40 years ago, that fateful September 11th of 1973, the entire world was a direct witness to the fascist military coup led by dictator Pinochet and that counted on the consent of the USA.
We all have in our eyes the image of the Moneda Palace bombed by military aviation and the confirmation of that the legitimate president of the country, Mr. Salvador Allende, was found in the interior defending with his life, defending the government legitimately elected, popular unity and democracy confronting fascist brutality. This military coup was followed by a long period of arrests, tortures, killings and cruelty.
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Sortu wishes to denounce the plans of foreign military aggression against the Syrian government and population.
Sortu expresses their rejection without ambiguities to the warmongering attitude adopted by the western powers to this crisis, exacerbated by the grave attack this past August 21st on the outskirts of Damascus.
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On August 19th a popular national agrarian strike began in Colombia that still continues. Facing this mobilization of the peasants and popular sectors of Colombia the state has responded with repression.
The government has mobilised the Army, has installed a curfew in various parts of the country and has militarized Bogotá, with the end of impeding bigger demonstrations. In spite of that the national strike is having a large echo in the entire country.
The agrarian subject is at the origin of the armed and social conflict of the last 50 years. The struggle between the large landowners and the small peasants who have had their lands expropriated. In the current negotiating table on the island of Cuba between the Santos government and the guerrillas of the FARC the agrarian problem is one of the biggest problems at the time of reaching agreements.
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Sortu wants to convey its condolences to Kay Matheson's friends and the whole nationalist movement in Scotland.
It is with great sadness that Sortu has heard about the passing away of the Scottish nationalist activist. Together with Ian Hamilton, Alan Stuart and Gavin Vernon, Ms Matheson took part on the recovery of the Stone of Destiny in 1950.
She is quoted as having described the death of Mr Vernon in 2004, as "the beginning of the end of an era". Her passing away before the Independence referendum, September 2014, is a sad event. But Sortu firmly believes this will mark the start of a new era for Scotland and the stateless nations in Europe.
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