| 43rd International Antiwar Assembly in Japan |
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Overseas Appeal for the Assembly See
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Central Meeting in Tokyo
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| The regional meeting in Okinawa |
Build a stronger battlefront capable of blocking
the reactionary trend towards revision of
the war-renouncing Constitution of Japan!
Fight against the Iraq war! -- In response
to these calls, the 43rd International Antiwar
Assembly was held. 1200 workers, students
and citizens attended the central meeting
in Tokyo and hundreds of people participated
in each of the meetings in six regions on
the same day, August 7th. They are now resolved
in unity to develop antiwar struggles internationally.
The following sentences report
on the central
meeting.
On behalf of the Executive Committee,
Mr.
Ryuta Takigawa presented the
keynote speech.
He sounded the special alert,
at the beginning,
against the possible emergence
of a neo-fascistic
government for the Constitutional
revision
through the general elections.
In the speech, he made it clear
that the
world dominance of US imperialism
was now
on the precipice due to its failure
in the
occupation of Iraq. He also revealed
that
the recent London bombings was
machinated
by the Bush administration to
save its justification
for the 'war on terrorism'.
After exposing the fact that
China's and
Russia's responses have aggravated
the crisis
of a Third World War, he clearly
presented
revolutionary tactics for strengthening
international
antiwar struggles. He also stressed
the need
to overcome the JCP-led movement
for 'protecting
the Constitution', which does
not amount
to such in reality.
The second speaker, Mr. Goro
Fukudome, presented
a special report, calling on
fighters on
the labour front to stop the
trend of the
Japanese labour movement towards
supportive
positions for the Constitutional
revision.
Alerting that the Rengo leadership
has decided
the agenda for the revision,
he called on
the participants to fight to
prevent the
coming JCTU convention from adopting
this
revisionist agenda.
Before and after a break, the messages of
solidarity from foreign friends were read
in Japanese. The executive committee for
the Assembly received 12 greetings across
the world. As greatly encouraged by them,
participants strengthened their resolve to
develop international solidarity against
the Iraq war.
Amid a greatly rising mood of the participants,
a education worker from the JTU took the
platform. He reported his comrades had struggled
to urge the conventions of their prefectural
teachers' unions to adopt motions against
the leadership and succeeded.
Zengakuren Chairman Okuno Shigeyoshi
referred
to their aggressive discussions
with JCP
activists over the party's notorious
policy
for 'co-existence of the Constitution
with
Japanese SDF troops'. Stressing
the need
to overcome the official movement
'in protection
of the Constitution', he called
on the participants
to strengthen mass struggles
against the
Constitutional revision and the
Iraq war.
On the basis of the participation
in the
meeting and the mutual discussions
over the
speeches and messages, participants
are strengthening
their resolve for international
antiwar struggle
more than ever.
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Overseas Appeal for the Assembly
Rise in a revolutionary antiwar struggle
to break through the darkness
hanging over the 21st century
world!
The Executive Committee for the 43nd International
Antiwar Assembly
Zengakuren [All-Japan Federation of Students' Self-Governing
Associations]
Antiwar Youth Committee
Japan Revolutionary Communist League (Revolutionary
Marxist Faction) [JRCL-RMF]
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Let us fight
for a worldwide struggle against the
Iraq
war!
Today, more than two years after US imperialists
started the war of aggression against Iraq,
their military occupation of this country
has gone into total bankruptcy.
Following the January 30th parliamentary
elections for the National Assembly,
a Shiite-led
transitional government was formed
in Iraq
with Ibrahim al-Jaafari as Prime Minister.
This administration excluded from cabinet
posts all members of the Iraqi List,
led
by Iyad Allawi, the former US puppet
interim
Prime Minister, who suffered a crushing
defeat
in the elections. By involving Sunnites
as
well as pro-American Kurdish parties,
it
has taken a step forward, in appearance,
towards establishing a 'government
of truly
reconciled nations' as a permanent
government.
In spite of these measures being taken,
guerrilla
attacks by armed Sunnites have escalated
against occupation forces led by Anglo-American
imperialists, and against Iraqi National
Guards and police; they are being mounted
over 50 times a day throughout the
country.
Even in the capital city of Baghdad,
insurgents
are carrying out daring suicide bomb
attacks
and car bomb or trench mortar attacks
every
day, slipping through cordons laid
by the
US forces and Iraqi National Guards.
The militarist empire of America, the
'world's
sole superpower', is now on the edge
of a
precipice in Iraq, politically as well
as
militarily.
Despite the fact that they have completely
lost any justification for their occupation,
US forces are still inflicting brutalities
on the Iraqi people. American imperialist
rulers are scheming to continue their
military
presence under the pretext that security
has deteriorated. In fact, on June
24th,
when meeting al-Jaafari at the White
House,
George W. Bush baldly said, 'There's
not
going to be any timetable (for the
withdrawal
of US forces)'.
