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A Morning Thought @ 3003

Prisoners For Palestine   Qesser Zuhrah with a statement.

بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

We who are imprisoned by the British state for Resisting the genocide of our beloved Palestinian people declare the beginning of our Hunger Strike, as we reaffirm our commitment to our struggle from within these Prison walls.

For 15 months, we who are imprisoned for Palestine have tested this “justice system”, and for 15 months we have watched Elbit Systems, the zionist entity and our Government abuse justice and prolong our imprisonment, demanding that we forsake our cause in exchange for our freedom. And so now, we’re forced to confront those that refuse to look us in the eyes with the very foundation of the humanity they deny recognising in us – our life, and our right to life.

On this day in 1917 is when our British state effectively began its colonisation of Palestine. Our British state is the origin of the zionist entity, and while it now likes to act as secondary in the zionist project, we remember and reiterate it’s shameful role in founding one of the most racist and genocidal settler-colonies to exist.

Elbit Systems is the despicable arm of the zionist entity, entrenched here in our British soil, that is manufacturing the weapons that are being used to ethnically cleanse Palestine.

Elbit Systems is the despicable entity that supplies 85% of the land-based weaponry that is being used to colonise the land of Palestine.

Elbit systems is the despicable entity that reaffirms its commitment to and facilitation of the colonisation of Palestine and Holocaust of our beloved Palestinian people in its sloganeering of its weapons as “battle tested on Palestinians”.

And this is the entity that has ordered our imprisonment. And so:

  • On count 1 of the genocide of the Palestinian people;
  • On count 2 of the starvation of the Palestinian people;
  • And on count 3 of the brutal colonisation of Palestine;

On all counts, we who are Prisoners for Palestine, find Elbit Systems: Guilty.

As a result of this criminality, we demand:

1. End all censorship

We demand to be able to send and receive communications without restriction, surveillance, or interference from the prison administration. Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right that is vital for prisoners, whose voices are already systematically silenced. Censorship inside prisons is a tool of control used to punish resistance. Letters, phone calls, political statements, books and all other forms of expression must be respected.

2. Immediate bail

We demand that we be released from custody while awaiting trial. Holding people on remand, in some cases indefinitely, is a deliberate abuse of power, used to punish Prisoners before they have even faced a court or been convicted of any crime. Some of us will have been imprisoned for nearly two years without a conviction. The right to a fair trial must include the right to prepare for it in freedom, not behind bars.

3. Right to a fair trial

We demand the right to a fair trial, which cannot happen until all relevant documents related to our cases are released in full. This includes all meetings between British and israeli entity officials, the British police, the Attorney General, Elbit Systems representatives, and any others involved in coordinating the ongoing witch-hunt of Actionists and Campaigners.

We also demand the release of government records of all Elbit Systems UK exports from the last five years. We have the right to know what arms are being made and exported from the UK, especially when they are used to commit genocide.

4. Deproscribe

We demand the immediate dropping of all terror-related charges and ‘links’, and an end to the use of the Prevent strategy. The Government’s use of counter-terror laws to target those engaged in protest and direct action is unjustified and unprecedented, and must be stopped.

In light of this, we demand that the British government deproscribe Palestine Action. Direct action is not terrorism. It is a legitimate tactic deployed when democratic channels fail to reflect the will of the people. When the government breaks the law, citizens have the moral responsibility to act in defence of life, human rights, and collective dignity.

We also demand an apology from Yvette Cooper for spearheading a smear campaign in a cynical attempt to justify her decision to proscribe Palestine Action. Her claim that Palestine Action was a violent organisation “possibly funded by Iran” has no basis in fact.

5. Shut Elbit down

Many of us are imprisoned for allegedly taking action against Elbit Systems, israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Since 2012, Elbit has won 25 public contracts in the UK totalling more than £355m. Now, the Ministry of Defence is preparing to sign a £2.7 billion contract with Elbit that would designate it as a “strategic partner” and see the company train 60,000 British troops each year.

We demand that the government does not use taxpayer´s money to fund the machinery of genocide and scrap this contract. Furthermore, we demand that all Elbit systems’ sites and its subsidiaries in the UK are permanently shut down.

Until our demands are met, we will Resist. We ask our Government now: Are you willing to let us die before you stop arming a genocide?

