On Martyrs' Day, join the struggle of the Arab revolution, urges PFLP

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On Martyrs' Day, join the struggle of the Arab revolution, urges PFLP





In a statement marking Martyr's Day, March 9, 2011, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine called upon the masses of the Palestinian people to go to the streets of our cities, villages and refugee camps at home and abroad, to participate in calls to end the division and build a Palestinian national resistance, a democratic Palestinian National Council, a unified leadership, and a rebuilt, restructured and democratic Palestine Liberation Organization that can effectively lead the struggle of our people for freedom, independence and return.


The statement was presented at a mass rally held in Shujaiya stadium on March 9, marking Martyr's Day, named for the anniversary of the martyrdom of PFLP leader in Gaza, Comrade Mohammed al-Aswad, known as Guevara Gaza, in 1973. The PFLP stressed that in light of the advances made by revolutionary Arab resistance to dictatorship, corruption and all forms of subordination to imperialism and capitalism, it is essential for Palestine to stand now and begin a new era, ending the era of Oslo and of division, in harmony with the revolutionary movement of the Arab masses for change throughout the Arab world.


The Front statement remembered its martyrs, the martyrs of our people and our nation - Guevara Gaza, Mohammed al-Aswad; the departure of great leaders, Dr. George Habash and Comrade Abu Maher Yamani; the martyrs Abu Ali Mustafa, Wadih Haddad, and Ghassan Kanafani, the great national martyrs such as Fathi Shikaki, Abu Jihad, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and all of the leaders who have given their lives for Palestine. It called upon all to unite along their path and turn a new page of the Palestinian struggle, ending the internal division and the futile negotiations and resisting occupation, settlement and all of the Zionist war crimes, carrying our united Palestinian flag to support our national decisions and our fundamental and unanimous Palestinian national consensus for freedom, independence and return.

The Front's statement said that on March 9, 1973, Comrade Leader Mohammed Mahmoud Musleh al-Aswad (Guevara Gaza) and his comrades were martyred when they refused to surrender to the enemy forces and decided to fight until their last breath on the soil of Gaza, where they had turned sand into flames beneath the feet of the Zionist invaders. Moshe Dayan, the Zionist commander, admitted that Guevara Gaza ruled the Strip at night while the enemy ruled by day. Comrade Guevara Gaza has been an example of heroism and struggle in the memory of our people, and in his memory today we bow our heads in revolutionary tribute to the leaders and fighters who have come before and pledge to keep the flame of the front as leaders of the resistance.


Furthermore, said the Front, we all dance with joy at the new Arab dawn and join our Arab brothers to restore Arab dignity, fredom, democracy and justice, and we greet the martyrs of the Arab nation with songs of revolutionary joy in all parts of the great Arab homeland and hail the calls of the revolution from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf. The Front concluded by calling upon the Arab Palestinian people to join in the struggle led by our young people, with the revolution of the Arab youth.