On the towns in al-Anbar province bordered
by Syria (al-Qaim, Obaidi, Karabila,
and
Ramadi), US forces launched a new series
of assaults, calling it 'Operation
Matador'
or 'Operation Spear'. These liberated
zones
for Muslims (through which Russian-made
weapons
are routed to insurgents) were besieged
by
the occupiers, who committed genocidal
murders
as brutal as those perpetrated in Fallujah.
This is not all. With the aim of provoking
religious conflict between Shiites
and Sunnites
as well as ethnic / tribal strife between
Iraqis and Kurds, US occupying forces
and
the CIA are carrying out, together
with private
military companies, machinated acts
of terrorism
under the false name of 'al-Zarqawi
as a
leading commander of al-Qaeda', and
have
perpetrated a series of assassinations
of
Shiite and Sunnite clerics.
We must never allow them commit such
outrageous
acts with which they desperately hope
to
wriggle out of the quagmire of the
occupation.
The imperialist aggression against
Iraq in
the form of an asymmetrical war by
the militarist
empire of America - which has significance
as the conquest of the Islamic world
by a
present-day Crusade - is being shattered
in actuality by Muslim people's indomitable
fightback, supported by seething Arab
nationalism
against American imperialism. This
fight
is also inspiring Muslim people all
over
the world, raising a storm of protests
against
American imperialism.
Bush's crafty scheme to set up a pro-American
regime in Lebanon by instigating its
people
in the name of a 'Cedar Revolution'
were
blown up before the great advance of
Hezbollah.
Palestinian people are also fighting
uplifting
struggles against imperialist America
and
Zionist Israel - with Hamas taking
the lead
in the campaign - driven by the anger
burning
towards the traitor Mahmoud Abbas,
who has
surrendered to Bush and Sharon. The
Bush
Empire's bankruptcy in its strategy
for 'democratization
of the Middle East' is now crystal
clear
to any eye.
But remember, comrades!
Those countless bodies of Muslims resting
in Arab deserts, who fell victim to
US imperialists'
MOABs, daisy cutter bombs and depleted
uranium
munitions, resulted from the failure
and
disappearance of antiwar struggles
in advanced
countries. We should engrave it deeply
in
our minds that the end of atrocities
by the
Bush Empire must be realized by means
of
our internationally united antiwar
struggles.
We call on the working classes all
over the
world! Now is the time to rise up against
the Iraq War, based on proletarian
internationalism,
aiming to break through the darkness
that
covers the 21st century world.
Oppose the continued military occupation
of Iraq by US imperialism!
Pull Japanese troops, and all multinational
forces, out of the Iraqi battlefield!
We call on Muslim people all over the
world!
Advance struggles based on Islamic
inter-nationalism!
Let us stir up the flames of antiwar
struggles
worldwide, in solidarity with the Muslim
people who are putting up resistance
against
the occupation, against US imperialism!
Break through the emerging crisis of
a Third World War
intensified by the confrontation
between the US and China!
In an attempt to gloss over the bankruptcy
of its military occupation of Iraq
and the
failure of its strategy to 'democratize
the
Middle East', and to make its 'Forward
Strategy
of Freedom' appear as if it is being
realized,
US imperialism led by the Bush Dynasty
has
started another plot: a hard-line policy
to contain China, a 'gigantic Asian
dragon',
together with an offensive of 'exporting
democratization' to Russia's neighbouring
countries in the CIS. Promoted by this
stratagem
of the Bush Empire, the clash between
the
US and China has started to take on
a new
aspect. In East Asia a critical situation
is being created - in which the world
stands
on the brink of war.
The APEC summit in the autumn of 2004
was
a turning point for Hu Jintao's China:
it
abandoned the 'stay-at-home' policy
it had
adopted up to then, and launched active
diplomacy
with a view to laying worldwide siege
to
the US. Based on its strategy of 'besieging
the sole superpower with the power
of many,
the Chinese government has embarked
on forming
links with developing countries around
the
core of BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India
and
China), while at the same time, extending
its influence to Latin American countries,
the backyard of the US.
Driven by a strong sense of crisis
towards
this strategic change in Hu's China,
the
American Empire has once again made
it one
of its central issues in its strategy
for
world domination to prevent China from
being
its rival. Based on this strategy,
the Bush
administration pressed the Koizumi
government
in Japan to put forward the following
points
as 'strategic objectives' common to
both
the US and Japan: to sweep aside anti-American
regimes, to halt North Korea's nuclear
development,
and to prevent China from using military
force against Taiwan. In this way,
US and
Japanese rulers have started - with
the intention
of applying military pressure on China
so
as to contain this 'rival-to-be in
the 21st
century' - an attempt to change the
US-Japan
security alliance into an offensive
and defensive
alliance against China, with which
to build
a military / political encircling net
against
today's China.
In opposition to this attempt by US
and Japanese
imperialist powers, Hu's China persistently
bases its policies on its state strategy
of becoming 'a superpower in the 21st
century',
and is thus scheming to drastically
strengthen
its political / military counterweight
by
bringing Roh Moo-Hyun's South Korea
and Kim
Jong-Il's North Korea over to its side.
