We have received this statement from the Socialist Party of Malaysia. They condemn the coup and demand that the government of Honduras get reinstated.
No To Coup in Honduras!
Restore Demoracy! Reinstate the Democratically Elected President!
30 June 2009
Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) strongly condemns the coup d’etat
organised by military and ringht-wing political elite in Honduras on 28
June 2009, which ousted the democratically eletected President Manuel
Zelaya.
The coup took place just hours before the people of Honduras go out to
vote on a consultative referendum concerning whether to rewrite the
constitution. The current Honduran Constitutionm which was written in
1982 during the height of the US administration’s dirty war in Central
America, was designed to ensure the ruling elite who have closed ties
with the imperialist US to consolidate their powers with little
interference from the ordinary people.
The consultative referendum proposed by President Manuel Zelaya is
merely an opinion poll for the Hondurans to determine whether they are
prepared to enter into a democratic process to modify their
constitution. The referendum though is a not-binding vote, has been
viewed by many unions and peasant groups as a necessary precursor to
economic reforms favoring Honduras's poor majority. Yet, the right-wing
political elites are threatened by it and used every mean to stop the
people of Honduras to determine their future by themselves.
President Manuel Zelaya, elected in 2005, has increasingly come under
attack by the right-wing forces in Honduras for his growing
relationship with the ALBA countries. The coup is clearly a corwadice
act by the right-wing political elite and US-backed economic interests
which in fear of losing their grip on this Central American country
when it move closer with countries which are now undergoing
revolutionary process like Venezuela.
PSM calls for:
1) Restore democracy in Honduras
2) Immediately reinstate the democratically elected President Zelaya
3) People of Honduras have their right to determine whether to re-write
the out-dated imperialist influenced consitution in order to
restructure its society for the benefit of ordinary vast majority.
No to coup! Power to the People!
Released by
Choo Chon Kai
International Bureau
Socialist Party of Malaysia / Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)
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