Democratic Palestine : 18 (ص 27)
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Interview with
YSP General Secretary
«Our Socialist Orientation Emerged Victorious»
INTERVIEW WITH ALI SALEM AL BEED,
SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE YEMENI
SOCIALIST PARTY(YSP)
Democratic Yemen faced painful events on January
13th, causing sorrow to all progressive Arabs. All
forces opposed to the revolution started a campaign
against Democratic Yemen, questioning the possi-
bility of success for Marxist-Leninist theory in any
part of the Arab world. What is your view about
this campaign?
This campaign by forces opposed to our revolution is not
new. We have constantly experienced it, but this time it is par-
ticularly intense and hateful. In our view, this is because the
forces waging this campaign were behind the events of January
13th. They counted on succeeding in striking our party and
revolutionary experiment, and returning our country to neo-
colonial domination. However, our party, with the support of
the masses of our people, was able to contain these events and
foil this conspiracy and its figures. The socialist orientation,
the theory of scientific socialism and proletarian internationa-
lism emerged victorious. Consequently, these forces were filled
with hatred and anger towards our party and revolution. They
could only try to cover up their defeat by absurb lies and false
analysis about our socialist orientation, claiming that it is not
applicable in our country, or in other newly liberated coun-
tries.
Concerning overcoming the effects of the conspiracy: Our
party, mass and governmental activities were geared towards
healing the wounds, consolidating the national unity of our
people and rebuilding what was destroyed by the conspirators.
The decision to grant a general amnesty showed the democratic
nature of our progressive system, as did the party leadership’s
concern for reeducating those who had been misled. The
general amnesty has been extended until the end of 1986. It has
facilitated the release of 3,000 persons involved in the events of
January 13th. Others have returned to the republic. All of
them have a secure, stable life with their families, and conduct
their work and daily life in total freedom.
What are your priorities for development on the
party and state level?
After the events of January 13th, we face great, new, com-
plicated tasks because of the destructive effects of the conspi-
racy on the life of the party, state and society. The leadership
of our party put a lot of emphasis on the tasks of rebuilding the
party, mass organizations and governmental apparatus that
were negatively affected by the conspiracy. This rebuilding will
be carried out in a manner that consolidates the leadership role
of the party in the society.
We have big accomplishments so far. We restored the elec-
toral process of the party organizations in Aden, Ibyen and
Shabra, where the conspirators, Ali Nasser Mohammed and
his clique, had suspended the electoral process, the internal
regulations and the directives of the Central Committee in May
1985. They did so because of the clear loss suffered by elements
supporting the conspirators at that time. Now we are ready to
resume these processes by convening conferences of sections
and districts. We have already completed the electoral process
for all base organizations of the party.
We also made big accomplishments in rebuilding the mass
organizations. We have convened the general congresses of the
Women’s Union, the Popular Defense Committees and the
Union of Fattah’s Yemeni Socialist Youth (named after Abdul
Fattah Ismail, a founder of the Yemeni Socialist Party, who
was murdered by the conspirators in the events of January
13th). We are preparing for the congresses of the other mass
organizations in the coming period.
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Comrades George Habash and Ali Salem Al Beed
We also had great success in the sphere of rebuilding the
state and government institutions and the local government
apparatus. There are now preparations for the election of the
Supreme People’s Council and local people’s councils, that will
start in October.
These activities are taking place along with mass and party
preparation for a party conference. This conference will eva-
luate the development of the revolutionary process in our
country in the light of the document being prepared, to be pre-
sented to the Central Committee and submitted to discussion
and approval at the conference.
Imperialist and reactionary forces are attempting to
undermine Democratic Yemen from within by
creating financial problems. How will you face
this?
The economic front remains paramount in the plans of the
forces antagonistic to our revolution. These plans aim at top-
pling our progressive regime from within, after the failure of
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