Workers League - Behind the US invasion of Somalia - Mehring Books

in Zaire have dismissed Angolan charges, confirmed reports of
foreign involvement came from expatriate oil workers in the oilproducing
center of Soyo, who reported that contingents of combatequipped
non-Angolan whites entered the town with UNITA forces
to seize oil installations.
In Liberia, reports emerged this week that fire had engulfed the
world's largest rubber plantation, owned by Bridgestone Corp. The
report, following heavy fighting between Liberian rebels and a West
African force, appeared aimed at provoking an imperialist intervention.
The New York Times, in an article last Sunday which clearly
reflected the views of the US State Department, listed 48 world
"trouble spots," including 18 on the African continent. The article
cited unnamed US officials who "suggest that the United Nations
should go even further and in effect run countries that have failed to
control their disparate forces from within. Such a role would revive
the concept of United Nations trusteeships, an instrument employed
after World War II to administer former colonies until they were
ready for independence."
While the old system of trusteeships served the imperialist powers
as a means of delaying and controlling the decolonization process,
what is now proposed is an instrument for recolonizing the masses of
Africa and the rest of the oppressed regions of the world.
This move toward recolonization is a direct product of the
insoluble crisis of world capitalism. Confronted with global recession,
stagnating trade and mounting interimperialist conflicts, all of
the imperialist powers are driven to assert direct control over sources
of cheap labor, raw materials and markets.
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