La Marx International
A real insurrection of the student movement in support of the struggle of the Palestinian people is shaking the United States and the world. Protests and occupation camps in solidarity with the 3rd Intifada of the Palestinian people have spread to 60 universities in the United States, and the protests have spread to high schools and high schools in Washington.
This movement is globalizing and becoming international with protests that extend to the student movement of other countries such as the Sorbonne in Paris, the Institute of Political Studies Sciences-Po also in France; the University of Valencia in Spain; the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom; Sydney and Melbourne, Australia; and Sapienza, in Italy, to name a few.
The Biden administration has responded with a harsh repression against students with more than 500 arrested in recent days, but the repression has failed to stop a movement that is hitting hard the imperialist government of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party that has been supporting the Nazi state of Israel militarily and economically. The hatred of the people of the United States for the Biden administration's actions in support of Israel has led to the president being given the nickname "Genocide Joe." This whole process makes it clear that the3rd Palestinian Intifada is a global mass revolution of national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people that has its epicenter in Gaza, but is accompanied by mobilizations of support around the world and the struggles of the peoples in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, etc.
The Beginning of the Movement
It is impossible to analyze the movement of occupations of the U.S. Universities separately and detached from the 3rd Palestinian Intifada, which, by confronting Israel and the imperialist apparatus in the Middle East, constitutes a single global mass movement against imperialism and capitalism. After the triumph of Palestinian militias in the battle of Gaza that forced the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza on April 7, 2024, the movement broke out 10 days later in the United States Universities that began at Columbia University in New York to demand the withdrawal of investments in companies and institutions that benefit from Israel's occupation.
The students set up the "Gaza Solidarity Camp" on the central garden of the university, after which the university principal called on the police to crack down on the camp on 18 April. When police cracked down and arrested more than 100 students, university officials hoped this would put an end to the protest, but it produced the opposite effect: The crackdown at Columbia sparked an outpouring of support for the students, and an extension of the movement to every college in the country in solidarity.
The crackdown at Columbia University sparked widespread outrage over the restriction of the right to protest, adding to solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people. The number of new occupations began to grow every day, and the tenacity, determination and deep solidarity of the students with the Palestinian people, willing to be arrested risking their lives and futures in pursuit of internationalist solidarity, moved the entire American society. The student camps hit hard "Genocide Joe" who has collapsed in popular support due to the widespread discontent among the American people due to the growth of poverty, the fall in wages, unemployment, and the sinister role of the Biden Administration that despite presenting itself as a "progressive" government showed the imperialist character with the support for Netanyahu and the horrible massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.