No War But the Class War
... is our perspective against the American war plans against Iraq. Which has
to be the perspective in all imperialist, nationalist, capitalist wars and conflicts,
and, for that matter, also in "peace time". War and peace are two
mutually pre-supposing sides of the same coin; in war people are slaughtered
and killed and in peace people are killed, hurt and maimed both physically and
spiritually in the factories, on the streets, from starvation.
The American attack plans against Iraq and Saddam Hussein are aiming to get
control over the rich Iraqi oilwells and the Iraqi proletarian masses; oil as
the main lubrification of global accumulation and the proletariat as the source
of all capitalist wealth. This war extacy is a sign of the crisis of global
capitalism in general and of the American difficulties in maintaining its hegemony
in the new world order in particular. The war is aimed to replace the political
power in Iraq, extinguish hundreds of thousends of Iraqi "surplus-people"
and to divert the attention of the American people from the social
problems they are facing to line up instead behind the interests of the American
capital and its administration.
What´s at stake for the working class and us Communists is to destroy
the capitalist system and all its relations; national, ethnical, gender, wage
labour, money and division of labour. To support the gangster and killer of
proletarians, Saddam Hussein, against George W. Bush or vice versa is no alternative,
neither tactically nor morally. Both sides are just as bloodstained, despotic
and anti-proletarian. The same goes for the emerging Islamism, with the apparent
enemy of the US, Usama bin-Laden, also he a sworn enemy to the working class.
Concerning the war at hand we see as a general solution that we, the working
class, arise and fight for our own interests. More concrete we address to the
revolutionary part of the anti-war movement to emphasise the capitalist content
of this conflict, linking it to our everyday experiences as workers; communism;
and that we must direct our points against "our own" capitalists and
politicians just as much as against Bush and Saddam. Immediately we´re
hoping for a movement of deserting soldies in both armies, that the workers
in war industry and logistics turns obstinate and that the workers refuse to
give in for the "war sacrifices".
/A group of Communists in Gothenburg, February 2003