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Colonial Rule – For an
Arab/Hebrew Palestinian Workers
Republic in a Socialist
Federation of the Middle East Gaza “Ceasefire”: There Is No Peace Transport Workers: Stop All War Cargo to Israel! On October 9, representatives of Israel and Hamas signed an agreement for a ceasefire in the monstrous two-year Zionist genocidal war on the Palestinian population of Gaza. The truce was announced the day before by Donald Trump. When bombs stopped falling the next day, crowds of Palestinians in Gaza City, who had lived through 24 months of hell on earth, were jubilant. And when 25 Israeli hostages were returned alive, there was rejoicing in Tel Aviv. But this was only a pause in the unending Zionist war on the Palestinian people. There is no peace. Over 9,000 Palestinians are still being held as hostages in Israeli jails and camps, the “yellow line” to which Israeli troops pulled back still leaves them in control of 53% of Gaza, Israel is only letting in a quarter of the aid trucks a day agreed on, and bombings continue: the genocide has not stopped. Defenders of the Palestinians must oppose Trump's phony “peace” plan, which would mean colonial rule of Gaza. Class-conscious workers should step up the fight for workers action to stop all military goods to Israel. A common struggle by the workers of the myriad peoples of the region against national oppression and capitalist exploitation requires above all building genuine communist parties on the internationalist program of Lenin and Trotsky. Gaza “Ceasefire”: There Is No Peace (October 2025) |
| Mass
Strike for Gaza Brings
Italy to a Halt For International Strike Action to Stop U.S./Israel Gaza Genocide! Transport Workers: Block Arms and All Transport to and From Israel! Build a Leninist-Trotskyist Communist Party! As devastating famine spreads through Gaza as a result of Israel’s policy of deliberate mass starvation of the Palestinian population, on September 17 the army launched its long-threatened, full-scale assault on Gaza City. The unrelenting Zionist slaughter, which by now has claimed over 100,000 lives, is escalating daily. Horrified by the cataclysm they are seeing in real time, throughout the world millions of people are desperately crying out to stop the destruction of the Palestinian people. Now this outcry has combined with a dramatic mobilization of working-class power. On September 22 Italy was convulsed by a mass strike against genocide in Gaza called by militant rank-and-file unions. There were protests in 80 cities, with at least 300,000 demonstrators in Rome and up to 1 million nationwide. The Gaza slaughter is not just an Israeli crime, it is a joint Zionist/imperialist genocide. From the outset, the League for the Fourth International has called for workers action against the shipment of arms to Israel. Now this can become a reality internationally. The key is revolutionary leadership. For International Strike Action to Stop U.S./Israel Gaza Genocide! (24 September 2025) |
| For Workers Action Against
Imperialist and Zionist War Greek Workers Block Arms to Israel and Ukraine Brandishing red flares and chanting “Free Palestine!” on the night of October 17, dozens of dockworkers in Piraeus, Greece, blocked a container with 21 tons of ammunition from being loaded aboard a ship bound for Israel, to be deployed in the genocidal U.S./Israel war on Gaza. The ship departed without its death cargo. The action was carried out by the dock workers union ENEDEP, affiliated with PAME, the labor federation associated with the Greek Communist Party (KKE). A delegate of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, (PGFP), which has appealed to workers internationally to stop transport of military goods to Israel, thanked the Greek dock workers. Then on November 6 KKE-led demonstrators blocked a shipment of ammunition and rockets to the U.S./NATO puppet regime in Ukraine. Italy and Greece are the only countries where left-wing unions have actually blocked war cargo in response to the PGFP appeal. Stopping a container of ammo to Israel, a convoy of war cargo to Ukraine, a one-day strike or port shutdown – these are first steps, but they are vital in pointing the direction that struggle imperialist and Zionist war must take. Greek Workers Block Arms to Israel and Ukraine (26 November 2024) |
| Israel Out of Gaza, the West
