Tuesday, 22 June 2010
The barbaric Israeli Defence Force attack on the aid flotilla trying to break the embargo on Gaza is a clear indication of the growing crisis within Israeli society. The old ideology that held together Israeli society, Labour Zionism, has broken down, as capitalism in this small country can no longer guarantee the Jewish workers the basic social reforms of the past.
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2 comments:
I was a bit sceptical about the article's boast that the Communists "come second" in Tel Aviv's municipal elections ("coming second" in a multi-party means nothing), but non, they actually got 32,4% of the vote! (which is 7% more than Lenin's Bolsheviks got in December 1917).
Question remains: if they get 32,4% in Tel Aviv, why do they only get 4 seats in 120 seat Knesset ? Tel Aviv accounts for almost a third of Israel's population...
Sonia: The Israeli Communist Party is overall a small group. The Tel Aviv results show it can have power, beyond its numbers. There is no labor party like Great Britain in Israel. The most radical workers are in the ICP.
The Bolsheviks never claimed to be the majority. All power to the soviets, meant they took power, not the Bolshevik Party.
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