File spoon-archives/marxism-general.archive/marxism-general_1997/marxism-general.9711, message 162


Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 04:07:34 -0500
From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki)
Subject: M-G: COCKROACH! Notice! (Radiotime Iraq!)


This is the second draft of the radio program on Iraq
for Straightfacts radio.

Iraq!

Imperialist America and "Neutral" Sweden howl for Iraqi blood as
Imperialist rivilries heat up.

Good Evening.  This is Bob Malecki reporting for Straight Facts
somewhere in northern Scandinavia quite near the Polar Circle!

Once again the United States gun boat diplomacy has become
a center of evening national news here in Sweden. Every
night at least five minutes of national news is devoted
to the latest "crisis" in the Persian Gulf.

And it is the "neutral" but greedy little imperialist Sweden
and imperialist Britain under the Tony Blair leadershop of the "New"
Social democracy which appear along with the Americans to be sounding 
the horn for another viscious military intervention against the poor 
and working class people of Iraq! While the Germans,French and
Arab ruling classes along with the new capitalist regime of
Boris Yeltsin are opposing this new attempt of a cowboy like
gunboat operation by the Americans. The "grand" coalition from
Operation "Desert Storm" and the Gulf War is in a shambles!

In interview after interview Swedish United Nations spokesman 
and "New" Social Democratic spokesman have been, under the guise
of taking part in the UN commission, looking for weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq, are backhandedly calling for giving "Saddam" another lesson. 
Suprisingly, coming from a country which once considered itself a friend 
of countries in the third world. In fact, since the Swedes have had
a key role in leading these "inspection teams" supposedly to root
out weapons of mass destruction still in Sadam's hands the Persian
Gulf is being filled with units like the Nuclear aircraft carrier
Nimitz which carries more mass destruction weapons on its deck
then all of the countries in the middle east with the exception
of Israel!

And the Swedes are now playing the "neutral" frontman for American
Imperialist interests in the area and in fact have become slavious
followers of the so called hard line of bombing the people of Iraq
back to the stone age! They do this as part of the diplomatic
offensive directed at foremost the United States to forget the
days when Social Democratic Party leaders marched with the
North Vietnamese Stalinists, condeming and comparing the American terror
bombings of Vietnam with the Nazi's and paying lip service to solidarity
with third world countries. Today the Swedes play their cowardly
"neutral" imperialist card by howling for blood of the peoples
of Iraq. When not playing footsie with the German Imperialists.
Yes and long gone are the days of their so called "Solidarity"
with Third World countries which in reality has never been the case!

Their is a split in Swedish political parties, where the conservative party
is historically pro German and now "New" Social Democracy which is
on its knees begging for recognition by the blood thirsty American
Imperialists! Just as the past week a split on the Iraq issue comes to 
the fore between various imperialist powers and the Arab bourgeoisies
jokeying for position as inter-imperialist rivilry grows. Not to
mention the capitalist regime of Boris Yeltsin who sees the NATO
presence in Iraq coming closer and closer to the southern belly of
the former Soviet Union!

Above and beyond this Britain now appears along the Americans to be
increasingly prepared to from bases in Turkey and aircraft carriers
being shipped into the Gulf a massive attack directed not at Sadaam and
his supposedly weapons of mass destruction, but and attack which like
the preceding attacks will kill and maim tens and hundreds of thousands
of poor and working class people in Iraq!

In fact Iraq, not for its supposedly arsenal of "weapons of mass
destruction" which is just a figleaf for massmedial consumption,
has become the whipping board for all imperialists powers,rulings
classes and Arab bourgeoisie's in preparation for a new world war.
And it is hardly Sadaam Hussein who is the target, but in the first
hand the starving and sick masses of poor and working class people
in Iraq.  

There can be only one answer to this new provacation by class
concious workers and communists.

U.S and its Swedish/British frontmen Hands Off Iraq! 

U.S/U.N/NATO Out of the Persian Gulf!

Down With the Starvation Blockade of Iraq!

For Unconditional military defense of Iraq and its peoples 
against imperialist attacks and military intervention!

No confidence in imperialist and Arab "opposition"
to these attacks. 

And especially No confidence in
the United Nations and its fake human rights which
allows millions of poor and working class people in
Iraq as elsewhere starve to death for their imperialist
masters!

