Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:00:18 +0100 (MET)
Subject: Re: M-G: Protest Thatcher Visit in New York


Jay wrote, on 03.03:

>>>>>Thatcher visit to New York to be marked by protests
>
>Irish American activists in the New York tri-state area will
>converge on a number of venues next week to express their outrage
>at the continued feting of former British Prime Minister Margaret
>Thatcher by well-meaning Americans who are drawn in by her slick
>tongue and her hundred dollar haircut.

It's justified and reasonable for people to protest when, for instance,
Clinton or Gore, the representatives of by far the most important
pillar of reaction in the world, US imperialism - which has its
dirty fingers everywhere and is busy plotting all sorts of nasty
schemes against the peoples in practically every country of the
world - visit a country.

To go out to protest when ex-premier Thatcher of second-world
country Great Britain - some of whose dealings in Northern 
Ireland indeed are and have been reprehensible - comes to visit
the USA might be natural for some Irishmen, perhaps even to
some small extent justified.

But for someone like you, Jay, who states his adherence to Marxism,
to make propaganda for such protests and beat the drum for
them in such a way as you're doing here, then this shows that
there's something very wrong with your whole picture of the
situation in the world.

Somehow you obviously still are thinking along the lines
of that US-imperialism-inspired Avakianist "RIM Declaration"
of 1984, which you still haven't said as much as a "beep"
against. 

Please study, for instance, the articles on the international
situation in those Peking Review issues from 1973-1976 which you 
do have, Jay. (Some very few of them I've put on the Net.)
Then you'll see the general analysis of Mao, as opposed to
that (pretended) of Avakian and his masters.

No doubt many other visiting ex-dignitaries of medium-sized or
small countries have done some wrong things or other. To call 
for people, because of this, *to protest* against their visits, 
to the country of the biggest chiefs of imperialist wrongdoings 
you can find, that's ridiculous.

Rolf M.




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