A Palestinian political party with communist roots; a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. Founded in 1982 as the Palestinian Communist Party, although it draws on the work and ideology of previous communist factions dating to the mid-1920s. In 1991, after the Soviet Union fell, the party re-evaluated its Leninist past and changed its name to the Palestinian People’s Party (PPP). The party was supportive yet critical of the Oslo Accords. Long-time member and then General-Secretary Mustafa Barghouti left the PPP in 2002 to form the Palestinian National Initiative. See “Palestinian Community Party.” Philip Mattar, ed. Encyclopedia of the Palestinians. New York: Facts on File, 2005.  http://www.justvision.org/glossary/palestinian-peoples-party