The following statement was issued by the Joint Leadership of the Popular Democratic Party and the Arab Socialist Action Party in Lebanon:
No Negotiations… No Recognition… No Surrender
The Joint Leadership rejects and condemns the official Lebanese signing of a “peace” agreement — not a framework agreement — with the Zionist enemy, through which the enemy was granted the right to continue killing and destroying, to remain in the occupied southern villages, to prevent the people of the land from returning to their homes, and to prevent their reconstruction. Together, they also pledged to “eliminate” the elements of popular and field-based strength that confront aggression and deter the enemy — all under the management of U.S. imperialism, the sponsor of wars of genocide, the oppression of peoples, and the plunder of the world’s wealth.
The sectarian political system, subordinate and submissive to U.S. and Western dictates, historically incapable of building a state and consistently failing to confront the enemy and its aggression, regards the mission of the security and military forces as protecting the presidential and government headquarters, the banks, the interests of the ruling class, and some members descended from feudal landlords and major landowners who sold land on both sides of the border to Zionist agencies for the construction of settler colonies.
Therefore, it was only natural that the people of the South, the Lebanese popular classes, and the national, Arab nationalist, leftist, and Islamic forces would confront the arrogance of the enemy and its occupation of Lebanese land since the establishment of the Zionist entity on the land of Palestine, through every form and means.
The authority in Lebanon—the authority of capitulation, surrender, and shame—has granted the Zionist entity a certificate of innocence for the blood of our people by recognizing it, submitting to it, and pledging not to pursue it legally for its massacres, at a time when the enemy entity is experiencing comprehensive isolation, expressed by the peoples of the world, many of its governments, and the criminal prosecutions of the enemy’s leaders in numerous countries.
Our self-sacrificing people deserve a national political authority that possesses the courage, determination, and resolve to place the interests of the homeland and the people at the top of its agenda; an authority that provides the necessities of life for the people and prepares society to defend the land; one that abandons the illusion of appeasing the enemy through concessions here or there — and will never succeed in doing so; a national authority that does not present the blood of the martyrs, the heroism of the resistance fighters, the suffering of the prisoners, and the pain of displacement as a free gift to the enemy; a national authority entrusted with safeguarding the sovereignty of the homeland and the dignity of the people—an authority of the people over their own land, not the authority of others over our land.
Let us unite as political, social, and workers’ forces in a broad national front to confront the equation imposed by the authority of submission: surrendering our weapons in exchange for surrendering our land. Let our common objective be to reject negotiations, overthrow the agreement of humiliation, and restore our full national rights in liberating the land, the oil wealth, and the maritime borders, and in building a state of citizenship, social justice, and national sovereignty, a state of the overwhelming popular majority serving the interests of the working class, laborers, and farmers, rather than the state of the one percent serving the comprador class, the rentier economy, and the banks.
Beirut, 29 June 2026
Joint Leadership
Democratic People’s Party
Arab Socialist Action Party – Lebanon
source: Masar Badil