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Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis: Victory to the Mass Hunger Strike for Palestine Action

Victory to the mass hunger strike for Palestine Action – Let’s crush the alliance 1+3

Since the 2nd of November, a rolling collective hunger strike has been taking place in British prisons against the UK’s involvement in the colonial war in Palestine and the crackdown on the Palestine Action organisation. Thirty-three prisoners have committed themselves in advance, Amu Gib and Qesser Zuhrah were the first to start, and gradually the number of strikers is increasing. The struggle inside the prisons has already gone international, with the participation of comrades Massimo Passamani and Luca Dolce (Italy).

The demands:
– Immediate end to all censorship and restrictions on their correspondence and communications.
– Immediate and unconditional release on bail.
– Right to a fair and transparent trial.
– Deproscription of Palestine Action.
– Permanent closure of all Elbit Systems facilities in the United Kingdom.
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All demands serve the Palestinian resistance and the common struggle against capitalist counter-revolution. The last demand places the hunger strike within the objective aim of the political campaign for which Palestine Action was placed on the “terrorism” list. Thus, the struggle continues from within prison.

The Israeli company Elbit supplies a big part of the Israeli army’s equipment. Palestine Action, through sabotage and blockades, has caused serious damage to the company and the closure of factories. It has also carried out serious sabotage at RAF bases and aircrafts, upgrading the more moderate forms of anti-militarist resistance to the level of the objective needs determined by the conflict in Palestine.

On the 28th of November, Palestinian activist Anan Yaeesh, who was a political prisoner in occupied Palestine, will be tried by the Italian state. He is accused, without evidence, of collaborating with the Tulkarm Brigades (West Bank), which are linked to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed component of Fateh that resists the occupation. The EU is fighting on the front lines of the Zionist occupation with all means at its disposal. Comrade Anan stated: “You want me to defend myself against the accusations against me, but I am ashamed to seek acquittal on charges that, for me, represent a source of honour. I do not want to defend myself against the accusation of having rights and having claimed them, or of having tried to liberate my people and my country from colonial oppression. I swear that I have no intention of being acquitted of the legitimate resistance against the Zionist occupation. The Palestinian resistance is one of the noblest phenomena known to history.”

I express my respect for the memory of the two martyrs of the self-sacrificing attack on an Israeli settlement south of Bethlehem on 18/11. As the Brigades of Al-Shahid Abu Ali Mustafa, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine wrote in their commemorative announcement, “Our plegde is eternal revenge that does not fade. Tomorrow the fog will clear from the hills.”

The mass hunger strike was announced to be launched on the anniversary day of the Balfour Declaration, the British mandate to implement the Zionist plan. The historical development of capital has been founded on relentless genocide. We need to view genocides from an anti-state, anti-capitalist perspective. The massacre and famine in Gaza and the hundred-year war of destruction and displacement of the Palestinian people are processes of primitive accumulation, class discipline and of extermination of surplus proletariat. The brutality of the imperialist war machine and its Zionist vanguard is openly displayed with the aim of establishing its terrorism worldwide. Faced with the heroic resistance of a people, the capitalist butchers have made the people’s bread and water the subject of war negotiations. The unanimous decision of the UN Security Council (17/11), with the agreement of the Chinese and Russian imperialists, proclaims the assumption of responsibility for the completion of the occupation. What Zionism failed to achieve through constant wars, its patrons are now taking over. The planned International Stabilisation Force is tasked with disarming the resistance “by all necessary means”, i.e. by continuing the genocidal war. As the Popular Resistance Committees stated on the same day, “We will not accept the deployment of any international or foreign forces inside the Gaza Strip to replace the occupation, nor will we accept an American role in controlling the administration of Gaza. Any international support for this decision will be considered alignment, bias, and legitimization of the foreign presence on the land of Gaza.”

The Palestinian resistance does not go back on its political goals: the liberation of Gaza, militarily and economically; a halt to the settlement of the West Bank, which was approved by the Zionist Knesset; and the release of all prisoners. Punishment of all war criminals. No peace with the occupation. The only language the enemy understands is the language of force.

Two years after the revolutionary initiative of October 7 managed to bring back to the fore, more strongly than ever before, the cause of the destruction of the imperialist colony, I repeat and will say as many times as necessary, that any compromise on the demands of popular freedom for the sake of peace, by devaluing and burying resistance in silence or in the melting pot of bourgeois rights, sharpens the weapons of counter-revolution. If the left is haunted by the historical curse of colonial social democracy, the anti-authoritarian current and academic Marxism are haunted by the curse of elitist utopian idealism, which conveniently transforms masters into victims. But there is no federalism without justice, nor socialism without land and freedom.

Israeli conscientious objector Daniela Schultz with her statement, thwarted all those who undermine the Palestinian resistance: “Israeli society in its entirety has a role in shaping the horrible reality of the Palestinian people. It isn’t ‘complicated’, there aren’t ‘exceptions to the rule’, and talks of the innocence or morality of individuals in a society whose whole essence is bloodshed and racial supremacy are irrelevant”. On fascist voluntarism, which neoliberalism and its post-socialdemocracy present as alternativism: “The Gaza genocide has also taken its toll on Israeli society – but instead of rising against it, civil NGOs went out of their way to accommodate it. Supporting reservists’ families, renovating shelters, civil operation rooms, all meant to minimise the price Israelis pay for the genocide. Instead of civil disobedience, we created a civil backbone. Instead of resisting the genocide, the government’s critics complain about the efficiency of managing the ‘war’”. And as for the ‘social’ opposition, so highly regarded by Western pacifists: “Instead of refusing to enlist, they compete in the number of days of reserve service. The opposition and protest groups declare ‘not in our name’ and simultaneously salute the IDF and its combatants”. In this way she puts the disobedience of Israeli citizens into its true perspective: “My refusal isn’t a heroic act. I’m not refusing because I believe my individual action will change reality, and I don’t think my choices as an Israeli deserve central attention in the conversation of Palestinian liberation. I’m refusing because it is the most human thing to do”. The anti-militarist movement of the occupying state recognizes the goal of resistance: “A country whose security requires the extermination of another people has no right to security. A people determined to commit a Holocaust on another people has no right to self-determination”.

