Matzpen’s Website: Users’ Data 2020
Map of users of the Hebrew, Arabic and English Matzpen sites by country of origin (144 countries); Detailed data of the leading 40 countries; The 10 most visited pages in English.
Zionism and opposition to it within Israel – Podcast interviews by Working Class History
Double podcast episode on the history of Zionism and opposition to it within Israel, in conversation with former members of the Socialist Organization in Israel – Matzpen: Moshé Machover, Haim Scortariu and Udi Sivosh.
Giyora Neumann: J’ai Dit Non à L’armée Israélienne
J'avais 17 ans en 1971 quand j'ai été emprisonné pour avoir refusé de faire mon service militaire et afrirmé mon opposition à I'occupation des territoires palestiniens. C'est sans doute l'acte de ma vie qui a le plus de sens !
Matzpen endorses the call of Palestinian BDS
Matzpen endorses the call of Palestinian Civil Society for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.
Compass Pointer
Who was Anthony Compass, who wrote a letter to a local newspaper in Cornwall, and what could be his connection to the Socialist Organization in Israel — Matzpen?
Israel and the Freedom of Migration
During all those years when Israel demanded of the Soviet Union to allow Jews to emigrate from there to Israel, all Israeli governments consistently denied the right of the Palestinian refugees to return to their homeland.
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.
Women Against Fundamentalism
Women Against Fundamentalism was launched on May 6th 1989, as a network to challenge the rise of fundamentalism in all religions. Women's groups involved in this campaign include Southall Black Sisters, Brent Asian Women's Refuge and the Iranian Women's Organization in Britain.
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
A solidarity visit to Dahariyah
The following report was sent to us by Professor I Shahak, Chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights. It was written by an Israeli who visited the Dahariyah prison compound; he managed to get in by mingling with the members of a Palestinian prisoner's family. Since this is against the rules, his name is withheld.
Plato banned in bastion of democracy
According to the Jerusalem Post of 7th May, very few books are allowed Into Qezi'ot. Among books that have been banned are not only tracts on Marxism and a biography of George Orwell, but also the Dialogues of Plato.
Palestinian women in the Occupied Territories: an interview with Laila al-Hamdani
The involvement of Palestinian women in the national struggle has affected the position of women in the social strata and in the family. The process has been slow but that has made it stronger.
The Middle East at the Crossroads – by Abu Sa’id and Moshé Machover
This is a re-print of an article that was originally published in September 1969. "The formula that restricts the struggle to Palestine alone, despite its revolutionary appearance, derives from a reformist attitude which seeks partial solutions within the framework of conditions now existing in the region. In fact, partial solutions can only be implemented through a compromise with imperialism and Zionism".
In Defence of Children under Occupation
The cases of four Palestinian children, aged 6 to 9, who were arrested by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank.
Symposium on the Gulf War: Introductory Statement & Contents
Introductory statement by the Committee for the Defence of the Democratic Rights of the Iranian People, organizers of the daylong symposium on the Iran-Iraq war held in New York on 8 September 1984.
Oil, Arms and the Gulf War – Joe Stork
The war simply could not have continued at this level of carnage and destruction for this long without the oil revenues of the protagonists and Iraq's Arab neighbours.
Iranian Intellectuals and Dependency Theory – M. Arman
A critique of the Iranian intellectual left who had their dogmas – particularly those around anti-imperialist struggle – shattered by the events of the revolution; and interesting information about the development of the Iranian socialist movement.
The War and the Islamic State Apparatus in Iran – Ali Ashtiani
The Iranian utilization of the war for 'state-forming' purposes resembles the practice of fascist regimes. Another similarity between fascism and the absolutism of Islamic ideology is the expansionist idea of exporting the Islamic revolution.
International Dimension of the War – R. Keivan
The long-term rewards that the Iraq-Iran war will bring for the US will outweigh any short-term setbacks.
War of the Rentier States – Eqbal Ahmad
This is not an anti imperialist war. This is a war of local ambitions: President Saddam Hussein's opportunism and regional reaction to Iran's revolutionary promise were responsible for Iraq's initial aggression in 1980. And Ayatollah Khomeini has a great deal to do with prolonging the agony.