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SRI Commision statement at ICAD conference
Statement of the Commission for International Red Aid (Brussels--Zürich) at the 6th ICAD conference (London December 9-12 2010) Dear friends, dear comrades, For many years, the ICA has contributed to the development of International Red Aid by sending delegations to annual working conferences.
Our Commission was created five years ago by active forces in five European countries. The most urgent goal of the Commission is to support revolutionary militants who are detained because of their anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist activities as well as militants who are detained as a result of struggles for national liberation.
The work of the Commission is to analyze political developments, methods, techniques and policies of repression and to strengthen the capacities of resistance of revolutionary forces. This work is part of the revolutionary struggle and all this needs to happen within a united framework because solidarity with revolutionary prisoners is the realm where political differences must be least influential.
With torture, extra-judicial execution, murders of militants disguised as armed confrontation with security forces and forced disappearances of militants are the methods that the bourgeoisie uses when legal forms of oppression become insufficient to guaranty the order of those who oppress and exploit. That is why these methods are used today in Colombia, the Philippines, Kurdistan, Iraq and India, a country where armed resistance to the imperialist order is quite developed.
For Western Europe, if we speak of forced disappearances as a method of repression that is decided upon at the highest level and applied in a systematic and planned manner (and not as a means used by members of security services to cover up their fatal errors), we have to go back to the constitution of the GAL by the Spanish social-democracy, these death units who have kidnapped, tortured and assassinated many militants of the Basque Nationalist Left. The recent death of the militant Jon Anza brings us back to these dark hours.
The story of the GAL as well as the complicity of all European states with “secret flights” and “secret prisons’ of the CIA that target the Islamists, show that the West-European bourgeoisie will not retreat either in their use of all means that it deems necessary to the perpetuation of its domination. The level of violence and brutality of the repression comes directly from the level of social conflict.
Where proletarian and popular movements of struggle develop in a revolutionary direction to the point where the bourgeoisie feels threatened in its interests—or even its existence—its legalist scruples and its state of law vanish as fog in the sun to show the bloody face of a repression without limits. There is no other means, but submission to avoid this repression. What remains then is to confront it as well as it is possible. That means to improve our analysis of this repression and improve our competency and organization, our methods and our techniques.
Beyond the simple denunciation of the imperialist bourgeoisie crimes, exchanges of experiences with the aim of improving the resistance to repression is the main goal of conferences like ICAD. I wish you, I wish us good work in this direction.