Oppose Labour’s "Second Wave" Foreign Policy
No to the Criminalisation of Dissent! For an Anti-War Government!

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Oppose Labour’s "Second Wave" Foreign Policy
No to the Criminalisation of Dissent! For an Anti-War Government!

AS David Miliband unleashes his "second wave" foreign policy, the youth must be under no illusions that the Brown-led government will "change course". As representatives of the monopoly dictate, Brown, Miliband and their cohorts are continuing down the path of the neo-liberal agenda of globalisation, war and aggression. The attempted ban on the stop the war demo exposes that they are furthering the plan to criminalise dissent and curtail civil liberties. Miliband spoke of "young men and women fighting for our values". The youth must question these "values". Who do they serve?

These so-called "universal values", and the "moral compass" of which Brown talks, are the values of neo-liberal globalisation and are what the government is seeking to impose on the people of Britain and the world as part of carrying out the agenda of the rich. They will also be used as a smoke screen to the further atrocities that are to take place in enforcing that agenda. Miliband stated that what was now required from the alliance of Britain and the US was "a great project" in what he referred to as the building of "institutions which redefine the global rules for our shared planet". This statement asserts the stand of the Brown-led government to be that of one who interferes in the rest of the world seeking to export its "vision" of globalisation, war and privatisation and so profit for the rich monopoly class, while sovereign nations are left war-torn and the people in poverty.

So we can say that the government as representatives of monopoly capitalism’s agenda are wearing a mask of "morality" as guiders who know best what the world’s people need. The youth must tear off this mask and expose them as imperialist war mongers aiming to pay the rich at the expense of the world’s people. The youth must not only tear off the mask, but build full opposition to the agenda of the monopolies and their representatives. Whether young workers or students, the youth must not deny their experience that has seen successive governments take Britain to war time and time again.

In building opposition, the youth must see that what also must be fought for is the alternative. The youth stand against war; at the same time they stand for sovereignty and self-determination. The youth must take control of their own future, on the basis of conscious participation where the youth along with workers, women and national minorities are at the forefront of making the decisions that create our society. By listening to their experience and facing the world as it is objectively, the youth must cement the idea of an anti-war government. Such a government can only be created by the working class and people who can scientifically look at the imposed crisis of war, as well as privatisation, where the education, health and cultural programmes are being sold off to the private sector, and see that our times demand something new. The youth must embody this something new by transforming themselves into conscious participants who seek to find out, deliberate, and come up with answers.

Advance, youth of the world!

For an anti-war government!