International Marxist Group Archive

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Wilson Diverts Biafra Anger

International, first series, Vol. 1, No. 5, September 1968 · p. 3 · 125 words

The scan: intl-v01n05-september-1968.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive)

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Wilson must have said "thank God for Brezhnev" as he used the Czechoslovakian invasion to divert attention from his murderous role in Nigeria. As skilful as ever, he has managed to dodge the mounting pressure to recall Parliament over the supply of arms to the butchering Nigerian Federal forces by recalling it over the Czech affair. These arms, supplied with the sole purpose of making the Ibo-hinterland safe for British oil investments, are now being used to kill Ibo women and children by the thousand. For every Czech so far who has been killed, there must have been at least a thousand Nigerian children starve.

And we could go on....Every tin-pot right-winger protests against Russian aggression and under cover of the hullaballoo clobbers the left.

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