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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:04,050 Editing Collective: Red Army - PFLP 2 00:00:04,904 --> 00:00:08,854 Production: Wakamatsu Production 3 00:00:10,110 --> 00:00:11,770 PLANE HIJACKING INCIDENT 4 00:00:36,569 --> 00:00:37,559 This is a news film 5 00:00:38,004 --> 00:00:41,394 for the construction of the world Red Army 6 00:00:42,442 --> 00:00:46,832 RED ARMYIPFLP: DECLARATION OF WORLD WAR 7 00:00:49,049 --> 00:00:50,589 In March 1970 8 00:00:52,285 --> 00:00:54,735 the Red Anny Faction of the Communist League 9 00:00:55,221 --> 00:00:58,981 hijacked a Japan Airline'; plane and flew lo The People's Democratic Republic of Korea 10 00:01:00,827 --> 00:01:03,277 in order to build an international basis of operation. 11 00:01:24,818 --> 00:01:26,468 In September of the same year, 12 00:01:26,820 --> 00:01:28,810 the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 13 00:01:29,789 --> 00:01:32,059 hijacked a Pan-Am plane, and with three other airplanes, 14 00:01:32,525 --> 00:01:35,765 blew it up at the Revolutionary Airport 15 00:01:36,696 --> 00:01:38,006 THE BEST FORM OF PROPOGANDA 16 00:01:38,398 --> 00:01:40,338 as the PFLP began a new armed struggle 17 00:01:40,733 --> 00:01:42,643 and international guerrilla warfare. 18 00:01:43,269 --> 00:01:45,559 Breaching international boundaries with armed force. 19 00:01:46,506 --> 00:01:49,156 Is it a strategic heroism of war, or propaganda? 20 00:01:49,742 --> 00:01:51,932 IS ARMED STRUGGLE 21 00:01:52,712 --> 00:01:54,412 What is propaganda? 22 00:01:56,649 --> 00:01:58,719 Now it can be defined as people in struggle 23 00:01:59,652 --> 00:02:02,712 speaking the true meaning of the struggle in their own words. 24 00:02:05,558 --> 00:02:08,118 But how and for whom can it be narrated? 25 00:02:11,264 --> 00:02:13,704 A PFLP soldier explains their unique propaganda strategy 26 00:02:14,834 --> 00:02:23,244 developed in the process of the Arab liberation movement in the Middle East. 27 00:02:33,853 --> 00:02:36,553 How do we engage in propaganda activities? 28 00:02:37,257 --> 00:02:40,017 From the lessons of the past five years, it's quite simple. 29 00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:43,327 Propaganda is in fact information, 30 00:02:43,796 --> 00:02:46,256 and information is to communicate the truth. 31 00:02:46,733 --> 00:02:49,273 Moreover, the supreme form of truth is armed struggle. 32 00:02:50,203 --> 00:02:54,603 Therefore, we believe that armed struggle is the best form of propaganda. 33 00:02:56,209 --> 00:02:58,929 It may be true that the worldwide system of discursive propaganda 34 00:02:59,879 --> 00:03:02,149 is hugely influencing international public opinions, 35 00:03:02,582 --> 00:03:05,392 but it is by the people who fight to liberate themselves 36 00:03:06,152 --> 00:03:07,252 through anned struggle 37 00:03:07,754 --> 00:03:09,614 that things are ultimately decided. 38 00:03:09,989 --> 00:03:12,179 Of course, every one of us is fully aware 39 00:03:13,026 --> 00:03:15,376 that the propaganda system of American imperialism 40 00:03:16,095 --> 00:03:18,105 is the largest one in human history. 41 00:03:19,032 --> 00:03:21,862 They dominate the world's TV networks and newspapers 42 00:03:22,735 --> 00:03:24,475 and provide people with false education 43 00:03:24,837 --> 00:03:27,427 and movies by maliciously saying whatever they want. 44 00:03:28,208 --> 00:03:30,158 They believe they can do anything. 45 00:03:30,877 --> 00:03:33,377 The people of South Vietnam have only feeble power, 46 00:03:33,846 --> 00:03:35,986 without TV and newspapers of their own, 47 00:03:36,416 --> 00:03:39,226 but they fight with a firm will as their only weapon 48 00:03:39,752 --> 00:03:41,702 against the imperialist system. 49 00:03:42,388 --> 00:03:43,898 And what is happening now? 50 00:03:44,257 --> 00:03:47,167 The gigantic propaganda system of the United States 51 00:03:47,694 --> 00:03:50,604 is failing to convince people that 'This war is right. ' 52 00:03:52,365 --> 00:03:53,415 As days go by, 53 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:56,300 American people are getting sick and tired, 54 00:03:56,769 --> 00:03:58,589 and have started opposing the war. 55 00:03:59,372 --> 00:04:01,642 This is propaganda, our propaganda. 56 00:04:02,108 --> 00:04:04,028 Propaganda is action and struggle. 57 00:04:04,911 --> 00:04:07,621 That is the only supreme form of propaganda. 58 00:04:08,414 --> 00:04:09,214 However, 59 00:04:09,449 --> 00:04:10,909 that action has to be supported 60 00:04:11,251 --> 00:04:13,191 by finn solidarity with various leftist 61 00:04:13,586 --> 00:04:16,606 parties, factions, and by the revolutionary propaganda system. 62 00:04:17,557 --> 00:04:18,537 Regardless, 63 00:04:18,791 --> 00:04:20,891 the basis is armed struggle by the masses. 