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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 ARMY/PFLP:
DECLARATION OF WORLD WAR
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In March 1970
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the Red Army Faction of the Communist League
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hijacked a Japan Airline's plane and flew
to 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 armed 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 firm 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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'Pre-Stage Armed Uprising,'
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and now recognizes the current
situation of the 1970s
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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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Is 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 Army 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 army 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 army 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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the World Revolutionary War.
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The revolutionary army 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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the 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 to 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 sort 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 learning to abandon petit-bourgeois life.
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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 petit-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 petit-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 reach 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 doers
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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 petit-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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00:32:40,776 --> 00:32:43,133
Guerrilla soldiers learn on the battlefield,
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and masses of people make
the battlefield their home.
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[PFLP revolutionary anthem]
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[The International]
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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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00:44:35,580 --> 00:44:37,611
What we can learn from the Arab
liberation movement
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00:44:38,871 --> 00:44:41,533
is whether there were enemies of Palestine
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00:44:42,244 --> 00:44:45,759
besides the Zionists of world imperialism.
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00:44:49,191 --> 00:44:51,345
PFLP was established in 1967,
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when the Arab liberation movement
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00:44:54,562 --> 00:44:55,832
was in the hegemonic war
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00:44:56,213 --> 00:45:01,229
among various Arab governments
and ethnic groups;
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00:45:02,608 --> 00:45:04,710
PFLP began insisting on the necessity
of breaking away
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00:45:04,830 --> 00:45:07,433
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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00:45:18,469 --> 00:45:20,057
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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00:45:35,134 --> 00:45:37,301
in the ancient Canaan language.
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00:45:38,888 --> 00:45:41,809
Two thousand years ago they fought
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00:45:42,398 --> 00:45:48,507
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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00:45:52,309 --> 00:45:56,068
but over four thousand years that
they have been fighting.
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00:46:02,674 --> 00:46:06,199
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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00:46:10,731 --> 00:46:13,595
but now Jordanian and other forces,
in the shadow
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00:46:14,325 --> 00:46:20,103
of the Arab national movement's
official guerrilla armies.
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00:46:23,504 --> 00:46:26,446
They are not the soldiers of capitalist war.
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00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:41,445
They are not the soldiers of armies
with rewards and salaries.
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00:46:52,061 --> 00:46:55,660
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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00:48:01,839 --> 00:48:05,662
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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00:48:12,699 --> 00:48:13,767
Streets
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00:48:14,006 --> 00:48:15,982
are the place to discover and use
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00:48:16,102 --> 00:48:17,975
the weapons as people's language.
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00:48:20,099 --> 00:48:21,103
For them
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00:48:21,209 --> 00:48:24,036
there is no difference between
urban guerrilla and guerrilla warfare.
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00:48:25,733 --> 00:48:28,061
Guerrilla soldiers learn on battlefield,
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00:48:28,397 --> 00:48:31,145
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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00:49:32,126 --> 00:49:35,428
I think that to understand this revolution
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00:49:36,690 --> 00:49:38,881
you must be a part of it.
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00:49:39,301 --> 00:49:42,539
It is necessary to live the revolution.
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00:49:43,015 --> 00:49:44,659
And another thing is,
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00:49:44,779 --> 00:49:47,548
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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00:49:54,161 --> 00:50:00,996
I think that they have been able to correctly analyze
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00:50:01,642 --> 00:50:04,520
the problems of Palestine in
the Middle East and the problems
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00:50:04,806 --> 00:50:06,361
of Arab people in general.
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00:50:06,906 --> 00:50:10,950
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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00:50:39,052 --> 00:50:42,812
I would like to send a message
to Japanese comrades,
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00:50:42,932 --> 00:50:44,797
revolutionary comrades.
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00:50:46,984 --> 00:50:48,770
What has to be said first
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is that we have to bring together and unify
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00:50:52,324 --> 00:50:54,334
the revolutionaries of the world.
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00:50:55,841 --> 00:50:59,292
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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00:51:10,939 --> 00:51:13,677
We aim to annihilate our enemies.
