'The extraordinary successes of the antiwar movement'
Richard has been set the odious task by the Socialist Worker of pumping up the antiwar movement, which everyone knows has long been dying on its arse for some years now - a process that has speeded up recently with the collapse of violence in Iraq. It's of course the root cause of why the Respect coalition couldn't bury its differences for the greater cause anymore too. On every issue they failed - whether on forcing Blair to resign, defeating Bush, stopping the surge or overthrowing Iraq and Afghan democracy, they have taken a fatal beating. Even the runaway Dem front runner candidate is the most prowar and centrist of the bunch, whilst the likes of Edwards, who has taken a rather desperate antiwar position, completely bombs. Who would have predicted that?
Anyway he gives his best shot to a dreary and tired readership who know the game is up. Unfortunately for him their failure is everywhere - even the post below his on the Medialens message board where he plugs his blog charts the failure of the Irish antiwar movement, which was rather unfortunate timing.
If this is what extraordinary success means then I hope they will deliver a whole lot more of it.
1 comments:
Alas you are wrong again.
Most people in Britain opposed and still oppose the Iraq war. Fact. Two million turned out on the streets to express that opposition, the largest demonstration in British history. Fact.
However, the main problem with the official so-called "anti-war movement" is that large parts of it are not anti-war at all but rather pro-war and anti-American.
This tendency is best represented by the lenin's tomb goons who take obvious delight in seeing working class Americans blown to pieces by terrorists on the streets of . (Or failing that, seeing working class Brits blown to pieces on the Underground or in discotheques.)
The same people also support other acts of war, such as the shelling of Israeli cities such as Haifa.
Working class people who genuinely oppose war want nothing to do with such an elitist movement which is essentially a white middle class guilt trip.
One day a genuinely proletarian movement will emerge that will unite working people of all colours and nationalities. That movement will need the American working class. It will not need and will not have room for bigots like Richard Seymour.
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