Resistance is not terrorism
Programme of the Anti-imperialist Camp 2004, August 2-6, Assisi, Italy
Press conference presenting the Camp 2004
Perugia near the Centre Carlo Giuliani
Criminalization cannot stop the resistance, promoters and lawyers of the camp address the public
Forum: The big lie – the fake game of Berlusconi with the four Italians captured in Iraq (Moreno Pasquinelli, Anti-imperialist Camp; Leonardo Mazzei, Italian Committees Free Iraq)
Opening concert with Joe Fallisi
Forum 1: The contribution of Islam in the struggle against imperialism and Zionism. The experience of Hezbollah in Lebanon (Mohammad Fneich, MP of Hezbollah)
Forum 2: Fight all forms of racism – no to the usage of anti-Semitism as pretext to Zionism. Accounts from Europe and Palestine (Ibrahim Makkawi, Abna el Balad, Palestine within the Green line; Shraga Elam, journalist and activist for a democratic state and peace in Palestine which migrated form Israel to Switzerland; Giancarlo Paciello, Italian publicist)
Forum 3: September 11, 2001 – Neo-conservative complot or strike against the heart of the empire (Roberto Massari, Italian publicists and publisher; Witold Fischer, historian and vice president of the Free Thinkers Thuringia, Germany)
Afternoon session: Anarchism and communism in the youth debate (Michele Fabiani, anarchist youth militant and Giovanni Teti, militant of the antagonist youth organisation POSSE)
Round table – Plenary: The deceit of the war of civilisations (Hamza Piccardo, National secretary of the Union of Italian Islamic Communities (UCOII); Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim parliament of Britain; Imam Mohamed Tawfiq Chamseddine, Lebanon; Serguei Novikov, Member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Workers` Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists (RKRP-RPK); Costanzo Preve, philosopher; Mauro Pasquinelli, Anti-imperialist Camp)
Forum 1: Chiapas – the forgotten revolt (Oralba Castillo Nájera, Colectivo Libertad, Mexico)
Forum 2: Venezuela: origin and dynamics of the Bolivarian movement of Chavez (Maria Bencomo, Movimento Populare di Base, Venezuela; Gernot Bodner, Anti-imperialist Camp)
Forum 3: Bolivia – indigenous revolt and social revolution (Fà©lix Patzi, Bolivian sociologist of the Community of Alternative Studies and close collaborator of the Indigenous Movement Pachakutik, MIP)
Afternoon session: From Melfi to Pomigliano – the rebirth of the workers´ struggles (Mara Malavenda, ex MP, and Vittorio Granillo both from the base unions Slai Cobas Alfa Romeo)
Round Table – Plenary: The anti-globalisation movement and the debate about non violence (Sergio Manes, Italian editor; Vainer Burani, Italian Democratic Lawyers, Association New Colombia; Roberto Massari, Italian publicist; Lars Akerhaug, Red Electoral Alliance Norway; Moreno Pasquinelli, Anti-imperialist Camp)
Forum 1: The struggle against colonialism in Palestine: the impasse of Oslo and the solution of one democratic state (Yoav Bar, Abna el Balad; Jamil Abdul, Palestinian intellectual)
Forum 2: The real story of the Iraqi communist movement (Ahmed Karim of the Democratic Patriotic Communist Movement of Iraq; Nuri al-Moradi of the Iraqi Communist Party Cadre)
Forum 3: Turkey – the popular struggle and democratic and revolutionary opposition (HÖC Front for Rights and Liberties; Ridvan Kaya, Özgür Der)
Afternoon session: Towards the int´l day of action for the Iraqi resistance – Int´l meeting of the committees Free Iraq
Iraq: Awni al-Kalemji, Iraqi Patriotic Alliance, Nori al-Moradi, Iraqi Communist Party (Cadre), Ahmed Karim, Democratic Communist Current Iraq
Italy: Leonardo Mazzei, Giuseppe Pelazza, Aldo Bernadini, Roberto Massari; Comitati Irak Libero (Free Iraq Commitees)
Britain: Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, Executive Committee Member of the British Stop the War Coalition
Germany: Dimitri Tsalos, Komitee Freier Irak (Free Iraq Committee)
Austria: Willi Langthaler, Irina Vana; Komitee Freier Irak (Free Iraq Committee)
Hungary: Peter Szekely, Free Iraq Committee
Norway: Lars Akerhaug, International officer of the Rød Valgallianse (Red Electoral Alliance), Mass Soldal Lund, Palestine Committee
Russia: Serguei Novikov, Committee for Anti-imperialist Solidarity Action
Round table – Plenary: Iraq – from the popular revolt of Falluja to the Brahimi plan (Awni al-Kalemji, Iraqi Patriotic Alliance; Aldo Bernardini, professor for international law, Italy; Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, Stop the War Coalition, Britain; Leonardo Mazzei, Anti-imperialist Camp)
Music Concert by “Combat Rock”
Forum 1: Chechnya – Russian Communists and Auto-determination (Serguei Novikov, Member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Workers` Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists (RKRP-RPK))
Forum 2: Kashmir between self-determination and annexation (Shazia Mir, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front)
Forum 3: The Basque Liberation struggle at a turning point (Iñaki Gil de San Vicente, Basque Independentist Left; Ion Iurrebaso, Basque Solidarity Movement with the political prisoners)
Afternoon session: For a European antagonist red-green pole point (Iñaki Gil de San Vicente presents the proposal of the Basque Independentist Left)
Round table – Plenary: Is communism still a historic option? (Marco Ferrando, Party of Communist Refoundation – Communist Project; Catia Bellillo, MP of the Party of Italian Communists); Alessandro Leoni, Party of Communist Refoundation – Ernesto Tuscany; Costanzo Preve, philosopher; Alessandra Kersevan, historian; Francesco Giuntoli, Anti-imperialist Camp)
Forum 1: Crusade against Islam – the French ban of the veil (Representative of the French Islamic community; Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, Muslim Parliament of Britain; Murat Yilmaz Türk, Human Rights & Dignity Germany)
Forum 2: Democracy and social antagonism – the Italian case (Mario Di Mauro, Terra e Liberazione, Sicily); Vainer Burani, Democratic Lawyers Italy)
Forum 3: Police state and the operation of April 1 – towards a movement against the repression (Giuseppe Pelazza, lawyer of the Italian anti-imperialists accused of terrorism; DHKC International; Red Proletarian Help)
Round table – Plenary: the American imperial strategy and the future of Europe (Iñaki Gil de San Vicente, Basque Independentist Left; Giorgio Lindi, Party of Communist Refoundation; Peter Szekely, Hungarian Workers´ Party and Left Front; Willi Langthaler, Anti-imperialist Camp; 32 County Sovereignty Movement, Ireland)
Closing concert with the group Hotel House
Int´l assembly of the Anti-imperialist Camp (for all national sections and sympathisers)
