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Call for a Demonstration against Police Repression

Demonstration Against Police Terror in Berlin

Thursday, 13. April, 19:00
Corner between Rollbergstraße and Hans-Schiftan-Straße in 12053 Berlin

In light of the latest incident of police repression against a comrade, we had to ask ourselves “is this simply racism or hunting down leftists”? Therefore, we decided to take matters into our own hands and protest in front of the police station against this repression – which affects us all.

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Indefinite Hunger Strike Against §129!

European Dev-Genç (Revolutionary Youth) member Eda Deniz Haydaroğlu, who lives in Germany, announced that she will start an indefinite hunger strike resistance to expose the lawlessness and injustice of German imperialism and to increase the struggle against the 129b law.

She shared a video in which she explains the reasons for her hunger strike resistance that she will start on March 18th, ‘International Day of Freedom for Political Prisoners’, with utmost demand of Özgül Emre, İhsan Cibelik, Serkan Küpeli and Hasan Unutan should be tried without pre-trial detention!

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Freedom for Hasan Unutan! Demonstration against the §129b Arrest

On the 9th of February 2023 Hasan Unutan got arrested by the German imperialist state under the paragraph 129b of the criminal law. Hasan Unutan is originally from Turkey, but he moved to Germany in 2002. He is a worker and a father of three children. He is politically active in the anti-imperialist left movement and a member of the solidarity committee for the music band Grup Yorum, which is politically persecuted in Turkey and in Germany.

We call all organizations, groups and individuals who are against the arbitrary detentions and imprisonment related to §129 cases to attend the demonstration(Kudgebung) on 20th of February in Kottbusser Tor at 18:00. It will be in the square where the statue for the murdered communist Celalettin Kesim. (Kottbusser Tor/Ecke Reichenbergstr.)

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Statement of Alliance Against Naziparagraph 129: Accept the Demands of Alfredo Cospito! Destroy the Isolation!

The imprisoned anarchist militant Alfredo Cospito is on hunger strike since 20th of October 2022, resisting in Italian jails against the isolation regime 41 bis. We are in full solidarity with Alfredo Cospito and principally against all solitary confinement and isolation methods.

The 41 bis is a special detention regime in Italy, also known in Italian as “carcere duro” (hard prison regime) and is defined by the Article 41 bis of the Prison Administration Act. Even though it acquired its final denomination only in 1986, the 41 bis derives from the Article 1 of Law Nr. 354, issued in 1975. During this period, the class struggle had intensified in Italy. From militant left groups to autonomous factory workers, people of Italy were rising the struggle for freedom with the wave of anti-imperialism that was sweeping all the world. It is during this times that the prison system was radically reformed: the institution started thinking itself as something that can, at any moment, suspend its own rules, thanks to the intervention of the executive power. The state wanted this change in order to subjugate the revolutionary will that now fills the prisons, and wanted to crush possible prison revolts even before they started.

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Long March under the slogan “Away with the paragraph 129!”.

This call is also Available in German, Turkish

First events of the Long March will be in Berlin. On 27th of January 2023 at 19:00 in Zielona Góra (Grünbergerstr. 73, 10245 Berlin), there will be an info event. On 28th of January 2023 at 15:00, there will be a demonstration in Oranienplatz.

The Paragraph 129 of the Criminal Code (StGB) of Germany has a 200-year history. Throughout the time, the name changed, but the content always remained the same: Whoever opposes the status quo, is punished for it. Under the name § 129 with its appendages a and b, it is the most recent form in the history of state persecution of freedom of speech in Germany.

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Our Statement on the Alliance “Weg mit dem Paragraphen 129”.

