The African Liberation Support Campaign Network (ALISC
Network) and the Hackney Stop The War Coalition are
jointly organising a Day School on Neocolonial Proxy
Wars In Africa.

[After Iraq, the USA intends to get at least
one-quarter of its oil from Africa]

DATE: Saturday 15 May 2004
TIME: from 2pm to 6pm and Social from 6pm to 7pm.

PROGRAMME:
* Welcome: Hackney Stop the War Coalition and
ALISC-Network
* Opening: Jeremy Corbyn MP (Lab), Islington North
* The link betweeen the invasion and occupation of
Iraq and the proxy wars in Africa: Explo Nani-Kofi,
ALISC-Network and Stop The War Coalition Steering
Committee
* A programme of Action: Eki Gbinigie and Odarquaye
Lamptey, ALISC-Network
Chair: Vivek, Hackney Stop The War Coalition

PLACE: Dalston Methodist Centre, Richmond Road, London
E8 [Train - Dalston Kingsland on North London Line;
BUSES - 30, 38, 56, 242, 277]

ENTRANCE : FREE. ALL WELCOME (DONATIONS WELCOME)
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A WHOLE CONTINENT AT WAR?
* Two thirds of the African continent (52 countries)
has been engulfed in war during the last five years.
These include civil wars and wars between countries.
* In the west there is little news about war-torn
Africa. Some people here will know about the wars in
Sudan and the Congo. But what about the 20-year war in
Uganda and the war in Ivory Coast?
WHOSE WARS?
* All these wars are fuelled by western governments,
banks and companies.
* They sell arms to governing elites and other elite
factions in Africa on a "willing buyer willing seller"
basis.
* They compete to steal Africa's huge mineral,
forestry and agricultural wealth.
* The elites in Africa, who have bank accounts in the
west, do deals with western governments and
multinational companies.
PROXY WARS
* The IMF and World Bank already rob Africans and make
the majority poor in the name of "debt collection" on
"loans".
* The situation is made worse by war. The youth are
caught up in the fighting, normal work to grow food
become impossible, and many people have to leave their
homes and escape to neighbouring countries. Democracy
is impossible.
ABOUT THE AFRICAN LIBERATION SUPPORT CAMPAIGN NETWORK.
ALISC-Network is UK-based and primarily mobilises
support to Social Movements and mass struggles for
social justice across Africa, for example the Landless
People's Movement of South Africa. ALISC-Network is
African led. It publishes a quarterly revolutionary
panafricanist journal, Kilombo, and holds regular
public meetings at the Unity Centre, 2-4 Ravenstone
Street, Balham, London SW12 9SS.
Email: [email protected]
ABOUT HACKNEY STOP THE WAR COALITION
Holds regular public meetings and street stalls,
produces email bulletin and promotes anti-war events.
Open meetings on the first Monday of each month,
7:30pm to 9pm, Halkevi Turkish/Kurdish Community
Centre, 96-100 Stoke Newington Road, London N16 7XB.
Email: [email protected]
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CONTACT: Louise on 07771650915 or
Email : [email protected]