this looks the same as the Communist Forum statement last week. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > From: "J.WALKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: Manchester University Library > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:30:35 GMT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Peoples War] Statement from Revolutionary > Communist > > From: Fightback!, Winter 2001 > http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org.uk > > Every day throughout the world an estimated 55,000 > people are killed > by malnutrition. Many more are killed by diseases > that are easily > preventable. Behind these deaths lie the many > agreements forced upon > the oppressed nations by bankers, politicians and > generals from across > the imperialist world. As the crisis of the world > economy has deepened > it has been the oppressed nations of the world, in > Africa, Asia and > Latin America, the so called �emerging markets�, > that have borne the > brunt of maintaining the privileged consumption of > the majority of the > North American, Japanese and West European people. > These countries, > plundered by imperialism, have lurched from crisis > to crisis; debt > defaults, currency collapses, hyperinflation... On > every occasion, the > bankers of the imperialist bloc, circling like > vultures, have > descended to sink their bloodied beaks into the > corpse. > > They have bailed out the mess that their robbery has > created, > demanding in return the cancellation of health, > housing and education > programmes and the privatisation of public utilities > that then price > water and energy out of the reach of the working > class. They have > demanded �fiscal prudence�; the euphemism, in > Russia, for not paying > pensions and public sector wages or, in Argentina, > cutting these by > 13%. > > Inevitably death, privation and destruction have > followed in the wake > of these finance capitalists. Just as inevitably > there has been > resistance to such parasitism. Whether it has been > the People�s > Democratic Party of Afghanistan, the FSLN of > Nicaragua or more > recently in Colombia the FARC, the oppressed have > risen up to end this > injustice and build a new society based on > democratic social justice > and the rule of the poor. To smash this global > uprising and shore up > their system that sustains the luxuries of the > middle class and better > off sections of the working class, world imperialism > has fought back. > Led by the butchers of the Pentagon they have > stopped at nothing to > satisfy their bloodlust; running death camps in > Lebanon, bombing > schools and hospitals in Afghanistan, drug running > to pay for arms and > supporting any fascist who will do their bidding. > > However, as their crisis deepens, there has been > less room for even > some of their erstwhile friends; the local henchmen > that once were > partners in crime. With the anti-imperialist bastion > of Soviet power > no longer a concern, imperialism has fallen on the > oppressed nations > to start a new era of colonialism; the �new world > order�. > > There has been blanket bombing of working class > areas of Panama as US > imperialism secured the canal from George Bush� drug > running partner; > Noriega. 100,000 Kurdish, Shiite and Iraqi > conscripts were burned > alive on the Basra highway to save the self anointed > dynasty in > �Kuwait� from the party once entrusted with the > butchery of the Iraqi > Communist Party and Kurdish Workers Party. Millions > of people were > murdered or made into refugees in Eastern Europe to > control the > fascists unleashed by imperialism�s war of conquest > against the > socialist countries and millions more are now > threatened with > starvation in Afghanistan after over ten years of US > sponsored > terrorism. > > It is no surprise then that the burning hatred of > world imperialism, > its banks and armies and those of the USA at its > head has spread from > the ranks of the revolutionaries and the oppressed > to others who live > among the smouldering ruins of imperialism�s foreign > policy. Even some > of the most ignorant and reactionary elements within > those countries > have turned against their former paymasters. While > many couch their > resistance in religious and racist terminology, the > roots of their > actions lie with the crisis of finance capital > itself and its ensuing > drive to war and barbarism. > > It is in this light that the attacks on the centres > of finance capital > and imperialist militarism should be seen. Islamic > reactionaries might > see among the dead only ungodly infidels. Communists > and > revolutionaries though will make a distinction. We > do not mourn, but > welcome, the death of any workers at the Pentagon or > any bankers at > the World Trade Center; they have killed many times > over before in > their careers. Those cleaners, waiters, cooks and > technicians who died > were a tragic loss in a war that sees many millions > of ordinary, > innocent people die every year. The war against > oppression will > continue and many more will fall before its > completion. In this war, > communists stand with the oppressed such as the > Palestinian people who > came into the streets on September 11th to > demonstrate their > consciousness of the role played by banks and armies > from the USA. > > Communists do not call for any retaliation as we do > not oppose the > anti-imperialist incursions, even of our enemies. We > have no illusions > about humanitarian or measured response as > imperialism is of necessity > barbaric and militarist. > > Sadly the same can not be said of the rest of the > British left. With > so many British �socialists� benefiting from > imperialism�s > superprofits and sharing the lifestyles of the > bankers and regular > airline travellers, their capitulation is sadly > predictable and their > irrelevance a stark reality. > > A Platform of Shame > > Following the attacks the left newspapers lost no > time in rushing to > defend their paymasters and oppose the attacks. Bush > and Blair�s > coalition against �terror� is wide indeed! > > The Spartacist League (Sept 12th) called it an > �indefensible act of > criminal terror�. > > The CPGB (Sept 20th) was opposed to the killing of > imperialism�s > military personnel and �condemns the September 11 > terrorist attacks on > New York and Washington. Such attacks do nothing to > further the cause > of the working class or oppressed nations�. > > Socialist Worker (Sept 15th), not known for the > depth of its analysis, > claims that �many more innocent civilians were > killed in New York and > === message truncated ===
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