At my homepage www.rolf-martens.com I've added today, under "News with
brief
comments":
Monday, 24 March 2008 (NWBC 356) Proudly re****ting to Administrators of
the
Marxists Internet Archive (MIA) as MIA Volunteer!
2008-03-24, 02:55 GMT:
I've recently sent the following e-mail,
[QUOTE:]
From:
Rolf Martens <rolf.martens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Date:
Mon., 24 March 2008 02:52 GMT
To:
[For Fw to the other Administrators of MIA:] David Walters
<dwalters@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Subject:
Proudly re****ting to Administrators of the Marxists Internet Archive (MIA)
as
MIA Volunteer!
Hello, Administrators of "Missing In Action" - no, sorry, I mean of course
"Marxists Internet Archive" - at any rate, MIA,
[And sorry, for some reason or other, my mail program did not accept the
address to you as provided at the MIA website, mia-admins@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
so
I'm
sending this instead to the address of one of you, David Walters
<dwalters@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, to whom I also sent my recent archive
contributions,
asking him to forward it also to you others.]
I hereby am re****ting to you as Willing Volunteer to our common cause - as
it
now is - of making available to the general public the writings of
Marxists.
I already, as you know, have completed the required course of "Gunnery
Training in Practice", or of submitting some stuff to MIA - "an initial
output
of at least three separate contributions, in the most recent six-month
period,
over a period of three weeks to six months" (as said by your Recruitment
Office
at http://www.marxists.org/admin/volunteers/index.htm).
This I've done now recently, on 11.01.2008, 01.03.2008 respectively
16.03.2008.
My status as MIA Volunteer is established from today on, 24.03.2008, if I
understand your requirements correctly, by my also agreeing to abide by
the MIA
statutes and by-laws (at the same web address), which I hereby do.
I'm viewing this as a nice step forward on my part, and therefore am also
making public his mail of mine to you, in the form of a "News with brief
comments" item, number 356 of that series, at my homepage
www.rolf-martens.com,
this item being sent, as usual, also to a number of newsgroups, mailing
lists
and other individual e-mail addresses.
I intend to devote at least some of my time from now on to the updating of
MIA.
To this I can contribute in various ways, I think, for instance on account
of
my having copies of the English-language Chinese weekly "Peking Review"
from
August 1973 on and up until 1982, when that weekly (in my opinion, at
least),
under the changed title of "Beijing Review" (from 1979 on), ceased to be
of
much interest.
I also have not so little of other stuff which I judge to be of MIA
interest,
in English and in German and Swedish as well, and - time and skill
permitting -
in due course can contribute various parts of that. And I recently, at
long
last, have acquired a scanner, whose functioning it "only" remains for me
to
learn properly. (My html skills do remain poor.)
Further, I've seen that you're asking people to set up mirror MIA sites at
their respective homepages. This I on my part am interested in doing too,
if a
such at mine would be of any help, and if there are no technical problems
with
this which I so far haven't seen. But this we could discuss later, as well
as
my - possibly - being included in one of MIA's many sub-committees, and
similar
matters.
CONTRIBUTIONS OF MINE (SO FAR) TO MIA
Because of two things rather long ago, I already consider myself to be a
"veteran" though quite small-time contributor to MIA:
The German-language version of one certain speech by Marx, held in (in
English)
in London on 14.04.1856, at the fourth anniversary of the "People's
Paper", I
submitted back in 1997 (I think it was), hand-copied (and rather
thoroughly
checked), like all other stuff I've submitted so far. It's at
http://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/marx-engels/1856/04/56-peopp.htm
as
"Karl Marx: Rede auf der Jahresfeier des People’s Paper am 14. April 1856
in
London".
And the Swedish-language version of the same speech too, likewise
submitted in
1997, I think, and noted at MIA as being a translation of mine of that
Marx
speech into Swedish (made in 1992; this could be added), at
http://www.marxists.org/svenska/marx/1856/peopleps.htm
as "Karl Marx: Tal
vid
firandet av 'People's Paper' 1856; Hållet: I London den 14 april 1856."
After that, I - sorry to say - made my perhaps contributing to MIA and/or
acquiring a scanner a relatively very low priority of mine; not until
early
this year did I "upgrade" this again.
But now I've relatively recently sent in as contributions these three
things,
all of them being articles in various 1976 issues of the Peking Review
(which
is its Volume 19, I say again in reply to a pertinent question by MIA
co-worker
Mike B.):
1) Sent by me on 11.01.2008: From PR 42/1976, of 15.10.1976: "Speech by
Chairman of the Chinese Delegation Chiao Kuan-hua At the U.N. General
Assembly
Session". (A speech held on 05.10.1976.)
This article is not yet included in MIA's "Peking Review" section now
under
construction at
http://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/index.htm.
2) Sent by me on 01.03.2008: From PR 04/1976, of 23.01.1976: "Article by
Chin
Hua: Human Cognizance and Utilization of Energy Sources Is Never-Ending —
Refutation of 'exhaustion of energy sources'".
This article is now in MIA's "Peking Review" section, and has the address
there:
http://www.marxists.org/subject/china/peking-review/1976/04/chin-hua.htm.
