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Samidoun Denounces the Detention of Asier and Youssef and the Escalation of Criminalization Targeting Palestine Solidarity: Spain
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the detention of Asier and Youssef, two internationalist activists from the Basque Country committed to the defense of the Palestinian people, by the Spanish National Police in yet another episode of the growing repressive offensive targeting those who organize, inform, and act in defense of Palestine and its legitimate right to resistance.
These detentions cannot be understood as isolated incidents. They form part of an increasingly evident strategy of political persecution directed against organizations, collectives, alternative media outlets, activists, and individuals committed to the struggle for the liberation of Palestine. While the Zionist regime continues carrying out a genocidal campaign against Gaza, intensifies its aggressions against the Palestinian people throughout occupied Palestine, from the river to the sea, and expands its attacks against the peoples of the region, it is those who denounce these crimes who end up being persecuted, monitored, interrogated, or detained.
In this process, the apparatuses of the Spanish state are playing an increasingly active role in the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine, aligning themselves with the policies promoted by the United States, the European Union, and the Zionist regime in an attempt to isolate and silence the international solidarity movement. The persecution of activists, journalists, communicators, and solidarity organizations is not aimed at combating any real crime; rather, it seeks to generate fear, discourage mobilization, and send a warning to those who refuse to remain silent in the face of genocide.
It is revealing that, in the face of one of the most thoroughly documented processes of genocidal extermination of our time, police, judicial, and media resources are directed not against those who finance, arm, justify, or conceal these crimes, but against those who raise their voices to denounce them. Solidarity with Palestine is being portrayed as a threat, while those responsible for occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide continue to act with complete impunity.
Nor can the role played by certain media outlets and propaganda platforms be ignored. For months, they have publicly targeted Asier and Youssef, spreading unsubstantiated accusations, promoting smear campaigns, and helping to create a climate of political persecution. These media outlets do not act as neutral observers or defenders of freedom of information; they function as instruments of a broader operation aimed at criminalizing any expression of solidarity with Palestine and stigmatizing those who denounce the crimes of Zionism and imperialism.
Asier and Youssef carried out public work involving information, analysis, and dissemination concerning the Palestinian cause and the political and geopolitical realities of West Asia. Their work consisted of bringing facts, events, and perspectives to society that are often silenced or distorted by the mainstream media. The persecution of those who inform, investigate, analyze, or disseminate content related to Palestine constitutes a direct attack on the right of peoples to receive truthful, pluralistic, and critical information.
When informing becomes grounds for persecution, it is not only the rights of communicators that are violated; the right of society to understand international developments and to form its own opinions is also undermined. The right to information, freedom of expression, and open political debate are fundamental pillars of any society that claims to be democratic.
Recent actions against activists, communicators, and analysts raise an issue of enormous democratic significance. What happens when informing about Palestine, analyzing international political developments, or giving a voice to actors involved in regional conflicts comes to be treated as a security problem? What happens when the exercise of freedom of expression and the right to information cease to be protected and begin to be persecuted? When certain political positions are no longer challenged politically but instead become the target of police, judicial, and media operations, what is at stake is not only solidarity with Palestine, but the most basic democratic freedoms.
The accusation of “terrorism” has become a political tool designed to delegitimize inconvenient positions and restrict public debate. Under this logic, internationalist solidarity, anti-imperialism, support for national liberation movements, and the defense of the right of peoples to resist are presented as crimes, when they form part of a legitimate historical and political tradition recognized even by international law.
We recall that the United Nations General Assembly, through Resolution 3070 (XXVIII), reaffirmed the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples subjected to colonial domination, foreign occupation, and subjugation by all means available to them. The Palestinian people are no exception. Attempts to criminalize support for their national and collective rights constitute a direct attack on internationally recognized fundamental principles.
This concerns the right of peoples to resist occupation, colonialism, and aggression; the right of societies to inform themselves, debate, and show solidarity without fear of reprisals; and the right of popular organizations to act without being persecuted for political reasons.
The detention of our comrades is not merely an attack against two solidarity activists. It is an attack against the entire Palestine solidarity movement, against freedom of expression, against the right to information, against the right to political organization, and against the right of peoples to stand with those who resist occupation, colonialism, and genocide.
The persecution of Asier and Youssef is intended to send a message to the entire Palestine solidarity movement: that informing, organizing, and taking a stand against genocide may have consequences. Our response must be exactly the opposite: more organization, more solidarity, and a deeper commitment to the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
On behalf of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, we express our full solidarity with Asier and Youssef, with their families, friends, and comrades, as well as with the entire Palestine solidarity movement in the Basque Country. We reject any attempt at intimidation directed against those who organize against genocide and reaffirm that repression will not succeed in isolating the Palestinian cause or breaking the internationalist commitment of peoples in struggle.
We will not ask permission to be in solidarity, nor will we accept that those who justify, finance, or conceal the destruction of a people decide which forms of solidarity are legitimate and which deserve punishment.
We will not renounce denouncing genocide, occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing; identifying those responsible; or defending the Palestinian people’s right to resistance, liberation, and return. The detention of our comrades also constitutes an attack on the right to inform and to be informed, on freedom of expression, and on the right of peoples to know the reality of Palestine and West Asia beyond the narratives imposed by centers of political, military, and media power.
Because silence in the face of injustice is a form of complicity. Because when human rights become the object of persecution, defending them ceases to be an option and becomes an obligation. Because the criminalization of solidarity is not confronted by retreating, but by expanding networks of support, denunciation, and resistance. Because in the face of the fear they seek to impose, our response must be more organization, greater awareness, and stronger internationalist solidarity.
Freedom for Asier and Youssef.
End the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine.
Defending Palestine is not a crime. Reporting is not a crime.
Long live internationalist solidarity.
Long live the Palestinian resistance.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
source: Samidoun
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=35199 #europe #palestine #repression #samidoun #Solidarity #spain -
Internetsperren für verbotenes Samidoun-Netzwerk greifen allmählich
Die israelfeindliche Organisation Samidoun ist in Deutschland seit November 2023 verboten. Doch erst seit wenigen Monaten verschwindet deren Website teilweise - auf Initiative der Landesmedienanstalten. Von E. Beres, J. Röhmel und S. Wolf.
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Internetsperren für verbotenes Samidoun-Netzwerk greifen allmählich
Die israelfeindliche Organisation Samidoun ist in Deutschland seit November 2023 verboten. Doch erst seit wenigen Monaten verschwindet deren Website teilweise - auf Initiative der Landesmedienanstalten. Von E. Beres, J. Röhmel und S. Wolf.
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Europe ramps up repression of Palestine's refugees
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Europe ramps up repression of Palestine's refugees
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🔴 Mohammed #Khatib arrêté en Grèce : liberté pour le militant pro-palestinien réprimé par #Mitsotákis !
Dans un communiqué publié le 7 février, #Samidoun, réseau international pour la libération des prisonniers palestiniens, dénonce l’arrestation et la menace de déportation à l’encontre de Mohammed Khatib, coordinateur Samidoun en Europe. Nous exigeons sa libération immédiate. ⤵️
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📣 31 de enero — Jornada Mundial por la Liberación de los Prisioneros Palestinos
Hoy, ciudades de todo el mundo se movilizan para exigir la liberación inmediata de miles de prisioneros palestinos y denunciar torturas, hambre y abandono médico.
✊ La libertad de los prisioneros es central en la lucha por una Palestina libre, del río al mar.
📎 Lee la nota completa:
🔗 https://samidoun.net/es/2026/01/jornada-mundial-exige-la-liberacion-inmediata-de-los-presos-palestinos-este-31-de-enero/#FreePalestinianPrisoners #31Enero #Samidoun #PalestinaLibre #SolidaridadInternacional
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Three Hunger Strikers End Their Strike After Elbit Denied British Contract; Umer Khalid Continues Strike for 6th Day
On 14 January 2026, three of the Prisoners for Palestine — Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmad and Lewie C. — announced that they were ending their hunger strike (as they approached imminent death), following the announcement by the British government that Elbit Systems had been denied a £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, after widespread reporting that Elbit would receive the contract. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the Prisoners for Palestine and all of the hunger strikers on this important achievement and upon their sacrifice in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
At the same time, Umer Khalid, another Prisoner for Palestine and one of the Brize Norton 5, has resumed his hunger strike. He has been repeatedly held in solitary confinement and denied his religious rights, while being held on remand for a trial that is not scheduled until January 2027. Umer says, “We must now continue to crush the protective skull of Zionism, which is the UK’s political and military support, under the weight of our collective mobilisation and action. Are you on the outside afraid of consequences when this life is so short? So let them keep us here as long as they want, because you can’t imprison resistance and you can’t kill a revolution. Liberation is a promise and victory is coming insha’Allah.” Umer previously conducted a hunger strike from 4-16 December 2025. It is urgent that we continue to support Umer Khalid and all of the prisoners for Palestine in British and other imperialist jails, imprisoned as part and parcel of imperialist complicity with Zionist genocide in Palestine.
STATEMENT – PRISONERS 4 PALESTINE – 14 JANUARY 2026
After 73 days of hunger strikes which began on Balfour Day, 2 November 2025, as some prisoners are facing imminent death, Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, and Lewie have ended their hunger strikes.
The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the hunger strikers.
The contract, which would have seen Elbit Systems provide training to the British Army over ten years, was lost despite the best efforts of officials in both the Ministry of Defence and the British Army, who it was revealed had been colluding with both Elbit Systems UK and its parent company Elbit Systems in backroom meetings and ‘tours’ to the capital of Palestine, Jerusalem, in a desperate attempt to further entrench their genocidal alliance and help them win the contract.
The abrupt cancellation of this deal is a resounding victory for the hunger strikers, who resisted with their incarcerated bodies in order to shed light on the role of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, in the colonization and occupation of Palestine. Since 2012, Elbit has won 25 public contracts in the UK totaling more than £333 million; the loss of this £2 billion contract marks a significant shift in this sordid “strategic alliance.” With this victory, it has never been clearer that Elbit’s days in Britain are numbered.
In addition to this key demand being met, we want to take this opportunity to celebrate the various victories achieved throughout the duration of the hunger strike:
In the past few weeks alone, hundreds of people have signed up to take action against the genocidal military-industrial complex, more than the number of people who took action with Palestine Action over its five-year campaign. During that five-year campaign, Israeli weapons factories were shut down. Elbit Systems is living on stolen time—we will see it shut down for good, not because of the government, but because of the people.
Heba Muraisi’s transfer to HMP Bronzefield has been accepted by HMP New Hall, where she is currently being held in intentional isolation from her family and friends.
T. Hoxha has been offered a meeting with the head of JEXU (Joint Extremism Unit) at her prison, the very same organization that orchestrates the prisoners’ treatment as ‘terrorists’.
Despite the cruel and constant medical neglect of the hunger strikers, including not logging food refusals, refusal of ambulances in life-threatening emergencies, and degrading treatment in hospitals, the national heads of prison healthcare have met with us at the behest of the Ministry of Justice.
During the hunger strike, some of the prisoners started receiving bulk packages of withelped mail, and in one case received an apology from prison staff for a letter that was delayed by six months. Books on topics of Gaza and feminism have also been given after months of waiting.
In pursuit of a fair trial, the hunger strikers demanded disclosure of export licenses for the last 5 years from Elbit Systems. After repeated requests, this information was disclosed to an independent researcher by the Department of Trade during the hunger strike.
The continued printing of the blood will remain on the stain on Britain’s facade of being a “democratic” country, with no sliver of law and order.
This pathetic and cowardly British government cannot resist authoritarianism; it uses fear to deter rightful protest and dissent, echoing the use of administrative detention against the Palestinian people.
The hunger strike has cemented this fact to the country, and across the world: Britain has political prisoners in service of a foreign genocidal regime. In a time of worsening political repression and widespread propaganda about a non-existent ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, the hunger strike stands as a testament to continued defiance.
The hunger strikers have allowed those of us who were fearful of state repression to be brave—to go out once again onto the streets and fight for justice. The government should know they cannot ban a concept. Cowardly banning one group cannot stop a belief, a movement, a people. This is only the start of our collective fight to free us all, and the road to freedom runs through Palestine.
At the end of his hunger strike, on Elbit losing the £2 billion contract, Lewie said:
It is definitely a time for celebration. A time to rejoice and to embrace our joy as revolution and as liberation… We do this because of Palestine, because we’ve been inspired, because we’ve been tempted to take action and to try to realize our dreams for a free Palestine, for an emancipated world.
As these victories are declared, we turn our efforts and attention to Umer Khalid, the last remaining hunger striker, who continues to use his body as a weapon against the state in pursuit of justice.
source: Samidoun
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=27044 #DirectAction #hungerStrike #palAction #palestine #repression #samidoun #uk -
Three Hunger Strikers End Their Strike After Elbit Denied British Contract; Umer Khalid Continues Strike for 6th Day
On 14 January 2026, three of the Prisoners for Palestine — Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmad and Lewie C. — announced that they were ending their hunger strike (as they approached imminent death), following the announcement by the British government that Elbit Systems had been denied a £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, after widespread reporting that Elbit would receive the contract. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the Prisoners for Palestine and all of the hunger strikers on this important achievement and upon their sacrifice in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
At the same time, Umer Khalid, another Prisoner for Palestine and one of the Brize Norton 5, has resumed his hunger strike. He has been repeatedly held in solitary confinement and denied his religious rights, while being held on remand for a trial that is not scheduled until January 2027. Umer says, “We must now continue to crush the protective skull of Zionism, which is the UK’s political and military support, under the weight of our collective mobilisation and action. Are you on the outside afraid of consequences when this life is so short? So let them keep us here as long as they want, because you can’t imprison resistance and you can’t kill a revolution. Liberation is a promise and victory is coming insha’Allah.” Umer previously conducted a hunger strike from 4-16 December 2025. It is urgent that we continue to support Umer Khalid and all of the prisoners for Palestine in British and other imperialist jails, imprisoned as part and parcel of imperialist complicity with Zionist genocide in Palestine.
