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The Palestine issue exploded in the entire scenario and puts on us the question of how we mobilize for Palestine. Because Palestine at this moment represents not only an attack on a people, a real genocide against the people of Gaza and the West Bank, but also an acceleration of the war scenario that has set the world on fire, starting from Ukraine, and which now takes on another dimension. Clearly, this is a very precise context on which we need reasoning to understand how to intervene, what is needed to give a mean to our internationalism.
In the large demonstrations that took place in Italy, particularly in Milan, we saw that not only of the Palestinian community mobilized but all the Arab masses coming from other countries: Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon. And this shows how the people, the proletariat, at an international level, care about the Palestine issue. And the slogans showed that we must be in solidarity, but that we must go further, so that the resistance and struggle of the Palestinian people achieve victory.
This evening we will also talk about the role of Italian imperialism, which supports Israel on all fields, including by sending weapons and troops.
Today is the 7th of November, anniversary of the October Revolution, for us communists it is an indispensable reference of how to respond to the imperialist war and how to work to put an end to the oppression of peoples. The Red October showed us that. That is why it is still our reference beacon today for a strategic perspective of changing the world, most of all when the march to war goes on, aimed, as all imperialist wars, to a new partition of the world market, to intensify the oppression of the proletarians in all the oppressed countries of the world as well as in the imperialist countries.
All our comrades are underlining this perspective. They are playing their part in a much larger movement, to which we must contribute as most as we can. Saying our comrades, we mean the entire international communist movement.
When we say international communist movement, first of all we mean the genuine communist movement, Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, which fights in the world based on the science of our class, Marxism, based on the verified history of the might of Marxism, represented by Leninism and the October Revolution, and based on the developments brought by Maoism on the strategy and vision of the world through the universality of the path of people's war for the all oppressed peoples.
Today,
precisely one month after the Hamas's unprecedented attack on the
State of Israel, our position does not let space to misunderstanding.
That action is the inevitable result of the Israeli occupation and
gave body to the aspirations of the Palestinian people's liberation
movement.
That was a heroic action. First of all, we, as communists, salute that without any distinction. The armed resistance of the Palestinian masses put in check Israel and imperialism. When they thought to have everything under control, that their murderous troops, their hi-tech equipments, their military dominance, along with the partial complicity of the regimes and ruling classes of the Arab countries, did protect them from any surprise and that they could go on with the daily trickle with the complicit silence of the world mainstream press. When they rely on the international sheltering of imperialism and international institutions, which were not able to enforce some of the UN resolutions they themselves had approved. When they thought to be able to handle the internal crisis the State of Israel was and is going through, while internal movements question the fascist Netanyahu government, the most reactionary the history of Israel remembers. Precisely then they were caught by surprise by the action of the Palestinian masses and part of their armed vanguard, which has showed that the oppressed masses never surrender. Even if they had to suffer every type of abuse, suppression, slaughters by the Zionist state and imperialism, all this did not tame them.
The fundamental historical meaning of the October 7 action has a place in the history of the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people. Any attempt to put on the same level the armed resistance, the response that the Palestinian people have implemented, and the genocidal action of the State of Israel is a shameful and unacceptable stand. And it is a pure pretext to escape the historical task of the communists, but also of democrats, of anti-imperialists, to take side unconditionally with the Palestinian people.
Beyond of the statements and sometimes even the actions of solidarity with the Palestinian people, we must reject a view according to which Palestinians are good only when they are victims, when it matter of humanitarian aid but, when the Palestine people raise in arms, then they become terrorists.
Any attempt to label the Hamas's action as "terrorist" is infamous, it is a crime for which there is no justification. The struggle of peoples is armed struggle for liberation. In the liberation struggle all available forms of struggle are necessary and useful and must be used against the enemy. The entire history taught us that. Imperialism and its lackeys always call these actions "terrorism", they also did so during our anti-fascist Resistance.
There is only one terrorism, that of the State of Israel, a terrorist state which just in these days proves to be that. “The only terrorism are the bombs of imperialism”. The entire history of American imperialism over decades has given uncountable examples that imperialism is, other than oppressor of peoples and collector of exploitation of the proletariat and the masses, a state of terror, a state of naked oppression. And, in this sense, it is worthy heir of Nazism.
