Anti-Imperialist Camp
The Anti-imperialist Camp is an
international organisation which brings together several different movements dedicated to opposingimperialism .History
The first activities began in
1990 as asummer camp and cultural-political meeting organised within the framework of the Revolutionary Communist League (RCL), an originallyTrotskyist movement, based inAustria , in partnership with an Italian organisation.In the mid-90's, the RCL gradually detached itself from more
dogma tic forms of Marxist thinking, and began to concentrate on the issue ofanti-imperialism .Around
1996 , the Camp took on an autonomous existence of its own, becoming an international point of reference for movements coming from very different backgrounds and countries, and became especially involved in the Balkan conflict, where it was one of very few movements on the Left to defendYugoslavia .The Camp is both a coordination of movements, active all year around, and a public event, held in various places. For several years, the Camp was held in
Assisi , Italy, because of its symbolic value as the town ofpeace .After
September 11, 2001 , the Camp declared that "those who sow storms, reap whirlwinds", and strongly opposed the wars onAfghanistan and then onIraq .Though part of the
anti-globalisation movement , the Camp has never joined the Social Forum, because of the Forum's refusal to take the side of various popular resistance movements in the world: especially, the Camp has expressed support for resistance movements in Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq.As a consequence, the Camp has often been accused in the media of "supporting
terrorism ". However, the Camp explicitly states that it does not supportviolence in countries where thelaw guaranteeshuman rights , and its activities are always public.Especially controversial has been the Camp's position "in favour of the
Iraqi resistance ", covering bothsecular andreligious movements opposed to the US presence in Iraq, ranging from the Iraqi Patriotic Alliance to the movement ofMoqtada al-Sadr . All these movements, and the Camp, strongly oppose partition of Iraq andsectarian strife , and are therefore hostile to the movement of Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi.Support for the Iraqi resistance has led to threats of legal action against the Camp, both in Italy and the U.S., and to an appeal by 44 members of the
US congress to ban a on Iraq scheduled for October 1–2, 2005, in Italy, which has the Camp among its sponsors. This conference would have brought together all the main forces of the Iraqi resistance on a common platform, in order to present a peace project to the Italian government.After the Italian government refused visas to the Iraqi delegates supposed to attend the conference, the conference has been postponed, but is scheduled again for March 24-25, 2007, in Chianciano, Tuscany. It will be under the title, "With the Resistance, for a Just Peace in the Middle East" and will include intellectuals associated with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements.
External links
* [http://www.antiimperialista.org/ Web site of the Anti-imperialist Camp]
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