Trotskyists Invite George Galloway To New Zealand
Socialist Worker has invited British Respect MP, George Galloway to speak in NZ.
Through their front group Residents Action Movement, SW have invited Galloway to speak in Auckland in late July. As a leading advocate of the Marxist/Muslim Alliance, Galloway's visit is designed to counter alleged anti Muslim propaganda in NZ.
Galloway's tour is specifically timed to coincide with the "Mosques & Miracles" conference, which is designed to expose radical Islam to Christian audiences.
According to a RAM email published on Muslim website ShababNZ
We do not want this sort of racist bigotry taking hold in New Zealand because the outcome then would be nasty inter-communal conflict. We have a duty to make a united stand for social inclusion, justice for all and full rights for every religious believer (and non-believer).
That is why RAM (Residents Action Movement) has taken a firm stand against these first stirrings of organised Islamophobia in New Zealand. With the blessing of an extremely broad spectrum of Muslim groups, along with many other faith and community leaders, RAM is organising Voices of Peace meetings in Auckland as a positive alternative to the fear, suspicion and hatred being spread by organisers of the "Mosques & Miracles" conferences. Our Voices of Peace meetings will be held around the same time as the "Mosques & Miracles" conferences (end of July).
George Galloway has accepted RAM's invitation to speak at our Voices of Peace meetings. This is the British Respect MP who visited America several years ago to put US president George Bush "on trial" for war crimes in front of the US Congress. George Galloway is one of the world's most powerful speakers for social justice and against the US war in Iraq and its terrible consequences, like the global spread of Islamophobia. He will attract huge media interest here in New Zealand and probably overseas too.
Voices of Peace is very important. You should come along, together with your family and friends. A big turnout of people will show New Zealand that we want social fairness in this country, not racist bigotry. There will be time for questions and comments from the floor after the main speakers.
Who is "Gorgeous" George Galloway?
For a start he's bit of a socialist
According to Wikipedia
During 1981, Denis Healey, then deputy leader of the Labour Party, failed in a bid to remove Galloway from the list of Prospective Parliamentary Candidates following an article Galloway had written in Scottish Marxist supporting Communist Party affiliation with the Labour Party. Galloway successfully argued that this was his own personal viewpoint, not that of the Labour Party.
Galloway once told the Guardian;
"I am on the anti-imperialist left... If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.
Galloway also published the Fidel Castro Handbook, a biography of the Cuban leader in 2006
Socialist Worker's UK counterpart, the Socialist Workers Party is Britain's leading exponent of the marxist/Muslim alliance strategy, something that Galloway is very much at home with. Respect is basically a coalition of the SWP and leftist British Muslims.
Galloway is probably best known for his vigorous campaign to overturn economic sanctions against Iraq, and for his visits to Saddam Hussein in 1994 and 2002. He was expelled from the Labour Party in October 2003 when a party body decided that statements he had made in opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq had brought the party into disrepute.
In January 2004, Galloway became a founding member of Respect, a new political coalition to the left of Labour, in association with the Socialist Workers Party and other left-wing groups, anti-Iraq war activists such as Salma Yaqoob, and other figures on the British left such as film director Ken Loach. He won his seat in the 2005 general election, the only time Respect has won a Parliamentary election.
During a 9 March 2005, interview at the University of Dhaka campus Galloway called for a global alliance between Muslims and progressives: "Not only do I think it’s possible but I think it is vitally necessary and I think it is happening already. It is possible because the progressive movement around the world and the Muslims have the same enemies. Their enemies are the Zionist occupation, American occupation, British occupation of poor countries mainly Muslim countries."
This tour serves to illustrate how leftists like Socialist Worker and George Galloway can support socialism and Islamofascism simultaneously.
Maybe they should change their name to Schizo Worker?
Through their front group Residents Action Movement, SW have invited Galloway to speak in Auckland in late July. As a leading advocate of the Marxist/Muslim Alliance, Galloway's visit is designed to counter alleged anti Muslim propaganda in NZ.
Galloway's tour is specifically timed to coincide with the "Mosques & Miracles" conference, which is designed to expose radical Islam to Christian audiences.
According to a RAM email published on Muslim website ShababNZ
We do not want this sort of racist bigotry taking hold in New Zealand because the outcome then would be nasty inter-communal conflict. We have a duty to make a united stand for social inclusion, justice for all and full rights for every religious believer (and non-believer).
