"Il Manifesto", 03 Giugno 2000

Le leggi di guerra


Convenzione sulle Leggi ed i Costumi della Guerra di terra (1899),
appendice 3.1, articolo XXII: Il diritto dei belligeranti di
adottare mezzi di distruzione del nemico non illimitato.
Convenzione sulle Alterazioni Ambientali (1977), appendice 3.4,
articolo
1.1: Ogni parte contraente della Convenzione si
impegna a non intraprendere azioni militari o altre azioni ostili con
tecniche in grado di determinare alterazioni ambientali
estese, protratte nel tempo e che possano avere effetti gravi, come
mezzo
di distruzione, danneggiamento o danno
avverso altre parti contraenti.
Protocollo sulla Protezione delle Vittime di Conflitti Armati
Internazionali (1977), appendice 3.5, articolo XXXV: E' vietato
applicare metodi o tecniche di guerra dirette a creare, o per le quali
siano ipotizzabili, estesi, duraturi e gravi danni
all'ambiente naturale.
Articolo LV.1: Nel corso dei conflitti, deve essere fatta la massima
attenzione per proteggere gli ambienti naturali da danni
estesi, gravi e duraturi nel tempo. Questa protezione include il
divieto
dell'uso di metodi e tecniche di guerra dirette a
determinare, o per le quali si pu ipotizzare, questi danni al
patrimonio
naturale e quindi a pregiudicare la salute o la
sopravvivenza delle popolazioni.
Appendice 3.6, articolo XIV: L'affamamento dei civili come metodo di
combattimento vietato. E' quindi vietato attaccare,
distruggere, rimuovere o rendere inutilizzabili oggetti indispensabili
per la sopravvivenza dei civili, come riserve alimentari,
aree agricole destinate alla produzione di generi alimentari,
coltivazioni, allevamenti, installazioni delle acque potabili e
irrigazione.

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IL RAPPORTO DI AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SUI CRIMINI DELLA NATO:

-> sintesi in italiano:
http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/270?&start=256
-> testo completo in inglese (73 pagine formato PDF):
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/kosovo/index.html
http://www.abolishnato.com/abolishnato/warcrimes/warcrimes2.htm

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Subject: [STOPNATO] AI report - hell is opening for NATO
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 23:55:16 -0700
From: Peter Bein

STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM

1. Some pages in the newest AI report don't print, turn into blanks
after
scrolling. Same problem at AI site. Anybody knows how to fix it?
2. This is another NATO 'pussy cat' report, in spite of appearances.
- like HRW report about casualties it starts with an assertion of the
legitimacy of NATO 'humanitarian intervention', referring to Rambouillet
as
'peace talks' instead of an international scam designed to bully
Yugoslavia
into submission,
- has a pretence to objective investigations, but forgot that int'l
forensic teams found next to nothing in Kosovo dirt compared to NATO
'promises',
- wants to be taken seriously but ignores that Racak is a 100%
fabrication
- maybe they should demand public release of the final report from Dr
Ranta's forensic team first, if they really want to get to the guts of
the
NATO problem,
- it hangs on to the 400-600 number of casualties (as HRW) despite FRY's
detailed records of much more,
- it makes a disclaimer that only NATO's own statements are used to
prove
the allegations, but does not discuss Observer/Guardian/Politiken
article
on the embassy bombing which quotes high-ranking NATO sources; instead,
it
dwells on CIA 'punishment' of the 'guilty' thus legitimizing yet another
NATO lie in a series that starts to look more boring than puky to my
taste,
- among 9 example cases is bombing 'by accident' of the train on the
bridge
in Grdelica; this case is documented to be a lie of top NATO brass incl.
Clark -- the train WAS THE TARGET as is obvious from analysis of first
and
second AGM-130 films (I will post the website that proves it in
technical
detail, based on analysis of both gun camera films - it will make you
speechless)
3. I am unable to share your enthusiasm, Stormie. You are only proving
to
Maj. Kahrs that anti-natonites can be gullible. If anything, I would
suspect another PsyOps project. No matter how HRW and AI castigate NATO
there is no int'l institution that can get to NATO's throat. But reports
from those NGOs serve to legitimize blatant NATO distortions and lies at
a
low cost, while appearing "objective' to the average public opinion. At
the
time that the hell is opening for NATO it would be a logical thing to
do.
Peter

At 03:10 PM 06/06/00 -0400, Stormie wrote:
>STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM
>
>Dear friends :
>
>I have place a copy of Amnesty International document on the NATO bombing
>on my site on the "NATO War Crimes" page at
>www.abolishnato.com/abolishnato/warcrimes/warcrimes2.htm
>It is in PDF format and is downloadable as a zip file.
>It is 73 pages in length and that is why it is in such a format.
>
>Read it people! It is really a breath of fresh air and as I was reading it
>over I was cheering, applauding and licking my chops over it!!!! I really
>enjoy to the max anything that sticks it to the NATO Alliance!!
>
>I have always known that there is a night and day difference B/T Human
>Rights Watch and Amnesty International. For starters, take a look at their
>coverage of Kosovo events: AI seems truly interested in the welfare of
>Kosovo Serbs and their detention at a muddy, cold gymnasium. HRW reads like
>a Western newspaper, engaging in on anti-Serb demonization after another,
>with the style of the New York Times. I will write about that later on!
>Take a looooooong look at both Human Rights Watch's website and that of
>Amnesty International.
>Do you notice anything?! Hummm. . .
>
>ENJOY!
>
>"Stormie"
>

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FONTI VARIE SULLE DISTRUZIONI OPERATE DALLA NATO SUL TERRITORIO
DELLA REPUBBLICA FEDERALE DI JUGOSLAVIA:

http://www.egroups.com/message/crj-mailinglist/180?&start=176&threaded=1

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ALTRI LINK SEGNALATI:

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/06/12/fp7s1-csm.shtml

Christian Science Monitor
June 12, 2000
Families of NATO bomb victims demand accounting
On June 2, UN ruled airstrikes were not war crimes. Human rights group
disagrees.
Alex Todorovic - Special to The Christian Science Monitor
PODGORICA, YUGOSLAVIA

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http://www.jonathandimbleby.co.uk/TX20000611_Robertson/transcript.html

ITV - interview with NATO's George Robertson
(Broadcast 11th June 2000, ITV)

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http://commondreams.org/views/061000-103.htm
http://www.progressive.org/webex.htm

Sunday June 11 , 2000
Published on Saturday, June 10, 2000 by The Progressive
War Criminals? Who Us?
by Matthew Rothschild

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http://www.grdelica-case.org/index.htm

NATO's BAD CONSCIENCE
The authors of these pages dedicate their work to justice, truth and
honesty, to the duties of Rule of Law.
That's what democracy stands for. That's what ICTY stands for. That's
what we thought.

The Grdelica Case
The Dakovica Case
The Izbica Miracle

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http://www.originalsources.com

Clinton: The First American President to Commit Genocide in Europe
Serbs are being systematically exterminated in Kosovo
By: Mary Mostert, Analyst, Original Sources
May 30, 2000

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http://www.pravda.ru/archive/days/1999/june/28/14-19-28-06-1999.htm.

"Pravda - Internet" correspondent, Andrei Krushinski,
reflects on the tragedy in Yugoslavia and compares it
with Vietnam and Czechoslovakia which he observed as a
Pravda correspondent in these countries.
TRAGEDY AND FARCE
NATO Aggression in Yugoslavia - through the prism of
Historical Parallels



--------- COORDINAMENTO ROMANO PER LA JUGOSLAVIA -----------
RIMSKI SAVEZ ZA JUGOSLAVIJU
e-mail: crj@... - URL: http://marx2001.org/crj
http://www.egroups.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
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POLONIA: ricetta per liquidare un paese
BULGARIA: rottami di bombe NATO piovono sul territorio; teatrino
parlamentare ed inglobamento nelle strutture euroatlantiche
ROMANIA: privatizzazioni
UCRAINA: il Primo Ministro ospite al quartier generale della NATO
LITUANIA: Conferenza stampa congiunta con il Ministro della Difesa USA


ALTRI LINK:

LE BORSE DI TUTTI I PAESI "IN TRANSIZIONE" ON LINE:
Excellent FINANCIAL web site (CEE)
http://www.skatefn.com/

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/dem.wrong.html
The costs of transition to market and democracy


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POLONIA

From: Peter Bein <pbein@...>
To: stopnato@...

STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM

Marek Glogoczowski, a Polish dissident writer analysed the covert
methods,
allegedly used by the Soviets to subdue Poland after WW2, to those
currently observed. Here is my digested translation of the article, with
an
analogy to the present in brackets. I have expanded the analogies with
my
own observations from Poland (in Italics).

1. Direct agricultural policy concerning individual farming so as to
make
farming unprofitable, … cause national agriculture to become deficient
in
fully covering national food needs and make food supply dependent on
imports. [Collective farming concept from that time is now replaced by
strict dependency of farmers from foreign concerns who monopolise food
processing, dictate dumping prices for farm products.]
2. Cause all directives and legislation in legal, economic and
administrative domains to be imprecise. [Unchanged. One of the first
'reforms' of the new government was an astronomical expansion of the
bureaucracy at the county and regional level. The new posts are manned
with
"verified" persons loyal to the central party in power in order to
assure
total control.]
3. Cause that several commissions, offices, social institutions be
created
for every matter, but none of them should have powers to make final
decisions. [Unchanged.]
4. Workers self-governance at places of work should not have any
influence
on the direction of activities of the enterprise. [Unchanged.]
5. When creating and expanding enterprises make sure that industrial
effluent discharges into drinking water reservoirs and rivers. [Present
liquidation of industry entails ensuring that post-consumption waste is
disposed of upstream of drinking water supply. Recycling of waste
materials
such as paper, glass, plastic or aluminum cans should be made as
difficult
as possible. Municipal policy should be steered so as to create as many
uncontrolled waste dumps and other waste disposal places as possible,
especially near passenger rail routes and railway stations. This way the
population will constantly see apparent shabbiness of their own country.
Industrial lobbies press for conversion of solid waste to toxic air
pollution - out of sight out of mind.]
6. Expand the administration at all levels as much as possible.
[Unchanged.
Creation of local governments was advertised as giving power to the
people.
In effect the central government still controls funding, while local
politicians bureaucrats largely stifle any progressive initiative,
unless
they get their personal share in the deal.]
7. Place the Church under special observation and direct its educational
activities so as to cause widespread disgust to this institution.
[Unchanged.]
8. In primary and in trade education and particularly in secondary and
higher education cause lack of correlation between subjects, limit
publication of source materials, eliminate Latin, Greek, philosophy,
etc.
[Unchaged.]
9. Inspire national celebrations of the nation's struggle with invaders,
especially Germans, and the struggle for socialism. [Now celebrations
condemn crimes of communism, especially those committed by Soviet
Russia.
September the 1st, the anniversary of Hitler's invasion of Poland is
modestly announced as "start of WW2", and 17 days later -- "invasion of
Poland by Soviet Russia" (under German-Soviet secret treaty).
Significant
economic achievements of Poles in the communist era are denigrated as
"50
years of wasted time" by a government who has ruined the society and
economy over the last 10 years.]
10. Make sure that people in executive positions are periodically
replaced
by nominees with the lowest qualifications. [Unchanged.]

