Iraqi Resistance Conference

international | anti-war / imperialism | event notice Thursday September 29, 2005 00:51 by Anna Tolini - Anti Imperialist Camp camp at antiimperialista dot org PF 23, 1040, Wien, Austria -

International Protest Gathering to Make Iraqi Resistance Conference Possible

From: "Anti-imperialist Camp"

1) Oct 2: Int’l Protest Gathering to make Iraqi Resistance conference
possible
2) Oct 1: Meeting of forces in support of Iraqi resistance
3) Ayatollah Baghdadi condemns Ayatollah Sistani for curbing jihad
against occupation
4) Joint statement of IPA, Baath
5) German vote against American Empire
6) On the trail of Sheik Bedreddin and Francis of Assisi

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1) Let’s face the truth

International protest gathering
towards the International Conference
Leave Iraq in peace – support the legitimate popular resistance

Rome, October 2, 10 am
Aula Magna Università Valdese, via Pietro Cossa 40 (zona Piazza
Cavour)

Speakers listed in Full Text Section

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1) Oct 2: Int’l Protest Gathering to make Iraqi Resistance conference
possible
2) Oct 1: Meeting of forces in support of Iraqi resistance
3) Ayatollah Baghdadi condemns Ayatollah Sistani for curbing jihad
against occupation
4) Joint statement of IPA, Baath
5) German vote against American Empire
6) On the trail of Sheik Bedreddin and Francis of Assisi

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1) Let’s face the truth

International protest gathering
towards the International Conference
Leave Iraq in peace – support the legitimate popular resistance

Rome, October 2, 10 am
Aula Magna Università Valdese, via Pietro Cossa 40 (zona Piazza
Cavour)

with

Haj ALI, torture victim from Abu Ghraib
Awni al KALEMJI, spokesman of the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance (IPA)
Abdulhaleem KANDIL, representative of Kifaya, Egypt
Georges LABICA, philosopher, France
Jan MYRDAL, Swedish author
John CATALINOTTO, International Action Centre, USA
Gianni VATTIMO, philosopher, Italy
Hamza PICCARDO, National Secretary of the Union of Islamic Communities,
Italy
Domenico LOSURDO, philosopher, Italy
Marina BIGGERO, Cobas, Italy
Giovanni FRANZONI, Christian base community San Paolo, Italy
Vainer BURANI, lawyer of Islamic activists indicted for “terrorism”
Aldo BERNARDINI, professor for international law
Roberto GABRIELE, for the seven hunger strikers

Presidency:
Manolis ARKOLAKIS, International League of People’s Struggle ILPS
Leonardo MAZZEI, Secretary Italian Free Iraq Committees
John CATALINOTTO, International Action Centre, USA
Wilhelm LANGTHALER, Ant-imperialist Camp

By negating visas for the exponents of the Iraqi civil society with the
pretext that they would be “preachers of hate” and a “threat to
national
security” the Italian government impeded the conference of Chianciano
to
take place as scheduled.

Actually the Iraqis would have come not only to explain the reasons for
their Resistance against the occupation but also to invite Italy to
change
her course adopting a policy of peace.

It is a matter of fact that Berlusconi, Fini & Co obey to His Majesty
Bush
who by an ultimatum issued by 44 US congressmen intimidated Rome to ban
the
announced conference.

By one punch national sovereignty, the constitution and liberty of those
who
want to the freely express their opposition against being dragged in the
abyss of the “clash of civilisations”. Not the Italians are actually
terrorised but only the government as its tries to hide the truth about
what
is happening in Iraq: that there is no pacification, no democratic
stabilisation but that the war is even bloodier than before, that the
occupation troops and the death squadrons are committing appalling
crimes
for which they cynically try to blame the resistance.

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2) Oct 2: Meeting of forces in support of Iraqi resistance

For Oct 2 the organising committee for the international conference
“Leave
Iraq in peace – support the legitimate popular resistance” has
invited to a
working meeting of all the forces in support of the Iraqi resistance. On
the
agenda will be the question how to make the conference for the
recognition
of the Iraqi resistance with high representatives possible as well as
how to
strengthen the pro-resistance anti-imperialist network which we have
built
so far.

Whoever is interested to participate at the meeting scheduled to take
place
in Rome should contact: conference@iraqiresistance.info

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see:
http://lists.ilps-news.com/listinfo/Free_iraq

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3) Ayatollah al-Baghdadi condemns Ayatollah al-Sistanin for curbing Shia
jihad against occupation

Prominent Shiite cleric Ayatollah al-Baghdadi has denounced in his
Friday
sermon in Baghdad what he describes as the complacency of Ayatollah
al-Sistani with the American occupation and his evident reluctance to
call
Shiites for Jihad against the foreign occupation. Baghdadi relates that
Sistani, when asked about the matter, said to his followers that it was
not
permissible to fight the American occupiers, lest “Wahabis and
Baathists
return to rule Iraq”. Baghdadi goes on, often using strong and even
pejorative language, condemning Sistani and refuting his stance on
national-political as well as theological basis. Baghdadi more than
indicates that Sistani is complacent and not merely compliant; he openly
insinuates about Sistani's true national allegiance (being an Iranian,
not
an Iraqi) and mocks his characteristic quasi-mystical theology for being
both deviant from true Islam and politically illegitimate in a time when
Baghdad is reeling under foreign occupation.

