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Editing Collective: Red Army - PFLP
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Production: Wakamatsu Production
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PLANE HIJACKING INCIDENT
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This is a news film
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for the construction of the world Red Army
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RED ARMYIPFLP:
DECLARATION OF WORLD WAR
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In March 1970
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the Red Anny Faction of the Communist League
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hijacked a Japan Airline'; plane and flew
lo The People's Democratic Republic of Korea
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in order to build an international
basis of operation.
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In September of the same year,
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the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine
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hijacked a Pan-Am plane,
and with three other airplanes,
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blew it up at the Revolutionary Airport
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THE BEST FORM OF PROPOGANDA
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as the PFLP began a new armed struggle
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and international guerrilla warfare.
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Breaching international boundaries
with armed force.
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Is it a strategic heroism
of war, or propaganda?
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IS ARMED STRUGGLE
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What is propaganda?
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Now it can be defined as people in struggle
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speaking the true meaning of
the struggle in their own words.
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But how and for whom can it be narrated?
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A PFLP soldier explains their
unique propaganda strategy
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developed in the process of the Arab
liberation movement in the Middle East.
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How do we engage in propaganda activities?
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From the lessons of the past
five years, it's quite simple.
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Propaganda is in fact information,
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and information is to communicate the truth.
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Moreover, the supreme form
of truth is armed struggle.
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Therefore, we believe that armed struggle
is the best form of propaganda.
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It may be true that the worldwide
system of discursive propaganda
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is hugely influencing international
public opinions,
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but it is by the people who
fight to liberate themselves
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through anned struggle
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that things are ultimately decided.
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Of course, every one of us is fully aware
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that the propaganda system
of American imperialism
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is the largest one in human history.
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They dominate the world's
TV networks and newspapers
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and provide people with false education
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and movies by maliciously
saying whatever they want.
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They believe they can do anything.
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The people of South Vietnam
have only feeble power,
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without TV and newspapers of their own,
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but they fight with a firm
will as their only weapon
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against the imperialist system.
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And what is happening now?
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The gigantic propaganda system
of the United States
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is failing to convince people
that 'This war is right. '
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As days go by,
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American people are getting sick and tired,
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and have started opposing the war.
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This is propaganda, our propaganda.
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Propaganda is action and struggle.
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That is the only supreme form of propaganda.
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However,
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that action has to be supported
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by finn solidarity with various leftist
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parties, factions, and by the
revolutionary propaganda system.
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Regardless,
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the basis is armed struggle
by the masses.
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Similarly, a soldier of the Japanese
Communist League Red Army Faction,
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which has strategized
the 1960s struggle slogan,
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'Pm-Stage Armed Uprising, '
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and now recognizes the current
situation of the 1910s
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as an 'Armed Stand-Off Stage, ' says:
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What we can say based
on our ongoing struggle
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is that the direct attack on the enemy power
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such as Osaka-Tokyo
War, Daibosatsu Struggle,
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Bomb-Attack movement against
the American military bases,
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hijacks, attacks on police boxes,
seizures of arms,
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and the serial finance appropriation struggle...
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that is armed struggle and is in
and of itself propaganda,
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and the substance of its military gain
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lies in concrete damage
inflicted upon the enemy
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a fundamental blow to the ruling structure.
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And what seizes this truth
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is nothing but popular struggle
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based on numerous guerrilla wars.
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ARMED STRUGGLE IS REALITY
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ls reality fighting the enemy?
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Who is in reality fighting the enemy?
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Are we actually able to fight the enemy?
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How is the international reality of armed
struggle being engaged in Japanese reality?
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How is armed struggle being done?
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Or how is it going to develop?
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On September 14th 1971
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the Communist League Red Anny Faction
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and the Japan Communist Party
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'Revolutionary Left' Faction
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issued a joint manifesto on the
creation of the United Red Army.
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This is the correct military formation
for popular war,
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born as it inevitably was of the process
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as skirmishes toward revolutionary war
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moving from the 2/17 arms seizure struggle
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to the serial finance appropriation struggle.
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Friends and comrades
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who have gathered here today!
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We the Japan Revolutionary Front
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and the Keihin Anpo Struggle-Collective,
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linked together by the crimson threads
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of the hijack struggle and 12/18 struggle,
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following the 1/25 rally and subsequent
development of guerrilla warfare,
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host this rally for the purpose
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of fighting both Japanese and
world revolutionary struggle.
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With popular struggle as an axis,
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directed toward the victory of revolutionary war,
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the Red Army was established
on July 15th of this year.
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This united army
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will become a unified force
by adding new members
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through firm practice of guerrilla
wars against world imperialism.