As we take on this struggle, we follow in the honoured legacy of Prisoners throughout time, from Ireland to Guantanamo to Palestine. The Resistance has always been banished by the oppressors to the Prisons in the hopes that this is where they will send it to die. But now, it is from within these Prison walls that we will use the Prisoners tools to disarm the master’s house.

As a Nation, we have made a shameful mockery of Resistance.
It is from our Palestinian people that we learn what Resistance truly entails.
It is from our Palestinian Prisoners, whose captivity and unspeakable torture could not extinguish their desire for the liberation of their homeland, that we learn.
It is from our Resistance whom we have cowardly forsaken, that we learn.
It is from them that we learned, O Palestine, that we can do more for you than bang our pots and pans! And it is in their footsteps we follow as we determine to put our bodies on the line in Resistance to the zionist project, its manifestation as Elbit Systems, and its implementation by the British State.

We seek to do this in service of the Palestinian Cause; in service of our duty to humanity; and in service of our duty to justice, entrusted to us by our Lord,
Al-Shaheed, The Witness. Because in the words of martyred Palestinian Journalist Hossam Shabat, this struggle is the “highest honour” of our lives.

We seek fulfilment and triumph only from Allah, with full certainty and the fact that it is He who presides over all matters. In this matter, we seek the support of Allah, certain that victory is only from Al-Adl, The Most Just. Ya Allah, we ask that you purify our intentions, makes sincere our actions and forgive us for our sins, so that we may earn through this struggle Your Mercy and Your Favour upon us. Ameen.

Elbit, while you boast of how your weapons have been “battle tested on Palestinians”, our Resistance will inform you that your tests have failed. Because Gaza will rise and Palestine will never die.

I do not have words that are more comforting than the words of our Lord. So, to my fellow prisoners, “Persevere and endure and remain stationed and fear Allah so that you may be successful” (Quran, 3: 200).

And to my dearest people of the Land that is Palestine, “Be Patient, indeed the promise of Allah is true. Do not let those with no certainty weaken your firmness” (Quran 30:60). And please, forgive us for our failures, Ya Gaza.

And to the free people of this world, we, your Prisoners, urge you as our martyred Palestinian Journalist Anas Al-Sharif urged us all: “Not to let chairs silence you, nor borders restrain you”, and join us in pursuit of justice by Resisting the war machine in any and every capacity you can! Because “Whoever does Righteousness, it is for his own soul; and whoever does evil does so against it” (Quran 41:46).

So, from your Prisoners to you: Shut Elbit Down!

Sincerely,

Qesser Faryal Zuhrah
Prisoner No. A9259FG

Statement From Qesser Zuhrah

Caoimhin O’Muraile  ☭ On 23rd October 2025 racist gangs attacked the City West hotel in Dublin which has been commandeered by the Twenty-Six-County Government to house International Protection Applicants. 

The attack was encouraged by posts on social media after the sexual assault on a 10-year-old girl allegedly by one of these applicants and such an assault must be condemned unreservedly. 

Local residents who had been ‘peacefully’ protesting throughout the summer against this hotel being used for the purposes of housing these people, many fleeing for their lives, called another protest against the residents apparently blaming every applicant for this sickening assault. So much for ‘Cead Mile Failte’ (one hundred thousand welcomes) which obviously does not apply to the not so good people of City West who certainly are not making these people from foreign lands welcome.

Initially their protests were no doubt well intended but appear to have been hijacked by far-right elements. The protest planned by these locals, unsavoury as it was, intended to be peaceful but once social media had done its work all kinds of less peaceful elements turned up, involving some surprise packages including one-time revolutionary socialists apparently turned racists! 

It is not the first time in history individuals and organisations have switched sides, perhaps the most famous individual would be Benito Mussolini who shifted from a revolutionary syndicalist position to extreme right-wing fascism in Italy. Oswald Mosely was another who moved from left to a far-right position. A one-time Labour MP he crossed the floor to the Conservatives then went further to form the British Union of Fascists (BUF). This does not excuse ‘political treachery’ and to use the excuse in a statement of “standing with the Irish working-class” in explaining their presence these individuals exposed themselves for what they have unfortunately become. Others who would be more expected to fuel the flames of racism in Ireland are the likes of Hermann Kelly and Luke O’Connor of the Irish Freedom Party, Patrick Quinlan of the National Party who once stated to Fingal County Council; “the only reason Fingal County Council is increasing social housing rents is to accommodate for the plantation of this country”. He went on to rant against mass immigration claiming it is having a “disastrous” effect on “Irish families.” How exactly is a little unclear.

