[L-I] Palestine Peace Brokers
http://www.ptimes.com/ Palestine Peace Brokers Shahid Bolsen, Palestine Times, Nov 2000 There is a misleading, and thus extremely important, concept being affirmed in both the summit at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt and the American media coverage of it. Indeed, this concept has prevailed throughout the past seven years of the so-called Peace Process, and it has even affected the way Muslims themselves view the situation in Palestine and the manner by which they seek to address it. Simply stated, this concept holds that Israels relationship with the Palestinians is essentially only a matter of concern for the Israelis, the Palestinians (grudgingly) and the Americans, to the exclusion of the rest of the world. The diversion that this misconception has created is one of the greatest achievements of the Peace Process: that Israel and the United States have proactively engaged the Palestinians in an effort to bring about a peaceful settlement to the ongoing Middle East crisis is thoroughly accepted by the American majority. Indeed, this view has been so successfully propagated that every foreign policy pundit and regional analyst interviewed on the major networks, CNN and Fox news have all been asked at some point in the last two weeks, if the current clashes mean the end of the Peace Process, then what else is there? Clearly assuming, or at least proposing, that there have been, and are, no alternative approaches to a resolution of the conflict and that the Oslo Peace Process is the exclusive avenue for a settlement. This misrepresentation has actually made it possible, for instance, for the American-sponsored emergency summit at Sharm el-Sheikh to be portrayed as a genuine effort, as President Clinton said, to end the current violence. Ending the violence, however, has only proven to be a complicated matter for the Americans and Israelis. The United Nations did not perceive it as terrifically perplexing when they demanded in Security Council resolution 1322 that Israel halt its firing against civilians. The respected Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and the International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) did not find the matter of ending the violence particularly complex when they unanimously called upon Israel to cease forthwith the use of illegal ammunition and heavy weapons, including helicopters with guided missiles, against civilians. Human Rights Watch, perhaps the best known human rights watchdog in the world, was able to conclude with remarkable clarity, if some understatement, that Israel showed a troubling proclivity to unleash deadly force against largely unarmed Palestinians, of whom at least half the victims have been under the age of 18. So, it is safe to say that a summit by the Israelis, the Palestinians and the Americans to discuss ways of bringing the violence to a halt was, essentially, a means by which Israel and the United States could avoid addressing the obvious solution: forcing Israel to adhere to the consensus of the international community, which recognized the inconvenient fact that Israel alone has been the aggressor. The summit, also, of course, was the only possible way to extract from Yasser Arafat a commitment to stop Palestinian violence, which is implicitly an acceptance of the U.S. and Israeli position that there has been Palestinian violence, as opposed to legitimate Palestinian self-defence and resistance. But this has been the pattern, and this is why the Peace Process must be presented as the only possible avenue for settlement, because it is the only way to remove the Palestinian situation from the international forum into a forum controlled by Israel and the United States. In other words, it is the only forum through which the co-agendas of the U.S. and Israel can be realized. Not only is there an alternative avenue by which a resolution could potentially be reached, it can be argued that the Peace Process itself exists precisely to divert attention away from that alternative. A good example of this diversion is readily available in the current crisis, which has been reported as being in essence a battle over Jerusalem. We are told that both sides claim a right to sovereignty over the Holy City; it is Holy to both sides; both sides want it as their capital, so on and so on. During the Camp David negotiations, and indeed, ever since then, we have been continuously informed that the sticking point to a final settlement was the status of Jerusalem. More often than not, we have been told that Yasser Arafat refused to accept the generous Israeli offer of a shared capital in the ancient city. What is not reported, because the discussion must always be kept within the controlled U.S.-Israel-Arafat framework, is that sharing Jerusalem is not an offer that Ehud Barak, or any Israeli leader, is authorized to make. The United Nations, the agreed-upon arbiter of International Law, has stated with sati
Re: [L-I] Turkey: (1) TAYAD Bulletins on hunger strike/Death Fast
Dhkc comrades! This issue of F type prison is really arousing my interest, not that I don't know about it, though. What is the Turkish mafia currently prisoned in Turkish prisons thinking about it? Do you know? During my short visit to Turkey during the summer, I was shocked to hear how corrupt the Turkish prison system was becoming (just as everything else since neo-liberal restructuring!). My father was complaining about the fact that a network of mafia activities were taking control over prisons. They were harassing other prisoners, shooting each other, buying officials (and the state eventually) and establishing their bourgeois kingdom. I also read in the local newspapers that those business men having Swiss and US bank accounts abroad were actually dealing money in prisons., i.e. former fascist Agaca calling mafia Cakici from his cell on the mobile phone, and asking money because he was short. Local newspapers were writing "Cakici promised to lend money to Agaca on the cellular phone!" (as if this is fucking something to be proud of ) Millions of dollars are being circulated in prisons. The justice system is becoming increasingly corrupt. The Turkish judges are bought and sold. US is massively imposing its neo-liberal demands. We are facing arabesk liberalism combined with Turko-American jingoism. What does the Turkish left think about these issues? I wonder. Mine dhkcbureau wrote: > (This message is rather long so it is being divided into two parts) > > TAYAD FAMILIES ARE CALLING YOU! > LISTEN TO THEIR VOICES! JOIN YOUR VOICES TO THEIRS! > > October 14, 2000 > No. 157 > ONCE AGAIN, UNRESTRAINED ATTACKS IN GALATASARAY > To put a stop to the construction of the cells, to have the anti-terror law > abolished, this week the families of prisoners were in front of Galatasaray > High School once again. The state, which is trying to legitimise the > isolation cells, has nothing left to defend them and is trying to prepare > new scenarios to bring about provocations in Umraniye Prison. We families of > prisoners will frustrate these scenarios they are trying to put into effect > such as that there is a tunnel, a rebellion has broken out etc. We condemn > the unrestrained attack by the police on the families of prisoners who were > standing by their sons and daughters in front of Galatasaray High School > today, and call for our families who were arrested to be immediately > released. Fifteen persons were detained. Here are