Re: Thatcher and nationalism

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Keaney Michael wrote:

> . Few could condone the actions of the desperate Galtieri junta.
> But, given that the UK govt had plenty of advance warning over his planned
> invasion, the war was not only unjust, but wholly unnecessary. The Thatcher
> govt is as implicated for having allowed it to happen at all.

There was only *one* conceivable just action by the UK -- returning the
Malvinas to Argentina without any conditions.

I don't see how for progressives this can be a question with two sides -- there
is only one: the UK was wrong and Argentina was right. (The internal structure
of Argentina is not the business of interlopers from the imperialist world --
and
interloping from alleged leftists is the worst of all.

The question for leftists is not whether the UK was wrong but how we can
make the wrongness of the UK visible to as many as possible. It is a tactical
problem in the war against imperialism.

Carrol