I'm afraid i disagree here. There is no other war that we the UK had to fight. But other peoples have been right to fight IMO. I said it was right to fight the nazis because they looked to occupy and rule us. Likewise i think the PLO were right, Iraqi's were right to fight back when we invaded, the Egyptians were right to fight back at Suez etc. I also unsurprisingly support revolution when peaceful struggle has been exhausted, such was the case in Cuba.

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If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

When you use violence you are doomed to fail. Look at all the examples you have given. We can argue over whether Cuba has failed or not but if it has succeeded it was not because of violence. Also look again at Iraq, I'm not saying it was right, but we invaded Iraq because of the threats of violence and Saddam's violent regime, had it been peaceful we would not have attacked it.

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There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

I agree they were often dooomed to failure. Egypt for instance had no hope of defeating Britain, France and Israel, but it had to try. If it showed unwilling to defend itself then it would become a target for every international bully.

And Iraq's violent regime was a product of Iraq's history, a history where we occupied it twice and put power in the hands of a king, a revolution followed and the rest as history as they say. It was our original violence that produced the circumstances that allowed for saddam.

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Viva Fidel

If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

I have a lot of respect for those who are pacifists. Yet if I am attacked I say anything goes in self defense.

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"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty." Thomas Jefferson

Walter Mondale: "George Bush doesn't have the manhood to apologize." George Bush: "Well, on the manhood thing, I'll put mine up against his any time."

Exactly, hence peace is obviously what we should use. We can't just keep making excuses for violence, but make a stand now and achieve peace.

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Trust me, I'm a socialist!

There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

Colombia?

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