Roh's South Korea, which is intent
on achieving
the nation's long-cherished wish -
the 'unification
of two Koreas' - is now resolved to
break
away from the 'southern triangular
alliance
(between the US, Japan and South Korea)'
dating back to the days of the Cold
War.
Drawing lessons from the unification
of Germany,
which turned out to impose a heavy
burden
on West Germany, the Roh government
seeks
to adopt a federal system for the present
- under which it will prod North Korea
to
introduce a capitalist system by means
of
direct investments from South Korea
and China
- and, on this basis, gradually achieve
the
unification of the two Koreas (or rather,
absorption of the northern part into
South
Korea). It is quite possible that,
in response
to this plan of South Korea, Kim Jong-Il
has already made a decision to accept
this
procedure for unification, on condition
that
the security of his family and followers
is guaranteed.
China, thus steadily bringing South
and North
Korea over to its side, has assigned
itself
the strategic task of liberating Taiwan
and
unifying the country by the year 2011,
the
centenary year of the Wuchang Revolution.
Its ambition is clearly shown in the
fact
that, towards Taiwanese President Chen
Shui-bien
(who aspires for Taiwan's independence),
the Beijing government took an intimidating
attitude by enacting the Anti-Secession
Law
in March, which prescribes the possible
use
of military force, while on the other
hand,
giving Taiwan's opposition Nationalist
Party
Chairman Lien Chan (who advocates 'one
China')
a warm reception in Beijing in April.
Before China can achieve this unification,
the hard-line policies of the US and
Japan
towards this country present the greatest
obstacles. The Beijing government,
therefore,
intends to thwart these imperialist
policies,
and is now trying to drive a wedge
between
the US and Japan. This is why Hu's
China
has set up 'little Japan' (a 'dependency'
of the Bush Empire) as its prime target
for
now, and is bombarding the Koizumi
government
with massive anti-Japanese protests,
denouncing
Koizumi's repeated visits to the blood-stained
Yasukuni Shrine and the approval by
the Education
Ministry of history textbooks that
glorify
Japan's past aggression in the Greater
East
Asia War.
The contemporary world is witnessing
a bitter
clash between the US-Japan alliance
and the
triangular linkage of China with South
and
North Korea. Entangled with this confrontation,
another clash is intensifying between
the
US and Russia (belonging to the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization, or SCO).
The Bush Empire is presently bent on
undermining
the solidarity of the CIS. In 2003-04,
it
choreographed, in succession, the Rose
Revolution
in Georgia and the Orange Revolution
in Ukraine.
It is now plotting to stage a White
Revolution
in Belarus, branding this state an
'outpost
of tyranny'. These coups d'etat in
the name
of 'democratization' have been instigated
by the hoodlums of the PNAC (Project
for
the New American Century) in middle
Europe,
based on their efforts to nurture pro-western
opposition groups in the CIS region.
Through
these 'revolutions', the Bush Empire
- whose
ambition for 'democratizing the Middle
East'
has been smashed by Muslim people's
resistance
and guerrilla attacks, and whose aggression
against Iraq has become bogged down,
as in
the Vietnam War - is now desperately
seeking
to set up pro-American regimes in this
region.
The Bush Empire is intensifying its
offensive
to 'export democratization' to the
CIS countries
because it is determined to shatter
schemes
plotted by Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
That is to say, Putin - who is imposing
authoritarian
military rule upon his people in a
bid to
reconstruct his ruinous country by
manipulating
the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) -
has dismantled
Yukos, the major oil company, to drive
out
US oil majors, while externally attempting
to rebuild Russia's sphere of influence
by
going hand in hand with China. This
is why
Bush has set his heart on delivering
a hard
blow to the Tsar Putin. Moreover, the
Bush
Empire is heading for victory in its
competition
with Russia for Caspian oil.
In the Kyrgyz Republic, President Askar
Akayev
was expelled from the country by mass
demonstrations
condemning him for rigging parliamentary
elections. It was, again, the imperialists
of the Bush administration that touched
off
this overthrow. Based on this success,
it
is stepping up its efforts to make
inroads
into the neighbouring country, Kazakhstan,
while watching vigilantly for an opportunity
to plunder the abundant oil resources
of
this country.
Despite this overwhelming offensive
by the
Bush Empire, Putin, the President of
ruinous
Russia, has failed to take any appropriate
measures: he has merely revealed his
thorough
incompetence. Though Russia may incline
somewhat
towards the trends of the EU due to
its geographical
position, it will have no choice but
to depend
on the SCO and BRICs.
