No US bombing anywhere! Stop US intervention!
Extracts from statement by US Socialist Action
The government that spends trillions on war, that has sent more troops to police the world in the interest of corporate profits than any other in human history, that has plundered and ruined the economies of countless underdeveloped countries is again preparing for war.
The inexcusable and horrific terror bombing of New York and Washington, D.C. which took the lives of thousands of innocent people and brought untold grief and suffering to their loved ones, serves as the justification for a Congressional declaration of war against unnamed nations and individuals.
The whole world is threatened with military intervention, bombing and individual assassination if nations refuse to bend to U.S. demands to turn over unnamed individuals, groups and "suspects" who the U.S. proposes, in violation of international law, to obliterate without recourse to democratic process.
A poisoned media and warmongering bipartisan Congress fuels the flames of racism, leading to mounting attacks on American Arabs and Muslims as well as all those who, in the racist mind, resemble people of the Middle East and Asia.
Today, we are witness to a president proclaiming the U.S. the bastion of freedom in a world that has been subject to inhuman, illegal, genocidal, and terrorist acts at U.S. government hands.
And today, the world’s self-appointed cops prepare for new measures against the poor people of the world in the name of fighting terrorism, of which the U.S. rulers are themselves the chief practitioners.
American working people and their allies among all the oppressed and exploited, the youth and all others who cherish justice must now prepare to oppose U.S. militarism and intervention everywhere.
The organisation of broad-based united front mass demonstrations to stop the warmongers must be the top priority of all who struggle for social justice.
We must stand united against the threat of frame-up trials and attacks on our right to due process, the right to assemble, the right to the presumption of innocence, the right against arbitrary search and seizure, and the right to free speech and association.
Today’s witch hunters propose to resort to wiretapping, government informers and agents, plus additional thousands of La Migra border patrols and other police measures in violation of fundamental human and democratic rights.
The bully President Bush has declared war, demanding that the person he describes only as the "suspected" perpetrator, Osama bin Laden, be delivered to the U.S. "dead or alive." Any country that refuses to aid the "crusade" is presumably to be labelled the enemy, and then bombed and destroyed at will.
History’s tragic irony records that bin Laden himself was among the stable of CIA-trained and financed operatives when it suited imperialist ends.
We can and will survive these troubled times with dignity and rights intact, but only by standing together against the hatemongers.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observed shortly before his murder that "The U.S. is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world." It is this violence and terror that has produced the handful of fanatics today who blindly and in opposition to the interests of all the world’s people replicate on an infinitely smaller scale the deeds of yesterday’s brutal and racist colonisers and today’s world powers.
The terror, war and barbarism inherent in globalising world capitalism will not be ended until the world’s people unite to build a new social order where human solidarity, love, economic, political and social association for the common good, replace the rampaging horses of the capitalist apocalypse – war, racism, sexism, poverty, hunger and disease.
The answer to terrorism lies in building a world free of oppression and war, in a society that champions human life and solidarity as opposed to capitalist barbarism. Socialism is the name of that society!