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Workers of All Countries, Unite! WORKERS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE! No 1400 Week commencing 11 August 2006 Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain 50p STOP ISRAELI TERROR NOW! By our Arab Affairs Correspondent Parliament certainly ISRAELI tanks are must be recalled and at the pouring into Lebanon as governing coalition in territories in Palestine and same time millions must be the Zionists intensified Beirut, endorsed the Leba- it has called on trade unions mobilised for mass protests their strikes on Beirut nese government’s pro- all over the world to stand throughout the country to and southern Lebanon posal to deploy 15,000 on the side of Lebanon and end Britain’s slavish col- on Monday, killing at troops along the frontier Palestine. laboration with Israeli ag- least 33 people in what once a ceasefire is in place In the Middle East, the gression, demand the im- is being called one of the and Israel has withdrawn. Popular Front for the Lib- mediate withdrawal of all bloodiest death tolls in But he was dismissive of eration of Palestine Israeli forces from Leba- Tel Aviv’s ongoing war the Franco-American draft (PFLP) gave its full sup- non and the unconditional of aggression. Israeli proposal at the UN. “The port to the Hezbollah resis- and immediate withdrawal warplanes repeatedly least we can describe this tance fighters. Wisal Farha of all British troops from bombed Beirut’s south- is as unfair and unjust. It Bakdash, the leader of the Iraq and Afghanistan. ern suburbs and has given Israel more than Syrian Communist Party, pounded other areas of it wanted and more than it called on the Arab masses Lebanon, wounding an was looking for,” he de- to unite their efforts and unknown number of ci- clared. their guns in the face of vilians. Israeli naval war- Back in occupied Pal- racist Zionism. The Leba- ships are bombarding estine, Israeli forces have nese Communist Party has Lebanese positions as launched a reign of terror urged the people to stand well as enforcing a sea in a frantic bid to get the steadfast with the Leba- blockade. military wing of the Hamas nese national resistance Nearly a 1,000 Muslim Brotherhood to re- movement, Hezbollah, take Lebanese, most of them lease an Israeli soldier up arms and confront “the civilians, have been killed taken last month. Some 30 hordes of the aggressor in and thousands more injured Palestinian MPs and a third signed a statement in soli defence of our land, our in the Israeli offensive. Up of the Palestinian cabinet sovereignty, our people, to a million more have fled have been arrested in the parties.The and all things we hold sa- their homes to escape the past six weeks. The latest, demonstratorscalled for a cred” and the Jordanian Israeli onslaught. Palestinian Parliamentary prisoner exchange deal communists are calling for Zionist forces carried Speaker Aziz Dweik, was with Hezbollah and Hamas “material and moral support out about 80 air strikes seized on Sunday. A and they urged soldiers to to Lebanon in order to en- Monday night, dropping Hamas spokesman said he refuse to go to Lebanon. able them to stand fast leaflets in areas of south- has been taken to hospital Though the Olmert-led against the fascist aggres- ern Lebanon which warned after being beaten by Is- centre-left coalition is still sors. We call for a unified of an escalation of military raeli guards. The army, riding high in the Israeli Arab stand against the US operations “with extreme which is holding him, denied opinion polls, the peace and Israeli policy of occu- force” in the area. The leaf- the claims. movement is beginning to pation and aggression in lets, dropped by air, say Zi- At the United Nations gain ground as more and Lebanon, Palestine and onist forces will destroy in New York Arab diplo- more Israelis see and pay Iraq”. any moving vehicle in an mats are pressing for sub- the price for this new inva- The pressure is mount- area south of the Litani stantial amendments to the sion of Lebanon. ing against Blair. Scottish FUND River, 30 km – about 18 Franco-American draft The port of Haifa is Labour MP Jim Sheridan miles – from the border Our July fund ended well, resolution that was rejected closed. Israel’s tourist in- has resigned his junior de- with £730.20 arriving in the last with Israel. In Tel Aviv, Is- by Lebanon last weekend. dustry is dead. Millions of fence aide post in protest raeli Defence Minster Amir week, giving a total of £3,181.37, Russia has said it will not Israelis now take to the at the Government’s policy well over our £3,000 target. Peretz admitted that Israel support any resolution shelters at night. Over a 100 to the Middle East after was preparing to occupy And our