[Marxism] ABOLITION 2000 Calls on to Reject the US-India Nuclear Agreement

[David Walters]

Sulka, I appreciated the general anti-nuclear weapons perspective that 
just about anyone holds, generally. I would like it too if the planet 
disarmed. Apparently on the Russians are doing this in any serious 
manner, via the Swords into Plowshares program negotiated between the US 
and Russia. At least that was negotiated with more or less parity 
between the parties in question.

The frame work of Abolition 2000 seems to me to be the NPT and treats 
all parties as equals. Of course this is NOT the case, with the US 
throwing it's weight around, unilaterally, for it's own narrow 
interests, etc. I'd be curious to learn what Abolition 2000's views on 
*sanctions* imposed on Iran over the charge that they are trying to 
acquire nuclear weapons.

The problem with Abolition 2000 is that they treat ALL of this 
completely outside the framework of imperialism. They don't care. They 
want to see disarmament by any means necessary, including the trouncing 
of developing countries sovereignty by the US. When they talk about 
"lobbying" the members of the NPT, they mean the G8, essentially. They 
mean the US, specifically. They accept the framework of NPT enforcement, 
which, at the end of the day, means what the US is doing in the Persian 
gulf.

The NPT was something forced on every country in the world by the UN 
Security Council members at that time. It was, at the end of the day, an 
imperialist arms-deal for monopoly by the big powers. That Abolition 
2000 attempts, poorly, to stand above the politics is a dead end, 
regardless of how sincere they are in really wanting to eliminate the 
threat of nuclear weapons. The In'tl Women's League is really in no 
better position. They all accept the frame work of US hegemony. This is 
what is sad.

David