OUR DEATH FAST RESISTANCE IS CONTINUING
Our Death Fast resistance is the most powerful voice in our country's struggle for rights and freedoms, and it will continue.
Our Death Fast resistance is our resistance war against the imperialists' policy of destruction and of using terrorism and massacres to make the peoples of the world surrender.
Our resistance war is continuing and will continue.
The F-Type prisons aim to turn prisoners into the "living dead", and the fulcrum of this policy is one of isolation.
Our Death Fast resistance will go on until isolation is ended.
Our Death Fast resistance has passed through some very varied stages in the period of more than a year and a half since its start on October 20, 2000. On October 20 we started the resistance with the TKP(ML) and TKIP Trial prisoners. While our Death Fast resistance created a major effect in a short time, outside the prisons our TAYAD families
boosted the Death Fast resistance and opposed the F-Type prisons by means of various activities they pursued.
This part of the struggle went on against the F-Type coffin prisons until December 19, 2000. Before that date, various other groups also began hunger strike actions. The
December 19 massacre had clearly been planned beforehand as a way of preventing our struggle from developing, using massacres to intimidate the opposition and to mute any
reaction to events, and to bring the F-Type isolation prison policy onto the agenda.
But contrary to their calculations, the massacre did not make us surrender and by boosting
our Death Fast resistance even further we came through these days.
After the December 19 massacre other groups also increased their participation in our Death Fast resistance. US, European Union imperialism and Turkey's oligarchy persisted
with the F-Type coffin prisons.
Imperialism had earlier announced that it expected the 21st century to be one of crisis, and its policies were determined according to methods
aimed at "overcoming crisis". And imperialism wanted to crush all forces opposing these policies. In Turkey, priority was given to crushing the revolutionaries. They had to be
crushed, for they were the only force opposing these policies of imperialism outright.
In our country, the DHKP-C was quite naturally declared to be a target, along with other
revolutionary groups, and the authorities made the "prisons" the centre of their attack on the revolutionaries.
While imperialism and its collaborators were fighting to put into effect the F-Type coffin prisons policy, they also persisted in fighting against the demands of revolutionary,
democratic, progressive forces and the people for bread, justice, democracy and independence.
Imperialism and its collaborators want to repress and destroy the struggle for all kinds of economic and democratic demands, drowning them in blood, and while they are putting
into effect their colonial-terrorist policies they don't want forces to remain that would resist and struggle against them. We were conscious that our demands were just and that by
struggling for them we would spend our lives paying the price for our demands. Undoubtedly it was impossible to know definitely how long this period would last. However, we
were ready to pay any price for this struggle, whatever that price was, and we were resolved to strengthen the fight for our people's liberation, to increase its scale, to bring it to a
victorious conclusion, to drive back the aggressive policies which started with the F-Type coffin prisons and to frustrate these policies. Our resistance is a resistance which has an
understanding of history. Throughout history, the act of resistance can be described as a gain in opposition to exploitation and tyranny, and millions have been of the opinion
that democratic rights and freedoms are just such gains won through resistance. Undoubtedly this is not the situation the peoples want, but it is forced on them by the ruling
classes.
Massacres and terror have been a basic policy of the rulers for thousands of years. Today the situation is the same. If we are sincere in our desire for equality, justice
and independence, then we have to pay a price for it, though we might prefer not to.
Today we have reached a stage where there are not far short of 100 martyrs and we have more than 400 gazis (in Turkish, a term applied to wounded war veterans) who were
subjected to the torture of forcible medical intervention, were wounded by gunshots or suffered severe burns.
Up to the present, there have been attacks on our resistance,
attacks carried out in the name of the "left" and "democratisation". Those who attacked our resistance were those who wanted to prove themselves to the system. They were
those who do not believe in the victory of the struggle, they were those who do not believe in the struggle for rights and freedoms, they were those who have no conception of
history, they were those who cannot see what the future will be like. They were not people with the ideals appropriate to a major cause, they were instead people rendering petty
accounts on a day to day basis. And these were just the sort of people who joined themselves on to the state's attacks.
The frightened and intimidated have tried to act as though they do not even see our resistance, and they have shrunk from supporting it, while having no hang-ups about joining
the chorus of support for the murderous state in various ways, both direct and indirect. We have continued our resistance war despite such people. Our strength has increased
from our rightness, from our beliefs, from our love for each other and for our people, and from the values we have created, drawing on thousands of years of the people's
struggle through history.
At this stage, groups have DROPPED OUT OF THE RESISTANCE, apart from the DHKP-C and TKEP-L prisoners. Notwithstanding certain variations, the essential characteristic
of these groups is that when they were in the resistance they did not believe the resistance would win, they continually withdrew demands and tried to bring the resistance to an
end. From the start of the resistance, they did not adopt a determined attitude, sections within these groups opposed the resistance and this had an effect on their
organisations. They saw betrayals as legitimate and to an increasing extent they came out in support of these betrayals. From showing a great deal of interest in the aims of the
resistance, their attitude within the resistance moved towards weakening it by placing an increased emphasis on unimportant matters. They were irresolute, and this irresolution
took its effect on their resistance, this effect deepened and reached the stage where they DROPPED OUT OF THE RESISTANCE.
When these sections ended resistance, the
media in the service of the oligarchy took great pleasure in putting out news that the Death Fasts actions had ended. Whereas everyone knows very well what the DHKP-C Trial
prisoners have stood for since the very start of the Death Fast resistance, in political and practical terms.
The state in the service of the media is using those events as a way of discounting our resistance and attempting to smother it, but our resistance is continuing and will continue.
There is no force that can destroy this truth, and trying to discount it cannot prevent it either.
OUR RESISTANCE IS CONTINUING, FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY AND PEOPLE AND FOR BREAD, JUSTICE AND FREEDOM, IN OPPOSITION TO THE ATTACKS
OF IMPERIALISM AND ITS COLLABORATORS.
THE DEMAND OF OUR RESISTANCE IS THAT THE POLICY OF ISOLATION MUST END AND THE RESISTANCE WILL
CONTINUE UNTIL THIS DEMAND IS ACHIEVED.
THOSE WHO THINK ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS ARE WRONG, FOR HISTORY DOES NOT CONSIST OF TODAY.
THERE
HAVE BEEN DARK YEARS, EVEN DARK AGES IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. BUT THIS HAS NEVER BEEN SOMETHING THAT FAILED TO CHANGE, AND IT WILL
CHANGE.
THOSE WHO WANT TO MARCH FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE IN THE FUTURE AND HEADS HELD HIGH MUST JOIN THE RANKS OF THE RESISTANCE TO THE
F-TYPE COFFIN PRISON POLICY AND THE ATTACKS DIRECTED AT OUR PEOPLE BY THE IMPERIALISTS AND THEIR COLLABORATORS.
LONG LIVE OUR DEATH FAST RESISTANCE
OUR DEATH FAST MARTYRS ARE IMMORTAL
WE WILL WIN VICTORY WITH OUR MARTYRS
June 10, 2002
DHKP-C Prisoners' Organisation
(Note on organisations:
DHKP-C - Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front
TKP(ML) - Communist Party of Turkey Marxist-Leninist
TKIP - Communist Workers' Party of Turkey
TAYAD - Friendly Association of Families of Prisoners
TKEP-L - Communist Labour Party of Turkey-Leninist)