Mikis Theodorakis and Manolis Glezos

against the war

«The whole mankind lives throughout the cruelty of the new war that NATO

and USA let loose against Afghanistan's people, in pretense to fight
back terrorism, using as an excuse the terrorist attack in New York and
Washington. They hypocritically claim that they go after Taleban but in
reality they go after all the people in Afghanistan.

Daily, tens of people get murdered, cities and villages get flatted. The
Americans' barbarous bombings that supposedly aim the Talebanee, hit
civilians, innocent children and women; meaning the main victims of the Talebanee
cruelty,either by wounding and killing them or forcing hundreds of thousands to
desert their hometowns and convicting them to undoubted death from cold,
hunger, and diseases.
Indiscriminately, hospitals and old age homes get bombed. Innocent
people's lives pay off a war which its end is the petroleum and the wealth resources of
Eurasia.

Millions of people become refugees, get convicted in hunger and misery,
hence also paying off a war that's taking place in order to overcome the
system's crises.

Countries and people become the target of imperialism that tries to
fortify its domination.

A veil of terrorism in the name of its elimination, cover peoples and
movements corresponding to the promotion and application of detracting and
restrictive measures of human rights and freedoms, in order to hit the
people's resistance struggles and demands for a fair society.

A gigantic propaganda is released to legalize the war by posing
dark-aged perceptions of conflict between cultures and religions, and
thus attempting to engulf the combustible contradictions of wealth and poverty that the New
World Order gives birth to.

The forces of the war appear in the same front, yet the competition and
its discords for the allotment of the world may have destructive
consequences on the people.

From all the places of the planet the voices of the people who demand
the war to be stopped rises.

We too join our voices along with the agony and the rage of the people
and say; no to war- yes to peace, struggle for a fair society.

There is nothing separating us from the people of Afghanistan, Eurasia
and the whole world. The mutual struggle against the barbarous New World
Order unites us. We pay off the consequences of the unjust world of
exploitation they build, together.

We ask the involvement of Greece stops in this unfair, imperialistic
war.

We fight for the expansion of the democratic freedoms and we resist to
the autocratic measures that constrains them.

Side by side with workers, professionals, youth, movements, initiatives,

organizations we back the antiwar struggle. We call out Athenian people
to the popular demonstration on Thursday 8 November in Syntagma square
at 6 p.m.

No to war- No to the involvement of Greece.

No to the USA - NATO terrorism against the people.

Athens, 30/10/2001»

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