The spokesperson for the People’s Democracy Party of the part of the Korean peninsula subjugated by US imperialists – so-called South Korea – and a founding party of the World Anti-Imperialist Platform, reports on the ongoing repression against the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Great Britain, another founding party of the Platform. The comrade writes that on 9 April, Ranjeet Brar, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB-ML), was arrested by the British authorities on charges of ‘supporting terrorism’ and ‘inciting racial hatred’, only to be released a few hours later. Although the British police cited violations of the British Terrorism Act and Public Order Act, this was a fascist crackdown by the security forces, carried out by completely distorting criticism of Israeli state policy and Zionism as “anti-Semitism”.
The CARC Party stands shoulder to shoulder with our comrade from the People’s Democracy Party and expresses full solidarity with the General Secretary of the CPGB-ML. Repression does not stop the communist movement. We state this with certainty: the comrades of what is today the CARC Party have endured attacks from the very beginning which, over the course of nearly half a century of our history, have never ceased; they soon learnt to turn the repressive attack against the enemy and thus make it a source of strength.
Repression indicates that the revolutionary forces are on the right path, that their blows are hitting their mark and forcing the enemy to react. The socialist revolution proceeds only by provoking a powerful counter-revolution against itself; only by defeating this can the revolutionary forces become capable of founding the new society. Facing repression is the first school.
We stand alongside Comrade Brar and his Party because in Italy the line of the imperialist bourgeoisie is the same as in Britain: increasing repressive measures against ever-wider sections of the popular masses, and an attempt to portray any action against the Zionists as an action against the Jews, and thus to portray any action against the State of Israel as anti-Semitism. Against this common line of action by the class enemy, we are building a common line among the communist organisations of the various countries of the world, a construction whose main pillar is solidarity in the face of repression, the solidarity we express towards you today. At the same time, we hope for the strengthening of our mutual relations and wish you a bright and glorious path to victory.
Long live the international solidarity!
Down with the Zionists and the imperialists
Long live the Palestinian resistance!
Long live to the international communist movement!
CARC Party – Intrenational Working Group
