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The support of international comrades means A LOT to workers and youth struggling for
their rights in difficult conditions around the world! Let them know you care!
Only the unity of working people and youth of ALL nations, races, genders, and ethnic
groups can end the poverty, ignorance and hatred which is inevitable under
capitalism. We will be constantly updating this list of solidarity campaigns and
keeping you informed. Also, if you are sponsoring a campaign, let us know and we
will post the information here!
USA
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International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) calls for the release of the
Charleston 5. Picketing longshore workers face felony charges, jail.
For defending their jobs, five longshore workers -- members of ILA longshore Local 1422
and clerks and checkers Local 1771 in Charleston, South Carolina -- face possible
imprisonment on state criminal charges. They and some 150 co-workers planned to picket a
ship in their port that was using a non-union longshore crew when the state responded with
a massive contingent of law enforcement officers and an altercation ensued. The five have
been indicted for rioting, a felony punishable by up to five years in prison. They could
face trial as early as this February. The South Carolina AFL-CIO, with the help of the
national AFL-CIO, has initiated an international campaign to defend them and their locals.
Palestine
Morocco and France
Mehdi Ben Barka Appeal
We appeal to all labor movement activists for letters of protest, demanding that the
French government immediately open all the secret service files on the Ben Barka Affair,
and any other material presently covered by the state secrecy laws covering to
collaboration between the French State and the Moroccan secret services in relation
victims of assassination, torture or imprisonment of opponents of the Hassan II regime.
(May, 2000)
- The Ben Barka affair and the
situation in Morocco today
In the interview published
in La Riposte, Bachir Ben Barka, the son of Mehdi Ben Barka, the assassinated founder
of the Moroccan Socialist Party (USFP), explains the long and largely fruitless struggle
waged by his family to obtain access to the files of the French secret services. Towards
the end of the interview, Bachir refers to the possibility that the files may at last be
opening by the Jospin government. However, whereas certain files were in fact opened, the
most important information about who killed Mehdi Ben Barka, on whose orders and in what
circumstances, and how the body was disposed of, has been once again withheld from the
family under the state secrecy laws.
- Interview with Mehdi Ben
Barka's Son Bachir
This interview was originally published in the French Marxist magazine La Riposte.
In it, the son of assasinated Moroccan socialist leader Mehdi Ben Barka explains the
reasons why his father was kidnapped and assasinated with the help of the French
government. We are launching an international solidarity appeal to force the authorities
to re-open this case and make public all the secret documents being witheld from Ben
Barka's family.
Pakistan
- Kashmir -
A Paradise in Peril
Revolutionary socialists in Kashmir have set up the Campaign for Socialist Kashmir,
arguing that the stuggle for socialism and the spreading of this struggle throughout South
Asia is the only solution to the national oppression in Kashmir. (July, 2000)
- Pakistan
Trade Union Defence Campaign
An exremely important urgent call for solidarity and support from Pakistan.
Please re-distribute as widely as possible especially to trade union organizations. URGENT
ACTION REQUIRED!!! (October 12, 1999)
Nigeria
- Student Union
activists killed in Nigeria by neo-fascist death squad: Eyewitness Account
Below is a report on recent events in Nigeria. Five students were killed by a cultist
gang, that is a neo-fascist type organisation, at Ife University. Our comrades were
closely involved in the events and some of them are lucky to be alive, as the gang were
looking for some of them. Luckily our comrades escaped.
The reports below will give you a clear idea of what is happening in Nigeria. It shows
quite clearly that Nigeria is about to join Indonesia and Iran in the revolutionary
process that is beginning to develop worldwide.
Unfortunately we got the reports after everything had finished. But messages of solidarity
from Trade Union, Student and party organisations would still be very useful.
- Please click here
for previous information!
Mexico
- Ten years defending
the ideas of genuine Marxism in Mexico
July 2000 marks 10 years of uninterrupted publication of Militante, Marxist Voice of
Workers and Youth in Mexico. This editorial from our Mexican comrades explains some of
their activities over the past ten years, and the perspectives for the future. (Summer,
2000)
- Mexican
Student Strikers Under Threat!
The 6 month long student strike to protest increased student fees at the UNAM in
Mexico is being violently attacked by the authorities and hired thugs. Some strikers
have been kidnapped and savagely beaten, and one of our comrades has been accused of
making death threats to the thugs and could be sent to prison. This is of course a
lie fabricated by the authorities to destabilize the movement. We need to mobilize
all our resources on an international scale to condemn these actions, and bring a
successful end to the strike.
After attempts by the government to privitize the Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM), the students have democratically voted to go on strike to defend free, quality,
democratic education! The entire UNAM is paralyzed - 267,000 without classes!
Read about the struggle!
Speakers' Corner
- Get involved in the campaign to establish a Speakers' Corner in every town and city in
the world! Click here for more info! And be sure
to visit www.speakerscorner.net!
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