End fascist terror in Ukraine

 

by New Worker correspondent

NCP leader Andy Brooks joined activists protesting in the centre of London in support of the anti-fascist resistance in Ukraine. The protest, organised by International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity (IUAFS), called for an end to the reign of terror being conducted by the Zelensky regime, by forces on which the British government has spent £12 billion on training and arms supplies. A minute’s silence was held at the protest, opposite the prime minister’s residence in Downing Street, in memory of Chilean-American journalist Gonzalo Lira and all the other victims of the Banderite inquisition in Ukraine.
    IUAFS members have participated in every protest since 7^th October in solidarity with the people of Palestine and the Gaza Strip. The same Western governments who have supported the Ukraine regime with billions in weapons and money have done nothing to stop Israel committing open genocide in Gaza, with hospitals and civilians deliberately targeted and 9,000 children killed. In fact Britain and the US are continuing to send weapons to Israel, and while they and the EU condemned recent Russian missile strikes in Ukraine, they have failed to declare that Israel is committing genocide or to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire. The entire world is witness to Israel’s war crimes, and to the hypocrisy of the Western governments who support, arm and finance both Ukraine and Israel.

Gaza cease-fire now!

 

by New Worker correspondent

 Millions of people took to the streets in cities all over the world in support of the Palestinians on Saturday 13th January and London was no exception. The organisers said over half a million took part in the solidarity demonstration that rocked the heart of the capital. Others, like Arab commentators who add those who lined the streets to support the march from the City of London to Trafalgar Square, put the numbers nearer a million. And on the day London comrades joined the hundreds of thousands of protesters who marched through the capital on Saturday to demand an end to Israeli aggression and justice for the Palestinians. Speakers at Trafalgar Square included former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald. McDonald called for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire”, and said Sinn Fein had spent 25 years building peace, adding: “This can happen. This must happen and we will ensure that it does” The Palestinian ambassador to Britain, Husam Zomlot, accused the British government of being “complicit” with Israel, and congratulated South Africa for bringing a genocide case against Israel at the UN’s International Court of Justice in The Hague. He described the Palestinian people as a “nation of freedom fighters” saying “I stand before you with a broken heart, but not a broken spirit.”

Stop Israeli aggression!

by New Worker correspondent

Around 600 people protested in Camden Town, north London, last Saturday calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel's deliberate targeting of civilians in the Gaza Strip, in just one of many local protests all over Britain last weekend.
Sabby Sagall, the president of the Camden Palestine Solidarity Campaign, told the protesters that Israel's policy has been the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1947. Sagall praised South Africa for initiating the International Criminal Court application against Israel, and accused the British government of “diplomatically covering up genocide”.
Stop the War’s Andrew Murray said "The British and the American governments are ignoring (Israel’s) genocide, our government is arming the genocide” while tetired doctor Jonathan Flaxman said that there was no functioning health service in northern Gaza. with Twenty-three out of 36 hospitals have been destroyed. As a result “people who are injured, who couldn't be saved, will die a slow, painful death. We know that it's part of the ethnic cleansing". He added that health care workers were being intentionally targeted by Israeli forces and over 300 have been killed.
Andrew Feinstein, a Jewish former ANC member of the South African parliament, spoke about the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ claim that South Africa was “humiliating itself in the international arena” by starting the ICJ case against Israel. He said “the organised Jewish community in South Africa found it extraordinarily difficult to criticise apartheid until the mid-1980s, so we’re not talking about people speaking from a position of moral integrity here”.
Feinstein spoke of the ANC’s long standing support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and the growing view that Israel was practising its own brand of apartheid in the occupied territories, adding: “There are certain things that run incredibly deep in the ANC and its support for the Palestinian people is one of them. There’s an affinity for the Palestinian struggle which is seen as very close to the South African struggle”.