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What qualifies as resistance?

Abu Burkan | 13.05.2005 11:35 | Globalisation | Indymedia | Social Struggles | London | World

Why should we call them 'resistance'?

It seems that anyone can call themselves resistance now. Funnily you don't even have to be iraqi. Is this the way it should be? Can you use the same word to describe the current resistance as the one you use to describe the Warsaw uprising against the nazis? Or the worldwide movement against british colonialism? Or the struggle against the zionists in palestine?

What exactly would we expect from resistance?

Is a desire to return to the way things were (politically) five years ago the only requirement for resistance? Obviously not.

1-How about a declared political program?
2-How about a commitment to elections?
3-How about a commitment to a constitution?
4-How about public accountability?
5-How about declaring where the weapons/cash come from?
6-How about not bombing street markets?
7-How about taking part in cleaning Iraq of the Baath?
8-How about rebuilding the country while half the world is still in the mood?
9-How about policing your borders?
10-How about retraining as electricians or builders?
11-How about taking part in the political process?
12-How about explaining exactly how they plan to defeat the world's biggest military?

This resistance does not look like any other I have seen before.

Maybe they really are waiting for us to tell them what we want?
Are these twelve points important or ....?

Abu Burkan

Comments

Display the following 12 comments

  1. reaction to force — ben
  2. Resistance — Yusef
  3. The same old game of spin... — Lexicographer
  4. Let's get this straight — What would be good enough for you??!
  5. Let's make an emotionalist argument....... — Abu Burkan
  6. ... — Andrew
  7. twelve points for Andrew — Abu Burkan
  8. Abu — Andrew
  9. ... — Hermes
  10. back — Abu Burkan
  11. Abu — Andrew
  12. Andrew — Abu Burkan (all that is my first name, not just Abu, btw)

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