STATEMENT – PRISONERS 4 PALESTINE – 14 JANUARY 2026
After 73 days of hunger strikes which began on Balfour Day, 2 November 2025, as some prisoners are facing imminent death, Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, and Lewie have ended their hunger strikes.
The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the hunger strikers.
The contract, which would have seen Elbit Systems provide training to the British Army over ten years, was lost despite the best efforts of officials in both the Ministry of Defence and the British Army, who it was revealed had been colluding with both Elbit Systems UK and its parent company Elbit Systems in backroom meetings and ‘tours’ to the capital of Palestine, Jerusalem, in a desperate attempt to further entrench their genocidal alliance and help them win the contract.
The abrupt cancellation of this deal is a resounding victory for the hunger strikers, who resisted with their incarcerated bodies in order to shed light on the role of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, in the colonization and occupation of Palestine. Since 2012, Elbit has won 25 public contracts in the UK totaling more than £333 million; the loss of this £2 billion contract marks a significant shift in this sordid “strategic alliance.” With this victory, it has never been clearer that Elbit’s days in Britain are numbered.
In addition to this key demand being met, we want to take this opportunity to celebrate the various victories achieved throughout the duration of the hunger strike:
In the past few weeks alone, hundreds of people have signed up to take action against the genocidal military-industrial complex, more than the number of people who took action with Palestine Action over its five-year campaign. During that five-year campaign, Israeli weapons factories were shut down. Elbit Systems is living on stolen time—we will see it shut down for good, not because of the government, but because of the people.
Heba Muraisi’s transfer to HMP Bronzefield has been accepted by HMP New Hall, where she is currently being held in intentional isolation from her family and friends.
T. Hoxha has been offered a meeting with the head of JEXU (Joint Extremism Unit) at her prison, the very same organization that orchestrates the prisoners’ treatment as ‘terrorists’.
Despite the cruel and constant medical neglect of the hunger strikers, including not logging food refusals, refusal of ambulances in life-threatening emergencies, and degrading treatment in hospitals, the national heads of prison healthcare have met with us at the behest of the Ministry of Justice.
During the hunger strike, some of the prisoners started receiving bulk packages of withelped mail, and in one case received an apology from prison staff for a letter that was delayed by six months. Books on topics of Gaza and feminism have also been given after months of waiting.
In pursuit of a fair trial, the hunger strikers demanded disclosure of export licenses for the last 5 years from Elbit Systems. After repeated requests, this information was disclosed to an independent researcher by the Department of Trade during the hunger strike.
The continued printing of the blood will remain on the stain on Britain’s facade of being a “democratic” country, with no sliver of law and order.
This pathetic and cowardly British government cannot resist authoritarianism; it uses fear to deter rightful protest and dissent, echoing the use of administrative detention against the Palestinian people.
The hunger strike has cemented this fact to the country, and across the world: Britain has political prisoners in service of a foreign genocidal regime. In a time of worsening political repression and widespread propaganda about a non-existent ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, the hunger strike stands as a testament to continued defiance.
The hunger strikers have allowed those of us who were fearful of state repression to be brave—to go out once again onto the streets and fight for justice. The government should know they cannot ban a concept. Cowardly banning one group cannot stop a belief, a movement, a people. This is only the start of our collective fight to free us all, and the road to freedom runs through Palestine.
At the end of his hunger strike, on Elbit losing the £2 billion contract, Lewie said:
It is definitely a time for celebration. A time to rejoice and to embrace our joy as revolution and as liberation… We do this because of Palestine, because we’ve been inspired, because we’ve been tempted to take action and to try to realize our dreams for a free Palestine, for an emancipated world.
As these victories are declared, we turn our efforts and attention to Umer Khalid, the last remaining hunger striker, who continues to use his body as a weapon against the state in pursuit of justice.
source: Samidoun
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=27044 #DirectAction #hungerStrike #palAction #palestine #repression #samidoun #uk -
Taller de lectura col·lectiva: "La revolución palestina de 1936 - 1939"
la Lleialtat Santsenca, divendres, 19 de desembre, a les 18:00 CET
"Hemos conseguido que nuestro pueblo no sea nunca derrotado. Hemos conseguido enseñar a cada persona de este mundo que somos una pequeña y valiente nación que luchará hasta la última gota de su sangre para conseguir la justicia que el mundo se ha negado a otorgarnos."
El próximo viernes organizamos un taller de lectura sobre el libro de Ghassan Kanafani: La revolución palestina de 1936-1939, publicado por la editorial Boltxe. Ven a conocer a las palabras y al pensamiento de Ghassan Kanafani a traves de una lectura colectiva!
Libro y material de lectura:
https://debatspeldema.org/taller-de-lectura-la-revolucio-palestina-1936-1939-de-ghassan-kanafani/
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Ubicación: La Lleialtat Santsenca, carrer Olzinelles, 31, sala 22
Fecha: 19 de diciembre a las 18:00h
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/taller-de-lectura-collectiva-la-revolucion-palestina-de-1936-1939
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Taller de lectura col·lectiva: "La revolución palestina de 1936 - 1939"
la Lleialtat Santsenca, divendres, 19 de desembre, a les 18:00 CET
"Hemos conseguido que nuestro pueblo no sea nunca derrotado. Hemos conseguido enseñar a cada persona de este mundo que somos una pequeña y valiente nación que luchará hasta la última gota de su sangre para conseguir la justicia que el mundo se ha negado a otorgarnos."
El próximo viernes organizamos un taller de lectura sobre el libro de Ghassan Kanafani: La revolución palestina de 1936-1939, publicado por la editorial Boltxe. Ven a conocer a las palabras y al pensamiento de Ghassan Kanafani a traves de una lectura colectiva!
Libro y material de lectura:
https://debatspeldema.org/taller-de-lectura-la-revolucio-palestina-1936-1939-de-ghassan-kanafani/
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Ubicación: La Lleialtat Santsenca, carrer Olzinelles, 31, sala 22
Fecha: 19 de diciembre a las 18:00h
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/taller-de-lectura-collectiva-la-revolucion-palestina-de-1936-1939
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Taller de lectura col·lectiva: "La revolución palestina de 1936 - 1939"
la Lleialtat Santsenca, divendres, 19 de desembre, a les 18:00 CET
"Hemos conseguido que nuestro pueblo no sea nunca derrotado. Hemos conseguido enseñar a cada persona de este mundo que somos una pequeña y valiente nación que luchará hasta la última gota de su sangre para conseguir la justicia que el mundo se ha negado a otorgarnos."
El próximo viernes organizamos un taller de lectura sobre el libro de Ghassan Kanafani: La revolución palestina de 1936-1939, publicado por la editorial Boltxe. Ven a conocer a las palabras y al pensamiento de Ghassan Kanafani a traves de una lectura colectiva!
Libro y material de lectura:
https://debatspeldema.org/taller-de-lectura-la-revolucio-palestina-1936-1939-de-ghassan-kanafani/
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Ubicación: La Lleialtat Santsenca, carrer Olzinelles, 31, sala 22
Fecha: 19 de diciembre a las 18:00h
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/taller-de-lectura-collectiva-la-revolucion-palestina-de-1936-1939
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Taller de lectura col·lectiva: "La revolución palestina de 1936 - 1939"
la Lleialtat Santsenca, divendres, 19 de desembre, a les 18:00 CET
"Hemos conseguido que nuestro pueblo no sea nunca derrotado. Hemos conseguido enseñar a cada persona de este mundo que somos una pequeña y valiente nación que luchará hasta la última gota de su sangre para conseguir la justicia que el mundo se ha negado a otorgarnos."
El próximo viernes organizamos un taller de lectura sobre el libro de Ghassan Kanafani: La revolución palestina de 1936-1939, publicado por la editorial Boltxe. Ven a conocer a las palabras y al pensamiento de Ghassan Kanafani a traves de una lectura colectiva!
Libro y material de lectura:
https://debatspeldema.org/taller-de-lectura-la-revolucio-palestina-1936-1939-de-ghassan-kanafani/
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Ubicación: La Lleialtat Santsenca, carrer Olzinelles, 31, sala 22
Fecha: 19 de diciembre a las 18:00h
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/taller-de-lectura-collectiva-la-revolucion-palestina-de-1936-1939
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Projecció: "To Kill a War Machine"
Can Batlló, divendres, 28 de novembre, a les 18:30 CET
Projecció del documental “To Kill a War Machine” i posterior debat. Publicació original: https://www.instagram.com/activitatscanbatllo/p/DRbjZoMjbD3/?hl=es
A través de càmeres corporals i imatges de telèfons mòbils en temps real, activistes de primera línia porten el públic a les seves audaces incursions per enderrocar fàbriques d’armes a tot el Regne Unit. Des del 2020, el grup d’acció directa Palestine Action ha documentat les seves operacions per desmantellar empreses i infraestructures que subministren armes al genocidi en curs a Gaza.
El juliol d’aquest any, Palestine Action va ser prohibida com a organització terrorista pel govern del Regne Unit. Com a resultat, l’estrena de la pel·lícula als cinemes del Regne Unit va ser bloquejada i els directors van retirar la versió en línia. Actualment està prohibit projectar aquesta pel·lícula o donar suport a Palestine Action al Regne Unit.Hi haurà menjada i beguda. Portar efectiu! Tots els ingressos s'enviaran com a ajuda mútua per a fer costat a les famílies a Gaza.
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Junto a lxs compañerxs de The Core, estaremos este viernes 28 en Can Batllo para una proyección de "To Kill A War Machine" y posterior debate.
El documental, prohibido en el Reino Unido, es sobre Palestine Action, el grupo que atacaba a las fabricas de Elbit Systems, la mayor empresa armamentistica israeli. La organización fue designada como terrorista.
Habrá comida y bebida. Traer efectivo! Todos los ingresos se enviarán como ayuda mutua para apoyar a las familias en Gaza.
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Data: Viernes 28 de Noviembre a les 18:30h
Ubicació: Can Batlló, carrer Constitució, 19
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/projeccio-to-kill-a-war-machine-2
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On 17 October: Palestinian Resistance Confronts Colonial Assassinations, Imprisonment and Genocide
On 17 October 2025, we mark 24 years since the operation planned and executed by the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: at the Regency Hotel in “Tel Aviv”, fascist Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi was executed by four freedom fighters: Majdi al-Rimawi, Hamdi Qu’ran, Basil Al-Asmar, and Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh. This operation was the fulfillment of a promise made a few weeks before by the new PFLP General Secretary, Ahmad Sa’adat: that the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, PFLP General Secretary, on 27 August 2001 would be avenged: “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a head for a head”.
Throughout Palestine and in the diaspora, masses celebrated this historic operation which marked the highest level “Israeli” official ever successfully targeted by the Resistance. Specifically, the operation marked an important effort to impose parity — and meaningful consequences and accountability — against the long-running assassination policy of the occupation, which has targeted — and continues to target — Palestinian, Lebanese, Yemeni, Iranian and other political and military leaders, writers, theoreticians, scientists, government officials, and revolutionaries.
This is one of the reasons that the occupation continues to refuse to release Sa’adat and the 17 October revolutionaries as a part of a prisoner exchange — Sa’adat, al-Rimawi, Qu’ran, al-Asmar, Abu Ghoulmeh, as well as Mohammed al-Rimawi and Mohammed Sa’adat, Ahmad Sa’adat’s brother, now martyred, are, like fellow imprisoned Resistance leaders Abdullah Barghouti, Ibrahim Hamed, Hassan Salameh, Abbas al-Sayyed, Jamal Abu al-Haija, Anas Jaradat, Muhannad Shreim, Mohammed Arman and Marwan Barghouti, both active leaders as well as symbols to the occupation that reflect the strength, power, and innovation of the armed and popular resistance of the Palestinian people.
Sa’adat, born in 1953 in al-Bireh, Palestine, the son of refugees expelled from their home in Deir Tarif in 1948, joined the student league of the PFLP in 1967 and officially joined the PFLP ranks in 1969. He is married to Abla Sa’adat, herself an activist, liberated by the Resistance and by the steadfastness of the people of Gaza in the Toufan Al-Ahrar prisoner exchange in January 2025, and is the father of four children. A lifelong revolutionary and militant of the Front, he has been arrested and detained multiple times for his militancy: 1969, 1970, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1989, 1992, 1995 and 1996. After being elected to the Central Committee of the PFLP in 1981 and to the Politburo in 1993, he was elected as secretary-general after the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa in August 2001.
After the 17 October operation, and amid the burgeoning Al-Aqsa Intifada, the Palestinian Authority, who had previously detained Sa’adat in 1995 and 1996, and which had engaged in a series of campaigns of persecution, arrest and even assassination targeting resistance organizers in Hamas and Islamic Jihad, once again enforced its policy of security collaboration with the Zionist entity and conducted a ferocious arrest campaign targeted at PFLP members throughout the West Bank and Gaza. “Security coordination” is a mandatory requirement of the PA under the Oslo Accords that created it, ensuring that the PA, and especially its security services, serve as guards for the occupation and pursuers of the Resistance rather than protectors of the security of the Palestinian people from occupation soldier and settler violence.
