mk12 said:
I don't think it really makes a difference at the end of the day. Why should the "resistance" in Iraq care about the arguments about 'critical' support between Workers Power and the CPGB, for example?
Well mk12 has a point- however, I think there is the possibility of meaningful support in general and particular.
For example, demonstrations here will often be reported in other countries and though I share the frustration of many that the anti-war efforts failed to stop the war I for one don't regret the time I spent on them (though I certainly spent some of that time arguing for more direct action, for actions that could conceivably have made more of a difference).
Another example would be giving funds directly to a trade union in Iraq or another country.
We need to be practical in our solidarity.
And the fact that the modern working class is multiethnic, from all different parts of the world perhaps means we have more chance of making practical lnks.
Becuase I lived in Ethiopia I know people who desperately can use funds usefully to help organise- an example would be the Ethiopian Teachers' Association.
In 1964 Malcolm X said of the Congo war
Malcolm X said:
they're dropping bombs on villages where they have no defense whatsoever against such planes, blowing to bits Black women—Congolese women, Congolese children, Congolese babies. This is extremism. But it is never referred to as extremism, because it is endorsed by the West, it's financed by America, it's made respectable by America, and that kind of extremism is never labeled as extremism.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/645.html
This point remains valid today- for Iraq and Afghanistan- in the Congo the war is financed by the West and other business interests looting the country's considerable mineral welath still but using guns, bombs, fire and even machetes.
The difference today is that some of those Congolese women, children and babies who have escaped the Congo are living here amongst us as part of our communities- people such as the Sukula family. Or Iraqi or Afghan refugees. It at least raises th epossibility of genuine meanigful solidarity links.
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