Victory to the Palestinian struggle! Victory to the Kurdish struggle!

STOP THE UK GOVERNMENT’S REPRESSION OF THE ANTI-WAR, ANTI-IMPERIALIST, PRO-PALESTINE MOVEMENT

FREE THE JAILED PALESTINE ACTIONISTS NOW! DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST PALESTINE ACTIONISTS

STOP CRIMINALISING KURDISH FREEDOM FIGHTERS – FREE THE DETAINED HARINGEY KURDISH ACTIVISTS

REINSTATE THE SUSPENDED SOAS STUDENTS & END ALL INJUNCTIONS AGAINST PRO-PALESTINE STUDENT PROTESTS

DEFEND THE RIGHT TO PROTEST – DEFEND FREE SPEECH ON PALESTINE – DEFEND FREE SPEECH FOR MUSLIMS

THE REAL CRIMINALS ARE IN THE GOVERNMENT

01.12.2024 London, Trafalgar Square: Kurdish community march

The Movement for Justice (MFJ) is proud to support the Kurdish Community Centre (KCC) in Haringey. We condemn the agents of the British state who used anti-terrorism powers to close & occupy the community centre, and raid Kurdish homes in the middle of the night, brutalising, terrifying and abducting people. We condemn the ‘Labour’ government that gave the orders and is promoting racism and Islamophobia. It is significant that the attack on the KCC happened shortly after the Turkish ambassador had a meeting with the Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, who is also the local MP.

The MFJ recognises that our power is on the streets, which is what the Kurdish community is doing. We will march today, march tomorrow, and keep on marching until the arrested KCC members are released and any charges against them are dropped.

The Kurdish community & the detainees have every right to demand support from the mass anti-war movement that is supporting the fight for a Free Palestine, against British & American support for Israel.

There is a clear link between the escalating raids, abductions, and use of anti- terrorism law against the Kurdish community, and the growing attacks on the movement that supports the heroic Palestinian resistance and opposes the imperialist powers’ commitment to genocide, and their insane drive towards a new World War.

This is a battle for all of us, against a government that is desperate to persecute and shut down the pro-Palestine, anti-war, anti-imperialist movement. That is why we stand with Palestine Action, why we demand the reinstatement of the pro-Palestine student leaders suspended from the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), and why we call for the repeal of all injunctions against pro-Palestinian student protests. It is why the whole movement must come to the defence of the Kurdish communities in Haringey and elsewhere in Britain.

The way forward

The shared interests of Palestinians and Kurds in Britain reflect their shared experience in the Middle East. Over 100 years of false promises and shameful betrayals by Britain and other western imperialist powers have led to disaster after disaster, for both Kurds and Palestinians.

Those disasters have got worse, so the communities of first and second generation Palestinian & Kurdish refugees in Britain have grown and been augmented by other Middle Eastern refugees. They have a basic human right to be actively involved in the politics of their countries of origin, and they have the same right in Britain, which means they have the right to speak the plain truth about racism & xenophobia in Britain.

That is why MFJ calls for everyone who lives, works or studies in Britain to have an automatic right to vote in elections – but even without that right, refugee and immigrant communities are generally more politically conscious and produce the greatest leaders of all the poor and oppressed.

If we build our mass movement and our leadership, we can defeat the power of British imperialism in the Middle East and Africa by destroying its power.

08.12.2024

DEMAND THAT NEWHAM COUNCIL REINSTATES DENNIS CARABOTT

DEMAND THAT THE EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL DELIVERS JUSTICE FOR DENNIS CARABOTT AND ALL WORKERS

We need as many people as possible to attend Dennis Employment Appeal Tribunal hearing Wednesday 18th December 2-3pm.

To reserve a place, please send your full name, phone & email address by 12noon on Tuesday 17th December to: 
movement4justice.bamn@gmail.com

Dennis Carabott is a refuse worker and a highly regarded champion of workers’ rights, as a trade union activist and strike leader. On 18thDecember he will start his Employment Appeal Tribunal hearing as part of our fight for his reinstatement in the Newham Council workforce.

Last year Dennis’s case was unlawfully shut down by Judge Massarella, at the East London Employment Tribunal. Dennis did not have an opportunity to present one speck of factual evidence from the overwhelmingly strong case against his illegal sacking by Newham Council. Judge Massarella sprang into action when – before any evidence was heard – the Council’s barrister made a reference to Dennis’s leadership in Newham & Tower Hamlets refuse strikes.