More than 60 PFLP members were arrested and detained by the PA, including Abu Ghoulmeh, al-Rimawi, Qu’ran and al-Asmar. On 15 January 2002, under the pretext of negotiating for the release of his detained comrades, Sa’adat was lured to a meeting with Tawfiq Tirawi, where security forces of the PA arrested Ahmad Sa’adat. He has remained imprisoned since that time, first in the presidential compound of the PA in Ramallah before he and his comrades were transferred to the PA ‘s Jericho prison in May 2002. There, they were detained in Jericho ostensibly guarded by PA security forces — but under the direction and authority of American, Canadian and British guards.
When the Change and Reform Bloc, the electoral slate associated with Hamas, won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in 2006, one of their key promises made was to free Ahmad Sa’adat, his comrades, and all of the Palestinian political prisoners held as part of “security coordination” with the Zionist entity. Zionists therefore moved quickly to avoid any potential such outcome. Less than 10 days before Ismail Haniyeh, later the martyred chair of the Hamas Political Bureau, was to be sworn in as the Prime Minister, on 14 March 2006, IOF started a siege of Jericho prison. The American, Canadian and British guards left their posts to clear the path for the occupation, and most of the PA guards surrendered very quickly, although two were martyred by the occupation.
Ahmad Sa’adat and 200 other political prisoners where then kidnapped and taken to zionist jails. Sa’adat was sentenced to 30 years in prison in an occupation court in December 2008. At his trial, he stated: “I do not stand to defend myself in front of your court… I stand to defend my people and their legitimate right to national independence and self-determination and return”. In every key moment, Sa’adat showed great moral integrity and revolutionary commitment to the cause to which he has dedicated his life, the liberation of Palestine and its people. Inside the prisons, he has been a leader in the prisoners’ movement, participating in multiple hunger strikes and collective protests, including the 2015 hunger strike against administrative detention, the 2017 Karameh, or dignity, strike and the 2019 hunger strike.
Throughout the years, Sa’adat has been subjected to particularly difficult conditions of detention and was held in isolation for years. In the past two years, following 7 October 2023 and Al-Aqsa Flood, and amid the genocide in Gaza, leaders of the prisoners’ movement have been particularly targeted for isolation and mistreatment. Both Sa’adat and Abu Ghoulmeh have been repeatedly isolated, denied medical care and abused inside the occupation prisons, with little access to expose the reality of their suffering. In January 2025, it was revealed that Sa’adat had been transferred and held in isolation in Megiddo prison, and that he was assaulted and brutally beaten during his transfer, while he faced dangerous health conditions and denial of medical care. In April 2025, released prisoners also reported that Abu Ghoulmeh had been beaten by occupation jailers while being transferred to Gilboa prison.
The liberated prisoners in the Toufan al-Ahrar exchange have testified to the horrific conditions inside the Zionist prisons and the routine and systematic use of torture, violence, sexual assault, medical abuse, and starvation against the imprisoned Palestinians, while the occupation has returned the bodies of imprisoned martyrs to Gaza in horrific condition, revealing visible signs of torture, blindfolding, handcuffing and hanging.
The assaults against Sa’adat illustrate the larger context of zionists’ attempts to isolate and particularly mistreat the leaders of the prisoners’ movement. This was also illustrated recently during the visit of notorious fascist Itamar Ben Gvir — often compared to Rehavam Ze’evi — to Marwan Barghouti, after which Barghouti was beaten by eight jailers until he lost consciousness; as liberated prisoner Ayman al-Sharabati revealed, they broke four of his ribs in the attack. Throughout the years of captivity, torture, crimes against humanity and abuse by the occupation and its jailers, the leaders of the prisoners’ movement, including Sa’adat and his comrades of the 17 October operation, have remained steadfast.
While we have been celebrating the liberation of 1968 prisoners in the Toufan al-Ahrar exchange’s third stage, obtained through the struggle and leadership of the Resistance and the sacrifice of the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, Sa’adat, his fellow leaders of the prisoners’ movement, including Abu Ghoulmeh, Rimawi, al-Ahmar and Qur’an, and nearly 9,000 more remain in zionist jails. However, despite the severity of the suffering to which they have been subjected, especially in the past two years, the prisoners’ movement remains strong, as it can trust in the Resistance’s strong and sincere commitment to the objective of liberating all prisoners.
This date, 17 October, reminds us that, despite the full-scale impunity provided to the genocidaires by the United States, Britain, Canada, the European Union countries and other imperialist powers, at the hands of the Resistance, Zionist crimes do not go unpunished. As the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades successfully avenged the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, national leader and symbol of the Palestinian people, on 17 October 2001, the Palestinian resistance, led by the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, exposed the illusions of the impenetrability of the Zionist military on the day of the great crossing, 7 October 2023, with the launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the beginning of the new era of the Palestinian Revolution, and indeed, the global intifada.
Today, the Palestinian Resistance today remains unified, active and committed to the struggle. The recent targeted assassination campaigns against leaders of the Resistance, in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, in Lebanon, in Yemen, in Qatar, in Iran, have taken the lives of great leaders: from Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif, to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine and Fouad al-Shukr, to Ahmed al-Rawhi and Mohammed Abdul-Karim al-Ghamari, to Mohammed Bagheri and Mohammed Saeed Izadi.
These crimes must also not remain unpunished. It is not the responsibility of the Resistance alone, but of all international institutions and those who seek justice, to hold the war criminals of the Zionist entity and the imperialist powers, responsible for their genocide, starvation, deliberate murder — and their assassination policy. When the international system fails utterly and instead provides impunity, the example of 17 October is a clear demonstration that the Resistance will not accept the ongoing targeting of their leaders and their people for destruction.
The imprisoned leaders and strugglers, including Sa’adat and the heroes of 17 October, have remained steadfast throughout the years of captivity, torture, mistreatment and crimes. Their stories, alongside the countless stories of Palestinian strugglers in zionist jails, leaders of the Resistance, serve as a call to action for all free people in the world to fight for the liberation of the imprisoned leaders and to impose it upon the Zionist regime.
As Sa’adat has written, “The Palestinian struggle for national liberation is part and parcel of the international movement of peoples for national liberation, international racial and economic justice, and an end to occupation, colonialism and imperialism”.
We urge all supporters of freedom, of Palestine and the Palestinian cause to speak out actively and take action through demonstrations, mass actions and direct actions to demand freedom for all prisoners in Zionist jails. The imperialist powers like the US, France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and their treacherous Arab reactionary allies, continue to arm, support and provide cover for the Zionist project, while pretending to celebrate “peace.” While the Resistance works to put an end to the threat of collaboration and restore life from the ashes of genocide in the Gaza Strip, they seek to threaten further genocide and international foreign occupations of Gaza and all of Palestine. The Palestinian prisoners will not be forgotten, and they will never be isolated from the Palestinian people, the Arab and regional liberation causes, and the international movement for justice. The struggle for the liberation of the prisoners is part and parcel of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine — and the global struggle for liberation, sovereignty and self-determination confronting imperialism, led by the United States.
Glory to the martyrs!
Long Live the Resistance!
Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat and all prisoners!
Palestine will be free, from the river to the see!
source: Samidoun
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=22062
#gaza #MartyrAbuAliMustafaBrigades #palestine #pflp #samidoun #westAsia #westBank
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Long Live Assata Shakur, 1947-2025
On September 26, 2025, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur transitioned after leading a long and virtuous life of internationalist resistance. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Assata’s living legacy and recognizes her lifelong struggle against global oppression as a practice to inspire countless generations to come.
Assata Shakur was the target of racist, counter-insurgent incarceration from 1973 to 1979 because of her work with the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. For years from within prison walls, she fought false accusations while bearing the brunt of settler-colonial prison and police violence. After being shot twice by New Jersey State Police, Assata testified to being choked, beat, dragged, kicked, pulled by her hair, and cuffed by her ankles so tight that the handcuffs were inside her flesh. She received inadequate medical care and was imprisoned in a men’s prison because of how “threatening” she was deemed to be by the state.
Writing of her own experience, Assata noted that political persecution and incarceration is “part and parcel of the [US] government’s policy of eliminating political opponents by charging them with crimes and arresting them with no regard to the factual basis of such charges.”
In 1979, a unit of the Black Liberation Army liberated Assata from prison and in 1984 she travelled to Cuba where she lived in exile until her recent passing. Living in exile in Cuba under the protection of the socialist Cuban government only further expanded Assata’s analysis of anti-imperialism and the interconnectedness of global struggles for liberation. Assata was a true internationalist in every sense of the word, describing Cuba as “One of the Largest, Most Resistant and Most Courageous Palenques (Maroon Camps) That has ever existed on the Face of this Planet.”
Since the FBI’s commencement and alleged completion of COINTELPRO — the program that targeted Assata and other Black liberation activists between 1956 and 1971— little has changed in how the settler state attacks those who fight for the oppressed masses of the world. Assata Shakur is one of many people labelled as a so-called “terrorist” by the US and other Western and allied governments.
“They wanted to portray her as a terrorist, something that was an injustice, a brutality, an infamous lie,” President Fidel Castro once remarked about Assata. The FBI eventually classified her as the first woman on their Most Wanted Terrorists list. A few years later, the first woman Al-Qassam Brigades member Ahlam Al-Tamimi was added to this same list illustrating the joint struggle that the Palestinian and Black liberation movements share.
Much like the case of Assata and Ahlam, Palestinian resistance factions, the Axis of Resistance, and Palestinian solidarity organizations and individual activists across the globe are designated as “terrorist[s]” for siding with the masses of the world who oppose imperialism. Those of us who recognize prisons as a colonial tool for waging warfare against a subjugated people are particularly criminalized.
Assata’s political work with the Black Panthers and the BLA specifically identified American police and prisons as racist and oppressive forces that must be eliminated. Her offerings of steadfastness remind us to continue to fight for and honour those still inside and those who have been martyred by the colonial prison system.
Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, Free Abdullah Barghouthi, Free Kamau Sadiki, Free Jakhi McCray, Free Malik Farrad Muhammad, Free Ahmad Sa’adat, Free Kojo Bomani Sababu, Free Casey Goonan, Free Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Free Elias Rodriguez, and Free Them All!
Long live Assata Shakur, Sekou Odinga, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sheikh Khader Adnan, Ed Poindexter, Ismail Haniyeh, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Yahya Sinwar, and many more who have been martyred and/or have joined the ancestors.
A revolutionary freedom fighter, a political prisoner, a mother, a woman in exile— Assata Shakur’s lifelong practice of militancy and sacrifice will continue to be aspirational to all who wish to see the day that imperialism receives its final blow.
“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”Rest in Power, Comrade Assata!
Read also:
- Assata Shakur: How Black Radical Tradition Intersects with Palestinian Struggle, by Benay Blend (Palestine Chronicle)
- Interview with Assata Shakur (1947-2025), Revolutionary Communist Group
- In Honor and Memory of Assata Shakur, Black Alliance for Peace
source: Samidoun
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=21720
#assataShakur #blackLiberationArmy #blackPantherParty #cuba #guerrilla #martyr #northAmerica #repression #rip #samidoun
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Georges Abdallah Will be Free; Palestine Will be Free!
On 25 July 2025, after 40 years in prison and an entire life in struggle, Georges Abdallah will be free!
Today, Thursday, July 17, 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal has ordered the release of our comrade, Lebanese communist and resistance fighter in the Palestinian liberation struggle, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned for over 40 years.
After more than four decades of relentless political and judicial persecution and imprisonment by the French authorities and successive governments, after a life of struggle and steadfast resistance, after decades of mobilization by his supporters to liberate Georges Abdallah from French colonial and imperialist prisons, our comrade is finally set to be released from French custody on July 25.
Our immense joy at the announcement of this decision cannot be complete, however, until he has arrived in Lebanon—on his land, surrounded by comrades, loved ones, and family—he, whose flame of resistance has never been extinguished despite the efforts of France and its allies. Throughout these more than 40 years of imprisonment, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has stood as a symbol of struggle and determination for entire generations of activists, who have come of age in political engagement with his name in their hearts and have mobilized to demand his release. Even today, from his prison cell, Georges Abdallah remains a living symbol of the resistance of peoples against imperialism, colonialism, and Zionism—an uncompromising resistance that refuses to yield in the face of its enemies. His example has proven vital for the movement in support of the Palestinian people and their resistance over the past decades.
The political responsibility taken on by Georges Abdallah from his prison cell over the past 40 years exemplifies the unique role and mission borne by all revolutionary prisoners— including and particularly the more than 10,800 Palestinian prisoners, and especially the imprisoned leaders of the Palestinian resistance. Those who confront the repressive, colonial, and imperialist prison systems, by virtue of their role before and during their incarceration, embody the advanced front of their people’s resistance to oppression.
As we celebrate the upcoming liberation of our comrade, our hearts and minds remain torn, and our thoughts turn to the more than 10,800 Palestinian prisoners enduring starvation, illness, isolation, violence, sexual assault, and targeted killings in Zionist prisons. We extend our deepest solidarity to the imprisoned leadership of the resistance—those sentenced to dozens, hundreds, even thousands of years, accumulating life sentences, yet whose certainty of being freed through the struggle of their comrades remains unshaken. We think of the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, loved ones and comrades, in the hands of the enemy, far from those they love, far from the warmth of their communities—yet who, through resistance and struggle, have built a school of struggle and a community of resistance within the Zionist prisons. Our thoughts are with the 73 prisoners who have been martyred in Zionist prisons since October 7, and with the families of the martyrs held in the morgues and “cemeteries of numbers” of the Zionist regime, where over 700 bodies of Palestinian martyrs are being held, stolen from their families, denied a dignified burial—leaving behind a gaping wound no amount of love from their people can fill. We think of all prisoners of the Palestinian cause and all revolutionary prisoners torn from their comrades and loved ones, in Zionist, imperialist, and reactionary prisons around the world. The upcoming liberation of our comrade Georges Ibrahim Abdallah will be their victory, and we will continue to mobilize until we can celebrate theirs as well.
