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“Human Rights Watch” – Facilitators of Imperialist Terror, Enemies of Socialism

Photo Above, Yemen, January 2024: U.S and British forces, backed by the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand imperialists, hit Yemeni people and Yemen’s Houthi forces with deadly air and missile strikes. Human Rights Watch facilitated the attacks by producing a report accusing Yemen’s Houthis of “war crimes” for their laudable efforts to defend the people of Gaza through blocking Israel-linked shipping traversing through the Red Sea. By helping to attack actions in support of the Palestinian people of Gaza, Human Rights Watch is complicit in Israel’s ongoing Gaza genocide.

“Human Rights Watch” – Facilitators of Imperialist Terror, Enemies of Socialism

7 April 2024: Today, in the course of giving his Israeli ally the gentlest of slaps on its wrists for murdering aid workers, Britain’s foreign minister, David Cameron, referred to Israel as “a proud and successful democracy.” This compliment was given while Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza! And while the Israeli regime is forcing the Palestinian people in the West Bank to live under brutal Apartheid conditions! As for the capitalist ruling class of Britain itself and that of the U.S., Australia, Germany, France and other “Western democracies”, their self-description as “liberal-democracies” supposedly gave them the license to invade Iraq and kill hundreds of thousands of her people on the basis of a false pretext; and today to arm, support and help direct Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is in the name of “standing up for democracy” that these Western ruling classes are threatening China in the waters of the South China Sea off her own coast and massively arming the anti-China, Western-puppet Taiwanese regime. And it is supposedly a quest to “defend our democratic values” that is driving the Western regimes to engage in a massive military build-up towards war against socialistic China and her North Korean socialistic ally. Here in Australia, the capitalist rulers believe that their status as a supposed “Western democracy” allows their state institutions to continue to strip Aboriginal children from their families and culture in the name of “child protection” and their governments to impose curfews and compulsory “income management” schemes discriminatorily targeting Aboriginal people. Australia’s capitalist government thinks that its self-proclaimed status as a “democracy” allows it to maintain housing policies that enable the capitalist bigwigs that they serve – and other wealthy individuals – to rip off huge fortunes from speculative property investments and exorbitant rents, while shoving millions of low-income renters into poverty and sometimes even homelessness. All of this is supposedly acceptable, because the people are said to have “freely” decided themselves through “democracy”.

However, the truth is that in these “Western-style democracies” the masses are not truly deciding. To be sure, the “democratic” form of capitalist tyranny is preferable to other, still more repressive, forms of capitalist rule. For it allows the working class masses to more easily organise resistance against their own exploitation. However, in truth, the democracy that exists in capitalist “liberal democracies” is only a “democracy” for the capitalist class. Just like other forms of capitalist rule – like fascism, military dictatorship, absolute monarchy and theocratic dictatorship – the “democratic” form of capitalism is still in essence the dictatorship of the capitalist class over working class people. For in the “democratic” form of capitalist state as in the fascist form, the enforcement arms of the state – the police, army, courts, prisons and bureaucracy – are themselves tied to the financially dominant capitalist class and inevitably serve the exclusive interests of this class. This remains the case no matter who wins elections. Moreover, although “parliamentary democracy” under capitalism allows “one person one vote”, the means to shape public opinion – and in the end that means how people vote too – overwhelmingly resides with the super-rich capitalists. It is this class that owns the media. It is they who, in great disproportion to their numbers, have the financial resources to fund political parties, pay for political advertising, hire lobbyists and establish “independent” think tanks. Whereas in the fascist and military dictatorship form of capitalist rule, capitalist interests are enforced mostly through naked force, in the “democratic” form of capitalist rule, capitalist power is, in the first instance, mostly enforced through deception (and when this doesn’t work, they can of course revert to brutal repression and, if necessary, will even seek to overthrow their own “democracy” and replace it with the fascist form of capitalist rule).

Of all the different means of deception that the capitalists have at their disposal, their most effective tools are their supposedly “independent”, “human rights organisations”. These are especially crucial for the capitalists of the richer, imperialist ruling classes to make their “own” masses support their predatory interests abroad. Among such “human rights organisations”, there is one that stands out for its level of influence, Human Rights Watch (HRW). When the mainstream Western media or a Western ruling class politician wants to attack an overseas enemy of the capitalist ruling class that they serve, the “credible source” that they will most often quote is HRW. This in turn boosts the authority of HRW.

HRW’s number one aim is to vilify the socialistic states: the Peoples Republic of China, Cuba, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK – “North Korea”), Vietnam and Laos. HRW also targets any other state that happens to be in the gun sights of the U.S.-led Western imperialists. In 2011, HRW played a key role in facilitating the NATO operation in Libya to overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi, who the Western imperialists had decided was not bowing down enough before their demands to be allowed to continue to rule such an oil-rich country. In the lead up to the NATO intervention in Libya that began on 19 March 2011, HRW unleashed a torrent of hyped-up “reports” of alleged human rights atrocities by the Libyan government that provided the “human rights cover” for NATO’s intervention.  There was, for example, this “report” that HRW released just six days before NATO’s terror bombing was unleashed: https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/03/13/libya-end-violent-crackdown-tripoli. Then as NATO continued to rain death upon the people of Libya, HRW produced more “reports” of supposed atrocities by Libyan government forces (for example: https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/06/29/libya-gaddafi-forces-occupy-hospital-terrify-patients-and-staff ) that served to justify the continuation of the blood-soaked Western imperialist, “regime-change” operation.

