This Saturday, masses of workers and young people will descend upon London for the national Palestine solidarity demonstration, to mark three years of Israel’s slaughter of Gaza. Here is why you should join the hundreds-strong communist bloc.
Three years on from the start of Israel’s slaughter of Gaza, the nightmare in the Middle East has only worsened, and the Palestinian people are further away from freedom. This Saturday, the communists will be marching under the banner, ‘For Palestine to live, imperialism must die’.
The Green Party’s ‘Zionism is racism’ motion has sent the British establishment into hysteria, and has exposed the deepening divide within the Green Party itself. Once again, Palestine has proved to be the ultimate political litmus test. But what will happen now?
In just a few weeks, we’ve recruited 100 new party members and met thousands interested in getting involved with the Revolutionary Communist Students. This has been our most successful freshers campaign yet – and this is only the beginning!
Labour politicians, the media, and the ‘left’ have all been lulled by Burnham’s ‘hopeful’ vision. These people have no idea how removed they are from the real mood in society. Events across the Channel paint a very different picture of where things are headed in Britain.
Europe has been set alight by mass protests, led by the youth. From sky-high rents, to dilapidated schools, to militarism and austerity – workers and youth in Britain share all of the conditions that led to this social explosion.
Events in France are moving at a lightning pace. Thousands of school students across the country have joined the powerful mobilisations of fire fighters and public sector workers, facing heavy-handed police repression. But how can the movement succeed?
Last weekend, the ghost of the Troubles returned to the North of Ireland, as loyalists attempted to hold an Orange march through a nationalist neighbourhood, which was blocked by workers and youth. A revolutionary struggle against sectarian reaction is needed.
Foreign secretary Ed Miliband told Labour conference attendees that those “outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people” were “right”. This didn’t stop his government from arresting protestors outside. The movement’s leaders should have no illusions in Labour.
Tishani Doshi’s poetry collection ‘Egrets, While War’ vividly captures the churning chaos of life today. Combining personal reflections, political critique, and cutting humour, her work faces head-on the horrors of the modern world, without falling into despair.
The head of the Trades Union Congress, Paul Nowak, has just been made a director in the Bank of England. He is not the first trade-union turncoat. The sooner these labour fakers are driven out of our movement the better.