People who dare to point out the analogies are instantly demoted or
fired.
Glogoczowski gives an example of chief editor of dissident "Trybuna,"
who
was fired January 16, 2000, for that reason.

Glogoczowski expands the above list with quotes from Aleksander
Zinoviev's
"La grande rupture".
11. Crucial, typical characteristics of the social system of the nation
slated for colonialization should be discredited.
12. The country being colonized should be destabilized, its economic,
political and ideological crises - fanned.
13. The population should be divided into antagonistic groups,
opposition
movement should be supported and the intellectual elites tied to the
privileged groups.
14. At the same time widespread propaganda should glorify Western way of
life. [Fuck the cola, fuck the pizza, Serbs have their slivovica.]
15. A desire for wel-being similar to that in the West should be
stimulated
among the people.
16. An illusion should be created that the well-being can be reached in
a
very short time, provided the country embarks on a process of reforms
dictated by the West.
17. All shortcomings of Western societies should be presented among the
people as virtues expressing personal freedom.
18. Parasitism should be developed with all possible means. Economic aid
should only serve to destroy domestic manufacture.
19. The West should be presented as a benevolent saviour who liberates
the
country from mistakes of its former existence.
Zinoviev ends his book (translation back into English from Polish, may
not
be verbatim - P.B.);
"The country being colonialized is put into such state that in all
domains
it becomes unable to exist on its own. It is de-militarized to such
degree
that any military resistance on its part becomes impossible. Its
military
can at the most be used to control protests and to extinguish possible
insurrections. National culture is marginalized to a level of
vegetating.
Its place is taken by the culture, or more appropriately the
sub-culture,
of the West."

Glogoczowski postulates that both covert and overt subjugation
programmes
presently implemented by the West (USA) are much more precise and
tighter
compared to the Soviet model from 50 years ago. The new genre of
Western
monoculture is unusually aggressive and immune to any criticisms for its
feelings of "racial" superiority.
Zinoviev makes a similar remark at the end of his book:
"Westernization of our planet […] makes it impossible to preserve any
seat
from which some form of evolution different form that being copied from
the
West could evolve. By appropriating the world, though only for the
purpose
of deriving profits from it, the West is nipping in the bud all
potential
directions of evolution that could rival it."


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BULGARIA

Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:45:55 -0500 (CDT)
From: rrozoff@... (Rick Rozoff)
To: stopnato@...

STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM

[Can any sane, or decent, person retain a single doubt that, unless
these mad NATO militarists are soon thrown in cages, the world will be
incinerated?]

Missile Part Hits Bulgaria Resort
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) -- Part of an air defense missile fell on a Black
Sea resort during army exercises, damaging two bungalows, the Defense
Ministry said Friday.
Nobody was injured in the mishap, which occurred Thursday afternoon in
the resort of Rusalka, some 311 miles northeast of Sofia, as air defense
units were training at a nearby shooting range.
According to a preliminary investigation, the bungalows were hit by the
engine of a missile that was being used as a target. It veered off
course after being hit by an anti-aircraft missile.
No one was in the bungalows at the time of the accident.


>>www.emperors-clothes.com
>>
>>PARVANOV TAKES (IS GIVEN?) POWER. SO WHAT?
>>
>>by Blagovesta Doncheva (5-15-00)
>>
>>
>>First our cast of characters (alas, mostly villains):
>>
>>The Union of Democratic (Demonic?) Forces or UDF. The UDF was formed by
the
>>Bulgarian Communist Party Political Bureau, headed by Lukanov. In 1989 the
>>Communists had more than a million members. The leadership was in a hurry
>to
>>turn themselves into good capitalists and needed an 'opposition', that is
a
>>controlled opposition, to frighten their members into submitting to the
new
>>(capitalist) line.
>>
>>At first the UDF was composed of officers of the Secret Police, sons and
>>daughters of powerful members of the BSP and a host of Communist officials
>>at various levels. It was not an authentic grassroots organization.
>>
>>It was created in December, 1989, after which the manipulated dreamers for
>>freedom and rights (like me, alas!) rushed to join and give it substance.
>>
>>When I realized what I had gotten myself into, my first thought was to
>>rename the UDF 'Union of Secret Police'.
>>
>>The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP).
>>
>>This party is what remained of the Bulgarian Communist Party after its rib
>>was removed to form the UDF. The BSP is without clear ideology. They say
>>they are leftist but the leadership and many members are bankers, owners
of
>>export-import firms, etc. They are ridiculous. The BSP has about 200,000
>>members. At its last Congress, the BSP (remarkably) declared itself
>NATOite.
>>Many are leaving.
>>
>>Ivan Kostov, Bulgarian Premier and
>>head of the UDF. An ardent Globalisation groupie and NATOist; very much
>'our
>>guy' for both Uncle Sam and the European Union (EU) Social-Democrats.
Would
>>sell mama without hesitation but the price must be right. Or at least
>>reasonable, for he is a man of principle.
>>
>>Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov. A Leader of the BSP; a former and newly elected
>>Secretary of the BSP; a newly-converted NATOist; an MP; he is called
>>"Sedefcho' by some BSP members. (This diminutive suggests lack of
>character,
>>readiness to bend for the powerful.)
>>
>>Has he ever had an opinion of his own? Perish the thought. Or, if one had
>>the bad luck of falling into his skull, he shed it fast. One can never be
>>too cautious. A small man, gray, most convenient for the Globalisation and
>>NATO boys.
>>
>>Ms. Tatjana Doncheva, lawyer, MP, member of the BSP leadership; anti-NATO
>in
>>1999, passionately pro-NATO in 2000. She told the dumbfounded BSP members
>in
>>the town of Shumen in January that loyalty to the party means loyalty to
>>NATO. I have been told by friends from the town of Gabrovo that during the
>>local elections she did her best to make sure the independent candidate,
>>officially supported by the BSP, lost to the UDF candidate. The
independent
>>candidate won despite this help because he had sense enough to organize an
>>independent team of experts and ignore Tatjana Doncheva.
>>
>>Roumen Ovcharov, member of the BSP Supreme Council, MP. Ovcharov ran as
the
>>BSP candidate for a Mayor of Sofia.
>>
>>Or perhaps I should say 'pretended to run.' Because in fact the BSP and
UDF
>>privately agreed that the Mayor of Sofia would be Stefan Sofianski from
the
>>UDF. Mr Ovcharov's election campaign was thus purely symbolic, like a
>>drawing or statue of a campaign. He used this pantomime to declaim the
>BSP's
>>new pro-NATO position, saying on the TV show 'Seven Days' that only NATO
>>membership can protect the sovereignty of Bulgaria.
>>
>>US Ambassador Richard Miles, Sofia, Bulgaria. Miles is the former
>Ambassador
>>to Afghanistan and Belgrade. In other words, trouble follows him like a
>>faithful dog.
>>
>>Bulgarian Civil Airlines, BGA 'Balkan' Recently privatized. The pilots
>>expect that Zeevi Group, the new owner, will liquidate 'Balkan' after the
>>end of the tourist season. We think the same.
>>
>>Now for the Play. It is a tragic-comedy: Theater of the Grimly Absurd.
>>
>>Parvanov Takes (Is Given?) Power.
>>
>>So what?
>>
>>Georgi Sedefchov Parvanov, the former and newly elected Secretary of the
>>Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is marching boldly to power under a halo
of
>>approval and promises of support from kind Uncle Sam and the Euro
>>social-democrats. That approval and support has been earned after two
>months
>>of dining regularly with the US Ambassador in Sofia, Richard Miles, plus a
>>five minutes visit with Schroeder The Great - time enough for Parvanov to
>>pledge loyalty to NATO and 'euro-atlantic values'.
>>
>>The Bulgarian media have for some time noted with relish the dinner talks
>>between Amb. Miles and Mr. Parvanov. According to them Miles has given
>>Parvanov a firm promise of much money and the promise that Parvanbov will
>>be allowed to come to power.
>>
>>According to the newspapers, this delicious reward only requires that
>>Parvanov fill Bulgarian political space with passionate statements such
as:
>>'My party and I have reassessed our position and we love NATO!' and so on.
>>
>>(These newspaper rumors have produced no angry letters of denial from the
>>BSP.)
>>
>>And since Parvanov and Company have been praising NATO for some months,
>>power shall surely follow.
>>
>>On May 1st our group of protestors against the USA/NATO war on Yugoslavia
>>went to the BSP May Day rally together with some young people from 'Che
>>Guevara', the revolutionary youth group. We chanted slogans against NATO
>>and the BSP NATOites. The disciplined elderly BSP members pushed and hit
us
>>violently, but they are not to blame, poor things; they have been taught
>for
>>45 years to identify the Party with its leaders, to accept questionable
>>decisions and shout 'Hurray!' ('Theirs not to reason why. Theirs but to do
>>and die!' - Tennyson, 'The Charge of the Light Brigade.' Suitable for the
>>occaision, no?)
>>
>>I wonder why these enraged old women and men who attacked everybody who
>>dared hold Parvanov guilty for betraying the very basis of his party - I
>>wonder why they don't ask themselves: what will in fact happen if Parvanov
>>and Company relax their well fed bodies in Kostov and Company's luxurious
>>chairs? Will anything change?
>>
>>1/ Will "structural reform" continue under the controlling hands of the
>>International Monetary Fund and World Band?
>>
>>What is in fact the meaning of "structural reforms"? Why has nobody taken
>>the risk of clearly explaining what the IMF/WB are demanding?
>>
>>Doesn't structural reform mean the cruelest elimination of all forms of
>>social protection, actually existing and potential?
>>
>>Doesn't it mean the annihilation of Bulgarian industry through
liquidation,
>>privatisation, etc.?
>>
>>The case of the Bulgarian airline, BGA "Balkan" is a clear demonstration
of
>>this extermination scheme. BGA 'Balkan' was sold for next to nothing to
>>Zeevi Group, the Israeli corporation, which started closing lines and
>>offices abroad, selling planes, firing hostesses and pilots, turning plane
>>sheds into warehouses, and so on. Pilots' salaries were set humiliatingly
>>low compared with their colleagues abroad. And the pilots were the first
to
>>raise the alarm, trying to draw public attention to the fact that Zeevi
>>Group is liquidating our 50 year old national airline. They went on strike
>>and began talking. The most important of their demands was to nullify the
>>deal itself - the privatization. Here for the first time a privitization
>has
>>been attacked! (But lest foreign investors are disturbed as they wallow in
>>their luxuries, take note: The pilots' protest was successfully
smothered.)
>>
>>Let's continue with 'Structural Reform'.
>>
>>Doesn't it mean the total wrecking of Bulgarian agriculture?
>>
>>Won't it hit the Bulgarian natural environment, rivers, forests, until-
>>now-protected reserves, with deadly pollution?
>>
>>In the not so long run, doesn't it mean the extermination of the Bulgarian
>>people and state, of Bulgaria itself?
>>
>>Since 1989 Bulgarian governments have not ceased saluting those emissaries
>>of Corporate Globalization, the IMF and World Bank; in return they've
>>excitedly received various sums of money, all of which managed to
>disappear,
>>nobody knows where. Will something change if Parvanov and Co. take power?
>>
>>2/ "Entering Europe". This is the second important issue, a mantra
repeated
>>for 10 years and more, filling the media and political space to the brim.
>>
>>(Entering Europe? Where has Bulgaria been for the past 13 plus centuries?)
>>
>>Again one waits in vain for some journalist (or newspaper) to take the
risk
>>of listing the negative consequences of "Entering Europe."
>>
>>And just what are those "European Values" about which you preach to us,
>>Messrs. Politicians? Messrs. Journalists?
>>
>>Is the vicious breaking of all international laws a European value? Is
>>killing a European country a European value? Is butchering a child a day
>>during the 78 day bombing of Yugoslavia considered European? Has the
>>ecological genocide in the Balkans, produced by this bombing, added to
>>"European values"?
>>
>>Is there some "value" I'm missing?
>>
>>As for the negative consequences of "Entering Europe," here are two:
>>
>>First negative consequence: the closing of the Bulgarian Nuclear Station
>>"Kozlodui". The European Union demands we close it - and turn Bulgaria
from
>>a country that exports energy to a country that imports energy, either
from
>>the Nuclear Station under construction in Turkey or from European
countries
>>with surplus energy production, such as Germany or France.
>>
>>Question: What percent of the Bulgarian population, staying by chance
>alive,
>>will be able to afford this imported energy?
>>
>>Second negative consequence: the removal of customs tariffs on European
>milk
>>and meat products. It has already been decided that these products will
>flow
>>tax free like a river into Bulgaria starting July 1, 2000.
>>
>>Question: Will Bulgarian farmers manage to overcome competition from the
>>tariff-free import of European milk and meat products, supported as they
>are
>>by the various European governments? We must lower the shield so that they
>>may more easily insert the sword.
>>
>>General Question: Don't these two 'reforms' smell of hypocrisy? Ahh,
>perhaps
>>hypocrisy is that so-mysterious European value.
>>
>>What is the position of Parvanov and Co on the destruction of Bulgarian
>>farming and energy production?
>>
>>The same as the position of Kostov and Co. Why then replace Kostov with
>>Parvanov?
>>
>>3/ 'European-Atlantic Values'. For the uninitiated: that is code for -
>NATO.
>>
>>To be honest, the UDF is a step ahead here. They organised a pro-NATO
>>meeting during the bombing of our neighbour; they fed their European
>friends
>>"Podkova"(Horseshoe), a story concocted in Bulgaria but marketed as an
>>Official Yugoslav Government Plan to force Albanians out of Kosovo; this
>>hoax was used to manipulate European and US public opinion during the
>>bombing. Kostov's government is overflowing with passionate NATOites
(e.g.,
>>the Minister of Defense.)
>>
>>What about their brother Party, the BSP?
>>
>>In April and May 1999 Tatjana Doncheva from the BSP made us cry from the
>>emotional stories she told in Parliament of her visit to wartime
>>Yugoslavia... In March 2000 the same lady tells the dumbfounded local BSP
>>members in Shumen that loyalty to the party means loyalty to NATO.
>>
>>In April and May of last year there were BSP meetings and protests against
>>NATO aggression in Yugoslavia. This year the same people are for linking
>>party and country to "Euro-Atlantic Values."
>>
>>Should one laugh or cry?
>>
>>It's a wonder the BSP members aren't schizophrenic. Some are leaving the
>>party; others think they should stay and try to replace the leaders and
>>'fight from inside' to set things straight . (They have been setting
things
>>straight for 10 years now...poor souls.)
>>
>>The crushing result of the BSP's endorsement of NATO is: there is no
>>organized opposition in Bulgaria. The BSP left the pilots to fight all
>>alone. The BSP hasn't said a word in support of other protests going on in
>>Bulgaria. It hasn't moved a finger to unite people and lead their attempts
>>to fight the hydra of Globalization. Even now the BSP behaves like a
ruling
>>party.
>>
>>Neither Parvanov nor any other member of his Loyal Company show the least
>>discomfort from this unprincipled behaviour.
>>
>>For what is principle, actually?
>>
>>Can one buy a palace, race around Europe and the world at the expense of a
>>rapidly dying population or provide a suitably sweet life for deserving
>>relatives with principle?
>>
>>Parvanov and friends do not eat grass. They are reasonable to gaze
>hopefully
>>at the right hand of Uncle M. from his big Embassy in central Sofia - and
>at
>>the slightly smaller (but nearby) hand of Schroeder. Honey may not flow
>from
>>those hands but surely it will trickle, though not into the mouths of
those
>>sad persons who flailed us at the May Day meeting, those who, for lack of
>>thinking, are cheated, again and again....
>>
>>Parvanov takes (is given?) power.
>>
>>So what?
>>
>>Blagovesta Doncheva
>>Sofia, Bulgaria
>>The Balkans
>>
>>***
>>
>>Further reading...
>>
>>For other articles by Blagovesta Doncheva, go to Articles by Author at
>>http://emperors-clothes.com/artbyauth.html, click on "D".

