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From theorganizer at labornet.org  Mon Apr 12 16:46:27 1999
From: theorganizer at labornet.org (theorganizer at labornet.org)
Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:46:27
Subject: BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL ON AFRICA
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BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL ON AFRICA

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[please re-post and distribute widely. Excuse all duplicate
postings. This posting was distributed initially by the International 
Liaison Committee for a Workers' International (ILC), which is an endorser
of the Open World Conference of the Year 2000. For more information 
about the International Tribunal on Africa or the International Liaison 
Committee for a Workers' International (ILC), please send an email 
message to ILC at <theorganizer at igc.org> or write to P.O. BOX 40009,
San Francisco, CA 94140. Tel. (510) 234-6442. As you will read in the
pieces below, a U.S. tour of African trade unionists is being planned
for late spring or early summer 1999. Please let the ILC know if you
are interested in helping to build this U.S. tour.]

+++

In this message:

(1) Introduction by Ralph Schoenman, who participated in the Preparatory 
Meeting of the Africa Tribunal which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa
on February 27-28, 1999.

(2) Open Letter to African Americans and All Working People in the United
States (concerning the two trade bills in the U.S. Congress concerning
the African continent)

(3) Final Resolution of the Preparatory Meeting of the International
Tribunal on Africa (Johannesburg, February 28, 1999)

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(1) INTRODUCTION


By Ralph Schoenman

One year ago in Bingerville, Ivory Coast, a conference was organized jointly by 
the Gas and Electrical Workers? Federation (SYNASEG) of Ivory Coast and the 
International Liaison Committee for a Workers? International (ILC) to discuss 
the necessity for an International Tribunal to Judge Those Responsible for the 
Murderous Course Imposed on the Workers and Peoples of Africa.

Following one year of discussions with trade unions and mass organizations on 
the continent of Africa, the ILC, on behalf of affiliated unions and organizations 
in 92 countries, supported the initiative of African trade union federations to hold 
a Preparatory Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa. Leaders of the Black 
movement in Brazil and worker activists from the United States, Europe and 
from political parties and mass organizations in Africa joined in the preparatory 
work in Johannesburg of the International Tribunal on Africa. 

The Preparatory Conference was hosted by the Socialist Party of Azania, whose 
15 delegates took responsibility for organizing the multiple tasks of the 
Conference, including extensive meetings with television, radio and print media.

For two days, 60 delegates brought documents and provided testimony addressing 
the devastating impact on the peoples of the continent of Africa of the policies 
of structural adjustment, austerity and the destruction of social services imposed 
by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

Epidemic disease, the destruction of any systemized provision of health care, the 
rapid pauperization of tens of millions of people and the calculated promotion of 
internecine violence and war have created a virtual holocaust of famine, mass 
migration, besieged refugee populations and a generalized augmentation of Aids, 
Ebola and systemic diseases. Up to 40 million people are expected to die.

Noting that over US$30 billion annually service a debt to the banks and 
corporations which have seized the natural wealth of the continent, the delegates 
reported on the impact of these policies: life expectancy on the continent has 
decreased by 20 years and over 4 million children die annually from treatable 
diseases such as measles, diarrhea and malaria.

The Preparatory Conference examined carefully two legislative proposals in the 
United States concerning the African continent: the Africa Trade and 
Development Act (also called the "NAFTA for Africa Bill") and the Hope for 
Africa Act, introduced by Jesse Jackson, Jr. Following the discussion, the 
conference delegates issued an "Open Letter to African Americans and All 
Working People in the United States" in which they expressed their views and 
concerns about both these bills. [See Open Letter below.]

Extensively covered by radio and television in South Africa, the Press 
Conference concluding the conference was the lead television story. News and 
television reports were continuous in Xhosa, Sutho, Zulu, English and 
Afrikaans.

An important feature of the Johannesburg meeting was the unanimous adoption 
of a resolution based on the call of the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia 
Abu-Jamal ? a resolution that was endorsed by the ILC and its international 
affiliates. The trade union delegates and representatives of political organizations, 
ranging from the Peoples? Convention Party of Ghana to the Socialist Party of 
Azania, undertook to call upon their organizations to prepare rallies, meetings, 
and mobilizations in defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Trade Union delegates will prepare vigils and communiqu?s directed to their 
respective U.S. Embassies calling for a new trial and for the freedom of Mumia.

The Sowetan, which has a circulation of close to two million, has scheduled  
feature stories on the international campaign to free Mumia and the special 
responsibility of African movements against apartheid and injustice to mobilize 
in his defense. 

Trade Union delegates from Azania, Swaziland, Comoros, Mozambique, 
Rwanda, Burundi, Niger, Benin, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana and 
Algeria undertook to coordinate their efforts with U.S. participants in the work 
of the Africa Tribunal through the Labor Action Committee to Free Mumia 
Abu-Jamal. 
	
The decision was taken to send a delegation from the Africa Tribunal Preparatory 
Committee to the United States to meet African-American and worker activists 
for the purpose of collaborating in the work of the Tribunal and in concrete 
actions in Africa to build mass action in defense of Mumia Abu-Jamal.

---

[Ralph Schoenman is the past executive director of the Bertrand Russell Peace
Foundation. He is currently the U.S. representative of the Paris-based 
International Committee Against Repression. He is the author of numerous
books, including "Hidden History of Zionism" and "Iraq: Kuwait: A History
Suppressed." He is a regular contributor to The Organizer newspaper.]


*****

(2) OPEN LETTER TO AFRICAN AMERICANS AND ALL WORKING PEOPLE 
    IN THE UNITED STATES

28 February 1999

Note: Activists and trade union delegates from throughout Africa, 
joined by participants from Europe, the U.S. and Brazil, conferred 
recently for three days in Johannesburg, South Africa at the 
Preparatory Conference of the International Tribunal to judge those 
responsible for the murderous course which menaces the very existence 
of the peoples of Africa. The delegates issued the following statement: 


We, the sponsors and organizers of the Africa Tribunal, have 
examined legislative proposals in the United States concerning the 
African continent concerning the African continent.

We note that The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (HR434), 
called "The NAFTA for Africa Bill," has re-emerged as "The Africa 
Trade and Development Act."

This Act requires African nations to submit to the economic and 
political dictates of the International Monetary Fund. Under the Act, 
before any investment can occur in an African country, its 
government must be certified annually by the United States 
President.

The requirements for certification are full compliance with United 
States-designed economic measures which go beyond those 
imposed by the IMF in Russia, Latin America and Asia, with 
catastrophic results.

