The agony of the Palestinian people under the Israeli boot weighted with American munitions deepened despite the live-streamed genocide. Notwithstanding the cease-fire, Israeli military operations persisted. IDF supported settler-violence increased. Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, openly pursued West Bank annexation and ‘encouraged’ Palestinian migration.
Amidst the build up to another International Women’s Day it can grate hard on women activists to witness the occasion too often being commercialised and reduced to marketing gimmicks and superficial empowerment messaging. International Working Women’s Day was built by and is still championed by women who want to make substantive and systemic change to our society and world.
THERE is no West Bank. There is no two-state solution. There is only Israel’s destiny. So says Miko Peled, whose insights into the Zionist mind-set inform his advocacy for Palestine. Asked about Israel’s ‘endgame,’ Peled was forthright. It is a Jewish state. Israel will make sure it remains so. Arabs can support it or die fighting against it. According to Zionism, antisemites are everywhere. Antisemitism can be better dealt with in the Jewish state.
The attack launched on the Iran by the United States and Israel is a clear rejection of international law, an attack without excuse, and the Irish Communist Party/Páirtí Cumannach Éireann condemns it unequivocally and calls on the Irish and British Governments to boycott diplomatic relations with Israel.
While some were surprised that a Labour government should boast implementing a draconian immigration regime, the issue has become more pressing and more divisive than almost any other, including the NHS and the economy. Reform’s rise in the polls, despite the absence of a coherent policy framework, has been largely based on its claim that it will stop immigration – some members talk about ‘remigration’ i.e. sending back people (i.e. ethnic minorities) with already settled status.
The Irish Communist Party sends revolutionary greetings and unwavering solidarity to you in this hour of intense struggle. Communists from across the island of Ireland have followed with anger and admiration the courageous resistance of your Party against the brutal repression of the Kenya Kwanza regime.
NORTH and South we are going backwards. Instead of things improving the crises in housing, health, employment and cost of living continue to get worse and worse.
Research shows trust in mainstream media is declining globally as audiences perceive political parroting, witness billionaire acquisitions. Awakenings may not save Gaza, but understanding its significance and who are the perpetrators matters.
When there’s even a hint of a different approach (Labour’s ever diluted Employment Rights proposals or the NI Assembly’s Good Jobs Bill) that might move the UK towards hardly revolutionary European norms, the ear-splitting squealing of capitalist pigs is deafening. While some of their reaction is performative, it also hints at their vulnerability in that they know, historically, that collective, democratic challenge can stop the powerful acting with impunity.
