[The following statement is reprinted from the International Communist Seminar in Brussels, 2-4 May, 2000. The list of organizations who signed it are at the end of the document.]
Resolution
in Support of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Submitted
by the Ray O. Light Group, USA
Whereas,
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political prisoner in the United States and is currently
facing execution at the hands of U.S. imperialism, and
Whereas,
Mumia is a renowned Afro-American journalist, freedom fighter against police
brutality and has become known as the "voice of the voiceless", and
Whereas,
Mumia Abu-Jamal was railroaded to prison and death row in 1981 by the U.S.
repressive state apparatus for the alleged murder of a policeman, and
Whereas,
the trial of Mumia violated all semblance of justice and fair play - witnesses
disappeared or were coerced, witness testimony was fabricated, Mumia was denied
the right to defend himself and the court appointed an incompetent "defence”
attorney, money was not provided for ballistic tests and for other aspects of
his defence and the presiding judge was a member of the Fraternal Order of
Police and infamous for sentencing more prisoners to death row than any judge in
the USA, and
Whereas,
Mumia continues to be an internationalist freedom fighter even from death row
and solitary confinement exemplified by his courageous and principled stand
against the U.S. imperialist led NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and
Whereas,
the Afro-American national liberation struggle is a vital component of the
world-wide liberation struggles of the oppressed peoples against imperialism,
headed by U.S. imperialism, and
Whereas,
the struggle to free Mumia Abu-Jamal is an important pad of the struggle against
police brutality in the USA and for Afro-American liberation and world
socialism, therefore
Be
it Resolved that the ICS gathered here in Brussels over May Day 2000 demand
justice for Mumia Abu-Jamal and specifically demand that the U.S. imperialist
repressive state apparatus immediately halt the pending execution of
freedom-fighter Mumia Abu-Jamal and,
Be
It Further Resolved that the many parties and organizations gathered here at the
ICS work in our respective countries to free Mumia Abu-Jamal as part of our
proletarian internationalist responsibilities to advance the cause of national
liberation and socialism.
Signatories
1.
Belgium, Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB)
2.
Brazil, Centro Brasileiro da Soliedaridade aos Povos
3.
Brazil, Communist Revolutionary Nucleus (NCR)
4.
Cameroon, Movement of Independent Democrats
5.
Chad, Chadian Action for Unity and Socialism (ACTUS)
6.
Colombia, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (FARC-EP)
7.
Czech Republic, Communist Youth Union
8.
Democratic Republic of Congo, Mwendeko
9.
Democratic Republic of Congo, Patriotic Front
10.
Democratic Republic of Congo, People’s Power Committees (CPP),
11.
Denmark, Marxist-Leninist Danish Communist Party (DKP ML)
12.
Dominican Republic, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of the Dominican
Republic
13.
Ecuador, Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador (PCMLE)
14.
France, Anti-Imperialist Front
15.
France, Cercle Henri Barbusse
16.
France, Communist Coordination
17.
France, Information Bulletin “Nouvelles d’URSS”
18.
Germany, Communist Party of Germany (KPD)
19.
Great Britain, Lalkar Magazine
20.
Greece, Revolutionary Marxist Organization A/Synechia
21.
Haiti, Confédération ouvrière des Travailleurs haïtiens (KOTA)
22.
India, Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) New Democracy
23.
Indonesia, People’s Democratic Party (PRD)
24.
Italy,
Circolo Lenin
25.
Mali, African Solidarity for Democracy and Independence (SADI)
26.
Mexico, Broad Front for the Construction of a National Liberation
Movement (FAC-MLN)
27.
Nepal Communist Party (Mashal)
28.
Nepal, Anti-Imperialist Revolutionary Front
29.
Netherlands, New Communist Party of the Netherlands (NCPN)
30.
Norway, Workers’ Communist Party (AKP)
31.
Philippines, Communist Party of the Philippines
32.
Poland, League of Polish Communists “Proletariat”
33.
Russia, All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks
34.
Russia, Russian Communist Workers’ Party
35.
Sudan, Communist Party of the Sudan
36.
Switzerland, Communist Organization Switzerland (KOS)
37.
Turkey, Revolutionary People’s Liberation Front (DHKC)
38.
Turkey, Turkish Communist Party / Marxist-Leninist (TKP/ML)
39.
Ukraine, Union of Communists of Ukraine
40.
USA, Freedom Road Socialist Organization
41.
USA, Ray O’Light Group
42.
USA, Workers’ World Party
(List of 4 May 2000)