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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:00,109 --> 00:00:04,609 Editing Collective: Red Army - PFLP 2 00:00:04,918 --> 00:00:09,418 Production: Wakamatsu Production 3 00:00:10,136 --> 00:00:12,036 PLANE HIJACKING INCIDENT 4 00:00:36,572 --> 00:00:37,709 This is a news film 5 00:00:38,029 --> 00:00:41,888 for the construction of the world Red Army 6 00:00:42,473 --> 00:00:47,473 RED ARMY/PFLP: DECLARATION OF WORLD WAR 7 00:00:49,057 --> 00:00:50,816 In March 1970 8 00:00:52,311 --> 00:00:55,111 the Red Army Faction of the Communist League 9 00:00:55,231 --> 00:00:59,520 hijacked a Japan Airline's plane and flew to The People's Democratic Republic of Korea 10 00:01:00,846 --> 00:01:03,637 in order to build an international basis of operation. 11 00:01:24,846 --> 00:01:26,732 In September of the same year, 12 00:01:26,852 --> 00:01:29,126 the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 13 00:01:29,814 --> 00:01:32,407 hijacked a Pan-Am plane, and with three other airplanes, 14 00:01:32,527 --> 00:01:36,223 blew it up at the Revolutionary Airport 15 00:01:36,722 --> 00:01:38,222 THE BEST FORM OF PROPOGANDA 16 00:01:38,420 --> 00:01:40,642 as the PFLP began a new armed struggle 17 00:01:40,762 --> 00:01:42,944 and international guerrilla warfare. 18 00:01:43,296 --> 00:01:45,906 Breaching international boundaries with armed force. 19 00:01:46,526 --> 00:01:49,554 Is it a strategic heroism of war, or propaganda? 20 00:01:49,754 --> 00:01:52,254 IS ARMED STRUGGLE 21 00:01:52,715 --> 00:01:54,653 What is propaganda? 22 00:01:56,653 --> 00:01:59,014 Now it can be defined as people in struggle 23 00:01:59,673 --> 00:02:03,160 speaking the true meaning of the struggle in their own words. 24 00:02:05,578 --> 00:02:08,497 But how and for whom can it be narrated? 25 00:02:11,282 --> 00:02:14,072 A PFLP soldier explains their unique propaganda strategy 26 00:02:14,847 --> 00:02:24,418 developed in the process of the Arab liberation movement in the Middle East. 27 00:02:33,860 --> 00:02:36,935 How do we engage in propaganda activities? 28 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:40,432 From the lessons of the past five years, it's quite simple. 29 00:02:40,853 --> 00:02:43,704 Propaganda is in fact information, 30 00:02:43,824 --> 00:02:46,626 and information is to communicate the truth. 31 00:02:46,746 --> 00:02:49,649 Moreover, the supreme form of truth is armed struggle. 32 00:02:50,217 --> 00:02:55,229 Therefore, we believe that armed struggle is the best form of propaganda. 33 00:02:56,211 --> 00:02:59,311 It may be true that the worldwide system of discursive propaganda 34 00:02:59,901 --> 00:03:02,494 is hugely influencing international public opinions, 35 00:03:02,614 --> 00:03:05,818 but it is by the people who fight to liberate themselves 36 00:03:06,154 --> 00:03:07,420 through armed struggle 37 00:03:07,756 --> 00:03:09,883 that things are ultimately decided. 38 00:03:10,003 --> 00:03:12,509 Of course, every one of us is fully aware 39 00:03:13,054 --> 00:03:15,741 that the propaganda system of American imperialism 40 00:03:16,103 --> 00:03:18,396 is the largest one in human history. 41 00:03:19,042 --> 00:03:22,271 They dominate the world's TV networks and newspapers 42 00:03:22,736 --> 00:03:24,726 and provide people with false education 43 00:03:24,846 --> 00:03:27,806 and movies by maliciously saying whatever they want. 44 00:03:28,232 --> 00:03:30,462 They believe they can do anything. 45 00:03:30,895 --> 00:03:33,748 The people of South Vietnam have only feeble power, 46 00:03:33,868 --> 00:03:36,317 without TV and newspapers of their own, 47 00:03:36,437 --> 00:03:39,637 but they fight with a firm will as their only weapon 48 00:03:39,757 --> 00:03:41,980 against the imperialist system. 49 00:03:42,413 --> 00:03:44,140 And what is happening now? 50 00:03:44,260 --> 00:03:47,575 The gigantic propaganda system of the United States 51 00:03:47,695 --> 00:03:51,014 is failing to convince people that 'This war is right.' 52 00:03:52,382 --> 00:03:53,590 As days go by, 53 00:03:53,710 --> 00:03:56,678 American people are getting sick and tired, 54 00:03:56,798 --> 00:03:58,876 and have started opposing the war. 55 00:03:59,396 --> 00:04:01,989 This is propaganda, our propaganda. 56 00:04:02,109 --> 00:04:04,303 Propaganda is action and struggle. 57 00:04:04,940 --> 00:04:08,028 That is the only supreme form of propaganda. 58 00:04:08,432 --> 00:04:09,352 However, 59 00:04:09,472 --> 00:04:11,141 that action has to be supported 60 00:04:11,261 --> 00:04:13,479 by firm solidarity with various leftist 61 00:04:13,599 --> 00:04:17,046 parties, factions, and by the revolutionary propaganda system. 62 00:04:17,563 --> 00:04:18,690 Regardless, 63 00:04:18,810 --> 00:04:21,213 the basis is armed struggle by the masses. 