Throwback - Communists say Malta should rejoin the Non-Aligned Movement

William Spencer

Sep 2nd 2012, 20:28

Communists ??? They belong with the ridiculed members of the Flat Earth Society.

The Earth is not Flat, and Communism does not work, fact !!

Charles Grixti

Sep 1st 2012, 03:46

But we do need some of these "throwbacks" in all parliaments in the West to balance out the creeping fascism that has taken hold.

Ms.D. Galea

Aug 30th 2012, 19:26

The A.A.P.S.O. farce of the fifties re-visited.

Victor Gelfo

Aug 30th 2012, 18:07

Our rightfull place is, is always have been in western Europe. Few Maltese were in favour of the policy of nuetrality, which was put in the constitution in the form of blackmail.
The policy of non alighment, which was just a smokescreen for being pro soviet and anti western never got the support of the Maltese, except a few decadents like the non entity communist party!

I Bugeja

Aug 30th 2012, 17:18

Just look at how the Cubans live and then decide if communism is right for us!

J.C. Borg

Aug 30th 2012, 16:35

PL wants to look at the future (because the past haunts them) and the Communist Party of Malta (consisting of a few people) wants to look at the past.

A straightforward choise for us all.

Joseph Bonnici

Aug 30th 2012, 16:17

The Communist Party of Malta – These dinosaurs are still with us? What is the number of members of this miniscule party?????

carmel muscat

Aug 30th 2012, 16:11

dawn min huma mela malta qatt kien hawn partit komunista ??????????????????? lanqas il veru partiti komunisti hlief cuba ma ghadom komunisti ahseb u ara malta uru wickom jew allanqas ajdu kemm qedin membri ghax jien lil certu wiehed vassallo naf li kien veru attiv hawn malta nigu sew kiku ghax imorru ghal zmien id dlam staqsu lir russu li hawn malta kienux tajjeb taht il komunisti ???????/ halluna ha nejxu hbieb - - - - - - -- -

Sandra Camilleri

Aug 30th 2012, 15:50

Who wrote this article should be ashamed - does he want our youths to go back 30 years. NO to COMMUNISM.
Malta is part of EUROPE - and our youths have a future.

Daniel Borg

Aug 30th 2012, 15:09

Xkomunizmu hu? min jivinta liktar, ara kif jista jkun daz zmien jista jkun awn partit komunist, imbad iktar u iktar qedin fl-eu, alahares qatt insiru komunisti, mela ha nergaw imoru li trid tkun pn bil fors ax jek tkun mal pl jidfnukdeil mizbla jew ma tistax tidhol knisja

Martin vella

Aug 30th 2012, 14:43

There's still communists out there? They must be hiding under a rock somewhere.

Mario Mallia

Aug 30th 2012, 14:40

"Non-alignment", "imperialism", "the able leadership of Dom Mintoff" ... brings back ugly memories of Socialist Malta in the 1980s ... and a lot of foreboding for the future!

Joe Brincat-LL.D

Aug 30th 2012, 14:26

Some historical facts. The late Dr Guido Demarco participated in the Cartagena Summit on the Non-Aligned Movement in 1995. This was meeting was held on the 18th-20th October, 1995 !!!! The official documents refer to him as "MALTA H.E. PROF GUIDO DE MARCO VICE-PRESIDENT AND MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

The countries of the non-aligned movement were also canvassed for their vote in favour of the presidency of Malta in the U.N.

Malta and Cyrpus ceased to be members of the Non-Aligned movement in 2004, when both joined the E.U.

Some people tend to forget !

Saviour Fenech

Aug 30th 2012, 13:11

Veru li qed immorru lura lejn zmien il-brodu - meditate gente, meditate!!

Joseph Fava

Aug 30th 2012, 12:50

The Maltese Communist Party represent no one but itself. The Party consists of not more than a dozen of nostalgics and ideologues of a bygone era. They have nothing to do with the LP and even in Mintoff's heyday they were shunned by the MLP and ostrasized by Dom Mintoff. He never liked Communists and was always of the opinion that thier first loyalty was to the Cremlin and not to Malta. It is inconcievable that a 'miniscule party' with no popular or parliamentary backing should be given this disapporionate importance. If a Hollande can ignore the relatively powerful CP of France and consign them to the dustbin, surely our two major parties can do much better. So let us just ignore them. They can never turn the clock back. The First Cold war is over and today non-alignmnet simply doesn't make sense. Malta is bone of the bone, flesh of the flesh of the Western World and it is in the West that we move, breathe and have our being. So please shut up my dear Communists, your empty words are welcome fodder for the enemies of the Labour Movement. See, how they have blown your crazy ideas into something big and tried to lay it at Labour's door. If you just cannot stop talking, tzke a sleeping pill and doze off for a couple of years.

