''Walka'' (lit. ''Struggle'') was a

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newspaper published from Tel Aviv by the Communist Party of Israel between 1958 and 1965. Its editor-in-chief was

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', Issue no.01 /2007 Whilst other Communist Party weeklies experienced a gradual decline in readership after 1956, ''Walka'' had a moderate growth as a result of the wave of immigration from Poland in 1961. Its weekly circulation was 929 in April 1961, 1,058 in May 1961, 986 in August 1961, 1,095 in June 1962, 1,114 in December 1962, 1,149 in June 1963 and 1,116 in December 1963. Beinin, Joel. ''Was the Red Flag Flying There?: Marxist Politics and the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Egypt and Israel, 1948-1965''.

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: University of California Press, 1990. p. 241-242 When the Communist Party went through a split in 1965, the editors of ''Walka'' sided with

Meir Vilner Meir Vilner ( he, מאיר וילנר, born Bar Kovner; 23 October 1918 – 5 June 2003) was an Israeli communist politician and Jewish leader of the Communist Party of Israel (Maki), at one time a powerful force in the country. He was the yo ...

and his new party Rakah.

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