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4) For a democratic and independent Iraq
Joint statement of IPA, Baath

All signatures of this declaration strongly assure that a democratic and
independent Iraq is the ultimate goal of all who signed this, and
therefore
the Arab Socialist Baath Party, the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance and the
Iraqi
Intellectual Association demonstrate their assertion for a call for all
Iraqis who resist this occupation for a united front and a united word.
It
is the only road to achieve the ultimate goal of a liberated democratic
and
independent Iraq.

Full statement:
www.antiimperialista.org/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1127250911&keywo
rd=+

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5) German vote against American Empire

The recent German scrutiny is far from revolutionary. Neither is it
anti-imperialist. Nevertheless the European oligarchy is expressing its
concern – and they are right in doing so. They had campaigned for the
victory for the open pro-US and ultra-liberalist forces represented by
CDU
and FDP. Their success was regarded as given. But actually they are the
real
losers as they are unable to build a government on their own.

The majority of the German middle and lower classes refuse the
Anglo-Saxon
model which they correctly link to infinite war mongering and
dismantling of
their social gains.

This is first of all being expressed in the emergence of the coalition
of
the Linkspartei led by the former Social Democrat leader Oskar
Lafontaine
with 8.7%. Based on the massive support in the former GDR it could also
rally significant support in crisis-ridden regions of the West like the
Saarland, on the Ruhr and in Bremen.

It is clear that the new formation in the final run longs for
re-integration
into the capitalist regime. But with its consistent reformism and
opposition
to the US war plans including German complicity the regime parties have
refused any co-operation at least for the time being. The Linkspartei
might
give impetus to anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist tendencies without
wanting it. The leadership, however, which has already a record of
sell-outs
like the participation in liberalist Eastern German Länder
governments,
tries to curb antagonist forces.

The Red-Green government of Schröder has been implementing the
liberalist
recipes. However, in the electoral campaign, responding to the popular
sentiments and especially to the challenge of the Linkspartei,
Schröder had
to employ an excessive deal of social populism promising the exact
contrary
of what he as being doing. Actually the fact that these lies paid and
not
the openly announced attacks of the CDU’s Merkel on the living
standard of
the masses evidences the anti-liberalist – though still passive and
politically impotent – mindset of the majority.

The oligarchy’s press is complaining about the continuing instability
of
Germany. And actually whatever government will come out it lack the
clear
mandate for their liberalist agenda.

And there is another positive aspect: It is the merit of Lafontaine to
have
curbed the neo-fascist danger by offering an alternative. Also in its
stronghold Saxony the NPD lost about half of its votes. Neo-fascism is a
reaction by parts of the poor against excessive liberalism and
Americanism.
The policy of the four oligarchic parties (SPD, CDU, Greens, FDP), while
claiming o be anti-fascist, is the real greenhouse of fascism.

The electoral result is favourable to the rebirth of antagonist forces
which
has been virtually extinguished. The forces affiliated with the
Anti-imperialist Camp will support the moves of the Linkspartei wherever
they are directed against the oligarchy like for example in their demand
to
withdraw the German troops from Afghanistan. We will push them to
transform
words in deeds, in real struggles.

But the Linkspartei has only made one step out of the pi-polar regime.
With
one foot it remains inside with significant collaborationist tendencies.
Already by now some MPs originating from the union DGB have announced to
support an SPD-led governmental coalition.

The Anti-imperialist Camp will maintain its full independence in
building an
antagonist pole against both sides of the regime hoping that the turmoil
and
the breaks evoked by the Linkspartei will liberate and feed
anti-capitalist
and anti-imperialist tendencies.

Anti-imperialist Camp

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6) On the trail of Sheik Bedreddin and Francis of Assisi
Message to the conference of Özgür Der, Turkey

We must have a common strategy to unify the wretched of the world both
Muslims and non-Muslims in a common universal struggle for freedom,
equality
and fraternity. We must reach out with our appeal also to parts of the
Western population as without their support we will never deal the final
blow to imperialism.

We absolutely need the block between the popular anti-imperialism of
Islamic
and of communist provenience. In substance our goals are the same:
freedom
and self-determination, popular and national sovereignty, social justice
and
equality, community and fraternity.

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