Liberation Stands with the Prisoners for Palestine Hunger Strike

Liberation stands in uncompromising solidarity with the six imprisoned activists in the United Kingdom who have initiated a rolling hunger strike, commencing on 2 November 2025. These comrades, members of Palestine Action and associated anti-imperialist movements, have placed their bodies on the front line of struggle, refusing food to expose the violence of the British state, its complicity in Israeli genocide, and the repression used to silence resistance. Over the past month, their strike has grown in strength, clarity, and international resonance:

INSIDE THE STRIKE:

Week One: Qesser Zuhrah and Amu Gibb initiated the hunger strike inside HMP Bronzefield.

Week Two: Heba Muraisi joined from HMP New Hall despite punitive transfers, the forcible removal of her hijab, and nearly a year of remand without trial.

Week Three: Teuta “T” Hoxha joined from HMP Peterborough after a year-long remand for an action targeting Elbit Systems.

Week Three into Four: Kamran Ahmed joined from HMP Pentonville. Their strike is now the most significant coordinated political hunger strike in Britain since the Irish Republican prisoners’ struggle.

AROUND THE WORLD 

• Italian anarchist prisoner Stecco (Luca Dolce) joined in solidarity from Sanremo prison, recognizing the strike as part of the global fight against the “military techno-industrial system.”
• From the streets of Gaza, Manar, a young woman enduring the siege, sent a message of unity: “Our pain is one, our struggle is one.”
• From inside the U.S. prison system, Jakhi McCray pledged a solidarity fast in support of the strikers.
• Bernadette McAliskey, legendary Irish revolutionary and former MP, issued a statement linking this hunger strike to Ireland’s own history of colonial repression, declaring unequivocally, “This is not terrorism. This is resistance.”
• Irish city and county councillors have publicly signed letters supporting the prisoners and condemning Britain’s criminalization of dissent.
• Support actions have erupted across Britain and beyond: a banner drop on Westminster Bridge led to multiple arrests under terrorism legislation; coordinated protests were held at seven prisons on November 15–16; and the campaign has called for a global day of action on November 25.

All of these prisoners are being held on excessive, often year-long remand, denied timely trials, subjected to censorship of letters and books, denied contact with families, and targeted with a repressive legal regime designed to protect war profiteers. Their supposed “crime”: direct action against Elbit Systems, the Israeli arms manufacturer whose drones, missiles, and surveillance systems are used daily against the Palestinian people.

STRIKING COMRADES' 5 CORE DEMANDS: These demands are precise, just, and fully aligned with our own principles of anti-imperialism, abolitionism, and working-class internationalism. They are:

1. An immediate end to censorship of all letters, books, and communications in prison.

2. Immediate release on bail for all remanded Palestine Action prisoners, some held over a year without conviction.

3. The right to a fair trial, including full disclosure of all evidence, particularly state and corporate collusion with Elbit Systems.

4. De-proscription of Palestine Action, ending the use of counter-terror laws to criminalize anti-war activism.

5. Permanent closure of all Elbit Systems facilities in the UK, ending the British state’s complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide.

The hunger strike reveals what we, as socialists, know well: the carceral state is not a neutral institution. It is a weapon wielded against the oppressed when they resist the empire. These demands shine a light on the material relationships between prisons, imperialism, corporate militarism, and racial-capitalist repression. As the strike enters its Fourth Week, the health of our comrades is deteriorating. The state continues to deny the prisoners' demands. Yet the movement grows, bridging Gaza and London, Italy and the U.S., Ireland and the global South. This is the living expression of internationalism from below.

OUR LINE:

• These prisoners are political actors, not criminals.
• Their hunger strike is a legitimate form of resistance to war, genocide, and political repression. It is a desperate act and a call to action. 
• The targeting of Palestine Action under the Terrorism Act reveals the British state’s allegiance to imperialism and arms capital, not to justice.
• The repression the striking prisoners face mirrors the repression used against Black, Indigenous, migrant, and working-class communities in the United States.
• The struggle in British prisons is inseparable from the struggle in Palestine, from anti-imperialist movements globally, and from the battle for abolition within the United States.

LIBERATION TURNS TO DSA TO ECHO THE CALL TO ACTION:

We call on DSA chapters, working groups, and members across the country to:

1. Amplify the Prisoners’ Demands: Publish statements, hold teach-ins, share their stories, and uplift their five demands across all platforms.

2. Participate in the Global Day of Action on 25 November - Organize protests, vigils, banner drops, and educational events at:

• British consulates
• U.S. federal buildings
• Arms manufacturer sites
• University campuses
• Public squares

3. Build Material Solidarity

• Send letters to the prisoners.
• Support legal defense funds.
• Amplify their names in public speeches and actions.
• Connect the struggle of the comrades on hunger strike in [place date time] to our local context and the anti-policing and anti-carceral fights here in the U.S.

4. Politically Educate - Host study groups and events on:

• The prison-industrial complex
• Imperialism and Third-World Resistance
• Palestine liberation
• The criminalization of direct action
• Historical hunger strikes as a revolutionary strategy

5. Escalate Coordinated Solidarity - Construct cross-movement unity with:

• Labour unions
• Student organizations
• Anti-war and anti-imperialist groups
• Prison abolition and mutual-aid networks
• Migrant justice movements

To the Hunger-Striking Comrades

Your courage reverberates across borders. Your refusal unmasks imperialism’s machinery. Your sacrifice forces the world to choose sides. We choose to stand with you. We choose liberation. We choose the international unity of the oppressed against the empire. We echo your demands, escalate your fight, and refuse to let your struggle be buried behind prison walls. Your hunger is our mandate. Your resistance is our call. Until every prisoner is free, every arms factory is shuttered, and every empire has fallen,

In militant solidarity,

Liberation Caucus