Human Rights

Posted by: John Phoenix The first issue of our industrial news sheet examines recent cases of trade union leaderships failing their members and the wider working class. Dockworkers in the Italian port of Genoa have consistently led the way in obstructing the efforts of the Nato war machine. As well as stopping arms shipments to Israel they have also stopped shipments of munitions to Ukraine and to Saudi Arabia (for use in its genocidal war against Yemen). Their example is one that should be followed by workers everywhere. https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2233946453&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true Read the December 2025 issue of our industrial matters free shee...

Posted by: John Phoenix Stop the war machine! No cooperation with the genocide in Gaza! It is time for workers in ports across the nation – from Felixstowe and Tilbury to Grangemouth, Teesport, Immingham, Southampton, Avonmouth and Liverpool – to declare: “We won’t be part of the imperialist war machine!” https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2244541361&color=%23ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true Download this leaflet as a pdf. For two years, dockworkers in France, Greece, Italy and elsewhere have been organising strikes, protests and blockades to prevent arms and military equipment destined for Israel being loaded onto container ships. They are responding to the actions...

Posted by: John Phoenix ‘A people who have presented so many prisoners, and faced all tools of repression, is a people who cannot be defeated and whose will cannot be broken.’ A PFLP supporter holds up a portrait of imprisoned party leader Ahmad Saadat. The PFLP has paid tribute to the epic struggle being waged by all the prisoners, who have transformed their cells into spaces of resistance and schools for revolutionary consciousness. The prisoner movement has proven that it is an unbreakable vanguard of the Palestinian struggle, and that shackles are a helpless tool that shatters on the rock of Palestinian steadfastness and their belief in the justice of their cause. The following statement was issued by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on the occasio...

Posted by: John Phoenix All the excitement over the Epstein revelations seems to have fairly and squarely diverted attention from the situation in Gaza and the broader Middle East where Israeli expansionism and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been proceeding remorselessly, despite the fact that in theory a ceasefire is in place in Gaza. If it is in fact true that Epstein was a Mossad agent, as is being suggested in numerous quarters, then he must be laughing in his grave (assuming that is where he is) at how fantastically the diversionary tactic has worked out for Israel. While the kill rate in Gaza, that stood at an average of 100 Palestinians a day from the start of the Israeli offensive until the ceasefire took effect, has dropped to a mere 32 or so a week, it is sti...

Posted by: John Phoenix Protest after Israel passes death penalty law for Palestinians convicted of deadly attacks, in Jerusalem (Reuters) A new Israeli military order makes execution the default sentence for Palestinians convicted in attacks that kill Israelis, deepening the dual legal system built on racial discrimination, military rule and permanent proximity to death. By Zeynep Conkar, reposted from TRT World, May 19, 2026 Israel has become the first Western-aligned “democracy” to legislate a mandatory death penalty targeting a single ethnic group under military occupation, and this week, it put that law into force. The order was signed on Sunday by Major General Avi Bluth, commander of the Israeli army’s Central Command, at the request of Defense Mini...

Posted by: John Phoenix Israeli soldiers patrol the market in the Old City of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, last year. (Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP) Since January 2023, entire families have packed up their belongings and left the areas where they grew up, places in which they invested their labor and their hopes By Amira Hass, reposted from Haaretz, May 20, 2026 5,375 – that’s the number of attacks Jewish Israeli civilians committed in the West Bank between the start of 2023 and just over a week ago. These are attacks that ended in dead and wounded Palestinians and/or thefts of sheep and damage to animals, plants, property and livelihood. They don’t include the times when these ambassadors of hatred and supremacy merely engaged in intimidation and provocation...

Posted by: John Phoenix Student protesters in 2026 generally have less space to operate than even this graduating student protester in New York City in 2025. Jimin Kim ZUMAPRESS. American universities are failing in the face of Trump and the censorship efforts of pro-genocide politicians, administrators and students whose voices are outweighing the many students who want an honest appraisal of Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies. By Michael F. Brown, reposted from Electronic Intifada, May 18, 2026 Does Vietnam still haunt Americans? Forever wars in the Middle East and Donald Trump’s war of aggression against Iran – which began with the killing of scores of young school children in Minab before moving on to casual threats of genocide&nbs...

Postedby: John Phoenix   Israeli commandos in full battle gear board a sailboat with unarmed peace activists, part of the Gaza humanitarian flotilla. (screenshot) News roundup for Wednesday, May 20, 2026, Day 957 since Israel began its 2023 genocide on the Palestinian people.  Compilation of news reports – IAK staff NEWS & HEADLINES FROM GAZA: For some basic info on the Palestine-Israel conflict, go here. For more critical context, skim this, this, and this. To read about a remarkable but underreported, 20-month-long peaceful protest in Gaza against Israel, go here. Gaza Enters ‘Most Dangerous’ Famine Phase as Aid Shortfalls Deepen Economic Collapse: Warnings of mass hunger issued by Gaza’s Government Media...