(Forwarded) > INTERNATIONAL APPEAL OF THE PCE (R) > SOLIDARITY WITH THE SPANISH COMMUNISTS AND ANTI-FASCISTS ARRESTED IN > FRANCE > Last 9th November the French politic police unleashed in Paris, under > the Spanish Civil Guard, raid against the-PCE ( r) and the GRAPO > arresting our Secretary General and several members of the Central > Committee of our Party. This is a new step in the growing repressive > collaboration between the Spanish fascists and the French police > services against the whole of the political movement of resistance > that confronts the Spanish fascist State. Nowadays, 7 militants of > our Party and the GRAPO and more than 70 Basque independentists are > jailed in French prisons. > The fact that the Spanish monopolist and fascist regime is > powerless to control the people's discontent and to stop the activity > of the revolutionaries and the patriots is becoming more public and > evident. In these bitter moments for the current rulers of the PP > government they resort to the intenational police collaboration under > the excuse of supporting the Spanish democracy in its struggle > against terrorism - to chase implacably the communist > revolutionaries, the antifascists and the Basque patriots. All this > exposes the growing fascistization of the European imperialist > fortress. The leaders and militants of our Party detained in Paris > have been arrested by the mere fact of denouncing consistently the > ruling Spanish fascist regime and organizing the working class to > overthrow it. In Spain the fascist laws do not allow even the tiniest > loophole to organize the workers politically in the perspective of > the struggle and the combat for socialism. The underground character > of the communist organization is something that is imposed by the > very nature of the fascist regime and the repression that > it exerts permanently against it. The Leadership of our Party has not > remained underground and at exile for more than 15 years as a matter > of taste but in order to ensure the politic and organizational > survival of the whole Antifascist Resistance Movement, securing its > leadership and making possible in this way that it can be in > conditions to face up the needs that the sharpening of the class > struggle in our country imposes. We will continue firmly along this > path showed to us by the comrades that have been arrested. > Today, the French special judges accuse the leaders of our > Party of belonging to a "criminal association related to a terrorist > organization", repeating in this way the old-fashioned arguments that > the Spanish politic police has been incapable to prove nor even a > single time in the last 25 years. They pretend to involve our > Secretary General in the planning of the GRAPO actions when even the > Spanish judges have been forced to admit on more than one occasion > that the PCE(R) and the GRAPO are two different organizations. The > French special judges should not ignore the fact that our militants > are sentenced and jailed in Spain accused of "unlawful association", > an essentially political offence, that the 'Spanish democracy" took > directly from Franco's laws. The Spanish fascist State, the same one > that launched under successive governments its death squads (GAL, > Spanish Basque Battalion) to assassinate political refugees on French > ground allows itself nowadays the cheek of presenting our leaders and > militants arrested in Paris as "terrorists". > This is not the first time that our Party is attacked in France. In > 1979, already after the "democratic reform", the Spanish secret > service assassinated in Paris Francisco Javier Martin Eizaguirre - > responsible of the International Relations Commission of the Central > Committee- and Aurelio Fernandez Cario. In 1986, also in Paris, three > militants were arrested and spent several years in the French > prisons. One of them, Milagros Caballero Carbonell, was extradited to > Spain after serving her sentence in France. Nowadays she needs to use > a walker as a consequence of a paralysis resulting from the long > hunger strike that she maintained in 1990-91 together with the rest > of her imprisoned comrades to confront the policy of torture and > extermination of the political prisoners. > Waiting for their possible extradition to Spain, our comrades > arrested in Paris are nowadays imprisoned in the special jails built > by the French bourgeoisie to annihilate those who oppose their > system. In view of the policy of extermination through the white > torture of isolation that the French gendarme- State is perpetrating > against the militants of Action Directe, the Basque independentists > and other political prisoners like the Turkish communists and anti- > imperialists of DHKP-C, we have no doubt that our comrades are also > going to be submitted to the same treatment. At the same time they > will try to use our comrades as political hostages in order to > blackmail our Movement. > We appeal to the internationalist solidarity with our comrades > imprisoned in France in order to demand the French government their > immediate release. It becomes necessary to promote mobilizations and > campaigns to denounce the political nature of their detention and the > collaboration of the French authorities with the Spanish fascist > State. > The French gendarmes want to hand our comrades to the Spanish > torturer police and fascist army. The Spanish politic police has > pronounced lon ago its own death sentence on one of the militants of > the GRAPO and on our Secretary General. Let's impede this crime! > Besides, we call upon the European collectives of support to > political prisoners, specially the French ones, to provide our > comrades all the help that they may need in these moments to avoid > that their situation of imprison- ment becomes aggravated by the fact > of being in a foreign country. > Stop the French police collaboration with the Spanish fascist and > terrorist State! > No to the extradition of the Spanish communists detained in France! > Freedom for all the revolutionary political prisoners! > COMMUNIST PARTY OF SPAIN (reconstituted) > CC International Relations Commission > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> > > >
