Communist Party of Swaziland holds seminar “Justice for Kurds, freedom for Öcalan”
The Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) organized a seminar titled “Justice for the Kurdish People - Freedom for Comrade Öcalan”.
The opening speech of the seminar was delivered by Titus Vilakati, CPS’s Head of International Relations. Vilakati underlined that the freedom struggle of the Kurdish people was important to them. He revealed that they organized the seminar to learn and understand the Kurdish people, their leader, Abdullah Öcalan, who has led the cause of freedom and the situation of all political prisoners.
Mahmoud Patel, President of the South African Kurdish Working Group (KHRAG), was invited to the seminar as a speaker. In a visual presentation, Patel talked about the war waged by the Turkish state with international support from the First World War to the present. In the second part of the seminar, Patel discussed the history of the PKK, its resistance and the position of Öcalan in this struggle.
In another presentation, Patel addressed the role of the CIA, Mossad and NATO in the international conspiracy against Öcalan. Citing the Imrali system that the Kurdish People's Leader has been subjected to for the last 24 years, Patel called attention to the similarities in South Africa during the Apartheid regime in order to better understand the situation of both the Kurdish people and Öcalan.
After a 40-minute presentation, CPS International Secretary Pius Vilakati pointed out that the Kurdish people's struggle for freedom was endorsed by their own struggle and that success was possible through the unity of the peoples. Vilakati added that Sakine Cansız was murdered by the Turkish state because the Kurdish women's revolution was influential.
Titus Vilakati, another CPS director who attended the seminar, underlined the internationalist reliance of his party, citing CPS Secretary General Thokozane Kenneth Kunene who said that "the freedom struggle of the Kurdish, Palestinian and Western Saharan peoples is our struggle".
Participants stressed that the CPS should fight for the freedom of the Kurdish leader. In conclusion, they called for a common struggle.
The Communist Party of Swaziland has long been fighting the monarchy in the country.
