Roger Alan Blackwell

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'Now is the time to build up the WRP and Young Socialists along with sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International in every country to organise the victory of the world socialist revolution.'

'These governments must expropriate the bosses and bankers and build a socialist planned economy, recognise the independent state of Palestine and put an end to imperialist wars with the victory of the world socialist revolution.'

'The burning issue today is for the working class in the UK, US, Europe and across the world to unite and demand that their trade unions immediately organise mass general strikes to bring down their capitalist governments and organise workers governments to bring in socialism.'

'The international working class have the power to resolve this crisis by demanding their trade union leaders end their silence over the atrocities being committed with the complicity of their governments, and take action.'

'....put an end to genocide in Palestine, and also put an end to the imperialist wars that the ruling class is demanding are paid for by workers and their families.'

'US imperialism has launched a war in the Middle East that has spread out across the world igniting a global financial crisis & spurring the working class to take action to put an end to genocide in Palestine...'

'A spokesman for Hamas warned that the unconditional US support for Israel’s regional aggression enables it to violate the ceasefire agreement and commit further massacres in Gaza.'

'Yesterday, it bombed civilians west of Gaza City just before the sunset meal, while overnight artillery shelling targeted tents sheltering displaced people, killing three Palestinian women, including a journalist.’

‘The criminal Zionist occupation perpetrated horrific massacres against residents of the Gaza Strip.'

'The Hamas resistance movement issued a statement on Monday accusing the Israeli occupation army of committing massacres on Sunday, exploiting the world’s preoccupation with the war against Iran and Lebanon.'

'While Trump engaged in increasingly deranged verbal gymnastics, the Israeli Zionist regime was extending its genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza.'

'Incandescent with rage at the Iranians refusing to accept defeat and insisting that the vital Strait of Hormuz would remain closed, Trump claimed the US would hit Iran ‘twenty times harder’ than previously.'

'Any reassurance gained from the typical Trump ramblings was quickly dispelled a few hours later when US and Israeli warplanes launched a wave of strikes across Iran as huge crowds of Iranians took to the streets in support of Mojtaba Khamenei, the country’s newly-appointed Supreme Leader.'

'Trump’s contradictory statements were aimed at the stock markets and Republican politicians who rightly fear being wiped out at the upcoming mid-term elections as a result of the massive unpopularity of the war amongst US voters.'

'Trump announced that the war is ‘very complete, pretty much’ and that the military attacks on Iran would be ending soon.

However, Trump insisted that he was not declaring the war was over saying: ‘We’ve already won in many ways, but we haven’t won enough.’

'As the effort to quell the panic in the energy markets, echoed across the world stock markets, it became obvious that far from a swift military action US imperialism and its Israeli ‘attack dog’ had significantly failed to crush the Iranian government and the Iranian people.'

'Trump and his Republican administration are clearly worried sick that the failure of US imperialism to carry out regime change and crush the Iranian people has blown back on them, causing a catastrophic increase in the price of oil and gas, along with cutting off the supplies of fertilisers...'

'On Monday, US president Donald Trump made a desperate attempt to try to prevent the entire world capitalist economy from collapsing into recession as a result of the war against Iran.'

Time for the working class across the world to put an end to capitalist barbarism!

11th March 2026

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The World Health Organization has warned that the “black rain” and ⁠toxic compounds in the air in Iran after air attacks on oil facilities as part of the US-Israeli bombing campaign could cause respiratory problems.

Is this not chemical warfare?

'Residents of the camp also express concern about the possibility of the camp sustaining indirect damage even if it is not directly targeted, due to the intensity of explosions and shockwaves that could affect the closely packed and fragile buildings inside it.'

'Abu Khaled al-Samouni points out that many families left without being able to carry more than a few of their belongings, adding, ‘People left quickly because everyone fears the bombardment.

Some families left their homes as they were and could not take anything.’

'Umm Mohammad Abdel Hadi says that her greatest fear is for her children, ‘We left the house without knowing where we will spend the night.

The children are afraid, and we have already been refugees for many years, and now we feel that we are living displacement again.’

'After the evacuation warning spread, several Palestinian families began leaving the camp or searching for somewhere to stay outside the southern suburb.'

'Today, the camp is considered one of the most densely populated Palestinian camps in Lebanon, where thousands of refugees live in a narrow area inside closely packed buildings and tight alleys, which increases the fragility of the humanitarian situation there during any escalation.'

'Burj al-Barajneh camp for Palestinian refugees is located in the southern suburb of Beirut, and it was established in 1948 to shelter Palestinian refugees who were displaced from their cities and villages during the Nakba.'

'As the warning spread, calling on residents of wide areas of the southern suburb to immediately evacuate their homes, dozens of Palestinian families in the camp began leaving their houses or preparing to do so, amid growing fears of the expansion of Israeli air raids in the area.'

'Within a few hours, the narrow alleys of the camp turned into a scene of confusion and anxiety, as Palestinian families hurried to gather whatever belongings they could and leave their homes, searching for a safe place amid the absence of any clear destination for displacement.'

'Lebanon, the evacuation warning issued by the Israeli occupation army to residents of the southern suburb of Beirut was not merely a military warning for Palestinian refugees in Burj al-Barajneh camp, but....the memory of displacement that has accompanied their lives for decades.'