Workers Party President, Ted Tynan, has condemned the recent escalation of the US-backed and Saudi Arabian-led war on Yemen, a small, impoverished country in the Arabian Peninsula, where tens of thousands of civilians have been killed or injured, millions have been displaced, the healthcare system seriously damaged and where much of the population stands on the brink of famine.

In recent days, the Saudi-led coalition has intensified its attacks, leading to further death, injury and destruction. US President Biden continues to support the Saudi-led coalition comprising the deeply reactionary Gulf monarchies. The British and US governments have armed, supported and logistically assisted Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in their attacks on Yemen. 

Not content with creating untold deaths, misery and destruction in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan, the US, together with its allies, is now determined to destroy Yemen, regardless of the cost to its people. This is the contemptible consequence of capitalist predation and imperialist aggression.

January 2022