Demonstrations in front of U.S. and U.K. embassies in BelgradeBelgrade, May 28During the NATO-Russia summit in Rome, Belgrade had shown that it is still capital of European resistance. Several thousand of left, right-wing and non-partisan patriots have demonstrated today in front of British and US embassies in Belgrade. They demanded end of the NATO political farce at The Hague and release of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic. Embassies` representatives received a letter for their governments from the organizer of the demonstration - Citizen Association FREEDOM. Written by Belgrade law professors, letter focuses on numerous misuses of law and violations of international documents on protection of human rights, including the "Tribunal"`s own Rules in the "trial" of Slobodan Milosevic and … [read more]

Warum ist der Palästinenser Saleh Bakri zurückgetreten?Im Schauspielhaus Wien wurde von 10. bis 31. März 2002 das Experimentaltheaterstück "Jerusalem, mon amour" gespielt. Das Stück vom in Wien lebenden israelischen Regisseur Arian Berg handelt um ein Medienduell zwischen einem Palästinenser und einem Israeli, die, moderiert von einer Vertreterin der Medien, ihren Anspruch und ihr Geschichtsbild darstellen. Als Darsteller waren Airan Berg selbst, Saleh Bakri, Kerstin Gaderbauer und Alexandra Schmid vorgesehen. Saleh Bakri ist kurz vor der Premiere (bei der Probe der vorletzten Szene) zurückgetreten und verreist. Als Grund gibt das Schauspielhaus an, "Saleh sei aufgrund der politischen Lage nach Israel zurückgekehrt". Da weder Airan Berg noch das Schauspielhaus die tieferen … [read more]

by the All-African People`s Revolutionary PartyTHE ALL-AFRICAN PEOPLE`S REVOLUTIONARY PARTY ORGANIZES AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY 2002 Pan-African & International Symposium -featuring - Pan-Africanist Congress of AzaniaIrish Republican Socialist Party of North AmericaNorth American Committee Against Zionism & RacismMovement of the Survival of the Ogoni PeopleAmerican Indian Movement All-African People`s Revolutionary PartyLocal African United Front Organizationsthis year`s theme... "Victory and Power Belong to the Organized Masses:Defeat imperialism, zionism and neo-colonialism!" Saturday, May 25, 2002 - 12:00 Noon - 5:00 P.M. at Paul Quinn College Price-Branch Auditorium3837 Simpson Stuart Rd.Dallas, TX 75241Visit our Dallas ALD website at... … [read more]

by the Anti-imperialist CampSince the 3rd of May, the DHKC-P and the PKK are to be found on the "terror list" of the European Union, raising up to 23 the number of declared illegal and terrorist organisations, bank accounts frozen and all legal activities stopped.How ironic that the EU, claiming to be the guardian of democracy, is putting out of law two organisations that are fighting for basic human rights, in a country where there is no freedom of press, but oppression of minorities and a political life dominated by military power. This is clearly an attempt to curb basic democratic rights in Europe while offering a diplomatic "gift" to Turkey´s oligarchy. As a general line of EU foreign policy, dictatorships and state terrorism like that of Israel is supported, but popular resistance … [read more]

Baghdad, May 9, 2002The Seventh Session of the Committee of Follow-up and Co-ordination of the Baghdad Conference has been finished in Baghdad on May 9, with participation of 160 representatives of about 90 political parties and organizations from more than 40 countries of all continents, including the MPs from Belgium, Belarus, Canada, France, Greece, Great Britain, India, Italy, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Spain, Ukraine, ministers from South Africa and Malaysia, as well as high representatives from all Arab countries and from several countries of Africa and Latin America.Representatives of several Yugoslav parties also took part.The Conference has adopted a joint Declaration, reflecting the common views on the contemporary international processes, and condemning the imperialist … [read more]

by Farooq Tariq15 peasant`s leaders from Kala Shah Kakoo Lahore still remain in police custody after four days of their arrests. They were picked up by the police on the complaint of Rice Research Institute Kala Shah Kakoo that they have not paid the due share of the wheat crops this season.Over 400 acres of land is been cultivated for over 100 years in this area by the tenants working at government owned farm. The peasants are demanding an ownership right. They decided in a meeting at the village chack 38 not to pay any more and that they have paid enough.Police all over Punjab are trying to help the different government owned farms administrations where the peasantry have refused to pay by arresting the leaders of Anjaman Mozareen Punjab AMP (Tenants Association Punjab). They include … [read more]

