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

[Sukla Sen]

It is rather interesting and amusing to note the
continual shifts. 

First, it was the Abolition 2000 being based in
imperialist Japan and thereby be trashed!
Then, it doesn't ask for disarmament of the US!
Then it "lobbies"!
Then the call for rejection of the Indo-US nuke deal
is a conspiracy of the US to disempower India!

Now something else.

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I appreciated the general anti-nuclear weapons
perspective that just about anyone holds, generally. I
would like it too if the planet disarmed.
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It's just not true. Not everybody has an "anti-nuclear
weapons perspective". Definitely Bush does not have
it. Nor those states who're engaged in upgrading their
nuclear arsenals and/or going for it.

Nor those who're agitating, campaigning, and
"lobbying", for global nuclear disarmament can hardly
be equated with those who "appreciate" such demands
and advocates and justifies nuclear proliferation, in
the name of nuclear parity quite ignoring the simple
fact that it points in the opposite direction of
global nuclear disarmament and the fact that their
position essentially means that global nuclear
disarmament would come only when every segment (or
only nation?) is in possession of this apocalyptic
weapon or at least till it comes everybody should go
nuke. (An insane idea!)
 

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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.
Unquote

The fact is that the US itself is out to undermine the
NPT. The 2005 Review Conference failed to come out
with a resolution because of the US intransigence.
The NPT is of course skewed. But it is the only
multilateral agreement which contains the commitment
of the nuclear weapon states to disarm. It does not
provide for any definite timeframe. So the struggle is
to obtain that.

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en 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.
Unquote

In fact, in the instant case, the emphasis is on
"lobbying" the NSG - which has 45 and NOT 8 members.
And again within that the members of the New Agenda
Coalition.
What the US is doing in the Persian Gulf is clearly in
violation of the NPT, not in pursuance of it.

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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.
Unquote

The various constituents of the Abolition 2000 has
vigorously protested against the threatening moves of
the US. None, to my mind, supported it.

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The NPT was something forced on every country in the
world by the UN 
Security Council members at that time.
Unquote

Any substantiation? How come India, Pakistan and
Israel are outside?


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They all accept the frame work of US hegemony. This is

what is sad.
Unquote

Again another black lie.
The very demand of global nuclear disarmament, and
even the ongoing move to scuttle the 'Deal', amounts
to undermining and negation of this hegemony.

The campaign to undercut this struggle evidently
reinforces the "hegemony".

Sukla


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