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Rebellion over Gaza: the British left strikes back
The protest movement that has exploded onto the streets and inside the Labour Party in response to British complicity with Israel’s crimes is not a distraction from class politics — it’s the way forward, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Palestine march

THE climbdown by the Metropolitan Police from cutting the route of today’s London march to stop the genocide in Gaza is a further indication of a rising political force beyond Westminster.

It is obscured in the Establishment media. But something extraordinary has been taking place for the last four months.

Despite an ironclad consensus between the government and the official opposition, there has been a sustained movement of hundreds of thousands of people. It has faced down media hostility and repressive political policing.

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