Democratic Palestine : 7 (ص 11)
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- Democratic Palestine : 7 (ص 11)
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Recently the Lebanese Communist Party was
joined by all progressive and democratic
Lebanese in celebrating its sixteenth anniversary.
What are your impressions of the large mass par-
ticipation in the festivities?
We believe that the festivities on the occasion of the six-
teenth anniversary of our party amounted to a broad popular
vote of confidence in the program and policies of our party,
which in essence are the program and policies of the newly
born National Democratic Front. We are proud that these fes-
tivities provided for large mass participation as well as the par-
ticipation of progressive Arab and international parties and
organizations. In addition to the Arab Socialist Baath Party, the
Algerian National Liberation Front Party, the Yemeni Socialist
Party and fellow Arab communist parties, the Palestinian
revolution showed its solidarity through the message sent to
our central rally in Beirut by Comrade George Habash, Gen-
eral Secretary of the PFLP; the speech to our rally in Akkar,
North Lebanon, delivered by Comrade Abu Ali Mustafa,
Deputy General Secretary of the PFLP; and the large participa-
tion in our rallies by the Palestinian masses across Lebanon.
Scores of solidarity messages were received from fraternal
Arab and international parties; the Soviet Communist Party
and the Cuban Communist Party were represented at our fes-
tivities.
Our major source of pride, however, was the overwhelm-
ing participation of our Lebanese people, which exceeded all
expectations. We believe that our masses are aware of who is
playing a major role in the current struggle against fascism and
occupation; the massive turnout indicates their confidence in
Our party and its role. We believe that this participation rep-
resented a vote of confidence in the role of our party in the con-
text of the Lebanese National Resistance against Israeli occu-
pation, which we had the privilege to launch in cooperation with
other nationalist parties and in which we play a major role
today. It is a vote of confidence in our party's line of armed con-
frontation of the US occupation forces prior to their forced exit
from Beirut, in our party’s leading role in confronting the
Phalangists and the sectarian army in the Shouf, the Upper
Metn and in Beirut, in alliance with our comrades and brothers
in the Progressive Socialist Party and the Amal Movement. Itis
a vote of confidence in our firm defense of democracy and our
struggle against Phalangist dictatorship; in the approach of our
party on uniting the struggle of all anti-fascist and anti-occupa-
tion forces, an approach thatis flexible in form yet firm and prin-
cipled in substance, and which considers that victory lies in the
victory of the slogans that our party puts forward (as opposed
to narrow organizational gains).
It was a vote of confidence in the program of those social
forces that seek to complete the tasks of liberation and con-
tinue with the other tasks of the national democratic revolution
in Lebanon, unconstrained by the regressive approach that
seeks redistribution of power on a confessional basis instead
of doing away with confessionalism altogether.
Furthermore, the large mass participation in our celebra-
tion indicated the willingness of our masses to continue to sac-
rifice for their cause. This determination presents us in the
Communist Party with new challenges and responsibilities in
the task of providing for the mobilization of the masses towards
the realization of their goals. @
Crowds gathered at the LCP anniversary celebration in Balbeck.
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