From: "Battaglia comunista" <batcom-AT-ibrp.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 17:16:00 +0200
Subject: AUT: The American Internationalists on the war


United They Stand

The US bourgeoisie seem to have reinvented the United Front. 
Ironically the slogan now is “united we stand” . Clearly the attack 
gives US imperialism an enormous advantage in the world. Any 
country not supporting the US will be an enemy of the US forcing 
every power to take sides. The clearest and most recent parallel 
was the apartment bombings in Russia that allowed the Russian 
government to continue pursuing its war in the Caucasus. The re-
carving of the world by the Imperialist powers can only accelerate. 
This looks like it will favor the US once again. Now the military 
muscle of US capital will surround the Oil rich regions of Central 
Asia in a belt extending from Turkey to Pakistan.

In the eighties Dan Rather as the anchor of CBS evening news 
broadcasting live from the mountains of Afghanistan proclaimed 
today’s terrorists to be great freedom fighters against 
“Communism”. At the start of the Soviet war in Afghanistan there 
was no end to the speculation of the media pundits concerning 
imagined scenarios of a third world war starting in the Persian Gulf 
region or Central Asia. The main focal point of imperialist ambitions 
in the world the main change is the collapse of the Soviet Union. 

During the War on Iraq the US was not nearly “united” as it is 
today. The ideological mobilization of the proletariat is far more 
complete than it has been in decades. Only a handful of the 
pacifists of the bourgeois left are even whimpering about “justice” 
and “alternatives to violence”. 

Say the news blackout is almost complete. All the media, 
newspapers, television, radio and internet are devoid of information 
about this new war. The leader placed on the throne of Washington 
by the Supreme Court by the bourgeoisie issues these bizarre 
prerecorded statements on the television. Often with only a picture 
of his head in front of a flag showing. He is never allowed to say 
any more than a few sentences. It is fitting that this war against an 
amorphous enemy  (any power not in the US camp), be declared 
by a hand puppet (the hand puppet Bush), that the “Defense 
Department” couldn’t defend itself or the very symbol of US 
dominance in world trade be reduced to a smoking hole in the 
ground. The horror of this attack is only a taste of the horror that 
capitalism has in store for humanity. Now the US bourgeoisie is 
free to indiscriminately slaughter millions of human beings 
anywhere it wants.

The Internationalists of the IBRP in US
Battaglia comunista
Organo del partito Comunista Internazionalista
cas.post 1753, 20101 Milano, Italia
www.ibrp.org, www.internazionalisti.org


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