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To support the humane and democratic spirit of the faculty resolution requires that it not be used to promote illusions that the governments, universities, parties and official institutions such as the UN that uphold the world capitalist system can be forced by pressure from below to halt the genocide and end the decades-long oppression of the Palestinian masses.
The lie that Starmer’s pro-war, pro-genocide Labour Party can somehow be pressured into opposing Israeli policy is part and parcel of the unions’ refusal to organise mass strikes, which would immediately force a confrontation between the working class seeking to defend the Palestinians and the equally bitterly opposed Tory and Labour parties.
“The attempts of the PPSS and SLPP to intimidate our comrades, workers and young people with cowardly acts of violence will fail.”–International Youth and Students for Social Equality in the United States
The ‘Rape is not resistance’ protest featured songs in Hebrew and in English
The regents’ compendium of clichéd affirmations of the university’s devotion to free speech includes wording that directly contradicts the justification given by U-M President Ono in December for a permanent ban on student government resolutions denouncing the genocide in Gaza.