64 00:04:45,351 --> 00:04:48,791 Similarly, a soldier of the Japanese Communist League Red Army Faction, 65 00:04:49,389 --> 00:04:51,329 which has strategized the 1960s struggle slogan, 66 00:04:51,724 --> 00:04:54,354 'Pm-Stage Armed Uprising, ' 67 00:04:55,328 --> 00:04:59,328 and now recognizes the current situation of the 1910s 68 00:05:00,433 --> 00:05:03,473 as an 'Armed Stand-Off Stage, ' says: 69 00:05:05,705 --> 00:05:08,785 What we can say based on our ongoing struggle 70 00:05:10,176 --> 00:05:12,606 is that the direct attack on the enemy power 71 00:05:13,579 --> 00:05:16,079 such as Osaka-Tokyo War, Daibosatsu Struggle, 72 00:05:16,549 --> 00:05:19,159 Bomb-Attack movement against the American military bases, 73 00:05:19,652 --> 00:05:22,802 hijacks, attacks on police boxes, seizures of arms, 74 00:05:23,890 --> 00:05:26,210 and the serial finance appropriation struggle... 75 00:05:26,659 --> 00:05:29,189 that is armed struggle and is in and of itself propaganda, 76 00:05:30,563 --> 00:05:32,593 and the substance of its military gain 77 00:05:33,032 --> 00:05:35,682 lies in concrete damage inflicted upon the enemy 78 00:05:36,169 --> 00:05:38,729 a fundamental blow to the ruling structure. 79 00:05:41,341 --> 00:05:42,921 And what seizes this truth 80 00:05:44,277 --> 00:05:46,247 is nothing but popular struggle 81 00:05:46,646 --> 00:05:48,096 based on numerous guerrilla wars. 82 00:07:36,722 --> 00:07:41,112 ARMED STRUGGLE IS REALITY 83 00:07:43,996 --> 00:07:46,616 ls reality fighting the enemy? 84 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:50,570 Who is in reality fighting the enemy? 85 00:07:52,138 --> 00:07:54,848 Are we actually able to fight the enemy? 86 00:07:57,243 --> 00:08:01,453 How is the international reality of armed struggle being engaged in Japanese reality? 87 00:08:02,181 --> 00:08:04,431 How is armed struggle being done? 88 00:08:06,552 --> 00:08:08,572 Or how is it going to develop? 89 00:08:10,389 --> 00:08:12,989 On September 14th 1971 90 00:08:14,827 --> 00:08:16,977 the Communist League Red Anny Faction 91 00:08:18,397 --> 00:08:20,417 and the Japan Communist Party 92 00:08:20,833 --> 00:08:22,913 'Revolutionary Left' Faction 93 00:08:23,336 --> 00:08:26,456 issued a joint manifesto on the creation of the United Red Army. 94 00:08:42,088 --> 00:08:44,468 This is the correct military formation for popular war, 95 00:08:44,924 --> 00:08:46,784 born as it inevitably was of the process 96 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:48,909 as skirmishes toward revolutionary war 97 00:08:49,295 --> 00:08:51,335 moving from the 2/17 arms seizure struggle 98 00:08:51,731 --> 00:08:54,471 to the serial finance appropriation struggle. 99 00:08:55,601 --> 00:08:56,721 Friends and comrades 100 00:08:57,003 --> 00:08:58,563 who have gathered here today! 101 00:08:58,905 --> 00:09:00,645 We the Japan Revolutionary Front 102 00:09:01,007 --> 00:09:02,747 and the Keihin Anpo Struggle-Collective, 103 00:09:03,142 --> 00:09:05,252 linked together by the crimson threads 104 00:09:05,645 --> 00:09:08,125 of the hijack struggle and 12/18 struggle, 105 00:09:08,614 --> 00:09:11,534 following the 1/25 rally and subsequent development of guerrilla warfare, 106 00:09:12,051 --> 00:09:13,231 host this rally for the purpose 107 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:16,329 of fighting both Japanese and world revolutionary struggle. 108 00:09:16,856 --> 00:09:18,846 With popular struggle as an axis, 109 00:09:19,258 --> 00:09:21,588 directed toward the victory of revolutionary war, 110 00:09:22,028 --> 00:09:25,068 the Red Army was established on July 15th of this year. 111 00:09:25,865 --> 00:09:27,015 This united army 112 00:09:27,333 --> 00:09:30,403 will become a unified force by adding new members 113 00:09:30,937 --> 00:09:34,487 through firm practice of guerrilla wars against world imperialism. 114 00:09:35,107 --> 00:09:38,037 The united army will first and foremost 115 00:09:39,245 --> 00:09:42,505 engage in guerrilla wars and confront various difficulties in the midst 116 00:09:43,082 --> 00:09:45,602 of both armed struggle and military build-up, 117 00:09:46,052 --> 00:09:48,062 and eventually deepen the war policy 118 00:09:48,888 --> 00:09:50,908 that had been attained by sacrifices. 119 00:09:51,324 --> 00:09:53,244 In the midst of deepening war policy, 120 00:09:53,960 --> 00:09:55,810 both the CRAF and JCPRF will examine 121 00:09:56,195 --> 00:09:59,065 the lines of struggle and gain the new-Party formation. 122 00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:01,439 The revolutionary anny will fight 123 00:10:01,834 --> 00:10:03,654 toward a general national uprising, 124 00:10:04,003 --> 00:10:06,753 and for that purpose persist in guerrilla wars for the victory 125 00:10:07,273 --> 00:10:09,883 of revolutionary war and the creation of true communism. 