Israel
Content about class struggle, war and events in Israel.
Israel: schools on strike
Schools in the Kiryat Shmona area of northern Israel are on strike for the sixth day today due to safety concerns.
Parents have kept their children home from school and nursery assistants and cleaners are also on strike.
A spokesman from the Kiryat Shmona parents' union said "There are 5,000 students at home in Kiryat Shmona and no one in the State of Israel cares. During the war there were promises. When the war ended they forgot about us."
Another day, another IDF Refusenik
Since 2002, soldiers and officers from the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) have been refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories in protest against what the Israeli military regime.
The "refuseniks" believe the occupation to be a threat to Israel's own security and inherently oppressive.
Occupation refuser Omri Evron was sentenced Sunday, Oct 15, 2006, to 14 days in military prison after he announced his refusal to enlist for regular mandatory service in the IDF. Omri was put in solitary confinement having refused to wear uniform and obey orders.
Palestine strike may spread to fuel workers
Palestinian pubic-sector strikers may be joined by employees of the Petroleum Authority if their demands aren't met.
The workers have been on strike for 36 days already due to non-payment of wages by the ruling Hamas party since they came to power in March - when many foreign donors cut links to the authority.
This would be an escalation of the dispute which has already led to violent clashes with the Hamas-led government, and may lead to paralysis of local fuel supplies.
Aufheben "Behind the Twenty-First Century Intifada" Treason pamphlet
“Behind the Twenty-First Century Intifada” was originally published in Aufheben #10, September 2001. Aufheben have a website at: www.geocities.com/aufheben2
“Provisional Notes on the Situation in Palestine and Further Afield” was handed out at a demonstration in London in May 2002. No War But The Class War have a website at: www.geocities.com/nowar_buttheclasswar/index.html
Israel: electricity workers take action against privatisation
Workers at the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC) have been taking strike and sabotage action against electricity market reform.
Workers halted the unloading of coal from IEC ships and prevented the removal of ash from power stations, likely to paraylze coal fired stations within 3-4 days. They also cut management off from computer, telephone and electricity services and blocked offices in what has been a series of activities designed to disrupt the company's activities using "all legal means".
1986: The Iran-Contra Affair
Chomsky's brief account of the US selling arms to Iran via Israel in order to fund far-right paramilitary contras in Nicaragua.
The major elements of the Iran/contra story were well known long before the 1986 exposures, apart from one fact: that the sale of arms to Iran via Israel and the illegal contra war run out of Colonel Oliver North's White House office were connected.
Strikes in Palestine: latest news
Over 80,000 Palestinian civil servants have walked out on a general strike over 6 months non-payment of wages by the Hamas government.
Previous coverage on libcom.org here.
Israeli voices against the war
Ellen Kemp looks at the Israelis who have taken an unheralded stand against the invasion of Lebanon.
Throughout July and August peace activists in Israel took to the streets to condemn the war in Lebanon. Many of these activists are part of the movement that has continuously demonstrated against the occupation of the West Bank and the incursion into Gaza and has supported Palestinian resistance against The Wall dividing the region.
2003: Israeli pilots refuse to fly assassination missions
A group of Israeli airforce pilots declared yesterday that they would refuse to fly missions which could endanger civilians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The Brownshirts of Zionism - Abner Barnatan
An article by a council communist on the Fascistic qualities of 1930s Zionist Revisionism.
Originally published in "International Council Correspondence", Chicago, USA, Vol. III, No. 4, April 1937.
Reprinted by Unpopular Books, London, March 1989.