64 00:04:45,372 --> 00:04:49,298 Similarly, a soldier of the Japanese Communist League Red Army Faction, 65 00:04:49,418 --> 00:04:51,636 which has strategized the 1960s struggle slogan, 66 00:04:51,756 --> 00:04:54,758 'Pre-Stage Armed Uprising,' 67 00:04:55,359 --> 00:04:59,920 and now recognizes the current situation of the 1970s 68 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,902 as an 'Armed Stand-Off Stage,' says: 69 00:05:05,733 --> 00:05:09,241 What we can say based on our ongoing struggle 70 00:05:10,181 --> 00:05:12,959 is that the direct attack on the enemy power 71 00:05:13,609 --> 00:05:16,459 ...such as Osaka-Tokyo War, Daibosatsu Struggle, 72 00:05:16,579 --> 00:05:19,562 Bomb-Attack movement against the American military bases, 73 00:05:19,682 --> 00:05:23,278 hijacks, attacks on police boxes, seizures of arms, 74 00:05:23,892 --> 00:05:26,542 and the serial finance appropriation struggle... 75 00:05:26,662 --> 00:05:29,549 that is armed struggle and is in and of itself propaganda, 76 00:05:30,595 --> 00:05:32,918 and the substance of its military gain 77 00:05:33,038 --> 00:05:36,057 lies in concrete damage inflicted upon the enemy 78 00:05:36,177 --> 00:05:39,094 ...a fundamental blow to the ruling structure. 79 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:43,169 And what seizes this truth 80 00:05:44,292 --> 00:05:46,547 is nothing but popular struggle 81 00:05:46,667 --> 00:05:48,329 based on numerous guerrilla wars. 82 00:07:36,729 --> 00:07:41,729 ARMED STRUGGLE IS REALITY 83 00:07:44,026 --> 00:07:47,017 Is reality fighting the enemy? 84 00:07:47,722 --> 00:07:50,996 Who is in reality fighting the enemy? 85 00:07:52,152 --> 00:07:55,246 Are we actually able to fight the enemy? 86 00:07:57,275 --> 00:08:02,077 How is the international reality of armed struggle being engaged in Japanese reality? 87 00:08:02,197 --> 00:08:04,763 How is armed struggle being done? 88 00:08:06,554 --> 00:08:08,863 Or how is it going to develop? 89 00:08:10,418 --> 00:08:13,387 On September 14th 1971 90 00:08:14,848 --> 00:08:17,298 the Communist League Red Army Faction 91 00:08:18,429 --> 00:08:20,738 and the Japan Communist Party 92 00:08:20,858 --> 00:08:23,236 'Revolutionary Left' Faction 93 00:08:23,356 --> 00:08:26,911 issued a joint manifesto on the creation of the United Red Army. 94 00:08:42,095 --> 00:08:44,812 This is the correct military formation for popular war, 95 00:08:44,932 --> 00:08:47,062 born as it inevitably was of the process 96 00:08:47,182 --> 00:08:49,178 as skirmishes toward revolutionary war 97 00:08:49,298 --> 00:08:51,625 moving from the 2/17 arms seizure struggle 98 00:08:51,745 --> 00:08:54,875 to the serial finance appropriation struggle. 99 00:08:55,620 --> 00:08:56,904 Friends and comrades 100 00:08:57,024 --> 00:08:58,805 who have gathered here today! 101 00:08:58,925 --> 00:09:00,912 We the Japan Revolutionary Front 102 00:09:01,032 --> 00:09:03,023 and the Keihin Anpo Struggle-Collective, 103 00:09:03,143 --> 00:09:05,554 linked together by the crimson threads 104 00:09:05,674 --> 00:09:08,506 of the hijack struggle and 12/18 struggle, 105 00:09:08,626 --> 00:09:11,951 following the 1/25 rally and subsequent development of guerrilla warfare, 106 00:09:12,071 --> 00:09:13,428 host this rally for the purpose 107 00:09:13,548 --> 00:09:16,758 of fighting both Japanese and world revolutionary struggle. 108 00:09:16,878 --> 00:09:19,148 With popular struggle as an axis, 109 00:09:19,268 --> 00:09:21,925 directed toward the victory of revolutionary war, 110 00:09:22,045 --> 00:09:25,510 the Red Army was established on July 15th of this year. 111 00:09:25,897 --> 00:09:27,221 This united army 112 00:09:27,341 --> 00:09:30,845 will become a unified force by adding new members 113 00:09:30,965 --> 00:09:35,007 through firm practice of guerrilla wars against world imperialism. 114 00:09:35,127 --> 00:09:38,470 The united army will first and foremost 115 00:09:39,250 --> 00:09:42,965 engage in guerrilla wars and confront various difficulties in the midst 116 00:09:43,085 --> 00:09:45,960 of both armed struggle and military build-up, 117 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,371 and eventually deepen the war policy 118 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:51,233 that had been attained by sacrifices. 119 00:09:51,353 --> 00:09:53,549 In the midst of deepening war policy, 120 00:09:53,985 --> 00:09:56,101 both the CRAF and JCPRF will examine 121 00:09:56,221 --> 00:09:59,492 the lines of struggle and gain the new-Party formation. 122 00:09:59,612 --> 00:10:01,720 The revolutionary army will fight 123 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:03,916 toward a general national uprising, 124 00:10:04,036 --> 00:10:07,178 and for that purpose persist in guerrilla wars for the victory 125 00:10:07,298 --> 00:10:10,279 of revolutionary war and the creation of true communism. 