Democratic Palestine : 5 (ص 10)
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- Democratic Palestine : 5 (ص 10)
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Festival on the occasion ot the anniversary oF tne
Joint Leadership. Music and dance groups from
the youth of the PFLP and DFLP participated.
the sake of restoring the unity and retain-
ing the weight of the Palestinian national
struggle and the PLO. In this context, the
Joint Leadership struggled along three
main lines:
First: The struggle against the polit-
ical deviation that emerged after the
departure of the PLO forces from Beirut
and crystallized with Arafat's visit to
Cairo in December 1983. The aim of this
struggle was to preserve and strengthen
the anti-Zionist, anti-imperialist political
line of the PLO, and to maintain the PLO
as a vanguard force in the Arab national
liberation movement, as well as part of
the international anti-imperialist front.
Second: The struggle against
adventurism and = splits that has
threatened the PLO and the Palestinian
national struggle, especially when vio-
lence was used in 1983 to resolve inter-
nal contradictions.
These two dangers had to be con-
fronted in order to restore and
strengthen national unity in the PLO.
The Joint Leadership exerted broad and
intensive efforts in this direction that
eventually led to the recent agreement
between the Democratic Alliance and
the Fatah Central Committee after tough
negotiations in Algiers and Aden; this
agreement provides a suitable basis for
restoring Palestinian national unity
within the PLO.
Third: The struggle for reform in the
bodies and institutions of the PLO. In
November 1983, the Joint Leadership
proposed the program for unity and
democratic reform in the PLO. This out-
lined concrete proposals for deepening
national unity, enriching democracy and
enacting collective leadership in the
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PLO. Such reforms are clearly stipulated
in the Aden agreement between the
Democratic Alliance and the Central
Committee of Fatah (see text elsewhere
in this issue).
In these efforts the role of the Joint
Leadership has been significantly
Democratic Alliance which includes the
Palestinian Communist Party and the
Palestinian Liberation Front, in addition
to the Joint Leadership. This is an indica-
tion of the correctness of forming the
Joint Leadership as a means of drawing
other forces on the Palestinian left into
closer cooperation.
Growing influence of the
democratic forces
The formation of the Joint Leader-
ship was enthusiastically welcomed by
broad sectors of the Palestinian masses
everywhere. This was a clear expres-
sion of the masses’ attitude towards
national unity in general and the unity of
the left in particular. The Palestinian
masses have given strong support to the
efforts made by the Joint Leadership to
preserve the PLO'’s anti-imperialist, anti-
Zionist line and restore its unity. Mass
support has been expressed in state-
ments signed by dozens of national per-
sonalities, trade unions, mass organiza-
tions, mayors and social institutions,
when initiatives were launched by the
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