'Be Strong Comrades' letter from Farzad Kamangar (Part 1)

Chris Strafford (CPGB) reads out a letter from Farzad Kamangar, which was sent out to other prisoners in April 2010. Farzad was executed 4 days before this reading. 13/05/2010

The Letter:
" Be strong comrades.
Once upon a time, there was a mother fish who laid 10,000 eggs. Only one little black fish survived. He lives in a stream with his mother.

One day the little fish said to his mother, I want to go away from here. The mother asked, Where to? The little fish replied, I want to go see where the stream ends.

Hello cell mates. Hello fellow mates of pain!

I know you well: you are the teacher, the neighbour to the stars of Khavaran, the classmates of dozens whose essays were attached to their legal cases [as evidence], the teacher of students whose [only] crime was their humane thoughts. I know you well: you are colleagues of Samad and Ali Khan. You remember me too, right?

It is me, the one chained in Evin prison.

It is me, the quiet student who sits behind the broken school benches and longs to see the sea while in a remote village in Kurdistan. It is me, who like you, told the tales of Samad to his students; but in the heart of the Shahoo Mountains.

It is me who loves to take on the role of the little black fish.

It is me, your comrade on death row."

( Continued here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IOJlOt3rfE )

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