Starmer and Abbas shaking hands

Recognition of Palestine exposes ruthlessness of imperialist states

This statehood “recognition” is also a sign of weakness. It is a symptom of cracks opening in the imperialist front under pressure from below, and a clear indication that not all Western powers march in lockstep. That weakness should be seized as our opportunity to push harder, and be answered by further escalating the international struggle against the genocide.

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Fmily with children barely surviving in wreckage of homes in Gaza

Gaza genocide – a fault line exposing a rotten capitalist order

The global solidarity movement for Palestine is already unparalleled in world history. And it’s not only the scale of the protests, but what people are witnessing – the unimaginable horror, hypocrisy and cynicism – and how deeply this is changing the political outlook of millions across the planet. The basis is being laid for explosions of anger and discontent. In this way the genocide and the struggle for Palestinian liberation is directly changing politics in many countries, and laying the groundwork for new political movements.

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Destruction wreaked on Gaza

Strike against Gaza holocaust—Shut down the system of genocide

A struggle for Palestinian national liberation is bound with a need for more fundamental revolutionary change. The Israeli State is part of the system of capitalism and imperialism that dominates and exploits the peoples of the Middle East and beyond – a system built on racism, exploitation, poverty and oppression. Its whole rule must be torn down. 

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The Sumud flotilla with many boats sets out from Genoa

Sumud flotilla sets out as Arab rulers bury heads in the sand

The destruction of the Israeli Apartheid state is not just the responsibility of the workers of West Asia, it is even more the responsibility of workers in the imperialist powers which have established, supported and armed Israel to defend their plunder of the region. Unless workers’ organisations fight for Palestinian liberation they will be unable to fight effectively for the genuine liberation of their own members.

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Trump and Putin walk along red carpet after meeting in Alaska

Imperialists argue about ‘peace’ as they trample on Ukraine’s rights

Ukraine is learning the hard way the role played by the different imperialist powers. Russian imperialism has acted in an aggressive, brutal way and will continue to do so until it is overthrown. The US is demonstrating it too is prepared to sacrifice Ukraine’s self-determination for its own geo-political, and mercantile interests. This should be no surprise, it has a long history of brutal military interventions against weaker nations – Algiers, Iraq, Panama, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Iran. The US and all the European powers are deeply complicit in the current genocide of Palestinians.

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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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