To qualify, every government on the African continent must:

_ Reduce dramatically all taxes on corporations, foreign or 
domestic;
_ Undertake immediate, sweeping privatization of public assets 
and public services ? whether in transportation, communication, 
medical care or major industry;
_ Open up most areas of the economy to ownership and control by 
foreign conglomerates;
_ Permit unrestricted access of foreign corporations to natural 
resources, including agriculture, land and minerals;
_ Adopt agricultural policies that replace food production with 
cash crops sought by foreign corporations for the commodities 
market.
 
 When NAFTA was first proposed, the Clinton administration 
presented it as an Act designed to expand the economies of the 
United States, Canada and Mexico based on unrestricted "trade" and 
a market economy.
 
 We may judge the results:
 
 In but five years, over a half-million jobs have been lost in the 
United States and nearly one million jobs have disappeared in 
Mexico. Temporary and part-time work in the United States 
accounts for over 50 percent of employment ? without benefits or 
pensions.
 
 Wages in Mexico have fallen by 50 percent and the peasant 
cooperatives ? the "ejidos" ? a principal gain of the Mexican 
revolution ? have been eliminated, driving millions of peasants into 
the cities as a desperate reserve army of labor. The system of 
Maquiladoras and "free trade zones" have spread throughout 
Mexico, where the formation of independent trade unions is a matter 
of life and death and where the labor laws of Mexico are not 
enforced.
 
 We are aware that President Clinton?s proposal produced 
widespread opposition among trade unionists and Black activists. 
We know that workers in the United States and especially African 
American activists reject these plans to plunder and oppress the 
people of Africa.
 
 We have learned that other legislation has been prepared which has 
been presented as a humane alternative, "The Hope for Africa Act."
 
 In this document we read that the Act refers to "comprehensive 
cancellation of the debt," a position with which, of course, we 
agree. Over 20 percent of African GNP services the debt ? a debt 
already repaid many times over. Compound interest weighs down 
every country with even greater obligation than that already repaid.
 
 Upon reading further, however, we see in the same document, "The 
Hope for Africa Act," that the phrase "debt relief" replaces that of 
"cancellation of debt." In addition, future debt payments are not to 
be cancelled but are allowed to reach five percent annually of export 
earnings.
 
 Other parts of the Act refer to "a transition through debt relief," a 
clear retreat from the promise of "cancellation." The issue is thus 
posed: "debt relief" or "reduction" is not the same as "cancellation." 
In fact, "debt relief" means that the debt will continue.
 
 Let us look further: In promoting the Act, Congressman Jesse 
Jackson Jr. cites favorably President Clinton?s State of the Union 
Address calling for a "fairer trading system for the twenty-first 
century and for common ground on which business, workers, 
environmentalists, farmers and governments can stand together."
 
 We ask, however, if the call for corporations and workers to share 
common ground is not precisely the corporatist agenda embodied in 
NAFTA?
 
 Trade unions are expected to assume responsibility for corporate 
profit and to participate in the assault upon worker living standards.
 
 In essence, the independence of trade unions is to be compromised 
fatally as they are called upon to police workers on behalf of the 
bosses, dissolving the ability of workers to defend their wages, 
benefits and all the gains of past struggles.
 
 We believe this becomes very clear when we see that "The Hope for 
Africa Act" allocates responsibility for investment in Africa to the 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation of the United States 
government and to the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. Treasury.
 
 These two institutions subsidize U.S. corporations and their 
investments overseas. We must further note that "The Hope for 
Africa Act" calls for "Decisional Boards" governing investment in 
Africa which "shall have majority private sector membership."
 
 In short, corporations will determine how, where and when funds 
are invested.
 
 The Act also dictates that all U.S. funds must be "dispensed through 
non-governmental organizations in each nation in consultation with a 
broad spectrum of African civil society."
 
 The responsibilities of NGOs and African civil society in each 
African country include:
_ Educational systems
_ Healthcare
_ AIDS prevention and treatment
_ Democratization
_ Food Security
_ Environmental measures
_ Social, political and economic status of women

We raise the following concerns:

NGOs are responsible to no one. They are unelected and need not 
even originate in the African country over which they exercise such 
major social, economic and political hegemony.

In essence, the Act replaces the governments of Africa with NGOs 
from afar and with "civil society" at home with respect to major 
social, economic and political decisions.

What is left to governments is the right to police and subjugate their 
people. Civil society becomes a euphemism for control of social 
policy by private organizations, unelected and outside the control of 
the people over whom they exercise this power.

Virtually all NGOs are private groups and those organizations 
comprising civil society are invariably funded by large private 
sources. This means that Africa?s peoples are unable to enjoy 
democracy and the right to make their own decisions concerning the 
future of society. None of us ? African trade unionists and activists 
? can accept this, even as we are convinced that none among you 
would agree either.

We also should like to point out that the Act allows foreign 
corporations to "operate with the same labor and environment 
standards as they do in their home countries."

The Act refers to "core ILO standards." This term is a retreat from 
the original ILO codes that ban child labor, protect job security and 
guarantee the right to independent trade union representation ? none 
of which exists in the United States.

The Act designates OPIC and USAID to oversee investments, but 
these agencies work under the guidance of U.S. corporations in 
deciding whether projects should be funded.

Sixty-one private NGOs in Africa, who aspire to assume 
responsibility for funding social and public service, support the Act.

The death of missions of children in Africa from epidemic disease 
and lack of basic medication is a social responsibility, divorced 
under the Act from governments and assigned to private 
organizations.

AIDS and Ebola, which have claimed as many as 40 million people, 
represent a vast tragedy whose presumptive remedy is put in the 
hands of NGOs answerable to the U.S. "private sector."

For us these principles are inviolable:

1. Absolute cancellation of the debt.
 
2. Outright rejection of all plans for structural adjustment.
 
3. Opposition to all schemes for privatization.
 
4. Respect for the principle of the right of all peoples and nations 
to exercise full control over their destinies.
 
5. Immediate removal of all foreign military bases from the 
continent of Africa, noting that these bases serve as organizing 
centers and launching points for repression and for preserving 
oppressive regimes subservient to international finance capital.

We join here in the demand posed by broad sectors of African, 
African American and international workers? organizations for 
reparations. Reparations can only begin to mitigate the devastating 
consequences of centuries of slavery, plunder of natural resources 
and massive exploitation of human labor.