Tripoli, Libya, 19 June 2011: Doctors stand near the bodies of a man and a child killed when NATO destroyed yet another residential building in the Libyan capital during their neo-colonial 2011 military intervention in Libya. Through greatly hyped-up and one-sided “human rights reports” in the days leading up to the NATO attack, Human Rights Watch’s propaganda provided the “human rights” “justification” for the brutal NATO onslaught.
Photo: Ivan Sekretarev/AP

The Devious Nature of
Human Rights Watch’s “Even Handedness”

To give themselves credibility, HRW will occasionally also report on human rights violations by the U.S. and other Western ruling classes. But they will mostly only report problems that everyone already knows about and which have been substantiated many times over. That way their “exposés” of human rights atrocities of Western capitalist regimes do minimal damage. In contrast, when HRW launches an attack on China, Cuba or another socialistic state, or on a capitalist state that is being too independent of the Western imperialist rulers, they will produce either entirely new claims or spread, as fact, highly disputed claims made by others – most of which are usually completely unsubstantiated or simply plain lies. Moreover, whenever attacking supposed human rights violations in a workers state or other country in the firing sights of Western imperialism, HRW will not only use the most extreme language as possible but will always make their shrill statements in the context of accusing the targeted state of having an “abysmal human rights record”. By contrast, whenever HRW feels compelled to acknowledge human rights problems in Western capitalist countries they use moderate language and emphasise that the issues occur in the context of the state having an otherwise “strong record of protecting civil and political rights”. Having a “strong record of protecting civil and political rights” is precisely how the Human Rights Watch (HRW) World Report 2022 described the human rights record of Australia’s capitalist regime. The very regime whose special forces murdered dozens of Afghan civilians in cold-blooded, racist executions during their war-crime-ridden participation in the two decade-long U.S./NATO occupation, whose racist police and prison guards have killed, or otherwise caused, the deaths of hundreds of Aboriginal people in custody over the last three decades and which brutally imprisons asylum seekers in offshore hell-holes.

The full range of HRW’s methods of deception were unleashed during their propaganda campaign buttressing the 2011 NATO operation in Libya. For example, HRW acknowledged that NATO killed civilians during their Libya operation but greatly downplayed the numbers. HRW stated that NATO killed “at least 72 civilians”, when even other pro-Western sources acknowledge that the NATO airstrikes killed at least several hundred civilians – and other sources report the number of civilians killed by NATO in the thousands. In contrast, HRW greatly exaggerated the number of civilians killed by the Gaddafi government enemies of NATO.

As well as greatly downplaying the numbers of civilians killed by NATO, HRW despicably praised NATO for supposedly making genuine efforts to protect civilians during its 2011 Libya intervention! Check out this disgusting HRW apology for NATO war crimes in Libya disguised as a “criticism”:

“NATO says it took extensive measures to minimize civilian harm, and those measures seem to have had a positive effect: the number of civilian deaths in Libya from NATO strikes was low given the extent of the bombing and duration of the campaign. Nevertheless, NATO air strikes killed at least 72 civilians, one-third of them children under age 18. To date, NATO has failed to acknowledge these casualties or to examine how and why they occurred.”

Unacknowledged Deaths”, 12 May 2012, HRW website

The truth is that the 2011 NATO regime-change operation that HRW deviously facilitated with its “human rights” reports not only directly killed thousands of civilians in air strikes but produced a horrific, new imperialist-created “order” in Libya. That “order” immediately resulted in murderous racist violence against black African residents of Libya. In the following years, it produced multi-sided sectarian violence and clashes between rival warlords that killed tens of thousands of Libyan people. Human Rights Watch has a lot of blood on its hands!

HRW followed its Libya playbook when “reporting” on the upheaval in Syria that erupted in 2011. Initially the anti-government protests in Syria had a multi-directional quality. But by early 2012, the U.S.-led imperial powers had taken effective political hegemony of the movement and turned it into an armed proxy war aimed at toppling Syria’s Bashar al-Assad government and replacing it with one more subservient to the Western imperialists. As they poured arms, intelligence and training into their armed proxies, HRW filled the information space with one-sided, hyped-up and often false reports accusing Syrian government forces of horrific crimes. Without ever openly stating their intentions, HRW were key propagandists who justified the imperial powers’ proxy war to subordinate Syria. This proxy war caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrian people and the forced displacement of millions more. HRW has much complicity in this carnage!

Today, HRW are at it again! This time they are facilitating the attacks of the U.S., British, Australian and other Western imperialists against the most effective international solidarity actions with the embattled Palestinian people over these last six months – the Yemeni Houthi actions to stop Israeli related shipping from traversing the Red Sea. As the U.S.-led imperialist powers took political steps to justify their impending air strikes against the Yemeni supporters of the Palestinian people, HRW provided the “human rights” justification for the attacks by despicably accusing the Yemeni Houthis of “war crimes” for the Houthis’ laudable actions to resist the Gaza genocide by targeting Israeli-linked shipping. To be sure, with Israel’s ongoing genocide of the people of Gaza obvious to most of the world, HRW also has to make stern criticisms of Israel. If they did not do so, they would lose all credibility and thus all ability to serve Western imperialism. However, by equating resistance actions in support of Israel’s victims with Israel’s genocidal terror, HRW is obscuring the one-sided genocide that is taking place. To facilitate attacks on pro-Palestinian resistance actions when a horrific slaughter of Palestinian people is taking place is to be complicit in the mass murder of the Palestinian people. Therefore, HRW shares responsibility for the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

18 April 2024: Palestinian people survey the damage in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip following yet another murdering Israel strike.
Photo: Xinhua

Funded and Led By Wealthy Western Capitalists
and Serving Their Class Interests

Although HRW would like to portray itself as a “grassroots” organisation standing up for “human rights”, it is the very opposite of that. Headquartered in the U.S., HRW is a multi-hundred million dollar operation funded by super wealthy American and other Western donors and corporations. It is indeed run like a corporation. The outfit’s CEO, Kenneth Roth, is paid an annual salary package in excess of $A1.05 million per year (!!) … hardly the practice of an organisation that claims to be devoted to “bringing greater justice and security to the oppressed around the world”! For the last two years, HRW’s annual revenue averaged over $A163 million per year – overwhelmingly from contributions from rich donors and millions more from fundraising events.

