Israel / Palestine

The cynical attempt to manipulate the liberation aspirations of the masses in Iran in order to impose a new regime of repression, subservient to Washington’s dictates, has failed. The offensive has produced a catastrophe on […]

Trump and Netanyahu are inflaming the Middle East, shockwaves are striking the global economy. The imperialist war declared on Iran and Lebanon is a blow to the security of the masses throughout the region and […]

There is no horizon for security or liberation in an imperialist show of force that deepens a regional bloodbath. Written by Shahar Ben-Horin & Yasha Marmar – a guest article from the Socialist Struggle Movement […]

Yasha Marmer, a guest article from the Socialist Struggle Movement (SSM) in Israel/Palestine originally published on February 28th.  ( השקרים של השלטון לא יביאו ביטחון || לעצור את ההפצצות באיראן ואת מרחץ הדמים האזורי! • […]

A mass mobilisation of Palestinian citizens of Israel took place on Thursday 22 January as part of a Day of Rage in protest at an all‑time record in the number of Arabs murdered amid the […]

The largest hunger strike on these islands since the 1981 Republican prisoners’ protest in the Maze prison in the north of Ireland is barely being registered by the mass media. The Filton hunger strikers are […]

There is No Solution Without a Struggle for Fundamental, Socialist Change, Including Ending the Occupation, Reconstruction, and Social Justice Below is a guest article by Shahar Ben-Horin, posted on the website of Socialist Struggle Movement, […]

On the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in […]

The Israeli state’s capture and arrest of aid workers, peace campaigners, workers representatives and parliamentarians on the Global Sumud Flotilla has sparked a general strike across Italy. The flotilla vessels, which were aiming to break […]

A big step forward for the solidarity movement in Germany On 27 September, around 100,000 people took to the streets in Berlin in solidarity with the people of Gaza. This is the largest protest to […]

On 27 September, the largest mass demonstration to date in Germany calling for solidarity with the people of Gaza and the West Bank and against occupation, displacement and war by the Israeli government could take […]

Nationwide protests against Israeli genocide in Gaza took place in every major city across Australia on Sunday, 24 August. Organisers claim this is the single biggest gathering for Palestine since the 7 October attacks in […]

Hundreds of deaths in Gaza from malnutrition, almost half of them children. Hundreds of people slaughtered while seeking food. And now the Israeli military says it is preparing for the forcible displacement of one million […]

Over 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been massacred queuing for food in the past weeks. Television screens are filled with images of children starving and malnourished, hundreds of whom are hospitalised each day, dozens dying. […]

Plans have emerged for the forced displacement of all inhabitants of Gaza into a camp built on the ruins of Rafah. The proposal, which is supported by US president Trump as a step towards forced […]

The ceasefire in the Israel–Iran war has brought after twelve days an end, for now, to the aerial bombing offensive that killed hundreds of Iranian civilians, as well as to the counter-offensive in which missile […]

Gaza was put under a complete blockade by the Israeli government for over two months up to 19 May. No food, medicine or even water was allowed to enter the territory, resulting in the deaths […]

Recent criticism of Israel for the suffering inflicted on the people of Gaza, from Keir Starmer and foreign secretary David Lammy is pure hypocrisy, typical of the British ruling capitalist class they both represent. Capitalist […]

The Met Police have charged Kneecap rap group member, Liam Ó hAnnaidh, better known as Mo Chara, with terror offences after videos surfaced seeming to show him with a Hezbollah flag at a gig in […]

On 18 May, up to half a million people marched against the slaughter in Gaza and the starvation policy imposed on the Strip by the right wing Israeli government. Days later, the UK Labour government […]

At many times since the start of the war on Gaza it has seemed that the situation in the strip couldn’t become much worse. But following the Israeli government’s renewal of bombardments in early March […]

Once again, the people of Gaza are being bombed, shot and starved. Israel has imposed a complete blockade of water, food, electricity, and medical supplies. All humanitarian aid is withheld to Gaza. The World Food […]

Mass protests have erupted across Israel, with over 100,000 people demonstrating in Tel Aviv and other cities on 22 March. Protesters blocked highways, surrounded the Israeli parliament in a makeshift encampment and endured beatings by […]

