AN INTERNATIONAL solidarity organisation has called for “the immediate cessation of all military co-operation and arms trade with Israel on the part of the British government.”

Liberation, at its AGM at the weekend, unanimously agreed an emergency motion denouncing the Israeli military’s ongoing incursions into Gaza and blockade of humanitarian aid.

In a keynote address at the meeting, Professor John Foster not only spoke of the history of Liberation — formed in 1954 as the Movement for Colonial Freedom — but on its important role today amid a “new cold war” as the West ramps up both rhetoric and pressure on China and the global South.