خلال المؤتمر الصحÙ?ÙŠ الذي عقدته الحركة العالمية لمناهضة العولمة والهيمنة الأميركية والصهيونية العالمية ظهر يوم الخميس الواقع Ù?ÙŠ 18 آذار 2004 Ù?ÙŠ قاعة الصحاÙ?Ø© التابع لكلية الاعلام والتوثيق Ù?ÙŠ بيروت أدلى خالد حنينه باسم … [read more]

The political prisoners from Abnaa ElBallad ("Sons of the Land") have declared a hunger strike to protest against the detention conditions of the Jalame prisonYesterday, March 28, 2004, the secretary general of Abnaa elBalad movement, the comrade Muhammad Kana´ane, went on a hunger strike to protest against his detention conditions in the Shabak compound in Jalame ("Kishon prison"). Today, March 29, 2004, he was joined by his brother and fellow political prisoner Hussam Kana´ane, a member of the Abnaa elBalad central committee. In spite of the fact that their investigation has ended and they are now legally classified as "detainees awaiting trial", our comrades are being held in inhuman conditions and denied the most elementary rights granted to them by the law:1) A small cell of … [read more]

Protest rally on the 5th anniversary of the NATO war on Yugoslavia in Vienna, AustriaOn March 24, 2004, the fifth anniversary of the NATO aggression on Yugoslavia, about 250 people, many of them with Serb origin, gathered in the centre of Vienna, Austria, despite the pouring rain. They did not only commemorate the attack but also testified to continue the struggle against the imperialist occupation of parts of former Yugoslavia. The Serb embassy, still controlled by the former imperialist puppet regime of DOS in Belgrade. called for the boycott of the rally – as this clique around Djindjic, deceased, has always served as an instrument of NATO even supporting the bombardments.***Stop the ongoing expulsion of Serbs from Kosovo!NATO and EU responsible for anti-Serb pogroms!The fresh … [read more]

نادي Ù?لسطين العربيأيتها الأخوات، أيها الإخوة… السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته! صادÙ? العشرون من آذار (مارس) مرور عام على بدء عدوان الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية وحلÙ?ائها على العراق. هذا العدوان الذي ضرب بعرض الحائط كل … [read more]

اللجنة الشعبية لنصرة الشعب الÙ?لسطيني ومقاومة التطبيع مع العدو الصهيوني بتونسيمرّ يوم 20 مارس 2004ØŒ عام على العدوان الإستعماري الغاشم على العراق المتوّج لأكثر من عقد من التحرّشات والحملات العسكرية والحظر والحصار … [read more]

اللجنة الوطنية لوحدة الشيوعيين السوريين نعم للمقاومة: ولا عذر لمتخاذل■ ها قد مر عام على احتلال العراق الذي انتقل من حكم الطغاة إلى حكم … [read more]

اللجنة الوطنية لوحدة الشيوعيين السوريين نعم للمقاومة: ولا عذر لمتخاذل■ ها قد مر عام على احتلال العراق الذي انتقل من حكم الطغاة إلى حكم … [read more]

Anti-imperialists addressed by Iraqi resistance representativeAn impressive mass demonstration rocked Rome on March 20 saying no to the aggression on Iraq and demanding the immediate withdrawal of the Italian troops and all other occupation forces. According to the organisers more than one million took to the streets.Dozens of banners displayed the support to the Iraqi resistance proving that the Italian people is not only against the war but maintains a deep anti-imperialist sentiment.Hundreds marched within the block of the Committee Free Iraq under a banner reading both in Italian and Arabic: With the resistance in Iraq, for the Intifada in Palestine". The closing rally of the anti-imperialist contingent took place on Piazza Venezia close to the residence of Berlusconi drawing about … [read more]

Press Release of 20th March Committee Against Imperialist Occupation of Iraq20 March, 2004.The right-wing federal government of Indian in office led by BJP arrested and detained more than 200 people, who gathered at Ramlila Grounds, Dariyagunj, when they were going in a demonstration towards American Centre at Barakamba Road, New Delhi as part of international day of protests worldwide.Among the prominent leaders who were arrested include Dr. B.D. Sharma, Chairman, Bharat Jan Andolan, Dr. Darshan Pal, President, All India Peoples Resistance Forum (AIPRF), Prof. Manoranjan Mohanty, Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, Dr. Rakesh Rafiq, All India leader of Yuva Bharat, Raj Kishor, Secretary of Struggling Forum for Peoples Resistance (SFPR), Varavara Rao, Revolutionary Poet … [read more]

American Law of Jungle CondemnedKarachi:(Pakistan), March 20: A well-disciplined large rally against American occupation of Iraq was brought here this afternoon to show solidarity with the Iraqi people, who are heroically and fiercely resisting US imperialism. The rally was also a sign of solidarity with the international community, which has close affinity with the Iraqi people at the hour of their historic anti-imperialistic struggle to liberate their country from foreign yoke. The rally was in line with the call by a large number of anti-imperialist organizations and progressive forces all over the world. Especially, in response to the call by Hisham Bustani, Jordan: Support the Iraqi resistance on March 20, the Communist Workers Peasants Party, Pakistan (CMKP), took its political … [read more]

Sammi Alaá, representative of the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance, addressing the Rome demo of March 20, 2004Today it is exactly one year that Anglo-American imperialism attacked Iraq in open violation of international law. They tried to justify their war claiming that Iraq would possess arms of mass destruction, would have links to Al-Qaida and would not co-operate with the United Nations.Today we can state that nothing, absolutely nothing of what Bush and Blair said was true. They dropped more than 20.000 precision bombs, 240.000 cluster bombs, 10.000 conventional missiles and more than 800 cruise missiles Tomahawk on the innocent Iraqi people – a people exhausted by more than twelve years sanctions imposed by the UN which cost the lives of some two million Iraqis. Nobody knows the exact … [read more]