The political, economic and social system responsible for these 
policies and acts which have led to the death and misery of hundreds 
of millions of people must be held accountable for the human 
suffering its has caused.

We know that many sincere people are seeking how best to remedy 
the suffering of vast millions on the African continent. It is precisely 
to address this tragedy that the Africa Tribunal has been convened. 
We ask you to join us in uncovering what has occurred, why it is 
happening, who is responsible and how this painful reality may be 
transformed.

Neither the people of Africa nor any government that purports to 
represent them is allowed any significant control by the two Acts 
before Congress with regard to life and death matters for the 
continent of Africa. Please join with us in seeking the truth about 
which policies have produced exploitation and subjugation of entire 
peoples on this suffering continent.

This is why we consider it essential to meet face to face and to 
discuss these compelling issues with African American workers and 
activists, and with the labor movement. We seek to involve you in 
support of the African people in their determined struggle for a better 
life.

The Continuations Committee of this Preparatory Session of the 
Africa Tribunal has decided to send a delegation to the United States 
to meet all those interested and to open a discussion on these issues.

We urge you to join us in this essential work of preparation for the 
International Tribunal on Africa and look forward to hearing from 
you regarding it.

Signed by more than 60 delegates including:

24 members of the Socialist Party of Azania including its president, 
Lybon Mbasa; Jane Duncan Salim Vally, Workers Organization for 
Socialist Action (WOSA); Hassen Lorgut, Workers? Library and 
Museum, Johannesburg; Zsan Senan, SYNASFG, Benin; Claude 
Quenum, SG/UNACOB/CSTB, Benin; Jeff Rampou, MEGWU; 
Reg Feldman and Barrie Barrow, New Unity Movement; Richard 
Tiendrebeogo and Gaston Azova, CGT Burkina Faso; Paul 
Nkunzisana, F.O.R.T.R.A. Burundi; ); Boinaidi Abdul el 
Ghaniyou, National Union of Professors, Comoros Islands; Zran 
Senan, SYNASFG, Ivory Coast; Vicente Vilaninfo, Mozambique; 
Sidibe Assane, Federation of Workers Unions, Niger; Jean Marie 
Vianney Nzarakurana, Oppressed People?s Organizations Network, 
Rwanda; Kote Abou, trade unionist, Senegal; Norbert Gbikpi 
Benissan, National Union of Independent Trade Unions of Togo 
(UNSIT); Esther Woode, Zimbabwe; Francois Grandazzi, general 
secretary, CGT-FO France; Daniel Gluckstein, coordinator, 
International Liaison Ctte for a Workers International (ILC); Ralph 
Schoenman, ILC-United States who had been the secretary general 
of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on U.S. War Crimes in Indo-China 
and a president of the International Tribunal on the Debt; Mathari 
Annegret, Committee to Support the Africa Tribunal, Switzerland; 
three delegates from Brazil (Bahia, Porto Allegre and Rio de 
Janiero) 

*****

(3) Preparatory Committee on the International Tribunal on Africa

FINAL RESOLUTION
Sunday, February 28,1999
Johannesburg


A preparatory meeting for the International Tribunal on Africa was 
held in Johannesburg on February 27 and 28. This meeting was 
organised by the Socialist Party of Azania, trade union leaders from 
Azania (South Africa) and the International Liaison Committee. 
Trade unionists and political activists from other African countries, 
from North and South America and Europe also participated.

These delegates, along with others who could not attend, brought 
documents and gave testimonies which affirmed that the survival of 
the peoples of Africa is at stake. Recent surveys by the World 
Health Organisation (WHO) and the United Nations Development 
Programme (UNDP) show that, as a result of the spread of diseases 
and epidemics, destitution and starvation, life expectancy in Africa 
has been reduced by 20 years within the last few years.

The wars, massacres and genocides, engulfing a constantly growing 
number of African countries have exacerbated the already intolerable 
situation A backward movement - most probably unprecedented in 
the history of humankind - is taking place on the continent that had 
already been ravaged by the successive scourges of slavery and 
colonialism.

The testimonies and documents gathered by the preparatory 
conference established the fact that the imposition of structural 
adjustment programmes (SAPs) by the World Bank and 
International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the early eighties, to facilitate 
the payment of the external debt, are responsible for this deplorable 
situation.

Every year 30 billion dollars, which could have met the urgent needs 
of the African people, are siphoned from the continent to pay and 
service the debt which, in most cases, were granted to notoriously 
corrupt and anti-democratic governments.

It was established that a small fraction of the amount spent on debt 
servicing and payments could provide the cure for diseases 
(measles, malaria, diarrhoea) which affect children mostly, with low 
cost medicines and vaccines, and prevent the death of more than 
four million African children yearly.

In spite of the fact that AIDS is assuming epidemic proportions, the 
peoples of Africa are being denied access to cures which have 
proved efficient in the treatment of AIDS on account of the payments 
and servicing of the debt. Continuing internecine violence and wars, 
which lead to forced migrations and an increase in the refugee 
population, exacerbates the spread of AIDS.

In addition to the external debt, African governments have 
accumulated huge internal debts owned to monopoly capital and 
which acts as a break on the national development effort and 
undermines the sovereignty of the people.

As a result of the imposition of the structural adjustment 
programmes by the World Bank and IMF, African states spend ten 
times more on the payment of the debt, than on health budgets at a 
time when men, women and children are dying in their millions 
from curable diseases.

Testimonies and documents brought by delegates to the 
Johannesburg preparatory meeting also established that privatisation 
inevitably leads to the outbreak of war through social dislocation and 
the economic deprivation of the African people.

The transfer of the control of national resources to multinational 
corporations engenders tensions leading to the setting up of armed 
groups and the hiring of mercenaries by the big corporations to 
maintain their hold on the national wealth.

Numerous testimonies and documents that will be published as an 
annex to this appeal affirmed that we are confronted by policies 
which unhesitatingly sacrifice the peoples of Africa to the financial 
interests of multi-national corporations, stock markets and other 
international financial institutions.

On the basis of the testimonies and documents gathered we insist 
that the right of the peoples of Africa to life be urgently asserted; we 
demand that those responsible for the deteriorating social, economic 
and political conditions on the continent must be brought to justice.

To this end, we pledge to take all measures necessary to convene the 
International Tribunal on Africa and constitute ourselves into a 
Preparatory Committee for the trial of those responsible for the 
worsening situation in Africa.

