Democratic Palestine : 9 (ص 13)
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- Democratic Palestine : 9 (ص 13)
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Palestinian Women Boycott
the Right Wing
Against a background of conflict
and division characterizing the Pales-
tinian arena. involving the nationalist
forces on the one hand, and representa-
tives of the deviationist trend on the
other, preparations have been under
way for holding an illegal conference of
the General Union of Palestinian
Women, in Tunis on 30 April, 1985. In
view of the necessity to safeguard our
mass organizations and their nationalist
role as one of the bases of the Pales-
tinian Revolution. we stress the follow-
ing:
1-Holding such a conference on
unsound organizational bases under the
present political circumstances domi-
nated by political division and squander
resulting from the policies of the right-
wing PLO leadership, makes it impossi-
ble for the General Union of Palestinian
Women to remain united and preserve
its nationalist line.
2-The fact that, in various meetings of
the General Secretariat and Administra-
tive Council of the Union, the right-wing
representatives refused to stand with
the Union in rejecting King Hussein’s
proposal (land in exchange for peace),
Or denouncing the Hussein-Arafat
accord, is a proof of the right-wing’s
insistence on diverting the militant line of
the Union.
3-We consider that the intention of the
right-wing PLO leadership, which has
relinquished the legitimate national
rights of the Palestinian people, includ-
ing the PLO’s right to be the sole rep-
resentative of the Palestinian people, is
to bring about, through this conference,
a statement which would support its
deviationist line.
4-The right-wing line of deviation was
expressed in organizational procedures,
which transgressed the internal regula-
tions of the Union on both the leadership
and grass-roots level. This was clear
during the illegal session of the Pales-
tine National Council in Amman, when
an arbitrary decision was taken to strip a
large number of the Women’s Union
members of their membership. Other
transgressions included bypassing the
basic regular procedure, which
Text of the press release issued
by members of the General Sec-
retariat, the Administrative
Council and representatives of
the General Union of Palestinian
Women boycotting the illegal
conference to be held in Tunis
on 30 April, 1985.
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demands that the Union branches
necessarily hold their local conferences
and elect their representatives to the
general conference, before the latter
can convene. Inthe same way, member-
ship lists of representatives of certain
branches have been _ arbitrarily
increased with the addition of new
names. This procedure and others
clearly represent serious constitutional
offences, which jeopardize the legiti-
macy of the conference.
5-In spite of the decision by a number of
political forces and members of the
Union's General Secretariat, including
the Secretary-General herself, mem-
bers of the Administrative Council and
branches, to boycott the coming confer-
ence, in spite of the great and sincere
efforts exerted by leading members of
the Union and friendly Arab and interna-
tional women’s unions to warn the right-
wing against the dangerous consequ-
ences of such a conference, the right-
wing persisted in going ahead with their
plan, thus proving their intention to
undermine the achievements realized
by the Women’s Union through long
years of militancy.
6-Considering the above points, and
motivated by a deep concern for
safeguarding the unity of the Union and
its militant goals, we declare our inten-
tion to boycott the coming conference,
and demand instead that it convene on
sound political and organizational
bases, which would guarantee the
Union's nationalist line. A line which
would continue to defend the Palestinian
National Charter, its political prog-
ramme, as well as our people’s national
legitimate rights, including the right to
return, enjoy self-determination and
establish an independent state, on the
whole national soil of Palestine.
7-Declaring our intention to withhold our
participation in this conference, we
remain confident that our Palestinian
sisters in general, and our comrades in
the Union in particular, will help preserve
the Palestinian woman's militant role
within an active, united, nationalist con-
text. This is of special importance this
year, aS 1985 happens to be the 20th
anniversary of the establishment of our
Union, whose nationalist, anti-Zionist,
anti-imperialist and anti-reactionary line
we pledge to defend and continue to pro-
tect.
8-We appeal to friendly and sisterly
women’s unions to support our demand
that this conference be postponed, in
order for the General Union of Palesti-
nian Women to preserve its unity and
militant line.
Union members boycotting the Tunis
conference:
General Secretariat: Jehan Helou-inter-
national Relations Officer; Samira
Salah-Arab Relations Officer; Siham
Rahal-Information Officer & Treasurer.
Administrative Council: Samira Jibril,
Laila Khaled, Rasmia Oudeh, Nuweirah
Dajani, Bushra Hamid, Adiba Jafawi,
Mora Jaber.
Union branches boycotting:
Syria; Libya; most members in Kuwait,
Lebanon, the occupied territories and
Jordan; members in Qatar. (The
branches in Iraq and the USA are
illegal.) @
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