EDITOR—Interested in an “unapologetic Black, leftist, working-class” perspective on current sociopolitical events? If so, join us as we speak with Nick Cruse, citizen journalist and co-founder of Revolutionary Blackout Network (RBN). We discuss a variety of topics, including the importance of independent Black, working-class commentary in an age of corporatized journalism, the leftist failures of electoral politics in the US, the absence of an established leftist perspective in mainstream media, the challenges of social media activism (particularly the “BreadTube” effect), as well as the potential to change the current status quo through ground-up, working class solidarity.
BOURGEOIS LEFT
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PATRICK LAWRENCE—ISRAEL is a psychologically diseased nation that boasts as it inflicts this suffering on The Other that obsesses it. The world is invited—the ultimate in perversity, this—to partake of Israel’s sickness and said, in a Hague courtroom two weeks ago, “No.”
Post–Gaza, apartheid Israel is unlikely ever to recover what place it enjoyed, merited or otherwise, in the community of nations. It stands among the pariahs now. The Biden regime took this risk, too, and it has also lost. Its support for the Israelis’ daily brutalities comes at great political cost, at home and abroad, and is tearing America apart—its universities, its courts, its legislatures, its communities—and I would say what pride it still manages to take in itself.
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WHO FUNDS LABOUR FRIENDS OF ISRAEL – AND WHY WON’T IT SAY?
24 minutes readJOHN McEVOY—One of LFI’s main activities is taking Labour MPs on “fact finding” missions to Israel. According to the Electoral Commission, LFI has spent over £150,000 on such trips since 2002. Over 60 of these delegations were reportedly organised in the past decade. The trips are designed to cultivate support for Israel and build ties between key Labour figures and Israeli politicians and businesspeople.
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ANDRAJIT—The reason the war questions are emerging now is that Americans are dying. This nominally raises the stakes. But which Americans? Three Black soldiers have just died in Syria/Jordan and the ‘volunteer’ army is primarily made up of debt slaves. Rich people’s children don’t get drafted so, fundamentally, what do they care, besides thanking these people for their ‘service’ while gutting their veterans services? Do these deaths count as war if the ruling class doesn’t actually give a shit?
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Two (•free•) indispensable books on the Palestinian genocide
19 minutes readP. GREANVILLE—I fully realise that many people in the TGP anti-imperialist audience have a problem with Chomsky, and that many have simply given up on him as an effective or noteworthy voice in contemporary politics, some dismissing him as “controlled opposition”. While all of that may be true, and Chomsky in some areas can indeed be dismissed as a fake revolutionist or simply an anti-communist liberal or socdem spouting radical rhetoric, there is no denying that at least some of his prolific output remains relevant and even visionary to our current dilemmas.