The World Anti-imperialist Platform
This October marks a lengthy 40 years since Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who is a steadfast communist revolutionary, was imprisoned. Georges Abdallah is the longest imprisoned Lebanese Communist Party activist in Europe. While working as a middle school teacher in Beirut, Georges Abdallah became associated with anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist forces that believed in Marxism-Leninism. He began his political activities in the SSNP (Syrian Social Nationalist Party), and at the same time as the Lebanese Civil War, he joined the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) and the LRAF (Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Factions) and waged an intensified anti-imperialist liberation struggle. He was unjustly imprisoned by French imperialism in 1984, strengthened his studies, connected with comrades inside and outside the prison, and turned the prison into another battleground through ceaseless revolutionary activities, such as conducting a collective hunger strike with viciously oppressed anti-imperialist anti-Zionist activists.
Georges Abdallah’s arrest and imprisonment are a product of the imperialists’ vicious fascist repression. In October 1984, French authorities arrested Abdallah, claiming that his legally issued Algerian passport was a fake. While Abdallah was in prison, the French counterintelligence agency, Directorate of Territorial Surveillance, accused him of using weapons found in his apartment to assassinate a US colonel and a Mossad officer in 1982, and he was sentenced to life in prison in March 1987. The US authorities directly pressured the French government to block Georges Abdallah’s release. US President Reagan personally raised the issue during his meeting with French President François Mitterrand. In February 2012, Lebanese Prime Minister Mikati traveled to France and called for the release of the “political prisoner” in exchange for deportation, but was ignored. These facts prove that French imperialism does not hesitate to violate the human rights of activists who oppose imperialism and work for liberation, and that US imperialism is the ringleader of modern imperialism.
The current extremely tense situation in West Asia emphasizes the absolute importance of the anti-Zionist struggle. The Zionist killing machine is viciously maneuvering the Nakba (displacement) of the Palestinian people by committing genocide and destroying their homes. It is exploding the war in West Asia by effectively starting an all-out war with Lebanon, through indiscriminate bombings and massacres aimed at the Lebanese people and Hezbollah. The imperialist US, the power behind Zionist Israel, is supplying Israel with aggressive weapons and vital military intelligence, and is deploying aggressive forces, including nuclear aircraft carriers, near West Asia to pressure anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist forces. Only a war to the death by the liberation forces of West Asia and the Islamic nation, united in their conviction and determination for liberation and freedom, can break through the current situation.
Imperialism’s vulnerability can never be hidden. The United States, NATO and pro-US warmonger forces, which, faced with the inevitable decline and fall due to the general crisis at home and the revival of the anti-imperialist movement, are making a last-ditch effort to provoke World War 3, invoking the “new axis of aggression” and manipulate the anachronistic “new cold war” system. The anti-imperialist camp, united with the world’s strongest nuclear and missile powers, as well as with the people of the world, is overwhelming the imperialist camp in terms of justification and operations. This fact convinces us that the anti-imperialist camp will surely win World War 3. The vicious scheme of US-French imperialism, imprisoning the communist for even 40 years, paradoxically demonstrates that anti-imperialism is the right and prevailing trend. The revolutionary ideas that oppose imperialism and strive for independence, along with the indomitable will to engage in the struggle possessed by Abdallah and the world’s progressive humanity, cannot be defeated. The new world that Abdallah strives to achieve with all his life, in which independence and genuine peace are realized, will surely come to fruition.
October 26th, 2024, Dakar in the Republic of Senegal