[www-features] Protest of Solidarity Party of Afghanistan

[Petros Evdokas]

On 10/10/2011 4:35 PM, Amy L. Dalton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just published this in a newswire piece for them --
> http://www.indymedia.org/en/2011/10/951632.shtml
>
> i didn't realize that the photos get uploaded in this format!
>
> i will email Samad with the link. do folks think we should feature it? i
> guess its a political party and we might not want to feature it for this
> reason.

Hello Amy and friends at the features work group,

When it comes to countries and peoples under an armed dictatorship or a 
military occupation government, the usual and common perceptions of 
radicals from the US and western Europe about what constitutes 
"legitimate" struggle outside of the electoral trap, do not hold any 
validity. We can not judge the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan by those 
criteria, nor can we judge the political situation in occupied 
Afghanistan by the criteria that apply in Washington DC.

The Solidarity Party of Afghanistan is not a "party" in the sense that 
the RepubloCrats are a party. Nor does it say anywhere in its literature 
anything that aims to distract people from the real struggle (material, 
physical, objective and direct struggle that includes a peoples war of 
liberation), to mislead them into wasting their time with electoral 
illusions. On the contrary, the party calls for a general insurrection:
http://www.hambastagi.org/new/english-section/83-the-snouts-of-all-enemies-indigenous-and-foreign-need-to-be-rubbed-in-the-dust-through-a-general-insurrection.html

Please study some of their articles and statements. On the face of it, 
they have some very good positions.

Message of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan to congress of SEL – Italy
http://www.hambastagi.org/new/english-section/21-message-of-the-solidarity-party-of-afghanistan-to-congress-of-sel-italy.html

Resolution of Solidarity Party of Afghanistan
http://old.hambastagi.org/alamya_e.htm

More:
http://www.hambastagi.org/new/english-section.html


I don't have any way of judging how the Afghani people view this party, 
and whether or not they actually genuinely do what they say. But in the 
context of military occupation, and an armed war of resistance, the 
appellation "party" of this organization should be perceived as 
"political organization". And under that interpretation, I would feel 
fine with us re-publishing their material.

Thanks!
Petros
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