Bolivarian congress in Europe to send solidarity delegation to VenezuelaIn forthcoming December 2006 the Venezuelan people will be called to the polls to decide over a renewed mandate for president Hugo Chavez. Since 1998 a huge majority especially among the poor classes has been confirming the Bolivarian transformation in seven elections or referendums.Seven years of Bolivarian revolution has changed the face of Venezuela: The old economic and political elites have been ousted from power. The oil resources have been recuperated by the nation. Significant socials reforms are being undertaken in the fields of education, health, labour and housing for the poor.The Bolivarian revolution is generating a strong international echo which already caused a change of relationship of forces in Latin … [read more]

Representatives of antiimperialist popular movements calling for Bolivarian and antiimperialist unity on the occasion of the EU-Latin American summit in ViennaFrom May 10 to 13, European and Latin American forces critical to globalisation will hold the alternative summit "Enlazando Alternativas" in parallel to the official meeting of the European Union with Latinamerican heads of states due to take place during the Austrian EU presidency. Already at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuelas's President Hugo Chavez had invited popular movements to form an antiimperialist movement able to act in practice. His criticism was explicitly directed against the anti-globalisation fora of the last years due to their incapacity to act. This had become obvious since important antiimperialist … [read more]

Call to support the tour of a delegation of the Palestinian Authority in EuropeThe Palestinian people are facing a cohorted international pressure against the democratic will and choice of Hamas as the political representatives of the citizens and refugees living in the West Bank and Gaza. One of the most obvious proofs that the US obstruct democracy in the Middle East is the economical extortion campaign to force the government elected in the Palestinian elections 25th of January to kneel. The campaign is even worse considering that the US every year supports the occupant state Israel with huge sums. When the European governments now choose to stand behind the US extortion they once again show that they are fully on the side of the brutal occupation of Palestine.The US and European … [read more]

But they can subdue the resistance nor impede dialogueSalah Bardawil, spokesman of Hamas, and Mohamed Rantisi, brother of the killed leader of Hamas, were scheduled for a European tour including France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Austria.But despite promising signals at the beginning France denied to grant visa. Doing so they just applied an European policy decision to isolate the elected representation of the Palestinian people. The EU is therefore liable for and implicated in the U.S.-Zionist crimes against the starving Palestinian people. This episode shows once and again that Europe is nothing but a slave of U.S. imperialism forming a section of the U.S. empire.The important news is, however, that Norway, which had already dropped the Black List, signalled readiness … [read more]

Campo Antiimperialista Italien om Romano Prodis segernederlagMitten-vänstern har vunnit valet, eller rättare sagt folkomröstningen om Berlusconi med en hà¥rsmà¥n. Men detta bekräftades inte förrän kejsare Bush till slut ringde till Prodi och pॠsॠsätt gjorde hans insättande i ämbetet verkligt.I och med att det nationella självbestämmandet har tagit slut, har även politiken dött av och allt som à¥terstà¥r är att fördela positioner och allmänna medel. Enligt Massimo D'Alema, president för Vänsterdemokraterna (Partito Democratico della Sinistra), är vallöftena vaga och det som verkligen räknas är vem som fà¥r vilket uppdrag. Padoa Schioppa, en välkänd, högt uppsatt bankdirektör har utsetts till ekonomiminister och Fausto Bertinotti, ledare för … [read more]

Dozens detained in clashes between police and demonstratorsDespite the presence of dozens of thugs and members of the police, hundreds of demonstrators in support of the judges managed to gather in front of the judges syndicate at 10.30 this morning. They were quickly cordonned off by police and surrounded by riot police carrying truncheons, as police was gearing up to sweep away the demonstrators.Downtown Cairo was since the early hours of this morning transformed into a chase between hundreds of demonstrators and Mubarak's henchmen. Nonetheless, hundreds of demonstrators managed to gather in front of the Ministry of Justice around the judges' march. The most significant was a protest by about 10 people which soon turned into hundreds, in front of the Ministry. Those gathered were … [read more]

The Board of Appeal has granted spokesperson of the Danish association 'Oproer' (Rebellion), Patrick Mac Manus, permission to appeal the confiscation of the association's international appeal to the Supreme Court.'Rebellion's' international appeal was removed from the association's homepage by order of the Copenhagen Magistrate's Court on 12 August 2005. This injunction was upheld 14 October 2005 by the High Court. In May 2005, 'Rebellion' addressed an international appeal, in both English and Spanish, to almost 300 European democracy and solidarity movements, urging them to counter the threat to political and civil liberties posed by anti-terrorism legislation, and, in particular, to challenge the 'terrorist list' of the European Union by mobilising material support for resistance … [read more]

