Bulletin No 51 octobre 2024 We reproduce here the statement of Georges Abdallah read during the annual demonstration of solidarity with the oldest political prisoner in France on Saturday, October 26. The national press was present, which had almost never happened, thousands of people came to participate in the demonstration. The Revolutionary Communist Party salutes the courage and self-sacrifice of Georges, he has never denied his convictions and takes a lucid and enlightened look at the situation in the Middle East, particularly in Palestine, a living Marxist activist, more alive than ever.
Dear comrades, Dear friends,
Years, very long years, behind the abominable walls and it is always the same determination and the same enthusiasm in echo to your solidarity mobilization...
Knowing that you are gathered here today, facing this barbed wire and other watchtowers, a few meters from my cell, fills me with strength and warms my heart.
Your solidarity mobilization leaves no one here indifferent, do you see the atmosphere in these sinister places, all this prison atmosphere, changes when the echo of active life comes to collide with the nameless flatness of a deadly prison daily life... Thus social fellow prisoners, discover as if by magic, if only for a little moment, the beauty and the power of fundamentally disinterested human relationships, solidarity despite so many years behind bars... survivors in cultural and emotional misery, without real relations with society for many years for some, this awakening of enthusiasm and humanity does not go unnoticed; it can be read in the eyes and it can be seen in these spontaneous comments often sincere but alas without follow-up.
Comrades and friends, the echo of your slogans, your songs and everything else, goes beyond these barbed wires and other watchtowers, it resonates in our heads and transports us far from these sinister places.
Dear comrades, Dear friends,
At the dawn of this forty-first year of captivity, finding you here, in the diversity of your commitment, brings a stinging denial to all those who were counting on the exhaustion of your solidarity momentum. It highlights that the change in the balance of power in favor of the incarcerated revolutionary protagonists is always a function of the solidarity mobilization assumed on the terrain of the anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist struggle.
Thus, we can say without the slightest hesitation that the most significant support that we can give to our imprisoned comrades is part of real engagement in the ongoing struggle. It is only by assuming solidarity on this ground that keeping our comrades in prison begins to weigh more heavily than the possible threats inherent in their release.
Comrades and friends, in this time of global crisis of globalized capitalism and the exacerbation of all its contradictions, this time of war, of large-scale massacre, of repression, of fascisation, of propaganda and manipulation, of great struggles and mobilization and especially of this enthusiastic surge of active youth against a backdrop of barbarity inherent in moribund capitalism…. For the first time in the history of humanity, millions of people are witnessing an ongoing genocide. For more than 380 days, the genocidaires have continued to rage in Gaza and the West Bank and now they are expanding their field of war to Lebanon with the active support of the main imperialist powers of the West. However, thanks to the heroic resistance of the Palestinian popular masses and their fighting vanguards, and especially thanks to the massive solidarity mobilization throughout the world, Palestine is resisting and, more than ever, reoccupying its place at the forefront of the international scene.
That being said, Dear Comrades, Dear Friends, perhaps it would be useful to recall that active international solidarity is proving to be an indispensable weapon in the struggle against the ongoing settlement colonization in Palestine and the genocidal war that is intimately inherent to it. It is always on the basis of this active solidarity that we can participate in the changes in the balance of power here, in the belly of the imperialist beast and elsewhere in the process of building the "Historical Bloc", the global framework and potential subject of the Palestinian national liberation movement.
Dear comrades, Dear friends,
Certainly, it is urgent to do everything possible to counter and stop the ongoing Zionist barbarity in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. The fact remains that despite this large-scale genocidal aggression against Gaza these days, where in addition to the tens and tens of thousands of martyrs and wounded, there is the terrible widespread destruction of all the habitable space in Gaza, the resistance remains unwavering, protected and endorsed by the Palestinian popular masses.
Gaza will never carry the white flag of surrender. Neither the Zionists nor any other criminal force will ever succeed in breaking the will of resistance in Gaza.
Shame on all those who, faced with genocidal Zionist barbarity, call for looking elsewhere!
May a thousand initiatives flourish in favor of Palestine and its glorious resistance!
Capitalism is nothing more than barbarism, honor to all those who oppose it in the diversity of their expressions!
Together and only together will we win!
Palestine will live and Palestine will certainly win!
To all of you, comrades and friends, my warm revolutionary greetings.
Your comrade Georges Abdallah