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The united army will first and foremost
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engage in guerrilla wars and confront
various difficulties in the midst
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of both armed struggle and military build-up,
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and eventually deepen the war policy
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that had been attained by sacrifices.
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In the midst of deepening war policy,
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both the CRAF and JCPRF will examine
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the lines of struggle and gain
the new-Party formation.
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The revolutionary anny will fight
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toward a general national uprising,
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and for that purpose persist
in guerrilla wars for the victory
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of revolutionary war and the creation
of true communism.
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The revolutionary anny will
gain victory by legitimizing
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itself through guerrilla wars
and communizing the army,
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and establish solidarity with
all the peoples who fight
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tho World Revolutionary War.
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The revolutionary anny is
the firm and strong axis
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for the surely germinating
spirit of the working people,
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and is an army for the just war.
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Comrades, let us gain the further
position in this war,
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join the United Red Army,
and build the battle front
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for the scorch-the-earth guerrilla war!
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ARMED STRUGGLE
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WEAPONS ARE
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THE LANGUAGE OF OPPRESSED PEOPLE
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And how are we trying to seize the reality,
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the reality through armed struggle?
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Armed struggle
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is itself the words of the
people long suppressed.
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All the revolutions, particularly
in their early stages,
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should choose appropriate positions
for defence against the enemy.
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It is because for us,
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the enemy is not only Israel,
but includes the world imperialists,
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tho Zionists and the reactionary
Arab governments.
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For the past five years,
we have fought the war
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against the reactionary Jewish
government in various ways.
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In this process,
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we thought of how to defend our revolution,
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to further the war of liberation for our country,
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against the Zionist invasion
and the enemy agents
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of the reactionary Jordanian government.
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The answer is here,
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Jerash Mountain stretching along
the border of Israel and Jordan,
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that we chose to be our battle ground,
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to build our base to start war
and expand revolution.
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Every day we are in constant life
or death battles
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with the Israeli government,
which is a Zionist agent,
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and the Jordanian government,
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which is the agent of Israel.
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Such strategies and tactics as ours
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are the products of our thought and
positions immediate to our struggle
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much as our Cuban and Vietnamese
comrades have done.
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The Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine starts a war.
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Fight.
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Oppressed people try to live the reality
of revolution only through armed struggle.
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Try to live as communists.
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The PFLP soldiers are not heroes of hijacks.
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They talk of themselves as communists.
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So what is my duty?
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My duty as a guerrilla soldier is lo accomplish
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everything required in guerrilla struggle.
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For example,
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it is sometimes hijacking, sometimes
giving interviews, and everything in between.
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We have proposed and practiced this war,
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but there are a variety of things
we need for it.
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That is why I am learning many
pragmatic aspects of the war,
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not just one side.
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That is why I cannot honestly point
to one thing
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and say this is what I am doing.
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But right now,
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I believe that I am engaged in a struggle
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to propagandize our 'power. '
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But in your question of what I think
of being seen as a star or hero of hijack,
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you added that I do not see myself as a hero.
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To hear someone speak of me that way,
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I feel very happy-
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But in any case we do not talk
about ourselves as individuals.
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It is because revolution
is always born of people,
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for people,
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and because it is not meant
for general humanity.
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That is why being among the whole,
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makes the individual pretty insignificant.
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And I am especially happy to hear you
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say that I am not a hero.
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The reason is that I never
heard anyone say that before,
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and I think that to not become a hero
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in the midst of revolutionary Palestinians
and proletariats means
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that that person is simply doing his or her duty,
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not as some son of hobby.
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In my case,
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my duty involves not just hijacking,
but is something
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with which death always accompanies my life.
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Therefore,
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I will reply to those people
who see us as heroes,
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that we are never heroes,
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that we are not fighting this war as our hobby,
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and that we are simply doing our duty
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and I like to insist that we
dedicate ourselves to revolution,
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and that our lives are for revolution,
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not for being seen as heroes.
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People suppressed in the barracks
of refugee camps.
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People exposed to indiscriminate shelling.
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Is it people,
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or communists,
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who are suppressed?
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A revolutionary must dedicate his
or her personal life in actual struggle
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and practice it.
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Therefore,
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there is no such thing as personal life
or life in struggle,
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because struggle is,
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for all the people involved in a revolution,
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an individual, and total life.
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Therefore,
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I neither think nor feel
that there is a personal life
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there is only life in armed struggle.
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The separate lives should
be unified and expanded.
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As revolutionaries,
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we try not to live our lives conceitedly,
and act accordingly.
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But as any revolutionary does,
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we believe in our future.
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From my experience as a school teacher,
I speak of 'wealth':
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you could go any place if you have money.
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But I gave up everything to fight the enemy.
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We have to sacrifice everything
we have for this struggle.
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It is because we fight
for this country and people
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and at the same time live like them.
