Workers' Liberty

The serious and long-lasting strike of the teachers, which was ended up in a compromise with the Education Ministry, and the long strike of the lecturers in that was also finished in a compromise, were a serious factor in the militancy of many workers and youth, mainly within academia.

In addition, young workers in were building their own union in a famous cooperative of coffee shops (the Coffee Bean, like Starbucks) and made a serious impression. The class struggle in becomes sharp from one day to another and people who were not involved in politics are becoming politically active. In Jaffa, a serious group of three or four dozens of people, Arabs and Jews, has been building a tendency named Connection that wishes to recover Jaffa and supply basic health and social structures to the poor Arab population that was neglected by the Zionist establishment for so many decades.

The problem is that the reactionary Hamas has been doing everything in order to create nationalistic atmosphere in ; by firing rockets to the poor city of , whose inhabitants are poor Israeli workers that live from minimum wages without any social security, they were building antagonism in regard to the Palestinian cause. Unfortunately, the secular wing of the Fatah is absolutely moribund and the alliance with the ruling Israeli elite and the US/EU imperialism has been playing a decisive role in the support given to the reactionary Islamic fundamentalists. It is unbelievable how those "national liberation" movements have been doing harm to the enslaved and impoverished Palestinian masses.

People who live abroad don't understand that two states is the basic need for a workers' movement here. How can the two nations continue with the awful bloodshed? The capitalists and the bosses have been building an exploitative order on the back of the oppressed peoples since the Israelis and the Palestinians are sinking in the bloody conflict that continues without an end. I hear Trotskyists, or wannabe Trotskyists, that are standing for one state solution (e.g, the SWPers) or others that promise liberation only "after the revolution". But how can we carry forward a revolution as the two sides of the conflict are busy with fighting each other?

The tiny sect in that was affiliated with the British Chavistas, the former Militant tendency now led by Alan Woods, left the Marxist Tendency and now supports "Arab workers' revolution" and shouts "All Israel is occupied territory". They call themselves the international Socialist League. They are standing for… military defense to the Hamas, or "united front with the Hamas". I sometimes wonder if those people are actually insane. This is the heritage of those who broke with authentic Trotskyism and allied with the mishmash of centrism and sectarianism. By the way, the former Israeli Grantites were for… joining the Israeli Labor party whilst insisting that David Ben-Gurion was a Bolshevik during 1919-1923. This is nonsense. But that's exactly the education they were supplied by Grant and Woods.

The CWI in Israel are merely active and have nothing to say but general slogans as "for socialist federation of the Middle East", as if the conflict is about abstract formulas that has no relevance to the problem and its solution: diving Israel to two states, dividing Jerusalem into two Capital cities, solving the refugees' crisis according to the UN resolutions. I guess that in , the Left is not better than here, in , when it comes to carrying forward authentic Marxist policies. The main problem that we're facing now is the collapse of the Left-Centre government of the Labor-Kadima headed by Olmert and Barak; its collapse would probably bring about new Right wing government headed by the Hawkish Likud party and the fascistic Our Homeland Israel party. The Likud and the OHI are not only nationalistic, racist, homophobic and ultra-capitalist, but they're also very anti-democratic in their will to abolish the bourgeois democracy and taking actions against the Supreme Court.