Such Israeli atrocities against the Arab people do not produce headlines or condemnations from capitalist government officials and politicians. The purpose of this campaign is to make the criminal look like the victim: to make Israel appear as the victim of Arab violence rather than the criminal oppressor of the Arab peoples.

Such Israeli atrocities against the Arab people do not produce headlines or condemnations from capitalist government officials and politicians.

No. The uproar over the killings at the Olympics has been consciously manufactured by the imperialist powers and the media they control in order to try to turn public opinion against the Palestinian liberation movement. The enormous publicity cannot be explained simply because the killings occurred dramatically at the Olympics. This can be seen by comparing the media response to the killings at this year's Olympics with the response to the massacre of Mexican student protesters just 10 days prior to the opening of the Olympics in Mexico City in 1968...

Another pernicious feature of the anti-Arab campaign over the Munich killings is blatant racism. For example, the New York Times, an influential mouthpiece for a section of the capitalist class, called the guerrillas "fanatics" who had "plumbed new depths of criminality."

September 15, 1947
The spotlight in Great Britain last week remained on 140 miners at Grimethorpe, a colliery surrounded by hills of slag in a bleak, grim valley of Yorkshire. These 140 miners were still holding out in a wildcat strike that began Aug. 11.

What gave this strike dynamic impact was the rank and file solidarity of miners in other pits. As many as 60,000 downed tools in sympathy. The forces arrayed against the Grimethorpe strikers were enormous: the district officials of their own National Union of Mine Workers, the national officials of the union, the members of Parliament from the area, the Coal Board and the rest of the Government apparatus and the capitalist press...

The most violent attempt to break the strike came from Arthur Horner, well known Stalinist who is secretary of the National Union of Mine Workers. He called the valiant 140 strikers "traitors to the nation," according to the Sept. 9 Daily Worker...

The Yorkshire workers answered by sending flying squadrons to spread the sympathy walkout still further.

The Attlee Government and the union bureaucrats called a meeting of the Yorkshire miners with the objective of getting a vote to return to work. Out of 2,600 in the mine area, only 700 showed up. They listened and argued for three hours and then the majority voted to stay out.  
 
 
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