Here is the statement of the JRCL-RMF in response to the latest developments in Afghanistan. ************************************************************ * Denounce US Marine ground troops attacking on Kandahar! Denounce the escalation in the murderous war against the Afghan people! Oppose the stationing of the US / UK-led multinational forces! Stop Japanese troops joining the war! Denounce the official left parties joining the chorus for ‘eradicating terrorism ’! Down with the Koizumi government!
Japan Revolutionary Communist League - Revolutionary Marxist Faction Bloodthirsty American imperialism began to deploy massive Marines and other ground troops near the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar on November 25th, launching a ground battle for massacring the Taliban and the al-Qaeda A few days ago US / UK forces ‘won the fall’ of the Taliban’s last northern position in Kunduz through indiscriminate air raids and mass killings, putting forward the Northern Alliance troops. Now, they have started the violent attacks on Kandahar, the last stronghold of the Taliban led by Mullah Muhammad Omar, by committing US Marines notorious for atrocities in Vietnam. At last, they have launched an annihilating battle on the Taliban forces and Osama bin Laden’s group. US forces were again using fuel-air explosive bombs comparable to tactical nuclear bombs on November 21st near Kandahar, killing many fighters and people as if they were worms. American jets have been raining horrible bombs, including cluster bombs and bunker busters, on people around Kandahar. Moreover, US forces massacred reportedly 800 Taliban fighters including Arabs at a Northern Alliance prison near Mazar-e Sharif by unleashing heavily armed AC-130 gunships and MH-60 Black Hawk helicopters under the pretext that the captives committed a ‘revolt’ They say, ‘Celebrate the liberation of Kabul!’, ‘Celebrate the return of freedom and peace to Afghanistan! ’ But isn’t it the Anglo-American troops themselves called ‘mission of freedom’ that are now mad on most coward and most barbarous massacres against people in Afghanistan, just like cowboys mad on killing Indians. Never permit their escalation in the murderous war against the Afghan people! *Smash the scheme of an ‘interim administration’ for imperialists The land of the world’s poorest nation is now burnt down and pious Muslims are being killed by Anglo-American imperialists and by their conspirators (Russia, states in EU, Japan and China). Those criminal rulers in the contemporary ‘crusade’ are also beginning dirty conflicts to take the lions’ share of their preys stained with Afghans’ blood. The UN-sponsored conference for ‘an interim administration of Afghanistan’ is, in its nature, like a bargaining between these hyenas. Afghan delegates started to gather in Germany on November 27th for making a national administration; however, it’s just a reproduction of the irreconcilable rivalries among various tribes and warlords in Afghanistan. Hates and resentments are heating among those tribes and warlords because they were waging bloody civil wars in the past. Losing the clasp of the Taliban, the long-standing rivalries have been unleashed now. Moreover, the rivalries are aggravating because of intensifying oppositions among their backers including the US, Russia, Pakistan, India, and Iran in relation to post -Taliban visions. The intensified rivalries, particularly the Northern Alliance’s ‘dash’, have confused the US initial plan for conquering the nation. It is for this reason that George W. Bush has made a decision to commit massive ground troops, aiming to frame a pro-US government against Russia and Iran, and, if things go well, to occupy strategic points in Afghanistan like in Saudi Arabia. *Stop another aggression against Iraq and Somalia! George W. Bush is now desperate to capture and ‘execute’ Osama bin Laden, setting 25 million dollars on his head. The Anglo-American media, and the Japanese one as its follower, are now playing the role of a governmental speaker, saying ‘Laden is contained’, etc. They are drawing the world into a witch-hunt. While producing such a fever, warmongers are trying to hang not only bin Laden but also whomever they regard as harbouring or helping him. They are targeting Iraq, and Somalia, condemning them as ‘supporting terrorists’. They are even sending special squads to the Philippines to ‘eradicate’ guerrillas from Muslim radicals there, regarding them as ‘having connections with the al-Qaeda’. Comrades over the world! George W. Bush is now building a horrible system to continuously wage the so-called ‘asymmetric war’, in which he aims missiles at ‘terrorists’ who can revolt against him and at Muslim people whom he regards as ‘harbouring’ them, under the banner of eradicating ‘international terrorism as unseen enemies’. *Down with the Koizumi government rushing to join the war! Workers in Japan! The Koizumi government for Japanese imperialism willingly decided its war participation in order not to miss the opportunity of the US ‘war on terrorism’. The government has positioned Japan as a member of the contemporary ‘Crusade’, or provokers of a global warfare, emerging as a conspirator in the massacre of the Afghan people. It must be said that Japanese imperialism has ‘shown the flag’ as ‘an enemy to the Muslim people over the world’. The dispatch of its SDF troops to the Indian Ocean in the name of ‘rear supports to US and other forces’ is for supporting the US / UK operation to ‘capture Laden’ and murderous air raids on people with the Taliban. The Koizumi government has now appeared as ‘an enemy to the Muslim people’. Now is the time to overthrow his government with the full might of the working people in Japan! *Overcoming the degeneration of official left parties, advance revolutionary antiwar struggles! Workers in Japan! We should never let the bloodthirsty imperialists continue the atrocious killings! However, the official opposition parties and leaders in trade unions, engulfed in the mass current for the ‘war on terrorism’, are showing their limitless degeneration. Denouncing their degeneration, fight to create revolutionary antiwar struggles under the banner, ‘Stop the war of aggression against Afghanistan! Stop Japan joining the war! ’ The central leadership of the Japanese Communist Party welcomes the ‘UN-led scheme to build an interim administration’, which was drawn by the US government for its interests. Although the fall of the Taliban administration could never have come without indiscriminate air-raid terrors by the US / UK forces, JCP leaders support the ‘UN-led solution’ with no reference to it. This is tantamount to giving acquittal to their massacres. The JCP has expressed its alternatives with catch-copies, ‘For terrorists, a law-based judgement led by the UN!’ or ‘For UN-centred steps from economic sanctions to military ones!’ Now the party should ask the government to join SDF troops in the UN-based multinational forces. It would fit for the party that has lost their ‘anti-American, anti-imperialist’ cause and degraded itself to a social patriotic party helping the war. Denounce the Fuwa-Shii leadership of the JCP supporting the ‘political talks’ for a divided rule of Afghanistan between imperialist powers and Russia-China! Workers over the world! The root cause of the tragedy of the Afghan people lies in the fact that antiwar, peace struggles of the toiling masses has been weakened and degenerated throughout the world by labour aristocrats and Stalinist bureaucrats. Let us build a solidarity with fighting Muslim people who are burning angers and resolute to fight back against the atrocious US / UK state terrorism! While calling on them to overcome the limitations of ‘the Islamic holy war’, let us advance international antiwar struggles! Fight together with the JRCL-RMF! (November 26th) Contact: 525-3 Waseda-tsurumaki-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0041, Japan Fax: +81-3-5273-2351, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tel: +81-3-3207-1261. http://www.jrcl.org/
