A Cause for Every Revolutionary: Palestine & the Global Solidarity Movement

Join Barnaby Raine, Nihal El Aasar, and Malia Bouattia for a conversation on how we can build a mass international movement for Palestinian liberation The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every revolutionary, wherever he is, as a cause of the exploited and oppressed masses in our era.” ― Ghassan Kanafani We are witnessing the growth of a global anti-war movement in response to Israel’s war crimes. Despite increased fear mongering and repression, hundreds of thousands around the world are protesting and organising in solidarity with Palestine. Join Barnaby Raine and Nihal El Aasar for a conversation chaired by Malia Bouattia on why we must redouble these solidarity efforts, and how we build a mass international movement for Palestinian liberation. Speakers: Barnaby Raine is writing his PhD at Columbia on visions of ending capitalism. He has written and spoken extensively on Zionism and Jewish radical traditions opposed to it Nihal El Aasar is an Egyptian independent researcher and writer. She has written and conducted research on the Middle East and North Africa. She’s a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement Malia Bouattia is the opinion editor at The New Arab and an editor at Red Pepper magazine. She was elected the first woman of colour president of the National Union of Students in the UK in 2016 and has contributed to a number of publications, including ‘For the Many: Preparing Labour for Power’ as well as ‘It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race’. Malia produced and hosted prime-time talkshows on a SKY channel, which covered a range of subjects from the war on terror, to gendered violence. She was awarded Media Diversified's '#EightWomen' prize in 2014 and the 'Good Citizen' prize at the Muslim News Awards in 2017. ————————————————————— This event is sponsored by Haymarket Books and is part of Until Liberation: A Series for Palestine by Haymarket Books, cosponsored by Palestinian American Organizations Network, Mondoweiss, Spectre, Dissenters, Tempest, Palestine Deep Dive, The New Arab, and more. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/4yiILN6-cyo Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks