August-December 1992

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Autonomist/Anti-Imperialist Journal

For A Free And Independent Kurdistan!

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Inside: News and Documents from the Kurdish Liberation Struggle * Interview with
Dr. Luis Nieves Falc6n * Fascist Violence and Anti-Fascist Resistance in Germany
* Interview with Abdul Majid - Black Liberation Army Political Prisoner * Shawnee
Unit - A Control Unit for Women * Resistance at E.C.I. Lexington * Excerpt from
“Imperialist Peace Is War!” by the Communist Prisoners’ Collective Wotta Sitta *
Interview with Red Army Fraction prisoners; Lutz Taufer, Karl Heinz-Dellwo and
| Knut Folkerts * Part One of the August 92 RAF Declaration * “Letter from Spain”
* Also: News and Info on Devrimci Sol, Ploughshares activists, ETA arrests in
Uruguay, Black/New Afrikan political prisoners/POW’s and much more...

We’re Still Here!

Afier un absence of many monihs we're fially
back with 8 new isse. As always, the usual problems
scem 10 plague s, with money being our igges neme-
sis. Ourast s came out August 1992, andsince then
‘we have slowly been pting togethr this isue. As one.
‘month tmed into amother, we eaized tha ot of the
information and aricles in this issue were becoming
dutd. This was panicuarly problenatic i lght of the
it that e ar bi-monthy publicaion and e ancmpt
1 beup-o-dae inour coverageof various evolutionary
sruggles. With this in mind, we decded 1o produce &
double-szed issue which could b considered over.

Th Spik. Theretor we hve compld various sse.
meot, imerviews, news 1nd smlyi oo the Kurdiah
Titerion sevggle, polical prionens i boh North
Amric od Eutope,wban gl oreizations such
asteRed Amy Fracionaxd Devici Sl sndmore, .
from wiin the st yearor s As 1992 was om0
imporiant year for indigenous peoples in tis hemi
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siruggie 1nd campaigns of 500 Years of Ressane”
‘We have o stmpted ot some o s wgeterwnd
show the nrconneiedness o te various svggles
ith e nclusion of swemens from both ulisn tnd
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it some degree.

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from our e-mai adress,

‘We wish to end tis “ediorial” with » corction
and a call for soldarty. First o in our st isue we
repinted a “Revolutonary Cells RZ)" communigue.
from a roup that claimed o carry ot n action agains
facists We have leamed that s action was ot s
ful and was not camied oot by the RZ'. Comrades in
Burope have informed us tht the bombs tht had boca
placed did notdetonse and i his had occured, people
may have been njred o killed. This is no the pracice
of the RZ'. I peopl could b inored o killed as the
result o s rned action by them, they will not cary it
ou. As well,the commnique has passages that were
direcly uken from n aricle in s lfist magazine. While
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bomb nd eleasd he communioe, i st improbable
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responsible. One, el need only o ook 1o the Pinzza
Foauna bombing in 1969, in laly, which killed 16
people. A bombing which was blamed o lefss bt was
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secet sevis

Finally, we wish 1o poin ou the vial nesd 1o
supportwo New Alfikanprisonersof war - Geronimo i
| Gaga Prat and Sundista Acol. These comradesshare

similar history of trggle andrsistanc for which they

have suffeed sever repression from the US. goven-
‘ment. As paricipants in Blac Iiberton srugge n the
60'340d70's bothSundist snd Geronimo wer rgeied
by COINTELPRO, n FB! couner.ineligence program
designed 10 neutize and destroy Black ierstion o
pemizaions most notaby the Black Pasther Pany (BPF)
0 he Black Liberaion Ammy (BLA). As 8 rsul msny.
BPP d BLA members wer kiled aod many mere
imprisoned. Some of these comrades sl emain i
prison and th sruggle o freethem sl conines. Both
‘Sundisa and Geronimo now face opporaniis 1 be
eleased on parole. Bt hi will no occur withou ex-
rsordiary pressure nd we uge comrades everywhere
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War In Kurdistan

1992 has boen 4 decisive year for the Kurdish
liberaion sruggle,paricalrlyin Norh West Kusisan.
‘The Workers Pany of Kurdisan (PKK) sod the Natonsl
Liberaion Fon:of Kuristan (ERNK) have ben insiru-
mental in developingtissruggle an thei siength and
ability 1 achieve thi is measure of supportthy have
from e Kurdishpeopl. Ove of he claret examples of
{his occurs dring the celebrtions o th Kurdish New
Year - Newroz - every Mach. This year, ke te many
before i, saw Newroz celebatons in many Kurdish
Cies 1nd towns tum nto militan demonstations in
supportof the PKK nd he srugge o free andreuni al
parisofoccupied Kdisan,The Tukishsateresponded.
‘wih brutal atackson the Kardish pople - dozens were
illed and housends were desined under marial lw for
many days. The Turksh army thn trid o justty these
measores by claiming the they had been tacked by the.
‘mlitery wing ofthe PKK - the Pogie'sLibeation Army
of Kudistan (ARGK). They furher sed thi le
excase to atack many cites, in panticalr, the ciy of
‘Simak which was put under sege the day afier Newroz,
resuling in many deaths nd beavy damage 1o the cty
el

‘The Specal War Means A “Scorched Earth” Polly

“Ths atackon Simak was s trsing pointinthe w
forntionl ibertion, s epresion by the Turkish siate
s clarly shifed from s “Special War”counie-inur
geacy operions 10 allout war. This escalaton has
manifesed el i + ‘sorched earh” policy which has
seen the razing ofwwas and ciis such as Kul, Varo,
Hani, tnd Cizr and others. The second tnd even more.
brucal atack, o Simak in Augst has been by far the
learest example o Tokish aociies againstthe Kur.
dish peopl. Staring Augost 1892, Turkish forces
blocked al roadsinand ot of Simak nd weaton a 3.y
‘rampage, claiming thatthe own was conroled by 1500
ARGK goerilas. Women, children, md elders were
iled and wounded by the hundreds. Houses ad buid-
ings weretorched nd animals were saughtered. Seventy
pet-cent ofthe iy wasdesroyed and many people were
Teft omeless and destiate. Thre wereno gl units
inthecity. Aupreent the ciy it devasated nd many of
it inhabiants have become efugecs. Rebuilding effors
arc underway bt doe o the continoed Turksh pesence
nd repression thse efforts ae proceeding slovy.

While the amy has been camying ou fllscale
warare, it has also coninued to carry ou 8 variey of
‘ounter insurgency operatons. Conraguerlls have
boen organized 0 assssinatesympatheicjounalsts and
polticians, PKK milants, nd other supporters of the
Kardish iberaton sruggle. This has inclodd th asas-
sinaton of wrterfouralistHaseyin Deniz, sndof Musa
Aoter,who wasa joumalis wit he progrssive newspa-
per “Orgur Gundem’ and noted wrie considered by
many 0 b “the grand od man of Kurdish coure.” He.
wasthe it joumaist from thisnewspaper 0 be s
inated i 1992. Insn bvious show of conemp forther
death, Pritoe Miisir Suleyman Demivel saied that
“thse re ot he fouralissyou ik they ar. They are
al militots.” Incther words,in the view of the Turkish
overmment, teir deaths were justifed. On Jme 11,
‘ontraguerias ok 15 Kurdish parots ff bus which
was retoming from Hizan, and executed them. They also
‘tacked a tain staton the ext day in Mos,injuring six
aod illng o small child. These nd many oxher atacks
take lacecn s consistentbasis,ofenn conjunction with
miliay operaions.

Adbvary detentons and mass amests of Krdish
ot sndactivists coninue o be wed o quelldissent
and supporntforanindependent Kurdian. On Sepember
25, 11 memberofthe Pople’sLabour Pry (HEP) were
‘sresed onthe ordersofthe National Secuity Councl -
‘which includes the Prime Miniter, Ammy chiels d
cerain cabinetminisers. The HEP s pogessiv poli-
al pany which supports Krish rghts; in the 1991
clectons it lecied 22 Kurdish MPs to palameot. The
et of e HEP memmbers was based o the view of the
NatonalSecurty Counci ha it wouldake “lgal meas-
ures againt those democntic insittions and media
‘which suppor separatsm and work agaias the unitary
e sroctur, and thus have no constiutions o legal
busi”

Furhe,disinfornation s used o falsely mplicate
the PKK and ARGK in strociies and stacks that are
actually caried ou by the army or coniaguerillas. For
example, the murder of the 15 Kurdish pariots men-
tioned sbove was blamed on the PKK i an siemp 1o
descredittheminthe eyesof the Kurdish peopl. As well
there havebeen numerous atiznpts to rm nemmational
opinion aginst them. The Turkish govemment bas sc-
cused the PKK of bombing the Brish consulie in
Istanbulandof atempsing o shoot down an Aab ailner
raveling 1o Suudi Arabi. The PKK has denied these
charges sating that i i not thei way o opertin nd
neiher is i in thei nterat” They st tht I the
Turkish police and the cotraguerillas who havecaried
out these anacks

(Counerinsurgency operstions of this kind us used
bothto nsill fear i the Kardish pogulaton nd o deter
the populain from supportng the PKK. Al of these
atcmpts have e and support for Kurdishindepend-
ence contnges to lourish

‘Kurdish Callaborators With Turkish Colonialisr

InIngi-occupied Krdistn thetwo leading polt-
calforce n e region, the Paiotic Uion of Kurdistan
(PUK) and Kurdistan Democraic Pany-inq (KDP),
have conssiently shown themselves 1o b the enemics of
a0 independent Kurdistn. They have arrstd, ontured
04 killed PKK supporier and member, tumed ther
‘ove 0 the Trkish milary, and passed o information
sbout PRK actvides to Turkish nd imperalist sgets
whotbey allowtooperate in souh Kurdistan.Inesponse
tthis, the ARGK imposed n embargoon borderrade .
the TurkishIrai fronter on Joly 296h. This was ot
simed at the Kardish peopl in the south but against the
oot trade camid out between the Tukish saie andthe
KDP. Insead the PKK wishes o forge becer economnic,
social and polica tes between the people of north nd
South Kurdisan withou the interfereace of the Turkish
st and s KDP-PUK collsboratrs.

The KDP-PUK realised by conrdinaing, wth he
Tusishmilitay, s offensve against PR/ARGK bases
in south Kurdisian in October. Heavy clashes occured
between ARGK guerrilas and KDP-PUK peshimergas
(Korishname for*gueril’) i Lolan,Sheranis,Baufs
Zakbo, Hafusin and other areas. Whe the fighiing.
began many peshmergas refused to fight agains: theis
‘own people and 8 mumber went ove the ARGK side
‘Alo,splits began occurwthin KDP-PUK forces wihhe.
resigauions of ministers from both paries who ssted
that the “cashes only helped the Turkish ste” On
October 22, the PKK was sbe o prove conclusively that
collaboraton was aking place between KDP-PUK.

An Interview With The
General Secretary Of The
PKK, Abdullah Ocalan

PEK General Stcretary Abdulah Ocalan: "We will
develap therevlutionary war o counter the imperi-
alist plo in souh Kirdiston”

GenerslSecretary, how do you evaluate he devel-
opments n south Krdistan?

We re el sware s the cocny s ineosi-
fed his atacks on us. The allout offcosive of the
Turkih sute dats back 10 the Nutomal Securty
‘Councl and Cabine meeings hed n Diyarbaki at
the end of August. A concensus has boen arived i
becween the pais fa the Turkish Pariament nd
diplomatic endeavours have boen made 10 cut off
suppoied teswith Ian snd Syi.tey thn wried
et he southern coll(oraionis forces i the
bresch. The basi for this is Demirels phrase 1o
break ho back” of oo avies i south Kurditan.
‘We know thitthy have been prepring such s plan
foralong timenow.For various reaons theytimed it
forOctaber By securing th spprovalof e US. and
Earope, and even taking ino accoun the US. cec-
ons they made thee preparatons accordingly.
Barzani's satement: “Tutkey gave me seven days, |
ave 0 succesd" provesthe realsy o i plan. The
timing of the meeing of e g opposition was lso
par of thisplan. They had hoped o defet us by he
23rdof Ocober buthe il ofhe peshmergas and
the Ik of sucees of the Turkish offeasive has
resuliedin the postponementof his meeting Th act
thatthe Turkish army entered he fray inthe st fow.
days peoves that the colaborators were unsbie 10
deiverthe oods. Wewilldevelopihe iruggleon ]
fromsagainst these plans

1 you are vietorious n this war, bow do you
seefuture developments? :

1 we come ou on wp it will mean Tuskey i
saing defea i the faoe o it will ave o withdraw.
Kardisu will hea be re, i great exten. We will
givecur all and crate fes Kadisan.

Ourreportersinthereglonnformus hatthe
pestmergas are unwiling fo fight. What ks your
oplaion about this?

Thi i clary the cae, tht the peshmery
have o ntentionoffighting. Thy are beng forced
10fight.Inaprolonged warthe collsbortonistforces
‘would lose the suppor of he people and th pesh-
merga fighier These forces ave ptall e ighiers
at the disposal of the Turkish unts f the Torkish
units il they, oo, will olapse. Fortis reason we do
ot s the clshed i the st s PKK.Peshrverga
conflc, ruher we see i a8 te iberaion sauggle of
e people of the south.

So can we ay that you are olag t0 open 8
front i south Kurdistan?

The two frons are lnked. We cannot develop
the frontin th north withoutdoing the same i the
south and vice verea. The crawing of the Turkish
army ik the soulh makesings exser for s inthe
Dot We will draw them decpe o the swamp

contnued on page 34..

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meeing of KDP-PUK commanders, seized documents
confimed tht rlatera commitse exised which di-
ectedthe operuions of the peshmergas. This commitie
was compoted of one PUK commender, » KDP com-
‘mander and senior Turkih milary major nd had diect
acoesstohe Tukish High Command who were dirctng
milly opensions.

During e il offnsive, ARGK forces wereon
the defensive,facing heevy atacks in many ares. De-
apite rumours by he medis, of withdrawal snd suren-
der the ARGK/PKK didatlose any gound sndowards
the end of October wereabl 1o mount an offeaive. In
cary November, the PKK amounced e liing of the
embargo on border rade e polidea ekement with
the forces of the KDP-PUK. Term of the sealement
alowed the ARGK/PKK tocontinue 10 opersefeely in
south Kurisan - clearly showisng the inabily of the
KDP-PUK/Turkish milary forces 1o achieve thir de-
sired goul.

The Struggle Moves Forward

Despic masiv epresion b the Tukish e of
e Kardiah popl, e erwion svggl contiases o
row. On iy level, the ARGK continis o cary
ot many efecive and somatmes secacla acioos
agint e Tukih iy and pole force. Forex.
‘ample,on Sptember 29, 1250 ARGK guerilas il
neousy suacked 3 Turish milry garisons in tho
Semndinliregion.Th uac,whic e foroverThour
compleiely desiroyed the garisons 4 well 1 Kiling
ot to SO0 Turkis sldes. They o hot down s |
helcoperandcapeurd umerous wespons while e
ing il loses. OnNovner 10, ey tacked e
maia miliary garisen in he tovn of Hasi. The 200
'ARGK el who wsd ockts d morars daing.
e uck,completely desroyed te garison when ey
hitthe umiuniion dump. Whenmilaryrefforcements
ateed h o, thy were acked by the perilas
ho esroyed 4 ks mnd 2 amoured periomnel cari.
. Once gainihe ARGK afere il ote, wh |
over 100adirs ndpoic were ild duin the eack. |

Their most recentaction oo December 14, saw & rid on
the Special Forces headguarers n Diyarbakis which
resulted i the dexth of 2 police oficers. AL the same
time an ARGK unit ambushed s mliry convoy oa the
roud from Hani to Diyarbakir.
Poliicaly, the Kurdish indepeodence movemeat
s been working towars th founding of » Natorul
Pulament of Kurdi. According to the Kuristan
National Assembly Preparaion Committe,he Natonal
Assembly of Kurdistan “wil be the highestbody repre-
sening the people of Kurdisan. The assebly will ass
s inall felds which ntereet the Kardishnaion nd be
the only body repreening them in the intemational
areoa” Thisbody ims o b helegiimaerresentdive
body f e Kardishpeople ll overthe world Tohis ead,
clctons were eld o elec delegais i ll he occupied
areas o Kurdistan - Syria, Ing, I, Turkey,a wellas
among Turkish communities in the CIS aad Europe,
between November20-22,1992. Forthefirtimentheis:
sory the Kurdish people were sble o expres their ree
will through these clections. In Earope, 153 delegates
‘were elected represntin the many diffrent aspocts of
the xiled Kordidh commniy. Of these, 27 wers wormen
0 3 of the delegaes came from south Kurdisa. Al
most 0% of thos elgible o vote paricpeied in the
elecions, which was hampered by inexperience and
techaical diffcolies, s wel a by misiformaton and
propeganda spread by Turkish and pro-Turkish Biro-
‘pean media. We do ot s yetknow the result of voting.
heldin ccupied Kudistn e 0 themany diffculties
bolding clecions in s fragmented ndon. In the second
round of the Europesn lections, hld on December 19-
20, 1SMP's were cleciad by the 153 delogate. These 15
MP's representuhe Kardish popleliving in Buropeinthe
Kurdisan National Paliament.

The Future?

Asthe sasion inensifisinpord-wost Kurdisan,
support or the PKK and Kariah liberaion srugsle
increases correspondingly 10 groving Turkieh ite e
presson. Inthe words of two Kurds, “Every personnthe.

region now support he rebels. Everyone, amost with-
ot exception”, mnd *Some used 10 be unceran,but not
e Simak ™

‘Afer e Gulf War and the besk-up o the Soviet
Union, Tuskey has st i sights on becoming the major
‘power i the Middie Eas as el as extending i nfl-
encethroughou heregicn. While denying that itplans o
e the Turkishspeaking republics of the former
Sovet Unic, Turke

As Turkish Prme Minisier Suleyman Deenire said,
“.we saw [ & Tukish worl, a lest in poope's
tentions, . commonaiytht can'tbedeied. At e
same time, e recen collboration with he KDP-PUK i
souh Kurdisan, i percived a8 & move by Tuskey 1o
obuain Irag Kurdisan for sl Becaue of Turkey's
snegicimporunce 153 NATOally, Turkih expensicn-
im als ot lne with wester imperialisYNATO st
egy. Anindicaion ofthi i th recent redploymment his
‘yearof NATOmillary hardwarefrom Cenral Europe o
Turkey. With the ending ofthe Cold War, Burope, and
‘Germany inpariala, s o longerconsidered afrondine.
in n ‘BasyWest” confroniation. Asthe world sination
increasingly shifis 10 2 ‘NoniSouth” confroniaton,
Turkey assumes the ole of » fronine in imperalii
domination. Cearly then,he Kurdish iberaion sggle
poses 2 serious obsacle 1o the implementation of
imperialism’s “New World Order".The formation of an
independent Kordistan wouldnotanly seiously disrupt
- andperhaps oven destroy e Turkish sat bot it would
also destabize the nir region 3 oprisings by Kirdish
people in Irm, Inq and Syria would mos: likely be.
‘occuring at e same. Furhe, e ibrstion of the Kur-
dish nation would be powerflexample and signal for
other colonized pecpls in the rgion, paiclary the
Palestinians. Of coars, Turkey and it imperiais ales
‘canaot allow his happen and willse any forcenecessay
10 crush the Kurdish liberation siruggle.

For ur, concrei soldarity with the Kurdsh
ssuggle, means buildin essance ere i heiampeiaist
centres and opposing 0 ggresson by any meanknecer.
.

ERNK European Representati

Weare making hefolloving suiement s party o
the clashes occuring at the present time betwoen the
“Naiiona Unied Independence Front of Kudistan” and
e reacherous KDP and PUK sapporied by Turkey.

‘Afer e Galf Warthe “Poised Hummer” miliry
fore,Ied by the ULS., wassemt to Kurditn to fill e
power vacoumin Iraq and o preventany poteti devel
opmens i the Middle Bart. Turkey spproved of this
militaryforce which was par of s common regional e
ofthe Westem Suates. Tukey wanted o benfit fom the
‘advaniages offred by tis siauaion to rush the move-
mens in norther Kardistan.

Turkey beganto develop plicy inline withthese
developments. Fist thy clamed o defend th nerestof
the Kurds. They then made contact with Talaban and
‘Barzan and invited them to Ankara. They wereisued
with Tukish diplomatc passports. Turkey provides
economic, miliary and polical ropport o these foces.

“Thisfake “oveof the Kurds” rom s country whote
chie of affsaes “there e no Kards n Torkey” and
‘which kil e of Kurds very day,fciens towns ke
Sirmak, Cukurca and Kol nd sarts procesdings to vy
Kaurdich deputie under lgaltion which caries the
deathpenalyis all part o bloody plan.

Tulabani and Barzani st theirpreparaions 1
siack the PKK afier oceiing support a. meetings in
Ankara and Washingion st monch. The date of the
“ulimanan” was esablished tthe meetng i Anks.

Talabani retumed 1o Kurdistan scoompanied by 8 group
of Tukishoffcrs.

‘The clashes ccurring in sotbern Kurdistanare e
resultof n ssult, hepreparations for which were made
previously. The PKK s ot theaggresor ot i exerc
ing it legiimate right of self-defence against these
fores” colborationsistandtreacherous aacks

We have explained many tmes that his siusion
was bing incited by the colonialit, imperaist i,
pariculary Turkey, bt despie thisthey ar imposing &
‘warof anmihilation o our peope,in allsnce with Tur-

key.

‘We repeat that the PKK is ot in favour o these
clashes. However, i determinied i cary out olices
in e with the intrets of e prople of Kurdisan. We
will continue o defend ourselvs sgainst atacks. The
PKK is waging it war nd ts defece on the ol of s
‘own couniry, Kundisan, for which s gol i independ-
ence,no the vl of anober couniry. For his reason
ot posible foritioleavetheland sndposonsfor which
it has given many lives. In 1991 we defended this land
aguaist atacks by Suddam and Tokey and i heprocess
undreds of our members were manyrd, bt the KDP.
a0d PUK desered ei people and run o
Tike 0 sres the we have the means ecessary o defend
ourseves agans these foces.

At the momentvilent clashes ae contiving
re from Hafanin, near Zakho, 1 Hakurke, nea the

ves’ Statement

Iranis border, e Natioos Unied Independence Font
of Kurdistan armounced that it would rsit hese stacks
‘withallhe power a s disposal. ThisFrot i compoved
of the PKK, PAK and forces and individasls who have
left the PUK mnd KDP. Since the clashes began on
October 15,9 PKK guerillas havebecn martyred snd 20
PAK menbers have been kiled i the towns of Zakho
and Sulimaniye. Around 200losses bave beenifliced
on the KDP and PUK forcs n the Zakho nd Hakurke
areas 20KDP meraber md 6 Tuskish offces have boen
captured. The Turkish oficers will be prescned t the
pres n the areas where they werecaptred.

Since Ocober b, an embargo b been impored
on southern Kordistan and all oads leading 10 Turkey
ave been aken under the conirol ofthe Front with who
the indative in the clashes pow lies, Protest marches
against e acks ae spreading intowns ke Zakho nd
Suleimaniye. Whilesome pedmergs leadersare going
over o the Independence Fron long with the ighiers
nder theis command, # leas 1000 peshmergas have
Biven eptheir weapoos end witdrawn,

“The aggressons chaim tha “he PKK's presence
the area leads 10 Turkish air stacks and the Kol
vllages have been detroyed md th people hve lf."
‘We have o oiot ou that e Turkish Sae i respansible
fo these attacks and tht i thy who should e clled
10 accoun. Aleothe PKK did ot comefrom oue space.

Yrm The Spiit

Montevides, Urugusy - On May 15, 1992, police

ETA, the Basque liberaton orgaizaton. A lawyer and
his secreary were amang hose amretd, sceused of
busining fale papers fo the Basques. Th other Urs-
ayans were » dentit and i wife, whote names were
noneofthe Basgue's addres b, th eacherof five
year old Basque child, and his son-inlaw.

“The police callod this Opertion Aligtor and he
aress were e clminaion of 8 two yearod nvesige-
ion. The Basques were only charged with violting
censin Uraguayaa aw prtsining o the uee and potsce-
sion of fals documents, At ther first hearing & judge.
rleasedalltheUriguayans and9 of he Basques Several
of the Basgues re accused of paricipating in ammed
actionsin Spain.

Urogasyn aw proibits e extradiionof foreign-
ers accused of poliical crimes o common crimes with
politcal oventones. Al o the Basques have requesied
poltcal asylum nd it sppears unlikely they will be
exndied o Spuin.

“The Busques were all employedby a Basquerestau-
ot in Montivideo. Unugusyn miliary intelligence

maintained survillanceover he Basques(inviolationof |

Urugoayan law which requires Judicial permisson for
leaghy invesigaion) since 1988, at the request o the
‘Spanish govemmen. The Basques in question wereall

Incarly November, 1992, wialsgainst.
two Paletinians, Khader Hamide snd Michel Shehadeh,
beganin Los Angeles which marks the it e of a con-
woversal U.S. imnigraion law which he govemment
says denie non.cizens the consiurionaly protected
ighis o fre speech and association.

According 1o their lwyer, f the govermment pre-
Vaisnit claim thatt can epori he two men fo ising
moneyfor Palesinimn cases, ll no-iizens campaign-
g forsocialchange i thernativ ands would be liable
fordeporaton.

Hamide and Sheadeh, boch longtime esidents of
the LS were amested in January 1987 along with 6
others,and ogeiherthey became known as he "L A.8".
They were never charged with a criminal offence, bui
were held without bil i high security prisons for two
‘wecks unil relessed on heir ovn reconiane. Accord.
ing 1o the FBI “the individuals who were arested in
Califomia had not been found 1o have engaged them-
selves i emoris activity.”

Five year e the ovemment s sl seking 10
depon the eght, and i tyingto prove ha Hamide snd
‘Shehadeh ran afoul of section of the 1990 Immigration
‘Act whic prohibis on.<iizens from providing “mate-

Power Poles Sabotaged In Vermont

1 caly Janaay, Vermont's“Raad Herad”and
e AsocatedPres epored i encletcal s
tionpoles i fiv ifeent Vemant locatonshave becn
abotagd soce Aplof 1952 Earcr, rhad been
oceived by he Cenial Vermont Publi Service Corpra-
tion (CYPS) headquarrs in R, Vermoo, sying
{ha e ity ot Raad noded o b epaccd
ndihahere cod b other consogquence s CVPS
ropped it contrc with Hydro-Qucbec.

"The wooden ity poes wee al sched, o, of
driledin way sohat ey would all v
orbesvy mowal, ceording o Thomas Hurcomb, vice
presdentof pblc affirforth ity corporaion. nl

ETA Militants Arrested In Uruguay

Palestinian Deportation Case Tests Immigration Law

“reied” milass. The posiion of the my was ot 1o

ot conssted of exporing raw mterials, and snother
“This changedin Aprilof 1991 whena grocry siore
was robbed by Tapamaro an th military detemined

his over, Lourdes Gaayalde,was one of the Basque
millants. The milary reached an agreement wih the
Bsquesthasthey would not b distrbed s ong 1 they
dido' panicipue i ilegal activiies Tus Garayalde
was twice arrested and relessed depie aving false
denity ppes.

“The arests took place whie the sub-secreary of
Spanish secury was in Uruguay. The arress ae be-
Hieved o b the esult of Spanish pressure. Thearests i
Urugusy also coiocide wit the amess in Fance of
ETA's op leadenhip.

I Urugaay the arests have caused much commo-
on,becaane they show that the police and milary sre
il deeply involved i surveillance and repression of
politca aciviss andbe lefuin generl At the same ime.
there is a resurgence of right-wing desthsquad aciviy.
Given the unlikelibood of any o the Busques being.
imprisonedin Uraguay orexiaditedio Spain th arsts,
withanendentmassivepobicy, e seen s eninders 1
the Ursgoayanief ththeylive i death squad democ
ney.

ia support” 103 terroristorganizaton” - n his case e
Popuar Fron fo the Libestion of Palesine” (PFLP),
part of the PLO. Both Hamide and Shehadeh deny be.
onging 1o the PFLP.

‘David Cole of the Cenerfor Constuioal Rights
contended: I you are 4 Paestinin and you wani 1o
supporeyourpecplebackhome,a a practicalmatier, you
have 10 send your money throughthe PLO and it con-
situent orgizatons. There s simply 10 reasonsble
shemative”. The American Civil Liberies Union
(ACLU) and some of the ot T0 civlandconstiutional
ights groups that have formed the Commiceefor Justice
10 supporsthe “L.A. ight"have wgaed strongly aganst
the governmen's posiion.

“The govermment devoed he frst two weeks of s
case 1o an atempt o cstabiish that the PFLP was #
“irroristonpanization” s main withess was Aril Mer
ari, anadviseioth el Prime Minisersnd e saci
Defence Forces, who describes himself s 8 “trorist”
expen. Defence lawyers have chalenged Menari as 12
expent saying that he can neiter peak nor read Arsbic
0 lcks any broad knowledge of Palestnian afairs.

‘Wewill ublsh furher dvelopments of his rialin
hepext vsueof Amn The Spir.

cases 1 "Q" roughly appeoximating the logo ued by the
Canadian Hydro-Quebec-owned uilty was panied or
drawn on the vandalized poles.

"No group o individual has climed responsisilty
for the acs of sabotage. CVPS has ssued & reward of
$20,000orinfomaton leading o1 uccessul prosecu-
tion of those responsibl.

‘The FBI i invetigting the incdeni.John Hersh,
specil agent with the Ruand officeofthe FBI, aid e
acts appeared o vilate two fedenl laws. A fedentl
extonion lew says anyone found gaiky of inerering

Better Late
Than Never

(On November 1692, satue of Canudda first.-
prime minister,John A Macdonald,was “bebeaded”
a0d the acronym “F.L.Q." Fro de Libéraion du
Qe Québécois ntionalis gucril group that
was active in the 60's md eady T0%) was
praypuinted a s base. A message which caimed
responsibility for theaction wasrecived by a Can-
dian newsgency, the CBC, and it sued that the
“beheading”coincided withthe 107 anniversaryof
the hanging of Louis Ril. Thi acton was symbolic
inanumberof diffeent ways. Rielwas aleadsof the
Metis - who were of First Naton and Quibécois
blood - and had led themn in 8 umber of uprisings
against tbe Canadiengovernmen during he mid- 1
Iate1800'. The Mets uprsings cominutedn 1855
‘when Canadientroops put down whatis Known s he
Metis r Northwest Rebellion, bot s morsaccuriely
described by the Metis s the Northwest Warof Re-
sisance, Afterhe defea of Meis forces s e Batle:
‘f Baoshe,Ril was capured sndput il o rea-
son. He wabfound giky and was hung ca November
16,1885, The Metis srogale, ik that of many ot
‘Firs Nationspeopls,wat ight forslfdtcmmina-
tion tnd and n the face of Euro-seler expantion-
fom. At ime the Canadi st ws begioving o
‘onslidae and one of s nain protagonist wasJohn
‘A Macdonald who saw Meds md othe Fes Nation
‘peapleasobiscls o achieving the formationof he
aro-sealer Canadiannation. ' 00 bad that some.
‘on did'tIop off s ead back then.

Ferm The Spirit

Asylum Bill Demonstration In England

On Samurday 216t November, up t0 4000 people
‘marched through central Londoo o denonstrai agaost
e govemment's Aylum Bill The march wasorganised
by RAHCAR (Refugees Ad-Hoc Commitee for Asylim
Righis), n allsoce of refugee community groupe in
Briin. According 1o RAHCAR, “te govemment is
uying 0 close all avenues o the UK for people fleing.
‘pemecution from the Thrd World™. I the Asylum Bill
becomes law:

- all aylum seckers inclding young childrn will be
fingerprinied. Polce and immigrtion officers will be
bl 0 aret without warran anybody who refoes. At
present n he UK, only people who have been charged
ith imprisonsble offeace re requied o gve their
fingerprints,

the ight of homelss asyhum seekers 0 housing willbe
aken away.

~iylum seckers will v very limted rights o sppl.
Many will cnly have two days 1o make an appealafer

being reused asyhum, snd they may bave 10 sppesl
‘wihootevenseing theevidence whichhe Home Offce
ted 0 make s decision o efuse.

~ the ight of sppeal will be abolished alogeher for
visiors o the UK. Vistors have been efused entry into
Britsin 1o atiend wedsdings, fanenl, and ober family
occasions, or as toursa. Last year 10,000 visiors ap-
pesled agains the refusa o thei viss, aod one in five
on their sppeal. I the Asyhum Bill becomes law,dis
willnot e possble.

Even without the Asylom Bill hings are geing
‘worsefor syl seekers i the UK. The goverumenthas
pronised to build an extra 300 deention places for
asylum seckers. The Immigration Act 1971 gave the
aboites power of unlimited detention for people
‘whos clams forasylumareunderconsidecation, o who
have becn efused. n 1991, two asylun seckersdied in
detetion. Contact: RAHCAR, 365 Brizion Roud, Lo
4on SWSTDB. (From ECN London)

Workers Riot In Japan

Kamagasai i & neighborbood in Osaka, Jup, home 10 some 30,000 workers, mainly day-laborers,
including many homeless workers. On Octobe 1, the local govememnt in the neghborhood decided 10 109
paying out social security payments o nesdy workers.

“The spprozimatel 80 workers who were tmed out f the social security office on Octber 1 snd ldthey

‘were ot going o eceive sy payments responded by amashing inthe ofice's windows n th ealy afemoon,

some 1500 pliceaived inthe nighborhood o prevent he discontnt from sprading, Bu b carly evening, s
least 1000 workershad gatherd,slongside many youths od “normal ciizens”. Buming barricades wer eecied
inthe trets. Throoghoot theevening, th iting sread s rins and bses were st onfire ad age spermar.
ket was looed

“The next day, h oca governmenttood by s decisionsoddecided 10 onceagan reuse o make payments
10the day-Iborers. The social secury building closed s doors st 9:30um. Outcame the siones and molotov
cockuail once again, a workers and polce squared off i e sees for & second dey.

By lae fiemoon, th locl goveroment gave in and agreed 10 eoew is eyments 0t day-laborrs.

(From Inerimd214 and Livera Volot#4)

~ERNK Statement coninued from page 4
emergedromts ownpecple s receives soportfrom
them. I unshinkablethatthe PKK should ha s own
people. The PKK is conrbuing 1o the rpai of the
Vilages. Kurdisan s 3 whole, fo the Kurdish pecple
Dersim and Sueimaniye are s bomeland.

‘Allhese stacks ae being perpetrated i collsion
‘with Turkey. Turkish war planes ae bombing he bae
areas and iy convoy ying o crossheborderwas
desoyed by our fores.

Despite all it persecution and vilent methods
Turkey has becn unable o prevent the development of
the PKK. Espcialy in the summer o 1992 oo guerl
forces have limited the Turkish Stae's iy prsence
i rurl areas. Our warscontinning sl over ou county,

hichcovers 800 housand squar Klometres. The Turk-
s Stae i pow using two teacheroos Kurdish partis in
southern Kurdistan o atack the Kurdish peopl.