Lawrence Civelli

Aug 30th 2012, 12:42

Hello, you want Malta to be a basket case like North Korea and Cuba ? have you ever seen the progress
in Cuba ,and NK always looking for a handout to feed its people,forget about it, take that thought and
SHOVE IT,AS WE SAY IN THE US.

Victor Gelfo

Aug 30th 2012, 12:11

These few people, remnants of the most hated and perverse idea in history, have the cheek to speak about imperialism, when the greatest imperial power on earth was their paradise, the Soviet union!
What non aligned!!! Are Cuba and a horde of other socialist dictatorships non aligned?
It sends shivers down your spine that there still exists people longing for the hell of socialism and communism!

Joseph N. Attard

Aug 30th 2012, 12:02

Give us a break, will you? Communist? Do you not know that today only North Korea and possibly Cuba boast about belonging to the defunct system?

mike fenech

Aug 30th 2012, 12:01

@ Mr.Camilleri

Paul,Malta has been under a PN Democratic Dictatorship for the last 25 years. Look what’s going on to-day. GonziPN lost his majority, the country is in a stand still and yet this PN Democratic Dictatorship keeps hanging on to POWER.
Stop living in the past, look around you and see the distraction of our country, look around you and see what kind of environment we are passing on to our kids. That’s what you should be looking at NOT the 70’s and 80’s.

Stephen Saliba

Aug 30th 2012, 11:46

Miniscule is right. These people must be living in a cave. What worries me is that these type of 'nonentity' organisations are afforded a disproportinate voice in the local media. Involving MIntoff simply to 'draw' attention is passe. Anyway hasn t anyone told them that Communism has been consigned to the dustbin of history?

Charles Muscat

Aug 30th 2012, 11:39

I did not know that Malta had a communist Party.

John Azzopoardi

Aug 30th 2012, 11:12

May communism stay dead as it is only a party of deadbeats and oligarcies.

Mark. Galea

Aug 30th 2012, 11:10

Back to the golden 70's

John Portelli

Aug 30th 2012, 11:05

Communism is alive and well in the western world, nowadays it's got another name ...Liberalism.

Paul Camilleri

Aug 30th 2012, 10:57

I can see thunders and lightnings on the horizon.

The PL are not yet in government, but suggestions are already being made. Possibility of changes in the EU /Malta agreement and now suggestions that Malta should rejoin the Non-Aligned Movement. Back to the old 70's-80's???

Tarcisio Bonello

Aug 30th 2012, 10:51

This entry should be filed under the 'Joke of the Day' Section.

Christian Sciberras

Aug 30th 2012, 10:49

Hmpfff....we're way past April fools. The mention of Mr Mintoff just tops the cake...

John Portelli

Aug 30th 2012, 10:43

The Communist party should be illegal after the murders and suffering they have caused around the world 110 million dead because of Communism..Where there ever any Nuremberg trails ??? Never !!

C Cassar

Aug 30th 2012, 10:41

Hilarious that some people can waste their lives on a pointless ideal that will never be realised because it's stuck way in the past.

Karl Consiglio

Aug 30th 2012, 10:32

Maybe we should tell the communists what they could do too.

Joseph Camilleri

Aug 30th 2012, 10:29

@ this non aligned movement


Thank you but no thank you


we are comfortable within the safe boundries of the EU. Non alignment is another word which means against the west . So in reality it is definitely non aligned.

Alex Ellul

Aug 30th 2012, 10:28

Thank you v. much communists of Malta for reminding us that Mr.Mintoffwas God's gift to you.

The meeting of the non-aligned movement is being hosted by Mr.Ahmedinejad,that man who says that Hitler was right, that the state of Israel shall be removed from the map etc etc.

It says it doesn't it. Now go back to your hole where you can split and share all your riches (or misery) equally between yourselves as Mr. Marx philosophied.

Joe Scerri

Aug 30th 2012, 10:13

Is this news worth reporting? On second thoughts maybe it should be reported as a reminder of the past.