This text is also available in German

Paragraph 129 is the most recent form in the history of state persecution of freedom of speech in Germany. What began in 1822 as a “state protection law” and was directed against the bourgeois revolution in Germany, was later used against democrats and socialists who wanted to create publicity for the Paris revolution in 1871. In the 200 years of history, the name changed, but the content always remained the same: anyone who opposes the status quo will be punished for it. Paragraph 129 StGB was used massively in Nazi Germany between 1933-1945 and all regime critics, opposition members and resisters were charged under this paragraph. When Nazi Germany was defeated, West Germany reviewed the penal code in 1951 in the course of the so-called “denazification”. Paragraph 129 was also to be deleted from the code. But West Germany, where 80% of judges also served as judges in the Nazi regime, kept Paragraph 129 in the code to prevent “Nazis from gaining strength again.” However, in 71 years since that decision, Nazis have rarely been tried. Instead, mainly anti-fascists, democrats, and socialists are the ones, who have been tried.

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Letter from Özgül Emre

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This letter was recently sent by Özgül Emre from Rohrbach Prison of Germany to her lawyer and translated from Turkish into English. Özgül is a revolutionary from Turkey who was arrested in Germany on 16th of May 2022 and is accused of being a member of a terrorist organisation. During the high point of revolutionary struggle of Turkey in 1990s, she worked as a journalist in Kurtuluş Magazine. As an exiled revolutionary in Germany, she worked in wide range of committees; from anti-drug committees to anti-racism committees. The attacks of German state didn’t stopped with this mafia like kidnapping. From the detention onward, they forced prison uniforms on Özgül Emre in Rohrbach prison. German state knows very well that Revolutionaries do NOT and NEVER wear prison uniforms. In 1984, 4 revolutionaries died as a result of hunger strike to oppose the introduction of prison uniforms in prisons of Turkey. Until this day, there is no prison uniforms thanks to 4 martyrs. Özgül Emre comes from this uncompromising tradition to keep up the identity, integrity and dignity of being a revolutionary. As the oppression to enforce prison uniforms is not enough, Rohrbach prison is tried to kill her with not supplying salt and sugar for the first 30 days of hunger strike. They only supplied one piece of sugar with tea every evening, which obviously is not enough. Without the supplements like salt and sugar in proper dose, it is very easy for a person die in hunger strike at any stage. Around the day 40, she got hospitalised and on 44th day of the hunger strike she won the struggle against the torturers and received her own clothes, luckily without any long term damage to her body. In this letter, she describes the torture methods of the prison authorities, who do not provide her with sanitary conditions and privacy.

“How are you doing? How are all our people? I am doing very well because of my determination of being righteous – despite the political and legal siege against me. The trial against me, as well as my imprisonment, are, from my point of view, unlawful and also contrary to the law. Although my place of residence is known and I had an appointment at a government office on the very day of my arrest, it was pretended that I could not be found, that I would never go to my apartment, and so I was kidnapped on the basis of lies in the street. The purpose was to make me look like the guilty. Because they could not have justified my arrest and pre-trial detention any other way. The trial against me could have taken place without pre-trial detention.

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Rally on 27.11.2022 – Freedom for All Anti-Fascist and Revolutionary Prisoners – Down with the Nazi paragraphs 129, 129a and 129b!

Rally – Freedom for All Anti-Fascist and Revolutionary Prisoners – Down with the Nazi paragraphs 129, 129a and 129b!
We will be in streets,  in front of Federal Ministry of Justice,
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo (Alte Mohren) str. 37, 10117 Berlin
27 November 2022, 13:00
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DOWN WITH PARAGRAPH 129, 129A and 129B StGB! (Second Part)

This article is also available in German.

These examples alone show impressively that the persecution of democrats, socialists and communists continued seamlessly in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), but under democratic cover.

The persecution in the Nazi Reich was made more precise by the 1st Criminal Law Amendment Act in the FRG, so that a Gesinnungsparagraph [translator’s note: an attitude-based law, in contrast with the common act-based criminal law] was created, in which the objective investigation of punishable facts was increasingly pushed into the background. Between 1954 and 1962, at least 85 people were imprisoned for political reasons. Since then, there have always been political prisoners in Germany’s prisons. Today, a total of 20 political prisoners are in prison.

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