Palestine
Content about workers' struggles, national liberation and events in Palestine.
Health worker and bank strikes in Palestine
Banks in Palestine went on a one-day general strike yesterday after a bomb was detonated outside the Arab Bank in Gaza early on Friday.
Circumstances surrounding the explosion are unclear and attackers are unknown. A statement by the Association of Banks in Palestine suggested it may be a reprisal for their complicity in the unpaid wages dispute which led to mass strikes by public sector workers, pointing to stone throwing attacks on banks by strikers.
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."
Palestinian farm workers organise
In-depth article about the plight of farm workers in the Jordan Valley and their attempts to organise.
Work at Any Cost: Employment of Palestinian Agricultural Workers in Jordan Valley Settlements
Hundreds of Palestinian workers from Jericho and its surroundings are employed in Israeli settlements in the Jordan Valley. So far, no Palestinian or Israeli body had taken upon itself to provide an accurate account of the numbers of these workers.
Armed gunmen attack Palestine Workers' Radio
Armed gunmen from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades attacked the offices of the Palestine Workers' Radio for inciting "internal conflicts" in Palestine.
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights strongly condemns an attack launched on offices of Palestinian Workers Radio, which falls under the scope of repeated attacks on media intuitions by armed Palestinian groups. PCHR calls upon the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), represented by the Attorney-General, to investigate this crime and bring its perpetrators to justice.
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
US blacklists academic for donating to Palestinian charity
A revealing transcript of an interview with Tariq Ramadan, Professor of Islamic Studies and Philosophy at Oxford University on why he can't get a teaching job in the US.
AMY GOODMAN: Our next guest is a professor at the university in England at Oxford. He’s considered one of the most prominent Muslim intellectuals in Europe. Time magazine described him as one of the 100 most likely innovators of the 21st century. His name is Tariq Ramadan. Two years ago, the University of Notre Dame in Ohio offered him a teaching position, but the U.S.
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.
