Maki (party)
| Maki HaMiflega HaKomunistit HaYisra'elit Israeli Communist Party |
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| Party leader | Central Committee |
| Emergence | from historical maki |
| founding | September 1, 1965 |
| Alignment |
Communism Criticism of Globalization Marxism-Leninism |
| Colours) | red |
| Parliament seats |
3/120 |
| International connections | International meeting of communist and workers' parties |
| Website | www.maki.org.il |
Maki (Hebrew: מק״י, HaMiflaga HaKomunistit HaJisraelit, Hebrew: המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית, literally: Israeli Communist Party) is a communist party in Israel and part of the political formation Chadash .
history
In 1948, Arab communist party leaders who had not fled Palestine or the emerging state of Israel after the Palestine War, together with Jewish members of the Communist Party of Palestine founded in 1923, founded the Israel Communist Party ( HaMiflaga HaKomunistit HaJisraelit ), or Maki for short . At the time of the British mandate , the Communist Party operated out of illegality and was only given the opportunity to be active in public after the establishment of the State of Israel .
Maki was initially a party with a Jewish majority. Because of differences of opinion between the Jewish and Arab party members, mainly over the status of Zionism , the party split in 1965. The part that kept the name Maki had a Jewish majority, while the other part had an Arab majority and took the name Reshima Komunistit Chadasha , or Rakach for short .
Maki (1965-75)
The Maki party , which emerged from the split in 1965, dissolved in 1975 and merged with the Zionist-Socialist Association (blue-white movement) and with elements of the socialist left to form the Moked party .
In 1977 Moked formed the political formation Sheli together with several other parties . This union dissolved before the 1984 elections.
Rakach (1965-89)
Reshima Komunistit Chadasha , (Hebrew:רשימה קומוניסטית חדשה: New Communist List, abbreviated Rakach , Hebrew:רק״ח), existed between 1965 and 1989 as a split from the Israeli Communist Party. In 1989 the party returned to its previous name: Ha-miflaga ha-komunistit ha-jisraelit (= Israeli Communist Party).
Rakach was founded in 1965 when the Israeli Communist Party (Maki) split into two groups. The split was preceded by internal party contradictions on the question of a reassessment of Zionism , the position towards the Arab states and, related to this, the position towards the Soviet Union . The organizational split of the party in August 1965, however, took place by mutual agreement. The majority of Maki's Jewish party members, who refused to support the anti-Zionist course, separated from the party and took over its name (with legal support). The Maki group was based on the Jewish population , while the Rakach group was based mainly on the Arab population. The leaders of Rakach were Tawfik Toubi , Meir Vilner , Tawfiq Ziad and David Chanin.
Rakach appeared as an independent party in the Knesset elections in 1965, 1969 and 1973 and received three to four seats each. For the Israeli parliamentary elections in 1973, Rakach and Maki formed the joint Moked list . After 1977, the party joined the Chadash alliance in the subsequent Knesset elections . In 1989 she took the name "Maki" again, but was still part of the Chadash alliance.
International Relations
The Communist Party of the Soviet Union behaved after the split of 1965 first waiting. The outcome of the Six Day War caused them to sever ties with the Maki alliance and to regard Rakach as a legitimate brother party in Israel.
Other communist parties, u. a. those of Romania, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Australia recognized both mergers formed in 1965.
See also
Web links
Brochure for a historical poster exhibition from 2009 with a time table:
- Tamar Gozansky, Angelika Timm (ed.): Against the current! The Communist Party of Israel (KPI) 1919-2009. Articles and posters . Tel Aviv March 2009 (74 pp., Online [PDF; 6.7 MB ; accessed on March 6, 2017]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dalia Shehori: He'll Wage War on Globalization and Global Warming . In: Haaretz . January 13, 2003 ( Haaretz.com [accessed February 16, 2020]).
- ↑ Ilan Lior: MK Dov Khenin: Netanyahu Government Is Dangerous for Israel . In: Haaretz . January 16, 2013 ( Haaretz.com [accessed February 16, 2020]).
- ↑ a b c Seliger, Kurt (1976): RAKACH and MAKI. The two communist parties of Israel . In: Eastern Europe 4, pp. 251-253.
- ^ Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress: Country Profiles. Appendix B - Israel. Political Parties and Organizations . Retrieved July 27, 2009.
- ^ Left Camp of Israel (Sheli) Knesset website
- ^ Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress: Country Profiles. Appendix B - Israel. Political Parties and Organizations . Retrieved July 27, 2009.
- ^ New Communist List (Rakach) Knesset website
- ↑ Seliger, Kurt (1976): RAKACH and MAKI. The two communist parties of Israel . In: Eastern Europe 4, pp. 251-253.
- ^ Helena Cobban: The Palestinian Liberation Organization. People, Power and Politics , Cambridge 1984, p. 189. Further reading in: Constanze Krakau: The role of the Palestinian minority in the political life of Israel 1976–1996. Studies on the contemporary history of the Middle East and North Africa, Vol. 14, Berlin, Hamburg, Münster 2005, pp. 66f.