Yesterday around midnight the Italian police invaded the Franciscan Convent in Assisi in order to arrest and immediately expel comrade Jaime Yovanovic Prieto to South Africa from where he proceeded for the Anti-imperialist Camp.Professor J, who delivered the main speech of the forum on Porto Alegre and the future of the anti-globalisation movement yesterday, is being searched for his anti-fascist resistance against the dictator of Pinochet. After passive resistance hindered the police to take J directly on the site of the camp, he flew to the Franciscans and asked for church asylum.However, after long negociations and a protest ralley in front of the convent the Franciscans nevertheless eventually allowed the police to enter the church.We denounce the fact that - while Pinochet and his … [read more]

The resistance against the imperial world order is legitimateThe general assembly of the Anti-imperialist Camp gathered in Assisi has unanimously taken the decision to resist the obvious attempts of the Italian authorities to arrest and expell Jaime Yovanivic Prieto as they did already two years ago.While comrade Jaime´s documents are completly regular and his stay here is therefore entirly legal, the police - under the pretext of checking his immigration documents - want to seperate him from the camp and arrest him avoiding our resistance. Therefore we will not put him in the hands of the police and will resist with peaceful means.For us Professor J is the emblematic symbol of the entire resistance against imperialism in Palestina, in Colombia, in Turkey and Kurdistan and in many other … [read more]

Assisi, ItalyThe Anti-imperialist Camp is taking place on the camping site Camping Fontemaggio (via Eremo delle Carceri n°8). Assisi can be reached by both car and train: 1 – by trainfrom Rome, from Florence or from AnconaOnce arrived at the train station in Assisi (located in the village Santa Maria degli Angeli) one can reach the very town Assisi (located on a hill) by one of the freqent public buses. The last stop, where one has to get off, is Piazza Matteotti. To reach the Camping site the indications saying "Monte Subasio" have to be followed. The Camping site is located immediately outside medieval Assisi, ca. 400 metres from the bus stop. 2 – by car:Follow the indications on the map; in Assisi (take the main road which goes up the hill) follow the indications to "Eremo delle … [read more]

Evo Morales to send delegate from BoliviaThe World Social Forum of Porto Alegre was a decisive turning point for the anti-globalisation movement. Taking place under the impression of the attacks of September 11, the subsequent imperialist onslaught against Afghanistan and the US´s declaration of permanent war against any opposition, the dominant forces around ATTAC and the Brazilian PT openly showed to eventually be on the side of imperialism by expelling anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces namely FARC, Basque delegates and in generally declaring armed movements including even the Zapatists as unwanted.As a reaction the forces gathered in the Anti-imperialist Camp called for the formation of an anti-imperialist pole within the anti-globalisation movement in order to demarcate … [read more]

talk of Sharon Black Ceci*, International Action Center, U.S.A. at the Anti-imperialist Camp*Sharon Ceci is the Maryland/Washington D.C. regional coordinator for the International Action Center. The IAC responded immediately to U.S. pentagon war plans following the September 11th events by organizing a national protest in Washington D.C. on September 29, 2002. It has since then organized against Bush`s endless war and against domestic repression. Ceci traveled with Ramsey Clark, a founding member of the International Action Center, along with a hundred other U.S. delegates to Iraq to deliver badly needed medical supplies and to challenge the blockade and sanctions against Iraq. She traveled to Iraq to observe first hand the conditions caused by U.S. sanctions and to report back to … [read more]

KADEK and DHKC in AssisiFor decades Turkey has been – beside Israel – the most important stronghold of imperialism in the Middle East. It has been conducting a bloody war against the Kurdish people whose cry for the elementary democratic right to self-determination was answered by killing tens of thousands of Kurds. It has brutally eliminates the revolutionary and communist movement killing thousands. It still keeps about 15.000 political prisoners and it will probably serve as the main springboard for a new imperialist assault on Iraq.Regardless of this record the European Union – let alone the USA – keeps terming the hardly veiled military dictatorship as democratic. In the wake of September 11 and the declared permanent war on any opposition to the imperialist world order, the … [read more]

contribution of Vladimir Krsljanin* to the Anti-imperialist Camp* Vladimir Kr…šljanin, former ambassador, member of the international and Yugoslav committees for defense of Slobodan Milosevic, member of the Head Committee and International Secretary of the Socialist Party of SerbiaOn the 5th of October 2000 freedom and democracy were abolished in this country. On St. Vitus´ day 2001 the President Slobodan Milo…ševic was treacherously abducted by the regime and surrendered to the aggressors´ NATO tribunal in the Hague. It opened the way to the definite brake-down of Yugoslavia and its occupation. Today, foreign controllers are sitting in all our state institutions and major firms, while a puppet regime sells out the resources of our country and obediently executes the orders of … [read more]

