Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, May Day events commemorating this year’s International Workers’ Solidarity Day will take place tomorrow, Friday May 1, with a number of rallies and demonstrations across Israel, including in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Acre, Kufr Yassif in the Western Galilee, and other locales. Activists from Hadash (The Democratic Front for Peace and…
Under the slogan “Solidarity Yes – Blockade No,” dozens of Communist Parties around the world have signed a joint statement demanding the immediate lifting of the criminal US blockade against Cuba. The text of the statement signed by the parties follows: “As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread over the entire planet causing enormous human…
Bolivia’s interim government wants military Israel to help local authorities fight “terrorism” in the Latin-American country, the interior minister told Reuters on Friday, December 6, alleging plots by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and other leftists to destabilize the coup government. Without providing details, Arturo Murillo said Bolivian police “were investigating radical leftists, allegedly linked to…
Hundreds of journalists joined a march and protest rally organized by the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) on Thursday, November 21, against the decision by Israeli authorities to shut down the television offices of Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) in Jerusalem. The offices of PBC Television, a channel funded by the Palestinian Authority, received orders to close…
The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) condemned Wednesday evening, October 9, the shooting attack near a synagogue in the eastern German city of Halle, in which the assailant killed two people in the vicinity after he failed to break into the Jewish house of worship. The two mortally wounded victims were 40-year-old Jana Lange and 20-year-old…
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has affirmed his country’s unconditional support for the Palestinian cause out of a sense of moral and humanitarian obligations. Maduro’s vow was made during a meeting with the Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad al-Malki, on the sidelines of the Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) held in…
Communist Knesset member Aida Touma-Sliman sent official letters of solidarity to two Democratic Congresswomen, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, “to express my appreciation for your tireless work on behalf of the Palestinian people” and “in light of President Trump’s racist recent attacks” upon them as the members of the US House of Representatives. Touma-Sliman wrote:…
Following is a joint statement signed by dozens of communist parties around the world as an expression of their consistent support for the struggle of the Sudanese people for peace, democracy, human rights and social justice. Since 19 December 2018, we have closely followed the struggle of the Sudanese working people against the repression meted…
Sudanese dictator Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, who ruled his nation for 30 years after coming to power in a military coup in 1989, was arrested and forced to step down by his country’s military on Thursday, April 11, after months of popular protests against his regime. Sudanese armed forces also arrested Prime Minister Mohamed Taher Ayala…
On the Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings before the Tuesday, April 9, general elections, mailboxes belonging to residents of Tel Aviv were stuffed with new a campaign flyer from Hadash-Ta’al that reads, “Your neighbor is an Arab,” to remind Israel’s majority Jewish population that more than one fifth of their fellow citizens are Arabs. The…