Italy's Anti-imperialist Camp on the victory-defeat of ProdiThe centre left has won the elections or better the referendum on Berlusconi by a hairbreadth. But the confirmation was given only after the imperator Bush eventually called Prodi thus making his investiture effective.With the end of national sovereignty also politics died away and their remains only the distribution of seats as well as of the public resources. According to D'Alema, president of DS, electoral promises are vague, what really counts is the assignment of offices. Padoa Schioppa, a well-known senior bank manager, is designated minister of economy and Bertinotti, chief of Communist Refoundation, will become president of the chamber of deputies. These are signals emitted in different directions which, however, well … [read more]

Dienstag, 2. Mai 2006, 19 UhrEngland 2001Regie: Ken LoachDrehbuch: Rob DawberLänge: 95 MinutenSprache: Deutsche FassungDienstag, 2. Mai 2006Beginn: 19 UhrOKAZ, Gußhausstrasse 14/3, 1040 Wien THE NAVIGATORS, angesiedelt in einem Eisenbahndepot im südlichen Yorkshire Mitte der 1990er Jahre, zeigt die Privatisierung des britischen Eisenbahnsystems von innen heraus, aus der Sicht der unmittelbar betroffenen Arbeiter, just zu dem Zeitpunkt als der Zusammenbruch von Railtrack im realen Leben stattfand und so die katastrophalen Konsequenzen der neoliberalen Privatisierung (wie zum Beispiel folgenschwere Unfälle wegen zu geringer Wartung) sichtbar machte. THE NAVIGATORS ist die Geschichte kampfbereiter Arbeiter, die sich gegen die herrschenden sozialen und ökonomischen … [read more]

Honourable President,Since the past 10 months from June 2005 the Chhattisgarh government under Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Raipur, actively aided by the Congress-led UPA government in Delhi, had unleashed a brutal military campaign under the smokescreen of peace campaign or salwa judum. In this short period, around 670 adivasi (tribal) villages and hamlets were either completely or partially burnt, or their inhabitants completely evacuated in Dantewara district alone. A band of hooligans and gangsters have been propped up by the politicians and officials to carry out most heinous activities on the people particularly adivasis. Over 150 adivasis were murdered in cold blood by the security forces and salwa judum gangsters. Crores of rupees worth of property of the poor adivasis was … [read more]

Call by the CPN (Maoist) for a general strikeCommunist Party of Nepal (Maoist)Central CommitteePress Statement1.The countrywide mass movement launched according to the understanding reached on November 22, 2005 and March 19, 2006 between the CPN (Maoist) and the seven political parties is heading for victory with unprecedented mass participation, people's resistance and the sense of sacrifice. Thwarting all kinds of repressions including the fascist curfew and prohibition order against the general strike, disobedience movement and huge mass demonstrations particularly after April 6, 2006, the active and encouraging participation witnessed on the part of lakhs and crores of the masses of all levels and strata including peasants, workers, students, women, dalits, ethnic people, teachers, … [read more]

First reaction of the Free Iraq Committees after the Italian electionsThe elections have passed with a quite different result then expected. But on Iraq, on the withdrawal of the occupation troops, the electoral campaign said close to nothing. We are faced with a bi-partite silence which corresponds to an identical policy of both the left as well as the right. The line which has unified the two poles is to withdraw the Italian contingent within 2006 but by reconfirming the servile alliance with the U.S. This means a new presence in Iraq painted in civil colours.For the new centre left government with it's extremely weak majority one of the most important and awaited decisions will be the one on Iraq.A month ago Piero Fassino, the secretary of the Democratic Left, has given the line: … [read more]

En första reaktion frà¥n Italiens Irakkommittà©er efter det italienska valetValet har lett till ett helt annat resultat än det som förväntades. Men i frà¥gan om Irak, om tillbakadragandet av ockupationstrupperna, sades nästan ingenting under valkampanjen. Vi stà¥r inför en tystnad frà¥n bà¥da sidor som stämmer överens med den uppfattning som vänster och höger har gemensam. Det ställningstagande som har förenat bà¥da sidor är att dra tillbaka den italienska truppkontingenten i à¥r, men pॠett sätt som bekräftar Italiens servila allians med USA. Det betyder att Italien ska vara kvar i Irak, men i civila kläder.För den nya center-vänsterregeringen, med dess extremt bräckliga majoritet, är beslutet om Irak ett av de viktigaste och mest emotsedda.För en … [read more]

Meeting of solidarity with the Palestinian people's resistanceIncreasing colonisation and discrimination against the Palestinians accelerated by the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, blockade and shelling of Gaza, killing and house destruction in the West Bank, arbitrary detention and the torture of prisoners … the day-to-day situation in occupied Palestine confirms the constant will of the successive Zionist governments, i.e., to colonise Palestine, expel a maximum number of Palestinians from their land and consequently repress ferociously all forms of resistance.Each passing day, the state of Israel further violates the basic rights of the Palestinian people. Still, however, it is not against this intolerable situation that the international powers, the European Community … [read more]

