Wing a monthly journal Al Mounadel, Both are supporters of the Fourth International At the present time, the failure of the petit-bourgeois Arab nationalist groups like Al Fatah to the State of Israel and the acceptance of a bantustan-type solution to the problems of the Palestinians. This statement, despite the presently limited influence of its signatories, is thus extremely important in that it points the way forward to an internationalist solution for which both Arab and Jewish revolutionary marxists can struggle in the Middle East today.
On the accasion of the fourth Arab-Israeli wer, the www and Arab reclutionary marxists. supporters of the Fourth International both in the Arab countries and in the very heart of the Zionist Saare, express nur atention of lighting for our common paint of vite, nat or brocaran intanam In the war betwcen the Zionist State and the Arcb bourgeoisies, the revolutionary marxists are not neutral: they aupport the struggle of the Arab peoples against the Zionist State-a colonialist state which is the major bastion of nocriolism e the fiddle East the enery not only of the Arab masses but also of the Jawish masses, whom it is inading into a permanent war against the struggle of the Arab peoples for thair national and social liberation, The support of the revolutionary marxists for the war against the Zionist State is not at all support for the palicies of the Arab ruling classns, On the contrary, The duty of the revolutionery mersists a to show th Arab messes that the ruling classes of their countries nave no intention, in mai controntation all the Zionist State, of ensuring vicrory for the national cause of the Palestinian Arab people—s their right oppression, which necessarily means the destruction of the Zionist Suite, The Arab ruling cesses intend in fact to create the basis for peaceful co-existen ce masses.
The basic reason for the agreement which is now bRing drawn uo, Throunh The intervention of US imperialism and with the support of the Soviet bureaucracy, is to block the revolutionary process for which the Palestinian cause has acted as a catalyst.
In exchange for a windrawal trom the herritories besupied in June 1967, the bourgeois Arab regimes, collected together under the aegis of Saudi Arabia, demonstrations organised against the killing of immigrant workers by right-iving forces in August.
KENTUCKY: Picketing women are playing a vital role in presenting the Duke Power Company from breaking a lour month-old strike by Brookside coal miners, who are Fighting for the right to be represen Ted De the United More Phorkers union tatner Erwi the Southern Labor Union, a local outfit run by the compery. The compuny had hoped to bring in sast labour after obtaining a court injunction which barred more than three pickets at any entranes. But they to co to slept the response of me wainen organised in the Brookside Women's Cub First the women organised a demonstration through the loal town of Harian to loci aintion on th strike and gather support. Then more than a hundred the one an anti-Zionist group in Israel, the other a revolutionary Arab group in Lebanon publishrecognise the importance of the anti-Zionist struggle inside Israel is leading towards recognition of are preparing to roognise the Zionist State, and in agreement with it, to block the rise of the Arab socielist revolution The role of the marcist revolutionar es is:
- In che Arab countries, to expose the manoeuvres of the Arab rating classes, their mpitulation to Imperialism and Zionism, and their betrayal of the against a 'posseful solution' Into a spring-board Tor a total revo utionary struggle of the Arab masses against imperialism, Zionism and pitalim - In Isreel, to deviop the critical sentiments provaked in the ranic of the masses by the lest war into an anti-Zionist dass consciousness, which will allow a brisk it the socred national unity and a joint struggle by the Jewish workers with the Arab messes for a united Arab Sodalist Republic, which alone can guarentee not just security for the Jewish masses bur ciso their national rights and their social emancipetion, FOR THE TOTAL AND UNCONDITIONAL RETREAT OF THE ISRAELI ARMY FROM THE TERRITORIES OCCUPIED IN JUNE 19671 NO TO THE PEACEFUL SOLUTION', NO TO THE BETRAYAL OF THE NATIONAL CAUSE OF THE PALESTINIAN ARAR PEOPLE!
FOR A COMMON REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE OF THE ARAB AND JEWISH WORKERS AGAINST IMPERIALISM, ZIONISM, AND THE ARAB RULING CLASSES!
LONG LIVE PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISMI Isreli Socialist Organisation (Matzpen Marxistl For the Arab revolutionary marxista: Revolutionary Communist Group /Lebenon! 20 November 1973 of them oiled into cars and drove back to the minn. When the scibe came out, we talked with them and we fought with some of them, said miner's wite Mery Widener. As another ectivist explained, 'the Womers Club carries switches to whip scabs with.' No sosb has dared set foot in the mine since. The women have also braved gun toting company thugs at the nearby High Splint mine to pull out two thirds of the miners thare in salidanty with the Brookside strike, Although a number of them have been arrested, fined up to 5500, and thrown into to see the strike through to victory. in so doing, they have provided an object lesson in the fighting strength possible when the whow class land not just its male portion) moves into struggle, Red Weekly 21 December 1973 Page 7