Protest outside Egyptian embassy in Beirut. The placard reads "You siege Gaza, we siege your embassy"

Interview: Protests against genocide in Gaza need stepping up

In Gaza itself, there’s been the whole charade with the airdrops. I think they dropped about 2000 food parcels. This is about 0.4% of what was needed in the time that they dropped them. The minimum Gaza needs is about 600 trucks per day, and what they dropped was equivalent to 200 trucks, not in a day but over two weeks. So the lives of Palestinians in Gaza have only worsened, there is now stage five hunger. Every day that passes means more people are close, dangerously close to dying. Other people are getting weaker so they cannot help with getting the food.

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Desperate starving children in Gaza reaching out for food

It’s a new holocaust – stop the genocide in Gaza

A new ‘holocaust’ is perhaps the only term that accurately characterises the horror we’re now seeing in Gaza. From the very beginning of this genocide, the denial of food, fuel and water has been used as a weapon of war against two million Palestinians living in the world’s largest concentration camp.

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French dockers protest arms shipments to Israel

Workers’ action needed to stop the Israeli genocide machine

On 4 June, dockworkers in the French port of Fos-sur-Mer, Marseille, refused to load arms components bound for Israel. Shortly after this action in France, Italian dockworkers in Genoa announced that they would inspect the same vessel and block it if weapons were found. 

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Montage by Diego Rivera to commemorate founding of Fourth International

How the Fourth International fought World War Two

As the anniversary of the end of World War Two is celebrated, the world’s leaders are again recruiting soldiers and arming them with horrific new weapons in preparation for new conflicts, and possibly yet another, even more brutal world war.
This article examines how Trotskyists worldwide struggled, ‘despite all hazards’, to build the slender forces of the Fourth International (FI), intended to assist the working class to overthrow capitalism, and the bureaucratic, Stalinist elite in the USSR and replace them by genuinely democratic, international socialism to end poverty and war forever.

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