"Editing Collective:" "Red Army" " PFLP" "Production:" "Wakamatsu Production" "PLANE HIJACKING INCIDENT" "This is a news film for the construction of the world Red Army" "RED ARMY/PFLP:" "DECLARATION OF WORLD WAR" "In March 1970 the Red Army Faction of the Communist League hijacked a Japan Airline's plane and flew to 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 armed 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 firm 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," "'Pre-Stage Armed Uprising,' and now recognizes the current situation of the 1970s 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" "Is 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 Army 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 army 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 army will gain victory by legitimizing itself through guerrilla wars and communizing the army, and establish solidarity with all the peoples who fight the World Revolutionary War." "The revolutionary army 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, the 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 to 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," "not as some sort of hobby." "In my case, my duty involves not just hijacking, but is something with which death always accompanies my life." "Therefore," "I will reply to those people who see us as heroes, that we are never heroes, that we are not fighting this war as our hobby, and that we are simply doing our duty and I like to insist that we dedicate ourselves to revolution," "and that our lives are for revolution, not for being seen as heroes." "People suppressed in the barracks of refugee camps." "People exposed to indiscriminate shelling." "Is it people, or communists, who are suppressed?" "A revolutionary must dedicate his or her personal life in actual struggle and practice it." "Therefore, there is no such thing as personal life or life in struggle, because struggle is, for all the people involved in a revolution, an individual, and total life." "Therefore," "I neither think nor feel that there is a personal life there is only life in armed struggle." "The separate lives should be unified and expanded." "As revolutionaries, we try not to live our lives conceitedly, and act accordingly." "But as any revolutionary does, we believe in our future." "From my experience as a school teacher, I speak of 'wealth':" "you could go any place if you have money." "But I gave up everything to fight the enemy." "We have to sacrifice everything we have for this struggle." "It is because we fight for this country and people and at the same time live like them." "Only by doing so could we have something to share with the proletariat, and I was able to throw away my petit-bourgeois-ness." "And there are many people like me among us, as there were many before us." "People have been reforming themselves." "They are teachers, and I am their pupil who is learning to abandon petit-bourgeois life." "They are also studying and practicing the proletarian life." "Only this way of life will elevate and advance revolution, and retain the leadership of not petit-bourgeoisie, but the proletariat class." "Because of this, it is only through such a situation and principle that people become truly revolutionary people and it is only through the proletariat class that without having learned the concept and ideal about 'people' still desire revolution." "The reason is that the petit-bourgeois because they do not live the life of the proletariat cannot share their problems and hence cannot reach the horizon that we have reached." "That is why we are fighting not as petit-bourgeois but as proletariat." "The meaning of revolution as revolution lies in this that petit-bourgeois cannot fight the way the proletariat can." "ARMED STRUGGLE" "IS WAR" "War." "Oppressed people wage war." "What is their weapon to defeat the enemy?" "What is the people's weapon?" "The world is engaged in wars every day." "History has seen wars every day." "Has there ever been a peaceful day for the oppressed people?" "A soldier, imprisoned as the result of armed struggle, speaks:" "At this Tokyo Local Court, there is one thing that first needs to be clarified." "It is the fact that I am imprisoned and dragged into the current trial because I am held by the enemy as a prisoner of war that is, a POW during wartime." "Red Army soldiers belong to combat-practice units of revolutionary war, not mindless chattering" "We know that the ethics required of us doers is that of silence and determination." "Our present is a new revolutionary age which demands that we refuse to express revolution in harmless chatters and thousands of letter heads and that we practice decisive action, and that is why we prefer not to blather in bourgeois court." "Therefore, we do not accept our current designation as 'defendants,' and we constantly think of transforming our existence into an offensive weapon." "What must be clarified is that it is the imperialists, the government bourgeoisie, and the prosecutors who have to be judged." "In order to reverse the positions of judges and the judged, the world revolution must be resolutely executed." "And history will inscribe us as heroes of the people and prove our innocence." "Comrades, let us crush the suppression by the cruel and cowardly enemy powers who are against the factions of revolutionary war." "We must establish legal and illegal mass-based support networks in every corner of civil society by forming alliances with and backing armed struggle elsewhere." "Organize the influence and extension of armed struggle, build up legal and illegal material power" "against the enemy power, minimize the sacrifice and damage of revolutionary force generate new revolutionary soldiers far surpassing previous ones, accumulate gains and lessons from