Chicago, IL - 15,000 Chinese and other supporters of the Beijing Olympics rallied in New York, May 4. 300 also gathered in Chicago, one week after 500 rallied here. The organizers called these events with the same purpose: To condemn the lies about China being spread by the U.S. media.
Calcutta, India – Thousands marched through the streets of Calcutta, March 1, to protest Bush’s visit to India. Organized by the Socialist Unity Center of India, the chant of, “Butcher Bush – go back!” rang across the city.
San Francisco, CA – Bay area Asian American community organizations sponsored a forum in Chinatown that make the link between U.S. imperialism and racism against Asians in the U.S., July 8. Three Chinese American activists, involved in the Asian American movement from the 1960's to today, spoke about the spy-plane drama that unfolded with China earlier this year.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Communist Party of the Philippines, which urges an end to U.S. intervention in the Philippines.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on the attempts to criminalize Professor Jose Maria Sison, a leading figure in the struggle to liberate the Philippines from foreign domination and to establish a just society.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2008. The statement was issued by Makibaka, a revolutionary women’s organization and allied organization of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.
Fight Back News Service is reprinting the following statement by Jose Maria Sison, a key leader in the fight to free the Philippines from U.S. domination. Over the past week large demonstrations have taken place in the Philippines demanding that the president, Gloria M. Arroyo, step down.
Another massacre by occupation forces in Afghanistan unfolded on Dec. 12 in the central province of Wardak. U.S. military forces on a foot patrol opened fire on an approaching bus, killing four civilians and wounding at least ten others, according to Halim Fidai, the governor of Wardak Province. The killings are the latest in a string of massacres that have led to increased Afghan anger at the occupation.
With the help of bombs and mercenaries from the Northern Alliance, U.S. and British forces have occupied the main cities of Afghanistan. Washington convened a meeting in Europe where a strange collection of Afghan warlords, monarchists, and political has-beens were anointed as the new government. They were put in airplanes and sent to Kabul where they had to explain how the “careful” American pilots bombed a convoy of their supporters who on the way to their inauguration.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by Professor Sison on the legal persecution that is be waged by Dutch authorities against him. Jose Maria Sison is a leading figure in the movement to free the Philippines from U.S. domination and he deserves the support of all progressives.
Every progressive person should condemn the arrest of Professor Jose Maria Sison by authorities in the Netherlands. Sison’s arrest by Dutch police on trumped-up murder charges is an attempt to criminalize the liberation movement of the Philippines and to silence the voice of the Philippines’s most important revolutionary. Professor Sison has lived as a political refugee in the Netherlands for 20 years. It is the hidden hand of the Bush administration that is pressuring the Netherlands to take actions against Sison, including freezing his bank account and stripping him of his right to work. This arrest is political, not criminal.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on the arrest of Professor Sison, a well-known leader of the struggle to free the Philippines from exploitation and foreign domination.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Jose Maria Sison, of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, on the threat by U.S. Admiral Timothy Keating to escalate military intervention in the Philippines.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following press statement from the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. The statement deals with the rape of a Philippine woman, called Nicole, by a U.S. Marine. The case has attracted a huge amount of attention in the Philippines.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the National Democratic Front of the Philippines on devastation caused by typhoon Durian and the relief efforts organized by the progressive movement there.
The government of Nepal is in trouble. Nepal is ruled by King Gyanendra, who shared power with an elected legislative assembly until Feb. 1. On that day, King Gyanendra abolished the assembly, banned the legal political parties in the assembly and arrested their leaders and censored the media and Internet.
As of April 24, Nepal's King Gyanendra appears to be nearing his last days in power. Huge mass protests of hundreds of thousands of people are defying a shoot-to-kill curfew after 19 days of a general strike. Massive crowds are gathering on the outskirts of the capital, Katmandu, and attempting to move slowly into the city in the face of the Royal Nepal Army shooting into the crowds. Presumably the protesters are trying to get to the center of Katmandu to the Royal Palace, which was cordoned off a couple days ago with barbed wire and military troops.