Palestine

Labour leadership ramps up attacks on left

03 December 2020
Labour’s leaders have threatened to purge “thousands and thousands” of their own members from the party in a campaign to smash the left.

Labour’s long history of support for the Israeli state

01 December 2020
Attacks on support for Palestine aren’t explained by focusing on an ‘Israel lobby’, says Nick Clark

Keir Starmer is still on the attack

23 November 2020
Labour party leader Keir Starmer is holding Jeremy Corbyn to ransom as part of an all-out assault on the left in the party.

Letters: Continue the fight for Palestine—but outside of the Labour Party

20 November 2020
The right has continuously deemed left wing activists who criticise Israel and its oppressive actions towards Palestinians as antisemites.

Corbyn’s return to the Labour Party based on concessions to the right

17 November 2020
Jeremy Corbyn has been readmitted to the Labour Party after making another concession to right wing efforts to silence criticism of Israel.

More Jerusalem settlements planned

16 November 2020
Israel has announced plans to build over 1,000 new settlement buildings in occupied East Jerusalem. It wants to break up Palestinian life in the city.

International roundup: Deadly storm hits Central America

09 November 2020
Hundreds of people are feared dead after Tropical Storm Eta ripped through Central America and Mexico.

Debates and divisions in unions and the left on how to respond to the attacks in Labour

02 November 2020
Two online rallies revealed debates on how the left should respond to the right’s assault.

Keir Starmer’s suspension of Jeremy Corbyn means war on the left

02 November 2020
There is now no doubt that Labour leader Keir Starmer is determined to drive the left out of the party—or force it into humiliated submission.

It’s time to leave Labour

01 November 2020
Keir Starmer’s assault on the left shows that Labour is a trap for socialists. It’s time to leave and fight for real change argues Charlie Kimber, editor of Socialist Worker

Keir Starmer uses antisemitism report to suspend Corbyn and attack solidarity with Palestine

29 October 2020
There is now no doubt that Labour leader Keir Starmer is determined to drive the left out of the party, or to force them into humiliated submission.

Labour Leadership continues to show that criticism of Israel will not be tolerated

26 October 2020
The Labour Party leadership has told off MP Stephen Kinnock for making a speech criticising Israel, according to reports.

‘Don’t silence our criticism of Israel,’ Palestinians tell Labour Party

18 September 2020
A group of prominent Palestinians in Britain have written an open letter to the Labour Party insisting on their right to call Israel—and its founding ideology Zionism—racist.

International round up: Israeli army attacks Gaza

01 September 2020
Israeli tanks shelled the Gaza Strip last Sunday as part of a continuing assault on the besieged Palestinian enclave.

Israel shells and bombs besieged Gaza Strip

24 August 2020
Israel had pounded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes and shells for at least 12 days in a row as of last Friday.

Betrayal of Palestine will aid Israel and US

17 August 2020
For decades Arab rulers’ betrayals have allowed Israel to grab more Palestinian land under the guise of a “peace process”.

Israeli state is worried about questioning of its history

08 August 2020
As Seth Rogen talks about Israel’s lies, Tomáš Tengely-Evans looks at the myths around the foundation of the state

We can still fight Israel

04 August 2020

When Labour leader Starmer stood up for Palestinian rights

04 August 2020
In 2019 the vile slur was spread that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PCS) is antisemitic.

Fight the claim that the left is antisemitic

27 July 2020
The renewed assault on the left is bigger than Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party. Disgraceful accusations of antisemitism are flung almost indiscriminately at the whole of the left.