Against Imperialist Globalisation and War 1. The MR-2004 is an event, scheduled for January 17-20, 2004, and will run parallel to the World Social Forum (WSF) Mumbai programme. It is an international event, part of the process of building a strong worldwide anti-imperialist movement, that seeks to take the people of the world, including those attending the WSF, beyond the limits of "reflective thinking and debate" towards organised resistance against imperialist globalisation and imperialist wars. It is based on clear and unambiguous premises. The MR-2004 considers itself as a continuation of the militant traditions set in the anti-globalisation and anti-war movements that assumed a new intensity after Seattle. The MR-2004 was conceived of at the International Camp, Thessaloniki … [read more]

Mountains of Colombia, July 13, 2003The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People´s Army, FARC-EP, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, ELN, inform the Colombian and Latin American people that:1. We, the leadership of both organizations, met recently in the mountains of Colombia in an atmosphere of camaraderie, fraternity and mutual respect, fully agreeing in: a. Characterizing the current regime of Uribe Velez as the enemy of peace, a warmonger by conviction, the generator of misery for the broad national majorities, and a prostitute of imperialist policy for our peoples and nations. b. Because of this character, we confirm that while the illegitimate government of Alvaro Uribe Velez persists with its fascist and militarist policies, we will not proceed with any process … [read more]

Middle EastPFLP, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in EuropeDHKP, Revolutionary People´s Liberation Party, TurkeyMuhamad Kanaane, Abnaa el Balad, Sons of the People, PalestineDemocratic Voice, MoroccoAwni Al Kalamji, Iraqi Patriotic CoalitionBashar Abu-Saifan, Loyalty for Men and Earth, Lebanon Chokri Latif, Committee for the Palestinians and against Normalisation with Zionism, Tunisia Jihad Hussein, Arab Communist Fedayin in BaghdadAsiaRio Mondelo, Bayan Migrante, PhilippinesAnti-imperialist League, Nepal Latin AmericaMaria Bencomo, National Movement Union of Independent Forces, VenezuelaMario Mestri, Independent communist, BrazilElias Letelier, Poetas antiimperialistasEuropePeter Szekely, Left Front Workers´ Youth Alliance, HungaryAnton Petrenko, Socialist Choice, … [read more]

National Movement Union of Independent Forces of Venezuela – the Bolivarian left at the Anti-imperialist Camp 2003Maria Bencomo, representative of the National Movement Union of Independent Forces, is part of a new generation of revolutionaries which has been emerging in Venezuela since the election of Hugo Chavez for the presidency in December 1998. The new left became necessary as the traditional forces of the left were in one way or another involved in the old corrupt corporative system based on the oligarchic appropriation of the oil revenue. The Bolivarian alliance around Hugo Chavez rose as a symbol of the rupture with the old establishment and paved the way for a new anti-imperialist project.The Bolivarian left which bases itself on the tradition and on the surviving … [read more]

Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal, Spokesperson, Communist Party of the Philippines The news about MILF Chairman Salamat Hashim`s death saddens us. We extend our condolences to his family, the leaders and members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the fighters of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces and the Moro people whom he unstintingly served all his life. We hail Chairman Salamat`s militancy and revolutionary leadership. He was a great fighter and leader of the Moro people. With the MILF`s establishment and advance under Chairman Salamat`s leadership, the Moro people`s revolutionary armed struggle gained renewed vigor and determination after the Moro National Liberation Front betrayed it with its acquiescence to the Tripoli Agreement during the US-Marcos dictatorship and the MNLF`s … [read more]

By Anti-Imperialist League of Nepal The Anti-imperialist League of Nepal is due to speak to the Anti-imperialist Camp gathering in Assisi, Italy, from 1 to 7 September 2003.After the revolution of 1990, Nepal has return 50 year`s back. Since then the government has changed all but the political mechanism and their vested power has not changed in practice. It is clear after king Gyanendra`s action against Deupa`s government that the people have no sovereignty. He has misused his power and interfered in politics unconstitutionally. It will not be an exaggeration to say that democracy was given up by the late king Birendra succumbing to pressure of SAARC * expansionist India and world imperialist USA. Both countries have shown unwanted interest in Nepal. The US invasion of Iraq an dthe … [read more]

Palestinian Fedayin to recount his experience in the battle for Baghdad in AssisiJehad Hussein, born 1981 in Amman into a Palestinian family expelled from Hebron, a student at the university of Mustansereya in Baghdad, participated together with his brother Ramez and other remaining Palestinian students in the defence of Baghdad against the American invasion. His brother Ramez was killed in the battle around the "Police Tunnel" area. Ramez was studying computer science at the university of Baghdad. He was member in the "Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" (PFLP) and had participated in many political activities supporting the Intifada in Baghdad.The other students were captured by the American occupation troops and spent 50 days under miserable conditions in several detention … [read more]

