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-social democracy 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 harboring 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 leveling of Gaza, for the  colonization 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 normalize. 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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