'Not a Single Soldier, Not a Single Peso' for Syrian Misadventure!
(La Jornada, Mexico)
"This is a typical response of capitalism to a long
economic crisis that appears without end: international financial capital
expects, as it has in the past, to break the deadlock with a great war that
will destroy property, deprive millions of people of their lives, and create a situation
requiring massive reconstruction under conditions of global servitude and enslavement.
... The war must be globally repudiated and prevented before it's too late. We must
immediately demand that governments everywhere explicitly oppose this military
adventure. Not a single soldier, not a single peso for this adventure against
the Arab people!"
The
United States and the former colonial powers are preparing to attack
Syria militarily. However, as in the war against Serbia, the real targets are in
fact elsewhere. In this case, Russia again, the great power in crisis, possessor of
gas and oil in the north; and Iran, the socio-political threat to Israel and
the Gulf monarchies, and the key to Persian oil. It would be a blow to these
countries, and to China, which defends Iran and Syria and fundamentally agrees
with Russia. All of of these nations see this as a prelude to an attack on Venezuela
(protected by them and by virtue of its vast oil reserves).
The
war they are about to launch against Syria seeks, ultimately, to return to
square one the open process of decolonization that began after World War II,
install the imperial vassal Israel as the only power in the region, and defeat
the process of democratization in the Arab world. Above all, this is a typical
response of capitalism to a long economic crisis that appears without end:
international financial capital expects, as it has in the past, to break the
deadlock with a great war that will destroy property, deprive millions of
people of their lives, and create a situation requiring massive reconstruction under
conditions of global servitude and enslavement.
So
it all fits together: rising unemployment rates in Europe; a massive reversal
of social progress; raising the retirement age and cutting social assistance,
as in France; speculative attacks against the Brazilian currency; decisions by
the United States in favor of vulture capitalists, as in the case of Argentina,
in order to bankrupt it; and efforts to destabilize Venezuela, along with the
repression in Tunisia and counterrevolution in Egypt, which even includes an
alliance with the forces of Mubarak.
The
major offensive of capital against direct and indirect wages in all nations,
and reactionary laws and attacks against progressive governments, find their direct
political and military expression in the preparations for war in the Middle
East. This, despite the caution of part of the Pentagon and Israel itself, which
fear seeing a fundamentalist Islamic government in Damascus, and hold that
anything more than a limited strike would spread the conflict to much of the
world, causing a catastrophe so terrible it would be unprecedented in human and
material terms. The blindness of the traditional European left, which rejects
the social policies of their respective governments, and fails to focus its
efforts on denouncing and trying to attempt to prevent the costly and
devastating war now being prepared, shows that people can expect nothing of
them. We have to act without and rise above them.
The
pretext for the war against Syria is the dictatorship of the Assad government, an
odious regime that for decades has served as an indirect supporter of racism
and guarantor of apartheid in Israel and the region. But one cannot believe his
accomplices, who now say they want to be his executioners. The same day that Foreign Policy published declassified 1988
CIA and State Department documents proving that they knew Saddam Hussein
had sarin gas, would use it against Iran, and that the
U.S. helped Saddam launch it, the United Kingdom and the United States decided
to attack Syria - and without even waiting for a report by U.N. inspectors, in
the country to determine whether chemical weapons were used, and if they were, who
used them - an opposition group or the Syrian army. As in the case of the
attack on Iraq, the verdict of the pirates was handed down before any evidence was
presented or trial conducted.
Yet
the reactionary military group in London and Washington, along with its French,
pro-Israeli, socialist lapdog, who repressed the democratic revolution in Egypt
after hardly stepping in a pool of blood, have decided to act in Syria. Why?
Because the Cairo regime's failure to intervene in Syria gave a green
light to their adventure.
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As
in Afghanistan, where the Americans armed and used bin Laden and the Taliban
against the-then Soviet Union (and then had to battle the monster they had spawned),
in Syria, the imperialist powers, despite the doubts of Tel Aviv, are
supporting Salafist groups who tomorrow will defy them, and which are fully prepared
to plunge the country into an inter-religious, inter-ethnic conflict just as
bloody as the one that occurred in the former Yugoslavia. Indeed, the
dictatorial Syrian government has the support of the Alawites,
Christians of various faiths, Palestinians, and Islamic minorities who reject
the fundamentalism of the people funded by Qatar. Furthermore, as in the past, an
inter-religious, inter-ethnic war in Syria will inevitably extend to Lebanon -
and not only because Hezbullah supports Assad, but because in that country, the
old powers want to regain complete dominance.
If
Russia (and China) had not resisted the imperialist operation in Syria, it
would have been their own necks in the guillotine, and would have opened the way
to a colonization of Iran and its territories. In other words, a world that combines
a brutal reduction in human rights with a Nazi-style return of racism, colonialization, and the slavery and exploitation of
hundreds of millions of human beings.
The
Syrians, not the Qataris or imperialists, should decide the fate of Syria. The war
must be globally repudiated and prevented before it's too late. We must immediately
demand that governments everywhere explicitly oppose this military adventure.
Not a single soldier, not a single peso for this adventure against the Arab
people! An immediate cessation of military support and high-powered weaponry for
the so-called Syrian rebels! Immediate political negotiations for peace in
Syria on the basis of a ceasefire to prepare for a constituent assembly that
will lay the groundwork for a new political regime!
