Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:02:35 +0100
From: "steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk" <steve.devos-AT-krokodile.co.uk>
Subject: occasionally a text is read


All

Occasionally over espresso a text is read that seems somehow appropriate 
to the era... let me quote the last paragraph written by Tariq Ali in 
NLR 21 that arrived through the post today...


".... The immediate tasks that face the anti-imperialist movement are 
support for Iraqi resiatence to the Anglo-American occjupation, and 
oppositionto any and every scheme to get the UN into Iraq as 
retrospective cover for the invasion and after-sales service for 
Washington and London . Let the aggressors pay the costs of their own 
imperial ambitions. All attempts to dress up the colonisation of Iraq as 
a new League of Nations Mandate, in the style of the 1920s, should be 
stripped away. Blair will be the leading mover in these, but he will 
have no shortage of European extras behind him. Underlying this obscene 
campaign, the beginnings of which are already visible on Murduchs TV 
channels, the BBC and CNN, is the urgent desire to reunite the west. The 
vast bulk of official opinion in Europe and a substantial chunk in the 
US, is desperate to begin the post-war healing process. The only 
possible reply to what lies ahead is the motto heard in the streets of 
SF in this spring 'Neither their war nor their peace..."

something to think about.

It is time that the World and European social forum's start campaigning 
against  Imperialism and Neo-colonialism - going beyond campaigns 
against multinationals and neo-liberalism...

regards
steve