Entloat 038l0 a Distribution Sorting one 31: London THE HUMAN RIGHTS industry has come a long way since Carter was elecied President of the United States. His administration dictatorships throughout the world.
fervent and loyal than the doctor in the British Foreign Office, David Owen.
that Labour's Foreign Secretaries need tongues which are both forked and long.
whomsoever happens to be occupying the House, writes TARIQ ALI.
There is sometbing distinctly nauseous about Labour Foreign Secretaries. They have always been utter and complete toadies, servile to the needs of British and American imperiaLism.
Emest Bevin, as Labour's first post-war Foreign SecreTate labour movement with o took the Cold War into vengeance. our imperialist bully. Bevir the Foreign Office He was succeeded by Herbert Morrison, anotherright-winger and cold warrior. Then there was Patrick Gordon- Walker, reactionary to the core who was followed by Michac Stewart Stewart defended American policy in Vietnam religiou zeal envied by the American State Department. He was succeeded Callaghan (no coboent necessary), then Crosland, and now there is David Owen.
SECURITY Cabinet paste which cannot be There are number entrusted to people whose млет that impeccable could never have been made Defence Minister or Foreig Secretary. He didn't have the necessary security clearance!
La David Owen is now tryt s win his spurs. It's his b luck that Carter's demagogy has led to the appointment of Andy Young, who is a much and more intelligen bourgeois politician than the doctor. Is should be a matter for reflection by LP members that the American Ambassador the United Nations consistently outflanks the Labour Foreign Secretary from the left.
So Oven wrote a book, It was touchingly entitled Human Rights. The only problem was that the chapter on Britain had sustains military Of all Carter's camp-followers none has been more Owen's performance has proved the post-war adage Long so that they can easily reach the posterior of White no mention of Ireland or of the Fact that Britain had been taken the Human Rights Commission in Strasbours.
But then it was a bit difficult to do that since the doctor supports British policies in IRAN But what of countries further away? What abour Iran, where Britain's friend is currently in trouble? Owen is more critical than Lord Chalfont. That is all that can be said, and the book did go to press before present trouble: Iran. Besides, Britain is blessed with His Imperial Majesty's shop ping expedirions to buy th latest equipment to safeguard his country's integrity BILITIES WHOLE against the people of Iran, of No one else, to our veled the Shit. Reither the knowledge, trying Soviet Union nor the Chinese, leave alone anyone else.
Defending his book on TV. Owen said: *it is fashionable to criticise the Shah. Some points are justified. But you must also recognise that there is merit in the regime that bas operated there: as well as recognise the differences in culture in Iran, and recognise that the whole concept of the Shabanshah is rooted in history.
GIBBERISH This is pure gibberish, It ctually faise and it coul justify any dictatorship, including Nazi Germany. After all "regimentation" and 'militarism" were supposed be rooled in German traditions. What it shows is that ou is thicker than the blood spilt in the struggle for basic human rights.
The real struggle, that is, not the phoney one inaugurated by The leaders it the Tabour Purty and ite trades ask OPTEN the cold warriors of the Wel The struggle which last week claimed the lives of hundreds of Iranians. Butchered un cold blood on the orders of thi Hutcher of Iran, And Owen tells us that this butchery is Inspect your own head, doctor POLLUTED And while on the question of oil, the Sunday Times revealed Inst week that Shell and BP are still suppiying oil to white settleri ill Zimbabwe. Rarely has a revelation revealed thie extent -10 foreign policy had been polluted The notion thar Wilson and the Labour Government were unaware of what was going on is a joke. And the loudest laughs will be heard Dar-cs-Salaam and Lusaka. vier are despite die deman WICE SCLIC of British Ministers and Prime Ministers.
It was a Russian revolutionary, whose name escapes me for the moment (it could hav been Broosein or Trotsky or something like thai), who wrote that a country's foreien polic was always an extension of it domestic policies.
In other words, a country's external interests were closely them and will affer full suppurt to all those fichting bor sialist Comered Tried to safeguarding the status que internally.
So when Labour surgeons are carrying out emergenc capitation to save homie u somewhat difficul: to cur off the blood transfusions from Africa. For capitalism is shake all an internationul system.
disturbing tendency on the part of Labour Party activises tu underplay Labour's foreign policy.
There is no real campaign to get. Britain out of NATO; 10 remove nuclear basca and wesnons from Is Country; te cut off all military aid to Iran; ta boycott South Africa: to provide military B3O Mugabe's guerrillas; and t light internationally to being down the Pinochet regime ALTERNATIVE Labour activists should aor give Owen a free tun at the party conference in October But, is equally important, socialists outside the Labour Party (especially Socialist Unicy) must incorpo Tale demands related to world politics their manifestoes, For a socialist alternative cannot be restricted to Britain's national frontiers Thir scallom will he infisitely mure detocratic that alson The salinis modelse
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