Solidarity With Students Organizers For A Free Palestine
The Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware District of the Communist Party USA and Philadelphia Young Communist League commends the bravery of students, faculty, and community members in Pennsylvania who have exercised their right to protest the genocidal war being waged against the people of Gaza and Occupied Palestine. Historically, McCarthyism has been one of the most powerful weapons of the ruling class and it has been unsheathed once again, to attack those who are justly calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and a free Palestine. Despite the horrific acts of police brutality and repression that we’ve seen levied against other student protesters, students within the commonwealth at institutions such as Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Dickinson College and the University of Pittsburgh have set up encampments of their own knowing that excessive police force may very well be imminent. We stand in solidarity with protesters at the aforementioned institutions and support their democratic right to protest Israel’s occupation of Palestine and the current genocidal assault on Gaza.