Archive for 'The West'
Their barbarism and ours
Posted by John, August 20th, 2014 - under Islamic State, The West.
Tags: Barbarism
Comments: 6
Maybe, just maybe, the barbarism of the Islamic State is a consequence of and reflection of the West’s own widespread and systemic barbarism.
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Nairobi shopping mall horror is the high price of Western intervention
Posted by John, September 25th, 2013 - under Imperialism, Kenya, Somalia, Terrorism, The West, War.
Comments: 15
The horror in Kenya is a direct product of Western intervention writes Ken Olende in Socialist Worker UK.
The West is behind Algeria’s crisis
Posted by John, January 23rd, 2013 - under The West.
Tags: Algeria, France
Comments: none
The West is keen to use the Algerian gas plant seige to justify new interventions in a region it once dominated. But the official version of events just doesn’t stack up, writes Ken Olende in Socialist Worker UK.
The West chooses war in Mali
Posted by John, January 18th, 2013 - under Imperialism, Mali, The West.
Tags: France
Comments: none
The Western powers have chosen war as the way to put Mali together again, and they’ve begun deploying all the king’s horses. Malians of the North and the South could all be in for a long, terrible ordeal. The imperialists don’t exactly care who wins – as long as they back the winner.
Tunisia: lessons for workers everywhere
Posted by John, January 19th, 2011 - under Peasants, Revolution, The West, Tunisia, US imperialism, Workers.
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It was Tunisian workers who drove the dictator out. On Thursday night Ben Ali was going to tough it out. On Friday he fled. What changed? The normally regime friendly leadership in the General Union of Tunisian Workers, known by its French initials UGTT, under pressure from its rank and file, called a two hour strike […]