August fund is off to a which is not endorsed by Israelis have died and earlier expressing his con- very good start with a total of more areas of southern the Lebanese government nearly 2,000 have been cern at the use of British Lebanon. £1,679.10 in, leaving £1,320.90 and People’s China is call- wounded in the month-long airports to refuel US arms to raise to meet our monthly But the Lebanese resis- ing for an immediate conflict according to Tel supply jets bound for Is- tance fights on. Every day £3,000 target. ceasefire – a demand that Aviv. But in southern rael. We have had a magnificent hundreds of rockets rain is opposed by Anglo- Lebanon the Israeli army is Last weekend a down on northern Israel, donation of £1,500 in memory American imperialism and being hit hard by the guer- 100,000 people marched of Comrade Harry Danvers, a forcing hundreds of thou- Israel. rillas. Hezbollah spokes- through London demanding sands of Israelis to flee and darity with the Palestinian founding member of the New In Tel Aviv, the biggest men claim to have hit two and Lebanese people. an immediate ceasefire in Communist Party. disrupting the Israeli demonstration against the Israeli navy corvettes, Lebanon strengthening the army’s supply lines to the Strongly condemning Is- We also thank a Cumbrian war held in Israel until now downedtwo raeli aggression the com- call of more than 130 MPs bee-keeper for £10, a Manches- Lebanese front. took place last Saturday. helicoptergunships and two – half of them Labour and Hezbollah leader munists called for an imme- ter comrade for £60, another Some 10,000 demonstra- warplanes, destroyed 47 diate cease-fire, the re- a number of ex-ministers - Manchester supporter for £10, a Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah tors from all over the coun- tanks and 12 armoured ve- demanding a recall of Par- warned all Israeli Arabs liv- lease of all political prison- south London reader for £30 and try, among them many hicles while maintaining a ers and Israel’s withdrawal liament to debate the cri- another reader for £2.50. ing in Haifa to leave to Arab citizens, marched missile capability, which sis. The move, led by the avoid being hit by resis- from southern Lebanon and We thank you all sincerely through the city centre for has fired over 3,000 rock- all the other occupied ter- centre-left Compass group, and beg you to keep the money tance missile attacks, in a a rally organised by Gush ets into the north of the Zi- is supported by the leaders televised address on ritories. The World Federa- coming. Send whatever you can Shalom (Peace Now), the onist entity. tion of Trade Unions of the Liberal Democrats, to the New Worker Fund or the Wednesday. The Lebanese Communist Party of Israel, Seventy-two commu- Scottish Nationalists and resistance leader, whose (WFTU) has sent a team Press Appeal, both at PO Box progressive Israeli move- nist and workers’ parties of five doctors to occupied Plaid Cymru. 73, London SW11 2PQ. movement is part of the ments and the Israeli Arab including the NCP have Page 2 THE NEW WORKER 11 August 2006 email: [email protected] News Desk 020 7223 4050 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234 1234567890123456789012345678901212345678901234Say no more Strapped for cash the opportunity to gain as He made a simple tech- nical police for wrongful arrest and much as five times its value.” analysis of the locking him in the back of a Weekly paper of the New Communist Party The illegal war against anatomicalphysics involved police van while his grade II Iraq is costing the United and was then inspired to de- listed home burned down, full States government a lot Waste disposal sign a circular table,to which of artworks and antiques. Stand by the more than expected – so a woman could be strapped Carlisle had called the fire much that it is being while in labour. He claims this brigade and while waiting for forced to sell of some of When pensioner Vic will be of more use to modern them to arrive he and his wife its vast gold reserves. Smethurst bought a new women who “often do not set about carrying out as In a full page advert washing machine, he solved have theopportunity to de- much of their valuable pos- Arabs in the press last Thursday, the problem of getting rid of velop the muscles needed in sessions as they could. the US government ex- the old one by wrapping it in confinement”. But the police arrived be- The Lebanese national resistance has plained: “Ongoing battles the packaging of the new one The Blonskys claim: “The fore the fire brigade and or- bravely fought the Israeli army to a standstill in in Iraq, the nuclear ambi- and leaving it in his drive in foetus needs the application dered the couple out.
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