WSWS - Assange: An attack on the Working ClassArchived Message
Posted by Poster123 on May 7, 2019, 6:23 am
"All of the official institutions of capitalist society are implicated in the persecution of Assange. The corporate press has responded to his arrest with unconcealed glee.
Corporate reporters, who function as stenographers for governments and the intelligence agencies, have proclaimed that Assange is “not a journalist.” They are the modern-day equivalents of the pharaoh’s scribes, or those German reporters who functioned as propagandists for the Nazi regime. Let it not be forgotten that such “journalists” were prosecuted at the Nuremburg Trials for their role in facilitating war crimes and unprecedented attacks on democratic rights.
All of the establishment parties in Britain, the US and Australia have participated in the attacks on Assange.
The Democrats have spearheaded the bogus claims that Assange is a Russian agent because WikiLeaks published true and newsworthy information exposing the fact that the Democratic National Committee rigged the party’s 2016 primaries in favour of Hillary Clinton. Her secret Wall Street speeches, also published by WikiLeaks, exposed Clinton as a bought-and-paid-for servant of the banks.
In Britain, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party have done nothing to defend Assange. Successive Australian governments, Labor and Liberal-National alike, have joined the campaign against him, refusing to carry out their clear obligation to defend a persecuted Australian citizen and journalist."