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Only by doing so could we have something
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to share with the proletariat,
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and I was able to throw away
my petit-bourgeois-ness.
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And there are many people like me among us,
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as there were many before us.
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People have been reforming themselves.
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They are teachers, and I am their pupil
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who is naming m abandon gem-bourgeois “is.
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They are also studying and practicing
the proletarian life.
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Only this way of life will elevate
and advance revolution,
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and retain the leadership of
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not path-bourgeoisie,
but the proletariat class.
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Because of this,
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it is only through such
a situation and principle
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that people become truly
revolutionary people
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and it is only through
the proletariat class that
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without having learned the concept
and ideal about 'people'
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still desire revolution.
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The reason is that the path-bourgeois
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because they do not live the life
of the proletariat
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cannot share their problems
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and hence
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cannot roach the horizon
that we have reached.
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That is why we are fighting
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not as petit-bourgeois but as proletariat.
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The meaning of revolution
as revolution lies in this
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that petit-bourgeois cannot fight
the way the proletariat can.
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ARMED STRUGGLE
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IS WAR
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War. Oppressed people wage war.
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What is their weapon to defeat the enemy?
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What is the people's weapon?
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The world is engaged in wars every day.
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History has seen wars every day.
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Has there ever been a peaceful day
for the oppressed people?
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A soldier, imprisoned as the result
of armed struggle, speaks:
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At this Tokyo Local Court,
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there is one thing that first
needs to be clarified.
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It is the fact
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that I am imprisoned and dragged
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into the current trial
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because I am held by the enemy
as a prisoner of war
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that is, a POW during wartime.
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Red Army soldiers belong
to combat-practice units
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of revolutionary war, not mindless chattering
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We know that the ethics required of us doors
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is that of silence and determination.
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Our present is a new revolutionary age
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which demands that we refuse to express
revolution in harmless chatters
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and thousands of letter heads
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and that we practice decisive action,
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and that is why we prefer not to blather
in bourgeois court.
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Therefore,
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we do not accept our current
designation as 'defendants, '
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and we constantly think
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of transforming our existence
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into an offensive weapon.
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What must be clarified is that
it is the imperialists,
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the government bourgeoisie,
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and the prosecutors who have to be judged.
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In order to reverse the positions
of judges and the judged,
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the world revolution must
be resolutely executed.
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And history will inscribe us
as heroes of the people
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and prove our innocence.
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Comrades,
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let us crush the suppression by the cruel
and cowardly enemy powers
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who are against the factions
of revolutionary war.
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We must establish legal and illegal
mass-based support networks
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in every corner of civil society
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by forming alliances with and backing
armed struggle elsewhere.
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Organize the influence and extension
of armed struggle,
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build up legal and illegal material power
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against the enemy power,
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minimize the sacrifice and damage
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of revolutionary force
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generate new revolutionary soldiers
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far surpassing previous ones,
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accumulate gains and lessons from victories,
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and create the continuity and sustainability
of armed struggle.
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Finally, we express our
determination to continue
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to Victoriously fight against the mean,
cowardly enemy power
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through this court struggle
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and we express this message of solidarity
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to many people who support
our court and hijack struggle.
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I end my appeal by calling on all people,
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not only the youth,
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but also the elderly, children, men and women,
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to volunteer to be Red Army soldiers
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and hear the call of the war
of world proletarian.
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A Palestinian soldier, Mr. Fedain,
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who lives every day in the war
of armed struggle
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with either 'my death' or the
'enemy's death, 'speaks:
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Our morality is to fight and win.
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It is because the Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine
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fights with people and fights for people.
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This morality is evinced by the oppression
against the people in refugee camps
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in the countries under occupation.
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The morality of we guerrilla soldiers
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is that the people support revolution,
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and their purpose and aspirations
lie in revolution.
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We do not fight because we live.
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We fight to live.
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Fighting is living.
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Moreover, we have to think how to make use
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of objective situations,
subjective battle power,
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and other various revolutionary experiences
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through thorough understanding of the laws
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and concepts of revolution and
our analyses of the reality.
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Revolutions are all similar,
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but every revolution has its
own unique characteristics.
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Therefore,
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we the PFLP should constantly
learn and practice
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the principles of popular revolution.
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We have to choose the strategy
most appropriate to our situation.
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This is because the political
and military position
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of Palestine guerrillas is an
extremely difficult one.
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For example,
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in 1936 when we fought Zionists'
immigration to Palestine,
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and in 1967,
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when Arab nationalism made a pact
with reactionary governments
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and declined into the path-bourgeois ideology,
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our revolution did not have
clear political strategy.
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Neither did we have a theoretical
strategy for revolution.
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For that reason we were defeated
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and many comrades were sacrificed.