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00:51:14,749 --> 00:51:15,860
For this aim,
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00:51:16,236 --> 00:51:20,107
we have to engage in a collective struggle
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00:51:20,427 --> 00:51:24,197
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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00:51:37,734 --> 00:51:40,472
in China, Vietnam, and the rest of the world
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00:51:41,420 --> 00:51:45,983
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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00:51:54,234 --> 00:51:58,059
Crush imperialism and establish
the proletarian power!
477
00:52:16,626 --> 00:52:20,026
I would like to send a message from
the frontline to the comrades in Japan.
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00:52:20,832 --> 00:52:24,250
We are hoping to see the fire
of revolution burn in the world.
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00:52:24,709 --> 00:52:25,838
Guevara once said
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00:52:25,958 --> 00:52:28,439
he hoped to see the entire
world become like Vietnam,
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00:52:28,559 --> 00:52:30,503
and that is the same hope we have.
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00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,980
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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00:52:43,670 --> 00:52:46,288
and learn the lessons we have learned.
487
00:52:46,408 --> 00:52:49,185
With our collective struggle,
we can decisively defeat
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00:52:49,305 --> 00:52:52,361
the imperialists who oppress
and exploit our people.
489
00:52:53,435 --> 00:52:58,150
The will and emotion of people
cannot be expressed
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00:52:58,270 --> 00:53:00,418
by newspaper reports,
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00:53:00,538 --> 00:53:04,250
but only by the commencement
of armed struggle.
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00:53:18,860 --> 00:53:21,518
Representing PFLP, I send a message
to our comrades,
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00:53:21,838 --> 00:53:26,122
the revolutionary groups and
parties of the Japanese people.
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00:53:27,789 --> 00:53:31,440
You might have heard the news through
the imperialist propaganda system
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00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,025
that the Palestinian people
are currently exhausted
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00:53:35,145 --> 00:53:37,486
that they have given up the struggle,
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00:53:37,606 --> 00:53:40,805
and that they are defeated
by the reactionary Israel.
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00:53:41,282 --> 00:53:44,536
Comrades, do not believe them.
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00:53:45,091 --> 00:53:47,551
We are in fact in the middle of struggle.
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There is no end to our struggle.
501
00:53:51,676 --> 00:53:55,676
We have our final purpose,
and we continue to fight for its realization.
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00:53:55,796 --> 00:53:59,612
No one and nothing can stop us.
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00:53:59,993 --> 00:54:02,533
Japanese comrades,
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00:54:03,073 --> 00:54:07,029
we sincerely hope that you will fight
our common enemy by supporting us.
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00:54:07,149 --> 00:54:08,871
Support us by any means.
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00:54:09,569 --> 00:54:11,633
Send us medicine, and anything else.
507
00:54:11,753 --> 00:54:14,490
But the best support is that
our Japanese comrades
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00:54:14,610 --> 00:54:17,125
rise up
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00:54:17,618 --> 00:54:20,236
and strike blows against the monster
of American imperialism.
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00:54:20,356 --> 00:54:22,221
Let us advance our struggle
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00:54:22,777 --> 00:54:25,793
by weakening American imperialism.
512
00:54:26,309 --> 00:54:29,086
Japanese comrades, we are fighting
the common enemy!
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00:54:29,682 --> 00:54:33,848
We are fighting on many fronts
all over the world!
514
00:54:34,324 --> 00:54:36,189
Japanese comrades,
515
00:54:36,309 --> 00:54:39,403
let us charge together against the monster,
516
00:54:39,523 --> 00:54:40,944
and defeat it!
517
00:54:43,359 --> 00:54:46,279
A Communist League Red Army soldier speaks:
518
00:54:47,335 --> 00:54:49,246
Like our brothers in Vietnam
519
00:54:50,414 --> 00:54:52,528
like our brothers of Palestine
520
00:54:53,406 --> 00:54:56,558
and like the brothers of
the Black Panther Party
521
00:54:57,537 --> 00:55:00,386
we too have grown and learned numerous lessons
522
00:55:00,748 --> 00:55:03,107
through a long struggle.
523
00:55:04,584 --> 00:55:08,337
Our Hijack struggle of March 1970 was our foray
524
00:55:08,457 --> 00:55:11,029
into becoming a truly international subject.
