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Published 23 Dec, 2003 12:00am

UK politician slams US capitalism

QUETTA, Dec 22: The president of the British Socialist Workers Party and leader of Anti-War Movement, Chris Harman, has held the capitalist system led by US responsible for the miseries and hardships of the downtrodden people in major parts of the World.

Speaking at a news conference here at the press club on Sunday, he alleged that the United Nations has been established to protect the interests of powerful countries and to use the forum as a weapon against the weak states to deprive the workers and labourers of their rights.

Mr Harman is on a four-week tour to Pakistan and India to mobilize people for the Anti-War Movement to remove US President Bush and UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, and says both are pushing the world towards international conflict that would further increase the miseries of the people.

Condemning the American forces for bombarding Belgrade, Kabul and Baghdad, he said that Washington administration with the support of London government was misusing the terms human rights, extremism, fundamentalism and democracy. He said that they were exploiting the world.

He accused the United Nations, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank of formulating policies at the behest of American government to strengthen the capitalist system and loot the resources of the weak and small states of Europe and the third world countries.

Lauding the heroic victory of Vietnamese, he said that the American forces would never succeed to suppress the resistance of the Iraqi people.

Mr Harman said the US would in future try to destabilize Syria, Iran, and North Korea to manipulate and expand its influence through use of force under the umbrella of the United Nations.

He said that Osama bin Laden and the Taliban were the product of America and Pakistan and at present both the countries had dubbed them extremists to achieve certain objectives in other parts of the world.

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