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Empire in Turmoil, People in Motion
In the two years since the US imperialists launched their campaign
to make the twenty-first century the "new American century",
they have dramatically escalated military spending, positioned tens
of thousands of troops in a dozen new countries, invaded and occupied
Afghanistan and intensified repression at home and around the world.
In Iraq, the US carried out its most savage war since Vietnam. 150,000
US and British troops now occupy Iraq. This section of AWTW on Empire
in Turmoil, People in Motion contains an analysis of US policy that
not only strips away imperialist rhetoric to reveal their real agenda,
but also shows how the same compulsions that have launched the imperialists
on their grab for unprecedented power are also awakening millions
to political life and creating more favourable conditions for revolution.
Another article examines the particular situation of Turkey and
Kurdistan in the cauldron of war, and warns that by linking up with
the imperialist war machine in an effort to get a share of the spoils
of war, what some nationalist leaders are advancing is not national
liberation but national capitulation. The world’s Marxist-Leninist-Maoist
forces must seize on the boiling anger at the imperialists’ crimes
and advance the revolutionary cause amidst the intensifying swirl
of contradictions. A document from the RIM Committee, originally
an internal circular letter to RIM parties and organisations, calls
on the communists to grasp the full impact of the moment and act
upon it.
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