Critical solidarity with the Iranian students movement

posted by nmb on Monday July 14, @06:52PM

1) Critical solidarity with the Iranian students

2) Russian communists at the cross roads, Serguei Novikov

3) Anti-imperialist Camp in Assisi, September 2003

4) Campaign against Anti-imperialist Camp in Hungary

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1) Remarks on the Student Protests in Iran

For several weeks Iranian students are fighting for democratic rights and more liberties. The government's answer was repression and detention of journalists and intellectuals. We condemn this repression and express our honest, if critical, solidarity with the student movement in Iran.

Honest, because we share their democratic demands; critical, because they might serve the interest of the White House who want to re-claim Iran for the US zone of influence.

On May 26th, Donald Rumsfeld told the Washington Post: "If there is a need to take action to topple the Iranian regime in a popular uprising � we are ready to do that, especially if they don't take any measures against al-Qa'ida people who are on Iranian territory."

We don't believe, that tens of thousands of Iranian students are puppets of George Bush or CIA agents, but it's clear that their actions collude with US interests.

The White House hopes, that the struggle for democratic rights will provide an opportunity for direct � maybe armed � intervention.

We have to support the fight for democracy in Iran, but that means solidarity for a people that has led a determined and heroic struggle against the USA and the Shah. To fight for democracy also means to openly say that the main enemy is US imperialism, it means to demand the withdrawal of US troops from the borders, to demand the solidarity of the oppressed, not of the empire.

Full article:

antiimperialista.com

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2) Zyuganov to swallow RKRP-RPK?

Zyuganov�s KPRF used to be the main pillar of Yeltsinist Russia despite their faked opposition until Putin was able to deliver severe blows against them. To weaken the radical forces Putin has simultaneously passed a new election legislation. In order to overcome the new hurdles list alliances have to be build.

Many of the communist groups to the left of the KPRF were against their tacit support the capitalist regime. Facing the threat to be marginalized within the parliamentary circus they are ready to back down before the Zyuganov � including the leader of the Russian Communist Worker's Party (RKRP). On new opposition against this capitulation originating from different communist traditions is about to be constituted.

Read the article:

antiimperialista.com

3) Anti-imperialist Camp

For adhesion to the call as organisation or individual pls contact us: camp@antiimperialist.org

Call for the camp: Resist the attack For an international front of all those fighting against the new American fascism

Our every action is a battle cry against imperialism and a battle hymn for the peoples' unity against the great enemy of mankind: the United States of America.� Ernesto Che Guevara www.antiimperialista.com

Preliminary Programme of the Anti-imperialist Camp

Assisi, Italy, August 31 to September 6

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4) Hungary: Campaign against the Anti-imperialist Camp

On announcing its support and participation the Hungarian Left Front came under heavy of the �left� press. Its speaker, Peter Szekely, said yesterday that this campaign will the opposite of its aims. With the traditional left having capitulated in front of imperialism there many people are searching for an anti-capitalist pole filling the void on the left.

The biggest �Socialist� daily Nepszabadsag: www.nepszabadsag.hu/Default.asp?DocCollID=120566&DocID;=108033#108033

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