Anti-imperialist Network Practice at the ESF
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The foundation of the Anti-imperialist Network was one of the most special and important results of the Preparatory Meeting in Berlin.  

01 March/ International Bulletin/ Issue: 91 

The 6th European Social Forum takes place on July 1-July 4 in Istanbul this year. The ESF with its reformist and pacifist leadership has been experiencing serious problems to grow and should have indeed overcome long time ago the spontaneous mass movement, too, in Europe. This fact was openly displayed with the 5th ESF that was organised in 2008 in Malmö. The decision to organise the next ESF in Istanbul despite the revolutionary political atmosphere in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan and the concerns because of the oppression by the Turkish bourgeois state actually reflect the need to convey new forces and energy to the ESF.
Like the social forums, the 6th ESF taking place in Istanbul also offers important opportunities for an international revolutionary intervention to a space where ten thousands of workers and labourers who are looking for another world are gathering. Our party MLCP considers the 6th ESF with this perspective.
Representatives of different organisations and individuals who gathered at the ESF Preparatory Meeting in Berlin on January 29-31 discussed the topics and the organisation of the 6th ESF. The means to raise mass participation in the ESF from various countries was one of the main discussion topics at the Preparatory Meeting where different network meetings titled Environment and Climate, Labour and Globalisation, The Fight against Oppression and the Anti-imperialist Struggle. For this reason, a group was formed. The representatives from the Turkish Social Forum informed the participants on the preparations. It was also decided that the programme will be finalised at the Preparatory Meeting in May in Turkey.
The foundation of the Anti-imperialist Network was one of the most special and important results of the Preparatory Meeting in Berlin. The Anti-imperialist Network, which was formed with revolutionary and anti-imperialist organisations from Turkey, Kurdistan, Greece, Italy and Germany, has the quality to be the follower of the "Anti-imperialist Space" that was founded at the 4th ESF and that was turned into an influential means of a revolutionary intervention to the ESF. The participants of the Anti-imperialist Network that declared to fight on the anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial basis affiliated to the ESF prepared a text on the main struggle lines and perspectives and introduced it at the general meeting.
The following points are listed as the main struggle lines in the text:
To foster the anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist resistances worldwide (the resistances of the oppressed people, the resistances on class-basis as well as populist resistances) and to emphasize these points throughout the ESF
To discuss the experiences of the working class and labourer people's struggles developing under the world crisis conditions of capitalism and revolutionary alternatives
To support the development of an internationalist anti-imperialist struggle union between the movements of different countries
To foster the participation of anti-imperialist movements from the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, North Africa, Latin America and other countries in the ESF in Istanbul
To bring together the agents of the anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist and anti-colonial struggles in our region and all over the world by gathering an Anti-imperialist Assembly as part of the ESF in Istanbul.
Besides common struggle perspectives, the participants of the Anti-imperialist Network didn't forget to give political messages on the current political developments worldwide. The detention of the BDP politicians in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan, the punishment of Kurdish children for many years who are remembered as the children throwing stones, the oppression against progressive and revolutionary forces as well as the lynching attacks were all condemned. The resistance of the TEKEL workers were saluted. The attacks developed by the Indian government against the labourer people's resistances were condemned, too. The racist and discriminating politics of Berlusconi's government in Italy against migrants and left-wing forces were another topic condemned. The Anti-imperialist Network saluted the honoured struggle of the people of the Basque country, West Sahara, Tamil Eelam, Palestine, Iraq and Kurdistan for their independence and condemned the oppression on the peoples.
The example of the Anti-imperialist Network at the 4th ESF that took place in Greece displayed an important impact during this period and the importance of the common intervention of the anti-imperialist forces to the ESF. Because of this reason, the participation of the Anti-imperialist Network in the ESF Istanbul will create important opportunities to ensure the union between these forces and strengthen the united struggle. The foundation of the Anti-imperialist Network offers the chance to the progressive, revolutionary and anti-imperialist forces in Europe to convey the idea of revolution and socialism to ten thousands of workers and labourers who are going to meet in Istanbul, to discuss the problems of the common struggle against imperialist war and occupations and strengthen the international action union.

