Stop the war in Gaza!

Millions upon millions of people have taken to the streets all over the world to call for justice for the Palestinians and an end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Not least in London which saw over half-a-million march  for Palestine through the heart of the capital last weekend and other flash demonstrations that included the take-over of the concourse at Liverpool Street station and a sit-down protest at Waterloo station. 
This huge protests and similar demonstrations in towns and cities throughout the country are sending a clear message to Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer to break with US imperialism and join the demand for an immediate cease-fire that’s echoing throughout the imperialist heartlands and the Global South.
Its clearly been heard in the Labour Party. Some Labour councillors have resigned the whip in protest at Starmer’s refusal to call for an immediate cease-fire and his pathetic defence of the brutal Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip. Tens of thousands more have joined the protests ignoring the threats of disciplinary action from Starmer’s henchmen to stand with the Palestinian resistance in their struggle against Zionist terror.
Now some of Labour’s big guns, like the Scottish Labour leader and the mayors of London and Greater Manchester are, at last, taking the principled stand – breaking ranks with Starmer & Co to call for a truce to save the beleaguered people of the Gaza Strip. Anas Sarwar, Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham are all calling for an immediate cessation of the violence and a just resolution of the Palestinian issue while the militant RMT transport union leader, Mick Lynch, spoke in support of Palestinian rights at the mammoth London march on Saturday.
We can’t expect much from the Tories. Crawling to the Americans comes naturally to  the Conservatives. They’ve been doing it since the Second World War. But even they are not immune to public pressure.
This week Paul Bristow, the Conservative MP for Peterborough, was dismissed as a ministerial aide at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology on Monday after writing to the Prime Minister to call for an end to hostilities between Israel and Hamas to save lives.
Millions of people have seen through the lies of the bourgeois media. They want to see justice done for the Palestinian Arabs. Mass demonstrations and protests play a crucial part in mobilising public opinion in a just cause. They bring people together and by their actions they encourage others to take the principled stand. This is why some Tory politicians call  Palestinian slogans  “hate speech” and say that even waving a Palestinian flag could be an arrestable offence. 
We saw this in the run-up to the Gulf War when millions took to the streets to try to stop the imperialist invasion of Iraq. The protests peaked with a two million strong march through London that shook the Establishment.  But it was never followed up. The momentum was lost and the war was not stopped.We must make sure that never happens again.
The protests are getting bigger and bigger and more and more frequent – and that’s what’s got to happen to help end the suffering of the Palestinian people. End the fighting. Lift the siege! Let them hear it in Tel Aviv – let them hear it in Washington!