The workers... battle-cry must be: 'The Permanent Revolution.'” — Marx and Engels, 1850

Thu 04, June 2009 @ 17:48

Israel/Palestine: two peoples one state

The brutal invasion of Gaza by Israel’s armed forces and the rise of the far right in the Israeli elections that followed has appalled people all over the world. It has also hammered a further nail in the coffin of the idea that a Palestinian state can live in peace alongside the Zionist state. Keith Harvey strips away the last shreds of credibility from the “two-state solution”...

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Mon 01, June 2009 @ 23:05

Overcoming Zionism:Joel Kovel: Review

Joel Kovel was fired from his post at Bard College after writing this book. The special relationship between Israel and the US Zionist lobby runs deep, as he illustrates in its pages. Now he has become a victim of them. Reading Overcoming Zionism it is easy to see why the Zionists would be gunning for him. As Ilan Pappe says elsewhere, “this is a very simple story: a story of dispossession, of colonisation, of occupation, of expulsion.”

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Sun 19, April 2009 @ 16:15

Palestine Solidarity Trade Union Conference: 18th April 2009: Report

Around 60 trade unionists gathered in Liverpool from across the North of England to listen to speakers from Palestine, Ireland and South Africa, and discuss the response of trade unionists in Britain to the ongoing struggle of the Palestinian workers and farmers against Israeli occupation and oppression.

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Mon 13, April 2009 @ 10:57

Israel: Boycott Veolia Environnement

Veolia Environnement is a French multinational whose name may be familiar to people in the UK because of its subsidiaries here. Veolia Transport is a leading partner in the CityPass consortium....

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Mon 09, March 2009 @ 18:24

The Returns of Zionism: Plowshares into swords: review

THis is a tale of two books. Both come from the same end of the political spectrum but there the similarity ends.
Piterberg’s The Returns of Zionism is a tour de force and deserves a place on the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in an analysis of the historical, political and ideological origins of Zionism. Meyer’s book is best placed on the coffee table...writes Tony Greenstein...

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Wed 21, January 2009 @ 13:12

Lambeth UNISON calls for boycott of 'apartheid' Israel

The Lambeth Branch of UNISON, the second largest trade union in the UK, has voted to condemn the recent slaughter of Palestinians and the ongoing occupation by Israel at a meeting of its Branch Committee this morning.

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Wed 21, January 2009 @ 11:56

Israel must pay the price!

Israel's slaughter in Gaza has been suspended and while revenge for its humiliations in Lebanon has been secured, it is unclear what war aims have been achieved. Keith Harvey assesses Israel's gains and argues that the international labour and anti-imperialist movements must force Zionism to pay a high price for its actions....We know how much an Israeli’s life is worth – about 100 Palestinians. This is Zionism’s ratio of revenge; a century of corpses for every Israeli killed...

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Mon 19, January 2009 @ 23:47

Waving the Israeli flag: the AWL and the Gaza demonstrations

The Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL) feels hard done by because of its reception on the Gaza solidarity demonstrations. It is no surprise they have been received with hostility writes Stuart King

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Mon 12, January 2009 @ 22:41

Gaza: All signs point to systematic targeting of civilians

Last night was a quiet one in Jabaliya. "Only" six homes bombed into the ground, the market, again, maybe four lightly injured people -- shrapnel to the face injuries -- and no martyrs. Beit Hanoun saw a young woman, Nariman Ahmad Abu Owder, just 17, shot dead as she made tea in her family's kitchen. It was 9pm in the Hay Amel area when witnesses reported "thousands" of bullets shot by tanks onto homes in Azrah Street...writes Ewa Jasiewicz writing from the occupied Gaza Strip Live from Palestine, 11 January 2009

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Sun 11, January 2009 @ 15:35

Gaza Demo: Cops Riot - Dozens Injured

The Israeli embassy was always going to be the flashpoint and as the 100,000 or so Pro-Gazan demonstrators passed it on Saturday, it was inevitable and right, that a determined and militant group of mainly Muslim youth would gather outside, to protest against the wanton slaughter of Israel’s brutal war machine. By late afternoon Kensington High Street, outside the Israeli embassy was packed with protestors, too narrow for the size of crowd it was further narrowed by a set of crash barriers on either side, patrolled by police and their helpers from the Stop the War stewards....writes Bill Jefferies...

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Sat 10, January 2009 @ 20:50

Hundred thousand demand an end to Israel's slaughter in Gaza

Tens of thousands of angry people braved icy conditions and snow flurries in central London today to protest at the massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza. Clare Heath sends in an early report. Thousands of angry people braved icy conditions and snow flurries in central London today to protest at the massacre of Palestinians in the Gaza. Organisers estimate that 100,000 people marched...