That is why RAM (Residents Action Movement) has taken a firm stand against these first stirrings of organised Islamophobia in New Zealand. With the blessing of an extremely broad spectrum of Muslim groups, along with many other faith and community leaders, RAM is organising Voices of Peace meetings in Auckland as a positive alternative to the fear, suspicion and hatred being spread by organisers of the "Mosques & Miracles" conferences. Our Voices of Peace meetings will be held around the same time as the "Mosques & Miracles" conferences (end of July).
George Galloway has accepted RAM's invitation to speak at our Voices of Peace meetings. This is the British Respect MP who visited America several years ago to put US president George Bush "on trial" for war crimes in front of the US Congress. George Galloway is one of the world's most powerful speakers for social justice and against the US war in Iraq and its terrible consequences, like the global spread of Islamophobia. He will attract huge media interest here in New Zealand and probably overseas too.
Voices of Peace is very important. You should come along, together with your family and friends. A big turnout of people will show New Zealand that we want social fairness in this country, not racist bigotry. There will be time for questions and comments from the floor after the main speakers.
Who is "Gorgeous" George Galloway?
For a start he's bit of a socialist
According to Wikipedia
During 1981, Denis Healey, then deputy leader of the Labour Party, failed in a bid to remove Galloway from the list of Prospective Parliamentary Candidates following an article Galloway had written in Scottish Marxist supporting Communist Party affiliation with the Labour Party. Galloway successfully argued that this was his own personal viewpoint, not that of the Labour Party.
Galloway once told the Guardian;
"I am on the anti-imperialist left... If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.
Galloway also published the Fidel Castro Handbook, a biography of the Cuban leader in 2006
Socialist Worker's UK counterpart, the Socialist Workers Party is Britain's leading exponent of the marxist/Muslim alliance strategy, something that Galloway is very much at home with. Respect is basically a coalition of the SWP and leftist British Muslims.
Galloway is probably best known for his vigorous campaign to overturn economic sanctions against Iraq, and for his visits to Saddam Hussein in 1994 and 2002. He was expelled from the Labour Party in October 2003 when a party body decided that statements he had made in opposition to the 2003 invasion of Iraq had brought the party into disrepute.
In January 2004, Galloway became a founding member of Respect, a new political coalition to the left of Labour, in association with the Socialist Workers Party and other left-wing groups, anti-Iraq war activists such as Salma Yaqoob, and other figures on the British left such as film director Ken Loach. He won his seat in the 2005 general election, the only time Respect has won a Parliamentary election.
During a 9 March 2005, interview at the University of Dhaka campus Galloway called for a global alliance between Muslims and progressives: "Not only do I think it’s possible but I think it is vitally necessary and I think it is happening already. It is possible because the progressive movement around the world and the Muslims have the same enemies. Their enemies are the Zionist occupation, American occupation, British occupation of poor countries mainly Muslim countries."
This tour serves to illustrate how leftists like Socialist Worker and George Galloway can support socialism and Islamofascism simultaneously.
Maybe they should change their name to Schizo Worker?
posted by Trevor Loudon at
7/10/2007 05:19:00 PM
27 Comments:
So who is this Gallagher dude?
Here are a few quotes from the likes of George Galloway that certainly expose which side he is rooting for, and it's certainly not for the West:
"And they are winning the war. America is losing the war in Iraq, and even the Americans now admit it. Even the puppet ministers and regime in Baghdad know it. The former puppet minister (Iyad) Allawi admitted it three times in the last month. America is losing the war in Iraq. And this will not change. The resistance is getting stronger every day, and the will to remain as an occupier by Britain and America is getting weaker everyday. Therefore, it can be said, truly said, that the Iraqi resistance is not just defending Iraq. They are defending all the Arabs, and they are defending all the people of the world from American hegemony."
"It's not the Muslims who are the terrorists. The biggest terrorists are Bush, and Blair, and Berlusconi, and Aznar, but it is definitely not a clash of civilizations. George Bush doesn't have any civilization, he doesn't represent any civilization. We believe in the Prophets, peace be upon them. He believes in the profits, and how to get a piece of them. That's his god. That's his god. George Bush worships money. That's his god - Mammon."