126 00:10:10,399 --> 00:10:13,081 The revolutionary army will gain victory by legitimizing 127 00:10:13,595 --> 00:10:16,702 itself through guerrilla wars and communizing the army, 128 00:10:16,822 --> 00:10:19,741 and establish solidarity with all the peoples who fight 129 00:10:19,861 --> 00:10:21,692 the World Revolutionary War. 130 00:10:21,812 --> 00:10:24,864 The revolutionary army is the firm and strong axis 131 00:10:24,984 --> 00:10:28,020 for the surely germinating spirit of the working people, 132 00:10:28,517 --> 00:10:30,716 and is an army for the just war. 133 00:10:31,177 --> 00:10:33,837 Comrades, let us gain the further position in this war, 134 00:10:33,957 --> 00:10:36,610 join the United Red Army, and build the battle front 135 00:10:36,730 --> 00:10:39,185 for the scorch-the-earth guerrilla war! 136 00:10:51,285 --> 00:10:55,285 ARMED STRUGGLE 137 00:10:56,285 --> 00:11:00,085 WEAPONS ARE 138 00:11:01,185 --> 00:11:07,685 THE LANGUAGE OF OPPRESSED PEOPLE 139 00:11:09,364 --> 00:11:12,036 And how are we trying to seize the reality, 140 00:11:12,156 --> 00:11:15,481 the reality through armed struggle? 141 00:11:19,930 --> 00:11:21,266 Armed struggle 142 00:11:21,809 --> 00:11:24,341 is itself the words of the people long suppressed. 143 00:11:34,535 --> 00:11:37,839 All the revolutions, particularly in their early stages, 144 00:11:37,959 --> 00:11:41,516 should choose appropriate positions for defence against the enemy. 145 00:11:42,225 --> 00:11:43,555 It is because for us, 146 00:11:43,675 --> 00:11:47,682 the enemy is not only Israel, but includes the world imperialists, 147 00:11:47,802 --> 00:11:51,550 the Zionists and the reactionary Arab governments. 148 00:11:52,604 --> 00:11:55,329 For the past five years, we have fought the war 149 00:11:55,449 --> 00:11:58,278 against the reactionary Jewish government in various ways. 150 00:11:58,398 --> 00:11:59,234 In this process, 151 00:11:59,354 --> 00:12:02,035 we thought of how to defend our revolution, 152 00:12:02,155 --> 00:12:04,776 to further the war of liberation for our country, 153 00:12:04,896 --> 00:12:08,008 against the Zionist invasion and the enemy agents 154 00:12:08,128 --> 00:12:10,708 of the reactionary Jordanian government. 155 00:12:11,543 --> 00:12:12,753 The answer is here, 156 00:12:13,234 --> 00:12:16,142 Jerash Mountain stretching along the border of Israel and Jordan, 157 00:12:16,262 --> 00:12:18,474 that we chose to be our battle ground, 158 00:12:18,594 --> 00:12:21,828 to build our base to start war and expand revolution. 159 00:12:21,948 --> 00:12:24,242 Every day we are in constant life or death battles 160 00:12:24,362 --> 00:12:27,310 with the Israeli government, which is a Zionist agent, 161 00:12:27,430 --> 00:12:29,764 and the Jordanian government, 162 00:12:30,214 --> 00:12:32,546 which is the agent of Israel. 163 00:12:33,104 --> 00:12:35,436 Such strategies and tactics as ours 164 00:12:35,968 --> 00:12:40,460 are the products of our thought and positions immediate to our struggle 165 00:12:40,897 --> 00:12:44,452 much as our Cuban and Vietnamese comrades have done. 166 00:13:12,403 --> 00:13:16,361 The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine starts a war. 167 00:13:16,481 --> 00:13:17,419 Fight. 168 00:13:17,958 --> 00:13:24,537 Oppressed people try to live the reality of revolution only through armed struggle. 169 00:13:25,903 --> 00:13:28,083 Try to live as communists. 170 00:13:35,764 --> 00:13:40,366 The PFLP soldiers are not heroes of hijacks. 171 00:13:41,380 --> 00:13:45,057 They talk of themselves as communists. 172 00:13:51,581 --> 00:13:53,504 So what is my duty? 173 00:13:54,935 --> 00:13:58,043 My duty as a guerrilla soldier is to accomplish 174 00:13:59,063 --> 00:14:01,970 everything required in guerrilla struggle. 175 00:14:02,791 --> 00:14:04,042 For example, 176 00:14:04,162 --> 00:14:10,743 it is sometimes hijacking, sometimes giving interviews, and everything in between. 177 00:14:12,688 --> 00:14:15,352 We have proposed and practiced this war, 178 00:14:16,038 --> 00:14:19,510 but there are a variety of things we need for it. 179 00:14:21,192 --> 00:14:24,745 That is why I am learning many pragmatic aspects of the war, 180 00:14:25,565 --> 00:14:27,019 not just one side. 181 00:14:27,866 --> 00:14:30,613 That is why I cannot honestly point to one thing 182 00:14:30,733 --> 00:14:33,264 and say this is what I am doing. 183 00:14:34,049 --> 00:14:35,422 But right now, 184 00:14:35,542 --> 00:14:38,652 I believe that I am engaged in a struggle 185 00:14:38,772 --> 00:14:40,832 to propagandize our 'power.' 186 00:14:42,142 --> 00:14:49,240 But in your question of what I think of being seen as a star or hero of hijack, 187 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,449 you added that I do not see myself as a hero. 188 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,198 To hear someone speak of me that way, 189 00:14:56,318 --> 00:14:58,021 I feel very happy. 