Programme of the Anti-imperialist Camp 2004, August 2-6, Assisi, Italy

Dedicated to the comrades Avin Er a Zeynep Kilic who are unjustly detained since April 1 in Italy and all the anti-imperialist prisoners from Palestine to Guantanamo

Thursday, July 29, 12 am, Perugia, near the Centre Carlo Giuliani Press conference presenting the Camp 2004 Criminalization cannot stop the resistance, promoters and lawyers of the camp address the public Sunday, August 1, 9 pm 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 Monday, August 2, Within the American Empire 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) Tuesday, August 3, Another world is possible which one? Forum 1: Chiapas the forgotten revolt (Oralba Castillo NАjera, 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 (FИlix 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) Wednesday, August 4, From resistance to liberation 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 (HжC Front for Rights and Liberties; Ridvan Kaya, жzgЭr 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 RЬd 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 Thursday, August 5, Symphony of freedom 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 (Altaf Hussain Qadri, spokesman of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front) Forum 3: The Basque Liberation struggle at a turning point (IЯaki 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 (IЯaki 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) Friday, August 6, Their Europe and ours 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 TЭrk, 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 (IЯaki 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 Saturday, August 7 Int l assembly of the Anti-imperialist Camp (for all national sections and sympathisers) Endorsers of the Anti-imperialist Camp Assisi 2004 Organisations: 1. Co-ordination Simon Bolivar, Venezuela 2. Democratic Communist Current Iraq 3. Abna elBalad, Palestine within the Green line 4. Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP) 5. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) 6. People's Democratic League (PDL), Sierra Leone 7. Communist Mazdor Kisan Party (CMKP), Pakistan 8. Revolutionary People s Liberation Front (DHKC International), Turkey 9. Left Front, Hungary 10. Popular Base Movement, Venezuela 11. National Front for a Renewed Chad (FNTR) 12. Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) 13. Muslim Parliament of Great Britain 14. Anti-imperialist Camp 15. International Leninist Current (ILC) 16. Popular Democratic Left (IDP), Mexico 17. Basque Movement for Amnesty 18. Colictivo Libertad, Mexico 19. United Peoples, USA 20. Revolutionary Communist League Thuringia, Germany 21. Loyalty to Men and Earth, Lebanon 22. Yugoslav-Austrian Solidarity Movement, Austria 23. Party of Muslims of France (PMF) 24. Earth and Liberation, Sicily 25. Consurta Comunista Sarda, Sardinia 26. LUPO, Proletarian Unity Struggle, Osimo, Ancona, Italy 27. Anti-imperialist of Marche, Italy 28. Patriotic Front of the Socialist Left, Poland 29. Movimento per la Confederazione dei Comunisti, Italia 30. Free Umbia, Italy 31. POSSE, youth collective, Italy 32. Direzione 17, Italy 33. Red Utopia, Italy 34. Free Thought and Educational Rights Society (жzgЭr Der), Turkey 35. Human Dignity & Rights (HDR), Germany 36. Anti-globalist Resistance, Russia 37. Red Palante, Colombia 38. Anti-US & Israel Globalisation and Hegemony, Lebanon 39. Initiativ e.V., Duisburg, Germany 40. Federation of University Students of Venezuela (FEUV) 41. Action for Unity and Socialism (ACTUS), Chad 42. Popular Support Committee for the Palestinian People and for the Struggle against the Normalisation with the Zionist Enemy, Tunisia 43. Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamence (MFDC), Senegal 44. Revolutionary Communist League (RKL), Austria 45. Direction 17 (D17), Italy 46. ATTAC Taroudant, Morocco 47. CPI(ML) Red Flag - Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Flag 48. Social and Cultural Association Taroudant, Morocco 49. Iranian-American Community (IACUS) 50. Association Martin Fierro, Argentine 51. Slum Front of December 19th, Argentine 52. Centar Tito, Yugoslavia 53. Action Circle March 24, Jena, Germany 54. Sedunia Initiative for international politics, Austria 55. Voice of the New Colombia, Germany 56. 32 County Sovereignty Movement, Ireland 57. Workshop for the Construction of Socialism (TCS), Mexico 58. Festival of Peoples in Struggle, Sardinia 59. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) 60. Circle Red Flag, Sardinia 61. Union of Young Arab Progessists, Belgium Personalities: 1. Serguei Novikov, Member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Workers' Party - Revolutionary Party of Communists (RKRP-RPK) 2. Yasin Malik, Leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front 3. Ahmed Karim, Leader of the Democratic Communist Current Iraq 4. Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, Leader of the Muslim Parliament of Great Britain and Executive Committee Member of the British Stop the War Coalition 5. Haissam Hussein, Loyalty to Men and Earth, Lebanon 6. Peter Szekely, Member of the Presidium of the Workers Party, Hungary 7. Shraga Elam, journalist and activist for a democratic state and peace in Palestine. Born 1947 in Palestine as a son of a Jewish refugee, left the country for political reasons, lives in Switzerland since 1978. 8. Gianmarco Burgdorfer, Green Party, Osimo, Ancona, Italy 9. Fabio Pasquinelli, Representative of the Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC), Osimo, Ancona, Italy 10. Lars Akerhaug, International Officer, RV (Red Electoral Alliance), Participant in the co-ordinating committee of "Bring-Back-the-Troops" 11. Jagat Toudam, Executive member of the North East Coordination Committee on Human Rights (NECOHR), Seven North-eastern Indian States 12. Fadi Madi, chairman Anti-US & Israel Globalisation and Hegemony, chairman of Lebanese continental council world wide, chairman of the international union for non governmental organizations to support Palestine rights, regional co-ordinator in the Arab and Muslim world for the global league against imperialism and Zionism 13. Mohamed Regragui, militant of the United Left (GSU), Morocco 14. Djimadoum Ley-Ngardigal, general secretary of ACTUS, Chad 15. Costanzo Preve, Marxist philosopher Turin, Italy 16. Vainer Burani, Democartic Jurists, Italy 17. Aldo Bernardini, University profesor for International Law, Italy 18. Giuseppe Pelazza, Lawyer of Italian political prisoners, Italy 19. Choukri Latif, writer and spokesman of the Popular Support Committee for the Palestinian People and for the Struggle against the Normalisation with the Zionist Enemy, Tunisia 20. Harsh Thakor, Democratic rights activist, Bombay, India 21. Mamadou Nkrumah SanИ, General Secretary of the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamence (MFDC), Senegal 22. Aziz El Atrouz, militant of the Unified Left (GSU), Morocco 23. Mohamed Dahmani, militant of the Unified Left (GSU), Morocco 24. Jean-Pierre Page, International Conference for The Iraqi Resistance 25. Wilfried Bader, Communal Councillor, Angerberg, Tirol, Austria 26. Stevan Mirkovic, retired general and chief of staff of the Yugoslav People s Army 27. Joe Navidad, Member Intl Coordinating Committee, US Representative of International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) 28. Alberto HМjar, professor for Aesthetics at the UNAM and founder of the Workshop for Art and Ideology (TAI), Mexico 29. Zivorad Jevtic, union leader in the Zastava works, Kragujevac, Serbia ***

