DEM VOLKE DIENEN

Following an information event on the 14th on who Musa Aşoğlu is, Red Guards Austin organized a successful manifestation outside the federal court building in solidarity with Musa Aşoğlu on the 20th, the day his trial began. He was arrested on the 2nd of December of last year under the accusation of being a leading cadre of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C).

Statement of the Red Guards Austin:

On December 20, in Austin, Texas, a lightning rally was held outside of the federal court building in solidarity with Musa Aşoğlu, who began trial that same day. Below are a video of the statement and action.

On December 14th a meeting was held to discuss support for Musa and to teach those in attendance more about Musa as well as Halk Cephesi. The chosen venue which we have redacted for security was filled to capacity. Below is a copy of a talk given at the event.

Musa Aşoğlu is a Turkish revolutionary who was arrested in Hamburg, Germany, on December 2, 2016. He has been accused by the fascist Turkish intelligence service of being a central committee member of DHKP-C (Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party/Front).
Because DHKP-C has targeted US imperialists and their interests in Turkey by attacking military and diplomatic personnel, striking a blow against US imperialism, the reactionary US government seeks to extradite him and has placed a $3 million bounty on his head.
Musa is a Dutch citizen, but the US will do everything in its power to extradite and eliminate him. We must therefore organize the fight to prevent this and take actions in solidarity with all those fighting on his behalf in Germany, with the comrades locked in armed struggle in a life-or-death battle with the Turkish state, and with all those who fight US imperialism.

The Belgian government has already charged and acquitted Comrade Aşoğlu once before for alleged membership in the banned DHKP-C, but the Turkish state has long arms and deep pockets. If Musa is extradited, his chances of exoneration and freedom are greatly reduced.

The long reach of the Turkish state can be seen in the recent arrests of nine Turkish revolutionaries in Greece on the morning of November 28 of this year. These nine revolutionaries are also being charged with membership in DHKP-C. They are being held and tortured based on a lie that they were plotting the assassination of Turkish fascist president Erdoğan. Syriza, the allegedly leftist government of Greece, has shown its true colors as the bourgeoisie in the service of Turkish AKP fascism. Social-democrats once again truly prove themselves the twin of fascism.

Revolutionary organizations the world over have begun solidarity actions in defense of Musa, who had been living underground prior to his arrest, which took place in a raid on a safe house. The only “evidence” of his alleged crimes was provided by the Turkish anti-terrorist file service, which is famous for its use of torture to acquire confessions and for falsifying data. These pigs are right now foaming at the mouth for the blood of our comrade.

Musa Aşoğlu is fifty-six years old and has spent most of his life as a revolutionary fighting against US imperialism, Turkish fascism, and the reactionary order of the bourgeoisie. He has, as an internationalist, championed progressive causes all over the world in solidarity with the world proletarian revolution.

As a Turkish comrade in Europe informed me, his father recently passed away. His father’s death happened while Musa was in prison on this recent charge. Musa is so beloved by the people and revolutionaries that his father’s funeral was visited by a bloom of red flags and a procession of masses, workers, and revolutionaries, who attended in Musa’s stead.
We in the US and especially in Austin know from experience that rising fascism leads to the state criminalizing all of the people’s revolutionary and antifascist organizations. We see evidence of this trend in reports from the Department of Homeland Security, as well as local and federal police reports that name Red Guards Austin. We have seen this in the tireless campaigns of reactionaries to have “Antifa” labeled a terrorist organization. We have seen the repressive apparatus of the state attempt hysterically to label people as members or leaders of such organizations. We should understand this as a series of moves building steadily and inevitably toward the banning of revolutionary communist organizations.

We have seen this same process take place in India, China, Turkey, and the Philippines. We should understand what fascism has in store for us—and the practical and necessary response to this understanding means carrying our water as antifascists, internationalists, and anti-imperialists.

Musa is one of us! His life is an example of what it means to be a revolutionary antifascist. We must oppose the US imperialist bribe of $3 million and show our comrades abroad that there are those in the belly of the beast who stand with Musa Aşoğlu.

We must unite behind the slogan “Making revolution is no crime!”
Freedom for Musa Aşoğlu!
Death to fascism and imperialism!