126 00:10:10,376 --> 00:10:12,726 The revolutionary anny will gain victory by legitimizing 127 00:10:13,579 --> 00:10:16,299 itself through guerrilla wars and communizing the army, 128 00:10:16,816 --> 00:10:19,376 and establish solidarity with all the peoples who fight 129 00:10:19,852 --> 00:10:21,452 tho World Revolutionary War. 130 00:10:21,787 --> 00:10:24,467 The revolutionary anny is the firm and strong axis 131 00:10:24,957 --> 00:10:27,617 for the surely germinating spirit of the working people, 132 00:10:28,494 --> 00:10:30,414 and is an army for the just war. 133 00:10:31,163 --> 00:10:33,493 Comrades, let us gain the further position in this war, 134 00:10:33,933 --> 00:10:36,253 join the United Red Army, and build the battle front 135 00:10:36,702 --> 00:10:38,852 for the scorch-the-earth guerrilla war! 136 00:10:51,283 --> 00:10:54,793 ARMED STRUGGLE 137 00:10:56,255 --> 00:10:59,585 WEAPONS ARE 138 00:11:01,160 --> 00:11:06,870 THE LANGUAGE OF OPPRESSED PEOPLE 139 00:11:09,335 --> 00:11:11,675 And how are we trying to seize the reality, 140 00:11:12,138 --> 00:11:15,058 the reality through armed struggle? 141 00:11:19,912 --> 00:11:21,082 Armed struggle 142 00:11:21,781 --> 00:11:24,001 is itself the words of the people long suppressed. 143 00:11:34,527 --> 00:11:37,427 All the revolutions, particularly in their early stages, 144 00:11:37,930 --> 00:11:41,050 should choose appropriate positions for defence against the enemy. 145 00:11:42,201 --> 00:11:43,361 It is because for us, 146 00:11:43,669 --> 00:11:47,189 the enemy is not only Israel, but includes the world imperialists, 147 00:11:47,773 --> 00:11:51,063 tho Zionists and the reactionary Arab governments. 148 00:11:52,578 --> 00:11:54,968 For the past five years, we have fought the war 149 00:11:55,448 --> 00:11:57,928 against the reactionary Jewish government in various ways. 150 00:11:58,384 --> 00:11:59,114 In this process, 151 00:11:59,351 --> 00:12:01,701 we thought of how to defend our revolution, 152 00:12:02,154 --> 00:12:04,454 to further the war of liberation for our country, 153 00:12:04,890 --> 00:12:07,620 against the Zionist invasion and the enemy agents 154 00:12:08,127 --> 00:12:10,387 of the reactionary Jordanian government. 155 00:12:11,530 --> 00:12:12,580 The answer is here, 156 00:12:13,232 --> 00:12:15,782 Jerash Mountain stretching along the border of Israel and Jordan, 157 00:12:16,235 --> 00:12:18,175 that we chose to be our battle ground, 158 00:12:18,571 --> 00:12:21,411 to build our base to start war and expand revolution. 159 00:12:21,941 --> 00:12:23,951 Every day we are in constant life or death battles 160 00:12:24,343 --> 00:12:26,923 with the Israeli government, which is a Zionist agent, 161 00:12:27,413 --> 00:12:29,453 and the Jordanian government, 162 00:12:30,182 --> 00:12:32,222 which is the agent of Israel. 163 00:12:33,085 --> 00:12:35,125 Such strategies and tactics as ours 164 00:12:35,955 --> 00:12:39,895 are the products of our thought and positions immediate to our struggle 165 00:12:40,893 --> 00:12:44,013 much as our Cuban and Vietnamese comrades have done. 166 00:13:12,391 --> 00:13:15,861 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine starts a war. 167 00:13:16,462 --> 00:13:17,282 Fight. 168 00:13:17,930 --> 00:13:23,710 Oppressed people try to live the reality of revolution only through armed struggle. 169 00:13:25,871 --> 00:13:27,781 Try to live as communists. 170 00:13:35,748 --> 00:13:39,788 The PFLP soldiers are not heroes of hijacks. 171 00:13:41,353 --> 00:13:44,573 They talk of themselves as communists. 172 00:13:51,564 --> 00:13:53,244 So what is my duty? 173 00:13:54,934 --> 00:13:57,654 My duty as a guerrilla soldier is lo accomplish 174 00:13:59,038 --> 00:14:01,588 everything required in guerrilla struggle. 175 00:14:02,775 --> 00:14:03,865 For example, 176 00:14:04,143 --> 00:14:09,923 it is sometimes hijacking, sometimes giving interviews, and everything in between. 177 00:14:12,685 --> 00:14:15,015 We have proposed and practiced this war, 178 00:14:16,021 --> 00:14:19,061 but there are a variety of things we need for it. 179 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,280 That is why I am learning many pragmatic aspects of the war, 180 00:14:25,564 --> 00:14:26,834 not just one side. 181 00:14:27,833 --> 00:14:30,243 That is why I cannot honestly point to one thing 182 00:14:30,703 --> 00:14:32,923 and say this is what I am doing. 183 00:14:34,039 --> 00:14:35,239 But right now, 184 00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:38,271 I believe that I am engaged in a struggle 185 00:14:38,744 --> 00:14:40,544 to propagandize our 'power. ' 186 00:14:42,114 --> 00:14:48,344 But in your question of what I think of being seen as a star or hero of hijack, 187 00:14:49,355 --> 00:14:52,065 you added that I do not see myself as a hero. 188 00:14:53,692 --> 00:14:55,862 To hear someone speak of me that way, 189 00:14:56,295 --> 00:14:57,785 I feel very happy- 190 00:14:58,898 --> 00:15:02,218 But in any case we do not talk about ourselves as individuals. 