By Panos Tsonpoulos, AthensAround 3500 Greek demonstrators took part at the anti G-8 demonstrations in Genoa. It is interesting, according to the statements of the organizers, that over 80% of the attendants, were people who did not belong to any political group and most of them were inactive till now. Four different committees were set up reflecting different political attitudes: one pro-K.K.E., the second (Anticapitalist Antiimperialist committee against G8) composed of New Left Current, workers Revolutionary Party, Revolutionary Communist Party of Greece, Rizgari (around 125 demonstrators), the third (Committee for the International Demonstration in Genoa, over 1000 demonstrators) composed of the Coalition of the Left, the Space for the Dialogue and the common action for the Left, the … [read more]

Resolution of the Anti-imperialist Camp, Assisi 2001Today, in the name of globalisation the imperialist forces have opened a total war against the worker´s class and the oppressed people of the world. With their decisions which they hide from the people a handful of exploiters decide on the fate of milliars of people. Without caring about any rules it tries to bend down the countries and people´s movements whom they see as dangerous. Today imperialism can apply embargos against any country it wants. To avoid a possible revolution troups are sent and they try to make interventions, throw bombs on peoples who want to protect their independence, and continue their politics of plunder and destruction through institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank.As ist is the case everywhere, … [read more]

Resolution of the Anti-imperialist Camp, Assisi 2001Those are the demands of the political organisations and social movements signed below:1) The liberation of all revolutionary prisoners in the world.2) The recognition of the political status of the revolutionary prisoners in the world; and end of the criminalisation against them.3) An end to the annihilation politics (as the F-type isolation cells in turkey, Stammheim in Germany, mistreatment and separation) by different imperialist states and institutions like NATO or the European Union and their collaborating fascist regimes. Furthermore we demand the introduction of a process of dialogue with the different representatives of the collectives of the prisoners.4) An immediate halt to the systematical application of torture against the … [read more]

Richard Robison, professor of Asian and international politics at Murdoch UniversityIn just 21 months the euphoria of Wahid`s election to the presidency has become the humiliation of his impeachment by Indonesia`s parliament. It is undeniable that Wahid brought much of this on himself. Ironically, this staunch democrat proved unable to understand what politics means in a democratic system, stubbornly refusing to build alliances and broker deals with a volatile parliament. But are the dramatic events of recent days all about idiosyncratic behaviour and political naivety or is something much deeper taking place in Indonesia? Does the Megawati presidency simply signal the injection of some commonsense into democratic government? Or are we witnessing nothing less than the re-emergence of … [read more]

Resolution of the Anti-imperialist Camp, Assisi 2001Gathering in Assisi we learnt about the symbolic revolutionary action of comrade Alberto Hà­jar during the presentation of a book where the Major Gary Prado was present. He is the one responsible for the murder of the immortal commander Ernesto Che Guevara in Bolivia. We firmly unite behind this elementary revolutionary attitude and we demand the an immediate halt to the persecution against the comrade.Hasta la victoria siempre!Assisi, August 4, 20011. ALO, Afghanistan Liberation Organisation2. BAYAN International, New Patriotic Alliance of the Philippines, Europe3. Block for People´s Power, Mexico4. Communitarism and Independence, Sardinia5. Confederation of Sard Communists6. D17, Direction 17, Italy7. DHKC, Revolutionary People´s … [read more]

Final resolution of the Anti-imperialist Camp Assisi, 2001The struggle against globalisation must become a popular and anti-imperialist one – a global Intifada is necessaryThe Anti-imperialist Camp schedules international actionsto support the Palestinian and Colombian peoples in their just struggle against imperialismAt Assisi, representatives of popular anti-imperialist forces have been meeting from July 28 to August 4 with the support of more than a hundred organisations from all around the world. This genuine counter-summit of the oppressed and exploited peoples together with anti-imperialists of the West took place only one week after the massive anti-globalisation mobilisation against the G8 in Genoa. As an integral part of the movement, we, the anti-imperialist forces of the … [read more]

