On the same day as the attack against Hezbollah, the Israeli cabinet had voted to expand its war aims to include the safe return of Israeli citizens who have been evacuated from the north of the country and to keep them safe from exchange of fire over the Israel-Lebanon border. That means Israel is now officially preparing an invasion of Lebanon, with the stated aim of establishing a ‘buffer zone’ to “guarantee security in the north of Israel”.

On Saturday, at a peaceful rally for Palestine held in Tomkins Park, Calgary police officers arrested three people, including lead organizer Wesam Khaled, charged with obstruction and “assaulting” a police officer. We demand that these ridiculous fines be annulled and the charges dropped against Wesam and his comrades!

At campuses across the country, students are enthusiastically taking up the campaign for a student strike for Palestine!

“The whole history of the Canadian labour movement is a struggle against these banks, against these bosses, against these governments that today support genocide […] The cause of the Palestinians is the cause of the world working class.”

The Palestinian solidarity movement has been viciously slandered and repressed by the entire Canadian capitalist establishment.

Justin Trudeau recently claimed that “we’ve stopped exports of arms to Israel”. That’s not exactly true.

Canadian universities are deeply entangled with companies that invest in Israel

In Netanyahu’s callous calculations, the lives of the hostages are just so much small change to be used for political advantage. His cynical manoeuvres have alienated him from his own electorate, large sections of the Israeli ruling class and even many in his own cabinet.

Everything hinges on broadening  this movement as far  as possible!

The same capitalist forces which support Israeli imperialism also oppress and exploit workers here.