(Forwarded)
From: democrite
afapp a �crit :
At Midday on November 8th, in Paris, the French police in collaboration with
the Spanish Guardia Civil detained seven militants of the Communist Party of
Spain (reconstituted) [PCE(r)] under the accusation of being members of the
"leadership of GRAPO". The names of the detaineers are:
MANUEL PEREZ MARTINEZ ("Arenas"), General-Secretary of the PCE(r),
ISABEL LLAQUET BALDELLOU,
FERNANDO SILVA SANDE,
JOSE LUIS ELIPE,
VICTORIA GOMEZ MENDEZ,
JOSE ANTONIO PE�A QUESADA,
ROSARIO LLOBREGAT
These detentions take place within the regime's new terrorist offensive,
which has as its fundamental objective to prevent, using all means
available, the vanguard organisations of the popular resistance being able
to continue with their work of denouncing the regime and gaining greater
support among the people.
The anti-people and counter-revolutionary strategy of the Spanish fascist
regime is nothing new, since it has been put into practice many times by the
previous governments of the monarchy. It is sufficient to remember the dirty
war of the Felipe Gonzalez period, through which they tried to find a
"short-cut" to liquidate all resistance to the regime in a short space of
time. As is known, this strategy ended up being a failure, rsulting in, on
the one hand, the strengthening of the revolutionary organisation and
guerrillas, and, on the other hand, an even greater deepening of the crisis
of the regime and the political bankrupcy of the social-fascists of the
PSOE.
After the arrival of the Partido Popular in government, it was clear that
this counter-revolutionary strategy would be applied, maintaining and
deepening some measures of the previous period and adding other new ones.
Now, prompted by the pressure of the latest actions of the guerrilla and the
growing influence of the PCE(r) among the working and the popular masses,
the setting into motion of this strategy has been accelerated. Thus, in
addition to the suffocating police pressure which has been seen in the last
months and the disproportionate sentences haded out to youths arrested for
participating in acts of sabotage, they are now projects to reform the Penal
Code and the Juvenile Law (in order to lower the penal age to 14), along
with the re-establishment of life imprisonment for "terrorists".
The objective of all these legal reforms, which count on the support of all
the parliamentary parties, consists in eliminating the last remnants of
freedom of expression and of association, while at the same time giving
carte blanche to the police and special tribunals (Audencia Nacional) to
repress any demonstration of sympathy or support for the organisations of
the Resistance Movement.
As a necessary complement to these "legal" measures aimed at trying to
isolate the revolutionary and popular organisation, there is no doubt that
the regime will attempt to annihilate, using any methods it can, from
assassination to arrest of militants wherever they find them (as in the case
in Paris), to slow extermination of the political prisoners (the bourgeois
propaganda media have already been put under pressure to proclaim that,
after these arrests "it will be the prisoners who will take over the
leadership of GRAPO", citing among these Francisco Brotons Beneyto, in a
clear attempt to confront the great solidarity that is building up in the
campaign for his liberation). In addition to all this, there is the
criminalisation of the solidarity organisations.
The "new" principle with respect to previous periods is that all these
measures, as happened in the Franco era, are situated with the "legality" of
the regime itself, making even clearer still the return to Spanish
"democracy" to its fascist origins, which in any case it had never
abandoned, but merely covered up.
ONLY DENUNCIATION AND STRUGGLE CAN STOP THE FASCISTS' REPRESSION!!!
We call on all popular and revolutionary organisations, on all anti-fascists
and genuine democrats to express their solidarity in every way possible with
the comrades arrested on November 8th, with the political prisoners and with
the anti-fascist struggle in Spain.
STOP THE REPRESSION!!!
FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!!!
AFAPP-ACPG thank in advance those who want to contribute and to help them
confront the financial costs imposed by legal support of the people
arrestedin France, as the French lawyers who are representing them have to
be paid.
12 November 2000
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