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Posted by: John Phoenix The following speech was given on 25 January 2021 by Australian anti-imperialist activist Jay Tharappel on behalf of the Yemen Solidarity Council at an online antiwar meeting hosted by the Workers Party of Britain. Thank you to the Workers Party of Britain for putting on this event in solidarity with the people of Yemen. It’s a great honour to be among you all. Yemen should be making headline news every single day for the sheer brutality inflicted upon its people, but instead the war is not only ignored by the corporate media, but it is subject to big tech censorship. Indeed, our website yemensolidarity.org is banned on Facebook. The reason for this media blackout, however, is easy to understand. There is no conceivable humanitarian pretext to j...

Posted by: John Phoenix The Yemeni armed forces and their popular auxiliaries have now for six years stood firm against the US-backed and Saudi-led genocidal war against the Yemeni people. The national liberation forces, organised around the popular Ansarullah movement, have prevented every attempt to restore the Riyadh-backed puppet government of Mansour Hadi to power. In their courageous struggle for independence, the Yemeni people have suffered saturation bombing, economic blockade and piratical attacks on Yemeni ships, but have fought back with bravery and ingenuity. Now it seems that this steadfast resistance is making the US have second thoughts about too closely associating itself with Riyadh’s always bloody and now failing enterprise. If imperialism could win wars by...

Posted by: John Phoenix So long as the US believed that a warmongering alliance led by Saudi Arabia would swiftly prevail against the popular uprising in Yemen, simultaneously shoring up US regional hegemony and boosting the profits of the US war industry, it was happy to support Riyadh’s reign of terror. There were no horrors unleashed upon the Yemeni people from the skies above their heads that the US and its sidekick Britain would not actively support with arms and strategic guidance. What imperialism did not bargain for however was the courage and ingenuity displayed by the Yemeni people in their resistance to imperial diktat, despite the massively greater odds in favour of Riyadh, armed to the hilt by America and Britain. It is this steadfast resistance which is finally...