From: Tabe Kooistra (tabe@ozgurluk.xs4all.nl)
Date: 29 Jul 2001 02:23 uur
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 organisations 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 revolutionaries of
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!
DEVRÝMCÝ HALK KURTULUÞ CEPHESÝ Revolutionary People's Liberation Front
http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc
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