As our comrade Georges Ibrahim Abdallah receives the news of his imminent release in his cramped cell in Lannemezan, and shares it with his fellow detainees, our hearts bleed in the face of the current situation in Gaza and the region more broadly, in the face of the genocide the Palestinian people have endured for over 21 months now. Every liberation of prisoners torn from imperialist and Zionist prisons—especially those who, like Georges, have refused any compromise or betrayal despite decades of incarceration—is a promise of future victory, of better days ahead, and of justice for the lives and futures torn apart by colonial violence.
We extend our most heartfelt and sincere greetings and thanks to the successive generations of comrades who have fought this battle with determination—to those who passed away before seeing this moment, to all those whose hearts beat in unison with our comrade, to the organizations and individuals who dedicated years of their lives, sleepless nights, and months of mobilization to build events and demonstrations; to those who chanted our comrade’s name in the streets, on university campuses, and wherever their steps led them. This is a collective victory—a victory for an entire movement—which must serve as a foundation to continue the struggle and win further victories, until the liberation of Palestine, from the River to the Sea.
Let’s continue mobilizing until July 25 and the arrival of our comrade in Lebanon!
Freedom for all our prisoners!
Glory to the Palestinian resistance!
From the River to the Sea: Palestine will Winsource: Samidoun
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20409
#France #georgesAbdallah #lebanon #palestine #repression #resistance #samidoun
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MANIFESTACIÓ: En la Víspera del Juicio de Georges Abdallah
Plaça Universitat, dimecres, 16 de juliol, a les 19:00 CEST
MANIFESTACIÓN EN LA VÍSPERA DEL JUICIO DE GEORGES ABDALLAH
El pasado 19 de junio, el tribunal francés aplazó su decisión una vez más sobre la liberación del militante internacionalista libanés Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, encarcelado desde hace más de 40 años, hasta el 17 de julio.
Respondemos al llamamiento de la campaña unitaria por la liberación de Georges Abdallah y intensificamos nuestras acciones para que Georges sea finalmente liberado el 17 de julio. No pararemos hasta su liberación!
¡Georges debe ser liberado el 17 de julio! ¡Palestina vivirá y vencerá!
Para mas información, sigue nuestro canal de telegram: https://t.me/samidounbarcelona
Donde: Plaça Universitat (Barcelona)
Cuando: miércoles 16 de julio a las 19
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/manifestacio-en-la-vispera-del-juicio-de-georges-abdallah
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MANIFESTACIÓ: En la Víspera del Juicio de Georges Abdallah
Plaça Universitat, dimecres, 16 de juliol, a les 19:00 CEST
MANIFESTACIÓN EN LA VÍSPERA DEL JUICIO DE GEORGES ABDALLAH
El pasado 19 de junio, el tribunal francés aplazó su decisión una vez más sobre la liberación del militante internacionalista libanés Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, encarcelado desde hace más de 40 años, hasta el 17 de julio.
Respondemos al llamamiento de la campaña unitaria por la liberación de Georges Abdallah y intensificamos nuestras acciones para que Georges sea finalmente liberado el 17 de julio. No pararemos hasta su liberación!
¡Georges debe ser liberado el 17 de julio! ¡Palestina vivirá y vencerá!
Para mas información, sigue nuestro canal de telegram: https://t.me/samidounbarcelona
Donde: Plaça Universitat (Barcelona)
Cuando: miércoles 16 de julio a las 19
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/manifestacio-en-la-vispera-del-juicio-de-georges-abdallah
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MANIFESTACIÓ: En la Víspera del Juicio de Georges Abdallah
Plaça Universitat, dimecres, 16 de juliol, a les 19:00 CEST
MANIFESTACIÓN EN LA VÍSPERA DEL JUICIO DE GEORGES ABDALLAH
El pasado 19 de junio, el tribunal francés aplazó su decisión una vez más sobre la liberación del militante internacionalista libanés Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, encarcelado desde hace más de 40 años, hasta el 17 de julio.
Respondemos al llamamiento de la campaña unitaria por la liberación de Georges Abdallah y intensificamos nuestras acciones para que Georges sea finalmente liberado el 17 de julio. No pararemos hasta su liberación!
¡Georges debe ser liberado el 17 de julio! ¡Palestina vivirá y vencerá!
Para mas información, sigue nuestro canal de telegram: https://t.me/samidounbarcelona
Donde: Plaça Universitat (Barcelona)
Cuando: miércoles 16 de julio a las 19
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/manifestacio-en-la-vispera-del-juicio-de-georges-abdallah
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MANIFESTACIÓ: En la Víspera del Juicio de Georges Abdallah
Plaça Universitat, dimecres, 16 de juliol, a les 19:00 CEST
MANIFESTACIÓN EN LA VÍSPERA DEL JUICIO DE GEORGES ABDALLAH
El pasado 19 de junio, el tribunal francés aplazó su decisión una vez más sobre la liberación del militante internacionalista libanés Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, encarcelado desde hace más de 40 años, hasta el 17 de julio.
Respondemos al llamamiento de la campaña unitaria por la liberación de Georges Abdallah y intensificamos nuestras acciones para que Georges sea finalmente liberado el 17 de julio. No pararemos hasta su liberación!
¡Georges debe ser liberado el 17 de julio! ¡Palestina vivirá y vencerá!
Para mas información, sigue nuestro canal de telegram: https://t.me/samidounbarcelona
Donde: Plaça Universitat (Barcelona)
Cuando: miércoles 16 de julio a las 19
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/manifestacio-en-la-vispera-del-juicio-de-georges-abdallah
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Manifestación para Georges Abdallah
Rambla del Raval, dimecres, 18 de juny, a les 18:30 CEST
¡Desde Samidoun convocamos a una manifestación por Georges Abdallah!
Georges Abdallah, militante comunista árabe, lleva mas de 40 años preso en Francia por su lucha por Palestina y contra el imperialismo. Aunque podría haber salido hace años, sigue encarcelado por razones políticas. ¡Exigimos su libertad ya!
MIÉRCOLES 18 DE JUNIO, 18:30 H, RAMBLA DEL RAVAL – BARCELONA
Nos movilizamos en solidaridad con Georges que tiene una audiencia el 19 de junio. Estaremos el 14 en París y el 18 en Barcelona.
LIBERTAD PARA GEORGES ABDALLAH! LIBERTAD PARA TODXS LXS PRESOS Y PRESAS REVOLUCIONARIXS! VIVA LA RESISTENCIA ANTI-IMPERIALISTA!
https://bcn.convoca.la/event/manifestacion-para-georges-abdallah
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International Workers’ Day 2025: The Workers’ Flood for Palestine, Against Genocide and Imperialism
“The sons and daughters of the popular classes of Palestine, the workers, the farmers in the villages, the refugees of the camps, have always been the leaders and the driving force of our Palestinian national liberation movement. The Palestinian popular classes have been the freedom fighters, the strugglers and the resisters on the front lines, confronting the occupation and Zionist colonization in Palestine. And so it is the case that the popular classes of Palestine fill the ranks of the Israeli prisons, the builders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement continuing on the front lines of resistance, building the ongoing Palestinian revolution.” – Kamil Abu Hanish, imprisoned Palestinian struggler, 2017
This International Workers’ Day, 1 May 2025, is a day of workers’ struggle that comes amid the ongoing imperialist-Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, as the war machine of capitalism and imperialism aims to grind the flesh and blood of the Palestinian people to fuel its plunder and profits around the world. International Workers’ Day also comes this year amid Al-Aqsa Flood and the ongoing resistance to Zionist-imperialist colonialism and genocide; let this day be a day for the workers of the world to join the people’s great flood against the common enemies of humanity.
On this International Workers’ Day, we salute the Palestinian workers, and the working people and popular masses of the region, who are those who create the ranks of the resistance, who form its popular cradle, who are imprisoned in the dungeons and torture camps of the occupier, and who are targeted for assassination, imprisonment and massacre for carrying out their work: civil defense workers, doctors, nurses and health workers, farmers, fishers, construction workers, aid workers, journalists and media workers, electricians, technicians, security workers, the teachers and domestic workers — all of those whose labor creates the structure of Palestinian society. We salute the workers of the resistance who toil with love and faith below the ground to manufacture the weapons that allow Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and all of the forces of the resistance to defend themselves against the occupier, the imperialist and the genocidaire.
We salute the workers of Yemen, who set an example for the workers in the world in their popular, national and military mobilization that is shutting down the supply lines of genocide in the Red Sea. Today, Yemen, whose workers live under the bombs of the U.S. war machine, presents the greatest example to the world of the implementation of the boycott of the Zionist project and of upholding international law and its absolute prohibition against genocide.
We salute the dockworkers of Morocco, who despite the normalization regime, refused to load and unload the Maersk ships carrying the products of the U.S. war machine to arm the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people. We salute the strugglers of Palestine Action, who put their bodies and freedom on the line to shut down, damage and impose a cost upon the factories that manufacture the weapons of the imperialist-Zionist war machine, particularly Elbit Systems. We salute the tech workers who raise their voices and refuse to participate in the AI and surveillance products being used to target and massacre the Palestinian people and direct the bombs of death and destruction. We salute the Palestinian workers of UNRWA, who are fighting internal repression, criminalization, assassination and destruction to aid their people and defend their right to return. We salute all of those workers of the world who continue to strike and boycott, to confront normalization, to ensure their labour unions and international federations exclude the genocidal “Histadrut,” boycott Zionist bonds, and stand with the Palestinian people and their just cause. We salute the workers who face firing, repression and imprisonment around the world for standing up for Palestine and confronting the genocide.
We echo the call of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, to the Palestinian workers of the world: “We, the Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora, are part and parcel of the workers of the world. It is long past time to escalate our participation in this struggle to a material level that can shut down the trade routes of genocide, occupation and colonialism, cutting off the flow of weaponry, bombs and artillery that allows the Israeli regime to slaughter Palestinian men, women and children,” and that of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza to workers in the United States: “Your struggle for workers’ rights in the United States is inseparable from our struggle against occupation and colonialism. True labor solidarity is demonstrated through actions, not just words, and we count on your awareness and determination to take concrete steps to end this tragedy.”
This International Workers’ Day, we call upon the workers of the world to manifest their material solidarity with the imprisoned, massacred, targeted Palestinian workers under genocide, occupation and colonization, to confront the war machine of imperialism and capitalism, and to constitute an international popular cradle of the Resistance defending humanity by taking real, serious and meaningful collective action to shut down the workplaces, ports and factories that continue to fuel genocide. Examples already exist of the dockworkers in Morocco, South Africa, India, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Italy, Belgium and even the ILWU on the United States West Coast refusing to handle the occupier’s cargo, shipped by ZIM, Maersk and other complicit profiteers of genocide.
The Zionist entity is an advanced base of U.S. and Western imperialism in the region, and it targets not only Palestinian workers, but the workers of the world. The road to the liberation of the international working class, the defeat of imperialism and capitalism, runs now, centrally and clearly, through ending the genocide, the victory of the Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
We know that the Palestinian workers in Gaza, with their minds and hands, will rebuild all that has been destroyed by the occupation, as they have many times over the years and indeed, the centuries. It is our responsibility to act now to bring about that new day.
On 1 May 2025, we call upon workers and labour organizations around the world to affirm clearly their position against genocide and with the Palestinian people through:
- General strikes, wildcat strikes and widespread workplace and civil disobedience against genocide and imperialist war crimes. Demand a complete end to the genocide in Gaza, the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and full boycott and divestment from all Zionist corporations and imperialist war profiteers complicit in genocide.
- Enforce and impose grassroots and popular sanctions — in the example of Yemeni workers — by refusing to handle the weapons shipments and cargo of ZIM, Maersk and their fellow war profiteers
- Boycotting the Zionist “labour” federation, the Histadrut, “Israel Bonds,” and complicit corporations and organizations
- Acting collectively to defend workers and students targeted for repression, firing, silencing and imprisonment for their action, organizing and speech for Palestine
(We have revised and updated the following text for International Workers’ Day 2025. All images are classic posters of the Palestinian revolution via the Palestine Poster Project.)
Palestinian workers and the popular classes have always played the key, leading role as the force of the Palestinian liberation movement, inside and outside Palestine. The prisoners’ movement is no exception; indeed, the vast majority of Palestinian prisoners come from the working and popular classes, the refugee camps and the villages, and it is these workers who put their bodies and lives on the line for freedom. Today, it is Palestinian workers and popular classes on the front lines confronting a genocidal assault for over 18 months, after 77 years of ongoing genocide.
Palestinian workers: A history of leadership in struggle
Palestinians have engaged in labor organizing from the early days of the 20th century, organizing unions, defending their work against Zionist attempts to exclude Palestinian labor from Palestinian land, and taking action to defend their rights as workers and as indigenous Palestinians.
General strikes have always been a key mechanism of Palestinian resistance, from the earliest revolts of the Palestinian people against British and then Zionist colonialism. In the 1936 revolution, Palestinian workers’ six-month general strike was at that time the longest in the world. This continued over the years, as Palestinian workers in exile built the Palestinian liberation movement and its organizations, and as Palestinian workers and labor unions led in the organizing of the first intifada. UNRWA workers and others in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon paved the way for the modern revolution, as revolutionary leaders like Abu Maher al-Yamani organized refugees for liberation and return on the basis of their trade union work before the Nakba in Palestine.