Lessons of Spain by the Austrian Committee Free IraqThe Spaniards chased away Aznar because he bears the political responsibility for the massacre of Madrid. They have understood that the tragic attacks were in retaliation for the participation in the US aggression on Iraq.The message is clear: As long as Palestine and Iraq are occupied and the legitimate demand to self-determination unheard, there will be forces among the Arab people who will respond to high tech terror with traditional terror in this asymmetric war.The European support – against the explicit will of the majority – for the imperial claims of the US threatens us all. The slogans raised on the streets of Madrid speak a clear language: "The dead are our´s, the war your´s. You have waged the war, we must die." Aznar … [read more]

from People`s March, Vol 5, No. 2-3, Feb-Mar 2004Tale of Two Forums RetoldOne, A Serious Step Forward; The Other, A Carnival(The third week of January this year witnessed two major events in Mumbai …— first was the MR-2004; the other, the WSF. Given its importance People´s March specifically went and covered both the events. The reports printed in this issue are based on extensive interviews with participants and first hand observations made at the events. Based on these reports we here give an overall view of the two events..... Editor.)The dividing line between the two was the Western Express Highway to Gujarat. On the right lay the grounds of the Mumbai Resistance-2004, Against Imperialist Globalisation & War; on the left lay the sprawling venue of the World Social Forum. But, the … [read more]

Protest rally in ManipurLet´s save the people from the genocidal governmentMass rally Wednesday, 17th march, 2004Since the last month, the Indian army has killed twelve persons barbarically and illegally. The Assam Rifles killed eleven persons and yesterday, the 15th March 2004,yet another person fell victim to the inhuman brutalities of the Rajputana Rifles. In glaring instances of cold blooded barbaric murders, the Indian army is unleashing a reign of terror in Manipur. On the 9th of March, around 1 p.m. afternoon, Khundrakpam Tejkumar (22) of Uripok Laikhulenbi was picked up forcefully from the local playground during Holi sports festival by the Assam Rifles in front of hundreds of agitated men and women. His dead body bearing clear signs of brutal torture was found near Ng. Mani … [read more]

بيان من صادر عن معسكر القوى المناهضة للإمبرياليةما كادت تصل أنباء التÙ?جيرات التي هزّت محطات القطارات Ù?ÙŠ مدريد صباح الحادي عشر من آذار (مارس)ØŒ حتى غطت التبعات السياسية لهذا العمل على تلك الÙ?اجعة المؤسÙ?Ø© بحد ذاتها والتي … [read more]

هشام البستاني hbustani2@yahoo.com العدد: 774 - 2004 / 3 / 15 Ù?ÙŠ المنتدى الاجتماعي العالمي الرابع (الاجتماع الاكبر للمنظمات المناهضة للعولمة) المنعقد Ù?ÙŠ مومباي/الهند اواخر كانون الثاني من العام الحالي، اتÙ?Ù‚ الجميع على ان يكون يوم 20 اذار 2004 … [read more]

Declaration of the Anti-imperialist Camp on the Madrid bombingsImmediately after the news about the attacks on the train stations in Madrid had been spread in the morning of March 11, one could already feel the consequences which might be even more dramatic than the sad and pitiable number of civil victims: its political exploitation for a all-out attack on the democratic rights and particularly against the right to self-determination of the Basque people.The corporate media which are more and more a decisive arm of criminalisation and mobilisation in the service of the establishment had the perpetrators ready to be presented to the public: the Basque armed independence organisation ETA. The Spanish prime minister Aznar affirmed that there could not be any doubt that behind the operation … [read more]

Statement of the Communist Party of the People`s of SpainSTATEMENT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PEOPLES OF SPAIN ON THE ATTACKS IN MADRID1. The EC of the PCPE repudiates the violent actions against the civilian population whichever the pretext may have been, even more since in this case the victims were workers and students in their way to their jobs. This is a position approved by the Congresses of the PCPE that today the EC reiterates with even more firmness. 2. The EC of the PCPE joins in solidarity with the victims of these attacks and expresses our sympathy to the relatives of the deceased. 3. The EC of the PCPE condemns any kind of political maneuver using this misfortune. The imperialist and neoliberal forces have made the fight against terrorism a … [read more]

by Dr. Hisham Bustani, JordanChallenging the "Non-Violence" Trend in the global Anti-War MovementIn the Fourth World Social Forum (WSF) held in Mumbai-India late January of this year, there was an agreement on holding an International Action Day against the occupation in Iraq on March 20, 2004. World-wide demonstrations will take the streets under that banner.On the opposite side of the WSF`s venue, another meeting of Anti-Imperialist anti-Globalization organizations took place under the name: Mumbai Resistance `04 (MR04). This forum was more principled regarding the struggle against Imperialism and the analytical view of its mechanisms and the means of confrontation. In MR04, the participants did not settle only for raising the "End the Occupation" banner. There was a unanimous consensus … [read more]

Statement of solidarity from the Danish Committee for a Free Iraq (KFI)March 14, 2004Following the terror bombings in Madrid on March 11, the imperialist mass media, controlled by imperialism itself, have been trying to picture all kind of opposition to imperialism as terrorism. This has been the case in Italy, for instance, where a smear campaign has been launched against the Anti-Imperialist Camp and other forces who support the legitimate Iraqi resistance against the brutal, US-led occupation of Iraq.We, Danish and Iraqi anti-imperialists of the Danish Committee for a Free Iraq, hereby declare that we will never surrender to the terror campaigns of imperialism and hide our support for popular resistance against imperialism and occupation, be it in Iraq, Palestine, or Afghanistan.When … [read more]