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An excellent article reposted from Mick Hall’s Organised Outrage blog. It recalls the reaction of Britain’s yellow press to the massacre in Derry that was instantly christened ‘Bloody Sunday’ when the paratroopers went on the rampage killing 13 Catholics in Derry. Their story was that they were fired upon but anyone with a sense of…

THE FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM IN BRIGHTON & THE SOUTH COAST Speaker Tony Greenstein Tony has been active in the fight against fascism, both locally and nationally. Tony is also Secretary of Brighton & Hove Unemployed Workers Centre and a founding member of Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Price £8.99 please make cheques out to BUWC, 4 Crestway…

Peter Tatchell and Others Support Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions This letter from Peter Tatchell and other gay and Palestine solidarity activists is to be welcomed. It is certainly overdue. One of the more unpleasant features of recent years has been how the far-right has demonstrated how ‘tolerant’ it is to gay rights unlike those ‘backward’…

How the Herrenvolk Sees Itself In an article, ‘The End of the Secular Majority’ Israel’s only liberal daily, Ha’aretz laments the advance of the ultra-orthodox and the decline of the secular majority. What the early Zionist pioneers chose to ignore was that by basing their claims to Palestine on the holy scriptures, they had handed…

Release All Israel’s Administrative Detainees Please sign the petition to try, even at the 11th hour, to save the life of Khader Adnan. Like all Palestinian administrative detainees, he is subject to ‘occupiers’ justice’ i.e. no justice at all. In Ireland internment, imprisonment without trial, was a major issue in the early 1970’s and its…

Or Why It’s Not a Good Idea to Accept Your Ideas from Zionists Last week Ruth Tenne, an Israeli anti-Zionist sent a letter to the Weekly Worker, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, deploring our ‘witch-hunt’ against holocaust deniers in Palestine Solidarity Campaign. This followed on from our success at the PSC AGM…

For the past 4 years or so there have been continuous stories of how Israel is going to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities. My own judgement has always been that the threat has been inflated out of all proportion. Certainly what is the case is that the United States didn’t, whilst it had its hands…

It Takes the Victims of Apartheid to Recognise Apartheid As the architect of Apartheid, Dr Henry Verwoerd said: “The Jews took Israel from the Arabs after the Arabs lived there for a 1000 years. In this I agree with them. Israel like South Africa is an apartheid- state.” Rand Daily Mail, 23.11.61. It is therefore…

Palestinians take the Irish Road to Freedom The parallels between the Partition of Ireland in 1920 and Palestine are many. The establishment of Ulster, a Protestant State for a Protestant People, as Lord Brookborough, later Unionist Prime Minister remarked, and the establishment of the Palestine Mandate are remarkable, not least because it goes so often…

On July 2nd last year, I was invited by Brighton Labour History Workshop to do a talk on the fight against fascism in Brighton and on the South Coast. The invitation was extended to me because I have been prominent in the campaign against the fascists from the mid-1970’s and have remained active ever since.The…