XI International Communist Seminar
‘Economic Crises and Possibility of a Major World Crisis’
Brussels, 2-4 May 2002

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Resolution against the "anti-terrorist" laws of the European Union

On May 2, 2002, the Council of European ministers of Justice and of the Interior decided to put 12 organisations on a list of terrorist organisations, among them the DHKP-C and the PKK. This decision means, among other things, that all funds of these organisations will be blocked, what boils down to their de facto prohibition on the entire European territory.

This way, the European Union follows the wish of the United States and Germany, who had already previously banned these organisations. The European Union has already announced that this is just a first list of organisations, what means that other revolutionary organisations may follow suit. Early this year, the EU presidency had already made an amalgam of terrorism and the anti-globalization movement.

With the official publication of this list, Europe takes a qualitative leap in the repression of the revolutionary and anti-capitalist movement. This is an expression of the tendency toward fascisation of imperialism in crisis. This shows that the true meaning of the so-called fight against terrorism is the criminalization and the repression of the anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist and revolutionary movements.

In contrast with this, is the European Union showing complicity with the Israeli state terrorism against the Palestinians and with the military regime of Turkey.

We, the undersigned, demand:

the immediate withdrawal of this list of so-called "terrorist" organisations

the withdrawal of the European Union’s proposed framework Act for the fight "against terrorism"

the respect of all democratic rights, including the rights of expression and organisation, for all anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements in Europe.

1. Anticapitalist National Assembly, Italy
2. Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Forum, Nepal
3. Association of Refugees from Latin America and the Carribean (ARLAC), Belgium
4. Cercle Henri Barbusse, France
5. Chad Action for Unity and Socialism (ACTUS)
6. Comité d’initiative pour la formation du Parti communiste, Haiti (COIFOPCHA)
7. Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE)
8. Communist Party of the Philippines
9. Communists in Struggle, France
10. Communist Workers and Peasants Party, Pakistan
11. El Machete, Mexico
12. Lalkar, United Kingdom
13. Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE)
14. National Democratic Front of the Philippines
15. Nepalese Communist Party (Mashal)
16. Organisation of the Fedayin (Minority), Iran
17. Rete dei Comunisti, Italy
18. Revolutionary Movement 8 October, Brazil
19. Soccorso Popolare, Italy
20. Stalin Society, United Kingdom
21. Workers’ Communist Party (AKP), Norway
22. Workers’ Party of Belgium

(list of 27^th May 2002)