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Now we know:
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Guerrilla war is not fought
in a fixed single place.
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A guerrilla should first recognize
that he is a unit in war.
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Understanding this,
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he gains people's purpose
and aspiration - revolution
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as the morality of guerrilla soldiers,
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and make this our strategy.
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The morality of oppressed people
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is not that they fight because they live.
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They fight to live,
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and fighting is living.
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In the desert of rocks and sand dust,
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Fedine lives and fights like trees and grass.
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It is within the war that lived peace
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is being born as the word of people.
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They learn guns with a gun in one hand;
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they learn things through guns.
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Is the first word that oppressed
people can learn
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to seize guns and bullets?
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ARMED STRUGGLE MEANS
BEING ON STANDBY
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They make no distinction
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between front line and hind line.
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Their frontline base is a place
for their 'rich' education.
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Streets
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are the place for the people
to discover and use
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their language as 'weapon. '
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For them there is no difference
between urban guerrilla
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and guerrilla warfare.
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Guerrilla soldiers learn on the battlefield,
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and masses of people make
the battlefield their home.
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Before us is a landscape that
armed struggle is to stand by
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as the landscape of the world.
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We can learn from the oppressed Palestinians
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that to stand by is to innovate
the immediately usable weapon
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and to stand by with the arms.
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What we can learn from the Arab
liberation movement
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is whether there were enemies of Palestine
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besides the Zionists of world imperialism.
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PFLP was established in 1967,
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when the Arab liberation movement
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was in the hegemonic war
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among various Arab governments
and ethnic groups;
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PFLP began insisting on the necessity
of breaking away
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from other factions and shifting its goal
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from nationalism to international communism.
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And for the past five years
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it has continuously carried out
its strategic theory
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through armed struggle.
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Can one say that PFLP was able
to stand on the principle
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of anti-nationalism?
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The word 'Palestine' means 'brave soldier'
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in the ancient Canaan language.
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Two thousand years ago they fought
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the invading Hebrews, Roman Empire,
the Crusade, and now the modern Zionists.
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They say it was not just the past five years
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but over four thousand years that
they have been fighting.
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They say they are a nation
of fighting soldiers.
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They say they establish a line
of fighting not only Zionists
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but now Jordanian and other forces,
in the shadow
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of the Arab national movement's
official guerrilla armies.
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They are not the soldiers of capitalist war.
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They are not the soldiers of armies
with rewards and salaries.
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They are the fighting 'soldiers of life. '
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They are the people who make
military matters their 'lives. '
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They are neither citizens nor nationals;
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they are the people called
'oppressed Palestinians. '
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They make no distinction between
frontline and behind the line.
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Their frontline base is the place
for their 'rich' education.
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Streets
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are the place to discover and use
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the weapons as people's language.
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For them
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there is no difference between
urban guerrilla and guerrilla warfare.
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Guerrilla soldiers learn on battlefield,
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and masses of people make
the battlefield their home.
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WHO IS OUR ENEMY?
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WHO ARE OUR COMRADES?
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I came here to understand more
fully the Palestinian Revolution.
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I think that to understand this revolution
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you must be a pan of it.
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It is necessary to live the revolution.
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And another thing is,
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the reason I am with PFLP
is that I believe PFLP
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can lead people to the victory of revolution.
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I think that they have been
able to correctly analyze
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the problems of Palestine in
the Middle East and the problems
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00:50:04,801 --> 00:50:06,161
of Arab people in general.
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I think we cannot gain victory
without Marx-Leninism.
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And it is only PFLP that is keenly
aware of the prospect
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that people can win together
with Marx-Leninism.
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I would like to send a message
to Japanese comrades,
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revolutionary comrades.
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What has to be said first
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is that we have to bring together and unify
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the revolutionaries of the world.
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It is because all our struggles
are one single struggle,
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and we cannot afford to be divided.
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Also because the forces of today's
world imperialism
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are emerging as a unified power.
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We aim to annihilate our enemies.
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For this aim,
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we have to engage in a collective struggle
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to win this war and expel the forces
of world imperialists.
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Let us arise now on the popular
front of world revolutionaries,
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to maintain the leadership of the proletariat!
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Japanese comrades, and the
revolutionary comrades
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in China, Vietnam, and the rest of the world
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let us posit the following slogan,
and persist in fighting for its realization!
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'Anti-imperialist revolutionary
forces of the world, unite!'
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Crush imperialism and establish
the proletarian power!
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I would like to send a message from
the frontline to the comrades in Japan.
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We are hoping to see the fire
of revolution burn in the world.
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Guevara once said
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he hoped to see the entire
world become like Vietnam,
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and that is the same hope we have.
