Partito Umanista Internazionale

Quando gli umanisti osservano i processi sociali, politici ed economici in tutto il mondo e partecipano ad essi, non possono fare altro che riflettere sull'attualità, in questo momento storico, del Documento del Movimento Umanista, scritto da Silo nel 1993[^1] . Dalla sua lettura si può comprendere fino a che punto la direzione della storia abbia confermato le tendenze lì spiegate e fino a che punto oggi, più che mai, sia necessaria l'unione di tutti gli umanisti del mondo, affinché le più profonde aspirazioni umane si possano trasformare in realtà. Come partito politico ispirato a questa corrente dell'Umanesimo Universalista, in questo momento storico riteniamo necessario analizzare la situazione attuale, per arrivare a delle proposte di azione nel contesto mondiale presente.

In this interview with Guillermo Sullings, he explains how a lack of income distribution got us into this economic mess we are in and how a radical overhaul of the economic system is required, hand in hand with a change in the values of society. "The problem is that the current capitalist system no longer works."

Guillermo Alejandro Sullings is an Argentine economist and author of the book [Inglese] Beyond Capitalism, Mixed Economics; and current General Secretary of the International Humanist Party

The interview was made by Olivier Turquet from Pressenza August 11, 2011.

Humanists of the world reject international terrorism whether it be political or religious in nature or of any other kind and we repudiate all crimes committed in any part of the world. This is a line of conduct and a position maintained in time and impossible for us to abandon without putting our identity and our doctrine of Humanism and Nonviolence in jeopardy.

The death of Osama bin Laden—like any other individual—is not going to change the danger to world peace that comes from groups of fanatics but it reminds us of the international relevance of the issue and the need to achieve world peace and the integration of all cultures as an effective means to overcome the apparent causes of danger.

Di frontre agli attacchi militari verso la Libia, che sono cominciati oggi da parte di alcuni paesi europei insieme agli USA, il Partito Umanista Internazionale manifesta un totale rifiuto all’uso della violenza ed esorta la comunità internazionale a lavorare urgentemente per un’uscita pacifica dalla guerra civile in quel paese.

On March 12 in Portugal, the largest mobilization since the Revolution of 1974 happened, involving 300,000 people in 11 cities. The call was initiated through Facebook by four young people, outraged by the poor working conditions.

Shortly after the fall of their respective dictatorships in Tunisia and Egypt, we are witnessing a strong questioning of the Gaddafi regime in Libya after 42 years in power; a man who, despite bloodily repressing his people, is unable to prevent the advance of the rebels who are being joined by increasing numbers of military personnel who refuse to repress.

Gaddafi, who rose to power in 1969, started out identified with the pan-Arab idealism of Nasser and was defined as a “socialist revolutionary”, a friend of the Kremlin and an enemy of the USA.

On the 14th of January the Tunisian dictator Ben Ali was deposed after 20 years in power. Even if the detonator for the popular rebellion was the self-immolation of a humble street vendor mistreated by the police, over many years the Tunisian people had to bear injustice of all kinds, alarming levels of unemployment and poverty and even the persecution of certain Islamic practices.

The International Humanist Party rejects the intent of putsch that is being carried out in Ecuador, using as a pretext labour demands of police officers who took over barracks as a way of protest.

This intent to overthrow President Rafael Correa, is not just one more step among the pressures exerted by the right wing in that country, but ads up to the coup intents suffered by other governments in the region which dared to confront the economic powers that be.

The decease occurred on 16th at 23h05 in Mendoza Argentina

The International Coordinating Team of the Humanist Party regrets to inform the decease of the philosopher Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos (Silo), founder of “Universalist Humanism” or “New Humanism”, school of thought in which numerous institutions were originated: The Community for Human Development, the Humanist Party, the Centre of Cultures (now called Convergence of Cultures), the World Centre of Humanist Studies, World Without Wars and violence and multiple fronts of action.

The International Humanist Party carried out a day of international solidarity with the Mapuche political prisoners in hunger strike in Chile, condemning the violations that the State of Chile has carried out against the Mapuche and demanding the current government the immediate release of all the Mapuche political prisoners and the abolition of the illegitimate antiterrorist law.

The diagnosis
It is already a recurrent topic that of the regressive distribution of the wealth in the world as the main source of economic violence. A monstrous inequity generated by the increasing appropriation of the income by the capital, by the exploitation of the wage-earners, and mainly for the progressive exclusion of thousands of millions of people from the labour market.

But not because the topic is recurrent and very well known we will obviate to mention some figures that allow us to give forcefulness to the diagnosis, and at the same time to derive in the true causes and to discard false solutions.