The Institute for Palestine Studies has been translating these messages so that the world can see the humanity buried under the rubble and the spirit of resistance of Palestinians.
To help maximize their reach, we're republishing them here.
https://proteanmag.com/2023/10/15/letters-from-gaza/
Bluesky doesn't suppress links like twitter, so here are clickable links, if that helps!
www.map.org.uk
www.pcrf.net
www.wfp.org
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
www.unrwausa.org
Palestinians say Israel’s announcement of renewing water supply to southern Gaza is a ‘publicity stunt,’ as many water pipes were damaged in the Israeli shelling. Also, without electricity, water pumps to fill the tanks are not working.
A thing that will haunt me for a while is that Israel gave everybody in Gaza City 24 hours to leave their homes, probably forever, and then started bombing convoys of moms with little kids just after 8pm the next day
Israeli raids on Gaza today have killed an average of more than two Palestinians every 10 minutes, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says. It is shaping up to be the deadliest day since Israel started a retaliatory and indiscriminate bombing campaign against the besieged enclave last weekend.
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they are the manifestation of the community of struggle that expresses the tension with capitalist dystopia and are a moment of radical transformation of this world, and although it is not free of contradictions, that should not blind us to the systematic terror exercised by the state of Israel
The world that is beyond barbarism cannot be more than communism, self-determination and defeatism now cannot but coincide and are in function of waging war on capital through their real struggles...
and its exhaustion in the 70s, now both self-determination and defeatism need to be understood under the phenomenon of the crisis of capital and the bankruptcy capitalist democracy, partially realized in the Middle East.
Untying the knots of contradictions between colonialism, patriarchy and capital that shape class relations is a task that starts from concrete struggles...it seems that we continue trying to see liberation struggles through the lenses of the cycle of accumulation of the 20th century
Imo, proletarian politics should aim to help the liberation of oppressed peoples. I don't know when this stopped being clear: this is not popular frontism (some want to see native bourgeoisies everywhere).
every time you stare at the genocide and remain helpless without being able to do anything, so much so that you end up normalizing the situation that exists far away from you, and continue your life as if nothing happens...every damn time you reproduce the anomie of a heartless world
Capital no longer wants to absorb living labor, but rather accumulate dead and ruins, that is what political economy translates into in these gray days
and it seems that history shows that capital is not only an immense accumulation of ruins, but of terror: the relationship between abstract domination and its execution.
but is that the only way? Could it not be opened is an anti-state liberation? Free Palestine could be the commune of Palestine? idk but even if that were not the case my support is unconditional with the Palestinian people
3. The Palestinian resistance is not equivalent to Hamas (which seems to particularly worry some comrades); 4. Genocide is obscured by these types of calls, relativizing it. Although I do not believe in the possibility of a "national liberation" understood with the lenses of the 20th century,
Why I think the callings like NWBCW are misplaced: 1. It is not a war between two states, it is an occupation; 2 The possibility (if it exists) of a supposed revolutionary defeatism does not take into account how the occupation shapes class relations;
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Ira Hybris y @reproutopia.bsky.social conversan sobre la pulsión crítica con la familia dentro de la historia del socialismo y sobre la comunización de los cuidados como herramienta ecosocial.
corrientecalida.com/el-infame-le...
Many comrades in the west may not understand anti-colonial struggles, because they believe that it is just a type of book for intellectuals....they do not see that capital, colonialism, real subsumption, are related concepts
Solidarity with oppressed peoples!
I sincerely only hope for a great revolt around the world in support of our Palestinian brothers and sisters, it is the struggle that opens the way to look towards a different world, not armchair analysis. We will not apologize for the violence we will unleash against this fucking world
.@prisonculture.bsky.social and I shared some thoughts about "peace" and apartheid alongside an excerpt from Let This Radicalize You in @truthout.bsky.social today.
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violence is not always revolutionary, however condemning the violence of the oppressed is always counter-revolutionary
3. That revolutionary defeatism will always be our policy, it is true, however, this is not a war between two states, but a genocidal state that exercises its violence indiscriminately under the excuse that they fight the terrorism that they themselves have helped to create...
supporting one of the blocs, because they consider it to be historically progressive for the correlation of forces between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie (geopolitics has never been our battlefield);
2. That the representatives of capital at a global level are in conflict, and this translates into an acceleration of conflicts between blocks antagonistic to their capitalist accumulation projects, which catch the naive gaze of the other part of the "communists"