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That is why we hope from
the bottom of our hearts
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that by maintaining constant
communication between us,
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as we have learned much from your struggles,
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you will learn from our experiences
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and learn the lessons we have learned.
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With our collective struggle,
we can decisively defeat
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the imperialists who oppress
and exploit our people.
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00:52:53,403 --> 00:52:57,543
The will and emotion of people
cannot be expressed
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by newspaper rapons,
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but only by the commencement
of armed struggle.
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Representing PFLP, I send a message
to our comrades,
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the revolutionary groups and
parties of the Japanese people.
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You might have heard the news through
the imperialist propaganda system
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that the Palestinian people
are currently exhausted
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that they have given up the struggle,
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00:53:37,581 --> 00:53:40,381
and that they are defeated
by the reactionary Israel.
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Comrades, do not believe them.
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We are in fact in the middle of struggle.
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There is no and to our struggle.
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We have our final purpose,
and we continue to fight for its realization.
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No one and nothing can stop us.
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Japanese comrades,
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00:54:03,039 --> 00:54:06,509
we sincerely hope that you will fight
our common enemy by supporting us.
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Support us by any means.
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Send us medicine, and anything else.
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00:54:11,748 --> 00:54:14,148
But the best support is that
our Japanese comrades
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rise up
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00:54:17,587 --> 00:54:19,877
and strike blows against the monster
of American imperialism.
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00:54:20,323 --> 00:54:21,953
Let us advance our struggle
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00:54:22,759 --> 00:54:25,399
by weakening American imperialism.
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00:54:26,296 --> 00:54:28,726
Japanese comrades, we are fighting
the common enemy!
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We are fighting on many fronts
all over the world!
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Japanese comrades,
513
00:54:36,306 --> 00:54:39,016
let us charge together against the monster,
514
00:54:39,509 --> 00:54:40,749
and defeat it!
515
00:54:43,346 --> 00:54:45,906
A Communist League Red Army soldier speaks:
516
00:54:47,317 --> 00:54:48,987
Like our brothers in Vietnam
517
00:54:50,387 --> 00:54:52,237
like our brothers of Palestine
518
00:54:53,390 --> 00:54:56,150
and like the brothers of
the Black Panther Party
519
00:54:57,527 --> 00:55:00,027
we too have grown and
learned numerous lessons
520
00:55:00,730 --> 00:55:02,800
through a long struggle.
521
00:55:04,567 --> 00:55:07,857
Our Hijack struggle of March 1970 was our foray
522
00:55:08,438 --> 00:55:10,688
into becoming a truly international subject.
523
00:55:11,608 --> 00:55:15,578
Similarly, the Arms Seizure Struggle
in October of the same year
524
00:55:16,246 --> 00:55:19,216
was our entrance as a truly armed subject.
525
00:55:20,216 --> 00:55:23,266
Moreover, in this struggle we
have gained valuable brothers
526
00:55:23,787 --> 00:55:25,447
who march together with us.
527
00:55:27,057 --> 00:55:32,757
PFLP and the Japan Communist Party
Leftist Faction are such brothers and comrades.
528
00:55:35,598 --> 00:55:39,068
With supreme honour, we receive the message
529
00:55:40,370 --> 00:55:43,690
from our dearest brothers
and comrades, the PFLP.
530
00:55:45,775 --> 00:55:48,255
Since our struggles and the lessons belong to
531
00:55:49,179 --> 00:55:52,629
the brothers and comrades of the world
as common property,
532
00:55:54,617 --> 00:55:58,117
we too shall respond to
the brothers and comrades
533
00:55:59,556 --> 00:56:02,336
and send a message about our
own struggles and lessons
534
00:56:02,859 --> 00:56:05,089
with utmost brotherly love and respect.
535
00:56:07,697 --> 00:56:10,327
Revolution and war are nothing more
536
00:56:11,801 --> 00:56:14,351
than their intemationality and violence.
537
00:56:16,339 --> 00:56:18,179
As exemplified by our hijack,
538
00:56:18,541 --> 00:56:19,771
PFLP's hijack,
539
00:56:20,877 --> 00:56:23,137
the ship Granma of Castro at al,
540
00:56:23,780 --> 00:56:26,650
and Russian Red Army's march into Poland.
541
00:56:28,685 --> 00:56:32,235
Revolution is, and war is, true only
in its internationality and violence,
542
00:56:32,856 --> 00:56:35,216
as its true substance is 'borderless army. '
543
00:56:35,658 --> 00:56:39,738
This is the reason why the
'Anti-ImperialistlAnti-ZionistlThird World War'
544
00:56:40,430 --> 00:56:43,830
that our PFLP brothers propose and practice
545
00:56:44,734 --> 00:56:49,954
and the 'Anti-AmericalAnti-Japan War'
of our Chinese brothers,
546
00:56:51,674 --> 00:56:54,504
are, in our own words, one and the same
547
00:56:55,345 --> 00:56:59,545
with what we propose and practice
as the 'World Revolutionary War. '
548
00:57:02,352 --> 00:57:05,402
Our former companions were
too arrogant and idealistic.
