Publisher: Larkin Publications, 2024 [ Paperback ], 96pp
ISBN: 978-0-905400-32-7
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On 7 October 2023, the Palestinian resistance in Gaza mounted an audacious military operation into Israeli-held Palestinian territory. It followed decades of colonisation, economic strangulation, and brutal repression which had seen the prospect of Palestinian statehood almost vanish. The Zionist state’s response was to launch a war of extermination against Gaza which by February 2024 had claimed the lives of at least 30,000 Palestinians and displaced over two million people.
This pamphlet draws on articles published over a period of 40 years in the newspaper Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! It provides a communist perspective on the political and historical background to the genocidal onslaught by the Israeli state. It shows how British support – with the unswerving complicity of the imperialist Labour Party – has been crucial to the survival of the Israeli state.
Finally, it argues that the best solidarity anti-imperialists and socialists in Britain can give to the Palestinian people is to build a working class movement on the streets that forces the British state to isolate the Zionist state through political, economic, diplomatic and cultural sanctions.