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Macdonald Stainsby | 1 Apr 2002 22:15
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[L-I] New US paper aims at Afghan war truth

Can someone please tell me where I can order this? In Vancouver, we have a
tri-weekly that produces some 10 000 copies, but this seems wonderful!

Macdonald, get in touch with me at: mstainsby <at> tao.ca

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  http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,676269,00.html
  New US paper aims at Afghan war truth Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles

  [Friday March 29 2002]  The Guardian
  A newspaper aimed at providing news of the war in Afghanistan is to be
launched this month. Its editors argue that the mainstream media in the US are
not providing a full picture of the war and its effects.

  War Times, produced in San Francisco, will make its first bi-weekly appearance
on April 12. It will be published in English and Spanish and will be distributed
throughout the US.
  Its editors say it is a response to a demand for more information about what
is happening in Afghanistan and the possibility of conflict elsewhere.

  The venture is supported by a number of academics, including Noam Chomsky,
labour organisations and anti-war groups.
  Its managing editor, Bob Wing, said the response to the idea had been
extraordinary. "We originally planned to print only 7,500 copies of the pilot,"
he said, "but the demand was so great that we printed and distributed 100,000."

  He said the aim was to bring more information about the war into the public
debate and "to report hidden truths, to put a human face on events, and explore
the real interests behind the 'permanent war'."
  The pilot issue carried an interview with the actor Danny Glover, who said:
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Gorojovsky | 2 Apr 2002 04:07
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[L-I] A 20 años de Malvinas. Declaración del PIN

DECLARACIÓN DEL PARTIDO DE LA IZQUIERDA NACIONAL

A 20 AÑOS DE LA RECUPERACIÓN DE LAS MALVINAS, GEORGIAS 
E ISLAS DEL ATLÁNTICO SUR
MALVINIZAR EL CONTINENTE PARA RECUPERAR LAS ISLAS AUSTRALES

El lacrimógeno discurso del Dr. Eduardo Duhalde en Ushuaia, según el cual el 
único camino posible para la recuperación de nuestros territorios es el 
"diplomático", es consistente con su política de sumisión al FMI. Así como 
acata la orden de descargar el peso de la reciente devaluación sobre los 
asalariados y los ahorristas mientras premia a los banqueros y usureros con 
bonos dolarizados, también acata la instrucción colonialista de renunciar 
incluso a la amenaza de usar la fuerza que nos imponen el colonialista inglés y 
su socio norteamericano. 

A este esquema de ocupación territorial, saqueo, hambreamiento, usurpación y 
extranjerización de la economía no se responde con negociaciones. Se responde 
con la malvinización inmediata de la Argentina. Y para ello se debe recuperar, 
por los medios que sean necesarios, la soberanía interna en primer lugar. 

Hay que reconstruir nuevamente el Frente de Liberación Nacional y procesar al 
Proceso. Hay que recuperar el Estado, los recursos naturales, las empresas 
públicas extranjerizadas, y repudiar por ilegítima la deuda externa. Para dicha 
política, la única que nos permitirá restablecer sobre una base de poder la 
lucha por las Malvinas, hay que nacionalizar el comercio exterior, la banca, la 
gran industria, y poner la producción bajo el control de los trabajadores, 
mientras se reorganizan las Fuerzas Armadas como un Ejército Popular al 
servicio de la Patria.

FUERA LOS INGLESES DE MALVINAS! FUERA LOS YANQUIS DE LA ARGENTINA!
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Yoshie Furuhashi | 2 Apr 2002 06:42
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[L-I] Tue., April 9: _Lumumba_

Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires

Screening: _Lumumba_
(Dir. Raoul Peck, 2000)

Tue., April 9, 7:30 p.m.
264 MacQuigg Lab, OSU
105 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH

At the Berlin Conference of 1885, Europe divided up the African 
continent.  The Congo became the personal property of King Leopold II 
of Belgium.  On June 30, 1960, a young self-taught nationalist, 
Patrice Lumumba, became, at age 36, the first head of government of 
the new independent state.  He would last two months in office.  This 
is a true story.

