Palestine

The perplexities of the Middle Eastern conflict - Communicating Vessels

Essay looking at the concepts of nation and national identity, especially in relation to the Israel/Palestine conflict.

The agonising transformation of the Palestinian peasants into proletarians

Palestinian peasants forced from their land

Article looking at the formation of the Palestinian working class, and the creation of the Israeli state.

Preliminary notes on the situation in Palestine and further abroad - No War But The Class War

Leaflet from 2002, looking at the Palestinian and Afghan conflicts through the lens of the changing development of capitalism in those regions.

Israel/Palestine: two states too many - The Red Menace

The Red Menace analyse the first Palestinian intifada.

Review of Return: the case against Zionism - The Red Menace

Review of the March 1989 issue of the anti-zionist magazine Return.

Brighton arms factory 'decommissioned' in Gaza protest

Broken windows at the EDO/ITT factory, where computers and filing cabinets were flung from the first floor

9 people have gained entry to the ITT/EDO MBM arms factory in Brighton, where they are believed to have caused extensive damage to the offices, and to industrial tooling used to make arms.

Beyond good and evil: the Gaza massacre

Leftists often erroneously compare Zionism with Nazism

The left's response to Israeli atrocities in Gaza provides a case study in ressentiment. If we want to stop such slaughters rather than participate in the spectacle of them, we need to stop fetishising distant victims and start trying to exercise power over our own lives so that meaningful solidarity becomes possible.

“Sometimes we shoot the same way” – the attack on Gaza, internationalism and the Left

A libcom user and Anarchist Federation member analyses the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict, and the response of the left to events.

Norwegian train drivers strike for Gaza

Halted: the Oslo subway

Norwegian transport workers engage in short symbolic strike against the attack on Gaza.

Gaza: Against war and warmongers!

Leaflet produced by Brighton Solidarity Federation about the conflict in Gaza, for international solidarity with civilians in the middle-east – against all governments and gangsters.