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A Zrínyiek (, ), a Šubić nemzetségből származó horvát–magyar nemesi család, akik a középkortól kezdve jelentős szerepet töltöttek be a Magyar Királyság életében egészen a kora újkorig. A család tagjai a magyar történelem során számos főméltósági rangot viseltek, ilyen volt Zrínyi V. György vagy Zrínyi Péter horvát bánok, Zrínyi IV. György tárnokmester, emellett olyan ismert személyek kerültek még ki, mint Zrínyi IV. Miklós hadvezér, Szigetvár ostromának hőse, Zrínyi Miklós költő, vagy Zrínyi Ilona hősnő, a munkácsi vár védelmezője annak 1685–88-as ostroma során.

A Zrínyi család története

A középkorban

A Subics nemzetség egyike volt a Kálmán királynak 1102-ben meghódolt 12 horvát nemzetségnek. A 12. század végén – III. Béla Velence elleni harcának támogatása fejében – örökös földbirtokként a család megkapta Bribir megyét, mert ezt követően már nem a zsupán (iupanus), hanem gróf (latinul: comes, horvátul: knez) címet viselték; így a régi horvát zsupánból – aki nemzetségének megbízottja volt – a magyar király vazallusa lett. Ekkor alakult ki Horvátországban a feudális rendszer.

A tatárjárás idején IV. Béla Horvátországba menekült, ahol a Subics család támogatását is élvezte, amit később meghálált. A 13. század végén és a 14. század elején ebben a családban először lett örökletes a báni tisztség.

A tengermelléki Ostrovica vára és egyéb dalmáciai birtokainak fejében I. Lajos magyar király 1347-ben Subics Gergelynek és unokaöccsének Subics Györgynek adományozta az Una folyó mellett épített Zrin várát (in terra Schlavoniae), továbbá az ennek közelében levő Stupnica községet és Pedalj várát. Ettől kezdve György és utódai a Subics név mellőzésével Zrinski (Zrínyi) változatban írták nevüket és a család történetének színhelye már nem Dalmácia, hanem Horvátország és Magyarország.

Subics György a család megalapítója Zrínyi I. György (II.A1.) néven. Nagybátyja, a Frangepán családból származott Blagai Dujmo vegliai gróf házában nevelkedett Krk szigetén. Serdülő ifjúként I. Lajos király apródja volt. 1347-ben a nápolyi hadjáratba is követte királyát, és kitűnt vitézségével. 1361-ben halt meg. Egyetlen fia Zrínyi I. Pál (II.B2.) apja halálakor még kiskorú volt, ezért a király kinevezte gyámjává Blagai Bertalant és fiát, Istvánt. Mária királynő 1383-ban, Zágrábban kiadott iratával megparancsolta, hogy minden I. Pál ellen folyamatban levő birtokpert be kell szüntetni az ő javára. I. Lajos király, majd Mária királynő pártfogását Zrínyi Pál azzal hálálta meg, hogy mindvégig hű támogatójuk maradt. 1414-ben halt meg Zágrábban, hamvai a Zágráb melletti remetei zárda kriptájában nyugszanak.

Zrínyi I. Péter (II.C1.) kezdetben a lázadó Hervoja herceg párthíveként Zsigmond király ellen harcolt, Hervoja halála után meghódolt Zsigmondnak, aki őt 1420-ban kegyelmébe fogadta. A család dalmáciai ágából az utolsó sarj, Subics Jakab – gyermekei nem lévén – 1441-ben összes birtokát Péterre hagyta, amely végrendeletet Hunyadi János kormányzó is megerősítette.

A török hódítás ellen
I. Péter fia, Zrínyi II. Péter, (II.D9.) nehéz időkben élt, mert a törökök már 1458-ban kezdték pusztítani Horvátországot, továbbá a horvát főurak is folytatták hagyományos családi civódásaikat. A főurak politikai pártokra is szakadtak, mert Hunyadi János halála után nagy részük nem akarta királyuknak elismerni V. Lászlót.

A nagybirtokos Zrínyiek számára a kialakult történelmi és gazdasági körülmények miatt a 15. század második felétől egyetlen járható út kínálkozott: a Habsburg-hatalomra támaszkodó törökellenes politika. 1475-ben Ahmed boszniai basa egész Zrin váráig nyomult előre. Mivel nem volt képes a várat elfoglalni, elpusztította környékét, majd rabolva és pusztítva végig ment Horvátországon, beütött Stíriába és Karintiába, ahonnan nagy zsákmánnyal és sok ezer rabságba esett keresztény fogollyal visszatérvén, újból megjelent Zrin vára előtt, de itt II. Péter a török sereget megsemmisítette, és a keresztény rabokat kiszabadította. 1493-ban Jakub pasa Boszniából újra betört Horvátországba, de Frangepán Bernardin az Una folyó mellett legyőzte a sereget, mire a törökök Krajna és Karintia felé vették útjukat, ahonnan visszatérőben 1493-ban Udbinja mellett megverték a horvát sereget; II. Péter és fia Zrínyi III. Pál (II.E1.) is a csatatéren maradtak. III. Pál fia, Mihály (II.F/1.) pedig a mohácsi csatában (1526. augusztus 29.) esett el.

Zrínyi III. Miklós (II.E5.) apja, II. Péter halálakor mindössze 4 éves volt, ezért Berojevics Mátét nevezték ki gyámjának. 1501-ben az általa vezetett Zrínyi-sereg vitézül harcolt Jajcánál Corvin János oldalán. 1509-ben III. Miklós feleségül vette Karlovics Ilonát. Miklós és sógora, (a félkegyelmű) Karlovics Iván – mint családjaik egyetlen férfi tagjai – egyezséget kötöttek, hogy amelyikük előbb meghal fiú utód nélkül, annak egész vagyonát a másik örökli. Zrínyinek ekkor 9, Karlovicsnak 22 vára volt, a falvakat nem is számítva. Ez az egyezség volt alapja a Zrínyiek későbbi óriási gazdagságának, melyet a leszármazottak délnyugat – nyugat felé irányuló kereskedelemmel, vámszedéssel, s nem utolsósorban jelentős marhaexporttal növeltek. A mohácsi vész után III. Miklós részt vett a horvát rendek cetini országgyűlésén, melyen 1527. január 1-jén királyukká választották Habsburg Ferdinánd cseh királyt és osztrák főherceget. III. Miklós a megszorult auraniai perjeltől 13 000 arany forintért zálogba vette Kostajnicát, Božjakovinát, Pakrácot, Kamenskót, Gradistét, Sloboštinát és Rasát, így ezen időtől fogva a Zrínyiek egyéb címeik mellett ezt is viselték «gubernatores prioratus Auranae». III. Miklós 1534-ben halt meg Zrin várában.

Az ő fia volt Zrínyi IV. Miklós (III.A1.), a szigetvári vértanú (ezzel a nagycsalád igazi tekintélyének megalapozója), aki számos törökellenes csatában védelmezte az országot és saját birtokait, melyet házasságkötése révén tovább növelt, s akinek hősies halála számos horvát és magyar művészt ihletett meg.

Fiai közül legkiválóbb volt Zrínyi IV. György (III.B4.) (első neje D'Arco Anna grófnő, második neje Stubenberg Zsófia bárónő), és Zrínyi V. Miklós (III.B13). Harci téren mindketten kitűntek vitézségükkel, hívei voltak a protestantizmusnak, melyhez atyjuk is húzott. A Zrínyiek ekkortájt őrizték nyelvüket, támogatták a délszláv reformációt, ugyanakkor a magyarokhoz hasonultak, a "Szent Korona tagjainak", "Hungarus"-nak tekintették magukat. IV. György tárnokmester, mint buzgó lutheránus, 1570-ben nyomdát állított, melynek vezetését anyósának, D'Arco Margitnak csehországi birtokáról, Lindau városából hozott Hofhalter Rudolfra bízta. A nyomda a Csáktornya melletti Nedelišćében működött és kiadványai között kiválóbbak Bucsics Mihály protestáns prédikátor horvát nyelven kiadott vallásos tartalmú munkái.

