Weekly Position: Fifteen Years of the Glorious Revolution… “Steadfast” Until the Achievement of Its Goals of Freedom, Justice, and Sovereignty
The Political Council of the February 14 Youth Coalition has issued its weekly position. The following is the full text:
In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful
Our dear people in Bahrain are preparing to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the February 14 Revolution, reaffirming the steadfastness of the popular stance rejecting the despotism of the Al Khalifa family and their subservience to foreign powers.
As the revolution enters a new year, amid new turning points, the continuation of popular mobilization and adherence to the revolution’s objectives confirm that the February 14 milestone has succeeded in entrenching a profound equation within the ongoing conflict with the Al Khalifa family. This equation affirms that the confrontation extending for more than 250 years is rooted in a fundamental contradiction between the invading Al Khalifa tribal entity and the indigenous people of Bahrain. This contradiction has become deeply entrenched due to the policies of distortion and eradication pursued by this tribe, while the people of Bahrain are left with no option but to confront these policies by adopting an effective project that preserves their authentic identity and averts the existential threat endangering their culture, religion, and history.
On this great occasion, we record in this weekly position the following key points:
1. The current settlement-based trajectory of the Al Khalifa family is an extension of the crimes committed by this tribe since the beginning of its occupation of Bahrain in 1783. However, the most dangerous phase came under the tyrant Hamad, through the expansion and acceleration of settlement policies he personally oversaw starting in 2001, without any red lines. This was done in the hope of realizing the dreams of his invading ancestors by declaring a fully “Khalifi Kingdom” on Bahraini land, similar to the “Saudi-ization” of the Hijaz and the “Judaization” of occupied Palestine. This danger is no longer a matter of general concern regarding the ongoing processes of “Khalifization” and eradication; rather, it has become a tangible reality recognized by all. The tyrant does not hesitate to publicly declare and implement it on all occasions. In conclusion, the February 14 Revolution—credited with exposing the tyrant and revealing his concealed claws—is now required to adopt a comprehensive project capable of pulling out the tyrant’s fangs and thwarting his scheme to destroy Bahrain and its indigenous people.
2. Over the past years, the February 14 Revolution has absorbed the nature of the challenges surrounding the realization of its principles of freedom, justice, and the restoration of sovereignty. One of the most prominent lessons learned is the necessity of completing these noble and great objectives by firmly establishing a unifying strategic goal: liberating the people of Bahrain from the Al Khalifa distortionist project. This begins with severing the imposed linkage to the occupation-based history of the Al Khalifa family, as a tribe hostile to Bahrain and its people, and as a warring, invading group founded on an identity of killing, brutality, and oppression. In truth, this liberation-oriented understanding has long been present in the collective consciousness of our people and leadership over past decades, but it did not find suitable conditions for full crystallization until after the February 14 Revolution. The time has now come for the project of liberation from the constraints of Khalifi occupation to become the cornerstone of the comprehensive change project in Bahrain.
3. We affirm the natural inseparability between the goals of the February 14 Revolution—self-determination and the establishment of a just constitutional state—and the aforementioned strategic objective of liberation from the narrative and institutions of Khalifi occupation. If the tyrant Hamad fabricates his dominance over the people through the slogan “no return to what was before 2011,” then the response of the people of February 14 must be the declaration of a liberation project from the history of 1783 and beyond, and the registration of a clear popular stance against any “Khalifization” of Bahrain. This was what the tyrant intended to implement in 2001 through the deception of the “National Charter,” but the people succeeded at that time in obstructing this scheme by rejecting its first version. The tyrant then resorted to a strategy of gradual implementation of Khalifization, beginning with the imposition of the illegitimate 2002 Constitution, followed by law-decrees that transformed the country into fiefdoms distributed among his sons and mercenaries, and culminating in the erasure of Bahrain’s history and identity through religious persecution and cultural genocide, as well as the imposition of a system of servile loyalty to the Al Khalifa family, making allegiance to them the criterion for citizenship and national belonging.
4. The emerging challenges facing the February 14 Revolution necessitate renewed determination to complete the consolidation of the pillars of the change project in Bahrain, by fulfilling the requirements of the battle for identity and existence. This is especially urgent in light of the multiple violations of sovereignty through dual subordination to آل سعود and آل نهيان, under the umbrella of full integration into the service of the American-Zionist project, and the transformation of the country into an open arena for espionage dens and military bases. Despotism, corruption, dependency, normalization, the impoverishment of the people, and the successive waves of crises battering our people are merely outcomes of the settlement-based savagery of the Al Khalifa family. Any delay in exposing the roots of this settlement-based brutality and confronting it directly will only lead to the expansion of crises and an increase in the ferocity and brutality of the Al Khalifa family.
5. The legendary steadfastness of the people of Bahrain over fifteen years has constituted a luminous history of dignity, honor, and the will to live. It is the duty of all to preserve this great history and ensure it becomes a narrative for future generations. In this regard, we call upon all activists and intellectuals to work toward establishing a research and creative project to document the February 14 Revolution, and to mobilize all available means and capacities for such a national scientific endeavor. While we commend some existing efforts in archiving the revolution and documenting its key milestones, we see an urgent need to establish an integrated documentation project based on unifying national foundations and committed to recognized standards of documentation, monitoring, and scientific analysis. We urge everyone to cooperate in facilitating the launch of this project, especially in light of the Al Khalifa family’s lavish spending and employment of mercenaries to build specialized institutions aimed at documenting their fabricated narrative and disseminating it through educational curricula, official media, the invention of occasions, and the enforced commemoration of these occasions upon citizens.
Political Council – February 14 Youth Coalition
Monday, 9 February 2026
Occupied Bahrain
