Attack against the Basque liberation movement

heikki sipilï¿½ Fri, 15 Sep 2000 07:47:22 -0700
>From: "ILC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Attack against the Basque liberation movement
>Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 13:04:46 +0200
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>Facing the new attacks against the patriotic left of the Basque Country:
>All the democrats must take side ï¿½ silence covers the injustice!
>
>During the night of the 12th of September and the morning of the 13th, the
>Spanish police, following an order of the judge Baltasar Garzï¿½n, again
>carried out an attack on the Basque patriotic left in the framework of the
>Stateï¿½s and the government of the post-Franco Popular Partiesï¿½ (PP) strategy
>to liquidate one of the strongest popular movements in Europe.
>
>In the most recent escalation of this repressive politics, orientated
>towards a general banning of the political and social structures of the
>Basque national liberation movement, twenty persons have been detained,
>among them representatives of the Ubalbiltza (Assembly of Basque
>Municipalities), of the political movement Euskal Herritarrok (EH), the
>trade union LAB, the youth movement, the organization for political
>prisoners Gestoras Pro Amnistia and various rank and file activists. At the
>same time a number of offices of Herri Batasuna (HB) and private houses were
>searched.
>
>The detained comrades all are accused to be part of the popular political
>organization Ekin ï¿½ an organization founded in October 1999 in order to
>strengthen the process of construction of the Basque sovereignty from below,
>in the quarters, factories and schools ï¿½ that is considered by the Ministry
>of Interior to be a single ï¿½political-military structure ETA-Ekinï¿½.
>
>This operation reveals clearly the new methods of the Spanish State, but
>also a general way of acting of the neo-liberal governments under the
>capitalist globalization:
>
>1.      The unconditional surrender and the ï¿½pacificationï¿½ of the Basque
>political conflict within the frame of the excluding and false neo-liberal
>ï¿½democracyï¿½ did not work out in the Basque Country, where the tight borders
>of this model of domination are expressed by a Spanish constitution with a
>lot of elements of continuity of the Franco-era and a so called Statute of
>Autonomy, that both deny the existence of the Basque people as such with its
>own social and cultural identity and the right to determine on its own the
>political and social future it desires. The alliances between the
>neo-liberal political parties against the Basque left have driven all of
>them to except without any hesitation the straitjacket of the
>anti-democratic state. In this situation the Spanish State has designed a
>politics of isolation of the ï¿½intransigentï¿½, pushing forward a constant
>propaganda campaign of de-legitimation of the Basque struggle that creates
>conditions for a real low intensity war where the attacks on the patriotic
>left are one central element.
>
>2.      In this, the mass media of the State and of globalization have an
>important role spreading the populist and totalitarian discourse against the
>Basques. Doing so, they have build a supporting basis for the State politics
>that not only accepts but also calls for the denying of the most elementary
>democratic, human and citizensï¿½ rights to the Basque people. By constantly
>repeating and varying the same false scheme they want to show the Basque
>liberation movement as a movement of ï¿½nationalist particularismï¿½ with
>ï¿½racistï¿½ and even ï¿½fascistï¿½ elements. Reproducing this lies, the populist
>State-driven mass mobilizations, create a wrong reality where the victims of
>repression and anti-democracy become the perpetrator and the totalitarian
>State appears as the defender of liberty.
>
>3.      This line of the Spanish State is represented particularly by Baltasar
>Garzï¿½n, known as the juridical persecutor of the dictator and killer
>Pinochet. This man in reality is a characteristic representative of the new
>ï¿½democraticï¿½ totalitarism. In order to get a broader legitimation,
>neo-liberalism ï¿½ with the help of a lot of ex-leftwing intellectuals -
>covers its real repressive and anti-social content behind a mask of an
>apparently progressive democratic State that defends liberty against all the
>ï¿½threats of democracyï¿½ in the world and in the internal affairs. The
>repression against the patriotic left and the Basque people reflects the
>worldwide politics of globalization with its international legal system,
>that imposes a modern colonialism under the appearance of a World Order
>based on ï¿½universalï¿½ human and moral values, that do not require any more
>democratic legitimation of the people. In this way the most terrible social
>and military crimes against humanity are committed with impunity, like in
>Yugoslavia, Iraq, Colombia ï¿½ .
>
>4.      Behind this cover, the political and social rights of the peoples
>conquered in decades of struggle are successively withdrawn. Only those who
>accept the egoist individualism, the pragmatism of the ï¿½realpolitikï¿½ of all
>the neo-liberal parties, the culture of consumist robots imposed all over
>the World by the USA, fit in this democracy of the living dead. Those who
>protest and still insist on a fundamental change towards a new frame of
>justice where the peoples can exercise their right of self-determination,
>are oppressed, persecuted and liquidated. The ideological cleaning that goes
>on in the Basque country today is only a side within a strategy of
>elimination of a people that still defends its identity and doesnï¿½t conform
>itself to the neo-liberal way of life.
>
>Thatï¿½s why today the advance of the Basque liberation struggle should be
>helped by all the rebelling peoples, the liberation movements and the
>revolutionary organizations of the world and especially in Europe that
>oppose globalization. To make this struggle advance, the liberation of the
>courageous political and social activists who are imprisoned in Spanish
>jails and systematically deported far away from their home-country is of big
>importance. They are exceptional representatives of the admirable will of
>liberation of the Basque people.
>
>We call to all our comrades, anti-imperialists and real democrats of the
>world to join as soon as possible the protests and mobilizations against
>this new aggression against the patriotic left and express, however they
>can, their solidarity to the detained comrades and to the whole Basque
>liberation movement.
>
>Today in the Basque country the liberty of all the peoples against the
>totalitarism of globalization must be defended!
>
>Solidarity with the Patriotic Left!
>Immediate and unconditional liberty for the detained of the ï¿½Operation Black
>Wolfï¿½ and all the Basque prisoners!
>Defend the right for self-determination of the Basque people!
>Against the totalitarism of globalization ï¿½ letï¿½s build an international
>camp of the antiimperialists!
>
>Permanent Bureau of the International Leninist Current
>Vienna-Rome, 14.09.00
>
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