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'Che-Leila' Youth Brigades Launched in Occupied Ramallah ======================================== "Love the people, serve them and become a part of them" (Leila Khaled's Autobiography 'My People Shall Live') Founded in Ramallah, Palestine, April 5th 2002 Why the launch of Che-Leila? ------------------------------ Che-Leila is a non party-affiliated organisation in Britain that will provide support to the international movements who are fighting imperialism, which is the source of poverty, hunger, destitution and humiliation in oppressed peoples' countries. It is unlike any other organisation in Britain as it seeks to concretely support those civil mass organisations of people who are seeing to the peoples basic human needs under imperialist exploitation and oppression. It has been too long in Britain that people have not been supported because a section of British people have been corrupted by the same system that they claim to fight. In Ramallah, we are meeting many peoples organisations who are arrogantly dismissed by these people in Britain. They are doing revolutionary work, and we as revolutionaries in the heartland of British Imperialism are duty bound to do our utmost to support them. Inspired by the unity in Palestine and the Arab world ----------------------------------------------------- In Ramallah we are following the tremendous international support that the people of occupied Palestine are receiving, especially the Arab youth. We were very much inspired by the youth of Jordan and Egypt (Cairo University students are heroically facing batons, water cannons and armoured trucks on their campus while striking against US and Zionist presence in their country). Living through the events in the Northern towns and cities last summer in Britain, we watched with mixed feelings our Asian youth fighting police and fascist provocation, a provocation which is always encouraged by the racist press and the racist Labour government. While seeing the defence of the Asian community as just, we were pained to see the division amongst the youth of our two communities - white and black. In Ramallah we are profoundly inspired by the unity of the 'National and Islamic Forces', where Islamic, Communist and Secular organisations are all united against a common enemy - the dark Zionist forces. This has to serve as an example to us in Britain. This unity, which is being steeled with every martyr and action of resistance in Palestine and South Lebanon, this is the most potent force against oppression. Repression increases, lets increase our resistance! Che-Leila Youth will never be intimidated! Youth who have founded Che-Leila have been supporting peoples movements for several years. Che-Leila activists have been to Cuba, Ireland, Libya, Algeria, Palestine, Colombia to see and help our people there. Under the Terrorism Act 2000 we are being criminalised for supporting these movements. We have no rights under this law. We can be imprisoned and/or fined upto £2,500 for simply refusing to answer questions. This is unjust and we must resist unjust laws. This law is also an attack on our own movement for our rights in this country. Any physical attack on the British infrastructure is seen as a terrorist action. This means a strike could be seen as a terrorist action. The brutal attack on leading trade unionist Bob Crow of the Rail and Maritime Transport Union is a signal from the powers that be that we will be repressed in defending our rights at work. Che-Leila activists have been detained and arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000, we are all targets and must prepare ourselves for the inevitable repressive actions that the British state will conduct against our peoples in Britain. We must support people who are against the Terrorism Act and the 'emergency terrorist laws' that treat foreign nationals even worse than under the Terrorism Act 2000. Ideological and organisational discipline! Lets Learn! ----------------------------------------------------- With increased repression and exploitation the only weapons we have, are first, understanding, (knowing what you are fighting against and fighting for), and then organisation so that we can be ready not only for defensive actions but also positive actions. The unity of these two will make us unstoppable. We must learn from movements who are showing, IN PRACTICE these strengths. Why the name 'Che -Leila'? ---------------------------- The names comes from Che Guevara and Leila Khaled. Two names which are on the lips of revolutionary youth around the world. These names we have seen everywhere in Ramallah and occupied Palestine, on flags, on streets and in peoples names themselves. Che Guevara is the legendary revolutionary who fought with Castro in Cuba for freedom and also a great internationalist who also fought in other parts of Latin America and in Africa against imperialism. Leila Khaled, living in Jordan today, is probably the most famous Palestinian revolutionary woman whose 'Che Guevara Unit' conducted many historic and world shaking actions for the Arab and Palestinian masses. Che-Leila represents the unity of young men and women against imperialist oppression and exploitation. Why 'Youth Brigades'? ------------------------ Activities: Che-Leila Youth Brigades are interested in the practice of understanding, not in understanding alone. And this is what we have done by coming to Palestine. We are honoured to stand with the Palestinian people and help them to defiantly survive the Zionist occupation. We have faced detentions, arrests, tanks and machine guns from the Zionist army in our efforts to distribute medicine and food to families who desperately need these supplies. The Palestinians face torture under arrest, bullets from the guns, shelling from the tanks, rockets from the Apache helicopters and missiles from F-16 fighter jets. We think it is true humanitarianism to remove these obstacles by whatever means the Palestinians see fit, so as to ensure a decent life for their people. The Che-Leila Youth Brigades will continue to stand by oppressed people in practice. We are organising another delegation Palestine right now. We are also sending delegations to Vietnam in July this year and Zimbabwe after that, two countries that have shown that racist and imperialist occupations can be overthrown. Activities include raising money to send people, but especially raising money for those people we are visiting. For Palestine over £1000 was raised in a few weeks and given to mass organisations that see to peoples medical and nutritional needs. Between delegations the activity is a process of applying the understanding we have learnt internationally to our specific circumstances in Britain. This means study groups, seminars, conferences, cultural events, leafleting and producing newsletters and magazines, demonstrations and mobilisation of our people against the imperialist system, and, as we live in Britain, British Imperialism in particular. "Love the people, serve them and become a part of them" (Leila Khaled's Autobiography 'My People Shall Live') Contact e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 07776 233370 Che-Leila delegates from Ramallah will be speaking on Thursday, 18th of April, 7pm at Conway Hall, Red Lion Sq, Holborn. Other report back meetings arranged so far: April 27th: Yorkshire, time/venue TBA May 4th, 7pm: Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton May 8th, 7pm: Birmingham City Hall May 9th: Leicester, time/venue TBA (organised by Leicester Stop the War Coalition) Also look out for us on the Mayday demonstration and Palestine demonstration (May 18th) in London. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PEOPLES WAR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Peoples_War ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "A people who want to win independence cannot confine themselves to ordinary methods of warfare. Mass insurrections, revolutionary warfare, guerilla detachments everywhere - such is the only way." F Engels "A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past." Fidel Castro "There is no revolution without violence. Those who don't accept violence can cross out the word revolution from their dictionary." Malcolm X "Violence is the universal objective law of all thorough national liberation revolutions." General Vo Nguyen Giap "Without a Peoples Army the people have nothing" Mao Tse-Tung --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9617B Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