the names we were able to > discover: > Eylem Goktas > Fadik Adiyaman > Gulcicek Bal > Mihriban Yesil. > > October 23, 2000 > No. 162 > ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS > Because of yesterday's count we were not able to leave home for an entire > day. What were our feelings like. At the very least we felt troubled, and > sighed. > One day. not much but even one day behind four walls troubled us and was > difficult. Moreover, in our own house, with our spouse. Even though we were > together with our household and our relatives. Although we had television, > radio and telephones, we were bored and it was difficult for us. > Think also of the 'F' Type prisons. That is not a matter of one day, three > days, five days, one month or even five months. Think about staying for > years in these cells. Isn't this the greatest torture that can be done to > human beings? Moreover, think about cells in a country where in the prisons, > before your eyes, human beings who are prisoners are openly tortured to > death. What can't be done to prisoners who remain in cells on their own? > This is the third day of the hunger strike started to demand the closure of > the 'F' Type prisons. Everybody who is against torture must support this > just resistance and give strength to it. Let us not allow them to be killed. > > October 25, 2000 > No. 165 > ON THE FIFTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS > It is five days since our sons and daughters started an indefinite hunger > strike to close the 'F' Type prisons. We are the mothers and fathers of our > children who are in prison. We want our sons and daughters to not be killed, > not be put in cells. For this, we go out into the streets, are detained, are > beaten with clubs. And now our children have lain down to die. > Our sons and daughters will continue their hunger strike until the cell-type > prisons are closed and all their demands are accepted. > We appeal to all who call themselves human beings to be sensitive and not > remain silent. > > October 26, 2000 > No. 167 > ON THE SIXTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS > IT IS CONTINUING IN 13 PRISONS > The indefinite hunger strike by over a thousand political prisoners and > convicts is continuing. > On the one hand, the families of prisoners who protested against lawlessness > and injustice encountered attacks by police using clubs and armoured cars in > Ankara. Those who say, "We will do away with torture" a
[L-I] Radicals -- and Troops -- in the South, and Other Things
It's personally very difficult to write on this topic with brevity and I'll touch on just a few high spots. My wife, Eldri, and I spent six years, very deeply involved in the Movement, in various parts of the hard-core South: 1961 well into 1967 -- a time period that covered a great deal of courage, sacrifice, blood, funerals, and eventually some sunlight. Initially, I was a professor at Tougaloo College, Advisor to the Jackson Youth Council of NAACP, a prime organizer of the massive Jackson Movement of 1962-63 and its strategy committee chair; later I was a grassroots Field Organizer for the radical Southern Conference Educational Fund; and then, in the very final period of our Southern sojourn, an organizer of militant grassroots anti-poverty campaigns. I was arrested and beaten -- along with many many others indeed -- on numerous occasions. My home was shot up and I was seriously injured and almost killed in a rigged auto wreck. ( Although I practiced tactical non-violence, I certainly make no apologies to anyone for carrying my faithful .38 Special Smith & Wesson revolver.) Into the Southern Movement of the 1950s and 1960s came earlier activist and some left radical legacies: Wobbly traditions in the very old days, the sharecropper unions and CIO efforts in the 1930s, the then continuing Mine-Mill [I.U.M.M.S.W.] legacy from the 1930s onward (particularly in the iron mining sections of Alabama), the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (predecessor of SCEF) in the '30s and '40s especially, and much more. Some of the people who soldiered in the emergent Southern Movement of mid-century were old-time left radicals, and some were much newer and much younger aspirants (in due course, some Red Diapers). The great majority of the people in the Movement -- wherever they came from, locally or otherwise -- had no especially radical background but many certainly had those instincts -- had to have them! -- and some, as the struggles and the Sixties moved on, did emerge as consciously -- but usually non-sectarian -- left radicals. (In the cruel and valiant realities of the Southern Struggle, an ecumenical perspective (radical or religious or both) made damn good sense. Most of those -- consciously radical or otherwise -- who were actually on the front lines (as well as some canny and experienced observers elsewhere) had either no faith in the Federal government or had very, very limited confidence in it. Little Rock was before my Southern time but the Eisenhower administration was, after all, the outfit which failed -- indeed, almost always refused -- to enforce the 1954 Brown desegregation decision and thus gave the white Citizens' Council and Klan movements the breathing and moving room to organize widespread and oft-bloody massive resistance. The Eisenhower action at Little Rock came belatedly; and stemmed in part from Federal fears of an out-of-control racial fire and also from the concerns of "sophisticated" business interests vis-a-vis "a bad business image" for Arkansas. In the 1962 Ole Miss (University of Mississippi) situtation -- the admission of the first Black student (Mr. Jim Meredith) to any previously all-White Mississippi educational institution at any level -- the Kennedys, who had dragged their feet again and again on the Southern civil rights issues, dallied endlessly in a game of political patty-cake with utterly racist Governor Ross R. Barnett and his circle of hard-line segs. The result was a rapidly insurrectionary Mississippi which saw many killings of Blacks in the summer and fall of 1962, as the crisis at the University moved to a sanguinary climax. I, myself, saw the rapidly growing armed White mobs milling at Jackson in mid and late September, harangued by Council fire-brands -- climaxing as an armed throng of many thousands in downtown Jackson just hours before the bloody Ole Miss riot erupted at Oxford to the north. Federal marshals and thousands of Federal troops came too late to prevent the deaths of two, injuries to hundreds, the destruction of much of the University. With their eye on the '64 elections, the Kennedys dragged their feet on civil rights issues thereafter and, in the very bloody Jackson Movement days in the spring of 1963 (the most massive grassroots upheaval in the state's history) did everything they could -- through the Justice Department and the utterly and consistently vicious FBI -- to undercut the militantcy of the Jackson campaign. The Johnson administration was certainly no better. There were very positive changes which eventually emerged: breaking the hard-lines of resistance to social change, the achievement of the right to organize and dissent and the development of widespread local leadership, the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, the beginnings of desegregation and some integration, widespread Black political participation and activism, an end to most
[L-I] Turkey: (1) TAYAD Bulletins on hunger strike/Death Fast