We propose that the Tribunal be held at the beginning of the year 
2000 ? the date and venue will be decided at a later date, after 
further consultations with our partners and other supporters. The 
first task of the committee will be to publish the testimonies 
presented at this conference as well as those that have been sent 
from countries from where delegations could not come to 
Johannesburg.

This meeting identified public figures and personalities, known for 
their dedication to the defence of the rights of the people who could 
be invited to serve on the jury. A final list of members of the jury 
will be announced after the personalities have been contacted.

The delegates pledged to give the widest possible publicity to the 
existence of the Tribunal. n this connection, it took cognisance of 
the fact that the International Open World Conference will be held in 
San Francisco in the year 2000 at the initiative of American trade 
unions and the ILC. That conference which is being convened in 
defence of the independence of trade unions and for democratic 
rights provides a unique opportunity for publicising the work on the 
Tribunal.

We fully support the convening of the conference and urge its 
organisers to assist us to give extensive publicity to the work of the 
International Tribunal on Africa.

Considering the role of the United States in the imposition of the 
dictate of the World Bank and the IMF on African countries, the 
meeting decided to organise a tour of the United States by a 
delegation of the Preparatory Committee to seek the fraternal support 
of organisations in the United States which have already declared 
support for the establishment of the Tribunal.

Conscious of the devastating effects of slavery, colonialism and 
neo-colonialism on the African peoples, the meeting endorsed calls 
for reparation for the African people in respect of crimes committed 
against them by the imperialist countries.

The meeting also called for the dismantling of all foreign military 
bases on the continent of Africa.

Endorsed by all delegates 
to the Preparatory Conference 
for the International Tribunal on Africa.

****

ANNEX TO FINAL DECLARATION

Growing evidence has come to light, through the meticulous work 
of distinguished scientists and public health specialists in the United 
States, indicating that the world's most feared and deadly viruses, 
specifically HIV and Esbola, were deliberate laboratory creations.

Dr. Leonard Horowitz, in his book Emerging Viruses, synthesises 
evidence concerning the role of the U.S. government and its 
intelligence agencies in fomenting the exposure of entire populations 
in Africa to viral disease.

Evidence has been published reflecting painstaking research which 
exposes social policies of population control" implemented through 
the intentional transmission of the most deadly viruses ? all created 
in government funded laboratories ? via tainted hepatitis, polio and 
small vaccines in Africa and the United States.

Dr. Maurice Hillman, the U.S. Army's chief vaccine developer and 
the official in charge of this work at Mercke, Sharp and Dohme 
Pharmaceutical  Corporation, has admitted to infiltrating the Aids 
virus into vaccines produced for widespread public use.

We note that Dr. Robert Callo, co-discoverer of the Aids virus, 
worked under the auspices of the National Cancer Institute in a 
classified "special virus cancer program.

We mark our grave concern over documentation that Hazleton 
Research Laboratories and Litton Bionetics, the Medical division of 
the major military contractor, Litton Industries, were not only 
among the major U.S. biological weapons contractors, but now 
acknowledge that viral vaccine "experiments' were carried out in 
central Africa and in New York City.

We take grave notice of the evidence that over 750,000 square miles 
of Zaire were leased secretly from former President Joseph Mobutu 
with over one million people in that leased area subjected to these 
experiments.

A global epidemic involving Aids and Ebola has reached genocidal 
proportions. the very fabric of society has been torn asunder in 
Africa and the immensity of the scale of human suffering has only 
begun to be measured.

In South Africa alone there are nine million fewer people because of 
the impact of Aids. In country and after country the toll on youth is 
destroying entire generations.

The International Tribunal on Africa will undertake an exhaustive 
inquiry into this alarming body of data and assemble the full facts 
concerning the sudden and widespread occurrence of deadly viral 
disease in the African continent and beyond.









From ozgurluk at xs4all.nl  Wed Apr 14 11:54:41 1999
From: ozgurluk at xs4all.nl (ozgurluk at xs4all.nl)
Date: 14 Apr 1999 11:54:41
Subject: Resistance To The MHP And Police In Kucuk Armutlu
Message-ID: <bac1c849.m3hfqj10s3.fsf@big.home.ozgurluk>



"Kucuk Armutlu Will Be The Grave Of Fascism!"

Kucuk Armutlu, March 30, 1999: At around 5:30pm, an election
convoy of the fascist MHP (Nationalist Action Party), guarded by
police, arrived in Kucuk Armutlu. About 30 people in a nearby
cafe became aware of the convoy and they went out to confront it,
while others warned local residents of what was happening. The
people were shocked and angry. Many of them asked: "How can these
fascists try to come into Kucuk Armutlu?" They grabbed spades and
shovels and decided to resist the convoy. The "old men" of the
neighborhood, who knew of the fascists from the massacres in
Corum and Maras, told them that they may not enter the area, and
if they did, "some of your ranks will die!"
     After the MHP convoy drove off, more than 300 people threw
stones at it. They vowed that the fascists would never enter
their neighborhood. The 700 or so fascists on the other hand,
faced with the anger and resistance of the people, opened fire
indiscriminately on the people, old and young, men and women.
They insulted the people of Kucuk Armutlu and flashed the "Grey
Wolves" handsign. But the people, who know the spirit of
revolution, remained determined and expressed their anger with
the following words: "This is the Front's territory! How dare you
come here!" Due to the determined resistance of the people, the
fascists fled.
     Shortly thereafter the police raided Kucuk Armutlu in order
to arrest four people. The people of the neighborhood gathered in
front of the ISHAK Cultural Center and shouted slogans like
"Kucuk Armutlu Will Be The Grave Of Fascism!" and "Down With
Fascism, Long Live Our Struggle!", vowing that fascists would
never enter this neighborhood, which was built by
revolutionaries. The police were forced to retreat and to release
the four arrested comrades when the people steadfastly refused to
disperse.
     All night long, the people of Kucuk Armutlu kept guard over
all roads into the neighborhood, in order to protect themselves
against possible attacks by fascists or police. The state had
tried, with the help of its civil fascist allies, to provoke the
people of Kucuk Armutlu. But they did not succeed. No election
convoy, be it from the DYP (True Path Party), the CHP (Republican
People's Party), the DSP (Democratic Left Party), or the ANAP
(Motherland Party), may enter this neighborhood built by
revolutionaries, or any other workers' neighborhood. As soon as
one tries to enter, they are confronted with the anger and stiff
resistance of the people.

