ISRAELI ANARCHIST LEAFLET. GIVEN OUT IN MANCHESTER

[fred]

DIRECT ACTION is the democratic act when democracy stops functioning. The Berlin Wall was not dismantled by rulers and agreements, but by citizens who felled it by their own hands.

Since we can remember, we have been brainwashed with hatred and fear of our Palestinian neighbours. We have not gone for trips in the countryside , without armed escort... We were told that our hand is extended for peace but there is no one to talk to. But these lies were exposed and are clear for everyone who participates in the actions, against the occupation. to see. We have slept together beneath the olive trees, (before they were uprooted), we have marched together to the fence and we will continue to struggle together - Israelis, Palestinians and Internationals for justice and equality for all.

For years, good people claim that when the transfer is enacted, they will lie down in front of the weels of the trucks and buses to block that crime. But the transfer is already happening now! Depriving thousands of people of the minimal means of existence does not leave them any alternative . Thousands are leaving their villages to find food for their children. The ethnic cleansing is occuring before our eyes and we have only one option: to use the few rights we still have from the remnants of Israeli democracy and break the racist, immoral laws.

Yes, to break the gates and fences, to block the bull -dozers with our bodies, to enter closed -off military areas and also to transform the enemy into our friend. Palestinian and Israeli resistance will continue as long as the occupation, which is the infrastructure/root of the terror continues.

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[michele cryer]

Thank you for that Fred, it is refreshing/encouraging to see views like this still being voiced...

[thismachinebleeds]

does anyone know of a palastinian anarchist movement? it would be interesting to know that there is, and to know what kind of response they recive, in view that palastinians generally want a state of their own!

[Steve]

There is a goup formed who are applying to become "Friends of the IWA" at the next Congress in December. I don't have any contact details for them as yet.

This is what they have to say

In a meeting of the comrades of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Initiative in
Israel/Palestine, we decided to carry forward the project of building
genuine revolutionary syndicalist organization of the working class. We
decided to ask for affiliation to the IWA and to be in the status of
Friends of the International Workers Association. We are intending to
introduce in the next month our Manifesto.

The recent years have been terribly bad to the Israeli and Palestinian
workers. No political organization or party offers any kind of way
forward; all of them are serving the ruling capitalist elites - all of
them are nothing but loyal servants of the workers' enemies.
The state-owned trade unions in Israel and the corrupted trade unions in
the Palestinian Authority have nothing to propose but compromises with the
big capital, alliances with some "progressive" bourgeois elements and rude
betrayal. The revolutionary anarcho-syndicalist program of the ASI asks
for multinational workers' unity, joint struggle of toilers in this
country and the region, against the Zionist movement headed by the local
capitalists, the Arab reaction headed by the Palestinian Liberation
Organization [PLO] and the Islamists and the collaborative regimes headed
by the loyal puppets of the US imperialism.

As anarcho-syndicalists, we are standing for a society based on free
confederation of revolutionary syndicates and general congress of labor,
for a free and equal society led by the laboring masses of the Middle East
and the world. We are admiring our friends in countries like the United
States, France, Britain, Spain, Germany and other countries, who are doing
courageous and great work against the ruling classes and their agents, and
for genuine syndicalist revolution.

[thismachinebleeds]

do you know any other details? what have they been involved in, where did you find them out? soooo many questions. the reason i ask, is because i read a book by ted curtis called by theft and blood (?) and he never mentioned an @ movement over there, only the ism.

[thismachinebleeds]

i didnt mean to put , in the last post!!!!!!

[Steve]

Sorry all I know is what has been sent by the IWA Secretariat. They are applying to become “Friends” of the IWA, that is not a full section but supporters who hope to grow to become a section. It will be discussed at the Congress in Granada so we’ll probably know more after then.