More analysis at https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/
A month after the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in the balance. The US plans to impose a transitional government of technocrats on the Palestinians in Gaza, backed up by outside armed forces – a form of naked colonialism.
Israeli military forces will be allowed to remain inside the perimeter of the Gaza strip, maintaining control of its borders – a continued blockade, imprisoning the Palestinians and deciding what goods can enter and leave the strip. Israeli prime minister Netanyahu has made clear that Israel has no intention of entirely withdrawing from Gaza and stressed that there will be no possibility of a Palestinian state.
Today, with nationality-based distrust and division dominating the Israel-Palestine landscape, a solution can seem further away than ever. On a capitalist basis, it’s not just further away, but impossible. However, consciousness of workers and the poor in Israel and among Palestinians will not be disconnected from developments in other parts of the world, a world in which young people are increasingly questioning whether capitalist crisis is their only future.
Further reading:
The World Impact of Two Years of War on Gaza – and what lies ahead?
https://www.socialistworld.net/2025/10/06/the-world-impact-of-two-years-of-war-on-gaza-and-what-lies-ahead/
Gaza Ceasefire – Struggle for the Complete End of the War of Extermination and the Overthrow of the Netanyahu Government
https://www.socialistworld.net/2025/10/13/gaza-ceasefire-struggle-for-the-complete-end-of-the-war-of-extermination-and-the-overthrow-of-the-netanyahu-government/
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More analysis at https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/
A month after the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in the balance. The US plans to impose a transitional government of technocrats on the Palestinians in Gaza, backed up by outside armed forces – a form of naked colonialism.
Israeli military forces will be allowed to remain inside the perimeter of the Gaza strip, maintaining control of its borders – a continued blockade, imprisoning the Palestinians and deciding what goods can enter and leave the strip. Israeli prime minister Netanyahu has made clear that Israel has no intention of entirely withdrawing from Gaza and stressed that there will be no possibility of a Palestinian state.
Today, with nationality-based distrust and division dominating the Israel-Palestine landscape, a solution can seem further away than ever. On a capitalist basis, it’s not just further away, but impossible. However, consciousness of workers and the poor in Israel and among Palestinians will not be disconnected from developments in other parts of the world, a world in which young people are increasingly questioning whether capitalist crisis is their only future.
Further reading:
The World Impact of Two Years of War on Gaza – and what lies ahead?
https://www.socialistworld.net/2025/10/06/the-world-impact-of-two-years-of-war-on-gaza-and-what-lies-ahead/
Gaza Ceasefire – Struggle for the Complete End of the War of Extermination and the Overthrow of the Netanyahu Government
https://www.socialistworld.net/2025/10/13/gaza-ceasefire-struggle-for-the-complete-end-of-the-war-of-extermination-and-the-overthrow-of-the-netanyahu-government/
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Socialism the Podcast Episode 142: Trade Wars and the workers' movement
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Socialism the Podcast Episode 142: Trade Wars and the workers' movement
Hannah Sell, the general Secretary of the Socialist Party, discusses the chaos unleashed on the world economy by Donald Trump's ‘liberation day’ tariffs.
What is the logic of the massive tariffs introduced by Trump? Despite appearances, it is not simply a question of a crazy billionaire having got the keys to the White House. Trump reflects the decline of US imperialism, still the strongest power on the planet, but increasingly less able to set the framework for the world. During Trump’s first term and under Biden, tariffs and protectionist measures increased, in an attempt to protect US markets from its global rivals. ‘Liberation Day’, however, was on a qualitatively different scale. Trump and his co-thinkers had drawn the conclusion that it is necessary to launch an offensive ‘knock-‘em-down, drag-‘em-out’ economic fight to defend US capitalism against its competitors, above all China.
When the theatrics and fantastical hyperbole now associated with the Trump presidency are set to one side, the tariff war launched on April 2 boils down fundamentally to an attempt to appropriate to US capitalism a larger share of value from the world economy at the expense of its ‘trading partners’, “friend and foe alike” as Trump himself puts it.
Read more:
Trade wars and the workers’ movement
An Editorial of Socialism Today, the monthly magazine of the Socialist Party
www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/138333/01-05-2025/socialism-today-editorial-trade-wars-and-the-workers-movement/
Trump’s tariff turmoil
An editorial of the Socialist, the weekly paper of the Socialist Party
www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/137831/14-04-2025/trumps-tariff-turmoil/
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More analysis at https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/
A month after the second anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel and the subsequent prolonged genocidal slaughter in Gaza, the fate of Trump’s latest proposals for an end to the war is still in the balance. The US plans to impose a transitional government of technocrats on the Palestinians in Gaza, backed up by outside armed forces – a form of naked colonialism.
Israeli military forces will be allowed to remain inside the perimeter of the Gaza strip, maintaining control of its borders – a continued blockade, imprisoning the Palestinians and deciding what goods can enter and leave the strip. Israeli prime minister Netanyahu has made clear that Israel has no intention of entirely withdrawing from Gaza and stressed that there will be no possibility of a Palestinian state.
Today, with nationality-based distrust and division dominating the Israel-Palestine landscape, a solution can seem further away than ever. On a capitalist basis, it’s not just further away, but impossible. However, consciousness of workers and the poor in Israel and among Palestinians will not be disconnected from developments in other parts of the world, a world in which young people are increasingly questioning whether capitalist crisis is their only future.
Further reading:
The World Impact of Two Years of War on Gaza – and what lies ahead?
https://www.socialistworld.net/2025/10/06/the-world-impact-of-two-years-of-war-on-gaza-and-what-lies-ahead/
Gaza Ceasefire – Struggle for the Complete End of the War of Extermination and the Overthrow of the Netanyahu Government
https://www.socialistworld.net/2025/10/13/gaza-ceasefire-struggle-for-the-complete-end-of-the-war-of-extermination-and-the-overthrow-of-the-netanyahu-government/
More Info - Click here for all your Socialist Party links: https://linkin.bio/socialistparty/
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