Against the oppression of women
Recommended reading on the occasion of International Women's Day, March 8.
Ehud Ein-Gil: My Political Journey to Matzpen ‒ Interviewed by Eran Torbiner
Hebrew with English subtitles: Childhood in Upper Nazareth (1957‒1962), activity for "holding on to the [occupied] territories" after the June '67 war, gradual disillusionment during the military service on the Suez front in the War of Attrition, arrest during the 1 May 1972 demonstration of the Black Panthers and the Left in Jerusalem, and from there it was already a short road to Matzpen
In memoriam: Akiva “Aki” Orr – by Moshe Macover
Obituary: AKIVA “AKI” Orr was a revolutionary activist and writer, founding member of the Israeli Socialist Organization (Matzpen), an enchanting raconteur, and a unique, larger-than-life character
Akiva Orr: A working-class hero – by Tikva Honig-Parnass
Obituary: my close personal and political connection with Akiva Orr and his family began in 1959 when Aki was still a member of Maki.
Interview with Oded Pilavsky, a Socialist
Excerpts from an interview with Oded Pilavsky (1932 - 2011), one of the founders of Matzpen, recorded in Tel-Aviv, February 2001, by Eran Torbiner for his Matzpen film. 23 minute video with English (and Hebrew) subtitles.
Oded (Odik) Pilavsky – Moshé Machover
Obituary: Oded Pilavsky 1932 - 2011
Collective Decision-Making and Supervision in a Communist Society – Moshe Machover
This article brings together my commitment to communism and my scientific work in the theory of social choice, particularly the measurement of voting power.
Israel: A Zionist State – Aki Orr
The Zionist movement and its State – ISRAEL, do not represent the Jewish people. They never did. They represent a particular trend within the Jewish people, namely – the nationalist trend.
Resolution of The Israeli–Palestinian conflict: A socialist viewpoint – Moshé Machover
...socialists often forego an independent critical socialist viewpoint and are content to tail behind this or that brand of radical nationalism. Independent positions such as those advocated in the present article, which were formerly held and defended by significant sections of the revolutionary left, have been abandoned or simply forgotten. They need to be reaffirmed.
Zionism and Oriental Jews: Dialectic of Exploitation and Co-Optation
by Ehud Ein-Gil and Moshe Machover, July 2008
Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Resolution – Moshé Machover
How should we think about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict? Please note: "how" comes before "what". Before coming to any substantive conclusions – certainly before taking sides – we must be clear as to how the issue ought to be approached.
Panta Rhei: Exchange of email letters – Dov Schoss and Moshé Machover
Exchange of email letters, Dov Schoss and Moshé Machover, following Machover's article "The 20th century in retrospect"
Matzpen endorses the call of Palestinian for BDS
Matzpen endorses the call of Palestinian Civil Society for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.
Following Matzpen – Eran Torbiner
In 1997 I decided, as a student at Tel Aviv University, to write a seminar on Matzpen. At the end of that year a conference was held to mark 35 years since the organization was formed. I went there to document the conference with a camcorder, and found myself launched into a journey to follow people and ideas that until then I didn't know much about.
Who Am I? – Oded Pilavsky
Towards any anti-Semite, I am a Jew To adherents of Greater Israel, a Palestinian
The 20th century in retrospect – Moshé Machover
Published in Platform, Workers’ Liberty #59 (December 1999).
Israel and the freedom to migrate
This declaration was sent by Matzpen to the “Moscow News” weekly, to be published as a paid advertisement. The organization has received no reply from the Soviet newspaper.
Letter from a Palestinian to the Israeli “Peace Camp” – ‘Ali J
The following letter was written by a Palestinian leftist activist in the West Bank. It was published (in Hebrew) in December 1988 in issue #1 of Meha'ah (Protest), organ of a coalition of some of the more radical Israeli anti-occupation protest groups. The letter is directed to the less radical – and wholly Zionist – 'peace camp', including the Peace Now movement
Left Without Arabs – Ehud ‘Ein-Gil
In this article, published in place of an editorial in the first issue of Meha'ah (see Introduction to the previous item), the writer, member of the radical and anti-Zionist Socialist Organization in Israel (Matzpen) polemicizes against an article by Ari Shavit in the left-Zionist journal Politika (Politics).
Economic liberalism and the sharpening of class contradictions in Algeria – Alain Hertzmann
This article is based on an interview with Comrade Lafif Lakhdar as well as on articles in Le Monde Diplomatique (December 1982, October 1986 and November 1988) , Le Canard Enchainé (2.11.88) and a booklet 'Immigration and French Imperialism' by Combat Prolétarien (1980).