Zarah Sultana spoke to Socialist Worker ahead of the Your Party conference
‘Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic,’ she told Socialist Worker
Zarah Sultana issued a rallying call for the left to unite and fight ahead of the Your Party founding conference in Liverpool this weekend.
She told Socialist Worker, “Labour is plummeting in the polls because this government has failed the working class.
“It has failed to help people here at home—and it has alienated thousands if not millions by materially participating in the genocide in Gaza.
“Reform UK is exploiting that anger, but it’s just the establishment in disguise.
“Farage scapegoats migrants to distract from his neoliberal economic agenda.
“We have a duty to offer a real alternative. Your Party must be explicitly socialist, anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist—and also as maximally democratic.
“We must build a party robust enough to take on entrenched power and win.
“No more tinkering at the edges—we need to reconstruct our society from first principles. We need socialism.
“History will not forgive us if we fail to capitalise on this moment. The options are socialism or barbarism.
“We must fight, we must unite and we must win.”
Orcas discuss the formation of UK’s new Socialist party and ask if the killer apes have finally come to their senses.
Neo-Fascist Climate Science Denier Donald Trump says Burn, Baby, Burn.
The commitment was no new oil or gas extraction. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to abandon that today by announcing new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea. There will be some BS explaining that it’s somehow not new when of course it is. This was expected from these shits (they abandon all their commitments) from the expansion of airports and possibly allowing the huge Rosebank proposed oil field.
Ed Miliband is a useful idiot pretending that the Labour Party have a responsible climate policy which is shown to be untrue and they’re just climate wrecking shits like other right-wingers.
Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.Nigel Farage urges you to ignore facts and reality and be a climate science denier like him and his Deputy Richard Tice. He says that Reform UK has received £Millions and £Millions from the fossil fuel industry to promote climate denial and destroy the planet.
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Black smoke rises over buildings after a rocket, left over from Israeli attacks, explodes in Gaza City, Gaza on November 24, 2025. [Khames Alrefi – Anadolu Agency]
A news report by AlJazeera this week stated that Israel violated the ceasefire 497 times in 44 days since 10 October. Lauded by the international community, the ceasefire was supposed to bring an end to airstrikes, starvation and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid, as well as the return of Palestinians to the rubble of their homes in Gaza. But ceasefire in diplomatic rhetoric falls even short of a veneer as Israel continues its genocide with a slower pace.
Israel can further violate the ceasefire with UN Resolution 2803, which places the US in control of Gaza for Israel’s colonial expansionist plans. Israel – a genocidal entity that has violated the ceasefire hundreds of times – determines the coordination of the US plan. Which means that as a reward for committing genocide, Israel gets the freedom to determine the pace of genocide, now that the worst has been normalised.
Even mainstream media is reporting on Israel’s ceasefire violations. Two weeks ago, the BBCnoted that Israel destroyed over 1,500 buildings in Gaza since the ceasefire came into effect, although it also made sure to add the comments of an unnamed Israeli military spokesperson saying that Israel was acting “in accordance with the ceasefire framework”.
According to the US, there was no genocide in Gaza. According to the Palestinian people and the majority of the world’s people, there is genocide in Gaza and there is no ceasefire in Gaza. What term does one coin for a non-existent ceasefire? Or a ceasefire that only exists in diplomatic agreements that provide impunity for Israel’s genocide?
What will the non-existent ceasefire mean in terms of Gaza’s reconstruction and military occupation amid a normalised, slow-paced genocide? There is talk of partitioning Gaza, but the likelihood of colonial expansion is even greater. And all is happening under the guise of a ceasefire with no validity and no implementation.
The only time we should be uttering the word ceasefire is to point out that there is no ceasefire. Other than that, the entire world should be pointing out that Israel is continuing its colonial expansion through genocide. Ceasefire rhetoric is an imposition upon Palestinians. It renders them defenceless just as much as the genocide did. The Israeli military now controls 53 per cent of Gaza. What did Zionist leaders do when they were granted 55 per cent of Palestine? History is repeating itself and the international community is concealing evident links under ceasefire rhetoric.