3) Sent by me on 16.03.2008: From PR 44/1976, of 29.10.1976: "Great
Historic
Victory - Editorial by 'Renmin Ribao', 'Hongqui' and 'Jiefangjun Bao'".
This article also is not yet included in MIA's "Peking Review" section now
under construction.
But my sending it was that "third strike" (also) required by you for my
getting
Volunteer status for six months onward from now on, even in case I don't
contribute any more in that period - as I certainly intend to do
(contribute
some more, I mean).
IN REPLY TO ANOTHER REQUEST BY YOU TO US (PROSPECTIVE) VOLUNTEERS - AND I
WANT
TO PROVIDE A COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED ANSWER TO THAT ONE (ANYONE PERHAPS
FINDING
THIS TO BE "SOMEWHAT LIKE ONE OF THOSE 4-HOUR SPEECHES BY FIDEL CASTRO"
CAN
JUST "CUT ME SHORT", STOP READING, AFTER THE FIRST ONE-FOURTH OF SO OF IT,
WHICH I THINK IS THE MOST RELEVANT PART):
You're also saying, at your "Recruitment Office":
"The responsibility of every MIA volunteer is to:
....
....
4. [Optional Voting Condition:] In order to have voting rights, volunteers
must
inform MIA about their political party or coalition member****p. This
ensures
that section 5 of the MIA Charter, regarding the political independence of
MIA,
can be audited and monitored through internal transparency."
So, here goes:
POLITICAL PARTY MEMBER****P:
On my part, I have no political party member****p.
My political standpoint, in fact one which I've had since the mid-1970s,
is
shown by those programmatic lines which there are at the top of of my
homepage,
www.rolf-martens.com:
"Advocates the political line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong. Strives to
sup****t
all actions which favour the vast majority of people."
Documentation of my standpoint and activities over a number of years
concerning
various political issues can be found, above all, in my homepage sections
"Texter på svenska, 1975 - (Swedish)" and "UNITE! Info series, 1995 -".
Some further documentation of this there is at a mailing list created by
me in
August 2007 and entitled "Modern Marxism", at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modern_marxism/.
The reasons why I today am not a member of any political party I'm
explaining
in my homepage section "On my background", which also brings a little
about me
as a person and my "pre-history" before the early/mid-1970s.
As can be seen at my homepage too, I not least am trying to be "a
continuer of"
a certain very small political party which existed in Germany in the
1970s, the
"NE", some representatives of which were chased by the reactionaries into
staying in exile (luckily for me) here in Malmö in southern Sweden during
a few
years then, and a party about which I've later written that it was the
third
really im****tant one in the 20th century, along with - the obviously much
bigger - Bolshevik one in Russia / the Soviet Union as led by Lenin and
Stalin
and the CPC in China as led by Mao Zedong.
COALITION MEMBER****P:
Several coalition member****ps I do have, namely:
01:
I'm a member of, and one of the founding members of, A.m.l.a.
This is a small, non-party-political organization founded here in southern
Sweden in the spring of 1988. Its full name is "Arbetsgruppen för motstånd
mot
lönenedpressning och arbetslöshet", or in translation, "Working-Group for
Resistance against Wage Depression and Unemployment".
Since rather many years back now, it only exists "on paper". It hasn't
been
officially dissolved, though.
02:
I'm a member of, and one of the founding members of, Kommittén Rädda
Barsebäck
(The Committee Save Barsebäck).
This is a small, non-party-political organization founded here in southern
Sweden in the spring of 1997 (and with, today, some members in
neighbouring
Denmark too). It has a website whose name also shows its purpose, at
www.save-nukeplant-barsebaeck.com, and the e-mail address
kommitten@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rather many of the texts at that website are in
English.
03:
I'm a member of, and one of the founding members of, Lindh-kommittén (The
Lindh
Committee).
This is a small, non-party-political organization founded here in southern
Sweden in March 2004. Its purpose is to contribute towards justice being
done
concerning the assassination of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh on
10.09.2003. It has the e-mail address lindh_committee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(A
mailing
list for discussing the question of this assassination, not
organizationally
connected with that committee, there is too, created by me in January
2004, at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mordetpalindh/.
It has some texts also in
English.)
04:
I'm a member of, and one of the founding members of, DR Kongo-kommittén i
Sverige (The DR Congo Committee in Sweden).
This is a small, non-party-political organization founded here in southern
Sweden in August 1998. Its main purpose is to help sup****t the territorial
integrity of the DR Congo against that war of aggression against that
country
which began in early August 1998. It has the e-mail address
congocomse@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
After its chairman Bony Ndjov-a-Shamalo moved to
London
in 2000, it has been functioning only s****adically.
05:
I'm a member of, one of the founding members of and (nominally, still) the
chairman of, Svensk-Arabiska Bron (The Swedish-Arabian Bridge).
