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hemerotecaEvery year different organizations and collectives interested in building up a Red Aid International meet in Basel with the purpose of together getting closer to achieving that goal.
In November of last year 17 collectives and organizations from seven countries, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Turkey and Switzerland met for the second time.
This demand has from the start the political platform of the Commission for a RAI and must develop step by step in practice. The obvious differences must be taken into account concerning political culture, functionality, degree of organization and the stage of development of the revolutionary, class struggle and anti-imperialist movement. Not necessarily an easy task, but one that expresses the objective political situation with its conditions.
We can only continue to develop and structure international solidarity by using these differences as a mirror for the societal-political situation, accepting them in a productive sense and in a form of a dialectic process, as a part of the international revolutionary movement, to move forward.
To give you a concrete insight we have summarized five points which arose from the last conference in November:
1) In which field should the RAI be active?
Should it confine itself to the revolutionary support of political prisoners engaged in class struggle or should it broaden itself to being active in certain social concerns? There are situations in-between both extremes such as the question of the Sans-papiers or that of the politicized social prisoners. The discussion-basis is made up of the Platform for a RAI which calls for the support of any resistance to repression against the class struggle (such as strikes) and not only the support of political prisoners and their struggles.
2) What should be the relationship between RAI and the non-revolutionary left?
Here we have a choice between cooperation and struggle to control our own decisions. How for example should RAI react to so-called personalities or currents of the ruling social democratic left in imperialist Europe? Should cooperation arise under certain circumstances or should any cooperation with the ruling parties be principally turned down?
3) What should be RAI’s position concerning the differences between political and ideological analysis between different revolutionaries?
RAI can not decide on the correctness or weaknesses of different positions and this should not be a topic in RAI. RAI however should come up with a code of conduct so revolutionary and militant solidarity does not become a battlefield used to fight over existing differences. We view debates on questions concerning the revolutionary left as essential. However if RAI becomes a battlefield for these arguments, no productive and needed development will be able to be found.
Another question was:
4) What position should RAI take concerning the two specific demands of amnesty and political status?
And also not unimportant:
5) Which methods should be used to assure functionality of RAI?
Decisions are made in groups according to the majority. This comes attached to different problems though, such as: Does a three person group have the same weight as a group made up of hundreds of militants?
The Commission for a Red Aid International has also always concerned itself with the analysis of the counterrevolution and the struggle against that. We presented a brochure on the international assessment of the preventive counterrevolution at the last international congress in Berlin on the 18th of March, 2006.
We are now planning the analysis of the latest wave of repression in Italy and Switzerland on the 12th of February, 2007. As known it is aimed especially (and is not over yet) against the revolutionary organization Construction of the political-military communist party (PC p-m) and in general the communist movement.
The attack against structures consequently developing a revolutionary practice of solidarity is one level of counterrevolution by the ruling class. The continuing wave of Italian repression is trying to target the international secretary of Red Aid International by criminalizing her (article 129a is one amongst many). Just as the quote by Mao Tsetung goes, we hold the view that once the enemy tries to confront you it means your political work is going in the right direction! It doesn’t have to be emphasized that we are going to turn the attack around and develop it to our own initiative.
A step in that direction is the planning of a new brochure highlighting techniques, methods and strategies of the repressive organs and their international coordination and cooperation.
The aim of this task is to make sure militant comrades engaged in class struggle don’t end up in the same situation as the Italian comrades of the 12th of February!
Revolutionary Prevention against imperialist preventive counterrevolution!
Eventhough the meaning and importance of international organization is the main subject of this text, it doesn’t mean we are placing the struggle with and for political prisoners in the back. Quite the opposite!
We watch angrily as revolutionary prisoners are being exposed to growingly fierce repression. An example is the internationally used practice: whoever refuses to give up, does not leave the prison walls! This blackmail is becoming the commonly applied rule.
Be it in France for example in the case of Nathalie Ménigon of Action Directe or Josefina Garcia Aramburu of PCE Grapo in Spain. Both are seriously ill. It seems as if George Ibrahim Abdallah will not leave the prison walls before he gives up his political goals. In Switzerland another example is that of Marco Camenisch and the class justice attempt to put him in permanent custody instead of letting him go in 2012 after 26 years!
Or:
It is enough to have a simple anti-capitalist document not even relating to the armed struggle to put a conditioned release in doubt such as the case of Christian Klar who has been in prison for 26 years in Germany or it might even provoke a new charge such as in the case of Inaki De Juana who is supposed to have been released in 2003 after 18 years imprisonment and was sentenced to an additional 12 years and 7 months for writing an article in a Basque newspaper.
Refusal to be broken and continuity are revolutionary stances of which the class enemy is terrified like the devil is of holy water. Refusal to be broken and continuity are a vital nerve for the revolutionary process whose protection must be organized.
Class struggle solidarity demands development and structure. No lasting progress can be made without collectively addressing these questions. Every year the conferences in Basle make their contribution. It is a slow and costly process that must be completed. We invite you to take part in this process, either directly through a delegation or by handing in analyses which aid in clarifying the above questions and the process in general.
And it is in this sense that we finish with the slogans: