The Labour Party, it seems, to have been under increasing pressure from
below to say something about the protests in Iran, likely to support it, and
mostly from the very same people that helped Jeremy Corbyn to become the leader
of the party. Emily Thornberry, a very high ranking Labour Party politician, likely
speaking for the official position of the party, addressed the growing concerns
of its supporter on January 5th, with Nick Robinson of BBC. She said
the Labour Party is not supporting the protesters, because it cannot see who
has the White Hats.
I am personally not surprised by this stand. When
it comes to the Middle East politics, Jeremy Corbyn has very explicitly stood
beside Hezbollah and the Hamas and on the side of other Islamists such as ISIS , Assad regime, Taliban, etc. implicitly. All of these ultra reactionary gangs
belong to one movement: Political Islam. In the Middle
East , unfortunately, Corbyn had tied himself to this movement.
No-one should expect he would have changed this politics after moving to the
leadership of the Labour Party. In 2014, before becoming leader of the Labour
party, Corbyn spoke at an event at London
Islamic centre to mark the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. Here he
praised Islamic regimes; “Tolerance and acceptance of other faiths, traditions
and ethnic groupings in Iran .”
How stupid he must have thought his audience were?! Corbyn was a regular guest
on the Iranian state-owned broadcaster, Press TV. It is on record that he made
a bundle to say very same lies here that he told his audience in that London Islamic centre.
Mr. Corbyn was paid thousands of Pounds Sterling by the very same regime that
didn’t pay workers their lawful wages for months and when they went on
protests, they were violently suppressed by security forces. Mr. Corbyn cannot
claim he wasn’t aware of this. Workers’ Rights activists, both from inside Iran
and from abroad, have raised this issue many, many times! Enough about Jeremy
Corbyn himself. It is up to the Labour Party’s supporters to stand up to
Corbynites in that party and demand the party to stop standing on the side of
thugs that have ruled Iran
for about 4 decades.
It may be argued by some that it will be hard to
see a third option in some of the countries that Islamists are active in;
though this is a very weak defence of a deplorable political position. Regardless
of what pretext one would use to cover his/her position, in Iran , one only
has to read news headlines to see who is demanding what! The protestors are
women, students, workers, unemployed, pensioners, etc. They have been demanding
their very basic rights. The deafening slogan which even BBC and CNN have heard
is Bread, Work, and Freedom. What is so hard about this demand and demands like
this that Ms. Thornberry and her
party wouldn’t understand?! Every analysis of the current uprising, even from the
exports sympathizing with the Islamic regime, point to poverty, to systematic
embezzlement and corruption, which has made life unbearable to a vast majority
of the people in that country. What is so complicated about this that the
Labour Party cannot understand?!
The Labour Party leadership is not confused; but
wants to confuse its base. The revolution in Iran has started and I have no
doubt it will succeed toppling the thuggish Islamic regime. Ms. Thornberry, Mr.
Corbyn and the rest of the Anti-Imperialist pro Islamists at the head of the
Labour Party have their benefits supporting those wearing Black Hats. The base
of this party, the workers, the trade unions and those Marxists, will have to
answer the protests in the streets of more than 100 cities in Iran : why they stood by Islamic regime of Iran !?
January 12, 2018
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