FTP-SoCal

For the People-SoCal is a revolutionary communist organization dedicated to building people power in Southern California/occupied Tongva land

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

February 8, 1939: Birthday of Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, New People’s Army and National Democratic Front.
He was also the Chairperson of International League of Peoples Struggle (ILPS).

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Nur Masalha’s “Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History” (2018), and Thomas Suárez‘s “Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea” (2023).

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On December 20th, 2023, the Long Beach City Council voted 5-2 in favor of the above statement after hours of public debate, with some 200 people attending the meeting. This proclamation has been advertised as a call for a ceasefire in Gaza.  🧵

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Sources:

1. See Rashid Khalidi’s “The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017” (2020), Ilan Pappe’s “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine” (2006),…