April 29, 2002Political Declarationissued by the Political Bureau of thePopular Front for the Liberation of PalestineTo the masses of our people and our Arab Nation,By its agreement yesterday to the American proposal concerning putting the group of heroes who carried out the operation of executing the criminal Ze`evi under American-British guard, the Palestine Authority, regardless of any excuses that it might make for this agreement, has committed a new offense that is fraught with dangerous meanings and implications. Some of these are:- This agreement represents a new link in a chain of offenses and mistakes that began with the arrest of the General Secretary of thePopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Comrade Ahmad Saadat, and after that with the arrest of the heroes … [read more]

by: FARC-EP1) The rupture of the peace process did not take the FARC-EP by surprise. Since October it had been evident the Pastrana government had already taken that unfortunate and costly decision. The fundamental reason is that the ruling oligarchy, inspired by Washington´s growing support, is not ready for now to come to agreement with the people-in-arms concerning the structural, economic, political and social changes that would make peace viable for all. They only want a peace that would guarantee their privileges and profits. That is why they ran the issue of a cease-fire and cessation of hostilities counter to the discussion on unemployment and the very development of the Common Agenda for Change Toward the New Colombia. Thus, the presidential statement of October 7 was the … [read more]

By: Brian Becker, International Action Center The writer is a co-director of the International Action Center and a member of the steering committee of the A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) coalition. April 27, 2002--How will the April 20 mobilization in Washington, D.C., be remembered in the history of the anti-war and anti-imperialist movement in the United States? What are the most important lessons to be learned from this mobilization that drew more than 100,000 people in the biggest protest to date against the Bush administration`s foreign and domestic political program? Since there have been many Washington demonstrations over the years organized by both progressive and reactionary organizations, it requires something special to suggest that a particular … [read more]

by: Rizwan AttaAlmost 25 members of Labour Party Pakistan have been arrested today on 26th April 2002 at 5:45 p.m., when they were holding a protest rally in front of Lahore Press Club in Lahore against Referendum. Police brutally baton charged all the participants including women, as a result most of them injured.Farooq Tariq Secretary General LPP was also arrested. Other arrested persons include Moeen Nawaz Punno Chairman LPP Lahore, Azra Shad Chairperson Women Workers Help Line, Farah Naz Secretary Women Workers Help Line, Tariq Shehzad member LPP Central Unit, Shahid Mehmood organizer Printing and Graphic Workers Union, Maqbool Kharal Chairman Central Unit and many other activists of LPP.The activists of LPP started gathering in the Lahore Press Club at 5:00 p.m. There were hundreds … [read more]

Negotiations underway regarding the inclusion of Labour Party Pakistan in the left alliance for October electionsPakistan National Council (PNC), which at the moment is the largest left alliance in Pakistan, decided in its meeting three months ago to form a broad-based front for participation in the upcoming general elections to be held in October, 2002. Presently, notable parties that constitute the PNC are Pakistan`s People`s Party (Shaheed Bhutto), Communist Mazddor Kissan Party (CMKP), National Workers Party (NWP), Tehrik-e-Istaqlal etc.The governing committee of PNC has been contacting other progressive and left parties for the creation of the election front. In a meeting held on 11th April 2002, Labour Party of Pakistan (LPP), along with many other parties, also requested for … [read more]

Government forces of Nepal arrested the leader of Maoist in Nepal. Rekha Sharma, President of All Nepal Women`s Association (Revolutionary) and member of Central People`s Government is arrested. She was arrested from Chahabil area of Capital city Kathmandu.And from the same area another leader Krishna Dhoj Khadka was also arrested. He was the former Chairman of All Nepal National Free Student Union (Revolutionary).Before also Central Committee member of Maoist Rabindra Shrestha was arrested from capital who is not made public after the 4 month also. In the emergency period the government has killed the Ajavlal yadav, and Khop Bahadur Kandel two leaders of Maoist. They were killed after arresting. After the emergency by government the terror of government in increasing. At the period of … [read more]

