RCIT Activities in 2024 (January-March)

USA: Rally for a Ceasefire in Gaza, to denounce Biden's complicity and AM General's arms sales to Israel (30.03.2024)

London: Demonstration against the Genocide in Gaza (09.03.2024)

Britain: Cold Homes Kill Protest (06.03.2024)

Syria: Lively Mass Demonstration at the 13th Anniversary of the Revolution (10.03.2024)

(10.03.2024) سوريا: مظاهرة حاشدة حاشدة في الذكرى الثالثة عشرة للثورة

Siria: animada manifestación masiva en el 13º aniversario de la revolución (10.03.2024)

Syrien: Lebhafte Massendemonstration zum 13. Jahrestag der Revolution (10.03.2024)

Austria: Rally against the Flour Massacre in Gaza (04.03.2024)

Austria: manifestación contra la masacre de la harina en Gaza (04.03.2024)

Anti-War Protest in Tel Aviv (27.02.2024)

Wien: Kundgebung gegen das Mehl-Massaker in Gaza (04.03.2024)

Anti-War Protest in Tel Aviv (27.02.2024)

Acción contra la guerra en Tel Aviv (27.02.2024)

Austria: Demonstration against Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (24.04.2024)

فيينا: مظاهرة ضد الإبادة الجماعية الإسرائيلية في غزة (24.02.2024)

Austria: Manifestación contra el genocidio de Israel en Gaza (24.02.2024)

Wien: Demonstration gegen Israels Völkermord in Gaza (24.04.2024)

Austria: Rally against Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (22.02.2024)

(22.02.2024) فيينا: مظاهرة ضد الإبادة الجماعية الإسرائيلية في غزة

Austria: Manifestación contra el genocidio de Israel en Gaza (22.02.2024)

Wien: Kundgebung gegen Israels Völkermord in Gaza (22.02.2024)

London: National March for Ceasefire in Gaza (17.02.2024)

Anti-War Protest in Tel Aviv (13.02.2024)

South Korea: Solidarity Rally in Support of the Peace and Liberation of Palestine

남한: 팔레스타인 해방과 평화 연대 집회

Argentina: Mobilizations against Milei's Adjustment Laws (02.02.2024)

Argentina, movilizaciones contra las leyes de ajuste de Milei (02.02.2024)

Argentine, mobilisations contre les lois d'austérité de Milei (02.02.2024)

Argentina, mobilizações contra as leis de austeridade de Milei (02.02.2024)

Argentina, mobilitazioni contro le leggi di austerità di Milei (02.02.2024)

Argentina: First Strike against the Milei Government (26.01.2024)

Argentina: primera huelga contra el gobierno de Milei (26.01.2024)

Britain: TUC Demonstration Against Tory Anti-Trade Union Laws (27.01.2024)

Austria: Demonstration against Israel’s Genocide in Gaza (20.01.2024)

(20.01.2024) فيينا: مظاهرة ضد الإبادة الجماعية الإسرائيلية في غزة

Austria: Manifestación contra el genocidio de Israel en Gaza (20.01.2024)

Wien: Demonstration gegen Israels Völkermord in Gaza (20.01.2024)

Austria: Demonstration in Solidarity with Palestine and Yemen (19.01.2024)

Austria: manifestación de solidaridad con Palestina y Yemen (19.01.2024)

(19.01.2024) فيينا: مظاهرة تضامنية مع فلسطين واليمن

Wien: Demonstration in Solidarität mit Palästina und Jemen (19.01.2024)

Anti-War Demonstration in Tel Aviv (16.1.2024)

Syria: Rally Expresses the Unbroken Solidarity with the Revolution against Assad (14.01.2024)

(14.01.2024) سوريا: تجمع بروح التضامن المتواصل للثورة ضد الأسد

Siria: manifestación expresa la solidaridad inquebrantable con la revolución contra Assad (14.01.2024)

Syrien: Kundgebung im Zeichen der ungebrochenen Solidarität der Revolution gegen Assad (14.01.2024)

London: National March For Palestine (13.01.2024)

Once again, demonstration in solidarity with Palestine in Mexico City (7.1.2024)

Una vez más, manifestación en solidaridad con Palestina en la Ciudad de México (7.1.2024)

Leeds (UK): March for Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza (6.1.2024)

 

USA: Rally for a Ceasefire in Gaza, to denounce Biden's complicity and AM General's profits from arms sales to Israel

Report from a Rally in South Bend, Indiana, USA, on March 30, 2024, by an independent activist on invitation from the RCIT

 

 

 

On March 30th, in the town of South Bend, Indiana, USA, a little over a hundred activists gathered to protest in front of the offices of AM General, which is on record for selling military equipment (Humvee vehicles) to Israel. Three demands were raised: for Israel to cease fire, for Biden to stop supplying Israel with arms, and for AM General to stop profiting from supplying arms for genocide.

