Bijou Drains
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“Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception.”
What, like the USA, Canada, South and Central America, Australia, New Zealand, the Province of Ulster.
The Norman French invasion of England was a settler colonial state. The Turk occupation of Anatolia was a settler state, as was the Arabic occupation of North Africa.
You’re not much of a historian, Lizzie
“from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!”
Will that be the same kind of freedom that the Irish workers who gave their life for “freedom” got?
Will it be like Cosgrave’s Ireland, who said “I am not going to hesitate if the country is to live, and if we have to exterminate ten thousand Republicans” and then executed more republicans than the British, 77 as opposed to 14.Will it be the kind of freedom that both Cosgrave and De Valera used to surpress workers’ wages and supress trades unions.
Will it be a state which uses religion to send unmarried mothers to the Magdalene laundries and then sell those of their children who survived to rich Americans. They’re still fishing out the bodies of the dead babies hidden in Tuam.
Or will it be the kind of freedom that Zimbabwean workers fought and died for, mass exterminations of thousands of Ndebele, mass inflation and the enrichment of a new capitalist ruling class?
Be careful what you wish for
Genuine question to Lizzie, you described me as a “hammerhead”, I’ve never heard that being used as an insult. As insults go it’s a bit shite. Is it a direct translation from a common German insult.
To be fair Robbo, she gets on my thrupenny bits as well, but if we are consistent in our view we kind of have to put up with shite like hers.
I think she’s probably a bit pissed off with your language abilities, she clearly wants to be the only cunning linguist on the forum.
“Can’t argue with that – except that it’s now 120 years!”
So by definition you can argue with that, because you just did.
They seem to have capitlised on the on going fracture of the SWP. They seem to have picked up a few of the SWP members in Newcastle who resigned a few years ago and have been wandering around like sheep without a shepherd to tell them what to think. To be fair they seem to have a rump of the more well read members of what was the Militant Group, in comparison to the ones who SPEWed out.
That’s the photo in question.
Seems strange they would use the “Revolutionary Communist Party” title, considering the general view of the old 1980’s RCP aka “The Ray Chadburn Party”. Is Martha Lane Fox and all of the now right wing “heed the balls” going to rejoin?
This change might be a result of the large number of ex Grant Trots that have been thrown out of Starmer’s New, New Labour Party.
“Ask yourself, if you were a Palestinian in Gaza and had access to a weapon what would you do? If Israel killed your family, how would you react? Why would you care about international or humanitarian law when you know it only applies to the oppressed, not the oppressors? If terror is the only language Israel uses to communicate, the only language it apparently understands, wouldn’t you speak back with terror?”
And if you changed it around to read “if Hamas killed your family how would you react”
The problem is that eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, leaves everyone blind and hungry
Having never scanned the QR code (or any other QR code to be honest) does the code take you directly to the Party’s front web page, or to some other page. I might be teaching my granny to suck eggs, but would it not be be directed to the “who we are” page rather than the front page.
We are trying to recruit new members, the section about joining is towards the bottom of this web page, maybe this should be closer to the top. Also perhaps we should be more specific about the topics covered in the membership test, explaining what our view is in these areas and why we need to ensure that all prospective members agree in these areas.
but the only country whose foundation is intimately associated with ethnic cleansing and genocide is
What about, the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, All of South and Central America, the Caribbean countries, to name but a few and even though I didn’t mention the word genocide
Very little mention has been made of the Deir Yassin Massacre, or the Lydda massacre, both carried out by organisations which the British had described as terrorists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_expulsion_from_Lydda_and_Ramlealso:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiramis_Hotel_bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sa%27sa%27_Massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ein_al-Zeitun_massacreLike most other nation states, including the planned Palestinian state, Israel was built on bloodshed, terror, appropriation and death
This must be unprecedented in British political history — a Cabinet minister acting as an agent of a “foreign” power”
Not really unprecedented, Thatcher/Major Blair was the US’s lap dog in the 2 Gulf wars, Attlee was happy to send Troops in to support the US’s interests in Korea, to cite just a few.
