In Our Millions: An Insurgent History of Palestine Solidarity in Britain

The Palestine solidarity movement in Britain is one of the largest, most historically continuous, and most intensely scrutinized in the world. But how and why has this movement come to occupy such a prominent place in British and global politics?

In Our Millions traces the evolution of Palestine solidarity in Britain from a contested issue at the margins of anticolonial and socialist politics in the 1960s into a cause that has defined and ignited a generation today.

Drawing together scattered solidarity archives, Palestinian movement archives, and interviews, Sorcha Thomson and Rami Rmeileh show how solidarity with Palestine has been actively produced through transnational and tricontinental alliances and exchanges that have fostered new political vocabularies and modes of organizing, education, and mobilizing.

In a moment of renewed mass mobilization around Palestine met with intensified repression and criminalization – in Britain, Europe, North America and beyond – the history of this movement offers urgent lessons on how to persevere, lobby, organize, and build upon traditions of struggle.