!ARRESTATI 3 COMPAGNI DEL CAMPO! Libertà per Alessia, Maria Grazia e Moreno!

[CONSURTA C.S.]

ARRESTATI TRE COMPAGNI DEL CAMPO ANTIMPERIALISTA
La repressione colpisce chi sostiene le lotte dei popoli contro l’imperialismo americano


Questa mattina, su mandato della Procura di Perugia, sono stati arrestati tre compagni del Campo Antimperialista: Moreno Pasquinelli (portavoce internazionale del Campo), Maria Grazia Ardizzone ed Alessia Monteverdi.
Pare che l’accusa sia quella di avere aiutato militanti rivoluzionari turchi costretti all’esilio dal regime fascista di Ankara.
La campagna di criminalizzazione portata avanti da diversi organi di stampa, ed in particolare da Magdi Allam sulle pagine del Corriere della Sera, ha dato i suoi frutti.
Non più tardi di ieri pomeriggio abbiamo occupato simbolicamente i locali della redazione romana del Corriere della Sera per protestare contro questa campagna diffamatoria e persecutoria condotta contro il Campo Antimperialista.
Gli arresti di questa mattina sono una chiara rappresaglia contro la realtà che si è maggiormente distinta nel sostegno alla Resistenza ed alla lotta di liberazione che il popolo iracheno conduce contro la barbara ed illegittima occupazione di quel paese da parte delle truppe americane e di quelle dei paesi alleati, tra i quali l’Italia.
Il 20 marzo, in un corteo gigantesco che ha manifestato una posizione chiara sul diritto a resistere all’occupazione militare, in tantissimi hanno espresso apertamente il sostegno alla resistenza irachena.
E’ questo che fa paura al governo italiano ed a quei politicanti dei diversi schieramenti che si ritrovano uniti nel sostegno alla dottrina americana che fa da cornice al disegno imperiale di Washington. Un sostegno che si avvale della mistificante equazione, resistenza uguale terrorismo. E’ questa equazione, che ricorda l’“achtung banditen” dei nazisti, la copertura che viene usata sia per giustificare ogni porcheria dell’impero a stelle e strisce e dei suoi servili alleati, sia per colpire gli antimperialisti ed i resistenti in ogni luogo del pianeta.
L’azione della procura di Perugia contro il Campo Antimperialista ed i militanti turchi si inserisce in questa logica di repressione globale al servizio del dominio americano.
E’ un’azione politica che ha risposto a precisi tempi politici. Basti dire che l’ordinanza di carcerazione eseguita questa mattina porta la data del 23 febbraio scorso.
E’ un’azione che vuole segnare un deciso salto di qualità della repressione nel nostro paese, al punto che ai compagni – inquisiti sulla base del famigerato art. 270 bis – è stato vietato il colloquio con l’avvocato difensore per cinque giorni, con una procedura insolita e del tutto eccezionale volta a calpestare gli elementari diritti di difesa.
E’ un’azione che vuole colpire il Campo per colpire tutti gli antimperialisti; che ha preso di mira gli antimperialisti per mettere sotto tiro tutti gli antagonisti e tutti quanti si oppongono alla guerra infinita di Bush.

Facciamo quindi appello a tutti coloro che si battono contro il dominio USA perché si mobilitino immediatamente, a tutti quanti sono scesi in piazza il 20 marzo per chiedere la cessazione immediata dell’occupazione dell’Iraq perché facciano sentire la loro voce, a tutti i democratici perché si ribellino ad un’azione e ad una logica repressiva che è figlia del totalitarismo del pensiero unico dominante.

Libertà per Alessia, Maria Grazia e Moreno
Libertà per i militanti rivoluzionari turchi


1 Aprile 2004
CAMPO ANTIMPERIALISTA

Libertà per Alessia, Maria Grazia e Moreno

[CONSURTA C.S.]

