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 Thursday November 14, 2002 17:05 by Ali la Pointe - Fun lovin anti imperialista muthas
 acclaimed Middle East Correspondent gives Bloody Sunday Memorial lecture. Bloody Sunday Memorial Lecture 2002 Part of the ‘One World Many Struggles’ series of events commemorating the 30th Anniversary year Robert Fisk ‘Crimes without Punishment’ Robert Fisk, currently Middle East correspondent for The Independent to deliver Bloody Sunday 30th Anniversary Memorial Lecture. As this is the 30th anniversary year of Bloody Sunday, a series of events organised by the Bloody Sunday Weekend Committee under the theme ‘One World Many Struggles’ has been taking place throughout the year. These events have been designed to mark the anniversary year by reflecting both on the continuing campaign for justice for Bloody Sunday and the significance of the issue internationally. The annual Memorial Lecture on Monday 25th November 2002 will mark the close of these events. This year’s lecture entitled “Crimes without Punishment” will be delivered by the acclaimed author and journalist Robert Fisk. It will take place in the Calgach Centre, Derry, at 8pm and will be introduced and chaired by Christine Bell, Professor of Public International Law, University of Ulster.
For over 30 years Robert Fisk has been consistent in his commitment to truth and justice. His coverage of wars in Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, and more recently Afghanistan as well as the ongoing Palestinian/Israeli conflict have won him many of Journalism’s most prestigious awards. In the Middle East he has witnessed many of the murderous slaughters perpetrated against the peoples of this region or seen at first hand there aftermaths. His is one of the few voices prepared to cut to the “Why?” offering us a context for the events played out there. He was living in Beirut during the Israeli siege, he entered the Sabra and Chatila camps in 1982 on the day the massacre ended, observed the destruction of the US marine headquarters in 1983 by a massive suicide car bomb. He also witnessed the carnage perpetrated by allied forces on Iraqi soldiers fleeing Kuwait City at the end of the Gulf war, the brutality of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and more recently the aftermath of suicide bomb attacks within Israel itself.
Now aged 56, he is author of two books on the Irish conflict ‘The Point Of No Return’ and ‘In Time of War’. He is also author of what many regard as the seminal work on Lebanon, ‘Pity The Nation’. Fisk was Irish correspondent for The Times from 1972 - 75 and Middle East correspondent until 1987. He is currently the Middle East correspondent for The Independent in London
The Lecture
As such ‘Crimes without Punishment’ will compare and contrast the peace processes in the North and the Middle East and examine the bias and wordplay with which mainstream journalism reports such war-crimes. In particular it will explore the circumstances and forces at play that have dictated that while a second inquiry into Bloody Sunday was won, many of the victims of the crimes of Sabre and Chatila continue to lay in unmarked graves. ENDS
For further information contact Jim Keys / Bloody Sunday Weekend Committee - 07803268790 |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9After all, it doesn't take into account the views of Londonderry loyalists. They thought the British Army did some good work that day.
Its obvious this lecture will only serve to divide the working class of Londonderry and I am sure the SP will picket it as a sectarian event.
nuts like the sp and the swp have another reason to hate an intelligent and principled journalist like Fisk. This is because he just cannot see Isreali and Arab workers uniting together. You see he has never the works of the great Prophet Trotsky. He is almost as bad as those awful taigs and prods who just will not listen to the revolutionary party and come together in perfect harmony!
The fixation with achieving the impossible this side of the destruction of the sectarian northern state, ie working class unity where there are too few possibilities for common action and where loyalism (an explicitly sectarian ideology) has almost total political hegemony in protestant working class areas, has led many so-called anarchists on both sides of the border into ludicrous positions in order to woo members of the protestant working class. They sound more and more like libertarian versions of Eoghan Harris.
Robert Fisk seems to tell it like he sees it. Should be a good meeting.
Who said the Sp hates robert fisk? We never have.
Our only problem is we don't fall for one sided catholic nationalist rubbish. Prodestants have as much right to live on this island as catholics pat. Just like every other race. sectarianism is racism under another name. Whether its anti catholic or anti prodestant. We oppose racist attacks on anybody not simply our "own" side. Therefore we will condemn racist murders against catholics and racist murders against catholics, ALL racist murders, which alot of people seem to have a problem with. This is no way preventing us from opposing imperialists attacking innocent people. But what do you want pat an Iish army (led by yourself) occupying prodestant areas instead, a simple reversal of the status quo. It won't work and I'm not willing to fight in some civil war for the pope.
suggested that anyone should support attacks on protestants.
typical of your slandering style. the fact is that the sp have never been prepared to face up to loyalism & its hold on the protestant working class.
in order to to hold their posiotions on the north , the sp have to ignore everything that marx engels , lenin, trotsky & thr comintern wrote about ireland.
i suppose they were all sectarian as well?
btw it finghin of the sp who started this whole thing up by joining in an attack on the irsp on another thread. if you are going to quote trotsky out of context & call republican socialists rightwing, then you ccan expect criticisms in return.
for the record i dont think the sp is pro imperialist, i do think you have failed to make any attempt to break the protestant working class from their imperialist mindset.
The sp and the swp have 'trotskyist' notions about Catholic and Protestant workers 'seeing the light' uniting behind the 'revolutionary party' They believe in similar fairy tales in Palestine. This just exposes their half baked politics and juvenile slogans. Lets hope they really listen to Robert Fisk or anyone less ignorant than their guru's. Some of the less brainwashed may be stimulated to educate themselves on these and other serious issues.
Well the point is the SP is the only party at least trying to work within the prodestant working class. Every other group has written them off. And without taking the prodestant working class with us, we will simply end in another communal, not social or national liberation, war. And if we had the a majority behind a united ireland, a large majority in the north, the british would have left or been driven out years ago. They have nothing to fear from a capitalist peaceful united ireland do they?
For the rest I was only slagging you cause you were slagging us, don't take it too heart. I didn't see the other irsp one.
we work within NI and Israel and palestine, in israel we do not expect anyone to oppose the government for moral reasons, you should look at their website and see what they actually say.
you'll find it at wwww.worldsocialist-cwi.org, it has translations into english.