Israel, Palestine and workers’ solidarity
When it comes to Israel/Palestine and the Middle East more generally, as with so many international issues, much of the revolutionary left prefers to compete to see who can be the shrillest “anti-imperialist” rather than seriously analysing the politics of the region from a class-struggle perspective and identifying working class forces with which they can make practical solidarity. The current leaders in the “anti-imperialist” stakes are the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) who are in fact so anti-imperialist that they have become positive supporters of Hamas and Hezbollah — religious...