From: batcom-AT-ibrp.org
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:43:22 +0100
Subject: Re: AUT: Not Oil, But Dollars vs. Euros  ??


<italic><color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>This is the IBRP's reply to the question (it's distributed at the demo 
in UK, in Canada and Usa where we are present.


<center><bold></italic><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger>Not with Saddam, not with 
Bush, not with Europe!</center>

<italic><smaller><smaller><smaller><smaller>Workers!

<flushboth></italic></bold><smaller>Only the politicians=92 and media=92s hypocritical propaganda could 
pretend that the reasons for the present attack on Iraq are 
Saddam=92s arms or his dictatorial and bloody regime.</flushboth>

<flushboth>In reality, the American bourgeoisie wants to secure for itself 
control over the oil of Iraq, which has the richest deposits in the 
world, after those of Saudi Arabia. It needs this to continue to 
reap the enormous and parasitic financial income it derives from 
the use of the dollar for trading oil.</flushboth>

<flushboth>The true enemy of the USA is not poor Iraq with its dictator, 
which is no worse than those still protected by the USA; the real 
enemy is the euro, which is dangerously undermining the 
absolute hegemony of the dollar.</flushboth>

<flushboth>The European bourgeoisie, reunited around the euro, has not yet 
constituted itself as a politically and militarily unitary section, and 
is finding it difficult to recognise its common interest. The 
divisions in the European camp are derived from this. On the 
one hand are those who line up with the =93Atlantic=94 Ally, on the 
basis of the former anti-Soviet alliance =97 because they are 
financially linked to the destiny of the oil/dollar pairing =97 on the 
other are those who, instead, are immediately interested in the 
fate of Europe and the euro, and actively opposed the anti-
European designs of the USA.</flushboth>

<flushboth>There remains the fact that =97 once again, as always =97 a war 
has broken out on the basis of the clash of imperialist interests. 
In the financial, commercial and economic clash between the 
two sides of the Atlantic, it doesn=92t matter to the capitalist class 
that, although formally a little dictator as local and bloody as 
Saddam is being crushed, in reality it is the whole people of a 
country of the capitalist periphery which is being crushed.</flushboth>

<flushboth>And it is also a fact that when the crisis of the capitalist economy 
bites and pushes the powers towards confrontation, the 
international institutions officially responsible for the preservation 
of peace (UN) collapse, leaving those who have faith in them to 
=93resolve conflict=94, disillusioned.</flushboth>

<bold><italic><bigger><bigger>Workers

<flushboth></italic></bold><smaller><smaller>The fractions of the capitalist class are lining up or starting to line 
up on the basis of their interests or what they believe are their 
interests and =97 as always =97 they are getting ready to draw the 
proletariat behind them. For example, the majority of the 
parliamentary =93left=94 and their movements (wide parts of the anti-
globalisation movement) refer to a Europe of human rights and 
social values, opposed to American individualism. In this way 
they try to make us forget that this is the Europe which =97 with 
regard to =93social values=94 =97 has cut, and is insistently demanding 
more cuts in, pensions (the fake "reform" of the provision for the 
old); it is the same Europe which has already sacked millions of 
workers and today is pressing to even further reduce wage 
labour to a commodity which is used and thrown away, by 
progressively eroding job security in a devastating fashion.</flushboth>

<flushboth>Thus, the biggest danger which is emerging for the proletariat is 
the new nationalism, European nationalism, capable of dragging 
workers into the acceptance of the collision in war, which is 
today being prepared by events, between the great powers of 
the capitalist world. It is almost certain that many parts of the 
present pacifist movement will shift to European nationalism in 
Europe, and to American nationalism in the US, etc.</flushboth>


<flushboth>But, it is not certain that the working class will find itself doing 
the same thing.</flushboth>


<flushboth>The current strikes against the war against Iraq must be repeated 
in future war adventures, which will inevitably be produced by 
the gravity and bitterness of the world capitalist crisis. These 
strikes can and must be the premise for other workers=92 initiatives 
against the wars of the capitalist class, direct and indirect.</flushboth>


<flushboth>We cannot continue to allow the capitalist class, through its 
governments, of whatever stripe, and the unions which always 
support it, to attack with impunity our wages and conditions of 
work, at the same time as calling us to support its institutions and 
wars. All workers=92 self-defence, outside of and against the 
unions=92 logic of compatibility with capitalism, is a part of the 
concrete opposition of the proletariat against the capitalists=92 war 
plans.</flushboth>


<flushboth><bold>The way to fight war is to break the social peace!</flushboth>

<paraindent><param>out</param><italic></bold>The International Bureau for the Revolutionary Party</paraindent>

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