Mayday is ours!

[dhkc at ozgurluk.org]

Mayday is ours!
Mayday belongs to the oppressed peoples!
Mayday  belongs to the Front!

Today is Mayday. Today the fascist regime in Turkey another time has
spilled the blood of our peoples. It attacked the people brutally. In
Istanbul police and "Special Forces" attacked ten thousands of elder
and younger ones, children, women, man of every age and arrested
hundreds of them. Dozens are severely wounded. We couldn't get any
news about a lot of them.

The attack started as it was tried to prevent the revolutionaries from
reaching the place of the may meeting. Armored cars and more than
10.000 policemen went on with the attacks with the support of
civil-fascists. 

Directly responsible for preventing the revolutionaries from reaching
the place are the leaders of the trade-unions. First they took the
decision that the meeting shouldn't start until everybody reached the
place. But then they ignored their own decisions by starting the
demonstration as about 2000 or 3000 people gathered in the place. And
the state started its attacks as they turned away from the masses.

The ones who spilled Mayday with blood are the state and the leaders
of the trade-unions. The aggressors and the ones who watched in
silence will be held accountable by history and the people. 

Mayday was spilled with blood but they couldn't prevent a
revolutionary Mayday. The people resisted against the police and the
MHP-fascists. Mayday 1998 was celebrated in determination to the
martyrs of Mayday 1977, 1989 and 1996. 

We, in the name of the European Representation of the Revolutionary
Peoples Liberation Front (DHKC) appeal to every honest and proud to
everybody who defends Mayday, who reacts against fascist attack and
who do not want the blood of his people to be spilled, to protest
against this attack and to engage for the arrested and wounded.

Long live Mayday!

May 1, 1998
DHKC
Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Front
European Representation

-- 
Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Front)
DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam
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