The International Campaign against US and Zionist Occupation
Announcement and Call for Participation
The Egyptian group of the International Campaign against US and Zionist
Occupation calls upon all groups and fighters against colonialism and Zionism, in
Egypt and the Arab World, and upon all social and antiwar movements world wide
to participate in the:
5th Cairo Conference
Under the slogan
"Towards an international alliance against imperialism and Zionism"
And the
3rd Cairo Social Forum
Under the slogan
"Against Imperialism and Zionism...
Against tyranny and oppression...
Against exploitation and corruption"
Both of which will be held in Cairo
29th March - 1st of April 2007
The 1st Cairo conference was organized in 2002, 2hiohc US and British imperialism were
preparing to invade Iraq. The slogan of the conference then was "Against globalization, us
hegemony and War". The conference was organized and called for by a group of Egyptian
militants building on their previous activism to break the siege of starvation enforced on the
Iraqi people and in solidarity with the heroic Palestinian Intefada. The conference was
attended by representatives and activists from various parts of the Arab World, Europe and
the Americas. It produced the first Cairo Declaration, which became one of the documents
of the international anti war and anti globalization movements.
In subsequent years, three further Cairo conferences were organized, in December 2003,
March 2005 and March 2006, under the slogan "With the Resistance in Palestine and Iraq...
Against Globalization, Imperialism and Zionism". Activists and representatives of many
groups and organizations from various parts of the Arab World and globally participated in
all three conferences as well as representatives of the Palestinian and Iraqi resistance. All
those conferences issued a number of decisions and recommendations and called for the
participation in all international actions organized by the international anti war and anti
globalization movements against the imperial war in Iraq and in solidarity and support of the
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resistance in Palestine and Iraq, starting from the demonstrations of the 18th of January and
15th of February and until now.
In all its recommendations and resolutions, the Cairo conferences have stressed a number of
basic principles which guided its strategies. Those included: 1) the unconditional support of
all forces of resistance against imperialism and Zionism in Palestine, Iraq, and Lebanon; 2) a
call for the necessary unity of all resistance groups, bypassing their ideological and political
differences, and considering the struggle against US and Zionist colonialism to be the main
strategic struggle; 3) supporting the democratic demands of the Arab peoples against the
ruling dictatorial regimes as well as the projects of imperial hegemony, and considering the
struggle against tyranny in the Arab world as part of the struggle against globalization and
war worldwide; 4) stressing the unity of the international anti war and anti globalization
movement and the need to collaborate among all its groups against globalization and the
colonial imperial and Zionist project.
The 1st Cairo social forum was organized on the margins of the 3rd Cairo conference (March
2005) under the slogan: "Against imperialism and Zionism.. Against tyranny and oppression..
against exploitation and corruption", where more than 30 entities among political groups and
civil society organizations in Egypt and the Arab World organized seminars, workshops,
exhibitions and various cultural activities around battles of political and social resistance.
The forum also witnessed the organization of forums around workers', peasants', students'
women's and religious discrimination issues. The 2nd Cairo social forum was organized on the
margins of the 4th Cairo conference (March 2006) with the participation of more than 40
groups and organizations and witnessed further activities and forums.
The Egyptian group of the international campaign against US and Zionist occupation is
currently preparing for the 5th Cairo conference and the 3rd Cairo social forum which will be
held in Cairo between the 29th of March and the 1st of April 2007. The Egyptian group
includes a number of Egyptian activists from different national groups and representatives
of the following Egyptian groups working against imperialism, Zionism and tyranny:
El Karama party, the Moslem Brotherhood, the Egyptian communist party, the Wasat
(Middle) party, the Labor party, and the organization of the Revolutionary Socialists.
For more information and to submit any suggestions please contact us:
Email: cairoconference4@yahoo.com
Rabab100@yahoo.com
Tel: 00 202 792 3837
Fax: 00 202 792 5327
Mobile: 00 2 012 356 7772
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