Guest Blog
John Beeching is Honorary Chair Canadians for Peace and Socialism
He is a veteran of WW2 and a life long activist for peace and socialism. Below are John’s comments on the 60th Anniversary of NATO.
NATO 60 year celebration
Today CBC news announced in a report on NATO that that it was NATO 60 year celebration. 60 Years to protect the profits of the rich is nothing to celebrate. Not when in this year 2009 millions are out of work or being laid-off while most in the third world countries are existing on a pittance.
NATO was not created to protect the world people or any country from attack. It was created to protect the world from communism and establish globalization led by the United States of America. The result is that millions on millions are living on substandard conditions.
Soviet Union Unaffected by the Great Depression
While the capitalist world was in the grip of mass unemployment and class warfare, the Soviet Union, by 1929 a mere 12 years into the building of socialism was unaffected by the Great Depression gripping the entire capitalist world. The Soviet Government, after a bitter struggle to defeat US and British interventionist forces attempting to restore the old hated Czarist regime, had embarked on an ambitious plan to electrify the country, modernize agriculture and construct new industries. The Soviet Union provided work for all and implemented universal free education and health care. The homeless were being housed. Collective and state farming methods rapidly made the country self-sufficient in food and agricultural products
Sunday, April 05, 2009
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