NO TROOPS ON FOREIGN SOIL!
No to All Wars of Aggression and Crimes against Humanity!
FIGHT FOR AN ANTI-WAR GOVERNMENT!

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Statement of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), February 24, 2007

Our Party salutes all the varied forces of the people participating in today’s march, fighting in unity with people throughout the globe, including the people of the US, who are building the resistance movement against war, fascism and aggression, and struggling to plant the alternative of peace, progress and a better world.

            As the Anglo-US imperialists persist with their crimes against humanity in Iraq, Afghanistan and countless other places, so the people’s movement globally is resisting the return to Nazi-style aggression. Demonstrating their contempt for the people’s calls for peace, the Anglo-Americans are again preparing their pretexts to attack Iran in a further crime against the peace.  

            In Britain, the fact that the Labour government’s pretexts and support for and active participation in the crimes against humanity perpetrated daily in Iraq and Afghanistan have attracted almost universal opposition has not persuaded Tony Blair’s government to change its course. The government persists in developing its own weapon of mass destruction – Trident – and actively participates in the wars and aggression of the US imperialists. It is complicit also in the preparations to bomb Iran. In so doing, the government of Tony Blair is shamelessly declaring that it has no answers to the problems which face the world. Its only response is to strike out wildly and seek revenge. To this end, Tony Blair is elaborating his doctrine of “hard power”, a new euphemism for military aggression and the imposition of the values of neo-liberal globalisation. In this climate, widespread opposition and action in towns and cities across the country and in the actions of the families of serving soldiers and those who have died in Iraq as a result of Britain’s warmongering policies embody the opposition to the war.

            The demand of the anti-war movement is both that Britain scrap its own weapons of mass destruction and that all British troops be removed from foreign soil immediately. The use of force must be outlawed in settling international issues, and the right to sovereignty and independence respected and defended. Britain must end its participation in the warmongering NATO military alliance, and a militarised economy replaced by one that serves the needs of the people and is pro-social. These demands are embodied in the resolution of the Stop the War movement and all progressive forces to create an anti-war government. The time is now to fight for and organise to bring into being such a government, bringing into play the immense power and initiative of the people’s movement as a collective political force in its own right.

            The people’s movement in Britain is also resisting the targeting of those of the Islamic faith and outlook, and the criminalisation of ideology and the right to conscience. Its watchword in this context is: All Together in Defence of the Rights of All! The British government has determinedly imposed increasingly draconian and undemocratic legislation which criminalises society and attempts to undermine, sabotage and fragment the opposition to its programme of developing war and fascism. In response, the people’s movement has defended itself with the principle that an injury to one is an injury to all and strengthened its unity.

            There can be no let up in the opposition to the plans of Bush and Blair to carry out more war and destruction, more crimes against humanity. Enough is enough! To put an end to pro-war government, together the people must discuss the issue in their committees, in their communities, in their places of education and in their workplaces. The issue at stake is the necessity for the people to become that force which will create and constitute themselves as an anti-war government in order to end the crimes of warmongering and state terror once and for all.

Hands off Iran!

End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!

Bring All British Troops Home Now!

FOR AN ANTI-WAR GOVERNMENT!