Victory to the Iraqis over U.S. imperialism!
Working people have the power to end the bloodshed
The hope that a U.S.-led war of mass destruction against Iraq could be
averted has evaporated like a water droplet in the Saudi desert. Over
the protest of millions of people here, in the U.S. and around the
world, Bush, Blair, Howard and Co. are at this moment murdering their
way to Baghdad with the intention of imposing a military occupation that
could last years.
So much for the niceties of multilateralism and UN resolutions. Goodbye
to the fiction that the Howard Government, pursuing "an independent
foreign policy," had not made a decision to commit troops to a U.S. led
war. Gone is the misconception that support for human rights and
oppressed minorities in the Middle East determine U.S. policy. U.S.
backing for Israel's war of extermination against Palestinians shows
exactly how little its supposed concern for Iraqi Kurds means.
The naked truth is that major corporations and their arrogant servants
in government are not bound by laws or decency to do anything that does
not please them and serve their interests. And it pleases them now to
invade Iraq, enslave its people, steal their oil, and set up another
military outpost in the Middle East -- just as it once pleased them to
arm Hussein against Islamic revolutionaries in Iran.
So how is it that replacing this former ally through the genocidal
bombing of Iraq's people has become the most urgent task of the Bush regime?
Bush is spurred by economic necessity. The intractable problem of
capitalism is the chronic overproduction of goods resulting in
recession: global markets evaporating, millions of workers unemployed --
and profits in jeopardy. For Bush, who believes that even modest
government support for welfare programs is creeping socialism, war is
the only solution.
The Iraqi people are being annihilated so that Halliburton, the energy
company Dick Cheney headed, and thousands of other corporations can
invest profitably in rebuilding Iraq and replacing the immense amount of
military hardware that will be blown up in this conflagration. Where
this U.S. drive for world economic and political hegemony will end, no
one knows. The Syrians, Libyans, North Koreans, Colombians, Ecuadorians,
or Venezuelans could be next in line.
It violates every notion of sovereignty and self-determination for the
U.S. government to consider "regime change" as its privilege to impose.
It is the obligation of antiwar activists around the world to uphold
Iraq's right to self-defense against the neocolonial army of the U.S.
and its allies and the right of Iraqis to take care of Hussein
themselves. The actions of working people -- especially in the U.S.,
Britain and Australia -- through protests and work stoppages -- can and
will make a difference in the days ahead. "Bring the troops home now!"
is the rallying cry of those who know this is an unjust war.
Issued by: Freedom Socialist Party
Solidarity Salon: 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick Vic 3056 AUSTRALIA
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