Since 2023, Strike Map has evolved from digital mapping at a national level to organising ‘mega pickets’ — we believe that mass solidarity with localised disputes prepares the ground for future national action, writes HENRY FOWLER
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Israel’s war aims are not ours
Labour must recognise Israel’s true aims of total colonisation of Palestine and massive regional expansion — and therefore end the arms sales and trade deals that enable the destruction of any two-state solution, writes HUGH LANNING
Delegates wave Palestinian flags at the Labour Party’s 2018 annual conference in Liverpool, during a debate on Palestine
Like dictators of the past, Trump is seeking an enforcement agency answering only to him, asserts CJ ATKINS
From tens of thousands left abandoned to a militarised ‘looting’ crackdown, Hurricane Katrina laid bare racial inequities and government neglect, writes NATALIA MARQUES
Money makers already exploit cleaning and catering contracts while the military-industrial complex diverts billions from health to warfare — but Bevan’s vision will endure as long as people fight for it, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
How can we claim to be human while our countries still support and defend the massacres in Palestine, asks HUGH LANNING
The decision highlights the tension between freedom of expression and the state’s role in shaping historical memory at former concentration camps, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
“AT times of war, the art of strategy is to align military means with political ends,” Lawrence Freedman once said. Yet Labour’s timid response to Israel’s year-long war on Palestine results from a failure or refusal to recognise that Israel’s strategy — its military means — is based on what has become a very clear and transparent political end.
This is the destruction of any prospect of a two-state — or any other — solution by the elimination of any viable infrastructure that could be the basis of a Palestinian state.
If their objectives were ever “limited” to the destruction of Hamas’s military capabilities, Israel’s goals have become the realisation of their long-term nirvana — the creation of a “Greater Israel” covering all of historic Palestine from the river to the sea.
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How can we claim to be human while our countries still support and defend the massacres in Palestine, asks HUGH LANNING
HUGH LANNING reports on an initiative that will aim at counteracting the anti-Palestine narratives spoon-fed to Western governments and the mass media by Israel’s propaganda machine
Israel’s messianic settler regime has moved beyond military containment to mass ethnic cleansing, making any two-state solution based on differential rights impossible — we must support the Palestinian demand for decolonisation, writes HUGH LANNING
The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
