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friends,</p>
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from the desk of <a
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<p
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May, a powerful struggle has
rocked Kanaky (New
Caledonia), an archipelago
located in the Pacific,
roughly 1,500 kilometres
east of Australia. The
island, one of five overseas
territories in the
Asia-Pacific ruled by
France, has been under
French colonial rule since
1853. The indigenous Kanak
people initiated this cycle
of protests after the French
government of Emmanuel
Macron extended voting
rights in provincial
elections to thousands of
French settlers in the
islands. The unrest led
Macron to suspend the new
rules while subjecting
islanders to severe
repression. In recent
months, the French
government has imposed a
state of emergency and
curfew on the islands and
deployed thousands of French
troops, which Macron <a
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will remain in New Caledonia
for ‘as long as necessary’.
Over a thousand protesters
have been arrested by French
authorities, including Kanak
independence activists such
as Christian Tein, the
leader of the Coordination
Cell for Field Actions (<i>Cellule
de coordination des
actions de terrain</i>, or
CCAT), some of them <a
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to France to face trial. The
<a
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against Tein and others,
such as for organised crime,
would be laughable if the
consequences were not so
serious.</p>
<p
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reason France has cracked
down so severely on the
protests in New Caledonia is
that the old imperial
country uses its colonies
not only to exploit its
resources (New Caledonia
holds the world’s fifth
largest nickel reserves),
but also to extend its
political reach across the
world – in this case, to
have a military footprint in
China’s vicinity. This story
is far from new: between
1966 and 1996, for instance,
France used islands in the
southern Pacific for nuclear
tests. One of these tests,
Operation Centaure (July
1974), <a
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all 110,000 residents on the
Mururoa atoll of French
Polynesia. The struggle of
the indigenous Kanak peoples
of New Caledonia is not only
about freedom from
colonialism, but also about
the terrible military
violence inflicted upon
these lands and waters by
the Global North. The
violence that ran from 1966
to 1996 mirrors the
disregard that the French
still feel for the
islanders, treating them as
nothing more than detritus,
as if they had been
shipwrecked on these lands.</p>
<p
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the backdrop of the current
unrest in New Caledonia is
the Global North’s <a
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militarisation</a> of the
Pacific, led by the United
States. Currently, 25,000
military personnel from 29
countries are conducting Rim
of the Pacific (RIMPAC), a
military exercise that runs
from Hawai’i to the edge of
the Asian mainland.
Tricontinental: Institute
for Social Research worked
with an array of
organisations – a number of
them from the Pacific and
Indian Oceans – to draft <a
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alert no. 18</a> on this
dangerous development. Their
names are listed below.</p>
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Are Making the Waters of the
Pacific Dangerous</h2>
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is RIMPAC?</h3>
<p
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US and its allies have held
Rim of the Pacific (<a
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exercises since 1971. The
initial partners of this
military project were
Australia, Canada, New
Zealand, the United Kingdom,
and the United States, which
are also the original
members of the Five Eyes
(now <a
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Eyes</a>) intelligence
network built to share
information and conduct
joint surveillance
exercises. They are also the
major Anglophone countries
of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organisation (NATO, set up
in 1949) and are the members
of the Australia-New
Zealand-US strategy treaty
ANZUS, signed in 1951.
RIMPAC has grown to be a
major biennial military
exercise that has drawn in a
number of countries with
various forms of allegiance
to the Global North
(Belgium, Brazil, Brunei,
Chile, Colombia, Ecuador,
France, Germany, India,
Indonesia, Israel, Italy,
Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the
Netherlands, Peru, the
Philippines, Republic of
Korea, Singapore, Sri Lanka,
Thailand, and Tonga).</p>
<p
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2024 <a
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on 28 June and runs through
2 August. It is being held
in Hawaiʻi, which is an
illegally occupied territory
of the United States. The
Hawai’ian independence
movement has a history of
resisting RIMPAC, which is
understood to be part of the
US occupation of sovereign
Hawai’ian land. The exercise
includes over 150 aircraft,
40 surface ships, three
submarines, 14 national land
forces, and other military
equipment from 29 countries,
though the bulk of the fleet
is from the United States.