IV. Györgynek három leánya és két fia volt. Idősebb fia Zrínyi VI. Miklós (III.C1.) utódok nélkül halt meg 1625-ben. Második fia Zrínyi V. György (III.C2.) jelentékenyebb szerepet játszott: kiváló egyéni tulajdonságait Rattkay György zágrábi kanonok és horvát történetíró tüzetesen ismerteti (Memoria regum et banorum regni Croatiae). Ő és bátyja Miklós 1616-ban részt vettek a protestantizmus százéves jubileumán. Mindketten protestánsok voltak, amit az is előmozdított, hogy protestáns nőt vettek feleségül, de csak rövid ideig maradtak e vallás kötelékében, mert 1619-ben a jobbágyság vallásszabadsága és lázongása ellen erélyesen fellépő Pázmány Péter mindkettőjüket visszatérítette a római katolikus egyház kebelébe. Zrínyi György 1626. áprilisban a legjobb egészségben csatlakozott Wallenstein seregéhez, aki a kortársak (Rattkay, Pethő) tanúsága szerint egy ebéd alkalmával mérgezett retket etetett vele, amitől 1626. december 18-án 29 éves korában Pozsonyban meghalt. Két fia volt: Zrínyi VII. Miklós (III.D1.) magyar, és Zrínyi IV. Péter (III.D2.) horvát költő és hadvezér.

A török hódítás és Habsburg elnyomás ellen
Pázmány Péter irányítása alatt nevelt Zrínyi fivérek megosztották a családi birtokot. A magát egyre inkább magyarnak valló VII. Miklós a Muraközt kapta, míg a horvát identitását őrző öccse, IV. Péter a tengermelléki földeket. Mindketten folyamatos harcot vívtak a török ellen és védték az ország délvidékét. A török elleni harchoz elsősorban kereskedelem (só, gabona, faárú, posztó) révén teremtették elő a pénzt, valamint nagystílű marhakereskedést építettek ki. Évente mintegy 40 ezer marhát hajtottak a légrádi vásárra, melyért nem fizettek Bécsnek vámot. Szerződést kötöttek a kanizsai basával és a velencei kereskedőkkel, és saját fegyveres csapataikkal kísérték a marhaszállítmányokat a kikötőkbe. Felségsértésnek beillő tettét VII. Miklós Bécsben azzal indokolta, hogy nagy szüksége van a pénzre a honvédő háborúhoz.

A két testvér politikai síkon is egyre inkább szembe került a török ellen őket csak ímmel-ámmal támogató bécsi udvarral. Egy vadkan áldozatává vált VII. Miklós horvát bán halála után a tisztséget betöltő IV. Péter részt vett a Wesselényi-összeesküvésben, ezért sógorával együtt Bécsújhelyett lefejezték.

VII. Miklósnak négy gyermeke volt: Mária Terézia Borbála (III.E1.), Mária Katarina (III.E2.), Izsák (III.E3.) és Ádám(III.E4.), aki 1662. december 24-én született Bécsben és a szalánkeméni csatában halt meg 1691. augusztus 19-én, a törökök ellen harcolva.

IV. Péternek gyermekei: Zrínyi Ilona (III.E/1.) és Zrínyi IV. János Antal (III.E/2.), valamint Judit Petronella (III.E/3.), aki mint apáca és apátnő élt Zágrábban 1699-ig, továbbá Aurora Veronika (III.E/4.), akit a bécsi udvar arra kényszeríttet, hogy apácává legyen, Cillében halt meg, de nem tudni mikor.

Zrínyi Ilona 1667-ben férjhez ment I. Rákóczi Ferenchez; annak halála után, 1681-ben Thököly Imre hitvese lett, akinek oldalán cselekvő részese volt a Habsburgok elleni kuruc felkelésnek. A magyar történelem egyik hősnője, II. Rákóczi Ferenc édesanyja.

A kiváló képességű IV. János Antal hét nyelven beszélt. A Wesselényi-összeesküvés első időszakában XIV. Lajos francia királlyal folytatott tárgyalásokat, de azt követően, a bécsi udvarral történő tárgyalásokon már túszként vett részt. Apja kivégzése idején tisztként – különös felügyelet mellett, Gnade Antal néven – császári szolgálatban állt. A bécsi udvar ellenőrzése alól soha sem tudott kibújni; saját kárára az udvarhoz és a császárhoz mindvégig hű maradt, bár módjában lett volna Ilona nővére és annak második férje oldalára átállni. 1680-ban a bujdosók fogságába esett, azonban a császár hűségétől akkor sem tágított. Mindezek ellenére Bécs 1683-as török ostromakor a császáriak árulás vádjával elfogták, és bírósági ítélet nélkül bebörtönözték. Oberhauseni, rattenburgi és grazi hosszan tartó raboskodás alatt elméje elborult. Ötvenéves korában, 1703. november 11-én halt meg. Zrínyi János Antal volt a Zrínyi család utolsó tagja.

A Zrínyi-testvérek muraközi és horvátországi birtokai 1670-ig virágoztak. Ekkor IV. Péter konfiskált birtokai kamarai kezelésbe kerültek, majd VII. Miklós csak időlegesen kamarai kezelésbe vett uradalmait később Zrínyi Ádám bérletbe adta, halála után pedig ezek is a kincstárra szálltak.

A családfa

I. (a család eredete)

A1. Subics II. Pál (†1346. július); h.: Frangepán Erzsébet (†1347 után)
B1. Subics IV. György (†1361), Zrínyi I. György, őt lásd lejjebb, II.A1. alatt!

II.

A1. Zrínyi I. György (Subics IV. György) (†1361), őt lásd feljebb, I.B1. alatt is!
B1. I. Erzsébet; h.: Korbáviai Tamás
B2. I. Pál, (*1357, †Zágráb, 1414); 1.h.: N N; 2.h.: N Erzsébet
C1. [1.h.] I. Péter, b.é.: 1408-40
D1. Henrik ("Imre", Mirko)
D2. II. Pál, b.é.: 1429-49; h.: N Katalin
D3. II. György, b.é.: 1435-47
E/1. II. Miklós
D4. Márton
D5. I. Katalin
D6. Klára
D7. II. Margit
D8. Ilka
D9. II. Péter, b.é.: 1435, (†Udbinja, 1493. szeptember 11., csatában); 1.h.: Blagai Ilona grófnő; 2.h.: N N
E1. [1.h.] III. Pál, b.é.: 1484; (†Udbinja, 1493. szeptember 11., csatában) h.: Grabarjai Beriszló Dorottya
F/1. Mihály, (†Mohács, 1526. augusztus 29. csatában)
E2. I. Ilona; h. Korbáviai "Torquatus" János, Horvátország bánja (†1531)
E3. III. Margit
E4. Bernát
E5. [2.h.] III. Miklós, (*1489., †Zrin, 1534); h.: 1509. Korbáviai Karlovics Ilona grófnő;
F1. II. Ilona, (†kb. 1561); h.: 1527. Tahvári és Tarkeöi Tahy Ferenc (†1573)
F2. IV. Margit; h.: Alapy János
F3. I. János, (†Vinodol, 1541)
F4. III. György, (*1528., †1547)
F5. III. Péter, † Bécs, 1547
F6. IV. Miklós, Horvátország, Szlavónia és Dalmácia bánja (*1508., †Szigetvár 1566. szeptember 8. csatában); 1.h.: 1543. Frangepán Katalin grófnő (†1561); 2.h.: Monyorókerék, 1564. szeptember 21. Rosenberg Éva grófnő (*1537. április 12., †1591. augusztus), őket lásd lejjebb, III.A1. alatt!
C2. [1.h.?] [2.h.?] I. Miklós, †1439
C3. [1.h.?] [2.h.?] I. Anna,
C4. [1.h.?] [2.h.?] I. Margit.

III.

