By Ana Hurtado on December 30, 2023, from Havana
Gaza City, photo : Ali Jadallah / Anadolu
In 1902 the world was receiving one of Lenin’s most important works, called What Is To Be Done? He reflected in its pages on what path a revolutionary party should take and its connection with the masses.
Although at that time many of the social phenomena, wars and massacres that came later had not taken place, Lenin focused on shaping a slow and solid organization of the working class, this being the only way to obtain without doubt freedom of thought and class consciousness. That is how it is and there is no other way.
But within this theoretical and philosophical plane, there are variants that can break the harmony of this gestation of thought that is built after years and centuries.
Rosa Luxemburg verbalized it in a phrase that I heard for the first time in my university years: “When the Revolution comes down from our heads to our fists”.
And is it legitimate? And so much so. Because at certain times, when there is no way out, either you defend yourself, or they take away even the air you breathe. That is why we support and will always support the Palestinian resistance. That it is dignified, that it makes use of the means it has in the face of a criminal and destructive occupation, which counts on the imperialist tools to manipulate and intoxicate the daily account of events. The Palestinian people have the right to resist by all means. All are valid when they are burying you alive. When the level of sadism exceeds all limits by the Netanyahu’s dogs of prey. When they are killing all the journalists in the area so that they do not tell us the reality of what is really happening.
As it turns out, we end the year 2023 with a genocide that has not stopped, that continues. It accompanies us every day in everything we do. And we face two dangerous scenarios: normalizing it and getting used to barbarism. And the second, which is demoralization. That we become depressed, that we become immobilized. The war makers and those who traffic in lives know all this. They are millimetrically trained in how to manipulate the human psyche so that, at a certain point, war seems distant and people dissociate themselves from it.
As our fellow Palestinians say: we don’t have time to cry. We have to take action. As those inside the Gaza Strip and the territories illegally occupied by Zionism are already doing heroically.
We have to speak out. Tell the truth without shame. No masks. To shout loud and clear that the Palestinian resistance is not terrorist. That imperialism bestializes man and that we have reached the point where hatred of the oppressor is the strongest factor of struggle that we have at this time to say ENOUGH.
There is love as there is hate. I hate imperialism, colonialism, Zionism, abuse of power, gender violence, social injustice, and mistreatment. I hate so many things that I see in the world that if it were not for this feeling that they awaken in me, I would not have the strength to denounce them and also to mobilize against them. That does not prevent me from loving, and I do it too, with equal or greater strength.
It is the hatred of war, of its criminals, of state terrorism and of US and Israeli imperialism that should make us not be silent. Never give up as long as injustices continue to be committed in Palestine.
As of today, more bombs have already been dropped in Gaza than all the bombs dropped in World War II.
We are facing a powerful supremacist movement, just as was German National Socialism, known as Nazism. We are talking about two similar movements with many parallels.
Israel is the only country in the world where it is allowed to torture by law and try children in military courts. They have besieged the Gaza Strip like the Warsaw Ghetto. What more proof is needed?
Netanyahu is a war criminal who urgently needs to be tried by the International Criminal Court. He has killed more journalists in two and a half months than were killed in twenty years in Vietnam.
It is worth remembering that Israel would not be able to wage this war without the support of Uncle Sam. There is not a war in the world in which the Americans are not involved without the support of their vassals in the European Union.
And frustration flourishes. Because the Red Army defeated Nazism and put more than twenty million dead in the Second World War. It is a blow in history that the imperial ego has choked on. And the others because they want to make others pay for the crimes they once committed against their ancestors in the Holocaust.
They tell us that there are Jews who say to Zionism: “The Nazis made me afraid because I am a Jew. NOwYou are making me ashamed to be a Jew”.
To those Jews, who have nothing to do with colonialist and expansionist Zionism, just give them a voice. The one that Israel wants to obscure and hide.
To us, to the Palestinians, to anyone who raises his voice against this extermination: shout. The more they want to silence us, the louder we will shout.
Because tomorrow, or soon, the great avenues will open.
Source: Cubadebate, translation Resumen Latinoamericano – English