palestine
The first and almost exclusive task of the colonial army, is to drive the luckless natives into slavery, to turn them into forced labourers for the capitalists, and – when they wish to defend their native land against the foreign robbers and blood-suckers – to shoot them down mercilessly, to cut them down with the sword and to starve them out.
- Karl Liebknecht
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Iran attacks: Netanyahu’s dangerous gamble
This weekend, Iran launched a drone and missile attack on Israel, in retaliation against Israeli strikes. The situation in the Middle East is becoming increasingly fraught and unstable, with a regional war and mass social upheaval on the cards.
Sharon Graham’s Unite, Palestine, and imperialism
Debate is taking place within the labour movement about what role workers’ organisations should play in relation to the campaign to stop the war in Gaza. The trade unions cannot afford to be ‘apolitical’, but must fight to overthrow imperialism.
Israel murders aid workers – British imperialism is complicit
Establishment politicians have decried Israel’s killing of aid workers in Gaza, including several Britons. But the truth is that Sunak, Starmer, and the rest of the Westminster warmongers have blood on their hands. We say: overthrow their system!