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No Easy Victories
http://www.solidarity-us.org/site/node/4026Date Written: 2013-11-01 Publisher: Against the Current Year Published: 2013 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX20272 In today's "new Middle East" with its cauldron of Arab upheavals and the likelihood of longterm revolutionary processes, the United States cannot dictate terms unilaterally. Abstract: - Excerpt: Imperialism and the United States in particular forged deadly alliances of convenience with some of the worst of these elements -- most notably in Afghanistan and Pakistan -- under the banner of anti-communism. But now that these viciously reactionary forces have themselves become a menace to western powers, the international left must never see them as allies in the guise of a superficial and illusory "anti-imperialism." Neither in Syria, or Egypt, or Palestine or anywhere else does a decisive democratic breakthrough appear imminent. But the clock won’t turn back to the days before the Tunisian and Egyptian masses launched the Arab Spring. If the notion of a quick and mostly pain-free road to a progressive and democratic future was utopian, the long hard struggle for that future is all the more inevitable and urgent. Supporters of that struggle in the international left must begin with anti-imperialism -- no bombing of Syria, or anyplace else! -- but that's only the beginning. We have to stand with those who are to liberate themselves and their countries. Most important perhaps, we need to learn about and build solidarity with the workers' movements that can ultimately break the combined strang Subject Headings |