#media_7481;left# There have been demonstrations across Aotearoa as the Israeli war machine inflicts more and more casualties in Lebanon and Palestine. With the death toll in Lebanon estimated at up to seven hundred and fifty and no end in sight to this war, New Zealanders are mobilsing to demand that Israel end its agression immediately so that no more innocent people on both sides of the conflict die.
In Auckland around 300 people braved pouring rain to hold a lively march and rally to call for an end to US and Israeli imperialism in the Middle East. Demonstrators staged a die-in at the US consulate before burning US and Israeli flags. Report | Video
#media_7468;left# In Wellington a few hundred protestors marched down Lambton Quay to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade as part of a Wellington Palestine Group protest to demand that the government not allow Israel to reopen its embassy in New Zealand until such time as Israel has ceased hostilities, demolished the separation wall, withdrawn from occupied territory and fulfilled its international law obligations on Palestinian refugees. Report
In Dunedin an emergency demonstration against the war attracted 250-300 people who marched on the Octagon via Labour MP Pete Hodgson's office and called on the government not to resume any military joint-training exercises with the USA (something Winston Peters was trying desperately to secure on his latest trip to Washington DC). Report
#media_7488;left# The National Distribution Union who represent packing and distribution workers in New Zealand has condemned the Israeli air
strike on a Lebanese fruit-packing warehouse that killed 33 farm workers. [ Media Release ]
A group called 'Aotearoa Jews for Justice' says they stand "in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people suffering
at the hands of the Israeli army. [...] We draw from a long tradition of Jews who have campaigned for social justice and against racism and colonialism
regardless of where it has occurred."
Why do communists, who claim to be for equality of the sexes, support the government of Iran where a woman can be stoned to death for the "crime" of being raped?
Why do the communist protesters who march for "freedom of speech" support Hezbollah and Hamas which have targeted journalists, and the radical regimes which suppress the press in their nations, and groups which have threatened Jihad over cartoons and beheaded filmmakers in Europe?
Why do people who claim to be for peace support kidnappers and butchers hwo rocket cities and base weapons in hospitals and mosques, and use donated ambulances as weapon and troop transports?
Why do the Communists, who claim to be for freedom of religion, or even from it, support an ideology of religious repression and murder by fiat from Ayatollahs and self-appointed "Leaders?" Well, Communists have had plenty of the second catergory, Mao, Stalin etc., but for them I thought State Religion was the State itself, and whoever the dictator or leadership was. Why support some radical terrorist group which kills because of what Marx would call "The opiate of the masses?" Maybe they just figure they want to wreck the country and will glom on to whoever else is trying to do it, because they have not the ideas nor the ability to do so themselves. In which case they are not only foolish and immature but spiteful and petty as well.
Enough of this stop the war bullshit!
This is a war that has to be won or lost!
In the report above there is no mention that Hizbollah is the national liberation army of Lebanon. Lebanon is depicted as a victim when in reality Hizbollah is the Lebanese liberation army. the only force that has inflicted big damage on the Zionist state for decades. Ignoring Hizbollah's national role invites the lies that it is no more than an Iranian stooge.
There is no recognition that this war is one front of the war on terror. The others are Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Iran. A defeat for Hizbollah in Lebanon will be a defeat for the Palestinians first, then second the Iraqi masses, then it will make an attack on Iran much more likely. Finally it is a defeat for all Arab and Islamic masses, and the workers and poor peasants in Asia, Africa and the Americas.
In this war the US and Israel must be defeated!
Victory for Hizbollah!
No ceasefire without a complete withdrawal of Israel from Lebanon!
No imperialist 'peacekeeping' force!
Lebanon for Lebanese!
Victory to Iraq!
Defeat imperialism in the Middle East!
In the text above there is no call for a single state of Palestine, secular, democratic, non-racist!
Instead we have the pathetic calls for Israel to retreat to the 1967 borders, pull down the wall etc.
We have the NZ peace movement on its knees begging the Labour Government to keep the Israeli Consulate closed until Israel ceases 'its hostilities'.
Which 'hostilities' would these be? Those before 1948 that terrorised the Palestinians off their land, those after 1948 that forced the state of Israel onto the Palestinians, or just those of the last months that terrorised Gaza and then invaded and bombed Lebanon?
This pathetic pacifism leaves the matter of Israel's existence on Palestinian land unspoken.
The very existence of Israel originated in terror, war and ongoing repression. At what point then do we want Israel to 'cease its hostilities'?
Clearly by renouncing its violent birth and uniting with the Palestinians in one Palestine. But the Zionist ruling class backed by the imperialists will never agree to this. Only the working class in Israel and in the imperialist countries can make this happen.
But the pacifist posturing of the Western and Israeli left plays into the hands of the imperialist ruling classes. It wants to 'stop the war' leaving Israel and the US the victors.
The working class does not take up the demand to defeat their own ruling classes. 'Stop the War' coalitions do not stop their own bosses' war machines, but build coalitions with middle class and liberal bourgeoisies who 'pray' or 'legislate' for peace.
Israeli workers pray for peace in Lebanon or go to jail for refusing to fight in the occupied territories. But the class war is at home. The Zionist state and the Zionist army must be defeated by Israeli workers unconditionally supporting the Palestinian for a right to return to a single, secular, democratic, non-racist state of Palestine.
The Western anti-war movement doesnt understand yet that these wars are not going to stop until one or other side wins. Who is that going to be?
