Prof. Jose Maria Sison arrested by the Dutch Police

Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Chairperson of the International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS) was illegally arrested by the Dutch Police. Prof. Sison was arrested despite the Supreme Court decision last July 2007 that dismissed as invalid the charge of rebellion and the hundreds of folders of supposed evidence against Prof. Sison and 50 other individuals.

We also received reports that houses and offices of Filipino leaders living in the Netherlands were searched and personal computers were confiscated by Dutch police.

These actions of the Dutch police is condemnable.

In light of this, it is necessary to conduct immediate protest actions and send letter protest to the Netherlands Embassy/Consulate and the Philippine Embassy/Consulate in your areas to denounce and condemn the illegal arrest and attack on the basic human rights of Prof. Sison and other Filipino leaders in the Netherlands.

letter from
Ramon Bultron
ILPS-HK

ILPS Condemns the Unjust Arrest of Binali Soydan

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples' Struggle
8 July 2007

The International League of Peoples' Struggle (ILPS) condemns in the strongest terms the arrest and detention on 19 June 2007 by the German authorities of Binali Soydan, a refugee persecuted by the fascist Turkish state. Soydan was treacherously arrested while on his way to the German Aliens Police to apply for extension of his residence permit.

The German government took this patently unjust action upon the request of the Turkish government for the extradition of Soydan. This action exposes the immense hypocrisy of the German government which talks about democracy while collaborating with the very undemocratic Turkish state in persecuting progressives like Binali Soydan who are fighting for the democratic rights of the people..

In Turkey, anyone who opposes the state is persecuted. Anyone who opposes the state terrorism of the Turkish state is called a terrorist. This fascist government has been reprimanded by the European Court of Human Rights for many cases of human rights violations.

Binali Soydan faces certain arrest and persecution if he is sent back by the German authorities to Turkey. He faces the possibility of being subjected to torture, isolation and other inhumane treatment that prisoners of conscience suffer in the hands of the fascist Turkish state.

Binali Soydan is a progressive and a democrat. He came to Germany as a refugee who suffered from persecution by the Turkish regime. He was previously imprisoned and tortured while in detention for opposing the fascist regime in Turkey.

For many years now, European governments have been using the so-called war on terror to persecute progressive emigrees in Europe who are fighting for democracy and social reforms in their home countries. They use the terrorist tag on leaders and members of liberation movements as license to violate their elementary human rights. These European governments thus expose their extreme duplicity and extraordinary hypocrisy.

We call on all progressive and democratic organizations and all people of good will to condemn the unjust arrest and detention of Binali Soydan and call for his immediate release. We call on all member organizations of ILPS to support all actions that may be taken to secure the immediate and unconditional release of Binali Soydan

CPG (m-l) statement on anti-missile shield

CPG (m-l) statement

Criminal Bush: persona non grata!
Oust the USA from the Balkans!
No to the pro-war anti-missile shield!

The global criminal Bush’ tour in the Balkans after his visit to Poland and Czekia, these days, is part of a clearly war move and it forebodes new sufferings for the peoples of the Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Bush is coming to declare the official re-mapping out of the Balkan borders through the secession plan of Kosovo; to support the US-subordinated forces in Albania, FYROM and Bulgaria; to launch a new period of strong US intervention in the Balkan affairs and to incite the local chauvinisms. The intervening US policy in the Balkans, the establishment of military bases and the plans for Balkan countries to join NATO, are part of their aspiration for the consolidation of the US hegemony in Europe; the control of the energy roads and in the plans for a cold and in case it would be necessary fir a hot period of confrontation with the Russian influence and policy.
This dangerous policy for the peace and the common future of the Balkan peoples is part of Washington’s broader aggressive projects which recently have escalated with the decision to locate missiles and radar systems in Poland and Czekia using the ridiculous pretext of facing the dangers of the North Korea’s and Iran’s … missile projects. In fact this decision aims to Russia and the peace in Europe.
The Greek government has undertaken serious responsibilities with the political alignment with the pro-war US plans because it exposes our country and people to grave danger. It consents with the dangerous policy of re-mapping out the Balkan borders, it submits to the plans for NATO expansion in the Balkans and it is ready to succumb to the US extortions for the so called anti-missile shield.
CPG (m-l) calls all the anti-imperialist and pro-peace popular forces to stay in militant alert and mobilization to foil the way to the new pro-war US plans. To strengthen the struggle against the presence of the US military bases in the country and against its participation in NATO and imperialist wars. It calls for the formation of a common anti-war, anti-imperialist front pf the Balkan peoples against this intervening policy. It points out the necessity for the peoples of Europe to rise against the plans for location of the anti-missile shield and to organize an independent, militant and mass movement against the European governments and the EU which actually follow the same pro-war and imperialist policy.