"Hundreds of thousands are ready to fight them in the Middle East, and in Latin America there is revolution everywhere. Fidel Castro is feeling young again. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile are all electing left-wing governments which are challenging American domination. And in Venezuela, the hero Hugo Chavez has stood against them over and over and over again."
Yes Anon his name is Galloway not Gallagher...just that Trev got his name a little muddled.
Mah..."which side he is rooting for" so who do you "root" mah? The "likes" of Bush? I thought Cheney was the boss in your country...guess he has a few problems at the moment......as you do mah29001.
Huhana
Oh, Damn !
I read the words Mah Mah attributes to George Galloway and I thought "Yeah, he's right - The Chickenhawk doesn't have a civilisation and yes, he is losing the war - was always going to of course."
Then I realised that Galloway is one of Mah Mah's ubiquitous "likes of", one of Mah Mah's "types". Dangerous man. He despises Mah Mah's zionist fascism. Well I'll tell you - I jumped right back into "proper" thinking.
Thanks Mah Mah - you're an excellent moral compass. IDF: 10 Palestinians:1
Hey Mah Mah - don't you love the weak, quivering, stressed face of The Chickenhawk war criminal on the tube lately. Looks like the joker who's just burned and wasted the largest kettle of the finest Crawford TX barbecue sauce. And President Cheney's arriving for the hoe-down in less than an hour. Jesus !!!
I guess you'd agree The Chickenhawk's lost the war Mah Mah.....just like The Devil Galloway says.....?
Lost it......just like that "righteous" expedition into Vietnam all those years ago.
Hey Mah Mah, how is it that all your idols, The Chickenhawk, David Duke, President Cheney et al, well they're all losers boyo.
What's going down ?
You mean Steve you would rather embrace someone like Galloway who supported Hezbollah terrorists during the 2006 Israeli-Lebanon War, Hamas terrorists and also the PLO?
You simply can't stand that you support totalitarian causes, so you got to lie into stating how the otherside does it.
Enough of your abusive trollish comments. They provide nothing to the debate table. I also guess you don't give a damn that Galloway also traveled to Syria under the totalitarian Baathist state and openly praised for America's defeat in Iraq and supporting the Communist Cuban dictator-Fidel Castro.
So I take it Steve with all your lies and your false accusations would you want to care to explain why the likes of Yasser Arafat, the late PLO leader made these sort of statements:
"We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. . . . We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem."
"I have no use for Jews; they are and remain Jews! We now need all the help we can get from you in our battle for a united Palestine under total Arab-Muslim domination!"
"We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem. Peres and Beilin have already promised us half of Jerusalem. The Golan Heights have already been given away—subject to just a few details. All the rich Jews who will get compensation will travel to America."
"We know only one word: Jihad, Jihad, Jihad. When we stopped the intifada, we did not stop the jihad for the establishment of a Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem. And now we are entering the phase of the great jihad prior to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state whose capital is Jerusalem...We are in a conflict with the Zionist movement and the Balfour Declaration and all imperialist activities."
If you are so "against" terrorism Steve into falsely accusing me of supporting acts of early Zionist terrorism supplied by the Soviets, but pay no attention to Palestinian terrorism of today.
Since I am still at it, how about quotes from the Hezbollah leader:
"If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli."
"The Jews invented the legend of the Nazi atrocities [...] Anyone who reads the Koran and the holy writings of the monotheistic religions sees what they did to the prophets, and what acts of madness and slaughter the Jews carried out throughout history [...] Anyone who reads these texts cannot think of co-existence with them, of peace with them, or about accepting their presence, not only in Palestine of 1948 but even in a small village in Palestine, because they are a cancer which is liable to spread again at any moment."
"There is no solution to the conflict in this region except with the disappearance of Israel."
"Israel is our enemy. This is an aggressive, illegal, and illegitimate entity, which has no future in our land. Its destiny is manifested in our motto: 'Death to Israel.'"
"I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called "Israel." I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful."
"For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He wrote a scientific research of an academic nature, in which he discussed the alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany. He proved that this Holocaust is a myth."
"Martyrdom operations - suicide bombings - should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don't be shy about it."
"Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan [America] is absolute [...] Regardless of how the world has changed after 11 September, Death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America."
"It is our pride that the Great Satan (U.S.) and the head of despotism, corruption and arrogance in modern times considers us as an enemy that should be listed in the terrorism list."
