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Palestinian Popular Struggle Front جبهة النضال الشعبي الفلسطيني | |
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| Leader | Ahmed Majdalani[1] |
| Founded | 1967 (1967) |
| Ideology | Socialism Left-wing nationalism Palestinian nationalism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Palestine Liberation Organization |
| International affiliation | Socialist International(Consultative) |
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ThePalestinian Popular Struggle Front (PPSF, occasionally abbr.PSF) (Arabic: جبهة النضال الشعبي الفلسطيني,Jabhet Al-Nedal Al-Sha'abi Al-Falestini) is aPalestinian political party.Samir Ghawshah was elected secretary-general of PPSF in 1971 and led it until his death in 2009. He was succeeded byAhmed Majdalani on 8 August 2009.[2]
PPSF holds a seat on thePalestine Liberation Organization (PLO) executive council, though it is generally considered to have a limited influence over Palestinian politics.
The PPSF was founded as thePalestinian Popular Struggle Organization (PPSO) in theWest Bank in 1967 byBahjat Abu Gharbieh, a formerBa'athist, following a split from thePopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).[3] It had close ties toFatah, and in 1971 it officially became a Fatah-affiliated organization. It fell out withYasir Arafat in 1973, and left Fatah to act independently. In 1974 PPSF left the PLO to become a founding member of theRejectionist Front with other radicalPalestinian factions who rejected theTen Point Program adopted by thePalestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
In 1969, the organization attacked civilian Israeli and Greek passengersin Athens Airport in 1969 which resulted in 14 injures and one dead child.[4] A year later, the organization also hijackedOlympic Airways Flight 255 fromBeirut, Lebanon en route toAthens. The hijackers ordered the flight flown toCairo, Egypt with five crew members.[5]
Initially close toEgypt after its break with Fatah, it eventually slipped into decline. In 1982 it was revived jointly bySyria andLibya, in an attempt to bolster hardliner and anti-Arafat forces in the PLO (Syria was simultaneously fighting the PLO inLebanon).
Members of the PPSF were mentioned as possible suspects in the 1988Lockerbie Bombing, believed to have been orchestrated by the Libyan regime, but Samir Ghawshah denied the charges.[6]
In 1991, PPSF was allowed to rejoin the PLO after acceptingUnited Nations Security Council Resolution 242 and the concept of negotiations withIsrael. Ghawshah gained a seat on thePLO Executive Committee. The PPSF split into two, the main group, the Samir Ghawsha faction, accepted thePalestinian National Authority (PNA), whileKhalid ‘Abd al-Majid'sparallel PPSF opposed it from exile inDamascus, Syria.
The Samir Ghawsha faction of PPSF took part in the1996 Palestinian legislative elections with 12 candidates. Together they got 0.76% of the national vote.[3] The faction also took part in the2006 Palestinian legislative election as part of the "Freedom and Social Justice" list, which got 7,127 votes (0.72%) and failed to win a seat.
In June 2018 the party was admitted to theSocialist International as consultative member.[7]
The PPSF maintains five front organizations; theWorkers Struggle Bloc,Palestinian Struggle Youth Union,Students Struggle Bloc,Women's Struggle Bloc andTeachers Struggle Bloc.
PPSF publishesSawt an-Nidhal (Voice of the Struggle).
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