Palestine Communist Party
Palestine Communist Party פאלעסטינישע קומוניסטישע פארטיי ( Political parties |
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The Palestine Communist Party (
History
In 1923, at the party congress, a position of support was adopted in favour of the
During the mid-1920s the party began recruiting Arab members.
However, when the Comintern made its ultra-left turn in 1928 and denounced cooperation with national bourgeoisies in the colonies, the process of strengthening of the party amongst the Arab population was stalled. In 1930 the Comintern did yet another sharp turn, urging its Palestinian section to speedily increase the Arab representation amongst its cadres and leaders.[1]
In December 1930, PCP ran in the elections for the
During the rule of Joseph Stalin, the party militants in the Soviet Union suffered from heavy purges,[citation needed] including numerous people close to party leader Leopold Trepper.[citation needed] Daniel Averbach, one of the founders of the party, was brutally beaten and went mad.[7][citation needed] Tepper, himself, was expelled from Palestine by the British in 1929 and moved to Europe. During World War II, he led the Red Orchestra spy ring. In 1934 Radwan Al Hilu, a Palestinian Arab, was appointed by the Comintern as the secretary general of the party which he held until his resignation from the party in 1943.[8]
In 1943 the party split, with the Arab members forming the
From 1951 the Jordanian Communist Party organized Palestinians in the West Bank while a new Palestinian Communist Organization mobilized members in Gaza City. In 1975 a Palestinian Communist Organization was formed in the West Bank as a branch of the Jordanian party. In 1982 it severed ties with Jordan and merged with the organization in Gaza to become the new Palestine Communist Party.[13] This Party later became the Palestinian People's Party. In 1987, it joined the Palestine Liberation Organization.[14]
See also
- Communist Party of Palestine
- Da'am Workers Party
- Hadash
- Hagada Hasmalit
- Hebrew Communists, a 1945 split that later merged with the PCP in 1948 before splitting again in 1949
- Israeli Communist Opposition
- Maariv (newspaper)
- Ma'avak
- Maki (historical political party)
- Maki (political party)
- National Liberation League in Palestine
- Palestinian Communist Party (1922)
- Palestinian Communist Party (1982 foundation)
- Peace Now
- Revolutionary Communist League (Mandatory Palestine)
- Semitic Action
- Socialist Workers Party (Mandatory Palestine)
- Matzpen
References
- ^ a b Early Communism in Palestine, Fred Halliday, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Winter, 1978), pp. 162-169
- ^ ISBN 9781412846899.
- ^ Younis, 2000, p. 117.
- ^ Bernstein, 2000, p. 218.
- ^ Israeli, G. Z. (1953). MOPS-PCP-MAKI. Tel Aviv: Am-Oved. p. 29.
- ISBN 9781412819978. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ^ Radzisnki, 1996.
- ^ "Nidal al-Sha'b". National Library of Israel. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
- ^ Beinin 40, 42
- ^ Beinin45-48
- ^ a b Beinin 46
- ^ Beinin 52
- ^ Connell, 2001, p. 61.
- ^ Kawar, 1996, p. xii.
Bibliography
- Bashear, Suliman (1980). Communism in the Arab East: 1918–28. London: Ithaca Press.
- Bernstein, Deborah S. (2000). Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine. SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-4539-9
- Beinin, Joel (1990). Was the Red Flag Flying There?: Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965. Berkeley: University of California Press
- ISBN 978-1-60846-072-4(first published 1979, Musa K. Budeiri, Ithaca Press, London).
- Connell, Dan (2001). Rethinking Revolution: New Strategies for Democracy & Social Justice: The Experiences of Eritrea, South Africa, Palestine and Nicaragua. The Red Sea Press. ISBN 1-56902-145-7
- Kawar, Amal (1996). Daughters of Palestine: Leading Women of the Palestinian National Movement. SUNY Press. ISBN 0-7914-2845-1
- Younis, Mona M. (2000). Liberation and Democratization: The South African & Palestinian National Movements. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-3299-5
- Ran Greenstein. "Class, Nation, and Political Organization: The Anti-Zionist Left in Israel/Palestine", International Labor and Working-Class History, Volume 75, Issue 1, Spring 2009, pp. 85 – 108.