Part 1: Jewish Colonization in Palestine While the “Yom Kippur” war of 1973 is the direct result of the defeat of the Arab states by Israel in the 1967 war, it is more fundamentally the product of the conflict between Zionism and Arab nationalism which has torn apart Palestine since...
Stop the Gaza Genocide!
The Israeli government insists that Tel Aviv’s current, relentless and brutal bombing campaign against the inhabitants of the Gaza strip is a “war against Hamas” that was initiated by the attack on Israeli territory on 7 October. This ignores at least 75 years of history. Between the start of 2023...
For Workers’ Action against War in Ukraine!
The following text is a lightly edited version of remarks made by an IBT spokesperson on a panel discussion entitled “Understanding the War in Ukraine” at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Canada, on 2 November 2023. The event was sponsored by Local 4207 of the Canadian Union of Public Employees...
In Brief
The following is a selection of postings from the IBT Facebook page published since the last edition of 1917. 25 January 2023 | Defend and extend Scottish trans rights! Legislation passed by the devolved Scottish government to make gender-recognition certificates (GRCs) easier to obtain and available from the age of...
May Day: Capitalism Must Go!
As workers across the world gather to celebrate May Day, the global economy is teetering on the edge of another, perhaps more severe, downturn merely a decade and a half after the so-called “Great Recession.” The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the United States and...
Killing with Kindness
A curious contrast of perception grew up around Jacinda Ardern during the five years she spent as prime minister of New Zealand before her resignation in late January. Internationally she had been feted as a celebrity politician and liberal darling, the supposed “world’s anti-Trump” who capably steered New Zealand through...
‘Pink Tides’ & Popular Fronts
Latin America is in turmoil, buckling under the pressures of imperialist exploitation, the lingering impact of the Covid-19 crisis and rampant inflation fueled in part by the US/NATO-led war in Ukraine. An estimated 267 million people, or 40.6 percent, of the region’s population are “food insecure,” up 9 percent since...
Inching towards WWIII
In January, the influential French academic Emmanuel Todd told Le Figaro newspaper that the “Third World War has begun.” The historian and anthropologist argued that the conflict in Ukraine, “moving from a limited territorial war to a global economic confrontation between the whole of the West on the one hand and Russia...
Xenophobia & Hypocrisy
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.… A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to...
Revolutionaries & Imperialist War
This war in Ukraine is going to reverberate for years. It’s an event of world historical significance, which has disoriented people and is realigning political forces in strange ways. Let us start from first principles. So what is our first principle? It might not come as a great surprise to...