The goal of the exercise is
‘interoperability’, which
effectively means
integrating the military
(largely naval) forces of
other countries with that of
the United States. The main
command and control for the
exercise is managed by the
US, which is the heart and
soul of RIMPAC.</p>
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Feu’u (Samoa), <i>Mata
Sogia</i>, 2009.</small></p>
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<h3
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is RIMPAC so dangerous?</h3>
<p
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documents and official
statements indicate that the
exercises allow these navies
to <a
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‘for a wide range of
potential operations across
the globe’. However, it is
clear from both US strategic
documents and the behaviour
of the US officials who run
RIMPAC that the centre of
focus is China. Strategic
documents also make it clear
that the US sees China as a
major threat, even as the
main threat, to US
domination and believes that
it must be contained.</p>
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containment has come through
the trade war against China,
but more pointedly through a
web of military manoeuvres
by the United States. This
includes establishing more
US military bases in
territories and countries
surrounding China; using US
and allied military vessels
to provoke China through
freedom of navigation
exercises; threatening to
position US short-range
nuclear missiles in
countries and territories
allied with the US,
including Taiwan; extending
the airfield in Darwin,
Australia, to position US
aircraft with nuclear
missiles; enhancing military
cooperation with US allies
in East Asia with language
that shows precisely that
the target is to intimidate
China; and holding RIMPAC
exercises, particularly over
the past few years. Though
China was invited to
participate in RIMPAC 2014
and RIMPAC 2016, when the
tension levels were not so
high, it has been disinvited
since RIMPAC 2018.</p>
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RIMPAC documents suggest
that the military exercise
is being conducted for
humanitarian purposes, this
is a Trojan Horse. This was
exemplified, for instance,
at RIMPAC 2000, when the
militaries conducted the
Strong Angel international
humanitarian response
training <a
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In 2013, the United States
and the Philippines
cooperated in providing
humanitarian assistance
after the devastating <a
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Haiyan</a>. Shortly after
that cooperation, the US and
the Philippines <a
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the Enhanced Defence
Cooperation Agreement
(2014), which allows the US
to access bases of the
Philippine military to
maintain its weapons depots
and troops. In other words,
the humanitarian operations
opened the door to deeper
military cooperation.</p>
<p
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is a live-fire military
exercise. The most
spectacular part of the
exercise is called Sinking
Exercise (SINKEX), a drill
that sinks decommissioned
warships off the coast of
Hawai’i. RIMPAC 2024’s
target ship will be the
decommissioned <a
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Tarawa</i></a>, a
40,000-tonne amphibious
assault vessel that was one
of the largest during its
service period. There is no
environmental impact survey
of the regular sinking of
these ships into waters
close to island nations, nor
is there any understanding
of the environmental impact
of hosting these vast
military exercises not only
in the Pacific but elsewhere
in the world.</p>
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is part of the New Cold War
against China that the US
imposes on the region. It is
designed to provoke
conflict. This makes RIMPAC
a very dangerous exercise.</p>
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Taratoa (Aotearoa), <i>Episode
0010 </i>from the
series Who Am I?
Episodes, 2004.</small></p>
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<h3
style="margin: 2em 0;display: block;padding: 0;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 20px;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold;line-height: 125%;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;">What
is Israel’s role in RIMPAC?</h3>
<p
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which is not a country with
a shoreline on the Pacific
Ocean, first participated in
RIMPAC 2018, and then again
in RIMPAC 2022 and RIMPAC
2024. Although Israel does
not have aircraft or ships
in the military exercise, it
is nonetheless participating
in its ‘interoperability’
component, which includes
establishing integrated
command and control as well
as collaborating in the
intelligence and logistical
part of the exercise. Israel
is participating in RIMPAC
2024 at the same time that
it is waging a genocide
against Palestinians in
Gaza. Though several of the
observer states in RIMPAC
2024 (such as Chile and
Colombia) have been
forthright in their
condemnation of the
genocide, they continue to
participate <i>alongside
Israel’s military</i> in
RIMPAC 2024. There has been
no public indication of
their hesitation about
Israel’s involvement in
these dangerous joint
military exercises.</p>
<p
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is a settler-colonial
country that continues its
murderous apartheid and
genocide against the
Palestinian people. Across
the Pacific, indigenous
communities from Aotearoa
(New Zealand) to Hawai’i
have led the protests
against RIMPAC over the
course of the past 50 years,
saying that these exercises
are held on stolen ground
and waters, that they
disregard the negative
impact on native communities
upon whose land and waters
live-fire exercises are held
(including areas where
atmospheric nuclear testing
was previously conducted),
and that they contribute to
the climate disaster that
lifts the waters and
threatens the existence of
the island communities.