At the last minute, Newham management came up with an unverified email message, supposedly from the manager to Dennis, in order to argue that the appeal was out-of-time. Dennis had never received this email; it was nowhere in any of the Council’s bundle of documents; and, unlike any of management’s actual emails to Dennis, it was not copied to his union support worker. That was standard practice because management knew Dennis is dyslexic.

Judge Massarella knew that too, and he knows that Dyslexia is a protected disability, but instead of observing the recommended procedures he forced Dennis into a humiliating procedure of searching his phone for a message that was not there, and then he drew Dennis’s wife and daughter into the same ridiculous pantomime.

Massarella did nothing to demand that Newham management provide material evidence of the origins of this email. He decided, without a shred of evidence, that Dennis had received and read the supposed email and so the appeal was out of time. He broke every procedural rule in the book and refused to hear the real substance of the case. His behaviour and decision are not an isolated scandal, however. They make it clear why 90% of Employment Tribunal claims fail.

Rather than make any pretence of offering justice to workers, the Tribunals are helping employers, the government, and local councils – to shut down effective representation by union reps and strangle the public workers’ strike movement. That is why it has taken Dennis Carabott and his lawyers more than a year to overcome the resistance of the tribunal system and secure an Appeal hearing.

We must make Dennis’s hearing on 18thDecember a ‘Test Case.’ That requires more than the action of a higher-level tribunal. He needs the support of Newham refuse workers, Tower Hamlets workers, all workers and the entire community of Newham, Tower Hamlets & across London to come forward. The Tribunal must know that IT is on trial– and when we win can then make it a ‘famous victory’ that will inspire the masses of public sector workers to fight new austerity policies we face under the Labour government.

Background:

Dennis message video to Newham Workers to vote yes in their strike ballot just a few weeks before his ET hearing 6 Aug 2023

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rg0lBqK5gTiOG1LEEj6ni8k7uIMfdkJK/view?usp=sharing

Alex Owolade Declaration statement Dennis Newham EAT:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1psf9QdbteAIOZphThNkgz8yF98RWK4NY/view?usp=sharing

Dennis witness statement for his Employment Tribunal hearing in Sept 2023 which the Judge shut down:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11RvbztAX0M7c3mrLiufV6qM7_TtHyAKd/view?usp=sharing

Alex Owolade

Movement For Justice – Strike To Win Committee

16/12/2024

ISRAEL’S WARS OF ETHNIC CLEANSING THREATEN THE GLOBAL CATASTROPHE OF WORLD WAR III!

ONLY THE INTERNATIONAL ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT FOR PALESTINE CAN PREVENT WORLD WAR III!

End All Military Aid to Israel!

No Support for War with Iran! No More Attacks on Iran!

Block All Military Aid to Israeli Genocide By Any Means Necessary!

No Electoral Support for Any Pro-Israeli Genocide Politicians or Parties! No Vote for Ethnic Cleansing! No Vote for Genocide!

Victory to the Palestinian Struggle Against Israel and Imperialism By Any Means Necessary!

Victory to the Lebanese Resistance to All Israeli Attacks By Any Means Necessary!

Expose the Full Dangers of Netanyahu’s War Drive: No to Total War in the Middle East!

No to Out-of-Control Slide into the Catastrophe of World War III!

THE MOVEMENT WILL STOP THIS WAR DRIVE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!

BAMN: Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights, and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary

ITC: International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of theFourth International (ITC)

MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY

05/10/2024

Victory to the Palestinian Struggle

THE BENGALI YOUTH OF TOWER HAMLETS SCORE THE FIRST VICTORY FOR OUR MOVEMENT AGAINST THE STARMER GOVERNMENT & THEIR PARTNERS – THE METROPOLITAN POLICE!

Bethnal Green Police Station Friday 12th July ’24
ZERO TOLERANCE for Racist police harassment & brutality
Jail the Racist Police Thugs – the only Justice for Tower Hamlets’ Community & Youth
Extend the victory we won on Friday night – When the Police Attack, Don’t Walk on By! Stand up for Our Rights
Defend, Expand & Unite the Mass Movements for a Free Palestine, Immigrant & Refugee Rights & Workers’ Rights
No to Imperialist Wars! No to Genocide!