HRW goes to great lengths to hide exactly who the wealthy donors and corporations backing it are. Despite its frequent criticism of various adversaries of Western imperialism for “lack of transparency”, HRW is itself a very shadowy organisation. One massive donor to HRW that the organisation has had to confirm is anti-communist billionaire, George Soros. In September 2010, HRW announced that Soros would be donating a massive $US100 million to the group over ten years. That means that this leaching hedge fund manager, known for his extreme criticisms of socialistic China and his earlier funding for the political forces that destroyed the East European and Soviet workers states through capitalist counterrevolution, has been providing a large proportion of HRW’s funding. Indeed, such corporate bigwigs also make up a big and leading part of HRW’s Board of Directors. Like Soros, many of them extracted their wealth from the especially parasitic finance sector. Thus, one of the two Co-Chairs of HRW’s Board is co-founder and General Partner of venture capitalist group Index Ventures, Neil Rimer. The other Co-Chair, Amy Rao, is a former CEO of a Silicon Valley company. Many of the Board’s Vice Chairs are also bigwigs of investment firms, including the chairman of Japanese financial services company, Monex Group, Oki Matsumoto. This HRW Vice Chair owns $A180 million of shares in his company. Another Vice Chair is Principal at financial services firm KME Consulting, Kimberly Marteau Emerson. Emerson had earlier worked in Bill Clinton’s administration as a senior political appointee and as a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department; which exemplifies the close links between the HRW and the U.S. regime. Indeed, one of the only officers in HRW’s Board who has not been a corporate bigwig is the former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and the Republic of Congo, Robin Sanders. Meanwhile, the Australian in the HRW Board and indeed a Vice Chair of the Board, is one of the two owners and co-chairs of Australian private equity firm, CHAMP Private Equity, Joseph Skrzynski. Skrzynski, who was once also the chairman of SBS, is known for his ownership of extravagant beach-side mansions in Palm Beach and Elizabeth Bay.

Given that it is both funded by capitalist tycoons and other wealthy Western donors and led by corporate bigwigs it is little surprise that HRW takes a political line of strident opposition to the workers states created through the overthrow of capitalism. Indeed, anti-communist opposition to socialistic states goes to the very roots of HRW. HRW began in 1978 with Helsinki Watch – an organisation formed to support anti-communist forces seeking to overthrow the workers states then ruling the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. This fundamental purpose of HRW, to provide the “human rights” cover to forces seeking the counterrevolutionary overthrow of socialistic states, has not changed to this very day.

With HRW, together with the rest of the imperialist ruling classes, having succeeded in destroying the former Soviet and East European workers states, their focus has now turned to the goal of destroying the remaining workers states. That HRW has gained much greater prominence in recent years is a reflection of the increasing desperation of the imperialist rulers to achieve this goal. With socialistic China’s spectacular successes in lifting her people out of poverty and improving the economic and cultural lives of her population such a stark contrast to the periodic economic crises, stagnant real wages, growing homelessness, divided societies, social malaise and decay of the capitalist world, the imperialist rulers know that they must destroy socialistic rule in China in order to ensure their own tyrannies at home. They are looking to the likes of HRW to rise to the occasion and spearhead the “human rights propaganda” front of their all-sided Cold War against Red China and the other socialistic states. And unfortunately, HRW is indeed rising to the task! HRW has played a lead role in selling the lie that Red China is persecuting her Uyghur minority and blares anti-communist, anti-PRC propaganda over Tibet, Hong Kong, COVID and a whole lot of other matters.

It is notable that HRW lists the Ford Foundation as one of their key partners. Established in 1936 by the big-time capitalist Ford family that owned the Ford Motor company, the Ford Foundation has always been devoted to buttressing capitalist rule and opposing communism. It worked closely with the CIA to both spread anti-communist propaganda and to assist CIA covert interference operations around the world. In the 1960s, the Ford Foundation trained elite students in Indonesia in both pro-capitalist political and economic ideology and anti-communist military operations. These students would play an important role in the CIA-backed, 1965 far-right coup in Indonesia that saw the Indonesian military and anti-communist mobs slaughter between one million to two million Indonesian communists, trade unionists, women’s rights activists and members of the Chinese and other minority communities. That HRW and the Ford Foundation should today be working closely together is thus completely natural. It is a bond between organisations that serve the same masters – the U.S. and other Western capitalist classes – share the same anti-communist ideology and have similar blood-soaked histories of providing the “human rights” and “pro-democracy” cover for hideous imperialist-orchestrated terror.


Separately and Independently
Serving Western Imperialist Interests

It is worth noting that the biggest single backer of HRW, liberal billionaire George Soros, happens to be a favourite hostile target of the reactionary far-right sections of the Western ruling classes. The far right of the capitalist establishment and its liberal wing, exemplified by the likes of Soros and HRW, truly hate each other on many issues. However, when it comes to China and other socialistic states, these feuding wings of the imperialist ruling classes – and the mainstream conservatives in between – unite as one to oppose these workers states. And they also unite as one to oppose most other states that refuse to submit to the “rules-based world order” – which, in practice, is really a “might is right” tyranny created and dominated by the U.S. and its junior imperialist partners.

In Australia, too, we see such collaboration between the organisations and representatives of the different ruling class-supporting factions in order to advance the interests of the capitalist class – especially when it comes to attacking the socialistic states. Thus, the ALP, the Teal “independents”, the Liberals and the Far-Right parties will openly cooperate to advance the Australian capitalist regime’s aggressive, U.S.-allied, military buildup targeting socialistic China. They also come together to push through legislation and other measures that allow the regime to forcefully repress and intimidate any people from Australia’s Chinese community and beyond who dare to make statements positive about the PRC. Often such collaboration extends to the Greens – such as in making lying attacks on China and North Korea over “human rights violations” or in preventing the PRC-sponsored, language-teaching Confucius Institutes from teaching Chinese language in Australian schools (the latter McCarthyist campaign was actually driven by Greens politician, David Shoebridge).

As well as open collaboration between the squabbling wings of Western ruling classes (and the social democratic organisations supporting them), they coordinate behind the scenes. You can bet that senior U.S. ruling class politicians and CIA and State Department officials are making clear to leaders of HRW what they would like the “independent human rights organisation” to emphasise. Often this may be done in an informal manner such as when they run into each other at social functions or at events promoting one of the political forces that they both support. However, for the most part, HRW does not take direct orders from the U.S. regime. There is no overall conspiracy as such. For HRW doesn’t need to receive direct orders! What makes HRW, other prominent Western “human rights” NGOs, all the arms of the U.S. and allied regimes, the different factions of the U.S., British, Australian and other U.S.-allied ruling classes, all the mainstream Western media and all well-funded think tanks in Western countries (like Australia’s ASPI and Lowy Institute) all sing basically the same tune is that they are all institutions ultimately controlled by, often directly funded by and always serving the interests of the very same people – that is, the closely-allied, Western imperialist exploiting classes. In other words, all these institutions and organisations are designed to serve either the U.S. capitalist class or allied capitalist ruling classes – like the Australian one. The fact that they are all not, for the most part, acting together in a giant conspiracy but rather act independently for the same cause, each with their own separate emphasis and nuances and sometimes even openly bickering with each other on the details, actually makes them all the more effective in advancing the predatory interests of the U.S., British and Australian imperialist ruling classes and their allies. For this makes it easier for the likes of HRW to claim that they are “independent”, “non-partisan” organisations.

