From: Press Agency Ozgurluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:49:34 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Ozgurluk] DHKC on Genua Date: 25 July 2001 All those who oppose the hegemony of a minority, who oppose imperialism, fascism and capitalism WE MUST UNITE! WE MUST CLARIFY! AGAINST imperialism FOR Independence! AGAINST fascism FOR Democracy! AGAINST capitalism FOR Socialism! In Genoa we surrounded those who surround the entire world with their economy, military and culture. But this has been a symbolic surrounding. The imperialists would not present us with an easy victory. In order to defeat the World Empire of imperialism called ``globalisation'', a long-running struggle, which requires the expert unification of all means of struggle and organisation, will be necessary. As the DHKC (Revolutionary People's Liberation Front) we are a part of this resistance which has strong and weak sides. Our strength is in the steps that we took to make real a world-wide unity against imperialism. Our strength is the minimum unity that we can bring about in this struggle. Our weakness is the fact that those who came to Genoa could not carry this struggle on in their own countries sufficiently. Our weakness is our difficulty to answer the question of ``what for?'' As an organisation, which has been struggling against imperialism and the collaborationist oligarchy for the last thirty years, we take it as our responsibility to share our thoughts and suggestions on developing the internationalist struggle against imperialism with organisation and individuals within this resistance. 1- We must continue our unity and develop it: The forces which take part in this resistance are revolutionaries and anti-imperialists from the neo-colonies, like our country, and the revolutionaries and anti-imperialists from the imperialist-capitalist countries. In this resistance, besides the forces that defend revolution and socialism like us, there are also forces, which oppose capitalism, without having an alternative and are aiming to reform capitalism. If the unity is limited with only actions against ``the summits of imperialist countries and institutions'' this cannot be a real unity. Imperialism continues to do what it wants to do in countries individually. Wherever in the world there is a tyranny we must stand against it TOGETHER and wherever there is a resistance against tyranny we must support it TOGETHER. Imperialists will try to separate the forces within this struggle by several ways. And of course, some unavoidable divisions will occur. As, the anti-imperialist, anti-fascist, progressive, democratic forces, we must succeed to resist and get organised without the divisions and progress in reaching our national and international aims by establishing the unity of the peoples of the world. 2- We must develop the struggle in our own countries; if we cannot complete the struggle within the struggle against the policies, which are the reflections in our own individual countries of the world empire of imperialism, one of the strands of the resistance will be in the air. It is not possible to develop a movement in a way that it can create results just by organising 2-3 demonstrations annually and then going back to their own lives in which ``there is a compromise with the regime''. 3- We must clarify the terms; Globalisation is a term, which was developed to mask the hegemony of imperialism. Globalisation is not a concept that is different than imperialism. Globalisation is the name of the freedom of world-wide exploitation and massacres for imperialism, mainly US imperialism. The main enemy of the peoples of the world is imperialism. And all those who take part in this resistance must clearly display and announce the name of the enemy. Instead of defining ourselves by using imperialists' definitions like ``anti-globalisation'', we must define our struggle as an ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE. 4- We must clarify our goals; even though the enemy is the same in the neo-colony countries and imperialist countries, there are differences in the conditions. Therefore this means that there will be differences in the goals and the means to obtain the goals. The revolutiona neo-colonies will bring the goal of INDEPENDENCE AND DEMOCRACY (People's Democracy) up front and will follow a longer path for SOCIALISM whilst the revolutionaries of imperialist countries will directly struggle for SOCIALISM. Even though in the neo-colonies and imperialist countries different stages and alliances will form, there is only one way which will make us reach our goal and it is REVOLUTION! The way for INDEPENDENCE and DEMOCRACY in the neo-colonies and SOCIALISM in imperialist countries is not a parliamentary struggle but REVOLUTION. THE ONLY WAY IS REVOLUTION; is the mutual slogan of the revolutionaries in both neo-colony and imperialist countries. These two struggles are the allies of each other. The mutual line of struggle -from Seattle to Genoa- against imperialism is one of the concrete forms of this alliance. But it cannot stay as the only form. This alliance can be enriched in several ways. We must develop the strength of the revolution in single countries and the unity and solidarity on a world scale. 