No to UN military intervention in Libya

Against the background of an increasing probability of a military intervention on the part of the United States of America and, which is the more probable scenario, the United Nations, in Libya, we wish to state in clear terms our rejection of any US, European or UN invasion.
Any such step will inevitably lead to an escalation of violence and to the emergence of an unsurveyable situation, possessing all characteristics of present-day Iraq.

The United Nations are a political instrument that cannot be separated from the imperial powers and their neo-colonial endeavours in Africa and the Middle East. As such, they are a grave threat to national sovereignty and independence, which must be opposed.

War crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed by members of the UN peace corps on Middle Eastern, as well as on African soil. The United Nations are not a neutral power. Their presence in any country in which an intervention is undertaken is designed to be indefinite, for with the United Nations comes the presence of the West's imperial powers and their stranglehold on the economy, natural resources and infrastructure of the nation. With that comes the distribution of the nation's assets among the combines and multinationals that make up the political executive of these powers. War, to them, is the ultimate way out of the crisis.

Brothers and sister, Gama'a,

Let our policies be consistent. If we want revolution, then we must be ready to pay the price for it.
It is either us who will suffer now or all succeeding generations.
No Arab patriot will call for a UN military intervention, for any such intervention would be the stab in the back of the Arab Revolution. It would strengthen Ghaddafi's position in so far as a foreign invasion would de-facto "legitimise" him. In this lies the grave danger of treason being turned into a "patriotic deed" and the nation being split and fractured within. In this lies the danger of this very nation falling apart.

Any western military presence in the guise of "peacekeeping" would perpetuate the imperialist powers' control of the Middle East's and Africa's economy, natural resources and political agenda. It would ultimately strengthen the position of the military regime in Egypt and put an end to our peoples' aspirations for revolution and national rebirth.

It is for this reason that we, in full awareness of the gravity of the situation in Lybia, must raise our voice to warn of the dangers of such a development, of the dangers of looking to the West for a solution and of calling on the West for intervention.

We are calling on the Revolutionary Youth of Libya to intensify their resistance and accelerate the struggle for liberation of the people by the people, as a timely and comprehensive solution of the present conflict is the only way to prevent neo-colonial penetration and the resurgence of the imperial conquest of Africa and the Middle East.

We wish to maintain peaceful and beneficial relations with all nations and peoples in the world. But the precondition of such mutually fruitful relations is non-interference and respect for national sovereignty.
We cannot sacrifice our interests in order to satisfy those of others.

For unity and independence! For peace and solidarity among the peoples! Long live the Arab Revolution!

APIC (APICONG)

Urgent update on Egypt and Protest of suppression of informations by Al Jazeera

http://www.facebook.com/FreeAmr?sk=wall&filter=1

[27./02/11
Please view all comments in order to gain a thorough picture of the sequence of events.
The post has been put up as the events unfolded and gives therefore a real-time-picture of Tahrir Square in the night from February 25 to February 26. It will be preserved as a time document and will not be edited. The messages were received between 22.00hrs and 06.00hrs Cairo time.]

It may be time to bring Egypt back to the spotlights again. Please
view the recent Mona Seif tweets:

Military police prevented my mother passage to demo and encircled her
This is not good. They are completely & tightly circled by military
police. I can't get to them 
Military police removing the tents in Tahrir square now
They threatened wt arresting ppl, ppl r leaving,I insisted I won't leave
wt out my family, I think I will be left alone 
Screw them! Screw the military wt all its members! Screw them 4 not
tolerating ppl peacefully protesting
Number is dramatically decreasin by the parliament and military police
encircling the protesters
ust received a testimony of a protester who was detained last week.
Beating up, electrocution, and special sexual harassment 2 girls

PLZ SPREAD: Masked ppl wt walkie talkies and machine guns along wt military police in Tahrir square trying to shut down the strike

Let me be clear, the machine guns weren't used but they were obviously there to intimidate ppl

They are dispersing ppl wt violence from Tahrir square, ppl r being chased by military police

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We wish to protest in the strongest terms the suppression of urgent news, which amounts to complicity in the crimes of the military regime against the revolution and in the violation of the protestors basic human rights.

