Palestine Democratic Union

Palestinian Democratic Union الاتحاد الديمقراطي الفلسطيني
Leader	Saleh Ra'fat
Founder	Yasser Abd Rabbo
Founded	1990
Split from	Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Headquarters	Palestine
Ideology	Scientific socialism
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Palestine Liberation Organization, Democratic Alliance List
Website
fida.blue.ps
Politics of Palestine Political parties Elections

The Palestinian Democratic Union (Arabic: الاتحاد الديمقراطي الفلسطيني‎‎ Al-Ittihad al-Dimuqrati al-Filastini, generally known as FIDA Arabic: فدا‎‎) is a small Palestinian political party active in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

FIDA emerged as a split from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) due to disputes in the early 1990s about the policies towards Jordan, the Oslo peace process and the First Intifada. In September 1991, the party approved its political program. In April 1993, it adopted the name Palestinian Democratic Union – FIDA.

The youth wing of FIDA is known as Independence Youth Union (Arabic: اتحاد شباب الاستقلال Athad Shebab Alasetqelal); there are also workers' and women's groups. FIDA has no armed wing, in contrast to the DFLP and several other Palestinian organizations.

The slogan of FIDA is "freedom, independence, return, democracy and socialism". It presents itself as a progressive, secular and democratic socialist party, and espouses the Marxist vocabulary of "scientific socialism".

FIDA took a more moderate stance than the main DFLP (led by Naif Hawatmeh and based in Damascus, Syria) towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has tried to establish itself as a left-wing democratic alternative in Palestinian politics. It advocates a two-state solution based on the borders of 1967 and with East Jerusalem as the capital of an independent Palestinian state. A prominent FIDA leader, Mamduh Nofal, in 2002 signed an appeal to stop suicide bombings.

...
Wikipedia