190 00:14:58,927 --> 00:15:02,708 But in any case we do not talk about ourselves as individuals. 191 00:15:03,303 --> 00:15:06,704 It is because revolution is always born of people, 192 00:15:07,624 --> 00:15:08,750 for people, 193 00:15:09,154 --> 00:15:12,348 and because it is not meant for general humanity. 194 00:15:13,243 --> 00:15:15,721 That is why being among the whole, 195 00:15:15,841 --> 00:15:18,208 makes the individual pretty insignificant. 196 00:15:20,335 --> 00:15:23,199 And I am especially happy to hear you 197 00:15:23,519 --> 00:15:25,222 say that I am not a hero. 198 00:15:25,628 --> 00:15:28,914 The reason is that I never heard anyone say that before, 199 00:15:29,034 --> 00:15:30,992 and I think that to not become a hero 200 00:15:31,112 --> 00:15:34,956 in the midst of revolutionary Palestinians and proletariats means 201 00:15:35,076 --> 00:15:37,963 that that person is simply doing his or her duty, 202 00:15:38,424 --> 00:15:40,762 not as some sort of hobby. 203 00:15:42,637 --> 00:15:43,759 In my case, 204 00:15:43,879 --> 00:15:46,750 my duty involves not just hijacking, but is something 205 00:15:47,227 --> 00:15:50,398 with which death always accompanies my life. 206 00:15:52,795 --> 00:15:53,751 Therefore, 207 00:15:53,871 --> 00:15:57,316 I will reply to those people who see us as heroes, 208 00:15:57,678 --> 00:16:00,106 that we are never heroes, 209 00:16:00,442 --> 00:16:03,155 that we are not fighting this war as our hobby, 210 00:16:03,620 --> 00:16:05,919 and that we are simply doing our duty 211 00:16:06,307 --> 00:16:10,570 and I like to insist that we dedicate ourselves to revolution, 212 00:16:11,597 --> 00:16:15,093 and that our lives are for revolution, 213 00:16:15,213 --> 00:16:17,127 not for being seen as heroes. 214 00:17:55,574 --> 00:17:58,790 People suppressed in the barracks of refugee camps. 215 00:17:59,908 --> 00:18:03,155 People exposed to indiscriminate shelling. 216 00:18:03,753 --> 00:18:05,101 Is it people, 217 00:18:05,221 --> 00:18:06,828 or communists, 218 00:18:07,528 --> 00:18:09,694 who are suppressed? 219 00:18:21,365 --> 00:18:25,780 A revolutionary must dedicate his or her personal life in actual struggle 220 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:27,970 and practice it. 221 00:18:29,156 --> 00:18:29,893 Therefore, 222 00:18:30,013 --> 00:18:35,088 there is no such thing as personal life or life in struggle, 223 00:18:35,208 --> 00:18:37,747 because struggle is, 224 00:18:37,867 --> 00:18:39,670 for all the people involved in a revolution, 225 00:18:39,790 --> 00:18:42,574 an individual, and total life. 226 00:18:44,354 --> 00:18:45,713 Therefore, 227 00:18:45,833 --> 00:18:49,352 I neither think nor feel that there is a personal life 228 00:18:49,472 --> 00:18:52,788 there is only life in armed struggle. 229 00:18:53,803 --> 00:18:57,975 The separate lives should be unified and expanded. 230 00:19:00,021 --> 00:19:00,962 As revolutionaries, 231 00:19:01,082 --> 00:19:07,093 we try not to live our lives conceitedly, and act accordingly. 232 00:19:08,583 --> 00:19:11,797 But as any revolutionary does, 233 00:19:11,917 --> 00:19:13,797 we believe in our future. 234 00:19:15,515 --> 00:19:18,658 From my experience as a school teacher, I speak of 'wealth': 235 00:19:18,778 --> 00:19:21,332 you could go any place if you have money. 236 00:19:22,822 --> 00:19:27,017 But I gave up everything to fight the enemy. 237 00:19:28,906 --> 00:19:32,595 We have to sacrifice everything we have for this struggle. 238 00:19:33,756 --> 00:19:37,529 It is because we fight for this country and people 239 00:19:37,749 --> 00:19:41,295 and at the same time live like them. 240 00:19:42,845 --> 00:19:45,066 Only by doing so could we have something 241 00:19:45,186 --> 00:19:47,123 to share with the proletariat, 242 00:19:47,243 --> 00:19:50,577 and I was able to throw away my petit-bourgeois-ness. 243 00:19:51,561 --> 00:19:54,634 And there are many people like me among us, 244 00:19:54,754 --> 00:19:56,975 as there were many before us. 245 00:19:57,095 --> 00:20:00,499 People have been reforming themselves. 246 00:20:02,021 --> 00:20:06,642 They are teachers, and I am their pupil 247 00:20:06,762 --> 00:20:11,302 who is learning to abandon petit-bourgeois life. 248 00:20:12,748 --> 00:20:16,884 They are also studying and practicing the proletarian life. 249 00:20:17,004 --> 00:20:20,679 Only this way of life will elevate and advance revolution, 250 00:20:20,799 --> 00:20:23,020 and retain the leadership of 251 00:20:23,140 --> 00:20:26,332 not petit-bourgeoisie, but the proletariat class. 