Co-ordinationgroup for support the People`s Resistance in IndonesiaHereby, we support warmly the Anti imperialist camps initiative with the International meeting that take place at Assisi in Italy, July 28 to August 5, 2001. CSVI/GPDI belief that this International meeting will be success because is very importance to strengthen of International Unity with the anti-imperialist forces from the oppressed and exploited peoples.The Globalisation of Capitalist - Imperialist regime has to show the real mask of his military aggression to use violence in these case events of Genoa. That was to legitimate of all human Rights violations on the civil society. Especially for us that for Indonesian people are getting more and more conscious of abuses of exploitation of Imperialist collaboration that … [read more]

Address of the RPC Russia to the Anti-imperialist CampThe revolutionary Party of Communists (RPC) welcomes your Camp and supports its main idea of revolutionary struggle against the contemporary imperialism in the epoch of globalisation of capital, which destroys today not only rights, freedoms and welfare of millions of working people in both imperialist and developing countries, but also the basis of the very life on Earth. We quite agree, that the revolt against this world of injustice, growing inequality and terrifying absurd is not only fair, but necessary. The proof of it we see in the fact, that in Russia as well as in many other parts of the World more and more people are raising in arms (not only military, but also political, scientific and cultural arms of critique), … [read more]

Report of the DHKC on the Summer Camp 2001The main issue for the delegation of the Revolutionary People`s Front (DHKC) from Turkey at the Antiimperialist Camp has been the heroic struggle of the political prisoners in Turkish prisons. On October 20, 2000 they started their death fast to protest against their transfer to the new F-type prisons, which actually mean solitary confinement. On Dec 19, the police stormed three prisons and within the next three days tortured and murdered prisoners most brutally. 28 prisoners lost their lives in the murderous attack cynically called "Operation `Back to Life`". The police used hundreds of teargas and nerve gas grenades as well as innumerable fire bombs and guns. Their words were: "We came to kill you". The plan behind this action was to end the … [read more]

The Russian Maoist Party speaks at the campThe discussion with the representative of the Russian Maoist Party lead to a controversy on the nature of the Russian state today and its role in the New World Order. While members of the audience held the position that Russia, despite its undemocratic and bourgeois regime, has proven that it can oppose the Western domination in some way, this was more or less denied by the speaker although according to his analysis Putin can develop in this way.He gave also information on the situation of the political prisoners in Russia and the movement for bourgeois democratic rights which the RPM … [read more]

Report on the plenary session with Senideak and the Confederation of Sardinian CommunistsThe Sardinian movement is one of the most forgotten fights for national self-determination in Europe. The position of the island is for strategic importance not only for Italy but for the criminal wars of the NATO. Therefore Sardinian nationalists often refer to their homeland as "the swimming aircraft carrier". In his speech the comrade from the Confederation of Sardinian Communists referred to the exploitation of the country for the purpose of tourism and the role environmentalists play in taking the land out of the hands of the people. Senideak, an organisation of the relatives of political prisoners in the Basque country, stressed the point that the national struggle in their country is and always … [read more]

Urgent call from the International League of Peoples´ Struggle (ILPS) Memik Horoz, the deputy chairperson of the International League of Peoples´ Struggle (ILPS), a journalist of many years and his niece Serap Horoz, were arrested on June 18, 2001 in Cemberlitas, Istanbul by the Turkish state security forces. Memik Horoz is currently in detention and has been transferred to the Tokat City Gendarmerie headquarters - a special counter-insurgency unit. It is claimed that a complaint has been filed against him. We call on all participating organizations of the ILPS and all democratic and anti-imperialist forces throughout the world to urgently raise their voice of protest against the Turkish regime and the captivity of an officer of the ILPS. Given the track record of the Turkish state in … [read more]

Delegations on the Summer Camp co-ordinate common actionEventually possible activities to increase world-wide support to the Palestinian people´s right to self-determination are being discussed. One proposal is to organise a big international delegation to visit the occupied territories on the first anniversary of the outbreak of the new Intifada, September 28. The delegations commit themselves to co-ordinate common action like demonstrations on the same day in many places of the world. The need for an international co-ordination to carry out the tasks ahead is expressed which should be the result of the … [read more]

