The Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party ( ar, الحزب الشيوعي الفلسطيني-الثوري) is a small

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

political party, founded in October 1982.Ṣāyigh, Yazīd Yūsuf.
Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993
'. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. p. 575

Arabi Awwad Arabi Musa Awwad (1928 – 20 March 2015) ( ar, عربي موسى عواد), kunya Abu Fahd, was a Palestinian communist politician.''Bayane al-Yaoume''عربي موسى عواد ..ثمانية عقود من النضال الصلب في سبيل ...

was the general secretary of the party.SANA
الشيوعي الفلسطيني الثوري ينعى أمينه العام عربي موسى عواد
/ref> As of the early 2000s, the party headquarters were in Damascus.
The Middle East and North Africa 2003
'. London: Europa Publications, 2003. p. 917 The party calls for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on "all national soil" through armed struggle. The RPCP emerged from a split in the

West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...

branch of the

Jordanian Communist Party The Jordanian Communist Party (JCP; ar, الحزب الشیوعی الاردنی, ''al-Hizb al-Shuyu'i al-Urduni'') is a communist party in Jordan, founded in 1948. Its current general secretary is Dr. Munir Hamarana. It publishes ''al-Jamahir ...

in 1982, over the issue of recognizing the State of Israel. The moderates formed the Palestinian Communist Party, which adhered to the Soviet line of recognizing Israel. The radical group, led by former West Bank party secretary Awwad, formed the Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party. The RPCP joined the PLO.
Journal of Palestine Studies
', Vol. 29. Institute for Palestine Studies and Kuwait University, 1999. p. 66 The party supported the

Palestinian National Alliance The Palestinian National Alliance ( ar, التحالف الوطني الفلسطيني) was an alliance of Palestinian movements, founded in 1983. The Alliance consisted of the PFLP-GC, as-Saiqa, Palestinian Popular Struggle Front, Fatah al-Intif ...

, but did not formally join it. Apart from Awwad, other politburo members of the party included Jiryis Qawwas and Abdullah Nimr. The RPCP took part in the armed resistance against the Israeli invasion in Lebanon, a number of party members (including Awwad's son Fahd Awwad) were killed during this struggle.''Bayane al-Yaoume''
عربي موسى عواد ..ثمانية عقود من النضال الصلب في سبيل حرية واستقلال وطنه وشعبه وأمته
/ref> The RPCP broke away from the PLO in 1987, in rejection of what they saw as rapprochement by

Yasser Arafat Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini (4 / 24 August 1929 – 11 November 2004), popularly known as Yasser Arafat ( , ; ar, محمد ياسر عبد الرحمن عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني, Mu ...

with imperialist forces (notably, the Palestinian Communist Party joined the PLO just afterwards). The party vehemently opposed the Oslo Accords. In the early 1990s, the RPCP disbanded its armed wing (after a long period of inactivity). In 1994 the RPCP joined the

Alliance of Palestinian Forces The Alliance of Palestinian Forces ( ar, تحالف القوى الفلسطينية, abbreviated APF) is a loose Damascus-based alliance of eight Palestinian political factions. The Alliance was created in Damascus in December 1993 by ten Palesti ...

. The party argues that the armed Syrian opposition is supported by colonialist, Zionist and reactionary forces. These are said to be seeking to weaken the Arab states in order to dominate the region.SANA
أحزاب وهيئات سياسية وحقوقية تدين تفجيري حلب الإرهابيين: جريمة همجية وفصل جديد من المؤامرة
/ref> Awwad died in March 2015.

References

{{reflist 1982 establishments in the Palestinian territories Communist parties in the Palestinian territories Former factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization Political parties established in 1982