In the 1950s, Palestinian labor organizers in occupied Palestine ’48 were jailed as they attempted to keep their organizations intact under martial law. At least seven Palestinian trade union leaders were deported from the West Bank between 1969 and 1979. These attacks happened as Palestinians inside Israeli jails fought to end forced labor, a victory that was achieved only through great sacrifice. Omar Shalabi, a Syrian prisoner, was killed under torture in October 1973 during the protests against Israeli forced labor.
Targeting and imprisonment of Palestinian workers
Palestinian workers are regularly subject to colonial forms of imprisonment, from the political targeting of workers’ organizations to the mass criminalization of Palestinians seeking employment inside occupied Palestine ’48. Palestinian workers are frequently arrested for “entering Israel without a permit,” despite the fact that many of these same workers are Palestinian refugees denied their right to return to their original homes and lands for the past 74 years. The systematic siege and subjugation of the Palestinian economy, from the texts of the Paris Protocols to the so-called “Abraham Accords” promoted by U.S. imperialism through their sponsorship of reactionary Arab regimes, has forced thousands of Palestinians to seek work with or without permits as day laborers, often in construction.
At any given time, there are approximately 1000 Palestinians arrested, detained or fined for seeking to work in their own homeland; they are not classified in the Israeli colonial system as “security” prisoners and are thus missing from the statistics related to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. However, it is clear that everything about these workers’ situation is deeply political – they are imprisoned for their Palestinian existence on Palestinian land, specifically as Palestinian workers. Palestinian workers from Gaza working in the West Bank — as well as those abducted from Gaza — have been subjected to the most extreme and severe forms of torture and abuse, from beating to rape and sexual assault to starvation and sleep deprivation — in the notorious prison and torture camps like Sde Teiman and Anatot.
Palestinian workers are subjected to ongoing abuse at checkpoints, systemic discrimination on the job from the river to the sea, and economic isolation, starvation and siege meant to compel workers into becoming construction workers and servants in illegal settlements. For over 18 years, the siege on Gaza has served as yet another attack on Palestinian workers. Even before the escalated genocide, the Gaza Strip had the highest levels of unemployment in Palestine due to the deliberate targeting of the Palestinian economy and its productive basis, including workers, fishers and farmers. Today, hundreds of thousands more have been forced into unemployment and are targeted daily for death and destruction.
There are currently over 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners jailed by the Zionist regime, including over 3,600 jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. Confronting torture, abuse and starvation inside the Zionist jails, which has led to the martyrdom of over 65 prisoners over the past 18 months, the Palestinian prisoners are on the front lines of Palestinian resistance on a daily basis. They are leaders in the Palestinian, Arab and international camp of resistance — and like the freedom fighters and martyrs of Palestine, they represent the workers and popular classes of Palestine, those who face multiple forms of exploitation and oppression at the hands of the Zionist regime. The liberation of the prisoners is so precious to the Palestinian people and their resistance that it was a central goal of Al-Aqsa Flood and the great crossing of struggle. Freedom for Palestinian prisoners is essential to the liberation of the Palestinian working class and popular masses — the central feature of the liberation of Palestine from imperialism and Zionism, from the river to the sea.
The Histadrut: A colonialist entity that must be boycotted
The drive to exclude Palestinian workers has always been part of the Zionist colonial project. This has been reflected in the founding principles and continued operation of the Israeli Histadrut, a trade union federation founded with the explicit purpose of promoting Zionist colonization of Palestinian land and excluding Palestinian labor. Despite having a fraternal relationship with the AFL-CIO and other major labor unions worldwide, it actually exploits Palestinian workers inside “Israel” by deducting fees from their salaries while denying them benefits, let alone its ongoing and systematic role as part of the Zionist-imperialist machine of genocide. Its role predates the Nakba and continues to reflect this colonial relationship. Today, it must be more clear than ever: any relationship with the Histadrut is complicity in genocide, and those responsible for complicity in genocide must be held accountable — first and foremost, by the workers.
Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora fight back
Palestinian workers in exile also continue to struggle against exploitation and oppression. In Lebanon, amid the targeting of Lebanon, its people and its Resistance by the Zionist attacks that daily violate the ceasefire, the imperialist powers and financial exploiters, Palestinian refugees continue to be denied access to numerous professions, leading to massive unemployment and frequent despair among the working class. Palestinian refugees forced to flee to Europe, North America and elsewhere from Lebanon, Syria and occupied Palestine confront racist, repressive policies that inhibit their right to work and threaten them with deportation, detention and exclusion.
They confront the racism of “Fortress Europe” and criminalization of refugee workers alongside fellow migrants and workers seeking safety and refuge from the military, social, environmental and economic disasters forced upon their home countries by the very imperialist states that then deny their rights. They face severe exploitation in black market labor. Still, these workers continue to struggle despite all odds not only to confront racism and exclusion in the imperialist countries but also to organize to confront imperialism and win their liberation. Palestinian workers are marching in, leading and organizing the demonstrations that took massively to the streets of the world to confront the genocide and stand with the Palestinian people, and are the first to be targeted for these actions by police and state repression. Workers around the world, and particularly in the imperial core, have been fired, dismissed and imprisoned because they speak out for Palestine, and Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora have been among the foremost examples. Inside and outside Palestine, the workers and popular masses are protecting Palestine and pushing the struggle forward, without compromise.
Confronting imperialism, Arab reactionary regimes and the Oslo Palestinian Authority
Zionist genocidal colonialism reflects the sharpest edge of capitalist exploitation for the Palestinian working class, backed up fully by the most powerful and dangerous imperialist powers, especially the United States. However, they also face Arab reactionary regimes, such as Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, that are complicit with the exploitation and marginalization of Palestinian workers even as they are complicit with the genocide of the Zionist regime through normalization and direct participation. Palestinian workers are exploited by the ruling class of these states directly in exile and diaspora as well as through their direct engagement with and promotion of the colonial economy of Zionism, and Arab workers are themselves threatened with imprisonment and harsh repression when they take action to defend the Palestinian people.
Palestinian workers also confront Palestinian capitalists and the Palestinian Authority, formed as a security subcontractor to the Israeli occupation. The Jordanian monarchy acted in the 1970s and 1980s to repress union organizing in the interests of Palestinian capitalists, while ultra-wealthy Palestinian capitalists like Bashar al-Masri are on the first lines promoting normalization and undermining the boycott of Israel.
Imperialism is on the attack around the world, using its military might and its weapons of siege and sanctions against peoples around the world. As always, it is workers and the impoverished classes who bear the heaviest brunt of these assaults. Fighting back against imperialism, including U.S., Canadian and EU sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and indeed, nearly one-third of the world, in addition to its direct involvement and armament of genocide, its bombing of Yemen, its military interventions, warmongering and ongoing violent attacks on all forms of resistance to imperial domination, is essential to building the movement for Palestine.
A call to the workers’ movements of the world
On International Workers’ Day, we once again amplify the words of Kamil Abu Hanish, speaking from Israeli prison, urging the escalation of the boycott movement: “Today, we call upon you, the fighters for freedom and justice in the world, the workers’ movements, the strugglers for socialism, the movements of revolution, to escalate your support for our struggle, for the Palestinian people and for the Palestinian prisoners. We urge you to act to isolate the occupation state, to hold it accountable for 70 years of crimes against the Palestinian people…The workers’ movements, the movements of the popular classes, the movements of the oppressed, can and must take part in this battle around the world, as part and parcel of the struggle against racism, imperialism and capitalism.”
International workers’ solidarity with Palestine has a long and proud history, including in the heart of the imperial core. See, for example, in the United States — the leading sponsor of the Zionist regime, together with its imperialist partners in Britain, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and elsewhere — the important role of Black and Arab autoworkers who struck in 1973 in Detroit against their union’s purchase of “Israel Bonds.” Today, amid the ongoing genocide in Palestine, as the bombs create belts of fire, as dozens of Palestinian workers are martyred daily, this moment is perhaps more urgent than ever.
We also express our solidarity with the struggling workers of the world, including the imprisoned labor union and workers’ movement leaders who are held behind bars or face death threats and repression for their role in defending oppressed workers. From India to the Philippines to France, from Colombia to Egypt and Morocco, we stand with these labor movements targeted for repression. The liberation of Palestine is fundamentally linked to the liberation of all from imperialism, exploitation and capitalism.
On International Workers’ Day, these struggles must become an occasion to escalate our work to support Palestinian workers, end the genocide, uphold the resistance, free the prisoners, and liberate Palestine, from the river to the sea.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18848
#colonialism #imperialism #mayDay #palestine #palestinianAuthority #prisonStruggle #samidoun #westAsia #workers
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International Workers’ Day 2025: The Workers’ Flood for Palestine, Against Genocide and Imperialism
“The sons and daughters of the popular classes of Palestine, the workers, the farmers in the villages, the refugees of the camps, have always been the leaders and the driving force of our Palestinian national liberation movement. The Palestinian popular classes have been the freedom fighters, the strugglers and the resisters on the front lines, confronting the occupation and Zionist colonization in Palestine. And so it is the case that the popular classes of Palestine fill the ranks of the Israeli prisons, the builders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement continuing on the front lines of resistance, building the ongoing Palestinian revolution.” – Kamil Abu Hanish, imprisoned Palestinian struggler, 2017
This International Workers’ Day, 1 May 2025, is a day of workers’ struggle that comes amid the ongoing imperialist-Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, as the war machine of capitalism and imperialism aims to grind the flesh and blood of the Palestinian people to fuel its plunder and profits around the world. International Workers’ Day also comes this year amid Al-Aqsa Flood and the ongoing resistance to Zionist-imperialist colonialism and genocide; let this day be a day for the workers of the world to join the people’s great flood against the common enemies of humanity.
On this International Workers’ Day, we salute the Palestinian workers, and the working people and popular masses of the region, who are those who create the ranks of the resistance, who form its popular cradle, who are imprisoned in the dungeons and torture camps of the occupier, and who are targeted for assassination, imprisonment and massacre for carrying out their work: civil defense workers, doctors, nurses and health workers, farmers, fishers, construction workers, aid workers, journalists and media workers, electricians, technicians, security workers, the teachers and domestic workers — all of those whose labor creates the structure of Palestinian society. We salute the workers of the resistance who toil with love and faith below the ground to manufacture the weapons that allow Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and all of the forces of the resistance to defend themselves against the occupier, the imperialist and the genocidaire.
We salute the workers of Yemen, who set an example for the workers in the world in their popular, national and military mobilization that is shutting down the supply lines of genocide in the Red Sea. Today, Yemen, whose workers live under the bombs of the U.S. war machine, presents the greatest example to the world of the implementation of the boycott of the Zionist project and of upholding international law and its absolute prohibition against genocide.
We salute the dockworkers of Morocco, who despite the normalization regime, refused to load and unload the Maersk ships carrying the products of the U.S. war machine to arm the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people. We salute the strugglers of Palestine Action, who put their bodies and freedom on the line to shut down, damage and impose a cost upon the factories that manufacture the weapons of the imperialist-Zionist war machine, particularly Elbit Systems. We salute the tech workers who raise their voices and refuse to participate in the AI and surveillance products being used to target and massacre the Palestinian people and direct the bombs of death and destruction. We salute the Palestinian workers of UNRWA, who are fighting internal repression, criminalization, assassination and destruction to aid their people and defend their right to return. We salute all of those workers of the world who continue to strike and boycott, to confront normalization, to ensure their labour unions and international federations exclude the genocidal “Histadrut,” boycott Zionist bonds, and stand with the Palestinian people and their just cause. We salute the workers who face firing, repression and imprisonment around the world for standing up for Palestine and confronting the genocide.
We echo the call of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, to the Palestinian workers of the world: “We, the Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora, are part and parcel of the workers of the world. It is long past time to escalate our participation in this struggle to a material level that can shut down the trade routes of genocide, occupation and colonialism, cutting off the flow of weaponry, bombs and artillery that allows the Israeli regime to slaughter Palestinian men, women and children,” and that of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza to workers in the United States: “Your struggle for workers’ rights in the United States is inseparable from our struggle against occupation and colonialism. True labor solidarity is demonstrated through actions, not just words, and we count on your awareness and determination to take concrete steps to end this tragedy.”
This International Workers’ Day, we call upon the workers of the world to manifest their material solidarity with the imprisoned, massacred, targeted Palestinian workers under genocide, occupation and colonization, to confront the war machine of imperialism and capitalism, and to constitute an international popular cradle of the Resistance defending humanity by taking real, serious and meaningful collective action to shut down the workplaces, ports and factories that continue to fuel genocide. Examples already exist of the dockworkers in Morocco, South Africa, India, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Italy, Belgium and even the ILWU on the United States West Coast refusing to handle the occupier’s cargo, shipped by ZIM, Maersk and other complicit profiteers of genocide.
The Zionist entity is an advanced base of U.S. and Western imperialism in the region, and it targets not only Palestinian workers, but the workers of the world. The road to the liberation of the international working class, the defeat of imperialism and capitalism, runs now, centrally and clearly, through ending the genocide, the victory of the Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
We know that the Palestinian workers in Gaza, with their minds and hands, will rebuild all that has been destroyed by the occupation, as they have many times over the years and indeed, the centuries. It is our responsibility to act now to bring about that new day.
On 1 May 2025, we call upon workers and labour organizations around the world to affirm clearly their position against genocide and with the Palestinian people through:
- General strikes, wildcat strikes and widespread workplace and civil disobedience against genocide and imperialist war crimes. Demand a complete end to the genocide in Gaza, the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and full boycott and divestment from all Zionist corporations and imperialist war profiteers complicit in genocide.
