Democratic Palestine : 13 (ص 10)
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What is the PFLP?
The following ts the entry on the PFLP as it appears in the pages of the second volume of «The Palestinian
Encyclopedia (Al Mauwsoua’a Al Falastinia).» This encyclopedia, a four-volume, 2500 page achieve-
ment, the first of its kind, was published in 1984, in Arabic. Work began on these volumes on 1974, as
the result of an agreement between the PLO and the Arab Organization of Education, Science and Cul-
ture. The subject matter was compiled by a number of prominent national and progressive figures,
researchers, specialists and historians. The encyclopedia is a Palestinian national statement covering a
comprehensive range of details on Palestine - the people, the cause, geography, history, economy, etc.
It is an objective document of facts which refute the Zionist misrepresentation about Palestine and the
Palestinians.
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Establishment and Organization
The formation of the PFLP is closely connected with the
Arab defeat in the June war of 1967, and the organizational,
political and theoretical lessons singled out and crystallized by
this defeat. The foundation of the PFLP is also connected with
the Arab National Movement (ANM), its Palestinian branch
and struggle experience after the disaster of 1948. It is also
connected with the lessons gained from this experience, which
guided the ANM from the beginning of the sixties until it began
preparations for armed struggle.
After the 1967 war, the Palestinian branch of the ANM
strove to find a framework for a front which would encompass
the various nationalist factions. Such a front was considered a
major condition for victory, and the PLO, with its formal struc-
ture at that time, was not suited to fulfill this role. The result was
the formation of the PFLP which, in addition to the ANM’s
Palestinian branch, included the Palestinian Liberation Front,
the Heroes of Return organization, independents and a group
of Nasserite Unificationist officers. The PFLP issued its first
political communique on December 11, 1967. Due to differ-
ences of opinion on political issues, the Palestinian Liberation
Front withdrew from this framework in October 1968, forming
the PFLP-General Command.
In the light of the development undergone by the PLO, the
PFLP later found it unnecessary to pursue the idea of forming
a national front, because the PLO represented the broad
framework for such a front. Objectively speaking, this develop-
ment meant that the PFLP became a specific political organi-
zation, especially so after the Heroes of Return organization
merged completely with the Palestinian branch of the ANM.
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From then on began the process of transforming the PFLP into
a Marxist-Leninist political organization. However, this process
was faced with many obstacles and internal differences. A
number of the members of the PFLP were of the opinion that it
was impossible to transform a petit bourgeois organization into
a Marxist-Leninist one. This difference of opinion led to the
DFLP’s split from the PFLP.
In February of 1969, the PFLP held a congress where the
document «The Organizational and Political Strategy» was
approved. This represented an important landmark on the path
of the PFLP’s aspiration to transform itself into a Marxist-
Leninist organization. The PFLP founded a school in Jordan to
build its party cadres and started A/ Hadaf magazine; the editor
was politbureau member Ghassan Kanafani. However, the
transformation process was delayed due to the leadership's
total involvement in efforts to escalate the PFLP’s efficiency
and military, political and mass activities against the Zionist
enemy.
The third national congress of the PFLP was held in March
of 1972. The document «Tasks of the New Stage» was
approved as was an amended set of internal rules and regula-
tions. These gave priority to the transformation process and
the building of a revolutionary party on the political, organiza-
tional and ideological levels, based on conviction that the abil-
ity of a revolution to remain steadfast and continue, depends
on the strength of the organization. In the new rules and regu-
lations, the PFLP stipulated the primary principles of democra-
tic centralism, collective leadership, the unity of the party, self-
Criticism, a revolutionary party's popularity among the masses,
and that every politically conscious member is a militant, and
every militant should be politically conscious. The internal
rules and regulations also defined the conditions for member- - هو جزء من
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