A1. IV. Miklós, Horvátország, Szlavónia és Dalmácia bánja (*1508., †Szigetvár 1566. szeptember 8. csatában); 1.h.: 1543. Frangepán Katalin grófnő (†1561); 2.h.: Monyorókerék, 1564. szeptember 21. Rosenberg Éva grófnő (*1537. április 12., †1591. augusztus), őket lásd feljebb, II. F6. alatt is!
B1. [1.h.] II. János, (*1545. szeptember 14., †1545)
B2. [1.h.] III. Ilona, (*1546. december 11., †1585); 1.h.: 1560. január 7. Guthi Országh Kristóf (*1520, †1567. október 19.); 2.h.: Tapolcsány, 1569. február 7. Gyarmati Balassa István (†kb. 1584)
B3. [1.h.] II. Katalin, (*1548. április 30., †Biccse, 1585. április 26.); 1.h.: Bajmóc, 1562. június 21. Bethlenfalvi Thurzó Ferenc (†1576. március 12.); 2.h.: Biccse, 1576. június 24. báró Ghymesi és Gácsi Forgách Imre
B4. [1.h.] IV. György, tárnokmester, (*1549. április 13., †Vép, 1603. május 4.); 1.h.: D'Arco Anna grófnő (†1570); 2.h.: Stubenberg Zsófia grófnő
C1. [1.h.] VI. Miklós, (†1625. március 24.); h.: Nádasdi és Fogarasföldi Nádasdy Anna grófnő (*kb. 1585)
C2. [2.h.] V. György, Horvátország, Szlavónia és Dalmácia bánja, (*Csáktornya, 1599. január 31., †Pozsony, 1626. december 18. megmérgezték); h.: Rimaszécsi Széchy Magdolna grófnő
D1. VII. Miklós, Horvátország, Szlavónia és Dalmácia bánja, (*Ozalj, 1620. május 1., †Csáktornya, 1664. november 18.); 1.h.: Praunek vára, 1646. február 11., Trakostyáni Draskovich Mária Euzébia grófnő (†1650); 2.h.: Bécs 1652. április 30., Löbl Mária Zsófia (†1676)
E1. [2.h.] Mária Terézia Borbála (*1655, †1658)
E2. [2.h.] Mária Katalin (*1656) apáca
E3. [2.h.] Izsák (*1658 †1659)
E4. [2.h.] Ádám, (*Bécs, 1662. november 24., †Szalánkemén, 1691. augusztus 19. csatában); h.: 1684. Lamberg Katalin Mária grófnő
D2. IV. Péter, Horvátország, Szlavónia és Dalmácia bánja, (*Verbovác 1621. június 6., †Bécsújhely, 1671. április 30. lefejezték); h.: 1643. Frangepán Anna Katalin grófnő (*Bosiljevo, 1625., †Graz, 1673. november 16.)
E/1. Ilona, (IV. Ilona), (*Ozalj, 1643, †Nikomédia, 1703. február 18.); 1.h.: I. Rákóczi Ferenc, erdélyi fejedelem (*1645. február 24., †1676. július 8.); 2.h.: 1682, Thököly Imre, erdélyi fejedelem (*Késmárk, 1657. szeptember 25., †Nikomédia, 1705. szeptember 13.)
E/2. IV. János Antal, (*Ozalj?, 1651, †Graz, 1703. november 11.)  a Zrínyi nemzetség utolsó tagja
E/3. Judit Petronella, (*Ozalj, 1652, †Zágráb, 1699); apáca (Klarissza-nővér)
E/4. Veronika Auróra, (*Ozalj, 1658., †Klagenfurt, 1735) Szent Orsolya-rendi apáca
C3. [2.h.] II. Borbála (Barbara)
C4. [2.h.] II. Erzsébet; h.: Erdődy Tamás
C5. [2.h.] Zsuzsanna; 1.h.: Lenkovich Albert; 2.h.: gróf Nádasdi és Fogarasföldi Nádasdy Miklós
B5. [1.h.] Dorottya (Dorica), (†1617); h.: 1566. január 30. Batthyány Boldizsár (†1590)
B6. [1.h.] Orsolya, (*1552. augusztus 21., †1593. február 12.); 1.h.: Perényi János; 2.h.: Csáktornya 1570, Alsólendvai Bánffy Miklós (*1547, †?)
B7. [1.h.] I. Borbála, (*1547); h.: Bajmóc, 1569. január 17. Bethlenfalvi Thurzó Elek (†1594. március 5.)
B8. [1.h.] V. Margit, (*1555, †kb. 1588); h.: Monyorókerék, 1569. január 9. Homonnai Drugeth Miklós (*kb. 1538, †1580. augusztus 30. után)
B9. [1.h.] Magdolna; 1.h.: 1584. január 19. Telekessy István; 2.h.: gróf Jan Jakub von Thurn (†1597)
B10. [1.h.] II. Anna, †fiatalon
B11. [1.h.] Kristóf, †fiatalon
B12. [1.h.] Vuk (Farkas), †fiatalon
B13. [1.h.] V. Miklós, (*1559. február 19., †1605)
B14. [2.h.]  III. János, (*1565, †Hohenfurt, 1612. február 24.); h.: Český Krumlov (Krumau) 1600. november 7. Maria Magdalena z Kolowrat.

Megjegyzés
 * = születés
 † = elhalálozás
 b.é. = biztosan élt
 h. = házasság
 1.h., 2.h. = 1., 2. házasság
 [1.h.], [2.h.] = 1., 2. házasságból
 N = ismeretlen nevű (keresztnevű)

Irodalom
 Benkő László: A Zrínyiek – A gránitlelkű, Családi Könyvklub Bt., 2014,
 Benkő László: A Zrínyiek – Ilona, Családi Könyvklub Bt., 2015,
 Benkő László: A Zrínyiek – A lángelme, Családi Könyvklub Bt., 2016,
 Salamon Ferenc: Az első Zrinyiek. Pest, 1865. Online
 Csuday Jenő: Zrinyiek a magyar történelemben. 1566-1704. Szombathely, 1884. Online

