News and Views from the People's Struggle
The Palestinian National Football (soccer) Team functions, or barely functions, under more difficult conditions than any other team in the world. Players from Gaza cannot travel to the West Bank or Jerusalem, West Bankers cannot travel to Jerusalem or Gaza and neither Gazans nor West Bankers can enter the 1948 Palestinian territories (now called ‘Israel’).
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on the current situation in Palestine.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Solidarity Campaign with Saadat & his comrades. We urge all our readers to support the fight to free this key Palestinian leader from an Israeli jail.
Fight Back News Service is reprinting the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on the passing of Dr. Ahmad Maslamani, an important leader in the fight to free Palestine.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in the United States and around the world, Jan. 25-26, to demand an immediate end to the Israeli siege of Gaza. Protesters gathered outside Israeli embassies and consulates, as well as at U.S. federal buildings, making it clear that the U.S. must stop aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following article from the New China News Agency on the celebration of Serfs Emancipation Day in Tibet.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement by Professor Sison on the legal persecution that is be waged by Dutch authorities against him. Jose Maria Sison is a leading figure in the movement to free the Philippines from U.S. domination and he deserves the support of all progressives.
Every progressive person should condemn the arrest of Professor Jose Maria Sison by authorities in the Netherlands. Sison’s arrest by Dutch police on trumped-up murder charges is an attempt to criminalize the liberation movement of the Philippines and to silence the voice of the Philippines’s most important revolutionary. Professor Sison has lived as a political refugee in the Netherlands for 20 years. It is the hidden hand of the Bush administration that is pressuring the Netherlands to take actions against Sison, including freezing his bank account and stripping him of his right to work. This arrest is political, not criminal.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement on the arrest of Professor Sison, a well-known leader of the struggle to free the Philippines from exploitation and foreign domination.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from Jose Maria Sison, of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, on the threat by U.S. Admiral Timothy Keating to escalate military intervention in the Philippines.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following press statement from the National Democratic Front of the Philippines. The statement deals with the rape of a Philippine woman, called Nicole, by a U.S. Marine. The case has attracted a huge amount of attention in the Philippines.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the National Democratic Front of the Philippines on devastation caused by typhoon Durian and the relief efforts organized by the progressive movement there.
The following interview with Baha Abu Hussein, the Director of International Relations in the Palestinian Progressive Youth Union, was conducted by Kosta Harlan.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Chicago, IL - Almost 30 Palestinian, Black and Latino youth marched into a packed banquet hall to open the Saturday night event of the Popular Conference for Palestinians in the U.S. The historic weekend conference on Aug. 8-10 in Chicago had over 1000 organizers, activists and community members attend from across the country. Amongst the resolutions approved for future work were a focus on the Right to Return demand, campaigns to free political prisoners held in Israeli and U.S. jails, the establishment of national youth and student networks and the mandate to establish new local committees in cities all over the U.S.
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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees on the passing of Maha Nassar, an important leader of Palestinian women and a member of the Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on the Bush administration's attack on Syria.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following call for action from the Friends of Ahmad Sa'adat. Ahmad Sa’adat is a Palestinian political prisoner and the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is being held by the Israeli authorities. Fight Back!’s 2003 interview with Ahmad Saadat can be read at: http://www.fightbacknews.org/2003-3-summer/pflp.htm.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Ahmad Sa’adat is a Palestinian political prisoner and the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He is being held by the Israeli authorities. Fight Back!’s 2003 interview with Ahmad Sa’adat can be read at: http://www.fightbacknews.org/2003-3-summer/pflp.htm
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following call to action from the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa'adat.