The announcement on Ukraine was accompanied by signals that Australian collaboration in renewed US operations in Iraq could go beyond transporting supplies and guns.

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Making the new commitment in parliament yesterday, Abbott said that together with “our European partners and allies,” Australia was considering “humanitarian assistance and non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine,” as well as “civil and military capacity building assistance to that country.”
The Orwellian doublespeak concept of “non-lethal military assistance” was of a piece with Abbott’s claim that Ukraine was “subject to active destabilisation and indeed outright invasion from Russia, a country that it has never sought to harm.”
In fact, the oligarchic Kiev regime has been at the centre of growing provocations by the major Western imperialist powers against Russia since February’s Western-backed coup in Ukraine, spearheaded by fascist forces.
The Australian government eagerly seized on the crash of Malaysian Airlines MH17 on July 17 to join the push against Russia. Abbott initially sought to have Australian military and police forces placed in the Ukraine under the pretext of safeguarding investigations into the disaster.

These bastards are going to start a war in Europe. It isn't a question of "if" it will start, the only question is "when". How the governments and peoples of Europe can just sit back and let this happen, when many are still alive who can easily remember the murderous devastation of WWII, is beyond me.

There seems to be no legitimate anti-imperialist movement in this country or anywhere else. There seems to be no legitimate anti-war movement in this country or anywhere else. If we could get a legitimate working class movement off the ground in this country, the rest would follow...