Bank and Golan – U.S. Imperialists Out of the Middle East! Gaza Genocide Made in USA For International Workers Action to Defend Palestinians, Defeat U.S./Israel Slaughter Day after day, people around the world see photos and videos of harrowing scenes from the Israeli invasion and gruesome war on the Palestinian Arab population of the Gaza Strip. What is happening, and what millions are witnessing, is an actual genocide unfolding, aiming at the destruction of an entire population. The Zionist militarists are waging a one-sided war to drive out and decimate the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza – who for decades have been locked up in the tiny enclave on the shores of the Mediterranean – while preparing a possible sequel in the occupied West Bank. And in carrying out this slaughter, the Israeli forces are dropping monster bombs, manufactured and supplied by the United States, from fighter jets built and supplied by the U.S. Without the U.S. armaments, it would be impossible for Israel to carry out mass murder on this scale. A detailed analysis of the planned genocide underway in Gaza, and the U.S. role in it. Gaza Genocide Made in USA (10 August 2024) |
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Workers Action
Against
U.S./Israel
Genocide in
Gaza! “BDS” Dead End: Liberal Divestment Schemes, No Road to Liberation of the Palestinian People Calls for “boycott, divestment and sanctions” (BDS) against Israel were a main demand of just about all of the 100+ encampments that sprang up on college campuses across the United States this spring to protest the genocidal war on Gaza. The encampments served to keep antiwar protests going and even, in a certain sense, represented an escalation from the innumerable marches calling for a ceasefire, which did not diminish the relentless slaughter. Many in the Gaza solidarity encampments were desperately looking for some way to take action against Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. But the liberal “divestment” call, while it provides a “hook” to raise demands on local authorities, diverts attention from the most immediate issue: the role of the United States in jointly carrying out, together with the Israeli warmongers, a monstrous genocide in Gaza. And it does not point to a way forward in liberating the Palestinian people from Zionist domination. The fundamental issue is what force to look to: the rulers of U.S. imperialism who liberals think can be pressured into being a force for good, or the power of the international working class. “BDS” Dead End (22 July 2024) Israel: Not Just a “Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier” for the |
| A Weaponized Smear for
Witch-Hunting, Police Repression and Thug
Attacks Genocide Defenders Slander Anti-Zionists as “Antisemitic” At a Holocaust Memorial ceremony at the U.S. Capitol, Democratic president Biden denounces a fictitious “ferocious surge of antisemitism” on campuses around the U.S. In witch-hunting hearings, Congressional Republicans demand that professors and teachers be fired for expressing solidarity with Gaza and opposition to the genocidal war. In New York, the mayor has sent police to brutally break up pro-Palestinian protests while the governor has appointed inquisitors to investigate schools and universities. What we are witnessing here is a cynical, orchestrated, bipartisan hysteria to justify U.S./Israeli genocide by smearing opposition to it as “antisemitic.” And the purpose of this vile slander is to bring down capitalist state repression to silence critics of the mass murder being carried out by the Zionists and imperialists. Yet while slandering the pro-Palestinian protests and encampments as “antisemitic,” the Zionists are in fact making common cause with antisemitic white supremacists, fascistic elements and outright fascists. Meanwhile, the portrayal of Israel as an “apartheid state,” is altogether too generous and misleading. The logic of Zionism is not superexploitation of Palestinian labor by denial of rights, as under South African apartheid, but “ethnic cleansing” by forced population transfer leading to what we are now seeing before our eyes: genocide. The League for the Fourth International calls for an Arab/Hebrew Palestinian workers state in a socialist federation of the Middle East. Genocide Defenders Slander Anti-Zionists as “Antisemitic” (14 May 2024) |
| Defend the
Palestinians! Defeat the McCarthyite Witch
