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2nd Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference: March 29-April 1, 2002
SYDNEY BOYS HIGH SCHOOL, SURRY HILL, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
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End war, racism, world poverty: a conference of global solidarity
a.. Participants so far
a.. From the Asia-Pacific
b.. From Europe
c.. From Africa
d.. From North America
e.. From Latin America & the Caribbean
b.. A call to participate
c.. Issues & topics
d.. Register online: discounts available for those who register and pay
in 2001
e.. Contact the conference organising committee
f.. Links
g.. About the 1st Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, 1998
h.. About the Asia Pacific Institute
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For all those concerned and angry about the destructive ravages of
neoliberal globalisation; for all those active in the
anti-corporate/anti-capitalist movements; for all those campaigning against
the US-British war on the Afghan people; for all those who wish to tear
down the First World fortresses against refugees and poor immigrants; for
all those who want to see a stronger, united, internationalist left-the 2nd
Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference is not to be missed!
This is the gathering of the key movements and campaigns that are reshaping
politics in Australia and much of the world today. But it's a unique
gathering: it seeks to link leftists from all continents into a truly
global movement; it brings together anti-capitalist left parties from
diverse traditions, countries and historical backgrounds; it aims to link
the movements of today with the solutions of tomorrow; it bridges the
tactics and issues of each campaign with a strategic alternative to capitalism.
So, join hundreds of activists from around Australia and all over the world
in four days of discussion of how we can advance global solidarity and
justice, coordinate the struggle against the war, and build stronger links
for the cause of fundamental social change on a global scale.
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Who's coming?
Asia Pacific
Indonesia
a.. Dita Sari, a leader of the People's Democratic Party (PRD) in Indonesia
and Chairperson of the Indonesian National Front for Workers' Struggle
(FNPBI). A former political prisoner and one of the foremost young
militants in the budding Indonesian labour movement, Sari was recently
detained while leading a strike of factory workers. See the article Dita
Sari detained at strike in Green Left Weekly, November 14, 2001.
Pakistan
a.. Farooq Tariq, General Secretary of the Labour Party Pakistan. The LPP
is currently playing a leading part-especially in the mobilisation of
workers-in the growing movement against the imperialist war on Afghanistan.
In the process, they are also waging a courageous struggle against the
religious fundamentalists, building towards a secular, democratic movement
for a socialist Pakistan. See Pakistan: birth of a new peace movement in
Green Left Weekly, November 14, 2001.
b.. The President of the Seraiki National Party, Abdul Majeed Kanjoo, from
Pakistan
c.. Farrukh Sohail Goindi, Central Information Secretary, Pakistan People's
Party (Shaheed Bhutto group) Philippines
a.. Sonny Melencio, Chairperson of the Socialist Party of Labor,
Philippines. See the interview with Melencio, a veteran Filipino
revolutionary, in Philippines: left merger a great leap forward in Green
Left Weekly, November 14, 2001.
b.. Wilson Fortaleza, President of Sanlakas, Philippines
c.. Victor Briz, President of BMP, Philippines Papua New Guinea
a.. Powes Parkop, a leader of Melanesian Solidarity, Papua New Guinea.
Melsol is a radical political organisation that unites environmental, land
rights, student and urban poor community activists throughout Papua New
Guinea. It has played a leading part in the ongoing struggle against the
neoliberal restructuring imposed by the IMF and World Bank. See the
interview he gave to Green Left Weekly after the 1st Asia Pacific
International Solidarity Conference in 1998.
Burma
a.. Maung Maung Than, Australian representative of the Free Burma Action
Committee
Malaysia
a.. Dr Nasir Hashim, Chairperson of the Malaysian Socialist Party
India
a.. Satya Sivaraman, radical Indian TV documentary producer
b.. The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist). See the Green Left
Weekly article, CPI-ML on the way forward for the Indian left, based on an
interview with politburo member, Balasubramanian Sivaraman, in January 2000.
Bangladesh
a.. Dr Peter Custers, Director, Bangladesh People's Solidarity Centre
South Korea
a.. The Power of the Working Class in South Korea
East Timor
a.. The Socialist Party of Timor (PST). The PST is at the forefront of
organising resistance to the neoliberal and neocolonial attacks now facing
independent East Timor. In the process, the party is winning influence
among many workers, farmers and poor, reflected in its winning of a seat in
the 88-member Constituent Assembly in the September 2001 national
elections. See Fretilin wins, but no landslide and East Timor: thousands
rally for socialism in Green Left Weekly, September 12, 2001.