This also applies to Greek nationalism and its state. The strategic bloc of America-Israel-Greece-Cyprus (1+3) has joint political responsibility for the genocidal war. The Greek bourgeoisie, along with the middle classes associated with it, is tied to the imperialist plan of a “New Middle East”, of the “Greater Israel” of IMEC, of the endless slaughter and extermination of societies in the global war with the Chinese competitor and of militaristic terrorism. The Greek state is by its foundation a storming base of Western Christian capitalism. From the counter-revolutionary campaign in Ukraine, to the civil war and the war in Korea, Somalia and Afghanistan, to the thirty-year genocide of the migrant proletariat, to the last decade against rebellious Yemen, the colonial alliance for the Sahel and the NATO-Nazi front in Ukraine, the Greek army is a deadly tool of the capitalist metropolis.

Revolutionary solidarity means organically connecting all resistance movements on Earth and extending every front line wherever we are. Here, in the Greek-NATO territory, solidarity with Palestine means civil class war. The same is true, of course, for all collaborative Arab and Islamic regimes. The Greek bourgeoisie, with its political parties, technocrats and academics, cynically defends the strategic support for the genocidal war in Palestine in the name of the national interest. This is nothing new. Kostas Simitis had supported the bombing of Yugoslavia with the slogan ‘Greece first’. Eternal collaborators, lackeys of the ruling power. Such is capitalist morality, which demands national collective responsibility for its heinous crimes, with the vote of the working classes. As Daniela Shultz said about Zionist security: “Israeli public discourse has always made the freedom of the Palestinian people — even their right to exist — conditional on the impact on Israeli ‘security’. From the right, which claims that security can only be achieved through occupation and settlements, to the Zionist left, which says ‘security will bring peace’”.

The Palestinian resistance demands the punishment of war criminals. The Greek prime minister was the first to meet with Netanyahu after he was indicted by the International Court of Justice. No Greek prosecutor has indicted Mitsotakis for harbouring an international war criminal. It was the left-wing government, with the complicity of all its current factions, that upgraded the strategic alliance with Zionism ten years ago. They bear collective political responsibility for the levelling of Gaza, for the colonisation of the West Bank, for the mass torture and indiscriminate executions of civilians in Gaza and in prisons, for the bombed hospitals, for the hundreds of murdered doctors, nurses and journalists, for the schools, mosques and churches that have been turned from shelters into mass graves. All of this has the signature of the slogan, ‘Greece first’. In the same national spirit, right-wing and left-wing governors are demanding that the working classes make further sacrifices to arm Western European imperialism, openly provoking an inter-imperialist war. A few days ago, the Greek Minister of War advised the European peoples to be prepared to see their children in coffins, implying that the Greeks are already prepared to receive their youth in coffins. The punishment of these genocidal murderers is not the responsibility of the Palestinian resistance, and no court of their own system will judge them.

They have been taking our measurements for a long time now, but they have miscalculated. Let us take our measures, let us nail them to the board with the same nails they have for our coffins. As Macron recently said, to survive in today’s world, you have to be feared, and to be feared, you have to be strong.

In solidarity with the struggle in British prisons, from Sunday 30/11 I will go on a week-long hunger strike (drinking water) and after that, for one day a week or depending on the progress of the situation of the hunger strikers who are on the front line.

History has taught us that prison is a crucial field of resistance. But let’s not get confused, the resisting political prisoners are a full moon on the dark side of the Earth. The sunny side is where rebellion and direct action are on the rise. Let us spread Palestine Action everywhere. Let us thicken the forest of revolutionary internationalism (with the real parallel drawn by comrade Massimo).

Freedom to the fighters of Palestine Action
Freedom for Elias Rodriguez and Casey Goonan
Honour to the anarchist revolutionary Aaron Bushnell
Freedom to all the hostages of the Zionist camp

“I am afraid of hunger, of losing people, of having nothing to lose, of rivers running dry, of poisoned land, of forest fires, of the invention, manufacture, and release of bombs that can evaporate people and leave holes in the earth where they stood. I’m scared of our silence, and what it’s apparently possible to normalise. I’m scared of what we can stomach. I’m scared of how easily you can be put in prison for not having money. I’m scared of war, of no one coming when we need them. But our silence, our fear, our productivity will not protect us,”
Amu Gib

“Elbit, while you boast of how your weapons have been ‘battle tested on Palestinians’, our Resistance will inform you that your tests have failed. Because Gaza will rise and Palestine will never die,” the hunger strikers.

To our anarchist comrades of post-industrial theory: No awe is due to the rotten state capitalist technology. The algorithm does nothing real: it is merely a metonymy, a veil over sweeping death. It is deceptive and incapacitating to see power where there is nothing but self-referential fear of the innovation of life.

“The difference between a nation rooted in its land and the campaigns of invasion that have repeatedly broken against the rock of its determination has not yet been understood”,
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

(No act of solidarity should be done in my name. The immediate goal is to make the British state yield in the face of the common struggle. In the Greek-NATO territory, the target is the war machine of the 1+3 alliance. As Comrade Anan said: “I am ashamed to find myself in a warm room, even in prison, while children in Gaza die of cold, hunger, and thirst”.

Dimitris Chatzivasileiadis
Domokos Prison
Greece

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