Following the 24-30 November truce and hostage exchange, Israel has returned to intense bombardment and a ground offensive in southern Gaza, and talks for a new truce look distant.
Jack Conrad looks at MAB, its internal power struggles, its relationship to the British state and its encounters with the popular-frontist left. Last of three articles
Following the 24-30 November truce and hostage exchange, Israel has returned to intense bombardment and a ground offensive in southern Gaza, and talks for a new truce look distant.
The newspaper of the Owenites, the biggest socialist trend in Britain in the early 19th century, was titled The New Moral World. The weekly journal of the German Social Democratic Party in its great days was called New Times; Antonio Gramsci’s paper in Turin after World War One, The New Order, after a one-off special, The Future City.
It is good that so many people turn out for Gaza ceasefire protests. It is bad, and odd, that placards and megaphones on those protests are dominated by slogans devised by groups who want not so much a ceasefire as Hamas to war and win; and that most protesters follow the placards and chants without signalling dissent. Best if we, Workers’ Liberty, and other groups who want peace, two states, workers’ unity, can be numerous enough to have our placards and banners dominate. Pending that, let’s analyse some of the slogans.