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>Silence is Complicity
>Colombia: Silence is Complicity with the Imperialist Genocide
>The fascist organizations, the 'paramilitaries,' are spreading out across
>the entire territory of Colombia, in the towns and the countryside, carrying
>out a terrifying, pitiless, cold-blooded, general butchery. They rely on
>air-support; helicopter gun-ships and modern weapons. They are formed and
>directed by Yankee advisors, and they receive both total support and deep
>cover from the government, the army, the police and the intelligence
>services of the Colombian state, together with its prosecutors and judges.
>This is a war of general extermination against the Colombian people who are
>in revolt against the policies of the Yankee empire, the rest of the
>imperialists, and its own bourgeoisie, as they try to impose the slavery and
>the exploitative system of capitalism in its totally hegemonic stage, the
>stage of imperialism.
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>We will not stop pointing out that what is at stake is not just the fate of
>Colombia, but also that of the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean, and
>will have grave repercussions for the entire world.
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>At the present moment it is this cowardly silence, the silence of
>complicity, which reigns over practically the whole planet, that should
>attract our keenest attention. This silence, from countries, organizations
>and means of communication which consider themselves to be progressive and
>even revolutionary, is the best ally of the imperialist genocide which is
>being mounted with the weapons and money which the USA, among others, is
>supplying to the Colombian government; a government which has declared war
>on its own people and has accepted the direction of the highest levels of
>the Yankee war machine.
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>History is also witness to a similar complicit silence; that which
>accompanied the start of the Nazi war of aggression and conquest in Europe,
>which, together with its own genocide, cost the lives of millions of human
>beings.
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>Why was it that then the cause of the Spanish Republic aroused such
>enthusiasm in progressive and revolutionary circles around the world,
>whereas today, they practically assist in the extermination of the Colombian
>people, its political and social organizations and its unions, as well as so
>many other genocides around the world?
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>It is clear that the progressive intelligentsia has, except for a few rare
>and honourable exceptions, moved en masse into the imperialist camp.
>Moreover, the international proletariat has suffered an historic defeat with
>the collapse of the revolution of October 1917 and the entire movement to
>which it gave rise around the world. However, its struggle has begun again,
>and there are unequivocal signs of this everywhere.
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>But Colombia is a special and very important case for the imperialists. In
>Colombia, despite the collapse of the Socialist Camp, the revolutionary
>struggle has been maintained on all fronts. The Colombian guerillas have
>been able to reinforce themselves and grow despite the internationally
>unfavourable conditions. The have been, and continue to be, a great
>revolutionary example. Oil, natural resources, cheap labour ... all these
>are very important to the imperialists, but what outweighs all of these is
>their fear of a revolution extending to all of Latin America and the
>Caribbean with its nerve centre in Colombia.
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>Che's message is not dead. No one can doubt that, were he alive, would not
>hesitate to say; "Here is a cause which must be supported everywhere and by
>all means!"
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>Imagine what terrible words he would have used to condemn this complicit
>silence, which looks elsewhere and refuses to join with the revolutionary
>struggle of the Colombian people! This historic responsibility falls heavily
>on the most conscious and advanced sections of the international
>proletariat, but even on those who may have renounced revolutionary
>principles if not the most minimal human solidarity; there is a duty to
>revolt against the imperialist genocides to which suffering humanity is
>being subjected, a duty to provide effective solidarity to the victims of
>this unspeakable aggression.
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>COMUNISTES de CATALUNYA
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>8th October, 2000
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