Oppose war and racism!
End the war on the Third World!
Two of the greatest acts of terrorism in the 20th century: East Timor and
Indonesia
For more than a decade hundreds of members of Action in Solidarity with
Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) have stood in solidarity with the peoples
of East Timor and Indonesia that faced war and repression from the US and
Australian backed army of the dictator General Suharto. In East Timor
200,000 people, or one third of the population died, as a result of the war
against the East Timorese people by General Suharto's army. General Suharto
attacked East Timor one day after US President Gerald Ford and US Secretary
of State Henry Kissinger visited Jakarta and gave the go ahead. The
Australian government followed suit, providing war equipment and training
for the slaughter. Both Liberal-National and ALP governments supported
Suharto's mass slaughter in East Timor. The British government and
companies also supplied much of the weapons and planes.
In 1965 in Indonesia, the US helped organise the mass slaughter of more
than ONE MILLION workers, peasants, students and women's activists who were
trying to free Indonesia from the exploitative grip of the West. The 1965
mass slaughter in Indonesia was one of the GREATEST ACTS OF TERROR of the
twentieth century. Guilt ridden operatives of the US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) have admitted US involvement. The Australian Liberal-National
government of the day, backed by the Australian media, trumpeted that the
slaughter was the best thing that had happened in Asia for decades. That
time the US jihad was not against Moslems but "communists", i.e., people
who were fighting for their independence from the United States economic
empire.
The hypocrisy of George W. Bush, John Howard and Kim Beazley
On September 11 in New York a group of suicide terrorists committed a
barbaric crime of hate murdering more than 7,000 innocent people. That same
day, George W Bush and his friends began their inhuman and cynical strategy
of turning this tragedy into a war. They call it the "war against
terrorism". But we don't believe that the US government and the forces it
represents, the super wealthy white elite of the US, care less about ending
terrorism. They have never done anything about it in the past and even
today, they don't even bother asking the question: why? Or what are the
causes of the recent attacks?
In any case, their hypocrisy is mind boggling, as is that of the bleating
mimics of US warmongering, John Howard and Kim Beazley. One million
slaughtered in Indonesia: the best thing that had ever happened in Asia!
200,000 dead in East Timor: Suharto was developing East Timor! The
hypocrites! Their tears for the dead in New York and Washington are
crocodile tears!
War against the Third World
The US, British and Australian governments are cynically trying to
manipulate the shock and horror of the working people of the US to create
an atmosphere where they can go on the offensive against the people of the
Third World as a whole. They want to break the growing sense of solidarity
between young people, students and workers, in the rich countries of the
world and the hundreds of millions living in sub-human conditions in the
Third World. The massive anti-neoliberal globalisation demonstrations in
Seattle, Washington, Prague, Genoa and Melbourne were demanding the
cancellation of the Third World debts and the abolition of the machines of
economic war against the Third World: the International Monetary Fund and
the World Bank.
Bush, Blair and Howard want to turn the people of the US, UK and Australia
against the people of the Third World. They are starting with the Arab and
Moslem peoples. But they will not end there. If they succeed with their
racist propaganda to convince the masses of people in the West that people
who look different, have a different cultural heritage, and come from poor,
i.e. exploited, countries are automatically terrorists and should be
suppressed, then in the end the whole of the Third World will be targeted.
Palestine
While the eyes of the peoples of the world are glued to the scenes of
mayhem in New York, the Isreali war machine has gone into a higher gear
turning many parts of Palestine into big prison camps. More deaths, more
wounded, more injustice and more crimes against freedom. The Israeli war
machine could not operate effectively without the material and financial
support of the US government. If George W Bush lives up to his warmongering
hype, soon the peoples of Afghanistan or Sudan or Libya or Syria or Iraq
may also suffer the destructive vindictiveness of the US war machine.
The activists of ASIET have stood in solidarity with the people of
Indonesia and East Timor against the US and Australian backed army of the
dictator General Suharto. ASIET still stands in solidarity with the
Indonesian, Acehnese and East Timroese people while they struggle to end
the political power of that vicious army, still armed and trained by the US
and Australia.
ASIET now stands in solidarity with the people of Palestine and the middle
east.
Solidarity, not racism.
We see the rich and powerful gather together to plan and create the world
we have today, in summit after summit: IMF meetings, World Bank
conferences, WTO meetings, CHOGM summits, G8, G7 and so on. They have
created a world where three quarters of humanity live in subhuman
conditions. Where hundreds of millions of people face starvation daily, die
in the tens of thousands of preventable diseases, live without running
water or decent sanitation, with no schooling. Moreoevr they live with NO
HOPE because the rich, white owners and power wielders of the world have
saddled these peoples with such massive debt that they are doomed to be
debt slaves for all eternity.
With such misery imposed on billions of people no wonder there are 23
million refugges from the Third World seeking a safe haven. And the same
rich white elites in the rich countries whip up racist hysteria against
refugees seeking haven from the very misery that economic war machines of
the rich have created.
On top of all this economic misery, the US meddles to create wars, impose
blockades - another layer of suffering. U.S. policy may soon bring civil
war to Pakistan as it forces that society to host the US war machine.
The Bushes and Howards of the world want to convince us that only white
people deserve to live in human conditions. Non-whites who want the same
conditions are "queue jumpers". Wait your turn for prosperity, says Hiward
and Ruddock as well as the IMF and World Bank, even if it is for eternity!
No! We say the peoples of the rich, industrialised countries have to reject
every racist act or statement; fight every attempt to use war against the
peoples of the Third World. We must work even harder to build the strongest
links with the struggling people of the Third World, in the middle east and
here in Australian imperialism's "own backyard", the Asia Pacific.
No US retaliation! No Australian support for US wars!
Reject all racism!
Free Palestine!
Solidarity with the peoples of the Asia Pacific and Third World!
Agree with this? Contact Action in Solidarity with the Indonesia and East
Timor (ASIET)
P.O. Box 458, Broadway 2007, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
02-96901230
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Join the GLOBAL REVOLT!
Join together with hundreds of activists from around Australia!
Plenaries, workshops, strategy sessions.
2nd Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference
Sydney Boys High School, March 29- April 1, 2002
50 guest speakers from Asia, Africa, the Pacific, Middle East, United
States, Europe, South America
Register now: P.O. Box 458, Broadway 2007 02-96901230
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