We weep for Aleppo –
“Aleppo burn, Yemen starve and Palestine cry out for justice”
by DOWLING Felicity, Left Unity
Left Unity Principal Speaker Felicity Dowling writes:The abomination that is the destruction of Aleppo, of its people and of its buildings and services will be remembered for centuries to come, should humanity have the good fortune to last that long.
War is part and parcel of capitalism, the more so in economic crisis as now.
When the capitalists can’t make enough money by production, or by trade, or by robbing the accumulated wealth of the modern state (they call it austerity or re-structuring or the cuts, or just plain privatisation), by the peaceful use of their power, they decide to rob one another – or other states and peoples – with force of arms. War is part and parcel of capitalism.