(The following letter from Australian anti-war and Latin American solidarity activist Joan Coxsedge—who is also a former member of the Victoria state parliament--originally appeared in an Australian-Cuban solidarity group’s newsletter)
"Dear Comrades,
"Gough’s
gone and left a hole in many Old Labor hearts.
Not without flaws - think of East Timor and his embrace of State Aid
which has led to a criminal imbalance between rich private schools and the
public variety - but he made up for them with vision and courage in pushing
ahead with a range of strong progressive policies after decades of
Menzies-style stagnation. It became a matter of pride to be an Australian,
unlike now.
"Media dills scoff at ‘conspiracy theories’ regarding Whitlam’s
untimely dismissal, when there is an abundance of evidence to prove that the
CIA was up its filthy neck in killing off his government.
"Do these idiots seriously believe that an
outfit that since its inception has rampaged around the world to create
profitable investment climates for multinationals, organised coup d’etats
in more than 30 countries and unknown numbers of secret wars, subverted
democratic processes with massive illegal funding of political parties and
trade unions in cahoots with leading Mafias, established murder squads and
torture centres and plotted to assassinate Fidel Castro, Patrice Lumumba,
Rafael Trujillo and other heads of state and ran the murderous Phoenix
Programme in Vietnam, would ignore a new reforming Labor prime minister?
"Especially one which briefly transformed
Australia into an independent state, reversed its foreign policy status towards
the Non-Aligned Movement, supported Zones of Peace and demanded to know whether
the CIA was running Pine Gap, who sacked ASIO head Barbour and ASIS head
Robertson, and then poured petrol on the fire by stating that the CIA had
funded Australian political parties would not have been targeted by the
CIA?
"Of course not.
"The Nixon White House loathed Whitlam and sent `coup master' Marshall Green and other CIA heavies to destroy his government. Whitlam knew this. ’The question is whether any duly
elected reformist government will be allowed to govern in the future. What is
at stake is whether the people who seek change and reform are ever again to
have confidence that it can be achieved through the normal parliamentary
process’, he said on 29 October 1975, at the ANU, just days before
he got the chop, a question that’s never been acknowledged, let alone
resolved. Governor-General Kerr played a vital role in the dismissal,
shattering our dreams for a more independent Australia.
So why against all
advice did Gough appoint this drunken buffoon?
Kerr was known to be anti-union with long-standing ties to British and
American intelligence which started in WW2 when he worked in the hush-hush
Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs. A prominent member of the
invitation-only Australian Association of Cultural Freedom, founded, funded and
run by the CIA, Kerr also served two terms as president of LawAsia, another CIA
front. The CIA paid for his travels, coughed up whenever he asked for money and `told him what to do,' according to a CIA Deputy-Director.
"Kerr made a complete galah of himself whenever he appeared in
public with his striped trousers, tails and top hat. His chief mentor was
another charmer, Sir Garfield Barwick, who promoted tax avoidance, advocated
against Labor’s Banking Act, defended Menzies’ Communist Party
Dissolution Bill before the High Court and handled ASIO’s
case before the Petrov Commission.
"Whitlam fell and democracy fell with him, but another future PM was sinking in the boot. Hawke made regular trips to the US
Consulate in Melbourne calling Whitlam ‘politically crazy’ with the message
that the ALP was always happy to keep Washington in the loop. Since then? A downthill run, with both parties in thrall to US imperialism.
"We live in a
democracy we’re told, but genuine democracy means ‘people’s
power’ so
how did we bugger up such a noble concept and turn it into a global system run
by corrupt oligarchs and plutocrats, puppet masters for our rulers. Everywhere,
from east to west, north to south, these crooks have transformed democracy into
a toxic form of governance threatening the survival of our planet.
"Way back, Mark Twain wrote: ‘If voting made any difference, they
wouldn’t let us do it,' a quote that could have been written for today. A vote implies real choice and we have none. It used to be a sacrosanct civic duty, but now it's a fake system to give the illusion that voting matters when the real power lies with unelected bodies like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Oranization, the World Economic Forum and other powerful non-government outfits and think-tanks.
"These mobsters dictate global policies and draft secret treaties like
theTransatlantic and Transpacific Trade and Investment Partnerships affecting
billions of people. These agreements, conducted in unprecedented secrecy, give
US corporations more rights than they’ve ever had in history, allowing them
to flout the laws of sovereign countries in which they do business.
"If a `sovereign' nation attempts to enforce its laws against an American corporation, it can be sued for `restraint of trade.' Those agreeing to these ‘partnerships’ are fully paid-up
agents of US corporations. If you’re
not outraged then you bloody well should be!
"Always a relief to
turn to Cuba. While most of the world tightens its borders and runs away from
the problem, Cuba has opened a new chapter of solidarity by sending 255 doctors
and nurses to West Africa to deal with the Ebola outbreak, once again giving
the world a lesson in internationalism. The latest group of Cuban medicos will
not receive the privileged medical evacuation that other doctors have received,
but will be treated in situ like the local population.
"Compare Cuba with the US
which sent soldiers and Australia which sent no-one, but the root problem for Sub-Saharan
Africa is that its medical systems were weakened by the imposition of draconian
policies by agencies like the IMF. These inspiring words from a
Cuban-Argentinian doctor to his children about how a revolutionary ‘should always be capable of feeling,
in his deepest self, any injustice anywhere in the world.’ Viva Cuba!
"Joan Coxsedge."
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