By International Action Center and Korea Truth CommissionCALL TO ACTION BY INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER AND KOREA TRUTH COMMISSION People`s Investigation of U.S. War Crimes Against Korea Grows International Grass Roots Groups Organize for June 23rd, 2001, NYC War Crimes Tribunal DOES YOUR GROUP WANT TO BE LISTED AS AN ENDORSER? 14 Dec 2000 Since September of 1999, evidence of 160 instances of US led military attacks on Korean non-combatants during the Korean war have surfaced. Hundreds of thousands of children, women, and aged people are believed to have been massacred as a result of orders from U.S. military brass. Because of the right wing atmosphere whipped up during the McCarthy era, an anti-war response in the United States never came about, and these horrific crimes never reached … [read more]

Urgent communiquà© by the Labour Party of PakistanDear comrades,Five LPP comrades and some persons from other parties have been released from jail. They were arrested on 23 March` when they were in a rally for the restoration of democracy. But Farooq Tariq is still in jail. Punjab Advocate General deliberately did not present the FIR(first information report) in Lahore High Court. Advocate General said in court that he has no information about the FIR, which is totally false. It is impossible that administration is unable to get the copy of FIR in time. It shows that government is using delaying tactics. On that false report Court postpone the hearing on 27 March. Government banned to meet the arrested persons. Still no one is able to meet Farooq T.LPP will go for press conference on … [read more]

Jakarta, 7-10 June, 2001Asia-Pacific People`s Solidarity Conference - "Fighting Neo-Liberalism in the Asia-Pacific"Come to Jakarta in June 2001!Join the struggle to globalise resistance to the neo-liberal offensive!http://www.geocities.com/increase_jakarta/english_background.htmThe conference will be held between June 7-10, 2001 and will be organised by the Indonesian Centre for Reform and Social Emancipation (INCREASE). The conference will be held in the city of Jakarta. From within Indonesia, the conference will be supported by the affiliates of INCREASE, namely, the National Student League for Democracy (Liga Nasional Mahasiswa untuk Demokrasi, LNMD), the National Peasant Union (Serikat Tani Nasional, STN), the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggle (Front Nasional Perjuangan … [read more]

Immediate fulfilment of the demands of the Peruvian political prisoners!On the 13th of March the political prisoners of the Peruvian revolutionary organisation MRTA (Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru) launched a rebellion occupying the high security prison of Yanamayo.Today, the 22nd of March the protest action was ended since the authorities had promised to transmit the prisoners´ demands to the central government.The political prisoners demand their immediate transportation into another prison and the definite closure of the extermination prisons of Yanamayo and Chayapallca. These high security prisons have been built by the Fujimori dictatorship being directed against the Peruvian revolutionary movement. They are located at an altitude of more then 4,000 meters in the Peruvian … [read more]

Athens, Greece, March 15-19, 2001Political Resolution of the International Conference On the Balkans and the Middle East STOP THE PULVERIZATION OF THE BALKANS! TEN YEARS ARE ENOUGH! WAR AGAINST THE WAR OF IMPERIALISTS!VICTORY TO INTIFADA!FOR SOCIALIST FEDERATIONS IN THE BALKANS AND THE MIDDLE EAST!1. The Balkans and the Middle East are again the focus of all the explosive contradictions of world Capitalism.Two years after NATO´s war of aggression on Kosovo and a few months after the demise of Milosevic, South Serbia and Macedonia are in flames; a new series of wars of extermination threaten to pulverize not only the remnants of former Yugoslavia but all the Balkan countries as well.In the Middle East, the heroic Intifada of the Palestinian people faces the most reactionary Zionist … [read more]

Communiquà© by the Balkan Socialist Center "Christian Rakovsky" Communiquà© on the International Seminar and Conference on the Balkans and the Middle East, Athens March 15-19, 2001The Balkan Socialist Center "Christian Rakovsky" held its Second International Conference in Athens. This time the agenda was extended to explore the explosive developments both in the Balkans and the Middle East. A two days International Seminar on March the 15th and 16th, 2001 preceded the Conference that took place on the weekend of March the 17th and 18th. On Monday March 19th a Public Meeting in the Polytechnic University of Athens presented the political results of the four days deliberations. The meetings in public were followed by two hundred people.Delegations from twelve countries participated … [read more]

By Michel CollonWhat is left of the explanations of NATO ?A sinister repetition? After the Albanian separatists of the KLA have attacked the villages of the Presevo valley in Serbia, after they have killed 11 Serbian civilians of Kosovo by throwing a bomb in a bus, they are waging now war in neighbouring Macedonia. And again refugees are on the roads. Is there a new escalation in the Balkans? In fact, these events allow to better understand what happened in 1999. In this complex situation (because everything is done to disorientate the public opinion), let us answer clearly to the main questions.Michel Collon1. Is Macedonia a strategic region ?Yes, as we have explained in our book Monopoly by citing the general Jackson, commander of the NATO troops: "We will certainly stay here for a long … [read more]

by Paddy Colligan (International Action Center)Campaign to ban weapons,Soldiers, doctors testify on effects of DUPaddy ColliganBrussels, BelgiumPeople from a dozen countries attending a March 1-2 conference here grappled with how to organize cooperatively to stop the Pentagon and NATO from using depleted-uranium weapons. The Belgium-based Coalition for the Abolition of Depleted Uranium brought together victims of depleted uranium, anti-war activists and researchers for two days of working meetings and a public presentation to 500 people at the Free University of Brussels.Participants agreed to continue working together to stop DU use. Western Europe`s corporate media have publicized the possibility of danger from DU over the last few months as alarming numbers of young, previously healthy … [read more]