_Lumumba_ is a gripping political thriller which tells the story of 
the legendary African leader Patrice Emery Lumumba.  The brilliant 
and charismatic Lumumba rose rapidly to the office of Prime Minister 
when Belgium conceded the Congo's independence in June, 1960. 
Lumumba's populist and anti-imperialist vision of a united Africa 
gained him powerful enemies: the Belgian authorities, who sought to 
perpetuate neo-colonial control in their former colony's affairs, and 
the CIA, who supported Joseph Mobutu in order to protect U.S. 
business interests in Congo's vast resources and ensure U.S. 
dominance in the Cold War.  The ruthless machinations behind 
Lumumba's brutal assassination in 1961 (a mere nine months after he 
became the country's first Prime Minister) are dramatized for the 
first time in _Lumumba_.
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A.Wosni | 2 Apr 2002 09:50
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Re: [L-I] New US paper aims at Afghan war truth

I can't help you with the US-paper but I would like to seize the opportunity 
to tell you that we got something like this since quite some time here in the FR 
Germany. It's called "Zeitung gegen den Krieg" ("Newspaper against the war"), 
and in April #10 has been published. However it doesn't deal exclusively with 
Afghanistan but with Kosovo and Iraq too.It is distributed free e.g. as a part 
of the leftist daily 'junge Welt'.
fraternally	  A. Holberg

Macdonald Stainsby schrieb:
> Can someone please tell me where I can order this? In Vancouver, we have a
> tri-weekly that produces some 10 000 copies, but this seems wonderful!
>
> Macdonald, get in touch with me at: mstainsby <at> tao.ca
>
> -----
>   http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,676269,00.html
>   New US paper aims at Afghan war truth Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
>
>   [Friday March 29 2002]  The Guardian
>   A newspaper aimed at providing news of the war in Afghanistan is to be
> launched this month. Its editors argue that the mainstream media in the US are
> not providing a full picture of the war and its effects.
>
>   War Times, produced in San Francisco, will make its first bi-weekly
>  appearance
> on April 12. It will be published in English and Spanish and will be
>  distributed
> throughout the US.
>   Its editors say it is a response to a demand for more information about what
> is happening in Afghanistan and the possibility of conflict elsewhere.
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A.Wosni | 2 Apr 2002 09:50
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[L-I] [MESN] Statement of Palestinian Marxists on the current zionist war (fwd)


> Defeat Sharon's insane war driveDefeat Sharon's Insane War Drive
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>  
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> The Palestinian people are facing a barbaric war waged by the Sharon-Peres
>  government with full approval and support by the greatest terrorist
>  organization on earth, the United Stated of America. The war against the
>  Palestinian Authority is aimed against the Palestinian popular uprising, and
>  at the same time it seeks to derail the class struggle of the workers class
>  in Israel into an orgy of nationalist death and destruction.
>
>  
>
>  In this difficult hour we are calling for the unconditional defense of the
>  Palestinian people and the PA, including Arafat, against the Zionist
>  criminal aggression.  Our defense is not conditioned on the political
>  character of the PA and its actions. We are calling the Palestinians, the
>  Arab popular masses and the international working class and militant youth
>  in Europe and America to mobilize themselves immediately against the ethnic
>  cleansing operations of the IDF. We are calling on the Jewish workers in
>  this country to oppose and fight back Sharon's insanity, which is
>  endangering the existence of the Jewish workers and poor. 
>
>  
>
> We are calling on Jews everywhere to mobilize themselves against the insanity
>  of the Zionists. This criminal government is the source of a new and most
>  dangerous worldwide wave of anti-Semitism. In order to overcome it, is
>  absolutely necessary for the Jewish workers to break from Zionism. Israel is
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A.Wosni | 2 Apr 2002 09:50
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[L-I] Argentina (fwd)