(This message is rather long so it is being divided into two parts) TAYAD FAMILIES ARE CALLING YOU! LISTEN TO THEIR VOICES! JOIN YOUR VOICES TO THEIRS! October 14, 2000 No. 157 ONCE AGAIN, UNRESTRAINED ATTACKS IN GALATASARAY To put a stop to the construction of the cells, to have the anti-terror law abolished, this week the families of prisoners were in front of Galatasaray High School once again. The state, which is trying to legitimise the isolation cells, has nothing left to defend them and is trying to prepare new scenarios to bring about provocations in Umraniye Prison. We families of prisoners will frustrate these scenarios they are trying to put into effect such as that there is a tunnel, a rebellion has broken out etc. We condemn the unrestrained attack by the police on the families of prisoners who were standing by their sons and daughters in front of Galatasaray High School today, and call for our families who were arrested to be immediately released. Fifteen persons were detained. Here are the names we were able to discover: Eylem Goktas Fadik Adiyaman Gulcicek Bal Mihriban Yesil. October 23, 2000 No. 162 ON THE THIRD DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS Because of yesterday's count we were not able to leave home for an entire day. What were our feelings like. At the very least we felt troubled, and sighed. One day. not much but even one day behind four walls troubled us and was difficult. Moreover, in our own house, with our spouse. Even though we were together with our household and our relatives. Although we had television, radio and telephones, we were bored and it was difficult for us. Think also of the 'F' Type prisons. That is not a matter of one day, three days, five days, one month or even five months. Think about staying for years in these cells. Isn't this the greatest torture that can be done to human beings? Moreover, think about cells in a country where in the prisons, before your eyes, human beings who are prisoners are openly tortured to death. What can't be done to prisoners who remain in cells on their own? This is the third day of the hunger strike started to demand the closure of the 'F' Type prisons. Everybody who is against torture must support this just resistance and give strength to it. Let us not allow them to be killed. October 25, 2000 No. 165 ON THE FIFTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS It is five days since our sons and daughters started an indefinite hunger strike to close the 'F' Type prisons. We are the mothers and fathers of our children who are in prison. We want our sons and daughters to not be killed, not be put in cells. For this, we go out into the streets, are detained, are beaten with clubs. And now our children have lain down to die. Our sons and daughters will continue their hunger strike until the cell-type prisons are closed and all their demands are accepted. We appeal to all who call themselves human beings to be sensitive and not remain silent. October 26, 2000 No. 167 ON THE SIXTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS IT IS CONTINUING IN 13 PRISONS The indefinite hunger strike by over a thousand political prisoners and convicts is continuing. On the one hand, the families of prisoners who protested against lawlessness and injustice encountered attacks by police using clubs and armoured cars in Ankara. Those who say, "We will do away with torture" are putting the MHP (Nationalist Movement Party), who openly defend torture, at the head of the parliament's Human Rights Commission. This mask of Turkey, which is supposedly democratising itself on the road to European Union membership, has fallen off. Its true face is exposed. Our sons and daughters will die. Our sons and daughters will die and be killed because they want medical treatment for their friends, because they want to remove the obstacles that exist to a right to a defence, because they have come out and opposed and resisted torture, because they said they wanted this country to be democratic and free. Let us not permit our sons and daughters to be killed. Their resistance is a search for justice in a land where there is no justice. Their resistance is a struggle for democracy and freedom in a land without democracy and freedom. Let us not abandon them, let us give strength to their resistance, let us not allow them to be killed. October 27, 2000 No. 168 ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE HUNGER STRIKE STARTED BY OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS Every day our sons and daughters are heading towards death. Today the hunger strike continues on the seventh day. How persistent the Justice Ministry is on the subject of isolation cells; on the subject of the cells, our children are also determined not to enter them. Because the desire is to put pressure on them, to make them give up their personality and surrender and abandon their beliefs. As mothers, as fathers, we ask; are cells appropriate for human beings? They want to kill our sons and
[L-I] Aufruf zur Unterstützung russischer Arbeiter
Liebe GenossInnen, dear comrades, we received the following mail and have been asked to forward it. What we do herewith. Martin Quote RUSSIA INFO-LIST from International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISWoR web-site -http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html ** * URGENT - please distribute this protest letter widely Support the All-Russia Workers' Day of Action on December 1st against the Barbaric new Labour Code Join the global e-mail protest NOW! The list of international signatures will be published internationally, on and after December 1st. The All-Russia Campaign in Defence of the Present Labour Code consider international solidarity from workers around the world, individually and through their unions or other progressive organisations, as very, very important. Please sign the following letter. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear President Putin, As you know the second all-Russia Day of Action against your new draconian anti-union laws (Labour Code - KZot) takes place on December 1, 2000. The first protest on 17 May, brought out 300,000 workers across Russia. Since the introduction of privatisation in Russia, workers and their families have suffered enormous hardship. They have seen the average male life expectancy plummet from western levels to just 56. Non-payment of wages has become normal, schoolchildren have had to stay home because their schools cannot afford heating, diseases of poverty like tuberculosis have become epidemic, and all over the country people have been forced to live off what they can grow in their back plot. Now, on top of all this suffering, your government intends to introduce a new Labour Code that will destroy basic rights held by workers for decades. The new Labour Code, devised with the enthusiastic encouragement of the IMF, will impose a system of casual labour everywhere, removing from the trade unions all power to act. While at present workers cannot be legally fired if the union opposes it, the new Code will allow bosses to fire at will, as well as to spy on the private lives of workers, and blacklist any who have been active trade unionists. The length of the working day will be increased from 8 to 12 hours, and employers will be able to impose a 56-hour week without overtime pay. Additionally the new Code legalises child labour and forces pregnant women to work night shifts. We, as part of the world workers and