Hunts! Gaza Solidarity Encampments and Cop Repression Spread Across U.S. Democrat Biden, Republicans Smear Protests as “Anti-Semitic” Cops/Security Guards Off Campus! Labor: Defend Student Protesters! As the U.S./Israel war on the Palestinian population of Gaza reached its 200th day, with over 40,000 killed, the horror of the genocidal slaughter mounts relentlessly. While the Democratic administration of U.S. president Joe Biden continues to supply Israel with arms to carry out the butchery, on the home front Democrats and Republicans lyingly label anti-Zionist protests “anti-Semitic.” When the president of Columbia University, Nemat Shafik, groveled before the witch-hunting Congressional inquisitors, vowing to crack down on pro-Palestinian protesters, a Gaza solidarity encampment was erected on the New York City campus. After New York City police cleared the camp, arresting over 100, outrage swept across the country. Solidarity camps proliferated, as did police repression, often brutal. Facing the full weight of the capitalist state, a virulent slander campaign right up to the White House and bipartisan support in Washington for the war on Gaza, liberal pressure politics won't work. The student protesters must look to the power of the workers movement to defend the Palestinians and defeat the imperialist and Zionist warmongers. Gaza Solidarity Encampments and Cop Repression Spread Across U.S. (30 April 2024) |
| All Out in
Solidarity with the Palestinian People! May Day 2024: For International Workers Action Against the Genocidal U.S./Israel War on Gaza! With the barbaric war on Gaza now in its sixth month, it is utterly clear that this is an actual genocide, targeting the entire Palestinian Arab population of what has been termed the world’s largest open-air prison. It is also clear that this is a joint U.S./Israeli war. What’s desperately needed is the mobilization of power that can bring the slaughter to a halt, the power of the working class, in the United States and around the world. So far, calls for labor solidarity have been mainly on paper, and what port shutdowns there have been were mostly called by community groups rather than the unions. This coming May 1, the workers day, should become a day of militant international workers action – including strikes and labor-led mass mobilization – to stop the genocidal U.S./Israel war on Gaza. Recently, the Palestinian General Federation of Labor, Gaza has issued an appeal to unions in the United States to do just that. Class-struggle militants should act now to organize turn this into reality. May Day 2024: For International Workers Action Against the Genocidal War on Gaza! (26 March 2024) |
| No to U.S./U.N.
Colonial Rule – For an
Arab/Hebrew Palestinian Workers
Republic in a Socialist
Federation of the Middle East Gaza “Ceasefire”: There Is No Peace Transport Workers: Stop All War Cargo to Israel! On October 9, representatives of Israel and Hamas signed an agreement for a ceasefire in the monstrous two-year Zionist genocidal war on the Palestinian population of Gaza. The truce was announced the day before by Donald Trump. When bombs stopped falling the next day, crowds of Palestinians in Gaza City, who had lived through 24 months of hell on earth, were jubilant. And when 25 Israeli hostages were returned alive, there was rejoicing in Tel Aviv. But this was only a pause in the unending Zionist war on the Palestinian people. There is no peace. Over 9,000 Palestinians are still being held as hostages in Israeli jails and camps, the “yellow line” to which Israeli troops pulled back still leaves them in control of 53% of Gaza, Israel is only letting in a quarter of the aid trucks a day agreed on, and bombings continue: the genocide has not stopped. Defenders of the Palestinians must oppose Trump's phony “peace” plan, which would mean colonial rule of Gaza. Class-conscious workers should step up the fight for workers action to stop all military goods to Israel. A common struggle by the workers of the myriad peoples of the region against national oppression and capitalist exploitation requires above all building genuine communist parties on the internationalist program of Lenin and Trotsky. Gaza “Ceasefire”: There Is No Peace (October 2025) |
| Mass
Strike for Gaza Brings
Italy to a Halt For International Strike Action to Stop U.S./Israel Gaza Genocide! Transport Workers: Block Arms and All Transport to and From Israel! Build a Leninist-Trotskyist Communist Party! As devastating famine spreads through Gaza as a result of Israel’s policy of deliberate mass starvation of the Palestinian population, on September 17 the army launched its long-threatened, full-scale assault on Gaza City. The unrelenting Zionist slaughter, which by now has claimed over 100,000 lives, is escalating daily. Horrified by the cataclysm they are seeing in real time, throughout the world millions of people are desperately crying out to stop the destruction of the Palestinian people. Now this outcry has combined with a dramatic mobilization of working-class power. On September 22 Italy was convulsed by a mass strike against genocide in Gaza called by militant rank-and-file unions. There were protests in 80 cities, with at least 300,000 demonstrators in Rome and up to 1 million nationwide. The Gaza slaughter is not just an Israeli crime, it is a joint Zionist/imperialist genocide. From the outset, the League for the Fourth International has called for workers action against the shipment of arms to Israel. Now this can become a reality internationally. The key is revolutionary leadership. For International Strike Action to Stop U.S./Israel Gaza Genocide! (24 September 2025) |