252 00:20:29,157 --> 00:20:30,704 Because of this, 253 00:20:30,824 --> 00:20:33,826 it is only through such a situation and principle 254 00:20:33,946 --> 00:20:37,386 that people become truly revolutionary people 255 00:20:38,095 --> 00:20:41,097 and it is only through the proletariat class that 256 00:20:41,217 --> 00:20:44,393 without having learned the concept and ideal about 'people' 257 00:20:44,818 --> 00:20:47,017 still desire revolution. 258 00:20:49,389 --> 00:20:52,142 The reason is that the petit-bourgeois 259 00:20:52,262 --> 00:20:55,662 because they do not live the life of the proletariat 260 00:20:55,782 --> 00:20:57,712 cannot share their problems 261 00:20:57,832 --> 00:20:58,809 and hence 262 00:20:58,929 --> 00:21:01,844 cannot reach the horizon that we have reached. 263 00:21:03,770 --> 00:21:05,742 That is why we are fighting 264 00:21:05,862 --> 00:21:09,055 not as petit-bourgeois but as proletariat. 265 00:21:10,388 --> 00:21:14,761 The meaning of revolution as revolution lies in this 266 00:21:14,881 --> 00:21:19,435 that petit-bourgeois cannot fight the way the proletariat can. 267 00:21:28,835 --> 00:21:33,535 ARMED STRUGGLE 268 00:21:33,735 --> 00:21:38,235 IS WAR 269 00:21:42,055 --> 00:21:44,727 War. Oppressed people wage war. 270 00:22:06,961 --> 00:22:10,695 What is their weapon to defeat the enemy? 271 00:22:12,119 --> 00:22:15,824 What is the people's weapon? 272 00:22:17,519 --> 00:22:20,177 The world is engaged in wars every day. 273 00:22:20,797 --> 00:22:23,964 History has seen wars every day. 274 00:22:25,552 --> 00:22:29,189 Has there ever been a peaceful day for the oppressed people? 275 00:22:29,928 --> 00:22:34,039 A soldier, imprisoned as the result of armed struggle, speaks: 276 00:22:34,838 --> 00:22:36,517 At this Tokyo Local Court, 277 00:22:37,586 --> 00:22:40,524 there is one thing that first needs to be clarified. 278 00:22:41,128 --> 00:22:42,342 It is the fact 279 00:22:42,883 --> 00:22:44,790 that I am imprisoned and dragged 280 00:22:45,299 --> 00:22:46,748 into the current trial 281 00:22:47,315 --> 00:22:50,152 because I am held by the enemy as a prisoner of war 282 00:22:50,816 --> 00:22:52,262 that is, a POW during wartime. 283 00:22:52,382 --> 00:22:55,098 Red Army soldiers belong to combat-practice units 284 00:22:55,218 --> 00:22:57,225 of revolutionary war, not mindless chattering 285 00:22:57,345 --> 00:22:59,631 We know that the ethics required of us doers 286 00:22:59,751 --> 00:23:01,917 is that of silence and determination. 287 00:23:02,958 --> 00:23:04,637 Our present is a new revolutionary age 288 00:23:05,336 --> 00:23:08,693 which demands that we refuse to express revolution in harmless chatters 289 00:23:09,334 --> 00:23:10,769 and thousands of letter heads 290 00:23:10,889 --> 00:23:13,119 and that we practice decisive action, 291 00:23:13,239 --> 00:23:15,267 and that is why we prefer not to blather in bourgeois court. 292 00:23:15,647 --> 00:23:16,489 Therefore, 293 00:23:17,613 --> 00:23:19,709 we do not accept our current designation as 'defendants,' 294 00:23:19,829 --> 00:23:21,628 and we constantly think 295 00:23:22,489 --> 00:23:23,647 of transforming our existence 296 00:23:24,177 --> 00:23:26,196 into an offensive weapon. 297 00:23:28,051 --> 00:23:31,446 What must be clarified is that it is the imperialists, 298 00:23:31,896 --> 00:23:33,205 the government bourgeoisie, 299 00:23:33,325 --> 00:23:36,025 and the prosecutors who have to be judged. 300 00:23:36,519 --> 00:23:38,896 In order to reverse the positions of judges and the judged, 301 00:23:39,837 --> 00:23:42,113 the world revolution must be resolutely executed. 302 00:23:43,282 --> 00:23:46,079 And history will inscribe us as heroes of the people 303 00:23:46,199 --> 00:23:47,618 and prove our innocence. 304 00:23:48,217 --> 00:23:49,017 Comrades, 305 00:23:49,137 --> 00:23:51,814 let us crush the suppression by the cruel and cowardly enemy powers 306 00:23:51,934 --> 00:23:54,822 who are against the factions of revolutionary war. 307 00:23:54,942 --> 00:23:57,619 We must establish legal and illegal mass-based support networks 308 00:23:58,133 --> 00:24:00,093 in every corner of civil society 309 00:24:00,213 --> 00:24:03,992 by forming alliances with and backing armed struggle elsewhere. 310 00:24:04,621 --> 00:24:06,827 Organize the influence and extension of armed struggle, 311 00:24:08,371 --> 00:24:10,920 build up legal and illegal material power 312 00:24:12,013 --> 00:24:14,429 against the enemy power, 313 00:24:14,859 --> 00:24:16,388 minimize the sacrifice and damage 314 00:24:17,282 --> 00:24:18,507 of revolutionary force 315 00:24:18,898 --> 00:24:21,282 generate new revolutionary soldiers 316 00:24:21,712 --> 00:24:23,367 far surpassing previous ones, 317 00:24:24,095 --> 00:24:27,150 accumulate gains and lessons from victories, 318 00:24:28,066 --> 00:24:31,634 and create the continuity and sustainability of armed struggle. 