525
00:55:11,621 --> 00:55:16,149
Similarly, the Arms Seizure Struggle
in October of the same year
526
00:55:16,269 --> 00:55:19,661
was our entrance as a truly armed subject.
527
00:55:20,226 --> 00:55:23,699
Moreover, in this struggle we
have gained valuable brothers
528
00:55:23,819 --> 00:55:25,717
who march together with us.
529
00:55:27,071 --> 00:55:33,562
PFLP and the Japan Communist Party
Leftist Faction are such brothers and comrades.
530
00:55:35,617 --> 00:55:39,573
With supreme honour, we receive the message
531
00:55:40,403 --> 00:55:44,188
from our dearest brothers
and comrades, the PFLP.
532
00:55:45,802 --> 00:55:48,628
Since our struggles and the lessons belong to
533
00:55:49,183 --> 00:55:53,119
the brothers and comrades of the world
as common property,
534
00:55:54,633 --> 00:55:58,619
we too shall respond to
the brothers and comrades
535
00:55:59,570 --> 00:56:02,744
and send a message about our
own struggles and lessons
536
00:56:02,864 --> 00:56:05,415
with utmost brotherly love and respect.
537
00:56:07,700 --> 00:56:10,699
Revolution and war are nothing more
538
00:56:11,803 --> 00:56:14,716
than their internationality and violence.
539
00:56:16,342 --> 00:56:18,442
As exemplified by our hijack,
540
00:56:18,562 --> 00:56:19,975
PFLP's hijack,
541
00:56:20,905 --> 00:56:23,490
the ship Granma of Castro et al,
542
00:56:23,810 --> 00:56:27,080
and Russian Red Army's march into Poland.
543
00:56:28,695 --> 00:56:32,745
Revolution is, and war is, true only
in its internationality and violence,
544
00:56:32,865 --> 00:56:35,558
as its true substance is 'borderless army.'
545
00:56:35,678 --> 00:56:40,327
This is the reason why the
'Anti-Imperialist/Anti-Zionist/Third World War'
546
00:56:40,447 --> 00:56:44,328
that our PFLP brothers propose and practice
547
00:56:44,765 --> 00:56:50,707
and the 'Anti-America/Anti-Japan War'
of our Chinese brothers,
548
00:56:51,705 --> 00:56:54,934
are, in our own words, one and the same
549
00:56:55,354 --> 00:57:00,143
with what we propose and practice
as the 'World Revolutionary War.'
550
00:57:02,367 --> 00:57:05,848
Our former companions were
too arrogant and idealistic.
551
00:57:06,907 --> 00:57:09,310
Starting from the 'Anti-Stalinism,'
552
00:57:09,430 --> 00:57:11,792
the critic of Mao as 'nationalist/empiricist,'
553
00:57:11,912 --> 00:57:15,142
and the critic of Ho Chi Min as 'Stalinist,' etc
554
00:57:15,697 --> 00:57:18,201
They were nothing but idealism.
555
00:57:18,321 --> 00:57:20,219
What about us?
556
00:57:20,339 --> 00:57:23,417
With our 'transitional world theory,'
557
00:57:24,073 --> 00:57:28,091
we were able to demonstrate
relative accuracy of our position,
558
00:57:28,211 --> 00:57:30,280
but our 'world transition theory'
559
00:57:31,743 --> 00:57:35,023
was nothing more than
'world transition theory.'
560
00:57:36,234 --> 00:57:40,422
Since we have not been able to discover
anything beyond that theory,
561
00:57:40,542 --> 00:57:44,257
we have been more or less idealist.
562
00:57:45,439 --> 00:57:47,963
However, right now, through our hijack strategy,
563
00:57:48,083 --> 00:57:51,092
we are beginning to grasp and substantialize
564
00:57:51,212 --> 00:57:55,330
something that goes beyond mere theory
in the form of 'borderless army.'
565
00:57:56,133 --> 00:57:58,752
The brothers and comrades of PFLP,
566
00:57:59,659 --> 00:58:03,547
let us join in the great union
of the 'borderless army'.
