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PALESTINE campaigners in Thanet marched through Margate on Saturday after the local council passed a landmark motion calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Following the march, the campaigners gathered at a meeting where former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein delivered a speech.
Mr Feinstein recounted Nelson Mandela’s words upon his release from prison in 1990: “There is much work to do because our freedom is incomplete until the Palestinians are free.”
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
