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US-NATO-EU: Cruise-Aid before International Law?


The objective here should be to stop the war-crime BEFORE it takes place, and save the lives of the multitude of victims already scheduled, not salve your consciences by stopping work for 1 hour, after the butchery has commenced !!

The time for effective action on the streets, blockade of a city, whatever, is NOW, ferchrissakes. NOW we can still move public opinion and thereby reluctant warmongers away from this madness, not after the jingoistic war-fever has set in and the cruise-missiles and mini-nukes are whirling down.

Get real, people, get organised NOW, get out NOW, and quit waiting for straw-men like Benn for so-called 'initiative'!

If Benn had half-a-brain, he would see that much more is needed - I assume he's not stupid, so this whole thing looks to me like a deliberate ploy to draw force away from any effective efforts to prevent the planned war-crimes. Either that or his brain has been short-circuited to his ass from too many parlimentary luncheons.

This reeks to high heaven of a, witting or otherwise, establishment shunt.

People, please examine carefully your ultimate objectives before falling for this scam - but certainly do get active - there is a large movement the world over determined to stop the slaughter these madmen plan - get connected, get effective strategy and get it out!!

Let's stop the perversion of International Law as an excuse for mass-murder!!

Stopping work for an hour when it's already rolling has to be the LEAST of our efforts, OK?

BlackPope

PS: No hard feeling, Mr. Benn, but you are way outta touch.

True enough, when Mr Benn says he wonders if he could have done more, he echoes the thoughts of all socialists in the post war years. we could all have done more, (excepting perhaps trotsky, che guevara and sartre,) and we now see the world moving to an entirely new phase (i call this era ''AFBW'' After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, with 1990 as a Year Zero, making 2002 my Year 12 AFBW.)
Yes, Mr Benn is an old man, he couldve done more, and he's too late. Perhaps that goes for most of us.

o well, we just have to keep trying isuppose...

it's time to get of our asses here people!!

So Anthony Wedgewood-Benn has finally realised the error of his ways?

Well no, wedgy still thinks appealing to governments and capitalists is the way forward. It's capital and state which cause the wars, appealing to them for 'CONstraint' is bollox. Wedgy, and other professional careerists like Tariq Ali were made redundant a long time ago.

Sack all politicians - Do it for Yourself.

Hey, wasn't Tariq Ali the founder of the VIETNAM SOLIDARITY CAMPAIGN and a driving force behind the '68 attempt to storm the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square, when street fighting was brought to London.
Wasn't he a member of the International Marxist Group?
I'm not sure what his political views are now, but I've always assumed that he is committed to revolutionary change and not radical reformism (mass-action + Parliament) favoured by Tony Benn.
Answers please!
I know a bit about Tariq Ali's past, but where does he stand now politically?

Tariq Ali was a very prominent figure in the anti-U.S. movement of the 1960's. His intention was to fly the NLF flag from the flagpole of the U.S. Embassy in 1968. In other words he wished to haul down the flag of one oppressor of the working class and replace it with another. All that university education and no common sense. Typical middle-class leftie I suppose.