Athens 7/6/2007

CPG (m-l)

On the new imperialist project (anti-missile system in Europe)

The US plans

The US imperialist’s plans are to proceed in installing a modern anti-missile system, which will include missile rows, in Poland and a radar system in Czekia. In countries where according to Ramsfeld, the new-European “willing” partners are.
The US initiative has caused the angry reaction of Russia. The head of Russia’s missile defense, General Nicolay Solochov threatened to turn the Russian weapons against Poland and Czekia in case they took in the US settlements.
Putin, the Russian president, made some severe statements, recently in Germany on the so called unipolar US practice.
The new US imperialist initiative is a sequence – and a reiteration to every direction – of the expanding NATO policy to the East. The US tries to establish, in a great region of Eastern Europe, a huge US base with the apparent objective to encircle Russia from the West. In the same direction are included the policies like the establishment of new military bases in Rumania and Bulgaria, the constant pressure for increasing military expenses and buying new arsenal systems, airplanes and other material by their allies. It is also the upgrade of the constant attempt to expand NATO, as a US arm in the direction of their expressed policy for global domination.
The problems, the US face in Iraq, the foiling of their plans for expansion of their intervention in the M. East is the result of the Iraqi Resistance; the coherence problems in the Western block, the more “extraverted” policy of Russia and their desire to seek a way out for their imperialist plans, strengthen the direction of transferring the confrontation in the core of Europe, right next to the Russian border. This is a very serious development.
With the project of the so called “anti-missile protection”, they aggravate dangerously the inter-imperialist rivalry and they try to “secure” as many allies as possible. They wish to put pressure to the unwilling that emerged form the period of their invasion on Iraq to collaborate.
The fear and the embarrassment in Europe were obvious from the moment the US “anti-missile shield” plans started getting concrete. For instance, Germany’s reaction was obvious. Germany understands that the confrontation between USA and Russia has been transferred at its borders.
Meanwhile the US initiative proceeded to bilateral agreements with the countries that Germany considers its backyard for its own imperialist aspiration.
A new arming rally is in process. USA, France and Britain have already decided to modernize their nuclear arsenal.

Uncompromising struggle against imperialism

We live in the era in which a fierce rivalry has broken out; imperialist interventions, wars, devastation of economic formations, countries and nations being fragmented, are “common phenomena”. This is the reality we’re experiencing, this where the capitalism of the imperialist stage drives the world to – and certainly not in getting closer, in unity, co-operation, peace, progress and democracy. This will the future if we let it happen…
The future of the peoples cannot rely on the negotiation with the imperialists for the position and the role of the various subdued bourgeois cliques. It lies on the relentless, uncompromising struggle against imperialism and against every corrupted clique that oppresses, exploits and bargains the peoples and the blood of their children with the imperialists.
Imperialism exists; the confrontation is being aggravated and oppresses our lives. We must face it.

Press statement of CPG (m-l) student’s youth, Thessaloniki

The provocative and revengeful imprisonment of a student of the Polytechnic campus in Thessaloniki, using as a pretext the events in front of the Aristotelion University in Thessaloniki (Philosophy campus, who was accused with serious, unsubstantial charges, is part of the revanchist government policy and the police-court mechanisms against the victorious students’ movement. It was a movement that stirred up the whole majority of society during the last months and managed to foil, in a significant degree, the government’s plant to privatize education. In the same direction are included the police operations to students’ homes, the threats for the abolishment of the campuses haven and the general attempt to terrorize and slander the fighting students with the collaboration of the media.
The party students’ organization of CPG (m-l) calls for the immediate formation of a broad solidarity front of students, workers and democrat citizens which will demand the immediate release of the student and the withdrawal of every unsubstantial charge. The leading force of this movement should be the mass General Assemblies of students across the country. This movement must and can defend the mass collective action and unity and it should isolate the practices the objectively subserve the repression forces in their attempt to terrorize the students’ movement.

