THE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT OF PALESTINE (AL-FATAH)
AL-FATAH the strongest and most prestigeous of the fidayeen organisations. Its nucleus was formed in 1956-57 during the Israeli occupation of Gaza. After the Israeli withdrawal, its activities became limited to incursions into enemy territory from the neighbouring Arab countries. The first military communique signed by the NLMP and its military wing, Al-'Assifa was issued on January 1 1965 On its fifth anniversary, Al-Fatah published the following statistics on the outcome of its struggle over the past four years. Al - Assita has carried Our military operations against enemy settlements. The number of enemy killed or wounded is 3650 soldiers and 44 officers. The enemy lost 658 military vehicles and 57 military communications vehicles in the operations. During this period Al-'Assifa destroyed 40 oil installations, mined the other are intended to liquidate the struggle destroyed power installations and factories and blew up four military railways, 70 ambush parties, 3 tele-communications stations and 59 water installations. Al-'Assifa lost 296 martyrs killed in action.
Point Platform of Al-Fatah's Central Committee (14 January, 1969) 1. The National Liberation Movement of Palestine (Al-Fatah) is the expression of the Palestinian people and of its determination to liberate its territory from Zionist colonisation and to re-establish its national identity. 2. Al-Fatah is not fighting against the Jews as an ethnic and religious community. It is fighting against the Zionist and colonialist state of Israel with its racist, theocratic and expansionist structure. 3. Al-Fatah rejects any solution to the Palestine problem which does not recognise the existence of the Palestinian people and its right to self-determination. 4. Al-Fatah categorically rejects the Security Council resolution of 22 November 1967 and the Jarring mission resulting from it. This resolution disregards the existence Palestinian people and its national rights. Any so-called peaceful solution which disregards this basic fact is bound to fail. In any case, the acceptance by this or that party of the 22 November resolution is not binding, in any manner whatsoever, on the people of Palestine which is determined to pursue its resolute struggle against foreign occupation and Zionist colonisation. 5. Al-Fatah solemnly declares that the final aim of its struggle is the restauration of the independent democratic Palestinian state where all citizens, whatever their creed, can enjoy equal rights.
Palestine forms part of the Arab Homeland. Al-Fatah will work for the active participation of the Palestinian state in building a united and that of the ietnamese people and all the other peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America forms part of the historical process of liberating the oppressed peoples from colonialism and THE POPULAR FOR THE petty-bourgeois nationalist leadership of the anti-imperialist struggle in the Middle East a new revolutionary left is emerging. THE AUGUST PLATFORM OF THE PFLP 1. The petty-bourgeois class in the Arab world has proved its incapacity in accomplishing the tasks of national liberation. Consequently, the workers and peasants, armed with the revolutionary ideology of the proletariat, should be entrusted with the leadership of the movement for national liberation. 2. The Palestinian revolution is an organic part Arab revolution. Artificial attempts made by the Arab regimes and the petty-bourgeois elements in the Palestinian liberation movement to dissociate the one from of the Palestinian masses. 3. The PFLP is determined to purge itself of reactionary elements and centers of personal influence. 4. The organisational relationship within the Front are to be governed by the principle of democratic centralism.
for the Liberation of Palestine was formed in February 1969; one of its main operations has been the bomb in the cafeteria of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The following are extracts from the declaration announcing the formation of the DPFLP. 5. DPFLP will struggle to establish a wide patriotic where all anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, and anti-reactionary political and class forces are represented, under the leadership of the revolutionary freedom-fighers, in order to achieve simultaneously a real and a revolutionary Palestinian national unity.
Our revolutionary Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine pledges itself to continue the struggle, armed with a radically patriotic outlook, placing every aspect of the Palestine problem critically and publicly before the masses the very substance revolution and its inexhaustible sea. 6. The DPFLP shall fight alongside all the patriotic sections of the resistence movement in à protracted people's war for the liberation of our country and the solution of the problems of the phase of national liberation in a Popular Democratic State of Palestinewherecultural and religious rights are respected and social and constitutional legalities guaranteed. 7. The DPFLP produced the revolutionary politico-military August [1968] Programme, which affirms that in this age of imperialism and colonialism, armed struggle is the only path for the liberation of the underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America - a struggle based upon the revolutionary ideology of the proletariat. The DPFLP shall, therefore fight daily to confront Zionism, imperialism and the forces of reaction in the context of the global wars for liberation. It will do so side by side with all the forces opposing imperialism and reaction in the world (the Socialist bloc, the movements national liberation throughout the world and the socialist working class parties in capitalist imperialist countries) in order to defeat imperialism and Zionism and to liberate both man and the land. Our Front shall struggle towards a worldwide anti-imperialist front ( ..) Imperialism persists waging 1LS exploitative war against the peoples of the Third World to destroy their Revolution. The Zionist-Imperialist aggression of June 1967 is a link in the chain of counter-revolution led by the United States of America, enemy number one international liberation movement and the
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