HRW likes to present itself as a grass-roots organisation supporting the under-dog that is driven by nice, compassionate people who truly care about “human rights”. But the truth is that Human Rights Watch is an incredibly rich organisation directly funded by American and other Western capitalists and by wealthy, upper-middle class Western individuals. It is led by corporate bigwigs and dedicated to serving the predatory interests of the mass murdering, genocide-in-Gaza-supporting, U.S, British, Australian and allied imperialist ruling classes. We must push back against and discredit the extremely harmful, pro-imperialist propaganda that is being spouted out by Human Rights Watch! This includes through exposé’s of HRW’s deeds facilitating war-criminal-ridden, Western interventions in Libya and Syria; and now through providing the “human rights” cover for U.S./British/Australian/Canadian/New Zealand attacks aimed at crushing Yemeni support for the embattled Palestinian people of Gaza. We must also encourage any current, or former, volunteers and staff working for HRW, who mistakenly thought that they were joining a genuine human rights organisation and who are now disgruntled, to blow the whistle on the highly secretive organisation, expose all its funding sources and make the public aware of all of HRW’s connections to Western regime officials and unsavoury, imperialist-backed “rebel” groups in socialistic countries and other Western-targeted states. We in Trotskyist Platform also call on all genuine opponents of capitalism and imperialism to build street protests and pickets against Human Rights Watch. Let us work hard to obliterate blood-soaked Human Rights Watch through all political means available!

Initial Statement on Conflict in Ukraine

24 February 2022: Below is a summary of Trotskyist Platform’s position on the conflict in Ukraine:

Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Palestine:
Victims of U.S., Australian and NATO War Machines

The Main Threat to the World’s People and the Main
Enemy of the Australian Working Class is Not Putin’s Ambitious
Capitalist Regime But the U.S., Australian and Other Western Imperialists

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Oppose Western Imperialism’s Provocative and Hypocritical
Interference in Ukraine And Oppose Sanctions Against Russia!
No NATO Expansion! No Western Arms to Ukraine!

For Unity of the Russian and Ukrainian Working Classes
Against Both their Capitalist Rulers!

For the Right to Self-Determination of the Persecuted
Russian-Speaking People in Donbass and All Ethnicities of the Former USSR!

Defend Iran Against Imperialist Attacks!

U.S., AUSTRALIA GET OUT OF IRAQ, THE PERSIAN GULF & AFGHANISTAN! U.S. OUT OF SYRIA! LIFT ALL SANCTIONS ON IRAN NOW!

DEFEND IRAN
AGAINST IMPERIALIST ATTACKS!

9 January 2020 – The U.S. regime and its allies are threatening a new all-out war in the Middle East. Driven by their predatory capitalist agendas their latest target is the people of Iran. Last week, a U.S. strike killed top Iranian military leader, Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani had been commander of Iran’s Quds Force which had helped ex-colony Syria to stave off an attempt by Washington to use proxies to impose regime change on that country. However, the U.S. murder of the Iranian Major General is not about one person. It is a provocation driving towards war on Iran.

The U.S. has been heading towards war with Iran ever since the hard-right Trump regime re-imposed much harsher sanctions on Iran in 2018. Then last July, Washington’s British allies brazenly seized an Iranian civilian ship off the coast of Gibraltar. This was followed up by the U.S. increasing its naval presence in the Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s southern coast. Done under the guise of protecting merchant shipping against the threat of Iranian responses to the Gibraltar ship seizure, it was actually aimed at tightening the military screws on Iran. These screws were tightened several turns further just days before the killing of Soleimani when U.S. airstrikes killed at least 25 members of an Iraqi Shiite-based militia sympathetic to Iran, the Kataib Hezbollah.

Although the Australian regime has been somewhat wary of being drawn into a new war it has joined in the war drive against Iran. In August, prime minister Scott Morrison agreed to deploy a naval frigate and surveillance aircraft to join the U.S. operation in the Strait of Hormuz. The ALP Opposition supported the deployment as “appropriate.” Now, just as the U.S. war threat against Iran has been ratcheted up to its highest level in decades, these Australian forces will actually be deployed next week. Meanwhile, Australia has 300 troops in Iraq, which nominally train the Iraqi forces but, actually, help to maintain Western imperialist domination of that country that they have so brutally devastated.

Western media have been at pains to highlight that after Iran responded to Soleimani’s assassination with missile strikes against U.S. bases in Iraq, Trump avoided an immediate military response. However, the U.S. president announced still harsher sanctions on Iran as well as the deployment of further U.S. troops to the region. The U.S. regime wants to bring Iran to heel because it wants no force who will hinder their total domination of this oil rich and geographically strategic region. And they are prepared to kill a lot of people to achieve these goals! However, they understand too that Iran has a much more powerful military than Iraq had. Any all out U.S. war with Iran will see a lot of American troops getting killed. They are well aware too that much of the American population is sick of being part of distant wars, especially given that thousands of troops were killed by the Iraqi people’s resistance to the U.S.-led occupation. That is why an all out assault on Iran would likely have to be preceded by a massive propaganda campaign. Beware of hyped-up and concocted horror stories about some particular Iranian “atrocity” that the U.S. and their allies will try to find to justify war! Let’s never forget how the U.S., British and Australian regimes and mainstream media lied that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to launch their heinous invasion in 2003!

WE MUST STAND WITH WEAKER, ECONOMICALLY DEPENDANT IRAN
AGAINST THE IMPERIALIST BULLIES!

