[Marxism] Britain, Iraq and Venezuela

["acpollack2@xxxxxxxx" <acpollack2@xxxxxxxx>]

(Referring to an interview with a transport union leader from Venezuela,
I wrote:)

How ironic that this interview comes out today: here Venezuelan and
British transport workers are sharing their views, in Britain, on how
to fight their own bosses at home and how to fight imperialism -- the
same day that terrorists target innocent workers and riders of the
British transport system.

As others have pointed out today the terrorists are objectively aiding
imperialism, making it easier for them to fool some people into
continuing to support their genocidal wars.

But Iraqi workers, like the ones who just concluded the tour of the US
under the auspices of USLAW, are making the same links of solidarity as
their brothers and sisters from Britain and Venezuela. And with our
help in due time they will push these terrorists back into the gutter
they came from so that the anti-imperialist movement can organize and
fight on to victory without their interference.

Andrew Pollack
-- "cort greene" <cortgreene@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.handsoffvenezuela.org/interview_ruben_linares_unt060705.htm

Interview with Ruben Linares, national coordinator of the UNT - "The
way is socialism and workers' control"

By Jorge Martin - www.handsoffvenezuela.org
Thursday, 07 July 2005

At the end of June 2005, Ruben Linares was in Britain. Jorge Martin interviewed 
him for Hands Off Venezuela.

Jorge Martin: Can you tell us who you are and why you came to Britain?

I am Ruben Dario Linares Silva, member of the National Coordination of
the UNT [National Workers Union] and vice-president of the United
Transport Federation in Venezuela. I am in England thanks to an
invitation from the RMT to attend their congress and so that I can have
personal contact with trade unionists and explain the revolutionary
process in Venezuela: what is the situation of the workers, what do we
want, what do we hope for.

You should know that the workers of Venezuela and the people as a whole
are participating in a process of change, we have been deeply affected
by capitalism which is the cause of all the evils inflicted on our
peoples, and now we are on the way towards socialism. US imperialism
with Bush and the State Department will not be able to impose their
will on us. We will defend ourselves as we have done so far, with all
the legal weapons in our hands, like the constitution, looking for
support from world public opinion, but if they at any time invade us we
will respond in the same way, a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an
eye. They should not think that if they try to invade Venezuela they
will be able to leave unharmed, the answer would be much worse than the
one Iraq is giving to the Empire right now................



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