pjrogressive movement protest against your barbaric new Code. We demand that the right of workers to organise in trade unions is maintained. We condemn your attempts to legally impose nineteenth century working conditions. We affirm our solidarity with the All-Russia Campaign Against the Labour Code, who have called for a mass Day of Action on 1 December 2000 against this disgraceful attack on working people. Signed City .. Country Union/Organisation . _ Please send e-mail copies to the following FOUR addresses [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Vladimir Putin, President of Russian Federation [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The State Duma (lower house of Russian legislature) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Coordination Committee of the All Russia Action in Defence of the Present Labour Code via Oleg Shein, Duma Deputy, Co-Chairman of Zaschita "Defence" union [EMAIL PROTECTED] - International Solidarity with Workers in Russia - (ISWoR-MCPP) Supporters are also welcome to draft their own messages of protest and solidarity, with copies to the four e-mail addresses above. Faxes can be sent to President Putin at FAX (+7-095) 206 02 66 with copy to campaign organiser Oleg Shein at FAX (+7-095) 292 89 06 Further information can be found on the ISWoR English-language website at: http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/index.html or on the ISWoR French-language website at: http://www.chez.com/isworsitr/index.html This e-mail has already been (or is being) translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Italian, German and Finnish - if you can help with any other language, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] immediately. ** The RUSSIA INFO-LIST puts out information and analysis from a wide range of sources. If you have something you would like to distribute on Russia Info-List, or want to help in our practical solidarity work, contact: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]< Box R, 46 Denmark Hill, London, SE5 8RZ, England *** /Ouote ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists
[L-I] Fw: Informal Name Change/Wobbly Martyrs of November
-Original Message-From: john hunter gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: John Hunter Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Thursday, November 23, 2000 11:23 AMSubject: Informal Name Change/Wobbly Martyrs of November Friends, Comrades, Fellow Workers: Given the brutally tragic and sanguinary events plaguing virtually everything within everyone's view -- to say nothing of occasional threads of bizarre comedy -- this little informal name change of mine is certainly not a significant announcement beyond its purely personal connotations. But here is it: for some time, I've been increasingly known as Hunter Gray (no more, no less) and I'm now shifting away from "John Hunter Gray" to Hunter Gray. This is going to a wide ranging group of good people. If you're more comfortable with "John" in my case, absolutely no problem whatsoever. In the case of directory listings, etc., you should feel free to change my name from John Hunter Gray to simply Hunter Gray. This will reach a few destinations where articles etc. of mine are scheduled to be published. If it's possible -- without any inconvenience, and I mean this -- to change my author's name from John Hunter Gray to simply Hunter Gray, please do so. Otherwise, absolutely no problem! This does not need to be posted on discussion lists but, if anyone wishes, to -- fine with me. Whatever the managers wish and, again, no sweat either way. And now, ever the propagandist: Our Native family is not, frankly, celebrating Thanksgiving as such. (The survival of the English Puritan bigots does not please us.) We see this as a harvest feast and we also remember the fine Wobbly poem done by Ralph Chaplin a long, long time ago -- and cited from my excellent collection of old-time IWW Red Songbooks (various editions of Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent: November produced many martyrs and among those of the Industrial Workers of the World -- and now of the World and of the Ages [designations taken from the Songbooks] are Joe Hill, "Murdered by Authorities of the State of Utah, November 19, 1915;" and the Everett (Washington) Massacre Free Speech Victims, murdered November 5, 1916 ["...and then the fellow worker died, singing "Hold the Fort"...]; and the victims of the Centralia Massacre, commemorated here by Ralph Chaplin ["Wesley Everest -- Murdered by the Lumber Trust, Centralia, Washington, November 11, 1919"]: NOVEMBER Red November, black November. Bleak November, black and red; Hallowed month of Labor's martyrs, Labor's heroes, Labor's dead. Labor's hope and wrath and sorrow -- Red the promise, black the threat; Who are we not to remember? Who are we to dare forget! Black and red the colors blended. Black and red the pledge we made; Red, until the fight has ended, Black, until the debt is paid. We commemorate these and all other martyrs in the cause of Humanity. Our very best to you. In Solidarity - Hunter Gray (formerly John etc) Hunter Gray (Hunterbear)
[L-I] Fw: Israel's killing fields
Without question the best article I've had the pleasure to read on the subject. Thanks to Ulhas Joglekar. -Macdonald Subject: Israel's killing fields Volume 17 - Issue 23, Nov. 11 - 24, 2000 India's National Magazine on indiaserver.com from the publishers of THE HINDU ESSAY Israel's killing fields The structural reasons for the Palestinian uprising and the Israeli terror are connected not only with the consequences of the Oslo Accords of 1993 but also the very nature of the Israeli state and the support it gets from the United States. AIJAZ AHMAD IT is very difficult to write about Israel now, in the ideological climate currently prevailing in India. For several decades, when anti-colonialism was a substantial ingredient in the secular nationalism that informed even India's foreign policy, distance from Israel as a settler-colonial state and close relationship with the Palestinian national movement as representing the victims of that settler-colonialism was taken for granted in the polity. So was India's solidarity with the anti-imperialist currents in the Arab world in general - be it the war of national liberation in Algeria, the Nasserist commitments to non-alignment, or some other current of that kind. This aspect of Indian foreign policy was noted and admired, I might add, by Arab diplomats and intellectuals. I remember visiting a number of the Arab countries and regularly meeting a broad cross-section of the intellectuals there, in the 1960s and 1970 s. I was very young then and it was always very striking to me that Pakistan's support for Palestine was usually seen as shallow and Islamicist, whereas the Indian solidarity with the Palestinian cause was regarded as a natural and secular, non-religious response from a country that had played so seminal a role in the making of the non-aligned movement. I was therefore very surprised when I read the statement of Jaswant Singh, during the course of his recent visit to Israel, that India's foreign policy in the past decades was held hostage by the Muslim vote bank and that the government was now going to correct that error. India's anti-colonialist past was simply being erased, and what even Arab intellectuals, from their great distance, could see as an expression of India's secular solidarity with anti-Zionist forces in Palestine