Dear All
It is all very easy to say "freedom for imprisioned communists in
Spain and France" and I agree that imperialist/fascist forms of government
are truly worth opposing. However what needs to be done is to make the
wider populace aware of the authoritarian nature of many"democratic"
governments and then to suggest a practical solution to which
ordinary people can contibute.
It seems to be that distributing pages of rhetoric is only the
first, primitive step towards a better society. But without offering
any kind of hope or solution it is a waste of tome. Therefore may I
suggest that proposing and organising positive action must be the
priority, and would be far more productive.
If anyone has any thoughts on this, then send the group an e-mail.
A.N.
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On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, red-rebel wrote:
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> > INTERNATIONAL APPEAL OF THE PCE (R)
> > SOLIDARITY WITH THE SPANISH COMMUNISTS AND ANTI-FASCISTS ARRESTED IN
> > FRANCE
> > Last 9th November the French politic police unleashed in Paris, under
> > the Spanish Civil Guard, 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
> > services 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 to 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 intenational 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 belonging 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 Fernandez 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 lon 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 imprison- ment 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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