“The Kuish people i all four prts of Kdisin
nd thos living all over the world are expessing theis
isgust at his iy assaut. They deer th acts of these
two paries, which hav a 40.yea hisiory of defat and
disappoiting e hopes o the Kurdish pople, s reach-
ery. e callon these paies o give up his ssaal cnthe
Kardish peopl. I they disegard ur cal thei solaton
willncrease and thy will b consigned 10 olvion.

‘Wecallonall democraticorganisaions and bodes
1o show solidrity withthe Kurdish peope agaost tis
extemally supported ussalt whichis contrry o their
will, nd 0 oppese the poritions tken by their own

govermments which are encounaging these clasher.

ERNK (Nationa Liberation Front of Kurdista) Eu-
ropean Representatives

Brossels, Ocisber 952

News In Brief...

Ahungernrie launched Sepember 28 by Pletin-
i prisonersended October 15 when negoiaors st
Taels Nahfh Prison sproved e prnciples ofan
acoond acceped s week carier s fou o prsons.
‘The Luaeli Prison Servce Auboriis procis
morinprovs o ving oo il i
ons and acceped the principle aimen.,
A il agrecns i ll eingdraied Oueparic
st n e fat, Hussaia Nimeer A'beodat, died |
Octoe 4. On 14, 92 iwo comiades fomiho -
imperlin sstnce in Copambagen were juled
i being charge with 3 back roberis. They re
(Caristian Z weterrom Boon o Stafa Klath.
Bot ae being heldin oal slaio, lo i their
oelsfor 23S hoursaday. The oy people ey ever
Bear of ses e guads, Christian is oot llowed
visiors s Stefun b ot bec allowsd 10 s s
‘parens, e i is s excssively censored.
Denurk thy have boavictims o ansgative mear
campagn by the capialt medi. T two are do-
mandingtobe grovpediogehe. Botho them would
love 1o occive il Chrisian Zmetter, Stefan
Kliathoj: Vestre Faengal, AFD.C. Poltigarden,
Kopeabagen-Vestrbro, Deamark (Angebirigea
Iafo 101)...0n52/124te Corsican National Lib-
eraion Front camied out & srie of bombings
across France nd Corsica. The 24 bombings took
plce mosily ut ax o governmeat fnanco offcs
Puis, Nice 04 Cosca. They wers i respons 1o
Pt i
‘Argnine recenly.ormed groep calld e Revo-
lutonary Organization of he People (ORE) s
snnounced s sgaast th goremmen of
President Calos Meocam. The ORP has claimed
responsibily fo the 9210129 bombiag of e iste.
oil company, which they aid was i proes o it
placacd pivatizaion. The ORP has previousy
Caimed esponiily forsiackson o acks and
e placing of pumphis bombs. Apparly, the
‘ORP wat & sp from the People’s Revolutionary
Party 1nd the Al for the Homeland Movement
TP, InJanuay o 1989 m amed columm o he
MTP suacked the Fourh nfany Regiment in La
Tubiadn. They were foreed t withdaw afer thiny
ous of combt, which reulted i e deaths of 0
people including guerilas, miliary personel 1nd
polc oficers (VSN Weeky Update #145) . The
Anti-Defumation Leagueof sl Brithis ming b
‘American Tndian Aui-Defamation Councll n
Federal o due t the us f e word “Ant-Def-
madon” in ot . The ADL claimstht i coined
h e - defmton” 1o serve s s disincive
e, nd thas it has roprisyrights o those words
0 s theminconnecion with s srvice which
include combating racial prejudice. According to
ATM spokcsperson Rasell Means, had we Amei-
candans becn mors carful wihour immigraion
polcis 500 years ago, wouldaveprevenicdihose
pecple who s racially prejdiced from coerng he
Contoeat which would have obvisid te need or
any Kind of Ao Defamaion Council o A Def-
mason League." The American Indian Auti-Des-
‘maton Councll peeds finmcial contbuions 1
ey bave o money end hav ot beenaie o rsin
alawyerasyet Sendconrbuions o American o
ian” Ani-Defamation Covnc, 215 West Fith
Aveaue, Deaver, Colorado, USA 80011...On 92/
1123, group clling el he Fuersas Punlitves
delzquierd (Puntve Frees of e Lefi-FPY)
caninated ighewing business cxccuive. Arges
continued on page 35...

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Yrm The Spiit

Rostock And Its Aftermath

Pogrom i Rostock

On October 3, Germany celbraed”the second-
amiverury of s rmification o rerthe emnctation
ofthe former German Democatic Republc (GDR) by
‘West Gemnany. Alsoon Octaber,boththe fe-ightand
the faref in Gemmany ook o the srects i protes, he
fomer 0 cal fo the xpolon of all forcigoers sod
efugees fomihecounsy, e eatierto demounce -
naz violence and 0 demand open brdersfo all e
=3

Gemnany's domesic polsical order has been
sy opet fo he patseveal s, pariclaly
i seres of it pogroms i hefomer st e
own of Rosiock wleashed tn wprecedeted wave of
onpemized, milan: aiacks by neo-ozi youth gangs
throughout alof Germany. The wincks o Rostock began
0 Augus 22t ni-foeigne rly i frotof a home
foraylum.seskers. Despic o 10 polie, only 20
offcers wre on hand when th vilencebegan, AL east:
100neo-naz youhssmashed he windows of s biling,
and ovn though 100 poics soom showed up ey
i not ntrvene, an th aiacks on the efogee cener
continued il decp into the nigh. TV images of the
pogrom thowed couess neighborhod residents sand
ing neaiy, ppladiog and checring.

On Sumday night,a lne of o poice could not
preventasecond night of atacks, st by s youths
‘mesd with molotov cocaal. What's more, i seemed
e s wers very welorgnized. Crsies Worch of
e fu-ight NuinalListpary from Hamborg was on
band 10 provide leadenhip, and noo-naz cades wih
‘walky-takies (s ven police radios) elped provide
orgmizaion. The cbvious lack of poie imervetion
made i cleaha st some clement wthin e police
forcecither wer qiely sympathd, ormay evn have
ided in proparuions fo the neo-ozi aacks, T be-
came frervideos when 100 fascists wer rtaly
disprsed whenthey aivedon e sce. At et €0 i
fuscits were aresed in Rostock on Sunday nigh,and
many wereplaced i prisoncel fll ofne .

By Monday, tacks on the refuge horel in Ror-
tock - jut ke o year befor i the town of Hoyer.
werd - had bcome a nighiy ven. The efugecs were
evicused n 4 ense mesning that the no-nazs had
boen ucosstul. Morsover, inspired by the events in
Rosiock, neo-nezs in ¢ fest 10 ther Gemnan ciics
rioted and tacked egec cnirs o sevea conseca-
e evenings e el pogroms i Rostoc. Andfor
weeksate the events in Ronock, there were couness
‘molotov aiacks and abbings by -z incites all
scron Germany.

The Mareh Goes On

o farthis year, over 200 sacks on forsigners
v been caried out by fascists and neo-naisin Ger
many resling i 15 death and counless njris. Most
receatly, on November 20, Berlin squatier was Killd
‘when 70up of auonceniis carme upon group of nazi
‘youths who werebeating a foreignr ina subway stton.
In the ensuing clash, thee of the wtonomists were
sabbed, and one of them, Silvio Meler, s 27 yearokd
squater, was Killd. In the nighis following Slvo's
death, there were consant clashes beween aionommists
a0 neo-nais. Autonomistslsonjored atleast 3T police
& miliant march through Berinexpeesing their out-
rageatSilvi's deat. Latr i the week, sutopomists nd
Turkish yootbs fooghtagainst olice i ot n heneigh-
borhood of Kreuzberg,

The ssaton n Germany became further scalited
o Sunday, Novermber 22, when neo-naz skinbeads

The remaiss o analam hose i Eberovlde,Germany, ar o s ehomb k.

firebombed the house of « Tukish amily,killng two.
Turkish women and and 11 year-old Turkish girl. En-
raged i this auack, Turkish yooths vowed: “Ten Ger-
mans For Bvery Tukl” Nine other persons were

“Attack the Nazis Wherever They Areb

“The fact that neo-nazi gangs have been on 0
rganized offensive does not, however,mean tha there
has been 0o resistance. Church groups, ctizens, 0d
Greens have organized viil n frontofrefugee ceners
~although it usully takes st fw skinheads with sl
1oed boots and rocks and bosles 1o chae there folks
‘away.Incontras 10 thisspproach,asonomist ANTIFA
(- fascist acion) groope expanded hei approsch of
et level confrontation wih nco-naie,

‘One weekateihe oubreak of iolnce inRoslock,
arge i ascist demonstzacion was held in that city.
‘Whereas oly + handful o plice were deployed o del
Withthe neo-oazis during ther week of atacks, upon the
arival of the ANTIFA demonsraiors, at least 2000 po-
lice were bussed o Rostock in order 0 “keep the
peace”. In othercies as well, ANTIFA marches were
held, ofen resuking in confronaions with police and
‘g of neo-nazi,

On November 8, Gernan polical and business
leades organized + massive "an-racist march i Ber-
lin mainly 10 improve Gemmany's aisbed image nthe.
intermational market. When Chancellor Kobi - who has
threaiened o declar s sae of emergency in Germany 10
2810 more casly depert refugees - ried to march 1 the
head of this march, be was suacked with stones and
oting fruit and secury forces had 0 rsh him away.
German president Weizsecker ws similaly prevened
from addressing the atircit rally when asonomiss
wiecked the sound sysiem and bombarded him with
g Cowering behind a phalans of io oliceon lve
elevision, Gemny's poilcal elte were effocvely
Shown o be the ypociesthey really are.

Apan from open, mass aciviies, sutonomen in
‘Germancies v also responded with clandesine -
ackson nazi sne tuctres ik righ-wing bars, youth
centers, and far-ight poltcal pary offces. A govp
Caling sl he“Red Antifascit Practon” bumed down
afscistorgmizing enerin th ity of Abreasfelde, snd
inRosiock s, just down heblock from th bumed. out

| refogee centr, the *Antonio Amadeo Commando™

(aamed for an Angolan beten o desth by naia i 1990
in Eberswalde) tashed the farrght youh center
“MAX". Such tacks on iz poliicalcolara sirucares
have been commonplacein Germany fo seveal year,
butthe recen pogroms i Rostock have given the actions
rencwed sense of urgency, patcularly since the no-
o4z movement seems 1 be ganing in umbers and
organization. Avioomists have lso caried outatacks
o governmentl srocures responsible for deportaions

and rcis asykum polcis. Mostrecenty,on November
Clandesine cel fir-bombed the judicial facuky
divsionofthe Volks-Uni iversy in Hamburg.

‘The Potential Of The Far-Right

‘The German government has only minimally re-
acted o th recen peurgein fascst violnce. I helaw.
‘couns, young maisar usuallygivenleient semences,
since the judges usully ol that the atacs were ok
poltcal,butwee raer th rsutofthe youth” “poor,
impoverished upbringing” or %00 much skchohol” he
‘German ous have refused 1o criminliz he fr-righ.
Many ef-wing ANTIFA groups, however, bave been
criminalized for some ime. The entise Auonome AN-
TIFA sceneinthecity of Gtingenhasbeencriminalized
nder Gemman law paragraph 129n. In fct, thee have
been 300 cases brought against the racicallet under
parsgraph 129s, while only 6 proceedings have becn
broagh aganst asciss.

“The farsight youh scens has also ben elivened
by an increasing number of neo-nazi rock bands. Bands
such s Sk il uphei ans st concents with "Sieg
Heill” salutes and lyics bout usng flame-trowers o
cxtinguish Jews,disabled persons, nd "gypeics”. Under
German aw, suc yrics ar echnically llegal, bu only
& few fascit bunds have had thei songs baned. And
obviouly, being banned anly makes them morepopula
within neo-nazi youth scenes.

“This lack of epresion against the fur.right has
done much o allow the movement's contiaved ise. The
naais have seen immedite resulls from their auackr:
fire-bombing refugee homes has ld t refugess being
‘movedoutofceran ies; whilenazisshoutForeigners
‘Oul,the Gerrua goverment makes peyments o Roma-

s it deporis the Roma people back to s and where
ey are rosinely atacked,und whilethe German pala-

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Yixrm The Spirit

ment debtes e sboliion f Anice 1 o he Germn
consiuion vhich guarmes 4l syl seekers the
ighto e Gemnny. Idologically, the exreme right
andh Germo s e alerie v nd: he G
ovemment wans 1 limit #xd conrol the nflux of
ousider oio Gemnany, thus i cn efecively wilze
e as shockroopsfor i . The fact et many
‘Gern olceofficrs vote or fu-ight olia pries
s explin i elacte o rck down o prtests
alles by fa g groupewith whom they my tacilyor
openyfe] ymputy. Thas, s the ANTIFA movement
‘hich ha beenciminlized,whi th German govrs
ment oly pys lpsevie 1 cls for 8 rack down o0
rrigh extremism.

“There s ome hope i thefc that most k. and-
il nzi r ot all olically developed (kbough it
‘wold be ol o ignor th well developed e
iooa e vhictbefar-ight movements adembiphat
cxablshed). To lrge dogre, young einbeads are
moivuiedyh e atmary of e v e fomer
‘GDR where te sconomic frure i sk, Wellrgan.
o aornizaios henchanoe i s
cnegy tnd tamlte i i violene apint foregpers
Bt withresinaocesndrepression e farrigh coukd b
defesed. The 19 year o youth whoconfessed otaing
pa n the o ire orbingin Mol rid 0 coramit
aicide inprison. And if nai youths soddealy found
emiaves unde continsousatac rom aed Trkih
sangs, for cxampl, hen they woud peshape be ess
Confident in rouming he et

“Open Borders For AL™

"Agtin, what was most fighening sbout the eres
ofracisattacks in Rostock and throughoue Germany i
‘Augus and September wasthe degiesof publc support
‘whichthe atacks commended, and the poliical rsuls
‘whichthe atacks had. he facthatviolence byneo-nais
was‘ucceasul'inhaving refugees semoved fomneigh-
borboods wherehey were ‘notwanied"is slaming. And
rther than lshing out t the ar-ight and calling for
soldurity with the oppresied peoples” o the word,
‘Gemaay' poltclleaders romal o Germany s nsjor
poltcal pries istead admitd that thers wasindeed
refugee “problem” and that Gemnuny's constinuionsl
e 04 gt 3 10 ey seded o b

‘Asevr,the ecentevens i Germmy have showed
the urgency for milant nt acsan-fascst organi-
ing. And this oganization needs o be two-fod: fin,
hereneedstobetheoreicalideological organizing, sons
10be bl t0anlyze, fo exampe, th reasons why global
capialism leads to large nambers of rfogees heading
from e impoveished landsof the South o the wealhy
natons of the Norh, d why we shoud sapporthe cll
for*Open BordersFor A" and second,heef nesds o
provide bt concree solidaiy with refugees by sup-
poring their own organizaionl ffor, s well a8 by
organizing obrown mlient, et leve esisance o
10 atack neo-nazis nd ther orgoizaional sirucares
‘whereverthey arise. Nazisshould pot b allowed o walk
the siets unmolested. They are ke 8 cancr: if left
‘nopposed, ey will contine 0 carry out ther acks.
Ant acsts and . facists ned o beustas ffctiveat
the stretlevelinopporing ther.

No Easy Solutions

Being ffecive a sretlevelmeansmor thancnly
meetng viclence withviolence. Milncy alooe will oot
defet facism. An o fscist movermend must ke o
acoount the broaderperspective; it must look athe ‘g
picur’. For example th fact ha fucissbave beenable
o mobilize suppor, paricalay n East Gerany, hows
thtth recent upsorge i ths aciviy bas decper oot
‘While the supposedly “real existing” soialiem in the
former GDR was an-facis it was 5 in same cny.

Racism, aoi-semitiom, and sexism onti-
‘ed o exist;simmeringbelow the srfce o
Eant Gemnan society. The many migrant
workers brought oo the GDR from other
“uocilst” comies such as Vietam, and
Angols were desined in specil reigh-
bourhoods - toch a4 Rowtock's Lichien.
bagen- md kept separatefrom East Geeuan
socity.

‘Withreunificaton snd the sbsequent
resructuring, East Germun liviag condi-
tions have deeriorsed due to fackory clo-
sure, housing shorages and s declie in
fociaiservicer Thecombinaton of simmer.
ing raciam s economic decline has made
theormer GDR s fetlebreding groundfor
fasist oranizing.

An ati-facin. sntegy most ke
hese and othr issus ino accoumt -t most
avoid fulling into the trap of “sngl-sue’
poltes. S ihas e placed withina arger
contex o e sruggle gains capalism, rciem, sex.
am, tc. Ther are o casy soluions o e questionshat
these issues ris. The ralzaion thet sy Eart Ger-
mans are indeed racist i ot something that can be et
‘only with moral condempationor vilence- theremustbe.
dislogue nd nterscion. Beating them up st going o
necessarly twm them ko n ant-fscists. The e must
offer pracical semative; d i poliics mustbe rele-

On Wednesday December 2, two men snd one
‘woman were amestdin Athens:Torgos Balfar, Was-
ik Midwo, mxd Andreas Kiriskopulos. Jiorgos
Blatas s accosed of:

~foumding s temorist orgaizaton snd membership
s terrist orgnzaton o more than o persons with
the am of murdering pesons wih weapons;
~tale nd possesion of drg;

- weapons comstrction, possssion, and sale o vsi-

Wasiliki Micha and Andress Kiriakoguios ars
charged with sopporinga erorint organization nd
he possssion of fabsifed documents. Acoording o
the cops, Jorgos Balafas i aleged o have taken pat
inthe following sctons:

- the shotng of s proscaor Theofsmopul in

| | Ao 85 i o ws ey e o

| | st Acion now a1t My Cormranta.

| | =% shoc-ut i G, duing whic s cops were:

| | ot wascmeof Busta” aleged befer, Ohristos
T May "85,

< ook i Kalogesas, during which he aeged

Jeaderof “AsSuae Acto, Vil Preas, was

Kl Ocober

otk in Burcin, for which Kirakor

Mavskopos bas b senienced November 30

- bombatack i Spolis Novembes 86

bk by in Gl iy 6.

atacks on rcpefplc caried by e goups

“November 17" “Revooionsy Resinancs’

- e hocing o s CIA g i Decambe 5.

‘Balafas s boen sough by th copt for severl
yoar now, nd the Greek press bas bon poiaying

Three Greek Militants Arrested

with boh Noveamber 17 and the socil democrsctic

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vant a0d accessible i relaion oth everyday struges
of ot oaly the German working classbut refugees and
immigrants who face fascist vilence. Clealy, meeing
organize fasis volence rquires & milant response
uthis can e ly one apsecof an - fscist stregy.

‘Ths sroggle must b fought n many differen levels
‘whether o he set, i th ucoriesor smply rying 0
Wi over people’s “hears nd minds”.

i a0 & “leading terore”, The press has repeatedly
sored s about b, T corserviveNew Democ.
ey govermnent aimed i 1989 ht Bl hdih

‘paty PASOK. Many of the fles rgarding this case
havebeen brned by he polc,leading o peculaion
haseither hey are wiiholding nformtion o repar.
g for more .

during a pay withfieds. Allegedly, police found
cache of weapons, hand genader, e doguments,
and drogs, a well s ca with fake icenceplat.
Story afir e arests, Groek TV unconerd a san-
dal when the bead o th police nd & high-ranking
senenl gave conflicing account of what bad becn

zed, et. 1 the end,the Grek.inteior minister
resgned sod publicly spologizedforsome ofthefalic
Informaton which was seted egarding he rumberof
Weapons siezed, i Inthe press s wellhecope were
made o ook folsh onacsount o heir lood hirsy
id on Balafw bouse.

‘Balafas and he oiber o miliants arested id
‘20t ke sy stements whasoever o e poice.

‘Noniheles, hor ros-releas was sued by
Butes:

The program o fes romth policeaver e lat e
years bas now resche i high-poin. The pross has
150 played i role n thi, by portraying me as ‘e
mon dngeroos and_wrpredicuble termorst i
Greece'. And the copt, who accuse me of having.
‘wespeet tnd explorives, bavenow added drugsto the
it T have ot Killed or wounded anyane. | demand
that thes i be pblicy et ight. 1 hve ot made s
tatement 0 police becasse | do ot want 1 become.
avictmol heir so-called ‘an-terorcampuiga”. Cops
lietoday, jo a3ty always have, ot becanse my
idonswnd my way of ifeare rdically cppored o he
exising symem wndts alues nd any people hink

contined on pge 20...

YArm The Spirit

“500 Years of

Rape and Hate

- We Refuse To Celebrate”

International Tribunal Of Indigenous Peoples And Oppressed Nations In The USA

From October 2.4 therewas an“Iteratin Tribo-
‘ol of North Amercan Natve nd Oppressed Peoples” i
St Francico. Organiaed by AIM (American Indian
Movement) and supporied by representatives of the
Puerto Rican, New Afkan, nd Mesican poples move.
‘ments, s wel as progresive whit groups, he coner.
ence delt with th S00hanniversary o thebeginningof
Buropean colonialsm on the American contnent.

Francis Boyle, professo of inemasional law and
Key-note speaker, who also addessed the poltcal pris-
‘onen”tibunalin New Yorkin 1990 drew shar parsils
betweenthe Nazisysem and he LS. govermment. Other
speskersincluded David Conmingham, who also worked.
o the New York uibunal, a5 wel s thr lewyers nd.
expens.

Twenty witheses ncluding arepesenative of he
native popultion o Havwaii s wella long.time poli-
cal prisoner of the Puerto Rican independence move.-
ment, Rafael Cancel Mirund, imprisoned slong with
thercomrades for a 1954 shooing incident nside the
US. Congress, spoke agains the US. goverment’s
genocide, violaion of human righis, and detesion of
prisoners of war. Thei statement hd bocn delivered o
e U.S. tomey general un dayspreviously.

‘Aferseveral bours o testimony nd jury delbers-
tion, the five female “judges” and two male “udges””

from Span, nave Canads, West Germany, th Philp-
pine, and the USS, (native American, Asian- Amercan,
Afrcan-Amecican/New Afrkan) found he U.S. govers
ment guiky on ll couns

Part ofthe wibunal also consisted o coference
cultral evening nd s women'spodium,a wel s work
§roups on acim, omophobia, poliical prisonerspris-
onersof war, s wel s informaton tablesfrom various
groups. The welcoming addressfrom theprisoners of the
RAF and the German resisance was well rceived.

‘Approimaiely 1200 peopl ook par n th Tribu-
sl and th othr ctivites around he campaign of 500
Yearsof Resisance”, which recived » s amount of
press n the West const. On October 11, there wasa demo
of sbout 7000 pecpl to oppose the Columbus Day
celbrations in San Francico. A “peace navy” in the
arbor sucessflly prevented th landing of eplicas of
Columbus’ ships. Th daybefore, AIM had succesfully
prevented simila pro-Columbus celebrtin from k-
ing place in Denver, Colorado.

During the San Francisco ant-Columbus demno,
fighing broke out with poice and approximalely 40
poople wer arested. Some comrades were ok with
Tlony charges for fre.bombing policecar.

(Adoptedfrom Angehorigeninfo 105 &1des #6121613)

Message From German Political
Prisoners To The Tribunal

To the panicpunis of the Intermational Teibunal
500 Years of resistance against genocide, coloniliom.
and polical iterment”

Hers we sed 10 you our warmest soldariy grei-
ings from hepolccal prisoners i Germany. Thi ibu-
alwill b an utsanding event ntheistory of S0 years
ofresistance aganst genocideand colonialism. It -
raedin s molinde of sctviis during hisyer, lover
the world 14 s expressionof the growing conscousness,
thatihis continal isoy o exermination of human lfe
can cnly be changed whea we all join togeber inema-
tionaly.

Today, withhis consiousoess md our experience
from resisance, oar pain and th sorrow of peophe, but
mainly our hopes we can tum them o & common
weagon: agins th powerof the lt, aginst th deeply
nbuman system.

‘Al in Europe many people ae involved in the
500 years campaign”. We hope that this will be the
begiming of m itensive poitcal work ogether which
‘il help us o receive answersfor the quesions every-
‘whese. We'llony find eal anewers when we cany out
o suggles for esential changes in an intemationsl
‘ontext. Bven i many problms sem o be, it sight,
limitedegionaly and naionally, the peoplcof the Three
Conineats and those of the metropolr ae confronted
with the same basic problrns. The globlized circam-

sances with which we are confonted todsy, equie |

common snswers n siuation i whic he right o ive

s fundamentally calld inio questionforthe majoriy o |

thepeaple nthe world. s vicious cirleofpovery and
destrocion of thenaurallvng condiions andoutof the

current world market.sirocare. Our whole fture andlife
depends on that we brak trough hi irle by working
ogeiberintemationally; indersanding snddiscussion s
cessary between us,how 10 achievea human perspec-
ive agains the desructive world order. For the exper.
ences of the struggles have the sume imporance & the
deas o resolv thes problems, which we want 1o de.
velop now. Our hope foth ftre s at there will be
devclopmentof intensive iner. reltonship o the bass
of mutual respct and soldary. Whea we have had a
visitinprison from Puerto Ricans,from members of the
Black commanity inthe USA o mermbersofte Amer-
can Indian Movemment andfrom Latin Ameics, we could

“The libersion of th poltical priscners and of the
prisonesof war ll over the world is oneof e concrete
‘policaldevelopments, on which his process will s,
In Westem Europe there are mre than 2,000 poiical
prscners. They are from srugglesfrslfdetermination
nd socal revoluton. Also in Earope the rling clastes
are violing basic princples of intcmatonal law a0d
human rights. The legiimate strugges ae doclared as
“terorism". We,the polical priscners in Gemnaay are
part of the evoluionary sruggles during th last 25
‘years ne ofusIrngard Mollris insoltary confinement
| e 1972, enenced became of s sacs gaines

the US. warin Vieam. The inemationlism, te sl
| darity and thecommon ight with e people i the south

and he oppressed people o all continents i 4 clemen-
tary thing since our beginning. I s the basis o our
poliics and practice, that makes the possbiliies

Anti-Columbus Actions
In Latin America

Ladn America vas he s of musive naive
proess on Ocabe 12 in pposiian 0 the ofcal
Celebrsonsofthe S00h anmivrsryof here isov-
ey of the cotineo by Colombus Thrs was i
ur of mas protes e miliant cios.

Columbis: Mor than 10,000 naives wanded 10 de-
onstrate in Popeyam in southern Colurabis, but we
confronied by amed fores. More han 0persons
were wounded.Suse barricades wer st upi any
ths regions throughout Columbia. Bombe caused
material dumage i Bogoia and Baranguill.

Peru: In Cusaco i former Inca capial) more than
40,000 naive pessams gutbered 10 remeaber the
“vicims of the nvasion” and the "heroes of the
rsisunce i the Andes”. In L, guerrils bow wp.
a bunk offcein & wealthy neghborhood.

Bcundor: In Siem, steets were blockaded with
sones and consrucion materals. Natve lso 0cco-
pied seven] esublshmens. There was & protest
‘march 0 Quitounder themoto *S00 Years o Resis-
ance” involving 10,000 people.

Bollvia: Several mtives, mosty Ketschuss and Ay-
mares, guhered in La Paz Thee,an “sssociton of
v peoples” was 1 be establihed.

(Chil: There were several press conferences, espe-
ciallyin Temaco, where Mapaches ad been protst-
ing formonth et back therland whichhad been
siolen by white. In Seniago, a bomb damaged the
‘Spanith embassy.

Mexico: The Maya Councilin Yucatan called forpro-
et i every sl village. There was sl s cee-
mony by several thousand natives 1o celebate “the
Tt tha we have rtsined out fighing i

change sscerainable sndreal. Andoday wewillresstas
el any aiempt o liuidat hese poltcs. We are .
prisoned because wearefghting 10 buildup s evoluion-
ary front in Westen Europe, which i part ofthe inerna-
onal movemment for radical change o therlingsysiers
ased onexploition. For 2 yearshe Gerran Staiehas
ried o destry us by ll means, because wear holding.
oo our siuggle; the st is doing this wih special
‘couneriasurgency programs, erminalization, solary
confinemen, ei. Our aims id conditions of deenton
uniteus withhe poltcal prisoners all over the world. At
ihis sage we cxend solidarity grectings 1o Leonard
Pelier, Mimia Abu-Jaml nd Aljandrioa Torres..|.

Inyourappeal you say st s Inermatioal Tbu-
‘l will help 10 oganize the nest 500 years in & comn-
pletely different way: thtth world will ve n through
the solidarity o the peopl, in whichteir own culural
idenity s fro and all pople will b abl 0 sharethe ich
rsourcesofhe carth by saving heenvironment. We, the
poliica prisoners are par of this svggle and e -
Volved n these discussions.

We re verycomscious o th special esponsibily
i this dvelopment that the peaple hav i the metro
poles, nd epecially ioday whie Germay i on s way
o becoming a world power. Duringthe s 10years, the
propagated vicory of the “fee market cconomy”
drastcaly intensifed the misry of the mujoiy of the
people inthe worldand the economi, miliary and cl-
el aacks aginst hem.

Yrm The Spirit

Interview With Dr. Luis Nieves Falcén
Co-ordinator Of Ofensiva ’92

‘Could you tellusa bit about what Ofeasiva 92 1, and
‘what were the reasons behind organizing the cam-
palga?

Ofeasiva 92 s whatone could cal a civic rgani-
2aton or movement which includes person rom al the
socilclasss,plicaldeologies sexes nd age. s 3
uonaleforin Purt Rico 1o bing 0 the anention of
the Pucrio Rican peopl on the sand, and 10 he ouiside.
‘workd the fuct that we bave poliicalpriscners,tat thy
have beenilegally sntenced sd imprionedythe U.S.
sovernment, and in addiion 10 the legaly of these
sentences and imprisonment, their human rghts are
continvously vioaid.

We sy heir human rights are being contindously
violtediaking ntoconsideaion e inemtiona veaty
that has been signed by various counries inclding the
U, on the trestment of risones. Allhe rules tht are
applicabl nthatteay,signed by the U, and ther sig-
natorynaions, e violaied contanly i the trestment o
e Puero Rican politiclpriscners. We felthatis con-
sant violation and oppresion and harassment o Perio
Rican political prisoners s cne way o break ther spirt
a0 st the same time create fear and try o provnt the
srowing felingfo independence and the growing fcl-
ng for rcognizing the bruality o the restment by the
Us.

Howmay poltical pisoners and Prisoners of War are
‘currenty being held by the US:

At he moment we have 19 poltcal prisonrs and
Prionersof War. i moriths agothere were 16, and st
month there were 18,10 we know that the mumber will
continue growing s the represtion gared towards har-
assng supporers offeedom fo Puerto Rican ncreses. |
‘Atthe moment we have 19

‘What kinds oforganizing are beinglooked at both I
Puerto Rico and amongst the Puerto Rican comma-
aity n the US.?

Our organiing effons ae, 1 ink, thre-fold. Our
main target acually is the Puero Rican commnity. So
‘we ae oganizing support commitces i every murici-
paity of the island. AL the moment we have support
Committes in 30 out of the 70 municipalies on the

n,

1492~1992

{sland. And each one of them has varied caendar of
programs and cavies geared fundamentally 1 leting
the people know who the poliical prisoners are, o thai
they may become acquanied withhem, o e then koow
‘whatthe essons ar ththey hve beenincarceraied, ud
ird, 1o mise consciousners 50 that the paople sar
callngfor ei immedisi iberation.

feel, by th kinds of acviies that are going on
every mooth o the sland, that we ar incresingly
meeting these objctives. On the oiher hand, we are
nviting siserorgnizatonsnhe U . and orsnizations
inthe Poeto Rican communitie inthe U . 1 ollowthe.
same example. At the moment we aready have 12 sup-
port commitee i cties n the Easter part o the US.
hatarenotPuero Rican, b which are o ganizatons i
are i solidarity wih our cause, tht re working onthe.
suealso,

Our thid leve i the interntionllevel, where 1

Puerto Rican

On November, neNew Progrsve Pry which up-
poris U.S. achood for PucroRico won e govemor
ship and the majoriy of municipaiie n the Pocrc
Rican geneal lectons. According ot Movimenio
Ampliode Poblo (Brosd eopi’s Moverme - BPM),
a recoun shows ha envirorrncnuls candidste Nef.
i arcis wan 70,189 vote inthe lection (3.8 % of
thetotl), some 1200 mor hania e it abalasion.
“The Pusro Rican Independence Pary cume n behind
ith3.3 %. Acconding 1 the BPM thisror showsthe
Suxc lection Commisions bia infavor of e e
Iered parie...On Novenber 20,1982 the New York
Gty Councl by v of 3 109 pased resoluton
ssing he Unicd Nations Decoloizaton Commisze o
g e Unied Snes Govemmento declre s gceral
amossy forall Poeio Rican poiceal priscues and

News Shorts

pritoners. The poitcal prisoners have also finally
oen the sopport of Amaesty ntematonal, fer 12
long year of suggl. . Aceording 1o & repot in 8
Navy magazine, for the fis ime i 10 yean, Navy
pracice maeavers on the Pucrio Rican isand of
Viogues included the dropping of napalm bombs. A
Navy spokesperson sated thatbecause o the siaton
creaed among highlovel ofiials as roul of the
repon, the pracice would probably stop Healsossied
hat the borbings were being done wnder controlled
‘conditons sod th nearst home was 10miles away..
On November 30, Carlo Pinei, s eader o the Pueio
Rican ndependence movement ied s ge 3. Hehad.
‘worked tirlessly forherlease o Puerto Rican polic-
cal prisonersbeing beld n the US. and bis efors led
1o the sucesstl New York Ciy resoluon.

hink we hav been quitesuccesful.Forexample,for e
first e we have been abe o g the Commisson o
human Righs in Geneva o take notice that thre are
polica pisoners n the U.S. and tha hei ighs have
been violued. And the commistion, s nommal proce-
dure, ha nformedthe U.S.of thetecomplaiots anthy.
have equested the U.S. 1o answer the chargestha we
ave presened o the Commision. This s more mpor.
tant precisely a this moment sincs we know the srong
pressures and the suong pover that the US. exens
hroughoot all he organizing of the U.N

I aditontothatwe ar inhe process o challeng.
ingth vilaion of human ights inthe Organization of
American Suies O.AS). The O.A.S. s radiionally
ecn contolled by the UsS., o such an exint tht thir
‘main offcesare in Washingion It has a Commission of
Human Rights and we have sready placed s petion o
the Commision onHoman Rights of e O.AS. 1 cxa-
e the vilaions by the U.S. We re i frequent spak.
ers sl of the inemation forums of th non-algncd
countries and other intematonal forums inerested in
human ights

Inthe US.iself, we have been lobying some of
the Congress peaple,rying o interestther i h vils-
tionsthat dily occur aganst the Pacro Rican poliial
prsoners and two weeks ago four congrss persons sent
& et 1o the Boreau of Prisons inquiring about the
vilaions we have reporied o hemn. Son sease tink
it we are progresing inthe intemationsl rens.

You have given the campalg the e “Ofensiva 92"
and of course 1992 i becoming a very sigalfcant year
for many communite. Of course itisbelng celebrated
I some segments of socity s the 500 anaiversary of
the so-called discovery ofthe Americas by Columbus.
For many people It is a dierent Iegacy and we are
seeing the native commuities I particular organiz-
ng and celebrating 500 years of resistance. Similarly,
the African-American communities are organizing
‘calebrationsof thelr own resstance o siavery, which
‘s aa nevitable result of Columbas’ invasion of the
contineat. What s the reevance of1992 1o the Puerto
Rican people?