The development of the entire Egyptian revolution may depend on these events, to be silent of the preservation of human lives. Any suppression of these news equals a crime against the revolution, against the people of Egypt and is thus an act of high treason against the interests of the Arab Nation as a whole.

We are asking our readers, members and associates to send letters of protest to all Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera English offices.

Down with the military! Down with the enemies of the people! Down with the enemies of the revolution!

APIC (APICONG)

Petition for the immediate and unconditional release of Mrs. Touhama Marrouf

To the Embassy of Syria
8, Belgrave Square
London. SW1X 8 PH
United Kingdom

Dear Sirs,

We have been informed via Human Rights organisations that Touhama Marrouf was recently imprisoned after being found guilty of involvement with an unauthorized left-wing political party. Touhama Marrouf on February 18 started a hunger strike in a desperate attempt to have her basic human rights granted. We consider her to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for her perceived or actual political affiliations.

Many of us having been political prisoners ourselves in the course of the Palestinian and greater Arab resistance and liberation struggle, we most decidedly condemn any form of persecution and detention on grounds of conscience or political affiliation.

We therefore wish to lend our voice to the campaign for Mrs. Touhama Marrouf's immediate and unconditional release.

We shall use all platforms and media at our disposal to lend force to this appeal.

Yours respectfully,

Afro-Asian People's Democratic Islamic Congress (APIC[APICONG])

Muhammad A. Al Mahdi
Secretary-General

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This letter has been submitted to the above address in response to the following appeal, which is supported by APIC(APICONG) :

We urgently need solidarity action to be taken for comrade Dr. Touhama  Maarouf in Syria. She decided to start a hunger strike on 18 February 2011 in protest against her harsh conditions in prison. She is being held in the Adra prison in Damascus, granted no rights, and with no light or medication. She is being kept in dirty conditions. Her food is bad and her health is rapidly deteriorating. Furthermore she is not allowed visitors. She was arrested on 10 February 2010 accused of belonging to the Communist Labour Party in Syria. She is the mother of two children.

She was first arrested in 1992, on charges of belonging to the Communist Labour Party and was then transferred to the State Security Court in Damascus, charged with belonging to a secret organization, the "Party for Communist Action." She was released a year later without being convicted. After getting some concessions, in November 1995 the State Security Court issued its ruling against Touhama indicating she should serve six years in prison.

Maarouf, who is trained as a dentist, was arrested in the northern city of Aleppo in July on charges of affiliation to the outlawed Communist Labor Party. Human rights groups say she is suffering "inhumane practices" at the Central Damascus Prison.

The day after her arrest she was taken to the Adra prison where she has been placed in the political wing, suffering the worst conditions of detention. She was eventually granted the right to one visit per month, but under strict security surveillance by the political police and only across a grille. She is not allowed books or magazines or radio, and the electric heaters have also been removed from her room.

The Syrian Organization for Human Rights has demanded the immediate release of Ms. Touhama , concerned for her integrity and health in the light of her hunger strike. They have also demanded she be moved to the women’s prison of women and for her conditions to be improved in accordance with the provisions of Syrian law and international agreements ratified by Syria.

We ask our readers to participate in the campaign of solidarity and send letters to the Syrian authorities demanding justice for Touhama. We provide here a model letter and information of where to send protest letters.

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Dear Sir or Madam,

We have been informed via Human Rights organisation that Touhama Marrouf was recently imprisoned after being found guilty of involvement with an unauthorized left-wing political party. Touhama Marrouf. On February 18 she started a hunger strikes in a desperate attempt to have her basic human rights guaranteed. We consider her to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for her perceived or actual political affiliations.

We condemn this barbaric act and we are spreading as widely as possible in the labour movement of our country news of this and we add our voices to the calls for her immediate and unconditional release.

