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...
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Fri 07, March 2008 @ 00:46
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
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
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
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
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
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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.
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Sun 30, September 2007 @ 21:57
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
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
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
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
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
By John Pilger
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Fri 15, June 2007 @ 20:52
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
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
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 provides various 'tools' to help you campaign for Palestine and Palestinian rights more effectively.
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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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Wed 14, February 2007 @ 16:52
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
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
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
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
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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