LONDON — Members of the Communist League found interest in the party’s program and activity among marchers protesting the rise in attacks on Jews since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, pogrom in Israel. Over 5,000 people joined the Dec. 8 action organized here by the Campaign Against Antisemitism.
“Many people came up to our table at the start and finish of the march,” CL member Pamela Holmes said. “Several had already gotten the book The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch: Stakes for the International Working Class from CL members at previous actions. They came by to say hello.”
The book’s title explains why pogroms — like Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre — are not new, and what can be done to uproot capitalist exploitation and end Jew-hatred and national oppression for all time.
One participant said she moved to the U.K. in 2013, having grown up in Israel. “People live and work there side by side,” she told Holmes. “Some Arabs serve in the army. When they’re included, like in the unions, it’s just how we live.”
Holmes pointed to the Militant’s coverage of union struggles by Jewish and Arab workers in Israel, fighting together against the bosses’ attacks on wages and conditions.
Four subscriptions to the Militant were sold, alongside eight copies of The Fight Against Jew-Hatred and Pogroms in the Imperialist Epoch.