Fwd: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Re: Warning to communists! Iranian Green Movement demonstrates alongside fascist English Defence League

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Subject: [** MAOIST_REVOLUTION **] Re: Warning to communists! Iranian Green Movement demonstrates alongside fascist English Defence League
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Report from supporter of the World People's Resistance Movement (Britain) at the annual Al Quds Day demonstration in London:

After the debate on this list about whether or not we should attend the Al Quds demonstration I decided to go along as an observer and duck out or join in depending on what I saw.  This is my report...

 

Lurid predictions of the march being dominated by overtly homophobic, anti-women and anti-Semitic groups like Hizb ut Tahir and Muslims Against the Crusades were proved false as neither group had a visible presence.  The Muslim Association of Britain who were listed as one of the organisers didn't appear either, though even if they had, their presence (and even that of Hizb) would have proven little as both have been regular attenders at anti-war demos for years.

 

The demo was mainly (80%) Shia - not surprising as Khomeni initiated the idea 30 years ago.   Hizbullah flags and Hamas flags were in evidence but - again contrary to the expectations of the demo's critics, only two or three Iranian flags (there were actually more Lebanese flags).  This is about the same as you would get on any anti-war demo.  There were a few people hawking pictures of Khomeni and I saw a couple of people holding them but the chant 'we are all Hizbullah' was eclipsed by the more secular 'we are all Palestinians'.  There was the occassional Allah akbar but most slogans were of the 'Free free Palestine' variety.

 

As for the gender issue; I saw a number of Asian women not wearing any head covering (and plenty of white women too) and only two wearing the Niqab.  I mention this only as a measure of fundamentalism or lack of.  Men and women marched together which is ironic given that I can remember being on various demos (gay rights, womens' rights and anti-nuclear) in which there was a degree of segregation introduced by feminists.  One man leading the chanting with a megaphone was wearing a Rolling Stones tee-shirt - hardly Taliban material! and a woman who was wearing a headscarf wore a tee shirt with the slogan 'live to love' on it; again probably not the sort of thing the moral police in Tehran woud have liked!

 

As for anti-Semitism there were more Jewish people on the Al Quds demo than on the pathetically small counter demonstration (about 30) which included fascists, Zionists and, sadly, the Iranian Green Movement.

--- In MAOIST_REVOLUTION@yahoogroups.com, josephball924@... wrote:
>
> Despite previous exposures some on the 'left' are still inclined to
> give support to the Fascist Green Movement that is uniting with United
> States imperialism against the people of Iran. On 4th September 2010
> an Al Quds demonstration was held in London. Members of the Green
> Movement staged a counter-demonstration against it alongside members of
> the English Defence League who have been compared to the British Union
> Of Fascists. Watch this video:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm2Db7BCDt4&NR=1 (If the link doesn't
> work try to find 'Al Quds 2010 London EDL member exposed Youtube' via
> your search engine). 3 minutes in we see members of the Green Movement
> demonstrating alongside England flag waving EDL supporters. The
> picture is a little grainy but in the close-up you can see the Green
> Movement members wearing their green regalia and wearing green wrist
> bands.
>
> I am issuing an urgent call to all Marxists not to be taken in by the
> Green Movement. A fascist movement does not have a left-wing that can
> be united with! I realise no genuine Maoist will support the Green
> Movement but I am issuing this call here because I believe there may be
> those with some interest in or sympathy for Maoism who have been taken
> in by the Fascists of the Green Movement. All Maoists must oppose US
> imperialism as the principal enemy of humanity. We must never again
> repeat the grievous errors of the Three World's Theory.
>
> Best Joseph Ball
>

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