If you are so "against" terrorism Steve, why do you often fail to comment on these quotes by the Hezbollah leader-Hassan Nasrallah? But then feel the need to falsely accuse me of supporting old Zionist terrorist attacks against the British even I never said anywhere that I supported those terrorist attacks?
Let's face it MAH, tough guy steve is a supporter of facism.
He supports and cheerleads for facists. He's on the other side MAH, and if ever his kind got in to power...well elvis help us all.
EXOCET
You really are still "at it" aren't you ? Well, you can screech, IN CAPITAL LETTERS if you so wish Mah Mah, all you like.
Fact is that the terrorism of the barely established "state" of Israel set a standard - who set it ? - zionists !
So don't come back with weasel words about not supporting those willfully perpetrated inhumanities. The "ethos" underlying them is perfectly reflected in present times in IDF:10 Palestinians:1 .....which you, Golitsyn Boy, support roundly !
Have a good day fanatical one who in truth (while trying vainly to conceal it) is as much "King David Hotel" as any of the murderous zionist terrorists of old.
You're right up against it aye Mah Mah ? Oh, the heat in this kitchen......
If you want an example of your vaunted "bullying" just be a fly on the wall of any of the IDF manned checkpoints. Again, judicious, factual, and fair comment: IDF:10 Palestinians:1
Grizzler !
"Have a good day fanatical one who in truth (while trying vainly to conceal it) is as much "King David Hotel" as any of the murderous zionist terrorists of old."
I have had it with your damn false libel assucations and your bullying tactics against me and anyone who dares diagree with you.
I have never supported ANY terrorist tactics such as the King David Hotel Bombing or even Deir Yassin. You are a liar, and an apologist for Palestinian terrorism.
You do not even promote anything to the debate and only attack others you despise to be "fanatics" when you ought to be looking in the mirror at yourself to see who is the totalitarian fanatic.
So what is your goal into attacking me in this manner to make me believe PLO-Palestinian propaganda? Demonize me while justifying the PLO's long-term totalitarian reign over the very people it is suppose to be defending? To which Palestinians would rather want to live on the Israeli side as they fled from Hamas terrorists and not to even flee toward the West Bank where their supposed "saviors" were located?
I'm obviously a "fanatic" and a "fascist", along with Israel being an "apartheid state" even though Arabs have more rights than most Arabs do throughout the Arab World in Israel. I wonder why you fail to also mention how most states in the Arab World also happen to be quite totalitarian and do not even allow Palestinian refugees into their country. That's apparently to you not an apartheid-like state, but apparently if you happen to be Israeli Jews who want to build a security wall to defend themselves from terrorists, that is.
"Fact is that the terrorism of the barely established "state" of Israel set a standard - who set it ? - zionists !"
So are you also agreeing with this statement made by the Hezbollah terrorist leader:
"I am against any reconciliation with Israel. I do not even recognize the presence of a state that is called "Israel." I consider its presence both unjust and unlawful."
Mah Mah, Israel does visit apartheid on the Palestinian people. It's all part of IDF:10 Palestinians:1 and it's willful what is more. So stop your grizzling.
I note also that you endorse apartheid by your clearly stated preference for the retention of the white South African apartheid regime - 'cos shit, there's commies in the ANC !
Don't worry about the murder those Nazis did for decades. Oh no, of course not. Just recalibrate the commie-finder.
By the way Mah Mah - I've always engaged the democratic process and accepted the outcome - compare that with your fickle taste for democracy as seen in your - "To hell with Chavez - I don't care if he was (repeatedly) democratically elected".
So much for democracy, it's only ever any good if the guy who wins is to the liking of you and President Cheney and The Chickenhawk. Otherwise it's a commie abomination.
And you call me totalitarian ??? Grow up wee one !!! My purpose is simply to record the truth that the Palestinians are more sinned against than sinning - IDF:10 Palestinian:1
So you like "the wall" do you Mah ?
Which "wall" would that be chap ? Your tone leaves me uncertain.....
You gotta catch and cage that non-sequitur Mah Mah. Next you'll be telling me that because I denounce Hitler I hate sauerkraut. Or that commie mothers-milk is poison.....I don't know.....you OK there Bud.....?
