Palestinian Communist Party Marks 35th Anniversary

Under the slogan “Thirty-five Years of Steadfastness to Principles… The Banner of National and Social Liberation and Socialism Will Not Fall,” the Palestinian Communist Party (PCP) paid tribute to its founding comrades and generations of Palestinian communists who have maintained its revolutionary identity and principles.

PCP situates its anniversary within an international context of intensifying political, economic and social contradictions, pointing to escalating wars, struggles over resources and markets, and the growth of fascist and racist tendencies. The party stated that these developments are expressions of the aggressive nature of imperialism and global capitalism.

Addressing the situation in Palestine, the party denounced the continuing Israeli colonial project aimed at displacing the Palestinian people and eliminating their national and historical rights. It highlighted the consequences of the war, destruction, blockade and starvation in Gaza, alongside continuing attacks, restrictions on humanitarian assistance and obstacles to reconstruction. The party also condemned settlement expansion, land confiscation, house demolitions and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem.

The statement stressed that confronting these policies requires ending the Palestinian political division and restoring national unity through a democratic struggle programme. The party called for rebuilding the institutions of the Palestine Liberation Organization on national and democratic foundations, ensuring the participation of all political forces and rejecting political monopolisation.

PCP also reiterated its rejection of the Oslo Accords, arguing that the political, economic and security structures established through them have entrenched dependency on the occupation. It specifically called for ending security coordination and economic dependency, including the arrangements associated with the Paris Protocol.

Emphasising the inseparability of national and social liberation, the party addressed workers, peasants and all working people, arguing that resistance to occupation must also confront corruption, exploitation, poverty and unemployment. The statement called for the construction of a national resistance-oriented economy based on supporting agriculture, industry and productive cooperatives, alongside protecting workers' and peasants' rights, strengthening trade union freedoms and ensuring women's equality and youth participation.

Reaffirming the Palestinian people's inalienable rights to return, self-determination and liberation from Zionism, the party advocated for a democratic and progressive state across the entirety of historic Palestine, for all its inhabitants without religious or national discrimination, founded on equality and social justice.

Concluding its statement, Palestinian Communist Party, pledged to strengthen its organisation and expand its presence among workers, peasants, young people and women, while continuing its struggle against occupation, exploitation and dependency.

The banner of the Palestinian Communist Party, carried by generations of fighters, will remain raised in the fields of national, class and internationalist struggle, until our people's goals of liberation, return and self-determination are achieved, and the values of freedom, justice and socialism triumph.