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of Oakland Shut Down! All Out to Defend the Palestinian People! On January 13, several thousand protesters came out in the early morning hours to the Port of Oakland, California to stop the loading of a U.S. military ship. As a result of their mass picket in solidarity with the Palestinian people being massacred with U.S.-supplied munitions, workers were not dispatched from the hiring hall of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10. The Internationalist Group issued a leaflet and solidarity statement calling on unions everywhere to take action to stop the supply of arms to Israel, which was distributed to the Bay Area protesters. Port of Oakland Shut Down! All Out to Defend the Palestinian People! (13 January 2024) Portland-Area Unions Call for Workers Action Against U.S./Israel War on Gaza As the massive killing of the Palestinian Arab population of Gaza by the Israeli military continues unabated, in December two construction worker unions in the Portland, Oregon area passed resolutions calling for workers action against the war. The resolutions, by Ironworkers Local 29 and Painters Local 10, stress that this is a U.S./Israel war, and call to support and encourage actions by labor to refuse to handle arms shipments to Israel, as appealed for by the Palestinian trade unions. The resolutions are reproduced on the website of Class Struggle Workers – Portland, which has been urging area unions to adopt such calls for action. Portland-Area Unions Call for Workers Action Against U.S./Israel War on Gaza (December 2023) |
| Italian Unions Call to Stop
Arms to Israel and Ukraine For International Workers Action Against Zionist Genocidal Attack on Gaza On October 16, as Israel ramped up its genocidal attack on Gaza, Palestinian trade unions issued an urgent call on fellow unions and workers worldwide to “End All Complicity, Stop Arming Israel.” It called in particular to stop building weapons for Israel, to “refuse to transport weapons to Israel,” and to get their unions to pass motions to that effect. The League for the Fourth International urges unions and class-conscious workers to respond to the emergency appeal and to take action against the monstrous slaughter being jointly carried out daily in Gaza by Israel and the U.S. In many Western countries the Palestinian unions’ call has fallen on deaf ears, notably in the United States and Germany. In Italy the situation is notably different, as a militant sector of the labor movement has long called for Palestinian solidarity. On October 21, “rank-and-file” unions carried out strikes and demonstrations outside a military base near Brescia and in Pisa, calling to stop sending arms to Ukraine and Israel. Blocking shipments of war material has great importance as an example of mobilizing the power of the working class against imperialist (and Zionist) war. Italian Unions Call to Stop Arms to Israel and Ukraine (29 October 2023) |
| Dock Workers: Block Military
Cargo to Israel Against the Genocidal War on Palestinians in Gaza! By Jack Heyman The massacre of Palestinians in Gaza is escalating as the Israeli military continues its carnage. The United States is co-responsible for this genocidal war, having supplied the bombs, and the planes from which they are launched. Answering an appeal by the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions for union action to stop arms to Israel, many unions around the world have issued declarations of solidarity with the embattled Palestinians. In Italy militant "rank-and-file" unions have struck and stopped loading of Israeli ships. But the leadership of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), representing U.S. West Coast dock workers, refused to pass a resolution merely calling for a ceasefire n Gaza. The ILWU was long considered a beacon of labor solidarity, having stopped arms to Pinochet in Chile and the military junta in El Salvador, and initiating a 1984 boycott of a ship from apartheid South Africa. Now, although several ILWU locals have passed resolutions and many individual members have participated in protests against the war on Gaza, the leadership has put the kibosh on opposition to the war as it seeks a “seat at the table” in Democrat Joe Biden’s White House. The ILWU tops' increasingly open embrace of class collaboration is likewise reflected in its working for a year without a contract and finally agreeing to a contract with no protection against automation on the docks. What’s urgently needed is a class-struggle leadership . Dock Workers: Block Military Cargo to Israel (15 February 2023) |
