Sunday, April 30, 2017

MESSAGE OF TRADE UNIONS AGAINST THE IMPERIALIST WAR

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MESSAGE OF TRADE UNIONS AND TRADE UNIONISTS.

AGAINST THE IMPERIALIST WAR.

With the workers of all countries, for a world without exploitation, wars, and refugees.

This 1^st of May we are in the eye of the imperialist storm. The outbreaks of armed conflicts are spreading through from Ukraine to the Black Sea, the Balkans, the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and North Africa.

Powerful forces are involved in the competitions, such as the United States, the EU, Russia with the active participations of the governments of our countries in for the control of oil, natural gas, the roads of energy transfer, markets, in the interest of the monopoly groups.

The war in Syria, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and turned millions of others into refugees, is the result of intra-imperialist competitions, a multiform imperialist intervention. It shows how capitalism, which increases the wealth for a “handful” of exploiters, at the same time, it creates crisis, social problems, war, refugees, with devastating consequences for millions of workers.

The imperialists divide the world with the blood of the people; they create nationalist rivalries among the peoples.

The Balkans have experienced the bloody and destructive dissolution of countries by imperialist war, the change of borders.

NATO army and fleet spread over from the Baltic to the Balkans, the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean, defending the interests of this “alliance of wolves”, the interests of its monopolies in the area against their competitors.

The all-out attack which condemns the working classes in every country in unemployment, poverty and misery, is the one side of the coin of class policy.

The other side is the unfair imperialist war, which they wage in the interests of large monopoly groups.

Faced with the possibility of a widespread military conflict in our region, we build a wall of protection for the working class of our countries, for our people, in joint action and solidarity between the peoples and with the Trade Unions in the first line of this fight.

We fight for all of our rights, demanding the satisfaction of the contemporary needs of working-class families. We are fighting against exploitation and against our exploiters.

This fight is inextricably connected with the fight against any participation of our countries in the war prepared by our exploiters with their power, their governments and their alliances with USA – NATO – EU, against the workers in other countries.

The bourgeoisie promotes their class interest for profits as “national interest” both in times of “peace” and war.

We will not bleed for their profits; we will not become meat in their cannons.

There is nothing to divide among the working classes of other countries, among other people. On the contrary, we are united by the common interest of fighting for a life without riches and poverty, without bosses, this is the life that belongs to us.

That is why we are fighting for:

• No involvement in the imperialist interventions and wars outside the borders. No involvement in the slaughterhouses of NATO and the EU.
• Closure of all foreign military bases. NATO Out from the Aegean Sea and the Balkans.
• No involvement in any capitalist political-military alliance.
• Against the change of borders and the change of treaties that guarantee them.
• Against the abolition of trade unions rights and other freedoms.
• We say no to war expenditure for military action outside the borders, we demand funding to satisfy the needs of the working class, of workers’ families.
• Against nationalism, racism, chauvinism.
• Solidarity with refugees, migrants, solidarity to all people.

We Do Not Stand Behind The Foreign And Hostile To Us Flag Of The Capitalists And Their Allies. We Raise The Flag Of The Interests Of The Working Class.

We Are Fighting Against The Unjust Wars, To Eliminate What Causes Them.

Solidarity Is The Weapon Of Peoples.

Currently signed by:

PAME- Greece

Nakliyat Is – Turkey

Sosyal Is – Turkey

Birlesik Metal Is – Turkey

Autonomous Trade Union of Employees in Agriculture, Food, Tobacco Industry – Serbia 

SLOGA – Serbia

GFTU –Syria

WUCP – Palestine

Left Bloc – Austria

Cyprus – KTOEOS

USB – Italy

SGB – Italy

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Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Party of Communists, USA: Statement of the PCUSA Peace and Solidarity Commission on Global War

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Statement of the PCUSA Peace and Solidarity Commission on Global War.

US imperialist aggression and military preparations throughout the world are solely menacing an imminent outbreak of WWIII. All its desperate confrontational maneuvers in every embroiled theatre, whether through a growing number of European states to threaten the Russian Federation, or in Syria, Iraq or Yemen, on the Korean Peninsula or in the South China Sea threatening China, are toward that unified (rationally unthinkable) strategic objective.

US provocative actions globally are one in purpose; they are not at all comprehensible as interventions in separate conflicts. US disturbance in other countries is posed conjunction with its major front, NATO, through US inspired neo-Nazi movements in several European countries (notably the Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, and Romania); with its highly reactionary regional vassal states in Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the Persian Gulf principalities), with its subordinates in Asia (Japan, South Korea, and Australia); by its promotion of civil unrest in Latin America (prominently in Venezuela at the moment); and by its rapidly increasing militarization of the Artic in conjunction with its servant Canada.

