Israel’s Racist Election – The main debate is ‘Who Has Killed the Most Palestinians?’

Israel’s Racist Election – The main debate is ‘Who Has Killed the Most Palestinians?’ As the Zionist ‘Left’ Disappear will the Generals’ Blue & White Party Replace Netanyahu? In most Western countries, parties compete over issues such as taxation, nationalisation/privatisation, poverty, Brexit, refugees, global warming in general elections. Political parties in most European countries, with…

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The Last Chance of Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United States’ Mandela – Framed for Killing a Racist Cop

The Last Chance of Freedom for Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United States’ Mandela – Framed for Killing a Racist Cop Alice Walker once said of Mummia abu-Jamal that “He reminds me of Nelson Mandela.”. Mumia Abu-Jamal was the victim of a frame-up 37 years ago on charges of killing a cop.  He is one of the last Black Panther prisoners…

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What are Brighton & Hove Momentum Steering Committee Afraid of? What prevents them from calling an all-members’ meeting?

As the Slow Coup Against Corbyn Continues Momentum locally and nationally maintains a Trappist Silence Members of Parliament, courtesy of the Tory Party and their collaborators in the Labour Party, today staged a debate Antisemitism in Modern Society. It would have been more honest if it had been titled ‘Jeremy Corbyn is an anti-Semite.’  That…

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The History of Anti-Zionism in Israel

These two tapes give a fascinating background to the formation of Matzpen, the Socialist Organisation in Israel. People like Professor Moshe Machover, recently expelled and then readmitted to the Labour Party, Akiva Orr – a leader of the unofficial Seaman’s Strike in Israel in 1951 and a background to the Israeli Labour Party and Histadrut,…

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Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History

Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History This is an interesting essay on the most formidable of all British historians, the late Eric Hobsbawm and his evolution. Hobsbawm was of course a historian faithful to the Communist Party and suffered a great deal of criticism on that score. Richard Evans article is extremely perceptive and well…

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Weaponizing Medical Treatment to Keep Palestinians Divided

Amira Hass Israel says 15-year-old girl can’t leave Gaza for tests ‘until her brothers return, and her story is no exception   Imagine that the Interior Ministry prohibits your relative from receiving essential medical care in Tel Aviv, because you – contrary to the policies of increasing the Jewish population in the outlying areas and…

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