victories, and create the continuity and sustainability of armed struggle." "Finally, we express our determination to continue to victoriously fight against the mean, cowardly enemy power through this court struggle and we express this message of solidarity" "to many people who support our court and hijack struggle." "I end my appeal by calling on all people, not only the youth, but also the elderly, children, men and women, to volunteer to be Red Army soldiers" "and hear the call of the war of world proletarian." "A Palestinian soldier, Mr. Fedain, who lives every day in the war of armed struggle with either 'my death' or the 'enemy's death,' speaks:" "Our morality is to fight and win." "It is because the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine fights with people and fights for people." "This morality is evinced by the oppression against the people in refugee camps in the countries under occupation." "The morality of we guerrilla soldiers is that the people support revolution, and their purpose and aspirations lie in revolution." "We do not fight because we live." "We fight to live." "Fighting is living." "Moreover, we have to think how to make use of objective situations, subjective battle power, and other various revolutionary experiences through thorough understanding of the laws and concepts of revolution and our analyses of the reality." "Revolutions are all similar, but every revolution has its own unique characteristics." "Therefore, we the PFLP should constantly learn and practice the principles of popular revolution." "We have to choose the strategy most appropriate to our situation." "This is because the political and military position of Palestine guerrillas is an extremely difficult one." "For example, in 1936 when we fought Zionists' immigration to Palestine, and in 1967, when Arab nationalism made a pact with reactionary governments and declined into the petit-bourgeois ideology, our revolution did not have clear political strategy." "Neither did we have a theoretical strategy for revolution." "For that reason we were defeated and many comrades were sacrificed." "Now we know:" "Guerrilla war is not fought in a fixed single place." "A guerrilla should first recognize that he is a unit in war." "Understanding this, he gains people's purpose and aspiration - revolution as the morality of guerrilla soldiers, and make this our strategy." "The morality of oppressed people is not that they fight because they live." "They fight to live, and fighting is living." "In the desert of rocks and sand dust," "Fedine lives and fights like trees and grass." "It is within the war that lived peace is being born as the word of people." "They learn guns with a gun in one hand;" "they learn things through guns." "Is the first word that oppressed people can learn to seize guns and bullets?" "ARMED STRUGGLE MEANS BEING ON STANDBY" "They make no distinction between front line and hind line." "Their frontline base is a place for their 'rich' education." "Streets are the place for the people to discover and use their language as 'weapon.'" "For them there is no difference between urban guerrilla and guerrilla warfare." "Guerrilla soldiers learn on the battlefield, and masses of people make the battlefield their home." "[PFLP revolutionary anthem]" "[The International]" "Before us is a landscape that armed struggle is to stand by as the landscape of the world." "We can learn from the oppressed Palestinians that to stand by is to innovate the immediately usable weapon and to stand by with the arms." "What we can learn from the Arab liberation movement is whether there were enemies of Palestine besides the Zionists of world imperialism." "PFLP was established in 1967, when the Arab liberation movement was in the hegemonic war among various Arab governments and ethnic groups;" "PFLP began insisting on the necessity of breaking away from other factions and shifting its goal from nationalism to international communism." "And for the past five years it has continuously carried out its strategic theory through armed struggle." "Can one say that PFLP was able to stand on the principle of anti-nationalism?" "The word 'Palestine' means 'brave soldier' in the ancient Canaan language." "Two thousand years ago they fought the invading Hebrews, Roman Empire, the Crusade, and now the modern Zionists." "They say it was not just the past five years but over four thousand years that they have been fighting." "They say they are a nation of fighting soldiers." "They say they establish a line of fighting not only Zionists but now Jordanian and other forces, in the shadow of the Arab national movement's official guerrilla armies." "They are not the soldiers of capitalist war." "They are not the soldiers of armies with rewards and salaries." "They are the fighting 'soldiers of life.'" "They are the people who make military matters their 'lives.'" "They are neither citizens nor nationals;" "they are the people called 'oppressed Palestinians.'" "They make no distinction between frontline and behind the line." "Their frontline base is the place for their 'rich' education." "Streets are the place to discover and use the weapons as people's language." "For them there is no difference between urban guerrilla and guerrilla warfare." "Guerrilla soldiers learn on battlefield, and masses of people make the battlefield their home." "WHO IS OUR ENEMY?" "WHO ARE OUR COMRADES?" "I came here to understand more fully the Palestinian Revolution." "I think that to understand this revolution you must be a part of it." "It is necessary to live the revolution." "And another thing is, the reason I am with PFLP is that I believe PFLP can lead people to the victory of revolution." "I think that they have been able to correctly analyze the problems of Palestine in the Middle East and the problems of Arab people in