我们需要一个统一运动，反对Starmer的军国主义和紧缩

今天，5月16日星期五，到目前为止，超过100名巴勒斯坦人在以色列空袭中丧生。自种族灭绝于2023年10月开始以来，总数确认被杀

Today, Friday 16 May, so far over 100 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes. The total confirmed killed since the genocide began in October 2023 now stands at over 53,000. The scale of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza is entirely documented and the highest courts in the world have deemed it plausible genocide and issued an arrest warrant for its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

今天，5月16日星期五，到目前为止，超过100名巴勒斯坦人在以色列空袭中丧生。自种族灭绝于2023年10月开始以来，总数已被杀死，现在超过53,000。以色列在加沙的暴行的规模已完全记录在加沙，世界上最高的法院认为其合理的种族灭绝，并为其总理本杰明·内塔尼亚胡（Benjamin Netanyahu）签发了逮捕令。

In the words of its own prime minister and government officials, the stated aim of Israel’s brutal and escalating assault is to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza entirely. It’s why the IDF continues to deliberately bomb hospitals, schools and tented refugee camps and,for the last two months, has refused to let any humanitarian aid into Gaza at all, causing mass starvation among the Palestinian population.

用自己的总理和政府官员的话说，以色列残酷而不断升级的袭击的目的是完全使巴勒斯坦人完全从加沙清除。这就是为什么IDF继续故意轰炸医院，学校和帐篷难民营的原因，在过去的两个月中，拒绝将任何人道主义援助完全纳入加沙，从而在巴勒斯坦人口中引起大规模的饥饿。

This week, challenged in the High Court for continuing to maintain the supply of parts for F-35 fighter jets that Israel is using to carry out its deadly airstrikes in Gaza, lawyers on behalf of the government argued that maintaining the supply of F-35 fighter jets was more important than preventing genocide.

本周，在高等法院质疑以色列用来维持F-35战斗机的零件供应，以色列用来在加沙进行致命的空袭，代表政府代表政府认为维持F-35战斗机的供应比防止种族灭绝更重要。

A recent report by the Palestinian Youth Movement exposed the fact that the Labour government has lied about suspending arms exports that could be used for offensive purposes in Gaza (apart from the F-35 parts of course). It also revealed that Labour has licenced more military equipment to Israel in October – December 2024, than the Tories did in 2020 – 2023 combined. In the last year alone, Britain has flown over 600 surveillance and reconnaissance flights over Gaza providing information to the Israeli military that is likely used in the targeting of Palestinian civilians.

巴勒斯坦青年运动的最新报告暴露了一个事实，即工党政府撒谎，暂停了可以在加沙的进攻目的的武器出口（当然，除了F-35部分）。它还揭示了工党在2024年10月至12月12日向以色列许可的军事设备比2020年至2023年的保守党合并。仅在过去的一年中，英国就进行了600多次监视和侦察飞行，而加沙则向以色列军方提供了信息，该航空可能用于针对巴勒斯坦平民。

There can be no doubt that Keir Starmer and David Lammy are active participants in Israel’s genocide. But what should also be made clear is that it is ordinary British people that are paying the price for this deadly foreign policy.

毫无疑问，凯尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）和大卫·拉米（David Lammy）是以色列种族灭绝的积极参与者。但是，还应该明确的是，正是普通的英国人民为这项致命的外交政策付出了代价。

The cost of those surveillance flights runs in the tens of millions. The F-35 spare part supply chain that the government believes is sacred is produced by BAE Systems which is contracted by the British government with public money. Last year, BAE Systems made £3bn in profit, and it’s CEO Charles Woodburn boasted that they were “well positioned to capture additional defence spending”. No surprises then when Keir Starmer announced an additional £13bn in defence spending in February, the company’s stock jumped 4.4%.

这些监视航班的成本占数千万。政府认为是神圣的F-35备件供应链是由英国政府与公共资金合同的BAE系统生产的。去年，BAE Systems赚了30亿英镑的利润，首席执行官查尔斯·伍德本（Charles Woodburn）吹嘘他们“有能力捕获额外的国防支出”。那时，当Keir Starmer在2月宣布额外的130亿英镑的国防支出时，该公司的股票增长了4.4％。

The increase of £13bn in defence spending, to 2.7% of GDP and plans to raise it to 3%, is being directly funded by cuts to the foreign aid budget and Personal Independence Payments for disabled people. This extra money is readily available to fund weapons of mass destruction but couldn’t avoid the cuts to winter fuel allowance for the elderly, scrap the two-child benefit cap that has pushed 1 in 3 children into poverty, or fund our NHS and education sector which are crumbling.

国防支出的增加到130亿英镑，达到了GDP的2.7％，并计划将其提高到3％，这是由外国援助预算和残疾人个人独立支付的削减直接资助的。这笔额外的钱很容易为大规模杀伤性武器提供资金，但无法避免削减老年人的冬季燃料津贴，废除将三分之一的儿童陷入贫困或为我们的NHS和教育部门提供损害的双孩子福利上限。

How else can this be seen except a robbery of working-class people and our vital public services in order to line the pockets of arms dealers responsible for facilitating genocide? This is Starmer’s war abroad funded by war on working people at home. They are two sides of the same coin.

除了抢劫工人阶级的人和我们重要的公共服务以外，还可以看出这还可以看见这一点，以便对负责促进种族灭绝的武器经销商排列？这是斯塔默（Starmer）的战争，由在家中为劳动人民战争提供资金。它们是同一枚硬币的两个方面。

We need a united movement against Starmer’s militarism and austerity. It’s why one of the main slogans of The People’s Assembly’s national demonstration on 7 June is ‘Welfare not Warfare’. The fight to stop the cuts, to fund our public services, to tax the rich are part and parcel of opposing spending public money on sending weapons to Israel.

我们需要一项统一运动，反对斯泰默的军国主义和紧缩政策。这就是为什么6月7日人民议会国家示威活动的主要口号之一是“福利不是战争”。为了制止削减，为我们的公共服务提供资金，征税的斗争是反对花钱向以色列发送武器的一部分。

On 7 June, we need a sea of Palestinian flags in the midst of trade unionists and striking workers, disabled people and housing activists, climate campaigners and ordinary people from all walks of life, marching through London and taking the fight straight to Keir Starmer. We will demand an

6月7日，我们需要在工会主义者和引人注目的工人，残疾人和住房活动家，气候运动的人和普通人中的各行各业，穿越伦敦并直接将战斗直接带到Keir Starmer。我们将要求一个