Against the criminalisation of the Kurtulus and the DHKC in Germany

[ozgurluk at xs4all.nl]

We urge all democratic, anti-imperialist, communist and revolutionary
forces to support the following resolution of solidarity which was
called for by the oppressed comrades. The resolution was drafted in
co-operation with them to ensure an effective means of organizing a
defence campaign. 

September 1998

Statement of solidarity.

For abolishing the ban on the "Kurtulus" and the "DHKP-C" in Germany!

Last August, the German minister of the Interior, Kanther, ordered a
ban against the magazine Kurtulus and the DHKP-C (Revolutionary
People's Liberation Party-Front). This constitutes a severe blow
against one of the most important tendencies of the revolutionary left
in Turkey. Because in recent years, the DHKP-C won a lot of support,
especially in the poor neighbourhoods of the major cities. It played a
major part in building the local "People's Councils", now the
strongest expression of a social-revolutionary mass movement in the
centres of Turkey. This banning order is just the last consequence of
years of pestering and repressive measures which have pushed the
magazine into semi-legality and the DHKP-C in a de facto illegality
before. The blow against the magazine is a severe one as its
publication essentially depends on the earnings in Germany. With this
step, the German state once again proofs its co-operation with the
dictatorial regime in Turkey which is mainly based on the army, a
solid and integrated part of NATO. Even more, Germany surpasses Turkey
because the Kurtulus, despite many attempts by the arbitrary justice
system as well as the police raids, has never been banned in Turkey
itself, nor could it be hindered to appear since 1986. Germany thus
tramples upon the principles of a state of law it so often claims to
be. And it should be added that neither the Kurtulus, nor the DHKP-C,
have ever been guilty of an offence in Germany, not even to capitalist
law. And if this would be the case, at least a process according to
the principles of a state of law should be expected where the accused
have the right to defend themselves. But nothing like this happened:
the Kurtulus was just outlawed by decree. Be it in the prosecution of
the anti-fascist youth movement or revolutionary organizations from
the exploited and oppressed nations, it always shows: the German
Federal Republic is the state of injustice, not the German Democratic
Republic which, despite its deformation, was anti-fascist and not
capitalist. On all levels, German imperialism tries to get rid of
limitations, caused by the defeat in World War II: economically,
politically and especially military. By all means, the old spheres of
influence are to be re-conquered. The destruction of Yugoslavia,
incited by Germany, aims at the control over the Balkan, just like the
eastern expansion of NATO aims at the control over Russia. In Turkey,
one of the most important imperialist strongholds in the Middle East,
every social, political and of course military opposition is to be
destroyed. In this, the Turkish regime has the full and generous
support of Germany for the genocide against the Kurdish people with
hundreds of thousands of people being killed, millions of people
displaced. It enjoys German support in crushing the Kurdish national
liberation movement, as well as in acting against the
social-revolutionary opposition which is being nourished by the
permanent deterioration of the situation of the exploited and
oppressed masses.

All democratic, and even more all anti-imperialist, communist and
revolutionary, forces should condemn the anti-democratic measures of
the German state in the sharpest possible terms. We declare our full
solidarity with the Kurtulus and the DHKP-C in the struggle against
our common enemy, imperialism, and we will use all our strength for
the abolition of the ban and the re-institution of democratic rights. 

Long live the revolutionary struggle against imperialism!

AA/BO (Anti-fascist Action / Federal Organisation, Germany)
Baietz Fundazioa (Foundation for Basque Mass Media)
CRJ (Roman Centre for Yugoslavia)
Circolo Pietro Secchia (Italy)
Gruppe Internationale / Berlin
ILC (International Leninist Current)
JVP (People’s Liberation Front, Sri Lanka)
KAS (Committee for Anti-Imperialist Solidarity / Austria)
MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left of Chile / Austria)
MPA (Anti-capitalist Proletarian Movement, Italy)
National anti-imperialist Co-ordination (Italy)
PCPE (Communist Party of the Spanish Peoples)
Quemada (Anti-imperialist committee, Italy)
Reinhard Gebhardt / Member of the Executive Committee of VVN-BdA and
PDS Heidelberg Socialist Future Group / England


Note:
Also see http://www.ozgurluk.org/verbot.html

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