Since the U.S. assassination of Soleimani was carried out at Baghdad Airport, that missile attack was also a blatant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty. In the same attack, the U.S. also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a leader of an Iraqi Shiite based militia sympathetic to Iran. The Iraqi parliament responded to the U.S. murder of Soleimani and Muhandis by voting to eject U.S. and other Western troops out of the country. However, the arrogant, U.S. and Australian imperialists have said that they will not leave.

After the U.S. killed Soleimani and Muhandis, millions took to the streets in angry protests in both Iraq and Iran. In Iran the masses are furious at not only this latest intervention but at decades of being battered by Western imperialism: from the 1953 British and U.S. engineered coup that overthrew Iran’s Mosaddegh government – that had moved to nationalise Iran’s oil wealth that was being plundered by the British predecessor to BP – to the suffering caused by years of sanctions. In Iraq, it is still fresh in people’s minds that though the capitalist dictatorship under Saddam Hussein was certainly oppressive, the U.S./Australian/British invasion brought death, increased sectarian divisions and a serious deterioration in the position of women. The imperialist invaders killed tens of thousands of Iraqi people during their first Gulf War slaughter in 1991, they caused the premature deaths of nearly two million Iraqi people – mainly infants – as a result of the subsequent sanctions and then either killed by their own hands – or through the sectarian Sunni-Shia conflicts that they caused – over a million more Iraqi people since then.

Let us solidarise with the people in Iraq and Iran opposing the imperialist presence in the region and the threat of another calamitous U.S. led war! Let us stand with Iran against U.S. and Australian military threats! U.S./Australia get out of Iraq and all of the Middle East! Lift all sanctions on Iran now!

It is true that just like their American and Australian counterparts, the Iranian state oversees a capitalist system where workers are exploited. And just like the nearby U.S.-allied regimes in the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, the Iranian government oversees the intense oppression of women and brutally cracks down on leftists. However, it is very wrong to equate Iran on the one hand and the U.S. and its imperialist allies on the other. Iran is a weaker, economically dependant country which is weighed down by the stranglehold over world markets by the rich capitalist powers. And although links to socialistic China allow her to gain some level of independence, the continued domination of much of the world economy, capital and access to technology by the Western powers stifles her. Moreover, it is not Iran that is going around invading other countries as the U.S. and Australia regimes have done in Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia, East Timor, Afghanistan and Libya, to name just a few. Nor is it Iran that has been orchestrating dozens upon dozens of coups to overthrow overseas governments, including in Indonesia in 1965, Chile in 1973, East Timor in 2006 and Bolivia in 2019. No, that is the work of the U.S., Australian and other Western imperialists who are the greatest threat to the entire world’s peoples. That is why the working class people of the world have a clear side with Iran against the rich capitalist powers. As Lenin famously put it in an article written two years before the 1917 Russian Socialist Revolution:

“…if tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or China on Russia, and so forth, those would be “just”, “defensive” wars, irrespective of who attacked first; and every Socialist would sympathise with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slaveowning, predatory “great” powers.”

Socialism and War, V.I. Lenin, 1915

So we must defend any action that Iran takes against imperialist provocations – including the recent missile attack on U.S. bases. We must also support Iran acquiring whatever weapons that she needs for self-defence.

STANDING BY IRAN AGAINST IMPERIALISM
IS IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING CLASS PEOPLE

In response to the recent events, Greens leader Richard Di Natale took a neutral position: “We condemn the actions of the Iranian Government, just as we condemn the provocative, illegal assassination undertaken by the US Government. We urge all sides now to show calm and restraint.” You can expect too that various social-democratic, nominally Marxist groups, while weighting their criticism more strongly towards the U.S. than the Greens do, will call for “both sides”, which means Iran too, to negotiate and show restraint. However, calling on Iran to negotiate is not going to ward off a U.S. attack, which at bottom is driven by the interests of U.S. corporate bigwigs. Indeed, any sign of weakness shown by Iran by “showing restraint” or offering concessions may well only embolden the predatory imperialists. Moreover, to call for Iran to give concessions to U.S. demands to weaken its military support to groups – like Palestinian resistance groups, the Houthi rebels in Yemen etc – that in some way resist U.S. (and its Saudi and Israeli allies) marauding around the region is to act to help Washington achieve part of its aims in a “peaceful” manner.

If anyone concerned about the interests of the toiling classes thinks that they should be neutral in any conflict between the U.S. bloc and Iran they should compare the implications of an Iranian victory in any conflict versus that of a victory of the U.S.-led imperialists. Should Iran, with backing of class conscious workers around the world, be able to successfully resist a U.S.-led assault this would encourage the resistance of all the world’s people suffering under imperialism. This includes the Palestinian people bravely resisting the murdering U.S.-backed Israeli forces and all the peoples of Asia, Africa, the Pacific and Latin America robbed by Western capitalist powers. On the other hand, should the U.S. and its allies prevail that will have the opposite effect. It would encourage them to launch new wars in the region. Globally they would be emboldened to launch still more direct attempts to overthrow the anti-colonial Maduro government in Venezuela and the socialistic state in North Korea. The U.S., British and Australian rulers would be encouraged too to further intensify their backing of the pro-colonial, rich people’s opposition in China’s Hong Kong.

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If the U.S. and Australian regimes get away with imposing their will on Iran, that will make them more arrogant and oppressive at home. The ruling class here would be emboldened to deepen their repression of trade union activists, further immiserate the unemployed, increase racist state terror against Aboriginal people and intensify racist vilification of refugees and migrant-based, non-white communities. That is why it is in the very interests of the working class to mobilise in action to oppose imperialist attacks upon Iran. Through protest industrial action, the workers movement can impede the war drive against Iran. To lay the basis for such action means challenging the pro-imperialist line pushed by the current leadership of the workers movement in the ALP. It also means winning the best and most influential worker activists to participating in protest actions opposing the war drive. Therefore, any protests opposing the war moves of the U.S. and Australian regimes must be built on a political line that can win over committed trade union activists – that is, on an openly pro-working class, internationalist and secular line.

