April 29, 2021

Uprising of the Palestinian masses against the Zionist occupier and the imperialist “two state” plan!

For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel!
Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine!
The same intifada throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East!

A great rebellion has broken out among the Palestinian people. It started in Jerusalem on Thursday night the 22nd, raising red-hot that this is the capital of Palestine. Since last Friday, every day there are massive mobilizations also throughout the West Bank, clashing with Zionism at the Qalandia checkpoint or against its occupation of al-Khalil (Hebron). In Gaza, the marches are massive, and Palestinian refugees from the camps in Lebanon and Jordan have joined. It is a great general rebellion. Long live the intifada! Let the rebellion turn into an insurrection!

It is a great uprising against the Zionist occupier, who last Thursday 4/22 send their fascist gangs to attack the Palestinians who were coming out of the night prayer of Ramadan in the al-Aqsa mosque, beating them cowardly and shouting "death to the Arabs"; meanwhile they set fire to Palestinian houses in East Jerusalem.
The occupier not only is usurping Palestinian lands, they also attacks the Palestinians with their settler gangs and represses them. Over the past few months, these gangs have started to setting fire to Paledtinian houses and continuing to evict Palestinians from their lands. Furthermore, the Zionists have guaranteed Covid-19 vaccines only for settlers. They prevented these vaccines from reaching the Palestinians, condemning them to die from Covid-19; to this is added the pains of hunger, overcrowding, high cost of living, total shortage of basic products, the siege on Gaza ... It´s an offensive of extermination and definitive expulsion of the Palestinian people by Zionism, encouraged by Biden, against which the Palestinian people have rebelled.

In its revolutionary onslaught, the Palestinian people face the Zionist occupation and also the nefarious “two-state” plan of imperialism, orchestrated from the UN, supported by the Palestinian collaborationist bourgeoisie, which has only brought them more hunger, misery, loss of crops and homes and more concentration camps for the Palestinian people, plus a strengthening of the occupation.
The uprising is so great that it surpasses all control of the Palestinian bourgeoisie over the masses, which and they have united in a generalized revolutionary struggle. They broke a siege like the one they had three years ago, when Gaza resisted alone by holding every Friday a march for their return while the PLO was keeping the Palestinian people apart by exercising tight control over the West Bank.
Hamas launched from Gaza a couple of rockets on the Zionist state in the first days, but immediately afterwards called for a ceasefire and a stop of all fighting. Still, the masses continue on the streets, going beyond what Hamas wants. Zionism bombs Gaza, but cannot stop such a revolutionary uprising.
Now, we must advance as in the revolution of the year 2000, taking over the stations of the collaborationist police to arm ourselves and confront the occupier! Arms for the Palestinian people!
Bread, houses and even democracy would only be conquered if the Zionist-fascist state of Israel is terminated. Down with the “two state” plan! For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel! For a free, secular, democratic and non-racist Palestine from the Jordan River to the sea, with its capital in Jerusalem, which can only be guaranteed by a workers' and peasants' government! Palestinian National Assembly of one representative for every 10,000 from Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and the entire diaspora, directly elected by them, recallable at any time by their constituents!
Free the more than 7,000 Palestinian prisoners in the dungeons of Zionism and the anti-occupation fighters imprisoned by the PLO in the West Bank!

The struggle of the Palestinian people is the same fight with the Syrian resistance, the uprising in Lebanon, the revolutionary struggle in Iraq, and in the entire Middle East.

The Syrian resistance in Idlib is fighting and marching in support of the Palestinian people. Also in the Palestinian rebellion the flag of the Syrian revolution flies. The fence that separated these revolutions, imposed in the first place by the Palestinian bourgeoisie, which affirmed that the Palestinians should be neutral in the face of the Syrian revolution, is beginning to be broken. The result of that separation was a brutal massacre by al-Assad in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk as part of the Syrian genocide, directed from the counterrevolutionary pact of Geneva under the command of imperialism. Iran and Hezbollah sat at that table in Geneva and coordinated to support al-Assad massacring the Syrian masses, while not firing a single shot against Zionism, which continued to attack the Palestinian people.
The world reformist left played an important role in separating the Palestinian masses from the Syrian revolution, and the latter from the world working class. They imposed a siege on the Syrian masses, by supporting al-Assad, slandering the former as terrorists, making the world working class believe that "the enemy was ISIS" and not those who massacred in Syria or the imperialism that commanded the murderers from the back rooms. This is the left that supported and upheld the "two-state" plan for Palestine we mentioned above.
Keeping the Palestinian people out of the revolutionary processes in Syria and the Middle East, as did the reformist left and the Palestinian bourgeoisie, was to save the life of Zionism. Because 2011 was the best time to end the occupation and destroy Israel, this gendarme of imperialism. The entire region was burning with revolutionary fire, dictators like Mubarak, who guarded the borders of Zionism, fell down. The Zionist state could not fire a single shot at the rebellious masses, because it would have united all the masses of the boiling region in the same fight to expel the occupier. It had lost his firepower. But what happened instead was that these leaderships managed to isolate the Palestinian people from the Maghreb and Middle East revolutions and the latter from the world working class. This is how the counterrevolution progressed. The massacre in Syria deepened. The more the fascist al-Assad massacred the Syrian revolution, while taking care of the Golan Heights (which his father had given him) on behalf of the fascist state of Israel, the more Zionism was regaining firepower. The counterrevolution in the Middle East advanced, and Zionism grew stronger.
Those who supported the YPG have to be accountable to the world working class, because in addition to being in a pact with Bashar, under the US imperialists' command in Syria as true security guards of their oil companies, they are also in collusion with Zionism, supplying it with oil. Supporting the YPG led directly to a support for Zionism.
The fate of the Palestinian masses is tied to the future of the Syrian, Lebanese, Iraqi revolution and that of the entire region. Today the Palestinian rebellion is the way to reach Damascus, for the government of national unity of the Sunni, Maronite and Hezbollah bourgeoisie of Lebanon to fall, to end the regime of the US protectorate of Iraq! From Jerusalem and Gaza to Idlib, Beirut , Baghdad and Tehran, the same intifada!

The Chicago martyrs of May Day are fighting and dying today in Palestine, Syria and throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East

This May 1st, International Workers' Day, the Palestinian rebellion is at the forefront of the world working class. Those who fall in that combat, like those massacred in Syria and throughout Maghreb and the Middle East, are the martyrs of Chicago today. We must win the streets in support of the Palestinian rebellion! Let us march to the embassies of Zionism and the United States all over the planet!
In the US, we must win the streets in all cities as in 2014, paralyze the war machine, which is fed from the US, today with Biden at the helm. It's their oil companies that plunder the Middle East, that command Zionism; from there it can be beaten, from the struggle of the  American working class beating the heart of the imperialist beast.
In Europe there are the rest of the imperialist gangs that together with the US pirates plunder the Middle East. Europe and the US are the headquarters of the "seven sisters" oil companies. They are the centers of the transnationals. Their governments and states command the massacres in the Middle East. The struggle of the workers in Europe, like those in the US, is crucial.
On this May 1st, let's stand up alongside the Palestinian masses! Long live the intifada! Let Zionism and Imperialism Fall!

Editorial Committee of the newspaper The Truth of the Oppressed