Palestinian People's Party (Palestine)

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حزب الشعب الفلسطيني, Hizb al-Sha'b al-Filastini (Palestinian People's Party) [Pre-1991, Palestinian Communist Party]

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[...] 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

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.