Summary
In the PFLP’s Strategy, the course of armed struggle determined by the enemy’s technological and military superiority: guerrilla warfare at first, developing into a protracted people’s (popular) liberation war waged by the masses under working-class leadership, which will ensure ultimate triumph over that superiority (Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine, PDF p.39-40).
Details
- The Palestinian revolution is to encircle Israel with the strategy of the people’s liberation war from every side — from Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and inside the territory occupied before and after 5 June 1967 (PDF p.70).
- The main lines of the democratic national revolution’s strategy, drawn from Vietnam, Cuba and China, include reliance on armed struggle to overcome the enemy’s technological superiority through a protracted war commencing with guerrilla warfare and developing into a popular liberation war (PDF p.71-72).
- The working class strategy is set against the petit bourgeoisie’s traditional-war strategy: guerrilla warfare and popular liberation war by the masses under working-class leadership on the widest national front, with revolutionary mobilization raising the masses’ ideological, political, economic and military mobilization to the highest level (PDF p.82-83).
- The petit-bourgeois national regimes are said to avoid this course because a popular liberation war would make their leadership contingent on sacrificing all their privileges and would raise new worker and peasant leadership able to supervise and call them to account (PDF p.78-79).
Related pages
Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine, Scientific Socialism, Arab Reaction
- Facing imperialist technological superiority: guerrilla warfare avoids direct confrontation, attacks weak points and inflicts small losses accumulating daily, and is the first stage of a protracted war, not by itself full liberation; the Strategy quotes Vo Nguyen Giap’s People’s War, People’s Army on long-term resistance and accumulating thousands of small victories into great success (PDF p.95-100).