Date: May 6, 2002 Statement: 253

DHKC:THE EUROPEAN UNION HAS SURRENDERED TO THE USA AND FASCISM IN TURKEY!

In our country, the murderers, the people up to their neck in Susurluk (*)

are celebrating and shouting with triumph. Because the European Union has put

the DHKP-C (Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front) and the PKK

(Kurdistan Workers' Party) on a "terrorist list"! The European press echoed

this development, calling it a "victory for Turkey".

Wrong. If it was a victory, it was not a "victory for Turkey", it was a

victory for Turkey's murderers, the people implicated in Susurluk, the

torturers and the death squads. This celebration, this victory is a European

Union present to fascism in Turkey. And the "victory" of fascism in Turkey is

a defeat for the bourgeois democracy that Europe boasts about so much.

With this decision, the European Union showed that it is not democratic and

it does not defend rights and freedoms. It has shown that it will sacrifice

everything for its economic interests. It has shown that the European Union

conception of equality, democracy and justice is false. It has shown that

Europe does not have an identity or politics independent from the USA's. The

European Union's decision was not a decision about some ordinary list or

other. With this decision, Europe showed that it approves of fascism. It

approves of the Susurluk people, those who carry out disappearances,

executions, massacres and torture.

The European Union's decision will be added to the crimes of European

colonialism. In our declaration dated April 30, we said that "we invite the

whole world to look at the true face of Turkey. To give in to the demagogy of

the murderous General Staff is to approve of fascist tyranny and the American

empire."

With its list, the European Union (EU) has indeed given in to the demagogy of

the murderous General Staff and has shown its approval of fascist tyranny and

the American empire. This is the only significance of the "terrorist list".

Europe's democrats, social democrats, greens, liberals and conservatives

APPROVE OF FASCISM.

Again, in the same statement, we had said: "We will see who is a democrat,

who is on the side of democracy and who supports fascism!"

We have seen it. Europe has shown that it is not democratic and not on the

side of democracy, but is a supporter of fascism. Henceforth Europe will bear

even greater responsibility for the blood spilled in our country than it had

previously. Because with the decision it reached, Europe is saying to fascism

in Turkey, "Continue to spill blood and take away rights and freedoms." You

are searching for terrorists. Look at Sharon in Israel, Bush in the USA and

Ecevit in Turkey. Those who call people who in their own countries resist

fascism and tyranny for the sake of bread, democracy, rights and freedoms

"terrorists" do not call the Sharons, the Bushes, the Ecevits terrorists!

Leave to one side calling people terrorists. For their massacres, their

attacks, their injustice were right before your eyes but you did not even

look into them, let alone make them the subject of proceedings. If there is

terrorism, here is an example. Look at December 19, 2000, in the prisons of

Turkey. (**)

If there is terrorism, the Jenin massacre is terrorism. Those who did it also

do not bother to hide it. That is Jenin! The "international cooperation" of

terrorists and their alliances were also in evidence in Jenin. Israel's

murderer-in-chief Sharon burned, destroyed and slaughtered in Jenin and now

says, "no, nobody can have me investigated"! The United Nations delegation

which intended to look into Jenin was left twisting slowly in the wind. What

does the EU say to such contemptible behaviour? In the face of such vileness,

will it react by preparing a "list"? Sharon commits massacres, and US

President Bush says he is behind him all the way. In the UN's institutions,

he obstructs all manner of resolutions there that are aimed at Israel. So

what is Europe doing? What will it do to oppose such terrorism? Nothing!

Because the interests of its own monopolies prevent it from doing anything.

Now this is also the case with the "terrorist list". All Europe's "values"

and "criteria" are crushed by the interests of the monopolies! And this is

also the answer to the question, who and what is a "terrorist". "Terrorists"

are a matter of the wishes and the interests of US imperialism and fascism in

Turkey! The interests of European monopolies also weigh heavily in those

wishes and those interests.

