Lest we forget Australia's role helping to secure Palestine for the British in World War One, and laying the foundations for the apartheid state of Israel.
Moshe Machover is the only surviving founding member of the revolutionary anti-Zionist organisation Matzpen. Matzpen influenced a generation of both Israeli and Palestinian opponents of Israel, and leaves an important theoretical legacy for socialists today.
During World War Two, the Communist Party of Australia offered unqualified support for the Australian war effort. The CPA’s pro-war stance amounted to a complete departure from the internationalist traditions on which it was founded.
