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Socialist Renewal - third series: 6
Tony Blair: The Old New
Goes to War
Ken Coates
Tony Blair's continual protestations of the peaceful and humanitarian intentions of New Labour's military adventures merely add to the very widespread anger of those who are outside the political classes. In this pamphlet Ken Coates examines some of the disconcerting features of British Parliamentary debate on the war against Iraq, and the state of the Labour Party. How did we arrive at such an impasse?
To this are added three case studies in the current relationship between war and the law; on torture, on who administers the United Nations, and on the failure to adhere to the Geneva Conventions in the US/UK war on Iraq. They serve to illustrate the emerging New World Order.
"And the cry: Here comes the New, it's all new, salute the New, be new like us! would have been easier to hear if all had not been drowned in a thunder of guns."
Bertolt Brecht, The Darkest Times.
Price £2.00
ISBN: 978 0 85124 679 6
paperback
