How to make Mcrevolutions into real ones
Once again, Apostate Windbag has managed to write an indispensable post on the democratic revolutions happening in the former Warsaupact/USSR countries, this time on how the western leftwing movements should treat these movements, kindred in spirit but still dependent on rightwing/neocon US support:
If for no other reason than to wean these activists from the Yankee teat, we must open our own organisations and meetings up to these genuine revolutionaries. We must make links and build solidarity with them. We must bend our organisations to help those still under the yoke of authoritarians such as Lukashenko in Belarus and Aliyev in Azerbaijan. Students and others that protested Shevardnadze are now back in the streets protesting Saakashvili. We must support them, because now that the U.S. has what it wants – a president that calls George Bush a ‘freedom fighter’ and is hostile to Moscow – the U.S. embassy won’t be returning the students’ calls any more.