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Against Crusade & Jihad! For Class Struggle!The following is a leaflet written by some people in France and Belgium. AGAINST CRUSADE AND JIHAD ! The suicide attacks on September 11 against the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon have led to stupefaction, horror, reprobation, but also created, among some, a satisfaction mixed with joy before the spectacle of the first global power finally paying in blood, for its imperialist policy, especially in the Middle East and in Central Asia. An attack against workers and class struggle
First, let us remind all those who enjoyed the american humiliation a little bit too quickly that the authors of the attacks have objectively perpetrated a dramatic onslaught against the proletariat. A gift from heaven for Mr Bush and the American economy
In the name of patriotism, National Unity has been able, up to now, to anaesthetise every class reaction from the American workers confronted with hundreds thousands of redundancies and to create the necessary basis for a national consensus for bigger military deployment in the Middle East and Central Asia. Today, according to the polls, 60% of Americans are for war, even with American losses. National Unity also justifies the deployment of a budgetary diversion (up to $135 billion, i.e. 1.3 % of GDP of the USA) to support the american economy, steeped in one of the most severe post-war cyclical crises of capital accumulation. Western Hypocrisy
Moreover, the alliance between the USA and so-called radical islam is a very old story whose origins go back to agreements reached between ultra-reactionary wahhabite monarchs from the Gulf area and American oil companies. This alliance, very useful in the fight against pro-Soviet Arab regimes and for keeping a vigilant watch over the areas oil fields, has never been recinded and was sealed with blood during the war with Iraq in 1991 and the dreadful embargo which kills thousands of Iraqi people every day. For all these years, good western souls have found nothing to say against that and the talibans of the Persian gulf and their oppressive regime were never denounced. The American state cannot then plead not guilty. The worlds foremost military and economic power, it has played the part of the top sheriff only for its own interests and without paying any attention to the needs of local populations, mainly Palestinian and Kurdish, who have paid for many decades the price of a regional order which has to guarantee capital accumulation for ever on a world scale. Political Islam: an absolute dead end for oppressed people
Political Islamism, as a substitute for the class struggle, has also been chosen by minority fractions of immigrant youth in Europe (France and Belgium particulary). Here, resentment has been fed by mass unemployment and racism and has been made use of by some religious groups. The real revolt has then been trapped in the reactionary ghetto of Islam, of the oumma (Faithfull community), which has contributed, along with the surrounding racism, to isolate these rebellious people from working class people of European extraction. In the end this plays the game of all those, from governments to bosses, who have an interest in dividing exploited people. During war, redundancies continue
Only the fight for the unity of proletarians, whatever their origins, can stop anti-proletarian terror, whether it is disguised as a crusade or as a jihad. Political Islam and Democracy are two banners Some internationalist communists |
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