Statement on Kurdish struggle — Fourth International

10 October 1982 · The Eleventh World Congress and after (1979–1985) · 132 words

Published English text: Intercontinental Press, vol. 20 no. 36, 13 December 1982 · United Secretariat of the Fourth International.

Transcribed from the scan of the issue: machine-read, then put in reading order and corrected against the page image. Printed misspellings are kept.

The following statement was adopted October 10 by a majority of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International.

Once again the Kurdish people are suffering the blows of savage repression.

In Turkey, the military regime is jailing and torturing hundreds of Kurdish activists, mounting bloody operations against villages, and sealing off the Kurdish are as from the rest of the world.

In Iraq, the Kurds are still being deprived of their most elementary democratic rights.

In Iran, in recent months a massive offensive has been launched against the Kurdish fighters. It has already claimed thousands of victims, the great majority of whom are civilians.

The Fourth International supports the struggle of the Kurdish people for self-determination. It condemns all the forms of repression against the Kurdish people being practiced by the states in the region, and supports the campaign in defense of the basic democratic rights of the Kurdish people.