Around 100 people attended a vibrant demonstration against Trump's and Netanyahu's bombing of Iran in Birmingham on 7 March. There were lively chants and the response from the public was overwhelmingly supportive.
It is clear that the demonstrators believe they are in this for the long haul and pledged to return every Saturday for as long as Trump bombs Iran.
Several speakers called out the Labour government for allowing the use of UK air bases by US forces. On the one hand, Starmer’s every instinct is to submit to US imperialism in the hope of getting trade deals. But he is also being pulled on the other side by his deep unpopularity which he knows would only get worse were the UK government to give its full backing to Trump’s military adventures.
Mass workers action of the kind we saw in the Italian general strike for Gaza is the best way to force a retreat from the warmongers. A group of three Palestinian women came up to our stall and donated £25