The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign has taken an important initiative in launching an appeal to unite the various world liberation struggles. Oaklandsocialist has signed on to it and urges others to do likewise and to help publicize it. So far, 45 people have signed on. Signatories include union members in the US, Ukrainians, Israelis, Syrians, a Pan-African member of the Glasgow City Council, and long time fighters in South Africa.The Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign is composed of socialists of all different types, anarchists, and working class fighters. It is not part of any specific socialist organization.

Sign on to this statement from this link.

SIGN OUR STATEMENT:

May 9, 2024

To those who fight for liberation the world over:

UNITE AGAINST GENOCIDE & BUILD A GLOBAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT 

As we write this, Israel is taking the first steps towards carrying its genocidal war into Rafah by ordering an evacuation. But as one resident said “there’s nowhere [else] to go.” Israel has stepped up its drive to starve the people of Gaza to death by closing the Rafah border crossing, a key route for aid to enter Gaza. Israel’s ethnic cleansing won’t stop in Gaza. Land theft and assaults in the West Bank by Israel-approved settlers have accelerated. According to Amira Hass, there were 108 settler assaults recorded in January, 145 in February, and many unrecorded settler assaults and thefts. Oppression against Palestinians and their supporters inside Israel has also increased. 

Israel is committing war crimes and there must be consequences. All involved should be charged as war criminals at the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

People around the world stand with Palestinians and oppose Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. In America, the Palestinian solidarity movement is predominantly playing out on university campuses right now. Defenders of Israel have tried to crush this encampment movement:

• At UCLA, Zionist/fascists assaulted pro Palestine protesters using clubs, pipes, and professional grade fireworks. 
• At Columbia University, the NYPD kettled and isolated the student protest encampment from the outside world and then arrested students.
• Police arrested protesters at Emory University in Atlanta GA and University of Texas, Austin and George Washington University in Washington, DC.
• There are over 120 campus protests; everywhere Zionism-friendly media and politicians are libeling the protesters as being anti-Semitic despite the thousands of anti-Zionist Jews who are participating in the protests, and in multiple instances leading Seder or Shabbat meals for the group

None of the state or private security efforts to crush the pro-Palestine protests will succeed. The student-led encampments and protests are principled overall and can only help open the way for a wider, global struggle for liberation and justice. A victory for the movement to Free Palestine will be a victory for all liberation struggles. 

We urge all liberation supporters to:

• Join together to Free Palestine and stop Israel’s genocide and apartheid.
• Build opposition to Israel’s genocide by uniting the struggles for liberation around the world.
• Unite the global fight against the rise of fascism and far right nationalist bigotry and authoritarianism. 
• Expand our calls for justice and liberation from the university campuses to calling on the unions for their support. Start with unions on the college campuses!
• Call for a complete shutdown of the transportation industry to halt the shipment of arms to Israel, via this expanded student and labor movement. The unions have the power to organize this — but it must come from an organized movement of the rank and file.
• Demand a complete end of all U.S. arms to Israel and send them instead to Ukrainians, who like Palestinians are facing an imperialist and genocidal attack. 

The movement to Free Palestine is part of a world liberation movement. The movement for a Free Palestine will only be strengthened by linking up with the power of other global liberation struggles, in Syria, Ukraine, Sudan, Myanmar/Burma, Xinjiang, Haiti, Congo, Iran, Kashmir, America and the world over.  

We urge all liberation fighters: sign on to and help circulate this statement.

Join together.

From Palestine, Syria, Ukraine, Myanmar, Iran, Sudan, Xinjiang, Haiti, Kashmir, Congo to the United States and the world over:

UNITE THE STRUGGLES!