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Thu 08, January 2009 @ 16:22

Police Attack Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators

Last night (Wednesday 7 January) pro-Zionists (500 according to the AFP) organised their own counter-protest which started around 7.30pm. They waved Israeli flags, Union Jacks and England flags. All week the pro-Palestinian protests have ended at 7.30 however last night hundreds of protestors stayed and even though we were separated from the pro-Zionists by police cordons we maintained a noisy and vibrant demonstration. The make-up of the protest was typical of previous ones, made up of mainly Palestinian and Muslim youth angry at the atrocities inflicted on their brothers and sisters in Gaza...writes Eleanor Davies.

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Thu 08, January 2009 @ 15:31

Unison resolution; Stop the killings in Palestine! End the siege of Gaza!

This AGM deplores the attacks on the people of Palestine by Israel and sends out a message of solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Gaza.

We support the calls for an immediate end to the slaughter of defenceless people and an immediate end to the siege of Gaza.

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Thu 08, January 2009 @ 15:30

Stop the Zionist slaughter in Gaza!

Israel’s invasion of the Gaza strip is the latest in a long line of military assaults aimed at crushing the Palestinian people’s heroic resistance to Zionism and its determination to prevent them having their own state. Even before the tanks rolled into Gaza, the relentless aerial bombardment, with an attack every 20 minutes, has killed more than 400 Palestinians, a majority of them non-combatants, many of them children....write PR...


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Sun 28, December 2008 @ 16:49

Gaza: This is only the beginning

As I write this, Israeli jets are bombing the areas of Zeitoun and Rimal in central Gaza City. The family I am staying with has moved into the internal corridor of their home to shelter from the bombing. The windows nearly blew out just five minutes ago as a massive explosion rocked the house. Apache’s are hovering above us, whilst F16s sear overhead. By Ewa Jasiewicz

Gaza today: 'This is only the beginning' 

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Thu 27, November 2008 @ 16:23

Israel/Palestine: CPGB: Jack Conrad’s stageist solution

Apparently, Jack Conrad is outlining the “communist programme” for Palestine (‘Beyond Zionism’, November 20). Really? Two secular states? His programme is full of incredibly tenuous comparisons (apparently, if you’re not ‘two-state’, then you wouldn’t have advocated Irish independence in the 19th century) and, in many ways, offers solutions that are not solutions at all....writes Robbie Folkard...

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Wed 30, July 2008 @ 10:33

We don’t want war,” say the AWL. “But if Israel attacks Iran, who are we to condemn it?"

In the week when Barack Obama’s world tour focussed the Western media’s eye on the Middle East, Solidarity, the paper belonging to the Alliance for Workers Liberty, contains their own unique attempt at dissecting the potential conflict between Iran, Israel and the possibility of nuclear war....writes Vicky Thompson...

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Fri 07, March 2008 @ 00:46

Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions HQ destroyed by Israelis

Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) condemns the destruction of the (workers) Folk House in Gaza by Israeli F16 Jets PGFTU – Gaza Calls for Urgent Action by International Trade Unions and ILO

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Mon 03, March 2008 @ 20:07

Palestine: one region, two states, no solution (PR7)

Where now for Palestine? The demise of the two state solution

Edited by Jamil Hilal

Zed / 2007 £17.99

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Mon 03, December 2007 @ 23:07

Israeli PM Olmert compares Israel to Apartheid South Africa

The Israel/Palestine negotiations in Annapolis over the final status elements of the two state treaty are presented in the West as some sort of prelude to the liberation of the Palestinians....writes Tony Jones...

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Sun 21, October 2007 @ 22:31

Palestine: Abu Mazen giving in to Israel? - 2005

Since the death of PLO leader and Palestine Authority leader Yasser Arafat last November, political and diplomatic events have moved swiftly. On 9 January Abu Mazen was elected President of the PA in a popular vote inside the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Early in February a formal ceasefire between the PLO and Israel was announced at a summit between Abu Mazen and Israel's Prime Minster Ariel Sharon at Sharm al-Sheik.

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Sun 21, October 2007 @ 22:29

Palestine under siege - April 2002

On 28 February, Israeli tanks invaded Balata refugee camp in Nablus. This was swiftly followed by similar attacks on Tulkarem Nur al Shams, Jenin, Aaza, Aida and Deheisha, Arrob, Khan Younis, Rafah and Jabalya refugee camps.

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Tue 09, October 2007 @ 15:21

Palestine: Hamas victory, a death blow to “two states”? (PR5)

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Mon 08, October 2007 @ 18:39

UCU Boycott of Israel (PR5)

May 2007

At the inaugural congress of the University and College Union (UCU) in May this year a motion was passed committing the union to hold a period of debate and discussion on whether it should organise a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

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Sun 30, September 2007 @ 21:57

UCU Israel Boycott: Callinicos Sounds the Retreat

It is ironic that almost simultaneously with the UCU leadership and Sally Hunt declaring that a Boycott of Israeli Universities would be 'unlawful' that Prof. Alex Callinicos of the SWP had decided to sound the bugle of retreat....writes Tony Greenstein...

