Remembrance Sunday - opinion- by Plot Tracer

It is Remembrance Sunday. A day when luminaries such as Brown and Blair in the UK lay wreaths in remembrance of the people they sent to their deaths.

People across the country pay in to a fund that helps the survivors of these wars – though the name of the fund – Haig – is the name of the member of the British Aristocracy who sent thousands of young men to their deaths in World War One.

99.9% of those who die in wars are working class.

We will remember them.

…it is our business as socialists to develop 'class patriotism', refusing to murder one another for a sordid world capitalism… Let the propertied class, old and young alike, go out and defend their blessed property. When they have been disposed of, we of the working class will have something to defend, and we shall do it.
John Maclean 17 September 1914

November 9^th is the birthdate of a woman who campaigned for peace during the first and second World Wars. Much more worthy as a representative of the working class. A voice from the past who struggled against the system that prevails – a system that year after year pits poor against poor in order for the rich to hold on to the world.

http://www.gcal.ac.uk/radicalglasgow/chapters/helen_crawfurd.html

We will remember them.

This week Rose Gentle, mother of Gordon, was given official recognition for her campaign to reveal the truth about her son Gordon’s death in Iraq. Army logistics failure led to the unlawful killing of a British soldier in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq, a coroner ruled. Selena Lynch, assistant deputy coroner for Oxfordshire, said vital bomb-disabling equipment was not supplied to 19-year-old Gordon Gentle's regiment, the Royal Highland Fusiliers (RHF) when it should have been.
She said: "It is more likely than not that the bomb would not have detonated had Element B [a bomb jamming kit] been fitted." After three years of ex-Prime Minister Blair refusing to meet her, the man who as Chancellor once proclaimed he would “spend what it takes” to disarm Saddam Hussein has said he will. Gordon Brown will need to answer the question of why we are still in Iraq and why did this young man and the tens of thousands of people in Iraq have to die?

And why are they still dying?

We will remember them.

http://www.mfaw.org.uk/

http://www.ivaw.org/

http://www.vvaw.org/

click HERE for the film, "War is Sell"

and HERE for Propaganda and War: Iraq and BeyondNoam Chomsky, professor, linguistics, MIT

Lest We Forget

By John Pilger

On Remembrance Day 2007 - Veterans Day in America - the great and the good bowed their heads at the Cenotaph. Generals, politicians, newsreaders, football managers and stock-market traders wore their poppies. Hypocrisy was a presence. No one mentioned Iraq. No one uttered the slightest remorse for the fallen of that country. No one read the forbidden list.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18726.htm

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