191 00:15:03,302 --> 00:15:06,282 It is because revolution is always born of people, 192 00:15:07,606 --> 00:15:08,586 for people, 193 00:15:09,141 --> 00:15:11,941 and because it is not meant for general humanity. 194 00:15:13,212 --> 00:15:15,382 That is why being among the whole, 195 00:15:15,814 --> 00:15:17,884 makes the individual pretty insignificant. 196 00:15:20,319 --> 00:15:22,829 And I am especially happy to hear you 197 00:15:23,489 --> 00:15:24,979 say that I am not a hero. 198 00:15:25,624 --> 00:15:28,504 The reason is that I never heard anyone say that before, 199 00:15:29,028 --> 00:15:30,738 and I think that to not become a hero 200 00:15:31,096 --> 00:15:34,466 in the midst of revolutionary Palestinians and proletariats means 201 00:15:35,067 --> 00:15:37,597 that that person is simply doing his or her duty, 202 00:15:38,404 --> 00:15:40,454 not as some son of hobby. 203 00:15:42,608 --> 00:15:43,588 In my case, 204 00:15:43,876 --> 00:15:46,396 my duty involves not just hijacking, but is something 205 00:15:47,212 --> 00:15:49,992 with which death always accompanies my life. 206 00:15:52,785 --> 00:15:53,615 Therefore, 207 00:15:53,852 --> 00:15:56,872 I will reply to those people who see us as heroes, 208 00:15:57,656 --> 00:15:59,786 that we are never heroes, 209 00:16:00,426 --> 00:16:02,806 that we are not fighting this war as our hobby, 210 00:16:03,595 --> 00:16:05,605 and that we are simply doing our duty 211 00:16:06,298 --> 00:16:10,038 and I like to insist that we dedicate ourselves to revolution, 212 00:16:11,570 --> 00:16:14,640 and that our lives are for revolution, 213 00:16:15,207 --> 00:16:16,877 not for being seen as heroes. 214 00:17:55,541 --> 00:17:58,361 People suppressed in the barracks of refugee camps. 215 00:17:59,878 --> 00:18:02,728 People exposed to indiscriminate shelling. 216 00:18:03,749 --> 00:18:04,929 Is it people, 217 00:18:05,217 --> 00:18:06,617 or communists, 218 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:09,419 who are suppressed? 219 00:18:21,333 --> 00:18:25,203 A revolutionary must dedicate his or her personal life in actual struggle 220 00:18:25,871 --> 00:18:27,681 and practice it. 221 00:18:29,141 --> 00:18:29,781 Therefore, 222 00:18:30,008 --> 00:18:34,458 there is no such thing as personal life or life in struggle, 223 00:18:35,180 --> 00:18:37,400 because struggle is, 224 00:18:37,850 --> 00:18:39,430 for all the people involved in a revolution, 225 00:18:39,785 --> 00:18:42,225 an individual, and total life. 226 00:18:44,323 --> 00:18:45,513 Therefore, 227 00:18:45,824 --> 00:18:48,914 I neither think nor feel that there is a personal life 228 00:18:49,461 --> 00:18:52,371 there is only life in armed struggle. 229 00:18:53,799 --> 00:18:57,459 The separate lives should be unified and expanded. 230 00:19:00,005 --> 00:19:00,825 As revolutionaries, 231 00:19:01,073 --> 00:19:06,353 we try not to live our lives conceitedly, and act accordingly. 232 00:19:08,580 --> 00:19:11,400 But as any revolutionary does, 233 00:19:11,884 --> 00:19:13,524 we believe in our future. 234 00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:18,247 From my experience as a school teacher, I speak of 'wealth': 235 00:19:18,757 --> 00:19:20,997 you could go any place if you have money. 236 00:19:22,794 --> 00:19:26,474 But I gave up everything to fight the enemy. 237 00:19:28,901 --> 00:19:32,141 We have to sacrifice everything we have for this struggle. 238 00:19:33,739 --> 00:19:37,049 It is because we fight for this country and people 239 00:19:37,743 --> 00:19:40,853 and at the same time live like them. 240 00:19:42,814 --> 00:19:44,754 Only by doing so could we have something 241 00:19:45,184 --> 00:19:46,874 to share with the proletariat, 242 00:19:47,219 --> 00:19:50,139 and I was able to throw away my petit-bourgeois-ness. 243 00:19:51,557 --> 00:19:54,247 And there are many people like me among us, 244 00:19:54,726 --> 00:19:56,666 as there were many before us. 245 00:19:57,062 --> 00:20:00,042 People have been reforming themselves. 246 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,060 They are teachers, and I am their pupil 247 00:20:06,738 --> 00:20:10,718 who is naming m abandon gem-bourgeois “is. 248 00:20:12,744 --> 00:20:16,374 They are also studying and practicing the proletarian life. 249 00:20:16,982 --> 00:20:20,202 Only this way of life will elevate and advance revolution, 250 00:20:20,786 --> 00:20:22,726 and retain the leadership of 251 00:20:23,121 --> 00:20:25,921 not path-bourgeoisie, but the proletariat class. 252 00:20:29,127 --> 00:20:30,477 Because of this, 253 00:20:30,796 --> 00:20:33,426 it is only through such a situation and principle 254 00:20:33,932 --> 00:20:36,952 that people become truly revolutionary people 255 00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:40,700 and it is only through the proletariat class that 256 00:20:41,206 --> 00:20:43,986 without having learned the concept and ideal about 'people' 257 00:20:44,810 --> 00:20:46,730 still desire revolution. 