- Enforce and impose grassroots and popular sanctions — in the example of Yemeni workers — by refusing to handle the weapons shipments and cargo of ZIM, Maersk and their fellow war profiteers
- Boycotting the Zionist “labour” federation, the Histadrut, “Israel Bonds,” and complicit corporations and organizations
- Acting collectively to defend workers and students targeted for repression, firing, silencing and imprisonment for their action, organizing and speech for Palestine
(We have revised and updated the following text for International Workers’ Day 2025. All images are classic posters of the Palestinian revolution via the Palestine Poster Project.)
Palestinian workers and the popular classes have always played the key, leading role as the force of the Palestinian liberation movement, inside and outside Palestine. The prisoners’ movement is no exception; indeed, the vast majority of Palestinian prisoners come from the working and popular classes, the refugee camps and the villages, and it is these workers who put their bodies and lives on the line for freedom. Today, it is Palestinian workers and popular classes on the front lines confronting a genocidal assault for over 18 months, after 77 years of ongoing genocide.
Palestinian workers: A history of leadership in struggle
Palestinians have engaged in labor organizing from the early days of the 20th century, organizing unions, defending their work against Zionist attempts to exclude Palestinian labor from Palestinian land, and taking action to defend their rights as workers and as indigenous Palestinians.
General strikes have always been a key mechanism of Palestinian resistance, from the earliest revolts of the Palestinian people against British and then Zionist colonialism. In the 1936 revolution, Palestinian workers’ six-month general strike was at that time the longest in the world. This continued over the years, as Palestinian workers in exile built the Palestinian liberation movement and its organizations, and as Palestinian workers and labor unions led in the organizing of the first intifada. UNRWA workers and others in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon paved the way for the modern revolution, as revolutionary leaders like Abu Maher al-Yamani organized refugees for liberation and return on the basis of their trade union work before the Nakba in Palestine.
In the 1950s, Palestinian labor organizers in occupied Palestine ’48 were jailed as they attempted to keep their organizations intact under martial law. At least seven Palestinian trade union leaders were deported from the West Bank between 1969 and 1979. These attacks happened as Palestinians inside Israeli jails fought to end forced labor, a victory that was achieved only through great sacrifice. Omar Shalabi, a Syrian prisoner, was killed under torture in October 1973 during the protests against Israeli forced labor.
Targeting and imprisonment of Palestinian workers
Palestinian workers are regularly subject to colonial forms of imprisonment, from the political targeting of workers’ organizations to the mass criminalization of Palestinians seeking employment inside occupied Palestine ’48. Palestinian workers are frequently arrested for “entering Israel without a permit,” despite the fact that many of these same workers are Palestinian refugees denied their right to return to their original homes and lands for the past 74 years. The systematic siege and subjugation of the Palestinian economy, from the texts of the Paris Protocols to the so-called “Abraham Accords” promoted by U.S. imperialism through their sponsorship of reactionary Arab regimes, has forced thousands of Palestinians to seek work with or without permits as day laborers, often in construction.
At any given time, there are approximately 1000 Palestinians arrested, detained or fined for seeking to work in their own homeland; they are not classified in the Israeli colonial system as “security” prisoners and are thus missing from the statistics related to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. However, it is clear that everything about these workers’ situation is deeply political – they are imprisoned for their Palestinian existence on Palestinian land, specifically as Palestinian workers. Palestinian workers from Gaza working in the West Bank — as well as those abducted from Gaza — have been subjected to the most extreme and severe forms of torture and abuse, from beating to rape and sexual assault to starvation and sleep deprivation — in the notorious prison and torture camps like Sde Teiman and Anatot.
Palestinian workers are subjected to ongoing abuse at checkpoints, systemic discrimination on the job from the river to the sea, and economic isolation, starvation and siege meant to compel workers into becoming construction workers and servants in illegal settlements. For over 18 years, the siege on Gaza has served as yet another attack on Palestinian workers. Even before the escalated genocide, the Gaza Strip had the highest levels of unemployment in Palestine due to the deliberate targeting of the Palestinian economy and its productive basis, including workers, fishers and farmers. Today, hundreds of thousands more have been forced into unemployment and are targeted daily for death and destruction.
There are currently over 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners jailed by the Zionist regime, including over 3,600 jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. Confronting torture, abuse and starvation inside the Zionist jails, which has led to the martyrdom of over 65 prisoners over the past 18 months, the Palestinian prisoners are on the front lines of Palestinian resistance on a daily basis. They are leaders in the Palestinian, Arab and international camp of resistance — and like the freedom fighters and martyrs of Palestine, they represent the workers and popular classes of Palestine, those who face multiple forms of exploitation and oppression at the hands of the Zionist regime. The liberation of the prisoners is so precious to the Palestinian people and their resistance that it was a central goal of Al-Aqsa Flood and the great crossing of struggle. Freedom for Palestinian prisoners is essential to the liberation of the Palestinian working class and popular masses — the central feature of the liberation of Palestine from imperialism and Zionism, from the river to the sea.
The Histadrut: A colonialist entity that must be boycotted
The drive to exclude Palestinian workers has always been part of the Zionist colonial project. This has been reflected in the founding principles and continued operation of the Israeli Histadrut, a trade union federation founded with the explicit purpose of promoting Zionist colonization of Palestinian land and excluding Palestinian labor. Despite having a fraternal relationship with the AFL-CIO and other major labor unions worldwide, it actually exploits Palestinian workers inside “Israel” by deducting fees from their salaries while denying them benefits, let alone its ongoing and systematic role as part of the Zionist-imperialist machine of genocide. Its role predates the Nakba and continues to reflect this colonial relationship. Today, it must be more clear than ever: any relationship with the Histadrut is complicity in genocide, and those responsible for complicity in genocide must be held accountable — first and foremost, by the workers.
Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora fight back
Palestinian workers in exile also continue to struggle against exploitation and oppression. In Lebanon, amid the targeting of Lebanon, its people and its Resistance by the Zionist attacks that daily violate the ceasefire, the imperialist powers and financial exploiters, Palestinian refugees continue to be denied access to numerous professions, leading to massive unemployment and frequent despair among the working class. Palestinian refugees forced to flee to Europe, North America and elsewhere from Lebanon, Syria and occupied Palestine confront racist, repressive policies that inhibit their right to work and threaten them with deportation, detention and exclusion.
They confront the racism of “Fortress Europe” and criminalization of refugee workers alongside fellow migrants and workers seeking safety and refuge from the military, social, environmental and economic disasters forced upon their home countries by the very imperialist states that then deny their rights. They face severe exploitation in black market labor. Still, these workers continue to struggle despite all odds not only to confront racism and exclusion in the imperialist countries but also to organize to confront imperialism and win their liberation. Palestinian workers are marching in, leading and organizing the demonstrations that took massively to the streets of the world to confront the genocide and stand with the Palestinian people, and are the first to be targeted for these actions by police and state repression. Workers around the world, and particularly in the imperial core, have been fired, dismissed and imprisoned because they speak out for Palestine, and Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora have been among the foremost examples. Inside and outside Palestine, the workers and popular masses are protecting Palestine and pushing the struggle forward, without compromise.
Confronting imperialism, Arab reactionary regimes and the Oslo Palestinian Authority
Zionist genocidal colonialism reflects the sharpest edge of capitalist exploitation for the Palestinian working class, backed up fully by the most powerful and dangerous imperialist powers, especially the United States. However, they also face Arab reactionary regimes, such as Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, that are complicit with the exploitation and marginalization of Palestinian workers even as they are complicit with the genocide of the Zionist regime through normalization and direct participation. Palestinian workers are exploited by the ruling class of these states directly in exile and diaspora as well as through their direct engagement with and promotion of the colonial economy of Zionism, and Arab workers are themselves threatened with imprisonment and harsh repression when they take action to defend the Palestinian people.
Palestinian workers also confront Palestinian capitalists and the Palestinian Authority, formed as a security subcontractor to the Israeli occupation. The Jordanian monarchy acted in the 1970s and 1980s to repress union organizing in the interests of Palestinian capitalists, while ultra-wealthy Palestinian capitalists like Bashar al-Masri are on the first lines promoting normalization and undermining the boycott of Israel.
Imperialism is on the attack around the world, using its military might and its weapons of siege and sanctions against peoples around the world. As always, it is workers and the impoverished classes who bear the heaviest brunt of these assaults. Fighting back against imperialism, including U.S., Canadian and EU sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and indeed, nearly one-third of the world, in addition to its direct involvement and armament of genocide, its bombing of Yemen, its military interventions, warmongering and ongoing violent attacks on all forms of resistance to imperial domination, is essential to building the movement for Palestine.
A call to the workers’ movements of the world
On International Workers’ Day, we once again amplify the words of Kamil Abu Hanish, speaking from Israeli prison, urging the escalation of the boycott movement: “Today, we call upon you, the fighters for freedom and justice in the world, the workers’ movements, the strugglers for socialism, the movements of revolution, to escalate your support for our struggle, for the Palestinian people and for the Palestinian prisoners. We urge you to act to isolate the occupation state, to hold it accountable for 70 years of crimes against the Palestinian people…The workers’ movements, the movements of the popular classes, the movements of the oppressed, can and must take part in this battle around the world, as part and parcel of the struggle against racism, imperialism and capitalism.”
International workers’ solidarity with Palestine has a long and proud history, including in the heart of the imperial core. See, for example, in the United States — the leading sponsor of the Zionist regime, together with its imperialist partners in Britain, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and elsewhere — the important role of Black and Arab autoworkers who struck in 1973 in Detroit against their union’s purchase of “Israel Bonds.” Today, amid the ongoing genocide in Palestine, as the bombs create belts of fire, as dozens of Palestinian workers are martyred daily, this moment is perhaps more urgent than ever.
We also express our solidarity with the struggling workers of the world, including the imprisoned labor union and workers’ movement leaders who are held behind bars or face death threats and repression for their role in defending oppressed workers. From India to the Philippines to France, from Colombia to Egypt and Morocco, we stand with these labor movements targeted for repression. The liberation of Palestine is fundamentally linked to the liberation of all from imperialism, exploitation and capitalism.
On International Workers’ Day, these struggles must become an occasion to escalate our work to support Palestinian workers, end the genocide, uphold the resistance, free the prisoners, and liberate Palestine, from the river to the sea.
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18848
#colonialism #imperialism #mayDay #palestine #palestinianAuthority #prisonStruggle #samidoun #westAsia #workers
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Dia de lxs Presxs Palestinxs
Banc Expropiat, dimecres, 16 d’abril, a les 18:00 CEST
Xerrada i projecció en el dia de lxs presxs palestinxs. Organitza "Samidoun"
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𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼-𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗷𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲
Canada en de Verenigde Staten hebben samen de pro-Palestijnse organisatie Samidoun als terreurorganisatie aangemerkt. Duitsland deed dat vorig jaar al. Nederland bekijkt nu de mogelijkheden om dat te doen.
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/artikel/5475553/samidoun-palestina-terroristische-organisatie-gevangenen
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𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼-𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗷𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲
Canada en de Verenigde Staten hebben samen de pro-Palestijnse organisatie Samidoun als terreurorganisatie aangemerkt. Duitsland deed dat vorig jaar al. Nederland bekijkt nu de mogelijkheden om dat te doen.
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/artikel/5475553/samidoun-palestina-terroristische-organisatie-gevangenen
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𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼-𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗷𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲
Canada en de Verenigde Staten hebben samen de pro-Palestijnse organisatie Samidoun als terreurorganisatie aangemerkt. Duitsland deed dat vorig jaar al. Nederland bekijkt nu de mogelijkheden om dat te doen.
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/artikel/5475553/samidoun-palestina-terroristische-organisatie-gevangenen
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𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼-𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗷𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲
Canada en de Verenigde Staten hebben samen de pro-Palestijnse organisatie Samidoun als terreurorganisatie aangemerkt. Duitsland deed dat vorig jaar al. Nederland bekijkt nu de mogelijkheden om dat te doen.
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/artikel/5475553/samidoun-palestina-terroristische-organisatie-gevangenen
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𝗠𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗼-𝗣𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗷𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗱𝗼𝘂𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲
Canada en de Verenigde Staten hebben samen de pro-Palestijnse organisatie Samidoun als terreurorganisatie aangemerkt. Duitsland deed dat vorig jaar al. Nederland bekijkt nu de mogelijkheden om dat te doen.
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/artikel/5475553/samidoun-palestina-terroristische-organisatie-gevangenen
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The following statement was written by Samidoun Toronto:
As we enter a new month, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network would like to commemorate Black August. Samidoun’s Toronto chapter honoured the decades-long tradition of calling for the release of all political prisoners and uplifting the Black Liberation struggle through our August 10th Prisoners’ Justice Day event and in attending a Black August art build with our comrades at A Dutty Boukman Book Club.
The first Black August was held in 1979 by the Black Guerrilla Family to commemorate the martyrdoms of revolutionary bothers Jonathan and George Jackson. Both of their lives were taken by the criminal injustice system in the United States. 45 years later, Samidoun honours their legacies by demanding: Free Them All, From Palestine to “Canada”.
Prisons in “Canada” and “Israel” function as an arm of imperialist white supremacy. They quell the people’s dissent against their oppressor and maintain status quo settler-colonial rule. Just like Canadian prisons are designed to capture Black and Indigenous peoples, in “Israel” the Zionist prison system is designed to detain, torture, and martyr Palestinians. In December 2023 in Milton, ON’s Maplehurst Correctional Complex, prisoners were, too, tortured by guards and Canada also has a decades-long history of deaths in custody that is on the rise.