OPPOSE ALL INTERVENTIONS BY U.S. AND AUSTRALIAN IMPERIALISM

Although the U.S. on the one hand and Iran and pro-Iranian Shiite based groups on the other may seem implacable enemies, at key other times they have been allies. Some pro-Iranian, Iraqi groups criminally backed, at first, the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Earlier, during the 1980s, the Iranian government was a key supporter of the U.S.-backed Afghan Mujahedin fanatics that fought an anti-communist war against the then secular, leftist Afghan government and its Soviet Red Army protectors. Then, in 2001, the Iranian state provided crucial support to the U.S./Australian/ NATO invasion of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Russia which to some degree acts as Iran’s ally is also at the same time somewhat of a rival to Iran. During oil supply negotiations last year, Russia and Saudi Arabia co-operated in stitching a deal that sidelined and shafted Iran provoking an angry rebuke from the Iranian side.

The fact is that none of the capitalist regimes act out of any claimed principle whether that be “bringing human rights”, “spreading democracy” or “standing against imperialism.” Rather, the only thing that drives any of these capitalist states – big and small – is protecting the interests of their own respective capitalist classes. Be that as it may, one thing is absolutely sure: the horrible suffering, bloodshed and chaos in the Middle East and surrounding regions cannot be ended unless the U.S. and other Western powers are ejected from these regions. We have already spoken about some of the calamities that these forces have caused in Iraq and Iran. However, their crimes extend far beyond there. In 2011, the U.S. and NATO killed tens of thousands of Libyan people and brought “Rebel” proxies to power that have brought on-going chaos and bloodshed to that once peaceful country. Then in Syria, the U.S. and allied imperialists backed largely religious fundamentalist “Rebel” proxies to try and impose regime change there. They fuelled a conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Among the groups that they backed was not only Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate but for a period even ISIS – which itself was created out of the strife that these imperialists had brought to Iraq. Then when the nasty little ISIS monsters turned on the Western big imperialist monsters, the U.S., Australia and others Western powers responded with airstrikes done so callously that they killed tens of thousands of civilians in the mainly Sunni-populated areas of Syria and Iraq. Meanwhile, since their 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S., NATO and Australian forces have killed tens of thousands of civilians there. The Australian troops in particular killed several Afghan children at close range, executed in cold blood many civilians and murdered unarmed prisoners. We must demand that all U.S., NATO and Australian troops get out of Afghanistan as well as all of the Middle East. U.S. out of Syria! Lift all economic sanctions on Syria as well as Iran! Oppose all intervention by the imperialist powers whether that be military, diplomatic or through the funding of proxy forces!

THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM LEADS TO IMPERIALIST WAR!
BUILD THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THIS SYSTEM!

No one should be surprised that the Trump regime is driving towards conflict with Iran. Nor at its aggressive attitude to Red China. After all Trump promised both these things during his election campaign. He also vowed to be more combative when “negotiating” with Washington’s part allies, part rivals in Western Europe. This too has occurred. Trump did, however, promise to improve relations with Russia – in good part because he hoped to use Russia against the German and French competitors of the U.S. and because he sought to bring Russia into a grand capitalist front against socialistic China. This part of Trump’s original agenda has been largely frustrated by other wings of the U.S. ruling class who don’t want to allow the up and coming Russian power to emerge as a major capitalist rival. The end result is that U.S. relations with just about everyone – other than Britain and Australia – have become pricklier and the world has become a more dangerous place.

However, there are small clots among the Left who, because of their sympathy for Russia’s capitalist rulers and their indifference to racial oppression, actually gave support (with some criticisms) to Trump in the lead up to his election. Some even condemned the anti-Trump protests during his inauguration! They basically argued that Trump would be less imperialistic. Especially after events over the last two weeks, they have been left with political egg on their faces. Of course, these “leftists” are now not about to broadcast their past softness on Trump. However, genuine leftists should expose these clots and ensure that they are completely discredited and isolated. To support, even in a critical way, a hard right-wing, extreme racist is a despicable crime for anyone claiming to be a leftist!

To be sure the problem is hardly just Trump and the rabid right-wingers. All wings of the imperialist ruling classes must be opposed. The Obama-era Iran nuclear deal unfairly curbed Iran’s nuclear program and did not give Iran complete sanctions relief. Let’s not forget too that it was this previous, more liberal U.S. regime that waged the regime change war on Libya and the proxy war in Syria. Here in Australia, it is hardly just the right-wing Liberals that are the war-mongers. It was the then Hawke Labor government that sent Australian forces to take part in the 1991 first Gulf War slaughter of Iraqi peoples. Later, the previous Rudd-Gillard-Rudd ALP government maintained the Howard government’s occupation forces in Afghanistan and backed the proxy war in Syria. Today, the ALP continues to fall over themselves to show “bipartisanship” with the Liberals on all key foreign policy issues.

What causes the drive to imperialist war is mainly not bad people and bad ideologies. Instead, it is the natural product of capitalism in the richer countries where, to counter the internal contradictions of their system, these capitalist states are forced to seek out new sources of cheap labour and raw materials and new markets to seize control of. It is notable that Trump is threatening Iran at a time when the U.S. economy is expected to weaken further. However, in targeting Iran, Washington also has other goals far beyond Iran. For one, Iran has friendly relations with China. By targeting Iran, the U.S. regime wants to put the squeeze on socialistic China. The destruction of the world’s most powerful socialistic state remains the number one foreign policy goal of the capitalist powers. The U.S. regime also wants to hit Iran to strike a blow against its emerging Russian capitalist rival. Most dangerously, by driving towards war with Iran, Washington wants to take a side swipe against its German-led West European rivals. The latter are unhappy at Trump’s abandonment of the Obama-era deal with Iran and understand this was a way to stop the French, German, Dutch and other European powers from consummating lucrative contracts with Iran. In these tensions we are seeing the dim outlines of a potential future war between rival imperialist powers. The imperialists fought two destructive inter-imperialist wars last century. Today, all sides will have nuclear weapons at the start of any new world war. We need socialist revolution in the imperialist centres of the U.S., Australia, France, Germany, Japan etc to save humanity from this truly terrifying, apocalyptic threat.

