Rally to build Fourth International Vietnam along SCLIUE the reconnaissance Many explanations been presented for the Syrian involvement in Lebanon. What is certain is that the Syrians tight were not prepared to watch idly as the Lebanese dragged on.
The close ties between the Tehran which populations countries Cane ensured influence of the war would spread sooner or later unders and For a regime that does not rest on a broad base of popular support, political instability is particularly strength, the Syrians attempted to end the war in Lebanon.
Even before intervention, the cost of the war was estimated to be over £5bn.
This is why the attempts to recreate the Lebanese including the rebuilding of the national army, are proving so difficult.
and CRUSHED Lebanon, the budget has crushed the only social forces on which a state could be built. TrOM Whether ther not, the Syrians have in practice annexed Lebanon and will now large find it very difficult to reverse Las SuaLOn later) was the need for a Fourth the Fourth International was attended by about 30 delegates representing |1 sections, mainly America.
considerably numerically political influence. It now has sections or nuclei of sections in to take more than 60 countries.
On Friday: rally will be held in Camden Town Hall to commemorate 40 orthodox vears of revo utionary struggle throughout the world. speakers Ernest Mandel, the MANY things are changing in Lebanon. Beirut, once the financial capital of the Arab East, lies in ruins; the NIGEL WARD reports.
have because war WeTt TCCCIVIL the a two or expertise, Beirut border Cas that the money flowed.
INTEGRATED in the unwanted. So, Alauld and position of relative integrated the Syrian economic system.
deposits in Lebanese When to stabilise Syrians have instability in the region. aimed to or During financial centre, the Imperialism has always had a leader of the The founding conference of from the Workers Party.
and North Today the International is date. stronger both and in terms of Racist November Ali, will include Marxist security community.
particular interest in Lebanon economic functions Beirut had in relation rightists. to the rest of the Middle East. French At a time when the oil states massive теvenues, but did not possess developed financial institutions Chamou was gateway through which the oil Ene Today, this is no longer the Arab Gull 3110) Liberation Egypt, are developing their own financial set-ups and being more directly into LIne This fundamental change has been accelerated and completed racy". by the continuing instability in Lebanon. For example, during the civil war one third of the banks were transferred abroad. unrealistic.
radical nationalist involved regimes were coming to power several Arab states, IKE Nasser in Egypt, imperialism Christians, was interested in fomenting this penod of pre-eminence of Beirut as a Line анансо Christians was extremely important for imperialism as a guarantee of economist, author and veteran since 1968.
Fourth International, and Willie Mae Reid American Socialist Zimbabwe Reid is a militant black Union, feminist and was the SWP's 1976 vice presidential candiShe co-authored The Against Busing, Black Women's Struggle for Equality and Which Way Women's Movement. and is director of the SWP's national women's liberation Anotherspeakerwill be Tariq Socialist America.
Challenge and a leader of the International Marxist Group and Asia.
Today, though, this situation is reversed; imperialism is now prepared to drop former allies in the Christian For years France, as the old colonial power in the region, had bolstered the But last week the foreign minister launched an amazing attack on the Christians. and one leader particular, Camille Not only did the minister explicitly support the Syrian action, but he went on to vility Christians being responsible for the death of so many Syrian soldiers!
Unfortunately, Yasser Ara fat, leader of the Palestinian Organisation (PLO), has given credibility to the Syrian role by claiming that their withdrawal would lead to a Palestinian bloodbath at the hands of the Christians, Israelis and the international conspiUNREALISTIC This argument is, first of all, The Israelis, still the 'peace! negotiations and unwilling to send in the army to aid the are smash through the UN lines in southern Lebanon to wipe out the Palestinians.
Besides which, faith in the Syrians to stop any aggression ignores the lessons of the civil war and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, when the Speakers have been invited from the revolutionary movement in Ireland, Revolution (the new socialist youth paper), the African National and The Zimbabwe African People's Union.
Make sure you arrive in good time (between 5-7.30pm) to visit the many literature tables set up by national liberation and other organisations involved international politics.
There will be literature and photographic displays on Latin Ireland. Iran, the Middle East, Eastern Europe Syrians either slaughtered Palectinians or sood ov and watched while others did In fact, more ratesanian. died at the hands of the Syrians than or me israens Anyway, after being ground into the dust in East Beirut, it is unlikely that the Christians will able succeed overcoming the Palestinian and leftist forces they were losing to during the civil war.
INSTABILITY Finally, if there is going to be any international conspiracy it is going to involve the Syrians rather than the Christians.
Kanc than fomenting instability, the name of the game for imperialism today is The rightward shift throughout the Middle East in the last few years now makes this project plausible.
It is possible that control of most of Lebanon will be the sugar to sweeten the pill of recognition of Israel and loss of Heights reactionary Syrian regime.
the Syrians will not want the PLO to operate from Lebanon. This will inevitably force the PLO into conflict with the Syrians; to do otherwise would remove the whole reason for existence of the PLO.
For socialists there can therefore be no support for the Syrian action in Lebanon. . The genocidal the Christian population of Eas Beirut must be condemned in the strongest terms.
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Syrian army that began its intervention in Lebanon by attacking the Palestinian and leftist alliance is now razing the Christian part of Beirut.