Imad Asfour (Photo: Al Ittihad)

Palestinian Communist key figure murdered in Gaza

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) and the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality (Hadash) express their deep shock, grief and rage over the coldblooded murder of Palestinian People’s Party (PPP) comrade Imad Asfour by Israeli criminal military assault in Gaza Strip. Our friend comrade Asfour served as the Deputy Chairman of the Control Committee…

A demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinian people, last week, in Buenos Aires (Photo: CTA)

Belgium advises to label products from settlements; Latin America urges peace

Belgium advised retailers on Tuesday to clearly label the origin of products made in Israeli settlements that are in occupied territories where Palestinians seek statehood. The non-binding recommendation has nothing to do with escalating conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, the Belgian Economics Ministry said, noting that Britain and Denmark already…

Fidel Castro (Photo: Granma)

Fidel Castro slams Israel’s offensive in Gaza

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro blamed the “warmonger” government of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko for shooting down a Malaysian airliner with 298 people on board over eastern Ukraine. Castro, who occasionally writes about world and local events, also criticized Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza, particularly the rising death toll of civilians. The revolutionary leader wrote…

A Palestinian held water and salt, the symbol of the hunger-strike during a demonstration in solidarity with hunger-striking Palestinian administrative prisoners, Nablus, West Bank, May 26, 2014 (Photo Activestills)

Palestinian and Israeli human rights organizations deliver a letter supporting hunger strikers

Dear United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, We, the Palestinian Ministry of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the undersigned human rights organizations, request your immediate intervention on behalf of the approximately 125 Palestinian detainees and prisoners currently on hunger strike in Israeli prisons. The hunger strike commenced on 24 April 2014 when approximately 90 detainees…

Communist Party of Israel in support of Turkish workers

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) sent last week a letter in support of Turkish workers to the Communist Party of Turkey and the Labour Party (EMEP): “The Communist Party of Israel expresses its deep anguish, concern and rage over the criminal massacre committed by SOMA Komur Isletmeleri A.S. and its best ally – the…