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ROMANIA

http://www.globalbizgroup.com/perotopstory.shtm

The New Privatization Wave

Over the past three years, a key issue between the Romanian Government
and
the World Bank has been the privatization of the state-owned farms, the
former IAS. Stuck for years in political disputes over the scope of the
process, the privatization of the IAS was recently unlocked and the
first
farm has been privatized. Chances are that in no time Nicolae Havrilet,
the Agriculture Ministry Director in charge of the IAS privatization,
will
become a new star of the Romanian privatization process.

Q: Who is actually privatizing the state-owned farms, the so-called IAS?
The Agriculture Ministry, the State Ownership Fund or both?
A: Generally speaking, the legal basis of the Romanian privatization
process is Law 99, issued last year. However, that law is a general one
that concerns the sell-off of any state-owned company, regardless of the
industry. Given the economic and social importance of the IAS -
companies
that farm the land owned by the state, whether we are talking about the
state's public or private domain - a special law was considered
necessary.
The draft law was enforced by government decree 198, issued last year.
It
provides for the sale of the farms excluding the land. The state's
concession of the agricultural land will be for 49 years (with a
possible
extension of 25 years.) The new owners will have to pay a royalty,
either
in cash or in kind. From the 1.8 million hectares of land that we are
talking about, the state could expect the equivalent of 500,000 tons of
wheat per year. To answer your question, the decree also provides that
the
state's stake in the IAS is to be transferred from the SOF to the
Agriculture Ministry, where a privatization department has been set up.
The State Domain Agency has also been set up; it is in charge with the
land concession and the royalties. These two bodies will work jointly.
The privatization department within the ministry will also work together
with the experts of the SOF as our closest consultants. We have not
decided yet upon the actual form of co-operation with the SOF, but
there's
no doubt we will use their expertise.
Decree 198 cleared the lower chamber of the parliament and has yet to be
discussed by the Senate, but I think it is unlikely that it will undergo
major changes.
Q: So, when the law becomes operational, everything will proceed
smoothly?

A: Besides the above-mentioned law, there is another major issue that
has
to be solved - the debt burden of the state-owned farms. We are talking
about roughly 600 state-owned farms, whose outstanding debt burden
totals
some 28 trillion Romanian lei, the equivalent of $1.5 billion. The debt
includes commercial debt, as well as debt to the state budget and to the
social insurance budget. There is a lot of pressure being made in this
respect, but I think it is unrealistic to believe this entire amount
could
be transferred to the public debt. We have already prepared the
methodological norms for the IAS privatization law, and they would be
approved after the law gets the parliament's approval. These norms
provide
that a certain part of this debt, namely the commercial debt, would be
transferred to the public debt.

Q: Or to the Assets Recovery Agency, AVAB?
A: Eventually. The problem with AVAB is that they recover debts by
selling
assets, rather than businesses. Take an IAS, sell its assets piecemeal,
and you won't get much for it. These are companies whose value lies in
the
integration between the assets - buildings, warehouses, machinery - and
the arable land.
When the law gets approved - something that we expect in June or July -
there will be room for negotiations with the potential buyers on the
balance between the price of the share purchase and the volume of debt
assumed by the buyer.
Q: This means that the privatization method employed will be direct
negotiations?
A: Depending on the financial situation of the respective farm, there
will
be either direct negotiations, or an open auction. The selection of one
method or another will be approved by the Agriculture Minister on a case
by case basis. In the negotiation process we will also pay attention to
issues other than the price, the debts and the royalties - such as the
investment pledged, the commitment of the buyer to preserve jobs, to
farm
the land properly and so on.

Q: What are your targets for this year?
A: This is a very difficult question, every IAS has a different
situation.
There are about 60 farms where the SOF has already transferred its stake
to the SIFs, local investment funds - these are private farms now. Other
farms have sold their debts. Then, the restitution law that has recently
been promulgated might bring along new claims from former owners.
However, I would say that a couple of trillion lei is a rather
pessimistic
estimate.

