[asia-apec 1475] Peoples' Assembly Unity Statement Against the IMF-World Bank

[BAYAN]

Dear comrades and friends,

BAYAN  would like to give you a copy of the unity statement adopted April's
People's Assembly Against IMF-WB and Imperialist Globalization held in
Washington, DC. 

At the same time, the folks at the People's Assembly would like to ask your
organization, network, friends, supporters of the Peoples Assembly to sign
on to the Unity Statement and show both support for the Peoples Assembly
and opposition to the IMF-World Bank and current globalization policies.
You can use your individual names and organizations. When we get our
website finished later this month, we will post both the Unity Statement as
well as all the signatories. Please send both the Unity Statement and this
request for signatures to your lists. You may send your "signatures" to
sbaypa at yahoo.com.  

Thank you very much.

BAYAN
Public Information Department

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UNITY STATEMENT
Peoples' Assembly Against the IMF/World Bank
April 2000

We, the Peoples' Assembly Against the IMF/World Bank, are firmly 
united in the task of exposing and opposing the International
Monetary Fund/World Bank and advancing the people's resistance to 
imperialist globalization.

Imperialist globalization must be unmasked and fully discredited.  It 
is monopoly capitalism masquerading as a new and wonderful product of 
the electronic age.  It ravages the environment, devastates countries 
and subjugates entire peoples with unequaled ferocity and 
ruthlessness.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) are tools
of imperialist globalization.  They are instruments of multinational 
corporations (MNCs) and imperialist states for dictating financial
and monetary policy on client states.  In the end, the IMF/WB cannot 
be reformed, but must be dismantled.  US imperialism controls the 
IMF/WB contrary to the official propaganda that member states enjoy 
decision-making powers.

Imperialist states, led by the United States, and acting as
protectors and promoters of the super-profits of giant monopoly
firms, 
are intensifying the exploitation and oppression of all peoples around
the world.  They are the masterminds of increased worker exploitation,
the perpetrators who violate peasants' and workers' rights leaving 
them landless and in feudal and semi-feudal bondage, the chief 
instigators of human rights violations, and the biggest plunderers
and 
polluters of the environment.

Imperialist globalization is not inevitable.  It is not unstoppable.  
We have proven this time and time again in tactical battles against 
the neoliberal policies of liberalization, deregulation and 
privatization against the debt trap and in the recent highly 
successful anti-MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investments) Campaign. 
  The peoples of the world were successful in launching massive 
protests and shutting down the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 
Seattle, Washington last December 1999.

While we struggle for reforms and try to achieve palpable gains on 
immediate issues, we make sure that we are not distracted from the 
overall struggle against the main enemy of the world's peoples today 
-- imperialism -- specifically the No. 1 imperialist power, the USA.

We vow to close ranks to confront the imperialist monster that has 
taken away our land, jobs and livelihood and has further displaced, 
commodified and turned women into modern-day slaves.  We denounce 
imperialist globalization that has impoverished us and left us
hungry, sick, without decent housing, and has stolen our youth's future.

We commit ourselves to bring down this system which is bringing 
genocidal wars of imperialist intervention and domination upon the 
peoples of the world.  We demand an end to the economic blockade of 

Cuba, the ongoing bombing of Iraq and the use of the United Nations 
sanctions to bring sovereign countries to heel.

We firm up our resolve to promote and develop the anti-imperialist
and democratic struggle of the workers and oppressed peoples against the 
inhumane policies and acts of the MNCs, their governments and 
international instruments such as the IMF, World Bank, World Trade 
Organization and military alliances.  

We support the calls of the International League of Peoples'
Struggles which will be founded at the end of the year 2000. 

Finally, we stand ready to fight for the following:

1. National and social liberation from imperialism and all reaction 
and resistance to foreign aggression and intervention;
2. Human rights in he civil, political, economic, social and cultural 
fields against state violence national oppression, class
exploitation, fascism, racism and religious bigotry;
3. The cause of peace against wars of aggression and against nuclear 
and genocidal weapons;
4. Independent trade union and workers' and toilers' rights and 
reduction of working hours at full pay against mass unemployment and 
decreasing wage levels;
5. Rights of peasants, farm workers and fisherfolk against feudal and 
semifeudal exploitation and oppression;
6. The rights of women and rights against all forms of sexual 
discrimination, exploitation and violence;
7. The rights of the youth to education and employment;
8. Children's rights against child labor and other forms of 
exploitation;
9. Rights of indigenous peoples oppressed nations and nationalities 
against chauvinism and racism;
10. The rights of teachers, researchers and other educational 
personnel;
11. The right of the people to health care and the rights of health 
workers;
12. The rights, welfare and release of political prisoners;
13. Rights and welfare of displaced persons, refugees and migrant 
workers;
14. Environmental protection against plunder and pollution; and
15. The right to safe and health food free from genetic manipulation.








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