While the defenders of the most retrograde projects today have at their disposal the most sophisticated means of propaganda, the women do not have any way of producing any leaflet of appeal.
Algerian women are in danger! Only a few more months remain for them to get but public opinion throughout the world intensive bombing?
try?
quence of the plan "Vigipirate.
and Iraqi peoples?
reality of the massacre."
(Paris) 49 53 00 55. * organized before the forthcoming legislative elections, which the fundamentalists hope to win.
Ad politica solidaring * our material 27 and political solidarity! *
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Solidarity with Algerian women. AN appeal for solidarity with Algerian
GULF WAR
Finding the
truth about the war
A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY into the truth about the Gulf War has been launched in France.
The appeal for the commission is not signed by organizations, but by individuals. However the three main currents in the French antiwar movement, the Appeal of the 75, Peace Now and the Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East are circulating the appeal, and leading members of these groups have signed it.
Other signatures come from members of the French
Communist Party (PCF), the
Communist Youth (JC), the
General Workers Confederation
(CGT), SOS-Racisme, the radical students union, the UNEF-id, the
Revolutionary Communist League
(LCR - French section of the
Fourth International), the Greens and immigrant and anti-racist organizations.
We publish below the appeal and an introduction to its work that appeared in the French socialist weekly, Rouge, in its issue of
March 28, 1991.
N MARCH 27, 1991, the appeal. which we publish below was made public. It has been supported by a wide cross-section of personalities who took part in the antiwar movement in France. It involves many of those who signed the "appeal of the 75", along with supporters of "Peace Now" and the "Forum for a Just Peace in the Middle East", as well as representatives of associations of immigrants from the Arab countries.
The idea of commissions of inquiry or "white books" to establish the truth about the war has taken root with all those who were not taken in by the gigantic manipulation aimed at hiding the reality of the massacre. The objective of this appeal is to bring together all interested forces for a joint commission of inquiry.
An initial meeting of the signatories has mapped out a number of initiatives: the setting up of a commission of inquiry composed of personalities, jurists, docrors, journalists and writers; a white book
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A sinister resolution
THE resolution adopted on
April 3 by the United Nation's