Ucl GROUP (LEBANI • How have the comrades of the RCG intervened in the Lebanese events?
We have attempted to combine a military and a politial interventi Our comrades tried to participate in as many military operations a possible, because it was primarily through such means that we coul make our politics understood by left and the masses who were fac with a very serious military threa from the Phalangists.
Of course the character of our military participation paralleled t independence of our political line and intervention. Militarily and politically the most important thing for us was to avoid being tarred with the brush of a religi war at the same time as we press forward for the complete defeat of the reactionary Phalangist forc We therefore fought and prop gandised on a clear-cut class line in opposition to the reactionary Moslem currents who on several occasions would direct military operations against Christian comr unities simply because they were Christians.
Since the war had been unlea by the reactionary Maronite Chri tian wing of the Lebanese bourgeoisie, against the Palestinian re sistance movement and the grow mass movement inside the Mosle neighbourhoods and community areas, we adopted the perspective of a military defence of such ne bourhoods. This led to the estab lishment of our main barricades the very important neighbourhoo of Shiah and Nabaa in Beirut