The left-wing Socialist Mapam Party today issued an appeal to the Mapai urging a united front in all municipalities and local councils where the combined labor parties gained a majority of the votes in last week’s munidipal elections. The proclamation calls on the Labor Party to join forces for a “systematic struggle against reaction.”
The Mapam statement bases its appeal on the following six-point analysis of the results of the elections: 1. The increase of the “reactionary, bourgeois power which is hidden behind the General Zionist facade”; 2. The decrease in the influence of the Mapai “despite its expolitation of the name, organization and funds belonging to the Histadrut as a whole;”
3. The Mapam is the only portion of the labor movement which retained and even consolidated its strength in the towns and villages and among the immigrants; 4. The Herut’s “fascist power has been hit but not yet defeated; 5. The losses suffered by all parties in the government coalition shows that “public confidence in the coalition is shaken;” 6. The increased influence of the Mapam in a larger number of municipalities where labor control is possible.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