Revista Solidaridad schrieb:
> ANTE LA CRISIS BURGUESA, EN LUGAR DE TRABAJAR PARA
> DIFUNDIR LA CONCIENCIA DE CLASE AUTONOMA DENTRO DE LA
> CLASE OBRERA, LA IZQUIERDA PRESENTA UN PROGRAMA PARA
> RECOMPONER EL RÉGIMEN POLÍTICO
>
> En la mayoría de los periódicos de la izquierda
> argentina, sobre todo la autodenominada trotskista, se
> puede leer que en Argentina se ha iniciado una
> revolución que está a medio hacer. Según muchos de
> estos izquierditas, los trabajadores han comenzado a
> conquistar sus organismos de democracia directa, las
> denominadas asambleas populares.
> 	Basados en este análisis hay quienes proponen
> extender las asambleas populares como estrategia para
> que los trabajadores tomen el poder. Y en ello
> invierten todos sus esfuerzos, poniéndose
> objetivamente a la cola de las masas. Vaya vanguardia
> revolucionaria.
> 	Sin embargo, la realidad argentina dista mucho de
> parecerse a los deseos de la izquierda vernácula. Las
> asambleas populares, organismos poli-clasistas
> hegemonizados por la pequeña burguesía, difieren
> sustancialmente de lo que fueron los soviets de la
> revolución de octubre, a pesar de lo que muchos creen
> ver en ellas,  sobre todo por la ausencia de la
> participación de la clase obrera, como clase
> organizada, en dichas asambleas. De hecho lo que esta
> aconteciendo en Argentina es sólo un levantamiento
> popular que pretende una reforma política de sistema
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FIDEL LERNER | 2 Apr 2002 14:08
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Re: [L-I] Argentina (fwd)

Es verdadera en gran medida la caracterización de la revista sobre los
partidos de izquierda. Sin embargo, en los momentos de crisis del capital,
los procesos se aceleran y es el pasaje de la clase obrera puede darse en
rapidamente. La conciencia, con dificultades, con idas y vueltas, se va
conctituyendo. Recordemos la Comuna de París.

Lean lo que sigue.

Notas:
1) Villa del Parque es un barrio de classe media/media e media/baja

2) "el pueblo no delibera ni gobierna sino a través de sus
representantes..." está escrito en uno de los artúculos de la Constitución
argentina.

Saludos
Fidel Lerner
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Declaración de autonomía de los vecinos autoconvocados de Villa del Parque.

El sistema de democracia representativa a través del cual unos pocos -- con
un poder usurpado -- deciden el destino del mundo está cumpliendo su ciclo.
La casta política que servilmente administra la dominación está perdiendo
toda credibilidad y con ella todos sus privilegios.

Disputando ese lugar aparece una democracia distinta donde el poder de
decisión no se delega. Una forma de organización igualitaria y horizontal se
presenta como modelo de resistencia del presente, y de creación al futuro, y
el rostro que presenta es el de la busqueda de autonomía en los objetivos y
en las decisiones.
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cpimllib | 2 Apr 2002 14:40
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[L-I] [CPIML- INDIA] Down with the US-aided Israeli terrorism against the Palestinian leadership

[CPI(ML) News Magazine , ML Update, Editorial]
 (Vol.5;No.14; 3-4-2002)

Down with the US-aided Israeli terrorism against the Palestinian leadership

Yasser Arafat, the poster child of national liberation in the latter part of
the 20th century and presently the head of state of Palestine, is now
personally under siege. He is being held incommunicado without water and
electricity in his own headquarters in Ramallah, West Bank, surrounded by
booming Israeli tanks. The occupation army of the Israeli aggressors has
been issued orders to "neutralize" him. Arafat, the moderate voice of
Palestinian resistance all along, is heroically defying death and refusing
to surrender. Meanwhile, scores of protesting Palestinians are being
butchered everyday by the Israeli Army on the streets.