 

The initiative was launched by an ad-hoc group of activists from local churches, the Green Party and the Anti-War Committees in Solidarity with the Struggles for Self-Determination (AWCS, of which this writer is a member). These activists, from northwest Indiana, collaborated with the coalition Michiana Friends of Palestine, based in northeastern Indiana and Michigan, which has been successfully organizing rallies in South Bend.

 

Though modest in size, in comparison to recent mass marches in New York City and nearby Chicago (about a 3-hour drive from South Bend), the rally was significant for bringing together activists from many towns and communities, together with labor activists.

 

The action started with a spontaneous and spirited march through several blocks of South Bend, which is home to the University of Notre Dame. Participants chanted for a ceasefire, denounced AM General and Biden's complicity with genocide, against militarism, and in solidarity with the oppressed, from Palestine to Mexico.

 

The lead speaker at the rally was a representative of the United Auto Workers Labor For Palestine caucus (UAWL4P). She informed us that Palestinian trade unionists have called for a global picket line to stop weapons shipments to Israel. This call set the tone for the rally, and many of the speakers followed up in an impromptu discussion of how to engage the workers at AM General's manufacturing facility, who are UAW organized, and at other companies, such as Caterpillar, in nearby Illinois. This discussion continued after the rally, involving other activists from UAWL4P and young independent activists interested in this approach to building solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.

 

The speakers from Michiana Friends of Palestine were activists from the Palestinian American community. They held Biden directly responsible for the genocide in Gaza and denounced US imperialist interventions worldwide. The energy and enthusiasm these activists brought to the event is particularly noteworthy, leading us in chants until our voices were hoarse.

 

Activists from COSECHA (Spanish for harvest), which organizes for rights for undocumented workers, took the microphone to express solidarity with the Palestinian people, with all oppressed peoples, and to invite activists to support their struggle to win the right to secure drivers' licenses in the state of Indiana.

 

An activist from the AWCS gave a prepared speech that presented our organization's condemnation of Biden and the US ruling class for its complicity with genocide in Gaza, our demand for a free secular democratic Palestine as a home for both the Palestinian and Jewish communities, with respect for the Al Aqsa mosque and for the Right to Return of all Palestinians displaced by Zionism, and our belief that to confront wars, genocide and fascism we must build solidarity with the popular democratic struggles for self-determination, against all reactionary dictatorships and imperialist powers (speech available upon request).

 

An activist from the Illiana Muslim Association gave an emotionally moving appeal for solidarity that centered on the inhumane cruelty of the suffering imposed on the Palestinian people.

 

The speaker for the Green Party took up the need for building support among working people for opposition to militarism and US wars abroad, and to confront the climate crisis. He explained that he is a veteran labor activist and knows first-hand the challenges to this work.

 

There was also a brief exchange about Ukraine between the speaker for the Green Party and another for the AWCS: with the former holding the US responsible for instigating the tragic conflict and the later emphasizing the Ukrainians' right to self-determination. Both speakers will soon participate in an organized debate on the issue, which is obviously directly relevant to building a movement against militarism and US imperialist wars.

 

The rally closed with more chanting and finally a moving rendition of Bob Marley's Redemption Song by a local artist.

 

Finally, on appeal from this writer, the activists gathered for a group photo in solidarity with Syrian detainees, in particular for Dr. Majd KamAlmaz and Rania Alabbasi and her family, held by the Assad regime.

 

Even after the rally, discussions continued among activists. I heard two people exchanging opinions about how to characterize the Houthis and what positions our movement should take towards them, a pragmatic alliance or to maintain a political distance because of their shared responsibility (i.e., shared with the US, Saudi Arabia and the GCC) for the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

 

The path forward is long and will require unity in action even as we discuss complex political issues.

 

London: Demonstration against the Genocide in Gaza

By Laurence Humphries, RCIT Britain, 11th March 2024

 

 

 

Another mass demonstration against the genocide in Gaza took place in London on 9th March with about half a million people participating. Again, the march was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Stop the War Coalition, and the Friends of Al Asqa.

 

It was interesting to note that this time more British workers and youth joined the demonstration, compared to the marches before. However, the majority of demonstrators still came from the large diaspora of Arab and Muslim migrants. There were many placards with slogans like “Free Palestine”, “Ceasefire Now”, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free”, or “Stop Bombing Hospitals”. Many people also expressed their support for Palestinian resistance against Israel.

 

The police were there in big numbers with helicopters overhead and the ”Territorial Support Group” – a special police unit.

