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----- Original Message -----
From: Afapp
To: CSRPR
Comit�
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:29 PM
Subject: International Appeal of the PCE(r)
INTERNATIONAL APPEAL OF THE
PCE(r)
Solidarity with the Spanish communists and antifascists arrested in France! Last 9th November the French politic police unleashed in Paris, under the direction of the torturers of the Spanish Civil Guard, a raid against the PCE(r) and the GRAPO arresting our Secretary General and several members of the Central Committee of our Party. This is a new step in the growing repressive collaboration between the Spanish fascists and the French police service against the whole of the political movement of resistance that confronts the Spanish fascist State. Nowadays, 7 militants of our Party and the GRAPO and more than 70 Basque independentists are jailed in French prisons. The fact that the Spanish monopolist and fascist regime is powerless the control the people's discontent and to stop the activity of the revolutionaries and the patriots is becoming more public and evident. In these bitter moments for the current rulers of the PP government they resort to the international police collaboration under the excuse of "supporting the Spanish democracy in its struggle against terrorism" to chase implacably the communist revolutionaries, the antifascists and the Basque patriots. All this exposes the growing fascistization of the European imperialist fortress. The leaders and militants of our Party detained in Paris have been arrested by the mere fact of denouncing consistently the ruling Spanish fascist regime and organizing the working class to overthrow it. In Spain the fascist laws do not allow even the tiniest loophole to organize the workers politically in the perspective of the struggle and the combat for socialism. The underground character of the communist organization is something that is imposed by the very nature of the fascist regime and the repression that it exerts permanently against it. The Leadership of our Party has not remained underground and at exile for more than 15 years as a matter of taste but in order to ensure the politic and organizational survival of the whole antifascist Resistance Movement, securing its leadership and making possible in this way that it can be in conditions to face up the needs that the sharpening of the class struggle in our country imposes. We will continue firmly along this path showed to us by the comrades that have been arrested. Today, the French special judges accuse the leaders of our Party of be longing to a "criminal association related to a terrorist organization", repeating in this way the old-fashioned arguments that the Spanish politic police has been incapable to prove nor even a single time in the last 25 years. They pretend to involve our Secretary General in the planning of the GRAPO actions when even the Spanish judges have been forced to admit on more than one occasion that the PCE(r) and the GRAPO are two different organizations. The French special judges should not ignore the fact that our militants are sentenced and jailed in Spain accused of "unlawful association", an essentially political offence, that the "Spanish democracy" took directly from Franco's laws. The Spanish fascist State, the same one that launched under successive governments its death squads (GAL, Spanish Basque Battalion) to assassinate political refugees on French ground allows itself nowadays the cheek of presenting our leaders and militants arrested in Paris as "terrorists". This is not the first time that our Party is attacked in France. In 1979, already after the "democratic reform", the Spanish secret service assassinated in Paris Francisco Javier Martin Eizaguirre (responsible of the International Relations Commission of the Central Committee) and Aurelio Fern�ndez Cario. In 1986, also in Paris, three militants were arrested and spent several years in the French prisons. One of them, Milagros Caballero Carbonell, was extradited to Spain after serving her sentence in France. Nowadays she needs to use a walker as a consequence of a paralysis resulting from the long hunger strike that she maintained in 1990-91 together with the rest of her imprisoned comrades to confront the policy of torture and extermination of the political prisoners. Waiting for their possible extradition to Spain, our comrades arrested in Paris are nowadays imprisoned in the special jails built by the French bourgeoisie to annihilate those who oppose their system. In view of the policy of extermination through the white torture of isolation that the French gendarme State is perpetrating against the militants of Action Directe, the Basque independentists and other political prisoners like the Turkish communists and anti-imperialists of DHKP-C, we have no doubt that our comrades are also going to be submitted to the same treatment. At the same time they will try to use our comrades as political hostages in order to blackmail our Movement. We appeal to the internationalist solidarity with our comrades imprisoned in France in order to demand the French government their immediate release. It becomes necessary to promote mobilizations and campaigns to denounce the political nature of their detention and the collaboration of the French authorities with the Spanish fascist State. The French gendarmes want to hand our comrades to the Spanish torturer police and fascist army. The Spanish politic police has pronounced long ago its own death sentence on one of the militants of the GRAPO and on our Secretary General. Let's impede this crime! Besides, we call upon the European collectives of support to political prisoners, specially the French ones, to provide our comrades all the help that they may need in these moments to avoid that their situation of imprisonment becomes aggravated by the fact of being in a foreign country. Stop the French police collaboration with the Spanish fascist and terrorist State! No to the extradition of the Spanish communists detained in France! Freedom for all the revolutionary political prisoners! COMMUNIST PARTY OF SPAIN (reconstituted) CC International Relations Commission
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