The national conference of the Mapam, Israel’s left-wing workers party, concluded today after stipulating the following set of conditions as a basis for participating in a coalition government:
1. Israel to give no military bases to foreign powers; 2. No foreign power should control the command of the Israel Army; 3. The Israel Government is to give no assistance to the war efforts of foreign powers; 4. Israel is to have no economic or political alliances with foreign powers; 5. The Jewish state should reject foreign loans and grants-in-aid as well as technical aid, if any political strings are attached; 6. Israel’s workers should never be asked to fight the Soviet Union.
The conference decided that the Mapam Party–composed of the Hashomer Hatzair, Achdut Avodah and the left Poale Zion–should change its name to “The Zionist Pioneer Socialist and Revolutionary Party of the Workers Front in Israel.
Among the various resolutions adopted unanimously or by wide majorities was one accepting the views of the late Ber Borochov, theoretician of the Zionist labor movement, with regard to Jewry’s concentration within the territorial limits of the Jewish homeland, On the international scene, the delegates accepted the Marxist Leninist precepts on world policy. They also condemned “Titoism.”
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