Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 03:55:16 +0100 (MET) Subject: M-G: UNITE! Info #4en: 2/2 A barbaric anti-industry attack UNITE! Info #4en: A barbaric anti-industry attack 2/2 [Posted: 21.03.96] [Continued from part 1/2] In March 1979, the main forces of U.S. imperialism manipulated a nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, causing an "accident" and initiating a new wave of anti-industrial public propaganda and governmental strangulation measures internationally. The bourgeoisie of notably one of the comparatively highly-developed countries, France, didn't play along, despite also a probably "follow-up" sabotage action with explosives in early April 1979 against a Toulon storage of nuclear equipment intended for export to certain European and third world countries. In Sweden, however, the politicians illegally refused permission for two recently completed nuclear reactors to be commissioned, increasing the number of scandalously idle such new constructions here to four, and decided on a so-called referendum on nuclear power to be held in March 1980. For "safety", since they well knew the majority of people would probably still favour nuclear energy despite the entire reactionary propaganda, which at that time reached a truly feverish pitch here, they only advanced (three) parallell "NO" "proposals" between which to "choose" in this "referendum", whose "result" was thus ensured with no "risk of accident due to the human factor". Behind this there was, visibly, massive superpower pressure. This whole "referendum" plot was publicly exposed beforehand by me in Sweden and by the KPD/ML(NEUE EINHEIT) in Germany, one of the important other countries were the public was intended to be "impressed" by the so-called "no" "of the Swedish people". And this exposure probably importantly contributed to the fact that the reactionaries didn't dare to scrap one or more of the completed plants in Sweden at once, as had certainly been their intention. But the politicians here have taken the "result" of the 1980 "referendum", an event justly described by one prominent nuclear- energy expert in Sweden as a "modern" counterpart to the sentencing of Galilei in 1633 by the old Inquisition, as a pretext for now directly banning the further construction of nuclear power plants and for deciding that this entire energy source is to be banned forever in this country from the year 2010 on, or "phased out", as is their "nice" Orwellian term for it. In 1987, after the murky Chernobyl incident in the Soviet Union and the extreme, technically completely illogical, outcry by the imperialists and social-imperialists against all nuclear energy which followed on this incident, there was in Sweden even enacted a law which prohibits the very research and projection with the purpose of constructing a nuclear power plant here, the ill-famed "brainwash paragraph", which, even under today's "green inquisition" imperialism, as far as I know has no counterpart elsewhere. The reactionary fanaticism which shows up in these actions is, as already pointed out above, by no means limited to enmity against nuclear energy. It's a fanaticism which has grown out of an increasing fear, by the main forces of the international bourgeoisie today, of proletarian revolution. It's directed, indirectly, against the workers and against the oppressed peoples and nations, and directly against the further development of industry in several countries. One main preoccupation of the extreme reactionaries is that energy should be intentionally made as scarce and as expensive as possible. This in fact all-embracingly important factor (as far as the technical side is concerned) in every more-or-less modern society today, energy, also in general is one over which the bourgeois state has a certain control, as opposed to the (non-state) industrial capitalists who are mainly concerned with profit-making and who therefore still may tend to favour industrial expansion and technological and scientific advance instead of the opposite. With actions taken by the executive body of the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, the state, against the energy supply, industry can be strangled and a great number of people forced into unemployment (and thus at least in part "neutralized" politically), even against the will of some of the capitalists. This is also why in the last two decades not only the expansion of nuclear (fission) energy in the world has been brought practically to a standstill, with only some 400 reactors in operation out of the 2000 originally envisaged for the year 2000, and funds for nuclear fusion research likewise cut drastically, but extensive measures have been taken and massive phoney "environmental" propaganda made also against the second-best energy sources, the chemical ones, oil and natural gas, which at present of course account for a much greater part of the total than does nuclear energy and therefore likewise have become important targets for attack by the arch enemies of the peoples in their "green" stealth warfare. In 1983-85, there was an international propaganda campaign over the (non-existent) "forest death" allegedly caused by the use of oil etc. As far back as in 1972, the above-mentioned early inquisition "Club of Rome" piece "The Limits to Growth" also contained, in addition to its vilification of nuclear energy, a so-called "theory" on an alleged "additional greenhouse effect" supposedly due to human chemical-fuel utilization. This "theory" obviously is not correct. Several arguments, largely suppressed by the mass media, speak against it. (I intend to post more on this later.) Despite this, the 1992 (actually anti-industrial) so-called "Earth Summit" in Rio under the auspices of international imperialism i.a. set up a so-called "convention" on the "limitation of carbon dioxyde emissions". The Swedish bourgeois politicians declared their "ambition" to "take the lead" in implementing it, just as they had already "taken the lead" in "referenda" against nuclear energy (which they'll keep at least until someone comes up with one returning more than 100% "no":s) and in truly medieval laws against it. Furthermore, the chemical fuels are always called "fossil fuels" by all the media etc, by the entire present-day inquisition. This implies that the theory of their being of biological origin is correct, which would also mean that these resources were comparatively scarce - another "reason" for limiting their use. In reality, the carbon hydrates >from which these energy sources stem are of cosmic origin. The planet Earth doesn't have such enormous amounts of them as do the atmospheres of the outer planets, but still there's plenty of oil and natural gas under large parts of the surface here, mainly at great depths. This knowledge, too (another subject for later postings), is being fanatically suppressed by the main international bourgeois forces. This constitutes yet another front in their particular "green" warfare against the proletariat. In Sweden, there in all probability is a very large oil and gas deposit some 7000 m below the ground in Siljansringen in the province of Dalarna. But after the - much-delayed - exploratory drilling of only two bore holes, both of which showed great promise, the project of its possible utilization was finally killed by political machinations in 1994. In other parts of the world, e.g. in China when it was still socialist, oil and gas has been extracted from crystalline rock and from great depths, a fact which contributes to the refutation of the "fossil" theory. Here again, an important fact about the world today was clearly demonstrated in Sweden: One reason why the proletariat and the oppressed peoples and nations absolutely must topple the present rulers of the world from power is that these reactionaries today more and more are turning into a massive plug preventing the use of those enormous natural resources which the earth holds, a plug which must be pulled out if real economic progress is to be achieved. To all readers of this article, whether they are in agreement with me on the above analysis and the above description of certain recent events or not - and I realize the need for further elaborations and evidence on many of the points made here - I repeat the call: Please support the fight against the present anti-industrial attack here in Sweden! An international united front is sorely needed against the ultra-reactionaries' "green" stealth warfare. Not least those friends who have as their ambition to pursue a genuinely Marxist political line IMO should carefully study the scientific and political questions in connection with this, so as to be able all-sidedly correctly to lead the struggle of the masses against their worst enemies. UNITE! / VEREINIGT EUCH! / UNISSEZ-VOUS! / !UNIOS! / FOERENA ER! Info en/de/fr/es/se series: Advocates the political line of Marx, Lenin and Mao Zedong. Each item # will be posted in one or more language(s). Leaflets in the INFORMATIONSBLAD series published by me, mainly in Swedish, since 1975 are available on request. Befuerwortet die politische Linie von Marx, Lenin und Mao Zedong. Jedes Nummer # wird in einer oder mehreren Sprache(n) gesandt werden. Flugblaetter der Reihe INFORMATIONSBLAD, von mir hauptsaechlich in Schwedisch seit 1975 veroeffentlicht, sind auf Anfrage erhaltlich. Avocate de la ligne politique de Marx, Le'nine et Mao Zedong. 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