By Power of Working Class (PWC) - KoreaFrom the struggle against layoffs to the struggle for the Kim DJ regime´s resignationMarch 19, 2001Dear comrades and friends,The Power of the Working Class would like to express the warmest thanks for your recent solidarity message to the Daewoo struggle. The PWC has been an integral part of this fight, having been a key driving force behind the Joint Struggle Committee (a coalition of 25 organisations, including the Daewoo union, metalworkers federation and the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions), the organising of actions on the ground, and building solidarity with the dismissed workers.The Daewoo struggle has been an important part of the ongoing fight against the Kim Dae-jung regime´s rolling neoliberal offensive against working people. The … [read more]

by IKM (Committee of Struggle against Torture Through Isolation)"Here they cannot drown our voices either. With the slogans we shout in our cells, we overcome all walls and distance. We have contrived to break down the `separation`, so to speak... It is so beautiful to be part of this splendid resistance and to experience this. I am very happy and this is such an excellent thing." These are the words of the Death Faster Ahmet Özdemir, who has been on the Death Fast for 150 days.The fascist state in Turkey wanted to make the revolutionary prisoners in Turkey surrender.The state stormed the prisons on December 19-22 in the cruellest fashion and massacred prisoners. Four women were burned alive, hundreds wounded and a total of 28 prisoners killed. Inconceivable torture methods were used but … [read more]

By Casimir Malanda, 9 February 2001Joseph Kabila faces terrible dangers and unforeseen opportunities I`ve lived in Kinshasa the last six months of Kabila. The murder of the President was hanging in the air, so to speak. In view of the anarchy installed at the state, in view of the incompetence and carelessness reigning in the close circles around Mzee, it had to arrive sooner or later. Kabila was condemned by history to fall as a martyr, exactly like Lumumba. The outcome of these two men is so alike that it becomes troublesome. Both men were standing almost alone in their struggle to awaken and mobilise the Congolese people. But the tragedy seemed inevitable since between these two heroes and the people there was an empty gap. And the population was due to assist passively at the slow … [read more]

Call for Support by the Indonesian Institute for the Study of 1965/1966 MassacreSupport our Works: The death toll of the massacre 1965/1966The death toll of the massacre 1965/1966Background General Soeharto`s seize of the Indonesian President Soekarno`s power in 1965 was preceded by the so-called "September 30 Movement" and soon followed by a large-scale brutal massacre of Indonesian leftists. It has been impossible to establish realistically the death-toll resulting from the 1965-1966 massacres, as Soeharto`s military regime has firmly discourage any such efforts. A kind of state terror together with his military and hangmen was exercised to silence public opinion and independent research. The following figures speak for them selves: Encyclopaedia "Britannica" mentions the victims … [read more]

By the Balkan Socialist Center "Christian Rakofsky" Following we publish extracts from the preparatory committee, issued in February 2000:"Down with Imperialism!Victory to Intifada!Socialist federation in Balkans and Middle East!..The election of the butcher Sharon and the formation of a government of national unity highlight the start of a crisis that changes the political situation in the area and internationally...The strategy of USA imperialism based on Oslo agreements has doomed to fail...The peace process in Middle East is proved to be a process of transforming the occupied territories into Bantustans, establishing an Apartheid regime under the control of the Zionist state...The state, the ideological and political structures of Zionism are in deep decay...The bankruptcy of the Arab … [read more]

By Barry Lituchy and Jim YarkerThe Anti-imperialist Camp receives and publishes:We, the undersigned, wish to register our disgust with and opposition to the planned trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic by the current Serbian authorities at the request of the United States and its NATO partners.While NATO`s criminal aggression against the people of Yugoslavia goes unpunished, and reparations go unpaid, we are witnessing the repulsive spectacle of DOS ministers and officials (the new regime in Belgrade) serving as judicial handmaidens to NATO`s criminal leaders and their illegal puppet court, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at The Hague.We charge the ICTY and the American government with falsifying war crimes charges against President … [read more]

Italy, 28.07 - 05.08.2001Total number of supporters: 91AfricaAfrican Anti Zionist FrontAlwihda - National Front, TschadFLAM – Force de Libà©ration Africaine de Mauritanie (African Liberation Force of Mauritania)Liberian Unity Front, LiberiaMovement for Change, GuineaPanafrican Initiative Patrice Lumumba/AIFOpà©ration 1234 (Brussels)Partisans de la Rà©sistance en Rà©publique Dà©mocratique du Congo - Partisans of Resistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo, HollandPDL - Peoples Democratic League, Sierra LeoneSaddam Hussein Foundation for AfricaYHSDN - Youth and Human Settlements Development Network, SenegalAsiaALO - Afghanistan Liberation OrganisationAnti-imperialist Forum NepalBAYAN International (Philippines)CMKP - Communist Workers-Peasants Party, PakistanLPP - Labour … [read more]