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Revolt in France Revolutionary Ideas Pages 3&5 of Karl Marx Page 4-5 $2 | No 604 | May 2018 | socialist.ca NO CASH FOR KINDER MORGAN On March 10, 2018 an Indigenous-led protest of 10,000 marched against the Kinder Morgan pipeline in Vancouver. Photo Zach Embree CC BY NC SA 2.0 ustin Trudeau is planning to spend as much are putting themselves on the line to stop this. to make sure that the pipeline was approved. economy. These articles attempt to appeal to as $2 billion to prop up the Kinder Morgan Their determination is inspirational. According Avi Lewis from the Leap Manifesto group nationalism, but of course fail to remind people Trans-Mountain pipeline. Trudeau is fear- to Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, “There is abso- has been working to let people know about this that Kinder Morgan itself is a Houston-based Jful that if he doesn’t offer the extra cash, lutely no way that we are letting Kinder Morgan scandal. “Justin Trudeau rigged the consulta- energy giant. Indeed, most of the tar sands oil is the pipeline may not be built after Kinder Mor- expand its archaic and dangerous fossil fuel tion process for the Kinder Morgan pipeline, being shipped overseas and there is considerable gan ceased all non-essential work on the site. extraction. Today we proudly stood with land and there was pressure from high ranking of- investment from oil companies abroad. This follows a wave of resistance led by In- defenders to send a strong message to Kinder ficials “to give cabinet a legally-sound basis to And it may end up being worse for Canadians digenous land defenders in BC who argue that Morgan, its investors, and Trudeau – we will not say ‘yes’” to the project. No wonder Trudeau is if Kinder Morgan has its way. A former CEO of the pipeline will endanger their lands and the stand down and we will remain united in our op- offering the Texas oil company a bailout in the Kinder Morgan Hal Kvisle has said that it may natural environment. position. I took action today for my children and billions - he made his mind up to ram this project cost as much as $10 billion in public money to They are right. All pipelines spill, and the grandchildren, and for all future generations.” through a long, long time ago.”, he wrote in an ensure the project goes ahead. That’s equivalent environmental impacts are devastating. As the email to supporters. to $149 million for every Indigenous reserve debate on this one was raging, another pipeline Trudeau’s Standing Rock Activists across Canada have begun to apply without the Canadian state that currently is with- in northern Alberta, owned by Paramount Re- This is a headache that will not go away for pressure. There are rallies and pickets at MP of- out clean drinking. sources Limited, was spilling more than 100,000 the Trudeau Liberals. A Standing Rock-style fices throughout the country over the next few Either way, if we are to really address the litres of bitumen into Dene territory. impasse is expected, and it remains to be seen weeks to pressure the Liberals to end support issue of climate change, we need to be canceling It is the fourth such spill in that region and how far the federal authorities will go to clear for the scheme. the destructive projects and pushing for a green follows the massive 9.5 million litre leak that the pipeline route. The right-wing is also applying pressure. future without the use of fossil fuels. There is destroyed hundreds of hectares of boreal forest. They are not above dirty tricks to get their There has been a recent spate of articles de- money available to help with the transition. Just This pipeline will spill too. They all do. way on this file. We now know that the Trudeau nouncing the protests as foreign-funded con- ask Trudeau – he seems to have a few billion That’s why most Indigenous leaders in the area Liberals worked to rig the consultation process spiracies to undermine the Canadian resource to spare. Justice for Marielle Franco against federal government military by Sean Purdy, PSOL, São Paulo intervention. Just a few years ago, she defended her Master’s Degree n March 14, Marielle in Public Administration with a Franco, a Rio de Janeiro thesis criticizing police and military city councilor for the left- actions in Rio’s favelas. wing Party of Socialism Marielle`s execution provoked Oand Freedom (PSOL) and widespread public indignation her driver, Anderson Gomes, were and rage, but it also exposed brutally executed on a downtown the growing right-wing tide in city street as they left a meeting of Brazilian politics. High-profile Black women activists. A long-time judges, politicians and figures activist in poor peoples’, Black, in the far-right spread malicious LGBT and human rights