258 00:20:49,381 --> 00:20:51,791 The reason is that the path-bourgeois 259 00:20:52,251 --> 00:20:55,231 because they do not live the life of the proletariat 260 00:20:55,754 --> 00:20:57,444 cannot share their problems 261 00:20:57,823 --> 00:20:58,673 and hence 262 00:20:58,924 --> 00:21:01,474 cannot roach the horizon that we have reached. 263 00:21:03,762 --> 00:21:05,482 That is why we are fighting 264 00:21:05,831 --> 00:21:08,631 not as petit-bourgeois but as proletariat. 265 00:21:10,369 --> 00:21:14,209 The meaning of revolution as revolution lies in this 266 00:21:14,873 --> 00:21:18,873 that petit-bourgeois cannot fight the way the proletariat can. 267 00:21:28,820 --> 00:21:32,940 ARMED STRUGGLE 268 00:21:33,725 --> 00:21:37,675 IS WAR 269 00:21:42,034 --> 00:21:44,374 War. Oppressed people wage war. 270 00:22:06,958 --> 00:22:10,238 What is their weapon to defeat the enemy? 271 00:22:12,097 --> 00:22:15,347 What is the people's weapon? 272 00:22:17,502 --> 00:22:19,832 The world is engaged in wars every day. 273 00:22:20,772 --> 00:22:23,552 History has seen wars every day. 274 00:22:25,544 --> 00:22:28,734 Has there ever been a peaceful day for the oppressed people? 275 00:22:29,915 --> 00:22:33,525 A soldier, imprisoned as the result of armed struggle, speaks: 276 00:22:34,820 --> 00:22:36,290 At this Tokyo Local Court, 277 00:22:37,556 --> 00:22:40,126 there is one thing that first needs to be clarified. 278 00:22:41,126 --> 00:22:42,186 It is the fact 279 00:22:42,861 --> 00:22:44,531 that I am imprisoned and dragged 280 00:22:45,297 --> 00:22:46,557 into the current trial 281 00:22:47,299 --> 00:22:49,789 because I am held by the enemy as a prisoner of war 282 00:22:50,802 --> 00:22:52,062 that is, a POW during wartime. 283 00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:54,751 Red Army soldiers belong to combat-practice units 284 00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:56,967 of revolutionary war, not mindless chattering 285 00:22:57,342 --> 00:22:59,342 We know that the ethics required of us doors 286 00:22:59,745 --> 00:23:01,645 is that of silence and determination. 287 00:23:02,948 --> 00:23:04,418 Our present is a new revolutionary age 288 00:23:05,317 --> 00:23:08,257 which demands that we refuse to express revolution in harmless chatters 289 00:23:09,321 --> 00:23:10,571 and thousands of letter heads 290 00:23:10,856 --> 00:23:12,806 and that we practice decisive action, 291 00:23:13,225 --> 00:23:14,995 and that is why we prefer not to blather in bourgeois court. 292 00:23:15,627 --> 00:23:16,357 Therefore, 293 00:23:17,596 --> 00:23:19,426 we do not accept our current designation as 'defendants, ' 294 00:23:19,798 --> 00:23:21,368 and we constantly think 295 00:23:22,467 --> 00:23:23,477 of transforming our existence 296 00:23:24,169 --> 00:23:25,939 into an offensive weapon. 297 00:23:28,039 --> 00:23:31,019 What must be clarified is that it is the imperialists, 298 00:23:31,877 --> 00:23:33,017 the government bourgeoisie, 299 00:23:33,311 --> 00:23:35,681 and the prosecutors who have to be judged. 300 00:23:36,515 --> 00:23:38,595 In order to reverse the positions of judges and the judged, 301 00:23:39,818 --> 00:23:41,808 the world revolution must be resolutely executed. 302 00:23:43,255 --> 00:23:45,705 And history will inscribe us as heroes of the people 303 00:23:46,191 --> 00:23:47,431 and prove our innocence. 304 00:23:48,193 --> 00:23:48,883 Comrades, 305 00:23:49,127 --> 00:23:51,477 let us crush the suppression by the cruel and cowardly enemy powers 306 00:23:51,930 --> 00:23:54,460 who are against the factions of revolutionary war. 307 00:23:54,933 --> 00:23:57,283 We must establish legal and illegal mass-based support networks 308 00:23:58,103 --> 00:23:59,813 in every corner of civil society 309 00:24:00,205 --> 00:24:03,515 by forming alliances with and backing armed struggle elsewhere. 310 00:24:04,609 --> 00:24:06,539 Organize the influence and extension of armed struggle, 311 00:24:08,346 --> 00:24:10,576 build up legal and illegal material power 312 00:24:11,983 --> 00:24:14,103 against the enemy power, 313 00:24:14,853 --> 00:24:16,193 minimize the sacrifice and damage 314 00:24:17,255 --> 00:24:18,325 of revolutionary force 315 00:24:18,890 --> 00:24:20,980 generate new revolutionary soldiers 316 00:24:21,693 --> 00:24:23,143 far surpassing previous ones, 317 00:24:24,062 --> 00:24:26,742 accumulate gains and lessons from victories, 318 00:24:28,033 --> 00:24:31,163 and create the continuity and sustainability of armed struggle. 319 00:24:34,139 --> 00:24:36,849 Finally, we express our determination to continue 320 00:24:37,876 --> 00:24:40,476 to Victoriously fight against the mean, cowardly enemy power 321 00:24:41,746 --> 00:24:43,456 through this court struggle 322 00:24:44,249 --> 00:24:47,359 and we express this message of solidarity 323 00:24:49,287 --> 00:24:52,807 to many people who support our court and hijack struggle. 