Step out of the shadows
for a moment
Anonymous fighters with veiled faces, and receive
Our salvation
Bertold Brecht, The Decision
Over the weekend of March 23-24, Red Help International held its half-yearly conference in Zurich.
Our work was marked by the news of Daniela Klette’s arrest in Berlin, and even more by the significance of this arrest and the reactions it provoked.
This decades-long clandestinity, in a state where the police, with so many resources, made this issue a priority, is an achievement. Such clandestinity is, by proxy, the pride of the entire revolutionary movement, and a lesson in intelligence, method and determination.
The number of demonstrations of sympathy for Daniela, Ernst-Volker and Burkhard shows that this sentiment is widely shared, making the regime’s representatives all the more enraged.
Beyond the RAF underground, many other comrades have made the difficult and courageous choice to go underground, rather than submit to or negotiate with class justice. This is the case of many antifascists prosecuted for various crimes (Antifa Ost, Budapest).
These wanted comrades must also be protected and helped in every way possible.
Their struggle against fascism is a central one in this historic period of crisis and war, from Berlin to Diarbakir. The antifa movement is well aware that the fight against fascism, from white-collar institutional fascism to neo-Nazi militias, has once again become an essential frontline.
The structures of the regime (political, police, judicial and media) want to break this anti-fascist dynamic, as they do any dynamic of resistance, because it is in resistance that revolutionary prospects are forged.
The fact that Daniela was immediately placed in solitary confinement, the same solitary confinement used against Alfredo Cospito, Nadia Lioce and the other brigadistas detained in the special sections, is further proof of this desire.
We must oppose this relentlessness with solidarity.
“Making solidarity a weapon” is a program, not a slogan.
Red Help International calls on all to support the wanted comrades in every way, and to demonstrate this commitment by taking part in an international day of action on April 14, the day of a solidarity demonstration with Daniela Klette outside Vechta prison.
Strength and solidarity with Ernst-Volker, Burkhard and the underground antifas.
Freedom for all revolutionary, anti-fascist and anti-imperialist prisoners.
Freedom for prisoners of the Palestinian Resistance facing torture in Zionist prisons.
Freedom for all peoples facing fascism and colonialism, in Palestine, Kurdistan and around the world.
Long live international solidarity.
Red Help International, 31.3.2024