Comrade Leila Khaled keynote speaker at International League of People’s Struggles assembly in Manila

Comrade Leila Khaled keynote speaker at International League of People’s Struggles assembly in Manila

Comrade Leila Khaled, member of the Political Bureau of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, began a visit to the Philippines on November 11 with an address at the International Women’s Assembly, a gathering bringing together women involved in liberation movements around the world. Khaled’s visit to the Philippines comes in the context of the Fifth International Assembly of the International League of People’s Struggles, which includes numerous mass organizations, popular organizations, unions and social movements around the world, especially from Asia and Southeast Asia.

Comrade Leila Khaled will participate in a series of events and lectures organized by ILPS and associated organizations, as well as the GABRIELA women’s organization in the Philippines and the International Women’s Assembly. She will deliver a keynote speech at the Fifth International Assembly of ILPS.

In her speech to the IWA, Khaled called for strengthening the alliance of peoples’ movements and revolutionary forces of democracy and national liberation around the world, who are engaged in daily, fierce battles confronting imperialism, Zionism, racism and national and class oppression. Emphasizing the role of women in liberation movements in Palestine around the world, she discussed the Palestinian movement and called for escalating the breadth and comprehensiveness of the international boycott of Israel, through economic, cultural, academic and all forms of boycott, and ending all political relations with the racist occupation state on the road to the isolation and defeat of the Zionist project in occupied Palestine.

She urged support for the rising intifada in Palestine, and the central role of the struggle of Palestinian prisoners, led by Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the PFLP. Khaled called for greater exposure of the daily crimes committed by the occupation state against the Palestinian people – siege, assassinations, mass arrests, particularly targeting hundreds of Palestinian children and youth.

She further emphasized the centrality of the right of return of Palestinian refugees for the liberation of Palestine, and the need to dismantle the Zionist project in Palestine and establish justice, democracy and equality on the land of Palestine.

PFLP denounces horrific bombings in Beirut, stands with Lebanese people against killers

PFLP denounces horrific bombings in Beirut, stands with Lebanese people against killers

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine denounced the horrific criminal bombings in Bourj al-Barajneh, in southern Beirut on Thursday evening, which killed dozens and injured hundreds in a working-class neighborhood that has always been a home of dignity and resistance. Comrade Abu Ahmad Fuad, the Deputy General Secretary of the PFLP, sent his sincere condolences to the Lebanese people and to the Lebanese resistance in the face of this crime.

In an interview on Al-Mayadeen TV, Fuad said that the massacre bears the hallmarks of the Mossad and its tools that seek to weaken the resistance and divide the people, particularly in light of recent events in Lebanon and Syria, and in the context of the growing intifada in Palestine, which is turning the eyes and the hearts of the region once again to the central issue of Palestine. “This massacre also comes immediately following the exposure of Zionist espionage networks in Lebanon,” noted Fuad. He asserted his strongest confidence in the Lebanese people and the Lebanese resistance to overcome the Zionist criminals and the murderous extremist takfiri attacks.

The PFLP in Lebanon also saluted the strength of the Lebanese people and the Palestinian people in the camps, standing together, donating blood, and demanding justice for this mass murder, mourning the martyrs, wishing a speedy recovery for the wounded, concluding by saying that “the people of Lebanon will be victorious.”

Statement of PFLP Youth and Students on the Criminal Massacre in Beirut

Statement of PFLP Youth and Students on the Criminal Massacre in Beirut

Youth and student organizations of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Palestine and in diaspora strongly condemn the criminal bombings in the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the home of glory and resistance. This heinous massacre perpetrated by the hands of murder and crime against our people in Lebanon, is a massacre perpetrated against the people of the resistance that defeated the Zionist enemy and rubbed his nose in the dirt, is a massacre perpetrated against the Palestinian people, and is a massacre against all those who are committed to resistance until liberation as the only way to defeat the Zionist occupation and settler colonial project in Palestine and the Arab region.

