On Falluja, from Seattle
Wilhelmina | 16.11.2004 07:50 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World
On Falluja, from Seattle
It has been encouraging to see the really large number of demonstrations throughout Britain denouncing U.S. imperialism’s barbarous assault on Falluja. Here in the United States there have also been demonstrations and other actions. Locally, we had an anti-war march of 1000 two weeks ago, and, last Saturday, a march of about 200-250 to denounce “our” government’s bloody rampage. (The latter event was called on short notice.)
I know that the politics of the movement in Britain are somewhat different than here, but there are also similarities. For example, we have our liberal Democrats who work to turn the anti-war movement into a supine movement, a pro-“war on terror”, pro-U.N. occupation movement, etc., while you have your left laborites working to sabotage further development of the anti-war movement there. (And we both have our opportunists, Trotskyist and other revisionist groups who work to tie the movement to the coat tails of these trends.) We must fight to build a different movement than these bourgeois rabble want, an anti-imperialist movement that basis itself on the interests of the working class---and mobilizes it. The leaflet from Seattle below deals with some of the issues involved in this.
Falluja will live, and we can play a big role in helping its courageous people to do so.
Greetings!
Wilhelmina
[The number of official U.S. casualty deaths in Falluja has risen from 22 to 38 in the days since the leaflet was written.--W.]
It has been encouraging to see the really large number of demonstrations throughout Britain denouncing U.S. imperialism’s barbarous assault on Falluja. Here in the United States there have also been demonstrations and other actions. Locally, we had an anti-war march of 1000 two weeks ago, and, last Saturday, a march of about 200-250 to denounce “our” government’s bloody rampage. (The latter event was called on short notice.)
I know that the politics of the movement in Britain are somewhat different than here, but there are also similarities. For example, we have our liberal Democrats who work to turn the anti-war movement into a supine movement, a pro-“war on terror”, pro-U.N. occupation movement, etc., while you have your left laborites working to sabotage further development of the anti-war movement there. (And we both have our opportunists, Trotskyist and other revisionist groups who work to tie the movement to the coat tails of these trends.) We must fight to build a different movement than these bourgeois rabble want, an anti-imperialist movement that basis itself on the interests of the working class---and mobilizes it. The leaflet from Seattle below deals with some of the issues involved in this.
Falluja will live, and we can play a big role in helping its courageous people to do so.
Greetings!
Wilhelmina
[The number of official U.S. casualty deaths in Falluja has risen from 22 to 38 in the days since the leaflet was written.--W.]
Wilhelmina
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