From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Antiimperialist Camp News Reply-To: "Antiimperialist Camp News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:28:23 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: One year Intifada 600 protest in Vienna Only the Palestinian right of self-determination can bring about peace Following the call of the broad platform �Stop the massacre in Palestine� several hundred protesters gathered yesterday in downtown Vienna on the occasion of the first anniversary of the new Intifada, the Palestinian uprising against the Zionist occupation. The platform initiated by the Anti-imperialist Camp was endorsed by 25 organisations ranging from the Socialist Youth to International Leninist Current, from the Palestinian Community of Austria to the Palestinian Students, from the Revolutionary People�s Liberation Front (DHKC Turkey) to Islamic organisations including also the peace movement and representatives of former Nazi concentration camp inmates. Among the speakers addressing the rally there was even a Green representative of the Vienna municipality. The common platform is based on the Palestinian right of self-determination which includes both the right of return of all refugees as well as the right to build a sovereign state. The first step demanded is the withdrawal of the Zionist occupation troops from the territories conquered in 1967. The platform opposes the US and NATO war drive under the guise of fighting terrorism and � while mourning the innocent victims of the attack on the WTC � condemns the state terrorism of the US and Israel having caused by far more victims. The platform regards the US-led monopolar world order as the prime cause for injustice, oppression and war. Addressing the rally the representative of the Anti-imperialist Camp added that peace with Israel will never be possible as Zionism is the main instrument of the US hegemony in the Middle East. In order to bring peace the imperialist yoke must be shaken off that implies both the withdrawal of the Western military force from the Middle East as well as the destruction of Israel as an exclusively Jewish state on whose ruins a democratic and secular Palestinian state must be built granting the right to live for all religions and nationalities including the Jewish one. It precondition is the dismantling of the current imperialist world order. But the inability of the US to properly respond to the humiliation of September 11 shows its vulnerability. The Roman empire and the Third Reich broke down, the US empire also will sooner or later. The strong turn-out for the demonstration heading towards the heavily guarded US embassy was even more a success as most of the Islamic forces (which all have been invited to participate) exerted strong pressure on the platform to call off the mobilisation in the wake of the WTC bombing. Although we really experienced a considerable fear in the Arab and Islamic communities facing the chauvinist crusader�s hysteria built up by the media this argument seems only to serve as a pretext to withdraw from the demonstration. Apparently the real reason is the reluctance of the Islamic forces as well as those close to Fatah to support a demonstration dominated by anti-imperialist forces blocking their attempt to integrate in Austria�s bourgeois system. Therefore the profile given to the demonstration by the predominantly juvenile participants was clearly anti-imperialist, left and secular. As the next action of the platform a solidarity delegation was announced. About the solidarity delegation: www.antiimperialista.com/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1001248000&keyword=+ ************************************ Antiimperialist Camp PF 23, A-1040 Vienna, Austria Tel&Fax +43 1 504 00 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.antiimperialista.com/en ************************************ _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