1992 s very rlevant o the Pt Rican people in
pariclartohe polical prisoners and Prisoers of War,
because in a seas these comdes represeat the oss-
ance agains opprssion In asens they are e recip-
ent of the legacy of resisance 1o colonilism in the
spanishimes by the Ntive Americans and e slves snd
the whit presenc. And our presence in a way arethe
s who have cominued that trditon of resstance. I
thatsense 1992 symbolzes notonly the conguest sndihe
colonia domination of the Americas by the Earopean
powers, bt alio i a verydefnite represeniation of the
long tmdiion of resistnce of Native Americans and
Blacks inthe Americas.

Also by atiaching the number ‘92" we want 10
sigaiy that b yesr we willncessesll urefforts forthe
fredom of ourparots and that we expec s heeffors
will crystllize in some concret effons towards their
iberston,

When you talk abaut th prisoners today belng the
legacyof thecontinued resistance o the Puerto Rican
eopi tothatkindof genocide and clonlalisn, which
s ongolng I the US. at this polat but from other

Imperialist Peace Is War!

Excerpt From The Wotta Sitta Document “Imperialist Peace Is War”

Inprevious ssues ofArm T Spirit we haveprintedsiatemenisandetes fromie il commis
prisonerscollctive Woti S InA.T.S. #12 we published a leter from some Wota S comvades who
wereon i in Rome. At the endof his rial they wrote lon paper called “Imperiais Peace s War!”
i which theyanalytedthe present worldwid poiicalveliy. Inthis excerpt thy discus, among other

things, the 500 Years f Resstance campaigrs.

Criss And War

“Ou epoch, the pock ofthe bourgeaise, possesses,
however, his distincive featre: It s sinplifed the
class aniagonisms. Sociryas a whole is more and more
spiing nio two great camps, iio two greai classes
direciyfacingcachother -bowrgeoisieandproliarat”
(Mars, Engels)

1. Las year saw an itensifcation of he imperalist
bourgoisie's cas rule around the world, under the pres-
sure of monopolycapital,whichis ying o overcome the
nvesolvd criss of the 70' b speeding up he process
ofthe concenrtion, cenralizaton, and ntemalization
of capial

“This process is leding (by itelf 0 & prfound
araioni the shapeofcass . O the one haod, it s
leading o number of growing nd expos
ons, which are mult-producive and minatonal,
among states and econoric reas, s making clear .
inberent lmit of the ers of glbalization and economic
intedependence. On the other hand, his same process
results in o dirctaiack againstte iving condiions of
billons of proltrens and people around the world,
through the rthiss polices that the G7, World Bank,
NATO sad the ONU, s spranatonal bodies of capial-
i, arecontroling and definng,

“The Gulf Warhas beca th clearest andnos

imperaism's deermination 1o accept no quesions
abouts it interess and intemational seclements of
powes. The 90's arebeginning with the most ogical and
ralistic sceaniofo mperialsminthis epoch: war and

the reports o wt that chaacterize th today'srugle, |

and thecomsequent ragc esalsof s bararic domins.
tiom over human e

“The might and powe of the West hase' ranslied
ko "mew world order’, rather i has rlated nto 8
periodof great conusion nd upset,of isng coflctand
instabilty. The ending of the workdorder cstabished t
Yak i provng to be more complicated and rumatic
thancxpected. Thecoss o the Yala sealement werethe
deadof WWI;ad what the U ed imperiaistpowers
ar ying 10 mpose wilnot cost any les. Letus eave 1o
he reformist and revisionits thir dangerous llsions
and lies; we prefe 1o remember the lessons of history:
history has shown tha when a balanc of powes col-
pses,a new war s ineviable d necessary in order 1o
build up another balance of power. Fom Versailes 1o
Yalu,o..

mperaisn is war, Warhas shways been the way
by which the bourgeisi tres 1o resolv is crsis, by
nlowding the cotf i ropagation sndreproducion
e prollarin clss in desrucive manner.

Alo, today the war cannot be consideed o have
ecn finshed withthe victoy o the westem allancein
the Gulf War, because we have aready sen, i this st
docadeof the cenury, ot of wars breaking out i the.
various geo-polticl rea o th world. Was is coming
back agai,even in Europe, with broad s risng ammed
conflcts and civil wars cccurin, paricaluty in the
formes Yogoslavia andthe former USSR.

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This scenario, which,icaly, we e
secing daily, assames specific chancierisics
a0d develops preciscly i thisarea that i the
e nerve centrof theentieplnet, becauseit.
i crosse by al of the conuradicions of this
epoch. The principal and predominunt one is
between proletaiat and ourgoisie th explo-
sion between the Northand South o the world
that generates the ntr-imperialsteconomic
and policeal conflct that lready exsts and
‘which tends 1o develop among the world
powes inhei dividing up and domination of
the world.

“The Buropean imperialst bourgeoise is
speoding o he necesary sicps tht cannot be
siven up even though these sieps are conr-
dicory) o put forwandthe ccomomic, pliical
nd milary inegraion proces of he euro-
pean states n oder 1 be a bloc, . pliical
subjec being abl o esablish homogenous
policis that are inding inemally andsigif
cantly to advnce o the est of the work.

“1992"is ot o b merely a formal el
bration of th birth of the *European Union”, bt the
‘moment for he pracica ealization o s basi passage
a5 whole and tuming poitin s olliment. Therelore
the "European Union” s advancement of clss rlein
heentire coninertal reasndof i imperiaist projcton
inthecber areas of the world,beginning with e Medit
‘erancan-Middle East us shown aready with s cive -
‘volvement n the Gulf war

Barope wanis 1o ake part and does take par 1 3
‘protaganstinthe now word order”.In sy i cnough
10 remember theacions against e Iraqu people by the.
“heroes" Belin nd Cocsolone and thei oer ooges
yearagos heaielf 10 gt ridof the Albanian efugees
d conrol theminheir ovn county, from pow ol
more tan a new alan proteconie; an the incressiog.
political and millay missions in Yogoslavie, # e
backyard of De Michels and his sooger,or n fur o EI
Savador.

Obviously the ams of“Grest Germany”, England
and Franceandibe resureced Span are o ny les, .
theycanrelyon coniderabelegacy of world coloiza-
tion. *1992° sees the Baropean sites aiming t the
‘conquest an explotationof resources nd peoples, st
ke 500 years ago.

The i Burope ad around the world
hav e for alongrime henew qualty of he struggle snd
they have never stopped their resistance against the
capialist srtegies tht re more and more desrucive
and_directed only towards prof. The proleurian
sruggls, the liberation md freedom processe, have 1o
el with s g advancement i the repessive couner.
revolution tha heavily marked many evolatonary ex
perences and which ar tying 1 prevent the coming
logeiber of new experiences. Neverbeles, ne can -
ready see many features o assageto anew revoluion-
ary age marked by a desper sruggle, wherein e prole-
arin sruggle throughout the word is mor nd more
comected and lnked agaist the comman cnemy. The
mass mobizatons and the initstivs of the revoltion-

‘Some comrades from Wotia Sita: Marla Pia Vianale (sianding),
‘Rosa Mara (below Vianai), Anna Cotone (beside Mar), Susanna
‘Berardi(above Cotone) and Calerina Spano

aryforces within he reas of th imperilst ey’
‘well s those of he Third Word, durig the Gulf War,
bave undoubtedly contribuied 1o sieagihening the
roundofani-imperiaism and prolearian inemationl-
fsm. The vried exumples of proluaian ressance and
the many revoluionary inatives that ar staring 1o
sirke and sabotage all of the processes characteizing
192"t movingnthi sumediecion. Suchproceses
are seen by the proletrit 1 # capialist wming point
under he gise of *deregulaion” ad reacton.

“This is a tendency tha ses he ntesifcaion of
exploiation, the wideing of unemployment nd margi-
nalizaion, the worsening o iving sandards, long with
more and more alicamed lfe, and more and more the
imposiion.of epresiv, fascst, and racis policies
against those peopl hat re pressing agaost he borders
of “Foness Earope”.

500 yearsagothe “conguest of the Americas” was
the beginning o a new age and ofa european polcy of
oppression againstthe couniries and poples porsesing
resourcesand weakh tha enabld th esablshment of
workd colonization and dominsion, nd ule for rsing
capitalism and s emerging

Bortha was notal; e ncreasingimpoverishment
of these peapls - the basis for the progres of the
“developed and cvilized Europe” - was often ccorpe-
nied by extemminaton.

As Marx wrotein“Capial”:“The discoveryofgold
nd silver in Americs, h extirpaiion,enslavement and
entombment in mines of the sboriginal poplton, the
begioning of theconguest and ooting f the East ndi,
the taming of Affca ino 8 warre forthe commercial
uniing ofblack.skin, signaledthe rosy dawn of e era
ofcapialistproduction. Thesedylic proceedingsae e
chiel momerta of primitve sccomalation”

Historical research measures th qualty of these
“idyllic processe”: i 1500 he population of the world
‘was 400 milicn, 80 millon of which were in Amerca.
AferSOyears, ere remained only 10million of hese 80

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e histoical meaning of th proceedings

wans o celebrtewith s endless produc-
tions aroundth Fifth Cenieial of e Discovry of the
America”. I Buropean countrie re once agea aking.
the leadin hese imiiaive, it st simply ot of 8 sprt
ofcelebraton, bt rater

ge0usto the word'sbig monopoles. s necolonil-
iam in which the EEC, as the man charscer ad gro-
ganinl, stempis 1o win th growing resouces and rpaces
forcxploiaton in the Three Continent, i comptiion
With U.S. and Japanese capia, Peneiuion by Buropesn
capial i the form tht e “conquent” akes day: s new
dividing up of the word

“The treads of the proletarian srggles that are
linking upinthe various geographical ares of the world
agains US., Europesn end Japancse imperiaiom are
making concreteanew proltaianntematonalism This
‘new proletarin nemaionais s rdiclly questioing
nd fighting aginst the basc premises of the rise and
development o the apialisic socil formation.

“Thepolitcl and concmic ssegies that re guid-
ing capualstreorgaizaion have for many years pro-
docedrsing social and clas contradictons that define
the featres andextentof he clas war i stag. There
it huge scale proces o prletrianizaion, due 1o the
chinges in the interntional division of labour tha's
characeizingthe preset half of his centry. The -
vance of capialinm had forced mor of the workd's
popalation i » roletarian condion, and this increas.
ingly preveats almost any poibility of o <apialist
cxitcnce, both i h centerandperpbery's area,inthe
Nor s welas i the South and ast f the warld More
andmore, every buman being i directy confronted wih
e bareprofit law'; e inhumaneffect of n oppressive
and destructive process on iy, naire and the
environment I process of unprecedented dimension
because his tim capialinm itervenes dimcly aguinst
them or it explfiv, rprodoctive, 4nd expensionit
necds.

Having reached complte maturiy this sage of
metropoln capialism's advanced developmen, this
combinstion of facons resuls more and more in
increase and expansion of socal unrest and conflic,
hrowing a growing number of men and women into 4
dimension of lss siruggle. At the same time, i exab-
lihes a teain of objecive conmectons between the
sruggles of the poletarat and he pecple of the workd
against th cconomic,poiical and miliary sysem that
bas istoricall imposed tel, md which revolves
aroundthe U, tthe presen, sndagainstsnew deploy-
mens over the st few years.

I Burope, o strggle againtall of hepolicis tha
are pushing forwardthe dynamics o European inegrs-
tion and that extend imperiainm’s advancement in the
‘workd, means 1o have a awarenes hat in Burope,now
more than before, many of the confrontaion lines be-
tween imperialian and revolaion, 14 well 14 between
neo-colonialism and libersion srggles, are converg:
ing.1also means 1o concrtely sand by the campesinor,
natves nd revolutonary forces against e *500 Year*
clebraion, o thtthey canaisethei vloes “againstthe
ignominy of the coonial, neo-colonil and imperialit
oppresson, withth am o consolidae ur deniy tnd
1o forifyourliberation sruggle hroughoo l e consi-
ent”. (Quito Sttement - Campesinor Indigenous Or-
enization)

‘Communist Prisoners Collctive Wott Sita

For more iformaion o copies of othr writings by
Wotia Sia please write 1o owr Canadlian address (see

page 2).

.and mors comrades (Lt 0 right: Luciano Farin, Giovanni Senzant Giovannl Gendle Sehiavone, Vitoro

lognest and Lorenzo Catzone

Free Sundiata Acoli!

Afier 20 long, bard year, Sundiaia Acol, ex-
‘Black Punther and meenber o the Black Libeaton
Ammy is coming up forperle inexly 1993, Bocause
of bis utsanding achievements, New Josey Degart.
2 o Corrections recedy esored al of th “good
time” hey ba taken rom him dorin the early T0's,
‘which made hion imumedistely elighle for paol. Yot
he parole board plans 1o give bim 10 yeur i,
meaning,“Do 10mors yean!™ We e uking ll people
‘concamedaboutjustice o wriethe puraisbourdtoday,
demanding tht Sundisa b rleased when be comes
p for parole. Send personal and form lers and
signaare petitions

‘The New Jersey Stte Parole Board

oNse

Trenton, N

08a5USA

9 mas

Al vend copy of your e o pedton o

‘Sundin Acoi resdom Canpeign
P.0. Box 5538, Manhaarille Stain
Harlem, NY

10027 USA

@09 9669048

“This will elphisatomey, fillSofiyah Elfjah, (718)
575 4460 (Wor, (718) 575 4478 (FAX); (718) 262
3576 Home), veriy tothe parole bowrd et helters
0d pesiions wers s, E

A Bit Of Hstory About Sundiats:

In 1973, Sundinta and Astats Shakur were cap-
ured afer shootut on the New Jersey Turmpike
during whicheis companion Zayd Shakr and s sae:

Following bighly publicizedial, Sundista was
‘coviied and semiened o life Trekon st Pison.

There i was conined for S yeurs n « MCU olaion
‘ell which was smller then the SPCA'sspacereuirs
‘men for 0 I, Geran Shepberd dog. He was then
socredy mnaferred ovr 1,000 miles o the nfamous
Federl Penteatiay ot Mavion, liooi, ahough he
i 2o fedeal charges or convitons. A eirance

| physicalcxam showed that Sundina had b heavily

expored 10 berculosis while he was at Treston
Prion. Even 1, fo the nest § yoar t Maron, e ws
‘confined 23 hoursperdayinanoltin cll coman-
ing only # sone bed,oilet bowl and sink. Finaly i
1987, Sundiat was transferrd 10 genenl popltion
t Leavenworth Fedeal Pniteniary, Kansas.

‘Standina s had oly onemisr disciplinary n-
fracion n the last 10 years. At Leaveawort be has
maintained & snight “A” average in ll ki colege
couris whil earing diplomas i both Deskiop Com.
‘utens nd Panega Real stais Law, He hassso e
ceived “sbove aversge” job-performance ratngs smd
helhas worked 7 dayspe week forthe as 5 years a1
celiblock jntor,

‘Because of his custnding recod,the Now Je.
sey Deparinat of Corrctions recatly restored the
25 years of “good time” he had o while confned in
Trenton's MCU Unit; which made him immedisely
sligile for parole. Yet tho New Jersey Paole Bod
plans o “hi i with 10 more yeas whea he comes
p for parol. For Sundiu, aleady 56 years od and
infected with tbecculosis, that will amotnt 08 desth
sennce. Wrie th parole boad 1dsy, end demand
tha Sundiata be released st bis parls heing.

Write o Sundiatal

Sundias Acoli #39794.066.
P.0. Box 1000
Lesvenwonh, KS

$6018 USA

At by St Al rsiom
Campaign)

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Herm The Spirit

Interview With Abdul Majid

Black Liberation Army Political Prisoner

Thefollowin is a edited ranseript o a interview hat
ook place October 7192 on CKLN, a progressive radio
station i Toronto, Canade,

Could you give s an update on, and maybe s it of s
‘background o, the case ofthe Queens 27

Right. The case ems from shooting ncident i
he sping of 1981, in the county of Queens, which s in
New York Ciy. Two polie offcrs, during thecourseof
thirtou,pulled overa van uring e early morming, and
‘w0 men alegedly got out o the van and opened ie
the police. As 8 result one polic oficer was killed ad.
one was wounded.

Mysefandmyco-defendan, Bashic ammeed,were
subsequently marked 4 te individuals who allegedly
were involved in the shooting. And as & result oftht,
‘warmasts were ke ot forour ames. | was aresied in
January of 1982 and Bachi was aresed in August of
1981

We went 1o wial on the charge of murder and
tempted muder of plic oficers back in 1982 which
resulied in hung jury on the murder charge and we were
Convicted of one of the lesse charges of Atempied
‘morder of one of e offiers,

We were ried again in 1983 and that ended with s
8104,9 10 3 verdic.of jorors lening towards aquital.
Afehissecond il we were ried againin 1986, which
resulied in our conviction on the murder chare. So we
were e thee times o the same indcimet, and pres-
ealy, in 1992, we e ack in Queens cn n sppeal, ot
appealactally,but anevideniay heaing on sn appesl
resulin rom the murderconviton. The hearing bgins
onthe 136

The purpos f th heing i todeerine whether
o ot during the course of the tir el the prosecutor
‘used his precmptorychallenges, which eachside had, o
exclude » centain muamber of juors - whethe or ot the.
prosecator used his preemplory challenge 10 prevent
Blacksfrom being on the jory.

S0 we canseethat the rosecutor was running a very
political prosccution against you and Bashir. They
don'ttry too many people three times I order foget s
‘conviction - espectally ater two hung Juries. What
sortof tactcs did y0u see the prosecution using be-
sides 43 you mentioned the Jury selecton and the
barring of Black Jurors. Did they do anything lse in
terms of manlpulating evidence against you?

The case was very highly poblicized, and it was
poltcal. On of the reason for thatws that bots Bshir
‘nd I were formermernbers o the Black Pather Pary, a5
‘wella being sill vy poltically acveinthe New York/
New Jerey ara, in the Afrkan-American commnty,
and working with the progressve whie comminity
el as with the Latino commanty. And 10 we were
presy well known rom our Black Panther Pay days,
04 rough our sll v involvement. S0, e became.
e likely suspects.

I the third tia ot only did the prosecutor do
everyting possbe to climinat Blacksfom the jury, a5
‘wel asathr Third Worid and non- white people, bt be
alsomanipalated evidence. Evidence was withheld from
the defence. O example o witheld evidence was the
reports tha were made by the investgating officer. At |
the it ial we were givenabout 350 or ST ofhese, und |
by the ird sl e had beegiven sbout oal of 400. |

Abdul Majid

Afe the third il Lnstuteda reedom of Information
it o find oot what s the police and prosecution had
in ther possession pertining 10 th cae. | jus ecenly
leamed tht they had some 3000 documents in their
possession, and we were given only pprozimaiely 400
of these document. S0 now we are n th process of
rying 10 cbain hese documents o see what the mate-
sl thee are thatmay havebeen helpfl o exonenteus,
orto explor theraeasthat e prosecution could bave
bt refused o for whatever resson. So we are waing for
these documents now.

Also, there was s manipulation of witmesses who
‘wereamsied acrossthesouth-eusten parof the U, and
they were brought to New York o give testimony sbout
maters which they had no knowledgeof. Ther was lso
manipulaion of the fingerpints tht were supposedly
Ied offthe van tha wasinvolvedinthe shooing. Poice
offces themseves got on the stand and delbertely
perjied themielves and gav false tesimony. tnd this
was common pracice. So these arehesots of hings that
‘wenton during the third el

Did the witnesmes and people supporting you and
‘Bashirfacea ot of harrasment by the polce nd the
state? [ know thatInother poltca ral,partiulary
of eople whose estimony conflcs with he story that
thetate ries t put ogether, they areofen faced with.
realyhighlevels ofntimidation and vielencedirected
against them in order o slence them or ge them to
Change telr siory, Werethere any nstances of tis i
your case?

Well,yes inac this s what was done tis s what
1 was rfering 1o when | stid that there were peaple
dragged n rom across the south-eastem part of United
Staes They went s ar as South Carolins, and people
‘wereamested nd held nder orderof protective custody.
Friends of mine and Bashi's were arbitacly aresed,
These were people who had given sisiements 1o the
police during the coureof thernvestgation, andove

periodof ime hey were coerced nlo changingheiprior
Satemerts, in order o conform with what the police
‘wantd e o testify 10, and his was i coiast 0 he

original satementsthatthe police had goten during the.
course of hei nvestigaion. It was tlas six orseven
peopl who werebroughtnto court i hisfsion - under

protest you know - bt nonethelss they were coerced
oo tesifying. In fact,one o the wimesses came back
and he recanid his oriinal satement that he had made
‘ot stand durin hehidia, nd e fldhe coun and
th jry about what had been doneto him. And the jory
‘nonetheless conviced us. This s just small limpae of
what was being done 1o other wimesses Who. were
brought in and ntimidaed.

‘Alo, | might add, that at Jeast three witnesses
received reward money. There were some $30.000 i
reward money, and one witness, who was & axi-diver
‘whohad no winessed th shooting, bu who ad icked
p two men in he viciity of the shooing, in 1982 he
appeared at a prliminary il heaing on the identifica-
tionssuetoseei b coul identiy Bashior myself, and
hetnequivocalysaidihathe didnotsee e twomen hat
e picked p i his i i coun at the present tme. In
1986, during the hirdia his o was called o tesify
- be did no estify at he fist o second s - nd e
posiively idenified Bashi uad mysel s the two men
ht he had picked up on the day in quesion. 1 was
leamod aer that b was also s rcipicntof some of the
530,000 reward moncy that was put up by the police
deparumentand e Policeman's Benvolat Assocition
of New York City.

And thee wee aso two other witneses - 8t
driver and his passenger - one denifed both of us and
one idenifed Bashir s being thepersons ey saw exit
the van,shoothepolice, nd thn ge back nthe van and
drive avay. And thy got some of the eward money. In
fact,one of them, the one who denifed both Bashir and
myself, was subected 1o hypnosi, and 50 his whole
idenification was questionsbe becauss i his pr yp-
notcstaemens e deifiod the two men s eing i their
carly twenties and 5° or 57 in height, and around 150
pounds in weight. A he time, | was 32 and Bashi was
roughly 39; 'm 6'3 and Bachis i sbout 61, 50 the
descipions were ttally at odds with what became his
testmony incour. And again,thesecontradictions were
raisd during the frst two i, nd apparenly e ury
by iy bu guess it was duewothe pressue tht wis
applid 1o the jurors because th fi two trias they
ciibersied o wock befor coming back with 8 verdict -
the et of e frs ial being s compromiseverdic, and
athe second il they could ot reach a verdic.

You meationed tht both you and Bashir were work-
g withthe Black Pantber Party (BPP).Could you tell
s something of your own poltical development and
‘our nvolvement i the Biack Liberation Moverment,
‘and whatsorts of actviislod you t become a target
of the government?

Back in the luer par of the 1960's, J. Bdgar
Hoover, who was then the head of the FBI, had made s
‘satmert hat e belived he BPP obe the most dunge
s organization in exstene. He characierized it 454
terorst orgmizaton,an extrmist orgnization, il
tamt radical organization, tc. . It washis position hat
the BPP should be destroyed a all cost, and you are
probably familinr with the nfamous COINTELPRO
program which bas been divalged by members of Con-
gres, a3 well a5 by peope in the legal and poiical
comamunit, and they have gone ko great detailabout
thetacicsthatwereuiedby he FBliodisrupt and destroy
| weBep.

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the polce brality that was rampunt i the Afrkan-
Americin community and Latino tod otber non-white
‘communides in Americs. The Pany put is emphasis
primarily o controling poice i the Afikan-American
community, and this ws dooe in o lewtul manaer. 1
suned o ia Oukland, Califomi, and then rpread
tbroughou Califomia. It then grew nd expanded 1o
become nutonal s iemational. Our focus weat from
just the e of polce brtaliy 10 encompasiing the
‘whole uso o th ight 1 sel-deermintion of Afrkan-
Amecictn pople, hat i, the ight o cantrol th police
departmen,herightto contol heschools,and ousing,
a0d the cconomy of our commnities, nd exemmpton
from fghiing for the acis govermment sd s milfary
‘which didnot protet the civl righssnd bman rights of
the Afrkan-American people. We were demanding the
eleae of Afrkan-Americen people from prison who
ad been imprisoned asely or who ad not b riedin
s and imparial maner. We were demanding ustice
inthe cours and we auocaled for a plbisci o decide
8410 what mational course AfrikanAmerican people
Wanted 1 take i trmeoftei detiny.

‘Thers were aeo sevenal prograrms that the Pary
iniisted. We had » breakfast program because we real.
ioed that hunger was a ral usoe. We insitted free
‘medical and heakh services in our communiy, Libes-
tiom schools and politcl educationclasesfor adals W
organized cobing drives fron tme o time. This was sl
donein an anemps 1o meet the needs of ur people who
‘werebeing negleced by te govemment and the various
agencies f the governmer. These wereaempes by us 1o
take maters conceming ourdestiy ko our own hands
a0 hopeflly by he example hat he Pay et it would

New York 3 Update

On June 26 and 27, 1992, the New York 3,
Hemoen Bl il Martaguin 4 Anhocy Botom),
a0d Albert “Nub” Washingion - Black Liberion
Amy p.o.w.ssines 1971 werstogeberforibe s
timen 17 years. They came togeberin a New York
Suse court or an evidentay heaing n m ffot 10
‘ovestum teir 1975 comvicsion.

“The NY3are vicumsof h U.S. goverment
1970's COINTELPRO (Couner Illigence Pro-
) which wgeted Afrkan- Amerien s pro-
areniveorgaizaionsfor exterminaion nd disrp-
on. In 1975, e thei hid i the New York 3
wersconvicadinthe 197) ssseinmionof two New
York iy potics ficer.Sinc thatme nformaion
eleased abook COINTELPRO showsta theprose-
‘ution epreased rucial evidencsnecestaryfor ther
defence. The FBI balisics tests had proven that he
puns eporied o bekong 10 the NY3 were 5o the
‘weapons involved in the ssaasnations. The New
York prosecatons knew tis and. delberaely with
heldtfrom he defence acomeys and jury.

‘The recent Jue hearings, which took place
fer 17 years of sppeal stenps, incloded the FBI
repors and vestimony from » former NYC police
sergent who worked on the ase, Whileon he iand
e admiiod et the poice nd the provecarion bad
‘manipoluied wd withheld sutements and evidence
1o obtin the onvicdons.

From this hearing, he snomeys for the NY3
orginally fied mations on 15 separie violsions,
bt the judge only pemited arguments over the
repressed infornation abou the ballisies evidence.
I ling i made that the NY3 i ot eceive -
il will o poviblefortheireleassoce he NYC.
police depurtment hus aleady desroyed the evi
dence forhiscase,

(From The BlackPabr i 199, Vol Nod)

encourags the masies of our peple o follow . So
these wer the objecivesand i ofthe BPP - 1o tech
Afikan- Americansthe nee fo slf.reliance.

‘You mentioved the counter-ntaligence program of
the FB, and that both you and Bashir became tar-
etefo tisframe-up becauseofyour nvolvemnt in
political pojects within the Afrkaz-American com-
munlty. At what point d you become sware that you
Jourselfwere being targeted by the FBl r other pollce
ageacies?

Wel, was svare s th i of myinvolvement i
the BPP that the palice and diffren low enforcement
agencies kept files on Paty members. Al e they
‘would ake photographs, pus they had informas, nd
agent provaucatearssnd thers was police nfikaion of
the Pary that we were aware o,

‘Asto who they fet was animmedine threat,some
of this information did ot come o light unil e my
aving been resied snd chargedinthis cae. However,
fellow comade of misne, Dhorube Bin Wabad, who
served 19 years i prson forasmiarchage of stempued
morder of police offce - and back in 19751976 1
‘worked with some people on Dboruba' case - b bad
Freedom of Information equest tht e ad senta o the
FBI, and maybe 3or 4 years e afer the st bega, the
FBI was forced by the couts 0 tam over the documents
s they had inhei possssion peraining 0 & progam
they called “NewKill - the codename of one f their
nvesiguions. And they tmed oversome 30,000 pages
of documents. And through my reading of the docu.
ments, learmed that 1 was very much s arge of the FBI
- thers was consunt menion of mysel and other Pary
membersfrom the New York ares.

So this gave me some idea of th level or the
magntude of intrest thathey had in BPP memmbershere
nNew York.

What should actiiss on the autsde do n supporting
comrades who are nside prison?

Tim sure you are femilar with the case of Mumia
Abo-Jamal, who i facing the deah penary, and tht is
imminea, d we ned t ry and work 10 et people o
‘come ouinspporof i Thersbas boen some sucees,
s Lundersand the Govermor of Penasylvania has de-
ferediosigatbe death wamac. Prssurehas o keptcn
continuously because as so0m as the concer end the
vigihoce lover,saturally th State will go and siga the
warmat 10 execie his brother.

‘What weneed,and what we encoursge those onthe
outside 0 do’s ry 1o make nroadsintoth commanty.
‘Becausefor thoseof us who ae incacered - while it

saliv - there is a oed o mobilzethe maser, ot cnly
around th ivue of poliical prisoners nd Priscners of
War, bt around theirown conciton, becase, e from
what T have been sle 1o oberve from the inede, there.
appear o be a great deal of apihy among the masies,
panicalarly in the Afrkan- American communitie, nd
the poor and Third Workdcommnities Peopl ae con-
cemd sbou thirimmedise survival, and they eem 1o
ook upon the system s being omaipotent or wnchal-
lengeabi,orbecaaseofthe falurs they haveseen .3
Fesult of e activies ofsome of us, hy have aken the
auitde that nothing, o next 0 othingcan b done,and
hat very lle will change o matier what we do.

So there i 4 need for those with that level of
poltical consciousnes and awarenet 0 become more
lnvolved snd more ctve in the commmuniy.

1 think by firs concentating on mobilsing the
masses around the political prisoners and Prscners of
‘War will ot solve the problen, and will not be the
‘maxivatingfactor in geting the masses moving. Ther s
‘anced tomolivateand move themasses round heir own
exiscace, teir own needs - housing, 4 end 1 police
brualty, jobs, geing people involved n controlling
heirown destiny.

think it has 0 be a two-pronged approsch by those
ofus whosill bave pliical consciousnes and the spirc
10 figh. There are those who have poliical consciour
oess, bu donot isply the ighingsprit. You ot only
havetohave e wllyou havetopotthat will o motion
and nto acion.

‘Writ to Abdul and Bashir:

Abdul Majid #53-A-483
th Abony LaBorde

Sullivan Corrctonal Facility
BoxA-G

Fallsburg, NY

12m3USA

B Hameed #52-A-6313
s Jumes Yok

135 Sue St

Avbum, NY

13024 USA For more aformation:

‘Queens Two Support Coslion
P.0.Box 134

Brooklyn, NY
LATUSA

YXrm The Spirit

To Do What Is Possible, Rather Than What Is Permitted

L et e i wer herigtthing o o, and 'iad we
il Oy when ordirypecle ke ke he eing
of eace and dosrment a ity a soldies ks
i con e s hk we v tcned e i o the
victins, Bekind the shiny Jacada of Rockwel
Inermaionals heodsiares e the oy bumed
ki and temoris hedwaid Gt feeng
NaSTAR.guided bombingfom Gusems o inone
i andimteypecpl vrywherndrh ot of
o ctomated o it holocae it G .5
s posie’ -t Lamsiine

“Our disarmamentactioncanpoitthe wayloarenewed.
aniomiltaris campaign tht buids on he foundation
laid down by past Plowshares acions, growing o of
that radiionand yeta challege 0. This action was .
repudiation 1o al - whether frend or foe of the peace
movement - who have clun iothe asmpion hat only
ymbolic acion i posibe” - Keith Kjoller

On May 10, 1992, Keith Kollrand Peter Lums

daine, both of Sania Crz, CA, broke i the workd
beadquarers of Rockwel Intemational in Seal Beach,
CA and dismantied a NevSTAR (Navigational Systezs
T amd Ranging) selitc withases.

According 1o affadavits given o the FBL by
Rockwell (smajormiliary contracir),the damagetothe
$50 milion saele and te “clean oom where seven
other NavSTAR smelltes were being sssembled s in
excessof $28 millon”

The acion was lso bighly effecive intemns ofits
mpact o e continued deployment o the Global Posi-
ioning Sysem (GPS). Bob Alridge,a former Lockheed
Missles and Space Company enginr who it now &
peace atvit, wries, I as finlly happened. A ciizen
intervention acion has sigaificanly slowed the amns
race. In the past hey have caused delays - usually for
minstes or hours, occasionaly days. B the Mothens”
Day acton last May 100 at Rockwell's Seal Beach
fucily hasshu down NavSTAR formorshs.” The stl-
lies were schedaled o unchevery 23 morshs,batasof
mid-Ociober none hasbeen launched since the action.

Because Keithand Pt haled production st a ime
‘when the sysiem was only parialy deployed (13 of 24
saeles ae curealy in ori)thy have signficanty
limitedhe US.milary's sl to wage wr. According
10 Aldridge, “snce each satelle adds abost one hour 1o
NvSTAR'S avilbily, Keithand Pete have deprived
the milary of two o thee hours per dy of warmaking.
Thatisa signifcant actof disammament.”

‘The NvSTAR satlles were chosen because of
the intgral ol they pay in the US. milary's plans 10

dominae be people of the caththroughihe useof space
technology. NevSTAR GPS is, a of now, & perially
deployed conselaionof selies whichar designed o
give the milary precie informaion sbout locaion
(onginade, titade, nd alitude wihin 16 foct,veocity
‘withi 8 quaner of & mile pr hour, nd time withi one
ten-milonh of scond) inall wesder, i ll erain ¢
ll s, anywhere onthe planet

During moch of the Cold War (1940's through
1980's), clear confronttion was deterred, it may be
argued, do 1o th fac that oiber sid thooght tha it
could “win” 8 nuclear confrontation. The ideological
theory usedojustify s saeofensembo was ppro-
pritly calid MAD - Mutually Assared Destracton
‘While MAD made just sbout everyone sck wih wory,
foarof retlntion may hve kept ithersidefrom i
ing anuclearstack. Butwhile MAD ws wsd by pundits
1o reassurs a doubing pubic the Pesagon was quicly
scnping o ginanadvaniageoverhierival. Accord.
ing 10 testimony from such people s former Delense
Secrtary Donald Rumfield (1978), formes Defcase
Secretary Harold Brown (1975), and Genersl David
Jones (1975), MAD was ot th preferred policy. What
e mililry sought, and what they are very close 10
baving s firt ik capablty.

‘While MAD's precarious dea of peace troug
srengih (or intimidatin, or eualisory genocide) wi

dngerous, firs. sike theory is even more pemicious.
‘And NavSTAR is the embodiment ofthat theory. One of
NavSTAR's primary parpores i 1o guide nuclear mis-
s 10 thirtarges (eg. “enemy” missle sios)before
the “enemy" i abletoretlst. Thus,in e wisied ogic

being suck back. It s NavSTAR's exremely accursie
argeting infomnatin, in conjuncton with nev,

e hahave made he s strike theory sposibly
forthe firt ime.

