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By Dekel Avshalom in Israel
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Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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Recently there was a protest in Tel Aviv - of both Jews and Arabs -
against a reunion of Etzel, one of the terrorist Zionist groups used against
the Arab population in the process of the formation of the state of Israel. In the
"only democracy in the Middle East" these
peaceful demonstrators were brutally manhandled by the police.
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By Dekel Avshalom in Israel
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Tuesday, 08 April 2008 |
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After the defeat of
the Israeli army in Lebanon
two years ago, the Israeli Defence Forces have been trying to win back their
image as the only real defenders of the people in Israel. Now they are constantly
provoking Syria in the hope
that Syria
will hit back, something it seems unwilling to do.
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By Dekel Avshalom in Israel
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 |
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We
received this interesting article from Israel that shows the
contradictions piling up within the very foundations of the Israeli state: the
Israeli Defence Force.
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By Mordechai Peargut in Israel
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Tuesday, 25 March 2008 |
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Further to last week's letter we received this note that
shows how desperate the situation is for some of the poorest layers of Israeli
society.
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By Mordechai Peargut in Israel
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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
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An interesting letter that highlights the miserable
conditions some of Israel's
pensioners have to live in, some being pushed to suicide!
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By Francesco Merli
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 |
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The recent dramatic events in the Gaza
strip are a clear indication that the Zionist ruling class that governs Israel will
never concede genuine national self-determination to the Palestinian masses.
These events also confirm that on a capitalist basis there is no solution to
the problem. On the Palestinian side neither Hamas nor Fatah offer a solution.
We must base ourselves on the perspective of renewed class struggle across the
whole of the Middle East.
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By David Markovitz
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Monday, 21 January 2008 |
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The events in Gaza underline more than ever the barbarism that can emerge from the national conflict in Palestine. Israeli imperialism backed by the US is responsible for this bloody mess. So long as there is no genuine independent voice of the workers on both sides of the divide, we can expect nothing but more bloodshed.
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By David Markovitz
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
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George W. Bush has been visiting the Middle East. He is presently in
Israel to try and promote his latest solution to the conflict: two capitalist states!
These are all words, as US imperialism collaborates with the Israeli ruling
class, as well as the rotten Arab regime, to hold down the masses throughout
the Middle East.
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By Alan Woods
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
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The mountain has laboured and borne
a mouse. That would be a
fitting epitaph for the Annapolis conference on Palestine. After four
months of endless talks about talks Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of
state, failed to obtain what Washington and
Abbas desperately need: an agreement on at least the main points of a deal that
would ultimately create a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
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By Luke Wilson
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
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Israeli
vice-premier Haim Ramon has suggested ceding Arab neighbourhoods to a future
Palestinian state. This has divided the Israeli political establishment… obviously.
But what it reflects is the pressure on the Zionist ruling elite to make at
least some verbal concessions in an attempt to stabilise the situation.
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By Communist League of Action - Morocco
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Tuesday, 02 October 2007 |
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A critical
comment by Moroccan Marxists on the line of thought developed in the article,
The
victory of Hamas in Gaza and the questions facing Israeli and Palestinian
workers by Yehuda Stern in Jerusalem, that we
published on Wednesday, 11 July 2007. It is the opinion of the Editorial Board
that the Moroccan Marxists are absolutely correct in their criticisms.
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By Lal Khan
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
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The
latest edition of the Asian Marxist Review is coming out. Here we provide the
editorial statement that is dedicated to the situation in the Middle East after
Hamas took over Gaza.
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By Yehuda Stern in Jerusalem
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
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Many
tears have been shed over the fall of Gaza under Hamas control. In reality what
has happened is that the carefully prepared plans of imperialism have exploded
in their face. They had bought off and corrupted the leaders of Fatah in order
to get them to police the Palestinians for them. Because of this the
Palestinian masses turned away from Fatah and embraced Hamas. So where do we go
from here?
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By Yossi Schwartz
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
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Forty years of the horrors of the
repression of the Palestinians, the many other barbaric wars Israel has
launched since then, and the defeat of the Israeli war machine in the last war
in Lebanon have changed the image of Israel that has been fostered since 1967. Read also Yossi Schwartz on Israel: The 1967 War.
