Programme and speakers

26/02/2007
International Conference
With the Resistance, for a Just Peace in the Middle East


Chianciano Terme, Province of Siena, Italy
Saturday 24 / Sunday 25 March, 2007

Saturday morning (10,00 - 13,00)

Introduction Leonardo Mazzei
The American offensive, the European subordination and the prospect of an international Anti-imperialist Front

First Session
THE RESISTANCE OF THE PALESTINIAN AND LEBANESE PEOPLE AGAINST ZIONISM
Presiding: Aldo Bernardini, professor for international law, university of Terramo

- The Western sanctions are illegitimate: respect the democratic will of the Palestinian people
- WALEED AL MODALLAL, professor for political science at the Islamic university of Gaza

- The democratic solution of the Palestinian question
- MOHAMMED HA ALISSA, journalist, exponent of the Palestinian left

- Why Palestinians should never be asked to recognize Israel
- AZZAM TAMIMI, writer and director of the London-based Institute of
Islamic Political Thought (IIPT), visiting professor at Nagoya University

- The Israeli defeat and the future of the Lebanese Resistance
- ALI FAYYAD, university professor and director of the Consultative Centre for Studies and Documentation, Lebanon

- National unity versus sectarianism
- SAMAH IDRISS, editor of the literature magazine "Al Adab", lexicographer and children's author, Lebanon

- The French, US and Zionist instigation to sectarianism
- MUFID QUTAYSH, Communist Party of Lebanon

- The US threats against Iran and the Arab Resistance
- HISHAM BUSTANI, Leftist Pan-Arabist leader of the Jordan democratic opposition

Saturday afternoon (14,30 - 18,30)

SECOND SESSION
THE IRAQI RESISTANCE AND THE CONDITIONS FOR VICTORY
Presiding: Wilhelm Langthaler

- For Sunni and Shiite unity against occupation
- AYATOLLAH AL SAYYED AHMED AL BAGHDADI, religious patriotic leader against occupation and imperialism

- The political embargo on the Iraqi Resistance and conditions of victory over occupation
-ABDUL JABBAR AL KUBAYSI, secretary general of the Iraq Patriotic Alliance, spokesman of the Patriotic National Islamic Front

- The failure of the US attempt of tripartition as imposed by the constitution
- YOUSSIF HAMDAN, university professor, leader of the Communist Party People's Union (Ittihad Alshaab), member of the Patriotic and National and Islamic Front

- The political impact of the Iraqi Resistance
- SAAD KIRYAKOS, professor of economics at the University of Ottawa, Organization of Friendship, Peace and Solidarity in Iraq

- The Maliki government as the driving force of the sectarian strife and the death squadrons
- FADHIL M. HUSSAIN, university professor, journalist

- The humanitarian tragedy and the dramatic situation of the political prisoners
- IBRAHIM SULMAN RIZK, medical doctor

- The confessionalisation of the educational system and the restrictions imposed on free expression
- NOURI N. ABD, historic founder of the National Union of Iraqi Students and today leader of the union of journalists

- The Iraqi left and its alliance with the patriotic Islamic forces
- ASRAR-A-ABDULLATIF, leader of the Iraqi Communist Party (Central Command)

Sunday morning (9,00-13,00)

Third Session

One enemy, the same struggle. How to build an International Anti-imperialist Front
Presiding: Roberto Massari and Marco Riformetti

-The World Social Forum and the problem of the of the support to the Resistance
- SAMIR AMIN, university professor in Dakar and leader of the World Social Forum

- After Vietnam: the anti-war movement in the US and the war on Iraq
- LARRY HOLMES, leader of the US anti-war movement and of the encampment in front of the capitol, co-director of the International Action Center

- Birth and development of the Iraqi Resistance
- ABDUL JABBAR AL KUBAYSI

-The truth about occupied Afghanistan

- RAHIM RAMIM, youth representative of the radical anti-imperialist left of Afghanistan

- US aggression also on Iran?
- LUCIO MANISCO, journalist

- The role of Islam in the anti-imperialist struggle
- HAMZA PICCARDO, spokesman of the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy (UCOII)

- The new "law" of the infinite war
- VAINER BURANI, lawyer

11,30 - DEBATE
Amir Alfarge, Iraqi Citizenship, France, Front for Rights and Freedoms (HÖC), Turkey; Henrik Hovlad, Norway and many others…

13,30 - CONCLUSIONS by Moreno Pasquinelli

15,30 - APPROVAL OF THE FINAL STATEMENT

16,00 - PRESS CONFERENCE