Anonymous Comrade writes:

02.11.03: INTERNATIONAL ACTION DAY IN SUPPORT OF PRISONER MARCO CAMENISCH

dear friends and comrades,

in the last days, eco-anarchist prisoner marco camenisch was once again the target of an international police operation. on 17.09. and 24.09.03 italian state launched in cooperation with swiss federal police forces an immense attack against marco and the vast social and political solidarity he gets from his friends and supporters. while swiss police searched his cell in prison of pfäffikon/ZH (switzerland), in italiy special forces of the carabinieri raided about 40 houses and offices of suspected militants.

hydrarchist writes: This from the lovely Counterpunch.

"On
the Bicentennial of the Execution of Robert Emmet"

By Peter Linebaugh

Robert Emmet was executed two hundred years ago
this day. "Behold, the head of a traitor!" the hangman
held up his severed head dripping with blood onto the cobblestones
of Thomas Street for the dogs to lap up. On the anniversary of
this ignominy let's pause to consider the project for which he
died.

His is an example of revolutionary sacrifice
to be compared to the self-stabbing of Kwong Hae Lee last week
on top of the fence separating the people from the U.S. and European
planners of capitalism at the Cancun meeting of the WTO.

"I have but one request to ask at
my departure from this world; it is--THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE.
Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives
dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse
them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my name
remain uninscribed, until other times and other men can do justice
to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations
of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph be written."

.....from Z Magazine


"Liberty and National Security:

Can We Have Both?"


by George Katsiaficas

August 05, 2003

[Editor’s note: On July 11, two students, Kim Yong-chan and Kim Jong-gon, of Konkuk University in Seoul, were arrested for possession and propagation of enemy-benefiting publications including For Marx (by Louis Althusser), Capital (Karl Marx), The Imagination of the New Left: A Global Analysis of 1968 (George Katsiaficas). They were prosecuted on July 24 under the National Security Law.

“Enemy” refers to North Korea. Article 7 of the National Security Law punishes the act of benefiting North Korea by praising it, encouraging it, and siding with it, or conspiring any of these acts, with the knowledge that it will endanger national security and the survival of the free and democratic order. However, the three books that were used as evidence by the government against the students are freely available at any good bookstores in South Korea. What makes the case more outrageous is that the current justice minister Kang Gum-sil had to resign as a judge under the military government in 1989 when her husband were arrested under the National Security Law for publishing Capital.