Interview by Catalin DIMOFTE


Last updated :
Thu, Apr 20 2000

-

STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM

"Does anybody here in Romania realize what's going on?"- this is the
question I keep asking
myself a lot lately. Because I fear that in spite of all economic crisis
and social desaster the
Romanians still believe in a fairytale- that of western democracy. 2000
is electoral year here-
what will happen? What is waiting for us again?
I look around and all I see is dirt covered in a very devious manner
with a polished illusion of
a good life. The western type life. Lots of lights and expensive shops
in the center of the
town, a MacDonald' s in almost every periferic district of Bucharest.
Young people smilling
happily while chewing sugar- free gum and listening to crappy dance
music that talks about
money and cars. And beautiful women, of course. It all smells to me like
a rotten American
dream, artificially implanted in this part of the Balkans... PRO TV and
ACASA (both
belonging to the same American press trust and from which the first one,
PRO TV, is the
most influential TV station in the country- but imagine the NATOite
propaganda!) keep
inoculating illusions into people' s minds.
For a while a had an illusion myself: that people here will finally
realize what a bunch of fools
we all have been. But this was just a brief moment (to place it in time,
I will tell you that it was
last year, during the NATO attacks on Serbia). But it seems that the
indoctrination has
completely reached its target: this people definitely believes that
NATO and EU are the
salvation.
Somebody told me once in an e- mail that this is perfectly
understandable, as the Romanians
had a cult for the USA for more than 50 years. And he was right. They
waited for the
Americans to come and save them in the WWII. The Americans just came to
drop some
bombs... But the most typical feature of Romanians is their forgiveness.
So they kept
worshiping the Americans. And so it was during the comunist era. And so
it is today. I
remember the way Clinton was received - like a superhero. (But on the
other hand this is
just another feature of the Romanian people - they are always too
welcoming...).
Unofficially, the electoral campaign (for parliament and presidency) has
already started. And
again I see how the politicians have so simply divided the world in two:
the good ones, i.e.
pro- western (NATO, EU...) ones and the bad- everybody else who has a
different oppinion
(no matter which is that).
Some people here woke up and saw that the so praised western- type
democracy is not so
democratic and that the government from which everybody expected a lot,
is in fact no good.
And due to all of these things I get even angrier watching the news
lately. And I do not mean
here the internal ones, but those concerning Serbia. And I shiver
thinking that there could
happen the same thing like here. I watched CNN last night and I heard
things matching some
sort of already well known pattern, and I had again that deja vu
feeling. All this talk about
democracy...
Here we have to get a visa to get to the "civilized" countries but in
most of the cases this
countries won' t give it. What kind of embargo are we under? An
undeclared one, for sure,
as it seems that this is more than a pattern, it is a custom, a sort of
law for the NATO
countries. We are the Balkans, and that is equal to nothing for them.
They just want us all
reduced to simple dummies. Be aware!


NO PASARAN!
NEXT YEAR IN KOSOVO!

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UCRAINA

STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM

Those of you on these lists who live in the Ukraine need to get busy!!!
Is this guy on of those NATOite idiots who locked himself in a room in
their
Parliament Building
and threatened to burn himself alive if Ukraine was not admitted to NATO
a
few months back!

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<NATODATA@...>
Date: Monday, May 22, 2000 4:02 AM
Subject: Press Release (2000) 051 - VISIT TO NATO BY THE PRIME MINISTER
OF
UKRAINE


>Press Release (2000) 051 19
>May 2000
>
>VISIT TO NATO BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF UKRAINE, MR. VIKTOR YUSCHENKO
>ON 22 MAY 2000
>
>
>INFORMATION
>
>The Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mr. Viktor Yuschenko, will visit NATO
>Headquarters on Monday, 22 May 2000. He will meet the Secretary General.
>The visit will begin at 17.00.
>
>MEDIA ADVISORY
>(not for publication)
>
>PROGRAMME OF THE VISIT
>
>17:00 NATO main entrance. Arrival of Mr. Yuschenko. Open coverage on a
>first-come, first-served basis.
> Immediately followed by meeting with Secretary General in the
Private Office.
>
>17:30 NATO main entrance. Joint Point de presse with Secretary General
and
>Prime Minister of Ukraine.
>
>ACCREDITATION
>
>Journalists wishing to cover the visit of the Prime Minister of Ukraine
>will be allowed into
>the NATO premises on presentation of a NATO accreditation pass or a valid
>press pass.
>Photographers and cameramen wishing to be part of the Restricted Pool
>should contact
>Mr. A. Chahtahtinsky.
>
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>
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>Films, Video, TV, Radio
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LITUANIA


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DoD News Briefing
Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
Saturday, June 10, 2000
Joint press conference at Vilnius, Lithuania
(Also participating: Ceslovas Stankevicius, minister of Defense of
Lithuania)
Secretary Cohen: Let me express my delight in being in Vilnius to attend
the third Nordic-Baltic-U.S. Defense Ministerial and to meet with
Lithuanian leaders. The Baltic states have become a leading example of
the benefits of regional defense cooperation. The Baltic peacekeeping
battalion has just completed its third rotation in SFOR helping to make
Bosnia and Europe more stable. Lithuania has made a firm commitment to
improve its ability to work with other nations for security, operating
very much in the spirit of Nordic-Baltic-U.S. framework. Lithuanian
defense budgets are increasing to finance military reform and
modernization programs. I am particularly impressed with the steps
Lithuania is taking to lift the quality of life for the soldiers by
improving barracks and training facilities. Lithuania is also making
progress under the NATO Membership Action Plan. NATO will review the
enlargement process in 2002 and it is, of course, too early to predict
what, if any, action th!
!
!
ey will then take. But Lithuanian determination to lift its military
capability, to work productively with NATO and non-NATO countries to
improve its relations with Russia, and play an active role in regional
security structures all are very good steps up that long and difficult
staircase to possible NATO membership. As it has in the past, the United
States will continue to assist Lithuania's participation in the
Partnership for Peace program and the cooperative regional projects such
as the Baltnet Regional Air Surveillance Network and through its
concentration on improved security through regional cooperation.
Lithuania continues to build a future that is much brighter than its
past. With that, I will yield to the Minister.
Minister Stankevicius: I would like to speak in English. First of all, I
would like to express my gratitude to Secretary Cohen for coming for
this visit to Lithuania and for this very high evaluation of our
progress which we have made as well as for his attendance at the
Ministerial Conference, 1+5+3, which was held today. We had a good
opportunity to exchange views on our broad cooperation in the security
and defense area. I would particularly stress that the United States is
the strongest Lithuanian partner in this cooperation. But I would also
like to say that the other Nordic countries also are strong contributors
to our common Baltic projects as well as our bilateral projects. This
cooperation helps us to hasten our progress and to strengthen our own
efforts, which will make for modernization of our forces.
Q: Mr. Secretary, I understand that at a meeting this morning you all
discussed the need for greater engagement between the Baltic countries
and Russia. Would this be to try to improve relations with Russia at
NATO's review of the membership in 2002 and how would you go about
overcoming Russia's concerns about NATO expansion in the Baltics?
Cohen: First, let me separate out the issue of NATO membership from
establishing better relations with Russia. Whatever takes place with
NATO enlargement, it is important that the Baltic states and other
members of the European Community and NATO itself seek to find ways in
which we can cooperate on many levels with Russia -- be it in
environmental protection, disaster relief, peacekeeping operations --
where ever we can. In so separating it apart from NATO, we think that it
is important that Lithuania and the other Baltic states -- Sweden,
Norway, and all the other EU members and non-EU members -- must find
ways to constructively engage Russia. So, in addition to that, I think
there is a positive benefit to the extent that when such measures are
undertaken, I think it does contribute to a sense of security on the
part of the Russian people and Russian leaders. And that too will be
important as the debate unfolds on future NATO membership.
Q: I want to know if military expenditures were one of the main issues
when the membership question arose for Baltic states and other
countries?
Cohen: We have indicated that the door to NATO remains open. We
reiterate that no nation should be excluded by virtue of either
geography or history. What we also have said is that membership in NATO
requires a number of important steps: to modernize its militaries, to
ensure that there is civilian control over the military, and to take
such steps that are necessary to ensure that each member contributes to
the collective security of NATO members and is not simply a consumer of
the security benefits. That will require necessarily the increased
expenditure of funds for defense modernization. We understand that
Lithuania and other Baltic states have been going through some difficult
economic times, but nonetheless they have also taken steps to improve
their military capability. They are working very closely with the
Partnership for Peace, the Membership Action Plan, and all of that will
be important as the consideration of future NATO membership comes up
again in 2002.
Q: Russia says it plans to declare its opposition to the Baltic States'
admission into NATO. Such declarations are always threatening to
Lithuania, so how is it possible to solve this issue with Russia?
Cohen: First of all, it should be clear that Russia does not have a veto
over NATO decisions. One of the reasons that we established the
NATO-Russia Permanent Joint Council was to give Russia a voice -- as
Secretary [of State Madeleine] Albright has said, but not a veto.
Namely, that we always want to take into account Russian concerns and
Russian interests when we make our decisions in terms of how we carry
out our action today and what we may do tomorrow. But that is internal
to our decisions and Russia does not have a veto over those decisions.
So NATO members will decide in the year 2002 whether there should be an
enlargement and we will take into account all of the factors that I
mentioned before -- the progress made by aspiring members to modernize
their militaries, to adopt those measures that would satisfy the
requirements, including a market economy and other criteria, and then a
decision will be made at that time. I will stop here for the moment and
then add a few wo!
!
!
rds.
(pauses for translation)
I want to add just a few more words. You may recall that when the wall
came down in Germany the question arose as to whether a unified and
united Germany could remain a member of NATO. At that point Russia took
strong opposition to that. We believed that a united Germany could
remain and should remain a part of NATO and that steps could be taken to
ameliorate or take into account any concerns on the part of the Russians
that it would somehow pose a military threat to them. And we did that.
And I think the Russian concerns were legitimate; they wanted to make
sure that they were not going to be in any way put in an inferior
position militarily by virtue of a united Germany still remaining a
member of NATO. I believe that they also expressed opposition to
enlargement of NATO this past round. I believe that as we engage Russia,
as we show that this is a defensive alliance, that we can take into
account their legitimate concerns and nonetheless do what is required
for NATO itself.!
!
!
And so I believe that by engaging them and by possibly discussing and
taking up issues of their concern and dealing with them in a responsible
fashion, that we can overcome objections in the future. But a lot of
work has to done and that is the reason why I have stressed the need to
cooperatively engage Russia on a number of different levels.
Q: I have a question for both of you. Were there any concrete steps
discussed in terms of engaging Russia? And also I would like to ask you,
sir, given the history of your country, what do you think about this
wanting Russia to be more involved?
Cohen: The next step is that I am on my way to Moscow. I will be
engaging Russian leaders, including my counterpart Marshal Sergeyev. I
hope and plan to meet with President Putin while I am there. I will meet
with members of the Russian Duma. This will not be the first time; I
have met with members of the Russian Duma in my office at the Pentagon
as well as in Moscow in the past. And so I will certainly personally
continue these efforts, but we will do so on a government-wide basis
because it is in our interest to have this engagement with Russia. All
of us have stated at the various meetings we have attended, and all of
the NATO members, EU members, and partnership members understand that
Russia must be stable and engaged with the rest of the European
membership. So this is something that we will do on a constructive
basis. There is an exercise taking place today with Iceland, Russia and
Iceland, and we will have other exercises that we will continue in the
future -- all in a!
!
!
n effort to build a sense of mutual confidence, to reduce suspicion or
apprehension so that we can take measures in the future that will
provide for security and stability and promote prosperity.
Stankevicius: May I say some words in this context? During this
conference, we got an opportunity to introduce our view on cooperation
with Russia and I would like to give only one example. Recently, Russia
accepted Lithuania's initiatives on confidence, directed to confidence
building. Russia agreed with the Lithuanian proposal to exchange some
additional inspection in the Kaliningrad region as well as in Lithuania,
and also to exchange additional information in the framework of the
Vienna document. Along with our cooperation with Russia, I would like to
particularly express our cooperation with the people and government of
the Kaliningrad region. We are building confidence; confidence between
us and Russia and the Kaliningrad region. This confidence will very
positively serve both countries. The Russians see that Lithuania has and
shows good will and is ready to cooperate with them in all possible
areas.
Cohen: Could I add that that is a mutual responsibility? Establishing a
good neighbor policy also requires Russia to act in ways that are
cooperative and constructive and so it is always very much of a two way
street and that is how mutual confidence and respect is established.
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ASSISI 30 LUGLIO - 6 AGOSTO 2000