The student and youth organizations of the PFLP reaffirm their solidarity with the Lebanese people and the Lebanese resistance, and emphasize that the fingerprints of the Zionist enemy and its collaborators are clearly visible on this bloody scene. The battle between the occupier and its tools on the one hand and between the forces of resistance and liberation on the other hand is a long and difficult fight, that will end with the achievement of victory for our people. The objective of this massacre is to divert once again the popular compass of the nation away from the Palestinian cause as a central issue, and to divert attention from the rising intifada in occupied Palestine.

The student and youth organizations of the PFLP call on all youth and students in the Arab nation, from the Atlantic to the Gulf, to be vigilant and aware and not misled and dragged by misinformation and deception from Washington, the Zionist entity and all their tools in the region.

Glory to the martyrs, healing to the wounded, victory to the resistance

Palestinian Youth Organization

Progressive Student Labor Front

Palestinian Progressive Youth Union

Occupied Palestine and Diaspora

November 13, 2015

Barakat: Heinous crime in Paris is the responsibility of imperialism, colonialism and reactionary forces

Barakat: Heinous crime in Paris is the responsibility of imperialism, colonialism and reactionary forces

Responsibility for the heinous massacre that took place in Paris last night, claiming the lives of at least 120 innocent people, lies primarily with colonialism, imperialism, and the murderous criminal takfiri forces, and particularly with the United States, the French state and their reactionary tools in the region, said Comrade Khaled Barakat, coordinator of the international Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat.

In an interview with the PFLP information department, Barakat said that “the fascist right wing and the Zionist enemy are the sole beneficiaries of this heinous crime, which is a net profit for them. Arabs, and in particular Palestinians, are and will pay the price of both the attacks that took place in Bourj al-Barajneh in south Beirut against innocent people, and those in Paris, also against civilians.” Barakat pointed to “a wave of racism that some are trying to incite in Lebanon against our Palestinian people, which is even more severe in colonial France, where we are witnessing rising waves of racism and hatred against migrants, refugees and poor citizens, particularly Arabs and Africans in Europe.”

Barakat pointed out that “France’s bloody colonial history in Algeria, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere in the Arab world is still fresh in the Arab popular memory, while France continues to this day to support the racist Zionist state and the reactionary Arab regimes with arms supplies and deals. The French state is hostile to the right of the Palestinian and Arab peoples to self-determination and liberation, while inside France, multiple forms of racism and oppression are practiced against poor and working-class Arabs and Muslims. All of these factors weaken Arab solidarity and can distort the image of the reality of this crime.” 

“The way to hit U.S. and European imperialist interests today is not through crimes and bloody massacres against civilians in the streets of Paris, London and New York, but to challenge those interests by organizing popular Arab movements, strengthening solidarity campaigns and real revolutionary anti-imperialist movements, and confrontng the colonial policies of the West through mobilizing the masses – students at universities, workers in trade unions, members of churches and other public institutions and social sectors,” said Barakat. “We must normalize the people’s resistance and the forces of the resistance, and strengthen the role and the voice of Palestinian and Arab communities in the West,” particularly at this time of increased racist oppression and threats. 

“The reactionary, obscurantist takfiri groups are a natural product of the current reality in the Arab world, amid massive underdevelopment and the power of vicious reactionary regimes and tools of imperialism, particularly the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. We also note the destructive role played by countries such as Turkey and other NATO allies in the region,” said Barakat.

Barakat said that such entities as “Al-Qaeda,” “Al-Nusra,” “ISIS” and other obscurantist, reactionary takfiri forces will not last long as a force and are “in the process of disappearing, partially at the hands of those who have shaped them, after being used to achieve specific goals, employed in the creation of chaos, sabotage and sectarianism, and failing to achieve the objectives of imperialist and reactionary Arab forces in a number of regions and countries.” 

Blood donation drive in Gaza to support uprising in West Bank and Jerusalem

Blood donation drive in Gaza to support uprising in West Bank and Jerusalem

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Khan Younis, Gaza, organized a blood donation drive at its office in the governorate under the slogan: “One body, one blood, intifada until the end of occupation,” in support of the Palestinian people of the West Bank, Jerusalem, and occupied Palestine ’48 on October 20.

