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In today’s world no one is innocent, no one is neutral. A man is either with the oppressed or he is with the oppressors. He who takes no interest in politics gives his blessing to the prevailing order, that of the ruling classes and exploiting forces.
– George Habash, Founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
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Palestine unbowed
As the Palestinian people continue to defy all attempts to remove them from their land, and even to wipe them out completely, we reaffirm our unconditional support and solidarity for their liberation struggle, in all its forms.
The imperialists and their local stooges, in their bid to destroy the human obstacles to their settler-colonial project, have picked up a giant rock only to drop it on their own feet.
What has been the real result of two years of live-streamed genocide? Of horrifying the world by taking an ongoing campaign of mass extermination to new heights and conducting it quite brazenly in the glare of global publicity?
Not the strengthening of the Israeli regime, but its exposure and increasing isolation, along with its western backers. Every day, people who used to fall for zionist narratives about Israel being the victim of history and the ‘only democracy in the middle east’ are turning away in disgust. Every day, more western jews are disassociating themselves from zionist ideology and from Israel.
Many who previously believed western narratives that portrayed conflict in the middle east as the inevitable result of intractable religious and ethnic squabbling, and western powers as neutral arbiters or powerless onlookers, have taken a closer look at the philosophy called ‘zionism’ and begun to understand not only its racist and supremacist core but also its connection with and service to the financier overlords of Anglo-American imperialism.
Not only the Israeli government but the whole settler-colonial project and the entire edifice of imperialist rule is coming under increasing scrutiny.
And meanwhile the people of Palestine, despite the horrific suffering inflicted upon them, remain steadfast. They refuse to leave their land. Refuse to bend the knee in submission. Refuse to give up their liberation struggle. Refuse to give up their fight for sovereignty and independence.
Genocidaires exposed
What has been the result of two years of total impunity for Israeli war crimes and openly genocidal intent?
The entire edifice of the ‘international order’ has been exposed as one more tool of the imperialist powers. The United Nations’ inability to act without the approval of the USA has been laid bare, highlighting the impotence of so-called ‘international law’ and underlining the importance of the zionist colony to imperialist interests.
As a result, not only this or that British or US government but the system and the class they represent is being questioned by growing numbers of workers in the west, many of whom used to believe they lived in democracies and had some influence over policy.
Axis of Resistance still firm
What has been the result of the US/British/zionist attempt to wipe out all Palestinian armed resistance?
Gaza’s fighting forces continue to inflict heavy casualties on the occupiers, while Israel’s armed forces have been brought to the edge of collapse.
What was the result of the campaign by the combined western navies and air forces to reopen the Red Sea to Israeli shipping?
The imperialists had to give up on the failed project, with President Trump declaring “victory” in the hopes of saving face and fooling the credulous. But the Yemeni blockade of shipping remains in place, the port of Eilat remains closed.
As in Ukraine, the west’s military limitations have been clearly revealed. Yemeni missiles continue to destroy military and security-service targets and western powers have been unable to stop them. Meanwhile, western media hysteria and vilification has been unable to stop the Yemeni national government from rising to legendary hero status in the eyes of the global majority.
As a result of all this, Israeli economic life now only limps along with the help of huge subsidies from the US treasury. Just as the Israeli military only functions thanks to daily arms deliveries from the USA in particular, but also from Britain and the EU countries. And thanks also to the special forces and mercenaries sent by imperialism to bolster its dwindling and demoralised ranks.
What happened when the imperialists tried to save Israel by expanding the war to Iran, which remains the biggest barrier to their domination of the region and their total control of its vast oil wealth?
The British and American war planners had been working towards this ‘decapitation strike’ for decades, but it failed. They had to call a halt after just 12 days when it became clear that their regime-change plans had been foiled, Iranian society had come together and Iranian arms were outgunning the combined weaponry of the Anglo-American imperialism, inflicting serious damage on the zionist entity.
Despite some grave setbacks for the forces of liberation, the balance of forces in the region continues to shift away from the imperialists and in favour of the Axis of Resistance. An axis that is backed up by the rising anti-imperialist bloc – China, Russia, the DPRK, Venezuela, Cuba, the Sahel, Brics, the SCO, Alba and more.
Act to stop the genocide
Clearly, the British and US ruling elites are determined to keep their unsinkable aircraft carrier in operation for as long as possible, no matter what the cost in human life. And since international law is powerless to stop them, it is the resistance of the people that must end the genocide and dismantle the racist, supremacist settler-colony for good.
Workers in Britain must recognise the key role being played in the Gaza genocide by British imperialism and organise themselves to stop the war machine in its tracks. If the leaders of our movement and trade unions won’t give the necessary leadership, they must be swept aside and replaced by people who will.
We must follow the example of European dockers who are refusing to send arms to Israel. We cannot be cowed by attempts to criminalise anti-genocide solidarity and anti-zionist speech. Unjust laws must be broken by mass defiance. Let us not remain impotent spectators to these heinous crimes!
Stop the genocide! Anti-zionism is not a crime!
No cooperation with the criminal zionist state and its war machine!
We demand:
- An end to all military, intelligence, academic, scientific, cultural and diplomatic cooperation with the zionist regime.
- Join the European dockers and build a mass campaign of non-cooperation with the zionist state and its war machine, including: refusing to make or move weapons and other supplies; refusing to provide support services or logistics; refusing to participate in technological or civil cooperation: refusing to distribute Israeli goods and services; and refusing to write, broadcast or distribute the propaganda lies.
- A mass campaign to reinstate our democratic rights to free speech and freedom of assembly.
- A mass campaign to kick the IHRA ‘definition of antisemitism’ out of every institution in Britain.
- A mass campaign to hold every British official who has been complicit with the genocide in Gaza to account.
- A mass campaign to publicise the plight, fund the defence, and overturn the convictions and sackings of those who have been targeted by the state for standing with Palestine.
- A mass campaign to overturn the terrorism legislation that is being used to criminalise opposition to the Gaza genocide.
- The disbanding of the criminal and aggressive Nato military alliance, which is spreading fascism and war across the globe, from south Korea to Palestine to the Donbass.
- The dismantling of all British bases overseas and of all US bases in Britain, and an end of all support for proxy forces anywhere in the world.
