Opinion: Rea Sea attacks are rooted in western colonialism and piracy

Since the Second World War, Britain has remained the unflinching junior partner of US imperialism. The latest Anglo-American bombing campaign in Yemen is no exception. 

British aggression towards Yemen, however, predates US designs. It is rooted in the twin practices of piracy and colonialism on which the British empire itself was built. 

The current attitudes of the British and the Yemenis towards each other are still shaped by the legacy of this violent history. Its shadow looms large over the strategies employed by western imperialism to conduct maritime warfare in our times. The lessons of this history inform contemporary Yemeni resistance.

Opinion by Hicham Safieddine

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