Yours,

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Details of the Syrian Embassy in the UK are:

Syrian Embassy,
8 Belgrave Square
London - SW1X 8PH
Tel: 020 7245 9012
Fax: 020 7235 4621

Online messages can be sent at:

http://www.syremb.com/page6.html

Your nearest Syrian embassy can also be found at, where email details are available:

http://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/syria

APIC (APICONG) Statement on the nomination of the Interim Government of Egypt

APIC(APICONG) embraces and reiterates the demands specified by Shabab 16 April:


• Dissolution of the current government.

• Abolition of the emergency law.

• The release of all [political] detainees.

• The formation of a presidential council, including civilians, and fair judges.

• Legal prosecution of all the media figures that have contributed in killing our martyrs.

• Dismantling the state security apparatus and restructuring of the ministry of interior as well as all of the NDP headquarters.

• Formation of a new technocratic government.

• Dissolution of the government led by Ahmed Shafik, which includes the foul faces that have a history of corruption such as Mufid Shehab, Aisha Abdel Hadi, Faiza Abu Naga, Sameh Fahmi, Ali Meselhi, Mahmoud Wagdy to be dismissed and Mhakthm and the formation of a new technocratic government.

*Technocratic government: is a specialised government which doesn't belong to any party; this government is used in the case of political differences.

Our revolution and struggle will continue until we achieve all our demands.

The revolution is not finished yet ...


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APIC (APICONG) endorses, embraces and reiterates the 


Statement of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution of the south Cairo neighborhoods of Maadi, Besatin and Dar el-Salam:

The blood from the martyrs has not yet dried. It asks us to continue our uprising that has the goal to achieve our demands and not be ruled by criminals. The revolution has achieved something great by the fall of the tyrant and many of his supporters. But it has to be underlined that many of the aims of the revolution have not yet been achieved, because the current rulers in our country prevent it. This requires that we continue the revolution in many forms by among other things strikes, sit-ins and uprisings. Besides that a Committees for the Defense of the Revolution should be established in the neighborhoods, cities and villages, so we can preserve the gains that the revolution has achieved, with the following demands:

1. The struggle for civilian rule is achieved by broader public and private liberty rights; such as the freedom to organize political parties, trade unions, trade union federations and freedom of the press, expression, opinions and believes.
2. The establishing of a national civilian government excluding the National Party, its officials and former presidential candidates. The council should consist of 5 judges from the Court of Cassation so that the army return to the barracks within one month.
3. The President's people, his current and former officials, ministers and presidents within the last thirty years to face trial for the crimes and corruption they committed. Furthermore their fortunes must be confiscated both at home and abroad so that they can be used to build factories and economic projects, with the purpose of helping solve the problem of unemployment.
4. The election of a constituent assembly to draft a democratic constitution for the new republic
5. Renationalisation of all state-owned land sold to thieves as businessmen and the corrupt regime over 30 years that should be directed to establish a fund to build homes for the youth.
6. Introduction of a progressive tax duty for all millionaires with the purpose of financing a minimum wage (1500 Egyptian pounds) for all workers and that the maximum wage does not exceed ten times the minimum.
7. Prosecution of the leaders of the Ministry of the Interior and those who participated in the killing of the protesters, innocents and the many thousands who were wounded, and the implementation of a system of appropriate compensation. This should give compensation to the families of both the dead and the wounded and those who need treatment should receive it at the expense of the state.
8. All political related prisoners to be released, both those arrested before and after January 25.
9. The dissolution of the state's Central Investigation and Central Security Units, a ban against the use of weapons in the repression of protest movements and a limitation of the role of the police in maintaining security under the peoples supervision.

Let us together support the establishment of Committee to Defend the Revolution in all neighborhoods, cities and villages.

