Sir Keith Starmer is out to prove that Labour can be relied upon as a safe alternative party of government, argues David Shearer of Labour Party Marxists PALESTINE, PAYMENTS AND PURGES Last week Keir Starmer gave his clearest signal yet that under his leadership the Labour Party can be relied upon to act…
ISRAEL, IRAN AND WEST BANK ANNEXATION
We are posting two articles on the situation in Israel and the Middle East. The first for Socialist Democracy (Ireland) is about Netahyahu’s planned annexation of a further 30% of the West Bank. The second by Yassamine Mather, of Hands off the Peoples of Iran (HOPI), is about the Iranian regime’s response to Netanyahu’s move.…
ISRAEL MOVES EVEN FURTHER RIGHT BUT EXPERIENCES A SETBACK
We are posting two articles about the attempts to criminalise Palestinian solidarity. The first, by Moshe Machover, covers the the Israeli government’s appointment of the overtly anti-Arab racist, Tzipi Hotovely, as ambassador to the UK. The second, from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Committee, explains the significance of the victory for BDS as a result of…
TRUMP NETANYAHU ‘DEAL OF THE CENTURY’
We are posting this article from Socialist Democracy (Ireland) about the proposed Trump/Netanyahu Deal to finally end ant prospects of a Palestinian nation state. The article shows that far from being an alternative to the proposed two-nations Camp David accord, this latest deal is the logical outcome of what was always a one-state plan –…
HANDS OFF IRAN STATEMENT ON KILLING OF QASSEM SOLEIMANI
E&L is reposting this statement from Hands off People of Iran on response to the US killing of Qassem Soleimani FIGHT ON TWO FRONTS Trump’s reckless drone assassination was a godsend for the reactionary theocratic regime in Tehran Hands Off the People of Iran unequivocally condemns the United States assassination on January…
THE PROBLEMS FACING THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION MOVEMEMT
Lorna Anderson has been on a recent visit to Palestine. In the first part of this article she reports on the growing realisation amongst the Palestinian liberation movement that they can not effectively deal with the Israeli occupation without taking on the Palestinian Authority. In the second part she assesses the possibilities of the Palestinian…
BBC’s WAR ON CORBYN
Tony Greenstein takes apart the BBC’s Panorama programme Is Labour anti-Semitic? providing the Right wing, racist and Islamophobic background of its producer, John Ware and highlighting the tendentious biased techniques used in its production. BBC’S WAR ON CORBYN As John Pilger has long argued, the BBC is the most refined propaganda service in…
NETANYAHU – IN ALLIANCE WITH THE NEO-NAZIS
Tony Greenstein provides an analysis of Binyamin Netanyahu’s latest attempt to shift Israeli politics to the Far Right NETANYAHU – IN ALLIANCE WITH THE NEO-NAZIS In 1984 rabbi Meir Kahane of the ultra-nationalist Kach party entered the Israeli parliament (knesset), having received over 25,000 votes. Kach stood on a programme which, as The Times of…
WE WON’T MARCH WITH AN ORGANISATION THAT WORKS TO SUPPRESS ANTI-RACISM
We are publishing a statement from the Scottish Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, protesting against Stand Up to Racism allowing two Zionist organisations that uphold the apartheid nature of Israel to join its ‘anti-racist’ march in Glasgow on 16th March. This follows the SUTR’s acceptance of Zionists on last year’s march (see http://republicancommunist.org/blog/2018/03/17/scottish-stand-up-to-racism-bows-to-zionist-pressure/) WE WON’T…
OPEN LETTER AND PETITION TO LEN McCLUSKEY
We have revived this open letter and petition from Ian Allinson of UNITE Grassroots Left. It calls upon UNITE members to reject Len McCluskey’s call for the Labour Party to adopt the IHRA definition anti-semitism. OPEN LETTER AND PETITION TO LEN McCLUSKEY We the undersigned call on you to oppose the adoption by the…