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Trade unionists stand in solidarity with Palestine
PETER LEARY looks ahead to next weekend’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign conference, to discuss how to put pressure on governments and institutions to stop arming Israel and turn strategy into action
[Jess Hurd/Palestine Solidarity Campaign]
Trade unionists are mobilising to support Cuban workers and public services, amid escalating US pressure on the socialist island. RONAN OGILVY explains
The defence secretary’s resignation reveals not a split over principle but a dispute over pace of military spending, as Britain’s political Establishment unites behind deeper Nato commitments, argues NICK WRIGHT
The ceasefire may have halted the fighting for now, but years of economic warfare and recent military attacks have left millions of Iranians facing hardship and uncertainty, says Codir’s RUBEN BRETT
The struggle for Palestinian freedom has become a defining issue for everyone committed to justice, democracy and peace, says PETER LEARY ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
Unison director of organising KEVIN LUCAS explains the Organising to Win strategy, its successes to date and key tests on the union’s horizon
LAST month, TUC Congress, representing 5.5 million workers in Britain, unanimously endorsed the demand for an end to all arms trade with Israel.
Backed by impassioned speeches from Congress delegates, the resolution recognised that Israel’s current genocide follows decades of violations of Palestinian human rights and the imposition of a system of apartheid against all Palestinians, whether they live under illegal military occupation, as Palestinian citizens of Israel, or in exile. The same motion also called for sanctions on Israel and a ramping up of boycott and divestment campaigns.
This important vote comes at an urgent moment, a year into Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. At least 42,000 Palestinians have been killed, over two million people have already been displaced — many of them multiple times — and infrastructure including schools, mosques, hospitals and universities have been destroyed. The entire population has been left facing famine.
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