Summary
The Palestine Communist Party’s adopted programme, from its Seventh Congress at the end of 1930, of transforming itself into a real party of the toiling Palestinian Arab masses; Kanafani records that it was never carried out.
Details
- The Seventh Congress viewed the Party’s isolation from the Palestinian Arab mass movement as the result of a Zionist-influenced deviation that prevented the Arabisation of the Party, and held that Arabisation, the Party’s transformation into a real party of the toiling Palestinian Arab masses, was the first condition of the success of its activity in the rural areas (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.10 / printed p.18).
- The process of Arabisation did not take place; the Party split during the 1936 revolt, and again in 1948 and 1965 for reasons connected with Arabisation (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.10 / printed p.18).
- Kanafani later repeats the failure: the Communist left had failed to Arabise the Party, as the Seventh Comintern Congress had recommended, and with the Second World War the Palestinian left began to lose the initiative it had started with in the mid-1930s, partly through this failure (The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, PDF p.27 / printed p.52; PDF p.31 / printed p.60).
Related pages
The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine, Palestine Communist Party, Feudal-Clerical Leadership