Red Army / PFLP
Declaration of World Warsales $ goes to Palestinian Youth Movement, Chicago Chapter
Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War was directed by Masao Adachi & Koji Wakamatsu in 1971, when they stopped in Beirut on their return from the Cannes Film Festival. Working there with a Japanese Red Army (JRA) cadre and leaders of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) including Ghassan Kanafani and Leila Khaled, they produced this utterly compelling film, which is both a beautiful idyllic document of the everyday activities of Palestinian fighters, as well as a crystal-clear articulation of “third world” anti-imperial, anti-Zionist, and anti-capitalist international revolution.
This pamphlet reproduces the sonorous text of the film, spoken in a cascading series of multi-lingual voiceovers by comrades in Japan and Palestine. We rarely see the person who is speaking. Rather what we see are quiet scenes of cooking, reading, and training in unbelievably beautiful landscapes. Some of these scenes are reproduced here in green, red, and blue inks.
The film is addressed to partisans — to all the comrades in international struggles of liberation. The film instructs us not only in how to fight our enemy, but also in how we live together as communists: two parts of a revolutionary struggle that is both individual and total.
edited by Jack Henrie Fisher
letter half
48 pages
black and scarlet and green risograph
edition of 200
2025