So, our first problem is to strenuously defend the action of October 7th. We should not to accept sneaky speculations also coming from our camp. At some demonstrations, we have heard comrades, who usually are very committed to solidarity with the Palestinian people, say: “I'm not a conspiracy theorist, however, may be the State of Israel facilitated the action of Hamas so to fully deploy its genocide plan”. That is an infamy, even when a comrade says it! Because it tries to belittle and place the resistance of the Palestinian people and the action carried out by Hamas in the sphere of dark hypotheses, though our ideology and program are different from those of Hamas, as well as other forces of the Palestine liberation movement, it is natural. However, people have a common goal, which is independence, national self-determination, the birth, the rebirth we would say, of the State of Palestine, a free, democratic state, in which all the sections of the people will coexist regardless of their religion. A secular state which, in the context of the current international and national struggle against imperialism and its inevitable face of reaction, fascism, will question the foundations of imperialism. Today being for a secular state means to clearly state that only the proletarians, the peoples can today raise the flags of their national and social liberation from imperialism and the capitalist system.
Thus, from all that, here is key point. Because, if we do not strongly uphold the strength of the attack that the Palestinian people carried out, their ability to be reborn after the many defeats they suffered which have never tamed them, there would be no hope that, even amid this dramatic situation, unprecedented at a certain degree, nothing and no one will erase the people or their resistance. However dark the present appears, the future of the Palestinian people is liberation, which for us means to march towards a new democratic state and transition to socialism.
In this sense, another point is equally important for us. The entire capitalist/imperialist world and all its offshoots, the communist and big workers' parties which have changed their nature, the false populists of the oppressed peoples try to clear their history and ideology of the peoples in order to perpetuate their oppression.
So, we must be firm and clear. Solidarity is not just a word. Lenin, precisely during the historical experience of the October Revolution, stated that internationalism essentially consists of two tasks: to make revolution in own country, fighting own imperialism and own ruling class as part of the world system of imperialism, even regardless of their temporary position in one or other of the clashing imperialist blocs. To make revolution in own country is the highest form of internationalism. Along with that there the second task: to support the same battle in each country.
That is Internationalism and the demonstrations that are taking place for Palestine by the different forces and sensibilities are united by this sense of internationalist solidarity and reflect an active internationalism precisely when they focus their initiative in condemning our imperialism, the role our government is playing, which is not trivial for reasons that are to be seen, and even easier to understand. It is a government inspired by fascism, by the historical myth of colonialism and could only embody this stand taking side with the enemies of the Palestinian people, with the Zionist Israeli state and American imperialism, to which our government acts as a servant of servants.
In this sense, we are inside the "belly of the beast" to contribute and take part in the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people, both by supporting them in all forms and by intensifying action against our imperialism. Our role does not mechanically depend on the masses, both when they are fused and when, as today, they are still distinct for concrete historical reasons. In any cases the task of the vanguard is to point out the way and therefore of understand the international and national conditions in which the Palestinian liberation struggle takes place today, the context of the tendency towards world imperialist war.
This context is the other side of the coin of the ongoing war in Ukraine. This context, in a certain sense, tells us that we must necessarily adapt to the current times and think that the only way to overthrow governments is through revolutionary struggle, the armed struggle. Of course, the armed struggle cannot win without the masses, their armed vanguard alone has no chance, historical experience also tells us that, but that is the path of the proletariat and the people.
Unspeakable massacres are taking place, with the threat of using nuclear weapons on the Palestinian people; the imperialist powers deploy their entire arsenal, not only ideological, but also of states and military, to crush the people, then, can we have scruples in declaring loud and clear that we must respond to the weapons of imperialism with the weapons of the proletariat? There is not any other solution. To say that is to claim the right of proletarians and peoples to free themselves.
In this sense, we say: every form of people’s mass solidarity has always been a central element of people's participation. But it is possible if the their vanguard does not open a new season, take up its responsibility with exposure, action, mobilization, equipping forces and forms of organization for a struggle that truly can stop the war and oppression machinery.
We owe it to the 11,000 people, the 5,000 children dead in Gaza. We owe it to the fighters who questioned their lives. The Palestinian people, through their current organization, openly state:"we are one nation, one body, we call on our people to set the earth on fire with flames under the feet of the enemy. We face unprecedented crimes in modern history, we will not give up our legitimate presence in Palestine."
