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Lot 145

PALESTINE - COMMUNIST PROPOGANDA DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE
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29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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PALESTINE - COMMUNIST PROPOGANDA DURING THE BRITISH MANDATE

A group of 10 scarce broadsides and handbills relating to the Communist Party in Palestine, comprising:

To the Brotherhood of Workers, Poor People and Peasants, No. 21 [containing articles on the establishment on the Communist Party in Palestine, an overview of activities since the 1929 riots, King Faisal of Iraq's visit to London, etc.], 8pp., text in Arabic, publisher's orange wrappers printed with title and large illustration on upper cover and text inside lower cover, 320 x 240mm., [No place], 1933

Communist Letters. Politics - Economy - Science, No. 1 (all published) [including articles on the "Role of the Wage-Labourer in the Histadruth", "The Origins of the Jewish Diaspora" and "Problems of Agriculture in Israel"], 32pp., title on upper cover in English, text in Arabic, publisher's wrappers printed in red and black, 245 x 192mm., Tel-Aviv, The Central Committee of The Jewish Communist Party, July 1948

Archdut Issue 1 (all published) [containing 8 anti-British and anti-Zionist and Ben-Gurion articles], 18pp., text in Yiddish, publisher's red printed wrappers, 200 x x 165mm., Tel-Aviv, Yiddish Communist Party, August 1948

Achduth (Egyseg) No. 1 (all published) [containing 3 anti-British and anti-Zionist articles], 14pp., text in Hungarian, publisher's pink printed wrappers, 205 x 163mm., Tel-Aviv, Jewish Communist Party, September 1948

Communist Party of Palestine leaflet [containing anti-British content], bi-folium printed on 3pp., text in Arabic, 236 x 160mm., [c.1930s]

Communist Party of Palestine handbill [addressed to the "oppressed Arab people" with a warning to expect Jewish Zionist celebrations of their victories during Purim], broadside, text in Arabic, 315 x 120mm., [1930s]

The Communist Association in Israel. [The Principles of the National Struggle], 12pp., text in Hebrew, printed in blue type, text in Hebrew, publisher's wrappers with pictorial title printed in blue, 210 x 167mm., Tel-Aviv, Central Cultural Committee, 1946

Communist Part of of Palestine. Central Command. Handbill [protesting against the Jewish Agency and Vaad Haleumi backing of a draft to the Jewish divisions of the British Army, and support for the Imperialist agenda], broadside, in Hebrew, 240 x 165mm., [May 1941]

Communist Youth Alliance. Handbill [attacking the British and Zionist supported draft of Palestine population for the "Imperial war"], broadside, in Hebrew, 240 x 160mm., [May 1941]

Communist Party of Palestine. Handbill [warning against British Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald possible stance on Palestine and Zionism], broadside, in Hebrew, 240 x 160mm., [1929]

together 10 items, those in wrappers all stapled as issued, [1920's-1940s] (10)

Footnotes

Scarce Communist propaganda broadsides and pamphlets calling on Arabs and Jews in Palestine to resist British Imperial occupation, and rally against the Zionist agendas of increased immigration and co-operation with the Capitalist agenda of the British. Printed in Arabic, Jewish, Yiddish and Hungarian.

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