Defend the Rights of All! Build the Resistance to War Crimes and State Terror! For a Different World!

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Defend the Rights of All! Build the Resistance to War Crimes and State Terror! For a Different World!

– Statement of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) –

In the five years since September 11, 2001, the peoples have been stepping up their resistance to the war crimes, aggression and state terror unleashed by US imperialism, in alliance with the British government, at home and abroad. On this fifth anniversary of September 11, the ruling circles of Britain and the US, together with the monopoly-controlled media, have been once again throwing up a smoke screen to obscure this basic fact, and have been promoting chauvinism and disinformation. Nevertheless, they have not been able to hide the fact that the people are developing their organised resistance, are becoming clearer about their goals, and are building their unity domestically and internationally with all those that are waging their battles for their rights against imperialism, aggression and war.

            The anger has grown against the atrocities committed in the name of the “war on terror” day in, day out, by the Anglo-US imperialists. The “low-key” response of the British government to the anniversary of 9/11 is part of the attempts to bury and disorientate this anger, and to neutralise the consciousness of the people that the warmongers must be held accountable for their crimes. Not least, the silence and disinformation has been to foster a chauvinist atmosphere that sees in the resistance of the peoples to imperialism not the heroic contributions to ending aggression and the medieval imposition of armed might, laying waste, and retribution, but terrorism and a threat to the neo-liberal global order.

            The working class and people of Britain themselves have rejected as attempts to subvert and undermine the anti-war movement the government’s insistence that the resistance in Palestine and Lebanon, in Iraq and Afghanistan, are the enemy. They are affirming that this resistance is resistance to a criminal and imperialist dictate and strategy. They are affirming anew that the right to sovereignty, dignity and the sanctity of the human person must be defended and cannot be violated. They are coming to the conclusion that just as the peoples of Asia, Latin America, Africa and throughout the world are resisting this onslaught, so too it is the responsibility of the democratic and anti-war forces in Britain to become the resistance to the warmongering government in this country, to organise themselves to bring into being an anti-war government.

            In fact, the aims of the Anglo-US imperialists have been frustrated not only in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Lebanon, the Korean Peninsula, and elsewhere in pursuance of their agenda of the “war on terror”, but also in Britain too. Here the government has been unable to mould public opinion in fomenting divisions and targeting those of Arab and South Asian origin and the communities who uphold the Islamic religion and world outlook. Rather, the working class and people are taking up for solution the actual problems neo-liberalism is creating, are getting organised to end the wrecking of society and the values of progressive humanity, and to plant the alternative of a different world with all its coherence and human-centeredness.

            Let us reiterate what RCPB(ML) said in its statement five years ago when Tony Blair was declaring that the “new evil in our world” was “mass terrorism” and presaging the darkest reaction all along the line: “But it must also be said that the big powers striving for domination and control of markets and resources are fearful of the power of the people’s forces. Precisely for this reason they are demanding that everyone become spectators to unfolding events which are supposedly out of their control. The response of the working class and people must therefore be to continue to advance along their line of march, developing the building of the workers’ opposition to capitalist retrogression, developing the movements against neo-liberal globalisation, for the rights of nations and peoples, for national and social liberation, and against the so-called ‘civilised values’ of the ‘Third Way’ and Anglo-American imperialism.”

            On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of 9/11, we take the opportunity to salute the working class and people, the youth, women and the Muslim communities, who have not submitted to the role dictated to them of being spectators or victims. The working and oppressed people of all countries have a common cause, and through their actions in defence of their dignity and their rights are contributing to the bringing into being of a new society, a different world. Let the working class and people of Britain too stand as one with the resistance throughout the globe, including the working class and people of the United States who are defiantly resisting the aggression and anti-social offensive of the Bush administration. The task of consolidating the movement to bring to power an anti-war government with pro-social and pro-worker policies and arrangements is the task of the hour. Let us accomplish this task with honour and fulfil our duty to humanity!