A WORLD TO WIN    #16   (1991)

 

Fight Against the U.S.-Led War of Aggression Against Iraq!

By the Committee of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement

On 17th January, in the dark of night, U.S. imperialism and its allies launched a vicious and cowardly attack against Iraq. These U.S., British and French criminals, with the support of the Soviet social-imperialists and with their Israeli watchdog on alert, threw their massive and sophisticated armaments against a far weaker foe. This shameful crime cannot and will not be left unanswered.

Throughout the world, workers, peasants, revolutionary intellectuals, and all who oppose imperialist bullying and aggression support their sisters and brothers in Iraq and throughout the region in fighting back against the aggressors. Once again we call upon the people of the Arab World and the Middle East to drown the U.S. invaders in a sea of people's war. However great the sacrifices will be, only such a war based upon the masses of the people can defeat the U.S.-commanded imperialist armada.

In the imperialist countries themselves, despite an unprecedented propaganda barrage of lies and distortion by the ruling classes of these countries to justify their gangsterism, a large section of the masses have already recognized that this war of aggression is not in their interests, and outpourings of resistance to the imperialist war have taken place in all of the aggressor countries. We hail this resistance and call upon the masses in those countries to step up and intensify their struggle against this barbaric war.

While the focus of the attack is on Iraq, it is aimed at the people of Palestine, the whole Arab world and the Middle East. In fact, George Bush has nakedly declared that the real purpose of this war is to establish a "new world order" which will last one hundred years. This order is nothing other than the same old imperialist law of exploitation and plunder of the poor by the rich; aggression, interference and bullying of the weak by the strong; and domination of the whole world by the West.

But the people will never tolerate such a terrible future. Already the need for revolution cries out all over the globe. Their latest bloody massacres can only intensify the hatred of the people for this system and escalate their revolutionary struggle worldwide.

The imperialists hope that their colossal military might will mask the reactionary, putrid and fundamentally weak nature of a system which can only survive through massive terror. But they have been defeated in the past, as in Vietnam, and they can be defeated today -- just as the Communist Party of Peru has been successfully waging peoples war and is preparing to defeat the Yankee aggressors head on. Final victory will belong to imperialism's grave-diggers, the proletariat of all countries and the oppressed nations of the world.

The people of all countries have a common interest in defeating this U.S.-led war of aggression against Iraq.

17th January 1991