Democratic Palestine : 17 (ص 24)
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Palestinian Youth Organization
The first general congress of the
Palestinian Youth Organization was
held from April 25th to 28th. The con-
gress was the culmination of the con-
gresses of all the PYO units, commissa-
riats and branches. Delegates from the
branches in Syria and Lebanon, as well
as branches abroad, participated.
The PYO invited several Palestinian,
Arab and international youth organiza-
tions to the opening session. Doctor
George Habash, General Secretary, and
several other leaders of the PFLP, were
present. The following delivered spee-
ches during the opening session: The
Central Preparatory Committee of the
PYO; The General Secretary of the
Egyptian Democratic Youth Union; a.
Central Committee member of the
Palestinian Communist Youth Union;
PFLP Politbureau member, Abdul
Raheem Mallouh. In addition, tele-
grams were received from different
Palestinian, Arab and international
youth organizations.
FINAL STATEMENT OF THE
FIRST GENERAL PYO
CONGRESS
The first general congress of the
Palestinian Youth Organization (PYO)
was held, under the slogan: «Consoli-
dating the stuggle of the PYO in order
to:
- preserve the PLO as the sole, legiti-
mate representative of the Palestinian
people;
- achieve the national rights of our
people, first and foremost their rights to
return, self-determination and the
establishment of an independent state;
and
- unite Palestinian youth in a demo-
cratic youth union.»
The convening of the first congress of
the PYO constitutes an important, qua-
litative step towards recruiting the
Palestinian youth and uniting their
national militant efforts. It is also the
culmination of the various congresses of
the PYO branches.
The congress discussed and approved
the central preparatory committee’s
various reports, and their evaluation of
the past period. The congress also dis-
cussed, amended and then approved the
internal rules of the PYO. In addition, a
number of research papers and studies
were approved for publication. The
studies dealt with the development of
the Palestinian youth movement, the
situation of our youth in the occupied
territories, and the ideological brain-
washing and distortion of nationalism,
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which is enacted against our youth by
imperialism and reactionary forces.
The congress highly evaluated the role
of our youth in the occupied territories
in the struggle against the Zionist and
reactionary plans. It called for giving all
forms of support to consolidate their
struggle. The congress studied the rea-
lity of the dispersion of our Palestinian
youth and their various organizations.
It concluded the discussion by reaffir-
ming the significance of uniting the
Palestinian youth in one democratic
youth union. One of the main tasks for
the PYO’s newly elected general secre-
tariat is to launch a broad campaign to
activate dialogue among the different
Palestinian youth organizations in order
to facilitate the process of mobilizing all
the Palestinian youth and uniting their
organization. This process is the youth’s
active contribution to the struggle to
restore the unity of the PLO ona
national basis, with firm struggle
against imperialism, Zionism and all
capitulationists. It is also the PYO’s
duty to motivate the PLO leadership to
continue support to our people’s
struggle for achieving their national
rights to return, self-determination and
the establishment of an independent
state on their land.
One of the congress sessions reviewed
the situation of the Arab youth move-
ment, its common interests and con-
cerns. The role of Arab youth was
highly evaluated. Various recommen-
dations and resolutions were considered
for improving relations with the Arab
Youth Union, to enable our youth
organization to participate in defending
the just cause of the Arab people.
A great deal of emphasis was put on
the significance of improving relations
with all democratic Arab youth unions
and organizations.
The congress also reviewed the role of
the democratic youth movement on the
international democratic youth move-
ment on the international level. The role
of the international democratic youth
Organizations was highly evaluated in
terms of solidarity with all the peoples
struggling for liberation. The congress
also emphasized the importance of
establishing broad bilateral relations
with the communist youth unions in the
socialist community.
On the political level, the congress
discussed the difficult situation of the
Arab world in general and the Palesti-
nian cause in particular. On the Pales-
tinian level, it was concluded that it is
important at this stage to mitigate the
severe splits from which the Palestinian
cause is suffering, in order to protect the
significant achievements of the past
twenty years of struggle, and to main-
tain the PLO as the sole, legitimate
representative of the Palestinian people.
The congress viewed the official PLO
leadership’s collaboration with the
imperialist, Zionist and reactionary
plans as the main threat to the Palesti-
nian cause. Furthermore, the Arafat-
Hussein agreement signed on February
11, 1985, was the first step towards
complete involvement in the liquida-
tionist settlement. This agreement
entails a series of dangerous concessions
which aim at the total liquidation of the
Palestinian cause.
In his speech, King Hussein decided
that all political coordination with the
leadership of the PLO had come to a
halt. Yet he emphasized his commitment
to the agreement as the basis for any
future political moves. The king’s
speech exposed the real intentions of the
imperialist, Zionist and reactionary
forces that are pushing for the agree-
ment. The present PLO leadership’s
adherence to this agreement, on the
other hand, only proves its unwilling-
ness to seriously review its policies and
withdraw from the agreement.
The congress called upon the Palesti-
nian youth, the various youth organiza-
tions and all the Palestinian democratic,
progressive and national factions, to
struggle to foil the Amman agreement
and restore the unity of the PLO as the
sole, legitimate representative of the
Palestinian people, based on adherence
to the national program, a firm political
stance against imperialism and Zionism
and their plans, and total democratic
reform in the structure of the PLO and
its institutions. Cancellation of the
Amman agreement and restoration of
the PLO’s unity on the basis of the
national program, are two current
tasks. Achieving them would contribute
to the support and consolidation of the
struggle of our people in the occupied
territories. It would strengthen their
ranks in the face of Zionism’s fascist
practices, its attempts to create substi-
tutes for the PLO and its plans of ‘civil’
administration and ‘autonomy’ in coo-
peration with the Jordanian regime. The
unity of our people and their national
forces is the guarantee for the continua-
tion of the revolution and retrieving our
people’s rights to return, self-
determination and the establishment of
an independent state.
It was also noted during the congress
that despite the defeat suffered by
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