For Palestine: Marching on a bridge

Written by: Louisa L. on 8 August 2025

(Photo Sky News)

What joy to march on the Harbour Bridge! To see those giant girders overhead, made by long dead workers, still remembered. 

History in 1932. Opening celebration in those dark Depression days. A forgotten fascist slashed the ribbon. Those workers, the real history. 

Jack Lang recut that ribbon. British overlords already preparing to sack him as NSW Premier, for refusing to slash wages ten percent. Refusing to repay ‘our’ Bank of England debt. Earned in blood and money. Earned in British loans to fight England’s war to ‘our last man and last shilling’. Debt ‘earned’ as Australia fought imperialist Britain’s first world war. 

A third one now on the horizon. A newer imperialist master today. And we refuse to pay!

More than one hundred thousand marched on Sunday August 3. Two lots of police told their bosses’ 100,000 estimate. By end of day downgraded by commanders to 90,000. That truthful extra zero deleted in their petty media lies. But we know!

We arrived from across Sydney, from Canberra, Blue Mountains, Wollongong, just those this writer met. The metro shut, light rail, some trains and buses too.

But still we came. Some still at 3pm, two hours after the stated start. 

And we waited. Quietly, laughingly, chatting, or shouting chants. Fifteen minutes to exit Wynyard Station, because streets were too full. On York Street or George or Grosvenor, 90 minutes or more, we waited. Few even knew there were the speeches, let alone heard them. 

In our hearts Palestine and its people. No one complained. We knew what others face. For nearly two years. We’ve seen. We’ve heard. We know! Truth cannot be hidden forever. In every mind and every heart, we knew this march to be a signal, that the tide has more than turned.

US imperialism. Zionism. Their end days are coming. Sanctions now. 

Whether blood or money, we refuse to pay US imperialism’s price. We fight on the other side.

For we are all Palestinian.

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