People's War Will Defeat the Madrid
Conspiracy
- Statement
by the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
28th
October 1991
On 30th October
the enemies of the Palestinian people, large and small, will be
gathered in Madrid in hopes of burying the cause of Palestine once
and for all. But even before the conference has been convened, the
Palestinian people have responded by a new wave of struggle against
the Zionist occupiers and capitulation and surrender.
The conference
is orchestrated by the U.S. whose main preparation for the conference
has been the massacre and starvation of hundreds of thousands of
Iraqi people in the vicious Gulf War. The Soviet Union has been
given a supporting role in this deadly spectacle. Arab lackey regimes
have been ordered to attend. A gloating Shamir will be present to
rub salt in the wounds. A handful of Palestinian capitulators have
been hired to bow and scrape at the imperialist table, while Yassir
Arafat applauds this ultimate humiliation.
The U.S. imperialists
have made the starting point for the talks acceptance of the legitimacy
of Zionist Israel, which means accepting as legitimate the whole
history of crimes and conspiracies against the Palestinian people
including the bloody uprooting of the Palestinian people, the forceful
deprivation of their right of statehood, the creation of a vicious
prison-state known as Israel, and a series of wars and aggressions
carried out by this Zionist-imperialist fortress against the neighbouring
Arab states. The only role for the Palestinian "leaders"
in this process is to accept their subjugation to the U.S. imperialists
and their watchdog Israeli state, and to serve as policemen over
the Palestinian masses who are sure to reject this capitulation.
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The capitulation
of Arafat to the Madrid Conspiracy is a logical continuation, under
today's international conditions, of a long-standing line upheld
by the principal components of the PLO. For years the Palestinian
people have been told that "realism" dictated that their
liberation could only come about by relying on imperialist regimes
(and especially the Soviet social-imperialists), reactionary Arab
states (not only the likes of Iraq, Syria or Libya but also Saudi
Arabia or the Emir of Kuwait) and "world public opinion",
by which they meant the opinions of the reactionary ruling classes.
Long ago, the principle of an imperialist-sponsored "settlement"
of the Palestinian question, which would leave Israel intact (the
so-called mini-state solution), was accepted by the PLO. But each
compromise, each retreat, only whetted the appetites of the imperialists
for even greater disgraces. What was sold to the people as the "first
step" in the complete liberation of Palestine is now revealed
as the first step on the road to Madrid.
In the past,
the Soviet Union pursued its imperialist interests by masquerading
as supporters of the Palestinian people. They sought to use the
struggle of the Arab masses as a weapon in their contention with
the U.S. imperialists. But the Soviet social-imperialists always
supported Israel's so-called right to exist and always opposed unleashing
the masses in Palestine and the Arab world in real revolutionary
struggle against Zionism and imperialism.
Today the USSR
is pursuing its imperialist interests not mainly through open conflict
with the U.S., but through collaboration with them. After all, the
whole idea of an International Conference on the Middle East has
always been a Soviet proposal, only now they are forced to accept
a secondary role.
The Soviet
Union's new posture also has meant that some of the reactionary
Arab regimes previously tied to it, and in the first place the Assad
regime in Syria, must now dance to the music of Baker and Shamir.
Those who have preached reliance on the Soviet Union and its clients
also share responsibility for the Madrid Conspiracy.
New
World Order
The Palestinian
people are being told to put aside their "dreams" of the
reconquest of their homeland. The U.S. has declared its intention
to create a "New World Order" which will last one hundred
years. The capitulators claim there is no realistic alternative
other than begging for a job as gendarme in this reactionary set-up.
But what is
most "unrealistic" is to assume that the masses of the
Palestinian people will remain silent as the Madrid conspirators
tighten the screws of oppression and exploitation. Already rebellions
have broken out. And just as all previous efforts to sell out the
national rights of the Palestinian people have been rebuffed by
the people, so too will the Madrid conspirators find themselves
isolated and under attack from the masses.
It is true
that extremely powerful reactionary forces are united against the
Palestinian people. But history has shown again and again that as
the Palestinian masses have struggled against their enemies they
have found a reservoir of strength and support - not from the imperialists,
emirs, generals or so-called left-wing Zionists, but from their
true allies - the proletariat and the masses of oppressed peoples
worldwide. The struggle against the Madrid Conspiracy can transform
Palestine from a victim of the "New World Order" into
a vital spearhead of armed struggle against this reactionary order
and a clarion call to the workers and peasants and revolutionary
intellectuals the world over. The struggle to liberate all of Palestine
cannot help but be bitter, protracted and full of sacrifice. But
there is no alternative. Hoping that the imperialists, Zionists
and reactionaries will ever consent to any genuine liberation is
worse than an unrealistic dream, it is pure deception aimed at fooling
people into abandoning their struggle.
Protracted
Peoples War is the only real method of liberating Palestine. This
is the path that is being victoriously followed today by the Communist
Party of Peru which has waged ten years of revolutionary warfare
against the U.S.-backed Peruvian state, and has done so by relying
on its own efforts without a drop of aid from the enemies of the
revolution.
The heroic
Palestinian people have shown time and again that they yearn to
wage this kind of warfare. But history has shown that for such a
war to be successfully waged the proletariat must lead it through
its genuine Marxist-Leninist-Maoist party. The lack of such a party
in Palestine is sorely felt.
The Revolutionary
Internationalist Movement links together the genuine Maoist parties
and organisations the world over. It stands for resolute and uncompromising
struggle against imperialism and reaction, for carrying the struggle
all the way forward to build a communist world without class distinctions,
and for proletarian internationalism which links the struggles of
the workers and oppressed all over the world.
The time is
long overdue for Palestinian revolutionaries to cast aside the illusions
and the false paths that have led to Madrid. The long and glorious
tradition of struggle of the Palestinian people, right down to today's
struggle against the Madrid Conspiracy, create excellent conditions
for the emergence of genuine revolutionary leadership based on Marxism-Leninism-Mao
Tsetung Thought.
For
the Complete Liberation of Palestine!
People's
War Will Defeat the Madrid Conspiracy!
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