On the Anti-imperialist Camp in Assisi a delegate from BAYAN as well as a member of the International Leninist Current, who participated in a BAYAN solidarity delegation to Mindanao lately, will report about the situation on the Philippines. The following text is a statement of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) condemns the brutal shooting of an unarmed and defenseless man by American trooper Reggie Lane around midnight July 25, 2002 in Barangay Kanas, Tuburan, Basilan, Philippines.Through this act of extreme arrogance by an American soldier, the trampling of Philippine national sovereignty by the escalating U.S. military intervention in the Philippines is concretely demonstrated. All the illusions about the … [read more]

speech of Tatiana Lukman* at the Anti-imperialist Camp*Tatiana Lukman, CSVI/ GPDI Co-ordination group for Support the People`s Resistance in IndonesiaFirst of all on behalf of the Indonesian Institute for the Investigation of the 1965/1966 Massacre, the Netherlands, I thank all those comrades involved in organizing the anti-imperialist camp for the invitation to participate in this important meeting.I would like to use this opportunity to talk about three subjects. It would be impossible to understand the reason of the founding of our organization and its objectives without talking about the 1965 events and the wholesale slaughter of innocent people accused of being involved in the 30 September Movement. To give you an idea about what happened around 1 October 1965, I would like to … [read more]

visa for Leila Khaled refused"Palestine is the place where all explosive contradictions of the …‘new world order´ converge. In fact, Israel is the symbol of absolute injustice, of illegality that has been made a system, of a war of extermination that has become a habit, of racist violation of the most elementary human rights. All this is being fully supported by the US and encountered by the complete indifference of the so-called …‘international community´. As long as Palestine will not be free, the whole world will remain in slavery." (Call for the Anti-imperialist Camp)As every year the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people will occupy an outstanding place in the proceedings of the camp.Friday, August 9Film premiere (10 pm)"Jenin", Mohamed BakriFilm cut from footage … [read more]

On the 15th of May 2002 the Ministry of Justice refused to register according to the new law on political parties the Russian Communist Workers´ Party - the Revolutionary Party of Communists (RCWP-RPC).As a pretext for the refusal they used the word "revolutionary" in the name of the party, in which the Ministry, referring to one of the dictionaries, found a call for a violent actions aimed to depose the constitutional system.This is a blatant violation of the basic democratic right to free opinion and coalition. The RCWP-RPC represents a significant section of the Russian people and especially the poor classes most effected by the capitalist restoration to which proper representation is being denied. The former Russian Communist Workers´ Party (RCWP) was registered more than 10 years … [read more]

Serguei Novikov in AssisiSerguei Novikov is a renown historian and member of the Central Committee and the International Commission of the Russian Communist Worker´s Party – Revolutionary Party of Communists (RKRP-RPK). The party is the strongest component of the Russian communist movement if one takes into consideration that the KPRF of Siuganov – despite rhetoric opposition has always been an important pillar of the pro-imperialist regime of Yeltsin and Putin. Right now the party, which used to gather millions of workers votes in the elections, is struggling against the newly imposed dictatorial legislation trying to hinder them from being officially registered and, thus, from running at the forthcoming Duma election. (See the draft resolution below which is due to be submitted to … [read more]

The International Commission of Batasuna recently announced its participation in the Anti-imperialist Camp scheduled to take place in Assisi, Italy, from August 3 to 10:Wednesday, August 7, 200210.00 Plenary SessionThe black listFrom the Basque country to Palestine: the struggle for elementary democratic rights against the EU measures(further participants: KADEK (Kurdistan), DHKPC (Turkey), ODEP (Chile), Colombians, Palestinians ……16.00 WorkshopThe judge Garzon: International jurisdiction as an instrument of imperialist interventionBatasuna is the main organisation of the Basque National Liberation Movement and as such representing about 15% of the Basque electorate. Its influence among the poor classes, the marginalized youth, the worker´s and the peasants is by far exceeding these … [read more]

