Cyprus crisis: A letter from the Communist Party of Israel to AKEL
The Communist Party of Israel (CPI) sent last Tuesday a letter to the Progressive Party of the Working Peoples (AKEL) in Cyprus. Under the signature of Dr. Ofer Cassif, Head of the International Relations Committee of CPI, the Communist Party of Israel "salutes AKEL on its heroic struggle against the Troika's illegitimate intervention in Cyprus and supports your objection to the collaboration of Mr. Anastasiades with those forces. It is well known that the intention of the EU, the IMF and the ECB has nothing to do with the wellbeing of the people of Cyprus, and everything to do with profit, exploitation and domination over Cyprus."
A demonstration in solidarity with the people in Cyprus, last week (Photo: 902 site)
"In continuation to Comrade Pambos Papageorgiou’s analysis, one may realise that the Troika's interest is to employ what Naomi Klein has coined as 'The Shock Doctrine': using a disaster (an economic one, in Cyprus case) to pursue a political neo-liberal project on behalf |
Arab-Palestinians in Israel mark Land Day in protest
Around 20,000 people participated in the Land Day rally in Sakhnin on Saturday, and around 1,000 came to the main event in the south of Israel, a march in the vicinity of the unrecognized Arab-Bedouin village al-Sayed and protest against the Prawer plan, which calls for eviction and relocating tens of thousands of Negev Bedouin from unrecognized villages.
Figures in the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee, an umbrella organization that includes most political parties and movements in Israel's Arab national minority, called for the expansion of the territorial jurisdiction of the country's Arab communities, most of which suffer from overcrowding and have little available land for new construction. Also on the agenda was the denunciation of incidents of anti-Arab bigotry and calls for the release of Palestinian prisoners incarcerated in Israel, especially older prisoners. In a press release the committee said Land Day in 2013 is not substantively different from Land Day in 1976, adding, "t |
הלינו את שכרם של מאות מבקשי מקלט
300מבקשי מקלט לא קיבלו את שכרם לחודש נובמבר והמעסיק מתנער מאחריות וטוען ש"מסר את המשכורות כולן לאחד העובדים שברח עם הכסף". כך מסרה חדוה ישכר, פעילה ב"קו לעובד". בעקבות הלנת השכר ההמונית רכזת תחום פליטים ומבקשי מקלט ב"קו לעובד", נועה קאופמן, כינסה אסיפה בגינת לוינסקי שבתל-אביב בהשתפות עשרות פליטים, רובם מאריתריאה ומסודן, במטרה להחתים אותם על ייפויי כוח לשם ייצוג משפטי.
העובדים שהתאספו היו חלק מקבוצה של יותר מ-300 פועלי חקלאות שהועסקו בעבודות עונתיות בקיץ 2012 בכמה קיבוצים באמצעות קבלן תושב כפר מנדא שבגליל התחתון. בדצמבר הם התלוננו ב"קו לעובד" על הלנת ש |
Cut in child allowances would push over 40% of children below poverty line
National Insurance Institute (NII) officials base projection on the high end of child allowance cuts that are thought possible. It is expected that Israel could cut somewhere between NIS 2.5 billion and NIS 3.5 billion. Officials at the NII predict that if, as part of the neo-liberal economic and social policy and the efforts to reduce government budget, state support for child allowances is cut in half, it would increase the proportion of children living below the poverty line by more than 6 percentage points to over 40 percent.
The National Insurance Institute pays a monthly child allowance to families living in Israel who have children up to the age of 18. The allowance is aimed at helping the family with the expenses entailed in raising their children, and it is paid regardless of the amount of the family's income. In most cases, the allowance is paid automatically, according with the information transferred to the NII by the hospital after the birth, and it is not necessary to su |