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Sun 30, September 2007 @ 14:46

Support the Boycott of Israel in the UCU

In a deeply undemocratic move, the leadership of the University College Union (UCU) are trying to overturn the conference decision to take steps towards an academic boycott of Israel. Jason Travis of Bolton NUT looks at some of the issues (written in a personal capacity)

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Mon 24, September 2007 @ 21:38

Israel’s war of terror against Palestine - 2002

On 29 March 2002 Israel launched a full-scale invasion of areas controlled by the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) with the intention of destroying the PNA infrastructure, killing or detaining hundreds of Palestinian fighters and terrorising the civilian population, especially in the refugee camps.

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Mon 24, September 2007 @ 21:36

Settlers as shock troops of Zionism - 2002

Among the many reasons for the start of the second Palestinian intifada in September 2000, the massive expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza must count as the most important.

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Wed 01, August 2007 @ 01:25

Boycott Israel?

At the inaugural congress of the University and College Union (UCU) in May this year a motion was passed committing the union to hold a period of debate and discussion on whether it should organise a boycott of Israeli academic institutions....writes Dave Esterson...

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Sat 16, June 2007 @ 00:40

Imprisoning a whole nation

By John Pilger

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Fri 15, June 2007 @ 20:52

Palestine: Two states: No solution

The revolt against Israeli rule in the West Bank and Gaza continues. It poses once again the question: For what type of state should the Palestinian resistance be fighting? David Green examines the question that has occupied the PLO for decades.

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Fri 15, June 2007 @ 01:02

Palestine: attempt to destroy Hamas government backfires

Ever since Hamas won the elections in the Palestinian Authority in early 2006 the imperialist powers led by the US have set out to destroy it. The current conflict in Gaza is a direct result of this, writes Stuart King.

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Sat 21, April 2007 @ 17:46

Statement on boycott of Israeli goods - Jeremy Dear - NUJ Gen Sec statement

From the NUJ website April 17th Jeremy Dear statement

The NUJ’s Centenary Annual Conference last week debated more than 200 motions on topics ranging from opposition to plans to neuter the UK Freedom of Information Act, to launching a Stand Up for Journalism campaign against low pay and job cuts throughout the media industry....by Jeremy Dear...

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Wed 18, April 2007 @ 18:13

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign - factsheets

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign provides various 'tools' to help you campaign for Palestine and Palestinian rights more effectively.

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Wed 18, April 2007 @ 18:11

Against Israeli Settlements

From the www.palestinecampaign.org 

There are more than 200 settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, all of them illegal under international law.

Approximately 400,000 settlers live in the West Bank, including over 220,000 in Occupied East Jerusalem. A ring of settlement blocs surrounds Jerusalem – the cultural, religious and economic centre of Palestinian life. With the relentless expansion of settlements, the Palestinian communities there – already cut off from the West Bank – grow increasingly fragmented and isolated. Israel has progressively extended the city limits

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Wed 14, February 2007 @ 16:52

Palestinian Nationalism and the PLO - 1988

Whilst the PLO has recently been overtaken by Hamas as the vanguard organisation of Palestinian militants which holds the leadership of the national liberation struggle, the PLO historically was always the dominant party.

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Fri 19, January 2007 @ 22:16

Theses on Zionism, Israel, Palestine and Arab nationalism - part 3

Marxism and the Jewish Question

24. Marx himself was Jewish but came from an assimilated enlightenment background. He had very little sympathy with the old ghetto culture of eastern Jewry. In addition in the early 1840s he identified Judaism as the embodiment of the spirit of capitalism (Christianity was a more impure form of the same thing). This does not mean that Marx was an anti-Semite or a self-hater as Zionist apologists claim. It does mean that neither Marx nor Engels made a “modern” (i.e. scientific materialist) analysis of the Jewish Question.

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Fri 19, January 2007 @ 22:03

Theses on Zionism, Israel, Palestine and Arab nationalism - part 2

14. Over the course of the last forty years the Israeli Jews have become a nation. They have revived an archaic language (Hebrew) to become a ?rst language amongst a majority of Israelis; a national culture transcends the ethnic divisions.

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Sun 01, October 2006 @ 21:51

Theses on Zionism, Israel, Palestine and Arab nationalism - part 1

Jews: race, nation or “people-class”?

1. The Jews are clearly not a race. The original Hebrew people and language belonged to the Semitic family but two and a half millenia of residence amongst non-Semitic peoples, widespread proselytism to Judaism in earlier periods and intermarriage has made these communities like most other peoples a “racial mixture”.

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Tue 26, September 2006 @ 00:06

Boycott world pride Jerusalem

Boycott world pride Jerusalem

There is something rather disturbing about the fact that the slogan for the August World Pride events in Jerusalem is “Love without Borders”. Perhaps the organisers thought they were being amusingly ironic, but there is nothing amusing about the fact that Jerusalem is a city divided by check-points, patrolled by the IDF and the bleakest symbol of Israeli occupation of Palestine.

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