Maki (political party)

Ha - ha - miflaga komunistit ha - jisraelit (Hebrew: המפלגה הקומוניסטית הישראלית, literally: Israeli Communist Party, abbreviated Maki, Hebrew מק"י ) is a communist party in Israel and part of the political formation Chadash.

History

In 1948, Arab communist party leaders, who had not fled after the Palestine war from Palestine or from the nascent state of Israel, along with Jewish members of the Founded in 1921, the Communist Party of Palestine, the Israeli Communist Party ( Ha - miflaga ha - komunistit ha - jisraelit ), abbreviated Maki. At the time of the British Mandate, the Communist Party was operating out of the underground and was only after the establishment of Israel the opportunity to engage in public.

Maki was initially a party with a Jewish majority. Due to disagreements between the Jewish and Arab party members, mainly on the importance of Zionism, it came in 1965 to a split in the party. The part, which retained the name Maki, had a Jewish majority, while the other part had an Arab majority and the name Reshima Komunistit Chadasha, abbreviated Rakach assumed.

Maki ( 1965-75 )

The resulting from the cleavage 1965 Maki party broke up in 1975 and merged with the Zionist - Socialist Federation ( Blue - White movement) and with elements of the socialist left to the party Moked.

In 1977 Moked formed, along with several other parties, the political formation Sheli. This alliance broke up before the 1984 elections.

Rakach ( 1965-89 )

Reshima Komunistit Chadasha, (Hebrew: רשימה קומוניסטית חדשה: New Communist List, abbreviated Rakach, Hebrew רק"ח ) was 1965-1989 as a split from the Israeli Communist Party. In 1989, the party returned to her former name: Ha - ha - miflaga komunistit ha - jisraelit ( = Israeli Communist Party ).

Rakach was founded in 1965, when the Israeli Communist Party ( Maki ) split into two groups. The split within the party were opposites in the question of a re-evaluation of Zionism, the position of the Arab states, and so standing in the context of the attitude to the Soviet Union ahead. However, the organizational split in the party in August 1965 took place in the agreement of both sides. The majority of Jewish party members by Maki, who refused to give support to the anti-Zionist course, split from the party and took their name ( with judicial support). The merger Maki was based on the Jewish, the merger Rakach majority of Arab populations. The Head of Rakach were Tawfik Toubi, Meir Vilner, Tawfiq Ziad and David Chanin.

Rakach occurred in 1965, 1969 and 1973 to the Knesset elections as an independent party and each received three to four mandates. Among the Israeli parliamentary elections in 1973 Rakach and Maki were the common list Moked. After 1977, the party joined in the next Knesset elections the alliance Hadash. In 1989, she again took the name " Maki ", but was still part of the Hadash alliance.

International Relations

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union behaved after cleavage from 1965 initially hesitant. The output of the Six-Day War caused them to solve relations with the merger Maki and look Rakach as legitimate fraternal party in Israel.

Other communist parties, inter alia, those of Romania, Italy, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Australia, recognized both in 1965 resulting mergers.