Palestinian Communists deliver speeches to the UN Committee for the partition of Palestine

Mikunis, Samuel / Ehrlich, Wolf / Vilner, Meir. We Fight for Freedom. The Communist Party of Palestine. Evidence given to UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine).

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The transcript of three addresses and Q&As delivered by three members of the Palestine Communist Party (Samuel Mikunis, Wolf Ehrlich, and Meir Vilner) to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) in July of 1947. The UNSCOP had only been formed by the United Nations two months before, and was tasked with preparing a report on recommendations for Palestine and for the end of the British Mandate. Believing they would not be treated fairly under the UN, Arab states generally abstained from collaborating with UNSCOP.

Of the three speakers, Samuel Mikunis (1903-82) was the best known. At the time of the address he was the Secretary of the Communist Party of Palestine, and would go on to become a member of the Knesset from 1949 to 1974.

In its foreword, the editors of the text state that the publication "will not only be welcomed by progressive Arab and Jewish circles in Palestine. It will serve a useful purpose in providing democratic movements throughout the world with information about British colonial rule in Palestine and the struggle of the Jewish and Arab masses for freedom and independence".

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