The 21st century world - divided into
four
blocks that converge on their respective
poles, namely (1) the so-called Hakenkreuz
Alliance (the US, UK and Japan), (2)
the
Franco-German axis ('opponents' of
the Iraq
War), (3) China and a group of developing
countries (with BRICs making up the
core),
and (4) ruinous Russia (which straddles
both
China and the EU) - this world, which
takes
the shape of a deformed trapezium,
is now
experiencing severe turbulence. The
epicentre
is the defeat of imperialist America
in the
Iraq War. And here arises another crisis
in East Asia. The threat of war is
growing
dramatically, provoked by the newly
created
clash between the 'world's sole superpower',
enveloped in the flames of Iraqi Muslims'
anger that has erupted in their anti-American
struggles, and present-day China, which
is
making remarkable progress with its
ambition
of becoming a 'superpower in the 21st
century'.
Workers and toiling masses all over
the world!
Amid this worldwide turbulence, power
holders
in every country are making a frantic
dash
towards a massive build-up of military
strength
by inciting their nationalism. We,
the working
class, must shatter such nationalism
spread
by the ruling class - in each place
and in
each country - and unite beyond our
national
boundaries. Now is the time to go on
the
counterattack.
Workers in the United States!
Wipe out US nationalism, decorated
with the
Stars and Stripes! Liberate yourselves
from
the yoke of the AFL-CIO leadership,
the tools
of finance and industrial monopolies!
Fight for the overthrow of the militarist
empire of America, which has started
producing
small nuclear bombs for use in actual
fighting!
Toiling people in China!
Crush Sinocentrist nationalism incited
by
the Beijing government of the Stalinist
bureaucracy!
Oppose their expansion of nuclear armaments
promoted against US imperialism!
Oppressed people in Russia!
Smash Russian / Slav nationalism infused
by the Tsur Putin, a descendant of
Stalin!
Advance with the aim of overthrowing
his
FSB-based authoritarian military ruling
system!
Comrades! Stir up the flames of revolutionary
antiwar struggles all over the world!
Oppose the revision of the Constitution!
Smash the new move to strengthen the
US-Japan
military alliance
based on 'common strategic objectives'!
Let our fighting erupt against the
Iraq war,
against the US-Japan military alliance!
''Iraq has weapons of mass destruction; we
know where they are concealed.' - By making
this downright lie his justification for
starting a war of aggression against Iraq,
George W. Bush, the consummate criminal of
the century, has been putting countless bodies
of Muslim people under seas of blood. For
all these criminal acts, this warmonger,
a Hitler of the 21st century, declares with
arrogant indifference that 'ending tyranny
is a divine calling given to America'. And
here is the only government in the world
that impassionedly supports this bloodstained
Empire of Bush - the Japanese government
headed by Jun'ichiro Koizumi, a poodle of
this haughty President, with the chain of
the US-Japan security alliance around its
neck.
The Koizumi government has promised
the Bush
administration that it will strengthen
the
US-Japan security alliance by transforming
it into an offensive and defensive
alliance
against China to mop up anti-American
regimes
in the name of the 'war on terrorism',
while
at the same time containing Hu's China.
For the very purpose of becoming a
Great
Empire of Japan, capable of waging
wars of
aggression in alliance with the American
Empire, the Koizumi government has
taken
the plunge and set about a negative
revision
of the Constitution of Japan - the
kernel
of which is the revision of war-renouncing
Article 9 - in response to strong pressure
from US imperialists (Richard Armitage
and
others) who brand this article an 'obstacle'.
The neo-fascist Koizumi government
has inaugurated
this reactionary move towards the amendment
by making full use of the dispatch
of Japanese
troops to Iraq (which is in itself
a violation
of the Constitution) as a stepping-stone,
with the ambition of being the 'leader
of
Asia' in rivalry with China.
Against this series of unprecedented
offensives
by the ultra-reactionary Japanese government,
we are fighting, here in Japan, with
all
our strength.
Faced with this growing trend towards
constitutional
amendment, which has long been expected
by
the US government, the labour aristocracy
of the Japan Trade Union Confederation
(Rengo),
the largest national centre of trade
unions
in Japan, is crying openly for a revision
to make the Japanese military (currently
called 'Self-Defence Forces') constitutional.
They are pressing trade unions under
the
umbrella of Rengo to give support to
the
revision of the Constitution. Thus,
a tidal
swell of approval for constitutional
reform
has been produced in Japan.
Amid this critical situation for the
opposition
movement, the Japanese Communist Party
is
playing a criminal role. It has feebly
been
bleating that we should 'protect Article
9', but its leadership has now gone
so far
as to declare that it endorses the
'co-existence
of the Constitution with the Self-Defence
Forces'. They have unashamedly put
forward
a criminal alternative, the 'overseas
use
of SDF troops in a peaceful manner'.
What is worse, dazzled by China's 'capitalistic
development', today's Stalinist party
of
Japan is lavishly praising China (as
well
as the Venezuelan government led by
Hugo
Chavez) as a successful example of
'socialism
through market economy'. By taking
it on
themselves to act as a spokesman for
the
Beijing bureaucracy, those converted
Stalinists
(who even advocate modified capitalism)
are
extolling the Chinese government's
foreign
policies as 'peaceful diplomacy'. While
currying
favour with Japanese monopoly capitalists
who are seeking to make inroads into
the
Chinese market, they are making a plea
to
the Koizumi government to 'reconsider
its
foreign policy of being abnormally
subordinate
to the US' and 'adopt independent,
peaceful
diplomacy giving priority to Asia'.