JOIN THE MARCH FOR PALESTINE THROUGH OUR COMMUNITY

Saturday 20th July 2024 Tower Hamlets

Join MFJ contingent in front of the Town Hall, opposite Whitechapel Station at *11am*. March to PSC demo at Barclays Bank then March for Palestine through our Community.

16/07/2024

Our victory came at 4.30AM on Saturday, 13th July. Hundreds of Bangladeshi youth, members of Tower Hamlets’ Muslim community and campaigners against the war & genocide in Palestine had stayed there all night, blockading Bethnal Green police station. Our community was under attack. The movement was under attack. We knew that the brutal, public police attack on Waseem Yusaf, in the heart of Whitechapel, had been an attack on all of us – and at 4.30am we won our immediate goal. Waseem was released without any charge.

Waseem is a public supporter of the pro-Palestinian movement, which is backed by tens of thousands of people in Tower Hamlets and millions of people nationally. On the previous afternoon he had been driving on the main road through Whitechapel with a Palestinian flag in the car and wearing a pro-Palestine shirt. He was stopped by the Metropolitan Police, dragged from the car, viciously beaten up by the police, and arrested.

Many community members did the right thing, deciding ‘don’t walk on by’ when the police attack our community. They stopped and tried to get closer, but were held by other police officers held them. One community member was able to record the attack and post it on social media, and from there it was widely circulated. Their action played a vital part in the victory. There is no need to call for suspension or an “independent investigation.” That video confirms their guilt. They must be jailed for their crime.

A political attack by the police

The police attack on Waseem was a political attack – a deliberate show of force in the heart of one of the biggest Muslim communities in London. It was just a week after the Labour Party’s election victory, a clear sign that very little had changed. In the same period, politically motivated attacks and shut-downs have continued against pro-Palestine action by university students – including at Queen Mary’s University in Tower Hamlets. Some student protesters have been suspended or expelled, and some Muslim students from other countries are threatened with deportation.

The victory in Tower Hamlet must be defended by the same collective action that won it. That method must be spread to all parts of the country and all sections of the growing mass struggles – the mass movement against the genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, the immigrant & refugee rights struggle, the workers’ strikes and the student campaigns.

The Labour Party fears the Mass Movement.

The Labour Party is in government with a large majority of MPs, but this comes after one of its worst elections ever. They are already unpopular, and their crisis could come sooner than it took the Tories.

Under Keir Starmer’s leadership, the Labour Party did not oppose the Tories’ racist, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim policies, and it supported Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Labour claims that it will make the racist policies more efficient & effective. That is clear from the comments that Starmer and other ministers have made about deporting more Bangladeshi people and the racist, anti-immigrant slant of their campaign.

Labour is desperate to shut down our mass movement because it fears our power and it fears what we have achieved – the hundreds of youth who were at Bethnal Green police station to win Waseem’s freedom, the thousands of people who have mobilised to stop deportations, a mass strike movement that had huge public support, and the world’s biggest and most frequent demonstrations for a Free Palestine, outside of Palestine itself. As a result, the majority of the British population support or sympathise with the Palestinian people.

We must Fight to Win

The youth who were the real strength at the blockade of Bethnal Green police station and the women (mostly young) who have been the most dynamic force on the demonstrations for a Free Palestinian are the vital forces in this struggle. You will get ‘experienced’ advisors telling you about ‘correct’ procedures, legal processes, approaches to the Labour Party etc. Treat them with scepticism; and whether the advice is useful or not, always remember how the fight to release Waseem was won.

Always remember that our real power is on the streets and in our communities, and that action speaks louder than words.

Our power is when we are on the streets

OUR POWER IS ON THE STREETS: EAST LONDON march 4 Palestine 20th July 2024

We are very happy to learn that East London PSC branches will be marching next week, on the 20th July as part of the national day of action. This has been one of the strongest areas in supporting the Palestinian struggle and the national movement, so a march here will have national significance.

The Movement for Justice has been talking with various groups and activists about the need to step up our action now. We can expect Keir Starmer, Wes Streeting and their backers to increase attempts to shut down the pro-Palestine movement. as they know how strong & determined we are.

We are proposing that the march is from Whitechapel to Stratford (or vice versa) that will go past Queen Mary’s University, since it is so important that we defend the students who are coming under such serious attacks.

Details of the assembly & route should be announced shortly.

Alex
National Organiser,
Movement for Justice By Any Means Necessary.