| Zionist Revenge After Hamas
Offensive Shakes Israel to the Core Defend the Palestinians Against U.S./Israel Genocidal War on Gaza! On October 7, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza carried out a stunning surprise attack on Israel, the Zionist state that has driven millions of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland and oppresses millions more in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and within Israel. The massive border wall that completely surrounds the Gaza Strip was breached in numerous places and Hamas fighters overran two dozen Israeli communities. Hundreds of Israelis were killed, and now the Israeli military has killed as many or more Palestinians in air strikes, as it gears up for an invasion of densely populated Gaza using U.S. precision weapons. Now Israel has ordered a genocidal siege. Any real blow against the Zionist state by Palestinian forces is in the interests of the workers and oppressed, but indiscriminate terror against random Israelis undermines the defense of the Palestinian people. In the U.S. and other imperialist countries, anti-Palestinian hysteria is being whipped up seeking to suppress all solidarity with the Palestinians. The Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International call for the right of return for all Palestinians, for defense of the Palestinian people, for workers action against Zionist terror, and for an Arab-Hebrew Palestinian workers state in a socialist federation of the Middle East. Defend the Palestinians Against U.S./Israel Genocidal War on Gaza! (10 October 2023) The Origins of Hamas (10 October 2023) |
| Biden, Sanders,
Democrats Arm Zionist Butchers Defend the Palestinians Against Israeli War For Arab-Hebrew Workers Revolution! The storming of the al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem by hundreds of Israeli police on May 10 was the opening shot of renewed Zionist war on the Palestinian Arab people. While the imperialist media talk of military conflict between Israel and Hamas in the besieged enclave of Gaza, the reality is a one-sided slaughter of Palestinians by the Israeli war machine. Added to this is the terror unleashed by Zionist-fascist vigilantes against Palestinians in Israeli cities of mixed Arab and Jewish population. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party of U.S. imperialism has provided the weapons Israel uses to rain death on the Palestinian people. The horrific images – of apartment buildings in Gaza flattened by bombs, of a father staring at his dead children in a morgue, of an Arab being lynched by Jewish pogromists – have set off protests of tens of thousands worldwide. In the face of the new outbreak of the unending Zionist war, the Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International call to defend the oppressed Palestinian people, to drive the Israeli army and all Zionist settlers out of occupied Palestinian territory, for labor action against the Zionist/imperialist war on Palestinians, and for an Arab-Hebrew Palestinian workers state, as part of a region-wide socialist federation of the Near East. Defend the Palestinians Against Israeli War – For Arab-Hebrew Workers Revolution! (18 May 2021) The Birth of the Zionist State, Part 1 (November 1973) |
| Hail 75th
Anniversary of Soviet Army Liberation of
Auschwitz Expel Zionist Occupiers from the West Bank – Defend Gaza, the New Warsaw Ghetto No to Trump/Israel West Bank Annexation Plan! On January 28, U.S. president Donald Trump unveiled his phony Middle East “peace” plan in a joint appearance at the White House with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is actually a plan to escalate the imperialist-backed Zionist war on the Palestinians by annexing the Israeli-occupied West Bank. It is a naked Zionist land grab to crush and humiliate the Palestinians. All “two-state” plans that have been floated since the Israeli army’s conquest of the West Bank and Gaza in the 1967 war have been frauds to the extent that they made any pretense of fulfilling the rights of the Palestinian Arab population under the boot of Zionist occupation. Trump’s “vision” is the most cynical of all. But while opposition politicians in both countries criticize its timing and ostentatiously one-sided nature, many of these same Democrats and “moderate” Zionists support the basic elements of the “deal.” Zionists of all stripes and their imperialist patrons are for imposing indefinite Israeli control of the West Bank. Against this the League for the Fourth International calls to drive the Zionist occupiers out of the West Bank, and for an Arab/Hebrew Palestinian workers state in a socialist federation of the Near East. No to Trump/Israel West Bank Annexation Plan! (2 February 2020) |