FOR PRO-WORKER, PRO-WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENTS
IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT ARE STAUNCHLY ANTI-IMPERIALIST

To defend Iran against the imperialist bullies one does not in any way need to prettify the Iranian ruling class. Iran’s capitalist rulers exploit their own working class, brutally subjugate women, trample on the rights of Azeris, Kurds and other non-Persian ethnic groups, murder communists and cruelly persecute lesbian women and gay men. However, should the imperialists invade Iran or impose a regime-change through proxies, the oppression of the masses would deepen much further. Look at what happened in Iraq! And in Libya! Given that the imperial powers would cream off much of the country’s oil wealth and fruits of workers’ labour, not only would the masses be immiserated even more but the dominant imperialists would need to incite sectarian and ethnic scapegoating to divide the exploited masses. And we have seen the calamity that such methods have brought to the people of Iraq! On the other hand, if the predatory war drive against Iran is defeated, although the religious fundamentalist regime would initially gain a boost to its authority, before long the toiling masses would say to themselves: “now that we have repulsed the big global oppressors let us now get rid of our exploiters here at home who are, in the end, economically subordinate to these imperialists.”

In recent months there have been mass protests and riots in Iran against fuel price hikes, poverty and corruption. However, taking part in the protests have been a mixture of pro-imperialist groups (including Shah supporters and supporters of the Mojahedin-e Khalq), genuine leftists and those who are not under any definite political leadership. Given the balance of power in the world and the imminent threat of imperialist attack, any such amorphous movement can quickly coalesce into a hardened proxy movement for imperialism. On the other hand, the imminent threat of an imperialist attack puts the question of opposing imperialism more onto centre stage. This gives an opportunity for genuine leftists taking part in opposition movements to split the movements by raising clear anti-imperialist slogans. In practice this would mean combining pro-worker economic demands and demands against the capitalist ruling class with clear slogans calling for the defence of Iran against imperialist attack. The idea would be to weed out from the leftist bloc anyone who either supports the menacing U.S. forces, is neutral on the question of an imperialist attack or is too half-hearted in opposing imperialism. The aim would be to build a leftist united-front movement that is clearly pro-working class, pro-women’s rights and anti-imperialist. Such a movement would not only politically oppose the capitalist rulers but would be staunchly against pro-imperialist opposition movements and would loudly stand for the defence of Iran against the imperialist aggressors. A similar split in opposition movements, albeit accounting for different terrains, is needed in Iraq, where the current government is simultaneously subordinate to Washington and allied with Tehran, and in Lebanon, where the governments have often been uneasy capitalist coalitions of pro-U.S. and pro-Syria/pro-Iran elements.

DOWN WITH AUSTRALIAN IMPERIALISM!

For leftists and opponents of imperialism in Australia our role must be overwhelmingly focussed on opposing the Australian regime’s contribution to the U.S.-led war drive against Iran rather than on supporting any rallies backing opposition forces in Iran – even leftist-led ones. Especially in the context of escalating war moves against Iran right now, even well-intentioned protests in Australia backing leftist opposition forces in Iran can have the effect of adding to the war-drive against Iran. In a land where the local ruling class is very much part of the U.S.-led moves to put the squeeze on Iran, the best way that we can support the building of a pro-working class, anti-imperialist opposition movement in Iran is to fight to lift the imperialist pressure that is bearing down upon her.

In mobilising against Canberra’s participation in U.S. moves against Iran we must understand that the Australian rulers are not merely puppets of the U.S. They are something worse than that. They form a predatory imperialist ruling class in their own right. They back U.S. wars in the Middle East because they want U.S. power to be strengthened because it is U.S. power that underwrites Australian imperialist overlordship and plunder of natural resources in PNG, Bougainville, East Timor, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and even to a degree in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the Australian rulers and the U.S. rulers co-operate in pressuring socialistic China as both share a common goal of weakening the world’s most powerful socialistic country. Some on the Left, however, like to portray the Australian rulers as mere puppets of the U.S., almost as if Australia was a dependant country persecuted by imperialism. This is very distorting to the struggle as it implies that what is needed is to appeal to Australian nationhood – and even to a section of the ruling class – to unite to “achieve independence” from the U.S. Such nationalism and tying of workers to a section of their own exploiters is very harmful to the class struggle. For what we need to do is to mobilise the working class and its allies against all the capitalists.

Let us combine the struggle against the union busting, racist attacks and persecution of the poor perpetrated by the Australian imperialist rulers at home with the struggle against their predatory imperialist interventions abroad from the Persian Gulf to Iraq, East Timor, the Korean Peninsula and the South China Sea. Stand against the Australian capitalist ruling class! Stand with the people of Iran against U.S. and Australian imperialist threats!

Defend Syria against U.S./Australian Imperialism & Their “Rebel” Proxies!

On 7 April 2017, the world’s biggest killing machine went into overdrive. The U.S. unleashed a barrage of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against a Syrian airbase. The strike killed nine civilians – including four children. The right-wing Turnbull government could not wait to proclaim that it “strongly supports the swift and just response of the United States.” Meanwhile, the ALP Opposition was no better, calling the U.S. attack “appropriate and proportionate.”

The U.S. claims that its missile strike was retaliation for an alleged chemical attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s Idlib Province which they have pinned on Syria’s Assad government. U.S. president Trump claims that he was motivated to attack Syria by concern for children killed in the alleged attack. What a load of rubbish! For the U.S., Australian and other imperialist rulers, the masses in the ex-colonies are completely expendable in their drive to secure control of natural resources, markets and spheres of exploitation.  Due to their barbaric willingness to disregard dangers to civilian lives in their war on ISIS, a March 17 airstrike by the U.S./French/British/Australian Coalition killed over 200 civilians in the residential Jadidah neighborhood of the western part of the Iraqi city of Mosul. Meanwhile, the racist Trump regime has shown how much concern they have for the people of the Arab and Muslim world by attempting to ban people from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S. and by stopping all refugees from the war in Syria. Trump’s offensive diatribes against Muslims, Mexicans and other non-white people has incited a terrifying increase in white supremacist attacks throughout North America – including the 29 January massacre of six people at a Quebec City mosque by a fascist Trump supporter. Here in Australia, the Turnbull regime, with the support of the ALP, shows its “concern” for the well-being of children from the Middle East by imprisoning dozens of them in hell-hole detention centres in Australia and Nauru and hundreds more in community detention centres. Meanwhile, Australian regimes of various stripes oversee a racist “child protection” system that has cruelly ripped hundreds of Aboriginal children from their families in an ongoing stolen generations outrage. Continue reading Defend Syria against U.S./Australian Imperialism & Their “Rebel” Proxies!

