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Some Thoughts on Palestinian Solidarity
The increasingly clerical-Fascist character of the Israeli state and its inexorable march to economic ruin and sharpening class struggle present ever-richer material for our educational work. Anti-Israel sentiment is on the increase in the US (public reaction to hostage crisis, for example), and anti-Zionist educational work should be stepped up. It is even possible that…
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Mandela: An Example of Principled Leadership
Analyzing an excerpt from Nelson Mandela’s The Long Walk to Freedom, addressed to the New African Voices Alliances in the late winter of 1990. I thought I might use the speech of Nelson Mandela as an example of what good revolutionary leadership is. Everyone has noted his remarkable strength and dignity, notwithstanding the ordeal of…
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The Holocaust & Israel
After the mounds of bones at Auschwitz, the incinerators and gas chambers, we understood those who said, “Never Again!“ We thought we understood. Except while saying, “Never Again!” they told the Palestinians they could not become citizens of the state called Israel, explaining to the world that the Jews, a chosen race of people, had…
