28 September, 13:30-17:30, Amsterdamat BuurtCentrum Lydia, Roelhof Hartplein 2, Amsterdamby: Initiative Committee-DEFENDe-mail: … [read more]

24. September, 12:00-14:00, AmsterdamPicket in front of the Dutch Parliament against the attacks of US, Dutch and Philippine governments on revolutionary and progressive organizations and individuals, particularly Prof. Jose Maria Sison who is being singled out with the most viscious attacks and cruel actionsby: Initiative Committee-DEFENDe-mail: … [read more]

by: Base21, 16.9.2002Last Tuesday September 11th 2002, over 3000 anti-riot cops attacked the striking unionists at the Catholic Medical Center (CMC) and the Kyeonghee University Hospital in the early morning hours, beat present striking staff, usually female personnel, out of the buildings and arrested in each case more than 200 persons. One week ago the management of the hospitals closed by strike and the government had already threatened the deployment of the notorious anti-riot units to terminate the strikes. By now the strikes of the employees of several hospitals in Seoul and some other parts of South Korea last 118 days. The striking staff members demanded the payment of the legal minimum wage of about 770 U.S.$ for female workers, better social security and a wage increase of 12%. … [read more]

By Professor J from the prison cellThis case is a hard nut to crack. A bitter swallow which will burn the stomachs not only of the Chilean militaries but also of many others.Between 1986 and 1999 I had been strolling through the most diverse countries like Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Argentine, Brazil, Spain, England, Germany and Paraguay. Furthermore I presented a testimony against capital punishment in Chile before the European Parliament in 1987. In 1988 with the support of the "Continental Caravan for Peace and Human Rights in Latin America" a campaign was led under my coordination which forced the military government to close down the borders and hinder two groups to enter the county, one from Tacna, Peru, and the other from Mendoza, Argentine. The Chilean media covered the … [read more]

by Shabir ChoudhryRecently I wrote a series of articles on Kashmir and one article was on Pakistan´s …‘principled stand´ on Kashmir. After reading this article many people contacted me with different comments. Majority of the people appreciated the article and found new issues related to the Kashmir dispute.These are the issues which were not previously brought up by the Pakistani officials or highlighted by pro Pakistani Kashmiri leaders; and even not fully exploited by the pro independent camp. Of course there were some who criticised me for raising these matters at this critical juncture. In view of these people we should focus our attention on criticising India and what they are doing in Kashmir; rather than bringing Pakistan´s role into equation and diverting from the … [read more]

by: Base21On Monday, 2002.09.02, 6.30 in the morning, riot police were storming the accommodation of migrant workers in the Masok area near Seoul, South Korea. They arrested 15 persons from Bangladesh. A while later they released 13 from them after questioning.Two persons, Kabir Uddin and comrade Budhin, activists in the KCTU/ETU-MB (Equal Trade Union ?Migrant´s Branch) were brought to deportation detention center in south Gyeongi-do (province). They´re facing now deportation very soon. During the arresting Budhin was injured because of police brutality. Kabir Uddin and Budhin are active in the migrant workers struggle against deportation and for a equal rights also for migrant workers. With that action, the South Korean govt., show´s his unwillingness to find a satisfying solution for … [read more]

By Sharon Black, Washington, D.C.Hundreds of anti-racist and anti-capitalist youths gathered in Washington, D.C., Aug. 24 to protest a march by several hundred neo-Nazis at the U.S. Capitol. D.C. police armed with pepper spray and garbed in riot gear escorted the National Alliance, a neo-Nazi group, from Union Station to the Capitol. Police outnumbered both groups.Protesters, angered by the neo-Nazis` white supremacist and anti-Semitic messages, surged into the street to stop their march. They were pushed back by riot police. Bricks and bottles flew through the air. The protesters were Black, Latin, Asian and white, and also Arab. Many young supporters of the Palestinian cause came out to show that their opposition to Israeli occupation has nothing in common with the neo-Nazi`s … [read more]

