RESISTANCE TO THE DOMINANCE OF BIOTECHNOLOGY – FIGHT FOR LAND AND FREEDOM

Mass spread of aspartame in the world’s food chain … channelling of the most dangerous toxic substances – known as dioxins – into the international chemicals’ industry … creation of the first atomic bomb during the second World War … production of the deadly defoliant gas “Agent Orange” during the Vietnam War … dominance of the most commercial herbicide of all time, “Roundup”, in agricultural production … promotion of the “Synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone” in the livestock production … tens of labour accidents within the international line of production of chemical substances … toxic contamination of the natural environmental, the local communities and indigenous populations in almost every corner of this planer … These are some of the most important – but certainly not the only ones – environmental, social and military crimes of one of the biggest multinational agrochemical corporations in the world, which was created in 1901 and since then has the U.S. as a base for its economic activities.

Its name: Monsanto.

Since then, Monsanto has managed to expand its corporate activities, with the result that Monsanto is today the biggest biotechnology corporation in the whole world. In only two decades, Monsanto managed to take under its control, 90% of the global production of Genetically Modified Organisms. These GMOs, as they are widely known, contaminate the genetic chain and lead to the diminution of the planet’s biological diversity, the increase in the use of agrochemical substances and harmful toxic substances and put public health at risk. The latest is most prominent for local communities and indigenous populations who border with GMO cultures which tend to be in poorer and more developed countries. GMOs lead to gradual reduction of agricultural production when compared to conventional and organic ones, but it also leads to an increasing cost of production for the farmers and the livestock producers eventually leading to the control of the international food and the aggravation of poverty, the impoverishment and malnutrition of the lower and poorer social classes.

At the same time, Monsanto and the rest of the biotechnology corporations (such as Syngenta, DuPont, Bayer-BASF and Pioneer) are trying to promote and sell their destructive products, with the pretext of improving and increasing the world’s food production, in a supposed attempt to contribute in addressing the worldwide poverty and hunger crisis. Since the aggravation of poverty and lack of nutrition is nothing but the inherent fabrication of global capitalism and particularly of an unequal system of production, distribution and consumption

of basic goods, we are not deceived by any biotechnology tale. GMOs, not only do they not increase access to land, food and income of the poorest and of the lower classes, but on the contrary, they lead to the inevitable and definite subjugation, depriving them from what is most basic for their survival. Their own land and food. GMOs’ produced are not produced from and are not intended for the poor and weak of this planet like they want us to believe. The only ones who are in reality the winners of this kind of worldwide food production and distribution system is the elite of the biotechnology and agrochemical giants.

So, we resist against the biopiracy and the patenting of seeds and other forms of life. We stand for the right of simple people and the indigenous populations to safeguard their seeds, their land, the ecosystems and their biodiversity. We fight to overthrow the worldwide capitalist system, so that the worldwide food production will fulfil the needs of the people and the planet, and not of big corporations and the capital. We fight for land and freedom, for food security and autonomy.

CAPITALISM IS NOT OUR FUTURE

WE WILL BE NOBODY’S SLAVE

Syspeirosi Atakton Saturday,

25 Μay 2013

World Day of Action Against Monsanto

The myth of the European Union

*** The text was given out by activists at the “European Year of Citizens 2013. It concerns you” event @ Faneromeni Square Nicosia ***
The European Union is an international institution of capital, an elite of people (businessmen, politicians, banksters of all nations) whose only interest is to drain out our blood. It is a union of those who take the food from our mouth, those who grab what the workers produced with their work to give us back just the crumbs. Today they are keeping even the crumbs.

The attitude of the EU concerning the crisis has not been due to wrong policies or corruption. The attitude has been a conscious attempt to defend the interests of the capital. Its goal is to make workers pay for the crisis and to let the rich continue undisturbed enjoying the wealth that the workers produce, with their physical and intellectual effort. The few are enjoying their caviar and champagne and the rest of us are paying the bill … This is EU, this is capitalism.

The myths of the European idea, the European vision, the European solidarity and the “Europe of citizens” was the ideological mantle, which they used as a cover up for this foundation. The EU was founded in order to raise the profits of capitalists and to exploit more efficiently the workers. The “European unification” was not made for the interest of the people, but for the improvement of the European capital in the world economy. It has not been made from the bottom-up, on the basis of peoples’solidarity and peoples’struggles, but in a top-down way, on the basis of markets’ competitiveness and transactions’ flow.

The famous “European establishment” has created the fear of unemployment and poverty, it is the salaries of hunger, the middle-age working conditions of the 21st century. The famous “education” which promotes, is the learning of how to use the machine, how to work in an office, which means how to produce profit for the boss and surplus value for the markets.

The infamous “solidarity” of the EU is just the common interest of capitalists and their political representatives against the solidarity and the common fight of workers and whoever does not accept to compromise. Our interests are not the same with the ones of Cypriots, Germans, Greeks, Bulgarians businessmen or bosses but with the Cypriots, Germans, Greeks, Bulgarians workers … because in the world of bosses we are all foreigners. For the bosses of the EU, we are no more than numbers in accounting books and stock monitors, objects in the production of surplus and maximization of profit.

The “European vision” is nothing more than the vision of capitalists. In this vision of Europe, people are transformed into feed for a profit-making machine. In this vision the “citizens” have been turned into expendable paid slaves of a system that favors the economical and political elite sitting at the top of a hierarchical organisation of this authoritarian model and free market system they impose. The European capitalistic establishment is the one we need to overturn if we want to live and not just survive. We have to take our lives in our hands, to create our own vision. Without exploitation and submission, with human dignity and real freedom.

ΟΥΤΕ ΣΥΝΟΡΑ, ΟΥΤΕ ΕΘΝΗ, ΕΝΑΝΤΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΥΡΩΠΗ ΤΟΥ ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΥ

NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS, AGAINST A EUROPE OF CAPITAL

SINIRSIZ ULUSSUZ, AVRUPA BASKENTINE KARSI