>
> Il Campo Antimperialista "Da Seattle a S. Vicente. Le lotte contro l'impero
> dell'ingiustizia" ha già ricevuto adesioni da circa 26 paesi dei vari
> continenti.
>
> Senza dubbio il Campo è la più grande occasione a livello internazionale di
> unità, confronto e dibattito tra tutte le forze antimperialiste. Il
> Programma che alleghiamo qui sotto è di massima, poiché continuano a
> giungere adesioni, ciò che ci obbligherà a ritocccare il palinsesto per
> dare la parola a quanti più delegati è possibile.
>
> ----------
> Ricordiamo a tutti coloro che fossero interessati che il costo a persona
> per una settimana intera in tenda (compresi due pasti giornalieri) è di L.
> 310mila. In Bungalow è di L. 400mila, in camera d'albergo è di L. 500mila.
> Si può venire in roulotte.
>
> Ovviamente è possibile soggiornare anche per alcuni giorni, un paio o uno
> solo.
> Tuttavia è importante prenotare per evitare di non trovare posto.
>
> La prenotazione avviene versando sul C/C postale n.12134623, intestato al
> centro Studi P. Tresso, specificando nella causale le ragioni del
> versamento, il periodo di soggiorno e il tipo di servizio che si chiede.
>
> Per ulteriori informazioni telefonare all'ufficio del Campo: tel/fax:
> 075.42686 (martedì, mercoledì e venerdì dalle ore 17 alle 19)
> o al cellulare 0333.3543251).
>
> Oppure riferirsi ai nostri indirizzi di posta elettronica:
>
> Comitato Internazionalista Arco Iris: ale.ramon@...
> Comitato organizzativo del campo: campo2000@...
> ----------
> Programma
> del Campo Antimperialista 2000
> Assisi, 30 luglio - 06 agosto
>
> Domenica 30 luglio, arrivi
>
> ore 21,00
> Presentazione del programma e delle delegazioni ospiti. Lettura saluti e
> messaggi.
>
> Ore 22,30
> Concerto.
>
> Durante tutto il Campo
> Laboratorio Informatico di Comunicazione Alternativa
> A cura di Elías Letelier
> (fondatore della Rete dei Familiari ed Amici
> dei Prigionieri Politici del Cile)
>
> Lunedì, 31 luglio
>
> Ore 9,30
> Forum n.1: Incontro con la delegazione iugoslava
> Forum n.2: Incontro con le delegazioni polaccha e ceca
> Forum n.3: Incontro con la delegazione russa
>
> Ore 15,30
> 1. Sessione plenaria: I crimini NATO nei Balcani
> Introduzione a cura del Tribunale R. Clark
>
> Ore 21,30
> Forum n.1: Sopravivere alle armi delle guerre umanitarie. Introduce: M. Saba
> Forum n.2: Dall'emarginazione alla resistenza, percorsi di dignità nel
> Brasile d'oggi . Introduce il Professor J. (Coordinamento Latinoamericano
> di Giuristi, Ricercatori Sociali e Gruppi Emarginati per una Alternativa
> Democratica e Popolare).
> Forum n.3: Questione nazionale e socialismo: tavola rotonda coi movimenti
> di liberazione.
>
> Martedì, 1 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
> Forum n.1: Incontro con le delegazioni messicane
> Forum n.2: Incontro con la delegazione paraguayana
> Forum n.3: Incontro con la delegazione brasiliana
>
> Ore 15,30
> 2. Sessione plenaria: La lotta di liberazione in Colombia
> Introduzione delle FARC
>
> Ore 21,30
> Forum n.1: Violenza o non-violenza? Forme di lotta contro la globalizzazione
> Forum n.2: Le nuove strategie NATO per la supremazia planetaria
> Forum n.3: La Solidarietà Internazionalista, da percorsi diversi per un
> obiettivo comune. tavola rotonda tra esponenti della Chiesa di base,
> organizzazioni non governative e associazionismo.
>
> Mercoledì, 2 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
> Forum n.1: "Teoria e pratica dell'autonomia per il potere popolare",
> introduce il Prof. J.
> Forum n.2: incontro con la delegazione irlandese
> Forum n.3: incontro con le delegazioni basche, catalane e sarde
>
> Ore 15,30
> 3. Sessione plenaria: Echelon: sorveglianza informatica mondiale e
> contromisure democratiche. Tavola rotonda con alcuni esperti: Elias
> Letelier, Marco Saba e altri.
>
> ore 21,30
> Forum n.1: Immigrazione e lotta contro il razzismo nell¹Europa di Shengen
> Forum n.2: Le lotte operaie nella russia di Putin. Incontro con Oleg
> Shein, deputato comunista alla Duma
> Forum n.3: Nuova destra e antifascismo: relatore W. Fisher della Germania Est
>
> Giovedì, 3 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
> Forum n.1: incontro con le delegazioni palestinese e libanese
> Forum n.2: incontro con la C.L.I.
> Forum n.3: incontro con la delegazione dello Sri lanka
>
> Ore 15,30
> 4. Sessione plenaria: Islam e nuovo ordine mondiale
>
> ore 21,30
> Forum n.1: La resistenza libanese contro il sionismo. Incontro con Hezbollah
> Forum n.2: La prassi dei comunisti nel mondo che cambia. Tavola rotonda
> Forum n.3: I cristiani e la lotta per la giustizia sociale: in contro con
> Don Vitaliano della Sala
>
> Venerdì, 4 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
> Forum n.1: incontro con le delegazioni degli U.S.A.
> Forum n.2: incontro con la delegazione filippina
> Forum n.3: Incontro con la delegazione venezuelana
>
> Ore 15,30
> 5. Sessione plenaria: Amnistia! Repressione, prigionia politica, violazione
> dei diritti umani e civili nel tempo della globalizzazione.
>
> ore 21,30
> Forum n.1: Reddito di cittadinanza o lavoro come diritto inalienabile?
> Forum n.2: La prassi dei comunisti nel mondo che cambia. Tavola rotonda
> Forum n.3: Il Messico alle soglie di storiche elezioni: via parlamentare e
> via rivoluzionaria
>
> Sabato, 5 agosto
>
> ore 9,30
> 6. Sessione plenaria: Inquinamento, transgenica e bio-tech: un nuovo
> terreno della lotta anticapitalista.
>
> Ore 15,30
> 7. Sessione plenaria: Seattle : valore e limiti della rivolta contro il WTO
> Introduce lo International Action Center degli U.S.A.
>
> ore 21,30
> Concerto e festa di chiusura
>
> Domenica 6 agosto
> Partenze
>

Main forums
(Overview as attachment or http://summercamp.cjb.net)

Monday, 31st July
The NATO crimes in the Balcans - International Tribunal against NATO
=> International Action Center (USA, requested)

Tuesday, 1st August
The liberation struggle in ColombiaIntroduction
=> Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People’s Army (FARC-EP)

Wednesday, 2nd August
Echelon and the electronic observation
=> Round table with Fulvio Grimaldi, Marco Saba (Italy) Elias Letelier
(Chile)

Thursday, 3rd August
The Islam and the New World Order
=> Representatives of Liberation movements from Libanon and Palestine

Friday, 4th August
Amnesty! Repression, prisoners of conscience and disregard of the human
rights in the world of globalisation
=> Round table with representatives from Northern Ireland, Basque
Country,
Italy, …

Saturday, 5th August
The Revolt of Seattle: a forward-looking example for the resistance in
the
West?
=> International Action Center, USA (requested) and Bayan, Philippines

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Information about the Summer Camp

1. Place and Date
The Summer Camp takes place at a camp site near the umbrian town Assisi.
The
opening of the Summer Camp will be held on Sunday, the 30th July in the
evening. The political discussions will start on Monday, 31st July. The
Summer Camp ends at Sunday, 6th August.

2. Order of events
The main languages at the Summer Camp will be English and Spanish. The
different thematical discussions will only be translated partly.

3. Journey to the Camp
The participants who travel by plane have to tell the Organization
Committee
the airport (Rome), the date, the time of their arrival and the flight
number and the airline. They will be taken from the airport to the place
of
the Summer Camp.
If participants do not travel by plane they can ask the Organization
Committee for a map to find the place where the Summer Camp takes place.

4. Booking
The participants have to book until the 30th of June and to pay USD 65,-
on
the account written on the next page. After the booking the participants
will get a detailed programme and the statute of the Camp. The remaining
money has to be paid at the inscription at the Summer Camp.

5. Prices
The price includes housing, lunch and dinner. It also includes a
contribution to support the journeys of the international guests from
countries of the “Third World”.


1 Week in tent: USD 145,-
1 Week in caravan: USD 185,-
1 Week in hotel: USD 230,-


Prices for one night (in brackets: prices for one night without food)
Tent: USD 25,- (USD 14,-)
Caravan: USD 30,- (USD 20,-)
Hotel: USD 35,- (USD 28,-)

Prices of food for guests, who do not sleep at the camp:
USD 8,- for lunch or dinner

Booking (with name, adress, telephone number, e-mail)

e-mail: ilc@...
Adress: ILC, Pf. 23, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Telephone: ++43/1/504 00 10

The booking is valid as soon as USD 65,- are transferred to the account:

PSK-Vienna, Austria
Account-Number: 92.125.137
Bank Code Number: 60000

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Supporter:

* International Forum (Denmark)
* Federation of University Students of Venezuela
* BAYAN International (Philippines, European Office)
* Trade Union of Public Empoyed (Volta Redonda, Brasil)
* Loyalty for Men and Earth (Palestine/Lebanon)
* Revolutionary Communist League (Thuringia, Germany)
* Red Action (Duisburg, Germany)
* People’s Liberation Front (Sri Lanka)
* Irish Republican Socialist Party
* League of Anti-imperialists, Communists and Socialists (Germany)
* Movement Free Fatherland (Paraguay)
* Basque Communists
* Marxist Leninist Communist Party (Brasil)
* Worker’s Party of Yugoslavia
* Socialist People’s Party (Yugoslavia)
* League of Communists of Yugoslavia – Communist Party of Serbia
* League of Communists of Yugoslavia – Communists of Montenegro
* Independent Popular Front Francisco Villa (Mexico)
* Democratic Popular Left (Mexico)
* International Leninist Current
* Russian political union "Worker" (Perm)
* Movement New Left (Russia)
* Worker’s Union Perm (Russia)
* Redskin Resistance (Bogota, Colombia)
* Communist Construction (Munich, Germany)
* Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain
* Russian Party of Communists
* Sindical Worker’s Aid (El Salvador/USA)
* Latinamerican Coordination of Jurists, Social Scientists and Marginal
*
Groups for a Democratic and Popular Alternative (Brasil)
* Free Center for Artist and Theatre Experimentation (Mexico)
* Sard Nation
* Association of families and friends of political prisoners (Spain)