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My job deals a lot with the translation and publication of books which are both written in the Indonesian language and are also translated from other languages. But I have to admit that I am not a professional translator, and I do not represent any of the big Indonesian publishing houses. I always tell myself that I am first and foremost a journalist; that's been my lifelong identify, even until this day, athough I no longer work for a newspaper. But you know, old journalists never die! Therefore, what I will present here is based on my position and identity as a journalist.
About two months ago, I received a real surprise, an invitation from Professor Ahmat Adam to attend this seminar. My first reaction was that it was simply impossible to turn down the invitation, even though the topic of the seminar is actually not something which I handle every day. As a journalist, I admire Prof. Ahmat Adam greatly and therefore it was simply impossible for me to reject the invitation of a person I respect and admire.
I could only guess why Prof. Ahmad Adam invited me. Hasta Mitra several years ago translated and published his book, which was important for Indonesian readers in general, especially for journalists and those interested in the history of the Indonesian press. I should explain here that I am not the translator of Prof. Ahmat Adam's book; I was only involved as the editor and proof-reader. I can say that the translation is more than okay, but the ones who have the right to judge whether the translation is good or not are the readers.
If I say that the translation is good enough, that is because of two factors. First, the translator doesn't resemble me. I mastered my mother tongue only because I was forced to learn it –- I am the product of a colonial education, someone who used Dutch in daily conversation. When Japan occupied Indonesia, Dutch and other foreign languages were banned, and it was only then that I started to learn my own language. But the translator of Prof. Ahmat Adam's book is a person who I consider to have the DNA of the Indonesian language embedded in his psyche. His name is Amarzan Lubis. He is a literary man, an essayist, a poet and now a journalist who, in my opinion, speaks Indonesian beautifully. There are not many people who speak Indonesian as well as he does – Pramoedya is one of the few people who come to mind. The second factor conributing to the very compentent translation of Prof. Adam's book is that the writer himself – Prof. Ahmat Adam –, was willing to check the translation and even give suggestions to Amarzan Lubis, because he himself speaks Indonesian. He wrote the book in English, a brilliant thesis which is a big contribution to Indonesian history. We cannot expect direct assistance from the authors if we translate; for example, the work of Chomsky, let's say, let alone Gorky, Hemmingway, and other authors who are dead. By telling a bit about Prof. Ahmat Adam's book which was translated into Indonesian, we actually have talked about the topic of this seminar.
There is criticism levied at me individually as a journalist. It is this: why is it that an analysis of the history of the early Indonesian press and its role in the struggle for Indonesian independence was written not by an Indonesian historian or an Indonesian journalist? Why didn't Hasta Mitra make an effort to ensure that vitally important books about Indonesia are written by Indonesian authors?
I admit that the criticism is true because I do not have any hesitation to translate and publish books on any topic if the topic being analyzed has not been written in the Indonesian language. Even if there are books on a particular topic written in the Indonesian language, I will not hesitate to translate and publish books on that topic written by a foreign author if it is a good book which can contribute to Indonesian literature.
Another negative idea on translation comes from a small segment of our society's educated people. They are opposed to translations in general, believing that books must be read in the original. I disagree with that. This idea -– whether people realize it or not -– has strong intellectual arrogance, and is not sensitive to reality. People who speak like that might have obtained a BA or MA degree, or even a PhD from the United States, England, France, Germany or other industrialized countries. There are, however, very few people who have had the opportunity to study abroad and who speak another language fluently. Our students -– in Indonesia -– who study in local universities, and who have obtained a BA, a master degree or even a doctorate -– for the most part, they don't speak English fluently, let alone French, German, or Dutch.
The conclusion is that despite such negative ideas about translation, I strongly believe that we need translators and we will continue to need them, even if the "developing countries" are able to produce many sophisticated authors who have mastered foreign languages. The Netherlands is an example. The Dutch in general master English, and many speak another foreign language, as well -– German or French, for example. In an English-or-another-European-language-speaking country, which have experts in all fields, more than 50 percent of the books published are translations. The literature of the Third World, for example, becomes the agenda of the publishers in Holland and other industrialized countries. The publishers must not merely be profit oriented and their book lists should also focus on aspects of cultural interaction among nations, which broaden one's world.
If publishers in industrialized countries have such an attitude, then those in developing countries must maintain that attitude even more strongly, because positive translation enriches the idea and thoughts which are transmitted by the author to the readers. Translation has a role to stimulate a reader's creativity when the reader get the chance to know another nation's culture, which are more advanced in various fields -– not only in technology, for instance. In this case, the translator and the translation have an important role. The language into which the source is translated will also develop because the translator is stimulated to continuously find from his or her own language the words and idioms which are equal to the source language. Language is the most instrumental tool of thought and communication. Countries which don't actively encourage the translastion of worthwhile books will remain behind, dragging their feet in reaching a higher level of kknowledge.
The big problem is how to improve the quality of translation. What is a good translation? Improving continuously the quality of translation is a challenge and at the same time it is also an obligation. We may tolerate translations which are not really good if we talk within the context of various problems facing developing countries, as long as there is a prospect that they can improve. It is difficult to justify bad translations, which err in interpreting the meaning and the message from the source language. Publishing a bad translation which is full of mistakes is just the same as circulating counterfeit currency.
In this seminar we will of course talk in a broad way. A special workshop with adequate time for discussion is needed to address those technical problems. But here I only try, based on my own experience, to define what good translation is.
Good translation of a text or a book is the transfer -– reproduction -– from the source language into the language of those who receive the message embodied in the text of the source language, and the transfer is made using words or idioms which have a meaning that is as close as possible to that of the source language. The translator should pay attention to the structure and the style of the source language, but it is not necessary for he or she to follow the structure and the style if they are not in accordance with the structure or style of his or her language, or if they sound akward. When a text has been translated into a certain language, the text must become a work in the other language. For example, if an essay in English is translated into the Indonesian language, the "English essay" must become an "Indonesian essay", but the message that is originally written in English should be easily understood by Indonesian readers.
Therefore an mportant requirement for good translation is that the translator must master his or her mother tongue in the first place. The mastery of the source language is surely important, but the mastery of the mother tongue is also no less important. The translator should have a broad general knowledge and specialty in certain fields, besides mastery of the mother tongue.
Indonesian as the language that is used by translators also develops in accordance with the progress of time. If we compare translations done in the first decade of Indonesia's independence with those that we have now, we can clearly see the changes, or let's say, the improvement, in the Indonesian language, which is a very dynamic language. It improves in the sense that the language is now more economical, more condensed and there are not many useless words. The long-drawn-out style has not been entirely gone away, but only a few still use that kind of style.
With this simple paper, I attempt to make a response to the topic of this seminar, i.e. "Memajukan Karya Terjemahan dalam Industri Penerbitan: sebuah Masa-depan bagi Negeri-negeri Berkembang" ("Promoting Translation in the Publishing Industry: A Developing Country's Perspective").
Interpreting that title makes me tend to underline that the mushrooming of translation books plays a strategic role for developing countries to reach a higher standard of living for the people -– in the sense that the people should be more prosperous economically and culturally. Making such a statement, I realize that we have a dilemma on specific problems facing developing countries. We are right away in a vicious circle regarding priorities. Which should be the first priority? Rice, clothes, food or books? Infra-structure of the economic development or books? We are not organizing an economics seminar, but as a publisher I state that those priorities have close correlations – one supports the other, and therefore they should be treated equally, instead of being conflicted.
The duty to promote translation has two main goals: first, to continuously improve the quality of the translation. Second, to continuously add the number of translated books. Consequently there will be supporting factors, which should be addressed properly, like business management and a good distribution network.
About the first goal, it has been mentioned above what can and should be done to produce good translations. As for the second goal, this is not merely the task of the publisher, but this should involve other parties within society, especially the government, education institutes -– both state and private universities, as well as the mass media.
The government, as part of its political policy, should open a translation department in all schools of letters, and also in higher education institutions, especially vocational schools, like the non-degree program in academies for those who want to become a translator. It goes without saying that the promotion of translation needs many professionally authorized translators; it is the higher education institutions which have to produce them. Mass media can help by providing columns to review and criticize newly-launched translation books. We have not achieved the goal, but intensive activities by the above institutions will become a trigger with which to improve the quality of translated books.
There is another effort that can help improve the quality of translations, and that is the presentation of prestigious awards for translators and/or publishers who have produced excellent translations. Such award presentations should be held every year, and what is most important is that there should be a big prize which will function as a significant stimulant for the recipient. This alluring stimulant could become a motivator in producing outstanding translations. This plan involves a lot of funds and is ideally handled by the government and business through a special body.
One thing which becomes the full responsibility of the government, and publishers can do nothing about, is the tax problems. The preamble of the Indonesian constitution clearly addresses the country's duty to educate the nation, but books, which are one of the effective means by which to educate a nation, are relatively expensive. The retail price of local books are quite high, let alone the imported ones. The paper, the import, the production, the publishing, the transport, the retail price, the royalties for the author, and the income of the company –- are all a series of things which are subject to taxation, which in the end must be paid by the readers.
The government indeed needs taxes to run the wheels of the administration and to take care of the welfare of the people, but the task to educate the nation requires them to make wise policies and to take special and selective steps in taxation policies.
One crucial thing facing publishers in developing countries is the copyright issue. It is indeed one of the most difficult problems. Talking about copyrights, I have to restrain myself from becoming an instant politician. We all know that the patents of various inventions in technology and also the copyrights for books are mostly in the hand of developed countries in the West, who are fond of calling themselves "The Free World". They have a high value, i.e. "democracy" which they generously give for free to developing countries, and they even often force them to receive it. But if they get the turn to talk about copyrights, things become totally different. It is no longer a free item. They set a tariff for the copyrights and refuse to give them away for free to publishers in any developing country who are interested. Hence, we know that the progress and welfare which they now enjoy is partly contributed by developing countries as they have exploited natural resources in the developing countries and transported them to the Free World Countries for ages until today. (I am sorry I talk a bit about politics for a while).
If I am not mistaken, in a meeting in the framework of the Bern Convention in Stockholm in 1967, developing countries requested to obtain a concession of access on copyrights held by developed countries. There is strong and logical ground to make the request: the access for information and copyrights are needed for the mass education of poor people in developing countries. Basically, the developing countries' request was approved, but it was not until 1971 that the approval was included as an appendix of the Bern Convention. In reality, the approval does not work because developed countries do not implement the agreement in their respected countries.
This is the urgent homework for all governments of developing countries in the international forum: to struggle for the access to the copyrights of books that they need without having to meet any burdensome requirement. We hope that the translation and the publication of books from developed countries is not regarded as piracy if the local publisher has informed the related foreign publisher and has given full credit to the author, publisher, and the year of publication. The bureaucracy of the licensing of copyrights which is related to certain tariffs, should not be an obstacle for publishers in developing countries.
Publishers in the Third World will find it difficult to catch up with developed countries if the copyright issue is not solved thoroughly. The kinds of books that should be available for free access can be discussed further, but we hope that basically copyright will not become an obstacle for developing countries in their efforts to improve the dignity and the welfare of the people.


