Take it higher!Build the struggle against this unjust war!
Despite
their overconfident posturing, the imperialists and the reactionary regimes
around the world are listening to and watching very closely what the people
opposing this unjust war are doing – how they resist, who they influence, how
public opinion is changing. As if to prove this, their police are arresting
demonstrators and violently trying to stop them, legislators are preparing new
reactionary laws like in the US itself or using emergency rule, like in the Arab
world, their politicians are scrambling to explain the murderous adventure they
try to paint as some kind of freedom crusade and their media are systematically
distorting and under-reporting the massive outpouring of resistance to it. In
short all the appendages of the state step out to play their part in this
totally unjust war of aggression against Iraq, that neither diplomatic bribery
and bargaining nor massive public opinion campaigns have managed to legitimise
in the eyes of the world’s people.
The
truth is, the US and UK rulers are badly isolated. They are isolated after their
disaster in the UN Security Council negotiations and realignment against them by
other Western powers and members. But mainly they have become isolated by the
powerful eruption of the people’s struggle throughout the globe, spanning
every continent and scores of countries. Everywhere Bush is likened to Hitler in
the international language of placards and chants, cartoons and effigies, while
US and Israeli flags burn and slogans and leaflets in a myriad of languages
expose and denounce US crimes from Afghanistan to the Philippines to the Middle
East. Cries of support to the Iraqi people and the Palestinian people, daily
facing the terror of the US’ butcher partners, Israel, are heard on streets
from San Francisco to Paris to Jakarta and throughout the Arab world. These
predators have given birth to a new generation of youth and others, fresh to
political activity, that despises their brutal war machine and the arrogance of
the imperialist rulers who have unleashed it on Iraq… they have revived the
anger and scorn of many generations already familiar with their past crimes or
who live under the boot of their vicious system every day. How many places on
the planet could Bush, Rumsfeld, Blair and Co. walk unprotected today?
This
activity has not stopped the US-UK invasion and everywhere activists are
debating whether and how it can be stopped. First of all the US rulers have an
agenda to reshape this region under their own domination, to control its
resources and tighten up regimes that will help them do this: this is not a
short-range scheme, but a long-term project of invasion and occupation that does
not hide its openly colonialist aims. The Iraqi people are only the current
victims of this grand plan.
The
people’s struggle too must be waged with a perspective that includes both
urgency and long-term aims: how will it build a movement in strength and numbers
not only to expose and resist the imperialists’ every move in this deadly game
of conquest by war, but to stop and ultimately defeat it. We must never
underestimate the power of the people’s resistance that throws a wrench into
the rulers’ death machine, both against those running the Pentagon itself or
their collaborators in the network of bourgeois and semi-feudal dictatorships in
other countries. We must oppose and actively resist the complicity of the
governments that (either willingly or by bullying and/or bribery) facilitate the
US’ aims, whether by giving access to military bases, sending troops, granting
overflight rights, closing borders to refugees, expelling unwanted diplomats or
others, or extraditing people branded as enemies and stepping up repression
against the people’s basic democratic right to oppose them.
We
must be bold, creative and courageous, finding ways to unite and appropriate
ways to take the struggle higher, to build it stronger and more tenaciously, to
unveil and resist every aspect of this colossal crime against humanity in the
making. We must rip apart their absurd tissue of lies that try to embellish or
justify their slaughter and domination and aim to confuse the hesitant. We must
take history into our hands and stop these criminals.
Iraqi
people, you are not alone!
People
of the world, unite to defeat the US-UK invasion and occupation of Iraq!
Take
the struggle higher!
Contact:
wprm@wprm.org;
web site:www.wprm.org
local contact:
[The WPRM is a growing movement open to all who genuinely oppose imperialism and support the just struggles of the people, whether in Palestine, or the Maoist-led People’s War raging in Nepal. We are currently organised mainly in Europe and South Asia and call on others to join ranks with and help build the WPRM.]