For years on end, as a founding member, the Israeli Labor party was an active player at the Socialist International conventions. Those days have passed. Not only did party leader MK Shelly Yacimovich not send a representative to the weekend meeting in South Africa, she went as far as to instruct former MK Colette Avital not to fly to Cape Town, despite Avital's willingness to cover her own expenses.
- By Richard Mote
- 25 Apr 2013
- 10:47PM
The Labour Party should stay invollved in the international movement. I am a democratic marxist,and belong to Democratic Socialist of Amer- ica. I think it is important to support leftist in the middle east, to opose Islamic fundamentalist. A well organised left could move things in the dere cti ion
thank you
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