Nor we feel that the call recently issued by the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine says different things.
We call all those in solidarity to raise the bar of their solidarity.
We also have to fight an insidious position. We are with the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine, but this cannot be used to belittle the importance of the action led by Hamas, which anyway is supported by the PFLP. We should not look for easy ways out at regard. We must not fall into the trap of Israeli who say: let's hit Hamas, not the Palestinian people, trying to pass off the idea that today there is a Palestinian people apart of Hamas. Hamas is majority in the Gaza Strip, certainly not by chance. Nobody imposed it, it does not depend on Iran, but the Palestinian people largely support the armed resistance.
In fact, exactly the opposite is true. What is discredited in Palestine is the role of the Palestinian National Authority and its leadership. The Palestinian National Authority is complicit, it narrowed the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people. PNA is made up of corrupt people, bound by thousands of threads not only to the ruling class in Palestine, which certainly exists, but also to the agreements and recent history that have made the State of Israel stronger and the Palestinian people weaker. The press rarely talks about it, but in the West Bank the elections were postponed, the PNA did not want to hold the elections, again because the general fear was that Hamas would win them.
Clearly, there are ideological and political issues that we do not agree with Hamas, but there is not any ground for putting the Palestinian people, their current majority organization, on the same level as ISIS or Bin Laden. Hamas is the majority party chosen by the Palestinians, and it would be so even if elections were held again. Someone tries to indicate a political prisoner, Barghouti, to whom we all are linked, to stop the resistance of the Palestinian people. It is a move of imperialism, of the Zionist State to crush the Palestinian people and impose a puppet leadership that can only exist with the weapons of the State of Israel, an attempt to make the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people take a step back.
Unfortunately, as often happens with the liberation struggles, there is an aspect of civil war within the liberation struggle, because it is clear that the Palestinian people also have an inner enemy. This inner enemy is called the Palestinian National Authority.
Another insidious position is to take up a slogan, dear to us all and which we still shout today in demonstrations: "Intifada". Clearly Intifada was the Palestinian youth's form of rebellion to resist against the Zionist enemy and his daily pressure. But Hamas' action changed the era of this battle.
The only path is the people's war. Better than Hamas, there is the people's war. Better than the armed struggle of Hamas there is is the general arming of the people, but it does not exist yet.
Clearly ideology and way of waging war of Hamas are such that people support them but they are not a central part of that warfare. They have no weapons to defend themselves. This war is entrusted to the fighters of Hamas. That is why, better than Hamas, there is the people's war.
The Intifada is still necessary in the West Bank to overthrow the current government of Abu Mazen, but in Gaza it is no longer the weapon for the Palestinian people to defeat the enemy, most of all in a situation in which in addition to military occupation, the invasion and genocidal threats are marching.
The history of peoples proofed that only people's wars can resist the enemy's assault and, in addition to resisting, can create the conditions to start again. It is a truth that Mao Tsetung taught us. And it is "common sense" in a dynamic of war.
In the movement in solidarity with the Palestinian people, we support all forms, every type of support given to the Palestinian people today. But it is also important to discuss, to bring the points of what is not simply our stand, but corresponds to the concrete analysis of the concrete situation in the current particular context.
To Raise the bar in the struggle against our imperialism. To advance looking at the struggles of the workers' movement, of the peoples, from October revolution to the Chinese revolution, to Vietnam war, etc.
It is our daily task, our daily work.
The contradictions in the current dispute between imperialists, with US imperialism and the European imperialist countries, including Italy, on one side and China on the other one, do not seem be useful for the Palestinian people and their liberation struggle. Of course these contradictions exist, but in all these years it has been proofed that to rely on them, unfortunately, did not give the Palestinians more strength, nor a state, nor a political, military, diplomatic strength able of containing the Zionist aggression, invasion, occupation, nor to question the power balance.
We need to be firm if we want to implement internationalism correctly.
Finally, one last important issue. The proletariat, the working class exist in Palestine as well in Israel, the working class has a historical role there too, even if its specific role in the dispute appears quite complicated today. Even in Palestine there are proletarians who work mostly in Israel, many of them of Jewish religion. It is clear that proletarian unity is an element of strength that we wish the proletarian-oriented organizations in Palestine will grasp.
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