general." "I think we cannot gain victory without Marx-Leninism." "And it is only PFLP that is keenly aware of the prospect that people can win together with Marx-Leninism." "I would like to send a message to Japanese comrades, revolutionary comrades." "What has to be said first is that we have to bring together and unify the revolutionaries of the world." "It is because all our struggles are one single struggle, and we cannot afford to be divided." "Also because the forces of today's world imperialism are emerging as a unified power." "We aim to annihilate our enemies." "For this aim, we have to engage in a collective struggle to win this war and expel the forces of world imperialists." "Let us arise now on the popular front of world revolutionaries, to maintain the leadership of the proletariat!" "Japanese comrades, and the revolutionary comrades in China, Vietnam, and the rest of the world let us posit the following slogan, and persist in fighting for its realization!" "'Anti-imperialist revolutionary forces of the world, unite!" "'" "Crush imperialism and establish the proletarian power!" "I would like to send a message from the frontline to the comrades in Japan." "We are hoping to see the fire of revolution burn in the world." "Guevara once said he hoped to see the entire world become like Vietnam, and that is the same hope we have." "That is why we hope from the bottom of our hearts that by maintaining constant communication between us, as we have learned much from your struggles, you will learn from our experiences and learn the lessons we have learned." "With our collective struggle, we can decisively defeat the imperialists who oppress and exploit our people." "The will and emotion of people cannot be expressed by newspaper reports, but only by the commencement of armed struggle." "Representing PFLP, I send a message to our comrades, the revolutionary groups and parties of the Japanese people." "You might have heard the news through the imperialist propaganda system that the Palestinian people are currently exhausted that they have given up the struggle, and that they are defeated by the reactionary Israel." "Comrades, do not believe them." "We are in fact in the middle of struggle." "There is no end to our struggle." "We have our final purpose, and we continue to fight for its realization." "No one and nothing can stop us." "Japanese comrades, we sincerely hope that you will fight our common enemy by supporting us." "Support us by any means." "Send us medicine, and anything else." "But the best support is that our Japanese comrades rise up and strike blows against the monster of American imperialism." "Let us advance our struggle by weakening American imperialism." "Japanese comrades, we are fighting the common enemy!" "We are fighting on many fronts all over the world!" "Japanese comrades, let us charge together against the monster, and defeat it!" "A Communist League Red Army soldier speaks:" "Like our brothers in Vietnam like our brothers of Palestine and like the brothers of the Black Panther Party we too have grown and learned numerous lessons through a long struggle." "Our Hijack struggle of March 1970 was our foray into becoming a truly international subject." "Similarly, the Arms Seizure Struggle in October of the same year was our entrance as a truly armed subject." "Moreover, in this struggle we have gained valuable brothers who march together with us." "PFLP and the Japan Communist Party Leftist Faction are such brothers and comrades." "With supreme honour, we receive the message from our dearest brothers and comrades, the PFLP." "Since our struggles and the lessons belong to the brothers and comrades of the world as common property," "we too shall respond to the brothers and comrades and send a message about our own struggles and lessons with utmost brotherly love and respect." "Revolution and war are nothing more than their internationality and violence." "As exemplified by our hijack," "PFLP's hijack, the ship Granma of Castro et al, and Russian Red Army's march into Poland." "Revolution is, and war is, true only in its internationality and violence, as its true substance is 'borderless army.'" "This is the reason why the 'Anti-Imperialist/Anti-Zionist/Third World War' that our PFLP brothers propose and practice and the 'Anti-America/Anti-Japan War' of our Chinese brothers, are, in our own words, one and the same" "with what we propose and practice as the 'World Revolutionary War.'" "Our former companions were too arrogant and idealistic." "Starting from the 'Anti-Stalinism,' the critic of Mao as 'nationalist/empiricist,' and the critic of Ho Chi Min as 'Stalinist,' etc" "They were nothing but idealism." "What about us?" "With our 'transitional world theory,' we were able to demonstrate relative accuracy of our position, but our 'world transition theory'" "was nothing more than 'world transition theory.'" "Since we have not been able to discover anything beyond that theory, we have been more or less idealist." "However, right now, through our hijack strategy, we are beginning to grasp and substantialize something that goes beyond mere theory in the form of 'borderless army.'" "The brothers and comrades of PFLP, let us join in the great union of the 'borderless army'." "Through communication of all areas... soldiers, weapons, technology, information, sources and theories!" "A Communist League Red Army Soldier speaks:" "I think that the purpose of my coming to Palestine involves a question of how we grasp the world revolutionary war in our theoretical structure, in the form of a world revolutionary theory, in the confrontational phase of the struggle, and how we express it." "Last year's hijack struggle of ours proved that the wave of world revolutionary war could only be guided by military actions." "Here arose another important question:" "who shares