Mario Maestri`s contribution to the Anti-imperialist Camp on BrazilMario Maestri was born in Porto Alegre, RS, 1948. Since 1967, when he was still a student, he took part at the resistance movement against the military dictatorship. He asked for political asylum in Chile from where he actively engaged in the revolutionary movement (1970-73). After Pinochet´s putsch, he asked political asylum to Belgium where he finished his studies in History at the Catholic University of Louvain discussing subsequently his dissertation on slavery in Brazil. He went back to Brazil in 1977, took actively part to the reorganization of trade unions and the Brazilian politics by founding in 1982 in Rio de Janeiro the PT. In 1988, after the repression of a teachers´ strike by the PT government of Rio Grande … [read more]

Contributions of various political organisations from the Philippines; to be presented and discussed at the Anti-imperialist Camp in Assisi1) 11 September and the Violation of Migrant Rightsby Committee-DEFEND - Committee to Defend Filipino Progressives in Europe2) Remove Prof. Jose Maria Sison (Philippines) from the EU´s List of …‘Terrorists´by Committee-DEFEND - Committee to Defend Filipino Progressives in Europe3) Keynote Speech on US Intervention in the Philippines and Koreaby Jose Maria Sison, NDFP Chief Political Consultant4) Vicious Violation of Democratic Rights and Scuttling of the GRP-NDFP Peace Negotiationsby Jose Maria Sison, NDFP Chief Political Consultant5) Comment on US Designation of CPP and NPA as Foreign Terrorist Organizationsby Jose Maria Sison, NDFP Chief … [read more]

open letter from Jaime Yovanovic PrietoTo the jurists, authorities and those that are neither jurists nor authorities:For almost 20 years that the mass media in Chile in my case violate the most elementary legal principles, in already special the presunsià³n of innocence of any defendant.I have been treated by means of press like participant in the action that culminated with the death of general Urzúa in 1983, question that I deny categorically.It believed and I create legitimate, as it establishes the letter of principles of the United Nations, the rise in arms against which they beyond ended the legally instituted government of Salvador. I create to have acted my as like part of the town in resistance with honesty and dignity. A soldier would never have gone me through the mind when … [read more]

by Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants (CHRI)Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants (CHRI) has received information that the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (BICE), a division of the Department of Homeland Security, is preparing a mass deportation flight of as many as 100 Middle Eastern detainees, most likely including PalestiniansAccording to the information received, this charter flight is scheduled to depart on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2003, or in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Aug. 13, from the area of Buffalo, New York, heading to Amman, Jordan and possibly other destinations in the Middle East.Information about a similar deportation on May 14 was subsequently confirmed in a Reuters story published on July 28. In that deportation, at … [read more]

Binod Tiwari, Nepal"No alternate of Continuation of Revolution in Nepal if there is no any immediate forward going political outlet"The peoples war of Nepal was started on 13 Feb. 1996, under the leadership communist Party of Nepal (Maoist). The process of revolutionary transformation of the present semi feudal, semi colonial society of Nepal through peoples war has completed its glorious 8 yrs. In the process of destruction of old state power and construction of new state power has reached as the stage of exercising local democratic state power in most of the areas of Nepal by forming own army. From this point we can say that the people war of Nepal has reached the stage of `strategic equilibrium`. It means neither the old state can defeat the new state power nor new. In districts like … [read more]

Three months have passed since emperor G. W. Bush declared the end of hostilities in Iraq. The rapid success of the US forces over the Iraqi army – due to the capitulation of the high command right at the crucial moment of the defence of Baghdad – made the Anglo-Americans believe to have achieved a total victory. Taking over Baghdad they ridiculized the words of the information minister. Now it is our turn to rediculize their arrogance. Not even finished, the war started again. Only a few days after the collapse of the Iraqi army guerrilla forces began attacking the mercenaries of the occupation forces. They keep inflicting them losses which are of high political and morale value. Among the US bionic soldiers fear is spreading. As Beirut and Mogadisho already have proved, high tech … [read more]

Addameer Prisoners Support and Human Rights AssociationPress Release - 5 August 2003On the morning of 4 August 2003, the Israeli Prisons` Services published on their website a list of names of Palestinian prisoners and detainees expected to be released on Wednesday 6 August 2003. Of the 342 Palestinian prisoners slated for release, 159 are administrative detainees and 183 have been sentenced. Upon close examination of the published list, Addameer has observed the following: - All administrative detainees included on the list are due to complete their detention orders within a very short period of time, including one detainee whose detention order expires today. Administrative detention is a form of arbitrary detention, whereby detainees are held without charge or trial. All … [read more]

