The Role of Intra-party Opposition in National Liberation Movements Ess

The Role of Intra-party Opposition in National Liberation Movements By and large, in the latter half of the twentieth light speed a regime diversity has meant the victory of a leftist national run movement over an oppressive power whether the new regime makes bully on its reconciled purpose of delivering justice to its people has not evidenced such a standard pattern, however. While liberation movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa were able successfully to convert their role as revolutionary freedom fighters into democratic participation in the state (Connell, 9), movements such as Castros Cuban Revolution, while accomplishing regime change, failed to deliver a successful state. This paper suggests that lessons can be derived from these cases that apply to the Palestinians national liberation movement, in that intra-movement conflict that often appears intractable may in fact be a specific prerequisite for a successful regime change into the h ands of the Palestinian Authority. Dangling today somewhere between the role of a state and a non-state actor, the Palestinian National Authority (PA) was chartered subsequently the Oslo Accords to fill the governmental role in the would-be state of Palestine. Headed by Yassir Arafat, the PA provides an internationally recognized manifestation of the Palestinian Liberation make-up (PLO), which became the voice of the Palestinian nationalism movement since Israels independence in 1948. The ongoing transition of the PLO from a national liberation movement (and a intelligibly non-state actor) to the ruling government party in a Palestinian state has proven difficult due not only to the controversial nature of the supply of a Palestinian state on ... ...nd National Liberation in Latin America three decadesof guerrillas and terrorists 1959-1990. Florida North-South Center, University of Miami 1991.Rubenberg, Cheryl. The Palestinian Liberation Organization Its institution al infrastructure. Belmont, MA Institute of Arab Studies, Inc., 1983.Rubin, Barry. The Transformation of Palestinian Politics From revolution to state-building. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press, 1999. Segal, Jerome M. Creating the Palestinian State. Chicago, Il Lawrence Hill Books, 1989.Silverburg, Stanford. Palestine and Internatinoal Law Essays on politics and Economics.Jefferson, NC 2002.Staten, Clifford. The History of advanced Cuba. Westport, CT Greenwood Press, 2003.Younis, Mona. Liberation and Democratization the South African and Palestinian nationalmovements. Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota Press, 2000.