Unofficial translation by Signalfire
On March 18, the day of struggle for the liberation of political
prisoners, there will be many actions internationally, as well as in
Hamburg. In a time in which the repression of revolutionary and
progressive forces is always increasing this is both necessary and
welcome. Everywhere parties, organizations and peoples who raise the
flag of resistance to exploitation and oppression by the imperialist
system, find themselves exposed to intensified repression.
Especially in the countries of the so-called third world the people
and their resistance is suppressed with exceptional hardness. The
Palestinian people fighting against the occupation of their country for
decades, are brutally beaten, imprisoned, tortured and murdered every
time they raise their voice against the massive genocide. There
7000-8000 political prisoners in the jails of the Israeli occupation ,
including around 400 minors. In India, where the people have begun to
combat imperialism with a people’s war led by the Communist Party of
India (Maoist) , over 10,000 political prisoners are held in the prisons
of the reactionary government. And in Turkey any movement that rises
against the state, at any time is put down by force of arms.
The repression of these movements is also continued in the
imperialist countries, as evidenced in the cooperation of the German and
the Turkish state. Again and again the so-called “anti-terror law” (§
129b, membership or support in/for a foreign terrorist organization), is
utilized to criminalize and attack revolutionary and progressive
migrant organizations. Last year in a Europe-wide operation a total of
11 activists of the “Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe”
(ATIK) were arrested as alleged members of the “Communist Party of
Turkey / Marxist-Leninist” (TKP / ML). In the 300-page indictment for
the trials that are to begin in Munich in mid-May, there is only one
specific “crime” alleged; border crossing with a forged passport by a
single person. Also the ban on the newspaper “Yürüyüs” and the searches
of the offices of the “Anatolian Federation” show the complicity between
the German and Turkish government. A total of about 20 people in
Germany are at this imprisoned in accordance with § 129b, many accused
of membership in Turkish DHKP-C or the PKK. In Germany it is enough now
to be an anti-fascist-minded football fan to be exposed to the harshest
repression. Also in other imperialist countries, there are a large
number of long-term revolutionary prisoners, some of them are: Leonard
Peltier (since 1976) and Mumia Abu-Jamal (since 1981) in the United
States, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (since 1984) in France and Marco
Camenisch ( since 1991) in Switzerland.
But all this repression that the rulers set against the revolutionary
movement will not force us to our knees, on the contrary, the struggle
for the freedom of political prisoners is able to give the
revolutionaries and progressive people even more power. A battle of
wills waged together both inside and outside. Again and again the
prisoners of migrant organizations have waged hunger strike or begin to
organize them, or for example the prisoners’ union, which has since its
inception in 2014 already recruited 650 members in 45 prisons. Powerful
campaigns for moral support of the prisoners also constitute an
important part of this struggle, so we say: On March 18, take the
streets!
Long live international solidarity! – Solidarity is resistance!
Down with § 129a / b!
Internationalist Solidarity Committee for Political Prisoners
March 2016
Demonstration on March 18, S-Bahnhof Sternschanze, 17:30 Uhr
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