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By Yossi Schwartz in 2005
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
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We are republishing this article by Yossi Schwartz on the
War of 1967 to provide some background information to the recent events taking
place in Gaza and the West Bank. Read the full article: Israel: The 1967 War
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
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In the recent period the idea of boycotting Israeli academic
institutions has been raised as a way of helping the struggle to defend the
rights of the Palestinians. Comparisons have been made with the boycott of the
old South African Apartheid regime. In South Africa it was the mass
movement that brought down that regime, not the boycott. The same is true today
as it was then.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
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The policy of imperialism is to provoke civil war among the
Palestinians, hoping that Fatah can crush Hamas, but it is clear that Fatah is
losing as it is seen as more and more a stooge of imperialism. That explains
also why Israel
is now intervening directly. These events serve to highlight once again that on
the basis of capitalism there is no way out.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Thursday, 10 May 2007 |
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The crisis of the Israeli state is deepening. The rats have begun to abandon the sinking ship and are calling for the heads of Olmert and Peretz. Keen to save face and remain in power without having to face fresh elections, the ruling clique are prepared to sacrifice the current administration in order to form a new war cabinet.
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By Yehuda Stern in Jerusalem
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Friday, 20 April 2007 |
 On April 18,
thousands of Israeli students came out to express their opposition to the
Shocat Committee, set up by the state to push through its agenda of raising
University tuition. The students have now called for an indefinite strike
against the plans of the government.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Friday, 13 April 2007 |
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War in Iraq
has solved nothing for US
imperialism. Equally Israel’s
attempt to invade Lebanon
last year also failed miserably. Every time imperialism tries to use the
jackboot it merely serves to destabilise even further this already extremely
unstable region. Now they are preparing for more wars…
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By Kol HaMa'amad (Voice of the Class) in Israel
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
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As the 26th congress of The Struggle tendency in Pakistan approaches, the Marxists in Israel send this message of solidarity to the Pakistani comrades.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 |
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Today another general strike of the public sector has
started. The last one was called off after the courts issued an injunction. Now
the pressure is piling up once more. The workers of Israel are making it clear where
they stand. They deserve a leadership that is prepared to go all the way.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Tuesday, 06 March 2007 |
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As Israel sinks deeper and deeper into crisis, US imperialism
has been forced to search for other points of support in the region.
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By Fred Weston
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Thursday, 01 March 2007 |
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We
publish a summarised version of an introductory speech on the Middle
East given by Fred Weston at a recent meeting of the International
Marxist Tendency. In answering some of the pessimists on the left he points out
how imperialism is facing defeat in the region and highlights the enormous
potential for class struggle.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Wednesday, 07 February 2007 |
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The recent internecine fighting between different factions
in Gaza has
temporarily calmed down after an agreement was patched together to form a
government of national unity. This will eventually break down as none of the
pressing problems of the Palestinian people will be solved.
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By Yossi Schwartz and Fred Weston
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Thursday, 04 January 2007 |
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The recent opening of archive material clearly demonstrates
that Israel used biological weapons against the Palestinian population back in
1948. Israel to this day does not abide by internationally recognised
agreements on the use of such weapons. The US imperialists turn a blind eye to
all this, as they have their own “weapons of mass destruction”.
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By Alon L. and Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Thursday, 30 November 2006 |
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A
major strike took place in Israel yesterday, called by the Histadrut, over the
issue of unpaid wages and siphoning off of workers' pension funds. The strike
affected 200,000 public sector workers, uniting secular Jews, religious Jews,
and Muslim and Christian Arabs all striking together against their exploiters.
As the Marxists have always explained, the class struggle cuts across ethnic
division, and offers the only path to a real solution of the problem.
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By Yossi Schwartz
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
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After the humiliating exit from south Lebanon,
the Israeli generals have turned on the lesser-armed Palestinians of Gaza.
Their bombing solves nothing. It only exacerbates an already extremely unstable
situation. The situation highlights the fact that this rotten Israeli ruling
class can offer no solutions, but only create more problems.