549
00:57:06,890 --> 00:57:08,990
Starting from the 'Anti-Stalinism, '
550
00:57:09,426 --> 00:57:11,496
the critic of Mao as 'nationalisflempiricist, '
551
00:57:11,895 --> 00:57:14,725
and the critic of Ho Chi Min as 'Stalinist, ' etc
552
00:57:15,665 --> 00:57:17,855
They were nothing but idealism.
553
00:57:18,301 --> 00:57:19,961
What about us?
554
00:57:20,336 --> 00:57:23,036
With our 'transitional world theory, '
555
00:57:24,040 --> 00:57:27,560
we were able to demonstrate
relative accuracy of our position,
556
00:57:28,178 --> 00:57:29,988
but our 'world transition theory'
557
00:57:31,714 --> 00:57:34,594
was nothing more than
'world transition theory. '
558
00:57:36,219 --> 00:57:39,889
Since we have not been able to discover
anything beyond that theory,
559
00:57:40,523 --> 00:57:43,783
we have been more or less idealist.
560
00:57:45,428 --> 00:57:47,638
However, right now, through our hijack strategy,
561
00:57:48,064 --> 00:57:50,704
we are beginning to grasp and substantialize
562
00:57:51,201 --> 00:57:54,811
something that goes beyond mere theory
in the form of 'borderless army. '
563
00:57:56,105 --> 00:57:58,395
The brothers and comrades of PFLP,
564
00:57:59,642 --> 00:58:03,052
let us join in the great union
of the 'borderless army'.
565
00:58:03,980 --> 00:58:06,800
Through communication of all areas...
566
00:58:07,884 --> 00:58:12,094
soldiers, weapons, technology,
information, sources and theories!
567
00:58:27,570 --> 00:58:30,040
A Communist League Red Army Soldier speaks:
568
00:58:32,108 --> 00:58:35,238
I think that the purpose
of my coming to Palestine
569
00:58:35,912 --> 00:58:39,042
involves a question of how we grasp
570
00:58:39,649 --> 00:58:43,689
the world revolutionary war
in our theoretical structure,
571
00:58:44,387 --> 00:58:47,677
in the form of a world revolutionary theory,
572
00:58:48,291 --> 00:58:52,301
in the confrontational phase of the struggle,
and how we express it.
573
00:58:52,962 --> 00:58:55,642
Last year's hijack struggle of ours proved
574
00:58:56,266 --> 00:58:58,896
that the wave of world revolutionary war
575
00:58:59,335 --> 00:59:02,345
could only be guided by military actions.
576
00:59:02,906 --> 00:59:06,276
Here arose another important question:
577
00:59:07,076 --> 00:59:09,386
who shares Red Army's line?
578
00:59:10,079 --> 00:59:12,829
While we were able to imagine it only
579
00:59:14,284 --> 00:59:17,804
through gem-bourgeois news mafia before,
580
00:59:19,155 --> 00:59:24,185
we now needed to understand it by way
of actually practicing the world revolution.
581
00:59:25,061 --> 00:59:27,121
And that's what first got me hooked.
582
00:59:27,564 --> 00:59:32,004
It's the PFLP which is our successor
in spreading the struggle
583
00:59:32,702 --> 00:59:35,872
we initiated with the hijackings,
584
00:59:36,439 --> 00:59:41,129
and the problem being raise today
is to know how to share
585
00:59:42,145 --> 00:59:44,205
the issue we raised in the form of
586
00:59:45,014 --> 00:59:51,734
world party, world Red Army,
world revolutionary war front.
587
00:59:53,156 --> 00:59:58,016
We can also say that from
Tupamaros or Black Panthers,
588
00:59:58,962 --> 01:00:03,402
but what I felt coming here
is that even if we now speak of
589
01:00:04,934 --> 01:00:06,994
"global nature" or "internationalism",
590
01:00:07,303 --> 01:00:11,753
in a sense we already saw the world
as one single country.
591
01:00:12,675 --> 01:00:15,255
I think this point's at a problem
of the New Japanese Left.
592
01:00:16,312 --> 01:00:20,652
When I arrived here and I saw
class struggle in Japan,
593
01:00:21,618 --> 01:00:26,058
the subjective attempting
to enlighten the objective
594
01:00:26,990 --> 01:00:31,120
could only be but swept away
by the objective current,
595
01:00:31,961 --> 01:00:35,061
and we had difficulties
because we couldn't succeed
596
01:00:35,565 --> 01:00:38,975
in making the subjective develop
by stopping the objective.
