Don’t desert labour movements in Islamic countries

This wide ranging piece by Shalom Lappin in Dissent deserves reading in full but is strong in its criticisms of those left-wing participants in alliance with religious extremists pursuing a totalitarian theocratic vision who have effectively become advocates of the Islamists’ agenda. They have abandoned labor unionists, human rights activists, democrats, and feminists in Islamic countries, as well as in their own, in deference to their jihadist confederates. For this part of the left, its peculiar notion of anti-imperialism does not so much take precedence over progressive political concerns as replace them. Anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism have exhausted its content to the point that it has become ripe for merger and acquisition by militant Islamic jihadists posing as the representatives of the third world poor struggling against Western domination.

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