AKEL sent a solidarity message to the Communist Party of Israel

AKEL (The Progressive Party of Working People) Central Committee sent from Nicosia, Cyprus, a solidarity message to the Communist Party of Israel to “its struggles for the foundation of a Palestinian state”: “AKEL expresses its full solidarity with the Communist Party of Israel and all the pro-peace forces in Israel to their struggle against the…

A Hadash-CPI delegation meets with Abu Mazen in Ramallah

 A joint Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality)  and Communist Party of Israel (CPI) delegation meets, Friday June 10, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in Ramallah. Palestinian leader Abbas stressed in the meeting the centrality of the 1967 borders in both continued efforts toward peace talks and a simultaneous move to garner…

A Hadash-CPI delegation meets with Abu Mazen in Ramallah

 A joint Hadash (Democratic Front for Peace and Equality)  and Communist Party of Israel (CPI) delegation meets, Friday June 10, with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) in Ramallah. Palestinian leader Abbas stressed in the meeting the centrality of the 1967 borders in both continued efforts toward peace talks and a simultaneous move to garner…

Next Week in Tel-Aviv, Haifa and Beer-Sheva: Marx Forum 2011

The fourth annual Marx conference devoted to “Left Perspectives on the International Crisis of Capitalism” took place in Tel Aviv on May 16 and 17, 2010,  under the auspices of Hagada Ha’smalit (Left Bank) Alternative Cultural Center. In addition to 25 panelists, approximately three hundred people participated in the meetings and discussion. Summaries of lectures…

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…