THE DIRECT British government complicity United States armed attack on Libya is the logical outcome of the role of the Thatcher government as the poodle of the US. Not one single European government other than Britain has supported this attack. Indeed not even a single government in NATO, outside Canada and Britain, has dared to support the United States in its aggression.
The first polls after the attack show massive opposition to Reagan's outrage in Britain. The overwhelming majority of the countries of the world will utterly condemn States for this terrorism.
But the Thatcher government not only supported the US but directly allowed this country to be used as the launching pad for the attack. Thatcher government is directly complicit both in the United States aggression, and in the murderous killing of civilians in Tripoli which has been shown on every television screen.
This attack shows the complete hypocrisy of the United States and British Casse The United States governTOTEST ment has spent the last months attempung do force military aid to the Nicaraguan contras through the us the United the dictator thousands of Nicaraguan citizens The the of the United States.
The •fighting ter- Libya because of $100 million of Israeli state These Nicaraguan forces, the remnants of Somoza's National Guard, and hired mercenaries, have gressive about it. massacred, raped, and killed literally The United States has also financed the Duarte regime of El Salvador whose death squads killed 20,000 people in one year. Every dictatorship in Chile to South tional policy.
Africa, knows it can rely upon the aid ine British United States did not attack 'terrorism' but because Libya refuses to support US Argentina policies in the Middle East and other (Falklands) parts of the world. Libya opposes the has supported Nicaragua. The United States attacks Called by CND For details of local actions outside US Bases call CND on 250 4010 Libya not for what is reactionary about the regime but for what is proThis United States aggression which continues the forty years of continuous open international aggression it has shown since World War II, must lead to a rethinking, by the labour movement of its entire internaThe relation between gover cal United States is a relation of aggres sion against the peoples of the world.
In 1982 it was a British war against over the Malvinas aided by the United States. In 1986 it is United States attacks on Libya aided by Britain. In between times, and all the time, it is support for the contras in Nicaragua.
This entire 'partnership' has to be ended. It has now been shown not just in socialist propoganda but in actions that the US bases in Britain have nothing to do with 'defence' whatever They are to make Britain the United She or un Ananted provide a base States' unsinkable aircraft ‚for Thatcher's own military operations. The Labour movement has to fight to stop the aggression against Libya. It has to get the United States forces out of Britain.
The open exposure of US aggression and British complicity must be condemned in itself. It must open up a new chapter in international policy for the labour movement.
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All out against the war outside US Embassy Assemble 12 Noon Grosvenor Square Saturday 19 April