The U.S.-Led Aggressors Will Not Go Unpunished!
Committee of
the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
The U.S.
together with the British and French imperialists and a motley collection
of their bootlickers have just finished at least one phase of their
bloodthirsty aggression against Iraq. With their powerful propaganda
machine and media supremacy, they are shamefully boasting of a "glorious
victory" in a "clean war" with "unprecedentedly
low casualties". But already the whole world knows there was
neither "glorious victory" nor a "clean war"
nor "low casualties". In fact, more than a war it was
a one-sided massacre, an invasion of a much weaker oppressed country
with a population of only 18 million, carried out by all the Western
imperialists together (with three in the front and the rest in the
rear). These powers control most of the world's riches and possess
the most advanced technology and have a huge population of 350 million
(just counting the U.S., Britain and France and leaving aside the
other imperialists and their lackeys). Their war was mainly an uninterrupted,
cowardly bombing of unparalleled intensity from the safe distance
of the sky. But in the dictionary of the imperialists, "casualties"
means only soldiers or citizens from their own countries. These
reactionaries do not count the Iraqi people massacred as casualties,
even though the dead number in the tens of thousands.
In the
name of liberating Kuwait, they have occupied a vast oil-producing
region of Iraq, and they are pressing and manoeuvering to further
enslave the Iraqis, the Arabs and all the people of the Middle East.
Meanwhile,
the U.S. imperialists are trying to use the opportunity and re-write
the history and memory of their humiliating defeat in Vietnam. These
enemies of the world's people want to send a message that any opposition
to U.S. domination will be met with extreme brutality. This is an
essential part of Bush's dream of a "new world order".
The war
has also unmasked the vicious hypocritical face of the Soviet social-imperialists.
In siding with the U.S.-led aggression, the Soviets pursued their
own imperialist interests. The Maoists of the world have been pointing
out the true nature of the USSR for over 30 years since the restoration
of capitalism in that country.
In this
war, Saddam Hussein talked big but surrendered without putting up
a real fight. This capitulation corresponds to the class character
of the Iraqi regime, which represents the comprador-bureaucrat bourgeoisie.
Once again it has been proved that these reactionary classes and
their leadership are completely incapable of standing up for the
just cause of the people. As we said in our statement of 27 December
1990: "Throughout the Middle East and the Arab world millions
of people are hoping that the Iraqi regime will deal serious blows
to U.S. imperialism if it attacks, and the revolutionary communists
completely understand these sentiments. But the hopes of the people
are likely to be dashed once again." So long as the people
have not taken matters into their own hands and developed their
own leadership there always will be people like Saddam Hussein who
blow a lot of hot air but wind up capitulating or being defeated
-- as has happened so many times in the past. No matter how many
modern tanks, planes and missiles may be in the hands of a comprador
state, it won't help the people to win their liberation. As Mao
Tsetung said, "Without a people's army the people have nothing."
Around
the world, the masses waged a sharp struggle to oppose and resist
imperialist aggression in the Gulf even before the outbreak of the
war. This was true not only in the Arab countries but in many oppressed
countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America and in the imperialist
countries too, including the U.S. itself. Now it is important and
necessary to widen and deepen this international solidarity of the
world's masses. This is especially true because the U.S. imperialists
are preparing to expand their military presence in many places and
to directly intevene in other oppressed countries. The people must
be particularly on guard to oppose further intervention against
the advancing people's war in Peru led by the Maoist Communist Party
of Peru.
The oppressed
masses must cast away all illusions of any short-cut on the road
to liberation and victory. As the enemy is powerful, the road is
protracted and the cost will be high. The only correct solution
for the liberation of the masses of the oppressed countries is to
wage a protracted people's war, relying upon the masses and based
mainly in the countryside, to go from weak to strong while destroying
the enemy bit by bit, applying the principle of self-reliance and
hard struggle. These are lessons summed up by Mao Tsetung. In carrying
out this line, the masses need the correct leadership of the party
of the proletariat which is based on the scientific ideology of
Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought. The Revolutionary Internationalist
Movement calls upon the revolutionaries around the world, especially
those of the Arab countries and the Middle East, to grasp and develop
the correct strategy of revolution based on this science and ideology
and to build parties of the proletariat.
However
mighty the imperialists might appear, with all their high technology
and "smart bombs", they are not invincible as they now
claim to be. The U.S. imperialists have been defeated before and
they can be defeated today. In this new stage of U.S.-led aggression
in the Gulf, the masses all over the world should continue their
struggle. We affirm anew our call to the peoples of the Arab world
and Middle East to "Drown the U.S. Invaders in a Sea of People's
War!"
3 March 1991
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