‘NavSTAR GPS has cve faier-resching implica-
ons. It canbe uiized ot ooly with noclear wespons
sysems, but withcomveational weapons systems s wel
‘NavSTAR was used exensivly during the Prsan Gulf
‘War, giding missiles to both milary and civlsn -
gets NavSTAR can aso be deployed agsnst guerrills
movements, for puoling nation-stte borders, and in
cases of domestc civil wrest. Becaute NevSTAR can
provide extremely accurse argeting information st all
times, it effoctvely removes the advaniage that local
resistance groups have had unil now. Beore e depoy-
ment of NavSTAR, guerill “focos” wereabl 1o move
around easily and escape govemment ground pairols and
helcopter gunship beceuse of her exinsive knowl-

edgeofhe ocaltemin, Wi NevSTAR her wll b o
plce o hide, ncerwords, NevSTAR i berenly 1
Insramen: of ppreson because i cosbls iant
powe 1o coict locl communiis - lo globally,
Goniauelcal,

Keith and Pt were setencedon Septembes 210t
in Foderl Cour in Onage County CA. When Keth
addrered e cour he spk o h g eceity of
{inding lematives 1o vat o ioenc fot saving our
dilleenes I rde o make s ety e wid .
is ocesary o ke direct acion: id o do what
posible raberhn wha was ermied. e iodo
e ight ruber than vhat was convnier”. K e-
spondedtobe robaion Deparines ecommendation
hathetwo ceivelonger snces because i scon
couldbe conrdered a ot s s ey showed 0
Temorsesnddid'agre e aw was s sying sk
it oubied him deelybecaae it hed s dully work
s of thousends fpeopledo for pesc nd ot

Pecr spoke aiculaely of being mspired by e
Gospelf e ndicaig o imordeforswordsiorur.
into. plowshare, he hammer hs 1o ful. (Peer is 3
Chriian Keith i) He made nmpassionedplea
on behalof“hose who ar ot hee, hose who hve 50
sanding”,d cplined hat i washislvefo i four
Year-ld daghie Lucy and“or e chidre d people
ofth plnet.. has gav me the rength 1o g0 nd it
open s cagioe of murder tnd terr caled
NeuSTAR'. He slo ld of the sffring sd sacrfce
ht e pecle o the Philipies, Gusemls,snd b
Places ke ach doy - bothof i own chosing and
o of ecssy. P ended by quoting Rober Coles:
“Thesse i o wheher we ‘g’ wih wha e have
heard nd ead o sudid. The s i u and what e
have becon

Befors pronccing e snince e jodge sbo
esponded o Probasion Deparmens epor. e sid
v o necessry o show emore, ol 10 ket
responsibity,und b could ot magoe s cae i vhich
rsponsibilsy vas moreceay accepied.He weat on o
sa Pt and Kt actdout of i consience,
e americandiion of vl dsobedicnce.

o jdge, boweves, spparenly did ot foel v o
oaing it diion i emencod Keidhio 18 morchs
nd Pecro 24 moniin e prson Each ecived 3
yearof saperisd eleas, ding whic ey ey g
i 500 et of my iy mtaladon o iy
where miliry equipenent i sed,oredorprodoced.
Thy must aso make whatthe Probaon Deparnert
conides ressonsble el find 1 pproeae obia
orderto ey rsitaion:cachmastpy Rockwell 1300
idin' years o e s

1fyou wouldlike more information, orwould
like 1 become invoived in on_going resisiance
organisng call (408) 426.7970 or (415 824.
0214. Donations to support Peter's four
year-old daughier, Lucy can b sent 10 her
mother, Jean Petesen i P.0. Box 8003,
Sania Cr, CA 95061 Donations to sugport
Keithand Peter, and resisance or-
saniing may be male out 10 Siop
First Swrike, Box 11645,
Berkeley,CA 0L I youcare
tocorrespond directywihiher
you may write to Keith Kioller
¥94355.012, or Peter Lums.
daine 494359012, Metrpoli-
lan Detention Cente, .0, Bax.
1500, Los Angeles CA 90053,
USA.Peace. No Fatel

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Shawnee Unit - A Control Unit For Women

I May o hisyear, naionally coordinated mobi
liztion. again contol mits ook place, The call was
issued by the Poero Rican mnd New Afrkan ieraion
‘movements, the Commitee o End the Marion Lock-
down (CEML), and xber slidrityorganizmtins on the
tweaieh amnversay of the Atica Rebellon. The fint
‘control it was alsobuilt twentyyearsago,a patof a
‘wave ofrepresion cariedou by th govermment against
theuprurgeof evoltionary endprogressive movements
it period. The mobilization condermed e Marioni.
zation ofprisons and he prolifeaton of onol . In
the preceding monihs proces of oducaton by the
sponsors focused on:

- The use ofconrol it s ool of poliical represion.
A past wardemof Marion bas staed: “The purposeof th
Marion control i o conrol revoltionry atisades
the prison sysiem and in ociety t large.

~The facthat e natonal oppresion nd whitesprem
acy of US. society detemines who s incarceried i
these unit,

~The brua hysical and peychologicalconditions i the
contol i,

There was 50 mention of women and women's
‘contol uit inthe mobiliztion propaganda. The history
of e us of conrol unitsaginat omen,includingthe
current federal incaratin, the Shavnee Unit a1 Mari-
arma, Florida, was ignored. A falsepicture was projcted
- that women ae xempt from placement in
contol unic; ht Shawr

physicl bruait as me'scontrolwnits.
“Thi view undermines the sioggle
agains control unis. Imporian mileiones
aroverlooked; he mobilzaionagansthe
‘Cardinl Unit t Aderson, West Virgnia,
and the national campaign o shut down
the High Security Uni (HSU) a Lex-
ingion, Keatocky. These efforts were
signifcan: becaue of the &
poltcal mistion of these uiu: .
seing women poltcal priscn-
‘04 Priscnen of War from
the Puerto Rican Independ-

ence Movement and whie as-imperiain movemet.

Sidelining women s equul paricipunts in the
ruggltocose ll ontol uits s deepermplicatons.
s diminishes the importance of womea's rsistane. It
ignoresthe brulity o pychological metbods o control.
andbehaviourmodificton. It lays o the govermment
mythology that womenare more submisiveand open o
‘manipulaton. And because s number of olsiclprison-
s and Prisoner of Was have spet the majoriy of our
senicnce inconrol it thisomissionfrter distances
s from our movements, indisectly playingitothe prin-
ciple abjecive of the goverment:olation. By soltion
‘we donmean he physicalbarers creed by uny ncar-
ceration, butrather the lack o anorganic elatonship 1o
e very movements and trugglestht we were partof -
theaciviie for which we re imprisoned. By sclation
‘we mean he taming o polical priscaers o syl o
e remembered s historicallfiovers of more milant
pus, whie ignoring them as continuing paricipents in
oday's progrssive movemeats.

“The govemment rlies on sececy and slence o
accomplis s gols. This aricle was writn 1o bresk
‘withthe secocy and slenceof Shawnee Unit 1o ecog-
aize women a equalpurcipants i the srugle 0 shut
down al control uncs, and 0 be responsible 0 ongoing
poliical aruggle.

‘Shawnee I A Contral Unit

(CEML,in Walkin' Stee, deines a comrol it as 8
“combination of physicl conitons,he policies which
determine who i sen ther, and th overal prpose of
the uni”

‘Shawnee Uit was opened by the BOP in August
1988, afe the sl group soltion experiment Lex-
ngion HSU was shutdown. The political and securty

misvonof Shawnee i e san st of b HSU:
oconrl,slate s evtlize womea wh,forvaryog
Tessos, pos sier 1 poliical, ccpe,or dspton
e Netalaion vures s wonen
e will evr leave pisn with e full capciy 1o
funcion. Centrl tohe s he udetancing
Washingion can decide i any poit o taute ny
‘o poliiclpeisone o Prser of War ber. The
Tecen e of Loors Whichor i case i poi.
A inint profle smares membesipin o -
caion wi sny f th nadonal brsien movemects,
puricalrythe PertoRian odNew Al Idepend.
eace Movements us detecmind by th ) on-goig
surveillanc sod comerinsurgency agens e progres
sive movements,cssificton of polica 1t 1 0.
piicued crimioal compincier”, chacierized by
employment of amed sugge; and punidhmen fox
conined cormicment o nan<olsborsion Relecing
e cemialyof s opeeson f Black people i the
iy of th US, we have boen ald o we were
deigtod bers becass ofou onvicion o soci.
i withth o-called“Brinks Case.”Undecying lthe
charge i i cas, w11 years o, s e gl for
‘el-deieminaion by Black eopl nd cive olidcity
il thissiuggle by whis s mperialisi) The unit
serves a5 public admonishment 1o thoe who would
culenge i sopremcy of e US, - deserence nd
isolaion e cenl o f mission. s o sevr
‘maitinconrol ove l women fn BOP s i
un 24 bour, twelve women who wee areid
leadenip of the recent demonsaion by women t
Lexingon spint polic violene wererauord er.
Once a contol it st .t ol many nd.
The BOP opeesShawnee withsome fleibilly. Po-
tected vimetes, discipinary case, bigh prfle indi-

Resistance At F.C.I. Lexington

ki

On 12-14 Augas,the frst ustained actof rese-
nce by women prisoers in the ua. fedenal prison
sysem in tweaky years ok plce.

Here's what happened:

(On Wodaeday night, Augas 12, here was an r-
gument betwoen two prisoners in the cenral yard ares
-Central Park”) at about 8:30 pan. It was overquickly
and everyone whs walking away,towards th ousing
iy, because we hav o be inside 1 9. A liutznant
came raaning 10 see whathad happened - pulling on bis
black lester love.Heyeled, “Hey, youl Sopl” When
0 onesopped he grabbed the it Biack women hathe
saw, lifed s n the i, and body-slummed he 1o the
round. Other women yelled a him,saying she wasn'
‘v involved i the argumen, ot be ept on stacking.
her - puting his knee in the back of her neck nd
smashing berface 0 the prvemen. e olled herhands
behind herback, cuffed her, dragged her o ber fe, and
‘other guard ok her o the lieutenants's e

“This was witnesed by sbout one bundred women.
‘They wereall very upac by it,and athered o alk e
‘Captain. A9 ., ol but abou ifeieen rturmed o their
‘ousing uits,air being assurd that the besca woman,
‘would be eleased back ino genera population,od hat
athorough investigation would be undetakea.

B on Thursday morming i tamed o tat he
‘woman had notbeen eleased, ind some of the women
‘who had witnessed theincident had been put i the hole
Ceregation’) ss well.Despit the promis o m ves-

ion by 3 pam. priscnen were old ththe invesiga-

“This was ot the firt nstance o physicalbrtality
st Lexington - nor, cerinly of rcism. The male gurds
have been puting her hands onus mere and more-both
in frequent pa seaches and whenever they wani s 10
move, 0 si0p,or whaiever This particula leuienant had
hresiened severa women with brtalty. The nommally
highlevelof racismhad o ecenly heightened, ollow-
ing the Los Angels verdict and the uprisings here.
Several Black women who had complained of predujics
had been put n the bole fo incitng o rot”

‘But this time it al iruck & nerve. On Tharsdsy
‘world traveled: don't 80 in ¢ 4 pmn. (the major dily
“sanding count” hrougho the Burean of Priscns) Sty
outin Centnl Park and demand the women be elased
fr0m the bol - andthe lewenant uspended.

At3:50pan. when the hourly “movemeat” began,
the soene in el Park ws tense anexcing. Usaally,
' ruh hour - 1900 women, in the lrgest woman's
prsoninthe word,ushing tothe wnits oty and etafew
hings done befor the 4 pn. count. On this Thursday,
insiea, it was ke grdlock: everyone moved lowly, f ot
al, waiing 1 se¢ what would appen.

"Au 4 pam., an announcement orderd us all 1 go
inside forthe coun. Many did, bty of us sayed o,
‘movingiatohecrierof e Pak. We sang Bob Marey
“Suand up for your right”, and chanied *Siop Police
Bruualiy”, “We Wass Justce”, “Let Them Ou of Seg”,
and *Figoeroa (e lieutenan) must go°. Ringed by
guards - including & SORT. (SWAT) ieam in full

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viduals, members of various Columbian canels, and
‘women with succesful escape histriesar mprsoned
ere. What disinguishes thernfrom the poliica prison-
envistheirabilyotranseroutof hawnee. Overthe past
year, thre has b a massive movement ot o the it
‘Buthe poliical prisoners,despt repesied equests b
ransfrred, have bocn exclded from it

Paychological Control

“Towashaway the brutal imagef e HS U, the BOP
s created th deception that e t Shavme i normal,
ot designated or manipolated. The physial plam
designed 10 deflectany concem fromthe uisde about
umanrighis sbuses- it ooks comforible and uraciv.
s sppearance

“The women of Shawnee live i & pychologically
assaulive eavironment that aims 21 desubilizing
‘women'sperscnal and socialidentes. hi s rueof he
prison sysem as & whole hee it ha been elevated 108
primary weapon,implemented hrough pysicallayout
nd day-to-day Fgimen that produce inwardness and
selt-continment. The uats 8 small iangle with mall
yard Witin this severly limited space, women arc
‘under constant scutiny and observation. I the i,
cumeras sod lsening devices (e It ae insalled i
every cel nsure consant survellance and control of
ven the most ntimate converaton. Lockdown s not
Decessarybecanseher is powhere 0o and individunls
can be observed ind controlld beter wile having the
illsion of some mobility.

“The fences around the yad th anly place where
o0 couldhave any scasetht an outsde worldexisted -
‘were recenly covered with greencloth,futher banmer-
ing iiothe womnen the snse of being completely spar
and sepaae. I s cne ting 1o be imprscned n thisiny
isolaton uit for yearor two, ancdherobetoldone will
e herefor three more decades - that tis smallunit will
e cne's worldfor therestof ane's fe..

‘Compared 1o the other federl prisonsfor women,
Shawnce s lke being in & sufocatng cocoon. What
eplaces visalsimulsion and commanication s T. As
in Marion contol i, there s & T in every asl - the
perfect msweriosny complins about sclton o bore-
dom. Tprovides themajorlik othe workd.- sk which |
commlnlypodcespsivky d sty

“The intense physical imiaions ar compounded
by a total nck of educationl, uaining, o ecreatonal
progrums. At time whea soch programs e being
expanded akother pisons, hee,a the nd ofthe lne,
women s notworty of even he preince of ehablt.
om. The geographica ocation of Shawnee makes con-
act with family and communiy an almost impossibie
sk, Gradually, women here begintolsethei bility 1o
relae totheoutide workd. As ime moveson, frustration
s in, accompaniedby licotionsnd despair. The eslt
s the cretion of dysfuncional individuals who are
‘completly sef-involved,unable 0 parcipae i organ-
e social activiies, snd nprepared forcvetual einte-
graion o lfe o th outside: woren who reist e,
Gemand les, and s othrsa fiece competors for e
few prvileges allowed.

‘Compeiion ad individualism become the defi-
ing characiritics of personality distorion here. The
s seeks out the most eedy personaiies nd molds
them o informants. Unit e has been rocked by &
‘ouamber of ntema nvesigationsbegun when individual
prisonesconfded” i umbitous sallmerabers.Sotch-
ngand cooperation ar the pillarof hejustice sysem’
Those whorefuse 0 accethis stndard of ehaviourare
sclted and targeied by those who do. I the tiny world
ofthe uit,thi ca have 8 massive effcton one's daily
i

Asynem of erarchica privileges governs e nit

0 dstroys any potesial unity. Snall comfors, such a5

personsl clohing, have become the mechanism through
‘which conperaton and collsboraion are busned. The
Iatet wrinkle s the instittion of “privileged bousing” -
the abiary desigastion of almited pumber of cells o
the oppertie asa reward for acceptable ehaviour. This
{nclasicbehaviourmodificaion. The nitisn consant
sae of uproa over the daily moves thatenfore he full
from privileged satus.

‘White Supremacy And Racsm

There s close to 90 women imprisoned st
‘Shavnee: 113 Biack women from various pars f the
world, 13 Latin wormen, 13 white women, nd a very
smal umberof Native American women. The ummei-
al balance belies the hegemony of whit supremacis
deology. As outside the wals, » permanen conlit
‘exins between Black peopl aad those in power.Piso-
e experence nd are alfected by the sharpeing of
conflc on the outside snd the incessing nsions op-
presson esperienced by Black peopl i pariculs
Events i California have given focu 1o he dicontent
04 hightened the contradictions. Since May, 1n un-

precedened number of Black women havebeen pa in |

e hole - more hun the ol for the past (w0 year,
‘Currently, ivewomen from theunitaei e hole all are.
Black. And whiethe administration taye tht they donot
el withgangs, “Boya 'Nthe Hood sod “Jungle Fever"
werebanned rom e prison e the Aryan Brotherhood
protested.

A it segrgiionist policy detemnines who gets
the jobs. Afe four years, no Black women have ever
worked fo educaton orrecreation, except i jnioral
obs. It astaken just a5 long o placea Back woman i
commistary nd o romote ope woran o be et in
the UNICOR factory. Al Black saf ave et the it
climinaing the small cushion they provided. This is
significans, a sl in th fodeal sytem determine eve-
Fibingfrom acces 1o fmily o elease condiions.

Racism govems bow religion can be pracised.
Itam udaism, md Nsive American eligions e eiher
totally ignored or marginalized. One cannot help but
Dotie this,since ther s dily dit of fndamenclit
Protestent snd Cathli srvices,seminars and reeas.

‘Superexploiation OF Women's Labour
Like B block at Marion, thee is no productive
Iabour st Shawnee besides UNICOR. Uni e s organ-
ized o fuclite the fnctioning o the Aviomated Data
Processing (ADP)factory. Neary 40 women work ere,
twelve hours day andfive more hourson Sturday. The
forced hythm o this work hasmade he ADPfacorythe
mot profiable UNICOR opersion in the BOP for is
siae. The complte lack of any other jobs, the eed for
fonds, the lck of amily sopport the enomous expense
oflivinginShawnee,all push women nto UNICOR into
ntense compettion 1 int an acceprance o thei cx.
plotation. Unlike general popolation prisons, Shawnee
prisonersaenoteven permiiedto workinjobs maintain-
ing e physical plant. Removing produciveabour i an
elemen s desiroying human idntity nd self-wor

The Use Of Vicleace Against Women In Prisons Is
Increasing

“The recent atiacks by male guards at Lesingon,
and u sinilar ocident here a1 Shavmee, illsiruis the
marked tendency lowards sing gresier force o conrol
‘women prisoners, Whielower secury women r being
sen to i, secury fucilies, thoe Ieft i high
secarity prisons will be mre and more valnerabe 1o
physical stack osified by being characteized by the
BOP us “dangerous'

Misogyny And Homophobia

‘Womeniaprisonareatthe vy botiom. Themisog-
oy and contempt for womenin the sciey 4 whaleare
‘compounded by the way theprison sysiem is organzed
10 exploit and udlize women's oppression. The BOP
charaaerzes some women 1 “dungerous” and “error-
ia (having gone beyond the bounds of accptabl fe
male behaviour n he U.S), making them the rge of
particulaized repression, scom and atrd. Tobe cass-
fied maximum secriy i o be seen s Iess than uman,
by defniton o ligibe for“rchabilation”,

All wamen's prisons perae on the allpervasive
hreatof sexual ssah s he dhumanizng invasionof
privacy. Throughout the s and federal sysiem i the
US. invasive ‘put searches”of wome by male guards

S 5 11
YArm The Spirit

cnsarethat 4 women s dailyreminded ofherpoweress-
ess;shecannot ven defend he v body. Inthe consrol.
unit there o sbeolutely o privacy: windows i the cll
doors(whichcamnot b covered), patoling of th it by
‘male guards, sod the presence o the bathrooms i the.
cels guannte this. The voyeurisic aaurs of he con-
st urvellence i s mate of recond: in the past year
slone thers have been three rujor inemal invesigaions
of sexual haratsmens and misconduct by male offces -
including epe.

Programs that exit in other women's prisons,
addreasng the pariclar needs of women, are deemed
frivoloos t Shavnee. Most women hereare motbers,but
Do support at all s given to effors to maisan the
relaionsip between mother and child Similaly, if
‘Shawnee wer not control i, then edocation, ecres-
tion,religious nd cltual programs sbould b on par
with those ot Lewisburg, Leaveawort, and Lompoc
(hree men's high security prisons). But oot single
program availabe in thos pisons i svilble her.

: Geronimo Ji
o B e
it 1
Edgur Hoover's mmownmmn-z by
the FBI nd the LAPD, -lflonl-dfiuhpdhul
‘work with the Biack Panther Pay. Receaily Geronimo.
‘marked his 45th birthday - & serious milestone because |
e
mhnmkfifim o

denied fstiosonce g, the Pare Bowrd was pre-
sened with evidence of commumity sppon for
Geroimo's immedise reesse. Thi evideoce in-
luded 1000 peiion signsures and many leesof
mppors rom eominent ublic offcis, metbers of
e entemament industy, union offcely, and reli-
iourkeadesand esoluion fromihe iy Councilof
‘Oaklan, Califria - thebibplac of the Biack Pan-
tho Py - cllin for Geroimo'sfeedom on bebalf
ofte cly's 400,00 eideas.
‘WhileGeronimo was gai diedpuole, hepa-

‘Geronimo's e parole bearing in one year rather than.
b uualtwo or three. They aeo recommended that
Geroimo b transerrd o wotmen ey for Pos-
T Sires Disosder (PTSD) o which he -
fere doe o bisexperienes in Vi,

“The actonsof e erlebourd o he Califoia
Depasiment of Comection i Geronimo's case ae &
clearndicadon e COINTELPRO v the
B continue o this day. While i i eviden i the
sovemment wildostmort nyting tokecp Geronino
locked u, the merbers o th niemations Campeign

| sppon for Geronimo's rleas. Addrss it o

ole bowrd Gid take the msal siep of seuing | 94

1962, ca e usdoincreie comamunityavarcnss o
policlpriscnrs and Prsooersof Warin he U, tnd-
1o th g o he st 1 o Cornin.
For b your belpis seded:

Vit lnee o he parol boud, saing your

Gerontmoyt ag oy s

~Resitance At Lexingion condinued Jrom page 16
eguli- we demanded 0 speak othe Capesin. While we
demonsinied we heard shouts o suppor rom the i
dows of the housing unis end tJeast two sl avaiable
offcers” oodes to different it - mesning that the
‘women who had returmed 1 the units for count were
doing some kind o support acons 0o

‘Wehad o shout the Captain down, when be fnally
came 10 lk 10 us, bcause he was eling oo many s
He finally aid e utenant would be back at work on.
Monday, and we all knew there was o poit i any
furer dicatsion. We were handcutfed d escorted o
104 mostof usbeing aken o th old High Seurity Urit,
‘which s ben aut of us almort vy sin the BOP
wasforced 0 cose i 1988. Sevea women 1o sl 20
blakes, no watr -t was payback time.

The next day, twelv of us were taken oot and
chained up on a bos 1o Marisans, Florid (he new
womea’ high scurity un). As each of us wasaken oot
of prison the wholeplace was lcked down. Bt t was
midday,sother wereover 100 womenin Cental Park on
theirkunchbreaks. As eachof us was escoried throughtbe
Park, we were checred-oudly, enthasasialy joyflly
~by everyone her.

Tve snce leamed that while we were intranst 10
Masiamna, amaller group of women repeaed theaction
in CentalParkat 4 pm. Therewere altoquite afew small

Fire setin various housingunits doring the ight. And s
‘umber of women wersthipped out o Peasanion fer
‘wetwelve were hipped her to Mariam.
was tho firt acive resisance i federl
‘women'sprison inthe 1. in twenty year.

Forafew briefmomens,we e free. As e moved
nto Cental Park, deying the daly, groding regulations
and control of prisn lfe, we were beried fo the feas
hathlds prisonersncheck We hadihe powes of justice
‘omourice-and i ou yes s welooked tone nother.

‘The mon common thing you hear people ay st
Lexingioni:“fthe men (prsoners - the prison used to
e co-d) were here, the poice woulda'tget away with
this. Women don't ik togeher, o the priscn can put
anything they want onue.”

‘We proved that' note. Thercism and brutalty
ha go down everyday st did'tgo down on this day.
‘We'dhad cnough and we trasid and respeciedourselves
ndone smother enoughto sund uptogether Thedemon
sraion was itermationl - inspired primarly by Jumi-
can, Haim nd Afica- American women, i wis joned
by Laiina women and some white women s wel It was
clear, foonce, that i the plolice could contave 10 anack
Black women (1 they do everydsy -fo example,a any
siven tme the hole holds more Black women thn any
other ntionality),then 1o one world be saf.

continud on page 35.

“The medianage o the women hereis 37 ssitusion
disiocfrom any ther women's prison. Nealy everyane
i doing more than 15 years; more han 10 women are
serving fe sennces withou parole. Menopause is the
main medical problen n the wit. Mencpaus is
emotional as wel s # physiological proces. Ignoring
b i pillr of misogyais Westem medicie. In he
repressve eaity of Shawnee, refusal 10 ecogaize and
rea th symptoms of menopause becomes crul meuns
of punishment and an atack on the iniegry of cme's
penonaity.

Security deermines all medical care. Two women
‘who havesufered rokeshee werebothdenid

Inense soluion andackof activites mesn hatthe
oving elatonshipsthat provid ntmacy and comfor 1o
‘women inall prisons ae f beighieaed inporance here.
Unilrecenly, seeningly tolerant atitade owards s
bian relsonships was acully a form f control, For
lesbian rlaionships 10 funcion without discplinary
intervention b th police,the women had 0 negotisie
with and in some insiances work for, the sl This
olerance was viewed as necessary because h rlation-
hips served s a saety valvefo the tesions ad anger
in he popalaion. As & eslt o thy sysiem of police-
ancioned tolerance, people tended 0 elevae the indi-
il relaionships above any colleciv aliances that
‘might endange the adminisraions ule over the unit.

“Ths simaton served o ncressethe alreadyitense
homophobianthe populaion. Anew administraton bas
ow ended the tlerance, and esbins are now suffeing
reser harussment and discriminaion. A wich hunt is
nderway to ideuiy lesbians 0d couples eagaging
homosexual behaviour.

‘Together with acism, misogyey and homophobia
define conditionshere. When coupled withthe rpresive
practicesof s control unt, prychologicl dissblementcan
esut - fulfiling th Shavee mision.

Condusion

Panly as & resul of the asionomic rse i the
‘mmber of women in prison and the resuhing public
terestin women's prsons,and parly as reulof the
suggle against the Lexingion HSU, the BOP has o be
very carefl ot 1 appear o be bt ints reatment of
‘women prisoner. The investgatons of the HSU by
Amnesty Ioertions, the Methodist Church, the
‘American Cvil Libenies Urion sndotherssrock aerve
in Washingion. The cxperiment caried out witin the
wals of the HSU failed bocause of the personl and
polticlrsistanc of those inside ad outside the walls
Bt s defestdid ot detrthe BOP fromis st gouls.
i just drove them 10 hide them cosmeically behind &
‘eneer ofnew pint and he momentary eliminationof e
‘mort otorous suses. The BOP lways denies the truth

workings. i dnies he exisienceofconrol ns and
his unit n paricula, not even liting it in the BOP.
Regiscrof Prisons. Nevertbeles, Shawnee i the present
‘women's vension of the Marioizaton of the prison
sysiem. The bext on s supposed 1 be openedin North
‘Caroina n 1994. The movermentshould ot aliotothe.
p and ignoe the paricala conrol sriegy amed st
‘women. Uncovering and exposing th realiy that the
‘Shawnoe Uit is » conro unit will conrbute 1o the
‘movemens agaastall conrol .

Stiva Baradial
Mariyn Buck

‘Susan Rosenberg.
Laura Whitehorn

Aut-Imperialist Political Pisoners

Mariann, Florida August 1992

Y 7' 15
Yrm The Spirit

“We Embrace Death With Weapons In
Our Hands And Slogans On Our Lips!”

On Apil 617, thre ereraids o six hoxsesin It wasaarge.scle, carefllyplansed atack by the
Turkish armyand poic orce, long withhe Tukish ecret sevice (MIT).Th i hoses ad b ‘dentfi as
th homas o idig placs of acive Dewimei Sol mambers. Devrirei Sol (Realtionary La) is a legal
organisaion i Turkey,an he group has carriedout more hin 0 o armcactionssince 1983 againtTukish
milary leades and ormer jnia members.

The Franchpaper ‘Liberaion described e atackas “an exection by he Tk polic, doing whic 1 pecpl,
S manands women,wereildand others were wossdd.Accoding opolce,hos lled nd oo hase wounded
‘and arreted cou ot b denfad, since they ol iencifcationpapers B ey blive ho e eror s
e mambersof the Dev Sl cexralcomiice. ot ainle one f he ecuryforces were illed orwounded daring
th peraion whichh beendecried by umanighis advocais as aarbivaryexcuion” (Libertion,2047)

Th nvotvement o the army i tis bo:bathcam dspie he o that i sttepower in Turkey now rests
inthe civilan’ hads of presden Demirl his “democratiaion st siencedfeasof possbemilry coup.
ot eve th govarnor of etanu s denid thefac 1 he MIT ook portihe action e scal operation hich
wasthe s fa civlans -t police. Andihe Tur i iterio inistr mad h following cormen regarding
the s e “This s h s apertion,we haldeet ham. We sl o0n ke u o wha s acking inhe
police. The 120 forign-rained ecet evic agent wilfrt b e omake por o Lackef formaion There
il be more.” (Gunaydin 214.52). ey asanincreasilyimporianle 0play i the US ‘s New Worid Oder
polce agensforthe Middie East - ut o h s e has o copewit svong iirnl pposion Thi hey ope
1o guicly radcate.Considering theoct et Dev Sol commands ot ofspport i certai secioso e popultion,
Turkeys uingpowers have o coninally resort o teror and intimidtion. O ths, vcan Kanar,he ead of
moderae hananighs organization, emaried: “The 1 person killdon April cold have beenakenclive f he
overnmen hadwished.Th exccuions ok placewiout ay egal bsisandhes esirucrive operatons areaking
ploce s if buan ights havebeencompleely it asid.” (Harriyet, 22492, uman ighis hav ben disregarded
eversince the days f he i, an he xplodtionad impenrsment of he populton has contined, despt he
raner of pwe rom genra o cvlias. i, hman righis ae ok eve am e they weren' h,and thy
ren' e, despte h new demecratc ener

The fllowing (ransitedjrom sue 12 of he Duch papr Konfoniaie) s theranerpt f a lephonecll made
30 mindes e the April 17 opeation was nderway, Devrims Sol miliais Sabo, Edo,and Takin, wsde their
besiged house in Cifttavelr, were on the phone withthe chirpeson of TAYAD, Fatma Sese, and kept b
informad oftheevets aking plce.

The Last Words

Devrmei Solighters. We want 1o gtshis outiothe world
via your newspaper. You are our wimess. You must
report everying you have heard. We want o b buried
nextiothe uly 12manys The Devraciol flagmusi ly
at our funenl. Our people must ke pan. Help our
families, giv theminformation. We arehanging upnov.
Tl call back socn. Keep he lne fee.

020
(A woman's voice on th phone)

‘Sabo: Hello. They have surrounded ourbouse. A alf an
bour ago. We have ben keeping them bosy for half an
boor. We have bumedallour documents nhebahroorn. |
‘We have ot lft singe ace behind. Bu they'l shoot
heirway insoon. We will defendourelves. We wiloin
Niyazi, Apo,and Haycar (). We wil oin e Jly 12th
martyrs 2). My commde here nex 0 m would ke 1o
spesk withyou.

Bda: We, s Devimc So fighies, will die fo the
Turkish people. We e very good. We e very cam.
o likeour comrades n Kizldere () and Malatys (4,
e will gretdeath aoghing and srugaing, Long ive
Devrme Sol Long live our leader Dursun Karatas!
Lo live our smed revoluionary il Farewell. We.
love you ll nd ot people very mach.

20
‘Sabo: Hasherebeen ny e rom Sinan? Have yousll
called? Have you watched the news? They ae alking
about Sinan. Please don'tkeep he lie busy! Call fom
outsde fyou have o make a call. (Shot can b Aeard.
over the phone.) They have siaried shooting, do you
hesr? Do you want me 0 hang opT™

Answer: Not

Sabo: Ok. (Slogans are heard over the phone) Long ive
Devriml Solt Destroy fscim! Loag lve ur srgglel
Long ivethe July 12maryrsl Longlive our esisance i
Malitys! Longlive our esistncel Long lve Kizildere!

Sabo: We ar calng you, et you s h hed o
TAYAD (5. We wan y0u 1o pusson whe you have
hesrd s what e v idio o whol ol hroogh
yournewpaper. Goowid od call he. Don'tkeep
e e bury..Gt e mesage o qicky. Has e
come inrom Sinen () yt? Aok sboot Snan. T he
nevean, To o e infommation. Wata i, | pest
A s mrmnt ot o i e We hve e
kepin them by fo bl oot All documens, |
incuding fndenifosionppens, hav bon bomed. The
shootcut will ein soon. We il i, We ill e
laughing, like like our comrades who were murdered in
{he owss, s, mountinof My, We will
i ke Hamiys nd Olcay (. We will i ke

Sabo: Look...Get the message out,don'tdelay. (Inen-
sive shooting) have o bang upl

2%
‘Sabo: I there any news from Sivan? Have youall goien
any message? Have you. heard anything? There retwo
telephones. Let them ring. They say they have kiled
Sinan.

(Bda's voice s heard, showsing o he police )

Eda: You sl an' touch Sinan.

Sabo: They are consanty shouing insulis a us. spe-
caly t me. Of couse we answer. You al will her .
‘Whenthey came,hey said ey were x ollectors. The
theyclledme M. Sababat.(Shot, slogans, thedoorbell,
pounding on the door) Long live ourammed revluson
aryunit Longlve ourleader Drsan Karats! Longlive.
Deviimei Soll

Sabo: When we looked though the peep-hole, we saw
hat ey had bule-prof vests . They say ha Soan s
ead. Plesegiveme some information. Cll somaecne. At

s momeat,hey areupsais. They aro ying o ke
e through the ceilin. (Th sound of shos, pounding
o the door, shows rompalice )

Eda's voice: Come on, bring your tanks and bomb,
‘come insde,our bodies slone are enough 1 scare you.
‘We come inio yourdreams and make thm nighimares.
‘You areall shuddering wit fear. Don'tthink you can
hide. You ae mistaken. Even i oly one iy hole i e,
we shall us i You can'tescape revolaianary justice.
Our comrades will purish you. (More insul fom the
police)

Sabo: You al have thousands of fathes snd mothers.
‘Your fuhers are Bush and your mothers are Manukyan
(8). You werebom snd ised n sewer. (logans) Long
liveoutrevolutonaryjustcel Long live our armed revo-
Iotionary sl Log ive DevrimeiSoll(The shooting s
indensive; the door i eing rammed; they contnue 1032
Jarewel o the phone.)

