Stop the genocide in Palestine!

Don’t look away! Look! End the war NOW!

Powerlessness and anger – these are our prevailing feelings in the face of reports from Gaza and the West Bank:

Tens of thousands of people murdered, human misery, starving people

Helplessness, doctors and activists close to starvation… Devastation, destruction, annihilation…

War and genocide are among the most brutal methods used by those in power to assert their interests.

How can governments that claim to defend democracy and human rights ignore or even actively support the war against the Palestinian people?

They can! That is the horrific reality.

How low can humanity sink?

To bottomless depths!

In the imperialist stage of the capitalist system, barbarism knows no boundries.

The Zionist state of Israel claims self-defence. That is a despicable lie: it is retaliating – far more than that! The weapons it is using represent a new level of murderous escalation in the war.

In war, truth is the first casualty – we must assume that this is also the case here: we can prove lies and manipulation on a daily basis. The Israeli government goes one step further and does not even attempt to declare the targeted executions of journalists in the war zone as collateral damage.

Blockade of aid supplies for people in need – hunger as a weapon of war, allegedly to destroy HAMAS at its base.

BUT: What starving child has ever been a terrorist threat? The cruelty of the methods used in this war are staggering.

The weapons of the State of Israel: Settler colonialism:

Massive expansion of illegal settlements, de facto occupation of territories in Palestine, Syria, Iran, Lebanon and the accompanying expulsion of the local population.

Hunger and bombs are destroying the last vestiges of Palestinian life in Gaza and the West Bank.

This war must end immediately!

No ifs, no buts!

We must fight internationally against any continuation or expansion of this war!

This is possible!

Shake off your powerlessness in the face of the horrific crimes in Gaza!

Turn your anger into action!

For example Italian, Spanish and Greek dockworkers, who repeatedly prevent arms shipments to Israel by setting up blockades. We too can use our powers to disrupt this war wherever we are, and yes can: END IT.

Just one of many examples: on 8 August 2025, activists blocked the Ulm site of the Israeli arms company ELBITsystems. On 8 September 2025, a building was briefly occupied.

The GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA, which set sail at the beginning of September with around 50 ships and over 300 activists from 44 countries, must reach its destination – to help the people of Palestine! However, this is far from enough to alleviate the worst of the suffering.

Further aid deliveries must be enforced – to prevent starvation, especially of the children who are dying every day. For medical aid – for Palestine! No one should be allowed to prevent this.

Groups and individuals who oppose this war are subjected to severe repression. In Israel, but also here in Germany. We stand in solidarity with them!

We, communists stand alongside those who fight for peace and justice!

Don’t be part of the war machine:

Block, sabotage, desert!

Strike!

Germany ‘stands firmly by Israel’s side’ – which is only natural, since German arms manufacturers are raking in insane profits from this war, as they do in all wars.

In fact, the German government is politically manoeuvring between lip service, crocodile tears and cynical actions: e.g. the temporary ‘evacuation’ of Palestinian children for a ‘holiday from war’ …

Fatal parcel drops … and otherwise hot air.

Above all this stands German raison d’état on the side of Israel – come what may.

Profit always takes precedence over human lives

There are occasional outcries, for example in response to the Trump administration’s plans to depopulate Gaza in order to establish IT, industry and housing there. To build a tourist paradise for Trump supporters on scorched earth. The mockery knows no bounds.

Yet it would be so easy to take the first steps.

The so-called civilisations of the West could help to ease the situation with just a few actions:

Finally recognise Palestine as a state and push ahead with the implementation of a two-state solution.

Admit migrants from Palestine without bureaucratic red tape.

Enforce the release of prisoners and hostages on both sides.

Condemn war crimes – as a minimum, ensure international law is upheld.

Force Israel, through political and economic pressure, to end the war, blockade and occupation, return territories and take responsibility for reconstruction.

Much remains to be done to enable the people in the region to live together in peace. HAMAS, with its goal of establishing a caliphate, is not an option for the liberation of the Palestinian people.

With HAMAS on one side and Netanyahu on the other, there can be no peace… Not real peace for the people.

Solidarity with the people in Gaza and the West Bank!

Down with war and reaction!

Peace for the people! Only with revolution! Everything else is an illusion!

Despite all this!

Communist magazine

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10 September 2025