Statement by MATZPEN and the Arab Revolution group

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Five years ago the Israeli army, supported by American imperialism, attacked the Arab countries and occupied part of their territories. The Arab armies, presented by the petit-bourgeois regimes in Egypt, Syria and Iraq as the instrument of Palestinian liberation, were to collapse within a few days.

These five years have seen mass struggles throughout the Arab East, and in particular the emergence onto the political scene of the Palestinian people as an independent political factor for the first time since the Arab revolt of 193639.

But the petit-bourgeois leadership of the Palestinian resistance movement, by isolating the national liberation struggle from the class struggle at a local level, led the Palestinians to defeat and massacre.

The presence of the Israeli army in the territories occupied since 1967 has shown it up for what it is in reality, namely an army of occupation and repression serving the interests of the Zionist regime, the Israeli bourgeoisie, and American imperialism. The administrative arrests, the massive expulsions, the blowing up of houses and the terror used against the civilian population have revealed to the entire world the nature of the Zionist state. Within Israel the occupation has accentuated social tension. Anti-strike decrees, the forcing of workers to appear before military courts, anti-working class legislation and an increase in polic violence have shown concretely to the Israel proletariat that a people which oppresses another cannot itself be free".

The defeat of the Palestinians and the wave of reaction which followed it have highlighted the class alliance between all the regimes in the Arab East, and their links with imperialism. Today more than ever the common struggle of all the revolutionary forces, Arab and Israeli, against imperialism, Zionism and Arab reaction is on the agenda. The aim which the revolutionary organisations must set themselves is the socialist revolution throughout the Arab East. For that, they must equip themselves with the necessary tool for their struggle: the revolutionary party of the Arab East.

FORWARD TO THE BUILDING OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY OF THE ARAB EAST!

DOWN WITH ZIONISM, IMPERIALISM AND ARAB REACTION!

LONG LIVE THE ARAB SOCIALIST REVOLUTION!