Sabo: They have dropped gas through he chiroey. We
areonthe 12t loor. Theyar threatening 1 throw us 1o
the ground from the 12t loor. Theysay that tis ouse
belongs t the organizaion. They are ramming the docr,
They cant ope i The dooris made of see. Butthey
have madea big oleini. (Inensiveshooring) 1 um going
1o belp my comrades. Farswell (Shots,siogans) Long
live Devrini Sll Longliveourader Dursun Karats!
Long live the brotberhood o the Turkish and Kurdish
peoples! The ressance of the Turkish and Kurdish
‘peoples will defet fscism!™ (More gunshots)

‘Sabo: We have sengibened the baicade. They can't
et the door open. A comrade was wounded i his am

i 5 19
They say Sinan has been killed. Inform peopl of bis
conditon. Look...sk for “uncle". Comrades know him.
They are tlking about the Iizer sparament. They have
mertioned th names Sinan and Gunes. They sy they
ave made severl raid. I couldbe beavy bow. Ask,
liten fornew. (More shooting,slogans) They are get.
ting ready 1o use borb. We fel o ad calm. (The
policeshouinsuls;the comvads eply) Wesballboom
likered wild lowersallscrossthe land!

Eda: Our DevrmeiSolfag shall fyall ver Tutkey. You
can'ttouch Sinan, Ourcomrades willpuish you! Noth-
ing can save you.

Sabo: 1 am ssing her thinking and | want 0 belp my
comeades. 1 wonder bow they found us? I dont know.
Nothing was wrong whea 1 went outsde. If something
bagpened, i mue have been today. W bumed all the
documents i th bahroom. We always ave soppy of
sasoline on hand. We burmed he denifcation papers
‘And themoney. We do't wank o ave anying beind.
‘Somy. Theresillmoney inour bags. Weforgt o look.
Reportal of i We bumedal e documents. There is
noihing more. (Siogans, shots) Can you bear me? 1 il
v two comdes wih me. They are worth ot They
bave resised well.

Eda: Don'sbeleve b police], my people. They le.
(She i hard 1o hear)

‘Sabos The peope utsde s onoursde, Except for ane:
‘woman. But we gave her the comect answer. Tell the
newspapers o send repores. | want our fiends 1 s
hi. Send the TAYAD mothers. O hous i sround the
‘comer from the Meterological Bureau in Goriepe ).
purllel 10 the Baghdadstree, the Karau aparument.
You'll Know you're in the neighborhood when you see
th scurkyfores (Everytmethe call s inerruptd she
s farewell and intensified shooting and more siogans
can be heard) v been wounded i hearm. The bulles
‘went igh hiough. They want 10 blow up the bthroom
wall with bombs. (The s0und of bomb exploion:
slogans) They weren't sietobrek down the wal. We
will aricade the wal agan. (The sousds of urniture
being movedaroundcan b heard. They knewhatlwas
bere. They saythey have klld Sinan They are alking
aboutthe xizkersparment. “Urce” s here. Liseatothe
reports. Givemeth new. | am siting and hinking how
Icanbelprmy comdes. | don't know bow his appenes.
Nothing wat wrong this morming. I mont have been
afervards. Yes, it must have happened tonight. The
person on the other end tell her that conact as been
made withhe press,and hat thre were two therrads.
At one howse, hree persons werekilled, inclucing Sinan,
(and on person was kil a the ther house)

‘Sabo: Weare verycam and wefee]good. We sall esist
il ou st drop of lood s alle. (She show at the
police)

BAvs volcs: Come with your tanks snd guns, you cow-
ari. (Again the police swear t them.) Sewet sl You
ouly think with you dicksl (niesive hooting)

‘Sabo: Like our comrades on the 124 o Jly sndinthe
moamians near Malaays have welcomed death, w ase
alo going going 1 welcome death ike Hamiyes and.
Oleay.. T want to tum 1 my commdes... (minsive
shooting and more siogans) Lon live Devrimei Soll
Long liveoue Jly 126 essancel Long ive Kiziderel
Long live Dursun Karaas! Long live our resistncel
Down wih ascim! Long ive Devrimei Sol Long live
our Goziepe rsistancel

Ferm The Spirit
ws

(They don't come on the lin very ofte. To ge o the
phone, they st craw along the loor. Sabo has been
woudedin theleg. Afer abowt an ko, ey adess the
people on the sieet. The voices are t0o faint 1o be
ndersood)

Sabo: They ar going o blow out the door wih explo-
sives. We can't gt 1 the o bocause i’ by the door.
Afer i, w ae going 1ot ea o the room. They are
coming in.

(The last words..)

Sabo: We groe dea with weapons in our hands and
with sloganson curip. Especially send gretings o my
puroer, my leade, e leader of Devienci Sol. Gretings
1o all comsades. Farswell (Many shows are heard; the
badis of the comvades can be heard alling 10 the
ground)

o1
(Thesoundof shooting i 0w, it sounds s i bidreds
of people are fring; the phone makes asrange ois; o
Voices are eard,only g shot)

072
(The phon line gousdead)

millars werekild,incloding Hiyez.
@) Kisider; villge where the Jading cadre of the
THKPIC, » prodecesor of Devrime So, wer killed.

(9 Malatys: place whersfve membersof Dev Sl were
kiled n arly 1992
(5) TAYAD; sn orgmizion of he rlatives of poltcal
prisones, decared an llgal organization i 1991.
(6)Sinan; aleade of Dev Sol, lo illd on Apeil 17.
(7 Hamiye and Olcay; meambersof Dev Sol, killed in
L

() Manskyan; famous prostise in Turkey who pays
high wzes.

(5) Grepe;oeighborhood in Isanbel wher he spart
et was locaid.

~Faleon nteriew continued from page 10

‘countris befre that, do you hope that Ofensiva 92
il act Inthe mme way a3 the campaiga o foe the 4
‘Puerto Rican prisoners a few years ago who bad beea,
n prison for 20 years or more?

Iwouldsay ha at he moment nthe el sctors
and radicalsctors of Puerto Rico socety on the island
thee is 5o uifying theme. We are hoping that the
‘campuign forthe liberationof thepolscl prisonerswil
betheunifyingrend amongetal he radica and progres-
sive sector of Puero Ricen society. And tha even he
‘moderues, do o the buman rights sves included in,
‘willnally give the suppors 1ohis campaiga fo freedom.
in view ofthefas that he politcal prisonersand rson-
ersof Wa,the cnlyreason hatheyar in il i thtthey
arei-colonial combatantsandvery clealy underner-
atonal lw ani-olonial combatants arenc 1o b perse-
cuted by the colonial power, but would eitherbe jodged
by anntemational body, or shouldbeallowed o receive.
asylum in & neutnl county. n the ame way, thesc
itermationa iniutes forid th oppresor county to
crminaliz the ai-colonil combatant and he US.has
alwaysviolaed whatis vey learly stedby the nrna-
tionalnstiater.

This inerview ook place March 1992 on CKLN, a pro-
ressive radio stion in Toroni, Canda

vobing o do withthes charge. The people sreusd
‘with e ar my pervonal fiods, and they have be
‘Oppose e itemor progrn whih forsig capial
in Tocing and which ow goverament s dircing.
i ol o Gk it e |

| quarded.Frieods nd rlatives of e arstedmilanis

—Siatement o the Tribunal contnued from page$

‘We ae confronted very direcly with e resuls of
s terroritc policy aganst the poor and against those
‘who ar presse o saus as refogees. In Brope and
‘especially in Germany pow we can see once more s
cxcalation n rcism ha i simulated by the state but
epreding ali insde great pan of socery. Burope is
uilding p o be fortress o keep the weal fora small
elte andto keep the sandard of fvingfor 8 dcreasing
‘umber of the metropoliun sociey.

However, his violentstempt o find way out of
the capulstic world-wide cisswill not be successfl,
because this system is't able o give ny fsurefor the
human race nd chance forthe survivl o the s
neither inthe amperalisc states o inhe plundered nd
dependent nations.

“Theftur i i ou hands; he appressedpeople, he
people who re denied any voice inthe workd-develop-
‘e, We re the ones who willfomulae our sims snd
our own conception for the worldwide social develop-
‘s, fo our own ife and e generaons.

“This tibunal s one siepon the way forward.

Fresdomow forll policlprisoners and ll pris-
onersof war worldwidel

Prisoerstrom e guerila & ressancel Germany
Sepienber21, 1952
“prsonen e being very heavily

ave b putingprssre o h e prosectr e
| manding s elee. Shorly befors he aras,No-
Ve 17 became scive apin, bonbiog Aiens”
s it i eponse o 1 lncreses
nounced by the conemiive govemimes.

5 vill vl will ke s

YArrm The Spirit

Red Army Fraction Dossier

Withthe communique of April 10, 1992, (se ATS
#12) the Red Army Fracion has opened newphase in
it Kisory. Inshot, hey announced aceasefire, ontheir
part, and deciddhat thy neededtofind a new poliical
orietaion. Intheirwords: "We hod seveelylimied o
poliics 1o aiacks onthe sralegists of imperialom and.
ad ailed o earch forimmediai posiive goal anfor
how a social lternatve coud begin and exist here and

Howeve,th immediat goal o the RAF has been
the releas ofsickand injured polical prisonsrsandihe
regroupmen of ol others unil hei releas. I theearly
partof 1992, Jutice Minite Kinkel (o Poreign Min.
lstr)proposed th release ofsome RAF mambers who
werephysically uifor detenion andsenience ofpris-
oners who had served 213 o thir o had served 15 years
of a e sentence. Recenty released have been Ginter
‘Sonnenbers and Claaia Wanersdorfe,bwo o the ikl
njured prisonrs, whose release has been repeaiedly
calld for by the RAP and the legal resisance. Also
released recenly havebeen Christa Eckesand Lutgard.
Hornstein.Noneheles 3sckinjwed political prisoners
il remain in prison - sabel Jacob, Al Janssen, and.
‘Bernd Rafnr. At his time the i campaign s around.
Bernd s sition, as his ealh has by detrioraed.
afer 17 years o soltionortre. The Kinkel nitaive s
an cttempe by the sat 10 show that it flexie and.
“humana”,and eats the RAF prisoners ke amy thes.

This of course i arce a i th sam time th sa s
pursuing ew iria againt mprisoned members of he
'RAF, based on stimony by collaborating ex members of
the RAF who were capturd in he ex GDR. Sieglinde
Hofann, Ingrid Jokobsmei,RolfClemens Wagner nd
Chriian Klar e alucing rais based on the evidence
iven by the €x-RAF miliands who are irying (0 redice.
iy own prisom senences. (This strlegy by the RAF
raiors hs failed, and in some cases as led o onger
sentencesthen what heprosecion demanded.) Thefrs
ofthese i beganin September againsiChrisian Kl
and we have reprited issatement 0 the court on this
page.

Itisunclear whethertherelaaseof Somnenbers and
Wanersdorfer was th resul of the Kinkeliittive or
the RAF ceasire declaraiion. What i clear is that he
state i sl ursing s policyof epresson andpersecu-
tiom against he prisonersof the RAF and the resistanc.

Inthisisue weare repriting hefirs partofalong
statement b the RAF from August 1992 in which they
atiempt o anaiyse and explin their past actions and
poiical directon,particuaryther concep of buiding
of an ani imperiais frons in the matropoles withthe
puerrill at L cenre. Thissatement, along with ther
atemant of April 1092 and hei Juy92 sitement o
ani G7 couner congress i Minich has provoked an
ntense discission and debate amongst ihe Eurapean
revolsionary movements A mumber of poltca prison-

ersin Europe, including those rom Action Direce in
France and the CCC in Belgism, have released site-
menis crtical ofthe ceasefre deciion of he RAF. As
el the Ceniral Comitiee of the PCE 1) - Commnisi
Party of Span (reconsitied) - eleased @ communigue
erkicalof the RAR dacision.The PCE (), whese mltery
wing s GRAPO (First of October, Aii-Fascist Resis.
Lance Growps),has long ben riical of the RAF's ani-
imperialist suategy, and they thamselves propagate
armed sruggle based within class opposion. Wihin
Germany thre has been ongoing discussion amongst
variousparts ofth radical.left movemend as well s with
the pliical prisonsrs. The inteview with 3 RAF prison-
ers which we have included in this ssue concerns iself
primariy withthe April 10 declaration an he broader
Goues which s adbsses.

We have copies of many of the discussion papers
and statemens menconed above as wel as others ot
menioned here As wellwe have communigues romhe
‘Revoluionary Cels and subsequen responses concern
ing their own dscussion surrounding the role of armed
trugsle We would ik o publshall o these ogethr in
e collection but t the present ime our weakfnancial
siction does ot allow s 10 0. Thse comrades who
wish o read the various sitements and papers consend
s moneyor opies. More inportantly we askfor finan-
cial support 30 tha we can publisha booklet containing
a8 many o these as posaiie

Christian Klar's Trial Statement - Stammheim Process

(Christian Klar - RAF prisoner, imprisonedsice 1982 -

nd Peer-Jirgen Booc - (renouncing) RAF prisoner,
inprisoned since 198 - are bothaccusedofa acion o
obtain money in Zirich (Switzerand) in 1979. During
s actionone passe. by was illed anda car-owner was
serouslyinjured.Petr-JirgenBoockaccuses Christan
Klarofthe shaotings.

Inearly 92 the “Koordinatonsgruppe f Terror™
‘which coondintes al inelligence services nd institu-
tions of represtion in Wiesbaden (i lnks al th forces
‘which had 1 be kept separie from each other since the
Gestao) came out with hing caled “the new aitude
towards the quesion of poiical priscaers”. Bver snce
the fomer Ministes o Jutce (Kinkel)preenied is 1o
the pubic it clled KikelIninive", And optiism
arose about e siaton of plica prisones and more:
eoeraly: The expectaion ha the criminalizaton and
suppresson f e Lef and th radical movermeni inhis
counry would be rtracted. Eight monihs have passed in
the meanime. I can't g0 into speciic questions here.
Thote who don't make daily immediste expeiences, rs
atleast reading newspapers and watching TV-pictres.

Botbrefly aboot the area o jils and . The
plamning of thistrialandthefollowing ones is 8 crucial
poin. The sisaton of th polical prisoners is he same
st ever was. The efusal of regroopment and the han-
dling ofreleass refusing o relcas even dangerously il
prisoners) s not & new aitade. I s raher a new ambi-
ous calculton with ostages tha s developed over
the pas few month. The syt thy sared now gives
them hostages mateial fo the next 10 years.

Does this mean (sclf)iscpline o milant poiics
overthencxt 10yearinGermany? Anotherinitative has
becomefata the same ime. A *KinkelIniative”again
[Kinkel became Foreign Minser in the meanime). But
el o his tme. Remainng obstacles were removed

in persstent sieps o bring the German millary forces in |
saning posion forhe coming bloody race among the.
imperalis powersfo new disribution of globl areas
of inflaence, Of course, thre s 8 elatonship becween
hesetwothings. They wanttochaa hecne orgnization
‘which hasgained themostinermationalist sura and morl
espect in Germany over th past 22 years 1o he isue of
political prisoners inorder 10 pave the way fo her rise
1o world power andonew domination nd devasutionl
european and o <uropean peoples.

Bt the westem teadency 10 global policng, the
poltcs of devastation o force more spac fora greter
posiion of power and new booms for the lords of the
‘world marketand the factthat snce Rostoek's ogroms
rciom bas been eclard th official st deology. these
developments arebringing me o the view tht the newly
emerging Leftn this counry shovid develop nd ceste
it traegy withou bein impressed by the e’ threat
of aving poliial prisopers n s hand.

“About the il here it i 0 build upon the done
sl withth satc witnesss. The jicial mening i:
the st securty’s jusice systm is coming o s old
essence again. Everyting hat makes i rn a a s
ment o eliminaie evolusionary opposiion is usefl is
right. Bus hers is # more imporant poin. This is
modelof westem-medi-faciory, which wasusedin 1991
1 force s consensus by projection of a sham reality into
th living room of the metroplitan population uni the.
consensus was eady for gul-nervention. s he same
techaique of powes in presening the so-called sae's
winesee. The few criminalisic informations re secon-
dary. The main thing is staging » sham reaity for the
politcs o the st - 1o approprise istory, o it can not
be acquiredfrom below fo ou futre. Th apparats s
geting fat from the collsborwor. Bu be can ot give.
anything suhensic sbouhis history. He s vanishedinthe.
et ofmerdelcnse, o insurancesnd flfling ofbis |

o coniboton o the bargin's eward,

A st about th money acio in Zurich. There
ol be o eed 0 talk sbot i i there Bade'tbecn
Vieims mong non-paricipas

"As e of prndile i jsiied o et money
o of e capl's e or he neds f revoltonary
movemens. S he money i aken out of e circle of
caploiuion ad lavery and bough o s gous.

We r lking sbout he acion 0 oain ey in
dowown Zuic n 1979, The origi o h proems
e e esapefrom bk was s prepard well
cocugh. Add ow-up o th staion, nd you g the
Condiions wheean"sciv” izen focs empowerd o
st e polic.Suchpeopeguded mobilzed polce 1o
e RAF proup. Unil that nobody was hun. B two
policemen cawed he shooings s two ifrs places
ndintis contes nepus by was iled s scond
‘woman was seiusly hun. But i was diffres than the
monszousclaims of e indicumeo. There wat o en-
onal hooin ro the RAF.grocpagin e v o
vt snd o gt he owo women i e station
o excape. Basd o o el fact o cerain -
e det of h aser.by o e nring of b crowner
‘was caused by polc bullesor b weapons of he RAF.
1o, Reconsucin e situation ltr, here wer ot
prbubilies concladed from poions of popl 1nd
irecions ofire. But i it ocbscare espor
This sponslty xin,becaus i wasour own acion.
Specifcal, when became imposse (0 vod ex.
changing v wilh e plice,h g wreed it
e ecesary careoless, even with s b
s, which mus ot bppen uder sch circumsances.
Tt pat ofhe ricipl of ponsibly: y0u canok
avid e s of feamns you v o do i wey bt

excludes endangering non panicpiats,
“Thesear cssntal pinciples of the evoluionary
continued on page 3..

) 31
Yrm The Spiit

“They Want To Destroy Us”

Interview With RAF Prisoners; Lutz Taufer, Karl-Heinz Dellwo, Knut Folkerts

Inervie from Konkret (montly magazine for It
theory, discssion and culure),June 1982. Te prtici-
pants inthis alk are: Kar-Heinz Deliwo, Kn Folkats
‘ond Lt Taer captured members o he RAF - prison-
erssince 1975 (Kna Follari since 1977, Rosita Timm,
member ofhe Green Party i Hamburg and nvolved in
the movement (0 free the polica prisoners, Thomas
Evermann,former mamber of th Green Partyand Her-
mana L. Gremiizs, publishr of Konkret

Gremlza: "It i tro that American imperialisn is
papertier, . thatitcanbe defetedn the end;andf the
Chinesecommunissar corect that the vicory gainst
Americanimperiaism has become possible ecause the
aruggle is being waged all over the globe and
imperalism’s sirengihs have been spread thi and hav
splinered, which makes imperalisn surmousiable - f
all tie i tue, then thre s 50 reaso 10 exclode any
paricalar county or region from he antiimperialist
nruggle because the reactonary forces happen 1o be
expecally srong n tha county. As wrong a8 it i 10
discourag the forces of revolution by under. stimaing
them, i equaly wrong 1 suggest points o confonta-
tiontothem where they can nlybe destroyed and used
a5 cannon-fodder”

“This was # quotefrom the Aprl 1971 RAF-docu-
meat “The Urben Guerila Concepe”. Exactly 21 years
atr, themost recent RA- declaraion which we want 10

cuss here, draws the conclusions from the founding
document: because imperialiem tamed ot 1ot 1o be &
‘papertige, bt o be invincile h proposal s made ot
1o wase my more cnrgies in hoplesssruggle. s this
the meaning o the declaraion?

Taufer: The world o the 1970's i differnt then the
‘workd of the 1990's. 20 year ago we were thinking,
living nd fghting a4 par of the world-wide uprising
agains ULS. imperialis begemony. The word was i
vided i two pas. e Soviet Uion fored imperil-
fam into a global balance of power that limited
imperiaisa's optons agans the poples nd ibration
‘movements in the Third World. There was a least one

ibertionmovementin armed stggleineach couniryof
Latin America for exampl. Successful, viciorious ib-
entionorpizatons werein Afic, the Middie East nd
‘Asa, Eapecillyin Viemam tere was people of pea-
ot inpajams nd ire sadalspushingthe workd's ot
powertul milary machine againt the wall. And thn
hre were the evols in the mecropaes. AS we know.
today,the moverments against the Viewem War - expe-
cally i the U.S.- contribud o8 large cxent o the fack
s Nison snd Kisingerconsidered the war lostas early
51965,

“The wide spead senseof he globalstution being
st point of decision was maked by West Geman
poliicians referring o8 spreading “lack of confidence in
theitsie™ by Triserl Commisson investigatontied
“Criss of Democracy” - while freh wind of grase oots
democracy was veauling through he metropoles. And
formes chancellor Willy Brands was alking sbout the
fresdom of West. Berin being defended in Vietwam.

Our sssessment n those days was: wraigicaly,
imperalism is pot on the defensive. Ther had becn
growing forces aganst the US. dominsed imperiaist
world system simolneously all ver the workd. And.
‘with the background of Auschvit and Vietoam it was
‘worthiotink abou (moraly and poliicaly) ining the
priing with e saamptof amed sruggle i the ceners
of imperialism. The smbivalen postion of th polical,
‘economic, jodiciary and mliary el onthe fascst pas
nd thei clearsoppor for e genocide in Vietnam, ef.
the question unanswered whedheror not fscam i Ger-
‘many coud esppesr. To some exins, amed strggle i
the FRG was an stempt o make opfor e previous ack.
of i fascie]ressance.

"To expect n spproaching breakdown o the US-
mperiaitrysem tamed oot be misske. Todey we
live in compleely diffren word. By creating “two,
{hree,many Viemams", the gou inhe 1960 and 197
wattotake away th sources of expoitaion ad eich-
ment from the Westem sysiem. Supprted by thi, the
Non-Aligned Movemen: demanded s New Global Eco-
ncemic Onde. Today the ssution s reversed: s mpe-

inism whichi discading eire pooples ke squeezed.

lemors. Ther cheap resource and Iabor power is n0
longe needed,andtherefor they hav st hir right 0
exin.

“The worldisnolonger polaized etween be Third
‘Workd sad e metropols. Thers e two worlds nows he.
‘workd of th havesaad the word of e have-nots. These
o workds exist witin the FRG, withi the US. in
Brai, Chile, Egyp, Indis, Nigeit. They are every-
‘where Today in the U.S., the demand for a new world
onder tnd the wn-focused uprising arecnly separsed by
& few blocks. Afer e marines had gone inio Grenada
0d Punams, they now o nto Los Angeles. The marg
oalized,tha i th vask majorty of al bomankind, fnd
hemseives in e simaion of Robinson Crisoe. The
‘washed.up of imperilsm and o the workd market are
foreed o depend on what thy fnd in themsbives snd in
el immedint cavironmens, whea they organiz their
Iivesand ther socil word

The comingera will bethe e of th socal move-
‘mens, of cconomic nd socal invetions. Suppose we
e successfl n opening the necessay space 1 g
concrete kopian schemes some global meaning. The -
Temmaive would be sreading, scared violenca snd
sruction from hove nd against those whofght for heir
survival. And the RAF's snewer o the “gueston of
vilence" would be one of no imporunce - facing this
increasing gravty ofthe sisation.

The RAF's declaration s ulking sbout this
changed world sistion. I ot surrnder, ' pin-
Cipled new orienation towsrds a siaion. Ammed
‘rugal goes againtth grin of this mew sicaion.

Gremlza: Do you wast 10 sdd snyting 0 tis declaa-
tion ordo you have sny cilcism?

Dellwo: sk his declaration s ight. s earisthat we
have reached cenain boundarieson e one hand nd we.
shouldn't give upon the cther hand. | woulda't cricize
‘whatothersfindout forhemselves snd how they express
e

The RAF has reached limi, & boundary. Bvery-
body has s sens that ot of work as been dome over e
Isttwenty years, bt thatwe're walking on ne st now.
‘The RAF doring it founding pesiod, he conceptof a
‘metropolian gurill-tht mean: puing th questionof
porwer on the table. And breaking open our posion of
poweressmes,in which we found oomelves again and
‘Sgaininourspecfc sruggles agans th polcis of the.
rulingclase. e wanied o crese spacefor e Lef, the
epaceofllgalityin which you sr bl 0 create yourelf.
44 sobject. As 8 poiicalsbject in postion f tsck.
The s and the poltcs o th g cas, the gueston
ofthe synemitel-that was aboo. Those s thebotiom
have 10 be ubordinated - that ide, 00, bad 10 b i-
acked, I’ th logic of power 0 keep peaple down. We
‘were shoating back. We reversed the reltonship they
had o the botiom ofsocety, nd e it aainst them.

“Today, omething ol s mising. s not imied
by the power o the sate. There i lack of ew social
deas, sometbing ike new hitorical social sense for
socey. | know hat i b something 1o do with the self-
‘validiy of human beings and ofaaure, which wehave 0
‘winback, Bothe i boundarytoday s he alienation in
tociry.

Ofcourse, we sl had n mind anexpropriston or
socilizaton ofhe mesns of production. This s cne goul
d we can do a ot wit it Bu it emained vague. I was
more tis: you coulda't live e - ot in this capial-
‘Gominatd pesent priod. And yoo did’t want 10 waich
the workdwide crimes - not with tht isory. You were
aleady made fothit sysembeforeyoueven wokeup. AL
it you have 0 et p and hold your own against .

‘Ourorenttiondide'sfall par withhe colspse of
ae socialism (eal-exsting socialism). s strctre o
Socity was not one of ou s, But i was the exising

) 1 2
Yerm The Spirit

that w don't e hisory, we ar taring s point er0.
Today 1 think, this was even more tre Lun we under-
sood athetime. Now her is nocotrlzed prepciive
any more and perhaps there will never be centalized
perspeciveagain - but his doea'thave o be os. The
ld perspeive remained extmal 1 haman beings. It
‘was ik helpful 0 watch the workd and e i a ew way.

‘Wehave ofind somehing néwinthe onaree questons.
‘Ths concret questioni th sune a the everyday aspect
of society. We have 1o bing the moment of ransform-
tiontothisveryday ife.Istheonly way o createanew
view for socity s 4 whol. | wank o crese break wih
the whol system nthis everyday ife. Wehaveto sarch
forthar

Gremiiza: When | compare th situation of 1970771 10
today I see only one sigificant change: s socalism
doesnt exist nymore and long with this:most ofthe
‘movements which had sot of earcover from i on't
exist anymor, ciher.

Taer: The quesion i: s this s posiive or s negative
change. This kindof rearcoverwas lways anambiguous
affi, s ealy as during the Viemam Was. It maintained
cenain menaly ofcetrlized pespecive Intoday's
discustions we eam from the Topamaros hat his ol
pse of state socialism had » iberaing sspec for the
Lef, orthe political movemeni. Thy haveto ey apon
themselves nd are workingon developing n cmancipa-
tory perspeciveout of teirown concree condilions and
theirown hisory. Tha's hatthe Lefha o dohee, .

Gremiiza: When I look st the Lef and espcially st the
parts ofthe Lef that lways had the sharpestcricism of
stae socalism, | don't see anyone taking 8 frec decp
breath and searchingfor new, berting perspecives.
se¢ inal farewell rom any rsisance and i of
e vitorions uberlnd.

“Tauter: This love offtherand,which mary wrs discov-
eing pow originates i the liquidation of the spirit of
fundamentl oppositon agains: capialim n 1968, This
sprthas been liguiduid by the myth o the defniive
democracy, that was suppovedly cffeced by the 1968
movemeat. The discussion now begun by the RAF also
givesthechanceforevalusting the past 25 years in new
ey

Ebermann: Reading the declaaton of the RAF, my
sense was: It draws a good conclsion but it is partly

ased on very bed easoning. t seems to me s f herc is |

‘ot enough admision of the degth o defet.
Dellwo: A whatif we d' havethe eeling of defea?

Eberman: 1s poliical disgreement the If one s
ot cynialperson, her is he hope o beless corec in
the cnd compared o the person who painted the station
nextremely dak colors.

Folkerts:Viciory s efat e resly elaiveems.We
hadiogetalongwithdfents sd s, We veni hough
el oughsadons insideand coid o prisn
B even now, being conroted with 8 very diffcul
icaionof tusidon, we ar ever lking oot ‘bing
defemed. We sccumulted o during hoe yers and
e'd ke 1 ociaze e, comeet wih e eper-

nces. Forthis we want communication with many. With
theLefi-and what's et o i, and with all he forces, hat
arenewly emergingfrom he coniradicionsnow. During
tislongconfontation wegained expericnces, o cor-
scousness about our power. Even f we can't show
‘weighty vitores (perhaps they areplain and 1o spec

tacala) we ceainly gained something by fighting.

Dellwo: Neiher do 1 hink we are coming from defes.
We reimprisoned for 17 yearsnow, Kt for 15 yeas.
And hi s our experience of al thal tim; hey want 15
silnce us. But they dida't socceed. Quit the contary.
‘Wehave thatfeclng that we made . We wentthrough i
his. Asthe RAF we have reached s boundary. And 1 sm
askingmysel, did we achieve nythingor dida't we? Did
we set something histoically new, which is what we.
‘wamed? What sbout the experiences that dido't exit
befors we made them?

Taufer: It as become it fashionable among he Left 1o
chatabootall Kinds of defet. Personlly, I never under-
100 ha - from prison, I there ever was siong Lefi i
‘Westem Baropeafte 1966, it was i the FRG, begioni
withthe st it it heuniversity in Bt upio el
action o the RAF. Where cls in Westem Earope did
there cxita Leftwith such poenial of egencration?
amallfora thorough serchfor mistakesand weakneses
overthe past 25 years. Our searchwill depend on wheher
we st this work with fundarental historical pesti-
mism o with tust andconfdence. The Lefthas reached
limit, ad Bas flln i a decp crisis, i the FRO and
‘workdwide. This is a uique chance 10 eam everything
from the pas we never thought we would hve o.
Aot of experience have been sccumulaed,in-
cldingby s, We havebeen i his toliaia sicaton,
e years in maximam securiy. I was lke 8 minisure
“ThirdReich'. And, athough they scanned every exprs-
sion of lfe with video-camerss, microphooes, brain-
‘washing-programs, everylbing you can imagine, they
did', defat us. There are experinces you can only
accumulst in maxieum ecuriy units, t leat in the
‘nonherm hemisphere. And that's what we did. We know
ot about tis question of defeat and viewory. This
Knowledge is now needed outside of prison.

Ebermann: OK. Youcansay that: ' only then efest
‘when they brea s, whea thy take away our polical
hinking oo funducnentlopposiin. s s he unde
sanding of defest - the nethr reyou delated ot am
LI not at tht point now and | hope it nves wilbe.
But ther s a second senseof defeat. When every
expericnce s bured,noftare rebel will b able o lears
fromit. Alotof peopeactike that,when hey fil i theis
concret goals. Ther i o disguting soofciiciem
towards sate socialism. Everybody is ushing 1o
didn' agre with it snyway. ] wroke & ot of critcism

towards st socilim. ButLalways hoped tht the GDR
[Ean Germany) can srvive sgain he FRG [West
‘Germany]. T always hoped that cerain projects (., the
plans okl he East nd spre th West s he same tine)
‘ill i didhopehattis aming 1o deach andeconommic
pencirton of e cast will ot work. Whe liminateall
this now and say: his was 0 socialsm st all, where did
hey have real emancipatio, wasn't aleaation the same
ordid't ey have th same commodityrelations - hen
T'm going to desroy the subject | could be abie to leam
from,

1 don't mean his scond term o defest. When I'm
alking about defeat - I'm talking abors balance of
power within sociey. They didn't break you and they
i’ break . And I'm ot alking abouta ime we al
‘were doing sit. Bu this baance of power brings s n
such deseried and onely posiion unlike anyhing Ive
ever experenced

Dellwo: Do yoncaimhat s systems more stable then
it was 20 years ago?

Ebermann: Yes, bat's what 1 thik. And ] efuse 0 sy
ha our hopes were pure craziness thal, withourhelp, 1
encirling o the metrooles might be succesful. 1y to
Keep our bography and istory in sght, y 1o keep in
‘everybody's mind that i cnce ws an0pen question - s
open questionfor years - which forcs willucceed i the
workd, We didnt yell this slogsn “Crese two, three,
many Viewams” because we were crazy. At ha ime, i
was el possbiliy.

“Ther s his horiber-witing ofhistry now: We
all wre dreamers, dios, nd if we had beenralsic,we.
‘would have anicipatedth vicoies o imperilism I's
abistoy for couch-patatoes, sl happy,hathey dida't
pick upone sone 20 years ago.

But today, with ceain views we are beyond the
parumeiers of egiimate debte. For me, it was always
like that: I here was controversial debate i society
there was always a ceran rang of views. We were an
extreme wing but always in ouch with & pool o Ief
efomist. In contact with one or snother proessive
member of parlament or an intresied radio or TV
modertor Todsy ther rea ot f discussions sboutthe
Sovit Union, Yugoslavia, sbou the pubic debt, sbout
‘whatshould happen wit the former GDR. And suddenly
we have o voic i hs discussion.

Folkerts: This is jus & sgn that the Lef’s frame of
reference has fallen apar. The East-West in of demar-
Yrm The Spirit

caton, the troggles sgainst olonilsm, the metropol-
anmovemeots and the relatons etween these siruggles
including thei eaistc revolationay possbiltie -

historiclperod (s giming withhe Octaber Revolution |
n 1917 hasendod. Thisfact demmands tht » beak be
made. A new combiastion of cmncipaioy frces can
ot tnd will ot drive i K e,

New social space siaion, eaions - nional
and inermtionn - will b creied. T lnely postion
you e talking sbou - we don't make curielves depend-

of iolation i 10 hold p sgainst » superorfoce. These
expericaces re the origns of our basic confidence. A
basic confidenc in ourselves and the potential abiiies
of human beings.

Taute: fthee i wealeess of e Lt thsie t has
a0t 10 do with s inability to creste crodible wopisn
Scheme.

‘Bbermann: No, you are wrong! There is no lak of
ulopin schemes, Ther i just nobody isning o thern.
“Take this crique of produciviy. It was # wid-spread
phenomenon some years ago. Both good nd bad sides n
. The ideaization of shemative fims and companics,
the omansicizing offormercaf,th absud sef-exploi-
taton - i spie of that there was a discusson sbout
productiviy, the chaining of baman beings o industial
work,he humilision f uman beings by machines and
Sssebly lnes, There was discussion sbou the ques-
tiom of fighting this kind o producton.

‘Someting like 5 or 10 perce of this sociey
dreamt of somehow organizing lfe n beter way. This
s th orign o eah uopian scheme. And thi s isap-
peared. The desire o overcome alenaton i 0ot very
present inthis sociey. You have 10 admi, they momen-
tarily won ideologically, they were abl 1o plant nio
oople’sminds that his i the bee of al words magin.
b,

Folkerts: Ths i becauseyou ook athe presen ime i
old patems. You have 1 Jeam to waich exacly how
conrdictions are expresed n 8 new way, where they
arearicultedin a new way. Ofcoure they need s Lefi.
And this becomes a crce: the Left dosen't cxist and
everyting s dominated by eacionary foces.

