routledge, 1997). The silencing of Palestinian
history is part of the project of creating the myth of
"ancient Israel," quite comparable to the Hindutva project
of creating a mythical "Hindu" past. Both are averse to
historical, archaeological, or ethnographic evidence unless
it confirms or supports some aspect of their body of
presuppositions. The basic nationalist narrative of Zionism
contends that the occupation of Palestine mirrors the
conquest of Canaan in the biblical narrative. This is based
on no evidence except the Bible and anything that lends
support to selective ethnocentric interpretations of the
Bible. There is a growing body of evidence that the narrow
Bible-based interpretation with its pre-configured creation,
"ancient Israel," is only a nationalistic project and not a
real historically based study. In the context of Zionism's
racism, this is then nothing less than a racial
nationalistic project, seeking to justify and legitimate the
colonization and oppression of a people. Many Israeli
scholars are themselves questioning the myths of ancient
"Israel," as more material evidence comes in from
archaeology, and history. [ed.'s note: see for example
Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman. The Bible
Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and
the Origin of its Sacred Texts (Free Press, 2001)]

Israeli racists and their Zionist friends around the world
are terrified at the prospects of being identified with
racism, even though they practice it with a fervor
reminiscent of the Belgians in 19th century Congo, or
British in 18th century India; mythical racial-religious
narratives, ideas of racial purity, racial chauvinism,
racial hatred towards the indigenous inhabitants of the
land, terror inflicted on the "conquered" people, creating
race based institutions, stealing more land by invoking the
exclusive myths of one faith, as if that is enough to
legitimize the invasion and usurpation of another peoples'
lands, dishing out justice to Jews only and injustice to
Palestinians only, requiring Palestinians to carry markers
of identity just as the Nazis required Jews to carry markers
of identity; these are only some of the features of the
self-proclaimed "Jewish state," a racist conception in
itself since, 20 percent of the citizens of Israel are
actually non Jewish Palestinians.

The racialization of Jewish identity is an outcome of
European fascism and Zionism played a central role in
assisting Nazism to change the Jewish minority of Germany
into a "racial" minority, keeping with Hitler's assertion
that the Jews constituted a separate "nation" which he of
course defined in terms of a "race." There is ample evidence
that Zionism was not interested in saving the lives of Jews
in Europe as much as it was in usurping Palestine and
establishing a "racial" state in Palestine, something
accomplished with considerable support and encouragement
from the Nazi regime itself. [ed.'s note: see Leni Brenner,
Zionism in the Age of the Dictators (Lawrence Hill, 1993);
Yehuda Bauer, American Jewry and the Holocaust (Wayne State
University Press, 1981); The Holocaust Victims Accuse:
Documents and Testimony on Jewish War Criminals, edited by
the Neturei Karta, an organization of anti-Zionist Jews who
support the goal of a secular democracy rather than a Jewish
state.] These are facts that are terribly inconvenient to
the Zionist establishment, because they underline the
fundamentally racist character of the ideology of Zionism.
To the present day, Zionists are unapologetic in their
racism and many statements from leading "lights" of Israel
attest to the fact that Israeli Zionism is first and
foremost a racist ideology. More evidently, the practice of
racism permeates everything including the colonization of
Palestinian land, the brutal treatment of Palestinians,
including children, and the unapologetic arrogance displayed
to critics, reminiscent of the worst racists from Hitler to
Botha.

In addition to the racist roots of Zionism, it is also clear
that Zionist Israel's claim to Palestinian land is not at
all substantiated by history; the Jewish people of Europe
are not descended from the ancient people of Palestine,
therefore they are not "returning" to an ancient "homeland."
On the other hand, Palestinians whose lands are being
appropriated by the descendants of Khazar Jews of Europe are
more likely to be the descendants of the ancient people of
the Bible. Secondly, there is a far more complex history
involving the ancient Palestinian people, who built a
civilization and innovated great religious systems for the
world, and whose people at one time spread the faith of
their lands all over the world, including Khazaria. It seems
far more plausible that ancient Palestinians were the
originators of the Jewish religion, then converted to
Christianity after the teachings of the Palestinian prophet
Jesus, who was executed by the pro imperial clergy on behalf
of Rome, and centuries later became some of the first
proponents of Islam. The history of these people is being
silenced to make way for the silly racist narrative of
Zionism which is nothing but a white supremacist narrative
belying the long standing European desire to lay claim to
Palestine. Palestinian history should not and will not
remain silenced. To this end, the intifada must spread into
the historical narratives too and myths like that of
"ancient Israel" challenged by Palestinian history.


India's Hindu caste oppression = racism

The caste system is perhaps the most elaborate expression of
institutionalized oppression ever built by human beings.
Caste oppression is so similar to racial oppression that the
Dalits, the people once referred to as "untouchables," by
the supremacist arrogance of Brahmins (the priestly caste),
are demanding that the UN Conference against Racism also
include a discussion of Hindu racism. This of course draws
outraged responses from the arrogant upper caste leadership
of the neo-Brahminial Hindutva movement. This movement is
striking terror on India's Muslims, and Christians and is
not interested in any form of democratic society, but on
that is built on Hindu supremacist ideas.