Kurtulus: http://www.ozgurluk.org/kurtulus

(Translated by Arm The Spirit from 'Kurtulus' #24 - April 2,
1999)



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From ozgurluk at xs4all.nl  Sat Apr 17 06:45:17 1999
From: ozgurluk at xs4all.nl (ozgurluk at xs4all.nl)
Date: 17 Apr 1999 06:45:17
Subject: Ozgurluk website attacked
Message-ID: <bac1c849.m3ogkne280.fsf@big.home.ozgurluk>

Today we received an email from internic that stated that we are no
longer owner/contactperson etc. from our domain.

Somebody presenting itself as our contactperson for internic send
false information about contactperson, DNS servers etc.

We have informed internic about this by mailing to
help at networksolutions.com and are currently waiting for their
response. We also warned the hostmaster form the domain that has been
given as primary and secundary DNS-server. We are waiting for their
response.

a dig at the named nameserver (HYPERMART.NET) for ozgurluk.org gives 0 
records.

If you want to visit our site and are having problems finding the site 
because of DNS-errors point your browser at http://194.109.9.98

It is obvious that the people behind this attack can't stand the
information presented at our website. 

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From escape6 at hotmail.com  Mon Apr 19 13:38:33 1999
From: escape6 at hotmail.com (escape6 at hotmail.com)
Date: 19 Apr 1999 13:38:33
Subject: Anti-war discussion group & bulletin - London
Message-ID: <bac1c849.371C0484.26BD@hotmail.com>

Dear comrade,
A 'No war but the class war' discussion group has been set up in London.
These meetings include people from different political backgrounds,
anarchist, Trotskyist, libertarian Marxist etc., who oppose NATO
intervention but want to maintain a socialist or working class
perspective.

Those on the left who have not gone along with Blair's 'humanitarian'
war still often have illusions in either the UN, Serb nationalism or
Kosovan nationalism. On the other hand simply calling for 'working class
unity' is clearly insufficient at a time of so much suffering. There are
no easy answers, but the attacks on Serbia and Iraq are paving the way
for more wars in the 21st century. It is only through open-minded
discussion that we can develop new ideas relevant for the present
period.

The 'No war but the class war' discussion meetings will continue while
the war continues, every <b>Wednesday at 7.30pm, Conway Hall, Red Lion
Square, London WC1, Holborn tube </b>(e-mail: escape6 at hotmail.com to
confirm this from May). All are welcome - except people who just want to
come to push their party line (sorry, but this is necessary to keep the
discussion comradely and constructive).
<html>
A discussion bulletin with a variety of views has been published
available from Escape c/o PO Box 2474, London N8 OHW. One of the
articles on Yugoslavia: <A
HREF="http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/guest/radical/YUGO.HTM">A century of
war</A> will be available on the net shortly at:
http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/guest/radical/YUGO.HTM. Critical letters,
short articles and financial donations are very welcome for future
editions of the bulletin - (cheques payable to 'Haringey Solidarity
Group'). Send them to: escape6 at hotmail.com .

Please pass this e-mail on to others.


Thanks,

<p>There are interesting articles on the Yugoslavian civil war in:<p>
 
 <A HREF="http://www.webcom.com/wildcat/SUBSPAGE.html">Wildcat</A>
No.18, Yugoslavia: from wage cuts to war<p>
<A HREF="http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/guest/radical/ESBOSNIA.HTM">Bosnia
and the poison of nationalism</A><p> 
<A
HREF="http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~spoons/aut_html/Aufheben/yugo.html">Aufheben</A>
No.2 , Yugoslavia unravelled<p>

Check <A 
HREF="http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/guest/radical/LINKS.HTM">HERE</A> for
other interesting publications.


From ozgurluk at xs4all.nl  Sat Apr 24 04:43:59 1999
From: ozgurluk at xs4all.nl (ozgurluk at xs4all.nl)
Date: 24 Apr 1999 04:43:59
Subject: DHKC Declaration 84:
Message-ID: <bac1c849.m3aevyjik1.fsf@big.home.ozgurluk>

DEVRIMCI HALK 
KURTULUS CEPHESI

Press Office
Date: April 19, 1999			Declaration: 84

WE COMMEMORATED OUR MARTYRS BETWEEN MARCH 30 AND APRIL 17, 
WE PROTESTED AGAINST FASCISM'S ELECTORAL GAME

For that purpose,

1-WE ENTERED THE CENTRE OF KOMILI AFTER THE SABANCI CENTRE

The collaborator trusts and their state were too afraid after we entered the
Sabanci Center and punished the betrayers. They expressed their fear in
these words: "They are going to come from the shanty towns and cut our
throats one day." Because of  fear, neither the American trusts nor their
protectors could ever forget this action of the fighters of  DHKC. The
surrender of a traitor and the speculation which followed from it could not
alter this fact, and the fear of the trusts continued to grow. We will
continue to keep their fear alive. On April 8, 1999, we placed a bomb in the
Kabatas centre of Halis Komili, one of the old presidents of TUSIAD (The
Society of Turkish Industrialists and Businessmen).  
After the raid we made on the Sabanci Center, these betrayers of the
motherland, who are the colaborators of  Imperialism, put the security
system of their centres in the hands of the Americans and Israelis. Halis
Komili is one of them.  He wanted to escape revolutionary justice using the
most advanced technology from America and Israel. No technology can be
superior to the revolutionary will. And no technology can prevent the
carrying out of revolutionary justice. Overcoming all of these obstacles, on
April 8, 1999, we placed a time-controlled bomb in the department of the
Komili Centre where Halis Komili himself and other senior managers stayed.
The police, which is the protector of the trusts, wanted to keep this action
a secret in order to cover up their weakness. They even wanted to hide this
fact  from the colaborator trusts. However, their fear was very great. The
trusts made a great effort to learn the truth. This is how the truth was
made public, even though only to a limited extent. This is how afraid
enemies of the people are of an unexploded bomb. The bomb did not explode
due to a technical fault, however we entered the Komili Centre overcoming
all the American and Israeli security precautions.  

2-EYUP MAIN BRANCH OF TEMSA  WAS BOMBED ON APRIL 10, 1999.
The main distribution centre of Mitsubishi, TEMSA, the owners of which are
the colaborator trusts, was bombed by our fighters.

3-DYP KAGITHANE BUILDING WAS RAIDED ON APRIL 13, 1999 AND A BOMB WAS PLACED
INSIDE.
Our fighters raided the Kagithane centre of the DYP (True Path Party), a
party which is trying to live by massacring revolutionaries and through
oppression and cruelty. Our fighters wrote slogans such as "The Martyrs of
the Revolution are Immmortal, Adalet Yildirim is Immortal, We Will Not Allow
the Pro-System Parties To Deceive the People" on the walls of the centre,
then placed a bomb and left successfully. Our comrade Adalet Yildirim also
died at this place, on June 22, 1996, during a raid which was carried out to
support the resistance of the captives in the prisons.