The City West incident which involved petrol bombs, not dissimilar to the Kristallnacht in Germany 1938, is not the only racist protest in this state. The far-right have been furrowing away at people’s fears turning them into a kind of paranoia against the ‘foreigner’. This is just the same way Hitler began his crusade against Jewish people in Nazi Germany. Justin Barret of the National Party, the same organisation as Patrick Quinlan, is a self-confessed neo-Nazi and admirer of Adolf Hitler. Though no evidence is present linking any of these to the City West atrocities they have all been active on social media at some point throwing petrol on the fires of people’s fears, fuelling into an inferno of racism.

Historically the Nazis in Germany gained power firstly by controlling the streets as the left opposition was fractured. The Social Democrats and the German Communist Party, the KPD, refused to unite their forces against Hitler’s thugs and the net result was both organisations were kicked off the streets. Soviet Union leader, Joe Stalin, issued a directive to German communists not to work with the Social Democrats who he claimed were the “real enemy” and not the Nazis. Stalin was no socialist and certainly not an internationalist, and he set the socialist cause back decades if not irreversibly. The opposition to the Nazi surge was weak, at best non-existent, at worst during those years of the Nazi ascendancy. We must learn the lessons of the past here in Ireland right across the 32 counties as this far-right neo fascist/racist* trend affects both jurisdictions on the island of Ireland.

What has been notable on our streets is the lack of any meaningful anti-fascist/anti-racist opposition. A broad front anti-fascist/anti-racist movement should be built as a matter of urgency. The racists have already gained much control on the streets, as did the Nazis in Germany. Their next move will be controlling the elected chambers then we really do have problems. Once this, if ever, is achieved those people who through their once peaceful legitimate protests, hijacked by the thugs of fascism, who got these neo-fascists to power will be discarded like a piece of unwanted trash. The ‘Night of the Long Knives’ springs to mind again in Nazi Germany when Hitler had the leaders of the Brown Shirts or SA’s (Sturmabteilung or Storm Division), the thugs which were instrumental getting the Nazis to power, liquidated. If all anti-fascists/anti-racists are to put up a credible opposition it will mean for many parking their individual political ideologies and working on an ad-hoc basis with each other. It will mean Marxists working with people from Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Sinn Fein, the Irish Labour Party and other constitutionalist parties and individuals who are anti-fascist in a unified front opposing the far right both ideologically and physically. This for the purpose of opposing the far-right should be the only policy up for discussion, not the economy or the rights and wrongs of capitalism, just anti-fascism. For those of us who oppose capitalism this may be problematic but essential, ideology cannot get in the way of stopping the far-right before it really is too late.

Huge mobilisations against the fascists have been massed before. In London, 1936, Cable Street, 3,000 of Mosley’s fascists were determined to march through the East End and had 7,000 policemen, some sympathetic to Moseley, to protect them. Over 50,000 anti-fascists many from the East End turned out to stop the BUF from marching and despite the police’s best efforts were successful, the fascists did not pass. Under the motto ‘they shall not pass’ (No Pasaran, a motto adopted by Spanish republicans opposing Franco’s fascists during the Spanish Civil War) Mosley was prevented by people from the Communist Party, various socialist organisations, Syndicalists, the Labour Party, even some liberals turned out to stop them. It was a very broad-churched mobilisation. Fast forward to the 1970s and the temporary rise of the National Front (NF) in Britain. The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) formed the Anti-Nazi League (ANL) which, like in 1936, consisted of a number of ideologies with the sole aim of stopping Martin Webster, John Tyndal and the NF. Once again huge numbers were involved in the ANL and the fascists were beaten off the streets. These are the kind of movements Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) and other likeminded organisations should be trying to forge in Ireland today before it’s too late!