Hindu racism is so encoded within the so-called Hindu dharma
(`law') that most Hindus tend to feel outraged even though
they know that the practices and ideologies of caste and
race intertwine and overlap like strands of the same fiber.
More than 300 million (yes 300 million!) human beings in
India live lives as bonded laborers. This is modern day
slavery. A vast majority of them are Dalits and people of
the lowest castes in the caste hierarchy. For them life
under Hindu "dharma" is one of always serving Brahmins and
upper castes, and doing the most menial tasks in society, a
degrading condition justified in Hinduism as one appropriate
to their caste! There is no economic, political or cultural
emancipation for these oppressed millions under the regime
of Hindu dharma, and with the rise of the Hindu fascist
movement represented by the BJP government, they along with
hundreds of millions of Muslims and Christians are being
targeted and attacked.

Hindu `dharma' is caste based; Hinduism is casteism; to be
Hindu means to belong to a caste, and not as it is in most
religions, to merely subscribe to a set body of beliefs.
Hinduism has no universal religious requirements; therefore
it is sufficiently open to interpretation along lines that
are outrageously oppressive. Therefore untouchability cannot
be addressed without bringing down the edifice of Hindu
caste system, and its cruel racial system of economic and
social privilege, but since the interests and wealth of the
self-proclaimed rulers of India is at stake, Hindu "dharma"
will continue to oppress hundreds of millions of Dalits.
Meanwhile, the governments of the US and Israel see an
`ally' in such a despicable fascist movement as Hindutva!
The call of the Dalits to bring attention to Hindu racism is
a call coming from hundreds of millions of people denied
their basic human rights by a regime that is hypocritical in
its self righteous adherence to vague notions of
`democracy', and yet openly fascist in its contempt for the
vast majority of Indians. To mask these realities they
engage in flights of fancy with the full help of western
myth makers by extolling the alleged `greatness' of `Hindu
civilization,' a historical myth making project lock stock
and barrel tied to imperialism and the subjugation of the
subcontinent's masses.

The problem with the notion of Hindu "supremacy" is the
revealing fact that the world Hindu used exclusively a a
religious identifier gained greatest currency when the
British colonizers wanted to differentiate those great
numbers of Indians who were neither Muslim or Christian;
they lumped them all into the category "Hindu," and decided
that the upper caste Brahmin elites' religious system was
the standard for the "Hindu" society. This made the Brahmin
elites quite contented and hence the nationalist movement
particularly around the Congress, fashioned themselves as a
"moderate" managerial stop-gap measure for the British.

The modern day Hindu fascists are the arrogant upper caste
elites who subscribe to a mythical narrative of a "great
Hindu past," something not substantiated by history. In
fact, there is more than ample evidence of a great Buddhist,
Jain and Muslim past in Indian history, and the empires of
Vaishnava or Shaiva (two major sects in the Brahminical
religion) kings throughout Indian history are not comparable
in terms of duration and continuity as are the Buddhist and
Muslim periods. The period of Indian history that can be
easily classified as the classical period is overwhelmingly
Buddhist: from about the 6th century BCE to about the 10th
century CE. The majority of the adherents of Buddhism and
Jainism were from the oppressed castes, and these two
movements particularly Buddhism was a major force in
checking the power of Brahminism throughout India.

Between about the 8th century CE to the 10th century there
was a period of Brahminical resurgence, accompanied by
widespread persecution and genocide of Buddhists and Jains.
States collapsed by warfare and internecine conflicts
generated by petty squabbles and saw the resurgence of
oppressive social norms and practices. Vaishnava and Shaiva
kings oversaw the slaughter of thousands of Buddhists
throughout India, and many great Buddhist institutions were
laid waste while Vaishnava and Shaiva shrines took their
place. It was in this context that the first Arab and
Turkish invasions took place in the 10th century,
culminating the establishment of the Turkish sultanate in
Delhi by the 11th century.

To the Turkish and Afghan rulers, the religious systems of
the indigenous people baffled them and they often resorted
to religious persecution and massacres. However the history
of the Turkish sultanate is not merely one of an oppressive
"foreign" rule; the establishment of a stable state brought
much needed stability to northern India after the tumult of
the last two centuries. Many people from central Asia came
to India and became Indianized in their ways, while many
indigenous people adopted Islam and the ways of the Turks
and Afghans. To millions of Indians Islam provided an
egalitarian alternative to the terrible oppression of
Hinduism. There was a creative synthesis that developed what
we know today as the mix of Indian culture; for instance the
languages Hindi and Urdu are living evidence to the
intermixing of indigenous and foreign cultures. In short
there is little historical grounds for any notion of a
unified historical "Hindu" past, as India's ancient history
is a complex that has a greater Buddhist basis than modern
Brahmanical Hinduism acknowledges.

