Julian Assange and the fight against imperialist war

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : "In Israel, Britain, the United States, Europe and throughout the world, draconian legislation is being used to criminalise anti-genocide protests, with thousands arrested.
49% : February 2024Assange supporters march to Downing Steet as two-day hearing ends in London21 February 2024Assange lawyers rebuff anti-democratic US government extradition arguments21 February 2024Contact usRelated TopicsFind out more about these topics:Free Julian Assange!Democratic rightsBritainWar and militarismEuropeAustraliaUnited States
46% : As we wrote four years ago:"The precedents for Assange's trial under the Espionage Act are the mass roundups of socialists and anarchist groups carried out in the years after the law was first established in 1917.
44% : The ruling class are preparing for a clash they know is coming because their policies, above all their war policies, cannot be pursued except through a further assault on already gutted living standards and state provision.
42% : Fearful of the revolutionary movements swelling across the world, the US government outlawed political opposition to the First World War and agitation for workers' strikes and protests.
41% : The fact that the United States is pursuing Assange under the Espionage Act is historically revealing.
37% : He is facing, and fighting in court, extradition to the United States to face charges under the Espionage Act which carry a de facto life sentence and could be reformulated to incur the death penalty.
36% : Assange faced a campaign of disinformation, smears and political isolation and betrayal, waged on a global scale.
24% : Assange's real attitude to Clinton and Trump is made clear in his describing an election contest between the two as a choice between "cholera or gonorrhoea," a description with which I think everyone in this room would heartily agree.

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