“Thmm: The main contadicion between Thomas [Bber-
mann] and you all s he assessment of imperialim’s
sabilty. And my impression i, i Thomas i mainly
looking i he conomic sid. Th economic sabilty and
expansion, the_economic opportmities which have
opened up ud play animperian ol n the couniies of
former sat socialism. But remembering Vietmam and
‘what ook plce here: the cconomic and iy power
ofthe US. againsa people who bad lile mor than heis
v idea, teir own wil 10 be ndependent. And this
coulén't b broken by economic and mliry pover.
“Today w scehis cconomicpoweronthe e band.
Onthe other and we see ourgeois, bamanist ideas and
deals thrown out. Nobody, including he ling class,
keeps them, I they wonld be staning with slogens ike!
“Let's dare more democracy” (1969 electon campaign
slogan] orsomething ke tht, everybody wouldLugh -
it would be 0 ridiculou. Today it s diffcult o deer-
‘mine: which point we re saring from, under which
‘conditions? How can you analyze something when you.
Keep saring a the media? I everybing that is really
moving,docs not ge publised, it will emain within
amal cirles - ik i the St Georg neighborhood in
Hamburg, where asoca nicive,
cinion, the Gray Panthers,the children's schools and
fome others came ogether because of the drug policy
made by the Hamburg govemment.This i st the ideo-

logica ditection of “Free distribotion of Heroa”. They
say wth great sensefor practicaldecsions: “Whatthe
policis doing here in St. Georg s our dissdvniage.
When th junkiesar banished from the public space of
the main i sution they come t the enranes and
backyards of our houses. Thi is why the needies re
laying aound bere. Sothy come togtber nd demand:
“Policeout ofthiscommuniy”. This i something con-
cree you can stat with todsy.

Eberman: They are probably doing useful hings there.
Bt you cant ak aboutpolitcsand society this way.

Thmm: Why not?

Eberman: I'm giving another cxsmple. The sae gov-
emmentof Schleswig Holstein crowded allhe rfuees
infrontof the welfare fies- 10 document heso-alled
sbuse. And there was 8 demonstation agaiast s Less
than 200 people werea tisdemonstrton. Bus the basis
forthe current hegemony of theroling class i the they
have been racessfl in esublishing ideologically that
the word is focked up, and that it is “everyone or et/
himac. Tis i reflecied in e ttal ack of opposition
againstthe racism that s irected s h refugees

Taufer: Thar's what I tink, more orless. Bt ofin in
history, whea forces of soldarity and reedom have boen
kepe down tnd the power ws in poston of hegemeny,
cotnter forces emerged from below. You can see hai
clarly in the United Stses. The riling class has o
soluion anymorefor a practicable civilsocey. This

otcnly anssoe for Blacks inthe gheios. This i also
issue forthe middieclss, llhough it s moving (0 the
vightat th ime. B th questio s how can w develop
hse forces. Thtncludes n examination o the ast 25
‘yearshistory o leam rom the mistakes and sireagihs.

‘Deliwo: Thoms (Ebermann] thinks that this sysem bas
become more siabie over the past 20 years. | don't sec
hat We had 10 g0 hrough eran proces and bad to
wal certain wrong sreets. And we walked many wrong
et We're ot oing o repeat that but they had 0 be
walked. Al his, oo lack of ideas,th momentary vac-
wam because we have o answer 1o the question of
centralized pespeciv, thtsae sociaiom hs ailed a5
e firt break with istory (snd we don't now how 1o
artagin) -l hisdossnt mesn the sysem b become
more sable.

We can it ot of eascns why we see th sysem
a0 weaker, st sable then before. But tht doosa't help.
Becauneth weakness o theatherside does' mean ovr
power. Thee is no sutomatic eatonship becween mis-
ery and ierstion.

Vice vera, f thesysiem wassisbl, this wouldo't
betheoriginofour weakness. Bt cannoink ket
Whetherits mor tabile o no - everybody who doesa't
sive p life in this sociey has 1o break avay from that
consensus and has o develop heir own good sense, has
1o live and fight that i will come to_existnce
developing sbversive eaity. his way | undertand .
dectartion o our comrades

‘We are coming o this situation from a different
hisory. We accepied our sclation in those days s a0
iniial conditon. It was had seretimes bt wedido'tose
ouelves. That means: we always came 1o s break with
his sysem in 8 material way. Otbers bad 8 ot of fear
Lowards his iolaion, but todey they fiod themielves in
htisolaton, spinet heirown wil s wrong o decare
'l about he power of the system raberhan crtciz-
ing yoursel that you always kept surrendring, 0o. So
‘many people maintained tht breaking with the sysiem
b 0 be something el in your lfe. Ao if i’ right it
becomes nsignificant if you'se alone wih it And it
Comes back to us 1 » pre-conditon for any furher

development.

T should be casi oday becans the question of
competence has become more clear now. How much
confidence do people put i the capailty o capalism
10 solveth cxstnialproblems o (67 And 't hat 3
ign tha his sysiem i poltclly esssable?

Tauter: Excepif one definestis sbilyas follows: ll
this brtality, ogoism, unresrined greed re mechs-
nism 0 keep nd develop this scheme ofsociety. Then
ne can spea of ssbiy. But this egoism ad brualty
areimmensely destuctiveaganst any schemeof sciey.

‘Ebermana: Maybe | can explsinmy thoughts by resding
pan of the RAF's declaration. “I i n imporiant
queston orhow much longer hesuae willbe sbleiofeed
oo th racism againt refugees and o treat he refugees
a8 subhuman in order to avoid ts esponsitily for

send these people back inlo the misery that it keeps
‘coniibutng o inthe fis lac.”

“This s crvel. We are lvng i times when lmost
everything from us thatws ableto ke oot n socity -
the demand for “open borders,” .., sounded good 1

Iiberalchurch ircles i replaced by 8 consensus 1o deal
with refugees had and rthessly. There i oo elevant
esistance aginst his any more. Now | am compring
s with e pat o the declaration that suggest that the
fture remains somewhat open quesion and perhps
even suggests ta heceasing of amed actons i related
o1, It seemt 1o me that the authors il need o clam
hatthey jut won grand victores nd ae thereforsable

| 10 take sch and sochspecific sep.

“Ths is ven more clear at another point where it
saye:.there are acionswithin e rlingapparas hat.
have realized hey cant suppress resistance and social
‘comrdictons through policemitary means.”First, ll
factions within the s have aways known ot 0 wse
these means i pur fshion. And second,there ill be
one lement siructuringpoliicsinftue, whichis cpres-
on. Bo quotes s o be in a rlation. It sounds e
“Because cveryting i going well we can change the
form of siruggle.”

Dellwo: My undersanding s diffeent. Thre wereimes
whena goeil came ino being here. And i'snot pos-
bl o climinat i fom history - ove i they would
quit Andit can come ntobeing again at any ime. That's

) - 2¢
Yrm The Spirit

‘whatthey want 10 sxy. What the RAF meant o me s 1o
break out of 8 ceai rlation o extermination by the
siae towards minoriis and apposition. We know what
they didtothe KPD afer 1945 The German Communist
Party KPD was banned in 1956, followed by 150000
poltcal s agaist is members and ater progres-
sves]and weknow how hesteresponded i 1968, And
Tinow how they cleared our squated ouse in Hambur.
with specia forces and with machine guns - and they
wers ready 1 shoot us. We st something sgainst that
unil today. They couldn' desroy the RAF. They
‘coulda'tbreak te eisoners in il

‘Aad we fought for th ability 1o practce s cerain
Kind o rsisance when it s necesary. Tht remained
limited 10 us who wers living underground or i prison,
a0d 10 few peoplearound that. And ' like o disseni.
it and o broden his titude, the willingoess o iand
p for something. I'm ot lking aboot the form of ur
rugge, which has 1 be determined sew. | amtlking
abou the willngness 1 asset something, &nd to carry
through with i - willngness to determive # qestion
from our it of view and o demand sn snewer

It was ot the atitde of most i the Lef. They
always siopped nd surrendered cenan boundarics
‘And tis i ome of the subjects n the RAF declaraion:
Yo shoud fight for he abilty 1 resis. This noon |
though, ook, boh of you have been part o the Left for
‘machlongerthan hav. And youbave ever beenin il
‘Why s that? Why didn'tyou carry through with certsin
thing,paid aprice 0o? Theris sornthing missing inthis
Lef We have 10 reach that poi, Lsuppose.

Gremilza: Make the Left go o prison?

Dellwo: Not make the Lef o o prison. But we have 1
each th poin where we nsiston ceran things. When
we fought for engroupment we reached thes boundary,
we haddead prisones, 0o. But we knew we had 0 pay
hisprice, otherwise you won'tbe sbl o survive. You
havetofight You sre hee i this maximorm secary it
and you relize that the whole hin i going o wipe you
ot wipe you out s & human being. You know this
‘would b defea,you have 10 sct something aginst it
‘yoursef-affrmation. Thea you can cary through. Andif
‘You say that 50 much has disappeard, then one of the.
reasons mightbe that you never nsistad: “We efue 1o
have his aken away fromus.” A lile bt ofself.ciiciem
‘won't har you.

“Tinm: e sbjectis discusson and ew oricnation
now, it must be possble 1 cricizecerain things with
this RAF declarton. Ther i # misake, tn imprecise
poliical avsessment. The RAFis alking abovt he change
in the balunce of power and they are basing this on
Kinkel's remarks about the politcal prisones (i ealy
1992, suggesting tht some polticl prisoners could be
rleased under cerin conditons. Kinkel used to be
Miniser of the Inteir and Law Enforcement. He has
since become Foreign iniser. They take the factthat
beis saying anything a roof foth exisence of cetsin
factions within the sae, factons tha are willing 10
hundle contradicions in a differnt way, fo example
regarding the quesionof forgnesand tylum. But his
s 00 of he arcas where we haven'tachicved nything.
Ther is o indicton for decline i repression, but nly
form intensifcaion.

Dellwo: But you agree, tht en years o they never
‘would hve been doing th hings Kinkel i doing todey?

Thmm: There's some moving in the quesionof poliical
prsoners. But we don' know the reasons why.

Folkers: Thee is a misundersanding. The RAF i not
taking th suae polices againt immigrans 45 an ex-

‘ample 1o suppose the cxiseace of fuctions witin the
apparatus handling the contradicions n diferct way.
The subjectmatier o thir decaraion s ating from the
oppostc and is refering 1o the necessity of social
suggles. These siuggles will s the quesions of
winning space for allthe eseia quesions poliially.
In these stuggles we'll Jeam to demolish the ruling

‘Andinthe quesionof pliical pisones: there are
factions within he insitions. But wear not overet-
matin them. Those who are serchingfornew ways sl
have the same sims. However, Kinkel's remarks re 3
poltcal expression of these contradicions that have
matured for a long time. This s especially remarkable
because i's an spparaus with & very strong abily 1o
perist We aretalking oot th complex of saesecuity
‘with s fascist roots and s reltive sutonomy whichis -
together withth medis - machineof sl Jegitimation,
Althoughit haslong beencbviousfromthe acs hatthey
are unabe o break the RAF o the pisoners this way,
they have beengoing on and o foryean. The pycho.
ogical campaigns, h ies and the rauds were meant 10
preventhe poltcalconsequences ofa situton without
a way out. The invenion of “saccestful searhes for
fugves” (ke the “absoutly credible witess of the
prosecuton” i arly 1992)isto simulatethecapuiltylo
‘Vanquis the RAF - in s moment when ane of the RAF's
earthas supposedly descred o thesae. Afer 2 years,
theyaerevealing heirtru ssence: the relity pretended
by BAW (FedenlProsector), BKA (FderalPolie), VS
(Domestic Poltca Ineligence) aod the media s e
cal ot fancy world of menially ll persn.

Taufer: | tink, is imporant 1o emphasize tht the
RAFs declation i ot a reaction o Kinkel but hefirst.
esultof an cngoingdiscustion whichsaried 2yearsago.
This discussion was resulto th remendous changes i
the workd whichcaledfor 4 new determination.

‘Grennilza: Bot o ca hadly deny tht he efec of his
declarton s goingino directon that you consider o
be a misunderstoding. The RAF responds o Kinkel's
demnands andhhoists he white 110 gt he prsonersou.
Youcan say: he pubicgo the wrongpicureand Kikel
gotthe wrong picture. But forme ' hard o belive that
theauthors o his declrationdid’t aticipatethis ffect
and herefore didn't wane .

Folkerts: Pechaps th sequence o evesgives you that
impresion. But's necessay and ight ocison within
the wholedevelopment.How peope wil work withthis
deciion in thefure willdepend on how the Lef wil
intervne nto e situation i order o prevent » deletit
endency. Of course, 's n open sitution - which the
other sde knows. They, of course, wan evrything for
themscivs and noting for ut

Ebermann: The whole movie is direcied towards two
diferns sdiences.

Folkerts: The dclartonis diectedtosociety, toevery-
one who s searching fo ways 1o aserta lfe worhy of
uman beings ' th same wit the declarationfrom s,
the prisoners. O emars owardsthe sate e clear. So
the statecan sartfrom facsanno from lusions sndhe.
primiive clcalsions of s "spcialists” - ke when they
recenly nnounced o relesse some o theprsoners and
10 sart addiional el against others i e same time.

‘Ebermann: Bverything that is somehow usefl (0 free
politcal prisoners s e thanleitimae. I's sbove any
criicisn. | hink that you defned the boundariesyour.
st And if | canght st righ ther ar two boundaris:
the frstis when you drag other people down tnd the
second i 10 drag your own hisory through the mud s0

that obody feel he desie 10 lam from . Bvrything
s has 0 be done. And you got 1o know that e are ot
‘ery belpflin pushing yourelease. Thisis ecisonby
th structur of ulingpolitic, o of e ccepted ppori-
tion wihi the fram of hatplics. And 10 hey arethe.
corrct addressees or tha RAF declaaton.

“The cther addressee i the rensining Left. And we
really have 1o waich out that you success which hope-
foll has become postibe now will ot et registered 15
beinga par of a “cvilizing” ad"lberalizin”develop-
meni. Sirong force arerying o play this music,calling
forcenan slf.cridcims.

‘And 1 hik those quates of the declaation which
are suggesting hings a1 going wel in Gerruny, are
hamnful under these spects. For me, [Maris ccono-
mist] Robert Kurz - whorm you qute many times - docs
ot 50 much represent an economic analysis, but for &
poltcal ssesment that iberalization boke o in Ger-
many: liberalization because sssant judges or what-
everthe name ofthat sor of abble ) are wearing
diamonds, wearing their hie in ponyails. Th cosmo-
poltn i rowing up bere and a nazi ca't be & nazi
because he boughtis wife nSingapore. Kurzsuands for
all these smuggled subtnes ofMoology.

‘Deliwo: 1 dissgre. | dida'tundersand Kurz his way.

Ebermann: Two themes have preoccapied e world for
‘eoturie. One: i the world going down with l bande?
Andibe oberis umankind going o civilize? Korz s he
prophet of th lter,

Folkerts: His assnion tht captalism's victory over
socaism asted just ane second and that his vicory will
intenifycapialsm's own crsis s much more mporsnt.
1 you don't only waich supericial sppearancs but the
growing poteiia of global crisis coming back to the
centers - acceleated i the FRG by the snnexaion of the
‘GDR - you can'lk anymoreabout his system becomn.

ing more suabile.

Ebermann: How does one defie this ssbiliy? Any
supid reformist says tha IMF and Workd Bank have
failed. You ecogaizetis by the gap between the siated
ideal o these instiutions and relity. Somehow sl the
ideal neverbecome realty. But n ealiy thes st
tion e funcionng perfecly. Of coune, | can say there

theycanbe sur tha peope ar iling each ther, seling
drugs 10 cach othe. As long s i's 0ok conceming
‘mateials thy want o tum nto commdiies, ey don't

Folkerts: Th idea of emancipation should be grounded.
anew from deep down and from historical matuiy b-
cause » whole poch hasended. Liberation - what docs
hatmeantodsy Today theeis e posibiley ofsuspen.
sions anditneverwas befoe. Sructura mass umempioy-
‘e is he egativ expresion ofthe cventual possibil
ity 0 suspensed abour We doneed areal sndan obvious
‘moment at the prsent time because it will be 8 lng.
lasing process of transiton. Liberaion cn't remain an
absiacion o a dstant goul. Goals have o san rom
livig reaity, a4 8 movement of scguistion.

Ebermann: 1 read Taufe's leter 1 the pecple in
Tubingen where he quotes this Tupamaro who alks
sboot e siuaton whe e is coming ntothe slums and
about whatitmeans o be alkinghesd whenpeople live
i exreme misery. For those who don'tive n such con-
diions, who don's have 10 womy about haviog a bed
when they g sick o about feding thir chldren the
et dy - that i:for many i his counry emancipation

N
Ytrm The Spirit

can oy mesn criiqueof ods.

Greamilza: Theview ha every improvementof ny ther
aman being's suaton on carth will ad 101 degeners-
ton of thei own situsion has grown 0 in the mass
‘consciousness ofthe FR. Thisview s comec. Andtis
ia why every glimpre a the misery of the world

avoided. Oerwise there would have 1o be upgort for
emancipatory movemenis. Down with memational ol
Gty 1f you wanttodo somedhing for yourselfand your
‘nceds you are wel dvised o join the wealihy Gemman
Taherand. Thi i why I hink th chanees that you claim
o have discovered i guiding the peeds of German
mastes foto emancipaory poltcsar amost patetc

Taufer: We werelking sboot the Lef ad its hstory
and o about the German masses. The ciique of needs
s crucial point within this context. The llosor process
‘which was guided b the Lef (s especialy the metro-
poltan Iet) which i ending now,fuiled because they
Gidatgive birh o pew neods.This is whatthe Topama-
ot ae tying now in Urogusy. I you re lking sboot
Socaliem 10 people, who relving n slums, who don't
have food, who resellng thie 12 year ol dnughiers -
they feltht you sren's akingthem seriout.

Grenilza: If ane cricizesthe need for food wowards
people who re livng n slams, seling her 12 year old
Gaaghters jus to survive, insiend o sending them &
eighter full of whest (in ral socilist manner) one
eserves 10 et punched in e s

The ollowing speech was deivered by former RAF
prisomr Giir Somenbes @ & demonsrtion
i e mary e rionrs, s Bows e 0692

Ihave bee re since May 1. SoT dliketothank
i howe pople wh stroggled formy froedom orthe
15 years d two weeks that | spent in jil. All of he
yarious inkisives and campeigns which led 10 my
eleas supporiedme agaost b i s plnof desirc-
+ion during my more then 15 yeas i eion - sndhey
ar lsothe reason tht I'm standing before youtoday.
Foralltbose wbo srggled, 'mporumt orealizethat
althos efortsaod ll hat work i achieve et
Thus,every poblic intnive and every polieal and
it action was imprta,

tormeys od the Tiends and faenily group. They have.
worked tirelesly ove the year 0 pubicze my -
tion tnd tht of al the poltcal prisones, 2 well as
couniering thesae's program ofdestroton. The fck
s ' sanding here pow ot th el of e sae's
nerosky - i's becanse we srugald togecher.

s now oot responsbilty - thove of s who e

il i prson gt eleased. it of o who re
‘motbe released: Berad Rooe, IsbelJacob,nd Ali
Junsen, ;

“Berod bat been inprson for 17 yeurs. e wis 2
‘pantof the Holger Meins Commando s coupied the.
West German embasey in Stockbol i an ssempt 10
winthe releas of polfical pisones. He was beld i
solon for sevenl years and be remain separaed
fromall he rbespoliical prisoners. Berad hasbeen il
iace 1983, Since that tm, s lawyer have conss-
{cotly mainiained st bisless i de 0the Byears e
spent in solation. In June 1988, it was decidod that
Bemd is modicaly unfi or detsmion. And thet was
fouryears agol :

"Bemd has srugaled for his deniy o i very

“There Is Much Which Unites Us”

“Autis e, 'd cpecialy ket hank al of e |

o fee 4o see 1o &t i f o comrades who are |

“Tuater: s one of the basic poblems within th scialit
movemeat during the It handred years tha shways
ried 1 wlk people into sn idalitam. But wherever
‘Cepialism offre rellife posiilies o uold - nthe
‘manner of wolve generlly - thre was a blind pot in
ne socialem Critqueofneeds-we wersalking sbout
bt i 1968 already. We gave bin o sometbing new in
{hiscounry. And frendfrom Uraguay experiencedhis
‘8 achievement whea hecame oo contatwi here.
He dida'tknow it fom Uruguay.

In 1968 th critiqe ofneeds brokesither down on
afieldof morlistic igrposs - sod I'm saying noting of
e crushies - or wherever ahematives were tied the
Wholething seyed cautious o sometimesnaive. Nohing
of thas imaginaton and th cenan courage one had 1o
eam with . And o the esum 10 the sas quo ooked
Jik a eaisi compromise. The need for fundamental
changes going o arise, wherever you canfeclheie i
o from mother lnd o needs. And it wll s s wel,
s the oer neds will be ocking aher ld.

Inthe examinatonof saesocalisn yourow fien
bear the term wse-vae. Just ke the marke cconomy.
real-xising socialiem was o e suspension of com.
‘modity elations 4nd paricularly ot the saspension of
Commodity feishism which makes people passive. A
Society focuted use-values would be society of priri-
iing the slf-iniitve and self-determinaion snd not
e tradiional atifacion ofneeds. Sel-detemination -
s not ust e ifferens rgenizing of e ndivido-
subjecive capresson. Wherever such new menulity
Can s, the noods for consmmption wil become I

iy, Ho i nbroken His body ad iyl con-
tiom have boen so savagely scked by the nburman
prscn sy, that Prof. Rsch sifid i My 92t
i each pssng day 0 ek tht Berd spends in
Pison e dange nceares tha e will ndecd Bave
Serve e ong entence”, Tat means, Bemd s i
Gengeooinghisf olong s b remains i rscn.

“The federal govemument aod the Duseldod dis-
it coun efuse o reese im. They are working o0
new plans t desroy Bemd and 0 ek bis deniy.
Wihen he mateof is eese s dscused, ey men- |
+iom cloted prychisric cae. They hav ried for years
\o forc Bern ntoprychisrc cae. They ar contis-
ing his proces oday.

i release must be cnial 0 s, The el of
Suther pisones resis on i That means, 20 more
prsonets will ke polcabjdical sicps 3¢ loag 45
Bemd s ot fe.

“The sglefor the release o olial prioners
infor s, pasofth continuty ofour revoluionary
Suggl o beation rom hemperlie e and
forfresdom from the claches of the sxte. This s
Clorely i tothe iscussions which have akem place
herson theouside:the sk rugle, e -G
‘moilzain,the*500 Yearsof Colonialism sad Resis-
tanc” campig, sodevenwith the squten”
sguit bousiag shorages.

“Thegoul and s which we have ruggod for
1 worked toward, we e in those eople gaing
‘e down by the copstoday in Mimbeim, 1t bt
aken 8 siuggle 10 be abe to deamonsne in s
‘mamer, Many peopl have ended up i prten for
oing poltcal work supporing polical prsoners.
Thepolice stacks in Mabeim, 1o e rpcia cond|
tiou put inplace ther, re aso bng plaroed for
M thes, e e ston e sied againatus
it rioos e designed o Kocp tfom ur oals
04 0 e our g fora bumans society.

consinaed on page 33-.

mportant because personal and social acivit s quite
otber way 1o satisty neads than consampion is. The
world i going 0 be detroyed by hese orgies of con-
Fumpeion ad econaic sbacesses. | can't imagine that
Kurz'sbook won't b discused withinthe pext years.

Deliwo: Hermana, you seem 1o be impresied by our
opmiam?

Gremtza: Not impressed, bt devasated. This
opuimism. We arealking sboudifferen worlds.

Dellwo: 1 doat ik that any posive developenent can
il b xpected from this s, B if they wanied i -

‘s maicralyenpossbl. Buthesubjecti lsothe el
ffrmationofhuman beings. You arealking ot sbout
theLef. Andthat mesas the poliicalLefu which emerged
rom the movement of 1968, But th contradicion now
reaches arbeyond hat. Wouldyou call e peope nthe
Hafenstrabe/Hamborg lefis? Or the people in the
‘MainzerSraeBeia? Asagre. Maybe th term “lef-
" b become uscles

Ebermann: Maybe we aelving i times when nohing
canbe donsexcep o some peopl ying o reserve
emancpatory idea ove the year.

‘Deliwo: What | caught welin he books of Robers Korz
s the diffeence between he period of “Fordism” when
masscs of people were abiorbed nd nowadays, the
period of “Automatizaton” whea masscs of people are
Trrown ontothe seets and ae declared o be ueles. In
e former GDR, for exampl, - there s no use for
anybody who is olde than 45 years. These people are
Kkept speechles by retaning programs s socia pro-
rams il they will b 10 ld 10 resist. L't this some-
{hing, where & ot of tings can ise from

T notasking where i the evoluionary subjec?
1 revioustimes pople werelooking for i he “third
workd” and ate thl they were seaching among the
maginalized parts fsociey. And Tonce ad: “Look nto
Jourmirtor. Bitheryou se¢ A evolutonary subjec then
ot you don's” We ars being asked: Can we cresie and
evelop somehing wher oiher people can recognize
Something [iby missedT]. Ouly if we're negting that
question, would we be defated.

‘Evermans: When 1 hesr this | am reminded of Poder
Popula, pecple’s power: creatng space where the
ideologica and material infloeace of the oling class is
Jimited And hat'swhy italways comes e crampleof
{he Hafensralie because i s themosobvious example
andiher i always aneed o sbstrac fromie real tings
‘oing on there. They are adversing forthe Hafeasrae
1 Pippi Longstocking.

Delwo: 1 don' know abou tha.

Gremnitas: t eems o meas i he Hfcastrde functions
‘s reher ucosssl model of sel-herspy.

Tauter: 't his because the process remined suprf-
cialther, too? And st his rlated 0 your essimism?
Of course, o, e the Lt a agrting. But herc was
‘irong, mukli-fceied and very rigna et process over
e past 25 year which was exproprsted by the siaic
‘againandagain. Afer 1945 only he Left proved s lent
1 create nd 1o push forward with socil innovations -
Today we need sac smovations gain. Righi wing theo-
Ticians ke Robrmoter asceran & much more pess-
‘mistic s of the rytem han peopicon he Let. Buthe
‘Lefnsiing o i backside snd crying bout s deest.

Gremilaa: Precondition for everybing s 8 concept of
eality - though it might bur Defet i relty and nly

—
Hrrm The Spirit

fyou don't cheataong his knowledge you'll e ble 1o
leam by recogaizingyour own mistakes - boh the avoid-
able and e unavoidablemistakes which were forced on
you by the soperioriy of the sae.

Dellwo: Do we have o call that "defest™? We are spesk-
of boundaris we reached. Of course we wanied

more. But we made a ot of very imporantexperinces.

Ao we are sicady. It wasn's easy but'spossibe,

‘Eberman: I fee a doep haird for all th scum com-
meniing oneveryhing wit: “tere are possibiliies and
dangers n " The reason why we ae debating sbout
“boundaris” snd “defeat” sad why we do tis o vehe-
ey, i thatthe key fo ll diy ricks s thi ntion of
inberen: “possiilis and duger”

Folkerts: Whatdoesthis bave 0 do with ws?
Gremiza: Noting ye.
Tauer: Whetheryou cal it "boundary”or“defeat” the.

mporuant thing s 8 relation of hanesy,slf.conscious-
ess and sel-criicism towards one's own hisory.

Folkerts: Th occaion 0 hi lk s the RAF'sdeclrs-
tion. And the essental thing i that thy took this sep.
“This should b your subjec and no citcsm of inivid-
al poins.

Gremiza: | haven'scriicized the declaraon yetbut
v wied 1o discover s meaning. What doss it mesn
when the RAF stops the aticks on persons? What are
they going 1o do instead of his? If the prisones are
rleased, will e RAF st exit? And if, how? 1 dide't
e about thet in the declaraton.

Folkerts: One can not detenmine thatyet. s an open
process.

Gremitza: Bt th decision 10 cnd the rmed strggle is
‘yourdecision, to?

Folkerts: We won'tretest from that. Bt i you see the.
declarton,you e thtthere i beginning and 1nend.
You canno volutarily eject yourselfout o ivaton.
‘The ransiion el is a process of sruggl, which wil
decideabout opening possibilis. S here s someing
coming back o everyone: the esponsibily for the
changed sivation

Gremilza: For Kinkels econclsion?

Folkerts: This word “reconcilistion” is compltely
‘wrong. The contadictionsae ntagonistc nd they will
always be. We ar coming out of these cotradictons
‘The RAF made public that the contradicions wil be
camied outina ceran sharpss.

Gremlza: e priscners don's want tis reconcilsion
it ifthey don't offer anyhing 10 the s th subjct
of eleaseisupio th calcutionsolely of the ling cass.
‘They can keep you. for secary reasons - inprsen, Or
theycan elease you, hoping o be able o walkhei dogs
without bodyguards. This s subject that Mr. Kinkel,
Ms. Vollmer (Groenpary leade) snd Ms. Waigel (gov.
‘cmment oficial) have o negotsie with their clientele.
This i o questin fo the Let.

Folkers: ndecd,her s nfoencefom he econornic
lie. They paid 20 years for this st secury, which
never broughi he resulshey were waitingfor. It came o
the poi where arge corporations wers sending checks
1othe BND (religenc srvice o finance scret activ-
tie. Inthese activte hirelings were paid (aralel tothe

offcal apparatu) t rack and kil RAR-members in
forign counres. The president of i neligence sev-
ice BND) was Kinkel, among oters.

Gremilza: Maybe they didnt gt 1id of you like they
wished, but you're ot going % chim that this RAF.
declaraionia sae's document ofsavenderiothe RAF?

Folkerts: s no sel-aggrandizing o point out afer 22
years thtthey coulda'tdestroy the RAF. The RA has
shown anailey oac oltcally. You cannot claim that
sbout the other sid.

Deltwo: This dclaraton is addressed 10 th Left in the
ot plac, with he questionf i contast 1o the i 0¢
‘when hi was impossible - we can cese connection in
different swuggles. f we can do that, we ca gu this
elation f waz 10 the othr side. This would ensble the
other sice 1o change thei relation 0 us. If this s not
possible and everybods s just sting aound and amert.
ng, hen we have o sk ourseives whatto o then, Weare
saying c this Lef: We ll iedceain projctsover the
st 25 ysars,and we all made cetinexperinces. Let's
s sore concluions now.

‘Greniiza: And whitdo you cxpect o be th answer of
e sute”

‘Deliwo: Freedomfor ll he (plitica) prsoners.

Grenilza: Are ther any conditons for the method of
lease? Should it be a kind of smncsty?

Dellwo: Th mebod s secondary tome s long a all the
prsoner willbe rleased within foreseeabl future. We
will ot sgree 1o soltion ofreleass fer 15 years [in
‘Germany pisonerswith if sntences may be eligible
forpuroe after 1 years] That would mean some ofus
will e prisoned for S o 10more years. Themetod s
theisproem. | don’t want o deal with her normative
probi

Gremitzx: Will the prsoners acceptany conditions for
heirelease?

Delwo: They aiempt o make us deny and 1o eject our
ownihistory. They wanta creed o thirsuhory. Bt

i not the end ofthir demands. The paole hering of
‘Gonter Sonnenberg showsthat. Afer Ganter was sht i
the head in 1977, he was n he same sivaston ke Rudi
Dutschke was. [Dutschke was a SDS leader n the 19605
and wasshotin e head by a worke in 1969, who knew.
about Dutschke from th media Dutschke srvived tis
Shooting but since hat day h suffeed from piletic
attacks. He died from one from such an tack in 1979,
Gateralsohad 10 leam everyshing new. They beld b
i soltion for years and years. Not only did he have 0
ghtagainst soaon, bt also gainetth consequences
of the shooting. The demand in many hungertikes
Gonerparicipaied i all thesesrkes-was 10 ge him n

epilepic aacks,und o give him comrade he can us,
Thatwas ncessaryfrom medical point o view sayway.
At one poit they brought him a TV-set 0 iscel and
said: "Okay, hre is something you can rlate o now.”
They wanied 1o tam i nto s vegeisble. Whathey ssid
owin the parole-hearing is: “Well you canalk,you're
‘physicaly in good conditon - you have o admit, e
eated you well " They wanted im o deny e pain ey
d 10 him, even o thank them. There's 20 lack of
onicism.

| Foers: Wi ey ety o ko of sy
poliical prisoners, they wanied » polical sttement
| about the RAF. declaration from Ganter Sonnenbers. In

group, 10 be abe 1o lear talking agan, aguinst the |

& satement abous Bernd Robner's [RAF prisoner] sei-
ous ilnes the Fedenl Prosecutor saed in Aprl 1992
that Berd needs to remaia n pison afe 17 years) 1o
obasin change o i convitions. And the OLG [senior
coun] Frunkfun raled sbout Al Janen [polical
oner) that “athough there might be & greaersensiivity
for punishment because of his astmatc stacks, no
chinge of convitions has rsuledfrom that yeL™

A this shows that the stae securkty spparaias
canmotbethe resort o juisdicion. And it should b clear
from the past: Sammbei is known worldwide for the
fild temptiocliminsi fndmenal oppositionndio
depoliticize the sruggle a he same time.

Dellwo: Though they want that i it place I'm nox
willng o rejectmy past. And though we haveresched 8
cenain boundary today, i was right that the RAF was
founded. There’s histrical and moralleiimaion for
‘amed srugle o have exised i this society.

Folkerts: OF cours, we're ot surprised aboat teir
persisence this point: hy are saring with theknowl-
edge tat you can determine the e f you dfin the
past. Nothing but thei wiverse of commoies nd
money isallowed o exist. Caught withi tis madness,
they think they are theend o hisory. Bt they couldn't
even beginsolving any problem itk the soiey.

Ebermann: Your satements seem rather non-acica o

Delwo: Maybe they ar. Bt they bave o take it s it
‘We can'tuse acics i his pint. They ca say that tey
ad o fight s nd they were right o do'-

Bu they have 1o accept tha they couldn't brsak our
‘awareness of curelves [poliical consciousness. f tey
can'tacceptiha,we do' s any way fora soluian, We
‘willneve come o comm views with then.

Ebermana: 'm not afrid of the word surrnder, I you
aresuccumbedby a superiorforce (s described by Leni
th ime of the “Pesce of Bres L iovek’) urender is
reasonable,and you have 10 actagaint hetlkingheads
Who demand heroic potures.

Tauter: Th ssue i ot heroc postures bt ou isory.
We didn' fight for 18 years o throw i avay now.
lthough it s necessay o deal wih our mistakes,

Folkerts: They sill want 1o erase s and ot hisory.

