At 01:46 23/10/99 PDT, Macdonald wrote:
>6,000 U.N. Peacekeepers to Be Sent to Sierra Leone
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>By BARBARA CROSSETTE
>UNITED NATIONS -- The Security Council voted Friday to authorize a
>6,000-member peacekeeping force for Sierra Leone, where an uneasy coalition
>of elected officials and former rebels has pledged to restore order after
>the latest round of a civil war.
>The Security Council, preoccupied with crises in the Balkans and East Timor,
>has been under pressure from African nations and other countries to pay more
>attention to Africa, with greater priority given to the war centered in
>Congo, which has involved more than half a dozen nations in shifting
>alliances.
I cannot see any major financial gain for global imperialism from this
intervention except for status as peacemakers. And that is in the hands of
the UN.
This has got to be a progressive move in the growth of world governance and
part of a serious attempt to show some solidarity with the people of Africa.
Thanks for posting this.
>How many times have I wondered if it really possible to forge links with a
>mass of people when one has never had strong feelings for anyone, not even
>one's own parents; if it is possible to have a collectivity when one has not
>been deeply loved oneself by individual human creatures. Hasn't this had
>some effect on my life as a militant- has it not tended to make me sterile
>and reduce my quality as a revolutionary by making everything a matter of
>pure intellect, of pure mathematical calculation?
> ---Antonio Gramsci, 1926.
- Or has it not made him the warmest of the marxists and one of the most
relevant for winning back hegemony among working people today?
Wonderful quote.
Like Althusser he suffered in his imprisonment.
Chris Burford
London
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