567
00:58:04,010 --> 00:58:07,224
Through communication of all areas...
568
00:58:07,886 --> 00:58:12,681
soldiers, weapons, technology,
information, sources and theories!
569
00:58:27,604 --> 00:58:30,424
A Communist League Red Army Soldier speaks:
570
00:58:32,112 --> 00:58:35,682
I think that the purpose of my coming to Palestine
571
00:58:35,941 --> 00:58:39,512
involves a question of how we grasp
572
00:58:39,653 --> 00:58:44,257
the world revolutionary war
in our theoretical structure,
573
00:58:44,398 --> 00:58:48,151
in the form of a world revolutionary theory,
574
00:58:48,292 --> 00:58:52,857
in the confrontational phase of the struggle,
and how we express it.
575
00:58:52,983 --> 00:58:56,037
Last year's hijack struggle of ours proved
576
00:58:56,279 --> 00:58:59,278
that the wave of world revolutionary war
577
00:58:59,354 --> 00:59:02,785
could only be guided by military actions.
578
00:59:02,923 --> 00:59:06,762
Here arose another important question:
579
00:59:07,107 --> 00:59:09,743
who shares Red Army's line?
580
00:59:10,092 --> 00:59:13,226
While we were able to imagine it only
581
00:59:14,309 --> 00:59:18,327
through petit-bourgeois news media before,
582
00:59:19,175 --> 00:59:24,906
we now needed to understand it by way
of actually practicing the world revolution.
583
00:59:25,067 --> 00:59:27,422
...and that’s what first got me hooked.
584
00:59:27,582 --> 00:59:32,645
It’s the PFLP which is our successor
in spreading the struggle
585
00:59:32,726 --> 00:59:36,341
we initiated with the hijackings,
586
00:59:36,465 --> 00:59:41,810
and the problem being raise today
is to know how to share
587
00:59:42,168 --> 00:59:44,523
the issue we raised in the form of
588
00:59:45,021 --> 00:59:52,676
world party, world Red Army,
world revolutionary war front.
589
00:59:53,158 --> 00:59:58,692
We can also say that from
Tupamaros or Black Panthers,
590
00:59:58,985 --> 01:00:04,048
but what I felt coming here
is that even if we now speak of
591
01:00:04,951 --> 01:00:07,306
"global nature" or "internationalism",
592
01:00:07,319 --> 01:00:12,383
in a sense we already saw the world
as one single country.
593
01:00:12,696 --> 01:00:15,640
I think this point’s at a problem
of the New Japanese Left.
594
01:00:16,331 --> 01:00:21,277
When I arrived here and I saw
class struggle in Japan,
595
01:00:21,650 --> 01:00:26,713
the subjective attempting
to enlighten the objective
596
01:00:27,012 --> 01:00:31,722
could only be but swept away
by the objective current,
597
01:00:31,979 --> 01:00:35,512
and we had difficulties
because we couldn’t succeed
598
01:00:35,585 --> 01:00:39,471
in making the subjective develop
by stopping the objective.
599
01:00:39,627 --> 01:00:43,984
As long as the New Japanese Left
doesn’t reconsider this,
600
01:00:44,148 --> 01:00:46,621
we won’t be able to create strategies,
601
01:00:47,112 --> 01:00:53,588
nor envision the issue of world overtaking,
and world unification.
602
01:00:54,393 --> 01:01:00,988
Some say that wanting an international base
is idealistic or shows escapist logic,
603
01:01:01,282 --> 01:01:06,228
others harshly criticize a
Red Army international base theory,
604
01:01:08,511 --> 01:01:12,750
and if we consider this theory
as the basic outbreak
605
01:01:12,827 --> 01:01:14,828
of the military issue upon reality,
606
01:01:15,021 --> 01:01:18,319
it will indeed outwardly appear
as seemingly escapist logic.
607
01:01:18,374 --> 01:01:21,906
But what the Red Army expresses,
608
01:01:22,328 --> 01:01:26,450
is that this theory
belongs to party issues,
609
01:01:26,631 --> 01:01:31,459
and that we must confirm that it isn’t
a problem of what is perceived
610
01:01:31,540 --> 01:01:35,073
by a few factions as 'military'.