4-ARMED ATTACK ON A POLICE VEHICLE ON THE ALIBEYKOY-EYUP ROAD.
On the night of April 14, around 11 o'clock p.m., our guerrillas carried out
an armed attack on a police minibus which was going along the Eyup road, and
destroyed the minibus. Even though thousands of  police surrounded the
district and raided hundreds of houses and terrorised the area, they could
not get any result.  

5-ATTACK ON A MILITARY UNIT CARRYING A ELECTORAL BALLOT BOX IN THE HAFIK
URBAN REGION OF SIVAS.

On April 18, 1999, an attack was made on a military unit, using two armoured
vehicles and two personnel vehicles, which came to the SARAY place of the
KIZILOREN village of HAFIK for the elections. This attack, during which
rockets, bombs, and guns were used, was made to commemorate ourmartyrs and
protest against the election game. Two soldiers named as Davut Gundogdu and
Hasan Yilmaz died during the attack while many others were injured. 
Moreover, one of the vehicles was burned completely and another was rendered
useless, and the enemy had to carry away its dead and injured by helicopter.
As well as these, it is said that two other people connected the elections
died while two more were injured. These people were not among our targets.
But, if they were in the military vehicles, they became targets against our
will. Our fighters successfully carried out the attack and left the area.
But the  enemy surrounded the villages in the region and arrested hundreds
of villagers.  
We are warning our people: do not take part in the oppresion and cruel
manoeuvres of the state, do not get into police and military vehicles. Do
not behave in a way that makes you a partner of the cruelty of the state.
To commemorate our March 30-April 17 martyrs, to celebrate the establishment
of DHKP-C, and to protest against the April 18 elections, we also organised
many armed and unarmed demonstrations, commemorations, propaganda and
agitation activities all around the country.  Neither new electoral games
nor American fascist powers will be able to prevent the development of the
liberation struggle of the people.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT ON THE WAY OF OUR PARTY AND  MARTYRS UNTIL
LIBERATION!
OUR COUNTRY WILL BE INDEPENDENT AND OUR PEOPLE FREE!

REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT
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From echap at eng.gla.ac.uk  Wed Apr 28 01:58:10 1999
From: echap at eng.gla.ac.uk (echap at eng.gla.ac.uk)
Date: 28 Apr 1999 01:58:10
Subject: 1st May
Message-ID: <bac1c849.199904271032.LAA18040@trebino.mech.gla.ac.uk>

Joint message and call for May Day demonstrations in Iran

(statement issued by 
Workers Left Unity- Iran 
Joint Committee in Defence of Struggles of the  Iranian working class )



 Workers of Iran,
For the last few years, you have succeeded in forcing the Iranian 
government to recognise the First of May as Workers' Day.  For over 
a hundred years ,1st of May has throughout the world been the day 
when workers, the unemployed , the exploited, men and women together 
demonstrate to show their solidarity and enormous power and to protest 
against their exploitation.
However in Iran, capitalists and their government have tried to make 
this into a day of unity between workers and factory owners. 
You , the most exploited class, who form the largest section of Iran's 
population have suffered terribly in the last few years . Suffered 
when you have been forced to take two or three jobs in order to 
make ends meet; suffered from  lack of social security, insurance, 
poverty wages... Yet you are not even allowed to voice your grievances and 
protest on workers international day, 1st of May. Your living 
conditions worsen every day while  all the factions of the Iranian 
regime try to make you suffer for the consequences of their 
disastrous financial policies . You must defend your basic , 
essential rights and like  fellow workers throughout the world you 
should be allowed to demonstrate on the first of May.  
United and in one voice, we , the organisations of the Iranian Left 
call on you , Iran's workers , toilers, the exploited , the unemployed 
to demonstrate this year on the first of May , to establish this right and  
repeat it every year from now on. We must force the exploiters and 
their state to recognise this right.  
In this year's demonstration , you will inevitably concentrate on 
your most immediate , pressing demands such as :"pay our wages " , 
"no to forced redundancies", "unemployment benefit for all the unemployed", 
"wage rises in line with inflation", "equal pay for women and 
foreign workers for equal work" ...
However let us not forget that in order to defend your wages, 
you need independent trade unions. To defend all workers,  against 
capitalism and its state  you need national workers organisations. 
The "House of Labour" remains a tool in the hands of the Iranian 
state, used to control and subjugate the workers. Therefore  the 
establishment of your  independent organisations, to advance your 
demands is needed more  than ever before. In the demonstrations of 
1st of May and in your daily  struggles you must strive for this 
aim. "the only solution is unity and organisation" 
We congratulate you on International workers day and we call on all 
revolutionary workers, all the supporters and activists of our 
organisations and parties in Iran , all intellectuals who support 
the working class to use all their power to make this a successful 
demonstration in major Iranian cities ,especially in Tehran .
Down with the anti working class regime of the Islamic Republic!
Long Live international solidarity!
long live freedom! long live socialism!


Workers Left Unity- Iran 
Joint Committee in Defence of Struggles of the  Iranian working class 


May 1999


1-Workers Left Unity is an alliance of the following political organisations and
 groups : Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran-Rahe Kargar, Haste Aghal
iat, Etehad Fedayan Communist, Activists of Fedaii Minority, Socialism and Revol
ution Tendency, Independent activists of the Left ...
2-Joint Committee in defence of struggles of the Iranian working class is set up
 by the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran-Rahe Kargar, Communist 
Party of Iran, Fedayan Organisation( Minority) , Alliance of People's Fedayan. 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

To Contact  Workers Left Unity -Iran  :
Fax 46 31 139897 
Fax 44 141 3304316

Email :web at etehadchap.com
http :www.etehadchap.com


From english at ozgurluk.xs4all.nl  Fri Apr 30 07:34:21 1999
From: english at ozgurluk.xs4all.nl (english at ozgurluk.xs4all.nl)
Date: 30 Apr 1999 07:34:21
Subject: Kurtulus on the MHP
Message-ID: <bac1c849.m3hfpygm0y.fsf@big.home.ozgurluk>

Translation from the weekly magazine KURTULUS on the road to
independence and democracy