Against this reactionary trend towards
the
revision of the Constitution, and by
overcoming
the so-called 'movement for the defence
of
the Constitution' led by the JCP -
which
does not amount to such in reality
- we are
striving to organize a mass movement,
both
in the labour front and in campus activities,
to firmly oppose the revision of the
Constitution.
We are making efforts to combine this
movement
with struggles against the Iraq War
and against
the US-Japan military alliance, thus
advancing
them in integrated fashion.
We are determined to vigorously advance
this
revolutionary struggle against the
Iraq War
and the US-Japan military alliance,
turned
into an offensive and defensive alliance,
in solidarity with workers and toiling
people
all over the world.
Stop every move towards the revision
of the
Constitution!
Oppose a drastic strengthening of the
US-Japan
military alliance based on 'common
strategic
objectives'! Stop another scheme for
new
'Defense Cooperation Guidelines', a
US-Japan
joint plan for a war of aggression!
Oppose
the relocation of the US Army's First
Corps
headquarters to Camp Zama! Stop the
development
and deployment of missile defences!
Denounce the Koizumi government for
inciting
chauvinistic nationalism against China,
against
South Korea, in its bid to revise the
Constitution
and strengthen the US-Japan military
alliance!
Stop Koizumi visiting Yasukuni Shrine!
Denounce
the adoption by local governments and
junior
high schools of history textbooks extolling
Japan's past aggression against Asia
as a
'holy war for Greater East Asia'!
Oppose the Chinese Hu government and
its
build-up of nuclear military power!
Denounce
the Chinese government of the Stalinist
bureaucracy
for stirring up anti-Japanese chauvinism
to shift the blame for domestic contradictions!
Advance mass struggles in solidarity
with
the toiling people in China and South
Korea
to oppose constitutional amendment,
the Iraq
War and the strengthening of the US-Japan
military alliance!
Fight for the overthrow of the Koizumi
government,
Bush's poodle kept on the chain of
the US-Japan
military alliance!
Comrades all over the world!
Be aware that the mired situation in
the
Iraq War is the beginning of the annihilation
of humankind caused by the unrestricted
development
and use of nuclear weapons!
Workers all over the world, unite and
rise
in antiwar struggles aiming to break
through
the darkness that hangs over the 21st
century
world!
Let us fight it out together!
(June 25th, 2005)(Translation modified)
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- Revolutionary Marxists in Britain
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Revolutionary Marxists in Britain
July 21st 2005, London, Britain
Revolutionary Marxists in Britain send
warmest
fraternal greetings to the 43rd International
Anti-War Assembly. The British working
class
faces many attacks. Redundancies are
widespread,
many privatizations are being carried
out,
leading to severe attacks on the living
conditions
of the working class.
The Blair government is still following
its
policy of sending troops to suppress
the
Iraqi working people.
There is much opposition in Britain
to the
war in Iraq. In 2003 more than one
million
people marched through London to protest
against British involvement. Yet the
social
democratic leadership of the trade
unions
has totally failed to mobilize trade
unionists
against the war.
As the Overseas Appeal points out,
Anglo-American
imperialism has been totally unable
to defeat
the working people of Iraq. Their failure
is reflected in reports in the British
press
that the Blair government is considering
the withdrawal of at least some of
its troops
in Iraq. It seems possible that Blair
will
seek to distance himself from Bush
and attempt
to gain influence in Europe at the
expense
of France and Germany. But this will
not
stop him from making attacks on the
British
working class. For us, the task remains
of
building a revolutionary vanguard that
can
overthrow the Blair government and
the capitalist
system that it represents.
To us, the Overseas Appeal represents
a very
clear and correct analysis of the world
situation
and of the tasks facing all communists.
Despite their inability to crush the
Iraqi
working people, the imperialists continue
to commit large scale atrocities in
Iraq.
To our shame, they are only able to
do this
because of the absence of strong and
effective
anti-war movements in the economically
advanced
countries.
The Appeal correctly points out the
danger
of a conflict in East Asia. The Bush
regime
is thoroughly alarmed by the rise of
China
as a developing new superpower. It
will seek
to use its alliance with the Koizumi
government
in Japan to prevent the unification
of Korea
and the return of Taiwan to China.
There is also the danger of a conflict
between
U.S. imperialism and Russia with the
C.I.A.
seeking to subvert for its own purposes
C.I.S.
states such as Georgia and Kyrgyzstan.
The Appeal shows correct and timely
leadership
to militant workers and others in calling
upon American workers to fight against
the
AFL/CIO leadership, in calling Chinese
workers
to fight against the nationalist strivings
of the Hu government and in calling
on Russian
workers to overthrow Putin.
We are greatly encouraged by what you
have
built in Japan. We are especially inspired
by the courageous fight of the teachers
against
being compelled to show respect for
the national
flag and anthem.