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By Yossi Schwartz and Alon Lessel in Israel
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Monday, 06 November 2006 |
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In spite of our exhaustive response to the leaders of the
Argentinean Partido Obrero some time ago, they periodically repeat the same
distortions of our ideas. Earlier this year they concentrated their efforts on
our analysis and proposals concerning the situation in Israel/Palestine. Here
our Israeli comrades set the record straight.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
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Over the past couple of days 24 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. This follows a further shift to the right on the part of the Olmert government after the ultra-racist party of Lieberman joined the coalition. With these renewed attacks they are trying to distract the attention of the Israeli masses as it become abundantly clear that the country is in an impasse. |
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Wednesday, 25 October 2006 |
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The whole of the Middle East
has entered a crisis. Country after country is rocked by political, economic
and military crises. The shockwaves of the recent war in Lebanon are
still being felt. Imperialism seeks to manoeuvre in this situation to defend
its strategic interests, but every step they take simply exacerbates the
situation.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Haifa
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
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In spite of the claims of Israeli government
ministers and top army generals, Israel did not win the recent war in Lebanon.
It is Hezbollah that has emerged enormously strengthened, as the 800,000 strong
rally the other day amply proved. All this is forcing the imperialists to rethink
their strategy in the region.
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By Alon Lessel in Israel
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Wednesday, 13 September 2006 |
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Instead of
emerging strengthened from the recent war in Lebanon, the Israeli ruling class
been enormously weakened. It failed in all its objectives. Now we are
witnessing an unprecedented level of distrust in all the institutions of the
state. What is being prepared is a backlash on the part of the Israeli workers.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Haifa, Israel
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 |
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The Israeli government and military failed in their declared
objectives in the recent conflict in Lebanon. Israeli society is under
shock as a result. Now while they say a new war needs to prepared, the
government is preparing vicious attacks on social spending. This will
inevitably prepare class conflict at some stage. Meanwhile on the Arab street
the desire for a genuine left alternative is becoming evident.
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By Greg Oxley - www.lariposte.com
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
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The Israeli aggression against Lebanon ended in defeat.
None of the objectives set by the Israeli Government were attained. The
position of the Israeli ruling class has been weakened at home and abroad. The
result of the conflict is also a setback for American Imperialism – as well as
for French Imperialism – and has strengthened the position of the Hezbollah,
Iran and Syria.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Haifa, Israel
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Wednesday, 23 August 2006 |
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Immediately following the
ceasefire the government of Israel
attempted to convince the Israeli population, and its friends abroad, that Israel had ‘won
the war'. Now they are forced to beat a hasty retreat from such declarations,
as no-one in Israel
is stupid enough to swallow them.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Haifa, Israel
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Friday, 11 August 2006 |
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The imperialists have been trying
to force Lebanon to accept a
diplomatic victory for Israel
precisely because Israel
cannot win this war by military means. The Israeli war cabinet on Wednesday gave approval in principle to the generals' plan for
an expanded ground operation, but delayed its implementation in order to give a
chance to the UN Security Council to draft a resolution that fits the rulers of
Israel
as a condition to end the crisis.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Haifa, Israel
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Friday, 04 August 2006 |
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Lebanon has a long
history, being one of the cradles of early civilisation, but it has been
occupied by many different powers, the last being Isreal and Syria. Last
time Israel
occupied it it was eventually defeated and forced to leave because of the
guerrilla war led by Hezbollah. It was Israel’s
Vietnam.
This is still a factor in understanding what is happening today.
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By Yossi Schwartz
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Thursday, 03 August 2006 |
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On Wednesday
serious land operations commenced in southern Lebanon. The Israeli army has met
severe resistance from the Hezbollah guerrillas. The longer this drags out the
greater will be the political consequences for the Israeli ruling class.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006 |
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The idea that Israel is a class divided society
like any other is not often discussed within the left in the Arab world. Here
the Moroccan Marxists have interviewed an Israeli Marxist on the situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories,
who explains the need for a socialist perspective and the struggle for
internationalism and working class unity across borders.
