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Palestine: the litmus test for socialist politics
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
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THE struggle for a free Palestine is both central and essential to building for socialism and defeating the rising tide of barbarism.
Some years ago, I posited that Palestine would be a litmus test issue for a new Labour government’s foreign policy. And so it has proved, a test that it has lamentably failed to pass, reinforcing and enhancing Britain’s culpability and role as a partner in the axis of war with the US and Israel against the Palestinian people. Joining forces with the far-right racist ambitions of the Israeli zionist parties seeking to eliminate Palestine from world maps and history.
But let’s imagine that Jeremy Corbyn had won the general election in 2017 or any other scenario you can imagine for a progressive social democratic or even a socialist government. Even though the 1945 government supported the establishment of Israel and walked away from the Nakba — after what has gone on in the intervening years, it is inconceivable that a left-wing socialist government could ignore the issue of Palestine.
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