5- The alternative to capitalism is socialism; In the last ten years imperialism's ideological and cultural attacks and propaganda, claiming that ``socialism is dead'', have condemned the entire world into having no alternative. If this world-wide resistance cannot defend its own alternative, this means that it is condemning itself to defeat right from beginning. No one should expect a better capitalism or a more humane imperialism. Imperialism and capitalism means more starvation, injustice, inequality and massacres. We are inviting all the anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist forces, to discuss the Alternative. The alternative is socialism. Neither the fact of its collapse in several countries nor the propaganda of imperialism can change this historical fact. We even can discuss socialism and criticise its insufficiencies. This is what we claim; socialism's problems can be solved within socialism. 6- The demagogy of violence and terrorism should not be taken seriously; without a doubt, when the alternative is defined this means that the struggle directly targets the SYSTEM. In order to protect its own system imperialism will use all forms of oppression, terror and bans in both neo-colonies and imperialist countries. Its increasing use of violence during demonstrations is proof of it. Us, the neo-colony revolutionaries, have been living with this violence for decades. Imperialists have already started to divide artificially the anti-imperialist forces as ``those who are against violence and those who are for violence''. The demagogy of violence and terror is a demagogy that has been used by imperialists for decades against patriots and revolutionaries who struggle against imperialism in order to ``isolate'' them. The people and the revolutionaries never chose to use violence. Imperialism enforces the violence. We all saw this at the recent anti-imperialist gathering; they fired the first bullet. Imperialism has been ruling the world for centuries by using violence, and no option but to use violence and armed struggle is left for the people. Tomorrow also the people who took part in the resistance will be called ``terrorists''. The isolation cells of Europe and the USA will be used also for the opposition of globalisation. This shows us the necessity of the resistance against anti-democratic, fascist and fascistic policies in our countries and not to take the bourgeoisie's demagogy of ``violence and terror'' into consideration. 7- For independence against imperialism, for democracy against fascism and for socialism against capitalism is the formula of the common struggle of the peoples of the world and their common goal. When we unite all our mutual and individual struggles within this goal and get organised accordingly, to cease the hegemony of a bunch of people who have a monopoly over 6 billion people, then this will not be a utopia but a reality. This anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist fight which has been continuing since Seattle, can be converted into a new international of the peoples of the world. Then it would be possible to stand against the G-8, the IMF, and the World Bank, as the ENTIRE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD. When we succeed this world will no longer be the farm of 3-5 monopolies and imperialists but will become a place where the peoples of the world live happily. 8- Carlo Giuliani who was murdered in Genoa by the bodyguards of the G-8, will live as the flag of the united anti-imperialist struggle of the peoples of the world. Following the long years of struggle, maybe for the first time, our European and North American comrades and friends are losing one of their comrades. We are continuing our anti-imperialist and anti-oligarchic struggle in blood baths and deaths. Just during the resistance against the isolation cells, which are being enforced by the IMF, the US and European imperialism and are being applied by a collaborationist government, (which has so far taken 10 months), 60 of our comrades have fallen. 60 deaths in 10 months. 9- And here we must underline once again that; those who we stood shoulder to shoulder with in Genoa are still insensitive and careless towards our ongoing resistance in Turkey. And this is, as we have pointed out above, is one of the weak points of this resistance. In an another corner of the world, 60 people are massacred, 60 people are left handicapped and hundreds more are on the brink of death on the orders of IMF and G-8. If the anti-IMF, anti-G-8 forces are still in silence, we cannot yet talk about a ``global resistance'', a world-wide anti-imperialist unity. The struggle of the people of the world against imperialism will be victorious. We have no doubt about it. Our rights and wrongs and deficiencies will determine the length of this victory. Therefore we take this anti-imperialist resistance which is in its initial period seriously and we take it as our duty to develop and strengthen it. The DHKC will continue to take part in the resistance of the peoples of the world against imperialism and capitalism. We salute all those forces and individuals who participated in this resistance from Seattle to Genoa and we wish to unite in an uninterrupted line of struggle both locally and internationally. For Independence, Democracy and Socialism; Workers and Oppressed People of the World, Unite! Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Front http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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