WORLD WORLDWIDE EUROPE EU UK uk United Kingdom - news journal UPDATE - (en) UK, ACG, Jackdow #21 - Palestine Action (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Not a month goes by without another Palestine Action activist in the

dock in some court or other around the country, usually facing serious
time in prison, usually for involvement in direct actions but also for
statements made which have been construed as support for Hamas. ----
Palestine Action are an organisation committed to 'strategic, sustained
and focused direct action' against Israel's military-industrial complex.
They do not see any point in attempting to convince politicians or to
bear witness to the ongoing atrocities in Palestine through protest or
civil disobedience, but rather focus on making a financial impact. They
want to make supplying Israel with weaponry and military-logistical
support simply too expensive for UK-based companies; particularly Elbit
Systems, Israel's largest military manufacturer.
Accepting that sacrifice is inevitable, they do not embrace arrest and
imprisonment but try to avoid it whilst understanding that in many
circumstances it is extremely likely. Palestine Action do not see their
activities as symbolic, but rather geared towards material change. There
have been some victories. Barclays PLC, following an 11-month long
campaign which involved 54 actions against Barclays premises UK-wide,
decided last year to sell all of its shareholdings in Elbit Systems.
Similarly, mega-transport firm Kuehne+Nagel ended all ties with Elbit
following direct actions against their Leicester offices. These are
probably the highest profile of a number of victories.
Whilst these victories have not stopped the slaughter of people in Gaza,
they do show that direct action can be impactful, even when undertaken
by relatively small numbers of people. Ultimately, it is direct action
on a mass scale that holds the key to resisting war and to tearing out
the roots of war: capitalism and the state.

Support Palestine Action defendants here:
https://palestineaction.org/trials/
Support their prisoners here: https://palestineaction.org/prisoners/

https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2025/04/14/palestine-antimiltarist-jackdaw-special-out-now/
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