Dellwo: | can't do that. | an't go there and spesk
tacically. I thy ar skingfo that - you canonly sand
upioryourproject. There were always oofew withinthe
Left who wouldsic out heir necks andplay fo al the
sakes [meanthis nquite non-dramatcal way, 'mnot
the personfor theirmaralmansrsnces, Wehave il
entmoras

‘Ebermann: This s rue. For peope ke me i diffclt
Dotio mixup whai wer politcl disgreements withyou
a0d what was simply a considraton or my own safety.
‘The whole history of the Left and the RAF i not excu-

l a hisory of poliical disagreements, bus also &
History of themissing will o tand p or something you
think s ight. We Bave o defend prncipled posidions
against sn titode that promotes success 5 the only
creriafor poliialacton. f we don't dothat,we will ot
e prepard for the things which have t be done inthe
fuure, even individolly. Thee are slways situations
‘when you cant change the courseofhistory bt you sl
have lotof iffrent posiiliesforyour own acions
For cxample in Nezi-Gemany: it was imposaible to
organizesuccesful esistancea tatime. Bo youcould.

Yrm The Spirit

We Must Search For
Something New

Red Army Fraction Discussion Paper - August 1992

“Proletarian evolutions. aturallyciique themselves, they lokebreaks inheis stps orward, heyseemingly nd
up backwhere they strted, thyer atth cruellyundamental shoricomings, weaknesses, andimiserabieexperiances
ofthei frst atemps.But when theyseem o ave hrown her opponenis down,thareby sucking new e ot ofthe
carthand once again llgning themselves agaist heenamy, heyae shockeda the new reclizaton ofhe icredible
egree o thei own purpose, nil sichtm asthe tim i 1ight, whe i 1o longer possibe Lot back,and the

condisonscry out:Hic Rhodus; Hic Salt.”

Inourleter o Aprl 10, we ssod he we eaized
tha ne of ourmistkes has been Lo linke discusson of
our own processes. We hav been shaply cricized for
thi from all sids. What weoffered wasself-ndlgence,

besides this, we failed o our promis
misiakes. Raher than have all o
‘would ke to brefy o nto al o is.

Today, when we ake sep forward n ourhistory,
s imporiant o reflec also on our history, o make it
sefl for borh ourelves nd forothrs. Anything el
‘would be poiniess. We have a history of 2 years of
sruggle, and i'simportant in this couniy 1o leam ax
‘much s possble from the experiences of thos strggles
4048 10 move on nkothe fture, That's why we noed 1
discus mistakes, 0 tha they won'tbe rpeated in the
fuure. Our denity and our pride are ot based on 1
notion of nfallbily, nor do we. tink that mistakes
thouldcall nto question helgitmacy of evoluionary
sruggles. On th contary: we have some things 10 53y
tha we hink are elevan 1o foure siruggles.

"We would ik o have an open discusion wih ll
hose who aresrvgglingfor changes hre. Open mesas
talking sbous everyting which s significant, and not
fecling the need o have ne's own, adint positon 00
every isse. Comrades who go sbou hings i tat way
Should 1 themselves of that bourgeois endency - the
bourgeoisare pleasing unlo themselves. The experience
thatsuchnoutlook brings othing good has beenproven
by th socialit saes. Many ibersion movemeas badto
then adjot0this,and 10 did we. Thisis anoutook fom
pas cpoch and won't beof any e inhe fuare. There
aremany pooplehere wha swallow upthetexisof Tlkont
e 3 continents of the so-called “Third World" - Asia,
Afrca md Lain Amerca - ed.]liberation movements
nd ten criicie a past phase and, from that,develop 8
planforthe nexs phas. But when we do his, her's an
upror.

The rigid iendency 1o cling 1 cerainclearnotons
s often times 8 sign of far of crticsm, and 's aso
ofen an stempt0avoid ne’sown wnceriniesand he
qestons of atbers. f we did’ttalk about our cxpei-
ences,we'dhave o ke llthecriicisms eveled against
s, which we have struggled against over the la fow
‘years id dra themthroogh one enormous discussion.
We are't concerned with tis. Taking » sep forward
meass, 1 us, ngaging in + deep-eaching process of
iscussion raber thanremoving ourseives fom the dis-
cusscns, It as bcome inceasingly clear o us overthe
st few weeks that we need o be more concree in our

- KarlMarx

scusions shout whatwehave boen upto orthelas few
years so that people can mor casily understand our
recent sips. We know thatsome comades sc¢ou icps
Dot caly asthe reult of the changed isermationl siu-
tion, but rther e we should have taken bnck in'89.
Butthe proposa o sc ur roleof the s e years s
fomm of confroniation” i lso ueaisic. Tis can't be
il poiics. Goerillpoliic is s permanea proc-
58 of searching fot right awers within the csitng,
Changing politcl siston,andaso a redevelopmentof
e’ own siength.

I our discusion processsine ‘8979, it becume
ncreasingly clearwitinthe group hat we had 0 break
oftfrom ourold clartes, direcions,sndorienations and
make change. We would otbe abletofind soutions for
new situtions in old gouls. Now, we can ony speak of
our own discusions and process and not those of our
imprisoned comrades. We s this ext a & part of &
discusion with them.In sny cas, they hardly have the
opporuniy o take full part in his discussion. Tha's
‘another reaon why we mst ight fo theis reedom.

"Asfor ou istory n the 1980':no a single one of
‘s who renthe RAF today was s member prioto 1984
Thatmeans that we did no take pat n the discussions i
thegroupinthe crly BO', for example when the “Front
Paper” [in May 1982, the RAF eleased s paper which
caled for the building of n an-empeiaist front in
‘Barope with e rban goerrill st vanguard-ed ] was
issued. o come o8 fll understanding of our hisory st
s ime - and even more o fo th hisiory sine the 70's
~'we need to have discussion with our imprisoned
comades.

Forthose o us who joed the guerrilain "84 nd
hereafte, theeary 80s were ime of sigifcant expe-
ences, decisons,and changes in our couniry, and fom
ot of these cameth decirion o ake up amed strugle
This was perod of siruggle around many isues: the.
a0t:NATO movemens;, the 1981 hungersicike of the
politica prisoners, doring which Sigard Debus was
murdered; niinucleas siuggles; siuggles sgainst
Statbahn West [NATO ramwayinFrakfut-od.Jsqut-
ting scions; and of course the mass-mobiizt
againstth saioning of crais missles. We took parin
thes sruggles oumelves and we had e same exper-
‘ence s everyoneale: we can't break through his powe.

‘Durin this tim, there were's just undreds of
thousands of people on the srets, it was also about
contrdictions involving millons of people, and they
‘weren't able 1o make the powers budge on even one.
demnand - o s ooly logical that the srgles became
more radical and more miliaos. Many people decided 1o

organize various il inttives during thesc years,
especillyforauacing theU.S./NATO mlirysrtegy.
This was designed o give our siruggles a ew srength
nd vitlty. Every da, b ste s gnored e protesis
of hundrods of thousandsof peopl i hesrets, while i
the same time acking these people who took thel

Gemmands 10 the rses harder and harder. I was only 8
coincidence tha our side did't suffr more deaths
(Klat Jogen Raay, Ol Rizmane) and srious injo-
ies than it id. The ruely and brcality iflced onthe
prsoners in the "8 hungersrike and the club and gas
tacks by police and pars millary it showed thtthe
st was prepared to cause deaths o our sid. OF the
ssining of the cuis missiles, Kohl remarked: “They
protest; we govem.” This summed up the balance of
power aginstal ihose who wanied something diffret.

“These developments wer also o b notced at e
intemaconal leve, for exampl in the confrontations
between iberation movementsand berted raions and
imperialim. This was e time of coordinaied oll-back:
the cruisemissles were 10 hold e Sovits n check; the
bombing o Libys he Malvinas war the destruction of
the Pulestinian refugee camps in Sebra, Shaile, Tel
Zasar, gainst the beration movemeat i El Savador;
low-iniensity wartare 1o drag out wars and wearout the.
poplaton; conflc inthe lands of soutbera Affc the.
Gontra war, which prevenied indepeoden developmen.
0 led o desths from war and hunges. We can only
briefly skech the developments of these years in exch.
case, imperialism sought o ulill s cenuries-old drear
of subduing al of bumaniy withal forms of violnce,
including puclear weapons. I sought 1o push hrough s
plans and prjects despie massive contadicions, and
e sl forms of resistance had t0 b crushed and dis-
solved.
So it becume incresingly clear 10 us and many
thers that we had o build ups trength bere whichcould
sliomake ke ofmilitan and militaristmethods. Fromall
ourexperiencesof hete yeas, i wascleartha weneedod.
new quality o struggle f we wanied 0 confont tis
‘porwer - the only alicmative was 1o give up nd subject
urilves to this powe. Fo ever more people,the pro-
posal st forth by the RAF in 82 i the “Frors Paper” -
Damely, 1o orgmize togeher a5 guril, milian, ad
resisance - seemed 1o fit wih the consequences of
‘peoples’ own experinces.For some ofus, it mesnt that
in 1984, we decided o jon the gucrilla.

‘There were many consideraions which led us 10
believe that our strogges had 1o become increasingly
millant in heis orgaizaion if we hoped 10 achicve
‘nyibing. Thatwas clsr during the"$47 85 hungersrie.

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Hrrm The Spirit

Duringhis campuigs, many pecpl from various groups
‘caiedou fir-bomb mtacksund stacks with explotives
10 pres he demand for the regroupementof e poliical
prioners, snd hi was & concree sl of the exper-
ences o heearly 80'. Many people eaized that i the
demands wers o be pushed though, f we were o insure
hatthat s didn fost morder he prsoners during the
sike, hen we would ave o oy a variety of meth-
ds from demos o press conferences to sruggles with s
higherdegreeof confrontation.

I'salways th same with e pial f vilence-the
sruggles of th let and the revolatonary forces re
alvays made responsiie. To this, what we have said
brefly abootthe developments fom he caly 80's shows
atit wascleaty diffren than s The decison o form
a guerrill and 0tk on ammed szoggle was 8 decison
made by peopleal aound the work n respone o the
iling condiions othe igneranceof e uling powers i
the face o peoples’ demands and strggles; o the con-
tinuaion of destrcive developments and war despite
‘masive esstunce; 1o represtion and exploiaive rea.
tions with regad o the ressance. When you seck to
chinge those conditions which don't llow you and
other o ive the docison o takeup s s ahways made
st - nevs i, You frst ry many ber methods, nd
then you make the decision - ulimaely a ife or desth
docision - hat s clearor at st somewhat more clear
that an amed force i necesary, becaute without it
‘ootbing will be achieved.

Throughout s etie 22 yearistory, he RAF has
always been 8 latively small group. Durig this time,
theimprisonmentof comradesalmos wped us cutmore.
than omce, but from the relatons and conradicions in
hiscounry, her werealwaysmorecomrades who ook
5 the ammed sruggle and caried it forward o press for
chinges inthese condiions. The year 1984 was such 8
yeatfo us. That summer, seven comrades were impris
oned and tateagan openly celebrated our ot demise.
For us, th fact was that po one nvolved in guerrils
polics from the carlie years emsined.

"84, we made oor aieanpt 1o make 4 common
offensive by West Europesn goerill groups together
‘wihthe milant esistance bere and we afen came under
heavy pressure. On e ane hand,there were those that
‘were apprehensiveof imperiais achieving a toal vic-
tory i we did not make comme inerventon quickly.
‘They were o develop a power force bere i the metr-
‘poles which, along with he world.wide iberaton mov.
s, would provent imperialism from taming back
hisory. On the other hand there was us with our exper-
ences. We wer afaid thatthe sste would once again b
sble t flc heavy damage on us before we had even
akea the first siep owards this common font.

“The“font”conceptassumedthtourdevelopment
ofa orce i the power.centrs wouldbesbl o confront
the development and escalaion of imperiaiom in its
asempt 0 roll-bac the workd-wide libersion move.
ments. We dida's eavision the success of any of the
liberaton movements. Despie his,the number of vic-
tims increased. Everyhere, th nambers of dead 0d
‘wounded nd displacedpersons ncreaed, withnocad o
the wr i sighi - quie the contar, for low-inensity
‘warfre sitegy whichimperialism was scalting dur-
ing this period was designed o wear pecple down snd
deny then thiehopes of e of dignty, freodom, nd
slf-determinaton by confroning them with te pros-
pects of never-ending war, Our aimps was 1 bresk
hrough the boundaries which bad boen imposed upon
the workd-wide Iibertion struggle sod o prevent
imperiaism's victory by blocking is effors in the
power-centes. That was our cntal ides: 0 buid the
frontin Baropeasone pat o« gloal iberatin fon.

The consequences of the unfolding of
imperialis’s inemmational sraegieshere n the metro-
poles was declin in many peoples” lving conitons.

‘The number of people o longer needed by Capial 1
achieve profis seadily rose, whie at the same time
producion became increasingly focused o miliary
producion, and retrcaring meant that hundreds of
housands fjob werertonalzed away. I was e ime.
of the 21 society being poshed through here, in other
‘words th powersmade i lear that 1/ ofthe popultion
‘were o longer neaded nd were sperfous - 4nd that
they should also fedl s ruch. On sccount of
imperialim’sfocus o ol-back and s, th i ntions
of Western Burope - especially West Germany and
France- linked upthei hightech and miliary industcs.
This was designed 1o formthe sates of Westem Europe
o common poltcl tading bloc 104 10 match the
powe of Iapen nd the USA.

"We rised these poias in our common offensive
‘wih our comrades in Action Directs and militan ovps
bere, since the astand efficentimplementation oftis
would detenmine whether the Wen European states
‘would be able o fulfil heir specifc ol in the war
against e libration sruggles. We tsw ourcenra ol
nthis s aligning withal evoltionayforces i Westem
Earope, herever possbe, 10 1 orgaize aainet tis
develogement For s, thatmeant: o sharpen e nerna-
onalstraegy i our ovm couniry through ouratacks on
the s pilarsof imperials politcs.

‘Authatime we were conscious ofhefacthathre
‘were veryewof us her nd inallof Westem Burope and.
we acepsed tha 1 naurl. Working fom thi assump-
tion, inaber words, from our own weak fores, e were
convinced tat we could come 1 sharp form of sctio.
Inthis i of globalexclation of war nd destruction,
we dida't really discuss building 4 relevant force 15
counter hi development, b rathr e sought o unite
thevarious more-orless iolated giaing evolusionary

fores,

With ourfirst ieps i thedeveloprne of i fronk
proposal, wefound uselves i the midcl of s hisorical
‘pheaval And even though we werea' consious f it
then we were ealy ranning againt he times. Even
aherwards we hough, if wedon'tactfas, il b o ate,
‘and imperialim wil ave decidedthe e epoch n s
favor,

Ourorientation owards e posibily of swif and
sharp acton in our initatives had, in hindsight, ca-
sophiceffects. Thisway of hinkingleads suomatically

ristescalation and obcures he view of political

deas,rther we only saw scpartion,insiead of searching
for what inked the variousconsciousnesses ogethr 10
510 fd out ogether what was going o. Inthis imied
polica comer, it wasn'tposibe fo th ron concep
developa srong politcal foce. Our pacice was ras-
ily determined by the polical exploivencss of our
argets and the coordinaied sharpes of oo actions.

So we never saw the possbily 1o enew and rede-
velop the lnks to the sruggls of the cary 80's the
sruggles which we ourselves came out of. That which
aros from the conseqencesofthe Ik o esults o our
suggles - namely, common organizing and choice of
targes - could have been an answer for others’ expri-
ences. Many people over the years just withdrew nto
esignation, bus this shouldn't have happened. These
people did't come 10 grips with the sysiem and it
destructiveness, but they did rsign themselves 1 it,
ecaus they hado'tfound any snswersforbow o push
throagh changes here. We had 1 answer, o s least 3
s but we weretable 1o explai how we could repew
the lnks with the movements and the people who, for

We'dike o briely st h allowig: e deci-
sion mad by our comrades h o s coec
ooe, one whichidenifie olcal proces which we
prisonens are o part o,

"Wehave wanied eversince 8- 1o makebrsak
7 th e polical specinun, s sch e cancnly
e tken by a) o o opethr, ot o in e e of
pisones.

" We e i ow mach ceare than e di in e
i 80,0 he s ke of 89 was e e
‘wo mads this purtof o poliial prui.

“The fac tht he gl and domesic socal con-
indicions e 1o decp makes he smple pevig.
forwardofthe pliics and praisofthe T0r sad 80x
imponle.

" Whoeves see the necesivy o he revolzionay
chunge of he exiing globl nd dometic inurices
nd desmcive shold o e the nced
o chngo md e-onnaionofpoliial coint w4
foms, o el to ol st epernces 14
ways ofvig.

Wepriscnes i s ourtas b forbow
“aterprisn’.

Recretaing it ey and it s
ol groupngs sndcondiions eqies penoar.
ing process.

Thismas e ceved otk sick prisner

‘e nd Gues s e releasd ey

Wit e elease, rioal moment cn 1k o
dincsrons betwen th poficl privoners ad the

Statement By Irmgard Moller
Regarding The RAF Cease-Fire

This mesnsa thorough bk foral ivoved.
A brak with o 22-yearhisoy
Werotiyigiofoolanyonewhenue sy it

e want 0 shicve frodom fo al of 0 within 3

foecasbe prad of ime. We dont expect i 1

hugpen right ey o forll of s st oce-

B wed ke 0 mke i cea tha, e 2 years
ofonideing ndriicsing he iempid desucion
ofthe pritonrs (it everytin rom pecal gl
o 10 iolado) - ageinst which we igged s 4
cllcive, asivgle n which 9 imprisoned comrades
e, alibough n e end we wrcked e e’ plos
afralthese dcade,er can e bk of ol

Tha jus it realiic, and €4 » rdiculoos
onght 1o nyone who has become fumiliar Wik
Gernany's usic sy d e ecary spancss
overhe 1 25 yearsand who does',want 4 i
s e o polical bisry.

The st can's own isory:; he sa's ofctal
venion s s ur.

' ot materof delingpolicaly it il
condictons.

We, e prscnes from the RAF and the s
ance, e he RAF have e o for i

“This bsnoig o do with “acicr”.

Irmgard Moller, on bebal of the prisonrs from the
RAF wd te resiiance

1549 Lobeck

‘cuample, were sruggling sgainst the sationing of the
crise missiles nd mperialist destruction, o who were
srugging aganst prjecs ke the Wackersdor siomic
program, and bow we could make s common sength
againt tis destucion ogether with these peapl. Out
Botionf s “fron” wastoonarrow forsome peopl, i was
only deigned forthos in the insemationalist siruggle
sgaintthesaigicimperialst developments. Therewa
50 room for thr dest nd proposal.

“There were other comrades involved n the front
process whose isory d experences were inthe -
NATO movement and who winiedto develop the front:
concepesothat we e i o e th suggle. Bu o
arrow focussndhatof xher seemed o allow o oom
for the thoughus and proposls of these comrades. For
these comrades, centalpoint was always te quesion
of how ouriniinives could help develop & broad and
trongforce. But we hrdly ouchedontberepoits i ur
discusions. We were more concemed with estimating
imperialist developments and advances end looking st
ur lnes of atack agina this. When other comnades
‘wanied o develop h ron o different revoltionary
srengh, when thy questioned ou atement of the noed
0 “wage the was her at the lvel of the intemational
‘counerevoltion”,we fen jot dismissed is s signs
of personal weaknessand indecisivencss. Ths poliical
problen of the diverny of oltcal oulocks was fin
Just negaied ad dismissed s subjectivism.

One of our fundamenial thoughis doring those
‘years, namelyththe velof confrontation bt weenthe

evolutionary forces and imperialism here inthe metr-
poles was 1o be determined by the sharpness of the
itemational confronttion, cotradicied the develop-
‘meas o broad revolutionry force bere. We ofen aid
htsuch actons serve o polariae,whicis e, bt hey

asoproduc false divisions, aber than bringing people
ogether.

Our actions agsinat responsible milary leaders,
economic offcals, and functonaris from the poliical
Soparatus were deemed effecive and moralyleitimaic
by many peaple. They wer legtimsts acions which
sprang from he sharpnes of ourownliving siuation and
oppression and they made millions of people eaizehat
the powers that be e responsibl for war and global
disress. This wasn'sthe case with the Alr Base action
‘when the Gl was shot [On Aogust B/1985, the George
Jackson Commandoo the RAF cariedou borb atack

stthe Rhea-Main Air Basenear rakfot. RAF miltanis
were aie t gain ery o the Air Base singthe ID card
of sn American Gl, Edward Pimecal, whom they had
‘mordered the day before - ed] Neider of these were
developed from he sitution hers, neiber had busis
‘conditions here which peop coud denify wit, rther
i basi was e warbeing waged by imperiaim nd he
ULS. ey inothe pasof e world.Intemsof futher
developing » revoluionary stoggle here and finding
roos i the ociety it was big misiak

“Ourheads e round, that way we canchange directons
in ourthought”

11989, we were confronted with helegacy which
e foot process hs lf for s, There wersarets d
heavy sesences handed down 1o camrads in e legal
resisance and invesigatons for “membenhip in the
RAF" sgaint popl il ver Gemany,id manyco
ades in the ant mperialis rsisance began 10 wi
. A the same tme, many groups fellspa. Many
‘peoplewho ewa rle orhemicivs i e fontprocest
became esgned or, t eas, fusaied. Te foundaions
oDy Paperof 982- the common ook becweathe
goerills and the esiance - wers siep i the right
diecion, but we wee ot uccestul i developing
producive i between he srugle o thegoerillaand
e srggles o atber comrades wbo had developed &
prsi from tbermodes offe, nd we were ot sble 0
Tevive 4nd advince and srengben the rvolusonsry
proces.

I capilinm, ierarchy s pr of e socin s
s which overyone i subjected 1o fom day cne. Wo
did't disvolve this srvcure within oor own renks.
Though oursong orietation on stacks and ou sole
orentaton owands heprojecssnd sirigies of mperi-
iem, we reproduced this sirocure within our own
roup. These were flse diviions which stood between
s xher comrades, and agein betvecn them 124
othes in the legal assocision. In tis e, the
el was oty special arof e srugle
it wasthe bsolte par. Waging s suggl ere and
operaing from st o legality was o e a parof
larger whle, thr we regrded it 8 e highet orm
ofsrggle. Many people messured theavelves accord-
ngtothis nd wer rokenb . Today we e tis the
o of beng too focused on siacks on te power

aroctue. Through this concentution, amed acions
‘weeqiclyegardd s h bt ot it Bk
‘i formol valusionsadsinhe way fevoltonary
developmen.

‘AL i tme, we b i oreunicn o we
pased his n 0 thes. Canainly, miacks on siregic
prjects of he nling povers re an inegral part of
Sueril poliic. Bot 14 vrong o become exclsively
dedicaid to i Soch an oretation does't i n the
auesion of the developmes of & polal pocess.
Underanding what sieps 1 ke ad why he g
powensned o b aaced should ot exclode he el
o disconsourown gols,whic forces andsrggles are
Do o our ow,and what ks c e sought ot ks
Which are s renewed merely 10 tht tbers begi 10
crent themseves i s

"We recogiae tdsy tha cne of our bigmisiakes
was 10 wholy adap the orentaion o out provious
Comrdesback 84 witbou qustionin s ccee.
ngtbe “From Pupe” 4 coneswihoa seing what v
houldchange ot edeveop. Weorly s s he sl
ofouractaa: it became mereninglycear o Wesier
Europe, with Gemany s s bsd, was g 0 e 10
become work power

Fromth tperienes i Nicragus and 1 Suvador
in pariclar, & new discosion of the posibiliis of
armed suggle rose. The Smdiisas hd shown thas
ety vas diffee than ey bad revioudly askamed
The iberaon sugale dosen'tslways play out s the
by G the peope did's sppor he gueril,
et h e foresmpponed he pecpie. I the sk
Phese e orinaionbeckne cnered n e sz of
b popl,From 1 Savadorcame he dscusonof
cxperience of doube-pover e FMLN hd lvays e
opiaed bt opizaionof day-o-dy e bad o g0
handin-had wi e s of e g,

We cxaminedthes expeicces, bt fled o see
‘Wha they et 1 u,riber e jos decided thlthe
‘imaion s comuieswes iffen i .
These developments - st s afer the Inifad in Pa
e in 87 - wereth begoning of e poceses of
orcnuion o smed ibereon siugges i many coun-
ie toward the idea of rgmiinfrom below. “The
proble s ollows, s be gl o4 psiont o
& rainic power kemave, i it n option for the
peples’ movement ot 1 b & alcs body which the
people’ moveneat s obiged o fllow,rber s profech
Whose busc and earuard i s e of power” (s
quoaion from comrades i UCELN, Colombia)

“These pew orenaions were also the st of
changes in e ematina biace of powe, whn i
became cler that sccss would cly be achieved
hrough & much ouger vgele. We didft suffiendy
eaize s and we aly ecalaed i respone o mper
sl rollbck.

‘Onerestof ur condactaime was e dring
up of our discuusions with any polcal comrads,
My poople we wer previouly awoiaed with, oo
accout o h eachy whch was h ogica s of
ese pollcl proposs, dda' criicize s or push
‘brough beirownconadicins, proposl,rtbougis.
Inmuay peaper eyes, e were The atboriy, nd ey
oreted heelve 0wt and fald o furibesdevelop
i own hovghis We oueives were ofen o peno
i nd e badno poriv proposs or e vaisy
o houghs or h devlopmet of ot side. S0 e
ot e hance o develp bowde oreiaion from &
living proces of exchee.

Il e r el criiuing w0 cns thoukd
forge tha we b made misakes i oihe el The
Work-vide counerrvolation, he Conirs in Nicas-
ut, Angols, nd Mommbige; NATO's aos rces the
milfary wtacks on Libya tnd Grenads the resonaing
focrese nhe disress e Thiee ot i was
e ety which ve were peruing wii. Ineraly,

Y 3 20
Yxrm The Spirit

e was the exremely high degreeof rpresson which
excluded all houghtsof 1 visble revlutiary develop-
ment for those pecple put under heavy pressue. The
years 1985786 were also the high-poin of the smear
‘campign against us, when TV aceouniscame oot daiy.
The epresson which followed the '86 Offcasive [The
RAF snd other guerill organizaions, caried ot &
‘mmberof siscksduingis perid. The RAF along with
th French guerrila organization, Acion Direcse, had
formed an o-imperils ot n Earope and some of
the actions they caried included the assasinaions of
K Heinz Beckurs and Gerald von Braunmh - o]
washe sats answer o the begionings of commonly-
scting front, which, e o nrrow orentation, whs o
longer sble o fother develop th proces fo .

T hiscase, we e the polica process lp rough
ourhands. We neverdeals withthe quesionof becoming
rooied in the socety. Our reacion was o expend e
confronaton fromoursde. n doingthis, we ntroduced
false impulses o the discussons of the resisunce
‘movement. Afe the 86 Offeusive, we decided that the
only answer 0 increased represtion was o organize in
illegaiy The quetion of how o bring the st 1 is
‘policalboundaries whs't cenrl 1o our discussion. So
‘we hlped bring about roceas where more and more
comeades defensively withdrew from open associaions
and dropped out o discussions,even when they saw o
perspecives or hemselvesand could'tmagineadope-
ing ilegality. In many cites, hs happened 10 such a
dogree that the demand fo regroupenent or e mpris-
ved membersofthe RAF and the resisance - o] w
ever made in public. For long time, peope no longer
scuggledfo n open space o make his demand. During
{his e, ther were of course legal leafes nd news-
Papers, b thesecan only achieve so much.

“This was thebackground 10 which e ste saw
opportmity 1t the screws a e tighier by hiting
comrades with heavy senences who had pushed the
demand for regrovpmet.

‘Alongside this developmens, for us nd those in
poltcal asocisions with us,here were oher divsive
politcal developments soch as the struggle around
‘Starbab West whichreached it pak with he shooting
of he cops in November 1987. At the same time, the
sruggletoprescrvethe Hafenstrae [ groupol squatied
buidingsin Hamburg which b beenhe focas o stong
reprssion bythe sai. The sat bs long muisained i
th HfenstraBis "RAFnest”- .| was anensirely new.
experience. Thi was & different process than our

e i i/
AT W e

sared many discussion inour ks and got s
hinking about how those people were abi 10
‘wage a commited trgglefortheir goul to live
accordingotheir own perspecive, nd o stand
910 the sateapparatas with the same commit-
mens, whilesuccesfuly siuggling along with
housands o iffren people throughout th city
and eliewhere. I wasn' only thisform of coulion
poltcs in which cverything functioned 10 posh
through whatever posiion possible,

but raherthe discussion of commen
‘advance was o, while st the same

time sifing through snd understanding
everyting, depit the various hisio-
ies and proposals of the people in-

Volved. They camied ot his pocess o
it conclusionout i theopen. Wi this
srcagh,hey withsiood e hard "
politcsof th sae. That was the first
time snce 1977, when th s pushed
the resisance 1 s absohie it with
the murders of Gudrun, Andreas, and
Jan 3 foundersof the RAF who were

7

‘murderedby he saen 1977 s Sammbeienrisn- o],
that there was he experence of being abl 1o push
throogh s siaggle despie the sae's cpporition.

"The Hafen eveats made i poseible once agai for
‘eople toexperence e actthtit s posibe o develop
nother way of living. A lfe et i ot crusbed by the
principlesof capiaiss dayio-day realiy Because the
Comrades there were very clear sbou theis gouls, the
‘ruggle was able o tract o of eople. Andoutof the
Hafensirae arose many subseqen niertonalis ini-
tinives which Iaunched discussons well beyond the
Hafea's own boundaris, for cxample the Paletinisn
slogans on the outside will, o the support which was
given 1 the Roma being trestened with deporaton.
These iitintives showed how clselyted interatonal
solduiy s i peoples” condiions here andhow it canbe
developed from a posion of sreags. (And we s this
i opposiion o e remarks made by Georg Fulberth in
the Avgus editon of "Kookret", hen he sud that the.
sruggle folving condiionsandsocial hange her had.
o bearing o the global siuation nd were, i act, ot
o th beneit of the rling powers)

‘which was adopted e the sae atacks on he oot
process and other revolutionary associaions. t was &
irong impulse which was tken up ino ou discussons.
Thar's another reason why we more thanonce hd akea
a0 ieret n the Hafensiabe in recent years.

Of course we also experiencd th fact that many
peoplethee oday ar loless ke many other. But we.
ink i’ mportan n the discussion 1 see what was

nificant i hei expeicaces, s will o b shown in
the nex phases of the sirggle. And 0 you al in the
Hafenszae: what's going on with you all? We have
heard that you all rarly involve yourelves in iscus-
sions anymore. We can hardly imagine thatyourexper-
ences have brought you 1o a posiion of not having
anything o offr i response o the resigaaion and
‘wesknesswhich s present everywhere. Howisityoull
aren'tabe tolnk yourselves to anything and gt on the
road of the search?

“Theniinivefothe Deense ofthe Hatensirae”,
wih is cll for the regroupmens of our imprisoned.
comeades, ook big ip towards fghing back aganst

S

el oviarmgiies

LYY

criminalization sndmaking oom fordiscasson. The all
‘made possble the massve moblizatin around he ‘89
bungersrike. I was sgaificant that thee were people
‘who dda'tlt e houghis gt direced by the xpecied
respante of the sste securty spparatus, bt rther
‘worked towards their own gl fom heis own expe-

“Anotberimpule which wassignifcas in oo dis-
cussions came from our imprisoned comrades. In around.
theirhungerssikeof 1989 i hei bungersirike declan-
tion, s well i hir eiers,they made i clea thtthey
‘wasiedio iite s discussion round h reoricationf
the revolaionary suggle. They wanted o search snd
retor new lnks and discassions with all people who
‘wersnvolved inthe esisance processoverheyear,of
‘who werssrugging for change i otber sectors f s
t. They priscners wre very open and discussed many
oftheirpastmistakes. Indoing o, ey broke with along-
‘anding radiion which we wero sl stuck i, namely 1o
quickly perceive lcriciam directed s anegative and
o thereforeignor . This od adidon was e esult of
years of experence with being confronied at alllvels
with an agtting countr spparats which the society
wilized 0 wage peychological warfur and smear can-
paigas agains s nd ober revoluonary forces,evenia
o-cllod ehis media ch s he “TAZ [A daly I
" newspape, idologiclly clove 1o he Greens, which
consistentl aacked the RAF and uerrila poltcs ¢4

“Ths revived i us long-domant saalyssof i
cismi. An analysis which we had previouly overlooked,
amely of where the criliques were coming from and
why, and what could be comec in l of . Through the
fac i e prisoners had taken & broadr look i pew
developments i th resisianceandinsocery a3 whole
and adopid tisnto therstraggles, ey sengihencdus
{nour search and developmest,

Forus,he stusion in 89 put a ot of quesions on
o tabl. We had eached thelmits o th front process.
Authe same time, new scoggls had developed sround
s, and the cnie inemmaionsl iston had changed 1s
wel. A firs, our thoughts of # new orintation and
development were very timid. AL ha tme, i was the.
beginning of proces f sparwing ourselves from old
notios - or, we could sy, libeating ourselves. That
mean sepaating ourselvesfrom the noion, which bad
become increasingly prevalent in our discussions, that

e e v e e it i 4 sl gt el wic
e evrgody,cwedeny:

16w e ihing o, i h s poc of e skdciy s vy il
it gt 1 do ik ther by s 1 s i vy e We e sgling i
Guine with s n o, you s e iy oo wel- Tk ging

el ne ey g whor we e ghing,

ey uinn oy b par b ot

r7 Ao ———

skt Cabm.
Yigrm The Spirit

the srengh of & revoltionary movement was deer-
mined by s abilty 0 escalte s stncks i rspone 1
the imperials ysiem.

“The peiod '89/90 was the time fo us when we
began o question the st fow years ofour history and 1o
125t oot the otios and ideas from the rom discussons
10 se f they were corec. Whereasbefors we worked
from th assumpion that gueril poliics should bring
ogeiber all o the conmdiciions and atack them, we
saned asking ourselves wheiber we Whould't insead
sian_dealing more diecly with the sharpeing, of
peopleslivng condiions ad uilize oo sirzagthto push
hrough changes in sruggles already curet, ince ei-
ther the peopl ofthe Three Continents nor the people
here have e o i orglobl evoluio.

nthe My Paper o 82,ourcomrades wrot:*our
srtegy s basically s stegy against their sivegy..”
Our implementation of his was acions which were
dircied a1 snd which orieed ourelves around
imperalism’s plans and destructivenes.

In 89790, we rpestedly sought for # notion o
develop as he guerrills straigy. In our communique
e the Herhausen action in November 89, we aid:
“Allof us intheentir evolutionary movementin West.
em Europe find ourclves before 8 new epoch. The
enirly chaged intemationa ituston and the entirly
new developments here demand that the revoluionary
process reorent itself and redevelop uelf on new
foundations..A new epoch, which for 0s means 2 bew
sligament of the revoltionary movement.”

"A new lignment of the revolutonary movemment
means, s, searching forties with new people who are:
srugging for changes in thousands of various seciors
and with various demands. We were concemed with &
process in which the goerills would have & role in
searchingfosocil changefrom below. Wearived tthe
notion o the ‘gaerillaas 4 weapon for e socal move-
ment.