As the international community does its best to fade Israel’s genocide into oblivion, so will Gaza be depleted. The UN will continue with its statistical data, possibly since the “ceasefire”, thus marking an end to what is actually a continuation. And the usual terminology, linked to the non-existent ceasefire, such as humanitarian aid, food, displacement, education, Israel killing Palestinians, will once again be classified as individual violations of international law, instead of actions contributing to an ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. The ceasefire does not exist, the Nakba never ended, and it is incumbent upon the UN, particularly given its complicity with colonialism, to join the dots for the rest of the world and finally divulge what a travesty it has created out of human rights and international law.
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Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Genocide denying UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government’s support for Israel’s Gaza genocide and the UK government and military’s active participation in genocide.
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A view of makeshift tents flooding after heavy rainfall at the Nuseirat Refugee camp as the Palestinian families struggle to live under harsh living conditions while the Israeli attacks continue in Nuseirat, Gaza on November 25, 2025. [Hassan Jedi – Anadolu Agency]
Heavy rains have submerged dozens of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip amid bad weather conditions in the enclave, witnesses said Tuesday.
Several tents were destroyed by rainfall in al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, while others were blown away by strong winds in the area, they told Anadolu.
“The situation in the city is extremely catastrophic due to the destruction of most roads, water, and sewage networks by the Israeli war,” Saib Luqan, a spokesman for Khan Younis Municipality, told Anadolu.
According to local authorities, the Israeli army has destroyed 220,000 linear meters of road networks over the past two years.
Nearly 900,000 people in Khan Younis are currently facing “tragic and grim” conditions due to bad weather conditions, Luqan said.
The spokesman added that municipal teams are working with insufficient equipment to help displaced civilians affected by the bad weather.
According to the Gaza Government Media Office, 1.5 million Palestinians are displaced in Gaza, living in catastrophic conditions with little access to basic necessities and severely limited essential services due to Israel’s ongoing blockade.
Since October 2023, the Israeli army has killed nearly 70,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and injured more than 170,900 people in the two-year war that has left much of the enclave in ruins.
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Orcas discuss Genocide-supporting and complicit Zionists. Donald Trump, Keith Starmer, David Lammy, Rachel Reeves, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are acknowledged as evil genocide-complicit and supporting cnuts.Keir Starmer objects to criticism of the IDF. He asks how could anyone object to them starving people to death, forced marches like the Nazis did, bombing Gaza’s hospitals and universities, mass-murdering journalists, healthworkers and starving people queuing for food, killing and raping prisoners and murdering children. He calls for people to stop obstructing his genocide for Israel.Genocide denying UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says that UK is suspending 30 of 350 arms licences to Israel. He also confirms the UK government’s support for Israel’s Gaza genocide and the UK government and military’s active participation in genocide.
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Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam at the Prime Minister’s Office in Beirut, Lebanon on July 21, 2025. [Houssam Shbaro – Anadolu Agency]
Lebanon faces a “war of attribution,” Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Tuesday, calling for taking all necessary precautions to confront any potential Israeli escalation, Anadolu reports.
“We are in a war whose pace is escalating and has taken the form of a one-sided war of attrition by Israel,” Salam told a press conference following an inspection visit to Beirut Port.
“We will work to mobilize more Arab and international support to stop these attacks and push for an Israeli withdrawal,” he added in his comments cited by the state news agency NNA.
On Sunday, five people were killed and 28 others injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting senior Hezbollah commander Haitham Tabatabai in southern Beirut.
Tensions in southern Lebanon have been mounting for weeks, with the Israeli military intensifying near-daily air raids inside Lebanese territory, claiming to target Hezbollah members and infrastructure.
According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, at least 331 people have been killed and 945 injured by Israeli fire since a ceasefire deal took effect on Nov. 27, 2024.
Salam described Beirut Port as “the memory and future of the city.”
The government “is working for Lebanon’s economic recovery, and a key pillar of that is developing and modernizing Beirut Port,” he said.
“Our priority is to place Lebanon and Beirut Port on the map of transportation routes in the Levant.”
Salam said he reached an agreement with the World Bank last week to prepare a study on transportation links between Lebanon and the surrounding region, covering seaports, airports, and land routes.
Lebanon’s railway sector has been entirely inactive since the country’s civil war of the 1970s and 1980s, despite once serving as a vital network connecting coastal and inland cities and facilitating trade and travel.
Five years after the port explosion, large sections of Beirut Port remain abandoned rubble.
The August 2020 blast killed more than 220 people and injured 7,000. Judicial investigations into its causes and responsibility have yet to be concluded.
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