Iraq
a.. The Worker Communist Party of Iraq
Nepal
a.. The Communist Party of Nepal (UML)
Australia
a.. Australian participants so far include the Democratic Socialist Party,
Resistance, Green Left Weekly, ASIET and the International Socialist
Organisation, as well as a wide array of activists from the anti-war,
global justice, women's, trade union, refugee rights and other movements
Europe
France
a.. Alain Krivine, a leader of the French Revolutionary Communist League
(LCR) and a member of the European parliament. The LCR is the leading
organisation of the Fourth International and a key part of the renewal and
regroupment of the radical left in Europe. Krivine is a veteran socialist
who played an active part in the May-June 68 revolt and was elected to the
European parliament in June 1999 on a joint ticket between the LCR and
Workers' Struggle (LO). See the interview in French far-left election
alliance raises hopes in Green Left Weekly, April 14, 1999.
b.. Jean-Pierre Page, author, political commentator, and long-time militant
in the national leadership of the French General Confederation of Labour
(CGT) and the Communist Party of France. Page has contributed to A Century
of Organised Labour in France (St Martin's, 1998) and is presently
finishing a contribution to a book on the war on Afghanistan.
Russia
a.. Boris Kagarlitsky, Russian Marxist activist, author and political
commentator. Imprisoned in the early 1980s for his activity in the
socialist opposition to the Stalinist bureaucracy in the former USSR,
Kagarlitsky has most recently been active in the movement against
neoliberal globalisation (see his three-part Prague 2000: Diary of the
people's battle, beginning in Green Left Weekly, October 25, 2000). His
extensive works include Square Wheels : How Russian Democracy Got Derailed
(Monthly Review Press, 1994) and New Realism, New Barbarism : Socialist
Theory in the Era of Globalisation (Pluto Press, 1999).
Britain
a.. Alex Callinicos, British Marxist intellectual, from the Socialist
Workers Party of Britain. Callinicos is a leader of the International
Socialist Tendency, the international grouping of affiliated parties led by
the SWP, which includes the Australian International Socialist
Organisation, among others. Callinicos's writings include Against
Postmodernism : a Marxist Critique (Polity, 1989), Althusser's Marxism
(Pluto Press, 1976) and Trotskyism (Open University Press, 1990).
Turkey
a.. The Turkish Freedom and Solidarity Party (ODP). The ODP is a party of
regroupment and unification of the far left in Turkey. For their origins,
see Left on the rise in Turkey (Green Left Weekly, June 19, 1996) and
Turkey's new left party holds congress (Green Left Weekly, November 26, 1997)
Portugal
a.. The Portuguese Left Bloc. A culmination of a decade of cooperation
between three socialist parties from different political traditions, the
Left Bloc was officially formed in January 2000 and is gaining growing
support from many workers and radicalising youth in Portugal. See Portugal:
New times, new left (Green Left Weekly, April 5, 2000)
Scotland
a.. The Scottish Socialist Party (unconfirmed). Built on the mass anti-poll
tax struggle, the sharpening class polarisation in Scotland, as well as the
convergence and renewal of several socialist organisations, the SSP is a
leading success in the process of radical left regroupment currently
underway in Europe. See Scottish Socialists make big gains in first year
(Green Left Weekly, December 1, 1999)
Africa
Mauritius
a.. Ram Seegobin, leader of Lalit, the principal revolutionary socialist
organisation in Mauritius. Lalit was a leading force in the struggle
against the anti-democratic Public Security Bill in 1999-2000 (See
Mauritius government outlaws dissent, Green Left Weekly, February 2, 2000).
It is part of the current struggle of Mauritius to reclaim the island of
Diego Garcia, still a British colony from which the US is launching its
devastating air raids on Afghanistan, and which was forcibly depopulated in
the late 1960s. See the moving article Diego Garcia, B-52s and you and me
by Lindsay Collen, a leader of Lalit and author of the banned novel The
Rape of Sita (Green Left Weekly, October 31, 2001).
South Africa
a.. The Labour Left Collective, South Africa
b.. Dale T. McKinley, South African Marxist and activist. Formerly an
activist in the South African Communist Party, McKinley was expelled for
his criticisms of the SACP's accommodation to neoliberalism.
Zimbabwe
a.. International Socialist Organisation, Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean ISO is a
growing force in the radicalising movement of rural workers, students and
pro-democracy forces. See the series of interviews and articles by Green
Left Weekly's southern Africa specialist, Norm Dixon, in August 2001:
Socialists confront Mugabe dictatorship, Mugabe 'talks left, acts right',
Gwisai: 'The time for toy internationals is over'.
North America
a.. Malik Miah, Barry Sheppard and Caroline Lund from Solidarity in the US
b.. Ahmed Shawki and Paul D'Amato, leaders of the US International
Socialist Organisation. The US ISO, since its departure from the
International Socialist Tendency in early 2001 has been seeking broader
international links. This growing organisation of militants in the belly of
the beast is an active force in the US anti-war movement. It is also deeply
involved in the movements against racism, corporate globalisation and for
women's rights.
Latin America & the Caribbean
a.. Luis Balbao, from Union of Militants for Socialism in Argentina.
b.. The Cuban Communist Party
And there's been interest from other left parties and activists from many
other countries, including Thailand, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Cyprus,
Denmark, Canada, Norway, Germany, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Israel, Palestine,
Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan and Nicaragua.
Additional confirmations will be broadcast as they come available.
(This site was last updated November 16, 2001)
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