Turkish Parliament passed the New Penal Execution Law
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The New Penal Execution Law has become one of the last home-works that have been fulfilled by the Turkish state in order to get negotiation date at the EU summit on 17 December. The law, which was brought to the Assembly in June of last year, was going to "solve the question of prisons forever" according to the Ministry of Justice, Cemil Cicek. And their foreseen solution was to make revolutionary prisoners surrender. At that period, as the result of struggle against the law, which was aimed at personalities of political prisoners through "one-type dress" and "compulsory work" and foresaw to consider their right to resist as criminal offence, the government have had to withdraw the law.

However, withdraw of the law did not weaken the struggle against isolation. The anti-isolation people from four corners of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan have come together and formed united platforms. The resistance continued under any circumstances by the prisoners has also been tried to be increased also outside via different tools and methods of the struggle. It was known before hand that the law would be brought to the agenda of the Assembly before 17 December and therefore there was acceleration at the protest actions against the law.

The increasing protests and the social pressure against the law have brought the State to make back-step on clauses such as "one-type dress" and "compulsory work" and changes in those clauses. The government has passed the changed-version of the law in the Parliament on 13 December by making back-step in the face of the struggle of the anti-isolation people, relatives of prisoners and revolutionary prisoners. On 7 December when the law was on debate in Parliament Commission, a group of people from ESP (Socialist Platform of the Oppressed) have clashed with the police in Ankara and given the message that the law can only be repulsed by the strength of the street. At the period when the law was brought to the Assembly again, the revolutionary prisoners have also protested by organising temporary hunger strike in various prisons. The revolutionary prisoners have noted that they will not accept the sanctions and will not give concessions from their revolutionary ideas.

While organising widespread protests against the massacre that was realized by the fascist dictatorship on 19 December 2000 in 20 prisons, the anti-isolation people have also protested the isolation and the penal execution law. The most crowded action organised in protest of 19 December massacre was in Istanbul and attended by 2 thousand people.

The adoption of the law by the Parliament will not slow-down the fight against the isolation and, as it happened before, the anti-isolation people are showing their commitment to increase their struggle.

MLCP have acted and acts with the point of view that the question of isolation as one part of the general strategy of reconstruction of the state cannot be solved only by efforts of the political prisoners, it however can only be repulsed by development of the class struggle on the social base.

While trying to create the widest unities of the anti-isolation people and while raising the struggle against the isolation by taking active duties in unities and platforms, which are already being created, MLCP is also struggling to repulse and de-function the law through her own forces by using all type of method of action. MLCP is committed to wreck the fascist dictatorship's attacks to institutionalize and legalize the isolation.
 

 

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Turkish Parliament passed the New Penal Execution Law
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The New Penal Execution Law has become one of the last home-works that have been fulfilled by the Turkish state in order to get negotiation date at the EU summit on 17 December. The law, which was brought to the Assembly in June of last year, was going to "solve the question of prisons forever" according to the Ministry of Justice, Cemil Cicek. And their foreseen solution was to make revolutionary prisoners surrender. At that period, as the result of struggle against the law, which was aimed at personalities of political prisoners through "one-type dress" and "compulsory work" and foresaw to consider their right to resist as criminal offence, the government have had to withdraw the law.

However, withdraw of the law did not weaken the struggle against isolation. The anti-isolation people from four corners of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan have come together and formed united platforms. The resistance continued under any circumstances by the prisoners has also been tried to be increased also outside via different tools and methods of the struggle. It was known before hand that the law would be brought to the agenda of the Assembly before 17 December and therefore there was acceleration at the protest actions against the law.

The increasing protests and the social pressure against the law have brought the State to make back-step on clauses such as "one-type dress" and "compulsory work" and changes in those clauses. The government has passed the changed-version of the law in the Parliament on 13 December by making back-step in the face of the struggle of the anti-isolation people, relatives of prisoners and revolutionary prisoners. On 7 December when the law was on debate in Parliament Commission, a group of people from ESP (Socialist Platform of the Oppressed) have clashed with the police in Ankara and given the message that the law can only be repulsed by the strength of the street. At the period when the law was brought to the Assembly again, the revolutionary prisoners have also protested by organising temporary hunger strike in various prisons. The revolutionary prisoners have noted that they will not accept the sanctions and will not give concessions from their revolutionary ideas.

While organising widespread protests against the massacre that was realized by the fascist dictatorship on 19 December 2000 in 20 prisons, the anti-isolation people have also protested the isolation and the penal execution law. The most crowded action organised in protest of 19 December massacre was in Istanbul and attended by 2 thousand people.

The adoption of the law by the Parliament will not slow-down the fight against the isolation and, as it happened before, the anti-isolation people are showing their commitment to increase their struggle.

MLCP have acted and acts with the point of view that the question of isolation as one part of the general strategy of reconstruction of the state cannot be solved only by efforts of the political prisoners, it however can only be repulsed by development of the class struggle on the social base.

While trying to create the widest unities of the anti-isolation people and while raising the struggle against the isolation by taking active duties in unities and platforms, which are already being created, MLCP is also struggling to repulse and de-function the law through her own forces by using all type of method of action. MLCP is committed to wreck the fascist dictatorship's attacks to institutionalize and legalize the isolation.