At my homepage www.rolf-martens.com I've added today, under "News with
brief
comments":
Tuesday, 08 April 2008 (NWBC 362) An interesting re****t from Taimur
Rahman:
"CMKP Charges Pro-China Protests in London"
2008-04-08, 21:21 GMT:
I've recently sent the following e-mail (and concerning the question of
Tibet,
which is part of China since hundreds of years back, see my "UNITE! Info
#297en: On Tibet and the India-China border war in 1962", of 08.12.2007),
[QUOTE:]
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Re: CMKP Charges Pro-China Protests in London
This which you're telling us I find very interesting and nice, Taimur, and
I
absolutely sup****t this action by you and your friends.
At the same time I want to add something which I've said before in this
context: A plague also on the house of those likewise very reactionary and
anti-people revisionists who today rule China. (That is, if a plague were
actually possible - on this, see articles on quackery warfare by the
imperialists, at my homepage.)
I shall send this on to many places and put it on to my homepage as my
"News
with brief comments" item 362.
Rolf M.
Malmö, Sweden
www.rolf-martens.com
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Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:10 PM
Subject: [cmkp] CMKP Charges Pro-China Protests in London
CMKP Charges Pro-China Protests in London
On Sunday the 6th of April the Olympic Torch was being carried through the
streets of London. For some time now the procession of this Torch had
become a
focal point for demonstrations. On the one hand were those who, egged on
by the
imperialist media wanted to see a boycott of the Olympics. On the the
other
hand were those that sup****ted the first Olympics to be held in a formerly
colonial country.
CMKP comrades in UK who have been writing on the subject for the past few
weeks, decided to join the protests on April 6th. We joined these protests
against the so-called Free Tibet Movement and against imperialism's
efforts to
undermine the national sovereignty of China.
When we arrived at Trafalgar Square, we were delighted to see thousands of
Chinese students gathered. They were waving red flags and banners.
Trafalgar
square fills out with about 20,000 people. It seemed to be at least half
full.
My estimate is that there may have been about 10,000 people present. There
were
also pro-Tibet protesters within the crowd as there were people who had
just
come to see the torch. However, the vast majority of young people had come
out
to defend China.
As soon as we got there, we unfurled our flags and banners and began to
raise
slogans. At this point we were standing, unintentionally, in the middle of
Free
Tibet protesters. Hence there were only a few of us shouting slogans. We
also
had a short heated argument with some British people who were protesting
in
favour of Tibet (99% of Free Tibet protesters were British, we saw only
one or
two Tibetans). However, the police came and broke us up. We decided to
move to
another spot.
We went in the middle of Chinese students and began to raise slogans. The
response was unbelievable. From then on there was no stopping us. Chinese
students formed a ring around our slogans, sang songs, raised their
voices,
beat their gongs and drums, and jumped up and down with the slogans. It
was
absolutely amazing and with incredibly high energy. Shahram was in the
middle
of the ring shouting slogans and waving the CMKP flag with one hand when
he got
an idea. He grabbed the Chinese flag from me and holding it in his other
hand,
started spinning around to the cheers of the crowd with the flags held
high. It
looked beautiful and the Chinese went nuts!
We then walked down towards Downing Street. The march was a sea of red
flags. I
think there may have been five thousand Chinese students. On the opposite
side
of the road were mostly British people sup****ting the Dalai Lama. But they
were
completely outnumbered nearly 10 to 1. At one point a small group of
pro-Tibet
protesters tried to provoke the Chinese students by marching into their
side of
the demonstration with their placards etc. If this had been Pakistan I can
assure you that it would have resulted in a scuffle. But to my surprise,
the
Chinese students did not touch them. They raised slogans and voiced their
discontent but they did not even lay a finger on them. Chinese students
repeatedly sang their national anthem and shouted "Tibet China, Is One",
"Long
Live China" and "Dalai Lama, CIA". We then marched down past the PM's
office to
the parliament, went along the river and came back up to Trafalgar square.
The
march lasted at least about 3 hours during which time students were almost
constantly raising slogans. CMKP comrades also made an impassioned speech
standing on the street corner, explaining to the Chinese students that we
were
present out of a sense of internationalism. That we the people of the
Third
World must stand with each other against imperialism. There was rapturous
and
sustained applause.
Hundreds of Chinese students came up to us and asked us our names, where
we
were from, and thanked us again and again for charging up the crowd. They
said
"you are very professional. How did you learn all this". We smiled and
said
that a year of mass movements against dictator****p in Pakistan had taught
us
much about leading rallies and marches.
This was the first time that we also attended a mass demonstration that
involved people from China. We were extremely touched by their warmth,
openness
and friendliness. Here we were, a small group of Pakistani communists,
leading
a giant march of Chinese students. And they all sup****ted us, and followed
us,
and thanked us profusely. It reminded me of that famous saying by Karl
Marx
"workers have no nation, you cannot take from them what they have not
got".
We came home to look at media re****ts. One would have thought that a march
of
some five [thousand] Chinese students in central London would receive some
coverage. Not a word. The imperialist media completely blacked out this
news.
Instead they only focused on the pro-Tibet protesters. Their selective
coverage
made it seem like all of London was out against China. There were some
incidents where Pro-Tibet protesters (who were mostly all British people)
tried
to snatch the Torch or extinguish it. But they were puny in comparison to
the
pro-China protesters. Yet the entire media only focused on one side of the
picture. Here are some Youtube clips that catch glimpses of this giant
protest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ehT6GslKJM
(If you scroll along to min 2:42, you'll be able to see CMKP comrades
smiling
coyly)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCyiCnSHLlA
CMKP comrades raised on shoulders leading slogans
More videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx4PXLxnejI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkchIr_Skkw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm6nYS88QTM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR5Ny-ad47I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDTRZC4GLQA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0wAgHegYZo
We hope that all progressive parties will condemn and organize against the
efforts by imperialism to re-colonize and Balkanize China.
Down with the Reactionary Free Tibet Movement
Down with Imperialism
In solidarity
Taimur Rahman
CMKP Website:- http://cmkp.tk
CMKP YahooForum:- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cmkp_pk
CMKP News:- http://cmkp_pk.blogspot.com
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