Twelfth International Communist Seminar
“The Marxist-Leninist Party and the anti-imperialist front facing the war”
Brussels, May 2-4, 2003

www.icsbrussels.org , ics[at]icsbrussels.org

Program

Central theme:

The Marxist-Leninist Party and
the Anti-Imperialist Front Facing the War

Draft Program
[30 April 2003]

Friday 2 May (doors: 9:00)

09:30 Registration
10:30 Introduction: Ludo Martens, Workers' Party of Belgium

First session: Analysis of US war policy after September 11 [1]
Chairperson: Harpal Brar, Lalkar Editor, UK

11:30 Workers’ Party of Korea
12:00 Syrian Communist Party
12:20 Salah Mohammed Salah, member Palestinian National Council
12:40 Mazen Hanna, Jordanian Workers’ Communist Party: Ruthless Capitalism and War Hysteria

13:00 Meal break

First session: Analysis of US war policy after September 11 [2]
Chairperson: Harpal Brar, Lalkar Editor, UK

14:00 Complementary reports (max. 5 minutes)
Red Resistencia, Colombia
Rete dei Comunisti, Italy
Revolutionary Communist Party of Argentina: Consequences of the attack on Iraq in the international situation
Anti-capitalist National Assembly, Italy: The new imperialist expansionism and the aggression against Iraq
Ray O. Light Group, USA
Mick Kelly, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, USA
Communist Party of Turkey/Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML)
Organization of Fedayin (Minority), Iran
Others

15:00 Comments and discussion

16:00 Coffee break

Second session: The role of Stalin and the CPSU(b) in the anti-fascist war – lessons for today [1]
Chairperson: Carlos Alvarado Santana, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador

16:30 Tamila Yabrova, Union of Communists, Ukraine
16:50 Hysni Milloshi, Communist Party of Albania
17:10 Ludmil Kostadinov, Communist Party of Bulgaria

17:30 End of the session

Saturday 3 May (doors: 9:00)

Second session: The role of Stalin and the CPSU(b) in the anti-fascist war – lessons for today [2]
Chairperson: Carlos Alvarado Santana, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador

09:30 Complementary reports (max. 8 minutes)
Oleg Shenin, Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Krishna Chakravortty, Socialist Unity Centre of India: Stalin and the Fight against Fascism
New Communist Party of Yugoslavia
Communists in Struggle, France
Mesa de Refundación Comunista, Spain
Others

10:10 Comments and discussion

10:30 Coffee break

Third session: The political and tactical tasks of the communists facing the issue of war
Chairperson: Louie Jalandoni, National Democratic Front, Philippines

11:00 Andrei Novikov, Russian Communist Workers’ Party: The efforts to create a unified Marxist-Leninist Party to be able to assume those tasks
11:15 Sergio Ortiz, Party of the Liberation, Argentina
11:30 Nadine Rosa-Rosso, Workers’ Party of Belgium
11:45 Complementary reports (max. 5 minutes) [1]
Communist Party of Slovakia
Danish Communist Party - Marxist-Leninist (DKP-ML)
Tamas Hirshler, Hungarian Karl Marx Society
Arthur Henson, For a Better World, USA: Relation of the war against Iraq to the struggle to build a new communist party in the USA.
Socialist Party of Lithuania: Marxism and War
Revolutionary Communist Party, Spain
Others

12:15 Comments and discussion

13:00 Meal break

Fourth session: The experience of the Party in the anti-imperialist fronts and in the anti-war fronts [1]
Chairperson: Yamila Pita Montes, Communist Party of Cuba

14:00 Yamila Pita Montes, Communist Party of Cuba
14:20 José Maria Sison, Founding Chairman, Communist Party of the Philippines
14:40 John Catalinotto, Workers World Party, USA: Development of the Anti-War Movement within the United States since 9/11
15:00 Complementary reports (max. 8 minutes) [1]
Socialist Party of Latvia
Albanian Labour Party
Communist Workers’ Party of Norway (AKP)

15:25 Coffee break

16:00 Complementary reports (max. 8 minutes) [2]
Communist Party of Sweden Marxists-Leninists (revolutionaries) (KPML(r))
Soccorso Popolare, Italy
Jean-Luc Sallé, Communist Coordination for the Reconstruction of a Revolutionary Communist Party, France
Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C), Turkey
Dennis O'Neil, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, USA
Unified Communist Party of Italy
Association for International Friendship, Solidarity and Understanding, Romania
Others

17:00 Comments and discussion

18:00 End of the session

Sunday 4 May (doors: 9:00)

Fourth session: The experience of the Party in the anti-imperialist fronts and in the anti-war fronts [2]
Chairperson: Erik Anderson, KPML(r), Sweden

09:30 Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador: In the Anti-Imperialist Struggle, against War and for Social Revolution
09:50 Complementary reports (max. 8 minutes) [3]
Communist Party of Venezuela
Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Forum, Nepal
Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism (ACTUS)
Popular Struggle Movement/El Machete Review, Mexico
Communist Party of Turkey (TKP): War, Turkey and Revolutionary Opportunities
Communist Party of Japan (Left): Lessons of Anti-U.S. and Anti-War Struggle in Japan
Others

10:40 Coffee break

11:15 Comments and discussion

13:00 Meal Break

Fifth session: Perspectives for 2003-2004

14:00 General resolution

15:00 Proposals for concrete coordination and joint actions

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Proposals of topics for the 2004 ICS and for the organisation of the 2004 ICS

16:30 Conclusions

17:00 End of the session