WORLD WORLDWIDE NORTH AMERICA US USA - (en) US, BRRN: Genocide Demands Action: Solidarity in Word and Deed (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The following essay represents the thoughts of five BRRN members as they

reflect on their organizing work against the genocide in Gaza and
suggest paths forward for the movement in the current moment.
by Elise Recluse, Felix T, Ketino B, Jay, and Juan Verala Luz
The state of so-called "Israel," in fulfillment of its settler-colonial
ambitions and representing the imperialist interests of the United
States and the dominant classes of the world, is mass starving the
people in the Gaza Strip. Mass starvation as a weapon of war has nothing
to do with "self-defense" in whatever form or shape it may present
itself. On the contrary, it follows a familiar playbook wherein man-made
famines are used to subjugate and eliminate entire populations.

As we write this, the next phase of Israel's 22-month-long genocide
unfolds: the occupation of Gaza City. Simultaneously, plans are in
motion to build what are effectively concentration camps-so-called
"humanitarian cities"-to impose the most unbearable living conditions on
the Palestinian population.

As recent pronouncements from the Israeli parliament have made clear,
the annihilation of Palestinians in Gaza is a prerequisite for Zionist
plans to build a "Greater Israel." What was perhaps unclear to some a
couple of years ago is now self-evident: even in its true character as a
puppet of U.S. imperialism and the dominant classes of the world,
Israel's settler-colonial state is, always has been, and always will be
a fascist state.

For us, this genocide is both a singular atrocity as well as another
instance of the worldwide intensification of class struggle. The horror
of the genocide in Gaza must be halted for the sake of Palestinians. It
must also be halted here and now before it is applied to other sections
of the dominated classes of the world. As we have seen before, the
technologies and techniques of domination pioneered in Israel are
exported around the globe to reinforce police and military control in
the US and elsewhere.

However, the current genocidal violence against Palestinians is the
direct result of the growth of imperialist power, which will always
translate into more domination, oppression, and exploitation: an iron
ring choking the neck of the dominated classes across the world. There
is a structural element acting here that turns this into an actual
imperialist dynamic-class struggle, in other words. For example, those
investment pension funds bought by US state and local treasuries, and
even labor unions, have been key in fueling "Israel's" economy for
decades now while actually playing only one real role: to ensure the
annihilation of any threat against the interests of the U.S.-based
dominant classes that exploit workers both in the U.S. and across the
entire world. Workers organized in such unions have begun to push back
against Israel bonds, as part of a growing movement of global solidarity.

Just as fast as any surveillance technology from so-called "Israel,"
Palestinian steadfastness in the struggle for liberation is globalizing.
We revolutionary anarchists, communists, and socialists cannot remain
still while a portion of the world is annihilated; every single life
counts, and every effort must be made to preserve it. To promote
healing, we must first stop the bleeding: in our own efforts toward
building social movements, we emphasize deep organizing against
genocide, bringing the struggle for Palestinian liberation into
long-term organizing rooted in workplaces, neighborhoods, schools, and
other sites of daily life.

We support the Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions and the Palestinian Trade Unions appeal to international
solidarity: work stoppages, mutual aid appeals within our organizations,
boycotts, divestment, and sanction campaigns, direct action to break the
illegal siege, and direct action to disrupt the reputation and bottom
lines of politicians, perpetrators, and war profiteers are examples of
actions that can have maximum impact. We also support efforts by
organized workers to end their workplaces' and unions' complicity with
genocide by divesting from aforementioned Israel bonds in pension funds.
These actions not only disrupt genocidal business as usual, but also
help to build the defensive and offensive popular power of our own mass
organizations in the process. Whenever possible, we should build such
popular power, whether that is in Palestine, in our own mass
organizations, or both.

To break the machinery of genocide, we must look back, reflect, and
learn from both gains and failures. During 2024, the US Palestine
solidarity movement swelled with Solidarity Encampments throughout
universities. That unity in mobilization powerfully embodied the twin
drives to stop the imperialist massacre in Gaza while advancing the
struggle for the liberation of Palestine. Fascists, Zionists, state
functionaries, mass media, and other powerful interests targeted these
mass movements and deeply undermined the Palestine solidarity movement:
threatening participants, depriving them of jobs and their academic
futures, and in some cases detaining and threatening to deport activists.

We have continued to build structures from below and launched targeted
campaigns that dent "Israel's" global legitimacy and means to finance
its occupation despite these best efforts to repress us. The lesson is
clear: we must amass greater power through forging strategic alliances
with clear goals, deep organizing, and large-scale mobilization if we
want to dismantle the Israeli settler colony. We must build a vision of
victory.

Alongside stopping genocide, we must hold onto hope that positive,
liberatory futures are possible for Gaza, for greater Palestine, for the
larger surrounding region, and beyond. We should continue to stand
shoulder-to-shoulder with Palestinians and support them in rebuilding
Palestine's structures of popular power: unions of peasants and workers,
neighborhood assemblies, student unions, women's and queer
organizations, organs of community self-defense, and more.

We struggle for an end to genocide, for a start to healing, for
libertarian socialist possibility for Palestine.

Alongside the tactics against genocide and imperialist power outlined
above, we strongly urge comrades and friends to contribute what they can
to grassroots efforts to alleviate suffering of peoples in and displaced
from Gaza now:

Donate to the Translating Falasteen's x The Sameer Project's North Gaza
Relief Efforts:
https://chuffed.org/project/help-us-deliver-vital-aid-to-gaza-families-in-need
Stop the genocide now!

Free Palestine!

https://www.blackrosefed.org/genocide-demands-action-solidarity-in-word-and-deed/
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