Программа антиглобалистского форума Ассзизи 2004

Форум посвящается товарищам Авин Эр и Зейнап Килич, с 1.04.04 находящихся в застенках за антиглобалистскую деятельность

29.07 Перуджа Презентация форума. 1.08 Ложь Берлускони и итальянские заложники (М.Паскинелли, Л.Маззеи). Концерт. 2.09. Внутри американской империи 1. Вклад ислама в борьбу против империализма и сионизма. 2. Борьба против всех форм расизма, нет использованию антисемитизма для прикрытия сионизма. 3. 11 сентября 2001 г. Неоконсервативный заговор или удар в сердце империи. После обеда: анархизм и коммунизм в молодежных дебатах. Круглый стол: ложь о войне цивилизаций (с участием С.Новикова, РКРП-РПК).

3.08. Другой мир возможен? А какой? 1. Забытый бунт чьяпас. 2. Венесуэла: источник и динамика боливарианского движения Чавеса. 3. Боливия: бунт и революция. После обеда: возрождения рабочего движения от Мельфи до Помильяно. Круглый стол: антиглобалистское движение и дебаты о ненасилии.

4.08. От сопротивления к освобождению. 1. Борьба против колониализма в Палестине. 2. Подлинная история иракского коммунистического движения. 3. Народная борьба в Турции. После обеда: навстречу 1 международному дню иракского сопротивления. Встреча комитетов “Освободить Ирак” (с участием С.Новикова). Круглый стол: Ирак от восстания в Фаллудже до плана Брахими. Концерт.

5.08 Симфония свободы 1. Чечня, русские коммунисты и самоопределение (С.Новиков). 2. Кашмир между самоопределением и аннексией.3. Баскская освободительная борьба в поворотной точке.После обеда: О европейском антагонизме красно-зеленого полюса. Круглый стол: коммунизм по-прежнему историческая возможность?

8.08. Их и наша Европа. 1. Крестовый поход против ислама. 2. Демократия и социальный антагонизм в Италии. 3. Полицейское государство и операция 1.04 против антирепрессивного движения. Заключительный концерт.