News and Views from the People's Struggle
Fight Back! News Service is circulating the following statement demanding the release of Palestinian political prisoner Ahmad Saadat. Saadat is the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Before the death of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, Nov. 11, there had been an enormous amount of speculation raised, and analysis offered, concerning the issue of succession. And now that the speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Rawhi Fattouh, has been named the interim president, the speculation will continue for at least 60 more days.
Freedom Road Socialist Organization mourns the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (1929-2004). We regret the loss of a freedom fighter who worked tirelessly for the emancipation of Palestine.
Minneapolis, MN – In a great display of unity and solidarity, activists from around the country gathered on the University of Minnesota campus, Feb. 9-10, for an organizing conference to plan the anti-war protests at the Republican National Convention.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following obituary on the passing of Ali Qased, a lifelong fighter for the complete liberation of Palestine who resided here in the U.S.
Editors note: The Palestinian resistance has forced an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. Fight Back News Service is circulating the following article by Emily Gharabally, which analyzes the limited nature of the Israeli pullout and the role of settlers in occupied Palestine.
Fight Back News Service received the following statement of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a leading organization in struggle to liberate Palestine. The statement marks the fourth anniversary of the Israeli assassination of the PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa and deals with some recent developments in Palestine.
Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement that demands the release of Ahmad Sa'adat, one of the key leaders of the struggle to liberate Palestine. Sa'adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was interviewed by Fight Back! in May 2003, a year after his incarceration.
In the upcoming elections for the Palestinian Authority’s Palestinian Legislative Council in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Ahmad Saadat, the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), has announced his candidacy from jail.
Oslo is dead. This is not much of a scoop, as analysts and pundits have been saying and writing these words for many years, at least since the Intifada of September 2000 began. But now that the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections of Jan. 25 are over, we can officially turn off the lights on the Oslo agreement that, along with the first U.S. invasion of Iraq in 1991, has led to, arguably, the most difficult period in the modern history of Palestinian and Arab world politics.
Fight Back! is posting the video Mass Rally for Gaza in Chicago, created by the Chicago-based Labor Beat. The Jan. 2 rally, initiated by the Coalition for Justice in Palestine, drew 5000 people.
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Minneapolis, MN – Progressive activists from all over the country will attend an organizing conference here Feb. 9-10 to prepare for a national anti-war rally and march set for Sept. 1 – the first day of the Republican National Convention. The conference is hosted by the Coalition to March on the RNC and Stop the War.
Maha Nassar, activist, educator, mother and ex-political prisoner, visited the U.S. in a speaking tour to talk about the work that she is doing as chair of the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees. Ms Nassar shares her years of experience working for Palestinian freedom and resistance to the Israeli occupation. She speaks plainly of where the movement has been and where it must go. The Union of Palestinian Women's Committees is one of the most important groups working for social justice in Palestine. In a country where justice is fought for with rocks against armored tanks, words must become weapons and knowledge is power. Read on and learn about the Palestinian struggle from the people who resist.
Fight Back! received the following press release from the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, regarding the attack by the Israeli occupation forces against the Jericho prison where Ahmad Sa'adat and other leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation for Palestine have been imprisoned since 2002. Protests have erupted all over Palestine and we encourage people all over the world to protest this outrageous action. In the U.S., emergency protests are planned in Chicago and Minneapolis, among other cities.
Fight Back! News Service is circulating the following statement from Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, which condemns the Israeli offensive in Palestine. The Bush administration is encouraging the Israelis to attack the progressive and patriotic organizations of Palestine that are fighting for liberation. In carrying out this assault, the Israeli authorities are striking at the Palestinians as a whole.
Chicago, IL - In a racist defense of Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, the Jewish United Fund rallied here July 17 at the Federal Plaza. As the heat index hit 111 degrees, the Palestine Solidarity Group and other organizations gathered to challenge the Zionists and to oppose Israel’s actions.
Hatem Abudayyeh is a well-known Palestinian activist and who has written extensively on developments in the Middle East.
Minneapolis, MN - 250 people protested here to defend the people of Gaza and Lebanon July 20. The demand was made to stop spending tax dollars to occupy and destroy Palestine and Lebanon.
The All India Anti Imperialist Forum organized protests across India July 24, against the attacks of Israel and the U.S. on Palestine and Lebanon. The West Bengal Committee of the AIAIF staged a large protest demonstration at Calcutta The following are excerpts from statement of the All India Anti Imperialist Forum giving an account of the event: “Before the start of the rally, Shri Manik Mukherjee, Vice-President, All India Anti-imperialist Forum, addressed a gathering at the Subodh Mullick Square. He said that, in one voice with the militant anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist forces of the world, the All India Anti-Imperialist Forum expresses bitter condemnation of the dastardly attack that the Zionist Israel has brought down for the last few days on Lebanon.” “Mukherjee also said that triggered on the flimsy pretext of demanding release of Israeli prisoners and combating terrorism, the bestial belligerence of the Israeli Zionist rulers forms nothing but a part of their long-pursued expansionist, aggressive policies against the Arab countries, more so Palestine. Thus, violating all norms of national sovereignty and civility, they have launched an all-out offensive indiscriminately killing innocent civilians, destroying civilian properties, facilities and constructions and thus damaging the very economic infrastructure of the country of Lebanon. The world stands astounded, albeit not for the first time, at the support and patronization that the warmonger US imperialist rulers have extended shamelessly to the war-maniac Israeli rulers, pleading for the right for self-defence for the barbaric attackers themselves. The AIAIF unequivocally denounces this act of the US imperialists and their cohorts, as well as the Israeli Zionists, which smacks of machination for escalating aggression over the people of the entire Middle East, in the face of ignominious defeat the US imperialism is experiencing on the soil of Iraq.” “Thereafter, the city witnessed a rally come out of the Square, resplendent with colourful banners and vibrant with resolute slogans against the barbaric imperialist attack and reached the venue at Metro Channel, Esplanade.” “The rally ended with burning of effigy of Israeli Prime Minister.”
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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.