The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 19th January 2024
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
Week commencing 19th January 2024
The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain
In the 19th Century the imperialists used ‘gun-boat diplomacy’ to carve up Africa and the rest of the world into various European spheres of influence. It worked because only the colonial powers could manufacture the weapons of mass destruction needed to enslave the peoples of what is we now call the Global South. They thought their realms, like the British Empire on which “the sun never set”, would last forever. They called it “civilisation” and “the White Man’s burden” when they brutally crushed all resistance to the forces used to build colonial empires that spanned the globe. But they couldn’t crush the spirit of freedom amongst the oppressed masses who swept away the colonial system after the Second World War.
The masses of the Third World who took up the gun in the national liberation wars in Algeria and Zimbabwe showed that it was people, not arms, that decide the outcome of struggles; while the Korean and Vietnamese people taught the American imperialists a lesson they still have yet to learn.
If the Anglo-American attacks on Yemen were meant to build a new NATO bloc in the Middle East to protect Israel and intimidate the Arabs it has clearly failed. Most of America’s allies have refused to join this new “coalition of the willing”, which only consists of Britain, the USA, Canada and some tiny islands in the Pacific that no-one’s ever heard of.
If the US-led attacks were meant to force the Houthi government to abandon its blockade of Israeli shipping they have clearly failed. The Red Sea remains the “Arab Sea” and the Houthis are now adding British and US vessels to their list.
The Yemenis say they will end their blockade once the fighting in Gaza stops. All the Americans have to do to make that happens is to tell their puppets in Tel Aviv to cease-fire and end the carnage.