International Conference
With the Resistance, for a Just Peace in the Middle East

Chianciano Terme, Province of Siena, Italy
Saturday 24 / Sunday 25 March, 2007


Saturday morning (10,00 – 13,00)

Introduction Leonardo Mazzei
The American offensive, the European subordination and the prospect of an international Anti-imperialist Front


First Session
THE RESISTANCE OF THE PALESTINIAN AND LEBANESE PEOPLE AGAINST ZIONISM
Presiding: Aldo Bernardini, professor for international law, university of Terramo


- The Western sanctions are illegitimate: respect the democratic will of the Palestinian people
- WALEED AL MODALLAL, professor for political science at the Islamic university of Gaza

- The democratic solution of the Palestinian question
- MOHAMMED HA ALISSA, journalist, exponent of the Palestinian left

- The Israeli defeat and the future of the Lebanese Resistance
- ALI FAYYAD, university professor and director of the Consultative Centre for Studies and Documentation, Lebanon

- National unity versus sectarianism
- SAMAH IDRISS, writer, director of the literature magazine “Al Adab”, Lebanon

- The US threats against Iran and the Arab Resistance
– HISHAM BUSTANI, Leftist Pan-Arabist leader of the Jordan democratic opposition


Saturday afternoon (14,30 – 18,30)

SECOND SESSION
THE IRAQI RESISTANCE AND THE CONDITIONS FOR VICTORY
Presiding: Wilhelm Langthaler

- For Sunni and Shiite unity against occupation
- AYATOLLAH AL SAYYED AHMED AL BAGHDADI, religious patriotic leader against occupation and imperialism

- The political embargo on the Iraqi Resistance and conditions of victory over occupation
-ABDUL JABBAR AL KUBAYSI, secretary general of the Iraq Patriotic Alliance, spokesman of the Patriotic National Islamic Front

- The failure of the US attempt of tripartition as imposed by the constitution
- YOUSSIF HAMDAN, university professor, leader of the Communist Party People’s Union (Ittihad Alshaab), member of the Patriotic and National and Islamic Front

- The political impact of the Iraqi Resistance
- SAAD KIRYAKOS, professor of economics at the University of Ottawa, Organization of Friendship, Peace and Solidarity in Iraq

- The Maliki government as the driving force of the sectarian strife and the death squadrons
- FADHIL M. HUSSAIN, university professor, journalist

- The humanitarian tragedy and the dramatic situation of the political prisoners
– IBRAHIM SULMAN RIZK, medical doctor

- The confessionalisation of the educational system and the restrictions imposed on free expression
- NOURI N. ABD, leader of student and youth organisations

- The Iraqi left and its alliance with the patriotic Islamic forces
- ASRAR-A-ABDULLATIF, leader of the Iraqi Communist Party (Central Command)

- The Shiite opposition against the US occupation and Iranian meddling
- MOHAMED AL KHUZAI, representative of Ayatollah al Hassani, leader of the Shiite religious movement against the occupation and for Iraqi national unity and reconciliation

Sunday morning (9,00–13,00)

Third Session

One enemy, the same struggle. How to build an International Anti-imperialist Front
Presiding: Roberto Massari and Marco Riformetti

-The World Social Forum and the problem of the of the support to the Resistance
- SAMIR AMIN, university professor in Dakar and leader of the World Social Forum

- After Vietnam: the anti-war movement in the US and the war on Iraq
- JOHN CATALINOTTO, International Action Center USA

- Birth and development of the Iraqi Resistance
- ABDUL JABBAR AL KUBAYSI

- US aggression also on Iran?
- LUCIO MANISCO, journalist

- The role of Islam in the anti-imperialist struggle
– HAMZA PICCARDO, spokesman of the Union of Islamic Communities in Italy (UCOII)

11,30 – DEBATE
Amir Alfarge, Iraqi Citizenship, France, and many others…

13,30 – CONCLUSIONS by Moreno Pasquinelli

15,30 – APPROVAL OF THE FINAL STATEMENT

16,00 – PRESS CONFERENCE

 

Internationell konferens
Chianciano Terme, Sienaprovinsen, Toscana, Italien
Lördag 24 och söndag 25 mars, 2007

Den nationella organisationskommittén tog under sitt möte förra söndagen i Florens beslutet att slutligen genomföra den internationella konferensen: “Mot ockupationen, med motståndet – för en rättvis fred i Irak, Libanon och Palestina.”

Efter den kamp som fördes under 2005, då den italienska regeringen på order av USA hindrade konferensen från att genomföras, och efter den lyckade kampanjen för visum som denna gång ser ut att beviljas, och med det förnyade intresset från olika delar av den arabiska motståndsrörelsen, är tiden nu mogen att genomföra detta viktiga internationella konvent.

Den 24-25 mars kommer en bred samling delegater från Irak, Palestina och Libanon (samt andra arabländer) att sammanstråla. Härigenom vill vi ge en röst, också på Europeisk mark, åt dem som kämpar mot imperialistiska angrepp. Konferensen blir den första i sitt slag att hållas i Europa.

Detta blir ett tillfälle för antikrigsrörelsen att stärka solidariteten med de folk som utsätts för detta USA-ledda aggressionskrig. Samtidigt skapas möjligheter till en bättre förståelse av situationen i Irak, Libanon och Palestina genom att vi lyssnar till erfarenheterna hos dem som gör motstånd och vars röster tystats av medierna.

Inom kort kommer programmet för konferensen att presenteras, liksom detaljerna kring anmälan och deltagande.

Kommittéerna för ett fritt Irak, Italien
17 januari 2007
 

Översättning av Åsa Henriksson