In commemoration of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre
Down with the negotiations with the
Zionists on the expense of the Palestinian people!
Today, 28 years ago, the Zionist armed
forces together with their fascist militia allies committed one of the most horrendous
acts in the series of massacres the Israeli state was responsible for since
1947-8.
The goal of the Israeli war on Lebanon of
1982 was not only to disable and eliminate the PLO, but also to uproot the
Palestinian resistance to Zionist oppression. The choice of the refugees as
victims of the massacre was not accidental – the State of Israel, that deported
most of the Palestinian people in 1947-8 turning them into refugees, sought in
1982 to tread on the necks of these refugees as a message to all of those who
demand the right of return.
It is not a coincidence that the Israeli
war on the Lebanese people and the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon was carried
out soon after the signing of the peace accords between Begin and Sadat. The
agreement allowed the Egyptian ruling class to stand idly by while Israel
unleashed its attack on Lebanon.
The role of the revolutionaries at that
time was to explain beforehand that a peace agreement with Israel means war
against the Palestinian people. This claim was not only validated in 1982, but
also after the Oslo Accords which allowed to Zionists to corrupt the
Palestinian leadership, brutally supress the 2nd
Intifada, and today divide the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
As we commemorate the massacre in the
refugee camps, masters Obama, Netanyahu and Abu Mazen are negotiating a new
"peace agreement." Much as those before it, this agreement is aimed
at breaking the resistance of the Palestinian people and force it into
acknowledging the Zionist state, i.e. to suppress the Palestinian people's mass
support of the Palestinian refugees Right of Return and to recognize the
Zionist racist Law of Return.
Abu Mazen has no popular political
legitimacy among the Palestinian masses and that is why he does not dare to
announce new election as he promised. Therefore, the negotiations between him
and Israel are nothing but an act of treason committed by the Palestinian
bourgeoisie – Israel's accomplice. This leadership was returned by Israel into
Palestine while the 1st Intifada in order to deflate the mass
struggle raging at the time. When the bourgeois leaders arrived at Palestine
they faced a mass struggle which went beyond the narrow capitalist-nationalist
lines they were striving to impose on it. They were thus left with no other
choice but to become Israel's accomplices.
The only way to ensure the Palestinian
right to self-determination in all of its land, a right which includes the
Right of Return, is through the mass revolutionary struggle for a Palestinian
state from the river to the sea.
However, the heroic and longstanding
struggle of the Palestinian masses against Zionism, by itself and isolated from
the super-exploited proletariat of the region, cannot ensure the realization of
this demand to self-determination. A revolutionary struggle of the
super-exploited workers of the region, spearheaded by the Palestinian masses,
can ensure the realization of this demand in the form of a Palestinian workers'
state from the river to the sea within a framework of a socialist federation of
the Middle East.
This is neither a dream nor a Utopia. We
are currently experiencing the greatest capitalist crisis since the 1930s. This
crisis presents itself also as a political crisis which eats away at the entire
imperialist order established after World War 2. In many countries the working
class is returning to the political center stage: France, Greece, Egypt, Iran,
China and others.
In the class struggles, which will
increase in intensity over the years to come, will resurface the century-old
question: what should replace to rotten degenerated and corrupt imperialist
order? Again and again the workers will discover that the only solution is
socialist revolution that will establish workers' states in all countries. The
success of this revolution requires the leadership of revolutionary workers'
parties, based on the most politically advanced layers of the working class.
The leadership these parties require will rise out of the great struggles of
the years to come.
Remember those who were murdered in
the Sabra and Shatila
Massacre – victims of the Zionist imperialism!
Down with the traitorous
negotiations with the Zionists!
For the right of all the
Palestinian refugees to return!
Release all of the Palestinian
political prisoners and detainees!
For the establishment of a
constituent assembly of all the residents of the country including all of the
Palestinian refugees!
For a Palestinian workers' state
from the river to the sea as part of a socialist federation of the Middle East!
Long live the world socialist
revolution!
