Re: [Marxism] U.N. = U.S.

[glparramatta <glparramatta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis,

It is unfair to bunch the DSP's support for the East Timorese liberation
movement's call for an international peacekeeping force, with those that
call for some sort of ``algebraic'' UN intervention in Iraq. The DSP has
very successfully led the opposition to such calls for a UN figleaf for
the US-led force in Iraq, which has been pushed by the right-wing of the
movement associated with the Australian Labor Party and other liberals.

The specific circumstances around DSP's backing of the Timorese
intervention have been debated here extensively before, but the context
is very different and were outlined in a Links article in 2000:
http://www.dsp.org.au/links/back/issue14/14townsend.html

Revo regards,

Norm Dixon.



Louis Proyect wrote:

> There was support for United Nations intervention from even more
> radical quarters in Australia. While it is undoubtedly one of the more
> principled and far-sighted groups on the far left, the Democratic
> Socialist Party had no problems calling for U.N. intervention in East
> Timor. On September 6, 1999, they declared that:
>
> "The Democratic Socialist Party calls on all supporters of democracy
> to mobilise to demand that the Australian government insist that the
> United Nations authorise the immediate dispatch of Australian troops
> to East Timor. The task of these troops must be to assist the East
> Timorese resistance forces to stop the current bloodbath being
> organised by the Indonesian armed forces (TNI) and police (Polri).
> This can only be achieved through the disarming of the pro-Jakarta
> terror gangs. In addition, these troops must supervise the rapid
> withdrawal of all Indonesian military and police personnel from East
> Timor so as to enable the East Timorese to take full control of their
> nation's affairs."2

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