 

For the first time there were a number of trade union branches represented by rank-and-file activists from the PCS, UNITE, UNISON, NEU, UCU, and some Trades Councils. However, the trade union bureaucracy continues to follow the Zionist position of Keir Starmer and have not spoken at any of the rallies. As a sign of protest, there were stickers and placards against Starmer and the Labour leadership for not supporting the ceasefire.

 

Members of the RCIT participated at the demonstration selling our journals and distributing our leaflets in support of the Palestinian resistance. Several demonstrators were impressed that we had Arabic-language material.

 

Britain: Cold Homes Kill Protest

By Laurence Humphries, RCIT Britain, 7th March 2024

 

 

 

A group of 100 activists from the National Pensioners Campaign and the UNITE Community Fuel Poverty Action Group held a rally outside the parliament in Westminster on 6th March. They were demanding free energy for all and the insulation of homes. With runaway inflation ordinary people, mainly pensioners and young people, cannot afford to heat their homes. Campaigners stressed that babies have died in the cold. They called for free energy and for completely making sure that every home is insulated from the cold.

 

Zara Sultana, the left-wing Labour MP for Coventry spoke at the rally and promised that a Labour Government should offer free energy. There were also regional protests from Exeter to Glasgow. RCIT activists participated in the protests.

 

Syria: Lively Mass Demonstration at the 13th Anniversary of the Revolution

 

Report (with Photos and Videos) from a Demonstration in Vienna on 10 March 2024, Austrian Section of the RCIT, www.rkob.net and www.thecommunists.net

 

 

 

About 2,000 Syrian migrants marched in Vienna at the 13th anniversary of the Syrian Revolution. It was an extraordinary lively demonstration with people alternating chanting and singing against the dictatorship of Assad. The demonstration was led by Abdulhkeem Alshater from the association “Free Syrian Community of Austria”. As the pictures below show, demonstrators also expressed their solidarity with the people in Palestine.

 

The march was addressed by several Syrian speakers as well as one from the Ukraine. Michael Pröbsting, International Secretary of the RCIT, was the first speaker at the final rally. He emphasized that the Syrian Revolution is still living, and that this demonstration confirmed this. Michael sent greetings both to the heroic peoples in Syria as well as in Palestine – fighting for their freedom against tyranny. He pointed to the reactionary role of imperialist Great Powers with Russia backing Assad and the U.S. supporting Israel. Michael concluded his speech that Syria can only be free if the working people take political power as well as the economy in their own hands.

 

Furthermore, our activists sold 49 copies of the new issue of THAWRA – the Arab-language paper of the RCIT.

 

سوريا: مظاهرة حاشدة حاشدة في الذكرى الثالثة عشرة للثورة

تقرير (مع صور ومقاطع فيديو) عن مظاهرة في فيينا في 10 مارس 2024، RKO BEFREIUNG (القسم النمساوي من RCIT)

 

www.rkob.net , www.thecommunists.net

 

 

 

شارك نحو 2000 مهاجر سوري في مسيرة في فيينا بمناسبة الذكرى الثالثة عشرة للثورة السورية.  لقد كانت مظاهرة حيوية بشكل استثنائي، حيث تناوب المشاركون على ترديد الهتافات والأغاني ضد دكتاتوربة الأسد.  وقاد التظاهرة عبد الحكيم الشاطر من جمعية “الجالية السورية الحرة في النمسا”.  وكما تظهر الصور أدناه، أعرب المتظاهرون أيضاً عن تضامنهم مع شعب فلسطين.

 

وتحدث في المظاهرة عدة متحدثين سوريين و واحد من أوكرانيا.  كان مايكل بروبستينج، السكرتير الدولي لـ RCIT، أول المتحدثين في التجمع النهائي.  وأكد أن الثورة السورية لا تزال حية وأن هذه التظاهرة تؤكد ذلك.  و وجه مايكل تحياته إلى الشعبين البطلين في سوريا وفلسطين اللذين يناضلان من أجل حريتهما ضد الاستبداد.  وأشار إلى الدور الرجعي للقوى الإمبريالية الكبرى، حيث تدعم روسيا الأسد والولايات المتحدة تدعم إسرائيل.  وفي نهاية كلمته، أكد مايكل أن سوريا لا يمكن أن تكون حرة إلا إذا أخذ الشعب العامل السلطة السياسية والاقتصاد بأيديهم.

 

بالإضافة إلى ذلك، قام نشطاؤنا ببيع 49 نسخة من الطبعة الجديدة من صحيفة الثورة - الصحيفة الصادرة باللغة العربية التابعة للمركز الإقليمي للاتصالات وتكنولوجيا المعلومات.

 

 

 

Siria: animada manifestación masiva en el 13º aniversario de la revolución