Solidarity messages to free the arrested anti-imperialists


Askapena (Basque County)
Arab Cause Solidarity Committee (Spain)
Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK, Greece)
Communist Party of Greece /ML (KKE/ML)
Workers’ Communist Party of Denmark (APK)
Freedom Socialist Party (USA)
United Peoples (USA)
Workers’ Action (USA)
Socialist Choice (Ukraine)
Poetas Antiimperialista de America (Canada)
Socialist Thought Forum, Jordan
Anti-Repression Campaign, Brittany
Communist Youth of Poland
Voie Démocratique, Morocco
International League of People’s Struggle – Turkey section
In Defence of Marxism (Spain)
Popular Democratic Left (IDP, Mexico)
Construction Committee of the Revolutionary Worker’s Party (Argentine)
Communist Organization for the Fourth International (COFI)

Shayhka Maulani Aeisha Muhammad (USA)
Said Elnashaie
Harsh Thakor, Bombay, India
Dr. Hisham Bustani, Amman, Jordan
Claude le Duigou, spokesman Coordination Anti-Répressive de Bretagne
Abdallah Elharif, National Secretary of Voie Démocratique, Morocco
John Paul Cupp, USA
Andrew Kahn, New York City, USA
Iman Badawi, Arab world
Ana María Vera Smith, Mexico
Muheep Akram, Arab world
Daniel Stragá, Argentine

***

Workers Revolutionary Party of Greece

The Workers Revolutionary Party of Greece (EEK) condemns and denounces
before the workers and popular movement in Greece and all over the world
the internationally organized and coordinated witch-hunt launched by the EU
imperialists and their governments together with the Turkish repressive
State apparatus against a number of Turkish revolutionaries arrested in
Greece, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Turkey as well as against
three well known internationally leading Italian comrades of the
Anti-imperialist camp.

We reject with contempt the outrageous lie of the European police that these
comrades are "terrorists"; their record is public and well known to
everybody, including political organizations of the Left, which despite all
the political disagreements, know very well that the only "crime" of these
comrades and of their organizations is their fight against imperialism,
against the Occupation in Iraq and Palestine, against the barbaric
repression and the death cells of the Turkish prison system.

We call for the immediate release of all the arrested fighters from the
Greek, Italian, Turkish, German, Dutch and Belgian prisons.

We call to all workers and popular organizations to express their solidarity
to the victims of imperialism and bourgeois repression

The P.C of EEK-Greece

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Workers’ Communist Party of Denmark (APK)

Free the arrested anti-imperialists and revolutionaries!

The Workers’ Communist Party of Denmark (APK) condemns
the arrest and persecution of anti-imperialists and revolutionaries carried
out under the pretext of combating terrorism.

Following the decision by the European Union to intensify the so-called
struggle against terrorism this wave of arrests reveals that the European
imperialists target their political opponents, who exercise their democratic
right of protest.

This action is not directed against terrorism, but against the resistance to
imperialist domination, against the just struggle of the peoples against
imperialist war and occupation.

It reveals the reactionary and repressive character of the European Union,
planning to become a new imperialist superpower.

We demand the immediate release of the arrested anti-imperialists from Campo
Antimperialista and the Turkish revolutionaries!

ARBEJDERPARTIET KOMMUNISTERNE (APK)
Workers’ Communist Party of Denmark
April 1st 2004

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Workers’ Action (US)

We wish to express our solidarity with your arrested comrades. We have sent
out your message internationally in hopes of soliciting solidarity actions
across the globe.

The repression of the Italian government, in accordance to article 270b, is
an inevitable response of a bankrupt system that faces a growing
international movement against its attacks on the working class and self
determination. In the US, the police state measures of the Patriot Act and
the Homeland Security Department hang over the heads of all voices of
resistance. The capitalists have not yet implemented these Draconian acts on
a mass scale, in part, out of fear of a reaction that could potentially send
the ruling elite falling from their perch.

We stand squarely in defense of your comrades and the Turkish
revolutionaries. Imperialism can only bring barbarism in its decay. In
fighting this we call for international solidarity against all repression
and strive to build this on the power of the working class.

Free Moreno Pasquinelli, Maria Frazia Ardizzone, and Alessia Monteverdi!

Free the Turkish revolutionaries!

***

Shayhka Maulani Aeisha Muhammad (USA)

Our prayers go out for our comrades who have been arrested by the criminal
Italian government. I condemn the Italian government for having followed
the steps of the Zionist criminals in Washington and Tel Aviv. The racist
and imperialist bootlicking Italian government will no doubt be shaken
violently for its actions against the anti-imperialist Zionist movement.

