Communism and National Liberation in Palestine.

Anti-imperialism can take two paths, the Nationalist one, which seeks to rid a country of foreign forces and achieve independence, and the far left one, which as well as seeking this, longs for the removal of Capitalism. In every anti-imperialist struggle there are bodies on either side. In Ireland, there was the Provisional Irish Republican Army (P.I.R.A), the nationalists, and the Irish National Liberation (INLA), the Communists. In Palestine, there is Hamas, the nationalists, and Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Communists. Only one path results in peace and freedom.

PFLP were founded by George Habash in 1967 as a radical Marxist-Leninist alternative to the moderate PLO. Unlike the PLO, they do not recognise the state of Israel, opposing negotiations with them. The military wing of the PFLP is the Abu Ali Mustapha brigades, named in honour of the former leader assassinated by Zionist forces.PFLP support the one state solution of a secular Marxist-Leninist nation.

National liberation is not enough to Free Palestine. History tells us that the efforts which go to the removal of colonialist regimes are in vain unless the Capitalism system leaves with these imperialists. In Palestine, Arabs are oppressed by imperialism orchestrated by the Zionist settlers, but also by Capitalism maintained universally by the bourgeois, many of whom are Arab themselves.

"As it is, the Palestinian people do not all live under these same conditions but rather under different living conditions, a fact which we cannot scientifically ignore."
(Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine, official PFLP document, 1969.)

Imperialism is a consequence of Capitalism, which is the cause. If you only seek to destroy the consequence which is Zionist colonialism, then the cause, Capitalism would still remain and maintain misery and pain to the Palestinian proletariat.

In any revolution, Comrades must know who their enemies, and who their allies are.

Mao, in "Analysis of the Classes of Chinese Society"  (March 1926) makes the following statement, which is applicable to all anti-imperialist revolutions.
"Who are our enemies? Who are our friends?

This is a question of the first importance to the. The basic reason why all previous revolutionary struggles in China achieved so little in their failure to unite with real friends in order to attack real enemies..."

Though Hamas may look upon the Jews as the problem, as the problem, what they ignore is that the Arab bourgeois has ignored the struggle of the Palestinians for decades, just as the Provisional IRA targeted working class Protestants, Hamas treat the Jews in the same way, without realising that religious persecution is a counter revolutionary act. Jews are brought up believing every Arab wants to murder them, yet this is the work of bourgeois propaganda. The working class, both Jewish and Arab are not natural enemies. Sectarianism is a tactic of the ruling class to dismantle working class unity. This occurred in Ireland 40 years ago just as it does in Palestine today. When united, the proletariat are a grave threat to the ruling order, so religious hatred is encouraged- but also crucially exaggerated to widen the gap between not only the Jews and Arabs, but the bourgeois and proletariat.


"The Palestinian bourgeois which now lives in Palestine under Zionist Occupation is not among the forces of the revolution although it has not manifestly associated itself with Israel and will in reality remain the class force through which the enemies will always try to defeat the revolution  and stop it in the middle of the road"
(Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine)


A secularist Marxist Leninist state is the only solution to achieving peace. Jews, Arabs and Christians lived in harmony for decades before Western Imperialism ravaged the land, and they can do so again without it. When you talk of national liberation, you must fully understand what liberation means. Unless you seek to destroy the Capitalist system, then there would be no liberation. The working class Arabs and Jews would continue to hate each other, they would continue to be exploited, and be told that the other is to blame- not the bourgeois. The Palestinians are not just exploited by Zionism, but by Capitalism. Liberation must mean liberation. Liberation must mean Marxism-Leninism.