movements lies about Marielle, reflecting the in the city, Marielle was elected to growing racism, homophobia and the city council in 2016 with the reactionary politics in the country fifth-highest number of votes. fueled by the parliamentary Marielle’s murder shocked Brazil, coup against the Workers’ Party provoking massive demonstrations president Dilma Rouseff in 2016 of solidarity around the country. It and a ultra-neoliberal political is likely that Marielle’s death was agenda by the illegitimate federal ordered by paramilitary militias led government. by current and ex-police officers By all accounts, the police who control many of Rio’s poor have bungled the investigation favela communities, organized in the murders. The left, unions criminals with connections to right- and social movements need to wing political parties whom she had first demand that Marielle and long criticized. Yet it also highlights Anderson’s murderers be brought the depth of the severe political and to justice. economic crisis in the country. Toronto vigil calls for justice But to truly honour Marielle, we also need to demand an end Police brutality the world. the murder of a close friend. She which led to the arrest of hundreds, to federal government military The poor shantytowns (favelas) Just one month before Marielle`s worked in local community groups including several politicians and intervention in Rio. We need to in all of Brazil’s major cities have murder, the illegitimate federal who organized against the violence dozens of current and ex-police demand an end to the murders long suffered from the absence of government of Michel Temer ordered of the police and drug gangs and for officers. Yet in the context of the of poor and Black people by the basic water and sanitation services, a wide scale military intervention in improvements in public services. economic and political crisis since police and militias. And we need hospitals and schools as well as Rio, sending in thousands of troops She completed an undergraduate 2013 and their continued links with to unite the Black and LGBT the organized violence of drug to supposedly solve the problem of degree in social services, joined politicians and corrupt police, the movements with socialists and traffickers and, especially, the public safety in the city. Marielle PSOL and was hired as an assistant militias have actually increased the unions to build a fight back police. The police in Brazil regularly and PSOL have been firm opponents to Marcelo Freixo, a state deputy their influence, exercising more against the entire racist, anti- murder poor and Black people with against intervention. in PSOL and her ex-high school power in Rio than the drug gangs. poor, misogynist and homophobic impunity. Between 2009 and 2016, Marielle, born and raised in the history teacher. In the last few months before her politics of governments and the Brazilian police forces killed an favela community of Maré in Rio Freixo, with Marielle’s murder, Marielle criticized both right wing at all levels. average of seven people per day, de Janeiro, first became active assistance, led a high-profile inquiry the brutality of the police and the Marielle and Anderson. making it one of the most violent in politically in the early 2000s after into the paramilitary militias in Rio militias and became a leading voice Presentes! The Bear in the Room: Russia and the new Cold War by John Bell safely” before returning home. sources that Boris Johnson had so decisively Western-backed coup in 2014–is riddled with In other words, much ado about nothing but cited actually spoke up for themselves: there fascists. Soldiers that aren’t in these far-right The attempts by the Canadian government and a sensational headline. was no proof that the chemical weapon used militias are either sympathetic to them or its NATO allies to ramp up a new Cold War, Just this March Jason Kenney, now head of originated in Russia. Then Swiss researchers fearful of them. According to MP Andriy casting Russia as public enemy number one, Alberta’s United Conservative Party, suggested found that the nerve agent probably came from Biletsky, head of the fascist National Corpus have peaked with the recent missile attack on that Russia was behind the protests against the the arsenals of the US or UK. Party, Ukraine is destined to “lead the white Syria by the US, UK and France. Kinder Morgan pipeline. “In whose interest is it races of the world in a final crusade … Russia, ruled by Tsar-wannabe Vladimir Pu- that Canadian oil and gas does not get to global Skeletons in Cabinet’s Closet against Semite-led Untermenschen [subhu- tin, remains a dangerous nuclear power, playing markets? Well obviously, it’s in the interest So, did the Russian diplomats expelled for mans]”.