Macron masks colonialism; Aid ships seized
On July 24, French president Emmanuel Macron announced that France will recognize Palestine as a State at the United Nations General Assembly in September. This recognition is conditioned on the demilitarization of Palestinian resistance, while France was still shipping weapons to Israel in June. Even with those concessions, Israel responded by calling for annexation of the West Bank.
Macron’s move does not come from solidarity with the Palestinian people but from pressure by the masses. France remains a colonial power, from forcing Ayiti (Haiti) to pay $150 million after the African-led Revolution to maintaining neocolonial control over much of Africa through sellouts and coups. The colonial powers, including France, have reportedly attempted to assassinate Ibrahim Traoré of the Alliance of Sahel States 20 times.
Macron, an unpopular leader at home, is acting to manage France’s image while continuing its imperialist policies.
Aid ship tried to break Israel’s genocidal blockade on Gaza
In July 2025, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition sent 37 civilian aid ships to break Israel’s genocidal blockade on Gaza. The ships included the Madleen in 2024 and the Handala in July 2025. On July 13, the Handala set sail with 21 volunteers from the U.S., Australia, Italy, Spain, Norway, France and Tunisia, including Christian Smalls from New York and Robert Suberi from St. Louis.
The Egyptian government denied the Handala access to its waters. On July 26, Israel intercepted the ship, detaining all 21 volunteers and blocking food and medicine from reaching Gaza. Seven Israeli soldiers assaulted Christian Smalls, choking him and striking his legs and back. All detainees were strip-searched, handcuffed, and held in 34°C heat without ventilation, showers or yard time. Male detainees were subjected to violent cell searches. The volunteers, on hunger strike, were released in small groups over five days. The last to be freed were Smalls and Hatem Aouini from Tunisia. Tunisian officials intervened for Aouini. No U.S. official intervened for Smalls.
While the Handala volunteers endured abuse, Palestinian political prisoners face far worse. Reports say Israeli jailers rape prisoners—sometimes to death—force them to crawl, beat them for speaking above a whisper, shock them with electricity, force them to drink toilet water and mutilate them. Prisoners can be given dozens of life sentences. Israel has carried out these crimes for 77 years since the 1948 Nakba, backed by the U.S. and other colonial powers. International outrage may secure the release of foreign volunteers within a week, but it does not free Palestinian prisoners. Their release comes from Palestinian resistance and determination to expel the illegitimate settler-state from all of Palestine.
The Freedom Flotilla is one form of effective solidarity, but not everyone can board a ship. Every person can join or materially support a revolutionary organization. Europeans and North Americans who want to stand with African, Palestinian and other colonized peoples must join the African People’s Solidarity Committee (APSC).
Victory to Palestine! Uhuru!
African People’s Socialist Party’s Resolution on Palestine, presented and adopted at the Party’s first Congress, October 1981
The African People’s Socialist Party extends its solidarity to the heroic people of Palestine and recognizes their legitimate representative, the Palestine Liberation Organization. We denounce the Camp David accords which is a reactionary attempt to drive a wedge between Arab countries and consolidate an unholy alliance with U.S. imperialism–all off the backs of the Palestinian
people. The steadfastness and determination of the Palestinian people to reclaim their homeland and to live in dignity and peace is an inspiration for all oppressed people, and particularly for African people in the U.S. who also have been forcibly uprooted and dispersed from our homeland. We deplore the vicious and aggressive actions of the illegitimate Zionist Israeli government in cooperation with U.S. imperialism and its continual attacks on the
Palestinian people. Most recently we have witnessed the continued escalation of Israeli belligerence in the form of the destruction of the Iraqi nuclear plant, the deadly bombing of the population of Southern Lebanon, the terroristic rule of Palestinians in occupied West Bank and Gaza, and daily threat of future
attacks on the Palestinian people, the PLO, and their progressive allies. We do not divorce the belligerent and terroristic activities of the Israeli government from those of an overall attempt by world capitalism, led by U.S. imperialism, to reverse the losses of imperialism responding to the struggles and victories of the world’s peoples over colonialism, neo-colonialism and economic dependency. U.S. imperialism today is making a frantic effort to facilitate a reactionary alliance of Egypt and Saudi Arabia as well as Zionist Israel and to attempt to fool the people under the guise of defending the Middle East from the ‘spector of the Soviet Union’ while their real fear is not the Soviet Union but of the people themselves-the poor and oppressed masses who support
the legitimate rights of the Palestinians, who see the dispersed Palestinians as their brothers and sisters and who will stop at nothing to be free.
The will of the people can never be stopped!
VICTORY TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE!
VICTORY TO THE PLO!
Miss Rachel attacked for solidarity with Palestine
Rachel Griffin Accurso, a well-known early age development educator and children’s YouTube content creator known popularly as Ms. Rachel, has recently come under attack by a myriad of right-wing, pro-Israel organizations for spreading the message that humanitarian aid should be available to all children. No matter where they are or the depth of precarity they are experiencing—whether it be the Congo, Gaza, Sudan or Ukraine—she has spoken out against man-made war and famine.
Her stance has been one of compassion and kindness. She recognizes that no matter who the children are, they shouldn’t be dying of starvation or from a lack of medical attention. She stated in a recent interview, “Silence was not a choice for me.” On social media, she declared, “I’m not comfortable working with anyone who hasn’t spoken out about Gaza.”
It’s important to unite with this stance for every colonial-imperial atrocity. We refuse to be silent as the police continue to harass, arrest, imprison and murder African people in the streets with impunity. We refuse to be silent as the U.S.-backed settler-colonial State of Israel commits genocide against the Palestinians. We refuse to be silent as ICE terrorizes Mexican and Indigenous people on their own stolen land.
Be like Ms. Rachel and put the lives of the toiling masses—whose food security, medical needs and homes and livelihoods are relentlessly attacked by white hegemony—before the petty aspirations handed down by a wicked ruling class.
Stand in Solidarity with the African working class!
Stand in Solidarity with all Indigenous and colonized peoples!
Free, Free Palestine!
Reparations NOW!
Artists, athletes defend Palestine
This summer in Rome, Irish mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Paddy McCorry humiliated Israeli mercenary Shuki Farage in the ring and won international praise. Farage is a former member of the Israeli military celebrating his part in the genocide being carried out by Israel in Gaza.
As he pummeled Farage, McCorry got right in his face and began chanting “Free Palestine.” The crowd joined in. When he was declared the winner, McCorry raised up the Palestinian flag.
“Free, Free Palestine; death, death to the IDF!” That was the chant led by rapper Bobby Vylan from the stage at Glastonbury, the United Kingdom’s largest summer music festival. According to Al Jazeera, British police have announced that the weekend performances by rap-punk duo Bob Vylan and the Irish-language band Kneecap at the Glastonbury Festival are subject to a criminal investigation after they led crowds in chants calling for “death” to the Israeli military and a “free Palestine.”
The BBC said it regretted livestreaming the performance and it should have pulled it off the air. Meanwhile, the United States Department of State said it has revoked the visas for Bob Vylan to perform in the US after its “hateful tirade at Glastonbury.”
Try as they may, the colonial State governments cannot silence the people’s resistance and support for the heroic besieged Palestinian people.
