A WIN discussion March 2025. See the recording HERE. The fragile ceasefire reached in January between Israel and Hamas is now at breaking point. In Gaza, where tens of thousands are known to have been killed and countless more buried under the rubble, Israel has cut off all food, electricity, water and medical supplies. It has intensified its repression in the West Bank, fought with Hezbollah … [Read more...]
THE MIDDLE EAST: SEEKING A WORKING CLASS SOLUTION
A WIN Discussion February 2025. See the meeting HERE. The entire Middle East is in flames. To take just a few illustrations of the region’s instability… · The Assad government in Syria – a dynasty which had been in power for six decades – collapsed on December 8th after just eleven days of fighting. · Casualties of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza … [Read more...]
The truce between Israel and Hamas has begun
By ISL Coordination, Asian Marxist Review, Courtesy International Socialist League Israel finally reached an agreement with Hamas on the first ceasefire since it launched its genocidal offensive in Gaza, and an exchange of prisoners has begun. The Palestinian people celebrated in the streets the end of the bombings and an agreement that they consider a victory of their heroic resistance. … [Read more...]
The war on the people of Gaza and Israel’s ‘disintegration’
by John Pickard republished from Left Horizons website Notwithstanding the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, in itself a momentous event, it is Israel, more than any other Middle East state, which faces unprecedented historical challenges and ultimately a transformation. Israel’s military has mercilessly battered the Gaza Strip; its air force has reduced Hezbollah in Lebanon to a … [Read more...]
Facts for Working People Blog – Gaza
FROM Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, HEO/GED retired, USA. GAZA: WHEN A GENOCIDE IS HAPPENING SILENCE IS COMPLICITY The savagery that we see in the video, occurred, not in opposition to US policy and the Biden/Harris Administration, but with its full cooperation. If you are silent on this in your everyday life then you too are complicit, not at the same level for sure, but you are not … [Read more...]
Israel’s War on Palestine
A WIN discussion, November 2024. LISTEN TO THE DISCUSSION HERE Israel’s genocidal onslaught on the entire population of Gaza has outraged workers throughout the world. Now the war has spread to the West Bank, Lebanon and beyond, and threatens an all-out regional conflagration throughout the Middle East. How will this horrific war end? What will be its long-term repercussions? Will it … [Read more...]
Ilan Pappe – Israel is disintegrating
from Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired From 'Facts for Working People' Ilan Pappe talks of what the future holds for Israel as the US colonial proxy disintegrates under intense pressure from the Palestinian resistance and the worldwide condemnation of its genocidal war. The Zionist Apartheid regime has already lost the war as it is in the process of bombing four countries at the … [Read more...]
Netanyahu: a pure-blooded fascist by origin, training and mentors…
by Yorgos Mitralias Why has Bibi Netanyahu become the darling and idol of racist, neo-fascist and neo-Nazi right-wing scum in Europe and around the world? The answer is not difficult: these scum recognize themselves in him because they consider, quite rightly, that Bibi Netanyahu is flesh of their flesh. And not just because of his warlike and other “exploits”, which have made Netanyahu's … [Read more...]
When Israel’s accomplices accustom us to a monstrous, heartless and inhuman world!
by Yorgos Mitralias, introducing and republishing an article by GIDEON LEVY Worse than Israel's crimes is the fact that the entire so-called “civilized” world follows and comments on them as if they were just a video game. When, of course, it's not celebrating them by arming the criminal. Or approving them by letting them go unpunished. And it has been doing so for decades. And live on our TV … [Read more...]
Seymour Hersh: NETANYAHU’S ASSASSINATION SPREE
Killings by Israel in Lebanon and Iran risk dragging the US and the Middle East into a regional war POSTED BY RICHARD MELLOR Vice President Kamala Harris and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a meeting in the vice president’s ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on July 25. / Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images. The … [Read more...]