Long live the Peoples January 25 revolution

Eternal glory to our loyal martyrs

The Committee for the Defense of the Revolution – Maadi, Besatin and Dar el-Salam

APIC (APICONG) reiterates its statement from January 30th:

Let me address, in these crucial hours, the heroic people of Egypt.
Let me address, in these decisive days, the courageous sons and
daughters of the Sudan.
Let me address, at the dawn of a new age, Tunisia's brave sons and
daughters, and the true heroes of the nations of the East in whose
hearts burns, like a divine promise of victory, the flame of liberation,
the longing for national rebirth, the thirst for justice and truth, the
spark of that fire which makes the human soul human.
Blood of your blood and spirit of your spirit, I am burning with you.
I have suffered with you in your suffering. I have died with you in your
dying. In your rebirth, I am reborn.
I am riot of your riot, victory of your victory.
With you I am saying that there is no hope but revolution, that there is
no way out and no future without it, that no one but the people can
govern the people's affairs.
Let our hearts be inspired by the grandeur of our national and cultural
heritage! Let our thoughts be inspired by the enlightenment of the
Golden Age, by the splendour and the light of a civilisation that does
not have its equal in this world and by the knowledge that this
civilisation lives within us, its seed being reborn with every new
generation! 
Let us no longer be ashamed to show our faces and let us speak our name
in dignity! Let us raise the beauty of our heritage as a banner! Let us
live our dreams with blood and soul! 
It is time for the nations of the East to rise as one.
Our problems are deep and what lies at their root is the fact that we
have not been ourselves. Arab problems require Arab solutions. Middle
Eastern solutions are the only way to tackle Middle Eastern problems.
Not one day longer let this fact be ignored. We are not the backyard of
any Imperialist power. We shall not be governed from abroad. Our
policies shall not be dictated by foreign interests.
Every government of national unity must understand this first of all.
Else, it shall not last one day. And it must not be allowed to.
Let us take our rightful place among the nations. Let independence not
be a farce. Let national souvereignty be souvereignty indeed.
No longer and never again let a government be tolerated whose first and
singular priority is not the interests and the welfare of the people. It
is the veins of the people whose blood, salt and sweetness nourishes the
earth of the motherland. The nation is every one of her children. Every
and each of her sons. Every and each of her daughters.
The motherland is our love and our truth. She is our history and our
future. She is our present.
Our earth is an earth with many faces. Many faiths and many cultures
have grown on her soil. They are the fertile seed from which her
splendour, her high civilisations, her enilghtenment, her hopes and her
promise are descended. One without the other is nothing. Their
interaction alone is the cradle of the high culture. And the possibility
of this high culture is destroyed whenever any one of them lays claim to
exclusiveness. The potential of every great nation lies its
multi-cultural character. The interaction of different cultures and
faiths is the cradle of the Golden Age, the cradle of every nation's
true greatness and civilisatory force. Let this be at the core of our
national and cultural rebirth. Let society, in its renewal, be
pluralistic-- multi-cultural and multi-religious. Let us draw our
strength from the discovery of our selves in the mirror of the other.
Let unity in diversity and versatility be the source of our greatness,
as we, true descendants of our ancient civilisations, make our impact,
once again, on the global history of human civilisation.
Political stability rests on the pillar of an efficient balance, on a
stable equilibrium, of secular and religious elements in our lives and
day-to-day administration. Any suppression or political exclusivity of
either would upset that balance which is the very heart of the sanity
and self-awareness of every nation.
Democracy, then, must be democracy in the true sense: the people as the
political executive under all circumstances and the prevalence of the
people's interests at any costs. A parliamentary sham is not enough. No
game, no political illusion can take the place of the people in the
history of the nations and in the administration of their affairs.
Long live the rebirth of the East! Long live the unity of our peoples
and nations! All power to the people!
Long live the people's revolution!

Muhammad A. Al Mahdi
(APIC [APICONG])
January 30th, 2011 

Call on all revolutionary elements within the armed forces of Lybia

APIC(APICONG) is calling on all revolutionary elements within the armed forces of Lybia to follow the call of those who have asked them to come to the defence of the revolution and pursue the removal of Colonel Ghaddafi by force of arms. There is no other way to safeguard the interests of the nation. The situation in Lybia requires armed resistance and firm and timely action. There is no other way to prevent further bloodshed and avoid the emergence of an Iraq-style situation in the course of foreign intervention. The urgency of the crisis requires action without delay.

