The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 188)

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The Proletarianization of Palestinians in Israel (ص 188)

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ment of a labor movement acting upon its consciousness of its immediate in-
terests, while its social being, the objective conditions of its life, were
still extremely vulnerable. The militancy of Palestinian labor is expressed
most strongly in their role in the August, 1929 protest led by Izzed-din el-
Qassam. Proletarian workers, squatting in the outskirts of urban centers,
specifically Haifa, constituted the vanguards of the political and armed
Struggle within his movement. This was the case also in the 1936 general
strike and revolt in Palestine, lasting until 1939,/° These two critical
events in modern Palestinian history were mainly protest against the triple
Zionist slogans: "Conquest of Labor", and "Tozeret Ha'aretz" (native pro-
duce). For the Palestinian proletariat, it was protesting the slogan,
"Boycott Arab Labor".
Moreover, this fluctuation was an impediment to the formation of Pales-
tinian proletariat as a class-in-itself with a distinct class interest, be-
cause it was essentially a transitory labor force used as a source of flex-
ibility for the British enterprises in times of crisis while boycotted by
Jewish enterprises. This implies a measure of vulnerability, and also,
under such conditions, the Arab labor force was developing a militant labor
movement prior to its becoming a class-in-itself; it's consciousness was
probably emerging more from its location in the social formation as a whole
and less from its location in the labor process, in the social division of
labor, with the result that its class and national consciousness overlapped.
Indeed, the subjective conditions of the Palestinian proletariat under
Jewish settler-colonialism, which were based on the boycott of Palestinian
labor, provide a classic example of what Tom Nairn considers progressive
. . . 77 . :
proletarian nationalism. Of course, this genuine proletarian nationalism

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