was now being presented , by a suave and insufferable Foreign Minister, as an error forced by the Muslim minority in the country upon those whom the Bharatiya Janata Party is fond of calling "pseudo-secularists". Hindutva was now going to undo all that and make a strategic alliance with its natural counterpart: Zionism. What, then, about the current uprising in Palestine? It is said that the uprising, which the Palestinians themselves are calling "Al-Aqsa Intifada", was triggered by the visit of Ariel Sharon, the Likud Party leader, to Al-Aqsa, the holiest Muslim shrine in Palestine (known to the Jewish people as Temple Mount), with the announced purpose of demonstrating "Jewish sovereignty" over the Al-Aqsa compound. The visit was clearly authorised by the Ehud Barak government, which also provided more than 1,000 armed policemen to protect Sharon. It is important to recall, though, that the Palestinian agitation did not begin with that Thursday visit. Rather, the agitation came the next day, when Israeli security forces were massed in the compound at the time of Friday prayers, in a calculated provocation when a large crowd was present and someone or the other could be trusted to fan the flames. That is when the Israelis started shooting. It is also worth remarking that during the first couple of days the Palestinian agitation was restricted to slogan-shouting and stone-throwing. Palestinian gunmen entered the fray only after the corpses had begun to mount, at the hands of the Israeli sharpshooters who were clearly under orders to kill. The ratio of the Palestinians and Israelis killed is still about 20 to 1. There was, in other words, a deeper design which seems to have been prepared many months ago. Saeb Arikaat, a senior Palestinian negotiator, has said that he and Arafat went personally to Barak's house to persuade him not to grant permission to Sharon to make the visit and to warn of the possible consequences; Faisal Husseini, another senior leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), says that he too appealed personally to Barak. Barak rejected all such requests, knowing well that among Palestinians Sharon was the most hated man. To understand the motivation, we need to understand something about Sharon and Barak, and then reflect also on the consequences of the Oslo Accords and on that monstrosity which is represented in the media as the " peace process". ON March 23 this year, well before the latest uprising, Professor Tanya Reinhart of Tel Aviv University, wrote in the Israeli newspaper, Yediot Aharanot: "Barak is the
[L-I] Enforcing Islamic law in Germany
>From the liberal Frankfurter Rundschau: http://www.fr-aktuell.de/english/401/t401001.htm WHEN MUSLIM WOMEN MAY WEAR HEADSCARVES IN GERMANY Constitutional Court hears case of women forced to wear head covering By Ursula Knapp Karlsruhe - At a sitting of the German Constitutional Court held on Tuesday it soon became clear that German local authorities are lost in a maze of contradictions when it comes to the thorny issue of the headscarves worn by Muslim women under their jurisdiction. On the one hand, female teachers admitting to religious neutrality are not permitted to wear headscarves in the classroom, but on the other, authorities complain religious freedom is being abused if deported women are forced to have their picture taken wearing a scarf. The court heard the case of the Iranian woman Nosrat Haj Soltani and her daughter, both resident in Nuremberg. When their applications for asylum were rejected they were required to obtain travel documents before being deported back to Iran. Their refusal to wear headscarves when posing for passport photographs - as required of all Iranian women - led to a session in a photographic studio during which police officers forced scarves onto their heads, as part of an operation sanctioned by a court order. The women claimed contravention of the Constitution on account of infringements of personal privacy and freedom of belief. The Bavarian state government, represented in court by Public Prosecutor Enno Boettcher, rejected the charges. Boettcher claimed that under the terms of the Aliens Act, those awaiting deportation are required to obtain their own travel documents. He reminded the court that since Iran demands female citizens wear headscarves on their passport photographs, any female returning must co-operate in the studio. Boettcher stressed that in Iran all women are required to cover their heads in public as well and that the case was governed by the terms of a general political law concerning clothing regulations. This assertion prompted intense questioning from the panel of judges. If that were the case, asked Judge Lerke Osterloh, why is it that female teachers are banned from wearing headscarves in the classroom. She cited an ongoing legal battle in the state of Baden-Wurttemberg where the state minister for education, Annette Schavan (CDU), intervened to prevent a female Moslem teacher being hired because she insists on wearing her head scarf, an infringement of the state's policy of religious neutrality. Boettcher replied that if a teacher chose to wear a headscarf "in heated classrooms", this was indicative of spiritual conviction. "I do not see that that necessarily follows," remarked the chair of the Second Senate, Jutta Limbach. Reporting Judge Berthold Sommer described his colleagues' difference of opinion as an "ambivalence". The issue of whether wearing a headscarf can be considered a demonstration of religious conviction is important because German law allows for the infringement of religious freedom only in the reasonable pursuit of other legal imperatives. Gisela Seidler, the Munich-based lawyer representing the two Iranians, is adamant German authorities' remit extends to cover only a limited number of photographs. For example, if a Muslim woman has her driving licence photograph taken while wearing a veil and can thus no longer be identified, the state is justified in demanding a new photograph. But the state of Bavaria, she argues, is not entitled to enforce Iranian law within Germany. The court's decision is expected in three months. According to Seidler, the women will then leave for the United States, which has indicated it is willing to grant them entry. ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
Re: [L-I] Re: Serbia a "typical postcommunist state"
I'm very much astonished to read such thing from you, comrade Mine. Owen may be wrong or not on the question of stateownership in Croatia/Serbia, but at least he is no defeatist running after one or another bourgeois regime because he can't think about real power of the workers. This is the difference with many leftists raised on the milk of the Stalin school of falsification and related agent-theories. Sorry to detect that you have been somehow tainted by this too. Well, I think we shoiuld asll stop thisd kind of personal "arguments", but don't forget that this time around it was not me who started them. A. Holberg x Mine Aysen Doyran schrieb: > > > > > > > Croatia under Tudjman had a much higher level of state ownership than > > Serbia under Milosevic, according to an economist Louis quoted from PEN-L or > > whatever the list is called in a rather vain effort to prove the progressive > > credentials of the Milosevic regime. > > Owen, this is not true! In the list you are referring above (Pen-l), the > significant *majority* of the subcibers (who are left liberal economists, btw) > are *strong* admirers of anti-Milosovic crowd, including the corrupt > opposition > of Kostunica. Lou is almost the only one defending Yugoslavia against those > engaged in a deliberative effort of giving lip service to US imperialism. > > > In my humble opinion, you should subscribe Pen-l. I am sure you will find a > large audience to your views there. > > > > Mine > > > -- > > Mine Aysen Doyran > PhD Student > Department of Political Science > SUNY at Albany > Nelson A. Rockefeller College > 135 Western Ave.; Milne 102 > Albany, NY 1 > > > ___ > Why pay for something you could get for free? > NetZero provides FREE Internet Access and Email > http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html > > ___ > Leninist-International mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
