A wall in the torched mosque in Burqa

Yet Another Mosque Torched by Extreme-Right Jewish Racists

The residents of the Palestinian occupied West Bank village of Burqa, near Nablus, reported that their mosque “Al Nour” has been torched overnight. Defamatory slogans found on the walls, including several reading “Mitzpe Yitzhar” and “War,” suggest that the incident is in fact a racist extreme-right act.  According to Ma’an, the Palestinian news agency, at…

Emblem of the Young Communist League of Israel

Statement of the Young Communist League of Israel (August 2011)

The huge wave of demonstrations that is sweeping Israel for the last month and half, including a demonstration of 300,000 protestors in Tel-Aviv on August 6th, presented a very clear message: The Israeli working class in general, and young people in particular, revolts against the soaring prices of housing and basic commodities, and no longer…

Hundreds of thousands rally in Tel Aviv on last Saturday, August 6. (Photo: ActivestillsHundreds of thousands rally in Tel Aviv on last Saturday, August 6.

The Way to Victory

Arab-Palestinian in Israel author Odeh Bisharat addressed the 300,000-strong rally for social justice in Tel Aviv on last Saturday. Bisharat, a well know publicist (“Al Ittihad”, communist daily newspaper in Arabic and “Haaretz”, Hebrew daily newspaper) is the former Hadash general secretary and now Hadash (the Democratic Front for Peace and Equality – Communist Party…

Raising a black flag over the destruction of democracy

   Decisions of the 14th session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel July 8, 2011 The Boycott Law (“The Law for Prevention of Damage to the State of Israel through Boycott – 2011”), which has just passed in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament), is an outrageous attempt by the Israeli right to…

Al Arakib: More charges against activists

The Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality (NCF) Executive Director, Haia Noach, received notification last week of additional charges being laid against her following the incident during the sixth demolition of Al-Arakib, in the Negev, on October 13, 2010.   The two new charges are “disturbing a policeman in his duty” (article 275) and “beating a…

May Day in Tel-Aviv, 2010

An Appeal for Worker Unity in the Face of Capitalist Rule

The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) applauds the ascent of class struggle, as manifested in the important, prolonged strikes by the social workers, doctors, and the employees of the First International Bank of Israel (Bank Benleumi); as evidenced in the waves of organizing at factories, in private companies, and in the public sector; and as…

The settlements are the reason for the diplomatic impasse

  Resolutions of the 13th session of the Central Committee of the CPI The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) holds the Netanyahu-Barak-Lieberman government and the Obama Administration, which supports it in full, wholly responsible for the diplomatic impasse in the region and for the danger of another war. The CPI once…