Oppose All NATO/Australia Diplomatic, Military & Political Intervention in Syria! No to Neo-Colonialism: Defend Syria against the Pro-Imperialist “Rebels”

Sydney, August 5: Syrian origin youth pose for a photo in front of the Trotskyist Platform banner at the thousands strong, Hands Off Syria rally.

Oppose All NATO/Australia Diplomatic, Military & Political Intervention in Syria!

No to Neo-Colonialism: Defend Syria against the Pro-Imperialist “Rebels”

July 27 – It was disturbing footage. Picked up by Reuters and then shown on SBS and ABC News, the video which they noted on the side, “could not be independently verified,” claimed to show supposed Syriansoldiers beating captured  anti-government protesters. There was a problem, however! An email to the ABC program Media Watch noted that the accents of the troops shown in the footage were Lebanese not Syrian, that the car shown in the background had a Lebanese number plate and that the soldiers were not even wearing Syrian army uniforms.  After some research Media Watch independently verified that this was indeed not footage from Syria but from Lebanon (http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3218415.htm).  The clip that had claimed to show Syrian Army brutality turned out to be taken from a YouTube posting of a couple of Lebanese militias bragging about their actions.  What is more, the original posting to YouTube took place several years earlier in August 2008! Such is the deception being spread by the pro-Western Syrian Opposition forces. Continue reading Oppose All NATO/Australia Diplomatic, Military & Political Intervention in Syria! No to Neo-Colonialism: Defend Syria against the Pro-Imperialist “Rebels”

Down with All U.S./Australian Diplomatic And Military Intervention in Libya And Syria! Support the Libyan Resistance against NATO Imperialists And Their Puppets!

Let this serve as both a warning and a reprimand to those on the left who still harbour any illusions about Western imperialist-basked regime change: a child's ball haunts a deserted and gutted out street in Sirte after the horrific onslaught of 415 "Key" NATO airstrikes and untold indiscriminate shelling by the NATO-backed "rebels". The few residents that had begun to return, the UK's The Daily Mail reported in late October, stared "in disbelief at the ruins of their homes, many of which seem to have been looted by the rebels". A 26-year-old engineer said: 'Our homes have been wiped out and our friends and family lie dead in the streets.' His friend added: 'Look at this place, at the bodies/ It is an act of vengeance.' A third resident declared: 'The war is not over yet. This war has only just begun.'
Let this serve as both a warning and a reprimand to those on the left who still harbour any illusions about Western imperialist-backed regime change: a child’s ball haunts a deserted and gutted out street in Sirte after the horrific onslaught of 415 “Key” NATO airstrikes and untold indiscriminate shelling by the NATO-backed “rebels”. The few residents that had begun to return, the UK’s The Daily Mail reported in late October, stared “in disbelief at the ruins of their homes, many of which seem to have been looted by the rebels”. A 26-year-old engineer said: ‘Our homes have been wiped out and our friends and family lie dead in the streets.’ His friend added: ‘Look at this place, at the bodies/ It is an act of vengeance.’ A third resident declared: ‘The war is not over yet. This war has only just begun.’

Down with All U.S./Australian Diplomatic And Military Intervention in Libya And Syria!

Support the Libyan Resistance against NATO Imperialists And Their Puppets!

October 24 – Yesterday, the forces installed into power in Libya by their imperial puppet masters hailed the “Liberation” of the country. Yet their cold-blooded slaughter of former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, after he was captured alive only highlights that these new rulers are cut-throats whose claims to have fought for “democracy” are utter lies. Gaddafi was only one of hundreds and more likely thousands of supporters of the old order who have been executed by NATO’s “rebels.” Today, even the pro-Western Human Rights Watch was compelled to announce that the pro-NATO National Transitional Council (NTC) forces had massacred 52 Gaddafi supporters in the Libyan city of Sirte. The victims were found with their hands bound behind their backs and dumped on the lawn of the seaside Mahari Hotel. Continue reading Down with All U.S./Australian Diplomatic And Military Intervention in Libya And Syria! Support the Libyan Resistance against NATO Imperialists And Their Puppets!

Speakout Demands: Stop The Capitalists’ Provocations against Socialistic North Korea!

Yeongpyeong Island, Korea, December 2010: Troops from capitalist South Korea prepare for a highly provocative live fire exercise in this military outpost, lying in disputed waters.

Speakout Demands:

Stop The Capitalists’ Provocations against Socialistic North Korea!

Late last year the capitalist countries, led by the U.S., were on the verge of provoking a full-scale war with North Korea. This followed a clash on November 23 between the militaries of U.S.-backed, capitalist South Korea and the North Korean workers state. Continue reading Speakout Demands: Stop The Capitalists’ Provocations against Socialistic North Korea!

Upheaval in The Arab World. A CHANCE TO WIN A FUTURE BUT DO NOT LET WESTERN IMPERIALISM STRENGTHEN ITS GRIP!

Ghazl el-Mahalla, Egypt, September 2007: 10,000 workers at the Misr Spinning and Weaving mill down tools and occupy the factory in protest at management remerging on previous agreements. This action was part of a wave of workers struggle that has swept Egypt over the last five years.
Ghazl el-Mahalla, Egypt, September 2007: 10,000 workers at the Misr Spinning and Weaving mill down tools and occupy the factory in protest at management remerging on previous agreements. This action was part of a wave of workers struggle that has swept Egypt over the last five years.

  Upheaval in The Arab World

A CHANCE TO WIN A FUTURE
BUT DO NOT LET WESTERN IMPERIALISM STRENGTHEN ITS GRIP!

29 June, 2011: The masses in the Arab world have lost all fear. They have been repressed for decades by corrupt regimes. Regimes that robbed from the poor to satisfy the rich and their U.S., British, French, Italian and German masters. Regimes that ensured that a good chunk of the region’s oil wealth was plundered by the wealthy owners of Western oil corporations. Yet now the masses have had enough. They are in revolt. Continue reading Upheaval in The Arab World. A CHANCE TO WIN A FUTURE BUT DO NOT LET WESTERN IMPERIALISM STRENGTHEN ITS GRIP!