By Dave Stockton On 18 March at 2.10am Israel restarted bombing the homes of civilians across Gaza, ending the two-month ceasefire. Its pretext was that Hamas would not agree to an extension of stage one, which would allow Israel Defence Forces to remain in the Strip indefinitely, while all the hostages are released. As we […]

By Dave Stockton As we go to press, stage one of the Gaza ceasefire is due to end on 1 March. However, Netanyahu’s war cabinet has been repeatedly delayed negotiations on stage two, which should have started on 4 February. The Israeli prime minister has also held back the release of Palestinian detainees, many held […]

ArbetarmaktSwedish section of the League for the Fifth International The following statement was published by our comrades and sent to the union. On Tuesday 4 February, the dockers’ union launched a six-day blockade of all types of weaponry for Israel. This is really exemplary – exactly the kind of action that the workers’ movement needs! […]

Israel's genocidal assault is prompting a generation of young Jewish people to play a leading role in Palestine solidarity campaigning.

Before Trump’s inauguration brings new pressure for a ceasefire, Israel will attempt to complete the ethnic cleansing of northern Gaza

There can be no lasting peace in the Middle East as long as Israel continues to exist as a gendarme for imperialist interests in the region

The decision to ban UNRWA confirms the genocidal intent of Israel's war in Gaza

By Jeremy Dewar On 27 September Israel dropped 10 US made and supplied two-tonne ‘bunker buster’ bombs on Dahyeh, a suburb in southern Beirut and home to 700,000 civilians, killing 300, including Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah and the group’s southern commander Ali Karki. This follows Israel’s attack on Hezbollah’s communications systems by blowing up its […]

Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza has been underway for nearly a year.

Israel is intensifying its criminal war against the Lebanese people in order to secure its continued oppression of the Palestinians.

With the world's attention focused on Gaza, Israel has launched its deadliest raid on the occupied West Bank for two decades

Israel's threats against Hezbollah are intended to send a message that support for the Palestinians invites deadly retribution

A critique that locates the strategic impasse of the Palestinian left in its adherence to a Stalinist stages theory and the popular front.

Any agreement reached under the cosh of Netanyahu and Ben Gvir’s New Nakba and the services of US imperialism would mean simply continuing the torment of the Palestinians and the denial of their democratic rights and national sovereignty.

The marches, blockades and occupations have not forced the government to break links with Israel. We need to change course.

Open letter to local and national Palestine campaigns. Unite the resistance - for workers' action to stop the genocide

Will the US continue to allow Israel to ignore its most important ally?

There can be no peace while Israel maintains its occupation of Gaza and the West Bank

By Scott Woodhouse In the face of violent police repression of pro-Palestine student protesters in the USA, University of Leeds students walked out of classes on 1 May International Workers’ Day to set up an encampment outside their student union. Banners hung around the encampment read “No Pride in Apartheid!”, “No IDF on campus” and […]

Six months into the war in Gaza, Israel continues to commit genocide against the Palestinians and aggression against its neighbours with impunity.

Union leader chooses militarism over internationalism

By Martin Suchanek In a serious attack on freedom of expression and assembly, on 12 April the Berlin police shut down and dispersed the Palestine Congress, a democratically and legally organised meeting. All this was an attempt to criminalise criticism of the state of Israel and its racist foundations, indeed any advocacy of the democratic […]

The focus of the Palestine solidarity movement has shifted towards boycotting arms for Israel, but to succceed it needs international organisation.

Berlin, 14 April 2024

Workers Power Conference 2024 On Friday, German police shut down a conference in Berlin being held in solidarity with Palestinians facing Israeli genocide in Gaza. A force of 900 police invaded the venue, turning off speakers’ microphones and expelling people from the hall. Germany’s Interior Ministry has prevented pro-Palestinian speakers, including Dr Ghassan Abu-Sitta from […]

Israel's allies are providing aid as humanitarian cover for its genocidal war

The crisis in the Middle East underlines the urgency of building a genuinely internationalist and anti-imperialist antiwar movement

Students have occupied Leeds university to demand its implement the boycott of Israel.

Despite its limitations, the ICJ ruling represents a moral blow to Israel and the western powers.

The US is talking up the prospect of Israel's war ending with a two-state solution