7/5/2007

On early Saturday morning, May 5th, and while two different parties were held in the Polytechnic campus, certain clashes were taking place in a nearby street (Ethnikis Aminis) between the police and some unknown people.
A couple hours later (at approximately 07.00 in the morning) 15 people were presented to the Thessaloniki Police Headquarters and five of them were arrested. Two of them are facing serious charges.
One of these two was among the 49 arrested students who were proved innocent in the events of March the 8th. (mass police arrests of students under unsubstantial charges which were proven false in the court and the policemen who were witnesses were persecuted by the court).
The student was arrested far from the place where the clashes took place and he was accused only after the police found out that he was on the 49 arrested students. The evidence they used was the fact that he was wearing green shoes (!!!) as someone who participates in the clashes was wearing. Naturally after the police searched him and his house no evidence to condemn him was found.
The solidarity movement reacted immediately with protests, rallies and demonstrations.

ARRY FORWARD THE HEROIC ANTI-IMPERIALIST TRADITIONS OF 1857!! HAIL

CELEBRATE THE OCCASION ON A GRAND SCALE FURTHER DEVELOPING THE
ANT-IMPERIALIST TRADITIONS OF OUR COUNTRY!!!

---- CALL OF THE CPI (MAOIST)

Press Release: May 5, 2007

Exactly 150 years ago on May 10th the first salvo of this great
rebellion was fired. What started as a mutiny of the Indian soldiers
soon turned into a prairie fire and became a great people's war. This
people's war engulfed large parts of India embracing Oudh, Rohilkhand,
Bundelkhand, Sagar, Narmada, Nagpur, Hyderabad, many districts of
Bihar, Agra, Meerut, Punjab, Delhi, parts of Bengal and other places.
In magnitude, depth, as also in significance, this rebellion was
unparalleled in the long history of both independent and colonial
India. Primarily anti-colonial, it was at the same time directed
against the feudal forces. It was the soldiers of Meerut who set the
ball rolling on the 10th of May. Mutinies followed in several stations
of the north. In Bundelkhand, Jhansi took the lead. In many areas,
British army officials were attacked and killed. At Jhansi, the rebel
soldiers released all prisoners.

But this no longer remained a revolt of the armed forces. It spread to
the entire peasantry and artisans. A few weeks after the Revolt began,
British rule was virtually wiped out in north India. In all cases of
rural uprising, violence was directed against those institutions of
power with which they interacted directly and immediately, namely
tehsils and thanas. Thanas and tahsils were attacked, records
destroyed and government officials driven out. All vestiges of
colonial rule were in the process eliminated. While confiscating the
ill-gotten property was the principal form by which people asserted
their power, arming themselves was the principal means by which they
did so. The weapons chosen were anything that was available from
matchlocks, spears, scythes, and iron-bound lathis, axes, etc to
weapons seized from the British. British political power and that of
their lackeys were practically demolished over entire Northern India.

The revolutionaries set up their own `Court of Administration' for an
independent India free from foreign control. It was set up with
representatives from soldiers and civilians with two representatives
each from the infantry, cavalry and infantry and four from the
civilians. Each of these representatives was elected by majority vote
from their own constituencies. This smaller body elected a president
and a vice-president by a majority vote. This supreme body acted in a
judicial capacity and also established different courts for discharge
of judicial duties. Taking of bribes and other malpractices were
firmly suppressed. The body took upon itself the task of
administration of the land, maintenance of peace and order in the
captured territories, collection of loans from the mahajans and the
conduct of war. The emperor exercised no control over these affairs.