The Palestinian Resistance’s commencement of Al-Aqsa Flood Battle on October 7th was not only a prison break out of besieged Gaza, but also an act to liberate Palestinian prisoners from the clutches of Zionism through a prisoner exchange. We must continue to learn from the Resistance’s steadfastness both within and outside of prison walls and how we can apply these learnings here to join hands with the Black Liberation struggle and beyond.
As September begins, we will continue to uphold and honour the legacies of Black revolutionaries– both past and living. From our solidarity with Stop Cop City in Atlanta to demanding justice for Tylor Coore in Tkaronto to paying tribute to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising. All prison walls have got to fall! In the words of Black revolutionary Assata Shakur: “And, If I know anything at all/Its that a wall is just a wall/And nothing more at all/It can be broken down”
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/09/07/free-them-all-commemorating-black-august/
#BlackAugust #northAmerica #northAmerican #palestine #samidoun
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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the CUNY 27, the detainees in New York who were seized by the New York Police Department as part of their violent assault on the campus encampment in solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian liberation struggle on 30 April 2024, the same night of the violent raid on the Columbia University encampment.
The NYPD’s record of extreme brutality and repression targeting the Palestine liberation movement and Arab, Palestinian and Muslim communities in New York has been extensively documented. The attacks on protesters and the broader solidarity movement have come hand in hand with the NYPD’s ongoing violent repression and occupation of Black communities and have strikingly illustrated the alliance between imperialism and Zionism and the role of militarized policing in protecting genocide. It has also exposed the role of universities in research and development, study abroad programs, and joint initiatives with Zionist institutions, as well as their function in service of US imperialism.
At the same time, the growing student movement — the Student Intifada — has sparked panic in the governing halls and corridors of empire. From members of Congress to Genocide Joe Biden to New York Mayor Eric Adams to a seemingly endless parade of politicians, the student movement has been met with threats, violent police raids, beatings, and thousands of arrests across the United States, Canada and Europe. Students and community members at public universities, often working-class students and students of colour, have been hit particularly hard; for example, the CUNY 22 were hit with felony charges. Columbia students refused to take favourable agreements because the CUNY 22 were being hit with far more severe charges. Now, the CUNY 22 have learned of five more defendants arrested outside and facing even heavier allegations at the hands of the NYPD — meaning that they are now the CUNY 27.
We join the mass movement demanding the immediate withdrawal of all charges against the CUNY 27 and all arrestees, detainees and prisoners facing charges or jailed due to their involvement in the movement for the liberation of Palestine. As over 9700 Palestinian prisoners are held captive in Zionist jails, hostages for freedom, thousands detained with no charge or trial, organizing amid severe torture, abuse and forced starvation, building and leading a resistance movement from behind bars, we must take inspiration in their leadership and advance our struggle for their complete liberation and to bring down the systems of repression targeting the global intifada.
Escalating to end a genocide is not a crime — indeed, it is a duty, particularly in the heart of the imperial core, at a moment when the resistance forces of the region, from Palestine to Yemen to Lebanon to Iraq and beyond, are on the front lines sacrificing and fighting for the protection and liberation of humanity. We must all make clear that the raids and arrests will not intimidate our movement nor cause us to de-escalate our tactics and methods of struggle, but will only lead us to greater unity, resistance and confrontation, to end the genocide and for a free Palestine from the river to the sea.
As the CUNY 22 say:
We are not just fighting for a Free Palestine but for the liberation of all. The fight for liberation requires sacrifice. We fight for ourselves and our communities. Palestine is everywhere, we cannot free Palestine until we free ourselves, and we cannot free ourselves until we free Palestine. The city of New York and their pigs are going to keep brutalizing and escalating, and so will we. Remember, “we are all outside agitators”. Whether we are fighting in Atlanta, New York City, Sudan, or Palestine, the enemy remains the same. The zionist entity escalates, so does the Palestinian Resistance. The pigs and institutions escalate, so do the agitators of the world!
source: Samidoun
#cuny #northAmerica #nyc #palestine #repression #samidoun #Solidarity #us
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Achtung #Bonn: Heute findet erneut eine Pro #Hamas Kundgebung der #PalästinensischeGemeinde statt. Diese Gruppe arbeitet sowohl mit der #Samidoun nahen #Palästinasolidarität wie mit Faschisten wie #MarkusBeisicht und #Erdogan Unterstützern der #BIG zusammen
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Der #KSTA berichtet über die Kritik linker Gruppen an der Untätigkeit der @UniCologne und @Koeln gegenüber dem #Intifada Camp an der Uni. Das die „neue Leitung“ aus extremistischen Gruppen aus dem #Samidoun Umfeld besteht und sich mit der verbotenen #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg
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Achtung #Köln!Die antisemitische #PalästinensischeGemeindeDeutschland veranstaltet am 2.6. eine Pro #Hamas Kundgebung vor dem Hbf. Die Organisation unterstützt Terrororganisationen wie #Hamas und #PFLP und kooperierte mit der verbotenen #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg und #Samidoun
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Bei der antisemitischen Humboldt-Besetzung war Zid Tamim dabei, bekannt unter dem Pseudonym Zaid Abdulnasser und Deutschlandkoordinator der verbotenen „Samidoun“. Die berichtet @isefati auf X.
Radikale Aktivist:innen aus dem #Samidoun-Umfeld auch in Köln. Wir verweisen auf die Ereignisse um den #Nakba76 Tag in Köln: https://nrw.social/@raba/112477646212992830 #k1505
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Bei der antisemitischen Humboldt-Besetzung war Zid Tamim dabei, bekannt unter dem Pseudonym Zaid Abdulnasser und Deutschlandkoordinator der verbotenen „Samidoun“. Die berichtet @isefati auf X.
Radikale Aktivist:innen aus dem #Samidoun-Umfeld auch in Köln. Wir verweisen auf die Ereignisse um den #Nakba76 Tag in Köln: https://nrw.social/@raba/112477646212992830 #k1505
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Nachtrag zu „Palästina Solidarität Duisburg“:
#samidoun #du0910
mein video
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/111207021562641130
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/111207168486744699#NRW hat die Israelhasser aus #Duisburg verboten
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/durchsuchung-duisburg-verein-verbot-hamas-100.htmlRazzia läuft.
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Nachtrag zu „Palästina Solidarität Duisburg“:
#samidoun #du0910
mein video
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/111207021562641130
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/111207168486744699#NRW hat die Israelhasser aus #Duisburg verboten
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/durchsuchung-duisburg-verein-verbot-hamas-100.htmlRazzia läuft.
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Hands off Mohammed Khatib! Stand with #Palestine! — #Samidoun
#repression #belgium #racism #racisme #Solidarity #waronmigrants -
Hands off Mohammed Khatib! Stand with #Palestine! — #Samidoun
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Die extremistische #Samidoun Proxi #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg beteiligte sich mit antisemitischen Parolen an einer #Israel feindlichen Demonstration in #Bochum. Gefordert wurde die Auslöschung Israels und von einem männlichen Aktivisten ein „ antikolonialer Feminismus“
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#Köln die extremistischen #Samidoun Unterstützer #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg beteiligten sich an einer Kundgebung der #PalästinensischeGemeindeKöln. Die Gruppe macht kein Hehl aus ihrer Unterstützung der #Hamas. - Rotes Dreieck - Auf der Kundgebung Angriffe auf den Gegenprotest
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Die extremistische #Samidoun Unterstützergruppe #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg dokumentiert ihre Beteiligung an der rechtsoffenen Kundgebung der islamistischen #Intergeneration in #Ddorf und der rechtsextremen #Putinknechte um #MarkusBeisicht und #BernhardFalk in #Leverkusen
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Achtung #Bremen am 8.3. will die antisemitische Hasskappe #LeonWystrychowsky von #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg über seine Freunde von der Terrorgruppe #PFLP referieren- bis zum Verbot kooperierte die Gruppe er mit #Samidoun
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#PalästinaSolidaritärDuisburg bedroht über ihren #Instagram Account den israelsolidarischen Gegenprotest. Die mit dem verbotenen #Samidoun Netzwerk verbundene extremistische Gruppe verwendet dabei das Rote Dreieck, mit dem die #Hamas Ziele markiert! Das ist eine #Morddrohung
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Demo in Bruchsal am 31.12. - Gemeinsame Anreise aus Stuttgart 14:15 Uhr Gleis 1 HBF
Erneut geht ein Jahr voller Kämpfe zu Ende – und damit auch ein Jahr voller staatlicher Repression. Prominente Beispiele dafür sind das Antifa-Ost-Verfahren, die #Öffentlichkeitsfahndungen und #Festnahmen – zuletzt von Maja – nach dem sogenannten „Tag der Ehre“ in #Budapest und darüber hinaus #Demonstrationsverbote, #Kontrollzonen und #Polizeischikanen gegen die #Solidaritätsproteste mit den verhafteten #Antifaschist:innen am Tag X. Zu nennen sind auch die kürzlich gesprochenen Urteile im Stuttgarter #Krawallnachtsverfahren oder die massive #Repression gegen die #Klimabewegung in Form von #Verbotsverfahren und medialer Hetze. Zuletzt war es vor allem die palästinensische Bewegung, wie z.B. die #Gefangenensolidaritätsorganisation #Samidoun, die vom Staat ins Visier genommen wurde.
2023 wollen wir zum traditionellen #Knastspaziergang am Jahresende zum Knast in #Bruchsal, um dort den Gefangenen unsere Solidarität zu zeigen. In Bruchsal sitzt unser Genosse Jo aufgrund seines antifaschistischen Engagements in Haft. Nachdem er zuvor in der JVA #Ravensburg mit seinen Mitgefangenen einen öffentlichen #Beschwerdebrief über die miserablen Zustände in der JVA verfasst hat, wurde er nach Bruchsal verlegt, um den Widerstand der Gefangenen in Ravensburg zu schwächen.
Der unmittelbare Kontext der ansteigenden Repression sind natürlich die Bewegungen auf die sie jeweils reagiert: Antifaschistischer Widerstand gegen #Rechtsentwicklung und faschistischen Aufbau, #Klimakämpfe gegen fortschreitende #Umweltzerstörung, internationale Solidarität und Widerstand gegen #Krieg und #Besatzung. Doch das reicht alleine nicht aus, um die aktuellen Entwicklungen zu erklären. Dafür muss man einen Blick auf die gesamtgesellschaftliche Situation werfen. Neben Kriegen in der #Ukraine, #Kurdistan und #Palästina, bekommen wir #Krisenphänomene des globalen #Kapitalismus auch direkt hier vor Ort zu spüren: Preise steigen, soziale Leistungen und Daseinsfürsorge werden gekürzt und gleichzeitig Milliarden in #Bundeswehr und #Rüstungsindustrie investiert. Die anziehende Repression ist Teil einer autoritären Entwicklung, durch die sich der deutsche Staat für die Krisen der Zukunft wappnen will. Dass das unter einer #Ampelregierung geschieht ist historisch nicht neu – die #Sozialdemokratie hatte diese Rolle in der Vergangenheit immer wieder.
Gegen diese Entwicklungen müssen wir zusammenstehen!
Repressionsschläge treffen immer wieder einzelne, doch gemeint sind wir alle. Das gilt nicht nur für die eigene Gruppe oder Organisation, sondern darüber hinaus. Darum müssen wir über unsere eigenen Spektren hinaus Solidarität gegen staatliche Angriffe und Repression organisieren.
Das bedeutet für uns, Repression als ein eigenes, revolutionäres Kampffeld zu begreifen, und uns in unseren täglichen Aktivitäten entsprechend darauf vorzubereiten. Dabei ist der Knast für die linke Bewegung nicht mehr nur eine abstrakte Bedrohung, sondern ein konkretes Phänomen, mit dem wir immer mehr konfrontiert werden und umgehen müssen. Von außen, durch #Gefangenenunterstützung und #Solikreise, aber auch von innen. Beispiele dafür sind Jo oder Findus, sowie der #Hungerstreik der kurdischen Gefangenen. Doch auch sich dem staatlichen Zugriff zu entziehen und in der Illegalität zu arbeiten gehört zur Auseinandersetzung mit häufiger werdenden #Knaststrafen dazu.
Darum wollen wir dieses Jahr an den Knast von Bruchsal ziehen, um unsere #Solidarität über die Knastmauern hinweg zu zeigen!
Freiheit für Jo – Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen
31.12.23, 16 Uhr, Bruchsal Bahnhof
Eine gemeinsame Initiative von: Antifaschistische Aktion Süd | Antifaschistisches Aktionsbündnis #Stuttgart und Region | Antifaschistische Initiative #Heidelberg (iL) | Offenes Antifaschistisches Treffen #Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Rems-Murr | Revolutionäre Aktion Stuttgart | Rote Hilfe e.V. | Solikampagen: „Antifaschismus bleibt Notwendig“ | u. a.
Übersicht zu Anreisen aus anderen Städten:
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Demo in Bruchsal am 31.12. - Gemeinsame Anreise aus Stuttgart 14:15 Uhr Gleis 1 HBF
Erneut geht ein Jahr voller Kämpfe zu Ende – und damit auch ein Jahr voller staatlicher Repression. Prominente Beispiele dafür sind das Antifa-Ost-Verfahren, die #Öffentlichkeitsfahndungen und #Festnahmen – zuletzt von Maja – nach dem sogenannten „Tag der Ehre“ in #Budapest und darüber hinaus #Demonstrationsverbote, #Kontrollzonen und #Polizeischikanen gegen die #Solidaritätsproteste mit den verhafteten #Antifaschist:innen am Tag X. Zu nennen sind auch die kürzlich gesprochenen Urteile im Stuttgarter #Krawallnachtsverfahren oder die massive #Repression gegen die #Klimabewegung in Form von #Verbotsverfahren und medialer Hetze. Zuletzt war es vor allem die palästinensische Bewegung, wie z.B. die #Gefangenensolidaritätsorganisation #Samidoun, die vom Staat ins Visier genommen wurde.