We here in Britain have the responsibility
to build a movement similar to that
which
you have built in Japan. We have to
break
the hold of the social democratic trade
union
bureaucracies that hold back the struggles
of the working class. This will not
be an
easy task. But we can succeed if we
learn
the lessons of what you have built
and if
we study the writings of Comrade Kuroda.
Your fight is our fight.
Long live proletarian internationalism.
PS: Bombings occurred in London on
7th July
resulting in many casualties. Although
carried
out by British Moslems, we have reason
to
believe that the bombing was masterminded,
however indirectly, by the CIA. This
has
been argued strongly by Kaihoh, the
paper
of the JRCL.
G. W. Bush and the empire he represents
is
facing a crisis, rapidly losing the
support
of the governments of other nations.
We suspect
that the CIA involvement aims to put
pressure
on the Blair government in Britain
to maintain
its association with Bush and his so-called
'anti-terrorist' strategy
The governments of Britain and Japan
will
use the bombings as a pretext to intensify
their oppression of the working class.
We
need to fight back and to redouble
our support
to all those Moslems who are fighting
imperialism.
TAVINI HUIRAATIRA FLP
5 aout 2005, Papeete, Polynesie Francaise
(Te Ao Maohi)
Au nom du Tavini Huiraatira no te ao maohi
et a l'occasion du 43 eme congres anti
war,
je vous adresse mes salutations de
militant
contre toutes les guerres, contre toutes
les formes d'occupation, et de destructions
terroristes auxquels nous assistons
aujourd'hui
a travers le monde.
Salutations fraternelles a tous les
congressistes,
a tous ceux et celles qui participent
au
congres en ce jour, Dimanche 7 Aout
2005;
Semaine qui commemore le bombardement
de
Hiroshima et Nagasaki; Cet acte destructeur,
terroriste et affreux qui restera a
jamais
dans nos memoires.
Salutations a tous mes amis qui nous
ont
soutenu et qui nous soutiennent encore
dans
notre combat pour l'eradication du
colonialisme
en Polynesie Francaise (Te Ao Maohi).
Notre combat doit continuer et il doit
se
faire ensemble car notre union fera
une force
de paix pour demain.
Condamnons ensemble toutes les formes
de
guerres a travers la planete et faisons
le
savoir haut et fort et avec conviction
a
tous les responsables de cette terreur
Soutenons ensemble toutes les resolutions
qui seront prises a l'occasion de ce
43 eme
congres et transmettons nos messages
de paix
au monde entier.
Iaorana et Maururu
UNION PACIFISTE DE FRANCE
July 20th 2005, Paris, France
Dear Friends,
As we were in South Korea for the War
Resister's
International Council meeting at the
beginning
of July, the delegation of UNION PACIFISTE
DE FRANCE, was very happy to discover
the
huge antimilitaristic culture you have
in
Japan and Korea.
The struggle to expulse the US base
is in
a good way, we give the experience
of the
Larzac in France, where resister's
succeed
in stopping the extension of an enormous
military camp ("sheep non canons"
was the slogan of the peasants invading
the
Eiffel tower in Paris, and after ten
years
the pacifist victory take place in
1982!).
The action against nuclear (civil or
military
is strictly the same) have to be developed
in concert with yours countries.
Abolition of armies remains an indispensable
priority in these times of war against
terrorism:
isn't terrorism an other word for militarism?
Those who want peace have to repeat
all the
time that they will never bear any
arm, and
be conscientious objectors all their
life.
The world-known philosopher Albert
CAMUS
does not say another thing supporting
total
resister!
UPF, French section of WRI, wish you
a fruitful
congress, and in that period where
the planet
is a village, with Internet, it will
be great
to keep in touch in all our common
campaigns.
David McReynolds
(former Chair, War Resisters International;
member, Socialist Party National Committee)
July 26th 2005, New York, USA
Thanks for the photo of last years'
assembly.
I'm impressed that you will be holding
meetings
in so many locations - including Okinawa,
from which the United States must withdraw
its military bases.
While I am a member of the Socialist
Party's
National Committee, these greetings
are personal
and I do not speak for the Socialist
Party.
It is crucial that all of us, across
the
world, remain committed in opposition
to
militarism, and in seeking the peaceful
resolution
of conflict.
It is important that your movement
is able
to take a strong stand against the
Japanese
government, which seeks to weaken the
Japanese
Constitution with its renunciation
of war.
And important also that I know you
oppose
the deployment of Japanese "self
defense
forces" in Iraq.
Those of us in the peace and social
justice
movements in the United States feel
deep
regret that we have not been able to
reverse
US policy.
It is a grave crime against humanity,
a violation
of international law and the UN Charter,
that George Bush has been able to launch
the war against Iraq.
This was a war launched to secure further
control of energy resources. We are
horrified
at the violence unleashed within Iraq
by
the US invasion, and the subsequent
bloodshed
which claims so many civilian lives.
