
Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun: LONG LIVE THE TRIUMPH OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE!
We hereby publish an unofficial translation of a statement by the Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun:
There are peoples who manage to develop a deep conviction about their role in history. They recognize themselves as the makers of their own destiny, the clearest and most sensitive protagonists in the transformations of societies. Palestine, and in particular the people of Gaza, are one of those peoples who put forward the supreme sacrifice of giving their lives to defend their sovereignty. In this struggle, they safeguard their dignity and their right to forge a future in the course of a history that must be written by its own inhabitants, even in the midst of its contradictions.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire after 15 tough months of a disproportionate war, in which the winner was the one who spared no blood to achieve their goals.
Throughout history, wars have been bloody. In fact, the technology deployed by the West seeks precisely that: to cause the greatest physical damage, and we are not referring only to people and other living beings, but also to infrastructure.
Gaza is a clear example of this. The United States, Israel, Canada, Germany, France and other countries, all nuclear and military powers, have intervened against the people of Gaza, who have only RPGs, rifles and explosives. They have no planes, helicopters, tanks, torpedo boats or any comparable military equipment. They are supported only by historical reason, based on their right to be and exist, like any other people deeply rooted in the bowels of their territory.
It is true that this may seem like a Pyrrhic victory for the Palestinians. Nearly 50,000 dead. On the Israeli side, one cannot say that they have “come out unscathed” either; they have also mourned thousands of their dead. However, the fact that the Palestinians continue to live, even among the rubble of Gaza, shows that resistance transcends the number of dead and the sacrifice necessary to remain in a territory that belongs to them and that, abusively, for more than 70 years, has been the object of attempts to usurp it by the criminal greed of Zionism.
Gaza, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and other oppressed peoples of the world have achieved a victory in Gaza. To these thousands of martyrs we owe the pride and the certainty that resistance against Yankee imperialism and criminal Zionism is a real possibility, provided we have the courage to make the supreme sacrifice and the determination to conquer the heights.
In the historical memory of the peoples of the world, not only the heroic victories of the Palestinian people will remain; there remains much more: a trace, a footprint, a path. It is the one that has been marked by those who, with courage, have defended their right to self-determination and a dignified existence.
The Communist Party of Ecuador – Red Sun salutes the victory of the Palestinian people over imperialism and Zionism. It also recognizes in its martyrs a valuable contribution to the struggle for national liberation of all peoples of the world who face any form of oppression. There is no doubt: THEY WILL LIVE IN THE HEARTS AND IN THE STRUGGLES OF THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD!
LONG LIVE FREE PALESTINE!
LONG LIVE THE STRUGGLE AGAINST IMPERIALISM AND ZIONISM!
LONG LIVE THE ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE!
LET’S CONQUER THE RED SUN OF LIBERATION: COMMUNISM!