Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (赤軍-PLFP 世界戦争宣言)

Production: Wakamatsu Production

PLANE HIJACKING INCIDENT

This is a news film

for the construction of the world Red Army

DECLARATION OF WORLD WAR

In March 1970

the Red Anny Faction of the Communist League

hijacked a Japan Airline'; plane and flew lo The People's Democratic Republic of Korea

in order to build an international basis of operation.

In September of the same year,

the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

hijacked a Pan-Am plane, and with three other airplanes,

blew it up at the Revolutionary Airport

THE BEST FORM OF PROPOGANDA

as the PFLP began a new armed struggle

and international guerrilla warfare.

Breaching international boundaries with armed force.

Is it a strategic heroism of war, or propaganda?

IS ARMED STRUGGLE

What is propaganda?

Now it can be defined as people in struggle

speaking the true meaning of the struggle in their own words.

But how and for whom can it be narrated?

A PFLP soldier explains their unique propaganda strategy

developed in the process of the Arab liberation movement in the Middle East.

How do we engage in propaganda activities?

From the lessons of the past five years, it's quite simple.

Propaganda is in fact information,

and information is to communicate the truth.

Moreover, the supreme form of truth is armed struggle.

Therefore, we believe that armed struggle is the best form of propaganda.

It may be true that the worldwide system of discursive propaganda

is hugely influencing international public opinions,

but it is by the people who fight to liberate themselves

through anned struggle

that things are ultimately decided.

Of course, every one of us is fully aware

that the propaganda system of American imperialism

is the largest one in human history.

They dominate the world's TV networks and newspapers

and provide people with false education

and movies by maliciously saying whatever they want.

They believe they can do anything.

The people of South Vietnam have only feeble power,

without TV and newspapers of their own,

but they fight with a firm will as their only weapon

against the imperialist system.

And what is happening now?

The gigantic propaganda system of the United States

is failing to convince people that 'This war is right. '

As days go by,

American people are getting sick and tired,

and have started opposing the war.

This is propaganda, our propaganda.

Propaganda is action and struggle.

That is the only supreme form of propaganda.

However,

that action has to be supported

by finn solidarity with various leftist

parties, factions, and by the revolutionary propaganda system.

Regardless,

the basis is armed struggle by the masses.

Similarly, a soldier of the Japanese Communist League Red Army Faction,

which has strategized the 1960s struggle slogan,

'Pm-Stage Armed Uprising, '

and now recognizes the current situation of the 1910s

as an 'Armed Stand-Off Stage, ' says:

What we can say based on our ongoing struggle

is that the direct attack on the enemy power

such as Osaka-Tokyo War, Daibosatsu Struggle,

Bomb-Attack movement against the American military bases,

hijacks, attacks on police boxes, seizures of arms,

and the serial finance appropriation struggle...

that is armed struggle and is in and of itself propaganda,

and the substance of its military gain

lies in concrete damage inflicted upon the enemy

a fundamental blow to the ruling structure.

And what seizes this truth

is nothing but popular struggle

based on numerous guerrilla wars.

ARMED STRUGGLE IS REALITY

ls reality fighting the enemy?

Who is in reality fighting the enemy?

Are we actually able to fight the enemy?

How is the international reality of armed struggle being engaged in Japanese reality?

How is armed struggle being done?

Or how is it going to develop?

On September 14th 1971

the Communist League Red Anny Faction

and the Japan Communist Party

'Revolutionary Left' Faction

issued a joint manifesto on the creation of the United Red Army.

This is the correct military formation for popular war,

born as it inevitably was of the process

as skirmishes toward revolutionary war

moving from the 2/17 arms seizure struggle

to the serial finance appropriation struggle.

Friends and comrades

who have gathered here today!

We the Japan Revolutionary Front

and the Keihin Anpo Struggle-Collective,

linked together by the crimson threads

of the hijack struggle and 12/18 struggle,

following the 1/25 rally and subsequent development of guerrilla warfare,

host this rally for the purpose

of fighting both Japanese and world revolutionary struggle.

With popular struggle as an axis,

directed toward the victory of revolutionary war,

the Red Army was established on July 15th of this year.

This united army

will become a unified force by adding new members

through firm practice of guerrilla wars against world imperialism.

The united army will first and foremost

engage in guerrilla wars and confront various difficulties in the midst

of both armed struggle and military build-up,

and eventually deepen the war policy

that had been attained by sacrifices.

In the midst of deepening war policy,

both the CRAF and JCPRF will examine

the lines of struggle and gain the new-Party formation.

The revolutionary anny will fight

toward a general national uprising,

and for that purpose persist in guerrilla wars for the victory

of revolutionary war and the creation of true communism.

The revolutionary anny will gain victory by legitimizing

itself through guerrilla wars and communizing the army,

and establish solidarity with all the peoples who fight

tho World Revolutionary War.

The revolutionary anny is the firm and strong axis

for the surely germinating spirit of the working people,

and is an army for the just war.

Comrades, let us gain the further position in this war,

join the United Red Army, and build the battle front

for the scorch-the-earth guerrilla war!

ARMED STRUGGLE

WEAPONS ARE

THE LANGUAGE OF OPPRESSED PEOPLE

And how are we trying to seize the reality,

the reality through armed struggle?

Armed struggle

is itself the words of the people long suppressed.

All the revolutions, particularly in their early stages,

should choose appropriate positions for defence against the enemy.

It is because for us,

the enemy is not only Israel, but includes the world imperialists,

tho Zionists and the reactionary Arab governments.

For the past five years, we have fought the war

against the reactionary Jewish government in various ways.

In this process,

we thought of how to defend our revolution,

to further the war of liberation for our country,

against the Zionist invasion and the enemy agents

of the reactionary Jordanian government.

The answer is here,

Jerash Mountain stretching along the border of Israel and Jordan,

that we chose to be our battle ground,

to build our base to start war and expand revolution.

Every day we are in constant life or death battles

with the Israeli government, which is a Zionist agent,

and the Jordanian government,

which is the agent of Israel.

Such strategies and tactics as ours

are the products of our thought and positions immediate to our struggle

much as our Cuban and Vietnamese comrades have done.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine starts a war.

Fight.

Oppressed people try to live the reality of revolution only through armed struggle.

Try to live as communists.

The PFLP soldiers are not heroes of hijacks.

They talk of themselves as communists.

So what is my duty?

My duty as a guerrilla soldier is lo accomplish

everything required in guerrilla struggle.

For example,

it is sometimes hijacking, sometimes giving interviews, and everything in between.

We have proposed and practiced this war,

but there are a variety of things we need for it.

That is why I am learning many pragmatic aspects of the war,

not just one side.

That is why I cannot honestly point to one thing

and say this is what I am doing.

But right now,

I believe that I am engaged in a struggle

to propagandize our 'power. '

But in your question of what I think of being seen as a star or hero of hijack,

you added that I do not see myself as a hero.

To hear someone speak of me that way,

I feel very happy-

But in any case we do not talk about ourselves as individuals.

It is because revolution is always born of people,

for people,

and because it is not meant for general humanity.

That is why being among the whole,

makes the individual pretty insignificant.

And I am especially happy to hear you

say that I am not a hero.

The reason is that I never heard anyone say that before,

and I think that to not become a hero

in the midst of revolutionary Palestinians and proletariats means

that that person is simply doing his or her duty,