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International Leninist Current (ILC)
Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI)
PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria
Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10
ilc@...
www.comports.com/ilc

> Carissimi Amici ed Amiche,
>
> Dopo la bella iniziativa organizzata con la Confederazione delle
> Nazionalità Indigene dell'Ecuador, iniziativa che ha visto partecipare
> insieme organizzazioni non governative, fondazioni, centri sociali,
> sindacati, partiti politici, associazioni e gruppi di solidarietà, vorremmo
> proporvi la possibilità di organizzare iniziative con una serie di delegati
> che parteciperanno all'Incontro << NO ALLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE, da Seattle a S.
> Vicente avanza la rivolta contro l'impero dell'ingiustizia >> (dal 30
> Luglio al 6 Agosto di quest'anno, ad Assisi).
>
> Tutti sono invitiati a partecipare a questo incontro, rispetto al quale vi
> invieremo il programma dettagliato nei prossimi giorni. Lanciamo però
> adesso un appello affinchè, chiunque fosse interessato ad organizzare una
> iniziativa (a ridosso dell'incontro, orientativamente dal 15 luglio fino al
> 14 agosto) con uno o più degli elencati delegati, ci contatti urgentemente.
>
> Il vostro interesse, unitamente ad un vostro contributo economico,
> potrebbero favorire la partecipazione di altri delegati che al momento non
> siamo in grado di portare in Italia.
>
> Invitiamo in particolare gli organizzatori del VI Meeting Internazionale
> Antirazzista, che si terrà a Cecina dal 15 al 22 Luglio, a valutare la
> possibilità di invitare alcuni dei "nostri" delegati alla loro iniziativa.
> Estendiamo poi l'appello soprattutto ai collettivi universitari, anche se
> il periodo a disposizione non è agevole.
>
> Confidando nella vostra partecipazione e nel vostro interesse, vi inviamo i
> nostri fraterni saluti.
>
> NOTA IMPORTANTE (ECUADOR):
> ----------------------------------------------
> Vorremmo organizzare per sabato 24 giugno l'Incontro Nazionale in
> Solidarietà con i Popoli dell'Ecuador. Al momento le adesioni ci fanno
> propendere per Firenze come luogo per tale incontro (invece di Ancona).
> Invitiamo tutti coloro che hanno partecipato all'organizzazione del tour
> della CONAIE a farci pervenire le loro impressioni, le loro idee su come
> sviluppare una solidarietà concreta verso l'Ecuador. L'idea generale è
> quella di poter adottare un Progetto a livello nazionale. Ma il tutto
> dipenderà da alcune indicazioni che dovrebbero giungere dalla CONAIE stessa
> nei prossimi giorni.
>
>
> ELENCO DEI DELEGATI E DELLE DELEGAZIONI DISPONIBILI PER INIZIATIVE
> (maggiori dettagli verranno forniti agli interessati)
>
> ELIAS LETELIER RUZ (CILE)
> -------------------------
> Poeta cileno, di religione ebraica. Parla inglese, francese e spagnolo. E'
> stato il fondatore della pagina web sulla Prigionia Politica in Cile,
> ovvero della Rete dei Familiari e Amici dei Prigionieri Politici in Cile.
> E' un esperto di "internet e della comunicazione globale" a tal punto da
> essere stato più volte minacciato dai paramilitari cileni, oltre che dagli
> stessi servizi di sicurezza del governo cileno.
>
> SINTESI DAL CURRICULUM:
>
> Alcune Opere Pubblicate:
> Histoire de la Nuit. 1998 [ Editotial l'Hexagone - Montreal, Quebec ]
> Silence. 1997, (Edizione in Francese) [ Editorial l'Hexagone - Montreal,
> Quebec ]
> Ich Frage Sie. 1993 [ Antifad, Frankfurt ] (Poesia per il movimento
> antinazista)
> Silence. 1992 [ tradotto da Ken Norris. - The Muses' Company - Dorion,
> Quebec ]
> Symphony. 1988 [ tradotto da Ken Norris.- The Muses' Company - Dorion,
> Quebec ]
>
> Antologie:
> "Compañeros: Una antologia di scritti sull'America Latina"
> [ Ed. Hugh Hazelton and Gary Geddes. Montreal: Cormorant Books 1990. p.
> 263-264. ]
> "I Grandi Poeti" [ La Habana, Cuba: Ed. Monte Verde 1984 p. 39-46. ]
> "Sei Poeti Cileni". [ Caracas Venezuela: Ed. El Tucan 1980 p. 184-189. ]
>
> Lavori Culturali:
> Cofondatore del Comitato Consultivo (Consigliere) della Federazione degli
> Scrittori di Lingua Inglese del Quebec
> Direttore ed Editore del Consiglio Nazionale della Cultura del Nicaragua
> (Nov. 1989 - Luglio 1990)
> Coordinatore sul Nord America della Biblioteca Nazionale del Nicaragua
> (1990 - 1991)
>
> Interviste:
> "Intervista con Ernesto Cardenal" [ Zymergy Literary Review Autunno 1990:
> p. 57-70 ]
> "Intervista con Jimmy Carter, Ex -presidente degli USA". [ El tiempo.
> Madrid, Spain Autunno 1990: 3-15 ]
> "Intervista con il Segretario Generale della OEA" [ CBC, BBC Giugno 1990 ]
>
> Conferenze:
> Una conferenza sulla "La poesia e la lotta antinazista". [ Marzo 1993.
> Frankfurt, Germania Federale]
> "Ich Frage Sie" (Ausländerbeirat der Stadt Gießen). [ Conferenza su "La
> spada e l'invenzione del potere". Febbraio 1993. Gießen, Germania Federale]
> "Vida, Muerte y Poesía." (Universidad Autónoma de Nicaragua). [ Due
> conferenze sul diritto di esprimere ciò che sentiamo. Giugno 1990.
> Managua, Nicaragua ]
> "Dos poetas una voz" (Sistema Sandinista de Televisión) [ Sulla libertà di
> stampa con Ernesto Cardenal e Elías Letelier-Ruz. Maggio 1990. Managua,
> Nicaragua ]
> "La poesie dans mon exile au Canada." Maison de L'Amerique Latine. 10
> Marzo 1989. Parigi, Francia.
> "Emily Dickinson and freedom." Croce Rossa Svedese. [ La libertà è un
> stato astratto della mente. 24 Aprile, 1989. Växjö, Svezia. ]
> "We have to sing together." USSR Academy of Science. [ I poeti devono
> essere uno specchio della loro società. 24 Aprile 1989. Leningrado, URSS ]
>
> Membro di:
> Federation of English-Language Writers of Quebec.
> The Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia.
> Union des Ecrivans du Quebec
> The Writers' Union of Canada.
>
> Borse di studio:
> Consiglio dell'Arte del Canada[EL1], 1993
> Ministero dell'Educazione del Quebec, 1993
> Ministero dell'Educazione dell'Ontario, 1995
> Consiglio dell'Arte dell'Arte del Quebec, 1996
>
>
> PROFESSOR J. (CLAJADEP, BRASILE)
> --------------------------------
> Professore universitario di Filosofia e di Diritto Alternativo, nonché
> assessore di movimenti popolari di base. Coordina attualmente CAUSA
> (Coordinamento delle Autonomie di São Paulo), GPDA (Gruppo di Ricerca del
> Diritto Alternativo in Brasile) e CLAJADEP (Coordinamento Latinoamericano
> di Giuristi, Ricercatori Sociali e Gruppi Emarginati per una Alternativa
> Democratica e Popolare). E' inoltre collaboratore del Movimento dei Sem
> Terra, della Centrale dei Movimenti Popolari e delle Occupazioni. E'
> inoltre autore del libro "Introduzione alla Scienza del Diritto e del
> Diritto Alternativo" [edizione in portoghese, ed. Hapirus, São Paulo]. Il
> Prof. J. ha adottato un nuovo tipo di corso per investigatori, attivisti ed
> agenti culturali delle autonomie in lotta, per operare con gruppi di
> emarginati e/o poveri della città e delle campagne, attualizzando la
> metodologia di Paulo Freire e sollevando la tesi della ricostruzione
> dell'identità di gruppo a partire dalla ricollocazione dell'arte di pensare
> ed elaborare idee all'interno dei collettivi di base.
>
> PROPOSTA DI SEMINARI CON IL PROF. J.
> Si propongono due tipologie di seminari (l'elaborazione è avvenuta per
> facilitare l'organizzazione di iniziative con le università): 1) Il Diritto
> Alternativo 2) Teoria e pratica della autonomia per il potere popolare.
>
> TEMI DEI SEMINARI
> < Diritto Alternativo > la nascita del diritto / relazioni tra il diritto,
> l'economia e la politica / il pluralismo giuridico / uso alternativo del
> diritto / il potere popolare come base del diritto alternativo / dal
> dogmatismo della generalità alla pragmatica della singolarità / il
> neoliberismo e la modificazione della relazione organica del capitale /
> diritto indigeno / diritto alla occupazioni di terra del Movimento dei Sem
> Terra / diritto nelle zone liberate dalle guerriglie / la fine del diritto
>
> < Teoria e pratica della autonomia per il potere popolare> elementi teorici
> e dottrinari del dibattito sulla autonomia / indipendenza di classe e
> autogestione / erano autonomi la Comune di Parigi e i soviets? / Autonomia
> e idologia / Autonomia e produzione del pensiero nuovo. Può esserci
> autonomia con un pensiero prodotto fuori da essa? / Autonomia e diversità
> etnica, culturale, nazionale, classista, di genere ecc.. / Autonomia,
> potere popolare e organizzazione rivoluzionaria / Autonomia, lotta
> rivendicativa e lotta politica / Autonomia, coordinamenti, fronti e blocchi
> popolari / Lo zapatismo / L'esempio dell'Ecuador / Esperienze in Brasile.
>
>
> DELEGATO DELLA FEDERAZIONE DEGLI STUDENTI UNIVERSITARI DEL VENEZUELA (FEUV)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Si tratta di una delle più combattive federazioni studentesche dell'America
> Latina, partecipante alla Organizzazione Continentale Latinoamericana e
> Caraibica degli Studenti. Per capire quale sia la risposta (a livello
> latinoamericano) degli studenti di fronte alle nuove esclusioni dalla
> scienza e dalla conoscenza, per capire da dove nascono le proteste degli
> studenti della UNAM in Messico, le lotte degli studenti nicaraguensi, di
> quelli salvadoregni, dei colombiani ecc.. ma anche per capire l'attualità
> venezuelana, cosa è cambiato e cosa dovrebbe cambiare con la gestione del
> Presidente Chavéz.
>
>
> DELEGATO DELLA ORGANIZZAZIONE BAYAN, BAGONG ALYANSANG MAKABAYAN (FILIPPINE)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Si tratta di una organizzazione sorta nel 1985. BAYAN (ovvero "Nuova