Israel has made no secret of its plans to strangulate the nascent
Palestinian Authority and throw back the peace process by decades. But they
know they can't do it as long as Arafat is around. Hence, exploiting a few
bomb attacks by hardliners, they are bombarding the headquarters of the
Palestinian leadership. This is terrorism par excellence, perpetrated
cynically in the name of "war against terror".

Trying to decapitate the leadership of another state has so far remained a
US privilege. Remember what they tried to do to Gaddafi and Saddam. Now,
under their able guidance, the Israeli hawks are out to do the same, defying
worldwide condemnation. The UN Security Council has called for an immediate
withdrawal of Israeli troops. Even the EU has condemned the siege. The
entire world community, except one nation, the USA, has reacted with
outrage. In fact, the Arab Summit, held in Beirut last week, even went to
the extent of formally endorsing the Saudi peace plan of Arab recognition of
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Hunter Gray | 2 Apr 2002 17:50
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[L-I] Colorado blood and Four Corners Uranium: The Utes Say No

Note by Hunterbear:

"Nothing lives long / Only the Earth and the Mountains,"  was the death song
sung by a Cheyenne leader as the blood-thirsty Colorado militia legions of
Colonel John Chivington [an ordained Methodist preacher] closed in and shot
down at least 450 unarmed Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children at
their village on Sand Creek in eastern Colorado in 1864.  Chivington
defended this hideous, massive atrocity, stating that Indians are "vermin
deserving of extermination" and, on the specific matter of murdering dozens
and dozens of small children, "Nits breed lice." See Dee Brown's, Bury My
Heart at Wounded Knee [New York:  Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971 -- many
editions]; and Duane Schultz, Month of the Freezing Moon:  The Sand Creek
Massacre [New York:  St. Martin's Press, 1990].

This, of course, presaged the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 in which the Colorado
militia and Rockefeller gunmen murdered many striking multi-ethnic coal
miners [the total number has never really been determined] and at least two
of the strikers' women and eleven of their children -- and, again, in
Colorado, the Columbine Massacre of 1927 when state police machine-gunned
striking coal miners, killing six and injuring dozens.

Among the excellent discussions of the Ludlow tragedy is John Reed's
oft-reprinted "The Colorado War" in John Stuart's nicely done The Education
of John Reed:  Selected Writings [New York:  International Publishers, 1955
and subsequent editions].  On the Columbine atrocity, see Ronald McMahon,
"Rang-U-Tang: The IWW and the 1927 Colorado Coal Strike" in Joe Conlin's At
the Point of Production -- The Local History of the IWW [Westport:
Greenwood, 1982].

Along with the Earth and the Mountains, the Death Aura of uranium lives very
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cpimllib | 2 Apr 2002 17:50
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[L-I] [INDIA] CPI(ML) fights draconian POTA in the Parliament

Speech by Comrade Jayant Rongpi, CPI(ML) M.P., in the Parliament on the
Prevention of Terrorism Bill, 2002, on  March 26, 2002, in the  joint
sitting of the houses of parliament
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Dr. Jayant Rongpi: "I stand here to oppose this POTO Bill. I was taken aback
by the intensity of the misplaced political will of the Government to pass
this piece of legislation. On earlier occasions, in the name of lack of
political consensus, in the name of lack of unity among the political
parties, many important legislations, like the Women's Reservation Bill,
have been defferred again and again. However, this time, even after it has
been defeated in the Rajya Sabha, the Government has called this joint
sitting to pass this POTO. I would like to say that other draconian laws,
like TADA, MISA, have created more terrorists in the North-East than solving
the insurgency problem. Terrorism in Punjab was contained not because of
POTO, not because of TADA, not because of any draconian law, but because of
the people of Punjab stood united to fight terrorism. If we want to fight
terrorism, then there should be unity. That cannot be achieved, if the
communal aganda is followed to divide the people of India in the name of
religion, caste, and creed. I will see to it that POTO is fought in every
street, every nook and corner of the North- East region."
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