319 00:24:34,171 --> 00:24:37,258 Finally, we express our determination to continue 320 00:24:37,878 --> 00:24:40,850 to victoriously fight against the mean, cowardly enemy power 321 00:24:41,777 --> 00:24:43,730 through this court struggle 322 00:24:44,259 --> 00:24:47,801 and we express this message of solidarity 323 00:24:49,306 --> 00:24:53,314 to many people who support our court and hijack struggle. 324 00:24:53,903 --> 00:24:56,717 I end my appeal by calling on all people, 325 00:24:57,746 --> 00:24:59,775 not only the youth, 326 00:25:00,332 --> 00:25:02,863 but also the elderly, children, men and women, 327 00:25:03,539 --> 00:25:05,339 to volunteer to be Red Army soldiers 328 00:25:06,380 --> 00:25:08,771 and hear the call of the war of world proletarian. 329 00:26:03,953 --> 00:26:06,567 A Palestinian soldier, Mr. Fedain, 330 00:26:07,332 --> 00:26:10,264 who lives every day in the war of armed struggle 331 00:26:10,732 --> 00:26:13,388 with either 'my death' or the 'enemy's death,' speaks: 332 00:26:23,820 --> 00:26:26,841 Our morality is to fight and win. 333 00:26:28,556 --> 00:26:32,905 It is because the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine 334 00:26:33,025 --> 00:26:36,397 fights with people and fights for people. 335 00:26:37,222 --> 00:26:41,298 This morality is evinced by the oppression against the people in refugee camps 336 00:26:41,418 --> 00:26:43,425 in the countries under occupation. 337 00:26:43,806 --> 00:26:47,114 The morality of we guerrilla soldiers 338 00:26:47,234 --> 00:26:49,933 is that the people support revolution, 339 00:26:50,053 --> 00:26:53,298 and their purpose and aspirations lie in revolution. 340 00:26:53,418 --> 00:26:55,901 We do not fight because we live. 341 00:26:56,726 --> 00:26:59,053 We fight to live. 342 00:26:59,974 --> 00:27:01,434 Fighting is living. 343 00:27:02,164 --> 00:27:05,276 Moreover, we have to think how to make use 344 00:27:05,879 --> 00:27:10,291 of objective situations, subjective battle power, 345 00:27:10,863 --> 00:27:13,593 and other various revolutionary experiences 346 00:27:14,069 --> 00:27:16,975 through thorough understanding of the laws 347 00:27:17,356 --> 00:27:22,403 and concepts of revolution and our analyses of the reality. 348 00:27:24,233 --> 00:27:26,519 Revolutions are all similar, 349 00:27:27,027 --> 00:27:30,328 but every revolution has its own unique characteristics. 350 00:27:31,947 --> 00:27:33,224 Therefore, 351 00:27:33,344 --> 00:27:36,455 we the PFLP should constantly learn and practice 352 00:27:36,575 --> 00:27:39,693 the principles of popular revolution. 353 00:27:41,090 --> 00:27:46,500 We have to choose the strategy most appropriate to our situation. 354 00:27:48,214 --> 00:27:52,246 This is because the political and military position 355 00:27:53,579 --> 00:27:56,309 of Palestine guerrillas is an extremely difficult one. 356 00:27:56,881 --> 00:27:57,929 For example, 357 00:27:58,373 --> 00:28:01,230 in 1936 when we fought Zionists' immigration to Palestine, 358 00:28:01,802 --> 00:28:03,063 and in 1967, 359 00:28:03,183 --> 00:28:08,453 when Arab nationalism made a pact with reactionary governments 360 00:28:08,573 --> 00:28:12,231 and declined into the petit-bourgeois ideology, 361 00:28:12,351 --> 00:28:15,310 our revolution did not have clear political strategy. 362 00:28:15,818 --> 00:28:20,771 Neither did we have a theoretical strategy for revolution. 363 00:28:22,263 --> 00:28:24,993 For that reason we were defeated 364 00:28:26,546 --> 00:28:30,628 and many comrades were sacrificed. 365 00:28:31,315 --> 00:28:32,993 Now we know: 366 00:28:33,444 --> 00:28:37,125 Guerrilla war is not fought in a fixed single place. 367 00:28:38,908 --> 00:28:43,145 A guerrilla should first recognize that he is a unit in war. 368 00:28:44,204 --> 00:28:45,247 Understanding this, 369 00:28:45,367 --> 00:28:47,864 he gains people's purpose and aspiration - revolution 370 00:28:48,406 --> 00:28:50,715 as the morality of guerrilla soldiers, 371 00:28:51,276 --> 00:28:54,280 and make this our strategy. 372 00:28:57,721 --> 00:29:00,016 The morality of oppressed people 373 00:29:00,845 --> 00:29:03,140 is not that they fight because they live. 374 00:29:03,777 --> 00:29:04,988 They fight to live, 375 00:29:05,108 --> 00:29:06,285 and fighting is living. 376 00:29:06,766 --> 00:29:08,600 In the desert of rocks and sand dust, 377 00:29:10,759 --> 00:29:15,362 Fedine lives and fights like trees and grass. 378 00:29:17,140 --> 00:29:19,909 It is within the war that lived peace 379 00:29:20,029 --> 00:29:22,220 is being born as the word of people. 380 00:29:23,648 --> 00:29:25,909 They learn guns with a gun in one hand; 381 00:29:26,029 --> 00:29:28,410 they learn things through guns. 382 00:29:30,981 --> 00:29:34,925 Is the first word that oppressed people can learn 383 00:29:35,045 --> 00:29:36,759 to seize guns and bullets? 