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I agree with Louis that it's good if various semi-establishment figures criticise various actions of the *Israeli government - it opens up political space, makes it easier for people to raise issues of solidarity with the Palestinians. Often, though, the anti-capitalist left tries to hook up with anyone and everyone who appears to be criticising what we're criticising. When it comes to the anti-capitalist left, we need to develop initiatives centred on solidarity and where the issues are taken to the working class and colleges (community colleges and universities alike), and we need to do it in a way that advances the class consciousness of workers where we are. In the Anti-Capitalist Alliance/Workers Party in NZ, we prioritised Palestine solidarity and we initiated a public campaign to raise funds for the PFLP. We made t-shirts and Leila Khaled gave us her signature to use on them. We raised several thousand dollars for the PFLP, as a concrete act of solidarity and as a way of challenging the 'terrorist' designation that NZ governments - Labour and National alike (and they're very, very alike!) had put on the PFLP. As anti-capitalists I think we need to run a two-track approach in relation to Palestine. One is overall support for the Palestinian right to self-determination and the other is solidarity with the most progressive forces within that struggle; that happens to be the hard-pressed PFLP. Whatever criticisms anyone might have on them, they have stuck to their guns in unbelievably difficult circumstances and deserve material support. For a campaign of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/for-a-campaign-of-solidarity-with-the-palestinian-struggle/ Is there a two-state solution?: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2011/09/09/is-there-a-two-state-solution-to-israel-palestinian-conflict-2/ Phil _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
