DHKC Press Office Declaration 79

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DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI
PRESS OFFICE

Date: December 18, 1998=20
Declaration 79

IMPERIALISM IS BOMBARDING THE OPPRESSED IRAQI PEOPLE

Before the eyes of the entire world, a massacre is being committed
against the Iraqi people. Allegedly, military bases are being
attacked: actually, everything, from hospitals to stockpiles of
foodstuffs to population centres are being targetted by the bombs and
missiles. Nor is this cruelty something new. In 1991 the world was
witness to cruelty on an even wider scale.  The imperialists attack
any country whenever they feel like it. They burn, destroy, murder and
issue one command after another.84This is how we want your economic
and social situation to be." It takes decisions and issues bans. An
embargo affects everything the people need, from medicine to food.
And because of this tens of thousands of the Iraqi people must die
because of lack of medicine and food. The Iraqi people who are still
resisting in spite of this hunger and tyranny, are today being
murdered once more.

What is the guilt of the Iraqi people and its government? Have they
attacked any of the peoples of the world? Have they invaded any of the
imperialist countries and rained bombs down on them? No... Nothing
like that. They are subject to attacks by the imperialists for
sayingThis is our country, we will rule it with our own power and
not let it be surrendered to your New World Order."

Among the imperialists, with the USA at their head, there is no
conflict over the needs of the peoples. All the imperialists, the
European Union, Japan, Russia and above all the USA use the New World
Order in order to prevent even the smallest action by oppressed
peoples which is independent, of their own volition and carried out
without imperialist consent.  "Anyone behaving differently will be
punished." This mentality leads to countries like Iraq being brutally
punished with no time being wasted, even though it is actually tied to
imperialism and its government is not really acting in an independent
manner, but had merely taken some steps which were partly based on
national interest.

Certainly the imperialists also intend to overthrow the Saddam
government or co-opt it for their own purposes. But in the meantime
the imperialists are showing the entire world their power and are
sending the message, "We crush everyone who comes out against our
system." All the imperialists are agreed on this point. If somebody
stands up to the New World Order he must be taken in hand and shown
the error of his ways. All means towards this end are deemed
legitimate. Justice, freedom, democracy, human, indeed, minority
rights are pretexts for their bombs, missiles and occupations. THEY
ARE LYING. They lie without even blushing about it.

No imperialist will ever defend any benefits for any people. This has
never happened. Their history of injustice and tyranny has been only
for their own benefit. They are the ones who have turned the world
into a bloodbath, and done this over a period of
centuries. Colonialism, neo-colonialism, occupation, plunder, all this
is their work. And now they are trying to make fools of the peoples of
the world. While they are the ones murdering the people, they declare
that the Iraqi government is harming the peoples of the Middle East.

The greatest terror of the imperialists is that the peoples will raise
the banner of independence and socialism and set up their own
power. Today the greatest fear of the USA, NATO and the EU is the
struggle of the peoples which is developing once more. To suppress
this struggle they ignore every precept of justice and
rightfulness. Governments of countries like ours, whose development
they have hindered, are reduced to the status of servants and are thus
economically, politically and militarily under imperialist
control. The soil of our country is used by the imperialists, with its
collaborationist governments acting as middlemen. All kinds of
military bases and installations are in the service of the
imperialists and are used as headquarters for war against our
fraternal peoples.

Today, the base at Incirlik (translator's note: in southern Turkey) is
also used by the imperialists for their warplanes to rain bombs upon
the Iraqi people. The Susurluk State, the collaborator of the USA
which allows this to happen, is an accomplice.

OUR LAND WILL NOT BE A HEADQUARTERS FOR IMPERIALISM TO WAGE WAR!

How? The imperialists have made our country - its soldiers, its
economy, its technology and politics - completely dependent upon
them. The absolute domination by the imperialists cannot be destroyed
without bursting asunder the chains of dependency by waging the
liberation struggle. Without independence our national honour, our
natural resources, our labour do not truly belong to us. All our
property has been pilfered from us by the imperialists and their
collaborationist governments. In order to be able to get it back,
there is no alternative to struggle and setting up people's power to
achieve a COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT AND DEMOCRATIC TURKEY. Those who
claim the imperialists have changed and claim that they would defend
the interests of the peoples are lying. Today like yesterday,
imperialism uses every kind of tyranny in order to exploit the people
yet further. For the benefit of those who have forgotten the reality
of imperialism and have lost their memory, imperialism is announcing
loud and clear through its moves against the people of Iraq: "re I
am, and I have not changed in the slightest!" 

The imperialists' attack on the Iraqi people is a reminder to all the
world's peoples and it is instructing them as follows:"Either wage war
and establish power for yourselves, or else surrender to my system. In
that case I will be the one who makes the decisions for you, today and
tomorrow." 

To our people

The tyranny and the massacre perpetrated by the imperialists against
the Iraqi people also involves us. If we do not take a stand against
the tyranny practised on the Iraqi people, then that means we support
this cruelty of imperialism. Whichever people is affected, if we are
against this cruelty we must stand alongside the oppressed peoples. We
must struggle to drive imperialism from our land. No government will
come out against the imperialist policies and the treaties that have
made them dependent. For they too are beneficiaries from them. Waging
war on imperialism means waging war on the Susurluk State.

THE ATTACK ON THE IRAQI PEOPLE IS AN ATTACK ON ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE
WORLD; LET US DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST IT; LET US PROTEST!

SOONER OR LATER; THE IMPERIALISTS WILL LOSE AND THE OPPRESSED PEOPLES
WILL TRIUMPH!

LET US TAKE PART IN THE STRUGGLE; LET US DO THIS BY RAISING A BANNER
WITH THE INSCRIPTION: DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM AND ITS COLLABORATORS"!

REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT

-- 
Devrimci Halk Kurtulus Cephesi (Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Front)
DHKC Informationbureau Amsterdam
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