Posts Tagged ‘Syria’
Gerry Downing, Anti-Semitism and the Socialism of Fools
Confusing the Jewish Question and Zionism It was August Bebel, the leader of the German Social Democratic Party who described anti-Semitism as the ‘socialism of fools’. Gerry Downing is nothing if not a fool. A complete muddlehead leading a tiny Trotskyist group Socialist Fight. The BBC made hay with Gerry Downing’s idiocy Downing entered into…
Read MoreRobin Yassin-Kassab and the Syrian Revolution
Father & Son – Bashir and Hafez al-Assad Assad & the Vortex of Terror I went to a meeting tonight at Sussex University to hear Robin Yassin-Kassab, who is of mixed Syrian and English parentage, speak about the Syrian revolution and what has gone wrong. Sponsored by Sussex Friends of Syria society it was both…
Read MoreIsrael & Saudi Arabia Seek the Partition of Syria
Good friends – Israel’s Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon and Prince Turki al-Faisal, former ambassador to the US and the former head of Saudi’s intelligence agency An interesting article in YNet – the on-line version of Israel’s most popular newspaper, Yediot Aharanot, is copied below. Israel is pushing, with its Turkish and Saudi partners, for the partition…
Read MoreLetters & Articles 2015 – A Year of Surprises
2015 – When the Fightback Began 2015 has been a very significant year for me. It involved both fighting for my own life as well as the lives of others. In September I had a liver transplant, which has so far gone well, having been successfully cured of Hepatitis C with a new generation of…
Read MoreHow Cute – Israeli Soldiers Risk Their Lives to Rescue Al-Qaeda Fighters
Since Al-Qaeda=ISIS=Hamas=Hezbollah – When is Israel Going to tend to the Wounded of Hamas and Hezbollah? According to Netanyahu – Hamas, al-Qaeda and IS are all the same Indeed. Why are Israeli commandos risking their lives for Al Qaeda militants? Pure humanitarianism of course!! Unconscious: A wounded Syrian Islamic militant receives urgent medical treatment from…
Read MoreThe Threat to Lebanon from Isis and Imperialism
Lebanon is another country which has benefited from imperialism. Not. The French bequeathed to it a sectarian structure whereby the positions of office from President down are held by particular confessionalist groups. This was the root cause of the Lebanese civil war from 1977-1990 when the left tried to get rid of this. It was…
Read MoreSack Hilary Judas Benn from the Shadow Cabinet
Benn’s War Mongering is in Stark Contrast to the Anti-War Record of Tony Benn According to The Telegraph, Hilary Benn is ‘the poster-boy for war in Syria and David Cameron’s favourite Labour MP’ Corbyn speaks to anti-war demonstrators Whilst his father, the great socialist and anti-war campaigner, Tony Benn was spinning in his grave, the…
Read MoreLabour Should Oppose the Bombing of Syria – Murder is not a Question of Conscience
No Support for Cameron’s Lies and the Blairites’ War Fantasies Of one thing we can be certain. Bombing Raqa will not defeat ISIS. The bombing of ISIS by the United States in the last year is positive proof of this. Until Russia began bombing in earnest, it never occurred to the United States to stop…
Read MoreThe United States Enabled Radical Islam
How the CIA, George W. Bush and many others helped create ISIS We have tried to harness the power of radical Islam for our own interests for decades. ISIS is partially on America By Abdel Bari Atwan October 18, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “Salon” – Since 1980, the United States has intervened in the…
Read MoreThe Fruits of intervention – Imperialism in Syria
Yasmine Mather’s article in this week’s Weekly Worker is the best analysis that I have read to date of the situation in Syria and the position that the US finds itself on – effectively supporting and opposing IS! This is what lies at the root of the refugee crisis, a wholly owned creation of Western…
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