Report on the speech by the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)The Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE) re-iterates the necessity of a communist party after the break-down of the Soviet Union. Regarding the reactionary capitalist Spanish state the PCPE defends the right to self-determination of the different nationalities like Basques, Catalans and others although it will try its best to preserve the unity of the … [read more]

Report by the Afghanistan Liberation Organisation (ALO)A lot of attention is dedicated to the speech of the Afghanistan Liberation Organisation (ALO). Their representative who is fighting under extreme conditions affirmed that the brought majority of the Afghan popular masses have turned against the barbarous Taliban regime. Only the fact that they still get massive Pakistani support (that includes American backing) keeps them in power. Although the masses are tired and exhausted after twenty years of civil war ALO will continue its struggle both in Afghanistan and the refugees camps to which millions and millions of their compatriots have been forced to seek … [read more]

Dr. Denise Malasi from Congo and Dr Bashir Kurfi from the Nigerian Liberation Movement speak outAddressing the main forum Dr. Denise Malasi, who cooperates closely with the Kabila government, is urging the European public not to believe the lies about the genocide in Africa, which are being spread by the Western press. Actually it has been the Western powers that instigated the genocide in Rwanda in order to take over the control of the region of the big lakes. As they have done in so many other places they created a "humanitarian catastrophe" to justify a political and military intervention. When imperialism realized they were losing control of Congo when Laurant Kabila took over power, the reactionary regimes of Uganda and Rwanda under the command of the US tried to oust Kabila from … [read more]

Resistance against dollarisation and the American free trade zoneThe representative of the PCMLE (Marxist Leninist Party of Ecuador) held a detailed speech about the total social crisis, which was imposed on the Ecuadorian people by more than 20 years of neoliberalism. This social crisis has deepened in the 90ies: 8 million of the 12 million inhabitants of the country live in poverty, in 1995 the number was 3,7 millions. 80 percent of the working people suffer from unemployment and under employment.The PCMLE is the leading the people in the resistance fights against the recent attacks on its living conditions: dollarisation of the economy und the American free trade zone, which was negotiated at the last summit of American governments in Quebec. Not taking part in mobilisations there, the … [read more]

by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)This year for the first time in the history of the Anti-imperialist Summer Camp, delegations from Afghanistan attended the meeting. Among them is the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), an independent revolutionary women´s organisation.In the forum that RAWA held, the dramatic situation of women in the Taliban-ruled country was reported. Through the help of a video, the participants could witness the unbelievable cruelty of the reactionaries in power. Images of public executions in Afghan sport stadiums were shown, where thousands of people are forced to watch these brutal slaughters every week. Social Centres for WomenBecause films and photographs are forbidden in Afghanistan, the members of … [read more]

Yesterday, July 28th, the Anti-imperialist camp was inaugurated paying tribute to our comrade Carlo assassinated by imperialism in the mobilisation against the G8 summit in Genoa. About 150 people welcomed 30 delegations and more than 100 organisations support this meeting of the anti-imperialist forces from all around the world are making it a counter summit to G8. For the first time in the eleven year´s of history of this meeting a strong delegation from Africa (Nigeria, Congo, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad) is present, the continent most devastated by capitalist globalisation. Special greetings were transmitted to the Palestinian delegation granting the full support to the new and heroic Intifada. Representatives from the struggle from the most diverse countries from Turkey to … [read more]

Message of the communist Party of Greece (ML)Hereby, the P.C.G. (m-l) wishes to Camp Anti-imperialism success with the international meeting that will take place at Assisi in Italy.After the events of Genoa, the existing situation of the movement will change in order to claim from any revolutionary force to stand up for the situations.From one side, the dangers of a deviation through the "militarism" of political action and also from the other side, the dangers of the retire of the movement towards to more legalistic and reformist illusions are distinctive. Against all these dangers, the only reply is an ideological and political clarification and an organizing upgrade of the movement.Especially for us that we live in the area of the Balkans, we have the belief that the war, which keeps … [read more]