Members of the party, cadres of the Front participated in the even as did members of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees.

Comrade Hani Thawabteh, member of the Central Committee of the PFLP, said that the blood donation campaign was being conducted to support the growing intifada of our Palestinian people in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Occupied Palestine ’48, and to affirm the unity of the Palestinian people in confronting the occupation war machine together.

Mass march in Tunisia stands with Palestinian people

Mass march in Tunisia stands with Palestinian people

The Popular Front of Tunisia called a mass demonstration on Avenue Habib Bourgiba in Tunis in support of the Palestinian people’s uprising and denouncing the brutal Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people. The demonstration included the participation of crowds of Tunisians, including lawyers, journalists, popular organizations and political figures.

The march raised slogans expressing outrage toward the positions of Arab governments on Palestine, carrying Palestinian and Tunisian flags, PFLP banners, and posters of the martyrs and prisoners, including imprisoned PFLP General Secretary Comrade Ahmad Sa’adat and imprisoned Lebanese struggler in French prisons, Comrade Georges Abdallah. 

The protest also comes in conjunction with other movements in Tunisia at this time, in particular the popular demand to abolish the so-called Reconciliation Act, which paves the way for the return of corrupt business figures to economic and political power. 

The event also included a tent in solidarity with Georges Abdallah, in which young Tunisians sent solidarity messages to the imprisoned comrade and denounced the French state’s ongoing imprisonment of a liberation struggler.

Palestinian youth and students in Gaza: Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!

Palestinian youth and students in Gaza: Free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!

A statement by the Progressive Palestinian Youth Union and the Progressive Student Labor Front on imprisoned Arab internationalist freedom fighter Georges Abdallah

The French state persists in its imprisonment of Arab struggler, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, in its jails for over 30 years, refusing to release him despite a prior decision of French courts to do so.

The Palestinian Progressive Youth Union and the Progressive Student Labor Front consider the continued imprisonment of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah as a disgrace on the French state, revealing the ugly face of imperialism to the world as a permanent partner of Zionism, continuing to commit crimes against the Palestinian people and the people of the region with a full sanction, green light and absolute support from world imperialist powers.

Despite the cruelty and the development of events and conditions inside our occupied homeland, the bleeding wounds of Palestine, this will not prevent us from continuing our support with the imprisoned Arab and internationalist struggler Georges Abdallah, and organizing events and actions to pressure France for his release, as a fighter for freedom and justice and for the liberation of peoples and the end of occupation and oppression. His case is inseparable from the cause of the Palestinian people.

In this context, we, in the Palestinian Progressive Youth Union and the Progressive Student Labor Front, emphasize the following:

1. We are continuing our preparations for solidarity actions with the struggler Georges Abdallah, with the particular goal to change the name of Charles De Gaulle Street in Gaza City, to Georges Abdallah Street, in order to send a message to the French state that the struggler Georges Abdallah is a symbol of Arab and international struggle, who deserves to have his name on the streets and squares of Palestine, especially in the Gaza Strip.

2. We emphasize the inherent value of the imprisoned radical revolutionary struggler Georges Ibrahim Abdallah’s consistent support for the resistance of our people against the Zionist entity. The struggle against imperialism and Zionism is one and indivisible.

3. We direct our salutes to the international solidarity campaigns to free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Ahmad Sa’adat and Khalida Jarrar, and also to Coup Pour Coup 31, the anti-imperialist collective in France which is playing a leading role in organizing events in France to free Georges Abdallah, as well as the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, and the Handala Center of Prisoners and Released Prisoners, and all of the comrades, solidarity groups, popular organizations and activists around the world who are taking up these campaigns.

4. We reaffirm the unity and cohesion of the struggle against imperialism, including the issue of the imprisoned freedom fighter Georges Abdallah, and the struggle of the Palestinian people against Zionism.

Progressive Student Labor Front

Palestinian Progressive Youth Union

Gaza Strip