Solidarity with Basque people

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“Party of the Committees to Support Resistance – for Communism (CARC) - Italy

Via Tanaro 7, 20128, Milano

Tel. +39 0226306454

e-mail resistenza@carc.it

website www.carc.it

National Direction - International Relations Department

Association of Proletarian Solidarity (ASP)

CP 380, 80133 Napoli – Italia

e-mail: Ass-solid-prol@libero.it

28/03/2008

Solidarity with Basque people

We received and release this letter:

Dear Friends,

The repression against the Basque people conducted by the Spanish State and in less degree by the French has been constant in recent years. It is easy to trace a continuous line in the preceding decades that can show us the persistence of torture, massive and arbitrary detentions, penitentiary policy of brutal consequences, halted associations and organizations, closing of news media, illegalisation of political parties and total discrimination of a sector of the population from the participation in public life. To sum up, a situation of exception that has generated a dangerous scenario of suppression of the most basic political and civil rights, a scenario that nowadays it is shown with total harshness.

These circumstances have forced hundreds of Basque citizens to create a retaining wall, to confront repression and participate in different civic organisations, human rights organisations, and activist organisations in what has been called Movimiento Pro Amnistia. Otherwise, the lack of activation of this sector and consequently social contestation would have resulted in a total acceptance of the impunity of the structures of the Spanish State . That is why through this organisation lots of activities have been structured-conferences, demonstrations, public appeals, contacts with all kinds of political and social agents…- in order to claim a scenario of respect with basic democratic conditions, of enjoyment of basic civil and political rights. In lots of these activities we have had the chance to get to know each other, share and discuss issues.

Nevertheless, Spain and France , mentally blinded in maintaining a strategy of repression against wider sectors of the Basque population, require each time higher levels of impunity. This is why this wide movement results inconvenient and unbearable. That is why 11 of its members –spokespersons, provincial people in charge…- were during 4 years in preventive prison without having been taken to court, maximum limit by the Spanish legislature. That is why their mobilisations and demonstrations have been forbidden by court, halted administratively, and violently attacked by the Security Forces of the State. That is why time after time people who consistently point to the responsibility of the state in the repression and violation of human rights and the most fundamental freedoms, are being summoned.

That is why, to sum it up, from April 21^st , 27 members of this organisation have to face a trial in the exceptional antiterrorist trial Audiencia Nacional, under the accusation of belonging to an armed organisation, for our mere activity of solidarity with political prisoners, our mere militancy in Amnistia, our opposition against the repression and for defending human rights.

We don’t expect fairness from this tribunal. Nevertheless we expect an opportunity to explain to the Basque and to the international society who we are and what we are doing and why. I want to send this SOS of alarm and concern, but above all of solidarity: A call to double our effort, each one from our own field and framework, so that the impunity won’t break that retaining wall against repression.

Ez adiorik,

Julen Arzuaga

We express our solidarity with the representatives of the Basque movement for amnesty that will be tried on 21st April. We feel close to you and to the Basque people because the comrades of CARC Party, those of the Association for Proletarian Solidarity, those who worked for the reconstruction of a new Italian Communist Party for the latest 25 years and those who are members of it today are always been persecuted by the Italian State, always accused of “terrorism”. The true reason of the persecution, as a matter of fact, is why we have always declared and carried out solidarity with all the revolutionary prisoners and why we have always struggled for popular masses' interests and aspirations and for building socialism in our country, and we’ll keep on doing it.

The trial of 21^st April against who struggle for defending Basque people's rights is an attack against the freedom of speech and association, just as the umpteenth (this is the eighth inquiry) attack against our Party with this preliminary hearing on next 13^th May in Bologna, as the persecution against Turkish comrades accused to be members of the DHKC-P in Belgium and those accused to be members of TKP/ml in Germany, as the imprisonment in Italy of Turkish comrades Avni and Zeynep, as the persecution against Jose Maria Sison in Netherlands, as happens in many other European states that call themselves democratic and say that they “defend human rights”. All these are the same kind of attacks that are spreading all over Europe, and so happens in Turkey , in the Middle East and everywhere in the world.

The bourgeoisie persecutes and attacks us calling us "terrorists": it doesn’t' t dare to attack us for what we really are, for we struggle for popular masses' rights, it doesn't dare to openly deny us the freedom of speech and association, the democratic rights that they tell they are going to defend all around the world killing peoples as they do in ex Yugoslavia, Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Lebanon and elsewhere. In other words, it doesn't dare to openly outlaw the popular protests and the Communism and to openly show the fascist mark of its attack. We will defeat this cover fascism as we did with the open one.

Solidarity with whom struggles for Basque people's rights!

Long live the struggle for the liberation of Basque people!

International solidarity against repression!

Of Course no one will ever charge the good ol’ USA of committing acts of terror or human rights violations. This country is a beacon of human rights in the world today:

Here we have the humane treatment of some kind of prisoners at our Gitmo

Camp. Looks like a luxurious vacation doesn’t it?