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Our agenda
Jewish Socialist is a quarterly magazine launched by
the Jewish Socialists' Group in 1985 as a forum for radical ideas and
opinions on issues directly affecting the Jewish community here and elsewhere
and on questions vital to minorities and socialists everywhere.
Through this forum we aim to:
- highlight the clash of political, economic and cultural interests
in our community;
- encourage the democratisation of all aspects of Jewish life and
publicise and support all democraticforces in the Jewish community;
- highlight the struggle for equality for women and gays and lesbians
within and beyond our community;
- promote views that link the interests of Jewish people to the interests
of other national and cultural minorities and oppressed groups, locally,
nationally and internationally, and to a common socialist future;
- counter myths about the 'shrinking', 'dying' and 'assimilating'
diaspora by affirming the vitality of Jewish communities across the
world;
- counter Zionist ideology, which subordinates the needs of diaspora
Jews to the demands of Israeli state nationalism, and justifies exclusivist,
discriminatory and repressive practices towards the Palestinian people;
- promote ideas and perspectives that offer a progressive solution
to conflicts involving the Jewish people such as the Israel/Palestine
conflict;
- expose and oppose fundamentalist ideas and religious coercion within
and beyond our community;
- reclaim a 'people's history' of the Jews which connects our historical
experience to the struggles of other working people and the oppressed;
- highlight the problems facing minorities in society and within
progressive movements and make these concerns central to discussions
of socialist strategyhere and now;
- support and promote radical progressive cultural initiatives within
and beyond the Jewish community;
- promote views which link the struggle to build socialism with the
struggle for a healthy and sustainable environment;
- promote a socialism that is culturally pluralist and fully democratic
both in its ends and means.
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