Proletarians of all countries, unite!
March 18 – Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners – honor Communist and revolutionary prisoners!
March 18 is the International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners. The Red Aid, founded by the Comintern in 1920, declared March 18, the day of the founding of the Paris Commune, as the "International Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners" in 1923 and dedicated it to political prisoners. On 18 March, solidarity with political prisoners around the world will be expressed.
In every period of history there has been great resistance to the systems of exploitation and oppression in which we have lived for miles of years, and a high price has been paid for it. To every struggle against the ruling systems of exploitation and oppression, to every resistance, the reaction of the ruling classes has been similar: to destroy every movement that is directed against their existence in order to secure their existence and, above all, those who are in the power to destroy those who have been subjected to them. lead this one. movement. For the wrath that has been heaped against the prevailing order, the impulse that arises of the desire and efforts to change the prevailing order, They can only be headed in the right direction under proper leadership. That is why the ruling classes want to destroy those who channel the anger and desire for change of the people, and isolate from the people those who cannot be destroyed. The other dimension of the intolerance and aggression of the ruling classes against the revolutionary, communist and democratic popular movements is to ensure that the oppressed masses of people remain silent and dare not rebel. By slaughtering and oppressing champions of the people, the ruling classes send a message to the oppressed masses: "If you oppose us, we will do the same to you."
“ Philosophers have only interpreted the world differently; What Matters is change them," said Karl Marx, the great teacher of the proletariat. Communists and revolutionaries fight For the realization of this ideal, for this they are killed, imprisoned for it. Time and again communist and revolutionary prisoners in torture centers and prisons have shown that while life goes on, great examples can be given of the continuation of the class struggle under any condition of life. The path requires taking these risks, and it is with this awareness that communists and revolutionaries fight against the prevailing systems of exploitation. The body of every murdered communist and revolutionary, every time spent in prison, also lays the foundation for building the society of the future. The bourgeoisie and its lackeys want to guarantee surrender by subjecting to the most violent conditions those who cannot be massacred in prisons. The communist and revolutionary prisoners, In turn, , they do not hesitate to transform prisons, where the enemy feels strongest, into a stage of class struggle. Therefore, we must not define communist and revolutionary prisoners in prisons as victims. Rather, we must define them as righteous and this greet . Communists and revolutionaries are killed, imprisoned, and tortured not only because they have different ideas about existing systems of exploitation, but also because they do something to change those ideas, to organize and unite the people. It is primarily an ideological war, embodied by two hostile and mutually incompatible classes. The murder and imprisonment of communists and revolutionaries does not solve the problem of the bourgeoisie, since the objective conditions of the imperialist system maintain that the bourgeoisie is still in power. and present the contradiction between oppressors and oppressed. The existing objective situation, the Deeper and deeper contradictions are directly reflected in class contradictions , and the void left by the murdered and imprisoned revolutionaries and communists is filled with new ones.
In the extent to which the contradictions of the dominant system deepen and The dead ends into which he falls multiplies, To the extent that their fear of the "gravedigger" grows, the ruling classes do not hesitate to become more and more Concrete to reveal his true identity. face. At the same time, the system's deepening and unresolved crisis is moving to the bourgeoisie and to the ruling exploiting classes of all kinds to further centralize the mechanism of the sovereign state, both with laws and with de facto organizations, ya Continue to make progress in the Instruments. of oppression . In the capitalist-imperialist countries who call themselves "ideal" and "progressive" democracies, the successive security laws, the new laws that expand the power of the repressive organs of the state, show us namely, that the bourgeoisie has the capacity to... Wearing the "mask of democracy" has lost. The bourgeoisie is re-establishing their position against the working class, against the oppressed workers and the oppressed peoples, with all the his Reactionarism . In the colonial and semi-colonial countries dominated by imperialism, The usual regimens are parliamentary and extra-parliamentary forms of government with different shades of fascism and reaction. In these countries, all members of the opposition, beginning with communists and revolutionaries, are exposed to systematic and permanent state terrorism. The depth of the contradiction between the ruling classes and the Peoples Oppressed in These countries determine the intensity of the class struggle. For the ruling classes, What they can only maintain the slavery of imperialism through a regime of unfettered terror, state terrorism is more of a necessity than an option. The laws are only a façade for fascism, reaction and state terrorism. Prisons, in turn, are instruments of torture and oppression. The The ruling classes of Turkey, India, the Philippines, Peru, Iran, Israel, etc. are deepening their grip on the insulation, which they use in every possible way to keep prisoners in prison. It is prevented the treatment of seriously ill prisoners under various pretexts; Many sick prisoners die and there are repeated virtual attacks on prisoners. Thousands of members of the Kurdish nation are imprisoned as the price of the Kurdish national liberation struggle. Turkish prisons prevent the release of people who Carry more than 30 years in prison because "They don't abandon their thoughts."
The The reactionary Indian state has imprisoned more than ten thousand communists, revolutionaries and political activists to suppress the people's war, including Varavara Rao, Sanjoy Deepak Rao, Ayinoor Vasu, Rona Wilson and Gautam Navlakha.
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has been imprisoned for French Imperialism for 40 years and he has not yet been released, despite having served his sentence. Mumia Abu-Jamal, a member of the Black Panthers, has been trapped by U.S. imperialism for more than 40 years . Thousands of communists, revolutionaries and prisoners from oppressed peoples in different parts of the world have spent decades in prison.
The The ruling classes fear the Communist and revolutionary prisoners, and the class hostility they feel directed against them is so great that They unscrupulously prevent the release from prison of communists and revolutionaries whom they hold captive in open violation of their own laws. The 2021 assassination of Chairman Gonzalo, leader of the CPP , who He lost his health after 29 years in solitary confinement and whose death occurred because the necessary measures were not taken. is very important to understand the extent of the fear and hatred of classes, which they feel the imperialists and the Submissive System Servers ruler . Those responsible for the death of Chairman Gonzalo burned and even destroyed his body.
The Communist and Revolutionary Prisoners in prison they are trying to meet the demands of the class struggle, risking their lives beyond the limits of prison conditions. They refuse to surrender and do not hesitate to resist all forms of pressure, torture and isolation. We must mobilize to support the struggle and justified resistance of the prisoners, for To fight against any kind of aggression against prisoners, in order to be the voice of prisoners outside, we must support their struggle in the conditions of captivity as part of the class struggle outside. . .
COMMUNIST AND REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS ARE OUR HONOR!
SUPPORTING COMMUNIST AND REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS MEANS SUPPORTING THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE!
LET US MAKE OUR OWN THE RESISTANCE AND STRUGGLE OF THE COMMUNIST AND REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS. LET'S BE THE VOICE OF THE PRISONERS!
International Communist League
March 2024