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Rise Up Against Imperialism's
War of Aggression!
By the
Union of Iran Communists (Sarbedaran)
The aggressor Yankees, with the help of their European allies,
regional lackeys and their attack dog Israel, have unleashed an
immense mass murder under the guise of the "liberation of Kuwait".
They have come in order to drive the masses of Palestine, the whole
Arab world and the Middle East to their knees through bloody suppression.
In the past several days they have rained tens of thousands of bombs
down on Iraqi cities and villages and have piled up huge amounts
of armament in their stock in order to be able to carry out even
more mass murder. More than half a million armed mercenaries led
by the U.S. are now carrying out these actions. The scenes of their
crimes being broadcast live to the world are disgusting and hateful.
Professional murderers appear on the TV screen and joyfully tell
of "lighting up" Baghdad with their bombs and missiles.
In order to throw cold water on the anger of the masses, Bush, Mitterrand,
Major and other heads of the Western allies appear on TV and say
that they are "praying for the safety of the people of Iraq"(!).
The Soviet social-imperialists, who are busy riding their tanks
through the Baltics and butchering the people over there, once again
announce their support for "international law and order"
and the decisions of the United Nations. The Secretary-General of
the United Nations Company is "sorry" that nothing can
be done and sheds crocodile tears.
In another corner, the heads of the Islamic Republic regime jump
up and down and announce: "we are neutral"(!). They are
promoting themselves as the regional gendarme of imperialism. On
the one hand, they assure their masters that, "We are in full
agreement with the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council";
on the other hand they are trying to convince the angry masses --
who are following the events of the war carefully and anxiously
-- that they also should stay "neutral"; ie, they should
not rise in support of the Iraqi masses whose blood is being shed
by the imperialists and they should not challenge the U.S. and its
allies. They try to convince the peoples of Iran to stay "neutral"
in the face of an important event that will have a serious impact
on the global alignment of forces and on the relative strength of
revolution and counter-revolution in the coming period. In fact,
they want the masses to turn a blind eye and let the imperialist
powers and the reactionaries decide the fate of the masses of this
region for many more decades. The Islamic regime is well aware that
the instant our peoples decide not to stay "neutral",
the flames of their wrath and anti-imperialist struggles will rise
high and aim principally at the main expression and representative
of the imperialist system in Iran -- ie, this same reactionary regime.
That is why the officials of the Islamic Republic crawl to the courts
of the imperialist powers, weeping that they "are afraid of
the war" and begging them to "establish political stability
in the whole region".
The current events have evaporated like smoke the false dreams
of "establishing peace and stability" in the world. All
of the imperialist states, which up until a few months ago were
lecturing their citizens about their ardent love of peace and were
promising them that the post-"Cold War" era would be one
of peace, are now rattling sabres and barking chauvinist hymns.
We declare that there will definitely be no peace -- neither for
them, nor for us. We must rise up and declare to these criminal
oppressors and their hellish system that they are the source of
all war, aggression, and plunder and misery and we are destined
to liberate the world from their shackles. Everybody should also
know that these big gangsters do not have any right to punish the
smaller ones -- they themselves must be punished by the peoples
of the world for the many crimes they have committed, such as in
Hiroshima, Vietnam, Algeria, Afghanistan, etc.
The imperialist and reactionary powers can be defeated and destroyed;
we should recognise the path to victory and set out on it. Even
though the military arsenal of these murderers they arrogantly show
off to the masses is deadly and devastating, ultimately, in the
face of people's war, it is just a heap of metal. The imperialists
are well aware of their weaknesses and are afraid of mass upsurges
-- even within their own base countries they had to put away their
"freedom-loving" masks and show their claws and teeth
to the masses. The Yankees and their allies are openly censuring
the news of the war in order to keep secret the real extent of their
mass murder as well as their own defeats and casualties. Their defence
ministries have warned and threatened all reporters not to report
"news in conflict with the national interests". French
imperialism outlawed anti-war demonstrations; in the US -- the flag-bearer
of "Democracy" -- internment camps have been set up for
thousands of anti-war protesters. The interior ministries of the
European Community organised an emergency meeting to deal with mass
upsurges.
The response of the rebellious masses to these repressive measures
has given a glimpse of the numerous troubles that have gripped the
imperialists -- and more will come. In the "United States of
Aggression" itself there are many clashes, flag burnings and
much struggle. In Europe, the progressive and anti-system strata
have waged angry protests against the crimes of the imperialist
rulers. In the North African countries, violent clashes between
the masses and government forces have increased, and the economic
and diplomatic centres of the imperialists are at risk. In Pakistan,
Bangladesh and India, the largest anti-imperialist protests of recent
years have burst out and put the U.S. dependent forces in those
countries on the run. Turkey is pregnant with explosive events.
In South Africa, so far, dozens of black militants protesting against
imperialist military aggression have been arrested. The situation
in the Phillipines and S. Korea is turbulent. Latin America can
become a violent scene of anti-Yankee imperialist struggles. This
war of aggression met broad opposition even before it started. Indeed,
with every criminal step the imperialists teach the masses to hate
them and in fact dig their own grave deeper. They prove again and
again that imperialism cannot be reformed and that the only way
to eliminate this infection is radical surgery.
The world is witnessing big events and many things are changing.
In the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America, the workers,
peasants and other oppressed are coming onto the scene in increasing
numbers. They want to get rid of the yoke of imperialism and reaction;
they want their national and class aspirations to be realised; they
want to straighten their backs bent by humiliation for ages; they
want to wash off the bitter memories of past defeats not with tears
but with the blood of their enemies. The masses around the world
are coming to write history with their own hands. The struggles
being waged against this imperialist war are part of this trend.
Struggles around the world should be intensified to defeat this
imperialist war of aggression and we must specifically and actively
defend the masses in the Arab world who are bound by the same chains
as we are. Such a struggle is an important step in our protracted
revolutionary battle to rip apart the web of imperialist domination
of the world and overthrow all the reactionaries and guardians of
the old order.
We Will Drown
the Imperialist Aggressors and their Lackeys in a Sea of People's
War!
19 January
1991
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