| Defend Syria and Iran Against
Imperialist Attack! Regional War Looms in the Middle East For an Arab/Hebrew Palestinian Workers State in a Socialist Federation of the Middle East! As illusions of “peace” spread over the Korean peninsula as a result of a vague agreement reached by U.S. president Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a summit in Singapore, the stage is being set for regional war in the Middle East. On May 8, Donald Trump withdrew from the so-called Iran nuclear deal, cementing an alliance with the Zionist militarists and Saudi war hawks. Three weeks earlier, the U.S. and its NATO partners Britain and France launched a missile attack on Syria, based on phony allegations of chemical weapons use by the Assad regime. Then on May 14, the U.S. relocated its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a brazen provocation against the Palestinian people. Simultaneously, Israeli Army snipers were picking off peaceful protesters inside Gaza, killing at least 129 and leaving thousands wounded. And in Yemen a mass slaughter of civilians by the U.S.-backed Saudi/Gulf monarchist invaders looms. The League for the Fourth International calls to defend Syria and Iran against imperialist attack, upholding Iran’s right to develop nuclear power and obtain nuclear or any other kind of weapons to defend against the Israeli and U.S. warmongers with their massive nuclear arsenals. To break the death grip of imperialism, Zionism and Islamism, the League for the Fourth International calls workers revolution throughout the region. Regional War Looms in the Middle East (28 June 2018) |
| Defend
Leftist Lecturer
Eleonora Roldán
Mendívil! Germany: Anti-Palestinian Witch Hunt Targets Leftist and Jewish Activists In recent months, there have been several incidents of persecution of Jewish and leftist groups and individuals in Berlin, Germany for their pro-Palestinian views. The attackers range from right-wing German nationalists to the peculiar self-described (and grossly mislabeled) “Anti-Germans.” A case of anti-Palestinian censorship that gained international attention is the exclusion of Free University lecturer Eleonora Roldán Mendívil, who taught a class on “Racism under Capitalism.” University authorities canceled her teaching contract after rightist German nationalists slanderously accused her of anti-Semitism. This entire campaign is a Zionist witch hunt against a leftist, and goes hand-in-hand with attacks on Jewish and Israeli civil rights and gay rights activists. Trotskyists defend the proponents of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against right-wing and Zionist attacks and censorship. But rather than looking to the imperialists, we call for international workers action in defense of the Palestinian people, and for Hebrew/Arab workers revolution. Germany: Anti-Palestinian Witch Hunt Targets Leftist and Jewish Activists (22 March 2017) “Anti-German” Witch-Hunters Support Zionism and German Imperialism (22 March 2017 |
| Defeat Israel / U.S. War –
For Workers Action Against Zionist Slaughter Defend Gaza and the Palestinian People – For Arab-Hebrew Workers Revolution! All Settlers Out of the West Bank! From Egypt to Turkey, Fight for Workers Revolution! Every two years since Israel’s rulers “disengaged” from Gaza in late 2005, the Israeli military has launched a murderous attack on the 1.8 million Palestinians confined in this narrow strip along the Mediterranean. As of July 29, over 1,200 Palestinians had been killed, three-quarters of them non-combatants and at least 250 children. This is a war to terrorize the Arab population, but it has not worked. Trotskyists call to defend Gaza against the Zionist onslaught while fighting for an Arab-Hebrew Palestinian workers state. Israel is neither a “colonial-settler state” nor an “apartheid state,” but a client state and junior partner of imperialism which seeks to expel the Palestinian population. Calls for “boycotts, divestment and sanctions” (BDS) are at bottom appeals to the imperialists and will not bring down Zionist rule. Instead, we call for international workers solidarity action pointing to workers revolution throughout the region. Defend Gaza and the Palestinian People – For Arab-Hebrew Workers Revolution! (29 July 2014) |
| For International Workers
Action to Defeat Israeli Assault/Occupation!
