The imperialism of old claimed they were 'civilising' the world,bringing it into the realms of civilisation, opening up new markets,new frontiers, new possibilities. Initially the change of one era into another, the march from the feudal to the capitalist entailed the greatest changes in the realms of connecting the planet into one
indivisible whole. But in order to secure control of colonial plunder, the exchange of goods soon turned into the domination of one by another and then division of all by the few. From the moment imperialism entered its decline a new era dawned, that of wars and revolutions.

Throughout the 20th century the European Empires entered the period of decline so characteristic of Empires whose only motive after 'civilisation' evaporates is the securing of the booty indefinitely. In two world wars they fought each other to a standstill and brought humanity to the brink of total annihilation. Only the Russian Revolution was the spark that broke the chain of imperialist decline
and collapse.

After the Yugoslav intervention - the preamble to world domination - by the large transnational corporations of our day - the door has been left open for the old imperialist policy of divide and rule to become once again dominant. The Arab world for years divided due to the
corruption and ineptitude of its ruling elites, be they sheiks in the oil rich gulf sheikdoms, or nationalist leaders in Syria or Egypt, unable to unify poses starkly the question raised many years by the
bolsheviks who challenged and defeated imperialism in 1/6 of the worlds earth surface. Only workers in alliance with the vast indentured majority of peasants have the organising capacity to defeat imperialism. No one else will do it for them or will bring the struggle to a successful conclusion.

For the defeat of the US-UK invading forces is a necessity to stop Iraq being divided and occuppied, Baghdad bombed and surrounded in order to be starved into submission, so the Bath party dumps Hussein like the example of Yugoslavia with Milosevic. If the other Arab countries let Iraq go down, they are next, divide and rule will become
a dominant policy once more of imperialism in its decline. A defeat for Iraq will have geostrategic issues of immense importance. The Americans, financially bankrupt, politically alone are entering the
twilight of their rule. Each act they now committ, despite what the mass networks of disinformation show, will reap more trouble than they imagine. There are hundreds of millions of Arabs and the shooting war
against Iraq isn't the only war.

The left paralysed by 9/11 and allied with the status quo in its respective countries is dead, morally, politically, practically. It is unable to either lead the coming storm or to offer a way out. We are at a political impasse and as societies cannot live in either impasses
or vaccuums for too long an explosion becomes the only possibility in the current political situation. Throughout Europe millions of people will go on the offensive in dynamic action which is the only path of
stopping the war and derailing the globalisation agenda. For that they will require new forms of organisation, new parties, new leaders, new strategies.

Five decades now the Palestinian people have lived like dogs in a cage surrounded by beasts. They have been hunted, chased, exiled, bombed and still they stand tall refusing to bow to their American oppressors. The war against Iraq, apart from oil is the signal that anyone standing up against the American Empire will be shot down. But
their armed gangsters in the Middle East are caging themselves in behind a wall, reminiscent of the castles of the Middle Ages. This is the sign, if any where needed that the American Empire is brittle, it has no mass social support and its hasn't managed yet to unify the
ruling classes of this earth into a total search and destroy mission to all who stand up against its corporations. It is trying like a dying man to avoid terminal decline. It will fail, in the concrete
jungles of Iraq. The sooner the better.