⚲ 18:30 | Café Herman Schulz, Finowstrasse 33
⏰: 18:30 Food – 19:00 Film
🍚 Qabooli rice will be served 🙂
The PKK’s disbanding, the ever-growing and relentless push of Zionist barbarism, Syria’s neocolonization, the consolidation of record breaking deals between the Saudi monarchy and the US fascist plutocracy. A doom-like scenario of increasing regression and reactionary warfare waged against the peoples of the Levant and the Gulf. In the meantime, the resistance continues to fight back, without ever incorporating an actual social revolutionary program or direction.
It’s in this somewhat dispiriting scenario that we must look back and reconsider a long forgotten episode of the Gulf’s revolutionary history. Heiny Srour’s “The Hour of Liberation has Arrived” is the only film testimony shot within the once-liberated zone of Dhofar, south Oman. It captures the structures, organization, and daily life of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Occupied Arabian Gulf (PFLOAG), who, with feminist praxis and socialist ideology, took a fraction of the country’s population out of pre-feudal conditions and inter-tribal scuffles, and created a fully operating guerrilla organization who successfully expelled the British and liberated a third of it’s territory. Join us!