>From the series 

THE SYSTEM PARTIES

from left to right
from programme to leaders
from promises to truth
from yesterday till now

MHP

Party of the Nationalist Movement

The MHP is a party which name  on the political stage is celebrated
and honoured with blood. Contrary to the other political parties, it
possesses its own organisation with a military character. For years
now, the fascist party carries its "nationalist" image in its name.
However, it can be asserted that there is no other party in Turkey
which is so bound to an "external force" like the MHP because the MHP
was set up by these "external forces" themselves. The first steps in
the direction of organising the civic-fascist movement were set during
the 2. Partition War. The ambassador in Ankara of German fascism, Von
Papen who was appointed in 1939, founded a fascist organisation
consisting of the former supporters of the Unity and Progress Party
and the supporters of Turanism, called the "Revolution Units". In
those years, Nazi-Germany channelled a lot of money to Turkey for the
fascist organisation. In time, fascist magazine like Bozkurt,
Cinaralti, Ergenekon, Goekboerue and Orhan were being published. The
"National" fascists started their nationalist propaganda with Nazi
money. In 1943, after occurring problems in the Front, German fascism
set the fascist cadres into motion in order to take over power in
Turkey. The officers, members of this "Revolution Unit", and among
them Alparslan Tuerkes, attempted a coup which failed however. In the
beginning of Spring 1944, there was another coup attempt, led by
Tuerkes. This one also failed and the so-called "Revolution Units", the
fascist organisation within the army, were dissolved. Between 1945 and
1955, the civic fascist had little influence because there was no aid
from abroad. During this phase they rather continued within the
"right" parties. 

THE SECOND PERIOD OF THE FASCIST MOVEMENT AND THE FASCIST PARTY

During the second period of the civic-fascist movement, there is a
growing momentum, parallel to the neo-colonialisation of Turkey. This
regime, later described by Mahir Cayan as fascism of the colonial
type,  was formed - contrary to fascism in Germany and Italy, from the
top to bottom by means of state institutions. In fact fascism was
based on the state, but of course it tried to create a mass basis of
its own in several ways. The mission of the civic-fascist movement in
the new colonies was thus determined. Its task was to create a mass
basis for fascism. During this new phase US-imperialism was more or
less the protector of the fascist regimes and the civic-fascist
movement. Leading cadres went to the USA where they were trained as
contra-guerrillas. Among them was Tuerkes who went to the USA in 1948.
After he received a contra-guerrilla training in the "American
Operation Academy"  and in the "Infantry School" till 1955, he
returned to Turkey in 1959. In the 50's, the civic fascist, openly
supported and directed by the USA, founded "Associations to combat
communism" in numerous cities. The total sum for the civic-fascist
movement, coming from the USA, was more than 150 million dollars. In
1960, the two racist and fascist parties, the Peasants Party of Turkey
and the Republican Nations Party came together and founded the
Republican Peasants Nations Party.

FROM REGIMENT COMMANDER OF MAY 27 TO SUPREME COMMANDER

The civic fascist cadres, led by Tuerkes, also participated in the coup
of May 27, 1960, carried out by the Kemalists within the army and
directed against the union with US-imperialism and the oppression
policy of the Menderes government. The fascists joined with the aim of
taking over power. But this fascist group was liquidated after the
coup. The missing of Tuerkes, sent as ambassador to New Delhi, led to a
phase of splits within the civic-fascist movement. Tuerkes, returning
to Turkey in 1963, tried to gather the civic-fascist movement by
founding the Association of Order and Progress in Turkey. In 1964,
Tuerkes joined the CKMP (Republican Peasants Nations Party). At the
congress in 1965, he was - with support of the Associations to combat
communism - elected as CKMP-chairman. After 1965, the civic fascists
began to organise as a militia force. In 1967 and 1968, they started
to teach killing, battle and war techniques in the bootcamps which
were opened by the CKMP and led by former fascist MBK-officers. In
1969, together with the congress in Adana, the name of the party was
changed in Nationalist Movement Party and the party began to celebrate
Tuerkes as the "supreme commander". As a consequence of this change,
the association called "Vivid Development in National Activity",
founded by cadres who wanted to hold on to the Shaman traditions and
who split from the MHP, was attacked by Tuerkes' paratroopers on April
13, 1969. Opposition segments were removed from the party after the
murder of Ali Balsevem, belonging to the Shamanist wing, in Ankara in
1973.

THE GROWING PHASE OF THE FASCIST PARTY

While the civic-fascist movement developed organisations based on
violence till the time of the fascist junta of March 12, it
institutionalised itself within the state at the same time. The junta
of March 12 never touched the fascists of course. In the
mid-seventies, the number of Idealists Associations reached 600. There
were organisations like the UElkue Ocaklari (Idealists Associations),
the Association of idealistically minded workers, the Association of
idealistically minded peasants and the Coalition of idealistically
minded policemen. In the elections between 1963 and 1973, the MHP got
2-3% of the votes. The most favourable time for the civic fascists for
forming cadres and for organising were the 1st. and 2nd. government
periods of the "MC" (Nationalist Front). During the phase of the 1st.
MC-government, the MHP formed its cadres within the education
institutions, the police apparatus, and in the department for customs
and monopolies. Making use of these opportunities, the cadres were
being armed. The time of the 1st. MC-government ended in 1977 and
there were new elections. The fascist party showed in these elections
that it had made good use of the MC period. The MHP reached 6.4% of
the votes in the 1977 elections and won 16 representatives. After the
elections the AP, MHP and MSP formed the 2nd. MC-government. The MHP
also constituted the hitting force in the war against the people. But
the people's opposition could not be stopped by the fascist attacks,
on the contrary, it gained revolutionary contents. In this situation,
the collaborating monopoly bourgeoisie withdrew its support for the
MC-government and put the CHP in power. During the period of the
CHP-government, the fascists stepped up their attacks to intimidate
the people in a massive dimension. In the massacres of MayDay 1977, in
the provocations in Malatya, Sivas and Corum, and in the massacres in
the University of Istanbul in 1978, in Maras on December 24, 1978, in
Bahcelievler and Piyangotepe, every time the member of the fascist
party played a decisive role. The police, the fascists and the contra
organisations co-operated with each other. Abdullah Catli, M. Ali
Agca, Veli Can Oduncu, Ferhat Tueysuez, Cengiz Ayhan and Orla Celik are
some of the murderers who showed up during that time. 

THE FASCIST PARTY BECOMES THE VICTIM OF THE IMPARTIALITY POLICY OF THE
JUNTA!

