[Audio] The War in Georgia and the National Question

Russian BMP-2 from the 58th Army in South Ossetia / Image: Wikimedia commons

The war in Georgia represents yet another turning point in world relations. Like a heavy rock thrown into a lake it has caused waves that will affect the whole world. Overnight the overweening arrogance of US imperialism, which had learned to look complacently at the entire planet as its sphere of influence, was been dealt a hard knock from which it may not recover.

Listen to Alan Woods speak at a recent meeting of the Socialist Appeal on the war in Georgia in relation to world relations and the question of a nations right to self determination.

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