Because of their ability to move into struggle quickly and their readiness to disrupt 'business as usual', students can act as a detonator for broader social forces.
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.