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Workers Know Your History, Tom Anderson.
A wee poem from the past. Written by Tom Anderson, born Pollokshaws 1863, died 1947. He founded the first Socialist Sunday School, 1894, and in 1897 formed the South Side Socialist Sunday School. As well as a revolutionary socialist, he was a song writer and poet.
The Revolutionist
"We fear not their law, nor yet their great men;
We fear not their prisons or blood-gallows pen;
We fear nor their priests, or parsons, or their spies;
We fear not their land away up in the skies.
We laugh at their army, and navy, and king;
We laugh at the god to whom these thieves sing.
We laugh, and in earnest we strive for the day
We wipe out the tyrants who do our class slay."
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Labels: anarchism, anarchy, poetry, revolutionary socialism, Strugglepedia, Tom Anderson, workers history, working class struggle
In Fear Of A Loving God.
Every time the ISIL religious nutters, rampaging through the Middle East, carry out one of their many sadistic be-headings, our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, splashes the details across front pages and on TV screens, condemnation rages against such a barbaric act, as it should. However, I couldn't find much coverage of the case of a man sentenced to be be-headed for tearing a Koran. The reason being, that particular case, was taking place in one of our "friendly" nations, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is allowed to carry out be-headings, public floggings, and stoning to death, with impunity, simply because it is a "friendly" nation.
Just the other day, in another "friendly" nation, a young man and his wife were dragged from their bicycle rickshaw and brutally assaulted by a group with machetes. The young man died on the way to hospital, his wife is seriously injured and has lost a finger. His crime, he was an atheist blogger in Bangladesh, another "friendly" nation. I'm waiting to see just how much coverage our babbling brook of bullshit will give this barbaric crime, committed by the faithful of one of the world's largest religions.
Across the globe we can put our finger on brutal and vicious killings, savage wars and community conflict, and at the same time, you will be putting your finger on the god loving killing the god loving. Day and daily, you will find the god loving killing those who have no god, all in the name of their particular "loving" god. Religion, insanity, and the curse of the masses.
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, atheism, Bangladesh, ISIL, Koran, religious violence, Saudi Arabia
Blood For Wealth.
I have always held that wars are an economic tool of capitalist governments. They can start them and prolong them, to suit their own economic ends. There is lots of money to be made in destruction and re-building, plus creating chaos in your rival's camp. Think of all the public money that flows into the arms industry during conflict. Every bullet, rocket, shell, missile, fired has to be replaced, every damaged piece of equipment has to be replaced, and it is all tax payers money pouring into the corporate bank accounts. Think how much easier it is to control the assets in a region if that region doesn't have a strong local government. Chaos allows the powerful to walk in and dictate what happens to that region's assets.
WWI was a brutal imperialist scramble for power and resources, a blood bath for markets and territory. WWII was a clash of empires as the British empire felt threatened by the resurgence of the German empire. All the blood that has flowed in the Middle East since then, has been for the control of its oil, none of it has been for the welfare and benefit of the people of that area.
In all these brutal capitalist tactics for power and wealth, other forces hedge their bets until they think they can see a winner, or feel their power and assets are threatened, then they throw in their hand with this side or that side. In this insane blood letting for power, your ally in this conflict could be your enemy in the next, loyalty depends on wealth and power.
Having said all that, I have always been puzzled how a band of vicious religious nutters, in this case, ISIL, can march through country after country, taking on the state armies of Syria, Iraq and the Kurds and win massive swaths of land. Even now, with the "coalition" forces bombing the shit out of them they still manage to hold and take territory. Remember our "air-strikes" managed to bring down the well armed Libyan state. Of course our babbling brook of bullshit, the mainstream media, will not shed any light on that, as all they do is pour out misinformation, illusions and propaganda, for their lords and masters.
However, if the following report has and validity, which I see no reason why it shouldn't, it does help explain the long life and continued success of that rat-bag of religious nutters that go by the name of ISIL.
This from Global Research:
Iraqi Army Downs Two British Planes Carrying Weapons for ISIL Terrorists
GR editor's Note
There are no reports in the Western mainstream media pertaining to this issue.
This report is based on statements emanating from the Iraq parliament, with photographic evidence. We have not been in a position to corroborate this report by FARS News.
Iraq's army has shot down two British planes as they were carrying weapons for the ISIL terrorists in Al-Anbar province, a senior lawmaker disclosed on Monday.
"The Iraqi Parliament's National Security and Defense Committee has access to the photos of both planes that are British and have crashed while they were carrying weapons for the ISIL," Head of the committee Hakem al-Zameli said, according to a Monday report of the Arabic-language information center of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq.
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Labels: anarchism, anarchy, imperialism, ISIL, Middle East, profits from war, war economy, WWI, WWII
Glasgow Council Plunders Public Spaces.
From Save The Steps campaign:
Another public space to become a private shopping mall.
To all our amazing supporters,
You will have probably heard, through social media and local news coverage, that Glasgow City Council voted in favour of demolishing the steps at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 11 votes - 4 votes.
This also means that the Donald Dewar statue will be moved further down Buchanan Street, just outside the Sainsburys on Cathedral Street / Bath Street.
Our team are inevitably gutted with the decision, with a demonstration of more than 100 people, over 2,000 individual objection letters and emails, 15,000 signatures (and rising) showing how unpopular their plans are for this valued public space.
The appalling attitude of the council is clear in this radio interview, where councillor Liz Cameron dismisses our huge petition as unimportant compared to the Council's long-term plans. You can also hear our fabulous campaigner Aileen McKay expressing the outrage we all feel at the decision the council have taken. Thanks to Clyde 1 for giving us the air-time to get our point across - the BBC didn't even bother to contact us!
We'd like to thank you for your ongoing support in signing the petition, the letters you sent to your local councillors and those who attended the demonstration on the 15th February. We could not have raised the awareness that we did or got as much media coverage.
However, this is NOT the end of our campaign as we wish to continue to raise awareness of the Council's plans and the privatisation of public spaces within Glasgow city centre.
Some folks, out-with of our team, have organised an "Occupy The Buchanan Street Steps" event, this Saturday 28th February at 12pm.
Details can be found on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/896701807057841
Following on from the protest on the 15th February, it'd be good if supporters could turn up with "Hands off our public space" styled banners, placards, flags etc. Be creative!
Demolition is not due for some time yet, so we still have an opportunity to show our opposition to the plans.
Please continue to sign and share the online petition where you can and tell your friends and family.
Thank you again and we look forward to seeing you on Saturday afternoon.
Save the Steps Team
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/save-the-steps
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, Buchanan steps, Glasgow council, public spaces, solidarity direct action
Greek Referendum.
Is Greece heading out of the Euro? I have always felt that the Syriza plan was doomed to fail, as it was asking the European financial Mafia to be compassionate and think of the people of Greece. That bunch of money junkies will not tolerate any form of "left" government in its patch. The so called "left of centre" yes, they will always play ball with the money thugs, but a government that puts the people before the markets? No way. The Syriza group may have a mandate from the people of Greece, but that means nothing to the low life forms that make up the Troika, (EU, European Union, ECB, European Central bank, IMF, International Mankind Fuckers), Theirs is a world of balance sheets and profit, and there is not a column on that balance sheet for "people". Syriza was the Oliver, asking the fatcats for, more please, not a strong bargaining position.
Up until very recently the thought of Greece leaving the Euro had not entered the consciousness of the people of Greece, however, having been booted in the teeth, and told there's plenty more where that came from, the "exit" is being discussed, with the thought in mind, who wants more of this?
The people of Greece are being told to look to the horizon, and see more of the same, unemployment, poverty, destroyed social services, increase in mental and physical health problems, substance abuse, suicides and homelessness. And they are asking WHY?
I believe that the next line of thought will be a referendum on the exit from the Euro, with a very strong possibility that it will be for a, get us to hell out of this shithole. They may fear the unknown, but they are now most certainly angry and sick of the known.
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, austerity, EU, eu referendum, financial mafia, Greece, Greek exit, SYRIZA, Troika
The Defence Of Public Spaces.
The privatisation of public spaces is an ongoing affair, in country after country. It matters not what particular party you vote into the cesspool of power, they all behave the same, public bad, private good. Of course this is not what the people want and there is a continual struggle to hold onto what public spaces we still have. In Glasgow we have seen the private encroach and gobble up, little by little our public spaces. Not so long ago, a slice of St Enoch Square was added to a shopping mall, before that a part of Pollok Park became a motorway, and the council's latest venture is to take away the Buchanan Steps, a popular meeting place, and turn it in to an addition to the Buchanan shopping mall, and so it goes on.