The cadres of the MHP, expecting support from the pro-American fascist
September 12 junta as they had received from the March 12 junta, and
even thinking of a common leadership, got confused as there were also
arrests among the fascist ranks when the September 12 junta came to
power. The fascist junta tried to create an image of impartiality and
the complete leadership of the MHP was immediately arrested. However,
the attitude of the junta towards the supporters of the MHP was
"double-sided". While on the one hand several fascist leaders and
murderers were arrested, that's true, the cadres of the same movement
were "secretly" used in contra-guerrilla operations on the other and
they were often given important bureaucratic tasks. People like Catli
and Oral Celik received their orders from the junta personally. One of
the fascist murderers and candidate chairman of the MHP, Ibrahim
Ciftci, stated they had offered to release him from jail under the
condition of participating in operations. The cadres of the MHP
expressed this situation during the trials of September 12 as follows:
"We are a political movement whose cadres are in jail but whose views
are in power". The development of the cadres continued in the period
of the post-junta governments. While the cadre development continued
within the state on the one hand, most known leaders of the civic
fascists, like for example Ayvaz Goekdemir, Agah Oktay Guener, Yasar
Okuyan, Esat Buetuen and N. Kemal Zeybek joined other parties.

THE TIME AFTER THE JUNTA AND THE SPLIT

As part of the manoeuvres to give the junta a civilian face, it was
allowed to form parties and the MHP reorganised itself under the name
of Nationalist Labour Party (MCP). However, most cadres had left. The
civic fascists, put on hold by imperialism and the oligarchy,
continued their organising efforts till 1987-1988 with the magazine
"Bizim Ocak". They also held on to their organisations because they
would be "useful one day". Between 1988 and 1989, the civic fascists
were more and more used against the people and its developing
struggle. During this phase, in which the national war in Kurdistan
developed, the fascists saw it as their principle task to increase
chauvinism. The fascist party could mostly be seen at games of the
national football team, at funerals of policemen and soldiers, and at
executions. Despite full support and the propaganda of "the MHP has
changed", the MHP was unable to take the election hurdle. In the
elections of 1991, the put 20 representatives on the list of the Refah
Party as candidates. From the time the Special Units were set up, the
civic fascists were represented. When the proposal of MHP
participation came on the agenda, the existing contradictions within
the civic-fascist movement became apparent and there was a split. The
group led by Muhsin Yazicioglu got in conflict with the "supreme
commander" and rejected participation in the Special Units. Basically
Muhsin Yazicioglu tried to free himself from his responsibility for
the bloody past and his image. Using this and similar pretexts, he and
his team - among them OEkkes Sendiller and others who were highly
responsible for the massacre in Maras - split from the MCP and
founded, according to the old mission of being a reserve force for the
state in case it needs support, the Bueyuek Birlik Partisi (Great Unity
Party).

THE OPERATION TO CLEAN UP THE IMAGE OF THE BLOODY PAST

The group which was at the side of Tuerkes let go of the name MCP after
the change of the constitution  and took the old name of MHP again.
The fascist movement, used to increase chauvinist feelings during
football games, funerals of policemen and soldiers, had in reality no
political programme to approach the people with. That's why slogans
like "the MHP has changed" and "the liberal centre has turned to the
right" were put forward to "clean up the image", that is to say making
forget the bloody past, at that time while at the other hand events
like the conflicts between Azerbaidschan and Armenia and between
Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia became part of the own propaganda. The
hanging moustaches were shaven and in stead the fascist appeared in
suit and tie. It even went as far as Tuerkes reading poems of Nazim
Hikmet! But all these efforts were not sufficient to make forget the
bloody past of the MHP. The MHP stayed outside of parliament after the
1995 elections because it could not overcome the 10% hurdle. After the
death of Alparslan Tuerkes, key figure within the fascist movement
during the entire period, the fight for the leading post became even
more fierce and in the end there were new splits. The son of Tuerkes,
Tugrul Tuerkes, split from the MHP and founded the Aydinlik Tuerkiye
Partisi (ATP)

THE FASCIST PARTIES ARE THE ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE

As was said in the beginning, the fascist parties claim to stand up
for Turkish nationalism. In truth, they are the advocates of racism.
The nationalist slogans are pure demagogy. Because the founders, the
leaders and those who determine the policies of these parties are the
imperialists. They are directly depending on the interventions of the
CIA. They played the major role in the massacres before the 80's, as
well as in the massacres in Kurdistan. And exactly this is their
mission, their task. Tuerkes, who during a phase when an image change
was needed, stated that "the Kurd is my brother", shortly after showed
his real face when he clearly rejected the statement that Turkey is a
mosaic where different peoples are living. The appearance, all the
talk about "brotherhood", it's all fake. Susurluk one again made
public how far the contacts of these bloody fascist parties go. The
civic-fascist organisations in deed possess a broad network of dirty
deals. In a way their existence is based on it. This way they create
financial sources and they can realise their contra-revolutionary
activities. They tried to appear civilised in front of the public but
in reality they participate in all the attacks against the people,
they are part in all kinds of dirty deals, in drug smuggling,
extortion, gambling and the trade of women. To organise themselves
they use institutions like the UElkue Ocaclari and the Birlik Vakfi
(Unity Foundation). But most use is made of the state institutions.
They have taken their positions in state firms like BOTAS, TEDAS,
TCCD, ODUES-THA, CITOSAN, ET BALIK KURUMU, and in institutions like the
state presidency, the department for energy, and the department for
education. And many of them have their place in the army, in the
police forces, and in the Special Units. The basis for their
organising, especially in Kurdistan, are the army, the Special Units,
and the village guard tribes. All the fascist parties, whatever their
nationality, whether they are Turkish, Kurdish, Laz, Cherkessian,
Georgian, Arab or Bosnian, whatever their religion or creed, whether
they are Alevi, Sunni, Shia or Christian, they are the enemies of the
Anatolian peoples. During their entire history they have tried to sow
animosity between the peoples, carrying out provocations to achieve
this. Every action which searches for the rights of the workers, the
civil servants, the people from the slums, and the peasants is
attacked by the fascists, using choppers, knives, bombs and guns.
Giving these racist, fascist parties a vote means being against the
people. Giving these racist, fascist parties a vote means approving
the massacres in Maras, in Corum, Sivas, Bahcelievler, and the one of
March 16.

The tasks is to warn the entire people, to warn all, not to fall for
the "civilised" appearance of the MHP. 


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