Resolution on the Situation of the Refugees in Turkey and Greece

The ICOR strongly condemns the horrendous abuse of the desperate situation and hopes of the refugees in Turkey by the Turkish and Greek governments and the EU.

This was triggered by the barbaric escalation of the war in the Syrian province of Idlib. There Russia and the Assad regime and Iranian forces on the one side oppose Turkey and the Islamistic-fascist militias and Syrian forces against the Assad regime on the other. In the crossfire are the people living there, especially women and children are mainly affected. 900 000 people are fleeing, 250 000 of them are children and youth. Only the democratic forces in Northern and Eastern Syria (Rojava) have welcomed and taken care of the arrived refugees in an exemplary way.

After several military setbacks Erdogan seriously called upon NATO for an „alliance case“. This would have meant a direct military confrontation of important imperialist world powers and so possibly the start of a world war. This could not be implemented in the NATO countries in face of resistance and the outrage of the masses.

In order to exert pressure Erdogan now canceled the scandalous EU-Turkey deal, which had the goal of shutting the borders of the EU for refugees in exchange for large payments and which violates the right of flight, the right of asylum and the rights contained in the UN Refugee Convention for millions of people. Thousands of people were brought to the borders by the fascist Erdogan regime, where they were driven back from the Greek side with brutal force, including the use of tear gas and water cannons. At the same time, the Turkish police did not let them out of the border area again. In „no man's land“ women, men and children are freezing and starving.

For years, people on the Greek islands have been showing solidarity with the refugees in an exemplary manner. But they are abandoned by European governments and oppressed in protests. In camps set up for a maximum of 8 000 people now more than 40 000 dwell! When the people on the Greek islands demonstrate they are encountered with brutal special task forces of the Greek government. On the Greek islands the living conditions are also deteriorating through the imperialist refugee policy. In completely overcrowded camps refugees are forced into inhumane conditions in rain and cold. Fascists from all over Europe are trying to create a Pogrom atmosphere among the population of the islands and are driving refugees who have landed back into the sea, insulting, threatening and traumatizing them.

The EU as one of the richest imperialist confederations of states in the world has nothing better to do than to receive the refugees with tear gas, clubs, sharp ammunition and the imperialist troops for border protection Frontex. From secretly taken videos we have learned of transports from „no man's land“ back to Turkey in buses in which children and women have died miserably. Meanwhile they also use the Corona virus to expand their proto-fascist, anti-immigrant policy.

In this situation broad protests against the entire failed imperialist refugee policy and against fascist terror are required. The causes of flight lie in imperialist exploitation and oppression by the imperialist countries! The fight against them must be taken up – in the self-organization of the refugees in close alliance with democratic and revolutionary forces in the respective countries.

In numerous Greek cities as well as in various large cities of the EU demonstrations against the refugee policy of the EU have already taken place. The self-organization of the refugees, hand in hand with the population in active resistance is the key to cope with the current emergency situation.

The causes can only be eliminated with the struggle against the imperialist world system. ILPS and ICOR have called up to build up an international united front against fascism and war. It is fundamentally opposed to the imperialist re-division of the world on the backs of the peoples.

Strengthen the building of the anti-imperialist united front!

The refugees are our brothers and sisters!

Struggle against the imperialist EU and its inhumane policies, which allow ten thousands to die miserably in the Mediterranean and in the deserts.

Struggle in the EU countries against the causes of flight, for taking up the refugees in the EU countries and for their integration among the struggling masses of the respective countries!

Long live international solidarity!

Signatories (as of 27 March 2020, further signatories possible):

1. ORC Organisation Révolutionnaire du Congo (Revolutionary Organization of Congo), Democratic Republic of the Congo

2. MMLPL Moroccan Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Line

3. CPSA (ML) Communist Party of South Africa (Marxist-Leninist)

4. PPDS Parti Patriotique Démocratique Socialiste (Patriotic Democratic Socialist Party), Tunisia

5. CPB Communist Party of Bangladesh

6. CPI (ML) Red Star Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star

7. Ranjbaran Hezb-e Ranjbaran-e Iran (Proletarian Party of Iran)

8. NCP (Mashal) Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)

9. PR-ByH Partija Rada - ByH (Party of Labor - Bosnia and Herzegovina), Bosnia and Herzegovina

10. MLPD Marxistisch-Leninistische Partei Deutschlands (Marxist-Leninist Party of Germany)

11. UCLyon Unité Communiste Lyon (Communist United Lyon), France

12. UPML Union Prolétarienne Marxiste-Léniniste (Marxist-Leninist Proletarian Union), France

13. KOL Kommunistische Organisation Luxemburg (Communist Organization of Luxemburg)

14. MIKSZ Magyar Ifjúság Közösségi Szervezete (Organisation of Hungarian Youth Community), Hungary

15. RM Rode Morgen (Red Dawn), Netherlands

16. MLGS Marxistisch-Leninistische Gruppe Schweiz (Marxist-Leninist Group of Switzerland)

17. KSC-CSSP Komunisticka Strana Cheskoslovenska – Cheskoslovenska Strana Prace (Communist Party of Czechoslovakia – Czechoslovakian Workers Party), Czech Republic

18. TIKB Türkiye İhtilalci Komünistler Birliği (Union of Revolutionary Communists of Turkey)

19. TKP-ML Türkiye Komünist Partisi – Marksist-Leninist (Communist Party of Turkey – Marxist-Leninist)

20. KSRD Koordinazionnyj Sowjet Rabotschewo Dvizhenija (Coordination Council of the Workers Class Movement), Ukraine

21. MLP Marksistsko-Leninskaja Platforma (Marxist-Leninist Platform), Russia

22. PCC-M Partido Comunista de Colombia – Maoista (Communist Party of Colombia - Maoist)

23. PCP (independiente) Partido Comunista Paraguayo (independiente) (Paraguayan Communist Party (independent))

24. BDP Bloque Democratico Popular (Popular Democratic Bloc), Peru

25. PC (ML) Partido Comunista (Marxista Leninista) (Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist)), Dominican Republic

26. PS-GdT Plataforma Socialista - Golpe de Timón (Socialist Platform – Change of Course), Venezuela

27. PCR-U Partido Comunista Revolucionario del Uruguay (Revolutionary Communist Party of Uruguay)

28. CPA/ML Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist)

Subsequent signatories:

MLKP   Marksist Leninist Komünist Parti Türkiye / Kürdistan (Marxist Leninist Communist Party Turkey / Kurdistan)