In the preceding issue of "Tibet-China Fax" we announced the opening of a debate concerning Satyagraha for the freedom of occupied Tibet and possible preparatory initiatives. The Secretary the Transnational Radical Party, Olivier Dupuis, opens the debate with the hope, as well as the trust, that it will an invitation to reflect and to write.

We are certain that the theme of the freedom of occupied Tibet will not find one of you unprepared to discuss it, just as we are certain that ideas and contributions will not be in short supply. The work of reflection that we begin now must be a necessary premise for constant attention to practical action and political initiative. Nonviolence, in substance, is this: a method of political action, our method of political action.

We await your contributions and ideas.

(Published by FREEDOM FOR TIBET/DEMOCRACY IN CHINA ! - Number 58 - 31 May, 1997)