Stop the war in Gaza!

marching on Starmer's office

by New Worker correspondent

Palestinian solidarity campaigners took a break from marching through London to call for local protests up and down the country. Over a hundred rallies and marches were held across the UK and London was no exception.

 On  Saturday 18th November hundreds of protesters marched through Camden to gather outside Sir Keir Starmer’s office to demand a cease-fire in Gaza. Demonstrators held up posters saying “Stop the war on Gaza” jeering the Labour leader, who is the local MP, calling him a ‘wasteman’ and waving Palestinian flags. Others joined rallies  in Islington, Redbridge and Tower Hamlets or joined sit-down protests at Waterloo and London Bridge mainline rail stations.

In  Scotland hundreds of school students walked-out in support of the Palestinian Arabs and thousands more took to the streets of Glasgow last weekend to demand an end to the fighting, On Glasgow Green SNP, Scottish Labour and Scottish Green leaders addressed a crowd of some 18,000 people at a rally arranged by a coalition of groups called the Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee.