On the West Bank
Socialist Organiser1982 1982-05-13Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 11 →
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PALESTINE - May Day was commemorated in the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel in 1967 by mass assaults on police stations, the setting up of barricades, throwing of stones at Israeli military vehicles, burning tyres on main roads and raising the Palestinian national flag.
The leadership of the trade unions in the territories occupied in 1967 had decided not to hold any May Day demonstrations and meetings in protest against the imposition of the Israeli 'civil administration' and the ousting of three elected Palestinian Mayors.
But in the village of Dura regarded as the fortress of Mustafa Dodin, leader of the 'Village Leagues, an illegal mass demonstration was held.
After shouting slogans against these •Village Leagues' - artificial bodies of collaborators with the Zionist occupation, set up by the Israeli Army in a desperate attempt to diminish the mass support of the Palestine Liberation Organisation - youth stormed the local police station, 8 25 when it ruled Palestine, and for a moment of silence in "IF there is ever to be another British Empire, the South Atlantic is where it could be."
• So said the Sunday Telegraph of May 9. You might expect that it was boosting
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new empire?