> Allenza Patriottica") è un fronte ampio di organizzazioni popolari che
> lottano in favore della democrazia e della libertà per il popolo delle
> Filippine. Attualmente è composta da circa mille organizzazioni,
> raggruppando più di un milione di persone, di diverse classi sociali e
> settori.
>
> BAYAN si sviluppò durante la dittatura come centro di coordinamento per le
> mobilitazioni delle masse, organizzando manifestazioni imponenti nella
> capitale e coordinando diversi scioperi nazionali nelle principali città
> del paese, mobilitazioni che condussero poi alla destituzione del regime di
> Marcos.
>
>
> DELEGATO DI ASKAPENA (PAESI BASCHI) [* da confermarsi]
> -----------------------------------
> ASKAPENA è una organizzazione internazionalista basca di solidarietà. E'
> nata nel 1987 dopo diversi dibattiti all'interno dei Comitati
> Internazionalisti e di diversi settori che lavoravano nell'area della
> solidarietà.
>
> Fin dalla sua origine, ASKPENA si è definita come una organizzazione di
> massa, della sinistra "abertzale" ed anticapitalista, intendendo la
> solidarietà "come un contributo ai popoli che lottano per la loro
> liberazione nazionale e sociale ed ai popoli che costruiscono un nuovo
> futuro di progresso e sviluppo".
>
> A partire da allora, ASKAPENA ha sviluppato una moltitudine di attività,
> arrivando ad avere delegazioni permanenti in vari luoghi dell'America
> Centrale. La sua opera si è poi concentrata nel fare conoscere l'esperienza
> di altri processi nei Paesi Baschi, opera che è stata sviluppata negli
> ultimi anni con il progetto di ambasciatori della pratica basca all'estero.
> In quanto all'attività solidaria, è stato posto in marcia un sistema di
> brigate che annualmente si recano in vari paesi per partecipare a progetti
> tanto di ricostruzione nazionale come di appoggio. L'Assemblea Nazionale di
> ASKAPENA è l'organo che definisce la linea di lavoro dell'organizzazione.
>
>
> DELEGAZIONE DELL'IRISH REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY
> -------------------------------------------------
> (PARTITO SOCIALISTA REPUBBLICANO IRLANDESE)
> -------------------------------------------
> Il Partito Socialista Repubblicano Irlandese nasce nel 1974. Come lo Sinn
> Fein ed il Partito dei Lavoratori, le sue radici si ritrovano nella lunga
> tradizione repubblicana dell'Irlanda ed in particolare in James Connolly e
> nell'Esercito dei Cittadini Irlandesi (Irish Citizens Army).
>
> Fin dalle sue origini l'IRSP si è impegnato in tutti gli aspetti della
> battaglia politica d'Irlanda, partecipando alla campagna per il
> riconoscimento dello status politico dei prigionieri socialisti
> repubblicani, culminato negli scioperi della fame del 1980/81 che costarono
> la vita a dieci prigionieri, dei quali 3 volontari dell'INLA (Esercito
> Nazionale di Liberazione d'Irlanda) Patsy O'Hara, Kevin Lynch e Micky
> Devine; infine partecipando a numerose campagne contro la repressione. Al
> tempo stesso l'IRSP si è costantemente battuto nelle battaglie di classe,
> nella lotta contro i tagli degli investimenti alla salute ed alla
> educazione, contro la tassa sull'acqua, partecipando in prima linea alla
> campagna che introdusse il divorzio nell'Irlanda del Sud e sostenendo
> sempre gli scioperi dei lavoratori.
>
>
> DELEGATO DEL MOVIMENTO PATRIA LIBRE (PARAGUAY)
> ----------------------------------------------
> Si tratta di una organizzazione marxista leninista, sorta alla fine del
> 1989, che nel coinvolgimento di tutte le forze patriottiche, democratiche e
> popolari, aspira per il Paraguay all'istaurazione del Potere Popolare
> Democratico Rivoluzionario. Da sempre il MPL si batte contro la
> partecipazione del Paraguay al MERCOSUR, partecipazione che solo favorisce
> i grandi capitali transnazionali, colpendo la produzione interna ed in
> particolare i piccoli e medi imprenditori e produttori agricoli. A livello
> latinoamericano il Movimento Patria Libre dichiara il proprio appoggio
> incondizionale alla Rivoluzione Cubana e piena solidarietà al movimento
> delle Forze Armate Rivoluzionarie della Colombia, all'Esercito di
> Liberazione Nazionale della Colombia, all'insorgenza Zapatista in Messico
> oltre che a tutte le forze popolari, progressiste, democratiche ed
> antiimperialiste del Continente. Il MPL recentemente si è poi battuto
> contro l'ondata delle privatizzazioni delle imprese strategiche del paese
> ed anche contro il tentativo golpista di maggio dei settori militari legati
> al generale Oviedo.
>
>
> DELEGATO DEL PARTITO COMUNISTA MARXISTA LENINISTA DEL BRASILE
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Il PCML è discendente diretto del Movimento 5 Luglio, un movimento di
> carattere operaio e popolare, il cui obiettivo è il socialismo, attraverso
> la conquista del potere politico, nella lotta contro l'imperialismo, contro
> i monopoli e contro il latifondo, per la liberazione del popolo brasiliano
> e del paese dalla catastrofe neoliberista, mettendo in atto un Programma di
> Emergenza contro la fame, la disoccupazione e la mancanza di abitazioni
> (programma che si articola nelle seguenti rivendicazioni: nazionalizzazione
> dei monopoli nazionali e stranieri imperialisti; statalizzazione di tutta
> la rete bancaria; fine della disoccupazione, lavoro per i senza terra ed
> abolizione del lavoro minorile; diritto all'abitazione per tutta la
> popolazione urbana e rurale; salute pubblica e gratuita per tutta la
> popolazione; educazione pubblica gratuita ed integrale per tutti e
> scolarizzazione di tutti gli analfabeti)
>
> Il Movimento 5 di Luglio sorse a partire da un gruppo di rivoluzionari,
> riuniti in una organizzazione - la OPPL, Organizzazione Popolare Per
> Lottare (Organização Popular Prá Lutar) - che, attraverso un lavoro
> politico ed ideologico, svolto nelle principali regioni del paese, riuscì
> ad unificare diversi gruppi di rivoluzionari, in particolare parte di
> coloro che avevano in Luiz Carlos Prestes un riferimento politico. Il 4
> febbraio 1996, la OPPL, riunita in Congresso, e già ampliatasi grazie alla
> partecipazione di altri gruppi, decise di prendere il nome di "Movimento 5
> di Luglio.
>
> Oggi, il PCML, nato dal Mov. 5 Luglio, è presente nei principali stati del
> paese, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Minas Gerais e Ceará. La sua
> direzione è costituita da rivoluzionari storici e da altri leaders con
> molta esperienza (degli anni settanta). Il suo presidente onorario è Zola
> Florenzano, la cui lotta iniziò negli anni 30.
>
>
> DELEGATI PROVENIENTI DALLA RUSSIA [* da confermarsi]
> ---------------------------------
> Dalla Russia dovrebbero confermare la loro venuta alcuni dirigenti
> sindacali e responsabili di organizzazioni politiche. Al momento sembra
> possibile la partecipazione di rappresentanti dell'Unione Operaia di Perm,
> del Movimento Nuova Sinistra, della Unione Politica degli Operai della
> Russia ed il PRK, il Partito Russo dei Comunisti, liderato da Kriuchkov.
>
>
> DELEGATI DI IZQUIERDA DEMOCRATICA POPULAR (MESSICO)
>
> E' un raggruppamento politico che nasce nel gennaio 1999. Alla conferenza
> di fondazione c'erano delagati per un totale di diecimila membri. Si tratta
> della più forte organizzazione della sinistra rivoluzionaria messicana,
> frutto di un processo di unficazione di numerose organizzazioni politiche e
> sociali autorganizzate. IDP è particolarmente impegnata tra i campesinos e
> le comunità indigene di almeno 7 stati.
>
> Molto forte tra i subborghi della capitale dove organizza l'autogestione di
> interi quarteri popolari (servizi, scuola, autodifesa ecc). Forte anche nel
> sindacalismo di base.
>
> Impegnata anche nell'appoggio a tutte le forme di lotta, tra cui quelle
> armate dell'EPR e dell'EZLN. Molti dei suoi militanti sono stati arrestati
> durante la repressione della lotta all'UNAM, alcuni dei cui leaders del
> comitato di sciopero.
>
> IDP è poi molto impegnata nella lotta contro la prigionia politica e la
> repressione ed il suo Presidente è il Prof. Alberto Hijar Serrano.
>
>
> DELEGATO DELLA ONG "FEDELTA' ALL'UOMO ED ALLA TERRA" (LIBANO/PALESTINA)
> ----------------------------------------------------
> La LOYALTY FOR MAN AND EARTH è una organizzazione non governativa che
> lavora nella difesa dei diritti umani. Loyalty, con particolare riferimento
> alla gioventù. I suoi obiettivi sono presi dalla Dichiarazione Universale
> dei Diritti Umani e la propria attività è organizzata attraverso i mezzi di
> comunicazione e programmi varii promossi dai propri aderenti o da altri
> giovani.
>
>
> C.L.E.T.A. (Messico) [* da confermarsi]
> ---------------------
> < Al momento mancano finanziamenti per favorire la loro partecipazione >
>
> Si tratta del Libero Centro di Sperimentazione Teatrale ed Artistica
> (Centro Libre de Experimentación Teatral y Artística, CLETA), centro che ha
> alle spalle 27 anni di attività. La partecipazione di CLETA si
> strutturerebbe su due tipologie di attività:
>
> 1. Attività artistiche: presentazione di musica e teatro popolare e
> rivoluzionario.
>
> 2. Presentazione di due ricerche:
>
> - Sulla lotta non ancora terminata del Consiglio Generale in Sciopero
> della UNAM (a cui CLETA partecipa)
>
> - Sul ruolo della cultura nei processi rivoluzionari.
> =======================================
> Informazione Diffusa a Cura del
> Comitato Internazionalista Arco Iris
> Via Don Minzoni 33
> 25082 Botticino Sera (BS)
> E-mail: ale.ramon@...
> Tel/Fax 030-2190006
> ========================================
>


