X… – Matzpen picket, Tel Aviv, August 1980
A Matzpen picket in front of the Labour Party’s center in Tel Aviv, protesting against the legislation prohibiting any expression of support to the PLO, August 1980.
Palestinian Workers, A Reserve Army of Labour in the Israeli Economy: Introduction ‒ Emmanuel Farajun
Introduction ‒ Palestinian Workers, A Reserve Army of Labour in the Israeli Economy, by Emmanuel Farajun, Tel Aviv, July 1979. Originally published in Hebrew May 1978.
Palestinian Workers: The Arab working class – Emmanuel Farajun
Chapter-1: The Arab working class - Palestinian Workers, A Reserve Army of Labour in the Israeli Economy, by Emmanuel Farajun, Tel Aviv, July 1979. Originally published in Hebrew May 1978.
Palestinian Workers: The division of the Arab labour force – Emmanuel Farajun
Chapter-2: The division of the Arab labour force between occupations and enterprises - Palestinian Workers, A Reserve Army of Labour in the Israeli Economy, by Emmanuel Farajun, Tel Aviv, July 1979. Originally published in Hebrew May 1978.
Palestinian Workers: Mobility – Emmanuel Farajun
Chapter-3: Mobility - Palestinian Workers, A Reserve Army of Labour in the Israeli Economy, by Emmanuel Farajun, Tel Aviv, July 1979. Originally published in Hebrew May 1978.
Palestinian Workers: Wages and working conditions – Emmanuel Farajun
Chapter-4: Wages and working conditions - Palestinian Workers, A Reserve Army of Labour in the Israeli Economy, by Emmanuel Farajun, Tel Aviv, July 1979. Originally published in Hebrew May 1978.
The Resurrection Party ‒ The Party Of Death
In October 1979, members and supporters of Matzpen demonstrated in Jerusalem, protesting the establishment of the extremist Zionist party "Resurrection". The demonstrators raised the slogan "The Resurrection Party ‒ The Party Of Death"
May 1st demonstration, Tel Aviv 1979
Matzpen’s block in the 1st May demonstration, Tel Aviv 1979
Editorial
Critical marxist evaluation of women's situation in the Middle East is almost non-existent... In this issue of Khamsin we make an attempt to remedy these deficiencies.
Nigel Disney
The members of the Khamsin collective announce with deeply-felt grief the sudden death of Nigel Disney, a dedicated member of our collective. Nigel, born in Nottingham, died at the age of 26 on the 24 June 1978 in a London hospital.
Women and politics in Lebanon – Yolla Polity Sharara
Article by a Lebanese woman describing the position of women in both Muslim and Christian communities as the country slid into civil war.
Changes in Palestinian society – Ehud Ein Gil and Aryeh Finkelstein
A look at the changes in Palestinian society since the beginning of zionist expansion in the region and its affect on the position of women.
Arab Women – Magida Salman (Mai Ghoussoub)
Legislation dealing with marriage, divorce, and the status of women (inferior in all cases) is still based on, or directly inspired by, Koranic law in all the Arab-Islamic states. What role is played by Islam, what is its influence, and how is it used in the oppression of Arab women.
Zionism and its scarecrows ‒ Moshé Machover and Mario Offenberg
This article aims to show how the objective and subjective henchmen of Zionism in the West, in their attempt to fluster the critics of Zionism, present ‘leftist’-tinged arguments in support of the Israeli state, but especially directed against its Jewish opponents of the anti-Zionist socialist movement inside Israel.
National formation in the Arab region: a critique of Samir Amin ‒ Mohammad Ja’far [Kanan Makiya]
Text criticising Samir Amin's view on the formation of Arab nations, analysing from a Marxist perspective the construction of Arab nationalism, Islam and the need for working class internationalism in the Middle-East.
Ideology without revolution: Jewish women in Israel ‒ Dina Hecht and Nira Yuval-Davis
The myth of the supposed liberation and equality of Israeli women, while perhaps gratifying a deep-seated need for feminists in search of identity, cajoles most Israeli women into a state of spirited resignation – content with a public image that bears little or no resemblance to their actual situation.
Book review: The Palestinian Arab National Movement ‒ Musa Budeiri
Yehoshua Porath of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has written what will undoubtedly become the standard reference work of the history of the Palestinian national movement, and deservedly so: this despite the fact that at times he seems unable to free himself from his political prejudices, and abdicates his professed role of detached historian to don the mantle of the partisan adversary.
What is Khamsin?
Khamsin is a journal by revolutionary socialists of the Middle East. It is also for them, and for socialists in other countries who are interested in that part of the world.
Zionism and its Oriental subjects – Raphael Shapiro
The Oriental Jews in Zionism's dialectical contradictions.
Egyptian Jewry, why it declined – Ya’acoub Daoud Eskandarany
Jews who lived in Egypt for 2,000 years, held important positions in the civil service, were rarely exposed to racial persecution and spoke the language of the people...Yet, in Egypt as elsewhere in the Mashreq, the Jewish population, with rare exceptions, has left the country. Why?