Baghdad dead-end
Socialist Press1978 1978-11-08Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 2 →
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The complete inability of the bourgeois and feudal Arab leaders to offer any way forward in the struggles of the Palestinian and Arab masses was clearly demonstrated this weekend at the Baghdad summit on the Camp David sell-out agreement-attended by every Arab state except Egypt. If the mildness of the final communique was insufficient proof of this impotence, Egyptian President Sadat's instant refusal to meet a delegation from the summit should have confirmed that statements of 'Arab unity' are no way to fight Sadat's grovelling to US imperialism and the Zionist state.
The so-called "hard line" leaders of Iraq and Syria hid behind the feudal leaders of Saudi • Arabia and Jordan throughout the summit, ensuring that even the token. gesture of moving the Arab League headquarters from Cairo was not carried out.
If the empty words and easy talk of an "action fund" concealed any secret agreement such as boycotts or other action against Egypt, we can be certain that it will not be anything that would involve a break with the imperialist powers that prop up the Zionist regime.