Zionist Mass Murderers Strike Again: Defend Gaza! U.S./NATO Imperialists, Israeli Zionists and Arab Islamists: Hands Off Syria! Defend the Palestinian People – For an Arab/Hebrew Workers State in a Socialist Federation of the Near East As soon as the U.S. elections were over, the Zionist Israeli governmentlaunched a rain of death against the beleaguered Palestinian population of Gaza. If U.S. president Barack Obama began his re-election campaign with the murder of Osama bin Laden, Israel's war criminal premier Benjamin Netanyahu launched his campaign for the January 2013 elections by the terrorist assassination of Ahmed al-Jabari, the head of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas. This was accompanied by a full-scale barrage of indiscriminate aerial bombing, that killed dozens of Palestinians. Meanwhile in Egypt, while Cairo masses denounce the Israeli terror bombing, the Muslim Brotherhood government is calling for a ceasefire while continuing to keep Palestinians locked up in the tiny Gaza Strip. The attack on Gaza is a prelude to a wider Middle East War. We demand: imperialists, Zionists and Islamists, Hands off Syria. Smash imperialism and Zionism through international socialist revolution. Zionist Mass Murderers Strike Again: Defend Gaza! (17 November 2012) For International Workers Solidarity Action to Defend the Palestinians Oakland Picket Blocks Israeli Ship! On June 20, mass pickets blocked the unloading of an Israeli ZIM Lines ship at the Port of Oakland (California) to protest the May 31 Israeli massacre of activists aboard a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. More than 800 demonstrators showed up before dawn for the day shift picket, and hundreds returned to block an evening shift, which was called off. So the picketers succeeded in blocking the unloading of the Zim Lines freighter for 24 hours – the first time an Israeli ship has been blocked in a U.S. port. The picket was called by labor and community groups and built by the San Francisco and Alameda County Labor Councils, who condemned the Israeli attack and sent out notices urging Bay Area unionists to join the lines. A message from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions said that the Oakland dock action was “something we have longed for and expected,” recalling the 1984 boycott of a South African ship on the Oakland docks which spurred international solidarity with the struggle against apartheid. The June picket must be a spur to further workers solidarity action against the murderous Zionist regime. Oakland Picket Blocks Israeli Ship! (21 June 2010) For International Workers Solidarity Action – Defeat Israeli/U.S. War on Palestinians! Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Massacre: Bloody War Provocation Israel's seizure of a flotilla bearing humanitarian aid to Gaza on May 31 and the Zionist commandos'cold-blooded executions of at least nine activists aboard one of the ships provoked outrage around the world. This was state terrorism. While European governments made mild criticisms of Israel and its four-year-old blockade of Gaza, the main concern of the Obama administration in Washington was to prevent a U.N. resolution blaming Israel. Many protesters are calling for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, harking back to the campaign against apartheid South Africa. But impotent consumer boycotts of Israeli products, calling on businesses not to invest in Israel and for imperialist sanctions will not stop the Zionist mass murderers, nor did they stop the South African apartheid regime. Rather than looking to the capitalists and imperialists, Trotskyists call today on the workers movement to boycott cargo, ships and planes to and from Israel. Boycotts have been called by South African, Swedish and Norwegian dock workers unions and a picket is planned in the port of Oakland,California. Israel’s Gaza Flotilla Massacre: Bloody War Provocation (17 June 2010) The Blockade of Gaza and Zionist Plans for “Transfer” (June 2010) Zionists Gearing Up for War on Iran (June 2010) For
an
Arab-Hebrew
Palestinian Workers State in a Socialist
Federation of the Near East (June 2010)
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an Arab-Hebrew Workers State in a Socialist
Federation of the Near East!Egypt: Mubarak Regime Tottering (June 2010) Defend Gaza! Defeat U.S./Israel War on the Palestinian People! Last week, Israeli authorities ordered a halt to all imports into the Gaza Strip. The world’s largest concentration camp was sealed off from the outside world. The Israeli action was a heinous war crime akin to the Nazis’ confining of Polish Jews to the Warsaw Ghetto. But the Zionist war criminals are not acting on their own. The lockdown is part of a U.S.