However it doesn't always go the way of the money addicts, and it swells the heart with pride when the private is shown the door and the public triumph.
On one of my visits to Athens in 2009, a story unfolded of the park in Athens that the council decide to turn into a car park, ripped up the trees with the intention of concreting the space, but the people decide otherwise, and proceeded to replant the area with trees. Thanks to the continuing effort and solidarity of the ordinary people, it is still, in 2015, a park and a meeting place for the public. We could all learn from the people involved.
From Contrainfo:
More photos from the park HERE.
On January 26th 2009, Athens Municipality crews on the orders of the then mayor N.Kaklamanis destroyed the park located on Kyprou Street, uprooting its perennial trees with a view to handing over the space to a private parking company.
Its cementing was prevented thanks to the immediate mobilisation and combative resistance of local residents and people in solidarity, who put in collective efforts to regenerate the park, planting 150 new trees and shrubs, and transformed it once again into an open public green space and a focal point of social struggle.
Six years after the park was destroyed, and despite the systematic machinations of the municipal authority and the state, we continue to resist in a collective, self-organised, anti-institutionalised and self-determined manner against its commercialisation, ghettoisation and antisocial use, and we keep defending its open, social character.
Nowadays, when the largest part of society suffers the consequences of an all-out attack by the state and the bosses, we continue to defend every focus of resistance against poverty, fear, exploitation, racism and repression, for a society of equality, solidarity and freedom.
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, anti-privatisation, Athens, defend public spaces, direct action, people power, solidarity
Creationist And Other Nutters.
We all know that religions can come up with some weird and wonderful beliefs and statements, but top of that crazy heap are probably the "creationists", who come up with the most bizarre and irrational statements, making it extremely difficult to grasp the true idiocy of their "philosophy". They can take science turn it on its head, make few miraculous miscalculations, add in a guess or two, stir with fantasy and wishful thinking, and proclaim the outcome as irrefutable truth.
With this in mind I really enjoyed this wee tongue-in-cheek article from Satire Wire:
PETERSBURG, KY (SatireWire.com) – Creationists using a deep-faith telescope said today they have discovered a galaxy formed at the very beginning of time, nearly 6,000 years ago.
The galaxy, which they named "Michael" after one of the earliest angels, is about 6,000 light years from Earth, but not more, "because light did not exist before that time," researchers explained.
A telescope (above) is an instrument that aids in the observation of remote objects by collecting electromagnetic radiation. A creationist telescope (below) is the exact same thing, but with the lens cap on.
The team's discovery was immediately condemned by the American Astronomical Society, which said "Michael" is actually the Andromeda galaxy, which formed 9 billion years ago. In response, Bertram Hill, lead theophysicist at the subbasement Creation Science Observatory in Kentucky, said, "No it isn't" and called the debate a tie.
Hill and his colleagues made their observations using a specially designed Deep Faith Creationist Telescope, which is a standard wide-field, Ritchey–Chrétien hyperbolic telescope, but with the lens cap on. From there, calculating the age of Michael, and the Universe itself, was simple, Hill said.
"We know this galaxy is about 6,000 years old because we know the Universe is 6,000 years old, and we know that because, contrary to what non-believers say, we've done the math," said Hill. "Specifically, we've taken the 'supposed' age of the Universe – 13 billion years – and multiplied it by .000046, which gives us, as we suspected, the true age of 6,000."
But why multiply the age of the Universe by .000046?
"Because that gives us 6,000," said Hill.
Using this same multiplier, Hill said creationists plan to further shake up the scientific community by announcing that dinosaurs died out 3,000 years ago, Jesus was born last month, and Pittsburgh was founded on Tuesday.
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Labels: anarchism, anarchy, anti-religion, creationists, new galaxies, Satire Wire, the universe
Net Neutrality, Is Almost There.
The fight for net neutrality is starting to look like a success story, not quite yet, but it could be in sight. All because of world wide solidarity and mobilisation. Together we can change the world, on many more fronts.
This from Fight for the Future:
The first thing I read this morning gave me chills.
The New York Times ran a front page story about how enemies of net neutrality are on the retreat, and that tomorrow, we could see the biggest open Internet victory of our lives. [1]
Bottom line: together, we are on the cusp of an absolutely unbelievably epic victory for net neutrality. Do you want to savor it? Watch this video we made!
We whipped up this fun little video to mark the "final" moments of the Internet Countdown, and to look back on how we got here, together. It's so mind blowing to think how all these online protests, real life camp-outs, calls, emails and epic stunts snowballed into what could be the biggest win of our lives. It could be even bigger than defeating SOPA. [2][3]
Keep an eye on the news tomorrow, and remember: activism works. When tons of people come together with a clear vision, nothing's impossible. Really! Getting to where we are right now was supposed to be impossible!!
Can't watch a video right now? Would you rather be scolding some politicians on the phone? Then click here to start making phone calls!
The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee just had a hearing today whose sole purpose was to kill net neutrality with partisan confusion. That's what we're up against now, and we need to smack it down hard if we want to defend any victory. Click here to call these committee members, and stay on the line for as long as you like; we'll keep connecting you with more of them… until you hang up or your phone runs out of batteries :)
Thanks for everything you do,
Holmes Wilson, Tiffiniy Cheng, Evan Greer, Vasjen Katro, Jeff Lyons, Laila Murad, and the whole Fight for the Future team.
1. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/technology/path-clears-for-net-neutrality-ahead-of-fcc-vote.html
2. http://www.forbes.com/sites/marvinammori/2015/02/25/ten-reasons-the-net-neutrality-victory-is-bigger-than-the-sopa-win/
3. http://www.wetmachine.com/tales-of-the-sausage-factory/the-fcc-is-gonna-give-me-an-open-internet-for-my-birthday-best-present-evar/
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Labels: anarchism, anarchy, Fight for the Future, mass protest, net neutrality, people power, solidarity
Why Apathy When You're Hungry?
I found this article by Michael Theodosiadis interesting and thought it worthy of publicising.
From Eagainst:
The question that emerges is why the passion for political and social life remains the exception rather than the rule? Why do people constantly withdraw in the private realm, allowing public matters to be managed by representatives, "experts" and technocrats? What makes people not fight for emancipation when their most fundamental and vital interests are threatened? Even worse they applaud and consent to authoritarian rules imposed on them. What motivates Wilhelm Reich (1983, p.53) to write that "what has to be explained is not the fact that the man who is hungry steals or the fact that the man who is exploited strikes, but why the majority or those who are hungry don't steal and why the majority of those who are hungry don't strike"? This leads to the following conclusion: the main issue is not to give the citizen consciousness of social responsibility – this is understood. The question is what inhibits the realization of such responsibility. What drives millions of people to consider insane leaders as the only ones able to solve their problems and overcome the socio-economic crisis?
The French thinker Etienne de la Boetie (1530-1563), one of the first that dealt with this issue, in his Discourse on Voluntary Servitude (1548) is unable to understand this phenomenon. He vividly and derisively describes how people allow themselves to be governed by kings and princes despite their inner desire to reject such subordination. He also mentions that human beings, choosing to live in authoritarian structures, are neither men – as freedom is the natural state of the species – nor animals, because even animals when their freedom is limited or when they are in captivity resist so strongly to the point of self-harm.
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, direct action, Eagainst, Michael Theodosiados, political apathy, revolutionary consciousness
Glasgow TTIP Meeting.
TTIP still rumbles on, wheeling and dealing behind closed doors. The corporate world's attempt at a final thrust to take control of the world, and bring an end to any shape, form or illusion of democracy. What is more our elected politicians are in there stitching us up, all in secret.
Global Justice Now is holding a meeting regarding TTIP in Glasgow this Friday, 27th. February.
On Friday 27 February, Global Justice Now campaigner Ed Lewis will be in Glasgow speaking at a public meeting about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Treaty (TTIP), the EU-US mega-trade deal that could hand unprecedented power to multinational businesses. You are very warmly invited.
Come along and find out more about how TTIP threatens hard-won regulations to protect the environment, food, workers' rights and our public services. Hear the latest on where the negotiations are up to, how the opposition is growing and what action we can take to stop TTIP.
The meeting is on at 7pm at Govanhill Baths Community Trust, 99 Calder Street, Glasgow G42 7RA.
TTIP will affect people in Scotland: from the NHS and other public services, to laws on fracking, local procurement, and the food we eat. Make your voice heard with others across Europe to stop this free trade deal. Please come along on Friday to find out more.
Global Justice Now (Scotland)
