A former political prisoner in France, the Lebanese communist Georges Abdallah supported the hunger strike of several revolutionary prisoners against the so-called well-type prisons S, R and Y, which are known for their particularly inhumane conditions of incarceration. In particular, he stressed the importance of mobilizing for Serkan Onur Yılmaz and Ayberk Demirdöğen who have been fasting until death for 309 and 188 days respectively.
[…] Perhaps it would be necessary to affirm on this occasion that it is no longer just a question of expressing unwavering solidarity with the Comrades imprisoned in the Zionist jails or in the jails of fascism in Turkey or elsewhere around the world; that it is no longer just a question of supporting with all our strength their just demands and thereby saluting the ongoing mobilization around the “hunger strike at full speed” of our dear comrades. Perhaps it is time to affirm that with regard to our comrade prisoners who are the object of a policy of systematic destruction, any expression of solidarity has no real meaning from now on, except to the extent that it consists in implementing all the measures necessary for the practical expression of the firm determination to rescue our comrades from the clutches of their criminal jailers. Of course, Comrades, this is not a question of affirming loud and clear any moral duty towards our captive Comrades, it is simply a question of combining the capacities of the revolutionary forces (at the national, regional and even more so international levels) and of inscribing in the first place the liberation of our Comrades, in the global dynamic of the struggles really underway; in other words, on the basis of an internationalism without any concession with regard to the bourgeois strata operating within the “historical social bloc”. […]