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Comrades, as most of you will have probably noticed by now LI has been hit by the MTX virus. First of all I want to apologize to any inconveniences this might have caused to LI subscribers. At the moment we are discussing steps to prevent this to happen again. As a general rule I would like to remind listers to be very careful about opening attachment and to make sure they have switched off the execution of script code in their email client. Unfortunately the MTX virus usually comes in an attachment from a trustworthy person. But there are still some heuristic ways how you can identify it: If you receive an email with an attachment and the subject line says: (no subject), you should be very careful. The attachment can have one of the follwing file names: README.TXT.pif I_wanna_see_YOU.TXT.pif MATRiX_Screen_Saver.SCR LOVE_LETTER_FOR_YOU.TXT.pif NEW_playboy_Screen_saver.SCR BILL_GATES_PIECE.JPG.pif TIAZINHA.JPG.pif FEITICEIRA_NUA.JPG.pif Geocities_Free_sites.TXT.pif NEW_NAPSTER_site.TXT.pif METALLICA_SONG.MP3.pif ANTI_CIH.EXE INTERNET_SECURITY_FORUM.DOC.pif ALANIS_Screen_Saver.SCR READER_DIGEST_LETTER.TXT.pif WIN_$100_NOW.DOC.pif IS_LINUX_GOOD_ENOUGH!.TXT.pif QI_TEST.EXE AVP_Updates.EXE SEICHO-NO-IE.EXE YOU_are_FAT!.TXT.pif FREE_xxx_sites.TXT.pif I_am_sorry.DOC.pif Me_nude.AVI.pif Sorry_about_yesterday.DOC.pif Protect_your_credit.HTML.pif JIMI_HMNDRIX.MP3.pif HANSON.SCR FUCKING_WITH_DOGS.SCR MATRiX_2_is_OUT.SCR zipped_files.EXE BLINK_182.MP3.pif IF YOU SEE ONE OF THESE FILE NAMES, NEVER OPEN THE ATTACHMENT! What to do when you are hit by the virus? First of all: DONT PANIC. Just sit down, take a break and than make sure you do not sent out any more mails from that machine. If you have access two a second machine, use the clean one to download anti-viral SW and detach the infected machine from the net. If you dont have a second machine, you still can use the infeted machine to get the anti-viral Software. Now you could perform the following steps: - Make sure you delete these files: IE_PACK.EXE - pure Worm code WIN32.DLL - Worm code infected by the virus (as "Infected File" above) MTX_.EXE - Backdoor code - If you find lines like this in the win.in file delete them: NUL=C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.DLL=D:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WSOCK32.MTX Run regedit and delete these entries: HKLM\Software\[MATRIX] HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run: SystemBackup=%WinDir%\MTX_.EXE where %WinDir% is Windows directory. Now you can use the anti-viral SW do their work: I removed the virus from my machine with this SW: http://www.nod32.com/download_free.htm Please note you have to download both the DOS and the Windows programme. Than you have to boot to DOS, execute the DOS clean-up and than boot again to Windows and perform the Windows cleanup. Hope that helps. If anyone needs asistance please contact me privately: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Johannes So far several people have had their computers infected by this MTX virus. They all were running Microsoft Outlook [Express] as far as i know. Virus Information: -- this site will give you the details on the virus: http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.asp?id=4063&key=100013100034 here you will find some instructions for cleaning your registry (for pros) but you still need virus cleanup software as key system components have been transmuted. XDNet coverage on virus: http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2630479-3,00.html Virus Characteristcs: - The virus has two significant characteristics for our purposes: 1.) it causes an email follow-up to be sent automatically to anyone you have already just emailed to -- in effect it sends twice, one your message, and one the virus. 2.) it blocks your access to certain web sites which supply anti-virus software programs. It does this via blocking specific names in a url, like 'afee', which blocks you from McAfee's site, etc... There are several other ways the virus affects your system. See the topmost URL for details. Virus Fixes: here is a site supposedly immune from the viral blocking of select IP addresses, you can download trial software: http://www.nod32.com/download_free.htm [ for all i know these people wrote the damn virus and created its unqiue characteristics so as to drive people towards their site, but thats simply idle speculation ] here are some directions for use: Nod32 is capable of removing the MTX worm and is not blocked by MTX's affects on your machine. You should reboot to DOS mode and use the DOS version to remove the windows virus part, then you must use the windows version of nod32 to remove the backdoor part of this virus. The banner below will take you there: [ http://www.nod32.com ] you can, however, gain access to your prefered ant-virus suppliers site if you enter in the dotted quad [numeric] version of the IP address. here is a link to a trial version of "AV
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ubj: [slp-youth] UK/Ireland: Fury Over Nazi's Greysteel killer link - Irish News Date: 21/11/00 10:38:11 GMT Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (red-rebel) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Fury over neo-Nazis' Greysteel killer link > === > > By Steven McCaffery > and Anne Madden > > > PICTURES of one of the Greysteel killers at a > neo-Nazi rally on Remembrance Sunday > sparked fury among politicians last night. > > Stephen Irwin (26), who was released in July on > licence under the terms of the > Good Friday agreement, is said to have forged links > with violent right-wing groups > in Britain. > > East Derry Assembly member, John Dallat, called for > Irwin's licence to be revoked > after he was seen protesting with members of the > neo-Nazi group, Combat 18. > > Irwin was jailed for life in 1995 for his part in > the mass shooting at the Rising > Sun Bar in Greysteel, Co Derry, on halloween night > two years earlier. > Loyalist gunmen shouted 'trick or treat' as they > burst into the bar in Greysteel > opening fire on the crowd killing eight people. > > "What must it do to the relatives of the Greysteel > victims after learning that he > is roaming freely while cavorting with Neo-Nazis?," > Mr Dallat said. > "Not only is he showing no remorse, he is > demonstrating that he has changed > nothing and still constitutes a real threat to the > community. > > "Had the British government banned Combat 18 then > Irwin's involvement would have > been a clear breach of the peace and his feet would > not have touched the ground > before being back in jail." > > Arthur Doherty, SDLP assembly member for East Derry, > agreed