597
01:00:39,602 --> 01:00:43,422
As long as the New Japanese Left
doesn't reconsider this,
598
01:00:44,140 --> 01:00:46,310
we won't be able to create strategies,
599
01:00:47,110 --> 01:00:52,800
nor envision the issue of world overtaking,
and world unification.
600
01:00:54,384 --> 01:01:00,174
Some say that wanting an international base
is idealistic or shows escapist logic,
601
01:01:01,257 --> 01:01:05,597
others harshly criticize a
Red Army international base theory,
602
01:01:08,498 --> 01:01:12,218
and if we consider this theory
as the basic outbreak
603
01:01:12,802 --> 01:01:14,552
of the military issue upon reality,
604
01:01:15,004 --> 01:01:17,894
it will indeed outwardly appear
as seemingly escapist logic.
605
01:01:18,341 --> 01:01:21,441
But what the Red Anny expresses,
606
01:01:22,311 --> 01:01:25,931
is that this theory
belongs to party issues,
607
01:01:26,616 --> 01:01:30,856
and that we must confirm that it isn't
a problem of what is perceived
608
01:01:31,521 --> 01:01:34,621
by a few factions as 'military'.
609
01:01:35,158 --> 01:01:37,838
I think the issue of combat efficiency,
610
01:01:38,394 --> 01:01:40,764
of concentrating at pro-uprising stage,
611
01:01:41,164 --> 01:01:43,534
as during the Russian revolution,
612
01:01:43,933 --> 01:01:47,243
on a peace demonstration,
is at question.
613
01:01:47,937 --> 01:01:52,797
The pre-uprising launched in 69
by the Red Army is led in reality
614
01:01:53,543 --> 01:01:58,293
as a catalyst of struggles,
spiralling by means of guerrilla.
615
01:01:59,348 --> 01:02:03,998
True movements in Japan can't manage
to take the plunge, because they forgot
616
01:02:04,754 --> 01:02:07,334
that "military" is murder,
617
01:02:07,890 --> 01:02:11,710
or rather because they had only considered
it through an idealistic prism.
618
01:02:12,361 --> 01:02:15,871
Through an illusion which brings all
true struggle back to
619
01:02:16,499 --> 01:02:19,179
'mass activism doctrine'.
620
01:02:19,769 --> 01:02:23,699
For example, criticizing the meanings
of armed robberies committed
621
01:02:24,340 --> 01:02:27,440
since february by the Red Army,
doesn't solve the problem at all.
622
01:02:27,944 --> 01:02:32,594
The problem is to know how and to what
extent we could fight enemy power,
623
01:02:33,483 --> 01:02:35,963
by provoking violent inner conflicts,
624
01:02:36,385 --> 01:02:38,555
factions have forgotten this,
625
01:02:39,088 --> 01:02:42,808
and not being able to justify
their relation to authority,
626
01:02:43,493 --> 01:02:48,253
this principle isn't expressed anymore
other than by intelligentsia movements,
627
01:02:49,265 --> 01:02:53,605
and the fact that committing 'wrongful acts'
is the object of repression in the real world,
628
01:02:55,905 --> 01:03:00,975
and Japanese parties, who only criticize
according to their own criteria...
629
01:03:02,245 --> 01:03:05,035
can only but oppose to "the masses".
630
01:03:05,948 --> 01:03:09,978
From this point of view,
the issues raised by the Red Army
631
01:03:10,686 --> 01:03:14,816
differ from those raised up to now.
632
01:03:15,625 --> 01:03:19,555
For instance, it's about reassessing
the categories in which we belonged,
633
01:03:20,463 --> 01:03:25,013
the efficiency of what we considered
the criteria's of revolution...
634
01:03:26,068 --> 01:03:31,028
and this space that we share with
commando units in the Palestinian mountains,
635
01:03:31,908 --> 01:03:35,808
or at the Israeli border,
isn't that of our past struggles.
636
01:03:36,512 --> 01:03:38,302
To put it straightforwardly,
637
01:03:38,614 --> 01:03:42,334
when I look at the issue of how Japanese
class struggle will develop in the future,
638
01:03:43,519 --> 01:03:45,789
from afar in Palestine, I feel that...
639
01:03:46,222 --> 01:03:49,102
the questions of the stage
of Japanese class struggle
640
01:03:49,625 --> 01:03:51,775
on the scale of world
revolutionary development,
641
01:03:52,428 --> 01:03:55,918
and what we in Japan indeed share
with the Palestinian struggle
642
01:03:56,766 --> 01:04:00,076
has been asked in awfully insufficient manners.