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SIGNATURES

1. Trevor Ngwane, United Front, South Africa
   “Stop the genocide! Biden stop funding the genocide!”
2. Tebogo South Africa, Keep Left
   “End Genocide”
3. Michael Karadjis, Western Sydney University
4. Ofer Neiman
   “Israeli citizen, opposed to Israel’s apartheid and genocide policies.” 
5. Mocke J van Veuren, South Africa, Wits University
   “Ceasefire now!”
6. Bongani uhuru Jonas Bekkersdal location Gauteng Province South Africa (Mining Affected Communities United in Action)
   “Free Palestine from the rivers to seas”
7. Shaheen Khan, Potchefstroom, RSA, Potch For Palestine
   “Permanent Ceasefire Now! Stop the Genocide!”
8. Marusja Münchmeyer
9. John Reimann, Oakland California, oaklandsocialist.com
   “Uniting the various struggles for global liberation is the next step forward. It is vital.”
10. Joseph Grosso
    “Unite the Struggles!!”
11. Linda Mann Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign
12. Ian Singleton, Albany, NY
13. Frank Rogaczewski, retired lecturer, RAFO-IEA
    “The genocidal Israeli campaign against the Palestinian people of Gaza and on the West Bank must end. The US and worldwide student encampments and protests, the “uncomitted” movement in the Democratic primary, the opposition of House Democrats, and the work of several nations to bring the question of genocide to the UN are important steps in the fight against genocide and for humanity. The movement to free Palestine is part of a world liberation movement against all imperialism.” 
14. Talmadge Wright, Professor Emeritus Sociology
15. Deborah Hellerstein
16. Scrappy, UCSB Encampment
    “No one is free if anyone is unfree.” 
17. Zachary Lerman, Oakland, CA
18. Monica B.
19. Steve Ongerth, Richmond CA
20. Emmett Doyle, Minnesota, United Brotherhood of Carpenters
    “A victory for Putin or Bibi is a victory for impunity in violence against people facing colonization.” 
21. Patrick Bond, Johannesburg
22. Pedro Ramirez Stanislaus County
    “An injury to one is an injury to all”
23. Thami Hukwe
    “There should be concerted efforts to build solidarity with dispossessed people living in squatter camps, backyards and on the streets in South Africa with the dispossessed people of Palestine.”
24. Workers International Vanguard League
    “Free Palestine from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea. 🇵🇸”
25. BCMU
    “Genocide is evil”
26. Marusja Münchmeyer
27. Henry Lowi, Toronto, Canada
28. Joan McKiernan, New York
29. Tom Dale
30. Cheryl Zuur, co-chair, Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign. Former president AFSCME Local 444, Hayward, CA
31. Meghan Keane, Syria Solidarity NYC and Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign
    “Unite all struggles!”
32. Giorgos Mitralias, Greece
33. Eric Ramsey, Fort Worth TX, Democratic Socialists of America Fort Worth
    “To construct a principled, consistent anti-imperialist force, we must unite the struggle for liberation across the world. Freedom and justice, by any means necessary! Only upon these fundamental principles can we build a world without capitalism and imperialism, together.”
34. Isabelle Abbott, Ukrainians For a Free Palestine
35. Bob Loza Kochan, 2nd gen Ukrainian Canadian
36. Sabrina, Canada
37. Javier Saborido, Jerez (Spain), Ganemos Jerez political party
38. Emma Calcutt, Community Solidarity Stroud District & Stroud Against Racism UK
39. Rami Emad, Syrian Refugee, AstroGateSpace
    “Be careful of Genocide Supporter Assadists Hijacking FreePalestine.”
40. Gabriel Ash, citizen of the apartheid state of Israel
41. Dorian B.
    “No one is free until we are all free!”
42. Cllr Graham Campbell; Glasgow City Council, Scotland (pc); Chair Ukraine Solidarity Campaign Scotland
    “As a PanAfricanist anti-imperialist, for me it is essential we see the imperialist expansionist regimes of Russia and China – as well of the US, Canada, Japan and Europe – for what they are. We of all people should understand what colonisation, genocide and loss of sovereignty over our land and resources means. We also know from ongoing wars in DR Congo, Sudan, Libya, Ethiopia/Eritrea; just how complicit African rulers are with the imperialist powers looting our continent’s resources at the expense of millions of African lives. These powers are intent on colonising the resources and peoples of Africa for their own imperialist ends. Putin is not our friend and the African military dictatorships that have seized power in West Central Africa – shifting allegiance towards Russia and China – will sell-out their peoples by enriching themselves – just as African military dictators always have done. It’s the curse of neocolonialism but this time in hoc to Russian militarism and Chinese resource expansionism. A United Pan African socialism requires truly independent workers’ action for genuine self-determination. So Africans must side with the oppressed not the oppressor – From Ukraine to Palestine – Occupation is a Crime! From Palestine to Ukraine – Occupiers Have No Claim!”
43. Kieran F. Knutson, Minneapolis, MN CWA Local 7250
    “Solidarity with the people of Palestine & Ukraine!” 
44. Olivier Delbeke, France, Syndiqué CGT, rédacteur aplutsoc.org
45. Genebrier Léo, CGT, Ardèche, France 
46. Mohammed Ben Yakhlef, CGT, Paris 94 Villeneuve Saint Georges, France 

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