PROTEST AGAINST THE EU TERROR LIST AND WAR IN IRAQ
26 OCTOBER 2002, BRUSSELS

The EU "Blacklist" = the neutralising of your democratic rights

Let's defend these rights!


Since September 11 last year, the USA, supported by the European Union, has created a climate of "terrorism psychosis". Its aim is to undermine rights to freedom of opinion and freedom of association and to get rid of all opposition to itself, not just in the "third world" but in the metropolitan capitalist countries themselves.
The USA is at the head of this demagogic campaign against "terrorism" and its preparations for war against all peoples who do not accept its diktat are proceeding apace. The aim of those who have launched a war drive, reduced Afghanistan to ashes and announced imminent war against Iraq is to secure their mastery over the world and destroy and permanently undermine any forces that might resist them.
Since September 11, the West has signalled that severe measures against "terrorism" are to be taken and are using calls for security as a way to undermine democratic rights. Some months after bombing Afghanistan, the USA proclaimed the existence of an "axis of evil". But that was not enough: CIA Director George Tenet published a list of "organisations to be eliminated". Who knows who will be the next to be attacked by the USA and its allies.
Infringing the national sovereignty of any country at will, the suppression and destruction of people's organisations and the murder of countless people are all deemed legitimate and not even to be protested against. The American and European media orchestrate propaganda along these lines.
In the USA, new anti-democratic laws have been adopted using all these excuses. In Europe, rules concerning telecommunications privacy and data protection have been relaxed. Personal data can be used by the authorities whenever they wish.
In the meantime the security services do not weary of expanding the scope of their aims. The USA and the EU continually expand their black lists of "organisations to be eliminated". These lists, which purported to be directed at Islamists connected to the September 11 attack (without serious proof of their complicity being advanced), soon found room for forces like the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C), the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This exposed the true intentions of the compilers of such lists, namely to protect dictatorial regimes which oppress the peoples and are allied to the USA, such as Israel or Turkey. So they also violate the rights of peoples who state that it is legitimate to resist colonial occupation, including the use of armed resistance. Then the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) were put on the list. Also the opportunity to attack at the level of national states has been taken. The Basque Batasuna party was banned in a particularly casual manner because it demanded the right to self-determination for the Basque people and did not compromise on this. And a few weeks ago the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) was put on the list. Holland immediately called on the EU to follow the US lead in banning this organisation.
The elimination of the revolutionary opposition in the F-Type prisons of Turkey, Plan Colombia, which scorns the aspirations of the Colombian people for independence and social justice, the operations in the Philippines which are supposedly directed at the Abu Sayyaf Group but in fact opens the door to US military intervention, and the criminalisation of anti-globalisation campaigners on the part of Berlusconi are merely different aspects of one and the same plan.
The EU Blacklist
The EU Blacklist was compiled by an institution named COREPER, consisting of permanent representatives to the Council of the European Parliament. COREPER does not have to substantiate its designation of particular organisations as "terrorist", nor is it obliged to make its own motives public. No objection and no right of appeal are possible in the face of arbitrary criminalisation. Diplomats have simply taken rights away through the expedient use of the word "terrorist". Even the laws of nations have been adapted to such conceptions and make it possible to persecute opponents of anti-democratic measures as being "supporters of terrorism". In such a climate, basic democratic rights can no longer be preserved.
On the contrary, the list of "terrorist organisations" is actually a means of supporting murderous regimes.
Terrorism, the work of imperialism
Since it came into being, imperialism has condemned billions to unemployment, misery, repression and torture. Imperialism is guilty of infringing the sovereignty of countless nations. Tens of millions have paid or are paying with their lives or are left to vegetate in inhuman conditions. Imperialism has unleashed coups, massacres and genocide in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It created and financed Hitler, Mussolini and Franco in the same way that it trained thousands of notorious torturers.
Was it not imperialism which has always presented itself as a "modern and civilised system"? Let us recall Italian Premier Berlusconi's "war of civilisations". Just where is this civilisation? In Germany and Holland, racism is on the rampage. What has happened to the humanism that these countries pride themselves on possessing?
Listen to statements by Blair concerning his relationship with the USA. "We are ready to pay the price of blood." But what barbarism is he talking about? Whose blood is the British Prime Minister planning to spill? It is nothing but hypocrisy, because it was people like him who drew up the Blacklist.


Those who:
· seek to prevent democratic rights from being infringed
· struggle against Europe's rampaging racism and cultural chauvinism, which is particularly directed against the Muslim community
· support organisations fighting against oligarchical and dictatorial regimes
· want to oppose new wars with which European imperialism is threatening the peoples of the world we call upon to take part in the October 26 mobilisation in Brussels against the EU Blacklist.
· Democratic rights must not be blacklisted!
· Down with dictatorial and fascist regimes serving imperialism!
· Let us impose a people's blacklist on such regimes!
· Abolish the EU Blacklist!

This is a march against the terror of the imperialism.
So it will be also a manifestation against the war in Iraq


The following organisations are supporting the October 26 mobilisation:
DHKC International / RKL (Revolutionary Communist League) Austria / Abnaael el Balaad (Children of the Land) Palestine / Bayan, Philippines / Comunitarismu et Indepentzia, Sardinia / Movement for the Confederation of Communists, Tuscany, Italy / BsB (Movement for Social Liberation), Austria / CMKP (Communist Workers' and Peasants Party, Pakistan / D17 (Direction 17), Italy / EHK (Communist of Euskal Herria), Basque Country / Land and Liberation, Sicily / IAC (International Action Centre), USA / ILS (International Leninist Current) / IRSP (Irish Republican Socialist Party), Ireland / Campaign against Legal Impunity in Colombia / Communards Ittiri / Communards, Sardinia / LUPO, Osimo, Ancona / Moro Islamic Liberation Front, Philippines / New Left Front, Hungary / PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) Palestine / RCG (Revolutionary Communist Group), Britain / Red Action, Nuremberg, Germany / Latin American Resume / Red Umbria, Italy / RKL (Revolutionary Communist League), Thuringia, Germany / Red Action, Duisberg, Germany / SJK, Serbia (League of Communists of Yugoslavia, Serbia) / Loyalty of Man and Earth, Lebanon / Chad Action for Unity and Socialism / Support Group for the Mothers of May Square, Basque Country / People's Democratic Left, Mexico / People's Committee for Support of the Palestinian People and the Struggle against Normalising Relations with the Zionist Enemy, Tunisia / YPKP (Institute for Investigating the Massacres of 1965/66), Indonesia / Mohamed Regraigui (Activist of the Revolutionary Left in Morocco)