This travesty, however, will serve to strengthen the anti-imperialist
movement and to increase our determination to break free from the yoke of
the imperialists. We will not be deterred by persecution, arrest or even
the murder of our comrades.

All of our anti-imperialist organizations must take definitive steps to work
together and support each other at every level. I encourage everyone to
step up to the plate and join forces so that we can deal a greater blow to
the imperialist-Zionist enemy.


Very truly yours,
Shayhka Maulani Aeisha Muhammad
servant of ALLAH

***

Socialist Choice (Ukraine)

Socialist Choice is indignant and shocked knowing about the arrests by order
of the prosecutor’s office of Perugia of our comrades from Anti-Imperialist
Camp Moreno Pasquinelli, Maria Grazia Ardizzone and Alessia Monteverdi as
well as Turkish activists. We consider that these arrests were the feedback
from the side of reactionary Italian state on the struggle conducted by
arrested comrades support the resistance and liberation struggle of the
Iraqi people against the imperialist occupation led by the US and its
allies, including Italy and Ukraine. We demand immediate liberation of all
those who were arrested. We call all progressive parties and organizations
worldwide to unite our forces for the liberation of our comrades, fighting
against imperialism for socialist perspective.

Free Moreno Pasquinelli, Maria Grazia Ardizzone and Alessia Monteverdi!
Free the Turkish revolutionaries!
Stop the occupation of Iraq!
For world socialist revolution!

Anton Petrenko,
On the name of Socialist Choice (Ukraine)

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Said Elnashaie:

This is a clear sign of the weakness of the Imperialists camp, it is not
terrorism they are afraid of, it is what happened in the Spanish and French
elections they are really afraid of, People are becoming more aware of who
is the real enemy and this frightens the imperialists very much, a
demonstration of one million means the support of over 20-25 millions, this
really frightening for the oppressors, so what to do start to arrest the
leaders in a trial to destroy the movement. The ones who followed Bush to
Iraq knows very well that they have dogged their own grave, the Iraqi
resistance is increasing continuously, the Iraqi People show everyday how
much the are "welcoming!!!" the US invasion, and the US is showing the true
ugly face of its so called " democracy". Every one should understand what
the great artist said more than half a century ago( 1940) at the end of his
excellent movie Great Dictator: "The world has enough wealth for all People
to live happily and Peacefully , not to kill each other for a few greedy
wealthy People to get more wealthy" and what the great actor Peter Ustinov :
"Terrorism is the war of the poor and war is the terrorism of the rich".
Your anti-imperialist camp will certainly win, the Italian People have a
great history of fighting against Imperialists and Fascists, the arrest of
your comrades will make the people more aware of the regime lead by thieves,
crooks and murders. Continue and intensify your demonstration to bring down
this government and bring to power a more humanistic government, like what
happened in Spain's election.

Good Luck and Best Wishes,
Said Elnashaie

***

Freedom Socialist Party (USA)

The arrest of people in Perugia, Italy was covered this morning, very
briefly, on the TV news in the U.S. Of course, they were not identified as
members and supporters of the Anti-Imperialist Campaign but as "Turkish
terrorists." We were horrified to come to work this morning and find your
email message recounting the round-up of radical leaders in Perugia and
possibly Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Greece and Turkey.

After the Italian police and government attacks on anti-globalization
activists, the whole world knows what you are up against--a regime that will
resort to physical violence and complete illegality to assert its power and
authority. We stand with you and your imprisoned comrades against the
unfolding European police state just as we ourselves oppose the police state
attacks unleashed against immigrants and radicals in the U.S.

The Anti-imperialist Campaign has taken the same position that the Freedom
Socialist Party has had from the first day of the war: we support the
victory of the Iraqi people over the forces of imperialism. We too call for
the end of the U.S. occupation and for full democratic rights, especially
for women, in Iraq. And we support the strikes and struggles of Iraqi
workers. This is not terrorism, but advocacy of the ideals of the right of
nations to self-determination, workers rights and women's liberation.

