The political significance of the WikiLeaks revelations

[Joanne98]

The following report was delivered by Nick Beams, SEP (Australia) national secretary to SEP public meetings in Melbourne and Sydney on December 20 and 21. Socialist Equality Party national organiser James Cogan’s report can be read here.

The extraordinary measures being undertaken against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange by the United States and other imperialist governments around the world point to the profound political significance of what the US cables have revealed.


The past decade has been replete with important political experiences that have left their mark on mass consciousness. It began with the theft of an election in the United States in 2000. Then followed the still-unexplained events of September 2001, the invasion of Afghanistan and, in 2003, the war against Iraq, launched on the basis of the lie that the Iraqi regime possessed “weapons of mass destruction.”

The WikiLeaks’ release has sent a shockwave around the world because the real nature of so-called diplomacy is being revealed.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/dec2010/nbre-d23.shtml

[Angry Dragon]

1. Only cockroaches and the guilty do not like

the light shined on them, funny how that works

OT: There seem some here also do not like the light