regard it as a matter of principle to always support 'official' Labour candidates. It is a question Kilfoyle is a vicious witch-hunter; but that makes him no better or worse than hundreds of Labour candidates in other constituencies who are routinely given (critical) support by marIn these case it is seen that a Labour vote is a class vote. By backing the Party against the Tories, we create better conditions to take the fight for a socialist alternative into the official labour movement by putting a Labour government into office and focussing workers' The same logic applies to Liverpool Walton.
The key task is to push the fight against the witch hunt deep into the trade unions and Labour Party, not to evade this fight by engaging in a diversionary candidacy. AFTER the grotesque chest-beating 'victory' parades in Washington and New York, London is being treated, this weekend, to its own dose of imperial flagwaving. The whole affair is sick. The aftermath of the Gulf war can only be regarded as a victory by a political system devoid of What exactly is the balance-sheet of the Gulf war? Iraq is devastated, and its people facing hunger and disease. Saddam Hussein is still in power, ready to unleash a new murderous onslaught on the Kurds and Shi'as, as Western troops pull out. Hundreds of thousands have died in is an obscene spactacle of high-tech butchery. Thatis a victory only for those steeped n racist imperial ideology, for people who give hanks for the safety of Western multinational corporations and the poverty and suffering of At the end of the Gulf war, the US military entertained itself by slaughtering tens of thousands of Iraqi conscripts as they fled bombed, they - like tens of thousands of others in the war - suffered terrifying, cruel deaths to demonstrate America's might. The Kurds, the Iraqis and Palestinians in Kuwait are still sufferinfig when you see this sick celebration on TV, remember what is being glorified. Not just war, but the morality of the big stick, the morality of racism, the morality of those who want to keep the third world in bondage.
*Details ofevents protesting the victory parade are No, 4 . June 22, 1991 Page 3
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