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
