“The struggle for anti-colonialism is also an anti-imperial struggle, and it requires solidarity of the international working class”
Nithya Nagarajan, activist and representative of the Union of the Unemployed of Palestine, reviews the history of the Palestinian struggle
Nithya Nagarajan, activist and representative of the Union of the Unemployed of Palestine spoke at A Changing World: European Workshop on Geopolitics a 3 days event in Santiago de Compostela.
We have just commemorated the Nakba of 74 years, Nakba, which is the dispossession of the Palestinians in 1948.
We are also in a moment where we are seeing a consolidation and intensification of relations of normalization in the region between the United States, with Israel and other Arab powers, Gulf powers.
And the situation in the region is very bleak for the Palestinians. How do Palestinians resist? What are the forms of Palestinian resistance?
We tend to focus on the state level politics, but there is a politics of popular struggle that is happening in Palestine and it is very important for us to understand what is the basis of the struggle, what are people fighting for and what are the contradictions that they are facing.
I would like to come back to the foundational issues of the Palestinian struggle. It’s a struggle for anti-colonial liberation, which does not depend on the bourgeois state to grant the rights. It’s about a way to understand society, a principle of collective struggle.
So I think it’s very important for us to reflect on this experience in Palestinian history and also to think about how the Palestinian resistance can help us in thinking about national struggles in other contexts.
I think it’s important for us to to remember the historical Palestinian revolution and the ideas of the left in the Palestinian revolution, which always made clear that the struggle for anti-colonialism is also an anti-imperial struggle, and it requires solidarity of the international working class.
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