Until the recent emergence of the openly expansionist doctrine of the
neoconservatives in the Bush regime, these were ideals supported (at least
in words) by the majority of Western democracies. Now, however, the world
is beginning to see what a sham bourgeois democracy is. When the rights of
the privileged class to complete dictatorship over workers' lives and
oppressed nations is challenged, the rulers lash out against those they
consider most vulnerable. That is why socialists and radicals all over the
world must stand with the Anti-Imperialist Campaign. We will stand together
or hang alone.

In solidarity,
Guerry Hoddersen
International Secretary, U.S. Section

***

Harsh Thakor, Bombay, India

I condemn the arrest of the 3 anti Imperialist Camp leaders. It is a gross
violation of democratic Rights and exposes the hypocrisy of the
Parliamentary democratic System that claims to champion human rights but in
actual fact tramples upon them. The Connivance of the Italian govt. with the
Imperialist monsters has been exposed to the World people. How can a
democracy support U.S action in Iraq?

Let us all condemn this act .It is a fascist attack. I stand in solidarity
with the arrested leaders and demand their unconditional release. Please
state and accept my support in the democratic camp.

Comradely
Harsh Thakor

***

We stand in full solidarity with the arrested comrades, and we salute in
them the militant spirit and their continuous efforts in combating
Imperialism and its aggressions all over the world, and especially in our
region (the Arab Homeland) where a US-led occupation in Iraq and a Zionist
occupation in Palestine signal the ever-increasing crisis which Imperialism
finds itself in while crashing people and planet to achieve its
profit-driven aims of converting the world and history into a huge
sweatshop.

The utmost sign of crisis is the transformation of Imperialism into an
unmasked phase, where even the UN is trashed into the bin, the International
Law is no longer "flexible enough" and resistance is nothing but
"terrorism".

But NO, fascists will not have the final say, people ALWAYS will have their
way, that's what history teaches us, and like the fascists of Spain fell,
the fascists who hide behind fake masks of democracy and freedom (of the
market of course!) will fall everywhere else.

In solidarity with the arrested comrades, and the resistance!

Dr. Hisham Bustani
for the Executive Committee of the Socialist Thought Forum, Jordan

***

Communist Party of Greece / Marxist-Leninist

The CPG(m-l) condemns the recent arrest of Italian and Turkish
anti-imperialist militants in Italy and other European countries. Four
political refugees from Turkey were arrested also in Greece while in Turkey
the fascist police raided hundreds of houses and offices.

This is another indication about the myth of a democratic and just European
Union. Few days after the decision of European ministers of Internal Affairs
for co-operation against "terrorism", we witness the implementation of this
decision with a pan-European pogrom against supporters of Iraqi resistance
and militants who fight for basic democratic rights in Turkey.

We express our solidarity to arrested anti-imperialist militants and demand
their immediate release.

Imperialism is the real terrorist
Freedom and asylum to all Turkish political refugees.
Freedom to Italian anti-imperialists

Communist Party of Greece (marxist-leninist)

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Communist Youth of Poland

Our organisation CYP fully stands on the same revolutionary and
anti-imperialist position as you do. We hope that these 3 activists will be
liberate as soon as it is only possible. Unfortunately, American capitalism
is the most expansive imperialism in the whole world and it is very hard to
stop and fight it. But anyway- we all have to say: NO TO IMPERIALISM! If our
world revolutionary voice is heard in every country, in every city, we have
a chance to stop liberalism and imperialist war!

With a democratic greetings

***

International League of People’s Struggle – Turkey section

2 April 2004

The preparations for the NATO summit have started; operations, executions
without jurisdiction and arrestment, what’s next!

As we can see in a time where the Imperialists attack the people in the
world and occupy Iraq etc, they also continue their “war against terrorism”
all over the place.
Since February TAYAD (the association for the families of political
prisoners) had started a campaign “ In prison 110 people died, did you hear
it?” since they have started they have been attacked by the state, taken
under custody or been sentenced to prison, about 400 persons were taken
under custody.

The state tried to prevent that the public in Turkey learns about the
reality in prison. That these attacks have started now is not a coincidence
it is connected with the preparations for the NATO summit which will be held
in Turkey Istanbul between the 28-29 June this summer.

