Tag Archives: Palestine/Israel

Editorial of the Socialist issue 1358 US and Israeli missiles are continuing to rain down on Iran, with thousands killed. The Iranian regime is in turn still firing at targets across the Middle East. Fifteen countries have so far been hit by one side or the other, with an estimated 7.5 million people living within 1km of a missile or ...

By Judy Beishon On the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in the balance. The US plans to impose a transitional government of technocrats on the Palestinians in Gaza, backed up by outside armed ...

The Netanyahu-Trump gang is expanding regional conflagration in service of the occupation and the rule of capital Advance broad protest, refusal, and strike action with the call: No to the Israel-Iran war, an end to the war of extermination in Gaza, overthrow Israel’s ‘government of death’ – yes to a cross-border struggle for equality, welfare, and personal security, no to ...

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 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 ...

At least 1500 people marched in Cardiff on Saturday October 21st against the war in Gaza.

By Amnon Cohen The new, far-right, ultra-nationalist Israeli government was sworn in in December 2022. It has already provoked unprecedented protests in Israel. On 14 January 80,000 took to the streets, despite threats from the internal security minister to deploy water cannons against the demonstrators. The following week the number of demonstrators rose to 130,000. On 27 January, nine Palestinians ...

By Shahar Benhorin, Socialist Struggle Movement (CWI in Israel/Palestine) Over 160 people participated in the ‘Socialism Conference 2018’ event hosted in Tel Aviv by the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM) on 27 – 29 September. Among the participants were workers and youth, trade unionists and left activists, Israeli Jews, Palestinians and some international guests. The event took place against the background ...

By Rana Shubair, Gaza City teacher, and author of the book ‘In Gaza I Dare To Dream’ The following piece is an eyewitness report written by Gazan activist and author Rana Shubair, at the request of ‘Socialist Struggle Movement’ (SSM), the CWI section in Israel-Palestine. Bloody Monday May 14 was the first day of summer holiday for school kids here. ...

An article in the June 2018 issue (no. 219) of Socialism Today The Labour right wing and capitalist establishment are waging a colossal campaign to undermine Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party and his anti-austerity policies. Particularly pernicious is the avalanche of antisemitism allegations levelled against him – and the left in general. This threat can only be answered ...