Part
8 - Terrorism and Foreign Policy
Corbyn rightly pointed out that
the plague of terrorism has been spread by imperialist interventions.
He said Britain must “put our values of peace and cooperation
into foreign policy”. He said a Labour government would oppose
entirely the Saudi war against Yemen, and condemn Aung San Suu Kyi’s
government’s ethnic cleansing of Rohingya muslims.
Again, this is all correct. But
how do we successfully implement this?
Corbyn suggested appealing to the
UN to organise conflict resolution. But the UN is completely
impotent, depending as it does for all its power on the imperialist
powers of the world. When the US wanted to invade Iraq, it ignored
the UN and the UN could do nothing. And Saudi Arabia currently chairs
the UN Human Rights Council, and in April of this year the UN elected
Saudi Arabia to serve on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, a
body “dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the
empowerment of women.”
It should be clear, therefore,
that we cannot use the UN to spread peace and internationalism
throughout the world.
Who would a Corbyn government be
able to cooperate with to bring about peace and global justice? Who
could it put its faith in? Only the international working class.
Just as in Britain, the only
people Corbyn has been able to rely upon to elect him, to defend him
and to fight for socialist ideas, have been the youth and the working
class, so too internationally, the only organisations we can expect
to fight for peace, for solidarity, and against racism, terrorism and
exploitation, are the workers’ organisations and sister
organisations of our trade unions. Workers’ solidarity is the basis
of socialist internationalism.
With his speech to the 2017 Labour
conference, Corbyn has transformed the political landscape once
again.
All socialists must not only fight
for this programme, but also extend and deepen it, so that we can
transform society forever by ending the anarchy, poverty and
injustice of capitalism.
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