Democratic Palestine : 10 (ص 13)
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fouleh in the Galilee where Arabs were
attacked after the dead bodies of two
settlers were discovered the preceding
week; he had participated in the violent
Zionist mob.
The Zionist authorities are escalat-
ing repression, reviving the draconian
measures provided for in the 1945
emergency regulations, first imposed in
Palestine by the British and_ later
adopted by the Israeli state. Already two
of those liberated in the most recent pris-
oner exchange have been rearrested,
one of them under administrative deten-
tion in accordance with the 1945 regula-
tions.Al Najah University has been
closed for two months for «inflammat-
ory» posters. Mass deportations are
being threatened as is the transfer to
desolate areas of entire refugee camps
if stones are thrown at Zionist vehicles.
Though they differ in their rhetoric, the
two wings of the Zionist government
converge on the essence of this cam-
paign. Whether they advocate annexing
the 1967 occupied territories, or subject-
ing them to Jordan's monarchy, Zionists
concur on the necessity of breaking the
Palestinians’ resistance. This is what
our revolutionaries are fighting. e@
Support Striking Prisoners
| Communique, July 29th
| A spokesman for the PFLP’s Polit-
bureau made the following statement
concerning the hunger strike declared
by Palestinian prisoners in Moscobiya
prison in occupied Jerusalem:
it is the second week of the strike,
and the Zionist prison authorities con-
tinue to reject the demands of the strik-
ers. These demands are for improve-
ment of the conditions of imprisonment,
| Stopping the prison authorities’ inhuman
treatment of prisoners, and quick action
to provide medicine for dangerously ill
prisoners.
We have information that the condi-
tion of the strikers is steadily deteriorat-
ing. We call on all committees and
humanitarian organizations, including
the Red Cross, Amnesty International
and the International Organization for
Human Rights, to intervene quickly to
press the Zionist occupation authorities
to provide our prisoners with good condi-.
tions according to the terms of the
Geneva Convention for prisoners of war.
First General Congress
The Progressive Front for
Trade Union Action
The Progressive Front for Trade Union Action in the occupied territories held its first general congress in
the early part of May 1985. The congress met under the slogan «towards a united trade union movement
ona militant democratic basis.» The congress was attended by leading members of the Palestinian trade
unions, representatives of mass organizations and a number of patriotic personalities.
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The PFTUA was officially founded in 1982, but it had
existed as a tendency within the occupied territories’ trade
union movement for many years. The formal announcement of
the PFTUA came in response to the exacerbation of poor
economic conditions for the Palestinian working class, the
need far more militant forms of trade union action and to rally
the working class in the occupied territories to play a leading
role in the national liberation struggle. As early as 1979, work-
ers representing this trend gained strength in the Shoemakers
Union in Hebron, and won seats in the union's administrative
council. The union succeeded in broadening its base among
Palestinian workers and became a member of the General
Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions in the West Bank. The
PFTUA has won seats in the administrative committees of the
St. George Hotel Workers Union, the East Jerusalem Electric-
ity Co. Workers Union, the Hospice Hospital Workers Union
and others, and plays a leading role in these unions.
Fifteen Palestinian unions were represented in the
PFTUA at the general congress. These unions have opened
their doors to any Palestinian worker regardless of political or
ideological affiliation. The PFTUA has organized to unify the
whole Palestinian working class within the general trade
unions and has taken many initiatives to avoid splits within the
General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions in the West
Bank.
The general congress was called to solidify the internal
organization of the PFTUA so that it can play a leading role in
the general trade union struggle and unify the trade union
movement in the occupied territories. To this end, the general
congress defined immediate tasks for the Front to develop in
1985.
Congress report
On the poltical level, the report of the congress con-
demned the February 1985 accord between Arafat and King
Hussein. The report stated: «We support the formation of the
Palestine National Salvation Front. We consider it to be a
pioneering and fundamental step along the road of defeating >
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