Statement of Solidarity
Stop Judicial Prosecution for Solidarity with Palestine!
We Call upon the Austrian State to Drop the Charges against Michael Pröbsting!
We, the undersigned, are aware that Michael Pröbsting was summoned on 20 April 2016 to appear before the Federal Bureau for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter-Terrorism due to a speech he delivered at a rally half a year earlier. In his speech, Pröbsting said: “With all our hearts we will stand with the Third Intifada until the State of Israel is abolished and all people in Palestine can live together peacefully.” Furthermore, we are aware that if the public prosecution department should open a trial against Mr. Pröbsting in which he is convicted, he can face up to one year in prison. Irrespective of our concrete perspectives about the future of the Palestinian people’s struggle for liberation, we oppose any such judicial prosecution of Michael Pröbsting.
Signatories (25 May 2016)
Israel / Occupied Palestine
Basel Ghattas (Knesset Member for the Joint List, Balad)
Progressive Labor Party, Israel-Palestine
Yigal Levin (Social Activist)
Ofer Neiman
Shmuel Yerushalmi
Eyal Rosenberg
Do Aminob
Yehuda Stern
Austria
Ibrahim Ali (Coordination Council of the Egypt Community in Austria)
Dr. Leo Gabriel (Journalist, Director of the Institute for Intercultural Research and Cooperation; see Letter)
Abderrahmen Laarouchi
Ulrike Laarouchi
Faez Soliman (Spokesperson of Al-Ahwaz Al-Arabaya)
Dr. Hermann Dworczak (Social Scientist and Trade Union Activist)
Karl Fischbacher (LabourNet Austria)
Wilhelm Langthaler (Writer and Activist for a just social order)
Priv.-Doz. DI Dr. Gernot Bodner
Dipl.Ing. Dr. Mohammad Abu Rous
Mag. Sebastian Baryli
Frigga Karl (Human Rights and Peace Activist)
Irina Vana
Waltraud Schauer
Mag. Elisabeth Lindner-Riegler
Mohamed Zakaria
Rahman Mohamed
Ahmed Maher
Argentina
Juan Marino - Tendencia Piquetera Revolucionaria (TPR)
Natalia Saralegui - Tendencia Piquetera Revolucionaria (TPR) and member of Memory, True and Justice Summit (EMVyJ, Encuentro Memoria, Verdad y Justicia)
Lionel Zivals - Tendencia Piquetera Revolucionaria (TPR)
Australia
Dr. Michael Karadjis (University of Western Sydney)
Brazil
Jose Aparecido da Silva (President of the Trade Union of the Public Employees in Diadema)
Frente Comunista dos Trabalhdores
Britain
Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC)
Socialist Fight
Egypt
Abdul Rauf Ahmed Butikh (Poet and Socialist Journalist)
France
Christian Ronse, University Professor, Strasbourg in France
Germany
REVOLUTION Germany
Said Fallah
Lina Tahan
Bernhard Thiesing (Journalist, Mitglied der Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ver.di, Berlin)
Greece
Savas Michael-Matsas (General Secretary of the EEK, Greece)
Communist Revolutionary Action
Panagiotis Papargyris
Organization of Communists Internationalists of Greece (OKDE)
Iran
Kamil Alboshoka (Ahwazi Organisation for the Defence of Human Rights)
Hungary
Tamas Krausz, Historian
Italy
Franco Grisolia (Nationale Commitee of the Trade Union Federation CGIL)
Tiziana Mantovani (Central Commitee Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori)
Ottaviano Lalli (Central Committee of Partito Comunista dei Lavoratori)
Mexico
Agrupación de Lucha Socialista
Russia
Iosif Abramson, Dr. of Techn. Sci., St.Petersburg
Igor Gotlib, St.Petersburg
South Africa
Shaheen Khan, Citizen of the Republic of South Africa
Shaheed Mahomed (Workers International Vanguard Party)
Mr. Abdeslam Habiballah Ahmed (Executive Chairperson of the Migrant Community Board in South Africa)
Union of Arab Communities in South Africa
Moroccan Association of South Africa
Mallet P. Giyose (Jubilee South Africa)
Turkey
Sungur Savran (Chairman of the Revolutionary Workers' Party, DIP)
Şafak Can
Can Ali Dijvar
Sinem Can
Serkan Cibran
Berxwedan Poyraz
Tr Serdar
USA
Alex Steiner (Editorial Board of the Web Site http://permanent-revolution.org)
Frank Brenner (Editorial Board of the Web Site http://permanent-revolution.org)
Barry Finger (Member of the Editorial Board of New Politics)
Keith Kinion
Walter Daum (League for the Revolutionary Party)
Venezuela
Ricardo Galíndez (for the Corriente Socialista Revolucionaria)
International Organizations
International Bureau of CoReP (CoReP: http://www.revolucionpermanente.com, Groupe Marxiste Internationaliste (France): http://groupemarxiste.info, Gruppe Klassenkampf (Österreich): http://www.klassenkampf.net, Révolucion Permanente (Peru): http://luchamarxista.blogspot.fr)
Liaison Committee of Communists (LCC): Revolutionary Workers Group of Zimbabwe (RWG-ZIM), Communist Workers Group - New Zealand/Aotearoa (CWG-NZ), Revolutionary Workers Group of Brazil (RWG-BR), Communist Workers Group – USA (CWG-US)
League for the Fifth International (http://www.fifthinternational.org)
Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt (http://arbeiterinnenstandpunkt.net/), Gruppe ArbeiterInnenmacht (http://www.arbeitermacht.de/), Arbetarmakt (http://www.arbetarmakt.com/), League for the Fifth International - Britain (http://www.workerspower.co.uk/), Liga Socialista (http://www.ligasocialista.com/), Socialist Party of Sri Lanka (http://socialistpartylanka.blogspot.de/), Revolutionary Socialist Movement Pakistan (https://rsmpakistan.wordpress.com/), Workers Power – US (http://www.workerspower.net/)