Hey Steve, how many Jews still living in Jordan? Egypt? Iraq? Yemen? Gaza? Oh yeah Israel is really anapartheid state with its 20% arab population...
Thank God the ANC did finally despatch the apartheid state of white South Africa !!! And not being a commie-crazed fanatic I don't give two stuffs if amongst the ranks of the ANC were found a sprinkling of commies. The demonstrably greater evil was vanquished. Nelson Mandela is a fine symbol of that.
Put yourself on the other side of that equation if you like Mah Mah but don't expect "decent" humanity to agree with you. Wailing zionist windbag !
And TJ, you better do what Mah Mah resolutely refuses to do.....check out your non-sequiturs.....
Have to keep saying it, because it's the truth - IDF:10 Palestinians:1
"Nelson Mandela is a fine symbol of that."
You mean the same man who stated this into also supporting the likes of Saddam Hussein:
"It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq’s oil."
"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings."
"What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
"Long live the Cuban Revolution. Long live comrade Fidel Castro... Cuban internationalists have done so much for African independence, freedom, and justice. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist campaign designed to destroy the advances of the Cuban revolution. We too want to control our destiny... There can be no surrender. It is a case of freedom or death. The Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people."
"We identify with the PLO because, just like ourselves, they are fighting for the right of self-determination. I support Israel's right to exist, but that doesn't mean that Israel has the right to retain the territories they conquered from the Arab world. It will be a grave mistake for us to consider our attitude towards [Yasser] Arafat on the basis of the Jewish community. We sympathise with the struggles of the Jewish people and their persecution, down the years. In fact, we have been very much influenced by the lack of racism among the Jewish communities. Arafat is a comrade in arms, and we treat him as such."
"I salute the South African Communist Party for its sterling contribution to the struggle for democracy. You have survived 40 years of unrelenting persecution. The memory of great communists like Moses Kotane, Yusuf Dadoo, Bram Fischer and Moses Mabhida will be cherished for generations to come."
Yea, Mandela "must be a great man" to support a totalitarian Communist dictator like Fidel Castro or support Palestinian terrorists. You're nothing more than a totalitarian ideologue as well Steve.
Hey Mah Mah, you've assisted me grandly to revise (upwardly) the esteem in which I hold Nelson Mandela !
"Hey Mah Mah, you've assisted me grandly to revise (upwardly) the esteem in which I hold Nelson Mandela !"
Do you hold so esteemly to Nelson Madenla, the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party's plans to Sovietize South Africa into a neo-Communist dictatorial state?
Add to the gruesome stats provided by Reid of America, Cambodia under Pol Pot,Rwanda,Ethiopia etc,etc,and we have the most heart breakingly depressing commentary on human affairs.With few exceptions the history of Humankind is simultaneously the history of warfare and killing.
If several of the contibutors to these columns were put into the same room with big sticks would we see sticks laid aside and brotherhood and peace arise? Unlikely..So isn't it time to lay rhetoric aside and ponder what lies behind our incessant desire,as a race, to butcher each other?Political posturing as had it as a possible solution, perhaps?
This is Galloway's video of a speech UK Parliament.
Steve the anti-semite should also check out the Hama massacre before he criticises the IDF too much...
How about the CIA's family jewels?
"How about the CIA's family jewels?"
Anonymous, end this diversion and answer what about your boy Galloway's support for Hezbollah? You know the very same group that IS training the Iraqi insurgency?
they arent training it - pakistan has the main islamic training grounds. hezbollah has links with hamas and is pro communist at times.
people like Al Sadr don't have a lo in common with them. the resistance is large and diverse - main connectinion - they want the multinational - US lead occupation force out of Iraq!!!.
Galloway should be real interesting. been heaps of great speakers this year - once Hugo Chavez comes it will be complete.
:)
i like galloway but not hizbollah.
do people that hate him support the IDF in israel and the US wqar of terror in the middle east? and in south america (colombia and venzuela) and asia.
Anonymous, can you also explain why your boy Galloway also seemed to support the Soviet Union quite openly during the Cold War:
"I am on the anti-imperialist left... If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life."
You know, one of the most totalitarian states in modern history? That Soviet Union? Maybe before your boy Galloway can complain about what British intel did in Iraq, he should probably first explain why he supported Soviet Russia where because of Lenin and Stalin's policies, they and their successors ended up killing over 150 innocent people.
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