384 00:31:02,959 --> 00:31:12,959 ARMED STRUGGLE MEANS BEING ON STANDBY 385 00:32:17,011 --> 00:32:17,980 They make no distinction 386 00:32:18,078 --> 00:32:20,570 between front line and hind line. 387 00:32:21,923 --> 00:32:26,064 Their frontline base is a place for their 'rich' education. 388 00:32:27,721 --> 00:32:28,549 Streets 389 00:32:29,187 --> 00:32:31,430 are the place for the people to discover and use 390 00:32:31,550 --> 00:32:33,737 their language as 'weapon.' 391 00:32:35,128 --> 00:32:37,979 For them there is no difference between urban guerrilla 392 00:32:38,099 --> 00:32:39,764 and guerrilla warfare. 393 00:32:40,776 --> 00:32:43,133 Guerrilla soldiers learn on the battlefield, 394 00:32:43,417 --> 00:32:45,875 and masses of people make the battlefield their home. 395 00:32:47,425 --> 00:32:51,330 [PFLP revolutionary anthem] 396 00:37:28,831 --> 00:37:33,119 [The International] 397 00:42:34,372 --> 00:42:38,009 Before us is a landscape that armed struggle is to stand by 398 00:42:38,998 --> 00:42:41,982 as the landscape of the world. 399 00:42:44,102 --> 00:42:46,074 We can learn from the oppressed Palestinians 400 00:42:46,572 --> 00:42:51,049 that to stand by is to innovate the immediately usable weapon 401 00:42:51,525 --> 00:42:54,833 and to stand by with the arms. 402 00:44:35,580 --> 00:44:37,611 What we can learn from the Arab liberation movement 403 00:44:38,871 --> 00:44:41,533 is whether there were enemies of Palestine 404 00:44:42,244 --> 00:44:45,759 besides the Zionists of world imperialism. 405 00:44:49,191 --> 00:44:51,345 PFLP was established in 1967, 406 00:44:52,488 --> 00:44:54,108 when the Arab liberation movement 407 00:44:54,562 --> 00:44:55,832 was in the hegemonic war 408 00:44:56,213 --> 00:45:01,229 among various Arab governments and ethnic groups; 409 00:45:02,608 --> 00:45:04,710 PFLP began insisting on the necessity of breaking away 410 00:45:04,830 --> 00:45:07,433 from other factions and shifting its goal 411 00:45:07,973 --> 00:45:10,576 from nationalism to international communism. 412 00:45:13,655 --> 00:45:15,592 And for the past five years 413 00:45:15,973 --> 00:45:18,349 it has continuously carried out its strategic theory 414 00:45:18,469 --> 00:45:20,057 through armed struggle. 415 00:45:22,755 --> 00:45:25,072 Can one say that PFLP was able to stand on the principle 416 00:45:25,803 --> 00:45:28,882 of anti-nationalism? 417 00:45:31,474 --> 00:45:34,744 The word 'Palestine' means 'brave soldier' 418 00:45:35,134 --> 00:45:37,301 in the ancient Canaan language. 419 00:45:38,888 --> 00:45:41,809 Two thousand years ago they fought 420 00:45:42,398 --> 00:45:48,507 the invading Hebrews, Roman Empire, the Crusade, and now the modern Zionists. 421 00:45:49,713 --> 00:45:52,189 They say it was not just the past five years 422 00:45:52,309 --> 00:45:56,068 but over four thousand years that they have been fighting. 423 00:46:02,674 --> 00:46:06,199 They say they are a nation of fighting soldiers. 424 00:46:08,238 --> 00:46:10,611 They say they establish a line of fighting not only Zionists 425 00:46:10,731 --> 00:46:13,595 but now Jordanian and other forces, in the shadow 426 00:46:14,325 --> 00:46:20,103 of the Arab national movement's official guerrilla armies. 427 00:46:23,504 --> 00:46:26,446 They are not the soldiers of capitalist war. 428 00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:41,445 They are not the soldiers of armies with rewards and salaries. 429 00:46:52,061 --> 00:46:55,660 They are the fighting 'soldiers of life.' 430 00:47:15,915 --> 00:47:19,326 They are the people who make military matters their 'lives.' 431 00:47:19,712 --> 00:47:21,457 They are neither citizens nor nationals; 432 00:47:21,837 --> 00:47:24,809 they are the people called 'oppressed Palestinians.' 433 00:48:01,839 --> 00:48:05,662 They make no distinction between frontline and behind the line. 434 00:48:06,964 --> 00:48:10,978 Their frontline base is the place for their 'rich' education. 435 00:48:12,699 --> 00:48:13,767 Streets 436 00:48:14,006 --> 00:48:15,982 are the place to discover and use 437 00:48:16,102 --> 00:48:17,975 the weapons as people's language. 438 00:48:20,099 --> 00:48:21,103 For them 439 00:48:21,209 --> 00:48:24,036 there is no difference between urban guerrilla and guerrilla warfare. 440 00:48:25,733 --> 00:48:28,061 Guerrilla soldiers learn on battlefield, 441 00:48:28,397 --> 00:48:31,145 and masses of people make the battlefield their home. 442 00:48:52,345 --> 00:48:57,345 WHO IS OUR ENEMY? 443 00:48:57,645 --> 00:49:02,145 WHO ARE OUR COMRADES? 444 00:49:28,002 --> 00:49:31,230 I came here to understand more fully the Palestinian Revolution. 445 00:49:32,126 --> 00:49:35,428 I think that to understand this revolution 446 00:49:36,690 --> 00:49:38,881 you must be a part of it. 447 00:49:39,301 --> 00:49:42,539 It is necessary to live the revolution. 