611
01:01:35,189 --> 01:01:38,251
I think the issue of combat efficiency,
612
01:01:38,411 --> 01:01:41,119
of concentrating at pre-uprising stage,
613
01:01:41,181 --> 01:01:43,889
as during the Russian revolution,
614
01:01:43,935 --> 01:01:47,703
on a peace demonstration,
is at question.
615
01:01:47,943 --> 01:01:53,478
The pre-uprising launched in 69
by the Red Army is led in reality
616
01:01:53,566 --> 01:01:58,982
as a catalyst of struggles,
spiralling by means of guerrilla.
617
01:01:59,362 --> 01:02:04,661
True movements in Japan can’t manage
to take the plunge, because they forgot
618
01:02:04,785 --> 01:02:07,729
that "military" is murder,
619
01:02:07,894 --> 01:02:12,251
or rather because they had only considered
it through an idealistic prism.
620
01:02:12,382 --> 01:02:16,385
Through an illusion which brings all
true struggle back to
621
01:02:16,517 --> 01:02:19,579
'mass activism doctrine'.
622
01:02:19,793 --> 01:02:24,268
For example, criticizing the meanings
of armed robberies committed
623
01:02:24,351 --> 01:02:27,884
since february by the Red Army,
doesn’t solve the problem at all.
624
01:02:27,963 --> 01:02:33,262
The problem is to know how and to what
extent we could fight enemy power,
625
01:02:33,500 --> 01:02:36,326
by provoking violent inner conflicts,
626
01:02:36,394 --> 01:02:38,867
factions have forgotten this,
627
01:02:39,108 --> 01:02:43,347
and not being able to justify
their relation to authority,
628
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:48,937
this principle isn’t expressed anymore
other than by intelligentsia movements,
629
01:02:49,281 --> 01:02:54,227
and the fact that committing 'wrongful acts'
is the object of repression in the real world,
630
01:02:55,923 --> 01:03:01,692
and Japanese parties, who only criticize
according to their own criteria...
631
01:03:02,277 --> 01:03:05,457
can only but oppose to "the masses".
632
01:03:05,963 --> 01:03:10,555
From this point of view,
the issues raised by the Red Army
633
01:03:10,706 --> 01:03:15,416
differ from those raised up to now.
634
01:03:15,636 --> 01:03:20,111
For instance, it’s about reassessing
the categories in which we belonged,
635
01:03:20,496 --> 01:03:25,677
the efficiency of what we considered
the criteria’s of revolution...
636
01:03:26,098 --> 01:03:31,750
and this space that we share with
commando units in the Palestinian mountains,
637
01:03:31,910 --> 01:03:36,355
or at the Israeli border,
isn’t that of our past struggles.
638
01:03:36,513 --> 01:03:38,554
To put it straightforwardly,
639
01:03:38,616 --> 01:03:42,853
when I look at the issue of how Japanese
class struggle will develop in the future,
640
01:03:43,525 --> 01:03:46,118
from afar in Palestine, I feel that...
641
01:03:46,238 --> 01:03:49,528
the questions of the stage
of Japanese class struggle
642
01:03:49,648 --> 01:03:52,105
on the scale of world revolutionary development,
643
01:03:52,441 --> 01:03:56,420
and what we in Japan indeed share
with the Palestinian struggle
644
01:03:56,782 --> 01:04:00,556
has been asked in awfully insufficient manners.
645
01:04:01,253 --> 01:04:03,243
Because of this insufficiency,
646
01:04:04,509 --> 01:04:09,117
the awareness of problematic possessed by
the nine people who went to North Korea,
647
01:04:09,237 --> 01:04:11,858
by me in Palestine, and by
our comrades in Japan,
648
01:04:11,978 --> 01:04:16,009
all differ from one another,
and from such disjuncture,
649
01:04:16,836 --> 01:04:19,006
we can only deduce the necessity
650
01:04:19,600 --> 01:04:22,890
of more internal violence and inter-faction
politics and struggles,
651
01:04:23,010 --> 01:04:25,749
and only through such united military actions,
652
01:04:26,597 --> 01:04:29,336
but the revolutionary subject,
653
01:04:29,956 --> 01:04:34,245
which tries to rise to the level
of World Revolutionary War,
654
01:04:35,356 --> 01:04:40,903
has to be created through World War
factions and world revolutionaries
655
01:04:41,239 --> 01:04:43,978
simultaneously sharing all military matters
656
01:04:44,598 --> 01:04:48,528
as the act of collective actions
and collect military front.
