The political crisis in France has intensified, with Macron’s refusal to appoint the left-wing NFP’s proposed Prime Minister. Whatever the outcome, only a powerful movement of workers and youth outside of parliament can halt the ruling class’s austerity agenda.

The recovery of six dead hostages from Gaza has sparked a serious political crisis within Israel, which could lead to the removal of Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. However, Zionist class-collaboration offers no way forward for Palestinian liberation.

In 1948, the Israeli state was founded, and millions of Palestinians were expelled from their homeland. Scandalously, the Stalinist bureaucracy supported the creation of Israel – a move which had a disastrous impact on the world communist movement.