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, anti-TTIP, corporatism, glasgow, Global Justice Now, secret dealings, the nd of democracy
Immigrant Rights Are Civil Rights.
An urgent call for solidarity from Unity Centre Glasgow:
(Note: Template Letters at bottom of post)
Marking one year since Mohammed Alam was made destitute and began his stay in a Glasgow night shelter, the UK Home Office have decided to forcibly remove him against his will. Alam is being held in Dungavel detention centre, the only detention centre in Scotland and will be moved to one of the 12 other detention centres in England tomorrow in order to be close to Heathrow Airport to access his intended flight on THURSDAY 26th February via Jet Airways.
Alam has been in the UK for 6 years and despite being made destitute a year ago has managed to make a life here, most recently in Glasgow. He is an active member of the night shelter that accommodates him from 8am to 8pm every night and also volunteers for Bridging the Gap. Less than two weeks ago he was featured in an article in the Evening Times highlighting the role the night shelter plays in his life and situation presently in the UK. There is some speculation that this may have had something to do with the Home Office's sudden vindictive actions towards him. The article titled 'Inside the Unity Centre: back home in Bangladesh I was tortured…' can be accessed here http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/shelter-for-the-forgotten-197122n.117816482#disqus_thread
Alam was detained abruptly on the 16th of February at the Home Office Reporting Centre on Brand Street, Glasgow. He has been regularly signing at the Home Office Reporting Centre as this is a requirement of individuals who have claimed asylum. Penalties of not signing are high as well as constant threats made by the Home Office, however, in this case the penalty came by following the rules.
Alam's lawyer has put together a fresh claim for his case, however, it cannot be put in until a response is gained from legal aid. There is no reason to suggest Alam would not qualify for legal aid, however, this is presently the only barrier that would lead to the definite cancellation of his ticket in two days time.
Details of Alam's reason for claiming asylum in the UK cannot be disclosed because of the sensitive nature of his claim and fear of persecution and likely death if forcibly returned to Bangladesh. It is apparent, however, that he has no confidence whatsoever in the Judicial System in Bangladesh and its ability or likelihood of leading to his protection and safety. This is due to high levels of corruption within the police and judiciary.
We are calling on supporters and friends to contact Jet Airways to inform them of the situation facing Alam if removed via their services. Such action can and often does make a difference and in this instance will gain time needed for Alam's legal aid to be approved.
Please urgently contact Jet Airways through as many channels as you have access to, to ask them to halt the forced removal of Mohammed Alam, and allow him to remain in Glasgow, where he belongs.
It seems living in a night shelter, on the floor of a church with 15 other single men in Glasgow, night after night for a year is not enough to prove Alam's very real need for protection – so lets help gain him some more time to meet the unbelievably high levels of scrutiny the Home Office impose by taking collective action to STOP THIS FLIGHT and PREVENT THIS INHUMANE FORCED REMOVAL of a dear friend of Glasgow's.
Contact Jet Airways – Please quote flight numbers 9W121 and 9W272 on correspondence.
Phone: 0808 101 1199 (Toll Free/Freephone)
020 8735 9650 (Heathrow Office)
0208 735 9650 (London Office)
Email: guestrelations@jetairways.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jetairways
Twitter: @jetairways
Also contact UK Corporate Communications
Mr. Simon Quarendon,
Whitehall House,
41 Whitehall,
London – SW1A 2BY
Email: jetairways@keenecomms.com
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SOLIDARITY!
Unity!
Unity Centre Glasgow, 30 Ibrox Street, G51 1AQ
info@unitycentreglasgow.org
www.unitycentreglasgow.org
Practical support and solidarity to all asylum seekers and migrants in Scotland.
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, civil rights, immigrants rights, no borders, nobody is illegal, solidarity, Unity Centre Glasgow
Do Not Be Bullied.
An Important date for your diary, picket, Partick Job Centre Wednesday 25th. February, 2:30. Prove to the powers that be, that we will not be bullied, we will stand in solidarity with each other.
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO
BE ACCOMPANIED TO ALL
BENEFITS INTERVIEWS!
You have the right to be accompanied to interviews at the Jobcentre and all DWP offices – and that's official!
A top official writing on behalf of the Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus for the United Kingdom has stated:
"On the matter of accompanied interviews....Mr McGonigle and his predecessor Bill Wilson have written to Edinburgh Claimants about this and made clear the position for interviews conducted on Jobcentre plus premises. We accept that there will always be times when customers attending our premises feel the need to be accompanied by a friend or advice worker and we will always try to accommodate this where possible."
(Letter copied to Edinburgh Claimants from Matthew Nicholas, Employers and Stakeholders Director Jobcentre Plus, on behalf of the Chief Executive Darra Singh, letter dated 15 February 2010. Mr McGonigle and Mr Wilson are the current and previous Jobcentreplus local District Managers)
More evidence of this right was provided on 24 th February 2014 when, in response to a Freedom of Information request, the DWP wrote: "Claimants accessing DWP benefits and services can have someone to accompany them to act on their behalf....."
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/196795/response/486014/attach/html/3/Response%20634.pdf.html
By writing that the accompanier can act on the claimant's behalf this statement also makes it clear that the accompanier can speak in appointments.
NO NEED TO FACE THEM ALONE
Certainly if you have any interview you think might pose problems we advise you to take a friend or adviser with you. For example, if they are threatening benefits sanctions, trying to change your jobseekers agreement, or force you to go on schemes or apply for jobs you don't want, or if you are called in by the Counter Fraud team, you should NOT face them alone. If you have a benefits medical exam, you should be accompanied. Edinburgh Claimants and Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty accompany people to such interviews, and to interviews at City of Edinburgh Council, all the time. If anyone tries to stop your friend or adviser accompanying you, then tell them the Chief Executive of Jobcentre Plus says this is allowed, and show them the quotes in this leaflet. Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty have also won the right for claimants to be accompanied by a person of their choice to all A4e, Ingeus and JHP workfare provider appointments.
Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty
ecap@lists.riseup.net www.edinburghagainstpoverty.org.uk
Don't be bullied or intimidated – let's support each other and stand up for ourselves.
Partick Job Centre picket organised by Clydeside IWW clydeside@iww.org.uk and other activists in solidarity with Tony Cox arrested in Arbroath on 29th. January after police acted on a complaint by JobCentre Management when accompanying a jobseeker, who was facing unreasonable requests to comply with a Jobseekers Agreement. Today there is a Court picket in Forfar and pickets in Edinburgh etc.
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, IWW Clydeside, Jobseekers, Partick Job Centre, state intimidation, workfare
Today's Wild West.
While we here in Scotland. population 5.2 million, are lumbered with a police force that has carried out nine times more stop and searches than New York, population 8.4 million, or London, population 8.3 million, at least the victims are still alive. Take the police force in Pasco in Washington State, population 59,000, they have shot and killed four people in the last six months. This is more than the three years figures for police in the UK, population approximately 62 million. In the last year, they also managed to outstrip the police in Germany, population 80.6 million.
The video shows a shocking misuse of power, the man concerned, apparently he threw rocks at an officer, had obviously stopped running to face the officers, but hit the ground in a hail of bullets, just like a Wild West movie. America, land of the free.
Of course if our Scottish Police chief has his way there is nothing to say that we might not be competing with the little district of Pasco in Washington State.
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, German police, Pasco Washington, police violence, Scottish police, state killings, stop and search, UK police
Please Sir, Can I Have Some More?
I have always held the view that the EU would not tolerate any deviation from its financial masters' "austerity" plan. Since they don't really give a shit about the people of any particular country, they are quite prepared to see a people slide into total deprivation, as long as it protects their mountain of phoney money. People don't matter when you are dealing with balance sheets. For Greece to go to them to negotiate and talk about a humanitarian crisis, is simply to confuse the issue by talking a different language. All they would say to that is "what humanitarian crisis"?
It has never been a negotiation on equal terms, Greece is the Oliver in this macabre play, they are simply going to the fat cats and asking for more please, under the illusion that people matter in these affairs. If you play the game according to the rules laid down by your adversaries, you are onto a looser.
Where does this leave Greece? It leaves it still on a hiding to more austerity and deprivation. Time keeps rolling on, we have been treated to seven years of austerity, and more promised, nobody has said when it will all come good. Austerity is the new way of life, the longer it goes on, and they get away with it, the longer it will go on. Of course we are treated to phoney rhetoric of recovery is arriving at platform one SOON.
Accept it, the grand plan is for a low wage economy throughout Europe, creating a sweatshop to compete with the Eastern sweatshops. In doing so protecting the loot of the Western financial Mafia. Unless of course, we all wake up and say we don't need to take this shit from a bunch of useless parasites, we don't have to play the game to their rules. Just as they change the rules to suit themselves, then so should we. Their grand plans are not to our advantage, nor are they set in tablets of stone.
