Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 22)
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- Democratic Palestine : 4 (ص 22)
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Revitalizing the Arab
National Liberation Movement
JOINT COMMUNIQUE OF THE POPULAR
FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE
AND THE LEBANESE COMMUNIST PARTY
During the months of April and May, 1984, a
series of meetings were held between the PFLP
and LCP leaderships. The delegations were
headed by Comrade George Habash, Secretary
General of the PFLP and Comrade George Hawi,
Secretary General of the LCP Central Committee.
During these meetings, both delegations discus-
sed the current situation in the Lebanese, Palesti-
nian and Arab arenas in the context of the existing
international situation. They also discussed the
tasks facing revolutionary forces in these areas in
confronting the fierce imperialist-Zionist attacks
and how to escalate the struggle in each Arab
country in order to achieve revolutionary goals in
the Arab world.
The joint communique issued as a result of these discus-
sions began with an assessment of the current situation:
Lebanon was pinpointed as the main arena of confrontation
between the Arab National Liberation Movement and the
imperialist-Zionist-reactionary plans. The enemy plan is to
make Lebanon the bridge to anew chapter in the Camp David
accords, and the right-wing trend represented by Arafat's
visit to Cairo falls in line with this plan. On the other hand, the
battles in Lebanon, in the mountains and West Beirut, and the
ongoing anti-occupation resistance in the South and Beqaa
Valley, are objective indications of the national and progres-
sive forces’ ability to counter the enemy plans. While the
Lebanese national and progressive forces played the main
role in these victories, the contribution of the revolutionary
Palestinian forces, Syria and other Arab national and progres-
sive forces was emphasized.
Continuing the struggle against the enemy plans will
deepen the polarization in the area. More bourgeois forces
will join the capitulationist trend, highlighting the class
essence of the national struggle and the importance of work-
ing class leadership. The leading role of the working class
corresponds to the interests of the broadest sectors of the
masses. It is thus the only guarantee for uniting the national
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and progressive forces in the consistent, long-term mobiliza-
tion required to extract the Arab national liberation movement
from its crisis and effect a new balance of forces in the region.
On this basis, the Arab national liberation movement can
defeat the enemy plans and achieve its goals of liberation,
unity and progress. An essential component of this process is
advancing the alliance with the international revolutionary
movement, especially the Soviet Union.
On the basis of their assessment, the PFLP and LCP cal-
led on all national and progressive Arab forces to derive a
comprehensive program for struggle on the national level,
based on the accumulation of programs for each Arab coun-
try. The PFLP and LCP view the essential principles for such
a program as follows:
ON THE LEBANESE LEVEL
The PFLP and the LCP call for maintaining the victories
achieved by expelling the US occupation forces, abrogating
the May 17th agreement and weakening the basis for Phalan-
gist domination. These victories should be employed in
strengthening the struggle against the Israeli occupation and
expelling its forces from Lebanese land without any conditions.
The PFLP and the LCP call for supporting the Lebanese
national resistance against the occupation with all forms of
military,armed,mass and political resistance in order to enable
the Lebanese people to expel the Zionist occupiers. Today this
is a task of exceptional importance for all Arab and interna-
tional national liberation forces.
Obviously, to protect the gains that have been achieved
requires dedicated work to develop them further. To stand still
at the present level would decrease the meaning of the vic-
tories achieved so far and would make it difficult to defend
them when the counterattack is launched. One should not rest
on these gains, but rather enrich them with a strong firm basis
through serious democratic reforms. Encumbering these vic-
tories with sectarian compromises will only reestablish internal
Lebanese relations on the basis of a new sharing of interests
among sectarian leaders at the expense of the popular mas-
ses. If there is not effective unity of Lebanon, the country will
remain subject to disunity and will continue to be an arena for
furthering the Zionist plan which seeks to divide Lebanon into
sectarian cantons which will consecrate and justify the Zionist
entity and provide it with secured borders which it aims for. The
partition of Lebanon will also provide the Zionist entity with the
vital chance to impose its domination on Lebanon and to
generalize the trend of splits as a means to impose its domina-
tion over the entire region.
Serious and radical reform that is mainly founded on the - هو جزء من
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