Seventh Congress of the Comintern Moscow, 1935
Published for the first time by Free Arab Voice
Dear Readers of the Free Arab Voice,
After having published the speech of Khaled Bakdash (aka, Ramzi) in the Comintern of 1935 in the last issue of the Free Arab Voice, we are publishing in this issue two additional speeches by Arab delegates in that Congress: 1) the speech by Ridwan al Hilw (aka, Yusuf, or Musa), the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Palestine, and 2) the speech by Qasim Hasan (aka, Nazim), one of the founders of the Iraqi Communist Party, which wasn’t at that point accredited by the Comintern.
The speech of Ridwan al Hilw was delivered in Russian, and we are grateful to Muhammad Abu Nasr of the Free Arab Voice for locating and translating it. The other speech by Qasim Hasan was delivered in English, and we are grateful to Muhammad Abu Nasr again for locating and transcribing it.
In the next issue of the Free Arab Voice, we will hopefully be publishing the text of the speech by Yusuf Khattar al Hilw, the Lebanese Communist, who delivered his speech in French. Kevin Walsh translated it into English, and Muhammad Abu Nasr crosschecked it against the Russian text. In the process, several missing lines with political significance (on Zionism) were located. But we will be leaving that to the next issue of the Free Arab Voice. So stay tuned!
To read the speech by Khaled Bakdash, with our introduction on the position of Arab Communist parties on the question of Arab nationalism, please see the Speech by Bakdash and our introduction.
Otherwise, please go on below to some useful information on the speeches of the Palestinian and Iraqi delegates by Muhammad Abu Nasr.
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