What an interesting coincidence: EU bodies serve the wishes of fascism in

Turkey by declaring our revolutionary organisation to be "terrorist", and at

exactly the same time Europe's monopoly bourgeoisie says, "We must sit down

with Turkey, discussion of its membership must go through, Turkey must become

an EU member, our markets will then be expanded correspondingly." The

interests of the monopolies take precedence over the "democracy" of the

social democrats, the "liberalism" of the liberals, or the famous "values" of

European democracy. These interests determine their "list". Their "list" is

about breathing life into fascism! The aims of their list are not about

preventing "terrorism". Look at it carefully: from start to finish, you will

see that it is a list of those, in one part of the world or another, who

struggle against fascist regimes or resist the American empire. You won't see

Sharon in the list, nor will you see the death squads!

The aim is to destroy the opposition to the monopolies and their

collaborators in the neo-colonies. With its decision, the European Union

gladdens the hearts, not of the people of Turkey, but of the General Staff,

those involved in Susurluk, the contra chiefs and the thieving, plundering

bourgeois politicians. And isn't even this enough to explain the ideas behind

the decision? For this decision is about breathing life into fascism. This

decision is about breathing life into the American empire. There is fascism

in Turkey. There are fascists in Turkey's government whose world view in no

way differs from Le Pen's. And Europe offers such a government every kind of

economic, political and military support. It opposes Haider and Le Pen. But

it does not oppose a certifiably fascist government, or certifiably fascist

parties. After all this, is Europe democratic? No, it is not!

By putting democrats and patriots on a "terrorist list", the falseness of

Europe's claims to defend democracy and human rights is demonstrated. Why do

Le Pens emerge? Here is the answer. While this system, this mentality, these

policies continue, more and more Le Pens will be produced. An idea of

democracy that bows and scrapes to the demagogy of hypocritical monopolies

and their interests can really produce nothing else. What a source of shame

this decision is for Europe! America speaks and a bit later, Europe does the

same. The partnership of American and European monopolies has made European

and US policies the same. There is no independence or individuality to their

politics. The US Secretary of the Treasury declared that the list was

prepared "jointly". Will Europe defend democracy by acting "jointly" with the

USA as it wages war on the whole world? The future of such an EU can only be

as a US satellite. For those who say, "There is democracy, justice and

freedom in my country," acting in the interests and according to the whims of

the USA and fascism in Turkey can only be a source of shame. Tomorrow, those

who defend democracy, rights, freedoms and justice will be ashamed of this

decision. People of Europe, one does not need much imagination to see that

those who have called us "terrorists" can easily declare the struggle for

rights and freedoms of their own people to be "terrorism".

Because as we have said from the start, the aim of "terrorist lists" is to

destroy every kind of opposition to exploitation and tyranny. The struggle

against "terrorist lists" is a struggle for the rights and freedoms of

Europe's own people. When we rely on our people, our feet tread upon the soil

of our own country and set out along its road. We will continue to fight, and

to march along this road! We will continue our war against the oligarchy on

our soil. This or that decision by the USA or EU cannot affect or prevent our

war. The "terror list" does not cast even the smallest shadow on the justice

and legitimacy of our war, it only casts a shadow on the claims of European

democracy to be defenders of democracy and freedom. We fight for democracy

against fascism in a country where there are massacres and a tyrannical

system, and Turkey is just such a country. Those who oppose our war and try

to prevent or weaken it are on the side of fascism.

DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI

(REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT)

(*) Susurluk, a town in western Turkey, was the scene of a car crash in

November 1996 which revealed the extent of the political elite's corruption

and associations with fascist gangsters and murderers.

(**) On this day, army and police attacked political prisoners in jails

across Turkey, killing 28 and wounding and mistreating many more to force

them into isolation prisons. Many more prisoners and their supporters have

died in hunger strikes and death fasts to protest against the government's

actions.