Thursday, 29 October a delegation of thirty militant network solidarity with the Basque people "friends and friends of Euskal Herria / Euskal Herriaren LAGUNAK" of Milan, the Milan offices of symbolically occupied "La Repubblica" to protest against censorship and disinformation that the media and national against international practice repression of the Basque people.
When in Italy, we talk about press freedom and regime, the silence of all the media on torture in the English police are always spot on mass incarceration on disperisione of Basque political prisoners, sull'illegalizzazione of each self-organized political expression of Basque left, is criminal and is a form of complicity objective.
It 'was applied to the Milan office a commitment to give voice to a people who for decades suffered a brutal repression by the English Government and the total denial dellla democratic legitimacy of Euskal Herria, the delegation then went out into the street continuing the event with banners claiming the right to self-determination of the Basque people and denounced the "dirty war" in the precise way the disappearance of several months of militant Basque Jon Anza.
"friends of the Basque people / Euskal Herriaren LAGUNAK of Milan"
Milan, 29.10.2009
enclose the statement delivered to the drafting Milan Republic and photographs
PRESS
Through this initiative we want to denounce the silence of the Italian and European media, which have completely obscured, for the umpteenth time, serious incidents of repression by the English government in the Basque Country.
Faced with the arrest of the spokesman of the independent left Arnaldo Otegi and numerous members of the Basque trade union LAB, in front of dozens of alleged cases of torture, before the disappearance of the militant Basque JON Anza that you do not have more News from April 18, 2009, in front closures of newspapers, radio, television channels, all'illegalizzazione of parties, youth groups, advocacy organizations, business associations and political prisoners and their families the press have not spent any Italian word. gagged information is complicit in everything that is happening, especially the closure of the English government towards a democratic solution to the conflict and the possibility of genuine political debate.
On October 14 the English police have arrested the headquarters of the union of the left-independence LAB Donostia 10 separatist militants among the most popular in the Basque country, accused of being part of the political leadership of Batasuna. This organization, the Popular Unity Party of the Left for Independence, was illegalization by the courts of justice in Spain in 2003, but, with popular support, has continued to be active since then.
These serious events that occurred with the signing of the Proceedings of the National English judge Baltasar Garzon, has no doubt politically motivated inseparable from the Zapatero government.
The English government is pursuing repressive policies criminalizing the Collective Prisoners of which is forbidden to show pictures and is publicly supporting the dirty war of the English Government against the Basque separatist militants of the left, which led to the disappearance of 4 months of militant Jon Anza in France.
The attitude of the neo-Francoist English governments last decade, which has led to illegalization parties and cultural associations and social , has never been questioned by the press officers and it is certainly not a news now. With the crackdown has not disappeared, nor Batasuna, and movement antirepressivo or social struggles incurred by the independent left, nor the enormous task of rebuilding the cultural and linguistic. All otherwise.
The Left Basque therefore, continues to maintain vigorously the ' policy initiative.
in recent months in Euskal Herria is becoming ever more evident and the public ' intention of independence left to invest great efforts in the future in the formation of what is called Polo Soberana.
Wanting cancel this policy was the basis of broad act of war carried out by the English government of the PSOE, with the full connivance of the English Popular Party. The arrest of these ten alleged militants, as well as by the same sinistra indipendentista, anche da tutti i partiti e i sindacati democratici in Euskal Herria, riuscirà, forse, solo a ritardare questo processo politico e questa nuova aggregazione di massa. Senza dubbio, aumenta la quota di dolore e sofferenza che il popolo basco paga per pretendere di ricostruire un futuro euskaldun (basco), femminista, internazionalista, socialista sulla base del suffragio universale.
COME RETE MILANESE IN SOLIDARIETÀ AL POPOLO BASCO “EUSKAL HERRIAREN LAGUNAK” CHIAMIAMO A DENUNCIARE QUESTI FATTI, QUESTE AZIONI DEL GOVERNO SPAGNOLO, PER ROMPERE POCO A POCO QUESTO VELO DI SILENZIO E INERZIA CHE I MASS MEDIA HANNO STESO IN EUROPE AND THE WORLD.
