Stop Prosecution for Solidarity with Palestine and for Opposition against the Military Dictatorship in Egypt! List of Signatories
Statement of Solidarity
Protest against the Parliamentary Inquiry launched by the Right-Wing Opposition Party in Austria against the RCIT Section and the Egypt Migrant Community!
Stop Prosecution for Solidarity with Palestine and for Opposition against the Military Dictatorship in Egypt!
We, the undersigned, are aware that a group of deputies of the Freiheitliche Partei – an extreme right-wing racist party led by HC Strache – has initiated a parliamentary inquiry against the Austrian section of the RCIT as well as against the leading organization of the Egypt migrants in that country. Referring to slogans in solidarity for Palestine as well for the resistance of the Egypt people against the military dictatorship which were chanted by their contingent at an anti-racist demonstration in Vienna at 26 November 2016, the parliamentary deputies call the Federal Ministry of the Interior to officially investigate these two organizations with the view to take legal steps against them. Irrespective of our concrete perspectives about the future of the Palestinian as well as the Egyptian people’s struggle for liberation, we protest against this parliamentary inquiry and we also oppose any state investigation and prosecution against these organizations.
Please send this short letter by email to the Austrian Parliament (medienservice@parlament.gv.at) as well as to the Austrian ministry of interior (pressestelle@bmi.gv.at). Please forward this email also to us: rcit@thecommunists.net
The following organizations and individuals have expressed their solidarity until now (05 April 2017):
Argentina
Tendencia Piquetera Revolucionaria (TPR)
Australia
Dr. Michael Karadjis (University of Western Sydney)
Austria
Unterstützung der Hinterbliebenen - Ekrem El Mawta
Dr. Hermann Dworczak (Social Scientist and Trade Union Activist)
Abderrahmen Laarouchi
Dr. Haysam Samoui (active in the Movement „Free Syrians“)
Mag. Manfred Ecker (Neue Linkswende, Verein „Publikationen für Sozialismus von unten“)
Leo Gabriel (Institut für Interkulturelle Forschung und Zusammenarbeit)
Kurt Kahn
Erich Dietrich
Gruppe Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt
Brazil
Sindicato Dos Funcionários Públicos De Diadema
Partido da Causa Operária
Frente Comunista dos Trabalhadores
Partido Operário Revolucionário
Fração Trotskysta- Vanguarda Proletária
Britain
Gerry Downing (Secretary of Socialist Fight)
Tony Greenstein (Brighton & Hove UNISON/Brighton & Hove Trades Union Council)
Egypt
Egyptian Revolutionary Council (ERC) – UK
France
Christian Ronse (University Professor)
Germany
Gruppe ArbeiterInnenmacht
Greece
Savas Michael-Matsas (General Secretary of the EEK)
Israel / Occupied Palestine
Omer Golan-Joel (Workers' Rights Activist)
Ofer Neiman
Italy
Partito Comunista Dei Lavoratori
Fronte di lotta No Austerity
Coordinamento Studentesco Rivoluzionario
Mexico
Tiempos Modernos
Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS)
Liga de Unidad Socialista (LUS)
Periódico El Comienzo
Colectivo Ratio
Movimiento Estudiantil Revolucionario Internacionalista (MERI)
Frente marginal de Chihuahua
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Communist Workers Group – Aotearoa/New Zealand (CWG-A/NZ)
Peru
Revolución Permanente
South Africa
Workers International Vanguard Party (WIVP)
USA
Andrew Pollack
Communist Workers Group – USA (CWG-US)
League for the Revolutionary Party (U.S.)
Zimbabwe
International Revolutionary Workers of Zimbabwe
Revolutionary Workers Group of Zimbabwe (RWG-Z)
International Organizations
International Workers League – Fourth International (IWL-FI) / Liga Internacional de los Trabajadores - Cuarta Internacional (LIT-CI)
International Workers Unity – Fourth International (IWU-FI) / Unidad Internacional de los Trabajadores - Cuarta Internacional (UIT-CI)
Other Statements
Wir haben erfahren, dass eine Gruppe von Abgeordneten der rechtsextremen und rassistischen FPÖ eine Parlamentsanfrage an den Bundesminister für Inneres gerichtet hat, die sich unter anderem gegen die Gruppe RKO Befreiung richtet. Wir verurteilen diese Anfrage und die damit verbundenen Forderungen nach Überwachung und Verfolgung dieser Organisation. (We are aware that a group of deputies of the extreme right-wing and racist party FPÖ has initiated a parliamentary inquiry to the ministry of Interior which is directed, amongst other, against the RKO BEFREIUNG. We protest against this parliamentary inquiry and we also oppose any state investigation and prosecution against these organizations.)
RIO Revolutionäre Internationalistische Organisation http://www.klassegegenklasse.org
Trotskyist Faction – Fourth International (FT-CI) http://www.ft-ci.org