MarketNeutral
8th April 2010, 10:00 AM
The government has fallen! According to reports this morning President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who opened fire on his own people, has fled. Bakiyev, the hero of the "so-called" Tulip Revolution in 2005, was forced to flee the capital ignominiously after his house was ransacked by angry protesters. The government has been dissolved and opposition forces have begun to assume power.
The Kyrgyzstan Health Ministry claimed 40 people were killed and a further 400 injured during this bloody revolution. But unconfirmed reports put the fatality figure at 100. The movement, which had a purely spontaneous mass character, threw up embryonic soviets (kurultai). Yesterday power was lying in the streets waiting to be picked up.
With a conscious leadership, this heroic movement of the masses could have led directly to a workers’ and peasants’ government that would have sent shock waves through all Central Asia and beyond. Unfortunately, in the absence of a Marxist party, the leadership has fallen into the hands of the Social Democrats, who lack any alternative to the policies of capitalism.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1264307/Kyrgyzstan-President-Kurmanbek-Bakiyev-flees-country-bloody-revolution.html#ixzz0kUsWlrFD
Nevertheless, the events in Kyrgyzstan show the tremendous revolutionary potential of the masses. They show how unstable are the weak and corrupt bourgeois regimes that have replaced the former Republics of the Soviet Union. These regimes offer nothing to the people except misery, hunger, wars and oppression. They will be swept away one after another in the stormy period that is opening up. What we just saw in backward Kyrgyzstan is a mirror image of what the future holds for Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the Ukraine, the Caucasus – and Russia itself.
The Kyrgyzstan Health Ministry claimed 40 people were killed and a further 400 injured during this bloody revolution. But unconfirmed reports put the fatality figure at 100. The movement, which had a purely spontaneous mass character, threw up embryonic soviets (kurultai). Yesterday power was lying in the streets waiting to be picked up.
With a conscious leadership, this heroic movement of the masses could have led directly to a workers’ and peasants’ government that would have sent shock waves through all Central Asia and beyond. Unfortunately, in the absence of a Marxist party, the leadership has fallen into the hands of the Social Democrats, who lack any alternative to the policies of capitalism.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1264307/Kyrgyzstan-President-Kurmanbek-Bakiyev-flees-country-bloody-revolution.html#ixzz0kUsWlrFD
Nevertheless, the events in Kyrgyzstan show the tremendous revolutionary potential of the masses. They show how unstable are the weak and corrupt bourgeois regimes that have replaced the former Republics of the Soviet Union. These regimes offer nothing to the people except misery, hunger, wars and oppression. They will be swept away one after another in the stormy period that is opening up. What we just saw in backward Kyrgyzstan is a mirror image of what the future holds for Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the Ukraine, the Caucasus – and Russia itself.