On the one side is the US and its Israeli gendarme, UK, France and other imperialist states, along with the gutless sellout Arab national leaders always wanting a cut in the imperialist profits. And arnt they squirming at the masses moving under their feet!
On the other side are the Arab and Islamic masses, the Israeli workers who are prepared to fight the Zionist state to the death, and all the world's workers who unite with them in the struggle to smash imperialism and Zionism.
Tricks to burning a wet flag:
1) rinse it out if it is wet
2) lighter fluid is often used, the best is shell-lite as it wont evaporate as fast, is not a hot burning flame, will burn on the surface long enough to evoporate the water in your water-logged flags. Shell-lite and its variants also give off little smoke.
3) drench it in the stuff
4) Dont be tempted to use petrol, not in crowded areas
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Why do communists, who claim to be for equality of the sexes, support the government of Iran where a woman can be stoned to death for the "crime" of being raped?
Why do the communist protesters who march for "freedom of speech" support Hezbollah and Hamas which have targeted journalists, and the radical regimes which suppress the press in their nations, and groups which have threatened Jihad over cartoons and beheaded filmmakers in Europe?
Why do people who claim to be for peace support kidnappers and butchers hwo rocket cities and base weapons in hospitals and mosques, and use donated ambulances as weapon and troop transports?
Why do the Communists, who claim to be for freedom of religion, or even from it, support an ideology of religious repression and murder by fiat from Ayatollahs and self-appointed "Leaders?" Well, Communists have had plenty of the second catergory, Mao, Stalin etc., but for them I thought State Religion was the State itself, and whoever the dictator or leadership was. Why support some radical terrorist group which kills because of what Marx would call "The opiate of the masses?" Maybe they just figure they want to wreck the country and will glom on to whoever else is trying to do it, because they have not the ideas nor the ability to do so themselves. In which case they are not only foolish and immature but spiteful and petty as well.
Win this War!
This is a war that has to be won or lost!
In the report above there is no mention that Hizbollah is the national liberation army of Lebanon. Lebanon is depicted as a victim when in reality Hizbollah is the Lebanese liberation army. the only force that has inflicted big damage on the Zionist state for decades. Ignoring Hizbollah's national role invites the lies that it is no more than an Iranian stooge.
There is no recognition that this war is one front of the war on terror. The others are Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Iran. A defeat for Hizbollah in Lebanon will be a defeat for the Palestinians first, then second the Iraqi masses, then it will make an attack on Iran much more likely. Finally it is a defeat for all Arab and Islamic masses, and the workers and poor peasants in Asia, Africa and the Americas.
In this war the US and Israel must be defeated!
Victory for Hizbollah!
No ceasefire without a complete withdrawal of Israel from Lebanon!
No imperialist 'peacekeeping' force!
Lebanon for Lebanese!
Victory to Iraq!
Defeat imperialism in the Middle East!
In the text above there is no call for a single state of Palestine, secular, democratic, non-racist!
Instead we have the pathetic calls for Israel to retreat to the 1967 borders, pull down the wall etc.
We have the NZ peace movement on its knees begging the Labour Government to keep the Israeli Consulate closed until Israel ceases 'its hostilities'.
Which 'hostilities' would these be? Those before 1948 that terrorised the Palestinians off their land, those after 1948 that forced the state of Israel onto the Palestinians, or just those of the last months that terrorised Gaza and then invaded and bombed Lebanon?
This pathetic pacifism leaves the matter of Israel's existence on Palestinian land unspoken.
The very existence of Israel originated in terror, war and ongoing repression. At what point then do we want Israel to 'cease its hostilities'?
Clearly by renouncing its violent birth and uniting with the Palestinians in one Palestine. But the Zionist ruling class backed by the imperialists will never agree to this. Only the working class in Israel and in the imperialist countries can make this happen.
But the pacifist posturing of the Western and Israeli left plays into the hands of the imperialist ruling classes. It wants to 'stop the war' leaving Israel and the US the victors.
The working class does not take up the demand to defeat their own ruling classes. 'Stop the War' coalitions do not stop their own bosses' war machines, but build coalitions with middle class and liberal bourgeoisies who 'pray' or 'legislate' for peace.
Israeli workers pray for peace in Lebanon or go to jail for refusing to fight in the occupied territories. But the class war is at home. The Zionist state and the Zionist army must be defeated by Israeli workers unconditionally supporting the Palestinian for a right to return to a single, secular, democratic, non-racist state of Palestine.
The Western anti-war movement doesnt understand yet that these wars are not going to stop until one or other side wins. Who is that going to be?
On the one side is the US and its Israeli gendarme, UK, France and other imperialist states, along with the gutless sellout Arab national leaders always wanting a cut in the imperialist profits. And arnt they squirming at the masses moving under their feet!
On the other side are the Arab and Islamic masses, the Israeli workers who are prepared to fight the Zionist state to the death, and all the world's workers who unite with them in the struggle to smash imperialism and Zionism.
Which side are you on?
Re: "Stop this War!" - Protests across Aotearoa
1) rinse it out if it is wet
2) lighter fluid is often used, the best is shell-lite as it wont evaporate as fast, is not a hot burning flame, will burn on the surface long enough to evoporate the water in your water-logged flags. Shell-lite and its variants also give off little smoke.
3) drench it in the stuff
4) Dont be tempted to use petrol, not in crowded areas
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