that Irwin displayed > little remorse and contrasted his behaviour with the > dignity of the victims' > relatives. > > The Mail on Sunday carried pictures yesterday of > Irwin standing alongside > neo-Nazis who attempted to infiltrate a Remembrance > Sunday memorial service > attended by dignitaries, including the queen and > British prime minister Tony > Blair. > > Irwin was reported to have shouted slogans and to > have been seen giving Nazi > salutes. > > A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Office said > last night that the status of > prisoners under licence was kept under review and > that action could be taken > should evidence emerge that they had broken the > terms of their licence. > > Last night the Metropolitan Police declined to > comment on reports that Irwin was > now under surveillance. It had been claimed Irwin > was stopped and questioned by > police at Birmingham International Airport on Monday > as he waited for a return > flight to Belfast. > > Reports of the loyalist's contacts with neo-Nazis > are the latest evidence of links > between loyalist paramilitaries and far-right > groupings. > > The sinister right-wing group Combat 18 has been > repeatedly linked to loyalist > demonstrations associated with the Drumcree > standoff. > > Combat 18 members are reported to have attended > loyalist protests in Portadown > held in support of the Orange Order's stance. > > > © Copyright : the Irish News Ltd > ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
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ubj: [slp-youth] UK: AFA Comment On Fuel Protest & BNP Date: 22/11/00 19:22:52 GMT Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (red-rebel) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ANTI-FASCIST ACTION Box BM 1734 London, WC1N 3XX Tel: 0976-406-870 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/5602 BNP AND THE FUEL PROTESTS - ANTI-FASCISM DISCREDITED - Wednesday, 15 November 2000 - An article in the Sunday People (5/11/00), written by the editors of Searchlight, is a perfect illustration of how 'anti-fascism' is being discredited. Allowing for the fact that tabloid papers like to use a sensational style of writing, the article fails to address any of the relevant political issues, assumes that by presenting the BNP as a criminal conspiracy the 80,000 people who voted for them in the Greater London Assembly elections, for example, will see the error of their ways, and concludes that the only way to stop them is to collaborate with the police who will then prevent fascism winning support (just like they have in Austria, France, Italy, Germany, etc, etc!). Some extracts from the article illustrate the point: "Our investigators uncovered the plot after we infiltrated the BNP's highest ranks and unearthed a dossier of top-secret memos and e-mails ... a Special Branch source said "This evidence is very disturbing indeed. What you have told us is a clear conspiracy to incite people to break the law. We will be clamping down hard on these people. We must not allow them to sow their sick message of hate." ... Darby and his cowardly cronies try to hide behind the phoney name of the Anytown Fuel Protest Support Group. But we can reveal that the masterminds of the whole subversive campaign are BNP leader Nick Griffin - who has a conviction for inciting racial hatred - and deputy leader Tony Lecomber, who was jailed for 3 years in 1991 for attacking a Jewish teacher in East London ... Our dossier is available to police so that they can smash this evil plot." Anti-fascists, and in particular groups like the SWP/ANL, must publicly distance themselves from those who would seek to hijack the independence of the anti-fascist movement and re-align 'anti-fascism' as part of the police or the establishment. As the fascists continue to win support from those who have been betrayed by the establishment parties and their police, it hardly constitutes a winning strategy for anyone on 'the Left' to be openly linked with those parties who are so completely discredited in the eyes of so many. * * * IF FASCISTS WERE PACIFISTS, WOULD THEIR POLITICS BE ACCEPTABLE? - Tuesday, 14 November 2000 - It has been interesting to read the numerous press reports of BNP infiltration of the fuel protests, especially since it has been revealed that MI5 have devoted considerable resources to undermining the actions. Rather than any considered analysis of the Far Right moving into an area that has traditionally been receptive to the ideas of fascism, eg. small businessmen and the self-employed, the 'anti-fascist' argument has been that the BNP's presence is a problem because they are violent. "Extremist right-wing groups and individuals have infiltrated the fuel price movement and plan to be 'heavily involved' when the protests start again next week, an Observer investigation has revealed. Senior police fear that the presence of neo-Nazis among the protesters will lead to violence and attacks on officers." (Observer, 5/11/00). Since 1994 AFA has been drawing attention to the fact that the BNP have withdrawn from street confrontations and adopted a 'peaceful' Euro-Nationalist approach. The continual obsession to portray the BNP as a violent movement when its present strategy is specifically designed to avoid trouble at all costs is absurd, and their growing support in elections is evidence that anti-fascists will have to come up with better arguments in order to defeat the Far Right. Order Fighting Talk in print. Prices for 4 Issues by land mail: UK: Individuals £4/ Institutions & Organisations £14 Overseas: Individuals £10/ Institutions & Organisations £17 Cheques/orders payable to 'Anti-Fascist Action' Fighting Talk, BM 1734, London, WC1N 3XX * ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
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ubj: [slp-youth] Italy: Fascism In Football - The Guardian (UK) Date: 22/11/00 21:54:57 GMT Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (red-rebel) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From Sundays Guardian : > = > > Italians are growing increasingly shocked at the bad > behaviour of their football fans. The Italy-England > friendly and other recent events suggest the problem > is getting worse. > > Italian newspapers deplored the racist booing of > England's Emile Heskey during Wednesday's match in > Turin. This followed the abuse hurled at Arsenal's > Patrick Vieira last month by Lazio's player Sinisa > Mihajlovic. > > However, concerned Italians say the problem goes > further than racism. Arrigo Sacchi, Italy's former > coach, commented in the weekly Rigore this week: 'We > have the least inhabitable, most uncivilised and > poorly educated stadia of the world. The sporting > culture is broadly deficient.' > > The Italy-England game proved his point. God Save > The > Queen was loudly whistled, the Torino fans in the > ground jeered the Juventus players Pippo Inzaghi and > Alessandro del Piero, while the Juve fans at the > opposing end chanted abuse at Torino and at their > own > manager, Carlo Ancelotti. The two ends united only > to > boo Heskey. > > 'An ugly game but the worst was in the stands,' > summed > up the quality daily La Repubblica in a headline. It > called the booing of Heskey 'ritual', while the > Corriere della Sera newspaper spoke of 'the lowest > levels of pure racism'. However, the pink sports > daily > Gazzetta dello Sport gave priority to the partisan > abuse of Del Piero. > > In Italy, an