The
United States must withdraw from Iraq
without
conditions.
One of the things which we need to
do, no
matter where we live, is engage in
the search
for renewable energy. Oil supplies
are limited,
while the energy needs of the US, Western
Europe, China, Japan, etc., continue
to increase.
I apologize for this statement being
too
long - let me wish you success in your
assemblies,
and hope that if your members come
through
New York City I will be able to meet
them.
Peace.
The Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK)
July 20th 2005, Athens, Greece
Dear comrades,
The Workers Revolutionary Party (EEK)
of
Greece salutes the 43rd International
Antiwar
Assembly in Japan and expresses its
full
solidarity in our common international
struggle
against the war that terrorist imperialism
and its "Coalition of the willing"
war criminals have unleashed against
Iraq,
Afghanistan and all humanity.
The Japanese people that first had
the tragic
experience of the nuclear barbarism
of U.S.
imperialism take its rightful place
in the
forefront of the world struggle to
defeat
imperialism and its war plans.
The Bush Administration with its murderous
accomplices in Britain, Europe and
Japan
have destroyed and continue to destroy
thousands
innocent lives of the people in Occupied
Iraq, in the entire Middle East-first
of
all in Palestine-in Afghanistan; they
did
not stop to threaten to expand this
war madness
in Syria, Iran, North Korea and dozens
other
countries of the so-called 'Axis Of
Evil'
extending from Belarus to Venezuela,
literally
on a world scale. Bush, Blair and Company
are responsible not only for the tragedy
of the Iraqi, Afghan or Palestinian
peoples
but as well for the extension of the
war
inside their own countries: the imperialists
who launched the terrorist war against
the
oppressed peoples abroad are guilty
for the
innocent victims in the bombings in
London
and Madrid. They spread disasters everywhere
and they collect disasters back at
home.
At the same time they savagely attack
all
the civil liberties and the social
rights
of the workers and other popular strata
in
the metropolitan countries, establishing
a permanent "State of Emergency",
a Police State in the name of the "war
on terror". As a matter of fact
their
concern is not safety but surveillance
of
the citizens, of the "internal
enemy"-
namely the working class who suffers
all
the pains and burdens of the capitalist
crisis,
mass unemployment, mass impoverishment,
and
State repression and who fights back
resolutely.
But despite the disasters and the sufferings
they impose to the peoples of the world,
their plans are doomed to fail, thanks
both
to the revolutionary struggles and
resistances
of the oppressed masses as well because
of
the insolubility of the systemic crisis
of
capitalism. All over the world, from
the
heroic Iraqi resistance to Occupation
and
the Palestinian struggle against the
Bush-Sharon
plans to defeat the national struggle
and
perpetuate Zionist rule on an usurped
land,
to Latin America, the backyard of US
imperialism,
which has been transformed into a revolutionary
volcano from Venezuela and Bolivia
to Argentina,
the tendency towards social and anti-imperialist
rebellions is both arising from and
deepening
the capitalist crisis. In Europe itself,
the powerful blow given to the European
imperialist
project by the 'No' to the Draft EU
Constitution
in the referendums in France and Holland
is a manifestation of the social resistance
of the workers, unemployed, immigrants
and
youth against the misery spread by
the anti-working
class anti-popular measures of the
capitalist
governments in the European Union.
As a part
of this resistance in Greece we had
already
four General Strikes so far in 2005
in defense
of social rights against anti-labor
laws.
The combination of the impasse of U.S.
imperialism
in Iraq, of the sharpening of the structural
crisis in the European Union, and of
the
exacerbation of the contradictions
in Russia
and in the former Soviet space, produce
now,
again, a new dangerous crisis in the
Balkans.
Nobody should forget that the infernal
chain
of wars, following the collapse of
the Soviet
Union, has started from the Balkans
and the
imperialist interventions that have
destroyed
Yugoslavia before moving to Afghanistan
and
Iraq. Our Party together with other
revolutionary
forces in the region had the initiative
to
establish in 2000, in the aftermath
of the
NATO war against Yugoslavia, the Balkan
Socialist
Center "Christian Rakovsky"
to
fight against imperialism and the local
chauvinist
cliques and ruling classes, for the
socialist
unification of the Balkans into a Balkan
Socialist Federation. Next September
our
Center holds its 4th Conference against
imperialist
war, State repression and mass impoverishment
in our region.
We are convinced that our revolutionary
struggle
against imperialism and its war will
be victorious.
Peace can and should be established
by transforming
the imperialist permanent war into
a permanent
revolution to overthrow the capitalist
governments
responsible for the crimes of war and
occupation.
To achieve this goal we need now more
than
ever before a revolutionary International
of the working class. Our Party dedicates
all its forces to this historical goal.
Long live proletarian internationalism!
Down
with imperialism!
Imperialist troops out from Iraq now!
Dismantle
all U.S./NATO military bases in the
world.
In Europe, America and Japan, transform
the
imperialist war into a class war to
overthrow
the governments of the war criminals
and
the system that generates wars!
