info - about support communist hunger strikers in Italy - PCm Italy

Dear comrades,

we are glad to hear your quick response. As you mentioned, you can contribute our effort to publicize this resistance in our press by sending us a short message for the communist hunger strikers from our party, either written or as a video-message. It would be much appreciated by our comrades. Thank you for your solidarity and revolutionary feelings. We would also like to hear about the aciton on 19 June if you send us info on that day.

Revolutionary greetings,

MLKP Turkey/Kurdistan
International Bureau

On Sat, 11 May 2019 at 07:37, maoist <pcro.red@gmail.com> wrote:

comrades
we subscribe every kind of  solidarity declaration
we inform workers and popular mass about hunger strike
and of course we see how kind of action we can do
surely we prepare an action for 19th june dedicated to political prisoners
proletari comunisti/PCm Italy
International office
11 may 2019

Il 10/05/2019 14:29, MLKP Turkey/Kurdistan ha scritto:

Dear comrades,
here, in the attachment, we would like to share our international solidarity appeal with the hunger strikers to all revolutionary and democratic forces. The messages and support of international forces have a unique andprecious ideological meaning for the hunger strikers. This gives them strength and moral to continue as their effort at expense of risking their lives create a mood of international gathering.
Please share your actions or any kind of solidarity messages with us so that we can publish in our press.


Revolutionary Greetings,Demands of Hunger Strikers are Just and Legitimate, So is the Solidarity!

On 8 November 2018, an elected MP of the Turkish parliament from Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Leyla Güven, initiated a historical step for the struggle against fascism in Turkey and North Kurdistan while she was being kept in Diyarbakır prison as a political prisoner. On that day, she declared in front of the judge that she will no longer attend to the courts and start an indefinite hunger strike action with a demand of lifting the total isolation imposed on Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been in prison for 20 years.

This step has been put forward under such political circumstances, where any voice against the fascist policies of the Erdogan-dictatorship are heavily suppressed and responded with mass incarceration. This initiative for action has sparked a fire of hope in terms of awakening wide masses, which are under suppression but have not actually yield to the fascist regime yet, and mobilize them towards a resisting line. In this sense, the purity of the resistance brings about a defiant stronghold with the embodiment in a Kurdish woman at the most sensitive point of the Turkish state, at the sharpest edge of the political struggle.

The hunger strike resistance of Leyla Güven, firstly, echoed outside the prisons with the participation of various activists in Turkey, Kurdistan, Europe and Canada. Then, played an important role to swiftly consolidate the revolutionary vanguard forces after it spread to the whole prisons in Turkey and North Kurdistan. Now, more than 7000 political prisoners are on indefinite hunger strike since the 1^st of March, including not only those from the Kurdish liberation movement, but also the communist prisoners as well. The MLKP prisoners* have taken their part in this form of antifascist struggle to break the isolation not only on Abdullah Öcalan but also on the whole society. They raise their voices also against the violation of rights of prisoners in all around Turkey. Their legitimate demand is quite simple and clear: apply what is written on the laws!

In this regard, although the demand is as concrete as its legitimacy about the isolation conditions of prisoners on behalf of Öcalan, the growing resistance claiming this demand represents a general stance against the intensifying fascist siege of Erdogan-dictatorship that strangles the whole society. As Özkan Özdemir from the European Confederation of the Oppressed Immigrants (AvEG-Kon), who has been on indefinite hunger strike since the April, 1, states: “The basic rights have one by one eliminated and the country has become some kind of an open-prison as a whole. Moreover, the state terror on progressive and revolutionary forces with continuous detentions and torture, social polarization, femicides, sexual assaults and rape on children, nature plunder and militarist aggression that we face in Turkey are all reflections of this isolation policy. (…) Now, the indefinite hunger strike resistance is not an issue only of hundreds, but a socialized reality including both inside and outside the prisons. Strengthening the general resistance from this stronghold have a key role to overthrow fascism and its isolation policy. Considering the fact that thousands of people have gathered around this resistance line, we feel no doubt that our struggle will sooner or later reach the victory.”

Now, those who love the life so much that they can die for it, are laying their bodies on hunger in order to preserve an honorable life for everyone. Starting from Leyla Güven, the health condition of these thousands of fire bearers have already passed the critical stage. Today is the day we, as communists from Turkey and Kurdistan, put our lives forward with a sacrifice spirit and clamp together around the hunger strike resistance shoulder to shoulder!

Today is the day to break the isolation and defeat fascism!

As for the progressive, democratic and revolutionary forces around the world, the struggle against isolation must be viewed as part of a larger struggle of humanity against fascism.

Today is the day of international solidarity!

Be the voice of the hunger strikers! Send voice and video messages to hunger strikers. Write letters to them with your revolutionary feelings. Share their action through your channels. But most importantly, take action from where you are. Visit the hunger strike committees in Europe and around the world. Protest the Turkish state and its institutions in your country. As communists and revolutionaries, as a part of the world anti-imperialist forces, our struggle is common. We are gonna break the isolation, we will get the victory. There is no other way!

Long live international solidarity!

Long live the honorable and just hunger strike resistance of our peoples!

* MLKP prisoners on hunger strike:

since 1 March:

- Muhabbet Kurt (Sincan Prison, Ankara),

- Hülya Gerçek (Bakırköy Prison, Istanbul),

- Aydın Akyüz (Kırıklar No. 1 F Type Prison, Izmir),

- Ali Haydar Saygılı (Tekirdağ No. 1 F Type Prison)

since 10 April:

- Soner Çiçek (Elazığ Prison),

- Ercan Görtaş (Tekirdağ No. 1 F Type Prison)

- Hatice Duman (Bakırköy Women’s Prison)

since 30 April:

- Zeynep Yeter (Bakırköy Women’s Prison)

- Erdener Demirel (Tekirdağ No. 2 F Type Prison)

- Deniz Aytaç (Şakran No. 2 T Type Prison)

MLKP Turkey/Kurdistan