This is a small, non-party-political organization founded here in southern
Sweden in March 2003. Its purpose is to further the friendly relations
between
the Swedish-speaking and the Arabic-speaking peoples. From late 2003 on,
it
exists more or less only "on paper", but it is registered officially in
Sweden
as an "ideell organisation" (a non-profit, non-governmental organization -
c/o
my home address, its organization number being 846502-8564), and as a such
i.a.
is required to inform the taxation authorities each year about its current
financial (etc) situation, while also entitled to Swedish governmental
and/or
European Union financial sup****t under certain circumstances.
06:
I'm a member of Föreningen Afghanistansolidaritet (The Association
Afghanistan
Solidarity).
This is a not very large by anyway nationwide non-party-political
organization
founded here in Sweden in May 2002. Its main purpose is to protest against
the
ongoing aggression against Afghanistan, including, against Sweden's
participation in it. The organization has a website at www.afghanistan.nu
and a
mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afghanistan_ockuperat/.
07:
I'm a member of Svenska Afghanistankommittén (The Swedish Afghanistan
Committee).
This is a - still today, I think - sizable nationwide non-party-political
organization founded here in Sweden in the early 1980s. Its original main
purpose was to protest against the then ongoing aggression by the Soviet
Union
against Afghanistan. From a rather early stage on, it also provided
humanitarian aid to the people in that country, building up a certain not
inconsiderable infrastructure for this there. Today it states as its
purpose to
provide such aid, now being sup****ted financially in this by SIDA, the
official
foreign-aid organ of the Swedish state. It has a website at www.sak.se and
the
e-mail address info@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
'm a member of Fjärde-juni-rörelsen i Sverige (The June-Fourth Movement
in
Sweden).
This is a nationwide non-party-political organization (I don't know, how
big,
at its maximum) founded here in Sweden in 1989. Its purpose is to protest
against the massacre at (or close to) the Tiananmen Square in Beijing,
China,
on 03-04.06.1989, perpetrated by the then government of that country, and
against its entire repression against the people in China from then on. A
chapter of this organization was formed in the city of Lund, close to
Malmö
where I live, likewise in 1989. That chapter since many years back now
exists
only "on paper", as does, as far as I know, this entire organization too.
09:
I'm a member of Föreningen Stoppa Rasismen (Association Stop Racism).
This is a nationwide non-party-political organization (at one point,
rather
sizable) founded here in Sweden in the late 1980s. Its purpose is to
combat
racism and neo-Nazism. A chapter of it here in Malmö was formed in early
1992.
After 1995, that chapter has been inactive, as has, as far as I know, more
or
less this entire organization been too. On the Internet today, its name
and
some of its early activities are mentioned rather briefly at the
Swedish-language website http://www.yelah.net/articles/30nov1126,
with an
article written in 1991.
10:
I'm a member of Folket i Bild / Kulturfront (The People in Pictures /
Cultural
Front).
This is a sizable nationwide non-party-political organization founded here
in
Sweden in 1970. It has a programme consisting of three points: 1) Defence
of
freedom of speech and of print; 2) For a people's culture; 3)
Anti-imperialism.
It has a website at http://www.fib.se/,
and also publishes a magazine
which
appears approximately four times per year.
11:
I'm a member of Svenska Clartéförbundet (The Swedish Clarté Association).
This is not very large but anyway nationwide non-party-political
organization
founded here in Sweden (as far back as) in 1924. As stated at its website
at
http://www.clarte.nu/,
the purpose of its magazine "Clarté", a quarterly
"for
political, ideological and cultural debate with a socialist orientation",
is
"critically to investigate the social ideas, institutions of society and
fundamentals of our time".
12:
I'm a member of Föreningen Nya Arbetartidningen (Association The New
Workers'
Paper).
This is a relatively small non-party-political organization founded in
1993 and
mainly active in mid-Sweden, some 600 km from where I live. At its website
at
http://www.nat.nu/huvud_om_oss.html
are stated a number of purposes which
this
organization has, out of which I'm mentioning here only the first-stated,
as
very approximately describing its character: "The New workers' Paper
stands on
the side of the working people in the struggle against capitalism and its
scavenging of the people and of the environment."
13:
I'm a member of (in the category of "active members of") the international
(above all France-based) organization Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy
(EFN).
This is a non-party-political organization founded in 1996 at the
initiative of
its (then and present-day) chairman Bruno Comby. As stated at its website
at
www.ecolo.org, it has as its purposes: "Providing complete and
straightforward
information to the public on energy and the environment, promoting the
benefits
of nuclear energy for a cleaner world, and uniting people in favor of
clean
nuclear energy". Its website also says: "EFN currently gathers more than
9,000
members and sup****ters, with local correspondents in 56 countries, on all
five
continents."
[Incidentally, I've - more or less, I think, in 2006 - recruited one of
you MIA
Administrators too as another member of that organization, EFN, namely,
David
Walters. Possibly, I won't get any "plus points" for this within the
particular
realm of MIA. But I do hope and believe that the general
(Internet-pursuing)
public, on its part, will accord me a couple, for such a thing, which is
why I
don't mind adding these "extra" lines to this - also public - mail to you
either.]
Best regards,
Rolf Martens
Malmö, Sweden
Phone and fax:
+46 - 40 - 124832;
rolf.martens@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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