OUTLOOK SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT to No 48. September 2001. 20p/50p NS 4K The massive terror attack on the World Trade Centre, which has killed thousands of office and other and should be condemned DUETAE Rut the war that has heen declared by the USA, and the carnage that will be unleashed by the world's only superpower in the quest for military vengeance have nothing to do with "frecdom" or "democracy". hey are a reactionai attempt to assert the right of US and world imperialism to exploit and domioppressed throughout the globe.
The political conditions which poobably created the September 11 stacks are far trom obscure. Ine perpetrators are not known at this all claims by is most likely to be a deep tatred of US imperialism generated by US forcign policy - past and present.
We share the grief of the relatives of those who have lost their lives at their place of work. The civilian victims, like the great majority of people, cannet be held responsible for the barbarous policies of their government. and US multi-national companies, imposing their will on have been the world by military force and financial power. They have been structural adjustment prooverthrowing goveraments. Subartgs the Pinochets, the Marcoses, and the Mobutus pow'er the US, who did not hesitate to CND Anti-War Demonstration London Assemble Hyde Park 12 noon slaughter their own people in the cause of US policy. Now for the first time in recent times the USA is confronted with a huge attack on its Previously this has been the fate of the Koreans, the Vietnamese, the Cambodrans, the Tragis. the Yugoslavs, the Somalis, the Nicaraguans ... you could name a dozen more. Under today's globalised economs, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and increased repression is used to keep Lac boorin tic DiaCo The mass misery which US policy - backed by the major Western powers (particunny bullamu) - Ba on the majority of the world's population has created the conditions for the new feature in Response in USA, Pakistan, Palestine - page 2 Socialist Alliance back Manchester arti-wer protest: War is not the solution: Islam is not the problem cide bomber, and now the suicide In occupied P'alestine there is no shortage of young men willing to strike a blow against the Israeli oppressor. Again, although acts. particulariy amainst civilians. cannot be supported, it is easy to see how they come about.
Palestinians are dying every das at the hands of an Israeli inac hinc backed, and bankrolled by the USA. The war criminal Sharon is who is also no longer even interested in the so-called "peace process"
In Iraq a million civilians have US-sponsored STUUAH A special 4-page supplement in response to the events since the suicide attacks on US targets on September 11 sanctions and the destruction of the infrastructure | country; including the treatment plants. Today US and British planes continue to bomb Trag on a daily basis. None of these crimes by US impetalism justifies the killing of thousands of US civilians: but they do help to explain the anger which is felt against the USA and its symThe fact is that whoever carried out the attacks in the USA, the result or all tais wil oc a new period of reaction. New political conditions more conducive global capital are oeing creatco on the back of the September 11. But one thing is sure: the result of acts of war by US imperialism in he nresent cincumstances will be to create the conditions for such acts of terror to be repeated.