Democratic Palestine : 9 (ص 2)
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Democratic Palestine is an English language magazine pub-
lished by the PFLP with the following aims:
-conveying the political line of the PFLP and other progressive Palesti-
nian and Aftab forces;
-providing current information and analysis pertinent to the Palestinian
liberation struggle, as well as developments on the Arab and interna-
tional levels;
-serving as forum for building relations of mutual solidarity between the
Palestinian revolution and progressive organizations, parties, national
liberation movements and countries around the world.
You can support these aims by subscribing to Democratic Pales-
tine. Furthermore, we hope that you will encourage friends and com-
rades to read and subscribe to Democratic Palestine. We also urge
you to send us comments, criticisms and proposals concerning the
magazine's contents.
The subscription fee for 12 issues is US $ 24. If you wish to sub-
scribe, please fill out the subscription blank, enclose a check or money
order for $ 24, and mail.
All correspondence should be directed to:
Box 12144, Damascus, Syria.
Tel:331664 and 420554
Telex:« HADAFO» 41667 SY
Democratic Palestine is also distributed by Das Arabische Buch,
Wundstr. 21, 1 West Berlin 19, West Germany.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a Marxist-
Leninist organization and an integral component of the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization. A primary motive for establishing the PFLP was
to inject a clear class perspective in the Palestinian national liberation
struggle. Experience shows that the most oppressed classes-the
workers, peasants, sectors of the petit bourgeoisie, the camp Palesti-
nians-are those most in contradiction with imperialism, Zionism and
Arab reaction. It is they who carve history with determination that can
persevere in a protracted war against the enemy alliance.
The PFLP is deeply committed to the unity and independent,
national decision-making of the Palestinian people and their sole legiti-
mate representative, the PLO. To this end, we work for strengthening
the role of the Palestinian left, thereby accentuating the PLO’s anti-
imperialist line in common struggle with the Arab national liberation
movement.
The process of liberating Palestine relies on radical, national
democratic change or development in one or more of the surrounding
Arab countries. This will provide the PLO with a strong base for liberat-
ing Palestine. Thus the struggle for a democratic Palestine is linked to
the creation of a united, democratic, and ultimately socialist, Arab soc-
iety. This will provide the objective basis for eradicating the poverty,
exploitation, oppression and the problem of minorities, from which the
people of the area suffer.
As acornerstone in this process, the establishment of a democra-
tic, secular state in Palestine will provide a democratic solution for the
Jewish question in this area, while simultaneously restoring the
national rights of the Palestinian people. After liberation, Jews in
Palestine, like all citizens, will enjoy equal rights and duties. The deci-
sion of the PLO to establish an independent Palestinian state on any
liberated part of the national soil is a step in this direction. It is the sin-
cere hope of all Palestinian revolutionaries that more and more Israelis
will recognize that they,too, have become victims of Zionism’s racism,
expansionism, exploitation and militarism, and will join us in the strug-
gle for a democratic Palestine.
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Editor's Note
We apologize for the long delay in reaching you with
Democratic Palestine. Most of you never received issue no.8
because its distribution was held up due to reasons beyond our
control. We are sending you this issue from Cyprus, but our
correspondence address remains the same. Because of the
long gap in our information, we devote this column to an update
on the internal Palestinian situation.
Prelude to the
PNSF
The Amman accord signed by Arafat and King Hussein in
mid-February brought new urgency to the democratic struggle
to remove the Palestinian right wing from the leadership of the
PLO. In the PFLP’s view, it necessitated the immediate forma-
tion of a broad national front, to fight deviation and return the
PLO to its national, anti-imperialist line. The point of departure
for such a front would be unity on this aim between all Palesti-
nian organizations and nationalist personalities; this encom-
passed the organizations of both the Democratic Alliance and
the National Alliance.
The Aden agreement of March 1984, between the four
organizations of the Democratic Alliance, included the concept
of forming a broad national front. So naturally, after the Amman
accord, the PFLP turned first to its allies in the Democratic
Alliance for consultation. Though there was agreement on the
imperative of confronting the Amman accord, there were differ-
ences on the organizational means for doing so. Moreover,
there was divergence as to the degree of stress on the neces-
sity of removing Arafat from the chairmanship of the PLO. The
DFLP preferred that the Democratic Alliance alone serve as
the framework for confronting the Amman accord, in conjunc-
tion with the mass organizations in occupied Palestine. Also,
the Palestinian Communist Party was unprepared to take new
organizational steps. Instead it proposed calling for popular
congresses among the various Palestinian communities, to
decide how to confront the agreement. Since then the DFLP
and the Palestinian Communist Party have continued their
work in the framework of the Democratic Alliance, issuing a call
for popular congresses.
The PFLP, however, remained convinced that broad unity
and an organizational framework was necessary for confront-
ing the Amman accord, and that it was equally necessary to
remove the deviationists from leadership if the PLO was to
return to its anti-imperialist line. In view of the Palestinian right
wing's quick successive steps into involvement in the US
plans, there was no time to waste. Accordingly, the PFLP and
also the Palestinian Liberation Front entered into discussions
with the National Alliance organizations on the formation of a
broad national front opposed to deviation. A political program
was quickly agreed upon. After agreement on the organiza-
tional program, the Palestine National Salvation Front was
formed and announced on March 15th. - هو جزء من
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