Stop arming Israel: resist the push to wider war
The threat of wider war in the Middle East looms large. Israel and Iran are engaged in direct airstrikes, Netanyahu is set to continue the genocidal assault on Gaza with the invasion of Rafah, and the US is backing Israel all the way - shown by Congress approving $26bn of funding for Israel on Saturday.
This is the two faces of imperialism: genocide in Palestine and the threat of wider war. We need to fight to deepen the Palestine movement here in Britain - and link it to the fight against the drive to war. That means making Saturday's national demo massive.
After Channel Deaths - Halt racist Tories new Rwanda law
At least five people, including a child, died trying to cross the English Channel on Tuesday morning off the French coast of Wimereux.
Just hours before the latest deaths, the Rwanda deportation bill passed through all its stages in parliament. This is the murderous reality of the Tories’ racist, anti-migrant hatred—deaths and deportations. Rishi Sunak is promising that the first Rwanda deportation flights will take off in ten to 12 weeks.Just hours before the latest deaths, the Rwanda deportation bill passed through all its stages in parliament. This is the murderous reality of the Tories’ racist, anti-migrant hatred—deaths and deportations. Rishi Sunak is promising that the first Rwanda deportation flights will take off in ten to 12 weeks.
Anti-racists have to do everything they can to stop the flights—maximum disruption is the way to hit back against the Tories’ brutal racism.
Diary Date - 2pm Sunday 9th June - Unity in the Community - Stand Up to Racism cultural event with art, music, speakers at Rose Hill Community Centre, Carole's Way OX4 4HF - publicity and more details to follow next week
Next Oxford and Thames Valley SWP meeting - All welcome
Is the Green Party a left alternative to Labour?
7.15pm Wednesday 24th April
Michael Young Building, Manzil Way, East Oxford OX4 1YH (map)
or online via zoom ID 861 2001 6477 Passcode: 967537 or by link: http://bit.ly/OTVSWP
Future meetings
- 1st May - "Still The Enemy Within" film showing
- 8th May- The Nakba - The ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.
- 15th May - After the Cass Review - How can we resist the war on Trans people?
- 22nd May - “Everything was possible”: 50 years since the Portuguese revolution
- 29th May - China and the US: a new cold war?
International Socialism 182 focuses on the politics of Palestine and the Middle East, from how drone warfare is reshaping the nature of inter-state rivalries and why Israel is ramping up its war drive with Lebanon to how fossil imperialism continues to exploit the region under the guise of "green capitalism". Visit isj.org.uk
Action for Palestine
Students and workers at Columbia University and Barnard College in the United States defied harsh repression and continued their pro-Palestine protests last weekend. These are some of the most high-profile campus actions for decades.
Protesters kept up their 50-tent occupation camp of lawns at the prestigious New York institution despite university bosses calling in cops who arrested 108 people. Police held students in zip ties for up to seven hours. College authorities evicted some of those arrested from student accommodation, cancelled their IDs and barred them from classes.
Join Thursday's protest called by Youth Demand in solidarity with US students
Weds 1 May: May Day day of action for Palestine
Assemble 1PM Carfax, Central Oxford. Called By Oxford and District Trades Council.
Since October 7th over 32,000 Palestinians have been killed. 70% of those have been women and children. 2.2 million people are at imminent risk of starvation, with 9 out of 10 people living on less than 1 meal a day. At the heart of the trade union movement lies international solidarity and the Palestinians urgently require it. This is why we call upon those within the trade union movement to join and build for the May Day Workplace Day of Action for Palestine on Weds 1 May.
We are calling on all those in work, college or university to take action on May Day by organising a walkout, lunchtime or early morning protest (or other collective action) demanding peace and justice for the Palestinians. Every collective act, big or small, sends a message to those who are suffering in Gaza that we are with them and puts pressure on our government to call on the government to stop arming Israel. It also adds to the demands for no escalation of the war across the Middle East.
Get organised in your workplace on May 1st! #MayDay4Palestine
Film showing - Still The Enemy Within
6pm Wednesday May 1st
Ulimate Picture Palace, Jeune St (off Cowley Rd) Book tickets online here
Race, class and revolution day school
Birkbeck, University of London, Malet Street London WC1E 7HX
Book the dates off now!
Marxism Festival 2024, central London
Thurs 4 July to Sun 7 July:
Get your ticket c/o bit.ly/marxism24
Ghassan Abu Sitta is speaking at Marxism Festival. The Palestinian surgeon, who worked in and broadcast from Al Alhi hospital in Gaza, joins a line up including:
Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis · Ghada Karmi · Richard Boyd Barrrett · Sumaya Awad · Tariq Ali · Muzan Alneell · Ilan Pappé · Lowkey · Gary Younge · Sophia Beach · Claudia Webbe MP · Andrew Feinstein · Walden Bello · Alex Callinicos + more