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<center><h2>Notes for an appeal to the East</h2></center>
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<p>The Arab states are dying. Where can their national politics lead, founded [as they are] on the misery of their people?</p>
<p>There wasn't any Egyptian revolution.<a href="http://www.notbored.org/notes-for-an-appeal.html#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title="">[1]</a>
It died in its first few days; it died with the textile workers shot
because of their "communism." In Egypt, one puts the crowd to sleep by
showing them the Suez Canal. The English will not get far: only as far
as Jordan or Libya.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia bases its social life on the Quran and sells its oil to
the Americans. All of the Middle East is in the hands of the military.
The capitalist powers erect rival nationalisms, and play them [off
against each other].</p>
<p>It is necessary to supercede all ideas of nationalism.</p>
<p>North Africa must liberate itself,<a href="http://www.notbored.org/notes-for-an-appeal.html#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title="">[2]</a>
not only from foreign occupation, but also from its feudal masters. We
must recognize our country everywhere that the idea of freedom that
suits us rules, and only there.</p>
<p>Our brothers are beyond the questions of frontier and race. Certain
oppositions, such as the conflict with the State of Israel, can only be
resolved by a revolution in both camps. It is necessary to say to the
Arab countries: our cause is communal. There is no West facing you.</p>
Mohamed Dahou<br>
<p><a href="http://www.notbored.org/notes-for-an-appeal.html#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title="">[1]</a>
Here Dahou refers to "the second Egyptian revolution," which broke out
on 26 January 1952. The "first" Egyptian revolution began in the spring
of 1919.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.notbored.org/notes-for-an-appeal.html#_ednref2" name="_edn2" title="">[2]</a>
>From the French, who ruled Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. The war for
Algerian independence began in November 1954, shortly after this text
was written.</p>
<p>(Published in <i>Potlatch: Information Bulletin of the French Group of the Lettrist International,</i> #6, 27 July 1954. Translated from the French and footnoted by NOT BORED!)</p>
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