Have the fascist leaderships, such as they are, managed yet to completely hijack these protests turning those taking part into raving Nazis? No, not yet they haven’t, and must be prevented from doing so. Anti-fascists have been absent not only on the streets but also the public meetings about ‘refugee accommodation’ in residential areas where far-right speakers have been threading in their hate on the backs of people’s concerns. Their arguments are not difficult to beat and it must be conceded the government have handled the entire refugee project very, very badly. At City West TUSLA the child and family agency handled the assault on the 10-year-old girl badly and left themselves wide open to criticism from those on the far-right and their new allies. 

Is Ireland ready for fascism? No, the conditions both north and south usually associated with the rise of far-right organisations do not exist. The bourgeoisie are not in crisis and the economies in both jurisdictions are not in trouble. Yes, in the Six Counties the Legislative Assembly at Stormont want more investment from the British Government but this is always the case and always will be so long as they are dependent on such a foreign government. The mistakes of Italy and Germany during the late 1920s and early 1930s must not be repeated today in Ireland. To make those errors would be unforgivable because, unlike the anti-Nazis in Germany, we have their experiences as a blue print of what not to do. Learn from the past do not repeat it!

*Neo-fascism, unlike orthodox fascist movements of the 1920s and 30s, not including the Nazis, has race, racism and immigration as a central component factor of their makeup. Race was not initially central to Mussolini’s fascist party in Italy, differing from Hitlers Nazis on this point, but in neo-fascism it is central to most movements. Neo-fascist groups are an updated version of the orthodox movements adding race and immigration as leading components to their agenda.
 
Caoimhin O’Muraile is Independent Socialist Republican and Marxist.

Learn The Lessons Of The Past, Germany 🪶 Do Not Repeat Them!

Lynx By Ten To The Power Of One Thousand Nine Eight Hundred And Twenty One

 

A Morning Thought @ 3002

Brendan Curran ✒ with a poem from his expansive body of work.



 The Land Mine  . . . Dublln Road, Newry

You drive across it, not looking down
A massive hole once in the ground
The deafening noise all around
A large crater, was all to be found
 ♞♜♝
Forgotten, their memories and cries that night 
Sacrificed in a thundering flash of light
Their faces don’t fade as the years pass by
 In the thoughts of loved ones who couldn’t say good bye
♞♜♝
So many were to die on the same stretch of road
Civilians, prison officers a terrible toll
A high court judge ,and his family too
Gunfire and explosions…in an eerie hue
♞♜♝

The death traps hidden into the ground
No longer needed, as peace is at last found
The peace was hard fought for with a heavy price
Family’s grieving …a life of sacrifice

⏩ Brendan Curran,  Irish conflict poems 2020

The Land Mine . . . Dublin Rd Newry

Labour Heartlands ☭ Written by Paul Knaggs.

A 318-page tribunal judgment confirms what working women already knew: Britain’s public institutions will sacrifice them on the altar of fashionable nonsense

Ask yourself a simple question. What kind of health service suspends an experienced nurse for objecting to undressing beside a man in a women’s changing room? What kind of organisation spends over £250,000 of public money defending that suspension? And what kind of political class watches this unfold and calls it progress?

The answer arrived in 318 pages: the kind captured by ideology so completely that biological reality, women’s dignity, and basic safeguarding all became negotiable. The kind where a working-class woman’s right to privacy matters less than institutional compliance with fashionable doctrine.

The Verdict That Spoke in Plain English

Employment Judge Sandy Kemp’s tribunal delivered a damning assessment of NHS Fife’s treatment of Sandie Peggie, a nurse with three decades of service. The health board harassed her in four specific ways, each revealing how thoroughly ideology had displaced common sense.

First, they failed to revoke permission for Dr Beth Upton (a biological male who identifies as a woman) to use the female changing room after Peggie complained. 

Sandie Peggie And The Institutional Madness That Chose Ideology Over Women

Jim Duffy ✍ It is disgusting to see the Tankies who on the one hand are defenders of Russia spinning how the Bondi Beach was committed by Mossad.


There is not a shred of evidence that it had anything to do with Mossad. It was wrongly claimed on X that one of the murderers of Jews on Bondi Beach was Jewish - a lie the Tankies now keep repeating. In fact the murderers were both Muslim, with connections with IS. Their real names have been released. They were not remotely Jewish.
 