643
01:04:01,237 --> 01:04:02,977
Because of this insufficiency,
644
01:04:04,507 --> 01:04:08,547
the awareness of problematic possessed by
the nine people who went to North Korea,
645
01:04:09,212 --> 01:04:11,512
by me in Palestine, and by
our comrades in Japan,
646
01:04:11,948 --> 01:04:15,488
all differ from one another,
and from such disjuncture,
647
01:04:16,819 --> 01:04:18,719
we can only deduce the necessity
648
01:04:19,589 --> 01:04:22,469
of more internal violence and inter-faction
politics and struggles,
649
01:04:22,992 --> 01:04:25,392
and only through such united military actions,
650
01:04:26,596 --> 01:04:28,996
but the revolutionary subject,
651
01:04:29,932 --> 01:04:33,692
which tries to rise to the level
of World Revolutionary War,
652
01:04:35,338 --> 01:04:40,208
has to be created through World War
factions and world revolutionaries
653
01:04:41,210 --> 01:04:43,610
simultaneously sharing all military matters
654
01:04:44,580 --> 01:04:48,030
as the act of collective actions
and collect military front.
655
01:04:48,618 --> 01:04:50,788
For that reason I anticipate the emergence
656
01:04:51,787 --> 01:04:53,137
of the question of a strategy
657
01:04:53,756 --> 01:04:55,816
for world revolution,
658
01:04:56,259 --> 01:04:58,129
of how we can defeat world imperialism
659
01:04:59,595 --> 01:05:04,265
through military actions in concert with
the Black Panthers and Tupamaros,
660
01:05:06,335 --> 01:05:08,915
can the problem of “world party“
be discussed fully,
661
01:05:09,705 --> 01:05:13,035
and in this sense, what we have
long talked about...
662
01:05:14,110 --> 01:05:18,890
the formation of World Party, World Red Army,
World Revolutionary War United Front
663
01:05:20,016 --> 01:05:22,746
will be realized only through actual struggle
664
01:05:23,552 --> 01:05:27,182
as to how to guide such a united military action.
665
01:05:27,857 --> 01:05:30,137
THE BEST FORM OF PROPAGANDA
666
01:05:30,493 --> 01:05:34,093
IS ARMED STRUGGLE
667
01:05:43,973 --> 01:05:45,303
We agree wholeheartedly
668
01:05:45,608 --> 01:05:48,248
with the Japan Red Army Faction that proposes
669
01:05:48,744 --> 01:05:50,604
a united action with every organization
670
01:05:50,980 --> 01:05:54,090
and party which is actively fighting
world imperialism here and now.
671
01:05:55,918 --> 01:05:59,178
PFLP fully supports the policy
of the united military action,
672
01:06:00,156 --> 01:06:01,876
and is ready to participate in it.
673
01:06:02,658 --> 01:06:04,968
However, in our current situation,
674
01:06:05,661 --> 01:06:08,971
we face severe difficulty
realizing such an aim.
675
01:06:09,966 --> 01:06:11,346
Despite the difficulty,
676
01:06:11,901 --> 01:06:15,141
we are prepared to support the policy
as much as we can.
677
01:06:16,806 --> 01:06:19,796
And we bet our own possibility
in the realization of the goal.
678
01:06:21,811 --> 01:06:23,851
We send the message of solidarity and prayer
679
01:06:24,280 --> 01:06:26,020
for the success of struggles waged
680
01:06:26,382 --> 01:06:28,132
by every comrade fighting our common enemy.
681
01:06:29,518 --> 01:06:33,808
Salute, dear comrades of Japan.
- General Secretary, PFLP.
682
01:06:35,224 --> 01:06:39,614
THE CREATION OF A REVOLUTIONARY
FRONT MEANS ARMED STRUGGLE
683
01:06:40,596 --> 01:06:44,446
Creating Revolutionary Background
is practicing armed struggle.
684
01:08:00,943 --> 01:08:09,553
REVOLUTION IS WORLD WAR
685
01:08:10,986 --> 01:08:15,196
WORLD WAR
686
01:08:15,991 --> 01:08:20,111
REVOLUTION
687
01:08:20,930 --> 01:08:28,660
REVOLUTION = WORLD WAR
688
01:08:30,039 --> 01:08:32,229
ARMED STRUGGLE!
689
01:08:32,741 --> 01:08:36,951
TAKE UP YOUR WEAPONS!
690
01:08:37,713 --> 01:08:40,693
GUN
691
01:08:41,283 --> 01:08:45,403
BULLET
692
01:08:46,122 --> 01:08:48,932
WEAPON
693
01:08:49,558 --> 01:08:52,368
MUZZLE
694
01:08:52,928 --> 01:08:59,078
TRIGGER
695
01:09:04,140 --> 01:09:08,550
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01:09:09,445 --> 01:09:13,835
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