From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newsletter of the Anti-imperialist Camp 1st of February 2002 1. Defend the right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation! Conclusions of the Anti-imperialist Solidarity Delegation and call for a new one 2. Pakistan: Peasant women fight against forceful eviction from their lands by CMKP, Pakistan 3. Discussion on the Indo-Pakistani conflict over Kashmir 4. Filipino peasant groups cry: “Yankees go home!” by KMU, Philippines ******************** 1.Defend the right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation! Conclusions of the Anti-imperialist Solidarity Delegation and call for a new one >From December 30, 2001 to January 6, 2002 an anti-imperialist solidarity delegation travelled occupied Palestine. The purpose of was twofold: On one hand to see with our own eyes, to judge with our own mind the situation and the resistance movement on the ground. On the other hand to express in the strongest possible way our undivided support for the legitimate resistance of the Palestinian people against the Zionist occupation. Both ends of the delegation were met. We were able to touch the hottest spots of the conflict i.e. Hebron and the Gaza strip. We could see the systematic Zionist colonisation projects of Greater Jerusalem, in the West Bank and in Gaza. We passed deliberately destroyed agricultural land and we saw thousands of uprooted trees. We heard about the water shortages while the Israelis are massively pumping and consuming water. We experienced the restriction of the movement of persons and goods by Israeli check-points, road blocks, exclusive settler and military roads. Briefly, we felt the reality of occupation which we can only subsume as Apartheid. However, we were also able to confirm that the Intifada, the popular resistance movement does live and proceed. It has become crystal clear that Israel has never been striving for peace, but for the complete colonisation of the territories occupied in 1967. This plan was designed right after the occupation and has been carried ahead. It includes a scientifically elaborated plan of Zionist settlements. Their construction was not slowed down or even stopped after the Oslo agreements, but it was massively stepped up. A grid of military and settler roads have been built cutting contiguous Palestinian territories and blocking internal Palestinian movement whenever intended. The Palestinians expelled from their lands are being concentrated in densely populated ever tightening zones eventually resulting in internment camps depriving them of the most elementary rights – like the Bantustans during Apartheid. Palestinian resistance resembles the struggle of David against Goliath. While Israel has got the full backing of imperialism, Palestinians will only be able to re-conquer their elementary democratic right if they can secure the support of the popular and proletarian masses of the world struggling against the Western tyranny. Therefore the international solidarity movement must be constituted on the basis of the elementary democratic demands of the Palestinian people : · Immediate withdrawal of the occupation forces · Dismantlement of the Israeli settlements · Right to return for all refugees · For a sovereign state in the West Bank and Gaza with Jerusalem as capital Complete article: www.antiimperialista.com/view.shtml?category=all&id=1012581467&keyword=+ ************************** 2. Pakistan: Peasant women fight against forceful eviction from their lands Detailed report about the situation in Charsada (Hashtnagar) by Syed Azeem, Punjab President, Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party During the 1970s a number of peasant struggles started in Pakistan, which were mainly organized by the Communists. The most successful and militant land-grab by the peasants took place in Hashtnagar, an area close to the Pak-Afghan border in the province of NWFP. Organized by the then Mazdoor Kissan Party (MKP), the peasants were able to liberate this area from feudal lords, who brutally oppressed the poor peasants and had the backing of the state. Since those days, Hashtnagar remains to be a liberated area despite several attempts by the feudal lords and state to eject the peasants. Recently, another attempt by the feudals, in connivance with the state machinery, is in progress to forcefully evict the poor peasants from the lands of Charsada (Hashtnagar). Eager to use the so-called “War-Against-Terrorism” hysteria, the military and feudals are eyeing to not only takeover the lands, but also to reverse many gains made by the peasant movement in Pakistan. On 22nd January, 2002, 3,500 personnel of police and the Frontier Constabulary attacked the village of Charsada. The peasants were unarmed, but organized. The police, on the other hand, was armed with guns, tear-gas shells, armored vehicles and jeeps. The peasants fought back. The battle continued for seven hours, during which several police officers were injured. The police was forced into a humiliating retreat. However, while retreating the police played another dastardly trick by attacking another hamlet. At that moment, there were no men present. The police thought that they stood a better chance in this hamlet. This was, again, not to be. The peasant women attacked the convoy of police and fought like a true revolutionary army. They burnt the remaining tractors and again the police had to retreat. In previous encounters, women used to supply men with ammunition who were doing the main fighting. This time around it was all in reverse order. In the end, the organization of the peasant was a spectacle worth watching: women in the front ranks, children in the middle and all the men were behind. Thoroughly humiliated from the defeat, the police lodged an Anti-Terrorist Act against 120 people, including the General Secretary of CMKP (Afzal Khamosh), Provincial President of CMKP, four Nazims and four Naib Nazims (elected representatives of Local Bodies). Now the police have surrounded the entire region and are arresting peasants who did not even participate in the fight. We demand vociferously that the brutal act of forceful eviction of peasants of Hashtnagar must be stopped immediately, and the false cases registered under the Anti-Terrorism Act against Afzal Khamosh (General Secretary, CMKP), Nisar Khan (Provicial President, CMKP) and other peasant leaders must be withdrawn. We are not terrorists but revolutionaries. We urge all revolutionary and anti-imperialist organisations to send their solidarity messages. Complete article: www.antiimperialista.com/view.shtml?category=all&id=1012563879&keyword=+ ********************** 3. Discussion on the Indo-Pakistani conflict over Kashmir. A discussion has been initiated between the Anti-imperialist Camp and the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party (CMKP – Communist Workers and Peasants Party) of Pakistan on the nature of the conflict over Kashmir and the anti-imperialist strategies to be adopted. Read the statement by the Anti-imperialist Camp: “Stop the Indo-Pakistani war drive!” www.antiimperialista.com/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1012049504&keyword=+ and the statement by CMKP: “Indo-Pakistani military tension” www.antiimperialista.com/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1012049278&keyword=+ *********************** 4. Filipino peasant groups cry: “Yankees go home!” By KMU, Philippines The militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) expressed alarm on the statement released by two United States officials planning to make the country the next Afghanistan and called for the immediate pull-out of about 600 US military troops in Mindanao. US Senator Sam Brownback yesterday said that, “it appears the Philippines is going to be the second, the next target, after Afghanistan.” For his part, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that, “What’s taking place in the Philippines is that this is a global problem that we are addressing…not just in Afghanistan.” The peasant groups also urged the Filipino people to fight US intervention in the country disguised as a war against global terrorism and crushing the bandit group Abu Sayyaf. Complete article: www.antiimperialista.com/en/view.shtml?category=9&id=1011448384&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. 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