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]

South Africa`s struggle against Aids and the pharamceutical multinationalsSouth Africa is ranked amongst countries of the world to be the most devastated country as far as the epidemic of HIVAIDS. With the rate of infection going on in the manner it is doing, the economy is likely to face a downward slope in the next few years. This is so in the light of the fact that the epidemic is endemic amongst the productive labour force and in particular the young people.International pharmaceutical companies in South Africa for their part, are profiting with the high cost of drugs that are necessary for the treatment of the opportunistic diseases such as TB and so on. Taking into account that the epidemic has reached disastrous proportions, our government was forced to invoke international patent … [read more]

A Call for International Solidarity Action Solidarity with the Daewoo Motor Workers! Condemn the Kim Dae-jung Regime! A Call … [read more]

Preliminary Programme July 28 – August 5Assisi, ItalySaturday, July 28Arrival 21.00: Concert and official inauguration of Camp 2001Two workshops will be held during the whole duration of the Camp: a) IT-workshop, focussing on a more appropriate usage of the Internetb) Workshop on art and visual communication in the anti-imperialist struggleSunday, July 299.30Meetings with the international delegations15.30: Plenary SessionThe prohibited languageAnti-imperialist struggle, science, technology and mass communication21.00: ForumsForum 1: Political Prisonersa) Methodology of oppression and punishmentb) The cold war´s lootc) Statistics of political prisoners Forum 2: Exodus and migrantsa) Freedom of circulation for capital but not for human beingsb) Racism and working classc) Immigrants, … [read more]

Vienna, 31/01/01The Antiimperialist Camp denounces the arrest of two of the most important leaders of the popular struggle in Ecuador: Luis Villacà­s Maldonado, National President of the Popular Front and one of the official speakers of the Patriotic Front, as well as Antonio Vargas, the well known leader of the CONAIE (Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador).All the promises of the government of Noboa to the poor people that rose up one year ago against the hunger-politics of the former corrupt government of Jamil Mahuad and even could overthrow it, have proofed to be cheap lies to betray the people, to demobilize and pacify its fights. There is no more doubt: the government of Noboa, ex-vice-president of the overthrown president Mahuad and now president of the Republic, … [read more]

Call for the Anti-imperialist Camp 2001, Italy, July 28th – August 5thWill this world survive until 2100?"Within a hundred years from today the planet Earth will be half dead, and so will the human beings." It is not us who are saying this, but the scientists who observe the ongoing processes in the biosphere. The greenhouse effect…—the overheating of the Earth--will provoke irreversible climatic changes. As a consequence, there will be lack of water almost everywhere within only 50 years. Already today more than a fifth of the world`s population is suffering the lack of drinking water while five million people die every year due to drinking of polluted water. The desertification and destruction of the top soil are progressing and seem to be unstoppable. More than two billion … [read more]