In fact it is hardly Sadam Hussien or Iraq the Americans or their
little imperialist partners in crime are interested in but who will
control the vast resources of oil reserves in the middle east.
And in reality is hardly a warning against Sadam Hussein but foremost
the Japanese and German imperialists of trying to get a foothold
on mideast oil! A war in the middle east would in fact bring America's
foremost imperialist rival Japan to a stop very quickly as a boat
loaded with tons of oil is loaded with destination Japan about 
every ten minutes in the Gulf. Just as German imperialist interests
would be vitally threatened by these cowboy style Americans going
in with smart bombs and missiles which could set the entire
middle east a blaze...Not to mentiom that Germany is the main
imperialist power in back of Japan who are investing big bucks in
the enormous gas reserves in Iran! In order to deal with the
Iranian Mullahs the Germans have become the main trade partner and
military backer of the Mullahs in power..

Connected to this is that the entire southern flank of the ex-Soviet 
Union which borders Iran is up for grabs, turning the whole area into
a kettle of inter-imperialist intrigues and rivilry in preparation for
the next confrontation of who will get what as the planet once again
heads towards imperialist war and a new redivsion of the imperialist booty.

This "great game" for control of the oil and gas resources of Central
Asia and the Near East, which has led to numerous wars in the past is
once again becoming the center of attention of the various imperialist
rivals. 

In fact imperialist rivilries has forced the Americans to retreat on
and immediate military intervention against Iraq. The fake United
Nations "Unity" resolution was in fact a slap in the face to the
Clinton plan to give Sadaam another lesson. The "Unity" resolution
led to that first the American contingent of the UN/inspection team
was deported and the rest of the team was pulled out by the supporters
of a direct military intervention. Causing and outcry of protest by
America's imperialist rivals and the Arab Bourgeoisie's.
And if Clinton carry's out another cowboy attack on Iraq, it will cause 
inter-imperialist rivilries to intensify. 

In this epoch of imperialist decay, the productive forces of society
strain against the boundaries of the bourgeois nation-state. This century 
has twice brought humanity devastation and ruin as imperialists clashed 
over redivision of the capitalist/imperialist pie in the sky of markets
speres of influence, greater profits and access to natural resources.

And it is the same major imperialist actors who are lining up and 
jockying for position in a new faceoff which will make the last
imperialist war look like kindergarden in relationship to "weapons
of mass destruction" and it will not be Sadaam Husien holding in
the trigger but the hypocritcal imperialist powers and their lackies
who were responsible for the two proceeding World wars! In fact the
present moralistic bickering over Sadaam is nothing other then
preparation by these people to redivide imperialist spoils under
the whip of a classical over production crisis on a shrinking world market.
And they will resort to whatever "weapons of mass destruction" they
can get their hands on in order to embriol this planet in another
bloodbath in order to continue their rule and caviar and champagne
lifestyle!

And this meant and means rivers of blood and pyramids of skulls of 
poor and workingclass people in the trenches of World War 1 and on 
the battle fields and concentration camps of World War 2 and the 
next world war! 

In the seeds of these disasters a
way out was found by the Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Lenin
and Trotsky which gave us the great October Revolution which turned the
Imperialist War into a civil war and the victory of the workers
and peasants in Russia not only over the decadent Russian Monarchy and
its ruling class, but International Imperialism in the form of both
German and British armed intervention to crush the newly formed
dictarorship of the Proletariat and workers state!

And it is this example and perspective communists must fight for not only 
in America and little Imperialist Sweden but everywhere! In the fight
to turn imperialist rivilries and war into a civil war by turning the
guns around and stating that "The main enemy is at home!" we must follow
in the footsteps of building a party along the lines of 
Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks..Because it was only the firm opposition
to National Chavinism that Lenin and Trotsky were able to lead the multi-
national proletariat to power in the October Revolution of 1917.

They did this in opposition to the Social Democratic traitors of the
Second International who as always are once again lining up with their
*own* bourgeoisie's and ruling classes. 

A revolutionary workers party in the United States or Sweden as elsewhere
can only be built though political struggle to oust the pro-capitalist labor
mis-leaders who are fueling the real danger of renewed inter-imperialist
rivilry and war by whipping up racism, protectionism and reactionary
nationalisn to white heat before the coming confrontation. Just as
they do today when howling for the blood of poor and working class
people in Iraq and whatever happens in this fake crisis created by
imperialism and its henchmen!

This Is Bob Malecki reporting for Straightfacts Radio in Sweden.
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