And now once again the EU has showed their understanding of democracy. On
the 1 April in the early morning hours Holland, Italy, Belgium, Greek,
Germany and Turkey started an operation against the DHKP/C (Revolutionary
People’s Liberation /Front) and arrested about 50 people. They arrested many
people and took them under custody. The press said that one of the people
arrested in Europe is the responsible one for DHKP/C- Europe Avni Er.

Besides that in Italy two of the persons being arrested are being from
Turkish background 3 are Italian. The persecutor which gave the permission
for the operation in Italy Nicolo Marino
‘ all that I can say is that these people are in a direct relationship to
the M-L organisation DHKP/C in Turkey. We know that they are supporters and
members’.

The minister of Foreign affairs also stated that the three Italians that
have been arrested Moreno Pasquinelli, Alessia Monteverdi and Maria Grazia
Ardizzone are being member of the organisation Campo Antimperialista (anti
Imperialist camp).

In Turkey state security forces busted ?dil culture centre, association for
basic rights and liberties, voice of Anatolia radio, People’s voice
magazine, Lawyers office People’s law, Group Yorum and the weekly magazine
Ekmek ve Adalet (Bread and constitution) and many people have been
arrested. There is still an arrestment warrant against 23 persons.

The government stated that this was the “first” step towards the
preparations for the NATO summit and in the “War against terrorism”.
We as the ILPS Turkey section call upon the progressive, democratic,
anti-Imperialist public to take stand against this attack. They say that the
have ‘cached’ some members, but this so called members are being in the
democratic mass struggle so what does catch mean? The police claims that
these persons have been illegal, but the real terrorists are those that have
made this operation, illegal is that the five states have been working since
6-8 month to make this operation.


We as the ILPS Turkey section demand an immediate release of the people
under custody. As long as they are in the hands of the Turkish state their
live cannot be secure.

Still even if all this attacks are being done, it will not stop the struggle
for democracy and social liberation and will not stop the growing of the
struggle against Imperialism and reaction at any time.

We are aware that the ruling classes have a nightmare and this is not to be
able to have the NATO summit in Turkey, and this nightmare will become true
they will not stop the struggle against Imperialism and all kinds of
reaction.


Victory against Imperialism belongs to the people!
Unite and resist against Imperialist attacks!
Long lives International Solidarity!

***

In Defence of Marxism (Spain)

We condemn the repression in course against Turkish revolutionary militants
and the arrestation of anti-imperialist militants in Italy these days and
many others in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Greece because of their
solidarity with revolutionary cause in Turkey. We call other organizations
and militants in Spanish State to join this action.
EDM expresses our unconditional solidarity against repression and claim for
inmediate freedom to Moreno Pasquinelli, Maria Grazia Ardizzone, Alessia
Monteverdi and every other revolutionary arrested in Europe fighting against
reactionary Turkish State and the occupations of Iraq and Palestine. Free of
them now!

Coordination Committee of
EN DEFENSA DEL MARXISMO (Spain)

***

Andrew Kahn, New York City, Founder of online Proletariat Group

With revolutionary greetings, as founder of the online Proletariat Group, I
salute Comrade Moreno Pasquinelli, Comrade Maria Grazia Ardizzone, and
Comrade Alessia Monteverdi.

The arrest of these comrades is a clear indication of the strength of the
Anti Imperialist Camp and its members, as well as its guiding principles.
The fascist Berlusconi government, an example of capitalist/imperialist
government, recognizes that the dedication of these three comrades is
exposing the terrorism being waged by the foreign occupiers of Iraq.

However, this exposing of the truth is not the sole cause of the arrests of
our three comrades. While many may critcize the occupation, few will
unconditionally support the Iraqi Resistance and collect funds to support
the Resistance. However, this is exactly what the Anti Imperialist Camp, and
its members, are doing. And this is why the Berlusconi government, as a
representation of capitalist governance, is engaging in this repression.

The arrested comrades will not back down. They will not give up. They shine
as true examples of what a revolutionary must be. A revolutionary must not
be afraid to be arrested, persecuted, or, as in the case of recently
martyred Intifada hero Sheikh Ahmad Yasin, carry on the struggle even if
one's life is lost because of it.