US military and political involvement raising protracted regional tensions has instigated violent crises in several countries in both hemispheres, whether by wars of indirect or direct aggression or subterfuge. Intervention is simply an empty pretext: it is not predicated on independent or pre-existing civil conflicts in other countries or propagandistically imagined threats to the peace of the world by other states. Neo-Nazi movements in Europe would not exist without US organization and funding for previously suppressed and dispersed criminal elements in those societies. There is no civil war in Syria, inherently a stable, secular society and republic, not divided ethnically or religiously. The war there is one of indirect aggression on the part of the US since 2011 through brutally barbaric foreign mercenary terrorists, not Syrian rebels, from over 80 countries, ostensibly seeking to impose a theocratic autocracy but serving as a purely invented rationale for intended US-Saudi-Turkish partition of Syria. Indirect aggression and the pursuit of pretext for intervention leads of false flag operations, such as the sarin gas attack in Syria in 2013 and the currently alleged sarin gas attack in that country, when the known supplies for sarin gas to US-backed terrorist elements in Syria is coming from NATO through Turkey. The struggle in Yemen is not one of an Iran allied Houthi minority posing a threat against a US ally, the Absolute Monarchy of Saudi Arabia, but the opposite: a national resistance struggle of all popular democratic forces in Yemen against US-Saudi imperialist aggression. Oppositional elements in Venezuela are being directly organized and funded by the US, which would otherwise have no power to disturb the political order of that popular Bolivarian state. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, seeking only to defend itself from constant US threats for its destruction throughout its existence after an artificially US imposed partition empowering Japanese collaborationists among Korean capitalists and landlords against the unified Korean anti-imperialist resistance, is being demonized absurdly as if a representing a threat of global aggression. All conflicts threatening the peace of the world today have been instigated or contrived by US imperialism, which are being resisted at national levels by popular and progressive forces in the different forms confronted.

The political style of US aggression, whether conducted at the sole initiative of the presidency or with the consent of the Congress (by either declarations of war or authorizations for the use of force), is not the issue: US imperialist designs now threatening WWIII are. The constitutional question is a serious misdirection of the US peace movement. From 1812, the Congress of the United States has overwhelming supported all US wars, whether apparently defensive or aggressive. The US Congress today is fully behind all current US wars of indirect aggression and of military strike build-up throughout the world. Formal declarations of war or stronger resolutions of authorization will only give the appearance of popular support for continued and intensified aggression that does not exist and provide a pretext for treating opposition as treasonous, as is already occurring within the government under the anti-Russia hysteria generated during and since the 2016 US presidential elections.

What needs urgently to be done as a first step to stop US imperialist aggression in the world is the illegalization by the General Assembly of the United Nations of all wars of indirect aggression, as the Soviet representative to the League of Nations, Maxim Litvinov, appealed for prior to WWII but failed to achieve, and of any moves outside the UN framework to disarm other states. The Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Party of Communists, USA, calls on all domestic peace and anti-imperialist organizations to support the illegalization in international law of wars of indirect aggression and to support universal disarmament by negotiations under multilateral treaties (the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in particular), and the illegalization of any show of force by one state to compel other states to disarm.

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Tyrant Trump Romps: Rest of the World Aghast at Unprecedented US Brutality

by James Thompson

The bourgeois tyrant Trump has already distinguished himself in his brief period in the Oval Office as one of the most notorious tyrants in US history. Barely 3 months in office and he is already responding to imagined threats to the USA with deadly bombs. A few days after a deadly chemical attack, tyrant Trump unleashed 59 Tomahawk missiles on a Syrian Air Force Base without any substantial evidence that this Air Force Base perpetrated the chemical attack.

The Syrian government and the Russian government have denied that the Syrian government was responsible for the chemical attack. One must ask what could be the benefit of launching a chemical attack on its own citizens if the government of Syria denies that they were responsible for the attack.

We must remember that the Syrian army was making advances on the terrorists in Syria prior to the attack. President Assad, hated by the US bourgeois media, categorically denied his government’s involvement in the criminal chemical attack.

Who benefited from the chemical attack? Undoubtedly, tyrant Trump, his cronies and the massive munitions industry in the USA, benefited from the deadly, brutal, unprovoked chemical attack on innocent people in Syria.

Without a thorough, unbiased, scientific investigation of the chemical attack, tyrant Trump launched a brutal attack on a Syrian Air Force Base known to heroically fight the criminal puppets of the USA known commonly as ISIS. 59 tomahawk missiles at a cost of $1 million per missile were launched and a great deal of concrete was demolished. Syrians were terrorized as well as many other people in the Middle East.

Not even a week later tyrant Trump authorized a MOAB drop on Afghanistan. The US MOAB is the closest conventional weapon to a nuclear weapon to date. When dropped, it sucks up all the oxygen and sets the air on fire, resulting in the death of all humans in the area. This drop resulted in the deaths of an insignificant number of ISIS members according to the US bourgeois media. The MOAB cost $16 million.

Meanwhile, tyrant Trump has dispatched an unknown number of U.S. Navy attack vessels to the Korean Peninsula to show the socialist country who is boss. North Korea has an unknown number of nuclear weapons. They have not threatened the mainland of the USA. They have loudly stated that they are a sovereign nation and are entitled to defend themselves against US aggression.

Tyrant Trump is effectively seeking to ignite the world on fire through his brutal and provocative action. No one knows where Trump’s reckless behavior will lead.

We do know that there is no overwhelming opposition from the working class in the USA against USA military intervention in either Syria or North Korea. Will Trump continue to romp or will the world working class rise up to oppose the brutality of the bourgeoisie against the working class as led by tyrant Trump?

by Darrell Rankin
The NDP statement on Trump’s criminal attack on Syria

The NDP, Canada’s social democratic party, has complete faith in the outstanding US intelligence agents who say that Syria’s government gassed its own citizens, just when Syria was on the verge of defeating the terrorists. 
“Assad must be held accountable for these crimes,” says the NDP.
The NDP must have information that US intelligence is more reliable compared to 2003 when it made a mistake about Iraq having chemical weapons.
The NDP adds that it supports international law and “a lasting political solution.”
Details please, about some political solutions?
Does it include a stop to the West training and arming the terrorists? Does it include condemning the latest criminal Western aggression, rather than saying “it is not clear what the impact of these missile strikes will be”?
Evading these questions will get the NDP nowhere.

by Darrell Rankin