“This otonis corect, forwithout asocal purose,
‘armed sruggle has o postbity for development. For

wasnota acical question, ot rather e reaiza
tion that revoltionay poliics could only be further
developed on s fundamentaly new basis.

s Lt a3 '8, he poltcs developed up il it
point werscaiedout b a nceasingly sall amber of
comrades and had not launched any new proces of
poliicization or organizaton. Troe, we could inflict
losses o the raling powers, bt tis dida't g us any

closerto ur gouls. We had o brek ous of his sagnaton.
1089, wasclesr: weneed 10 serch for somethingnew.
At tht e ¢ wascloa which new sruggles could b
devloped snd when there were concete and auainable
gols which many people could ediscoverthemseives
. In various cies there were siruggles fo sll.detr-
mined spaces (aot merey buildings), s there was also
the sruggle of the prisoners for her lives and against
theirdestruction.

‘We ofien said that the weakness o the ‘89 hunger-
ke mobilization was it inabilty 1 push hrough the
regroupment demand. The changes of '89 1nd the col-
apae of the DDR formerly East Gemmany - o] and the
enise sae socialist sysem gave renewed powe 1o the
West German government. Against his background, he
ling powers decided o go hrd lne. The Geman siate
and Germancapital wielded seemingly unlimited pover.
Intheface ofsuch oppasison, ot even e strongest v
mobalzaton which we had ever mansged in commen
‘with our mprisoned comrades could hav success.

1fthe prisonershad ot called off heir stk n 89,
andifthe st ad tuck ot hard i ndbrought sbout
e deathsof ome f heprisoners,henthere wouldhave
boen » futher escalation on the ousid. This was the
opinion of many comrades, and of us a3 well. B the
prisoners decided things difeready: 1 sop the escala-
tion,sinceitwould hve been poitess Nonethelsshey
sck o ther goals, bot insiscdthat the isse was their
lives and that this was cenural. Afe they caled off the
ke hey expresed greattrust in thos that had aken
purti the mobilzaion that many peopl wouldnot drop
{hisdemand sod that the prisoners coud take par inthe
discusions, but o thcthere shouldbensrugle for e
lives of the prisoners and against tei desruction. The
only weakness we see was that many pople apsed into
esignaton and dropped th siruggle fo the demand.

“We can oy propose the hanging of he e coni-
o1 proces i whih we il couner gowerfor
e pushing though of concee demande tnd gul. A
oo power vhich, ko il e suggles of the
peopleof the Tre Contines canpish hrogh neces-
Sy chingesof e mperialist syt ght o
Iasing e for e eration o people.”

rom he Roowedercommicue)

Afer 189 and afierthe hungerscke, we were con-
Vinced that the concensrted power o the West German

Giier Sonnenberg coninied from page 26
Torare in the prisons, just ke the blows being
ruck against young sn-fascit here on the cusid,
designed 10 induce fear and disres, capialation and
rsigoston.
her i much which s us, we have moch in
Incountes counres, peoples are confronted with
an imperialist sysem which dens the ther righ 10
exitence. Gerrumy s big pat of i One example: in
Kurdisan, wespons fom Germanyar used by the Tuk-
s ammy 10 destroy villages and murder Kurds.
“Through poletaian ntemationalism and actons
comected with hi, evoluionary groupsin Germany
ave belped id he iberaion movemets o the Thrce
Contnents. What we have done up unl now has nct
defented mperiliom. But these siroggles have. con-
necied s somewhat o the condiions faced by revols-
tionares i ober couniies. Todsy, we met peope from
ther couniries who were mprsoncd ovr the last two
ecades. They, ke us,are now struggling o fre teie
imprsoned comrades fromth clatchesof the sate.
“Thar's why i's imporant o developanew orenta-
tion and broaden evolutonarysruggle tthesame .
“The similaiies between ther and oo experences, the
commonality of gosls and the warmuh, imensty, and

prciionof these cncounters have give s s grsthoe.
ot e ca buikd e evoltionary fros, despt he
new gl condidons, 1o combat e desucion of
peopls md their meansof exisence.

Thereare people from all scross the workd who
have o live ere for the ime being andcamy out the
1evoltionry gl fo e fesdom of hie ad wxd
peoplefo er, o who com bere simply o discass
ety

n he messime, we have cxchunged « whole
‘et of experiences relating o ourcxpenacs i he
ueril, e prisos, nd ur petical prai. Ourhri-
Sontal perpecive has been broadend by these mect
ings. s way,weca caich o o, ogter i
hesmwers o thecomplexproblens ndcoirdictions
e world wich e refcied i ourown counuy.

G s bas 1 e, rlese o ol mprisond
P —

On behlfof evryone, d ke 1o name & e
Leonad Pekier, Mumia AbsJuma, Imngard Mlir,
Ales Berkman, Gerenimo Pr, Nuili Veigon,
Dylcia Pagen Susan Rosenbery, Maowel Hernander, 10d
maay oden!

Frosdom forall poiticalprisonrst

(From Angendrigen nfo #96)

[CRAF pricener irsiewconind fom page 27

prison, 1. And, aiking abou he *Peace of Bres-
Litovs"sLeaio's actical compromisewas sy s
ele forthe October Revolation i was s burden
forothrs I we mado the peac they wantus o make,
it would b burden on the Lefh n thelong ran.

s would push through it developmnents with any
‘means availsble. Noneheles, we saw our ol s the
uerrillsto place ur weight onth scale wherever the
chieving of necessary human developments was t i
s, since theraling powers ned 10 aways b apposed.
Oné effct which we sought through our suacks n 9.
wasto brek throagh the uling powes”seamingly un.
limited grasp on power and our own sde’s sene of
Powerlessness and o hercby siuggle orpoliical pace

‘One thought which was redeveloped i ou discus-
sions inthis direcion wasth threaeacd evicion ofthe
Mainzersiage [squsied boildings in cas Berin which
‘wereeviced in 1990 afer 3 days of heavy fghting with
th poiceand other scurtyforces - . in Bertn. Afer
e evicton, we were convinced that i war ight 10
‘nswer such n evicton immedisely. Thi would have
‘beenoflnle benefio hose people, but a cton fromus
‘ould have infloenced oter siruggles. The facs that we.
were forced 1o make such n answe n the Rohwedder
Communique had th fnction of making he sate make.
‘acostbenclit analyisincontempltin s evicionof the.
Hafenstrae (since tha wasonce gain sve) Taking
s i account” meant tht the stie should bearin mind.
that such a0 evicion would

living space s the strggle o the goeril. This was
politclly significant,and i seemscleartha it nfluenced,
their decision. What sor of dynamic this would bave
unlesshed and whetber we would have worked cosely
together,nethr we northat sae can eally say, bt the
dangesorthe possbity (depending onyour i) exised.
We,of cours, boped that tis treat would have gonn
more people nto the discussions - but w fooled our.
selves once again.

We_didn't propose the process of building »
counterpower from belaw a1 shrt.tem e, rthr we
wanied 1o begin» discustion which woul nvolve more
poople than we hadpreviously deal with, A new discas-
son sructure was o be developed which was o have s
buss in varius polical asocisions. We warid o e
enablich on 8 new foundation al e ties which we had.
previously had with comrades n our old phise and to
Tjec our od cetainiesand he deadening rlaionship.
of bierarchy.

“The new e were o be sch hat those with whom
we wereastoiated with would develop thir own nida-
ives and and thatthese would become the satng pont
o common discusions and praxi. For us,much of tis
was new ground,that which we underook and wasied o

iscover. We had discusions wnong. ourslves for an
enire yea, during which we constaly 1ok cm new,
‘hings which had o thenbeparialy worked nder ot
theycouldberedeveloped. Thi alled o re-smalysis of
o praisfrom ou previous peiod,n reltion 1o both
th sisaion here and otemationally, as wel as what
function the guerrilacan play inth process f social
chng.

To becontinued in the nes s of Arm The Spiis

[ - %2
Yrm The Spirit

Letter From Spain...

ETA Round Up

Autheend of March hi yar the ETA [Buskadi Ta
Askatasuna-Basque Homeland and Libery - Busque
goerills orgamization - ed] eadership was captured in
Tpamlde (Freach Basque courtry). Among them, the
moe imporant leades ar: “Pakito” (Francisco Miika
‘Garmendia - presened a the mumber 1 o the organiza-

10 what Id the police on the path 0 arrest
hese throe (hey were meeing i chalt henthey were
captured) as th police aren’t saying. The mass medis
saysth key clue came from an addres book “Josebe’
(ose Lais Urrusoll Siinga - he most sought afer mil
1t histme) ost in mid March ina telephone booth
'8 town near Barcelons. Another version says it was
becauseofinformationthey picked upin Catalon rov-
nce where un B [t name for m ETA miliant-ed.]
was arested (on the same date that “Joseb” Iost the
address book, even though the media says the dress
ook didat each e olice for20r3 days because it was
found by person who mailed i 1o them). Accoding 10
ihis version, “Joscba” los th ddress book precicly
‘when he an out ofthe elephone book wilecaling the
Bt in Catloni to confirm he had in fact bee ar
aed.

“The et version saysthat few weeks ago police:
amesied s commando group i Euskadi, who, according
10 the police, were preparing the helicopter eacape of
B priooers i he Spanish prison a Ocafa. Accord-
ing 10 this venion, it was one of the members o this
‘commando who, while under police survellance, give
‘away the locaion o the ETA leadenship because they
maintined contact with “Txelis” in Iparalde. In ac,
e the comimandos capure the police gave the mass
mediaavideotapethat showed “Txels” with the member
ofthe commande.

Inshor things ae precy confusing,

Other ETA captres were those of “Pelopintxs”
(finance) in Prisairpor a few days aferhe arests of
“Pakit", ", “Taelis” 1nd company. It was said
“Pelopintxa” was eeing to Mesico.

"Afew wecks ago ters was very b round p (of
between 20 and 30 peopie) in Iparralde. A few days ago
“Xabi de Uranolo* wsarested in Baskadi ot Iglesia
Chouzas (“Gadafi") was able o escape. According 1o
police, “Xabi" and "Gadafi” were preparing a kidoap-
ping 10 ris fundsfo e orgenzaton. “Xabi's” arrst
and the e dragne asing several days in a roal aren
looking for"Gadali”, was carriedout b the sutonomous
Basque police (Eruintzs).

"And the st news
May 1692 n Urogusy.

Aside from thes arets, various levels of the or-
mizationn the Spanish state have falen, incuding safe
Bouses, weapons,ec.

1 i clar hat all these blows have done great
damage o ETA. I the past, wheneverhers was aseiback
fortheorgeizaton,aiera shor period here wouldbe s
bormbing or such & demontrte they could sl atack
‘wih the same srengh as before. But not his ime. If
menmory serves e right (s may no be 100% corrct),
al they have dooe sinc the amet of “Paki”, Fil",

hatof the big round up on

“Taels” and company wasafow daysltrthey killed s |
polie offcr in Euskadi. According (0 the polic ver- |

on, 2 Buaras wer fllowing a plaincoths cop. Thi

into s barandcalledplice 10 sy hewas
being followed. Two police offices
wenttovesigatef s was e rnok
0d while one stayed inth patol ca,
the other went 10 sk the two men for
theirideity papens, andinsteadf pro-
docing heirpapers ey pulled out theis
puns and illed him.

Insey case, thecer possbility
that ey are not camying out aacks
becauie here ar secret negotinions
with the goverament.

‘Something else that came outaf-
tertheleadersipscaptue andibe fallof
the Tamagons spparsus were leies
which supposedly refleced a very
ssong_polemic between “loseba”
(Urnusolo Sisinga) and the leades of
the_organization. According 1o the
s, who cit the leters, “Joseba” made disparaging
remarksabout “Pakit” and company o his comrades i
the commandos, that afe years nd years n Ipamlde
hey hadostthe notionof what i was ke o ik yourlfe
ol of the Pyrenees, and that in genera they were
incompetents who had reached the op not because of
their mers or real capacity but because of their fiend-
Ship with the previous leadership. Anoher diference
withhe leadership was he use ofcrbombs, s “Joscba”
advocued using them only invery concreecases and ot
inth indiscriminaie marme they had been sed resuling
in 40 many innocent victims. Another crtcim of the
ETA leadership was theiromipotence of ot scceping
cricisr, eading the orgnizaton s i i were s hei
hing s ot that ofall s milants, Accordin t tis
crtcs were immedinily expelied from the circle of
inflacacein ETA and if he (‘Joseba") nd actberof his|
‘comades, “Paja”, were't condemned 0 ostracisn and
formed part of the most sought afercommandos, it was/
s because the leadership acks milants with good mil-
ary skils and bad to resort 1o them even if it was
inconvenient. According 10 the letes (from a female
‘commando member and some from “Joscba” himsel)
“Joseba” ha lso ke up the caseof Taem Moniero
(a0 HB (Herr Batasia-Poguiar Uniy - Basgue poiical
pany thtis politcally aligned W ETA- . leader who.
for months has been on second level), who had been
“resired” from important posts because of hisdisgree-
ments withthe polical colton' line. Despiteall hese
bidifference wit the leaderhip if“Joeba” was sl
acive it was because of the organizaton's prisoners.

“To end this topic, the mass medi sad,from the
captured documents,ha bcaus of these ritcsms and
thers ke providing the commandos withexplosves in
bad conditon), hat “Josebe” had been summoned 08
meeting wit th leadersipto discus is attude. Liely
it has bocn published that, afe the captare of “Txelis”,
P, “Paki” and company, tha “Joseba” cold g0 on
o occupy animportantpo, peraps hatof eader of e
organization. In any case, al “nformation” from the
mas medismustbe viewed with skepuicis.

Negotiatons Between The Government And Autopo-
mous Antt-Caphalist Commando Prisoners

Fin, it of background. The CAA (Auionomous
AniCapialst Comimandos) were borm th endof the
70° and caried out theiractviies il 1985, the yearin
‘which commando that had Kidoapped a Basque indus-
ialist was aresed.Sinc then the organization 1 such
olomgerexist. At his timethre ar about 15 meabers

cop, who had survived an ETA iack yearsbefore, went | i Spenish prisons, various refugees i Ipamlde and
Y 75 33

‘Conrl America. Some of thei mils hve joined
ETA-milr [ETA sl in two rpaizaions i e arly
70 ETA:m (nilia) d ETA-pm (oliico il
ETA.ponis busclly nomcxisien s n rgazaion bt
{her il v umberof ETA pr prsners. ETA s
hecrpiaon tht s efered o hiseer - 4]

“The arign of the Atanomoss Commandos 1
armed group s i the covergence of the Baique workers
and st rpresaiveiiaives tha developd with 1
auonomos andio snarcho syndicalis manoes tnd of
meribers of ETA-pa ol who were s sbagpy
il roups vouion s hof ETAm il The
‘Auonomous Conmandos bad her dcpest 1ot the
nonhen Basgue dustial reonsof Valde Urol,the
Upper Deb, Gacis Viori nd Psia et

At no e did the wmonomins ccep e KAS
(Koordinadors Aberase Sozalina) Alemaive (e
basic pltorn fo n independent Baque nation - 4
Which siodey composedof ETA-m, 5 nd e vhole
poliicl einu, becaus they “dont queston capialis
power". The scoomins defn v 1 “inde-
pendin, . capains and sl managers”, wihout
Cucepon ey wers agi polical aries ncuding
HB), apins e polce in geooa (achding the
Enzinca who,Busqu s they may be,did ot ipieing
polie. T fact, o KAS sew o oabisonet o the
Eraintas 1 god ting), . Profof et il
fntar ey ok nly ced i colborsonit icos
o capial (ke CC.00 snd ELA-STV) ithinthelabour
conflics thy aced from o generl as capalis per-
pective, while the mil's id ot ake put in these
Suggles snd e pli's did 10 1 help i negoi
s, Ancxnpleof he onomiss’perspecive would
b ther actons apent exscuivesof Moukines, Miche-
i, i, Kiduppin businesme, tc. Anone e
ence ey hadwihrepectto il sendpolanl s was
in‘heir - rerevive actians. They didvt concenirte
on “bulk” actons aganst he poiice, but they 4 s
tacked those polically responsible (even though they
i,y acted et e plice). 1 was reiscly
{hes acton sgains poliicans nd pries whichmost
imaed ETA tnd HB, rady vpet atthe cxiinceof .
B gvernils orgnizaton hat did ot sbai o their
aniogy. The drop that ovelowed te glass was the
deah, st th utonamisa” hands, of PSOE (Sociaist
‘Workens' Py of Spin, prsenly the g pay in
Spun- o seamo e Cos, ey impliaadia
e imposion o cxzeme polc messures f Eskal
i (Busque nuion - .. As o the excuion of the
sensor,eve B oo the et of the peliica parics
and i ncalling or 8 genera ke o show thy

‘were sgainst the cton. Th slctonlis inerets of the
Aberale conliion made HB creais in the rest of the
supposedly enemy pasies climie of Al the people
against he CAA" who backed the assassintion, few
monis ter (March322, 1984)of CAA members: “Rafa”,
“Taapas”, “Karro” and “Plixo”. I was in the Bay of
Pasaia where 4 of S mermbers of s commando (here was
1 survivor) el in police ubush. This commando was
presenied a5 “menbeku” ("revenge” in Euskars [the
Basque anguage-ed)),thene wich i illed Enviqe
‘Caras and in fact, th survivor, Joseba Mierio,is sill n
prison, conviced o tis acton (snong otbers). Aside
romthe fouracivistsmersioned,oher atal csualiesof
he organizaion have been “Nagars” (sl known ¢
“Bakunia), who disappeared in Ipparade, kidnapped
by fascist grouplinked 10 he Guardia Civil, und 2 other
milients Killed by abomb tey were making.

‘Anotherof th ssonomisu” criicism of e mil's
was ETA's desire to want 10 lead nd direct the Basque
revolutionry proces, while the CAA's were paries i
sctions(nal sses including armed) b wer: populr,
‘wiout separtion of tsks ot th existence ofleaders
obedient masses.

Al of this “histri inroducton” is 8 you can
beter understand why ETA (bt more o HB md theic

Sais)consideredth stonomists o be, i practce,
poliical enemics, why they were upset and why they
were probably very happyat the CAA's ollapse, despite.
th fctths this mesn:severlofteir members died
the hands of the police.

T the tim they were acive and even now, the
slogan ollowed by ihe mass media (except of course
Egin (Basque newspaper which suppors Basque sovr.
cigny-od.]and ewothrs, ot Egintotlly or partally
censured CAA commeniques) was o ideiiy the CAA

‘branch” of ETA-m, which neither one wanied
spparenty.

‘Once againwe have e istorical background et
50 0nto the polemics of “negotaion”. | don't ecall he
exactdae, f & saried st theend of astyear (91) or the
beginning of this one (92), but Egin published anaticic
i which a person “Cabra”, wes proposing a genersl
renuncision o the auionomous Basque prisonen;
pracice he was ideified as a goverment ifirator
peidinformer. Accordingothe ricle, he CAA efugees
id ot know anyhing about such a manoeuve, except
one of them who would be hoeverpublshed the maser,
being trally sgaint it

Afer his il theprsoner family mermbers st
Egin s commanique o contradic th focus of the paper.
Egin published the commenique bu next 1 it added 4
part reconfiming s previous version.

From Euskadi the vrsionof thecomrades carying
outthe "negotstons”from overess, s follows:ffec-
ively, there i contacewith the government nd they have
sanied wal, the prisoners knew it andhings didnck g0
beyond contact with nothing more happening, ot cx-
acly negotisons a such. Prisoners s wel s efugees
Knew sbout the mate from the beginaing and wer in
sgreement ad, gencrally, wating 0 get 0 4 good poin.
Thus it i cearthat HB, through its Egin mouthpcce,
‘wasted o poison the mase from the beganing,faced
‘with the *danger” that negotitions would be arived at
beyond s contol, From there to present the contacts as
the manocuvie of the govermment througha“peos” [7 -
rans] (Cabre), when nreality it was sometbin already
agreed upon by thosemost affcted (asicallyth rison-
ersthemseies)from the begoning with the paricipiion
with varios comdes and family members resnting
it Cabra’s plan, that of ot one peson s 0 emplize
the subject’s siniste here.

- When e “news” was publshed there were noncgota-
‘ions Jogially, ahi ime we don'tknow how ings are

Yrm The Spirit
e,

“All of the Basque sutonomousprsoners, refugees and
deporces backed the lks. Tht, acconding 1o B, the.
reogees and deporieesdidn' know ofthe alks and cne.
of e publicly denouncedihe “govemment's rsegy”
o 8 el fuced e

~“The prsoners ar notnaive. They are sware that it
sovemment decides o esablish negotiaions, a such
i fom thereconcede some typeofreleas o sbstan-
i improvements i the prison sicution, it would bl
cize it ot the most convenient time. The goverment
would take advanage of the situsion 1o present the
question s ome f “we're hard” and “sof” ot someting
imilar. We know this.

“Bventhen, if e alks each egotinions sod thorughit
they obuin something they Consder oppetune, the pri
onershave been clear ey will ot sig “epeniance” i
llianylenora rennciaton of smed siruggl s such,
aside rom the considersions o te guerill organiza.
tion CAA.

That's what's happening oow, we'l inform you
how the materends.

The Escape Of Fernando Siva Sande

“The excapefrom Granada prscn o FernandoSiv
wel-known member of GRAPO [communist uerrila
organization - od.1clouded e oy flt by the govern-
‘et and e massmedia overthe ETA captures in France.
sithagpened few bour e those arsts. Despie .
classicnes o the means (Fgging & )it was very
tfcive. At this time Silv is sl being sought. The
hysteris of the govermment and mas medi s such that
they clam Silva paicipaes i b te crimes commicied
in Spuin! Ifthey're ot caeful they 1l soon stat blaming
himforstiacksthat occured while he was i prison. The
‘mediaclaims Silvaparicipated i the actions of Apil 30
92 by GRAPO in Madrd and beist with ke of 20
millon pesets s oll booth o ighvay n the castern
consal one.

“The April 30 stisck was s bombing of he Labour
Minisy (exensive materia and moral damage; and 2
‘Guardia ivilnjored) nd another i theheadquarers of
the Natonal Insituse of Induscy (sate orgaization of
publicindustres),boh in Madsid. The mole damage s
becauie one bomb was placed i the bahroom a fow
meters from the Labour Miniser's offcs, mocking al
their security measues.

Whatisineretng i st the GRAPO communique
was in n increibly “mesral” rvolutionary tone. Ned-
ralinthe snse hat st inthe orthodox Lesinisscse,
a8 they usaally are, o refer 1o Marsis Leninim,the.
Pany,etc.Nawrally it was signedbythe Ceotral Comnit-
e, a8 always. They ascribe the acions o opporiion o
the new goverment laws which eliminate many work-
ens ights (srike laws, decree cating unemployment
‘compensaton,ec) They did it Apel 0, he dy belore
May Day snd made a cal 1o the umions (pescefl and
domesticaed) CC.00, UGT snd suchto give real oppo-
ition o these police, o show radicl opposiion (by
iabotage sndsimilarmeans) o hislanby capial ndibe.
government.

CallFor A Genera Strke.

Intecent monthsthe govemmenthas akenforvard
some nitiatives (srike laws and cuting te uneeploy-
‘et spend) which i one blow sweep away workers
ight gained aftr yeas and years of worken’ srugale,
{he self proclaimed ~workers” party hasthe gut o ke
such st worker messure that ot even the extrme.
rght would have dared 0 do.

‘With thesrke law they openy sek 10 canolall
ke rom the beginning, To camy out sk i willbe
necestary 10 40 through various bureaucratic hoops
which uy 1o "l con, that he ik become.

unconrolble. But i i casemstof e domesicatod
wnicns areslent because i gves tem eve more ower
nd e aw guarance, of ies o guarnie, ht 00
dicalsuggle akes lace inhe abour world ha could.
crcape e control,

“Thus the collaborator unons, worker” commis-
sions (36 .00, inkediothe P [Commnis Paryof
Spain Eorocommuniatand refommist- ¢ and s suchic
e niedcf whichs coulion f partics with e PCE
s bead). And the Genenal Worken” Union (UGT,
inked o th goverment iac)rserve i bypeeriic
viil for e ating of wncmployment pey.Prior o i
docre-law, toge th sbsidy sfer e o had beca ot
and apercn wasunemployed it as nly ncessary o
Bave 6 mondss of egal work o et 3 monihs o sbsdy.
Nowit i ecessryto wok or 1 year o get sbsiy for
caly 4 manhs. As you canse this i 4 very ingular
proporion s before with yearof work youcould g6
‘morths of sbsdy if you wereunemploye. The decree
o ffects risement py 8 wel

“The overnmeat e o justify this decre by say-
ing that e unemployment subsdy is i coomous 1.
pensefor e ate whichdoem't low o spend money
o "higher prories” ccording o he. 1w o,
ffectivel the sae spends oo much moncy i th cost
of public adminisraon, the cresion of commissions
nd orgaiams which don's o athing, ncelebrions
and al e privileges md perks s cerain govermment
oficil, e fends and fmily g, on coruption,cic).
Al of s in the dministration a3 well s thtof o he
towns ad provinces. So when the govemment lks
sbout ghtening oorbel” s clearibat when they say
“our" they mesn “your"

“The pamomime o th unions collboraing with
capial he CC.00 nd UGT ss minority“cllcagues” is
1o make & gesure prsenid as scandalous and radical
‘whenin ealtyi's noting but snoterscne i e reat
peciaciofcpil, Tt gestur i e call o maional
ke fo cnly haf s day - houn) forhe 28th of May.
‘And planning for compiceday - 8hours - fewmonihs
e f n aresment sn't rached with e govemment.
It s clearthe govemment 't going 1o retea on i,
What dotheycae sbout il of pescia i owses rom
bl day sk i by cuning the ncaploymens ubsidy
oyl ave frmor? Thir electoral et Paps
taa e them e mor, but we have 1 admit
sometbing: e PSOF has pracically no puliameniary
opposiiona the popular pposiion ims & promling
ecorl abnion, I i Qe probable that v
Sbeurd spctacle, his ridculous charade, the goven
‘mentwil makepublic s dtil,perhaps repeal par of he
et wouldo beunasu ik hadarady sgrecdio
\his ith the umios) bt oy thi, some rimporiant
aspec thatwill be cut o “demonstre” tht e gover-
oot s cpial sra' e g nd s he sl ok
unions ae good for someihing, b nthing mor. 1
ealypubetic, el i

From comrades in Span.

Ocalon tervie conined rom pege I
‘which il very dsadvaageous s them.

Warseassrsbngshownon Tk oriion
Stk e T o et

For e enemy the waris inensifying nd forus.
he goereil war i coming o the siageof 0 alout
‘popblar prising. This i aninporan tage. i gives
uathe possbiliy of reaching equiliriua i th wr.
‘We willdedicae allour fores 1o the stuggle and
believe ourpeople will b the vicors n this war.

(FromBarsvedan- Kurdishnewspaper -9211024)

Letters.

I ctic of oppresive goverments o deny the
exiseace of polical prisoners and prisoners of war. By
Crminaisng thei actons, they scccsstlly delgit
miae the smggles of th prisoners and ey are kept
serving impossble senences. The radical movement
recogaizes th need 10 supporsthese prisones and theis
organizations, 1o keep theis sruggles alive. But the
movemen is also making & grave misske with thir
praciceof making distincionsbesween polialpriso-
rsand ocial prisoners. No only docs hs eror create
and perpetuste criplingdivisons inthesruggle g
the oppressiv poliical rysem, bt it alo negais the
poltcal ature of prisons in general. Even worse, it
‘undermines the potenia of the esistance fevoluionary
movemen.

Factual sasic eveal that curently, Canada bas
e second highest rte o incarceration i the wester
‘world. Th U.S. is eading, with 426 persons i jail oot of
every 100,000persons. This makes bighly obviousthat
so-calid ibera] demoeraic govemments maiiai con-
ool usng their I, the courts,and prison. And if e,
‘consider just who are imprisoned we are Iet with no.
doubt a5 1 why the populations of prisons and the
‘umber of prisons i ncrasin - prison rs the utimate
expresson of e oppressive regimes.

An malyssof the popltons ofprisons will how
hat there are indeed many who are incarceraed because.
oftheir politicl belefs and actions. But when we con-
sider whothe majorty o prisoners are, we also wee that
while there ar ceuainy 2 fow who potsess 2 tuly
malevoleatorciminal nature, he criminal behavioursof
the majority are ot symptoms of decper disturbances
These disturbances ar in effct crested by thecapialist
democraic environment and s lers.

‘Notmany prscners will laintht tei nenions
‘were to become murderes, rbbers, o sexual perverts.
‘Why then do peape esort 1 suchexireme and negative
chaviour? In realicy, these s0-alled criminals do not
bave, 13 oder will cam, acual froe choces n thie
docisions. Some havehad thirchoices madeforthem .
theis infany of chidhood. Otbers form thei concepts
from whatsmoust o sociallls o oppressivepoliccal

‘Never should we minimize the importance of the
sruggle of freedom fighters and thei organizations;
especilly those who have been imprisoned. These
people have led ihe efor 1o rsist and overtrow the
politcal order in ther various arvggles: fghting for
justce fo Blacks, Paerto Rica Independence Move-
‘ments,rsisunce and revoluonsry movemenis o all
inds. Thei egiimacy and srugges cannotbe empha-
sized enoughl However, we must sk hee, bow do we
deermine,giventhepreviously mentioned salyss, who
ar thefreedom fighirs and whers do hey come rom?
‘And whose acionsar of plical naare? And whose.
actions resimply criminall

Observations concemed with who ae i prions
conclude tha prisons ar an exiension of the polical
sysem. The reasons pople are in prsons is because of
social snd cconcmic condion. Consider e following:
When unemployment coupled with drag addicion
causes an inividual engage in mlawl acts, is that
person not & product of economic and social ls? And
{hersfor o the malaise o the political order!

I it ot the poltcs of the jusice sysem that
criminalizes drug addicion, alcoholism, unemploymers,
‘poveny,and even disbiles? When s llierse mem-
berof a impoverished minorty n desperation esort 0
robbery or seal 0 feed and clothe his o her amily
thisperson mere criminal? Or does this pesons act
self-dtermination nd simple survival come nder the
category offreedom fighting?

I we consider the nauure of each and every
prisoner’sactons, e wenotableto determine some ype
of polic underlying thei inentions? Again, we must
conclude that we can no longer make 1 distincdon be-
tween types of prisoner, neither should we caegorize
heiractionstobe sy criminal o sicy poltcal.Not
f we are o build & srong and wnited movement 1o
kimately quesion nd overhrow the order tha leady
hrives on diviionsof race,class, and gnder.

A consequence of the growing poltcal movemeat
against rcism, milaris, mperialism and forthe basic
teaets of justice is a progressve and aliemaive me
This media has been n imporuant source of information
and support for poliical prisonersand prisoners o war
‘who fight what ofen appear 1o be fruiless siuggls.
However, by perpetuaing the distinctions becween pris-
overs, this media negaesthe polical natre of prisons.
Halsomainains thealready dbilwing ivisicns wihin
prisons and sociey tha t caim o denounce. Futher-
more, this medin is excuding a majorky of prisoners
from s growing movement tha couldfightoppression
ll s forms. In effct,he progressve media cold be
docaiona 0ol 1o emporwer prsoners nd provoke the
aaaformation ofthe criminal mentality 1 8 revolsion-
aryone. A ecenly sated by a meemberof the rarchist/
autonomous movement, “we should make pisonce sup-
port work highe prioity thn it s bee in the past.
‘Afer sl ol miljntsrovoluionaries are potential pris-
ners.” I follows then tha prisoners are also potetial

13 nd revolutonarics
Asallprisonersneediodevelopibeisenseofworth
through rugglefor bery, equlity, nd el dermi-

tion, 30 docs th progressive movement and medi
‘ed 1o change thei pespective regading distncions
between prisoners. A mach large and thus stronger
‘movement would result fom the liminaion of he dis
tincionsivisions withn the prisos. Priscoes already
face & seemingly poweless ositon insilled by the
process of the justice sysem and oppress
ments. Only afer climinsting the present distincions
made btwen prisoners will hre b wited snd effc-

News In Brie cominued from page §
Segueira. Sequeia, who was kil i the porthwest-
m Nicargun ity of Leos, was the residnt of the
Association o the Conflscated, s group of Nicars.
s who ar atempting o eclaim and tht been
Sppeoprined der the FSLN's and reform pro-
rams. sl he acton had boen claimed by the FPL
0 92/11/26 the president of e righiving business
8700p COSEP, Ramiro Gurdian,held the Sudisis-
1as responsible. The FPI whih descibes faef as
“ual-mperials, Marast s Leninst orgaizaion”
saies that i s b ineitencfortwo year. On
‘92/10/12,two bombing 0ok pace in Masagus, .
ear the U.S. embasey, which were claimed by the
FPL n the accompanying commnique, ey threi-
‘ened il olicians who e contining o “play with
th peopi’s unger and who aggravai the domesic
i Whelaiming he November 23rd cton the
P thretened Gurdien and oter right wing poi-
ciant nd business cxecutves snd ssted hat they
‘wanied o rescue “the conquests of the Suadinisa
revolsion” (NSN Weekly Update #142 & #148)..

~Pover Poles Saboiaged consinsed from page S
be fincd 51000 and imprisned for up o 20 years.
Anciber federal aw prohibits th destrction of an en-
ergyfacilityandcariesa penaltyof $50,000nd 10years
injil

Glenn Gershaneck, spokesperson for Govermor
Howard Dean, sid the news had upethe govemr who
felhatit was e frt e that scsofponial violence.
like this had occured n Vermont.

“The contrac beween Hydro-Quebee and 17 V-
moat uties (CVPS has the lagest conract for H-Q
powes) has been the subject o controversyfor sveral
years. Opponents arguethatthe Canadianuily's expan-
sion lans thresten the indigenous syl of the Cree,
I, and Innu peoples who lve in porther Quebes.
Eavironmenialiss say that Hydro-Quebec’s plans
hresten ragle habitts sndthe Fureofsome speciesof
migraory fow, freshwate sals, beluga whales, curi-
bou, e Opponeats have lso argied hs Vermons does
ot need the power from H.Q, and tha the conracis 3
disincentive o conservton effor.

(Biiversty Liberation Front-Earth Frst)

Klar's TralStatement contnsed from page 21
Lot Andithas o be the (seleducaion of eforgaiza-
ons involved in anmed sroggle o empower e ind
vidaals and the whole group 1o put these principles to
pracice.

Christian Kiar Stammbeim, September ‘92

(From Angebirigen-info +101)

~Rerisance At Lexingion coninued from page 18

Anger it consant resity inprison, andth enire
sysiem i designed o ensure that such anger is amed,
inwards, desroying one’s sel-respect and humanity,
insteadof being med outwardslowards the system and
he oppressor. I ook counge 1o resist al tha, i the
contex of the total control, abuse and disrspect of
‘women tha constates women's prisn. We had o rust
each other, tha we wouldnot b tanin there alone. At
‘we looked aound st ane snothr, we Knew our demon-
siration wasa vicory, o matie what punishment might
follow. A smallflame of power,sisierbood, anddignity
had beea ekindied.

Laurs Whitehorn, Antl-Imperialis Polica Prisover

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‘Unfinished Business: The Poltcs Of Class War
Clas War Federuion
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based organizaion,Clas War, argues for "the re-crea.
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the workin class, unde the conrol of no one b hem.
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West-German Represson Of The Women's Move-
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A docunaniaion of th arrest and rials n the e 80's
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