WHOSE AGGRESSION must Young tory. cher's war.
WHEN THE Tories use this argument it is nothing short They founded the largest empire in world history Britain's. Everyone who broken free has had to fight for it. The Tories have never supported self-determination except when it them Britain's domination of the world.
Their recent joint naval exercises in the Caribbean with the USA, volving more than 45,000 troops, inmock invasions of Grenada and Cuba. And Britain was the only European country to send observers while the United States was plotting proxy intervennon in unai country Dy Argentina itself, and while Argentine "advisors' were already working with the Salvadorean death squads to help suppress the Salvadorean people.
When the USA recently asked for the British island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean as a naval base, Britain just evacuated the 1300 islanders to Mauritius. And fifteen when the island of Anguilla wanted independence the created federation of St Kitts Nevis-Anguilla, a British naval task force was despatched to stop them.
Moreover the Tories don't even accept the islanders' own claims to be Their immigration *ever he slanders from coming front page of its weekly review, The Listener. The Tory Party's neanderthals are demanding a propaganda service so slavish that even the Beeb has to defend itself. The media aren't exactly God's gift to the working America's Henry Kissinger was asked about the British media he said, 'if we had had this sort of coverage during the Vietnam war, I would have been the happiest man alive'.
That is what makes the Tory onslaught so horrifying.
Winston's battle for air supremacy over the BBC shows yet again how this was is being used to erode working class and democratic rights at home: another reason to oppose it. A radio and television service adapted demands would be little more than a Goebbels-style lie facBut the press - and not just the Sun - has repeated and supported the Tories' main arguments. Goebbels worked on the principle that a falsehood, if repeated often enough, will be believed. The Tories' lies must be answered. Since the war began Socialist Challenge has done exactly this: week in, week out, we have explained the real issues involved.
At last the movement against the war is beginning to take off; and on these pages, as a service to it, we summarise what you haven't heard from the BBC: the arguments against Thatto alter the act to let them into Briof tain, Lord Trefgarne had the following comment to make: has 'I must remind their Lordships that however strong their affection, the fact remains that the Falklands are not and never have been part of the United Kingdom.' 'I must remind their Lordships that however strong their affection, the fact remains that the Falklands are not and never have been part of the United Kingdom. - Lord Trefgarne, speaking in the Lords on the Immigration Act.
The Tories organised a three-line whip to prevent this fact being chang ed in the Lords.
The islanders are only allowed to come to Britain once every two years for a short stay: yet they cannot, for the most nart. lives on the island. Seventy per cent of ine lana is ownca by Islands Company, a subsidiary of the Coalite Group act them out of their tied cottages when inel user working lives are over, su they have to people. When Winston's facilities tina.
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The islanders have been used as an excuse for Britain's territorial claims. Although the community has declined from 3,000 to 1,800, no Argentinian has been allowed to settle there If there had been free movement of peoples, a majority of islanders would by now be Argentinian, since hospital HOSL and other services are provided by ArgenThe island's independence is completely nominal. Their administrators are appointed trom Britain 'governor', Rex Hunt, is also governor of British Antartica in his spare time. Who voted for him - the penguins?
These facts show what is really at the territory around the Argentina's and resources have been Britain over the cenNow that oil has been discovered oft Argentina's coast. Bri tain's territorial claims would allow oil companies like Coalite to secure the title to much of this wealth. The islanders have been used as an ardevice rights Their would human best and be preserved by allowing them to resettle at British expense, and by helping the Argentinian workers to overthrow the Moreover, once we look at matters from the viewpoint of the Argen-
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