Free, free Palestine!

  by New Worker correspondent

Every year on 30^th March Palestinians observe Land Day recalling the events on that day in 1976, when six unarmed Palestinians were killed and more than 100 injured by Israeli forces during protests against Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian Arab land. This year Palestinian solidarity campaigners remembered their sacrifice as they took to the streets all around the world to support Palestinian rights and demand an end to the slaughter in Gaza. London was no exception. Over 200,000 people marched through central London for a rally on Land Day in Trafalgar Square. Ben Jamal, the director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said “Many thanks to the more than 200k who filled London with us, on Land Day, the day when Palestinians mark the root causes of this current genocide: 76 years of violent colonisation. We do not stop until the genocide is ended and Apartheid is finally dismantled!”

A tree for Palestine in London

by New Worker correspondent

Palestine Land Day, which commemorates every Palestinian village that has been destroyed by the Zionists, falls on 30th March. Last week Londoners gathered at 2pm in north London’s Gladstone Park to plant a tree for Palestine and say a few words in support of the just cause of the Palestinian Arabs.
`A memorial tree-planting campaign started in 2021, to commemorate in the fullness of time each and every Palestinian village that has been vacated and either levelled by Israeli bulldozers or buried under a forest of trees. The event in 2021 was held in Acton Park in the London Borough of Ealing and was attended by several local councillors and Labour MPs.
`This year’s event in the London Borough of Brent was supported by a number of labour movement activists, including Ken Livingstone and Gerry Downing who were both driven out of the Labour Party on trumped up charges of “anti-Semitism”.