Seminar contributions

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Press Release

Athens: International Meeting for the 90 years since the October Revolution

The conference held in Athens, in 8 -9/12/08, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution was completed with success. Hundreds of activists attended the programme both days, with great interest for the contributions of the international delegates on socialist building, on the revolutions in the 21st century and the general development of the international communist movement.
In the opening of the debate there was a public denouncement for the intimidating arrests of the Turkish activists in Germany. The contribution of the Turkish comrades of Partizan will be included in the documents that will be published soon.
The delegates (ANNISU(R)-Nepal, RFDPR-Brazil, CARC-Italy, CAIS-Philippines, MLPU-Ukraine), presented their contributions enriched with the experience of their own country and this debate indicated the qualitative achievements of the marxist-leninist movement in different parts of the world and the promising message sent by the vanguard forces that act within the mass base of the developing people’s struggles.
We think that this initiative of CPG(m -l) was a substantial contribution in promoting the internationalist perspective and the deepening of the debate in accordance with October’s spirit.

Athens 16/12/2008

Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist)
International Bureau

STOP THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE TURKISH ACTIVISTS!

SOLIDARITY TO THE TURKISH ACTIVISTS!


Turkish democrat activists, migrants in Germany, became the target of a state-terrorist attack. Riot police forces of the German imperialism raided houses and migrant associations’ offices and arrested Turkish activists in 8 different cities in Germany. They were transferred and detained in police stations on the 5th of December 2007. They were accused of being members and supporters of TKP/ML and they were about to go on trial.
This attack is part of the overall attack of the imperialist against the working class and the people aiming to intimidate them and smash their resistance.
Workers’ and people’s struggle, among them are the Turkish activists is just. They are struggling against the capitalist-imperialist barbarism and their war raids the slaughter the people of the world.
We, the undersigned, participants of the International Seminar on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of October Revolution, in Athens, Greece, 8-9/12/2007, condemn the violent state-terrorist attack of the German police against the Turkish activists.
Stop the persecutions of the Turkish activists!
Solidarity to their just struggle!

Long Live International Solidarity!

CARC-Italy
CPG (m-l)-Greece
MLPU-Ukraine
CEBRASPO-Brazil
ANNISU(R), CPN (M)- Nepal
ILPS-Philippine Section-Philippines

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