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More than a year into Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, and its more recent escalation in Lebanon and the wider Middle East, we have learned that there is no international law, no so-called international community that can stop its violence. We cannot rely on the ruling classes in the West, who are deeply implicated in Israel's settler colonial project, nor the ruling classes in the Middle East and the rest of the world, who continue to support it in deeds if not in words. The only power we have to support the heroic resistance of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples is the power we have in our hands as workers. This is why Palestinian trade unions have called on workers and trade unions around the world to end all forms of complicity with Israeli crimes and to take concrete actions that disrupt the supply chain of genocide: the research, supply, and delivery of weapons to the Zionist state. Workers from different countries have responded to this call by organising strikes and blockades in solidarity with Gaza, by taking part in mass demonstrations and in the boycott movement. In the Red Sea, we’ve seen the power of solidarity pushing shipping and insurance prices through the roof. In this seminar we will hear first-hand by workers and organisers from Palestine, the United States, Italy, and Australia who have been at the heart of these initiatives and reflect on the current global conjuncture and the strategies to strengthen our common struggle for liberation.

Speakers

• Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees, speaker TBC.
• Charmaine Chua, University of California, Santa Barbara, currently organising with Workers in Palestine, Researchers Against War, Amazonians United, and UC Cops off Campus.
• Paddy Gibson, National Tertiary Education Union and Unionists for Palestine, Australia.
• Mahmoud Hassan, SI Cobas rank-and-file union, Italy, and other speakers TBC.

This seminar is organised jointly by the Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory and University and College Workers for Palestine, with the endorsement of the King's College London UCU Branch.