On the 25^th of December, Alberto Fujimori, former president of Peru and convicted for genocide (by the reactionary old peruvian state!), got released by the current yankee lackey president of Peru, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski. This release is no surprise and elaborated for a long time. The Communist Party of Peru wrote in their declaration on occasion of the centenary of the Great Socialist October Revolution:
"The Yankee PPK has recently met with the United Nations representative of foreign affairs issues and plans of their "Human Rights" (HR), which are nothing but the rights of the bourgeoisie and to guarantee the crimes of the old Peruvian state, he said that the UN told him to submit the genocide Fujimori to an examination of international doctors; for what? To give the pardon. They guarantee the genocides of the bureaucratic way and want to fulfil their main counter-revolutionary task of destroying the PW and the CPP."

The following is a documentation of an article published by austrian antifascists that we gladly share:

About 8000 people gave the protests against the new ÖVP/FPÖ government a lively and struggling first impulse. They participated in several demonstrations which joint together at the Heldenplatz for a big manifestation. Thousands expressed in a struggling way and also unanounced demonstrations, their justified anger. Paroles against fascism and exploitation like “Alerta, Alerta, Antifascista“ or “rebellion is justified – do not believe the lies of the exploiters!”, as well as paroles against the dismantlement of the educational system, deportations and against capitalism where shouted by the demonstrators. Many participants saw clear that in this struggle the direction must also targeted against the planned antidemocratic attacks by the ruling class. Especially young students brought their demands to the demonstration in a very lively way.

On Tuesday, after in a surprise move preponing the vote, Argentine congress passed a new bill that further reduces pensions and social welfare benefits by a significant margin. This attempt made by the government to pre-emptively take the wind out of any potential protester’s sails by preponing however, horrible backfired for them. Tens of thousands of people protested against the proposal. For many hours thousands attacked the police in front of the congress building in Buenos Aires.

In December 6, around 90 indigenous peoples have occupied the General-Advocacy of the Union (AGU) office in Brasilia, Federal District, capital of Brazil. They demanded the revocation of the “Time Milestone” thesis in the delimitation of indigenous areas process. Also in November 23 hundreds of indigenous peoples from 17 different peoples made a demonstration in the streets of the capital.

Occupation of the AGU, December 6 in Brasilia

Since the approval of the sentence 001/2017 by the federal management under Temer/PMDB in July 19, 2017 several demonstrations and road blocks has been made by many different peoples countrywide.

Indigenous demonstration in Brasilia, August 3

Indigenous demonstration in August 16 in Fortaleza city, in Ceara State

Roadblock on August 16 in South Mato Grosso state

According to this thesis the indigenous peoples and quilombola peoples can only demand the lands they were occupying since October 5th 1988, the date of the Federal Constitution proclamation. This thesis was developed in the judiciary to support the landlords, ignoring their historical secular actions in evicting the indigenous and quilombola peoples from the lands of the country.

This thesis is a fierce attack on the indigenous and quilombola people’s rights to land and a declaration of war against them. Since Temer got into the presidency not a single indigenous land was delimitated or homologated.

Graphic showing the number of indigenous lands that were recognised (in blue) and demilitated (in red) in the different president managements

The agrarian situation sharpens and more than ever is clear that this state can offer no alternative to the right of land to the tiller and for the indigenous and quilombola peoples. The only solution that arises is the agrarian revolution as part of the new democracy revolution to sweep away definitively the rotten landlord class of the country and crush the semifeudality, present in the root of every relation of production in the country.

We publish an italian translation of the statement of the 18th of December:

Oggi durante una conferenza della polizia della “Libera Città di Amburgo”, sono state mostrate le foto di 104 presunti “criminali” e 5 video.
La lista degli incidenti:
„Elbchaussee“: 5 foto di 5 persone. „G 20 Not Welcome!“: 43 foto di 13 persone. „Plünderungen“: 80 foto di 46 persone. „Stein- und Flaschenbewurf“: 32 foto di 17 persons. „Rondenbarg“: 44 foto di 25 persone.

Following the call to defend the accused and imprisoned in the TKP/ML trails and denouncing German imperialism, more than 100 people from various countries and organisations participated in the demonstration in front of the Munich court in which the trails are held since more then two and a half year now.

Today on a press conference of the police of the “Free and Hanseatic city of Hamburg”, photos of 104 alleged “criminals” were published and 5 videos shown. The list of facts was: „Elbchaussee“: 5 photos of 5 persons. „G 20 Not Welcome!“: 43 photos of 13 persons. „Plünderungen“: 80 photos of 46 persons. „Stein- und Flaschenbewurf“: 32 photos of 17 persons. „Rondenbarg“: 44 photos of 25 persons.