Present day Hindu fascists see themselves as the inheritors
of a mythical "ancient glory" that never was. They recreate
it and to that extent have to fabricate a mythical Hindu
past, by appropriating everything within the concept
"Hindu." Thus they claim that Buddhism is nothing but a
"branch of Hinduism," while totally ignoring the historical
fact that Buddhism arose in opposition to what they perceive
as Hinduism, the Brahmanical religion with caste as its
foundation stone. In this context, the Dalits who are
oppressed by the tyrannical caste system have strongly
identified with Buddhism and its emphasis on universal
humanity and moral ethical codes rather than elaborate
rituals and caste purity, the essence of Brahminical
Hinduism. Even today the idea that a Dalit is "polluting" to
the upper castes holds sway even among the western educated
elites.

This is disgusting racism and cannot be allowed to flourish
under the guise of Hinduism. By opposing the discussion of
this issue, the caste elites of India's Hindu fascist
government only signal their unwillingness to confront
Hinduism's inherent and pervasive racist oppression of
Dalits. Taken together with their attitude towards India's
Buddhist and Muslim past, these self-proclaimed
spokespersons for Hindus continue to pursue the dream of a
Hindu fascist India in which Muslims, Christians, and
largely Dalit Buddhists will be suppressed as second class
citizens ghettoized and sufficiently terrorized into the
lowest rungs of the social and political ladder. This is the
struggle facing Indians intent on challenging the fallacies
of Hindutva and asserting the human rights of all Indians,
especially Dalits, Muslims and Christians who face the
onslaught of widespread Hindu fascism.


Conclusion

In summary, the three major violators of human rights, who
are so outraged by their victims' calling on them to address
long standing violations of basic human rights in the
discussions at Durban, are allied criminals. The need to
expose their nefarious criminality is more urgent than ever.
White supremacy, Zionism and Hindu racism are part of the
same project to deny hundreds of millions of people the
right to be free, and ought to be fought vigorously and
defeated by their victims. Towards this struggle ahead, this
short essay is a contribution. Palestinians, Black Americans
and India's Dalits and oppressed masses have to see that
their struggle is one struggle against the forces of global
fascism, three of whose stellar representatives excel in the
grotesque practice of human subjugation and racist tyranny.
It is necessary to expose these three villains and build
solidarity among the victims. Solidarity is not wishful
thinking but a much need survival strategy, and the only
road to defeating the oppressors of the global fascist axis.

Reparations and freedom for Black Americans, Palestinian
self determination, and India's liberation from the shackles
of Hindu fascism are part of a great historical movement;
those opposed to them are on the wrong side of history, and
will be thoroughly defeated. Their present arrogance is no
indicator of their true strength. Ultimately freedom will
always prevail over tyranny, and ideas that pursue truth and
liberation for all human beings are infinitely more powerful
than the Jim Crows, the Ariel Sharons and the Brahmin
fascists of the world.

I close with the lines of the legendary Peter Tosh's "Equal
Rights":

Every one is crying out for peace,
none is crying out for justice,
but there will be no peace,
till man gets Equal Rights, and Justice,
Palestinians are fighting for...Equal Rights, and Justice,
Africans are fighting for...Equal Rights, and Justice, yeah!

Tosh, the cofounder of Bob Marley's Wailers band, refused to
play in Israel on account of Israel's arming of racist South
Africa, and its inhuman treatment of Palestinians. He often
sported a Kaffiyeh in concerts. Compare this with the
spineless, worms, called the "Red Hot Chili Peppers" whose
eunuch like squeaking is like the sound of mice, compared to
Tosh's thundering lions' roar.

--

DV contributing writer Raja Harish Swamy is an activist
based in Connecticut. This article is "copylefted" per the
author. If reprinting this article, please be sure to
properly cite the author and his email: <swamyraj@msu.edu>.

--

DV Editor's Notes:

* RSS stands for Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh or National
Volunteer's Corps. The RSS was founded in 1925 in opposition
to Mohandas K. Gandhi's effort to move the Indian National
Congress towards a firm embrace of secularism. A Janata
Party leader described the RSS as "a supra-party,
paramilitary organization which wants to take over the state
and the nation and establish an authoritarian regime in the
manner of the Nazi leaders." A Hindu fundamentalist inspired
by RSS and other Hindu communalist propaganda assassinated
Gandhi in 1948.

** The Red Hot Chili Peppers was scheduled to perform in
Israel this month but cancelled because of security fears.
No member of the band or its management has cited Israeli
brutality of the Palestinians as a reason for cancelling the
show, though other bands have refused to play in Israel for
this reason. They bark a loud bark of rebellion, but they've
shown themselves to be just another corporate co-opted band
of chicken shits.

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