Most of the capitalist media worldwide reacted with astonishment and condemnation to US president Trump’s monstrous assertion that he plans to oversee an expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza strip, with the US taking ownership […]

But how to end siege of Gaza and occupation of all Palestinian territories? Emotions ran high across the world at the news that a ceasefire deal was being agreed for Gaza. But alongside that wave […]

Relief swept across Lebanon when a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effect on Wednesday 27 November. Thousands of displaced people headed back to their homes in south Lebanon, with many finding them destroyed or […]

World relations between imperialist and capitalist powers are in an unprecedented state of flux and turmoil. The unipolar world dominated by US imperialism that briefly existed following the collapse of the former USSR in 1991 […]

Brutal wars have repeatedly been carried out by Israeli military forces on Gaza since a ruthless blockade was imposed on that strip of land in 2007. Each one brought terrible death and destruction but the […]

Build mass working-class struggle to end war and win Palestinian national self-determination In the space of just a week, the reports from Israel-Palestine included yet more terrible atrocities carried out by Israeli military forces in […]

Queen Mary: ‘We won’t pack up and give up!’ QMUL student, Tower Hamlets Socialist Party As we go into another week of the Queen Mary University student encampment for Palestine, East London, it’s becoming clear […]

The recent decision by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and leaders of Hamas, was […]

As the UK general election campaign goes into full swing, many Tory and Blairite Labour politicians will probably be hoping that minds turn away from Gaza and their parties’ refusal during eight months of war […]

For most of April Iran and Israel appeared to be teetering on the brink of an all-out war, which could have engulfed the whole of the Middle East in flames. The month opened with Israeli […]

Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel ushers in a new, more dangerous, stage in the widening of the Gaza conflict towards a full regional war in the Middle East, something which would have global implications. In […]

Outrage at the massive death toll, destruction and famine in Gaza rose even further worldwide at the start of April when seven charity workers from World Central Kitchen were added to the victims of the […]

After almost six months, after more than 32,000 dead, after more than 74,000 wounded, and after the majority of buildings have been reduced to rubble, the United Nations (UN) Security Council has finally passed a […]

A quarter of the Gaza population are on the brink of famine, according to the United Nations (UN). In January, a whole swathe of rich capitalist  nations suspended funding for UNRWA – the UN body […]

The shambolic end to the UK parliamentary debate on Gaza on Wednesday 21 February reflected the pressure being felt from the anti-war movement on the Tories and Labour, and the widespread anger at their refusal […]

Interview with Weizmann Hamilton On January 11 and 12, 2024, the United Nation’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) heard the South African government’s case accusing Israel of carrying out “genocidal acts” in Gaza. On 26 […]

Days after the UN International Court of Justice in the Hague ruled that Israel must take all measures to prevent genocidal acts in Gaza, Israeli forces continue their murderous bombardment from land and air. “Hague […]

Just over fifty years after the Arab-Israeli war fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 – also known as the Yom Kippur war as it began with a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish […]

Over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are suffering a horrific situation on a daily basis, with nowhere safe to go. Bombing continues and Israeli ground operations continue in the south – the area where people […]

A printable version of this article can be downloaded here.  The Israeli army is laying waste to Gaza. Whole communities are being destroyed and entire families wiped-out. The scale of displacement, as people are forced […]

Every day in Gaza a new unimaginable horror exceeds the horror of the day before. As winter begins, freezing is being added to bombing, hunger and disease as causes of Gazans’ deaths. At the time […]

The world’s imperialist powers have always intervened in the Middle East for their own political, strategic and economic interests. On the one hand dishing out investment, aid, trade deals and promises of protection, and on […]

Editorial of the Socialist (issue 1254) weekly paper of the Socialist Party (CWI England & Wales). The brutal Israeli state wasted no time in re-releasing its horrific onslaught on the Palestinian people in Gaza as […]

After the start of the initial four-day Israeli ceasefire, aid workers who entered the Gaza Strip reported scenes of humanitarian catastrophe. Devastating injuries, overwhelmed hospitals, over 50,000 buildings destroyed or damaged, a dire shortage of […]

The vast majority of people are looking on in ever-growing horror as the destruction escalates in Gaza – as IDF forces assault al-Shifa Hospital and helicopters drop leaflets in south Gaza telling people to evacuate […]