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Declaration about the hunger strike - Marco and Andrea
„I will not regret, I will not compromise, and I will keep resisting“ Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
We support the call for international days of action on the 5./6. July 2013 in solidarity with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah together with ten political prisoners of the organization La Voie Démocratique basiste from Morocco, with Kostas Gournas (Revolutionary Struggle) and a prisoner of the 17. November (both from Greece). Thomas Meyer-Falk has already sent his declaration of solidarity in advance of these days of action. Two prisoners of the PC pm (Siano, Italy) have also sent their own statement in solidarity with the action.
We, Marco Camenisch and Andrea Stauffacher, will go on hunger strike from the 30.6. to the 7.7. This is our declaration:
The situation of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah is exemplary for that of many revolutionary prisoners who have remained unbroken over decades and are not liberated despite their prison term having expired. Georges was arrested in 1984 in Lyon as a Lebanese militant of the Fraction Armée Révolutionnaire Libanaise and sentenced to life in 1987. His prison term expired 14 years ago. His liberation has been blocked by French courts because of growing pressure from the USA and Israel. A citation from a secret document: “He would be celebrated as a hero when returning to his country, and also by different movements who lead a revolutionary struggle. He cannot be allowed to return to the battlefield.”
A battlefield on which the imperialist forces are dealt heavy blows. The defeats in Irak or Afghanistan have led the USA to change their strategy of war. Away from open military intervention to the upgrading of agent’s wars, even the Taliban or Al-Qaida are welcome. Military bases in Europe such as Sigonella (Italy) or Stuttgart (Germany) are upgraded from where unmanned drones are used as killing machines, huge systems of observation are declared as legitimate protection, violence is spoken of only in the context of social revolts or revolutionary struggles, wars are defined as peace interventions and terrorism of the state is declared to be the protection of democracy.
Georges “isn’t allowed back on to a battlefield” on which an intensifying crisis, the internal social contradictions moved towards the resistance of social revolts and revolutionary struggle in an uncontrolled and explosive manner: the Arab countries, London, Athens, Istanbul, Brazil...
Marco Camenisch should also not be allowed back to the battlefield if the special service of the parole and enforcement office 3 and the direction of the service for forensic-psychological clarifications are to have their way. They say that Marco is intelligent, plays an important role in the struggle against capitalism, still retains a worldview that promotes delinquency, presents a chronic disposition towards violence and has a social contacts that legitimate violence. The precondition for loosening of his prison term: the handling of his problematic aspects (worldview and violent disposition) in the course of a therapy and a clear distinction from his social contacts amongst other things.
How right was Georges when he wrote in March of this years: “Comrades you must know that in the moment when the bourgeois justice system aims to destroy the political identity of a revolutionary prisoner, it aims for means to unable the entire critical evaluation of his struggle
and to criminalize us ... The cunning is to negate the attempts of struggle which developed in the past two decades in Europe and the Middle East. Together, comrades, and only together will we win.
With this initiative we aim to contribute towards the development of international solidarity as a weapon which can create revolutionary relationships, continuity and organization, which can connect resistance and struggle together in a constructive manner.
Marco Camenisch Andrea Stauffacher