“The workers... battle-cry must be: 'The Permanent Revolution.'” — Marx and Engels, 1850
Thu 04, June 2009 @ 17:48
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”...
Mon 01, June 2009 @ 23:05
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.”
Sun 19, April 2009 @ 16:15
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.
Mon 13, April 2009 @ 10:57
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....
Mon 09, March 2009 @ 18:24
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...
Wed 21, January 2009 @ 13:12
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.
Wed 21, January 2009 @ 11:56
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...
Mon 19, January 2009 @ 23:47
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
Mon 12, January 2009 @ 22:41
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
Sun 11, January 2009 @ 15:35
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...
Sat 10, January 2009 @ 20:50
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...
Thu 08, January 2009 @ 16:22
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.
Thu 08, January 2009 @ 15:31
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.
Thu 08, January 2009 @ 15:30
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...
Sun 28, December 2008 @ 16:49
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
Thu 27, November 2008 @ 16:23
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...
Wed 30, July 2008 @ 10:33
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...
Fri 07, March 2008 @ 00:46
Mon 03, March 2008 @ 20:07
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Mon 08, October 2007 @ 18:39
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.
Sun 30, September 2007 @ 21:57
Sun 30, September 2007 @ 14:46
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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Sat 21, April 2007 @ 17:46
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...
Wed 18, April 2007 @ 18:13
Wed 18, April 2007 @ 18:11
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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Tue 26, September 2006 @ 00:06
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.