657
01:04:48,648 --> 01:04:51,128
For that reason I anticipate the emergence
658
01:04:51,800 --> 01:04:53,350
of the question of a strategy
659
01:04:53,789 --> 01:04:56,140
for world revolution,
660
01:04:56,260 --> 01:04:58,398
of how we can defeat world imperialism
661
01:04:59,627 --> 01:05:04,949
through military actions in concert with
the Black Panthers and Tupamaros,
662
01:05:06,363 --> 01:05:09,308
can the problem of "world party"
be discussed fully,
663
01:05:09,732 --> 01:05:13,530
and in this sense, what we have
long talked about...
664
01:05:14,133 --> 01:05:19,575
the formation of World Party, World Red Army,
World Revolutionary War United Front
665
01:05:20,024 --> 01:05:23,143
will be realized only through actual struggle
666
01:05:23,556 --> 01:05:27,690
as to how to guide such a united military action.
667
01:05:27,865 --> 01:05:30,465
THE BEST FORM OF PROPAGANDA
668
01:05:30,525 --> 01:05:34,625
IS ARMED STRUGGLE
669
01:05:43,991 --> 01:05:45,515
We agree wholeheartedly
670
01:05:45,635 --> 01:05:48,642
with the Japan Red Army Faction that proposes
671
01:05:48,762 --> 01:05:50,889
a united action with every organization
672
01:05:51,009 --> 01:05:54,558
and party which is actively fighting
world imperialism here and now.
673
01:05:55,948 --> 01:05:59,669
PFLP fully supports the policy
of the united military action,
674
01:06:00,189 --> 01:06:02,152
and is ready to participate in it.
675
01:06:02,692 --> 01:06:05,327
However, in our current situation,
676
01:06:05,663 --> 01:06:09,435
we face severe difficulty
realizing such an aim.
677
01:06:09,989 --> 01:06:11,565
Despite the difficulty,
678
01:06:11,927 --> 01:06:15,621
we are prepared to support the policy
as much as we can.
679
01:06:16,829 --> 01:06:20,239
And we bet our own possibility
in the realization of the goal.
680
01:06:21,815 --> 01:06:24,141
We send the message of solidarity and prayer
681
01:06:24,302 --> 01:06:26,292
for the success of struggles waged
682
01:06:26,412 --> 01:06:28,410
by every comrade fighting our common enemy.
683
01:06:29,547 --> 01:06:34,437
Salute, dear comrades of Japan.
- General Secretary, PFLP.
684
01:06:35,252 --> 01:06:40,252
THE CREATION OF A REVOLUTIONARY
FRONT MEANS ARMED STRUGGLE
685
01:06:40,604 --> 01:06:44,995
Creating Revolutionary Background
is practicing armed struggle.
686
01:08:00,949 --> 01:08:10,749
REVOLUTION IS WORLD WAR
687
01:08:10,993 --> 01:08:15,793
WORLD WAR
688
01:08:16,014 --> 01:08:20,714
REVOLUTION
689
01:08:20,946 --> 01:08:29,746
REVOLUTION = WORLD WAR
690
01:08:30,052 --> 01:08:32,552
ARMED STRUGGLE!
691
01:08:32,746 --> 01:08:37,546
TAKE UP YOUR WEAPONS!
692
01:08:37,728 --> 01:08:41,128
GUN
693
01:08:41,290 --> 01:08:45,990
BULLET
694
01:08:46,152 --> 01:08:49,352
WEAPON
695
01:08:49,573 --> 01:08:52,773
MUZZLE
696
01:08:52,961 --> 01:08:59,961
TRIGGER
697
01:09:04,154 --> 01:09:09,176
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