release of the international organization Basque Askapena
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!
Askapena, 14 October '09
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