Explore the core political documents of pivotal chapters from the revolutionary organizational history of Palestine with Historical Documents of the P.L.O.: A Collection for Critical Organizational Study-a scholarly yet accessible anthology of the documents that forged the backbone of the Palestine Liberation Organization's struggle for sovereignty and liberation.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (P.L.O.), or Munazzamat al-Tahrir al-Filastiniyya, is the representative political entity of the Palestinian people, advocating for Palestinian independence, security, and rights. Recognized globally, the P.L.O. has been a central player in international efforts to address the Palestinian quest for statehood. Renowned for its enduring solidarity with national liberation struggles worldwide, as well as its critically successful organizational structure under active duress, dispossession, and attack, the P.L.O. has been instrumental in fostering international dialogue and seeking peaceful resolutions in the quest for sovereignty and human rights in the Middle East-an example to revolutionary liberation struggles everywhere.Designed for organizers engaged in peace activism, unionizing efforts, and revolutionary struggle, as well as for scholars of critical organizational studies and revolutionary organizational theory, Historical Documents of the P.L.O. offers readers access to disparate, foundational political documents of the P.L.O. as seen through the context of new, critical forewords, introductions, and afterwords-pushing both organizers and scholars to reconsider the deep lessons of the Palestinian struggle, and how radical sectors everywhere can better align themselves with anti-war activism and liberation struggles in Palestine-in Gaza, the West Bank, and [...] the frameworks and structures of the P.L.O.'s keen revolutionary political organization and engage in critical study with instructive organizational narratives that have ignited a renewed revolutionary political discourse while reshaping the fight for Palestinian self-determination.