Book review: Thoughts on Stalin – the history and critique of a black legend by Domenico Losurdo – Part 1

Originally published in Italian in 2008, Iskra press has just released the first authorised translation into English edition, translated by Henry Hakamäkr and Salavatore Engel-Di Manso. The present review is based on a version that was re-translated from the Portuguese version. This book is a refreshing change from the countless books on the subject of … [Read more…]

JVP: We shut down 8 bridges in 8 cities on the 8th night of Hanukkah

Last Thursday [15 December], on the eighth night of Hanukkah, Jewish Voice for Peace members shut down eight bridges and highways in eight cities across the US to demand an end to the genocide of Palestinians. Thousands of Jews and allies protested in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, and San … [Read more…]

Victory to the resistance! No co-operation with Zionist war crimes

Death of the Zionist Utopia Early in the morning of Saturday 7 October, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza launched its most daring attack thus far against the Israeli occupation.  In this coordinated attack from the sea, air and land, hundreds of Palestinian fighters broke through the high-tech fence that the Zionist state had constructed to … [Read more…]

Jewish people condemn Israeli aggression

The call of the US organisation Jewish Voice for Peace has issued this important statement reflecting the true voice of Jewish humanitarian tradition that the Holocaust sought to stifle. The Root of Violence Is Oppression. Right now, Palestinians, Israelis and all of us with family on the ground are terrified for loved ones. We grieve … [Read more…]

The Nakba

“The attackers came at dawn, quickly occupying the town.  The men were separated from women and shot.  One of the attackers, opening the door of homes, found an old man standing there.  He shot him. ‘He enjoyed shooting him’, an eyewitness to the attack said afterwards. “Soon the town was empty.  The entire population of … [Read more…]

Massive UK demonstrations in support of Palestine

ACCORDING to organisers around 500,000 took to the streets of London on Saturday 28 October to demand a ceasefire as the Israeli onslaught in Gaza continues to escalate. In a post on Facebook aimed at the British press, Stop the War Coalition officer John Rees argued that the figures reported by the media – most … [Read more…]

Two ‘British’ positions on Palestine

Mass workers’ demonstrations march for Palestine, while imperialist press and politicians scream support for their colonial puppet, Israel. To British workers’ credit, there have been record protests across the country since the outbreak of Israeli’s genocidal campaign against the civilian population of Gaza, half of whose 2.3 million densely packed population are children. This latest … [Read more…]