opinions on the struggle of the Palestinian peoples.
Zionism has delivered the native Arab working population to the exploitation of England'. (Theses on the National and Colonial Question, 1920.)
TROTSKY utopian and reactionary character (Zionism), will on a real and salutary meaning. (The Basic Writings of Leon Trotsky, Howe (ed.) 1966.)
KAUTSKY delusion to it was remembered that Palestine is already on occupied country...
guerrilla warfare and bloody concessions' (Kautsky, Are the Jews a Race?, written 1921)
HO CHI MINH Zionism has aroused considerable sympathy on the left in Great Britain; and in the 1940s international communism supported the foundation of the Israeli state. These positions, however directly conflict with those previously taken up by the Komintern, by Lenin and Trotsky: and with those which Fidel Castro and Ho Chi Minh, among others, have come to adopt. Published here are some of the positions taken on the left against Zionism over the past fifty years, and some It is essential to expose continually the deception fostered among the masses of the toilers in all, and especially the backward countries, by the imperialist powers aided by the priveleged classes of ¡the subject countries in creating under the mask of political independence various Government and State institutions which are in reality completely dependent upon them economically, financially and militarily. As a striking example of the deception practiced upon the working classes of a subject country through the combined efforts of the Allied imperialism and the bourgeoisie of the given nation, we may cite the Palestine affair of the Zionists, where under the pretext of creating a Jewish state in Palestine, in which the Jews form only an insignificant part of the population, The very same methods of solving the Jewish question which under decaying capitalism have a , under the regime of a socialist federation, take *For Zionism is not a progressive movement, but a reactionary movement. Zionism aims not at following the line of necessary evolution, but of putting a spoke in the wheel of progress... It is a imagine that the Jews arriving from Europe and America will ever succeed in convincing the Arabs that Jewish rule in this country will ever redound to the advantage of the Arabs themselves. In the early days of Zionism people were blind to this difficulty. Little more attention was paid to the Arabs than was paid to the Indians in North America. Only occasionally There is no longer any doubt of the final victory of the Arabian people; the question merely is whether this victory is to be obtained by the peaceful method of a successive forcing of concessions, or by a period of wild according to their own courage and means...
FIDEL CASTRO war if only it had been united and inspired by a revolutionary determination.
revolutionaries never threaten an entire country broken off diplomatic relations with Israel.
clear: no one can save a country if this country is not capable of saving itself. (From Quaderni del Medio Orienti, no.3.)
Arab inhabitant.
tervour and become the blind tools of imperialism in subiugating the successes or defeats to the games of the great powers, but to their capacity to take on the Taken from an interview with K.S. Karol. According to Fidel the main reason for the Egyp military defeat is found in the inadequate revolutionary spirit of' the army. A really revolutio force can at times retreat before an enemy who has superior armament, but he is always abl continue the struggle under another form and to obtain the final victory. A country such as E should have been able to allow its whole territory to be occupied and to release a ruthless gue Fidel also added that he was personally very shocked by a certain kind of Arab propag which, on the eve of the war in the Middle East, showed a lack of revolutionary principles.
with extermination', he said. Such propaga has unwittingly helped the Israel leaders to mobilise the patriotism of their people and to u first for a preventive war and for territorial conquest carried out under the protection of yar imperialism. Our condemnation of Israel is clear, but we do not deny its right to exist. We have Fidel is convinced that the Israelis will n abandon their conquered territories peacefully and according to him time is not on the side of Arabs. 'But sometimes a defeat can provide a political stimulus which was lacking in the beginn In my opinion, the sooner the Arab countries pass on to the counter-offensive to recover t territories the better it will be for them. In any case our view of the crisis in the Middle Ea A series of human tragedies brought the Jews to Palestine - pogroms in Tsarist Russia, persecut in Eastern Europe and the holocaust of Nazism. When they reached Palestine, they found th was inhabited by Arabs. Whatever the motivation that brought the Jews in, an increasing cont between Zionist settlements and the Arabs was unavoidable. The Arab peasant on his very standard of living, suffering from open or disguised unemployment, was there offering his lab and product for a very cheap price. How could a European worker or prospective worker fir job under such conditions? The only way found was to block the employment of any workers by Jewish employers. In Tel-Aviv which on the eve of the founding of the state of Is had nearly 300,000 inhabitants, there was not one - 1 repeat not one - Arab worker, not Israel is not a colony suppressed by imperialism, but a colon, a settler's citadel, a launchingfor imperialism. It is a tragedy that the sons of the very people who had been persecuted massacred in such a bestial fashion should themselves by driven into a chauvinistic, militari Arab masses Zion
merger between the Palest Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM) and a gr of Palestinian commandos known Jibriesuse ogroup.
Because its political commitments, the PFLP was soon involved in Arab politics. Three of its leaders were imprisoned by the Baathi regime in Syria, a step which when denounced immediately and US imperialism in particular *Let all guns towards the Zionist-Imperialist enemy! *Long live the solidarity of all sections of the resistance against the external and internal attempts to liquidate it by the right-wing chauvinists and fascists! *Long live the revolutionary Palestinian resistence movement. Long live the solidarity of the common world-wide against imperialism, Zionism and reaction!
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