Tag Archives: Gaza

By James Collett Recent criticism of Israel for the suffering inflicted on the people of Gaza, from Keir Starmer and foreign secretary David Lammy is pure hypocrisy, typical of the British ruling capitalist class they both represent. Capitalist governments, including the Labour government in Britain, have been attempting to balance between their support for the imperialist interests represented by the ...

Build the socialist opposition Editorial of the Socialist issue 1293 On Saturday 5 October 2024, the Socialist Party took part in the biggest anti-war demonstration since the first months of the onslaught on Gaza, marching on 10 Downing Street, the New Labour prime minister Keir Starmer’s residence. The marchers’ need to make their voices heard against the nightmarish events taking ...

Ele Jane, Cardiff East Socialist Party Between 3 and 4 June, 19 protesters were arrested in Cardiff and Swansea in a brutal escalation of police response to the Palestine movement. A video shows eight police officers surrounding a disabled activist, and forcing his head down, before escorting him away. An emergency demonstration was called in response outside Cardiff Bay police ...

By James Ivens Student fury against the Israeli state onslaught in Gaza is crying out from encampments at dozens of unis. Socialist Students and the Socialist Party members are there in support – camping in some occupations, organising solidarity actions for others, and discussing among students and workers how this movement can win. It’s not good enough that vice-chancellors – ...

By Callum Joyce Over 35,000 Palestinians in Gaza killed. Over one million displaced from their homes – almost half of the entire population. It is not just the Israeli state’s bombs and missiles that are leading to the huge loss of life. Electricity, food, water, and medicine are now all in short supply. Many are succumbing to starvation and illness. ...

Editorial in the Socialist Issue 1268 After almost six months, after more than 32,000 dead, after more than 74,000 wounded, and after the majority of buildings have been reduced to rubble, the United Nations (UN) Security Council has finally passed a motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Words agreed by the Security Council will not stop the unimaginable ...

By Berkay Kartav London Socialist Party On Saturday 13 January, once again hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of London to join the first national demonstration of 2024, marching from Bank to Downing Street. Appalled by the brutal war on Gaza and the recent US and British airstrikes in Yemen, it was clear that the anger towards world ...

From airstrikes on Yemen to the Post Office scandal… Editorial from The Socialist Issue 1258 Hundreds of thousands people took to the streets of London and other towns and cities on 13 January 2024 in the first mass protests of the year against the ongoing slaughter of the Palestinians. The demonstrations were fuelled by huge anger at the Tory government ...

Editorial of the the Socialist Issue 1255 Every day in Gaza a new unimaginable horror exceeds the horror of the day before. As winter begins, freezing is being added to bombing, hunger and disease as causes of Gazans’ deaths. At the time of writing, the official death toll has reached 18,000, but with hospitals unable to function and many buried ...