By Harsh Thakor, IndiaIn 1947 power was transferred into the hands of the Indian Rulers from the British Govt. The Congress Regime betrayed the tortuous militant Revolutionary Struggles of the Indian people. The martyrdom of Comrade Bhagat Singh was betrayed by the Congress Regime which also betrayed the struggles of the Ghadr Party, the 1946 Naval mutiny and the Punnapra Vallayar Struggle in Kerala.1 Andhra PradeshAndhra Pradesh is a state where historically the socio-economic semi-feudal agricultural Conditions gave rise to a huge agrarian movement. The pro-landlord Andhra Pradesh Government with the state´s armed organs made every effort to suppress the people´s movements ,particularly in rural areas. Over the years thousands of activists of the peasant Movement of various trends … [read more]

An eyewitness recounts, August 1, 2003Four leading members of the Abnaa el Ballad ("Sons of the Country") movement, including its general secretary Muhamad Kanaane, Jameel Safouri, Yusuf Abu Ali and Yoav Bar, were arrested today in the morning in the summer camp the movement has in the town of Kaool. They were accused in "incitement for terrorist actions & revolt and identification with a terrorist organization - Hizbullah". The court of Akka has prolonged their detention until Monday, 4/8/2003.Abnaa el Ballad has conducted a summer camp for 16 years; this year it was held in the northern town of Kabul, in the Galilee, where more than 300 hundred children and youth assisted. Coincidentally with the summer camp, a political meeting was held yesterday, where Jewish and Arab members of the … [read more]

Appeal to Fraternal and Friendly Communist PartiesThe Iraqi Communist Party (Cadre)Translated by Muhammad Abu NasrJuly 20, 2003 People of the resistance, wherever you may be found! An appeal to Fraternal and Friendly Communist Parties from the Iraqi Communist Party (Cadre). Before everything else we wish to congratulate ourselves and congratulate you on the activity of the heroic Iraqi national resistance, and to convey the news of an operation carried out Sunday morning in the city of an-Nakhilah in the area of Karbala where 19 occupation troops and officers were killed and no fewer than 40 wounded. We also want to bring you the news of the heroic battle waged by the resistance fighters on Thursday afternoon in the governorate of Dayala where no fewer than 70 American officers and men … [read more]

Letter of the Nepal Maoists to the Old State GovernmentCPN (Maoist)Negotiation team officeDate-2060/4/7(23July, 2003)R.F.To the Negotiation team,Old state Establishment (His Majesty´s Government)Through: Facilitators Messrs Padmaratna Tuladhar, Damannath Dhungana,Sailendra Upadhya and Karnadhwaj Adhikari.Motion: About pre-bases (precondition-Tr.) for the third round dialogue.Mr,Received the letter that the Old state establishment (His majesty´s government) sent on 2060/3/29 (13 July 2003) urging, "to resume third round of dialogue with no delay." Having deeply studied and analysed the letter as well as over the result of the formal and informal dialogue between the representatives of the old and the new states, on the guidance of Chairman of CPN (Maoist) and the Supreme Commander of … [read more]

Press Statement by Prof. Jose Maria Sison, 28 July 2003The 27 July 2003 protest action of nearly 300 soldiers of the reactionary government, including 70 officers from the army and navy, has effectively exposed from inside the rottenness of the US-directed Arroyo regime in the most glaring way. The grievances of the soldiers have reverberated not only throughout the Philippines but also the entire world. They are well-grounded. They should not be obscured by retaliatory attacks from the regime. They give the protesting soldiers the just and reasonable cause for demanding the resignation of President Arroyo and defense secretary General Angelo Reyes.The grievances include the corruption of the regime, involving the aforesaid high officials, at the expense of the junior officers and … [read more]

Kathmandu, July 20 Bharat Dhaungana, the office secretary of Maoist contact office said in a press statement, issued on Sunday that the contact office has to be closed down due to increasing espionage of the security forces around the office and the precarious situation of security for the Maoist peace negotiators. The press statement further says the Maoist leaders also could not stay in open because of the same security reasons. All people of Nepal know that after the 2nd round of peace talks the gov. has started to violate the code of conduct and other norms of negotiation. During the period of negotiation more than 18 moaist cadres were killed by the gov. To know in what way the negotiations of Nepal will go every one is waiting for the statment of maoist High Command … [read more]