Political Statement of the Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineEvery act the United States of America does in this universe, depends on a Specific motto: "Fighting Terrorism". At first blush, the motto looks very beautiful, human and leads directly to another beautiful title "forgiveness and justice in the international and human relations". But, the fact as we all know, that what the United States aim from raising this motto is completely different, and far from its human meanings, because the USA is the first country who practiced and still practices all shapes and hinds of terror.Starting from native Americans extermination, slavery trade, discrimination against blacks, Latin America`s suppression, Vietnam and Chinese India wars, Allende`s assassination in Chile, the siege … [read more]

Statement of the NDFP (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) Negotiating Panel, Utrecht, NetherlandsWe, the panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) negotiating with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), wish to inform the public in the Netherlands and the whole of Europe that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People´s Army (NPA) are not terrorist organizations, contrary to the claims of the US government.The CPP and NPA are highly responsible political organizations. They are major allied organizations within the NDFP, which so far the US government has not designated as "terrorist" organization. They are revolutionary organizations fighting for national liberation and democracy against US imperialism and the … [read more]

Faxismoari Stop! Batasuna aurrea!Garzon, PP, PSOE, European black lists, imperialist terror war – a web targeting the democratic party Batasuna, basic democratic rights and peaceOn 26th of August the Spanish parliament approved the illegalisation of Batasuna, the leading party of the Basque movement for self-determination. An outright anti-Basque mafia ranging from the Popular Party, Social democracy, their juridical instruments with the judge Garzon on its top, the political media apparatus to the United Left (whose abstention make them a accomplice) took the decision of a violent frontal attack against the Basque popular movement. They used the new party law which explicitly has been designed for this purpose (and opens at the same time the door for proscribing any political … [read more]

What would you say about the position of England and of the Labour Party, when you said "Britain is more than a Vicious pet"?Well, Toni Blair and the labour party, allowed themselves to speak up along with the USA, and doing this, Britain is punching above its weight, that ´s what I meant. But Britain is playing for its own interests, even if it´s aligned with the USA. Actually it´s using the excuse of terrorism to apply its own repressive politics.About the repressive laws, well, the conservative party rises the ID proposal, and dropped it, but the labour party pretending to be better than the conservative, what we always denied, we knew they were going to be worse, the labour party dismissed representing the working class, and they rushed those laws. For example, the Benefit … [read more]

Send protest letters to the South African authorities!On the 6th of August Jaime Yovanovic Prieto was expelled from Italy and deported to South Africa. On the 9th of August he was arrested by the South African authorities. Now the South African authorities are about to negotiate his extradition to Chile where he is threatened with the death penalty for his anti-fascist resistance against the dictatorship of Pinochet.It is our political and moral duty to stand up for anti-fascist fighters and prevent their being punished for their legitimate resistance against exploitation and oppression!Please forward this letter of protest to the South African ministers incharge:Dr. M.G. Buthelezi, Minister of Home Affairs: dha@dbs1.pwv.gov.zaMs N Mapisa-Nqakula, Deputy Ministry of Home … [read more]

Only by the 20th of August we learnt from the Chilean ministry of interior that Prieto was arrested in Johannesburg to where he had been extradited by the Italian authorities on the 6th of August. Jaime came to Italy in order to participate at the Anti-imperialist Camp. From the very beginning of the camp on August 4 the police tried to enter in order to take him into custody, however, without success. Subsequently he searched for refuge in the Sacred Convent of Assisi where we officially applied for protection. Nevertheless in the night of August 5 the police took him with the consent of the Franciscans and expelled him immediately to South Africa from where he proceeded to Italy legally entering the Europe of Schengen at Amsterdam.On the 7th of August Prieto sent his last message to the … [read more]

Abnaa el Balad , Palestine, e-mail: abnaaelballad@yahoo.com Antiwar- anti-imperialist Initiative Thessaloniki, Greece, e-mail: pavdim@hol.gr Arab Palesatine Club, Austria, e-mail: misslieh@yahoo.de Association for Proletarian Solidarity, Italy, e-mail: aspilbolletino@virgilio.it Batasuna, Euskal Herria, e-mail: international@batasuna.org Bayan, Bayan Muna, Philippines, e-mail: bayan@worldonline.nl Clajadep, e-mail: clajadep4@hotmail.com Communist Party of Greece / ML , Greece, e-mail: cpgmlthe@spark.gr Confederation of Communists, Italy, e-mail: confederazione.comunisti@tin.it Coordination Communiste, France, e-mail: Intervention.communiste@wanadoo.fr Correpi, Argentina, e-mail: straga@rcc.com.ar , correpi@fibertel.com Direction 17, Italy, e-mail: d17@voceoperaia.it Euskal … [read more]