-Israeli plan to punish the Gaza population for electing the Islamic fundamentalist Hamas movement as their government. Since Hamas won Palestinian legislative elections in January 2006, Israeli Zionists and U.S. imperialists have been directly arming, training and commanding key Fatah forces to wage a war on Hamas. The Internationalist Group calls to mobilize to defeat the joint U.S./Israeli war on the Palestinian people. While politically opposing Islamic fundamentalism, as well as the Christian fundamentalism fueling the U.S.’ imperialist crusade in the Near East, and theocratic states like the Jewish state of Israel, we call for an Arab-Hebrew workers republic as part of a socialist federation of the Near East. Defend Gaza! Defeat U.S./Israel War on the Palestinian People! (26 January 2008) Defend the Palestinian People and Lebanese Shiites! Israel Launches Regional War on the Road to World War III Drive the Zionists Out of the Occupied Territories! Drive the U.S. Imperialists Out of Iraq and All the Near East! On July 14, Israel began a full-scale assault on Lebanon, bombing targets, military and civilian, throughout the country. Particularly hard-hit in the Israeli onslaught against Lebanon have been the Shiite Muslim communities where the Islamic organization Hezbollah is strong. There, the Israeli air force is massacring the civilian population, including many children, killing whole families in their homes, bombing refugee columns. Whatever the pretext used by Israel to justify its aggression, the international workers movement must stand squarely for defense of the Palestinian people and Lebanese Shiite population under attack, and for the defeat of the Israeli assault. The current invasion of Lebanon is part of an overall plan by the Zionist expansionists to unilaterally redraw the borders of the Near East and could easily engulf the entire region in the flames of war. Trotskyists defend the Palestinian people and Shiite population and stand with those resisting the Zionist occupiers, while calling for an Arab/Hebrew workers state in a socialist federation of the Near East. Israel Launches Regional War on the Road to World War III (21 July 2006) |
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the Palestinian People –
Defeat Israel’s Genocidal Blitzkrieg! Drive Zionist Army/Settlers Out of the Occupied Territories! For Arab/Hebrew Workers Revolution! Defend Afghanistan, Iraq Against Imperialist Attack! U.S./NATO Out of the Near East and Central/South Asia! The Israeli government has launched a genocidal war against the Palestinians. Its purpose is to “decapitate” the Palestinian Authority, kill thousands of those who oppose Israel’s brutal rule, and “ethnically cleanse” key areas of the West Bank and Gaza by driving out tens of thousands of Palestinians. The Zionist leadership has received a green light from the United States government to carry out this terrorist war. The U.S. and its NATO allies meanwhile are keeping Afghanistan under the iron heel of occupation as they prepare a new war against Iraq. The League for the Fourth International issues an urgent call to defend the Palestinian people against the Zionist “final solution”! Drive the Zionist occupiers out of the West Bank and Gaza – Bring down the Zionist state through Arab/Hebrew workers revolution, in a socialist federation of the Near East! Defend Afghanistan and Iraq against imperialist occupation and attack! Defeat imperialism through international socialist revolution! Defeat Israel's genocidal Blitzkrieg! (30 March 2002) |
| Defend the Palestinian People Israeli Rulers Prepare All-Out War Behind all the talk of non-existent cease-fires, the sudden trips by top U.S. officials to the Near East and Israeli calls to “remove” (assassinate) Yasir Arafat lies the fact that the Zionist leaders are systematically gearing up to launch a full-scale attack on Arafat’s Palestinian Authority (PA). The PA was the make-believe government set up in the Occupied Territories by the 1993 Oslo “peace” accord in order to police the Arab masses and put an end to the first intifada (uprising). The whole Oslo “peace” fraud was a product of the U.S.-dominated New World Order in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The idea that the NATO chiefs who bombed Belgrade and Baghdad could or would somehow pressure Israeli warmongers into making concessions is a dangerous illusion. Class-conscious working people around the world must defend the oppressed Palestinian people against the Zionist oppressors, all the more so in an outright war. Trotskyists look to the international working class to defend the Palestinian Arab people whose rights and lives have been trampled on by the Zionists’ jackboot. Defeats for imperialism around the world will have a direct impact in the area. A proletarian upheaval against the decrepit Arab regimes anywhere in the Near East would directly threaten both the Zionists and the Arab puppets of imperialism. Israeli Rulers Prepare All-Out War (Summer 2001) |
| The Fight
for Trotskyism in Palestine Document of the Revolutionary Communist League, reprinted from Fourth International May 1948. Against the Stream (Summer 2001) |
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Defend the
Palestinian People!
Thousands of Palestinian
youths daily confront the Israeli
murderers. The Zionist state engages in
large-scale assassination. Barak sends tanks
against children, Israeli army sharpshooters
shoot to kill youth holding stones, helicopter
gunships fire on Palestinian cars and homes.
Now Sharon, the butcher of Sabra and Shatila,
is at the helm. The new intifada (uprising)
led by Arab youth is a courageous act of
defiance by those who have nothing to lose.
Class-conscious workers around the world must
demand that Israel get out of all the Occupied
Territories. But a Palestinian pseudo-state in
the West Bank and Gaza presided over by Arafat
would be no more than a glorified ghetto to
imprison the Palestinian people. The League
for the Fourth International fights for
Arab/Hebrew workers revolution and a socialist
federation of the Near East. Defend
the Palestinian People! (February 2001)
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