Press network of friends and friends Euskal Herria
Euskal Herriaren LAGUNAK
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On October 14 the English police have arrested at the headquarters of the union of independent left 10 militants LAB Donostia-independence renowned public reputation, accused of being part of the political leadership of Batasuna. This Popular Unity Party of the Left Independence, which was illegalization by the courts of justice in Spain in 2003, but continued to be active since then.
The headquarters of the union was completely surrounded and taken by the repressive forces for hours. Trade unionists who were inside the premises have been identified and detained in a room for hours, among them was the former head of the LAB Rafa Usabiaga. In another room were locked Arnaldo Otegi, Rufi Etxebarria, Sonia Jacinto and Arkaitz Rodriguez, and there he was transferred after Rafa Diez Usabiaga. Village were also arrested Manel Ugarte, Amaia Esnal, Ainara Oiz, Txeluis Moreno Zabaleta and Miren. All those arrested are now in isolation.
These serious events that occurred with the signing of the Proceedings of the National English judge Baltasar Garzon has no doubt politically motivated inseparable from the Zapatero government. Already in the days before the government newspaper El Pais had suggested the idea that these same leaders were desautorati by ETA for their supposed political opposition against the armed struggle. So why keep them prisoners?
The reaction of the branch of the PSOE, Zapatero was in Euskal Herria, on the one hand, say that "there was nothing politically important in hand", that "this was equal to other earlier because they were organizing the political leadership of Batasuna ". Second, they stressed that "we are in front of a new political phase is difficult to define in a few words." Perhaps the novelty is in the stigmatization and criminalization of the Collective of Fascist Prisoners of which is forbidden to display photographs in public? The novelty of the political stage is the disappearance of 4 months of militant Jon Anza in France?
The impulse of the governments neo-Francoist English illegalization last decade of political and social parties and associations, although criticized by some parties in the Basque area, however, was always respected as a last resort and is certainly not a novelty now. This is not news nor the fact that this impulse in the basic neo-fascist regimes and in the case of the struggle for independence and socialism in Euskal Herria, totally barren of the objective: to reduce to a ridiculous and paralyze the expression movement that supports him and that left the Basque. ETA has not disappeared, nor Batasuna, and movement antirepressivo or social struggles incurred by the independent left, nor the enormous task of rebuilding the cultural and linguistic.
Quite the opposite. The Basque left has shown its vitality in the few authorized mass mobilizations, as well as some of those illegalization. The Left
illegalization independence has managed to stand for election, to renew its participation in institutions of all kinds, sometimes reaching more than legal form in 15-20% of the vote in all electoral contests for all ten years since it was illegalization. Continue to maintain strongly that the political initiative. In recent months, in Euskal Herria is becoming ever more evident and public's intention independence left to invest great efforts in the future in the formation of what is called Polo Soberana. The same Arnaldo Otegi announced important changes for this fall. No one had escaped to avoid political interference in whose heart lies the initiative is the origin of the act of war carried out by the English government of the PSOE, with the full connivance of the English Popular Party. The arrest of these ten alleged militants, as well as by the same independent left, even by the parties Ezker Batu-Izquierda Unida, Aralar, Eusko Alkartasuna and the union ELA, maybe this will only succeed in delaying the political process. Without doubt, the share of pain and suffering that Euskal Herria pays to pretend to rebuild a future Euskaldun (Basque), feminist, internationalist, socialist on the basis of universal suffrage. From
Askapena call to denounce these things as strongly as possible, these fascist actions of the English Government, there where you can activate the international solidarity with Euskal Herria, little by little to break this veil of silence and inaction that the mass media and their allies in the neo-liberal system has spread to Europe and the world, about the reality of exploitation and struggle that develops in Euskal Herria.
EUTSI GOIARI! EUSKAL AURRERA HERR!
continues in the Basque country, the harsh repression by the English state. Just a few days ago, in Donostia, the Guardia Civil has made arrests and detentions of men of the Basque patriotic left (among them spokesman Arnaldo Otegi of the political bodies of the Basque people and Rafa Diez former national secretary of the union LAB).