Athens 4-7 May 2006International ParticipationsInternational League of People's Struggle (ILPS)ILPS Turkish SectionATIK - Confederation of Workers from Turkey in EuropeATIF - Federation of Workers from Turkey in GermanyATIGF - Federation of Workers and Youth from Turkey in AustriaITIF - Federation of Workers from Turkey in EnglandFITIF - Federation of Workers from Turkey in FranceATIK-DG-NDY - New Democrat Youth - TurkeyATIK-Yeni Kadin - ATIK-New Woman - TurkeyFront for Rights (HOC) - TurkeyAssociation of Families of Political Prisoners (TAYAD) - TurkeyLegal Office of the Peoples (HHB) - TurkeyFederation of Youth Associations (TSDF) - TurkeyCampo Antiimperialista Marxist Leninist Party of UkraineWorkers' Communist Party of Norway (AKP) Free Iraq Committee - NorwayFree Iraq Committee - … [read more]

Meeting de soutien à  la rà©sistance du peuple palestinien le 30 avril 2006 à  Ivry-sur-SeinePour faire entendre la voix de la rà©sistance, nous organisons une rà©union publique :Le 30 avril 2006, à  partir de 14H30, Espace Robespierre à  Ivry à  la sortie du Mà©tro Mairie d…?Ivry - ligne n°7Avec notamment les interventions de :- SALAH BARDAWIL, à©lu du Conseil Là©gislatif Palestinien, porte parole du groupe parlementaire du HAMAS.- RABAH MHANNA, membre du Bureau politique du Front Populaire de Libà©ration de la Palestine (FPLP)- Un membre des Brigades des Martyrs d'AL AQSAParce qu'il n'est pas de soutien và©ritable sans respect des choix palestiniens dans leur expression politique et dans leurs formes de rà©sistance, le MSRPP appelle tous les acteurs … [read more]

in the 4th European Social Forum of AthensEditor's note: We publish following statement to document the debate on how to form a coalition of anti-imperialist forces. As Anti-imperialist Camp, however, we strongly believe that it is the wrong choice to remain within the frame of the Social Forum as its leadership and its structures is organically linked to a a modern version of reformism. In substance they what to mitigate the contradictions of the imperialist system and not use them to destroy it. We believe that the anti-imperialist forces must organize independently outside the Social Forum. Only in this way they can conduct a fruitful dialogue with the forces within ready to co-operate on an anti-imperialist ground. Therefore the Anti-imperialist Camp supports and participates in the … [read more]

Closing Statement The World is in a crisis...It is the crisis of the global counter-revolution manifested by the US neo-fascism that has swept the world in the name of the American "values" and for spreading the fake American "democracy"; it is the war that is characterized by paranoia, the worship of "force", enslaving people and the take-over of their resources. A war waged by the US Empire that has dug its grave in Iraq which turned into a swamp where the Imperialist authority has deteriorated and where the Arab people have risen in defense of their rights and existence. It is the counter-revolution that aims at making the Zionist entity a regional axis of hegemony and the deletion of the Arab history, identity and future. Thus it has moved to eliminate the resistance in Lebanon, … [read more]

The Action of the Chad for the Unity and Socialism ( ACTUS) condemns the French military intervention which saves the dictatorial regime of the President I. Dà©by.The Action of the Chad for the Unity and Socialism ( ACTUS) condemns with force the intervention of the French Army beside governmental forces to fight the forces of the opposition armed with the SCUD and with the RPJ. In a press release of March 22, the leader of the SCUD YAYA DILLO DJERROU accuses frankly the French air forces for having transported on the battleground " all the military material and the troops " governmental Chadian whereas " planes of surveillance " French followed " directly the movements of the troops of Scud ". Always according to this communiquà©, Idriss Dà©by " prepared the offensive from start … [read more]

by James Petras"…Reflexes that ordinarily spring automatically to the defense of open debate and free enquiry shut down - at least among much of America's political elite - once the subject turns to Israel, and above all the pro-Israel lobby's role in shaping US foreign policy…Moral blackmail - the fear that any criticism of Israeli policy and US support for it will lead to charges of anti-Semitism - is a powerful disincentive to publish dissenting views. It is also leading to the silencing of policy debate on American university campuses, partly as the result of targeted campaigns against the dissenters…Nothing, moreover, is more damaging to US interests than the inability to have a proper debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict…Bullying Americans into consensus on … [read more]