Rainer Rupp in AssisiRainer Rupp was a high ranking NATO official and at the same time member of the intelligence service of the GDR during the Cold War. He works now as journalist and member of the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism) in Germany. At the Anti-imperialist Camp in Assisi, Italy, August 3-10, he will report about questions and contradictions concerning September 11, a topic on which he had also published lately.Monday, August 5, 2002, 16.00:Workshop:September 11 - whose plot?Without giving a definitive answer to this question, the countless absurdities of the official version of the happenings on September 11 will be shown. By doing so, it must not be our main aim to come up with politically useless conspiracy theories, because eventually they just confirm and thus – … [read more]

Fulvio Grimaldi on Anti-imperialist Camp in AssisiFor many years the forces constituting the Anti-imperialist Camp have been on the first line in support of the Yugoslav and Serb people in their resistance against the Western aggression. By means of overwhelming military power the imperialism eventually installed a puppet regime in Belgrade. However, even the rulers of the empire are aware of Yugoslav´s and Serb´s historic record of anti-imperialist struggle.By means of the inquisition tribunal in the Hague, imperialism tries to justify its aggression against a people which for ten long years challenged their hegemony. In this purely political process the perpetrator, who by the way is at the same time the judge, should be turned into the victim while the victim is supposed to endorse … [read more]

Istana Negara, Jakarta, July 30, 2002, 11 AMOverthrow of Imperialism Puphet`s Mega-Hamzah Gouvernment !Build of Poor´s Gouvernment !PRD´s Action National Day program is immediate task of Indonesian peoples which aim to overthrow of Mega-Hamzah and replace by Poor Gouvernment. Poor´s Gouvernment is the gouvernment which based on coalition or unifying of people movement or democratic blocks since we have to unify all of forces into one body. Students movement, trade unions, peasents movement, urban poor movement, Political Party whose reformation programs, NGO, artist, Police/Military whom doesn´t have record of human´s right abuses and not involving of corruption, women movement, religious movement (Priest, ), National Liberation Movement of Aceh and Papua, and indigineous people must … [read more]

FILMFriday, August 9JeninFilm cut from footage secretly shot immediately after the massacre of Jenin by the renown Palestinian filmmaker and actor Mohamed BakriTHEATREThursday, August 8ConquistaStreet theatre on the extinction of the Indian peoples by the European colonists, by Mario Pirovani who closely works with Dario FoFriday, August 9The hole of the hyenaStreet theatre on the massacre of Sabra and Shatila, by Nicola MUSICPannelliSaturday, August 3La TrescaTraditional music from the region Tuscia in Central ItalySunday, August 4Acquaragia DromOwn compositions using motives of Italian Gipsy musicMonday, August 5Armata BrancaleoneThe band has been part of the Italian revolutionary movement for many yearsTuesday, August 6AltrocantoMusic and text goes together to speak of another world to … [read more]

By: Scott CooperBOSTON - Since last September 11, activists in Boston have built a clear and unequivocal anti-imperialist response to Bush`s so-called "war against terrorism," with support for the Palestinian struggle at its center. There were weekly picketlines at the Israeli consulate during the spring, drawing hundreds at the height of the Israeli incursion into the West Bank. A militant demonstration on April 9 drew more than 2,000 people and brought the Intifada directly to the streets of Boston. And a protest on June 9 forced the organizers of the annual "Israel Day Celebration" to run for cover, changing the venue of the event and establishing a virtual "armed camp" to keep the Zionists from having to confront the truth about 54 years of occupation.None of the strength of this work … [read more]

By S.FaiziCan global issues be addressed through multilateral negotiations in the new unipolar world? The recently concluded Bali meeting of nations to formulate the final draft of action plan to be agreed by the forthcoming World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) raises new doubts about the usefulness of such multilateral negotiations in the new global political ambience.No country now questions the conclusion that the twin crises of environment and development is reaching the stage of a civilizational crisis. It was the recognition of this reality that prompted the community of nations to gather themselves in Rio de Janeiro for the Earth Summit in 1992 to agree on a comprehensive program of action to reverse the global environmental crisis. This blue print for action, called … [read more]

short report about the social situation in an IMF-WB-US-EU colony We are so very poor already we cannot travel to the neighbouring town... Even the city transport tickets turn into a problem for us: a two way ticket has the price of a loaf of bread, and a loaf of bread means two days life!... At the moment we are in a shock from the last raise of the electricity price with 31 % since July 1.They are successfully kicking us into the Middle Ages in the standard of life. Will they stop when we reach the caves? (It is useless to worry about that - we won`t be long alive.) These are only some details from our everyday life in the IMF-WB-US-EU colony Bulgaria. But it is useful information for you because what is going here will be done after some time in Europe too. I saw pictures from the … [read more]