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An open latter to Diane Abbott MP
By Sacha Ismail and Christopher Ford Dear Diane, As socialist labour movement activists, we were very concerned to learn that at the “International Conference Against War” in London on 20th June you described Russia’s murderous war against the people of Ukraine as “the NATO campaign against Russia”. You cited the Ukraine war as the final, emphatic item in what was clearly intended as a list of crimes by or backed by Western imperialist powers, including Israel’s murderous violence against the Palestinians. In similar vein, you condemned the overthrow of the murderous tyranny of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, kept in power by extreme violence and by bloody Russian and Iran military intervention, as a Western-backed “coup”.