The fascist dictatorship carried out another police operation against our party last night. As part of the attack, 17 houses in 7 cities were raided. A total of 14 members and supporters, including our Executive Committee member Cicek Otlu, Party Assembly members and People’s Democratic Congress (HDK) Co-Spokesperson Sedat Senoglu, have been detained so far.
Everyone should know that this operation is part of a campaign of political genocide against the organised forces of the working class and the oppressed. It is an effort to silence the pioneers of the revolution and leave the people disorganised, demoralised and weak.
The fascist dictatorship is attacking us because the Socialist Party of the Oppressed calls on workers and labourers – forced under the conditions of the epidemic to choose hunger and poverty or exposure to the virus – to strike and revolt in the streets and workplaces. It cries out that the rulers are capitalist powers that seeks profit over public health. It cries out that socialism is not just an alternative but a necessity.
Because ESP turns the anniversary of the Suruç massacre, which was organised by the State, into a day of fighting struggle and calling to account, rather than a day of mourning.
Because ESP says that the struggle against patriarchy can only be achieved by targeting the capital and the state, which are its material bases.
Because ESP does not just condemn the racist attack on Kurdish seasonal agricultural workers, it calls for self-defense and legitimate confrontational struggle.
Because ESP exposes that this regime is a colonial regime. It opposes the wars and occupations against the Kurdish people in the most open way. It defends the national-collective rights of the Kurdish people.
Because ESP knows and shows that the hand on the throat of the Turk and the foot on the neck of the Kurd belong to the same sovereign. It declares that fascism will not be defeated at the ballot box, but through the united struggle of the Turkish and Kurdish people on the streets.
We, as revolutionary socialists, have seen and experienced many such operations. We managed to stand up in the face of all of them. Because it is the interests of the working class and the oppressed that govern our actions, not the love of property and position like the fascist gangs. As long as these classes are active in history, no one should imagine that we will ever bow down our heads.
Our struggle requires a price – because we want what we produce, our lives, our freedom, and everything that belongs to us. In the face of these attacks, we call on our people to embrace their parties ever stronger, to fill the vacant ranks and strengthen the fight against exploitation, oppression, inequality, rape, abuse and slavery.
ESP is hope!
Down with the order of exploitation!
Down with fascism, long live the revolution and socialism!