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RAIL union RMT has joined the Boycott Barclays campaign, which targets the bank over its investments in military equipment companies supplying Israel with weaponry used to devastate Gaza.
The union also vowed not to use Barclays services and to make sure it avoids putting money into such shareholdings and other investments.
RMT will write to Barclays calling for the severing of its financial ties with Israel.
History suggests apartheid ends not through appeals to conscience alone but through sustained economic and political pressure, says HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
The people of Palestine need our solidarity in actions not words – trade unionists must give them our full support in their darkest hour, writes DANIEL KEBEDE