Revolution in Turkey and the recent developments

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Note: MGK=National Security Council

Kurtulus No 81 16. 5. 1998

Taken from the series "Let's unite, let's fight, let's win"

Our truths and our duties

On the First of May there were two plans, two wills were in
conflict. The plans of the MGK and the plans of the revolutionaries.
The places where the MGK's people demonstrated involved the pro-MGK
trade unionists accepting all the initiatives and support of the
police as part of the MGK's will. They were a part of the MGK's plans.
The MGK trade unionists were required to be in those places.  Members
of the CHP and the IP were required to be in those places.

However, there were the others... It is necessary to enquire about the
places where they were.

By itself, it is not a matter of "the places where they were".  While
forces were attacking the revolutionaries, in the other place nothing
was done and they continued to dance their halays.  It is a matter of
the culture of revolutionaries and the united people's forces.

This is a matter of being shoulder to shoulder against the enemy, a
culture of solidarity against the enemy.
This state of mind cannot be created through decisions: for a
revolutionary, for a socialist, for progressives and patriots it is a
natural characteristic.
While the enemy is attacking, if there is a state of mind of not
feeling the whish to stand to the side of the attacked, then this
should be questioned.  Thereis a definite tendency to distance oneself
from revolutionism, progressiveness and socialism.

The funeral ceremony of Ahmet Özdemir, one of the revolutionaries who
was exposed to the wild attack of the police on the First of May was
held in Gazi. As usual, no reformist party took part.
 So, what was the profile of your solidarity? You even put the word in
your party's name. So, what is the profile of your unity?
The ones who do not even take part in funerals can not talk about
unity and solidarity. The ones who are present at soldiers' funerals
were not present at the funeral of a May Day martyr.

It is necessary to ask them the question, which side are they on.
Yes, everybody must be asked about his place.  And that before time is
late.

The contra-guerrilla state wants to make four people of the Front
disappear.  There can not be a better indicater for the fact that the
Susurluk state is continuing and even increasing his terror against
the people and the revolutionaries.

No section of the reformists has raised its voice. The intellectuals
have remained silent. From the progresive and democratic camp and the
trade unions there has been silence. Why? Because the attacked are
people of the Front.

Okay, will the attack stay limited to the Front?

Everybody, in periods of rise in the amount of repression and terror
has experienced and learned the answer.

But the lesson has not been understood.

Those who keep on telliong the story about the ones who remained
silent towards Hitler fascism while they came for the Jews and the
communists found that there was no remedy when they, the "democrats",
were attacked, do not realise it is their own history.

All these democratic associations, let alone the democratic
associations allmoust all the political movements of Turkey's left -
did they not see the executions and disappearances directed against
Devrimci Sol since the beginning of the 1990s allways as something not
connected to themselves?  Yes, the ones that are trying to make four
people of the Front disappear, immediately afterwards again attacked
relatives of the disappeared who were carrying out an action.

The fascists in Bolu, in Istanbul, in Adana committed murders one
after the other.

The last target of the contra-guerrillas was Akin Birdal.  Actually it
is very open: the ones who are the targets of the attacks by the
Susurluk state have to unite.

In Bolu, Kenan Mak who was killed by the fascists was a member of
HADEP.  In Adana, the persons killed in an attack by the fascists were
members of EMEP.

Akin Birdal is a defender of human rights.

All these attacks were directed and organised by the MGK headquarters.
And HADEP, EMEP, IHD afterwards were part of the MGK's plans on May
Day.  This is were the contradiction lies.
There is no sense of talking about unitiy and solidarity without
having any exprecion in practice.

Unity and solidarity is to be side by side against the attacks of the
enemy on the arena of 1st May, to be made possible.

Unity, solidarity is defending the trenches of the relatives of the
disappeared together.

Unity, solidarity is to lay claim to the revolutionaries they want to
make disappear.

Unity, solidarity is to be able to paricipate together at the funeral
of the martyrs of May Day.

Unity and solidarity is to resist together against attacks by civil
fascist bands and contra-guerrillas on all revolutionary, progressive,
patriotic and democratic sections.

With other words like we always have said and will say, the place to
fullfill solidarity is life itself, is the field of struggle.  All the
words of those who do not stand side by side her, who can not stay
side by side here are empty.

The ones who only want unity in "elections", who only talk about a
unity with regard to peace, who only want unity to have their names to
be heard, they do not secure the unity of the people against fascism.

Fascism directs attacks in all areas of life, on every section of the
people , attacking all sections of the revolutionaries without regard
for political affiliation, patriots and democrats, using every form of
terror.  Giving unity a content has to be appropriate to this.

The MGK is attacking with police, genadarmes and special units. It is
attacking with civil fascist bands. It is attacking by means of the
trade unions. It is attacking by means of the system parties.

The struggle has to be directed against the oligarchy and all forces
which directly or indirectly try to surround the revolutionaries and
destroy them . The people'sstruggle will develop in this way.  Without
saying this atack is on me or on them, against all attacks coming from
MGK headquarters one must stand firm. Without hesitating we have to
develope the forms struggle that can block those attacks.

The ones who look out without acting to the attacks of the MGK or the
people under the sway of the MGK against the revolutionaries or even
hope that these attacks might open the field for them must not forget
to look into what happened to "democrats" under Hitler fascism.
The ones who stay silent about attacks on revolutionaries must not
forget the same end is in store for them. Perhaps the forces of the
MGK will open the way for them temporally. But this is only within the
framework of making the revolutionary movement retreat.
At the point when this has been achieved, there will not be a need for
reformists any more.
The reality of class struggle is thus clear and definite. This period
has been experienced in dozens of countries, in dozens of times.

The Front lays bare all our conditions, all our truths. 

The Front places the things that have to be done together or seperated
as clear politics or proposels in front of everybody and continues the
struggle on this realitiy.

Without seeing our reality, or history with its positive and negative
sides, the right way can not be found.

The ones who know how to learn from history and from the truths of our
country will continue and develop the struggle as the real representatives
and defenders of the peoples. 

-- 
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