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The state after the revolution - the political programme of APIC(APICONG)

The political programme of APIC(APICONG) as adopted on February 15, 2011 will be summarised in brief outlines as follows:

* The working class and the peasantry are the salt of the earth. The origin of our national and cultural identity lives on in and is guarded by the tribes [bedouin & indigenous population].
Together, they are the true and authentic voice of the nation.
Their demands, therefore, must be unconditionally supported.
Their concerns are to be the chief concerns of the state.

*The revolution requires a purge of the religious institutions and places of learning of munafiqin and reactionary elements.
They have forbidden the allowed and made allowed the forbidden. They have turned Islam into a caricature of itself and repressed its productive and revolutionary potential.

*Gender equality is to be legally enforced.

*The principle of "same work-same pay" is to legally enforced.

*Food, housing and work are to be constitutionally recognised/guaranteed as basic human rights.

*The transition process following the ouster of autocratic regimes detrimental to the interests of the people is to be sped up. Hence we will support every programme, proposal and action conducive to this aim.

*APIC(APICONG) rejects the enforcement of a state religion as inappropriate to the needs of the societies given. We stand for an integrative society with equal rights and recognition for all its citizens. All minorities shall enjoy legal equality.

*The state shall not interfere with personal choices, with all the implications and consequences this principle entails.

*The new state must not be the legal heir of the old.
All existing treaties must be reconsidered.

*The state to be formed shall commit itself to a non-aggression policy while preserving the right to defend its interests.

*APIC(APICONG) shall enforce the representation of all ethnic and religious minorities in parliament and their participation in both legislative and executive powers.

*The state to be formed shall recognise the cultural autonomy of all ethnic and religious minorities.

*The instigation of sectarian strife and ethnic violence shall be regarded, under the guidelines of state and civil law, as a capital offence.

*Draconian measures shall be applied, under the guidelines of civil law, to perpetrators of any form of ta'aroud (sexual harassment of women).

*APIC(APICONG) is committed to a reform of the prison system.

*The legislation of the state to be formed shall be based upon coexistence and constructive dialogue of traditional and religious law systems with civil law.

*The new state must be culturally, politically, economically and spiritually sovereign as well as internationalist and anti-imperialist by definition.

*The state to be formed must be committed to and actively promote Arab unity, the unity of the Islamic Ummah, and the unity of the peoples within the greater Middle East beyond ethnic and religious boundaries.

*The new state shall promote the creation of bodies and institutions aimed at fostering and consolidating political and economic cooperation in Afro-Asia.

*The state to be formed should build up strong and durable ties with the countries of Latin and Central America aimed at political alliance and economic cooperation.

*APIC(APICONG) shall promote and seek to bring to new blossom science, literature and the arts.

*APIC(APICONG) shall promote cross border and inter-cultural dialogue.

*APIC(APICONG) shall at all times measure with well-adjusted scales and form a bulwark against all forms of extremism.

*APIC(APICONG) is firmly committed to the protection of the natural environment and to the respect and reverence of all forms of life.

*APIC(APICONG) advocates public ownership of all major industries and means of production consolidated by a private sector made up of small and independent enterprises.

*APIC(APICONG) stands for an equilibrium of agriculture and industry and opposes prioritisation of the cities.

*APIC(APICONG) is firmly committed to eradicating the gap between the living standards of rural, urban and nomadic populations.

*APIC(APICONG) shall do everything within its power to wipe out poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition.

*APIC(APICONG) shall wage campaigns and set up institutions to that effect.



Our state is a state of workers, peasants and tribesmen in coalition with the progressive intelligence.
Our aim is unity and cooperation in Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
Our goal is the creation of an alternative economy and of an alternative economic and political power.