International solidarity campaign with Haifa Chemicals workers strike

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) launched an international solidarity campaign with Haifa Chemical workers strike. On May Day workers at the Haifa Chemical Inc. (internationally known as “Haifa”) went on strike. A workers meeting at Haifa Chemicals (Photo: Al Ittihad) Haifa Chemicals Ltd. is the world’s largest manufacturer and marketer of potassium nitrate, an…

Communist Party of Israel mourns Juliano Mer-Khamis

  The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) mourns the tragic slaying by masked gunmen of our friend Juliano (“Jules”) Mer-Khamis. He was a major figure in the struggle for a just peace and the forging of a new progressive society in Palestine and Israel based on human rights, freedom, equality and, not least, creative and…

Veteran communist leader Tawfik Toubi is dead

Veteran Communist Party of Israeli (CPI) leader Tawfik Toubi dead today (March 12, 2011). His funereal is to take place tomorrow, Sunday, in Haifa. Toubi was born in Haifa, in 1922, and was educated at the Mount Zion School in Jerusalem. He joined the Palestine Communist Party in 1941 and later was one of the…

Homage to Dr. Ahmad Sa’ad

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel expresses its profound grief at the passing away today (Monday, April 19), of comrade Dr. Ahmad Sa’ad, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and Chief Editor of “Al Ittihad”, communist daily Arabic newspaper. Dr. Sa’ad, a well know journalist and researcher, learned political…

Leading Communist Party member MK Muhammad Barakeh accused of assaulting an officer

The Attorney General informed Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Speaker Reuven Rivlin yesterday (Sunday, November 1, 2009) that criminal charges have been filed against MK Muhammad Barakeh, chairman of Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality), “for attacking an official who was discharging his legal duty, insulting a public servant, assault and interfering with a policeman in…

Communist Member of the Knesset Mohammad Barakeh is again the target of the Israeli government

The Office of the Attorney General of the Israeli Government’s Counsel General Menachem Mazuz issued today (Tuesday, April 28, 2009) a decision to provide a new indictment against MK Mohammad Barakeh, Chairman of the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) and leading member of the Communist Party of Israel. The Attorney General targeting Barakeh, Mazuz, is the same who made the decision to close the investigation into the killers of 13 of young Arab people during the demonstrations in October 2000.