[The following communiqué was issued on September 6, before the Israeli "retaliatory" raids against Arab villages. It appeared in the September 9 issue of Rouge, weekly newspaper of the Ligue Communiste, French section of the Fourth International. The translation is by Intercontinental Press.]
The undersigned organizations, which have joined together in protest of the Olympic Games, denounce the international holy alliance directed against the action of the Black September commandos in Munich. The murderers of the Indochinese people, the fabricators of the Stalinist trials in Czechoslovakia — as well as [Avery] Brundage [president of the International Olympic Committeel, who in his day has been known to support real "barbarism," namely Nazismhave reached a new level of hypocrisy. The superpowers, all the big states of the world, have never worried about the Palestinian people unless it was to repress them in blood. The superpowers shed tears over what just happened, but their grief was not so conspicuous at the time of the massacres in Palestine in 1947, or in Jordan in 1970.
In the spirit of proletarian internationalism and in opposition to the hysterical campaign in the press, the undersigned organizations affirm their solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people, who are resisting the Zionist state and the Arab regimes and are combating the "racial persecution of three million Palestinians, as well as of the Oriental Jews." (Black
Sept. 5, communiqué,
September 1972.)
After orchestrating an extraordinary outburst of phony humanism, the German and Israeli bourgeoisies did not hesitate to commit premeditated murder. They are the ones who are really responsible.
The hypocritical veil of the Olympic Games, which tried to mask exploitation, oppression, and wars of aggression, has been completely torn away. The masquerade had to end. The governments are shedding tears over its demise.
Sept. 6, 1972
Marxiste Alliance
Révolutionnaire Alliance];
[Marxist
Revolutionary
Gauche Marxiste [Marxist Left]; Ligue
Communiste (SFQI) [Communist League (French Section of the Fourth International)]; Organisation Communiste Libertaire [Libertarian Communist Organization]; Organisation Révolutionnaire Anarchiste [Revolutionary Anarchist Organization); Révolution!.