324 00:24:53,892 --> 00:24:56,362 I end my appeal by calling on all people, 325 00:24:57,729 --> 00:24:59,509 not only the youth, 326 00:25:00,298 --> 00:25:02,518 but also the elderly, children, men and women, 327 00:25:03,535 --> 00:25:05,105 to volunteer to be Red Army soldiers 328 00:25:06,371 --> 00:25:08,461 and hear the call of the war of world proletarian. 329 00:26:03,929 --> 00:26:06,219 A Palestinian soldier, Mr. Fedain, 330 00:26:07,299 --> 00:26:09,869 who lives every day in the war of armed struggle 331 00:26:10,702 --> 00:26:13,032 with either 'my death' or the 'enemy's death, 'speaks: 332 00:26:23,815 --> 00:26:26,465 Our morality is to fight and win. 333 00:26:28,553 --> 00:26:32,373 It is because the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 334 00:26:33,024 --> 00:26:35,984 fights with people and fights for people. 335 00:26:37,195 --> 00:26:40,775 This morality is evinced by the oppression against the people in refugee camps 336 00:26:41,399 --> 00:26:43,159 in the countries under occupation. 337 00:26:43,802 --> 00:26:46,702 The morality of we guerrilla soldiers 338 00:26:47,205 --> 00:26:49,565 is that the people support revolution, 339 00:26:50,041 --> 00:26:52,881 and their purpose and aspirations lie in revolution. 340 00:26:53,411 --> 00:26:55,581 We do not fight because we live. 341 00:26:56,715 --> 00:26:58,755 We fight to live. 342 00:26:59,951 --> 00:27:01,221 Fighting is living. 343 00:27:02,153 --> 00:27:04,883 Moreover, we have to think how to make use 344 00:27:05,857 --> 00:27:09,727 of objective situations, subjective battle power, 345 00:27:10,862 --> 00:27:13,252 and other various revolutionary experiences 346 00:27:14,065 --> 00:27:16,615 through thorough understanding of the laws 347 00:27:17,335 --> 00:27:21,765 and concepts of revolution and our analyses of the reality. 348 00:27:24,209 --> 00:27:26,209 Revolutions are all similar, 349 00:27:27,012 --> 00:27:29,902 but every revolution has its own unique characteristics. 350 00:27:31,916 --> 00:27:33,026 Therefore, 351 00:27:33,318 --> 00:27:36,048 we the PFLP should constantly learn and practice 352 00:27:36,554 --> 00:27:39,284 the principles of popular revolution. 353 00:27:41,059 --> 00:27:45,809 We have to choose the strategy most appropriate to our situation. 354 00:27:48,199 --> 00:27:51,739 This is because the political and military position 355 00:27:53,571 --> 00:27:55,961 of Palestine guerrillas is an extremely difficult one. 356 00:27:56,875 --> 00:27:57,785 For example, 357 00:27:58,343 --> 00:28:00,843 in 1936 when we fought Zionists' immigration to Palestine, 358 00:28:01,780 --> 00:28:02,880 and in 1967, 359 00:28:03,181 --> 00:28:07,811 when Arab nationalism made a pact with reactionary governments 360 00:28:08,553 --> 00:28:11,763 and declined into the path-bourgeois ideology, 361 00:28:12,323 --> 00:28:14,913 our revolution did not have clear political strategy. 362 00:28:15,794 --> 00:28:20,144 Neither did we have a theoretical strategy for revolution. 363 00:28:22,233 --> 00:28:24,623 For that reason we were defeated 364 00:28:26,538 --> 00:28:30,118 and many comrades were sacrificed. 365 00:28:31,309 --> 00:28:32,779 Now we know: 366 00:28:33,411 --> 00:28:36,641 Guerrilla war is not fought in a fixed single place. 367 00:28:38,883 --> 00:28:42,603 A guerrilla should first recognize that he is a unit in war. 368 00:28:44,189 --> 00:28:45,099 Understanding this, 369 00:28:45,356 --> 00:28:47,546 he gains people's purpose and aspiration - revolution 370 00:28:48,393 --> 00:28:50,413 as the morality of guerrilla soldiers, 371 00:28:51,262 --> 00:28:53,892 and make this our strategy. 372 00:28:57,702 --> 00:28:59,712 The morality of oppressed people 373 00:29:00,839 --> 00:29:02,849 is not that they fight because they live. 374 00:29:03,775 --> 00:29:04,835 They fight to live, 375 00:29:05,076 --> 00:29:06,106 and fighting is living. 376 00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:08,345 In the desert of rocks and sand dust, 377 00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:14,789 Fedine lives and fights like trees and grass. 378 00:29:17,122 --> 00:29:19,552 It is within the war that lived peace 379 00:29:20,024 --> 00:29:21,944 is being born as the word of people. 380 00:29:23,628 --> 00:29:25,608 They learn guns with a gun in one hand; 381 00:29:25,997 --> 00:29:28,077 they learn things through guns. 382 00:29:30,969 --> 00:29:34,429 Is the first word that oppressed people can learn 383 00:29:35,039 --> 00:29:36,539 to seize guns and bullets? 384 00:31:02,927 --> 00:31:11,717 ARMED STRUGGLE MEANS BEING ON STANDBY 385 00:32:17,001 --> 00:32:17,841 They make no distinction 386 00:32:18,069 --> 00:32:20,249 between front line and hind line. 387 00:32:21,906 --> 00:32:25,536 Their frontline base is a place for their 'rich' education. 388 00:32:27,712 --> 00:32:28,432 Streets 389 00:32:29,180 --> 00:32:31,140 are the place for the people to discover and use 390 00:32:31,549 --> 00:32:33,459 their language as 'weapon. ' 391 00:32:35,119 --> 00:32:37,619 For them there is no difference between urban guerrilla 392 00:32:38,089 --> 00:32:39,539 and guerrilla warfare. 