Nor is it remotely justified to blame all Muslims for the attack, any more than it is remotely justified to blame all Jews for what happened in Gaza. It was a brave Muslim man who disarmed one of the murderers.
 
The insanity of blaming Mossad for the attack is sadly typical of many Tankies. When I pointed out that neither attacker was Jewish and they were linked to IS, one idiotic Tankie called me a "Zionist!!!"

⏩ Jim Duffy is a writer-historian.

Idiotic Tankies

A Digest of News ✊ from Ukrainian Sources ⚔ 8-December-2025.

In this week’s bulletin

⬤ Ukraine faces imperial carve-up.
⬤ Belgium: release those assets!.
⬤ Film: Try Me For Treason.
⬤ Russian persecution of Crimean Tatars & torture.
⬤ Civilian infrastructure attacked.
⬤ Indoctrination & deportation of children.

News from the territories occupied by Russia

Russia sentences Luhansk woman to 16 years for sheltering two defenders of Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 5th)

The Face of Resistance: The Story of Crimean Tatar Activist Emil Dzhemadenov (Crimea Platform, December 5th)

Russian FSB carry out armed 'inspection' of Crimean Tatar journalist's home, take her away for interrogation (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 5th)

Install MAX, Russia’s big brother surveillance app or face repression in occupied Ukraine (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 3rd)

Analytical Brief “CRIMEA: A Transit Hub for the Transfer and Ideological Indoctrination of Children” Presented in Kyiv (Crimea Platform, December 3rd)

Forced deportation of Ukrainian children (Solidarity Collectives, December 2nd)

Weekly update on the situation in occupied Crimea (Crimea Platform, December 2nd)

57-year-old midwife sentenced to 11 years in ongoing Russian terror against residents of occupied Enerhodar (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 2nd)

Ukrainians who fail ‘filtration’ interrogation held prisoner in Russian ‘refugee’ point until FSB fabricates charges (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 1st)

News from Ukraine

The Heaviest Attacks on Civilian Targets (Tribunal for Putin, December 5th)

Russia’s ‘Dr Evil’ charged over savage torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 4th)

What Yermak’s resignation means for Zelensky and the peace process (Meduza, 1 December)

Ukraine charges four Russian commanders over deadly missile strike on Kryvyi Rih playground (Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group, December 1st)

War-related news from Russia

A Russian deserter who injured himself to escape the war (Meduza, 6 December)

Paying up: The Kremlin is sacrificing regional development, business, healthcare, and education to fund the war in Ukraine (The Insider, December 5th)

How the Kremlin sacrifices welfare to fund the war (The Insider, 5 December)

Count of Russian war dead updated (Mediazona, 5 December)

The invisible army: Russian courts recognise 90,000 servicemen missing (Mediazona, 5 December)

Enemy of the State No. 1. Repressions against Russian Anarchists (Posle.Media, December 3rd)

The Intensifying Crackdown in Russia (Russian Reader, November 30th)

Analysis and comment

The “most difficult” issue in Russia-Ukraine talks: territory (Meduza, 6 December)

Ukraine Faces an Imperial Carve-Up (Jacobin, December 4th)

Oppose Trump’s surrender plan for Ukraine (Tempest, November 28th)

Research of human rights abuses

Joint appeal for a Council of Europe Convention on Transnational Repression (Zmina, December 3rd)

Joint statement at the General Debate of the ASP of the ICC: the Court’s critical role in Ukraine and beyond (Zmina, December 2nd)

International solidarity

Solidarity Collectives, together with a delegation of anarchists from Dresden, carried out a humanitarian mission (Solidarity Collectives, X, December 4th)

Belgium: make those frozen assets available to Ukraine now – demonstrations 12-19 December (European Network for Solidarity With Ukraine, 3 December)

Try Me For Treason: readings from anti-war protesters’ speeches in Russian courts

🎥 A film of Try Me For Treason is now up on Youtube here. Please share! The readings were filmed at the book launch event for Voices Against Putin’s War: Protesters’ Defiant Speeches in Russian Courts, in London on 20 November.

🕮 To buy the book, or download a free PDF that is now available, go here.

🎥 There will be another chance to see Try Me For Treason: on Thursday 5 Feb, 6.30 pm, central London. Details to follow.


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