In October 1930 Moscow dissolved the PCP Central Committee and appointed a new one with a majority of Arabs. In 1934 Radwan al-Helou ("Musa") returned from Moscow and started to organise Arab cells in the trade unions. Musa formed alliance with the nationalist leaders such as the Mufti Haj Amin al-Hussaini despite Russian denunciations of them as Fascists and in 1937 Jewish communists attempted to set up their own party. Musa prevented this but shortly afterwards the British imprisoned him for his nationalist activities, keeping him in detention until Russia joined the war, when the PCP was allowed to operate more openly. Under Russian direction it was the only Arab group not to oppose the partition of Palestine. After I948 a separate legal Israel Communist Party came into existence while Musa and others went to the West Bank where they shared the fortunes of the Jordan Communist Party which, after some minor successes, was formally banned in 1957...</small></blockquote></ref> | In October 1930 Moscow dissolved the PCP Central Committee and appointed a new one with a majority of Arabs. In 1934 Radwan al-Helou ("Musa") returned from Moscow and started to organise Arab cells in the trade unions. Musa formed alliance with the nationalist leaders such as the Mufti Haj Amin al-Hussaini despite Russian denunciations of them as Fascists and in 1937 Jewish communists attempted to set up their own party. Musa prevented this but shortly afterwards the British imprisoned him for his nationalist activities, keeping him in detention until Russia joined the war, when the PCP was allowed to operate more openly. Under Russian direction it was the only Arab group not to oppose the partition of Palestine. After I948 a separate legal Israel Communist Party came into existence while Musa and others went to the West Bank where they shared the fortunes of the Jordan Communist Party which, after some minor successes, was formally banned in 1957...</small></blockquote></ref> |