In revolutionary kinship, I once more salute our comrades who have been
imprisoned!

Free Moreno!
Free Maria!
Free Alessia!
Free All Political Prisoners!

***

The Communist Organization for the Fourth International condemns the arrests
of Turkish revolutionaries and members of the Anti-Imperialist Camp in
Perugia by the Italian police on April 1. We likewise condemn the reported
simultaneous arrests by the Turkish police of suspected members of the
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, DHKP-C and of other alleged
supporters in Greece, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.

The comrades arrested are not "terrorists" as charged by the police, but
fighters against the imperialist occupation of Iraq and the murderously
repressive Turkish government and military. It is these governments in fact
that support state terrorism, by both the Turkish regime in suppressing its
Kurdish and working-class opponents, and by the U.S.-led imperialist
occupation forces in Iraq.

Despite our political differences with the arrested revolutionaries and
fighters against imperialism, we stand with them in demanding the end of the
occupations of Iraq and Palestine and the torturous barbarism of the Turkish
regime.

We call for the immediate release of the political prisoners Moreno
Pasquinelli (international spokesman of the Anti-imperialist Camp), Maria
Grazia Ardizzone (member of the Political Committee of the Anti-imperialist
Camp) and Alessia Monteverdi, and the Turkish revolutionaries.

In Solidarity,

Sy Landy
for Communist Organization for the Fourth International (COFI)


PRC Sardegna solidarizza con i compagni arrestati

Il Gruppo Consiliare e il PRC solidarizzano con i tre arrestati del Campo Antimperialista Il Gruppo consiliare, la segreteria regionale e tutto il Partito della Rifondazione Comunista sardo, esprime piena solidarietà ai tre arrestati del campo antimperialista, Moreno Pasquinelli, Alessia Monteverdi e Maria Grazia Ardizzone. Essendo pienamente convinti dell'insussistenza delle accuse, offrono pieno appoggio con tutti i mezzi che il PRC sardo è in grado di offrire, dalla difesa legale a tutti gli altri mezzi necessari. Il Gruppo Consiliare e la Segreteria regionale del PRC - Sardegna

[Marigosu]

campo anti-imperialista? molto equivoco.
Non sarebbe il caso di cancellare questo genere di messaggi?
Fintza a s'indipendentzia ma senza violenza!

[Lutzianu]

Marigosu, sono perfettamente d'accordo, se poi leggi alla fine ci sono "Komunisti" italiani che solidarizzino con questi "Campi", che vadano a solidarizzare da un altra parte e che se solidarizzino ma davvero, lo facciano con tutte le vittime...

Non l'hanno capito che noi anidamo oltre le loro ideologie ottocentesche....

L

[gherrianu]

NO COMMENT!!

[Lutzianu]

Si cheres brigare as azzapau cussu zustu....

[gherrianu]

Originally posted by Lutzianu
Si cheres brigare as azzapau cussu zustu....

Ma no ses (sezis) contras a sa violenza?? Mi ses minethande?...., mi c'ando azziccu ca mi soe totu caccatu.....

[Lutzianu]

intendo verbalmente....anzi per iscritto...non mi interessa incontrarti e sono contro la violenza ma non significa che mi faccio mettere i piedi addosso dgli altri...

posso essere non d'accordo con quello che c'è scritto in quel documento sopra? o dobbiamo pensarla per forza alla stessa maniera ?

[gherrianu]

Originally posted by Lutzianu
intendo verbalmente....anzi per iscritto...non mi interessa incontrarti e sono contro la violenza ma non significa che mi faccio mettere i piedi addosso dgli altri...

posso essere non d'accordo con quello che c'è scritto in quel documento sopra? o dobbiamo pensarla per forza alla stessa maniera ?

Ed io posso esimermi dal commentare ciò che ho letto con un laconico "No Comment"? Qualcuno ti ha imposto di pensarla come altri? Non mi pare!!!
Io sono quanto te contro la violenza di ogni tipo ed ho gli occhi bene aperti per distinguerne le diverse genesi...poi perchè non incontrarsi??? ...mica x litigare, ma per confrontarsi, capirsi e crescere!!!

[Lutzianu]

io vivo all' estero...