Forward to the International! Forward
to
the world socialist revolution!
B|pty}y P~y~
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sp~yxpyy "P}uuz"
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News and Letters
3 August 2005 Chicago USA
Dear Friends:
Revolutionary greetings from Marxist-Humanists
in the U.S.!
Please know that we stand in solidarity
with
you in the commemoration of the infamous
decision by the U.S. to annihilate
innocent
people in Hiroshima and Nagasaki six
decades
ago. An international movement against
nuclear
weapons and war arose in the ashes
of those
horrific bombings. It continues against
war
and terrorism today.
As the 21st century unfolds, the rule
of
capital has globalized unlike any period
before now. Yet the mainspring of capitalism
remains as Karl Marx described it,
a system
of production of values and surplus
value,
based on countless unpaid hours of
labor.
New forces and new passions continually
arise
against the many alienations engendered
by
capitalism nevertheless. It's time
for a
philosophically grounded alternative
to capitalism
to meet human aspirations for liberation.
Contending with the vision of a new,
human
society today are retrogressive forces--the
imperialist ambitions of the U.S. and
religious
fundamentalism globally. In Iraq, these
forces
obscure the real aspirations of women,
workers
and youth organizing for freedom.
We will also convene soon. The focus
for
our deliberations is our "Draft
Perspectives
for Marxist-Humanism, 2005-2006."
The
outline and some aspects are here,
as part
of our contribution to your antiwar
assembly.
The whole document can be found on
our web
site and in our newspaper.
Northstar Compass
July 14th 2005, Toronto, Canada
To all delegates at this historic 43rd
International
Antiwar Assembly:
Dear friends in struggle:
Sometimes it seems that antiwar assemblies
are not noticed or do not have any
effect
on the peoples of the world! But let
us assure
you that in far away Canada, your Assembly
and your message is spread far and
wide and
many of us get inspiration from your
work,
thus making us more than ever dedicated
to
follow in your footsteps.
Imperialism is more and more enmeshed
with
the ideology of fascism, thus making
it difficult
to distinguish these two reactionary
ideologies
apart - their aim was and is to dominate
the world. Not ony militarily, but
dominate
the mass media to stupify the people
to believe
that these Quasi-Fascists are bringing
"democracy"
to the people of the world.
We wish you dear friends success and
courage
to carry ever forward the banner of
peace
and brotherhood of men.
At this time we would ask that the
Executive
Committee elect a delegation that would
be
our honoured guests and to come and
present
your message to the delegates from
37 countries
that will gather in Toronto, Canada
from
September 23-24-25, 2005 at the Second
World
Congress for Friendship and Solidarity
with
Soviet People - to help the Soviet
people
regain their country and build socialism,
and thus stand up against this NATO
New World
Order - sowing seeds of fascism all
over
the world.
Glory to the 43rd International Antiwar
Assembly
in Japan!
New Communist Party of Britain
July 27th 2005, London, Britain
Dear Comrades,
The New Communist Party of Britain
and its
weekly, the New Worker, once again
joins
in spirit with the peace-loving people
of
Japan gathering for the 43rd International
Anti-war Assembly in August. We pause
to
recall the tremendous sacrifice of
those
who have gone before us in defeating
the
Axis alliance in the Second World War
while
remembering the tragic and needless
atomic
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by
the
United States when Japanese imperialism
was
on its knees and already begging for
an armistice.
The fight for peace is inexorably linked
to the struggle for justice. The campaign
for peace must inevitably challenge
world
imperialism which is the greatest threat
to peace. The challenge to imperialism
must
present an alternative to the capitalist
system of oppression and exploitation
that
is the root cause of all conflicts
in the
world today.
Millions of people in Britain have
taken
to the streets in protests against
the Blair
government's complicity in the invasion
and
occupation of Iraq. More recently hundreds
of thousands rallied against the G8
summit
in Scotland under the slogan of "Making
Poverty History". But social justice,
the end of poverty and the end of all
wars
can ultimately only be achieved through
socialism.
Today the peoples of the world face
new dangers
and new horrors. The primary contradiction
in the world today is between US imperialism
and the peoples of the world.
All over the world people are struggling
for independence and the right to live
their
lives without imperialism interference.
The
heroic people of Iraq have fought the
US-led
invaders to a standstill. The Venezuelan
people have closed ranks around the
Chavez
leadership to defend their democratic
revolution.
The government and the working people
of
the Democratic People's Republic of
Korea
remain steadfast in the face of US
imperialist
threats and other socialist countries
like
People's China, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba
are
continuing on their own paths of peaceful
development and socialist construction.
Today we see the beginnings of a global
campaign
against imperialism that is uniting
all those
striving for peace with the solidarity
movements
that stand by the people of Iraq, Palestine,
Venezuela and Colombia and all the
other
peoples fighting for freedom throughout
the
world. Let us all work for a global
anti-imperialist
peace movement to shake the whole rotten
edifice of imperialism to the ground.
With best wishes,
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