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Palestinian People's Party (Palestine)

حزب الشعب الفلسطيني, Hizb al-Sha'b al-Filastini, "Palestinian People's Party" (1982-1991, Palestinian Communist Party)

image by Eugene Ipavec, 01 May 2007

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Palestinian Communist Party

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Introduction

From Wikipedia:

The Palestinian People's Party (PPP, in Arabic حزب الشعب الفلسطيني or Hizb al-Sha'b al-Filastini), founded in 1982 as the Palestinian Communist Party, is a socialist political party in the Palestinian territories and among the Palestinian diaspora.

The original Palestine Communist Party had been founded in 1919. After the foundation of the state of Israel and the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank, the West Bank communists joined as the Jordanian Communist Party, which gained considerable support among Palestinians. It established a strong position in the Palestinian trade union movement and retained considerable popularity in the West Bank during the 1970s, but its support subsequently declined. In the Gaza strip a separate Palestinian communist organization was established.

In February, 1982, prominent Palestinian communists held a conference and re-established the Palestinian Communist Party. The new party established relations with the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and joined the PLO in 1987. A PCP member was included in the Executive Committee of the PLO in April that year. PCP was the sole PLO member not based amongst the fedayeen organizations.

The PCP was one of the four components of the Unified National Leadership of the First Intifada, and played an important role in mobilizing grassroots support for the uprising.

The party, under the leadership of Bashir Barghouti, played an important role in reevaluating Marxism-Leninism as a political philosophy earlier than many other communist organisations in the region. It was renamed in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, to the Palestinian People's Party, arguing that the class struggle in Palestine should be postponed until after liberation.

The party was an enthusiastic advocate of the Oslo Accords.

Eugene Ipavec, 09 May 2007

Description

[...] red flags with a white disc and some logo inside the disc.

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This is the Palestinian People's Party.

Jaume Ollé, 27 Mar 2003

Actually, the logo inside the disc appears to include a very long, waving Palestinian flag at the bottom.

Santiago Dotor, 28 Mar 2003

Variations

image located by William Garrison, 22 October 2023

Source (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0gxD5elwJI

"Palestinian People's Party" (PPP) flag variant in a unity appeal by showing the communist hammer-and-sickle + Muslim golden "Dome of the Rock" ("Qubbat as-Sakhra") + Christian crucifix; c. "International Workers' Day" on May 1, 2018. As Arabic is read right-to-left, the flag's hoist is on the right with a flag-pole sleeve. Depending on which source one reviews, the 1930s "Palestine Communist Party" (PCP) renamed itself in 1982 as the "Palestinian Communist Party" (PCP) and in mixing with other groups became known as the "Palestinian People's Party" (PPP). Because the PPP still campions communist economics, the hammer-and-sickle emblem still appears on some of its flags. It is strange to see the intermixing of atheistic, godless communism ideology with pro-Allah/God Islam theology, unless the PPP avoids atheism disputes and concentrates instead on promoting communist economics. One-god Muslims are upset with Christians because they perceive that Christians believe in three gods: the Trinity: The Father, The Son, and The Holy Ghost -- instead of seeing them jointly as one entity. [I don't mean to get into a big theological analysis here, just trying to keep things very brief, very simple.]
William Garrison, 22 October 2023

image located by William Garrison, 23 October 2023

A variation of the communist-oriented "Palestinian People's Party" flag; c. 2005.

Palestinian Communist Party

image located by William Garrison, 21 October 2023

A pre-1991 "Palestinian Communist Party" flag.

image located by William Garrison, 21 October 2023

Source: https://www.lariscossa.info/

image located by William Garrison, 21 October 2023

Source: https://haber.sol.org.tr/

image located by Jaume Olle, 7 November 2023

About 1994 some hard line members of the Peoples Party created a new Communist Party: its flag is red with yellow hammer and sickle in the canton.
An old flag pre 1991 was reported by Flaggenmitteilung #146 dated 5 august 1988, photo attached (then all in w/b)
Jaume Olle, 7 November 2023