Though Israel’s
participation is
unsurprising, the problem is
not merely its involvement
in RIMPAC, but the existence
of RIMPAC itself. Israel is
an apartheid state that is
conducting a genocide, and
RIMPAC is a colonial project
that threatens an
annihilationist war against
the peoples of the Pacific
and China.</p>
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Ako (Solomon Islands),
<i>Toto Isu</i>, 2015.</small></p>
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<blockquote
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<p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Te
Kuaka (Aotearoa)<br>
Red Ant (Australia)<br>
Workers Party of
Bangladesh (Bangladesh)<br>
Coordinadora por Palestina
(Chile)<br>
Judíxs Antisionistas
contra la Ocupación y el
Apartheid (Chile)<br>
Partido Comunes (Colombia)<br>
Congreso de los Pueblos
(Colombia)<br>
Coordinación Política y
Social, Marcha Patriótica
(Colombia)<br>
Partido Socialista de
Timor (Timor Leste)<br>
Hui Aloha ʻĀina (Hawai’i)<br>
Communist Party of India
(Marxist–Leninist)
Liberation (India)<br>
Federasi Serikat Buruh
Demokratik Kerakyatan
(Indonesia)<br>
Federasi Serikat Buruh
Militan (Indonesia)<br>
Federasi Serikat Buruh
Perkebunan Patriotik
(Indonesia)<br>
Pusat Perjuangan Mahasiswa
untuk Pembebasan Nasional
(Indonesia)<br>
Solidaritas.net
(Indonesia)<br>
Gegar Amerika (Malaysia)<br>
Parti Sosialis Malaysia
(Malaysia)<br>
No Cold War<br>
Awami Workers Party
(Pakistan)<br>
Haqooq-e-Khalq Party
(Pakistan)<br>
Mazdoor Kissan Party
(Pakistan)<br>
Partido Manggagawa
(Philippines)<br>
Partido Sosyalista ng
Pilipinas (Philippines)<br>
The International Strategy
Center (Republic of Korea)<br>
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna
(Sri Lanka)<br>
Tricontinental: Institute
for Social Research<br>
Communist Party of Nepal
(Unified Socialist)<br>
CODEPINK: Women for Peace
(United States)<br>
Nodutdol (United States)<br>
Party for Socialism and
Liberation (United States)</p>
</blockquote>
<p
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the political protests began
in New Caledonia in May, I
hastened to find a book of
poems by Kanak independence
leader Déwé Gorodé
(1949–2022) called <i>Under
the Ashes of the Conch
Shells </i>(<i>Sous les
cendres des conques</i>,
1974). In this book, written
the same year that Gorodé
joined the Marxist political
group Red Scarves (<i>Foulards
rouges</i>), she wrote the
poem ‘Forbidden Zone’ (<i>Zone
interdite</i>), which
concludes:</p>
<blockquote
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<p
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Vahitahi Nukutavake<br>
Pinaki Tematangi Vanavana<br>
Tureia Maria Marutea<br>
Mangareva MORUROA
FANGATAUFA<br>
Forbidden zone<br>
somewhere in<br>
so-called ‘French’
Polynesia.</p>
</blockquote>
<p
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are the names of islands
that had already been
impacted by the French
nuclear bomb tests. There
are no punctuation marks
between the names, which
indicates two things: first,
that the end of an island or
a country does not mark the
end of nuclear
contamination, and second,
that the waters that lap
against the islands do not
divide the people who live
across vast stretches of
ocean, but unite them
against imperialism. This
impulse drove Gorodé to
found Group 1878 (named for
the Kanak rebellion of that
year) and then the Kanak
Liberation Party (<i>Parti
de libération kanak</i>,
or PALIKA) in 1976, which
evolved out of Group 1878.
The authorities imprisoned
Gorodé repeatedly from 1974
to 1977 for her leadership
in PALIKA’s struggle for
independence from France.</p>
<p
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her time in prison, Gorodé
built the Group of Exploited
Kanak Women in Struggle (<i>Groupe
de femmes Kanak exploitées
en lutte</i>) with Susanna
Ounei. When these two women
left prison, they helped
found the Kanak National
Liberation and Socialist
Front (<i>Front de
Libération Nationale Kanak
et Socialiste</i>) in
1984. Through concerted
struggle, Gorodé was elected
the vice president of New
Caledonia in 2001.</p>
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Foucaud (New
Caledonia), <i>MAOW!</i>
(2023).</small></p>
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<p
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1985, thirteen countries of
the south Pacific signed the
<a
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of Rarotonga</a>, which
established a nuclear-free
zone from the east coast of
Australia to the west coast
of South America. As French
colonies, neither New
Caledonia nor French
Polynesia signed it, but
others did, including the
Solomon Islands and Kūki
‘Airani (Cook Islands).
Gorodé is now dead, and US
nuclear weapons are <a
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to enter northern Australia
in violation of the treaty.
But the struggle does not
die away.</p>
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are still blocked. Hearts
are still opened.</p>
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