Cuban President Fidel Castro (R) and Mari Alkatiri visited students from East Timor who are studying in Cuba as part of a Cuban government program for Latin American doctors. (Reuters/Omara Garcia Mederos)He is, after all a democratically-elected Lefty. He is clearly in need of the Left's support. The local Yank puppies are rewriting history throughout the South Pacific, PNG, West Irian and Timore Leste to disguise the fact that the commies have not gone away. Socialists like Fidel are winning by lobbing medical expertise into crowds of Third World civilians - uninjuring thousands! Timor has oil, Havanah has Doctors, or haven't you noticed? So - which side are you on?
Socialism, if left to it's own devices, will overpower any religion, Islam to Catholicism. Violent socialism is the only force capable of stopping fundamental Islam in its tracks. It exposes the extreme right to powerful scrutiny in poor communities (Catholics throughout South America are sodding socialists, they are reminded of Jesus' teachings to the poor and they see a living God; long dead to the West.)
Emerging from years of capitalist exploitation®, South American countries are uniting and organising, they are not competing with each other, it's a powerfull synergy that appears to present an alternative to gangsterism, greed and intolerance.
Here's Tim Anderson's take from New Matilda
and Peter Boyle of Green Left Weekly
Will you be complicit in allowing US/Australian interests to overthrow Timor Leste democracy and hand power to the Portuguese elite? (Xanana Gusmao, Josã Ramos-Horta and that poor little rebel called Alfredo Alves Reinado - An Australian-trained elite officer who's wife works for the American ambassador - Hrrumph, some "rebel" commander! Sitiveni Rabuka would swallow his arse, whole.)
Labor won't dare bring this up as it's impossible to howl in Dogwhistledonia. It will eventually bring into question Labor's Lefty credentials, none too soon IMHippyO.
No mistakes here, Lefty-Lites, you're either with 'em, or you're with Howard/Downer. GOWAAN, git back in yer box before Bolt hears you bleating!
Viva Fidel xxxx. Viva Free Democracy in Timor Leste!
28/06/2006 11:12:50 PM - Update:
Straight out of the Che mission manual, Alkatiri has now been deposed by evil Lying Capitalist Running Dogs® - his followers in the East of Timor Leste now have their martyr, their valiant leader is now justified in revving up the 1975 civil war that followed Portugal's cut-n-run. Alkatiri, the clear winner of a "free and fair" election was removed by external armed forces (Australian) despite all the usual democratic remedies available to Timor Leste's democracy. There is no doubt that decisions were made with the Deputy's .45 in their back. Welcome to Open-source Warfare, there are workshops everywhere - "Enemy of my Enemies - 101".
I am NOT an Alkatiri supporter, I don't know enough about the man - I meekly point out how far to the right Australia has always been. The Real Left, for most of us, disappeared with the post-war affluence boom, the Really Left became the enemy of Australia's Left and the residual class distrust for capitalists became the foundation for today's unions and their political wingnuts.
These days the Real Left follow Che, not Marx, and the tactics are not post-modern. The point is, we are the enemy of the only sustainable force capable of keeping the theMob at bay. Capitalism cannot survive long without the socialist fat controller and praying to The Gods won't put food in the pot, so my guess is violent socialist revolution is sneaking right up under our well-elevated gnoses. We are so not Left. Alkatiri is.
