Down
with the imperialist G8 Summit!
The
destiny of imperialism will be determined by the united struggle of the
workers and the oppressed peoples of the world!
The
International League of People’s Struggle (ILPS) calls on all
anti-imperialist and democratic forces to unite to oppose imperialism and
reaction and to join the actions to expose and oppose the G8 summit in
Genoa, Italy from July 20-23, 2001.
The
most powerful imperialist powers are gathering in Genoa, Italy, to plan
their ominous agenda to counter the rising tide of the just and
revolutionary struggles of the workers and the oppressed people’s
throughout the world. They
intend to put up a show of unity in the face of the unprecedented crisis
of the world capitalist system and to hide the intensification of the
contradictions between themselves.
In
the face of the most intensified crisis of the world capitalist system,
the rivalries and the contradictions amongst the imperialist powers have
intensified. The emergence of the European Union (EU) and the efforts of
the US imperialism to convert the Americas into a common market, as well
as the Japanese imperialist maneuvers in the Asia Pacific region are clear
indications of the intensified inter-imperialist contradictions.
This
is also manifested in the imperialist interventions and provocations in
the strategically important regions like the Middle East, Palestine and
the Balkans. The phenomenal growth of religious fundamentalism, ethnic
rivalries and national chauvinism is an expression of the imperialist
designs to divide the people and to prevent them from waging real
struggles against their oppressors.
The
blatant and all-round attacks on the hard-won democratic and economic
rights of the working people in the imperialist countries, in the form of
assaults on trade unions, casualisation of labour, growing unemployment,
and the shrinking of social security entitlements are all designed to
intensify the exploitation of labour and to destroy working class
organisation.
The
increasing levels of fascism and racist violence hand in glove with the
increasing police brutality and the introduction of the draconian laws
such as the Anti-terror laws, anti-immigration laws and the
criminalization of dissent negating the international conventions on
freedom of speech and association are designed to intensify oppression in
order to facilitate intensified exploitation. These are expressions of
sharpening of wage labour/capital contradiction but also of the
inter-imperialist rivalries.
It
is under such conditions that the imperialist powers raise such bogus
ideas as “globalism” and the New World Order and organise Summit after
summit in order to hide its decrepit nature and to facilitate its
continued domination of the world. At the same time it uses slogans such
globalisation to accelerate the plunder of the human and natural resources
through out the world.
But
the workers and oppressed peoples are fighting back.
They decry the intolerable suffering that imperialist globalization
has imposed on the people of the world.
The
advancing struggle against imperialism and all reaction has taken various
forms and has spread across the world.
Millions of people world-wide have risen up in rallies against the
imperialist agenda in Seattle, Manila, Vancouver, Washington DC, Sydney,
Davos, Prague, Okinawa, Quebec, and Gothenburg and all over Latin America
and Asia including the big demonstrations that directly challenge the IMF,
World Bank and the WTO during their meetings. Armed revolutionary struggles are being waged in a number of
oppressed countries against imperialist domination and client states that
are the instruments of imperialism in imposing such domination.
We
call on all anti-imperialist and progressive forces and all those who
oppose exploitation and oppression to strengthen their unity in an
international united front against imperialism and reaction.
The people will prevail!
International
Coordinating Group
International
League of Peoples' Struggle
19
July 2001
