Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 11:35:30 +0100
From: Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se>
Subject: M-TH: French statement on Iraq


=46orwarded from Marxism-News.

Hugh

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EMERGENCY APPEAL

NO TO THE MILITARY INTERVENTION AGAINST IRAQ!

We, activists of all tendencies in the democratic and labor movements, issue
this emergency appeal:

The U.S. administration is threatening to launch a major military offensive
against Iraq. This effort is supported by a growing number of governments
the world over.

Seven years ago, the U.S. government -- with the support of the European
powers -- launched a war against the Iraqi people, essentially to plunder
Iraq's rich oil deposits. War has been pursued since that time by other
means, notably by an embargo. As a direct result of this blockade, an
estimated 1.5 million Iraqi people have died. The child mortality rate in
Iraq today is equivalent to that of B
angladesh, while it was near that of France and Germany seven years ago.

The United Nations experts themselves have acknowledged in a recent report
that these seven years of sanctions against Iraq have led Iraq to a
"critical stage which will mark several generations to come." The U.S.
government has announced that it is readying itself to strike Iraq again. An
important military plan has already assembled 13 war ships in the Gulf.
Madeleine Albright, describing the im
pending attack, has declared: "This will not be mere needle pricks ... but a
very important blow."

We defend the rights of peoples to self-determination, democracy and peace.
We condemn the embargo imposed on the Iraqi people.
We denounce the preparation of the military intervention sponsored by
Washington.
We condemn all governments, including the French government, that are
joining this new assault on the Iraqi people.
We declare our readiness to react immediately against a military attack
against Iraq.

We call upon everyone,
Let us proclaim together:

NO TO THE MILITARY INTERVENTION AGAINST IRAQ!
LIFT THE EMBARGO IMMEDIATELY!

JOIN US IN PARIS AT THE MUTUALITE AUDITORIUM ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, TO BUILD
A POWERFUL AND BROAD-BASED MOVEMENT AGAINST THE WAR ON IRAQ!

=46or all contacts: JP Barrois, 56, av Diderot, 94100 Saint-Maur - France
Check to : "Jean-Pierre Barrois - Contre l'intervention en Irak"


=46irst endorsers:

=46rance:
Jean Armando, trade unionist, steelworker (Territoire de Belfort); Jo=EBlle
Arnal, municial councilor French CP, La Seyne-sur-Mer (Var); Rémy Auchedé,
regional councilor, French CP (Pas-de-Calais); André Barbe, cartoonist
(Paris); Patrice Bargibant, Movement of Citizens (MDC) (Paris); Jean-Pierre
Barrois, senior lecturer (Val de Marne);  Gérard Bauvert, journalist
(Paris); Paul Bienvenu, mayor of Be
hren-l=E8s-Forbach (Moselle); Alain Biscaye, MDC (Paris); Nicole Bossut,
Institute of History of the French Revolution (Paris); Jean-Claude
Bonnafoux, deputy mayor of Villeneuve-l=E8s-Maguelone, French CP (Hérault);
Gérard Bouisson, mayor of Villeneuve-l=E8s-Maguelone, regional councilor
=46rench CP (Hérault); Jean-Marc Bourcier, activist for a secular state
(Savoie); Viol=E8ne Burgard, theatre manager; Mar
guerite Chossart, French CP (Paris); Francis Combes, writer, publisher
(Seine-Saint-Denis); Daniel Couqueberg, French CP (Territoire de Belfort);
Marie-Thér=E8se Cousin, physician (Paris); Michel Cousy, French CP, Orsay
university (Essonne); Pierre Debat, physician (Paris); Martine Debat,
physician (Paris); Yves Dechezelles, honorary barrister (Paris); Victor de
La Fuente, journalist (Paris); Bernar
rs Party; Paul Duthel, trade unionist, retiree (Rh=F4ne); Bernard Durix, trade
unionist (Rh=F4ne); Jean Falco, French CP (Hérault); Jacques Faure, trade
unionist (Rh=F4ne); Alain Fievet, MDC (Essonne); Brigitte Fontaine, senior
lecturer, hospital physician (Paris); Olivier Frayssé, trade unionist
university teacher (Paris); Jean Fournier, activist for a secular state
(Rh=F4ne); Marc Gauquelin, Workers Par
ty (Paris); Daniel Gautier, trade unionist, Post Office (Paris); Guy Gibout,
former mayor of Joinville le Pont, municipal councilor, French CP
(Val-de-Marne); Daniel Gluckstein, national secretary of the Workers Party;
Cécile
senator; Dominique Gros, senior lecturer (C=F4te-d'Or); Professor Fran=E7ois
Guérin (Paris); Bernard Goursaud, mayor, peasant trade union leader
(Charente-Maritime); Alexandre Hébert, trade unionist (Loire-Atlantique);
Mohamed Houch, French CP (Territoire de Belfort); Louisa Jan, trade unionist
(Hauts-de-Seine); Daniel Jeanblanc, MDC (Territoire de Belfort); Denis
Jeangérard, trade unionist (Territoir
e de Belfort); Jean-Jacques Karman, Regional Councillor, deputy-mayor,
Aubervilliers, French CP - Communist Left tendency, (Seine-Saint-Denis);
Louis Keller, mayor of Monthermé (Ardennes); Valérie Lang, actress (Paris);
Mathieu Lassale, actor (Paris); Patricia Latour-Combes, municipal councilor,
Aubervilliers, Communist Left (Seine-Saint-Denis); Mich=E8le Le Gourrierec,
trade unionist , Post Office
(Paris); Rémi Lemoine, trade unionist, railway worker  (Paris); Marie-Paule
Lemonnier, physician; Claude Le Pape, trade unionist (Savoie); Pierre
Levasseur, trade unionist, Post Office (Paris); Jean-Claude Loew, trade
unionist Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) (Essonne); Jean-Charles Marquiset,
trade unionist, territory civil servant (Essonne); Victoria Melgar,
traducer; Alex Metayer, actor; Jacques
-Loire); Charlie Nelson, actor (Paris); Bernard No=EBl, writer (Paris);
Stanislas Nordey, theatre director (Paris); Simone noyer, Socialist Party,
municipal councilor (Hérault); Charlotte Paquet, sociologist; Fran=E7ois
Paraire, physician (Hauts-de-Seine); Jean-Marc Pequignot, trade unionist
(Territoire de Belfort); Karine Pierre, actress (Paris); Fran=E7ois Pinon,
physician; Marc Pipeau, trade unionist
 (Paris); Jacques Rebotier, composer, writer; Georges Reynaud, French CP,
peasant trade unionist (Dr=F4me); Pierre Rivi=E8re, psychiatrist (Paris); Gilles
Rivoalan, trade unionist, Post Office (Paris); Alain Roques, trade unionis
Virginie Rochetti, scriptwriter; Me Hél=E8ne Rubinstein-Carrera, barrister
(Paris); Joachim Salamero, Free Thinker (Gironde); Patrick Sansano, French
CP (Dr=F4me); Patrice Sifflet, trade unionist (Paris); Soulas, artist (Paris);
Souleymane Soumarou, trade unionist (Paris);  Emmanuelle Stochl, actress
(Paris); Josiane Stroh, art councillor (Paris); Robert Teysier, French CP
(Hérault); Jean-Paul Thorang
e, trade unionist, railway worker (Paris); Jean-Pierre Tricard, trade
unionist (Paris); Jean-Claude Vial, Research director, CNRS Institute, Orsay
(Essonne); Jean Viard, French CP (Dr=F4me); Dominique Vincenot, trade
unionist, student (Val-de-Marne); Nicole Zoberman, psycho-sociologist (Paris).




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