448 00:49:43,015 --> 00:49:44,659 And another thing is, 449 00:49:44,779 --> 00:49:47,548 the reason I am with PFLP is that I believe PFLP 450 00:49:48,139 --> 00:49:53,337 can lead people to the victory of revolution. 451 00:49:54,161 --> 00:50:00,996 I think that they have been able to correctly analyze 452 00:50:01,642 --> 00:50:04,520 the problems of Palestine in the Middle East and the problems 453 00:50:04,806 --> 00:50:06,361 of Arab people in general. 454 00:50:06,906 --> 00:50:10,950 I think we cannot gain victory without Marx-Leninism. 455 00:50:11,070 --> 00:50:14,603 And it is only PFLP that is keenly aware of the prospect 456 00:50:15,170 --> 00:50:19,001 that people can win together with Marx-Leninism. 457 00:50:39,052 --> 00:50:42,812 I would like to send a message to Japanese comrades, 458 00:50:42,932 --> 00:50:44,797 revolutionary comrades. 459 00:50:46,984 --> 00:50:48,770 What has to be said first 460 00:50:49,246 --> 00:50:51,904 is that we have to bring together and unify 461 00:50:52,324 --> 00:50:54,334 the revolutionaries of the world. 462 00:50:55,841 --> 00:50:59,292 It is because all our struggles are one single struggle, 463 00:50:59,412 --> 00:51:01,517 and we cannot afford to be divided. 464 00:51:03,399 --> 00:51:06,137 Also because the forces of today's world imperialism 465 00:51:06,257 --> 00:51:09,074 are emerging as a unified power. 466 00:51:10,939 --> 00:51:13,677 We aim to annihilate our enemies. 467 00:51:14,749 --> 00:51:15,860 For this aim, 468 00:51:16,236 --> 00:51:20,107 we have to engage in a collective struggle 469 00:51:20,427 --> 00:51:24,197 to win this war and expel the forces of world imperialists. 470 00:51:25,029 --> 00:51:28,759 Let us arise now on the popular front of world revolutionaries, 471 00:51:29,135 --> 00:51:32,111 to maintain the leadership of the proletariat! 472 00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:37,414 Japanese comrades, and the revolutionary comrades 473 00:51:37,734 --> 00:51:40,472 in China, Vietnam, and the rest of the world 474 00:51:41,420 --> 00:51:45,983 let us posit the following slogan, and persist in fighting for its realization! 475 00:51:47,847 --> 00:51:53,085 'Anti-imperialist revolutionary forces of the world, unite!' 476 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. 478 00:52:20,832 --> 00:52:24,250 We are hoping to see the fire of revolution burn in the world. 479 00:52:24,709 --> 00:52:25,838 Guevara once said 480 00:52:25,958 --> 00:52:28,439 he hoped to see the entire world become like Vietnam, 481 00:52:28,559 --> 00:52:30,503 and that is the same hope we have. 482 00:52:30,640 --> 00:52:33,980 That is why we hope from the bottom of our hearts 483 00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:37,440 that by maintaining constant communication between us, 484 00:52:37,560 --> 00:52:40,456 as we have learned much from your struggles, 485 00:52:40,576 --> 00:52:43,550 you will learn from our experiences 486 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 488 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 490 00:52:58,270 --> 00:53:00,418 by newspaper reports, 491 00:53:00,538 --> 00:53:04,250 but only by the commencement of armed struggle. 492 00:53:18,860 --> 00:53:21,518 Representing PFLP, I send a message to our comrades, 493 00:53:21,838 --> 00:53:26,122 the revolutionary groups and parties of the Japanese people. 494 00:53:27,789 --> 00:53:31,440 You might have heard the news through the imperialist propaganda system 495 00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:35,025 that the Palestinian people are currently exhausted 496 00:53:35,145 --> 00:53:37,486 that they have given up the struggle, 497 00:53:37,606 --> 00:53:40,805 and that they are defeated by the reactionary Israel. 498 00:53:41,282 --> 00:53:44,536 Comrades, do not believe them. 499 00:53:45,091 --> 00:53:47,551 We are in fact in the middle of struggle. 500 00:53:47,671 --> 00:53:51,231 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. 502 00:53:55,796 --> 00:53:59,612 No one and nothing can stop us. 503 00:53:59,993 --> 00:54:02,533 Japanese comrades, 504 00:54:03,073 --> 00:54:07,029 we sincerely hope that you will fight our common enemy by supporting us. 505 00:54:07,149 --> 00:54:08,871 Support us by any means. 506 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 508 00:54:14,610 --> 00:54:17,125 rise up 509 00:54:17,618 --> 00:54:20,236 and strike blows against the monster of American imperialism. 510 00:54:20,356 --> 00:54:22,221 Let us advance our struggle 511 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! 513 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 Subtitles by: Papovik and Evildee Translation by: Mio Matsumoto and Dimax9 57926

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