U.S. fuels Palestine holocaust
David Finkel
Posted September 6, 2024
BEFORE LAST OCTOBER 7, we were discussing in this webzine the “degenerative spiral” in the Occupied Palestine Territories and how it would feed straight back into Israel’s political crisis. Following the Hamas attack on that day, the Israeli response pointed immediately toward a full-fledged “death spiral.” ( Death Spiral Delusions: Behind the New Israel/Palestine Disaster )
After eleven months, the genocide that continues with no end in sight has been absolutely shattering, even for those of us who thought we had no remaining illusions about where the “hundred-year war on Palestine”(the title of Rashid Khalidi’s essential book) could lead. Such a scenario, to be sure, was not beyond imagination — we did understand what could happen under catastrophic circumstances — but the full extent of the exterminationist destruction of Gaza, and now the massive expansion of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, was certainly beyond realistic expectation.
At the risk of stating the obvious, two observations are necessary. First, contrary to prime minister Netanyahu’s promise, Israel will never militarily “destroy” Hamas, a point now being made even by defense minister Yoav Gallant — who notoriously declared at the outset of the war that “we are dealing with human animals and we will act accordingly,” clearly signaling genocidal intent.
Second, the politics and strategy of Hamas will never liberate anything or anyone, let alone the Palestinian people. Although profoundly asymmetrical forces, Hamas and the Israeli state are symbiotic and mutually enabling actors in the death spiral. It will be for the Palestinian people, of course, to make the judgments on their leadership when they’re free to do so without occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
Deadly U.S. Aid
But most important, the continuation of the massacre is entirely dependent, militarily and even more politically, on the enabling policy of the “Genocide Joe” Biden…
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Recovering Eugene Pottier: The “Internationale” and its Communard Lyricist
Paul Buhle
Posted September 16, 2024
Beyond the Internationale:
Revolutionary Writings by Eugene Pottier, Communard
Edited and Translated by Loren Kruger
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Company, 2023,
150pp. $17 paperback.
BACK IN MY days of teaching U.S. history, I would pull out a tape recording made by an ancient friend, an erstwhile Trotskyist living out his last years outside Seattle, his singing in Yiddish with a piano accompaniment….
A dark moment in contemporary German history
Folko Mueller
Posted September 12, 2024
Earlier this year, on January 31, 2024, an article of mine titled “Never again is right now!” was posted here in the Solidarity Webzine. In it I discussed some major demonstrations that had just taken place in Germany as pushback against a secret AfD
In Saxony, the AfD gained three points and came in at 30.6 percent. Only the center-right CDU got more votes with 31.9 percent. In Thuringia, the AfD won the election with 32.8 percent and thus made history, just as it had encouraged its voters to…
AOC Boosts Jill Stein by Attacking Her
Howie Hawkins
Posted September 9, 2024
IN A SPRING 2021 interview with Democratic Left, the magazine of Democratic Socialists of America, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was asked, “Some on the Left have looked at Biden’s record and his difference with the Bernie (Sanders) wing of the party, and they conclude that no progress is going to come out of the Biden administration. What’s your view?”
In her response, AOC criticized “bad faith critique” by some on the Left: “Well, I think it’s a really privileged critique. We’re…
Joe Sacco: Comics for Palestine
Hank Kennedy
Posted September 6, 2024
AFTER ISRAEL’s RECENT assault on Gaza began, Joe Sacco (a “moral draughtsman” in the words of Christopher Hitchens) was compelled to speak out against Israel’s war. At the Comics Journal, Sacco contributed The War on Gaza from January to July. Sacco’s bravery should serve as an example for other cartoonists to follow. Introducing the series, Comics Journal publisher Gary Groth said “It is surely….
The Struggle Over the Power Vacuum Continues in Bangladesh
Badrul Alam
Posted August 14, 2024
ON AUGUST 5, AT 2:30 pm, Sheikh Hasina resigned from her post as prime minister and fled with some of her Special Security Forces by helicopter to India. She is now in Delhi, and some reports indicate that she wants to go to London for political asylum, but Britain is refusing her entry because of her human rights violations….
The Beginning of the End of China’s Rise?
Federico Fuentes interviews Au Loong-Yu
Posted August 10, 2024
An Interview with Au Loong-Yu, Part II
AU LOONG-YU IS A long-time Hong Kong labour rights and political activist. Author of China’s Rise: Strength and Fragility and Hong Kong in Revolt: The Protest Movement and the Future of China, Au now lives in exile. Speaking with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Au discusses the factors that fueled China’s phenomenal economic rise, how they have begun to exhaust themselves, and the significance…
Recalling the ITU: A Militant & Democratic Union
Linda Kerth
Posted August 8, 2024
IN 1962, AS a young and rather aimless woman, I was hired by the Oakland Tribune to learn typesetting on the TTS — TeleTypeSetting machine — which attached a misbegotten contraption to a keyboard that punched holes into a sturdy ribbon. The ribbon was later fed into a similar misbegotten contraption on a Linotype, where it was set into actual type. That poor baby did not live long.
I thought it would be “exciting” to work in a newspaper. And indeed it was. I don’t…
Solidarity & Unity Vs. Far-Right Violence
Posted August 6, 2024
Anti*Capitalist Resistance statement on far-right violence sweeping Britain and Northern Ireland in August 2024
1. The tragic murder of three young children by a 17-year old in Southport in July 2024 has been manipulated by opportunistic fascist forces to organise a series of riots across England. They have kick started a response from across the organised workers’ movement and threatened Muslim communities….
Slouching Toward November
The Editors
Posted August 1, 2024
FACING THE HIDEOUS specter of a second Trump presidency, the operational leadership of the Democratic Party — that is, the party mega-donors — ultimately took the reins and pushed aside its all-too-visibly declining incumbent standard-bearer. From the voting base on July 21 came the instant response: “Free at last, free at last thank God Almighty (and Covid), we’re free of Biden at last!”…
Advancing Our Own Politics in 2024: For Socialist Support of the Green Party
Howie Hawkins
Posted August 1, 2024
AS SOCIALISTS, HOW should we approach the 2024 presidential election? The two major parties, ideologically capitalist to their cores, present us with a choice between a neoliberal corporate militarist and a neofascist criminal maniac.
As I write this (July 7), Democratic leaders and donors are fighting over whether to stick with Biden or replace him after his shockingly bad debate performance on June 27. Even if the physically and mentally declining Joe Biden is replaced by a younger, more vigorous…
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