2023 wollen wir zum traditionellen #Knastspaziergang am Jahresende zum Knast in #Bruchsal, um dort den Gefangenen unsere Solidarität zu zeigen. In Bruchsal sitzt unser Genosse Jo aufgrund seines antifaschistischen Engagements in Haft. Nachdem er zuvor in der JVA #Ravensburg mit seinen Mitgefangenen einen öffentlichen #Beschwerdebrief über die miserablen Zustände in der JVA verfasst hat, wurde er nach Bruchsal verlegt, um den Widerstand der Gefangenen in Ravensburg zu schwächen.
Der unmittelbare Kontext der ansteigenden Repression sind natürlich die Bewegungen auf die sie jeweils reagiert: Antifaschistischer Widerstand gegen #Rechtsentwicklung und faschistischen Aufbau, #Klimakämpfe gegen fortschreitende #Umweltzerstörung, internationale Solidarität und Widerstand gegen #Krieg und #Besatzung. Doch das reicht alleine nicht aus, um die aktuellen Entwicklungen zu erklären. Dafür muss man einen Blick auf die gesamtgesellschaftliche Situation werfen. Neben Kriegen in der #Ukraine, #Kurdistan und #Palästina, bekommen wir #Krisenphänomene des globalen #Kapitalismus auch direkt hier vor Ort zu spüren: Preise steigen, soziale Leistungen und Daseinsfürsorge werden gekürzt und gleichzeitig Milliarden in #Bundeswehr und #Rüstungsindustrie investiert. Die anziehende Repression ist Teil einer autoritären Entwicklung, durch die sich der deutsche Staat für die Krisen der Zukunft wappnen will. Dass das unter einer #Ampelregierung geschieht ist historisch nicht neu – die #Sozialdemokratie hatte diese Rolle in der Vergangenheit immer wieder.
Gegen diese Entwicklungen müssen wir zusammenstehen!
Repressionsschläge treffen immer wieder einzelne, doch gemeint sind wir alle. Das gilt nicht nur für die eigene Gruppe oder Organisation, sondern darüber hinaus. Darum müssen wir über unsere eigenen Spektren hinaus Solidarität gegen staatliche Angriffe und Repression organisieren.
Das bedeutet für uns, Repression als ein eigenes, revolutionäres Kampffeld zu begreifen, und uns in unseren täglichen Aktivitäten entsprechend darauf vorzubereiten. Dabei ist der Knast für die linke Bewegung nicht mehr nur eine abstrakte Bedrohung, sondern ein konkretes Phänomen, mit dem wir immer mehr konfrontiert werden und umgehen müssen. Von außen, durch #Gefangenenunterstützung und #Solikreise, aber auch von innen. Beispiele dafür sind Jo oder Findus, sowie der #Hungerstreik der kurdischen Gefangenen. Doch auch sich dem staatlichen Zugriff zu entziehen und in der Illegalität zu arbeiten gehört zur Auseinandersetzung mit häufiger werdenden #Knaststrafen dazu.
Darum wollen wir dieses Jahr an den Knast von Bruchsal ziehen, um unsere #Solidarität über die Knastmauern hinweg zu zeigen!
Freiheit für Jo – Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen
31.12.23, 16 Uhr, Bruchsal Bahnhof
Eine gemeinsame Initiative von: Antifaschistische Aktion Süd | Antifaschistisches Aktionsbündnis #Stuttgart und Region | Antifaschistische Initiative #Heidelberg (iL) | Offenes Antifaschistisches Treffen #Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Rems-Murr | Revolutionäre Aktion Stuttgart | Rote Hilfe e.V. | Solikampagen: „Antifaschismus bleibt Notwendig“ | u. a.
Übersicht zu Anreisen aus anderen Städten:
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Demo in Bruchsal am 31.12. - Gemeinsame Anreise aus Stuttgart 14:15 Uhr Gleis 1 HBF
Erneut geht ein Jahr voller Kämpfe zu Ende – und damit auch ein Jahr voller staatlicher Repression. Prominente Beispiele dafür sind das Antifa-Ost-Verfahren, die #Öffentlichkeitsfahndungen und #Festnahmen – zuletzt von Maja – nach dem sogenannten „Tag der Ehre“ in #Budapest und darüber hinaus #Demonstrationsverbote, #Kontrollzonen und #Polizeischikanen gegen die #Solidaritätsproteste mit den verhafteten #Antifaschist:innen am Tag X. Zu nennen sind auch die kürzlich gesprochenen Urteile im Stuttgarter #Krawallnachtsverfahren oder die massive #Repression gegen die #Klimabewegung in Form von #Verbotsverfahren und medialer Hetze. Zuletzt war es vor allem die palästinensische Bewegung, wie z.B. die #Gefangenensolidaritätsorganisation #Samidoun, die vom Staat ins Visier genommen wurde.
2023 wollen wir zum traditionellen #Knastspaziergang am Jahresende zum Knast in #Bruchsal, um dort den Gefangenen unsere Solidarität zu zeigen. In Bruchsal sitzt unser Genosse Jo aufgrund seines antifaschistischen Engagements in Haft. Nachdem er zuvor in der JVA #Ravensburg mit seinen Mitgefangenen einen öffentlichen #Beschwerdebrief über die miserablen Zustände in der JVA verfasst hat, wurde er nach Bruchsal verlegt, um den Widerstand der Gefangenen in Ravensburg zu schwächen.
Der unmittelbare Kontext der ansteigenden Repression sind natürlich die Bewegungen auf die sie jeweils reagiert: Antifaschistischer Widerstand gegen #Rechtsentwicklung und faschistischen Aufbau, #Klimakämpfe gegen fortschreitende #Umweltzerstörung, internationale Solidarität und Widerstand gegen #Krieg und #Besatzung. Doch das reicht alleine nicht aus, um die aktuellen Entwicklungen zu erklären. Dafür muss man einen Blick auf die gesamtgesellschaftliche Situation werfen. Neben Kriegen in der #Ukraine, #Kurdistan und #Palästina, bekommen wir #Krisenphänomene des globalen #Kapitalismus auch direkt hier vor Ort zu spüren: Preise steigen, soziale Leistungen und Daseinsfürsorge werden gekürzt und gleichzeitig Milliarden in #Bundeswehr und #Rüstungsindustrie investiert. Die anziehende Repression ist Teil einer autoritären Entwicklung, durch die sich der deutsche Staat für die Krisen der Zukunft wappnen will. Dass das unter einer #Ampelregierung geschieht ist historisch nicht neu – die #Sozialdemokratie hatte diese Rolle in der Vergangenheit immer wieder.
Gegen diese Entwicklungen müssen wir zusammenstehen!
Repressionsschläge treffen immer wieder einzelne, doch gemeint sind wir alle. Das gilt nicht nur für die eigene Gruppe oder Organisation, sondern darüber hinaus. Darum müssen wir über unsere eigenen Spektren hinaus Solidarität gegen staatliche Angriffe und Repression organisieren.
Das bedeutet für uns, Repression als ein eigenes, revolutionäres Kampffeld zu begreifen, und uns in unseren täglichen Aktivitäten entsprechend darauf vorzubereiten. Dabei ist der Knast für die linke Bewegung nicht mehr nur eine abstrakte Bedrohung, sondern ein konkretes Phänomen, mit dem wir immer mehr konfrontiert werden und umgehen müssen. Von außen, durch #Gefangenenunterstützung und #Solikreise, aber auch von innen. Beispiele dafür sind Jo oder Findus, sowie der #Hungerstreik der kurdischen Gefangenen. Doch auch sich dem staatlichen Zugriff zu entziehen und in der Illegalität zu arbeiten gehört zur Auseinandersetzung mit häufiger werdenden #Knaststrafen dazu.
Darum wollen wir dieses Jahr an den Knast von Bruchsal ziehen, um unsere #Solidarität über die Knastmauern hinweg zu zeigen!
Freiheit für Jo – Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen
31.12.23, 16 Uhr, Bruchsal Bahnhof
Eine gemeinsame Initiative von: Antifaschistische Aktion Süd | Antifaschistisches Aktionsbündnis #Stuttgart und Region | Antifaschistische Initiative #Heidelberg (iL) | Offenes Antifaschistisches Treffen #Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Rems-Murr | Revolutionäre Aktion Stuttgart | Rote Hilfe e.V. | Solikampagen: „Antifaschismus bleibt Notwendig“ | u. a.
Übersicht zu Anreisen aus anderen Städten:
-
Demo in Bruchsal am 31.12. - Gemeinsame Anreise aus Stuttgart 14:15 Uhr Gleis 1 HBF
Erneut geht ein Jahr voller Kämpfe zu Ende – und damit auch ein Jahr voller staatlicher Repression. Prominente Beispiele dafür sind das Antifa-Ost-Verfahren, die #Öffentlichkeitsfahndungen und #Festnahmen – zuletzt von Maja – nach dem sogenannten „Tag der Ehre“ in #Budapest und darüber hinaus #Demonstrationsverbote, #Kontrollzonen und #Polizeischikanen gegen die #Solidaritätsproteste mit den verhafteten #Antifaschist:innen am Tag X. Zu nennen sind auch die kürzlich gesprochenen Urteile im Stuttgarter #Krawallnachtsverfahren oder die massive #Repression gegen die #Klimabewegung in Form von #Verbotsverfahren und medialer Hetze. Zuletzt war es vor allem die palästinensische Bewegung, wie z.B. die #Gefangenensolidaritätsorganisation #Samidoun, die vom Staat ins Visier genommen wurde.
2023 wollen wir zum traditionellen #Knastspaziergang am Jahresende zum Knast in #Bruchsal, um dort den Gefangenen unsere Solidarität zu zeigen. In Bruchsal sitzt unser Genosse Jo aufgrund seines antifaschistischen Engagements in Haft. Nachdem er zuvor in der JVA #Ravensburg mit seinen Mitgefangenen einen öffentlichen #Beschwerdebrief über die miserablen Zustände in der JVA verfasst hat, wurde er nach Bruchsal verlegt, um den Widerstand der Gefangenen in Ravensburg zu schwächen.
Der unmittelbare Kontext der ansteigenden Repression sind natürlich die Bewegungen auf die sie jeweils reagiert: Antifaschistischer Widerstand gegen #Rechtsentwicklung und faschistischen Aufbau, #Klimakämpfe gegen fortschreitende #Umweltzerstörung, internationale Solidarität und Widerstand gegen #Krieg und #Besatzung. Doch das reicht alleine nicht aus, um die aktuellen Entwicklungen zu erklären. Dafür muss man einen Blick auf die gesamtgesellschaftliche Situation werfen. Neben Kriegen in der #Ukraine, #Kurdistan und #Palästina, bekommen wir #Krisenphänomene des globalen #Kapitalismus auch direkt hier vor Ort zu spüren: Preise steigen, soziale Leistungen und Daseinsfürsorge werden gekürzt und gleichzeitig Milliarden in #Bundeswehr und #Rüstungsindustrie investiert. Die anziehende Repression ist Teil einer autoritären Entwicklung, durch die sich der deutsche Staat für die Krisen der Zukunft wappnen will. Dass das unter einer #Ampelregierung geschieht ist historisch nicht neu – die #Sozialdemokratie hatte diese Rolle in der Vergangenheit immer wieder.
Gegen diese Entwicklungen müssen wir zusammenstehen!
Repressionsschläge treffen immer wieder einzelne, doch gemeint sind wir alle. Das gilt nicht nur für die eigene Gruppe oder Organisation, sondern darüber hinaus. Darum müssen wir über unsere eigenen Spektren hinaus Solidarität gegen staatliche Angriffe und Repression organisieren.
Das bedeutet für uns, Repression als ein eigenes, revolutionäres Kampffeld zu begreifen, und uns in unseren täglichen Aktivitäten entsprechend darauf vorzubereiten. Dabei ist der Knast für die linke Bewegung nicht mehr nur eine abstrakte Bedrohung, sondern ein konkretes Phänomen, mit dem wir immer mehr konfrontiert werden und umgehen müssen. Von außen, durch #Gefangenenunterstützung und #Solikreise, aber auch von innen. Beispiele dafür sind Jo oder Findus, sowie der #Hungerstreik der kurdischen Gefangenen. Doch auch sich dem staatlichen Zugriff zu entziehen und in der Illegalität zu arbeiten gehört zur Auseinandersetzung mit häufiger werdenden #Knaststrafen dazu.
Darum wollen wir dieses Jahr an den Knast von Bruchsal ziehen, um unsere #Solidarität über die Knastmauern hinweg zu zeigen!
Freiheit für Jo – Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen
31.12.23, 16 Uhr, Bruchsal Bahnhof
Eine gemeinsame Initiative von: Antifaschistische Aktion Süd | Antifaschistisches Aktionsbündnis #Stuttgart und Region | Antifaschistische Initiative #Heidelberg (iL) | Offenes Antifaschistisches Treffen #Karlsruhe, Mannheim, Rems-Murr | Revolutionäre Aktion Stuttgart | Rote Hilfe e.V. | Solikampagen: „Antifaschismus bleibt Notwendig“ | u. a.