Canadian author Yves Engler discusses the New Democratic leadership’s support for war, militarism and Israel
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Social Democratic parties like the NDP and others in Europe have a long history of supporting Imperialist wars. "Those very parties which had once set out to conquer political power under the flag of Socialism saw themselves compelled by the iron logic of conditions to sacrifice their socialist convictions bit by bit to the national policies of the state. The political power which they had wanted to conquer had gradually conquered their Socialism until there was scarcely anything left but name.
– Rudolf Rocker 'Reproduction of Daily Life'
America has vassells ane we are that. America is the world's greatest terrorist overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)
China 1949 to early 1960s Albania 1949-53 East Germany 1950s Iran 1953 * Guatemala 1954 * Costa Rica mid-1950s Syria 1956-7 Egypt 1957 Indonesia 1957-8 British Guiana 1953-64 * Iraq 1963 * North Vietnam 1945-73 Cambodia 1955-70 * Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 * Ecuador 1960-63 * Congo 1960 * France 1965 Brazil 1962-64 * Dominican Republic 1963 * Cuba 1959 to present Bolivia 1964 * Indonesia 1965 * Ghana 1966 * Chile 1964-73 * Greece 1967 * Costa Rica 1970-71 Bolivia 1971 * Australia 1973-75 * Angola 1975, 1980s Zaire 1975 Portugal 1974-76 * Jamaica 1976-80 * Seychelles 1979-81 Chad 1981-82 * Grenada 1983 * South Yemen 1982-84 Suriname 1982-84 Fiji 1987 * Libya 1980s Nicaragua 1981-90 * Panama 1989 * Bulgaria 1990 * Albania 1991 * Iraq 1991 Afghanistan 1980s * Somalia 1993 Yugoslavia 1999-2000 * Ecuador 2000 * Afghanistan 2001 * Venezuela 2002 * Iraq 2003 * Haiti 2004 * Somalia 2007 to present Honduras 2009 * Libya 2011 * Syria 2012 Ukraine 2014 *
All that needs to be said about the canadian military, youtube.com/watch?v=GxGh9BGc_Po
What left????
There was only one Prime Minister that didn't get invited to the
Davos-Bilderberg Conspiracy Den.
Turned out, nobody liked him . He wasn't LEFT, He was old liberal special interest, not the yessir version we have mow.
Communism is a blood stained solution and will press the reset button on the Canadian lifestyle.
The answer to the title question is yes, and we have since Britian went bankrupt after WW2. It is by choice not law but any politician worth his or her salt, knows the truth.
For example today, We have a well funded movement to build sea port pipelines. It will take more than a pipeline to escape American influence on our, correct that, their oil. The saving per barrell to pipe oil is only more profit since the savings are absorbed by shipping costs to a market logically better served by the Middle East. The Arab oil cannot help but under price Canadian oil where human labor is three to ten times greater than the middle east Arabian oil. Yet still a well funded TV ad talks about compeditiveness where compeditiveness is impossible. Just another cash grab by our American neighbor's to maximize their profit. They are not the problem. The blame falls on a parade of politicians who lacked the stomach or motivation to say "no, we are a sovereign nation". If we were truly a sovereign nation I would give the aid to our own oil companies. Since the 1980s successive people in Ottawa have undermined our former manufacturing sector making Canada a resource and warehouse economy. The prediction of this was made by a Calgary Canadian, Mel Hurtig but few gave him a listen. I saw his book for 2 bucks the other day. "The Betrayal of Canada".
Alberta currently NDP is forced to make this a national issue or suffer the consequences in the next Alberta election. Grumbling threats about seperation and the such are just tools of the trade for those who pull the strings on our politics, simply to get their way and circumvent what Canadians might like. For corporate America this is just a board game where Canada is one peace. If fracturing our nation will yield a profit then it will be so. A seperate Alberta would find itself catering to America just as the Federal government must. It is reality.
Fix our democracy. No guns required!
Vote with your head and demand results, demand accountability.
Are neo-marxists going bald, or is this just a coincindance?
Yves looks like a neo-marxist aparatchick. Am I close??
If I were gay, I'd have a double boner, great stuff guys!
Canadian right wingers are aspiring fraternity candidates in the fraternity of U.S. policies. Liberals are not left. They are corporate.
Right wingers call them left because they are pro LGBTQ….but are offended by "identity politics".
Cons sponsored bill c-51 and Liberals supported them.
NDP seem to be a pro labor Liberal arm…aside from Nathan Cullen and Don Davies and a few like them, who are true leaders.
Green is the left wing party. Just go listen to the last debate. May has many answers and all the right questions.
Sanctions are an act of war. But if you're going to sanction Russia for unconfirmed Crimea crimes, and start a fight with China for U.S. bs sanctions on Iran…you must also acknowledge and support BDS against documented war crimes by Israel.
I wish you would release both parts at one time
it's easy to figure out why, and it's money. you can talk about the intricacies and humanitarian BS of it all day and get nothing done and keep the machine going.
These people lie, kill and steal for money, and when they can't get enough, or guild the lilly to much, the government bails them out and prints more.
This will continue till they get to bold and take to much, then the masses will decide the next move. history has proven this time and again.
the NDP and liberals having a minority gov would be OK but if conservatives win they'll move the apartheid embassy to jerusalem
and yet again Israel gets a free pass
Is there no damn party left in Canada that supports what the Canadian citizen's stand for. We have always stood for dialogue and peace keeping. I will not vote for any representative that supports sanctions or economic wars on countries which are not threatening our country.