{"id":16370,"date":"2025-11-23T03:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/?page_id=16370"},"modified":"2025-11-23T03:20:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:20:33","slug":"building-icwp-in-the-face-of-fascist-settler-violence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/icwpredflag.org\/wp\/wordpress\/volume-16-number-16\/building-icwp-in-the-face-of-fascist-settler-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Building ICWP in the Face of Fascist Settler Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pictured: Gaza, November 14\u2014The first heavy rainfall brought massive flooding to displacement camps. Most Palestinians shelter in flimsy tents since Israeli bombings have reduced almost everything to rubble. The Israeli rulers block deliveries of tents and other shelter supplies as temperatures drop. Still worse, bombs have destroyed all of Gaza’s wastewater treatment plants and most sewage pumping stations. Remaining pumps can\u2019t function due to lack of electricity and fuel. So raw sewage contaminates the water that floods tents and soaks people\u2019s belongings. There is a massive increase in water-borne disease. Access to safe water has dropped to dangerously low levels. This is genocide. This is why we must step up our fight for communism everywhere. We are inspired by ICWP comrades in Gaza who continue that struggle amidst these almost unimaginable conditions. We extend to them, their families, and their friends our heartfelt sympathy and our pledge to destroy this murderous capitalist system.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Letter from Tel Aviv<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

The Gaza genocide is continuing more vigorously than before. IOF (the Israeli Occupation Force) has been regularly bombing Gaza. The relentless winter rains, hunger, cold, and the lack of the most basic healthcare are killing more than during the active war in Gaza. At the same time, fascist settler violence in the West Bank has increased in intensity and brutality.
\nOur comrades have been reading and using Red Flag for both organizing and agitating. We have a bigger base of readers, and we are trying to see who we can recruit more urgently. A close friend of ICWP has come forward in our efforts to get to know Arab and Palestinian workers.
\nMicah is in his mid-40s. Micah and his wife, Sarah, have no children, so they can spend lots of time after work in a group called B\u2019Tselem. This organization documents violence in the West Bank. It has about two hundred Palestinian volunteers and dozens of Arab Israelis and Jewish Israeli citizens.
\nMicah and Sarah have gotten to know some people in B\u2019Tselem who read Red Flag. One is a photographer who gets footage of olive pickers. The photographer recently documented a physical attack on the olive pickers. Pickers had to leave their olives behind so they could escape violence.
\nThe photographer said that immediately after the attack, Arab Israeli gang members stole the olives. The Zionist settlers, the Palestinian Authorities, the IOF, and the Arab Israeli gang members work together to assault, steal, and confiscate the properties of Palestinian farmers and workers.
\nB\u2019Tselem is a liberal organization that advocates \u2018liberty, justice, and equality\u2019. However, some believe that we need to transform this brutal capitalist society.\u00a0 The photographer friend is one of them. He sees that just documenting violence and exposing the settlers is not going to change the very foundation of Zionism and capitalism. We are spending quality time with him, and he is open to an honest struggle with Red Flag.
\nOur outlook is to establish Red Flag readers in the West Bank. We are facing some obstacles. First, Micah and Sarah read Red Flag regularly, but they have not yet joined our party. The other practical difficulty is that, unlike Gaza, where the English literacy rate is very high, in the West Bank, workers read only Arabic.
\nWe believe we can resolve these contradictions by involving more comrades who see communism is the only solution. There are many bilingual Arabic\/Hebrew translators in Tel Aviv. We have to expand our work. More comrades joining ICWP will be a tremendous victory for our class.
\n\u2014ICWP collective<\/p>\n

Zionism is a Fascist Imperialist Creation <\/b>here<\/a><\/p>\n

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