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Thread #91912 Message #1751240
Posted By: GUEST,Ifor
01-Jun-06 - 04:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Euston Manifesto
Subject: RE: BS: The Euston Manifesto
Those individuals who produced the Euston Manifesto are discredited in Britain.Nick Cohen and the others supported vociferously the invasion and occupation of Iraq which has led to the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians including many women and children and the plunging of Iraq into a state of barbarism.
The producers of the manifesto supported the war gang, the recycled Reaganites , the Texas Oil Lobby ,right wing extremists, the Zionists and the New Labour heirarchy in their drive to invade Iraq using the "Shock and Awe" terror tactics we have come to see on our television screens.
Essentially they provided a left wing or liberal fig leaf for the onslaught...they were the liberal bombers who cheered on the attack and loudly condemned the anti war left in the Stop The War Coalition for opposing the invasion.
Of course they have been utterly discredited in the anti war and socialist left .But they have gone on to loudly berate, for example, the Socialist Workers Party for views which it does non hold and for political positions it does not take.They claim for instance that the SWP and Respect an anti war coalition are soft on Jihadis when Galloway the Respect MP has been threatened and physically attacked by Jihadi groups in Britain on several occasions.
The authors of the Euston Manifesto have been left politically high and dry by the mayhem and brutality in Iraq...and the murderous consequences of the US led invasion.
There is an ongoing realignment of left wing and anti capitalist forces in Britain but as Prof Alex Callinicos has written recently those involved in the realignment will not be looking to a bunch of former leftists pro war apologists for advice or inspiration.
Ifor