By PFLP/DHKC"Let us unite to express our thirst for justice!" - In a joint declaration released by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Turkish revolutionary organization Revolutionary People`s Liberation Front (DHKC) these two organizations link their struggles to the Colombian rebel army FARC.THE USA IS THE BIGGEST TERRORIST(By PFLP/DHKC) Following September 11, the USA has declared war on the entire world. It has compelled all countries, all organisations to prostrate themselves before it, saying that "those who are not with us are against us". The USA is trying to build a world empire. It is trying to sell this world domination by America as "the New World Order" or "globalisation".. This domination is in fact domination by the major monopolies which … [read more]

Statement by the International Action CenterApril 12, 2002According to an anti-war organization based in the United States, the U.S. government working with Venezuelan reactionaries, the wealthy classes of that South American country and the international pro-U.S. media, has fomented and carried out a military coup against the popularly elected leader, President Hugo Chavez.Teresa Gutierrez of the International Action Center (IAC) said "the coup has all the markings of a CIA plot, much like the one carried out against the Chilean President Salvador Allende in September 1973." Gutierriez pointed out that the "so-called strike leading up to the coup was really an action by the wealthy owners of the factories, aided by a corrupt sector of the trade union movement representing only the most … [read more]

Yesterday, at 18 o`clock on Square of Republic in Belgrade, an meeting of Yugoslav-Arab Friendship Society was held, as sign of protest against Israeli aggression. Around two hundred people attended the meeting among which were the members of communist organisations.Solidarity with people of Palestine were expressed as well as support to peaceful solution of the crises and the termination of the aggression. Although this meeting represents a significant move considering Israeli politics, it passed in the shadow of current political and economical … [read more]

In front of Yugoslav Parliament, few hundred antiimperialists gathered to protest against new law on cooperation with Hague tribunal. Demonstrants expressed their anger and paroles against members of proimperialist parties which voted for the law (DOS, DSS, SNP and … [read more]

Press release, April 8, 2002In light of the continuous Israeli occupation of Palestine, the PFLP believes that resistance to the occupation through any means is a legitimate right as understood by international convention. The PFLP believes that the goals of the Palestinian people (the right to self-determination, the right to an independent and sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the right of refugees to return), are to be understood as transitional measures on the way to establishing a democratic state in historic Palestine, where all peoples can live as equal citizens, entitled to basic human rights, regardless of race, religion, color, or sex. The PFLP works toward these goals through fostering cooperative efforts among Palestinians, the Arab Nation, and all … [read more]

by OSPAAAL, CubaCampo Antimperialista, AustriaHavana, March 18, 2002The Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL), an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, has the pleasure and honor to invite you to attend the II International Conference of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, that will be held from May 15th to 17th 2002 in Mexico City. This important Conference will be co-sponsored by the Partido del Trabajo de Mà©xico and is supported by other Mexican and Cuban organizations, as well as the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).The conference will give continuity to our solidarity work with the Palestinian people, who is suffering today the increase and inhumane aggression of … [read more]

A preliminary report by a fact finding team to Ahmedabad, 10-11th March 2002 The recent widespread communal violence in Gujarat has shocked the world. The UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson has also voiced her deep concern. People from all walks of life in India have reacted with shock and dismay. The BJP government of Gujarat, as well as the NDA government at the Centre, have attributed the communal violence which broke out in Ahmedabad and other places on 28th February 2002, to the anger of the Hindus over the gruesome burning of ram sewaks in Godhra in the early morning of 27th February. The spontaneous outburst of the people following the massacre of the VHP activists, they argue, reached such proportions because of the …‘failure´ of the Opposition parties to condemn the … [read more]

by Doris TorresI am Puerto Rican, born and raised in NYC.I am against the U.S. Navy bombing in Vieques, Puerto Ricoand regard that to be the act of a bully against a tiny island,that cannot defend itself.I am against the United States sending billions a yearto Israel, so that Israel can commit genocide againstthe Palestinian men, women and children.I am against the previous policies of the U.S.in countries such as Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala.There are mass graves in those countries,in Nuestra America, whose assasins were trainedin the School of The Assasins, located in Fort Bennington,Georgia.I do not agree with the policy of giving millions tothe Paramilitares in Colombia, whose principal objectiveis to kill as many Colombians peasents as possible,because the peasent, quite … [read more]