almost entirely white nation with a > powerful far-right movement, little attention has > been > paid so far to racism in football. T-shirt campaigns > against it have been largely ineffectual. The > 'Ultra' > fans of many clubs are openly racist and are linked > to > far-right movements. The racism last season was > among > the worst on record. > > The football establishment seems little concerned. > When Lazio were fined about £1500 last season after > their fans had abused the black Venezia player Bruno > N'Gotty, the then Italian manager Dino Zoff > commented: > 'I don't know whether you could really call that > racism. I think it could just be a question of > people > making fun of someone.' He explained that fans > picked > on tall, short or grey-haired players too. > > Gianluigi Buffon, the Italian keeper in the game > against England, was spotted last season wearing a > T-shirt with the Fascist slogan 'Death to those who > surrender.' He said he had no idea of the history of > the phrase. > > There was further controversy this season, when the > keeper picked 88 as his Parma squad number. The > number > is used by neo-Nazis to represent 'Heil Hitler', > because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. > Again, > Buffon denied any knowledge of such associations. > > Italy risks taking over the mantle of 'dirty old man > of football' from England. 'The English fans, in the > ground at least, behaved themselves well,' noted La > Repubblica on Thursday. England fans have caused > little trouble since Euro 2000, and hooliganism is > fairly dormant at English grounds, while legislation > against racist chanting has also been passed. > > In Italy the problems only seem to be getting worse. > Juventus this week wrote to the Turin police about > threats made to its players after recent poor > performances. The Juventus defender Ciro Ferrara has > suggested closing down Serie A for a weekend as a > statement to the fans. > > = "Wherever we are, fascists cannot even exist. Those who spill the blood of our people, our dear comrades and who murder them, cannot breathe the same air we do, and nor can their collaborators. Fascists have no rights. They are not human. They are the enemies of humanity. Murder, massacres, torture, drugs, prostitution, all kind of indignity and immorality are their business. Fascists have no right to exist wherever we are. It is the duty of everyone who considers themselves human to punish them and not to let them survive on earth." - DHKP-C Prisoners "Fascists? Bunch of cunts!" - Red Rebel. ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
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ubj: [slp-youth] [AFIB] Evil:Austria 11/00 Date: 22/11/00 19:23:59 GMT Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (red-rebel) Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Forwarded) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ___ > > ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN > News * Analysis * Research * Action > ___ > > SPECIAL EDITION > - November 21, 2000 - > > * * * > > ROSA ANTIFA WIEN > c/o Rosa Lila Tip > Linke Wienzeile 102 > A-1060 Wien, AUSTRIA > Tel: +43 (1) 64 15 999 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.raw.at > - Tuesday, 14 November 2000 - > > - > > > Evil:Austria > November 2000 > > > Welcome to a new edition of evil:austria! > > This issue of evil:austria is dominated by information about the 'informer > scandal' which, since the beginning of October, haunts the FPOe und puts > Joerg Haider's nerves to a severe test. Apart from that, the FPOe this > month changed two of their ministers, thus having used up half of their > government team since February. What a pity that there's always new ones > following... > > As always, here is an explanation what this newsletter is and why we are > producing it: > > evil:austria is our monthly newsletter providing information about the > situation in Austria (and regarding the consequences of FPOe/OeVP > government). We decided to produce this newsletter since we realized that > knowledge regarding the actual situation in Austria is not very widespread > abroad. The government, after discussions about EU-'sanctions' against > Austria were dropped, succeeded in removing the daily insanity from the > attention of the international public. Meanwhile 'sanctions' have been > lifted, which almost all political groups here celebrated as a victory, and > the 'interest' taken in the development in Austria has decreased even more. > The 'normalisation' of the right-wing/right-extreme government continues, > and therefore information about the aggravation of the situation in Austria > is even more important. It is therefore highly desired that you spread this > newsletter as widely as possible, so that as many people as possible get to > know about the situation in Austria. So please spread, spread, spread this. > Of course you may also use this material (also in excerpts) for magazines > and papers, but we would be glad if you sent us a short mail in this case. > > Any criticism and comments please send to (if possible, please write in > German and English): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enjoy reading the newsletter! > > CONTENTS: > > [1] Haider in Vienna. > [2] Commemoration event forbidden. > [3] Court sentence for national-socialist activity. > [4] A rank-and-file local politician of FPOe. > [5] Schmid 1. > [6] Minister gone 1. > [7] Minister gone 2, or: Schmid 2, or: personnel difficulties within FPOe 1. > [8] Censorship or: FPOe always eager to sue. > [9] Scandal regarding party financing. > [10] The informers' scandal - an introduction. > [11] Minister of Justice Herr Boehmdorfer. > [12] The 'rank-and-file' party member. > [13] Hilmar Kabas & Co or: personnel difficulties within FPOe 2. > [14] Salzburg or: personnel difficulties within FPOe 3. > [15] The "ultimate strike-back". > > * * * > > Haider in Vienna > > On October 19, FPOe had an inofficial start of its election campaign for > Vienna: In Vienna conference centre, Haider spoke in front of approx. 800 > supporters with an average age of about 70 years (with massive protests > outside), using a well-known vocabulary: he mentioned a "consistent > elimination" of foreigners, and said Vienna "deserved to be freed from the > Left (...)", and "Since I've been governing Carinthia, no left persons > dares to go out and demonstrate seriously". He continued in this manner, > with his supporters rejoicing. > > Following this event, several younger FPOe-supporters set into practice > what Haider preaches: they attacked six persons who had protested against > this event earlier that night and were on their way home. With the comments > "There's talking inside, but there'll be action here outside", and "we'll > carry out what Haider can't do himself", they beat these six persons; a > journalist had a knife pointed at him. Result: two persons seriously > injured, one slightly injured, all of them opponents of Haider > > It is to be expected that the election campaign of FPOe in Vienna will > again display an unparalled racism. Still one may toss coins regarding who > will be the leading Vienna candidate: Hilmar Kabas most probably won't be, > as his involvement in the 'informer scandal' should prevent him from > running for office. > > * * * > > Commemoration event forbidden > > A commemoration event was planned for November 1 in a cemetary in Salzburg > for the Salzburg Jews, Roma and Sinti, the forced labo