by Slobodan Milosevic, The Hague, August 10th, 2002Regarding the forthcoming elections in Serbia, I believe that the whole opposition bloc should appear united in the elections - with a common candidate.The core of that bloc should be the three parties that constituted the Government of People`s Unity until the year 2000. During the war, those three parties defended the country, through the government and by all other means. During the bombing, the leaders of those parties remained in Serbia and put themselves at the disposal of the people and citizens.Those parties and their representatives should bring together all other opposition parties, in fact all parties and individuals who are patriotically oriented and who have the same attitude towards the policies of the regime in Serbia.In … [read more]

The cases of Bolivia and Argentine as discussed at the Anti-imperialist Camp in Assisi, August 2002The main target of US interventionism in Latin America is Venezuela and Colombia, or generally speaking the northern countries of Southern America including Ecuador that is a highly unstable region. Bush spoke of a "Axes of the Evil" in Latin American, that is Cuba, Venezuela and the Colombian FARC. In October last the US organized a conference in Central America to elaborate the plans for the "War on Terrorism" in Latin American. The immediate consequence of this was a) the break of the peace talks in Colombia 21stof February and b) the coup d`etat in Venezuela 17th of April. The paradigm of fighting terrorism is now becoming the main apology for intervening in those countries where the US … [read more]

final resolution of Assisi`s Anti-imp CampTurn the attack on Iraq into the end of the imperial world orderThe participants and organisations gathered at the anti-imperialist camp in Assisi, Italy, denounce the war waged by the US and its allies under the pretext of a war against "terrorism". The attack on the Afghan people, which caused thousands of civilian deaths, has already shown that the real terrorists are the US and its allies whose aim, is the elimination of any opposition in their drive for global economic and political dominance.The "New World Order" was proclaimed as the end of history, promising global peace, prosperity and democracy. In reality the dictates of IMF, WB and WTO have brought unemployment, poverty and misery. These are the conditions which the popular masses of … [read more]

by Voltaire network 07/08/02Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef died under the torture, end July, on Guantanamo basis, was pointed out by his family, who, would have been informed by the Red Cross, informed the Balochistan Post. The Defence Department didn`t want to comment The information.Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef had been Talibans ambassador in Pakistan. During the Afghanistan bombardment he had become in fact the spokesman of the Taliban regime. (...)Mullah Abdul Salaam Zaeef had been arrested in Pakistan by the US forces, in violation of the diplomatic statute that was recognized by Islamabad. He had been transferred discreetly to Guantanamo, where 598 people are arrested today according to procedures and in contrary conditions to the international right. Mary Robinson, high commissioner of … [read more]

Press Statement by Jose Maria Sison, NDFP Chief Political Consultant, 10 August 2002The US launched a war of aggression against the Filipino people from 1899 onwards and in the process tortured and murdered hundreds of thousands of them, mostly unarmed civilians who were merely suspected of supporting the Philippine revolutionary government and thereafter the succeeding revolutionary movements in various parts of the Philippines.The latest count done by a group of scholars and researchers in the History Department of the University of the Philippines shows that the aggressor troops of US imperialism killed more than 1,400,000 Filipinos from 1899 to 1914. Consequent to its bloody conquest of the Philippines, the US has subjected the Filipino nation to the daily violence of exploitation in … [read more]

to the Anti-imperialist CampDear Comrades,Red Salute and Revolutionary Greetings from the Ground of People´s Struggle We would like to take the opportunity to convey our best wishes for the gamut success of the festival. We eagerly look forward that the festival will turn out to be a milestone in the struggle against imperialism. We strongly believe that the victory will be of ours, the Proletarians.We would first like to apologize for not being able to physically attend the festival, which we had really striven to attend. However, we are very much sure that through this festival, the voice of the proletariat shall reach greater heights and to record marks. At this point, we would like to express our solidarity by introducing ourselves and our mottoes and mission. Presently, people are … [read more]