[New-imc] Query re: IMC Zimbabwe

[Kilibarda78 at aol.com]

Dear IMC,

I was just wondering whether or not IMC Zimbabwe is an IMC site or not?  It 
is very biased and partisan on an issue that seems to divide many on the old 
factionalized left (no suprise), but also on the new left and within the 
anti-globalization movement.  In particular it is interesting that ISO seems 
to run most of the site.  I noticed Zimbabwe isn't listed under your Africa 
section, but the IMC Zimbabwe site does exist in cyberspace and it uses IMC 
layout, iconography, and aesthetic.  

If it is an actual IMC site, perhaps a review is in order as it seems to 
violate the terms of agreement that IMC sets out and many of the principles 
by presenting a biased and uncritical perspective of the general discourse 
presented in the mainstream media.  I wanted to get alternative information 
on Zimbabwe, of which there is much and I only got the same old 
propagandistic song-and-dance that sees Mugabe as the source of all evil in 
the world.  This isn't objective alternative media, but part of the corporate 
media anti-Mugabe demonization machine that has been in full gear since the 
onset of the land-reform program.  Mugabe isn't an angel, but he also isn't 
the devil the MDC and IMC Zimbabwe make him out to be.  It would be 
interesting to get rural voices of poor people in communal areas on the site, 
the views of activists occupying white farms, etc.  The struggle for land and 
land-reform is a cross-cutting feature in the South, yet it is precisely the 
voices of such peasants that are often marginalized and shut-out.  The MST is 
only ONE of many such movements world-wide (many of which are spontaneous),

cheers!

Konstantin Kilibarda
Collaborative MA in International 
Relations and Political Science
University of Toronto