Red Army's line?" "While we were able to imagine it only through petit-bourgeois news media before, we now needed to understand it by way of actually practicing the world revolution." "...and that's what first got me hooked." "It's the PFLP which is our successor in spreading the struggle we initiated with the hijackings, and the problem being raise today is to know how to share the issue we raised in the form of world party, world Red Army, world revolutionary war front." "We can also say that from Tupamaros or Black Panthers, but what I felt coming here is that even if we now speak of" ""global nature" or "internationalism", in a sense we already saw the world as one single country." "I think this point's at a problem of the New Japanese Left." "When I arrived here and I saw class struggle in Japan, the subjective attempting to enlighten the objective could only be but swept away by the objective current, and we had difficulties because we couldn't succeed in making the subjective develop by stopping the objective." "As long as the New Japanese Left doesn't reconsider this, we won't be able to create strategies, nor envision the issue of world overtaking, and world unification." "Some say that wanting an international base is idealistic or shows escapist logic, others harshly criticize a Red Army international base theory," "and if we consider this theory as the basic outbreak of the military issue upon reality, it will indeed outwardly appear as seemingly escapist logic." "But what the Red Army expresses, is that this theory belongs to party issues, and that we must confirm that it isn't a problem of what is perceived by a few factions as 'military'." "I think the issue of combat efficiency, of concentrating at pre-uprising stage, as during the Russian revolution, on a peace demonstration, is at question." "The pre-uprising launched in 69 by the Red Army is led in reality as a catalyst of struggles, spiralling by means of guerrilla." "True movements in Japan can't manage to take the plunge, because they forgot that "military" is murder, or rather because they had only considered it through an idealistic prism." "Through an illusion which brings all true struggle back to 'mass activism doctrine'." "For example, criticizing the meanings of armed robberies committed since february by the Red Army, doesn't solve the problem at all." "The problem is to know how and to what extent we could fight enemy power, by provoking violent inner conflicts, factions have forgotten this, and not being able to justify their relation to authority, this principle isn't expressed anymore other than by intelligentsia movements," "and the fact that committing 'wrongful acts' is the object of repression in the real world, and Japanese parties, who only criticize according to their own criteria... can only but oppose to "the masses"." "From this point of view, the issues raised by the Red Army differ from those raised up to now." "For instance, it's about reassessing the categories in which we belonged, the efficiency of what we considered the criteria's of revolution... and this space that we share with commando units in the Palestinian mountains, or at the Israeli border, isn't that of our past struggles." "To put it straightforwardly, when I look at the issue of how Japanese class struggle will develop in the future, from afar in Palestine, I feel that... the questions of the stage of Japanese class struggle on the scale of world revolutionary development," "and what we in Japan indeed share with the Palestinian struggle has been asked in awfully insufficient manners." "Because of this insufficiency, the awareness of problematic possessed by the nine people who went to North Korea, by me in Palestine, and by our comrades in Japan, all differ from one another, and from such disjuncture," "we can only deduce the necessity of more internal violence and inter-faction politics and struggles, and only through such united military actions, but the revolutionary subject, which tries to rise to the level of World Revolutionary War," "has to be created through World War factions and world revolutionaries simultaneously sharing all military matters as the act of collective actions and collect military front." "For that reason I anticipate the emergence of the question of a strategy for world revolution, of how we can defeat world imperialism" "through military actions in concert with the Black Panthers and Tupamaros, can the problem of "world party" be discussed fully, and in this sense, what we have long talked about... the formation of World Party, World Red Army, World Revolutionary War United Front" "will be realized only through actual struggle as to how to guide such a united military action." "THE BEST FORM OF PROPAGANDA" "IS ARMED STRUGGLE" "We agree wholeheartedly with the Japan Red Army Faction that proposes a united action with every organization and party which is actively fighting world imperialism here and now." "PFLP fully supports the policy of the united military action, and is ready to participate in it." "However, in our current situation, we face severe difficulty realizing such an aim." "Despite the difficulty, we are prepared to support the policy as much as we can." "And we bet our own possibility in the realization of the goal." "We send the message of solidarity and prayer for the success of struggles waged by every comrade fighting our common enemy." "Salute, dear comrades of Japan." " General Secretary, PFLP." "THE CREATION OF A REVOLUTIONARY FRONT MEANS ARMED STRUGGLE" "Creating Revolutionary Background is practicing armed struggle." "REVOLUTION IS WORLD WAR" "WORLD WAR" "REVOLUTION" "REVOLUTION = WORLD WAR" "ARMED STRUGGLE!" "TAKE UP YOUR WEAPONS!" "GUN" "BULLET" "WEAPON" "MUZZLE" "TRIGGER" "Subtitles by:" "Papovik and Evildee Translation by:" "Mio Matsumoto and Dimax9"