Declaration of the Revolutionary Communist League (Matzpen) on 23/8/90 which are hidden behind its warlike state- eastward to Jordan by means of mass transfer. Page 7 Jewish masses, whom it pretends to represent. smokescreen of the war capitalist government intends denounce Gulf war Behind the derous policies. come, the represents. drive After half a year of fanning the flames of managers, the generals, settlers and the leaders Hussein is an empty one, to prove with its serious crisis in Israeli society, since this war solve the housing problem with permanent cause of the rise in mortgages and the price of war against Iraq, the government of the capitalists, the government of the factory of the Histadrut is now trying to calm the They explain that the threat of Saddam tive, and to avoid the distribution of gas masks and equipment for defence against gas to the population which it itself has brought to a state What is hidden behind this two-faced policy? When this government frightened the Israeli masses with horror stories about Sad- dam Hussein's ability and desire to annihilate • To solve through a terrible war the could decrease the number of unemployed and • To distract the thoughts of the masses from their real distress - the worsening un- are 'experts' that the Iraqi masses are not effec- thrown out of their homes onto the street be- employment, salaried employees who them, it had a number of goals in mind: neighbourhoods of graves. of anxiety and confusion. SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 28, November 1990 draw out the reasons why it is in the interests of working people to oppose the Gulf war. Reaching out to working-class women will be particularly important in this respect. We can- not rely on a moralistic and abstract appeal like that emanating from leading sections of Socialists must also understand that at the present time we will have to work with people who do have illusions in the UN and who even support sanctions. Political disagreement on these questions must not become a barrier We should be supporting all initiatives against the war, particularly those that are seeking to unite anti-war forces like the initia- tive of London National Union of Students on 31 October. We should be building the nation- al demonstration called by CND on 24 November and we should support the building of a women's contingent on that march being We have to put pressure on both the Com- mittee and the Campaign arguing for a united and democratic anti-war movement. Local campaigns, unions and other labour movement bodies should affiliate to both, and put their names to the statement issued by CAWG that The prospect of war in the Gulf has come that socialism is dead. Nothing could be further from the truth. The historic mobilisations of organised by Women Against War in the Gulf. being told to unity in action against the war drive. Unity in action at a time when we are calls for such a movement. CND.
We do not agree with the occupation of Kuwait. We do not glorify the murderous tinians. All those who have joined forces in a so-called front against Iraq must realise that in that way they are supporting plans for trans- regime of Saddam Hussein and we even warn port in their struggle. But, in the face of the arrogance and the aggressiveness of American which will also ignore the rights of the Pales the Palestinians against illusions of his sup fer and annexation. Wounded Palestinian youth Is rushed to hospital after being shot by Israell border patrol derer, a crazy monster. There is truth in these When Saddam Hussein hanged the heads of the trade unions, The United States smiled revolutionists, it was treated by the US as an internal Iraqi matter, and when Saddam Hus- descriptions. The regime in Iraq is a mur- derous and violent dictatorship which sys- tematically wipes out all democratic rights. thousands of Iraqi oppositionists FEATURES quietly. When he tortured and But this is not new. quietly. When is not a war of defence, but a war for the sake We will not take part in this dirty war! We demand Bread, Work, Life and Security workers, the working people, into slaves who serve both as cannon-fodder and as a cheap The warlike politics of the Israeli govern- In the face of these war plans, a war which of transfer, annexation and cuts in our stand- work force which foreign capital can exploit. for the whole population. ards of living we declare;
imperialism, which in its defence of the the we call for opposition. We are doing this In the face of the United States attempt to create a new order in the area in a way which would continue to allow her to exploit it, in the face of a predatory American imperialism which brings death, starvation and poverty to half of the human race; we are ready to take a stand for the defence of Iraq, even when it is price of oil pretends to protect the free world, openly and with no reservations. When he tried to do what the US did in Grenada. The United States is not fighting for world, but for the profit of the American oil sein exterminated tens of thousands of Kurds by famine, gas and gunfire, the United States When was the United States called upon to protect the free world'. When the Iragi despot put forth his hand on the oil of Kuwait. the sake of democracy and defence of the free supplied him with military aid. intended to overthrow the government of • In the 'Sinai' war of 1956, there was a ment was never 'defence of our existence'. It was always used as a tool of the ruling power in the region, both against the Arab masses plot with Britain and France to attempt to • The 1967 'Six Days war' was primarily Nasser and to stop the attempt of the workers and farmers of Syria to change their social return their control over the Suez Canal. and against the Jewish masses.
The Iraqi masses - the workers and farmers - are the ones who must get rid of Saddam Hussein and all he represents. It is not up to Bush, the ambassador of the oil companies to determine who will rule in Iraq. Only the Iraqi masses themselves. The allies of the masses within Israel can only be the ex- ploited masses of the region and the whole world. Not Bush, not Shamir, not Mubarak, controlled by the disgusting despot, Saddam The hypocrisy of the Israeli government vasion of Kuwait at the same time it holds nexed Southern Lebanon, imposes a cruel oc- cupation regime on the Palestinian people, and plans to take over Jordan and 'solve' the Worst of all, in order to prepare public opinion for mass expulsion and transfer, it ad- ministers a horrible system of propoganda and knows no bounds. It spouts off about the in- portions of Syrian territory, has in fact an- Palestinian question. • The October war broke out because of If we understand these things we can also the refusal of the Israeli goverment to com- understand the change in the propaganda line promise with Egypt and Syria and to sacrifice • The 1982 Lebanese war was an abortive attempt to play the role of a local power that makes kings and appoints presidents in an Arab country - for the sake of US interests.
SOCIALIST OUTLOOK no 28, November 1990 vants, we are sounding the true cry of progressive humanity; Workers of the World From within the darkness which is falling on the region, before the danger of the bar- baric rule of the imperialists and their ser- (This statement has been slightly abridged by Socialist Outlook for reasons of space) false incitement by representing the entire Palestinian people as an enthusiastic agent of pily accepted this government incitement in both its aspects, and hide under the fig leaf of patriotism'. They have ignored the fact that the United Leadership in the territories con- demned the invasion of Kuwait, and supports Irag only in opposition to the attempts of the US to create a new order in the Middle East All the parties of the Zionist left have hap- the United states has told Israel not to mix in asset' has become a burden and an obstacle: any Israeli intervention could only destroy the The Israeli and westem newspapers have war. At the present stage of the regional crisis, seemed that the US needed Israel as a whip presented the ruler of Iraq as a Satan, a mur- of the goverment on the issue of a future and keep its mouth shut. If yesterday it against Saddam Hussein, today the 'strategic alliance between the Arab States and the US.
FEATURES Somoza and the left wing coup that ousted im- perailist stooge Gairy in Grenada marked the nadir of U.S. fortunes. high