Message of Solidarity

from CPG (m-l) to the conference that will be held in Rome in the 10th of November on the 90th anniversary of October Revolution by CARC and other organizations

Dear comrades,

On behalf of CPG (m-l) we would like to express our warmest revolutionary greetings to you and the participants of your conference. Your initiative to celebrate the 90^th anniversary of October Revolution is very significant, particularly during this period that the global reaction is trying to criminalize everyone that claims to be communist or even uphold the communist ideas. They are trying to criminalize every attempt of the working class and the people to resist and organize their struggle against the attack of the capitalist-imperialist system across the word; against the plunder of the imperialists and their wars, against the attempt of the capitalist system to abolish the people’s democratic rights –with the pretext of “terrorism”- and gains achieved through long and bloody struggles. The global reaction wishes to delete from people’s memory the gains and the achievements of the communist movement, to slander their struggle and make them believe that capitalism is a one way path.

Whatever they do, it’s impossible to delete history. October Revolution did happen. And the working class managed to establish its state and changed the history of mankind. For, class struggle had been conducted since the first moment that exploitation and oppression were forced upon the wretched of this earth. But October was the first time that it was proved that the working class can seize power and create a new society without exploitation. It inspired the working class and the people across the world and its impact shook the foundations of the whole planet.

Despite the fact it was defeated –not by an external enemy but from the shortcomings and the contradictions the very socialist system had generated and didn’t manage to solve correctly- by the revisionists and capitalism was restored in the Soviet Union and the eastern countries and despite the attempt of Mao and the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution to answer the same questions and didn’t manage to win, the significance of October revolution remains valuable for the working class and the people across the world.

The first circle closed with the collapse of the revisionist regimes but it was written in the consciousness of billions workers that this first attempt was possible and that its failure wasn’t inevitable; it was simply an incomplete attempt and it required constant confirmation of the worker rule.

October Revolution inspires and guides the revolutionary struggles in countries like Nepal, Philippines, and India etc. It inspires and guides the struggles of the working class and the people against the offensive of the capitalist-imperialist system to abolish gains and democratic rights. The communists have a duty to support these revolutionary attempts in these countries and these struggles in the capitalist metropolises and through class struggle, each in their own country to pave the way for the communist movement and the proletarian revolution in the 21^st century.

Long Live October Revolution!

Long Live Internationalist Solidarity!

Greece

24/10/2007

Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist)

Free Jose Maria Sison!

by Intl Committee DEFEND

The International Committee Defend condemns in the strongest terms the unjust arrest this morning, August 28, of Filipino political exile Prof. Jose Maria Sison, by the Dutch Police, on trumped-up charges, and the simultaneous police raids in Utrecht on several houses of Filipinos, including the NDF International Information Office. The arrest of Professor Sison came after the Philippine Supreme Court dismissed several politically-motivated cases filed against him and several others. The case filed against him by the Dutch police are similarly politically-motivated and must be dismissed immediately.

Also, the European Court of the First Instance in Luxemburg on July 11, annulled the inclusion of Professor Sison in the European Council’s ‘terrorist’ listing because the Council of the European Union failed to give a valid reason for his inclusion.

Professor Sison or Joma, was arrested when he reported to the Utrecht police after he got an invitation from them supposedly about new information on the complaint he filed in 2001.

According to Sison’s lawyer who accompanied him to the police station, Sison was asked to go to a room supposedly to be asked questions. And after he was alone in the room he was whisked away without the knowledge of his lawyer, to the National Penitentiary in Scheveningen in The Hague where he is now under detention.

International Committee Defend strongly denounces the ‘Gestapo-style’ manner in which the Dutch police arrested Professor Sison and conducted the raids. The police used a ruse to take Sison into custody. Also during the raids, the raiding team in some cases, did not show any search warrant and forced their entry into the houses by breaking the doors even if people were inside. In some of the houses that were raided, only minors were present.

Julie Sison, wife of Sison, said at around 9:30 am, the Dutch police in plainclothes did not even ring or knock, but instead broke down their front door. She was reportedly asked to sit in one corner of their house while the police carted away their computers, documents, CDs, and other files. The search lasted until early evening.

Simultaneous with Joma’s arrest and the search on his house, the NDF International Information Office and several other houses of Filipinos in Utrecht, were raided. The Dutch police confiscated computers, laptops, papers, diskettes, CD Roms, and DVDs.

The arrest of Professor Sison and the searches in several Filipino houses are clearly politically-motivated. EU envoy Javier Solana has said that the terrorist tag on the CPP, NPA and Professor Sison would be dropped if they capitulate.

The Philippines, Dutch and US are using judicial proceedings to put political pressure on the NDFP to surrender to the Manila government.

Committee Defend will hold the Dutch government accountable for any harm that may happen to Professor Sison, including rendition to any country outside the Netherlands, while under their custody.

Committee Defend announces that there will be protest mobilizations in the Philippines, Canada, US, Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia and several countries in Europe.

IMMEDIATELY RELEASE PROF. JOSE MARIA SISON!
JUNK THE TRUMPED-UP CHARGES!
STOP THE POLITICAL PERSECUTION OF FILIPINO PROGRESSIVES IN EUROPE!

Utrecht, The Netherlands

For reference:

Atty. Jan Fermon
Lead Counsel in the European Court of First Instance case
+32-475441896

Atty. Michel Pestman
Counsel
+31-20-3446200

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.