The course of history is subject to an alarming acceleration. Capitalist
countries have closer relations than ever due to globalisation under the
aegis of the USA and its military arm on an international scale, NATO.
They
succeeded to deal destructive blows to their enemies. Nevertheless the
main
contradictions have become more acrid and new contradictions have
emerged.
Expanding and developing its forces of productions, capitalism is less
and
less capable to provide for the needs of the majority of humankind, and
capitalism is destroying the basis of civilisation. In the periphery of
the
imperialist centres, ever more people are starving, and even in the
“rich”
countries old and new misery is spreading, exploitation and alienation,
side
effects of the consumerist pattern. Capitalism and imperialism did win,
but
we do not see any peace and the world became more unstable than ever
before.
Not even the great masters of the US and European governments know where
they are leading us.
The battle of Seattle has caused the whole West to awake. This revolt is
a
turning point, in spite of its limitations. The belle époque is over,
the
enchantment that wants to lead us to believe that this system is the
best
possible system, this enchantment which capital has cast over the
masses, is
collapsing. We slowly emerge from the darkness: The peace of
intoxication is
over, the ghost of revolt is haunting again, not only in the
semi-colonial
countries, where the flame of revolution has never been extinguished
despite
great difficulties, but even in the heart of imperialism. The
traditional
workers’ movement seems to have lapsed into a condition of paralysis,
but
new actors are ascending to the stage, driven by those contradiction, to
devote themselves to the cause of humanity, political passion and an
instinctive, primitive anti-capitalism.
What should be the answer to globalisation, to new colonialism that is
destroying the poorest countries, to political-cultural Americanism that
is
strangling Europe and Japan? How can we exploit the contradictions among
the
imperialist countries? How can we work against Echelon, international
computer totalitarianism, that is oppressing individual freedom as well
as
basic political and democratic rights? How can we unite the mass
struggles
in the semi-colonial countries with the revolts in the hearts of the
imperialist countries? How can we join workers’ class struggle with the
fight to defend our environment, for a non-capitalist use of science,
information, nutrition and knowledge? What should be our answer to mass
migration, to racism, to xenophobia and neo-fascism? How shall we deal
with
the religious popular movements that fight imperialist globalisation?
How
can we render a meaning to the meaningless chaos? How can we convert the
revolt into a great revolutionary movement?
We have to prepare for the great struggles of resistance, to decide the
challenge of world capitalism to our favour. We call on all
anti-imperialists who have led a heroic struggle to resist in this
decade,
to defend the unity we have reached already, and to go one step further.
In this sense we shall organise in the first week of August 2000 an
anti-imperialist camp in Italy, a great international meeting to enable
us
to draw a balance together, to define a path for the future.
On the camp there are going to be various discussions on problems and
events
of anti-imperialist struggle, and especially seven great topics with
contributions by renown guests:
1. The revolt of Seattle. What is globalisation and how can we
fight it.
2. Columbia: liberation struggle and construction of people’s power.
3. Yugoslavia: the NATO criminals shall not get away without being
punished.
4. Echelon: how to resist the USA/NSA information totalitarianism?
5. Amnesty! The political prisoners and the special security laws in
Italy
and Europe.
6. Against capitalist “development”: Defence of the ecological system as
a
precondition for civilisation.
7. Islam and the New World Order.

Numerous guests have already confirmed their active participation, and
we
address all those who share the spirit of this call and who want to
support
the summer camp and who want to actively participate in it. We invite
you to
an introductory plenum on May 27th in Italy to decide on the programme
and
agenda, the international delegations and the speakers.

The preparatory committee for the Anti-Imperialist Camp
Italy, February 2000

> Si svolgera' in Italia, nella settimana dal 30 luglio al 6 agosto
>
> UN NUOVO CAMPO ANTIMPERIALISTA
>
> per informazioni, contatti e adesioni:
> ale.ramon@... e campo2000@...
>
>
>
> NO ALLA GLOBALIZZAZIONE!
> Da Seattle a S.Vicente avanza la rivolta contro l¹impero
> dell¹ingiustizia
>
>
>
> La storia sta subendo un¹inquietante accelerazione. Gli stati capitalisti, con la globalizzazione, hanno stretto rapporti
> sempre più fitti, ponendosi sotto l¹ombrello protettivo degli U.S.A. (di cui la NATO è il braccio armato mondiale) e
> sono riusciti a sferrare colpi micidiali a tutte le forze loro ostili. Tuttavia le contraddizioni fondamentali si sono acuite,
> mentre nuove si sono imposte. Il capitalismo, più si allarga e sviluppa le sue forze produttive, meno riesce a soddisfare i
> bisogni della gran parte degli esseri umani, più distrugge le basi della civilizzazione. Se nelle periferie dei centri imperiali
> le masse sono sempre più alla fame, nei paesi ³ricchi² avanzano vecchie e nuove miserie, si accrescono lo sfruttamento e
> l¹alienazione che il modello consumistico porta con sé. Il capitalismo e l¹imperialismo hanno vinto, ma il mondo non ha
> pace ed è più instabile che mai. Nemmeno i grandi stregoni al governo negli U.S.A. e in Europa sanno dove ci stanno
> conducendo.
> La rivolta di Seattle ha dato la sveglia a tutto l¹Occidente. Essa segna, malgrado i suoi profondi limiti, uno spartiacque. E¹
> finita la belle epoque, sta crollando l¹incantesimo con cui il Capitale ha addormentato le masse, quello per cui questo è il
> migliore dei mondi possibili. Stiamo uscendo dal buio: la pace drogata è finita, lo spettro della rivolta si aggira di nuovo,
> non solo nei paesi semi-coloniali, dove tra tante difficoltà la fiaccola della rivoluzione non si è mai spenta, ma pure nel
> cuore dei paesi imperialisti. Mentre il movimento operaio tradizionale sembra essere precipitato in uno stato di catalessi,
> giungono sulla scena nuovi protagonisti spinti da queste contraddizioni ad abbracciare la passione politica per le sorti
> dell¹umanità e un¹istintivo e primordiale anticapitalismo.
>
> Come rispondere alla mondializzazione? al nuovo colonialismo che devasta i paesi piu' poveri?
> all¹americanismo politico-culturale che strangola l¹Europa e il Giappone? Come utilizzare le contraddizioni
> inter-imperialistiche? Come contrastare ³Echelon², il totalitarismo informatico mondiale che soffoca le libertà
> individuali e i diritti politici e democratici? Come saldare le lotte popolari nei paesi semi-coloniali con le
> rivolte nel cuore dei paesi imperialisti? Come legare la lotta di classe degli operai a quella per la difesa
> dell¹ambiente, per un uso non capitalistico della scienza, dell¹informazione, dell¹alimentazione e dei saperi?
> Come rispondere alle migrazioni di massa, al razzismo, alla xenofobia e al neofascismo? Come rapportarci ai
> movimenti religiosi popolari ostili alla globalizzazione imperialista? Come dare senso ad un caos insensato?
> Come trasformare le rivolte in un grande movimento rivoluzionario?
>
> Dobbiamo attrezzarci, impostare le battaglie di resistenza per vincere la grande sfida col capitalismo globale. Noi
> chiamiamo gli antimperialisti che in questo decennio hanno condotto un¹eroica lotta di resistenza a difendere l¹unità
> acquisita ed a compiere un passo avanti verso forme stabili di coordinamento.
> E¹ in questa prospettiva che, per la prima settimana di agosto, organizzeremo in Italia un Campo antimperialista, un
> grande incontro mondiale per fare un bilancio, tracciare la rotta futura consolidando la prospettiva di un fronte comune.
> Il Campo, accanto ai numerosi tavoli di discussione su questioni e vicende riguardanti le lotte contro l¹imperialismo, si
> articolerà su sette grandi tematiche sulle quali interverranno i protagonisti:
>
> 1- La rivolta di Seattle. Cos¹e' la globalizzazione e come combatterla. 2- Colombia: lotta di liberazione e
> costruzione del potere popolare. 3- Iugoslavia: i crimini della NATO non debbono restare impuniti. 4-
> Echelon: come contrastare il totalitarismo telematico targato USA-NSA? 5- Amnistia! La prigionia politica e
> la legislazione speciale in Italia e in Europa. 6- Contro lo ³sviluppo² capitalistico: difesa dell¹eco-sistema come
> paradigma di civiltà. 7. Islam e nuovo ordine mondiale.
>
> Mentre molte forze antimperialiste hanno già assicurato la loro attiva partecipazione, ci rivolgiamo a coloro che
> condividono lo spirito di questo appello ad aderire e partecipare al Campo antimperialista e alla assemblea di
> presentazione che si svolgerà sabato 27 maggio a Firenze. In questa assemblea verranno presentati il palinsesto completo
> del Campo, le delegazioni internazionali ospiti e i relatori.
>
> Comitato Promotore del Campo antimperialista


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SOMMARIO DELL'ULTIMO NUMERO (2/2000):

ITALIA/LAVORO
- Prc e svolta politica (G.Pegolo)
- A proposito di lavoratori interinali (V. Rieser)
- Capitale e lavoro: rimozione del conflitto e risposte illusorie (R.
Bellofiore)
- "Cambiare rotta" (G. Cremaschi)
- Involuzione della CGIL e necessita' di una nuova dialettica interna
(D. Greco)
- Le anomalie del capitalismo italiano (S. Cararo)

SPAGNA
- Le elezioni in Spagna e la crisi delle sinistre (J. Kopenik)
- I comunisti spagnoli e la crisi di IU (F. Serrano)
- Spagna: accordo sul programma di governo

FRANCIA
- Il 30.mo congresso del Partito Comunista Francese
- Come leggere i documenti congressuali; La discussione
- "Una regressione democratica grave" (M. Gremetz)
- Botta e risposta con il PC della Federazione Russa

INTERNAZIONALE
- Russia: La nuova era di Putin, continuita' o rottura? (A. Catone)
- Iran: una difficile transizione (G. Lannutti)
- USA, Cina e Taiwan: analisi di un conflitto (E. Collotti Pischel)
- Sud-Est asiatico: la devastante penetrazione dell'imperialismo (F.
Grimaldi)
- Dalla vittoria del Vietnam una spinta antimperialista mondiale (S.
Ricaldone)
- Il ruolo del Partito Comunista Vietnamita (P. Tagliazzucchi)
- Indipendenza, ricostruzione, sviluppo: la via vietnamita (E. Penati)
- Sesto congresso della PDS tedesca
- Giappone: elezioni a Osaka e Tokio; straordinaria avanzata del PC

JUGOSLAVIA
- Il Quarto congresso del Partito Socialista della Serbia
- Dietro l'attacco "umanitario" (M. Dinucci)
- DOSSIER: La guerra in Jugoslavia, una sfida per la sinistra (P.
Theuret)
- Intervista a Ljubisa Ristic, presidente della JUL (C. Lohbauer)

TEORIA
- La via tracciata da Lenin (B. Steri)
- RIVISTE: Montag; Marxismo Oggi
- "Geostoria dell'Africa" di M. Dinucci
- Abitare l'Utopia? Si, ma da utopisti concreti (B. Casati)


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