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At present, while the imperialist bourgeoisie is attacking on all fronts to enforce their deadly law of capitalism at any time in the life of each person, all resistance must be assessed positively, also armed resistance that leads to an irreducible denial of the system.

As an international force of resistance against repression and for the support of the resistant and revolutionary prisoners, our solidarity is for all those the system lets pay for their resistance – regardless of the form of repression (job loss, police brutality, torture or prison). But in that countless abundance of those who suffer from the violence of those in power because of their political commitment, we especially want to name those who manage to create a liberation project and give it a collective dimension and continuity.

That was and is obviously the case with the members of the organization “Revolutionary Struggle“, that fight in- and outside of Greek prisons, in clandestinity or in legality, in agit-prop or in the urban guerrilla, and have brought these three qualities of project work, collectivity and continuity to a very high level.

2.
It is a free decision for every revolutionary to support or not to support the organization “Revolutionary Struggle”.
But it is an essential duty for every revolutionary to support the prisoners of the “Revolutionary Struggle”.

It is out of the question to leave these revolutionaries, who fight the struggle against capital and its machinery of oppression exploitation and impoverishment, at the highest level, to leave them alone in their battle against these infernal mechanisms, that the imperialist bourgeoisie has installed against those who threaten their system.

Because the State knows that to silence these determined militants, prison is not enough, they install a prison within the prison, which in Greek prisons is called C Type prison, with all its mechanisms, that are intended to destroy the political and social identity and the mental stability of the prisoners: isolation, sensory deprivation, methodical and systematic methods of humiliation.

3.
But while the state develops, refines and generalizes these methods, the revolutionary movement has developed their techniques of resistance. Some who aim at being able to stick to principles concern the prisoners, others affect us outside of prison walls. And those concerning us can be summarized in two words: break through the isolation.

Show by all means that the prisoners are not alone, make them known as persons, make their commitment and their own situation known.

Try to establish a connection between them and the solidarity movement, give their resistance a wide response and let them know about solidarity events.

And above all: treasure them as an important and valuable part of the revolutionary process.

We ourselves must not reduce them to a status of prisoners, but allow them to continue to contribute to the fight, not only for themselves, because this fight is basic for their identity, which is threatened to be broken by the prison, but for us as well because we all have to learn as much as possible from their experiences and reflections.

In this sense, meetings like yours are completely congruent with our concept of using solidarity as a weapon.

Solidarity with the prisoners of the Revolutionary Struggle!
Solidarity with all revolutionary prisoners!

Commission for a International Red Help (Zurich-Bruxelles)
October 2014