 

 

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The foundation of the Anti-imperialist Network was one of the most special and important results of the Preparatory Meeting in Berlin.  

01 March/ International Bulletin/ Issue: 91 

The 6th European Social Forum takes place on July 1-July 4 in Istanbul this year. The ESF with its reformist and pacifist leadership has been experiencing serious problems to grow and should have indeed overcome long time ago the spontaneous mass movement, too, in Europe. This fact was openly displayed with the 5th ESF that was organised in 2008 in Malmö. The decision to organise the next ESF in Istanbul despite the revolutionary political atmosphere in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan and the concerns because of the oppression by the Turkish bourgeois state actually reflect the need to convey new forces and energy to the ESF.
Like the social forums, the 6th ESF taking place in Istanbul also offers important opportunities for an international revolutionary intervention to a space where ten thousands of workers and labourers who are looking for another world are gathering. Our party MLCP considers the 6th ESF with this perspective.
Representatives of different organisations and individuals who gathered at the ESF Preparatory Meeting in Berlin on January 29-31 discussed the topics and the organisation of the 6th ESF. The means to raise mass participation in the ESF from various countries was one of the main discussion topics at the Preparatory Meeting where different network meetings titled Environment and Climate, Labour and Globalisation, The Fight against Oppression and the Anti-imperialist Struggle. For this reason, a group was formed. The representatives from the Turkish Social Forum informed the participants on the preparations. It was also decided that the programme will be finalised at the Preparatory Meeting in May in Turkey.
The foundation of the Anti-imperialist Network was one of the most special and important results of the Preparatory Meeting in Berlin. The Anti-imperialist Network, which was formed with revolutionary and anti-imperialist organisations from Turkey, Kurdistan, Greece, Italy and Germany, has the quality to be the follower of the "Anti-imperialist Space" that was founded at the 4th ESF and that was turned into an influential means of a revolutionary intervention to the ESF. The participants of the Anti-imperialist Network that declared to fight on the anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and anti-colonial basis affiliated to the ESF prepared a text on the main struggle lines and perspectives and introduced it at the general meeting.
The following points are listed as the main struggle lines in the text:
To foster the anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist resistances worldwide (the resistances of the oppressed people, the resistances on class-basis as well as populist resistances) and to emphasize these points throughout the ESF
To discuss the experiences of the working class and labourer people's struggles developing under the world crisis conditions of capitalism and revolutionary alternatives
To support the development of an internationalist anti-imperialist struggle union between the movements of different countries
To foster the participation of anti-imperialist movements from the Middle East, the Balkans, the Caucasus, North Africa, Latin America and other countries in the ESF in Istanbul
To bring together the agents of the anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, anti-fascist and anti-colonial struggles in our region and all over the world by gathering an Anti-imperialist Assembly as part of the ESF in Istanbul.
Besides common struggle perspectives, the participants of the Anti-imperialist Network didn't forget to give political messages on the current political developments worldwide. The detention of the BDP politicians in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan, the punishment of Kurdish children for many years who are remembered as the children throwing stones, the oppression against progressive and revolutionary forces as well as the lynching attacks were all condemned. The resistance of the TEKEL workers were saluted. The attacks developed by the Indian government against the labourer people's resistances were condemned, too. The racist and discriminating politics of Berlusconi's government in Italy against migrants and left-wing forces were another topic condemned. The Anti-imperialist Network saluted the honoured struggle of the people of the Basque country, West Sahara, Tamil Eelam, Palestine, Iraq and Kurdistan for their independence and condemned the oppression on the peoples.
The example of the Anti-imperialist Network at the 4th ESF that took place in Greece displayed an important impact during this period and the importance of the common intervention of the anti-imperialist forces to the ESF. Because of this reason, the participation of the Anti-imperialist Network in the ESF Istanbul will create important opportunities to ensure the union between these forces and strengthen the united struggle. The foundation of the Anti-imperialist Network offers the chance to the progressive, revolutionary and anti-imperialist forces in Europe to convey the idea of revolution and socialism to ten thousands of workers and labourers who are going to meet in Istanbul, to discuss the problems of the common struggle against imperialist war and occupations and strengthen the international action union.