Le révolutionnaire communiste turc Deniz Pektaş a été arrêté le 17 août 2026 en Italie sur la base d’un signalement Interpol émis à la demande de la Turquie. Il est actuellement détenu à la prison d’Ancône et menacé d’extradition. Pektaş, militant politique connu en Europe, avait déjà été arrêté et emprisonné en Allemagne en 2015 avec neuf autres révolutionnaires communistes, dans le cadre de poursuites visant le TKP/ML. Il avait été condamné à cinq ans de prison et détenu pendant plus de quatre ans. Cette arrestation est un nouvel exemple de répression transnationale exercée par l’État turc contre ses opposants politiques à travers les mécanismes d’Interpol.
Date: 15 August 2026
CASR STRONGLY CONDEMNS THE CRIMINALISATION OF TISS STUDENTS. WE UPHOLD ACADEMIC FREEDOM AND SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS
The Campaign Against State Repression (CASR) strongly
condemns the escalating investigation by the Mumbai Police against
students, former students and professors of the Tata Institute of Social
Sciences (TISS) in connection with an October 2025 programme
commemorating the late Prof. G N Saibaba.
The arrest of a former TISS student, the issuing of
notices to professors over their communications with students, and the
police scrutiny of routine academic fieldwork demonstrate a deeply
disturbing pattern in which students, teachers, academic spaces,
political expression and even reading material are increasingly being
placed under police surveillance and criminal investigation.
What is particularly alarming is that the investigation
is being expanded to include alleged possession or downloading of books
and literature which the police describe as reflecting “Maoist
ideology”.
*READING A BOOK IS NOT A CRIME*
Comrade Charu Majumdar stands as one of
the greatest communist leaders of the world. At a time when revisionism
had reduced the communist movement in India to class collaboration, he
fearlessly upheld Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and rekindled the path of
people’s war through the thunder of Naxalbari. He taught us that
revolution cannot be begged from the exploiting classes, nor won through
elections, but must be seized by the armed masses under the leadership
of a genuine communist party. His relentless struggle against
opportunism, his insistence on ideological purity, and his unwavering
confidence in the revolutionary potential of the poorest peasants
continue to illuminate the path of revolution in India. Though the
reactionary Indian state captured and murdered him in their custody,
they could never bury his politics. His blood nourished the
revolutionary movement, and his legacy lives on in every struggle that
dares to challenge imperialism, feudalism, and comprador bureaucratic
capitalism. To honour the martyrdom of Comrade Charu Majumdar is not to
worship an individual but to carry forward the revolutionary line for
which he lived, fought and gave his life.
