[Marxism] Re: East Timor replies (or who will intervene to save black Australians?)

[Ben Courtice <benj2006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lajany wrote:
"Astoundingly, we are asked to believe that Australian foreign policy
towards the third world, like its US counterpart, can be separated from
its policies towards its "domestic third world." Namely, while the
Australian state is doing its best to incarcerate and oppress its own
black population and to expropriat their land and resources, it is
acting (inadvertently and against its own interests apparently) to
protect the rights and interests of the downtrodden and oppressed in the
rest of the South Pacific."

I don't think you've bothered to read what the discussion is actually
about, have you?

No-one here has claimed that Australia or NZ is going to "protect the
rights and interests of the downtrodden and oppressed in the rest of the
South Pacific."

There is only one argument, now historical, relating to the tactics of
the 1999 events. Otherwise the Australian left opposes Australia's
intervention in the Solomon Islands, historically in Bougainville, in
PNG, and is campaigning against Australia's imperial designs in East
Timor (and is prepared to campaign for Australian troops to leave there
as soon as that becomes an issue with the East Timorese people).

Please read the argument before you post a contribution!

Ben Courtice

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