Special Report (8/7/2025)
In this special we discuss the release on July 25th, 2025 of George Ibrahim Abdallah from a French prison after 41 years as a political prisoner. Abdallah played a leadership role within the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_Front_for_the_Liberation_of_Palestine_%E2%80%93_External_Operations) and founded the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Armed_Revolutionary_Factions). Abdallah was also a member in the United Front of Immigrant Workers and Working-Class Neighborhoods/Front uni des immigrations et des quartiers populaires (https://fuiqp.org/) and is the honorary President of the Union for Communist Reconstruction/Pour la reconstruction d’un Parti communiste (https://urcommuniste.fr/).
George Ibrahim Abdallah has now returned to Lebanon and is again using his platform to organize for resistance and to achieve a Free Palestine.
Links to other items covered in the report:
Pro-Palestinian Lebanese fighter freed from France welcomed home in Beirut: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/25/pro-palestinian-lebanese-fighter-released-from-french-prison-after-40-years
French court orders release of Lebanese political activist jailed for 40 years: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/france-court-orders-release-lebanese-political-activist-jailed-40-years
Who is Georges Abdallah?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdPXWHa7SHw
GEORGES IBRAHIM ABDALLAH finally FREE! (Interview with SAÏD BOUAMAMA): https://youtu.be/7s7jUgVtZdQ?si=pJ_YWJ69HIea4JAf
MARXIST CHRISTIANS IN A LEBANESE TOWN: A LINK TO TERROR BOMBING IN PARIS (archive): https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/19/world/marxist-christians-in-a-lebanese-town-a-link-to-terror-bombing-in-paris.html
Protest outside embassy over delay in repatriation of militant Abdallah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xndxJf7zoQ
Freedom for Georges Abdallah and all political prisoners! (June 18, 2017): https://www.redspark.nu/political-prisoners/freedom-for-georges-abdallah-and-all-political-prisoners/
Free Georges Ibrahim Abdullah! (February 10, 2022): https://www.marxistreview.asia/free-georges-ibrahim-abdullah/
Georges Abdallah’s Release Is Long Overdue (10.30.2024): https://jacobin.com/2024/10/georges-abdallah-french-prison-release
France to release pro-Palestinian activist Georges Abdallah after 40 years of prison • FRANCE 24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj1ZDQLamQw
Georges Abdallah will be free; Palestine will be free! (17 July 2025): https://samidoun.net/2025/07/georges-abdallah-will-be-free-palestine-will-be-free/
Shackled and Unbowed: How Georges Ibrahim Abdallah Became A Universal Emblem of Resistance (18/07/2025): https://countercurrents.org/2025/07/shackled-and-unbowed-how-georges-ibrahim-abdallah-became-a-universal-emblem-of-resistance/
Georges Abdallah: The Lebanese activist France has held for over 40 years (THU, 19 JUN 2025): https://www.modernghana.com/news/1409984/georges-abdallah-the-lebanese-activist-france.html
The people freed Georges Abdallah! Free all political prisoners!: https://fightbacknews.org/articles/the-people-freed-georges-abdallah-free-all-political-prisoners
Georges Abdallah: My salute to the Resistance, its martyrs, and Dahieh: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mkx4JkYnqeA
Georges Abdallah slams Arab silence over ongoing famine in Gaza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYkjCEUpojY