there was, with more than 1,000 people attending cach of the Rome, Naples, and Milan meetings.
O CISY0 Genoa Social Forum (GSF), for its PATis September 9-10, decided to initiate a process of creating This was not simply to be made of the HH OIEA! organisations which co-ordinated the Genoa demonstrations, but also vanious local Forums, thus the construction of a and will broader and broader move JUCHE In this context, the events United and the dynamic of Nato towards war came as a real shock. The movement was immediinternational crisis and place these issues at the centre of isations, both rejecting terfonsm and opposing war The morement thus represented an alternative to the anti-islamic sade, of which Berlusconi made himself spokesperson, but which has not met any real opposition from the moderate left The "anti-globalisers" have been able keep open Spaces tor the democratic expression of social conflict various HOHE onwards. Several thousand people marched in Rome Florence on 20-21 October, important Rifondazione ment's capability for resistance and riposte.
At the same time the coming weeks present rich possibillties for the further desel opment of mobilisations.
On the one hand the tradi. donar march fot peace trom Perugia to Assisi on October 14 this year will see a new protagonist in the anti-globwhich broadening it out to involve a significant pacifist elePacifism has remained a strong sentiment in Italian society since the Kosovo war.
On the other hand there is the concrete possibilty of a convergence with struggles against the employporcies, backca up the budget presented by the right-wing government. int of vick is that industry-wide engineering of globalisation. strike nas ocen called on From the National need to stop the potential Secretariat of descent into a destructive spiral of further violence and devastation. Comunista, Italy Our perspective is that the response must not be a furThe national secretariat con- ther shutting off of the firms our strongest condem- fortress of the West against nation of the terrible attack the rest of the planet, in the which has convulsed the name of defence against its cities of New York and enemies. Washington in which thou- Such a response woukd sands of people have been not only be mistaken but ineffective in stopping the Our opposition to terrorism explosion of blind and is ingomitoie ano absoute. destructive violence, Our grief for the innocent tragedy shows. We think, in victms and our solarity to contrast, that we must look their families and to the to the background, to diapeople of the USA hit by this logue and comprehension tragedy are sincere convicbetween diverse cultures. tons. This tragedy will weigh we must. inerefore, say no heavily on the interational to retaliatory actions and, at equilibrium, on world poli- the same time, to all kinds tics, on our own initiatives.
of fundamentalism whether In a dramatic, unexpected they be religious, political, way, there follow deep ideolopical or "imperial". reflections on what will be We think that the response the future scenarios and on must not be one of a further restriction on the space for democratic political action. minecdter, we aminm te Anti-toar protest in Turkey as this On the contrary, we relaunch the idea that the omy anodote to voxence is democratic participation by the mass of people.
We need to expunge war from history, to find new responses to the piercing contradictions of the world today. ment against capitalist globcial question, representing a ly or begnning a process of criticism and transtormaand the economy, which can give hope of escaping from the crazy logic of war and destruction. At this hour and on this day, all our organisations, tonal representatives, jointly democratic forces, are pledged to participate in initiatives of mobilisation and of discussion about what is developing in as many cities and workaaces as possible.
At the same time, the Uberazione festivals wich are ongoing represent a garwe can meet and build relatives in the same direction.
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