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By Greg Oxley in Paris
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Wednesday, 19 July 2006 |
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The air strikes against Lebanon continue, as
do the rockets being fired on Israel. The responsibility for the bloodshed and
suffering of this new conflict lies first and foremost with the Israeli ruling
class, who had clearly been preparing for such a scenario for some time.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Monday, 17 July 2006 |
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Today we spoke with Yossi Schwartz in Haifa, one of the cities
hit by Hizbollah rockets. Below we are providing the text of a conversation
with him in which he describes the mood in the country and looks at the
possible scenario that may unfold over the next few days.
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By Fred Weston
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Thursday, 13 July 2006 |
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The Israeli ruling class is using war in an attempt to solve
its problems. They now risk opening up three fronts, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria.
It is a reflection of the deep crisis afflicting Israeli capitalism and Israeli
society. Raising the socialist perspective is an urgent task in the whole
region, if we want to avert the terrible barbarism that the ruling class is
unleashing.
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By Alon Lessel in Israel
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Thursday, 13 July 2006 |
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We received this
article yesterday evening. It was written as the situation between Israel and Lebanon was escalating. The Israeli
ruling class has decided on war to "solve" its problems. In reality it is
opening up even greater problems destabilising the situation even further. The
crisis of Israeli capitalism is dragging the peoples of the region to
fratricidal war.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Monday, 10 July 2006 |
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The Israeli military claim the 40 Palestinians
killed since they re-invaded the Gaza Strip were all “militants”. In reality
many civilians have been killed. The Israeli government is hell-bent on
terrorising the Palestinian people into submission. It is achieving the
opposite effect to that desired and opening up the beginnings of a major crisis
for the Israeli ruling class.
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By Fred Weston
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Monday, 10 July 2006 |
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The Israeli government refuses to
consider the option of releasing Palestinian prisoners to get an Israeli
soldier freed. And yet when a few years ago a friend of Sharon was captured he
was prepared to release more than 400 Palestinian prisoners. This detail
highlights how even in Israel there is one rule for the ordinary citizens and
another for those at the top.
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By In Defence of Marxism
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Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |
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The first demand of the international labour movement, and of the Israeli working class, must be for the immediate withdrawal of the troops that were sent into Gaza overnight. Stop this present incursion now! And from there begin the struggle to transform society and put an end to the class and national divisions which are at the heart of the present conflict. |
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By Yossi Schwartz
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Tuesday, 27 June 2006 |
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The Israeli Defence Force has amassed tanks and troops on the border with the Gaza Strip as the crisis over a kidnapped soldier deepens. For some time anyone who understands the mechanical logic of the Israeli government and its plans to reoccupy the Gaza Strip has known that the Israeli government has simply been looking for an excuse to move back in. |
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Monday, 12 June 2006 |
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The cold-blooded killing of a Palestinian family as it was
enjoying a day on the beach highlights the brutal methods used by the Israeli
military. They are clearly trying to crush the spirit of the Palestinian
people. They will achieve the opposite. With these methods the Israeli ruling
class are preparing an unimaginable nightmare for all the people in the
region.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Monday, 05 June 2006 |
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Calls for boycotting Israeli academics and universities that
do not disassociate themselves from the oppression of the Palestinian people
have been growing in several unions internationally. How does this connect with
the class struggle in Israel?
Yossi Schwartz in Israel
comments.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Monday, 29 May 2006 |
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On his recent visit to
the USA the newly elected Israeli premier, Ehud Olmert, made some
very belligerent speeches which raise the spectre of the use of
nuclear weapons in the Middle East. It is in the interests of all
workers in the region, Jewish, Arab, Kurdish, Iranian... to come
together in an international struggle to overthrow the oppressors of
all these peoples.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Wednesday, 24 May 2006 |
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Recent armed clashes between Fatah
forces and newly formed Hamas security forces reflect
behind-the-scenes manoeuvres of imperialism to divide the Palestinian
people with the hope of overthrowing the newly elected Hamas
government. They are playing with fire.
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By Yossi Schwartz in Israel
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
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In line with their class
collaborationist position, the leaders of the Israeli Labour Party
were not even prepared to organise the traditional May Day rallies,
leaving it to other forces.
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