Support the Struggle
of the Masses in Germany Against Racists, Facists, and their Reactionary
Protectors!
- Statement
by the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
10 June 1993
Over the
past two years and more, racist and fascist forces in the Federal
Republic of Germany have unleashed a series of criminal attacks
against the foreign born and non-whites. This cowardly reactionary
campaign reached a new low on 29 May when fascists firebombed
the home of a peaceful family of Turkish immigrants, resulting
in six deaths, four of whom were children. In the aftermath a
storm of struggle and rebellion has swept across Germany. Based
largely upon Turkish, Kurdish and other immigrants, this outbreak
of struggle has drawn the support of wide sections of German rebel
youth and other progressive strata. It is the most powerful movement
of the proletariat and oppressed masses in Germany in several
decades.
The Committee
of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement fully supports
the struggling masses in Germany against the racists, fascists
and their reactionary protectors. Waging this struggle is a vital
component part of preparing for proletarian revolution in Germany,
for no class that stood silent in the face of such vicious outrage
would ever be fit to rule.
In Germany,
as in most other imperialist countries, millions of proletarians
have been recruited from the oppressed nations. These workers
and their families have spent their lives enslaved to backbreaking
labour to enrich the imperialist ruling class. They are not "marginal"
to German society, they are at the very heart of it, and they
will be at the very heart of the struggle to overthrow it.
Through the
course of this struggle, the unity of proletarians of all nationalities
in Germany can be further strengthened and even broader sections
of the progressive forces in Germany can be drawn into the revolutionary
process. As Marxist-Leninist-Maoist forces lead the struggle forward
against the racists, fascists and their reactionary protectors,
further strides can be taken in forging a genuine vanguard party
of the proletariat.
The firebombing
of children is a concentration of the anti-people character of
this hideous monster, the new "united Germany", with a new, increased
hunger pushing it to devour more and more of the labour of the
working people, within and without its current borders. But the
current storm of struggle is another example of how imperialism
continually produces the army of its gravediggers. The monster
of German imperialism can be toppled!