393 00:32:40,758 --> 00:32:42,818 Guerrilla soldiers learn on the battlefield, 394 00:32:43,394 --> 00:32:45,544 and masses of people make the battlefield their home. 395 00:42:34,351 --> 00:42:37,541 Before us is a landscape that armed struggle is to stand by 396 00:42:38,989 --> 00:42:41,609 as the landscape of the world. 397 00:42:44,094 --> 00:42:45,814 We can learn from the oppressed Palestinians 398 00:42:46,564 --> 00:42:50,494 that to stand by is to innovate the immediately usable weapon 399 00:42:51,502 --> 00:42:54,402 and to stand by with the arms. 400 00:44:35,572 --> 00:44:37,352 What we can learn from the Arab liberation movement 401 00:44:38,842 --> 00:44:41,172 is whether there were enemies of Palestine 402 00:44:42,212 --> 00:44:45,292 besides the Zionists of world imperialism. 403 00:44:49,186 --> 00:44:51,076 PFLP was established in 1967, 404 00:44:52,456 --> 00:44:53,876 when the Arab liberation movement 405 00:44:54,558 --> 00:44:55,668 was in the hegemonic war 406 00:44:56,193 --> 00:45:00,593 among various Arab governments and ethnic groups; 407 00:45:02,599 --> 00:45:04,439 PFLP began insisting on the necessity of breaking away 408 00:45:04,802 --> 00:45:07,082 from other factions and shifting its goal 409 00:45:07,971 --> 00:45:10,251 from nationalism to international communism. 410 00:45:13,644 --> 00:45:15,334 And for the past five years 411 00:45:15,946 --> 00:45:18,026 it has continuously carried out its strategic theory 412 00:45:18,449 --> 00:45:19,839 through armed struggle. 413 00:45:22,753 --> 00:45:24,783 Can one say that PFLP was able to stand on the principle 414 00:45:25,789 --> 00:45:28,489 of anti-nationalism? 415 00:45:31,462 --> 00:45:34,332 The word 'Palestine' means 'brave soldier' 416 00:45:35,132 --> 00:45:37,032 in the ancient Canaan language. 417 00:45:38,869 --> 00:45:41,429 Two thousand years ago they fought 418 00:45:42,372 --> 00:45:47,732 the invading Hebrews, Roman Empire, the Crusade, and now the modern Zionists. 419 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:51,850 They say it was not just the past five years 420 00:45:52,282 --> 00:45:55,582 but over four thousand years that they have been fighting. 421 00:46:02,659 --> 00:46:05,749 They say they are a nation of fighting soldiers. 422 00:46:08,232 --> 00:46:10,312 They say they establish a line of fighting not only Zionists 423 00:46:10,701 --> 00:46:13,211 but now Jordanian and other forces, in the shadow 424 00:46:14,304 --> 00:46:19,374 of the Arab national movement's official guerrilla armies. 425 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,060 They are not the soldiers of capitalist war. 426 00:46:37,127 --> 00:46:40,887 They are not the soldiers of armies with rewards and salaries. 427 00:46:52,042 --> 00:46:55,202 They are the fighting 'soldiers of life. ' 428 00:47:15,899 --> 00:47:18,889 They are the people who make military matters their 'lives. ' 429 00:47:19,703 --> 00:47:21,233 They are neither citizens nor nationals; 430 00:47:21,805 --> 00:47:24,405 they are the people called 'oppressed Palestinians. ' 431 00:48:01,812 --> 00:48:05,162 They make no distinction between frontline and behind the line. 432 00:48:06,950 --> 00:48:10,470 Their frontline base is the place for their 'rich' education. 433 00:48:12,689 --> 00:48:13,619 Streets 434 00:48:13,991 --> 00:48:15,721 are the place to discover and use 435 00:48:16,093 --> 00:48:17,733 the weapons as people's language. 436 00:48:20,097 --> 00:48:20,967 For them 437 00:48:21,198 --> 00:48:23,678 there is no difference between urban guerrilla and guerrilla warfare. 438 00:48:25,702 --> 00:48:27,742 Guerrilla soldiers learn on battlefield, 439 00:48:28,372 --> 00:48:30,782 and masses of people make the battlefield their home. 440 00:48:52,329 --> 00:48:56,719 WHO IS OUR ENEMY? 441 00:48:57,634 --> 00:49:01,584 WHO ARE OUR COMRADES? 442 00:49:27,998 --> 00:49:30,828 I came here to understand more fully the Palestinian Revolution. 443 00:49:32,102 --> 00:49:35,002 I think that to understand this revolution 444 00:49:36,673 --> 00:49:38,593 you must be a pan of it. 445 00:49:39,276 --> 00:49:42,116 It is necessary to live the revolution. 446 00:49:43,013 --> 00:49:44,453 And another thing is, 447 00:49:44,748 --> 00:49:47,178 the reason I am with PFLP is that I believe PFLP 448 00:49:48,118 --> 00:49:52,678 can lead people to the victory of revolution. 449 00:49:54,157 --> 00:50:00,157 I think that they have been able to correctly analyze 450 00:50:01,631 --> 00:50:04,151 the problems of Palestine in the Middle East and the problems 451 00:50:04,801 --> 00:50:06,161 of Arab people in general. 452 00:50:06,903 --> 00:50:10,453 I think we cannot gain victory without Marx-Leninism. 453 00:50:11,041 --> 00:50:14,141 And it is only PFLP that is keenly aware of the prospect 454 00:50:15,145 --> 00:50:18,505 that people can win together with Marx-Leninism. 