Not only did the militant masses fight the British and their lackeys
they also established a new power in a rudimentary form. Such is the
heroic history of this great uprising, which is as relevant today as
it was over 150 years back. The direct British colonial rule has been
replaced by the neo-colonial rule of the imperialists. The country
continues being robbed through indirect means ever since the so-called
independence of 1947. This robbery has increased phenomenally ever
since the implementation of the policies of imperialist globalization
in the country. The loot of our country today by the imperialists and
their lackeys has reached gigantic proportions. Nothing but another
Great War for Indian Independence can save this country from total
devastation. On this occasion of this 150th Anniversary it is only
such a message that must be sent to the vast masses of our motherland.
It must be shown that if the masses revolt it is possible to seize
power and smash the rule of the robbers, both Indian and foreign.

Today, while all establishment parliamentary parties are celebrating
the event they are primarily doing so to hide their outright betrayal
of the country and its people to the imperialists, particularly the
US. While taking up a mass campaign we must expose their hypocrisy and
false pretenses. We must call on the masses to continue in the
revolutionary traditions of 1857 and also Bhagat Singh whose birth
centenary is being celebrated this year. Both represent the great
anti-imperialist and patriotic traditions of the masses of our country
which is being taken forward by the Maoists and other democratic and
revolutionary forces of the country.

Let us turn this 150th year of the historic 1857 uprising and Bhagat
Singh birth centenary into a great festival of revolt in all parts of
the country. Let us build this anti-imperialist tempo in every nook
and corner of the country; starting from May 10th and culminating in
huge actions/meetings/celebrations on Sept.28, the birth centenary day
of Bhagat Singh.

Azad

Spokesperson,

Central Committee,

CPI(Maoist)

May First 2007 Message of the International League of Peoples' Struggle

By Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, ILPS International Coordinating Committee
1 May 2007

The International League of Peoples' Struggle extends its most militant greetings to the workers and other toiling people of the world on the occasion of International Workers' Day.

We commemorate the first May Day in 1887 when hundreds of thousands of workers struck in every major American city calling for an 8-hour workday. In Chicago, the police brutally attacked the strikers and demonstrators. A rally in Haymarket Square to protest the police brutality was also attacked. A number of labor leaders were framed on trumped up charges and hanged while others were thrown in prison.

One hundred twenty years later, the workers still suffer from the barbarities of capitalism. They have to struggle to achieve their own emancipation and the emancipation of mankind.

May 1 has become a symbol of the struggle for the emancipation of the working class from all forms of exploitation and oppression under capitalism.

The workers and other toiling people of the world, especially those in the underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America are subjected not only to the overt violence of the bourgeois state; they suffer even more from the daily violence of the exploitative and oppressive system of capitalism.

More than half the world - nearly three billion people - live on less than two dollars a day.

The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world's countries) is less than the wealth of the world's three richest people combined.

Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.

The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money. The underdeveloped world now spends $13 on debt repayment for every $1 it receives in grants.

20% of the population in the developed nations consume 86% of the world's goods.

A few hundred millionaires now own as much wealth as the world's poorest 2.5 billion people.

Approximately 790 million people in the developing world are still chronically undernourished, almost two-thirds of whom reside in Asia and the Pacific.

According to UNICEF, 30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they "die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world." That is around 11 million children a year.

It is very ironic that the working people who are responsible for creating the wealth in the world are confined to a life of misery and deprivation.

In the imperialist countries, the workers suffer from low wages, high unemployment and job insecurity. Their democratic right to form unions and to strike are restricted. The workers in the underdeveloped world are even more exploited and oppressed.

More than ever there is a need for struggle and resistance. The proletariat and other working people in the imperialist countries are rising up to fight for their rights. The peoples in the oppressed countries are fighting for democracy, social justice and national liberation. ILPS reaffirms its commitment to exert all efforts in support of the struggle of the workers and other toiling masses to build a new and better world free from the exploitation and oppression of imperialism and all forms of reaction.

Long live the workers and oppressed peoples of the world!
Advance the struggle for democracy, national liberation and social emancipation!
Long live international solidarity!