An analysis on the latest Greek situation from Lenin's Tomb.
The problem with Tsipras's speech goes further than this, however. Not only is it deluded. It recalibrates the government's language and goals in order to rationalise not just this thrashing but future routs. Having said that austerity and the Memorandum are now left behind by this deal, the government shifts the goalposts and terms of future negotiations.
And this is part of the reason why those who speak of 'buying time' are wrong. Time is not a simple quantity that only one side gains from. The EU ruling classes have also 'bought time' and they have the resources and are on the offensive, while Syriza has retreated. There are no grounds for thinking that Syriza's bargaining position will be better in four months time than it is now. It has already weakened its stance, while its political position, after four months of continued austerity, will probably be worse.
One can hardly pin most of the blame for this on Syriza. They are in a weak position, and it is doubtful that any government could have obtained better against an EU determined to humiliate Greece. Yet, the line of Tsipras and Varoufakis is simply untenable. Their commitment to trying to resolve this crisis within the terms of the euro must fail. They were simply wrong to think that they would have a single ally or interlocutor in the EU. The southern European governments are even more fanatical than Berlin on this question. Hollande, far from being a friendly face, told Syriza to shove it fairly early on: he made his decision on austerity some time ago.
Labels: anarchism, anarchy, austerity, Eoropean sweatshop, Greece crisis, Lenin's Tomb, low wage economy, SYRIZA
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Looking ahead to the 2022 Draft
In both a good and a bad way, this guy gives me major MPJ vibes
Capt. Factorial
trifolium contra tempestatem subrigere certum est
PBJ nickname is three levels better than MPJ, but the athleticism is really suspect. Could be injury-related, maybe he's just got YMCA hops. He's probably a first-rounder for his shooting alone. But if for health/athleticism issues he somehow slips to 37, we gotta pull the trigger.
Capt. Factorial said:
You may be mixing his shooting up with another player. He's like bottom of the barrel shooting wise. Mix that with his YMCA hops and I'm not even touching him in the 2nd round.
ESP47 said:
He shot poorly this season, in limited game action while injured. He is a pure shooter by high school reputation and you can see just how smooth his stroke is in that clip. He wasn't considered top-ten coming into the season because he was a poor athlete who *couldn't* shoot.
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bajaden
You and I usually agree on most things, but on this one, I can't agree. I watched this dude play, and he missed open shot after open shot. Yeah, his form looks perfect, but the ball for some reason doesn't go in. But I was reserving judgement until the combine. I wanted to see his measurements, and the results of all the physical testing. He came in as the worse athlete at the combine. He was last in almost every category. I'm a results guy, but I will bet on some upside. But my God, I have to have a reason to believe.
If I'm the Kings, I might take him with my 2nd pick in the 2nd round, and that's it. Sorry, I'm not a believer!
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dude was a riser on some boards so this is a little surprising
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More power to him. Get insurance, play yourself into a lotto pick, and enjoy your last year of undergrad. Those undergrad years are special.
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Good for him and for the long term future of UA if Terry and Koloko both go in the first, but I really was hoping he'd return to the Wildcats. Someone gave him a promise so I guess we'll see how that works out.
We've reached peak draft content starvation.
Likes: ESP47
Which can also be witnessed by us talking about Ham in half the threads here.
Shams doing Shaq a solid
The_Jamal
Yeah there's just no chance he makes it to that Hornets pick imo. He's going to be way too impressive in workouts.
midtowner
Crazy how much time, effort and money go into the draft, when:
Only 10 players are still with their original teams after being selected in 2017 NBA Draft:
3. Jayson Tatum
5. De'Aaron Fox
6. Jonathan Isaac
13. Donovan Mitchell
14. Bam Adebayo
19. John Collins
23. OG Anunoby
45. Dillon Brooks
49. Vlatko Cancar
51. Monte Morris – 8:25 PM
midtowner said:
For the most part, that list is also a list of which players were good picks, other than Cancar who didn't come over for two years and now is just a mediocre bench player. I'd say Jarrett Allen, Kyle Kuzma, Derrick White, and Josh Hart also outperformed their draft slot, and Lonzo Ball has proved to be a good NBA player even if he disappointed relative to being the #2 pick.
But it's also understandable why all of them were traded. Hart and Ball were part of the AD trade. And Kuzma was part of the Westbrook trade. Jarrett Allen was moved as part of the Harden trade and White was moved since the Spurs are doing a minor rebuild and probably wouldn't have paid to re-sign him.
What I get out of that list is how important it is to draft well because you can get either core players or trade pieces for established stars. That and the Lakers had a pretty good 2017 draft, even if they should've taken Tatum or Fox instead of Ball. . .
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Might not be as important for a team like the Lakers but is extremely important for Sacramento.
I could be dead wrong on Baldwin, and I hope for his sake I'am. But I wouldn't touch him with a ten foot pole. Nothing about him screams NBA player, other than he press clippings. One simple question I would ask. Based simply on his athleticism, and from what I saw when watching individual defensive plays by him, who would he be able to guard in the NBA? If your trying to build a team based on physicality, defense, and shooting, maybe he fits one of those scenario's. I say maybe because although he has this beautiful form on his shot, the ball doesn't go in. He would be a terrible fit on the Kings.
Yeah, I think that original post was a bit too simplistic. There are always individual circumstances around every player. We drafted Haliburton and then we traded Haliburton. Did he move on because we didn't like him? No! Quite the contrary, we didn't want to trade him, but it was the only way to acquire Sabonis. I'm sure that every player that has moved on to a different team has a story as to why, and all are different. I'm also sure that some of them weren't good enough. But it's not fair to throw an general umbrella over them.
I love Terry, and if he were to slip to the Kings in the 2nd rd, it would be the steal of the century. My gut tells me that the rich get richer and some playoff team picking between 25 and 30 will grab him.
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bajaden said:
Baja, did you happen to see the Robert Morris game? I admit that other than that game he didn't look so good, but in that one, he flashed it all. Beautiful form combined with couldn't miss shooting, had a lot of good stuff going on offense using his BBIQ to run the offense at the anchor point from the soft spot in the zone. I worry about his athleticism, and I really worry about his injury history, and in the second round, he's probably not a swing-for-the-fences guy at this point. But he's a guy you can hope to groom into a sharpshooter bench role, and as long as his medicals check out, I think that's a safe floor. In the second round, I can't argue with that. But no, I don't see star potential at this point. If you want your second rounder to be the next Jokic (hmm, let's ignore the athleticism parallel for the moment) then you probably shouldn't take a swing with PBJ. You want a bench role player on the cheap for 3-4 years and see what happens from there? That's more like it.
Yeah, I did see that game, and a lot of other games as well. But it falls into my theory about seeing one game, good or bad and making any sort of intelligent decision about that player. You may have just watched the worse game of his career, or you may have just watched the best game of his career. Based on his entire body of work, which wasn't as expansive as I would have liked, I don't know what to make of that game. Look, he may end up being the shooter we all thought he would be, but I don't see a way he's ever a good defender, and right now, I have no place for a bad defender on my team.
I can't think of another player that I've tried this hard to like, and he's failed me at every count, especially at the combine when showed as poorly as he did in all the drills. That was sort of my last hope for him. At least his body fat content wasn't horrible, but it wasn't great either. But I hope for his sake that I'm dead wrong about him. We will see!
Interesting article by Kevin Pelton of ESPN and his rankings based on a multitude of different statistics. I'm sure it will definitely surpirse you.
2022 NBA draft -- Ranking the top 30 prospects based on stats and scouting (espn.com)
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jiimbob
I'm getting the idea some team is going to be really fortunate when Dyson Daniels falls to them.
It likely won't be us and I dislike trading down, but if come draft day he's Monte's pick while getting an established asset in the trade process then i'm intrigued.
I've warmed up to Holmgren, still on the fence with Murray.
206Fan
Anyone else have any hot takes about these prospect?
Most will view this as a hot take, but I really believe in Johnny Davis. I think he's going to be a future All-Star and face of the new young guards. I was high on him during most of the season, until his 3pt shot went downhill after his injury. But I realized that I was too critical of his play… simply because I watched him too much. I think fatigue is a real thing in scouting. If I only watched 5 games of Mathurin compared 15 games of Johnny Davis, it just gives me more games to try to poke holes.
Davis' floor is projectable at the next level, and I wonder if this is what led to him getting picked at 5 vs. 10?
206Fan said:
I don't view it as a hot take. Just your opinion on the guy.
He could definitely be a guy who is going to be really annoying to face in a few years. Could be a multi level scorer with pesky defense. It's all going to depend on whether he has an NBA shot or not. He has a lot of translatable NBA skills. I would have valued some of the wings over him but I wouldn't have had a problem if the Kings took him if they were at the 10 slot.


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