455 00:50:39,036 --> 00:50:42,336 I would like to send a message to Japanese comrades, 456 00:50:42,906 --> 00:50:44,536 revolutionary comrades. 457 00:50:46,977 --> 00:50:48,537 What has to be said first 458 00:50:49,212 --> 00:50:51,542 is that we have to bring together and unify 459 00:50:52,315 --> 00:50:54,075 the revolutionaries of the world. 460 00:50:55,819 --> 00:50:58,849 It is because all our struggles are one single struggle, 461 00:50:59,389 --> 00:51:01,229 and we cannot afford to be divided. 462 00:51:03,393 --> 00:51:05,793 Also because the forces of today's world imperialism 463 00:51:06,229 --> 00:51:08,699 are emerging as a unified power. 464 00:51:10,934 --> 00:51:13,334 We aim to annihilate our enemies. 465 00:51:14,738 --> 00:51:15,708 For this aim, 466 00:51:16,206 --> 00:51:19,606 we have to engage in a collective struggle 467 00:51:20,410 --> 00:51:23,720 to win this war and expel the forces of world imperialists. 468 00:51:25,015 --> 00:51:28,285 Let us arise now on the popular front of world revolutionaries, 469 00:51:29,119 --> 00:51:31,729 to maintain the leadership of the proletariat! 470 00:51:34,257 --> 00:51:37,007 Japanese comrades, and the revolutionary comrades 471 00:51:37,727 --> 00:51:40,127 in China, Vietnam, and the rest of the world 472 00:51:41,398 --> 00:51:45,398 let us posit the following slogan, and persist in fighting for its realization! 473 00:51:47,838 --> 00:51:52,438 'Anti-imperialist revolutionary forces of the world, unite!' 474 00:51:54,211 --> 00:51:57,571 Crush imperialism and establish the proletarian power! 475 00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,580 I would like to send a message from the frontline to the comrades in Japan. 476 00:52:20,804 --> 00:52:23,804 We are hoping to see the fire of revolution burn in the world. 477 00:52:24,708 --> 00:52:25,688 Guevara once said 478 00:52:25,942 --> 00:52:28,112 he hoped to see the entire world become like Vietnam, 479 00:52:28,545 --> 00:52:30,245 and that is the same hope we have. 480 00:52:30,614 --> 00:52:33,544 That is why we hope from the bottom of our hearts 481 00:52:34,384 --> 00:52:37,044 that by maintaining constant communication between us, 482 00:52:37,554 --> 00:52:40,094 as we have learned much from your struggles, 483 00:52:40,557 --> 00:52:43,167 you will learn from our experiences 484 00:52:43,660 --> 00:52:45,950 and learn the lessons we have learned. 485 00:52:46,396 --> 00:52:48,826 With our collective struggle, we can decisively defeat 486 00:52:49,299 --> 00:52:51,979 the imperialists who oppress and exploit our people. 487 00:52:53,403 --> 00:52:57,543 The will and emotion of people cannot be expressed 488 00:52:58,241 --> 00:53:00,121 by newspaper rapons, 489 00:53:00,510 --> 00:53:03,770 but only by the commencement of armed struggle. 490 00:53:18,828 --> 00:53:21,158 Representing PFLP, I send a message to our comrades, 491 00:53:21,831 --> 00:53:25,591 the revolutionary groups and parties of the Japanese people. 492 00:53:27,771 --> 00:53:30,971 You might have heard the news through the imperialist propaganda system 493 00:53:31,541 --> 00:53:34,581 that the Palestinian people are currently exhausted 494 00:53:35,111 --> 00:53:37,161 that they have given up the struggle, 495 00:53:37,581 --> 00:53:40,381 and that they are defeated by the reactionary Israel. 496 00:53:41,251 --> 00:53:44,101 Comrades, do not believe them. 497 00:53:45,088 --> 00:53:47,238 We are in fact in the middle of struggle. 498 00:53:47,657 --> 00:53:50,777 There is no and to our struggle. 499 00:53:51,661 --> 00:53:55,171 We have our final purpose, and we continue to fight for its realization. 500 00:53:55,765 --> 00:53:59,115 No one and nothing can stop us. 501 00:53:59,970 --> 00:54:02,190 Japanese comrades, 502 00:54:03,039 --> 00:54:06,509 we sincerely hope that you will fight our common enemy by supporting us. 503 00:54:07,143 --> 00:54:08,643 Support us by any means. 504 00:54:09,546 --> 00:54:11,356 Send us medicine, and anything else. 505 00:54:11,748 --> 00:54:14,148 But the best support is that our Japanese comrades 506 00:54:14,584 --> 00:54:16,784 rise up 507 00:54:17,587 --> 00:54:19,877 and strike blows against the monster of American imperialism. 508 00:54:20,323 --> 00:54:21,953 Let us advance our struggle 509 00:54:22,759 --> 00:54:25,399 by weakening American imperialism. 510 00:54:26,296 --> 00:54:28,726 Japanese comrades, we are fighting the common enemy! 511 00:54:29,666 --> 00:54:33,326 We are fighting on many fronts all over the world! 512 00:54:34,304 --> 00:54:35,934 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 Subtitles by: Papovik and Evildee Translation by: Mio Malsumolo and Dimax9 696 01:09:09,445 --> 01:09:13,835 Fan-subtitled DVD For non-profit use onlyl 697 01:09:14,917 --> 01:09:19,307 If you paid for it, you were ripped off. 58057

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