Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
The Radical changes and the Revolution Had the reform of our situation been easily realizable we would not have been in need of reform. Had the majority of the people been able to recognize what was right easily and act according to it, there would have been no need for anybody to urge them to observe it. Had the persons, capitulating to what is real and being happy with it, been worthy of carrying the banner of revolt against it, the history of mankind would have been without revolutions, and mankind would have had no history. (The Seeds of Al-Baath -AI-Baath, 4. July 3, 1946) We believe that...
Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
Problems of the Arab Struggle If love is the soil on which your nationalism is grown and nourished, we will have no doubt about what nationalism means, nationalism will become a tolerant spirit, in other words, it opens its heart and spreads its wings to protect those who have shared with the Arabs their history and lived with tem. (Nationalism is love before everything else, I – 1944) From Algeria may emerge the ideal image of future Arabism, for the people of Algeria have known psychological suffering in a way not known by any other peoples. The struggle of Algeria is the yardstick of the vitality...
Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
On Imperialism and Zionism It is inevitable for the Arab governments to befriend the imperialist countries without love for them. This is because those governments are faced with two choices: either combat the imperialist countries in a serious way and be forced to mobilize all the potential of the people and lift from their way all that hampers their activity and progress. By doing this, such governments will have no room to exploit and oppress the people. The other choice is to continue exploiting the people and lose their support in resisting the imperialist countries. By doing so, they will...
Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
On Egypt The conclusion, which I want you to reach, is that the conditions for the coup d’etat in Egypt are different from those in Syria. The coup d’etat that took place in Egypt had reasonable justifications. The Arab arena being vacant, the people turned to the military, which executed the coup d’etat. The military has faithfully and earnestly performed some undeniable reforms. But could it be said that the existing regime in Egypt is that of overthrow? The answer is no. This rule could be called progressive and no more. The difference between an overthrow and a coup d’etat is the following:...
Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
On Palestine "The present conditions do not allow us to wait for the question to be resolved from its roots and as these conditions should make room for strife and discord, there remains before the Arabs the urgent task for rescuing Palestine. They must leave governments behind and bid farewell to their last hopes in the efficiency of the official policy and turn to popular action, devoting to it all their efforts." (The Arabs should not wait for a miracle. Palestine cannot be saved by the governments but by popular action, 1 -A1-Baath- August 6, 1946) "When our eyes and hearts turn to struggling...
Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
The Revolutionary Organization And the Second condition is practical and related to the organization of the movement. As it is based on a comprehensive Arab ideology, its organization should also be on all-encompassing Arab scale. And as it is founded on a vital and realistic ideology related to fundamental questions, organization must in turn depend on the classes, which represent these fundamental questions in order to secure success. As the ideology of the Arab Baath stands on three pillars liberty, socialism and Arab Unity, organization must depend on the new generation which represents consciousness,...
Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
The Lessons of June And The Significance of October The nationalist and popular front on the scale of the Arab homeland and the armed popular action form the essential pillars for every strategy capable of responding to the most recent Zionist and imperialist aggression. Unity and democracy are the two slogans of the present stage. The relapse cannot be transformed into victory unless we make it a starting point for unity. (June 5 and the chance for popular action, 3 - November, 1967) Armament is no longer confined to armies, although the Arab armies are popular armies, the sons of the toiling...
Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
Revolutionary Conduct The resoluteness of opinion was one of their noblest traits. They did not acquiesce when their doctrine was at stake. They did not humor others, for when they saw right on one side, they opposed for its sake all the other sides. Instead of trying to ingratiate themselves to everybody, they angered everyone whom they believed to be wrong and corrupt. They were cruel to themselves, cruel to others. When they discovered something wrong in their thinking, they were not hesitant or ashamed to admit it and rectify it, for their goal war the truth and not themselves. When they perceived...
Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
Students and youth When young people imitate what they have come to know of the advanced world and when they are deluded that the aim of their lives is to devote their life to personal affairs, private success and free abstract thinking, as young people do in those nations, they will be betraying their nation as well as themselves, for they will not be able to achieve that kind of individual success, free culture and special creativeness while living in a nation whose conditions are like ours. Moreover, they will be shirking the greatest and most honorable responsibility, the responsibility of...
Stéphane Parédé ستيفان بردي
07
juil.
2012
Foreign Policy We know that the Arabs see no reason to antagonize a great nation like Soviet Russia which has been expressing has expressed, since the emergence of her new system, sympathy with the peoples struggling for their freedom and independence. Moreover, the Arabs hope that the intentions of the Soviet state will have a good and practical impact on international politics. Their friendship with her will be strengthened to the extent that they feel the sincerity of these intentions and their harmony with their national interest. (Arab nationalism and its attitude towards communism, 4 -1944)...
