Mobilitarsi contro la guerra

Pubblichiamo nei nostri siti e mandiamo nelle liste una risoluzione della più importante rete antiguerra americana, l’international action center che ha la sede principale proprio a NY da dove proviene la risoluzione..

Le manifestazioni previste contro la guerra e la nato devono essere rilanciate, la solidarietà globale, il soccorso da popolo a popolo deve essere rilanciato, bisogna lottare contro la repressione interna e il razzismo.

I pacifisti a NY non hanno alcuna esitazione.

Sotto mettiamo in linea anche la risoluzione in inglese del partito dei lavoratori del Belgio, speriamo di farcela nell’andare rapidamente oltre i nostri abituali orizzonti organizzativi e culturali.

Statement from the International Action Center on Events of September 11, 2001 This statement was written from New York City. Everyone here has been deeply affected by today's events. The International Action Center extends its most heartfelt sympathies and condolences to all those who have lost loved ones today as well as the thousands of workers who were in lower Manhattan today. While at this moment thousands of families are in mourning for the death and injuries of loved ones, the Bush administration is taking advantage of the tragic human toll to strengthen the forces of repression while intensifying the Pentagon's war drive, especially in the Middle East. Arab and Muslim peoples in the United States are reporting that they are facing racist harassment in their communities, on their jobs and at mosques. Anti-Arab racism is a poison that should be repudiated. We call on all people who oppose racism to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Arab-American community in the face of this reactionary frenzy. After the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, the U.S. government and media were quick to speculate that Arab and Islamic organizations were responsible; but as everyone now knows, extreme right-wing Army veteran Timothy McVeigh was to blame. New War Danger The International Action Center urges all anti-war activists and progressive people to remain on the highest alert in opposing the Bush administration and the Pentagon's plans to use this crisis as the springboard for a new round of aggression in the Third World, especially against the people of the Middle East. In August 1998, the Pentagon delivered murderous cruise missile air strikes against a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan without any evidence, supposedly in retaliation for the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Kenya. The cruise missiles destroyed the Al Shifa Pharmaceutical factory that provided most of Sudan's medicines. Thousands of African people perished as a direct result of the Pentagon's bombing. President Ronald Reagan ordered the invasion of Grenada in the Caribbean shortly after a truck bomb exploded at a U.S. Marine Corps base in Lebanon in 1983. Under Bush senior, over 2,000 Panamanians were killed in the middle of the night on Christmas Eve in 1989 under the pretext of the war on drugs. In 1986, after pointing a finger at Syria, Iran and several Palestinian organizations for an explosion at a discothèque in Germany, U.S. aircraft bombed Tripoli and Benzagi in Libya. Hundreds of civilians, including children, died in their sleep as the U.S. Air Force carried out this nighttime sneak attack. We ask activists and the people of this country to be ready to protest new Pentagon aggression in the coming period. The Bush administration will use this current crisis as a means to justify a further expansion of the Pentagon's war budget at the expense of money for housing, education, health care, jobs and other human needs. Danger of More State Repression Throughout the country, the military, FBI and local police authorities are now sealing off large urban areas, blockading bridges, tunnels and roads, and mobilizing a massive presence of police and the National Guard. All this reveals an advanced stage of planning for domestic repression that can be used against the progressive and labor movements, and the Black, Latino, Asian, Arab and other oppressed communities. All the more reason to resist the current efforts to strengthen police measures under cover of the present crisis. Build Solidarity The people of New York City and the country cannot allow the Bush administration and the Pentagon to play on their genuine feelings of shock and disbelief to stir reaction and strengthen the forces of repression. This will not help the working and oppressed people of this or any country. The only way to respond to today's events is to extend solidarity to the families and friends of those who perished or who were injured at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; build global solidarity with people around the world struggling against war, poverty and exploitation; and deepen the movement to protest new Pentagon aggression. ------------------ Send replies to iacenter@action-mail.org

Risoluzione dell’International Action Center di New York 11 settembre 2001 Questa risoluzione è stata scritta a New York City Tutti qui siamo profondamente colpiti dagli eventi odierni. Lo Iacenter fa le sue condoglianze più sentite a tuti quelli che hanno perso i loro cari e alle migliaia di lavoratori che erano in servizio oggi a Manhattan Mentre in questo momento migliaia di famiglie sono in lutto per la morte e le ferite dei loro cari, l’amministrazione Bush cerca di trarre vantaggio delle perdite umane per rafforzare la repressione mentre intensifica la marcia del pentagono verso la guerra specie nel Medio Oriente Arabi e Mussulmani negli USA stanno confrontandosi xon molestie razziste nei loro confronti nelle loro comunità, nei loro posti di lavoro e nelle moschee. Il razzismo anti-arabo è un veleno che deve essere subito ripudiato. Noi chiamiamo tutti quelli che sono contro il razzismo ad appoggiare gli Arabo-Americani nelle comunità contro gli attacchi razzisti. Dopo il bombardamento dell’edificio federale a Oklahoma City nel 1995, il governo americano e i media addossarono prontamente la responsabilità agli Arabi e agli Islamici; ma come adesso tutti conoscono i responsabili erano americani di estrema destra NUOVO PERICOLO DI GUERRA L’International Action Center chiama tutti gli attivisti contro la guerra a mettersi nellà più grande allerta in opposizione all’amministrazione Bush e ai piani del pentagono che vogliono usare la crisi come detonatre di un nuovo ciclo di aggressione nel Terzo Mondo, specialmente contro i popoli del Medio Oriente. Nell’agosto del 1998 il pentagono mandò una salva di cruise contro una fabbrica farmaceutica in Sudan, in supposta rappresaglia all’attacco alla ambasciata Usa in Kenya. I ceuise distrussero la fabbrica Al Shifa che forniva una buona parte delle medicine al Sudan. Migliaia di africani perirono come diretto risultato del bombardamento del Pentagono. Il Presidente Ronald Reagan ordinò l’invasione di Granata nei Carabi dopo che un camion bomba esplose in Libano contro la base dei marines. Sotto Bush padre più di 2000 panamensi furono uccisi nella notte di natale del 1989 col pretesto della guerra alla droga. Nel 1986, dopo aver puntato il dito contro la Siria, l’Iran e diverse organizzazioni palestinesi per un’esplosione in una discoteca in Germania, gli aerei americani bombardarono Tripoli e Bendasi in Libia. Centinaia di civili, inclusi bambini, morirono nei loro letti.. NOI CHIEDIAMO A TUTTI GLI ATTIVISTI E AL POPOLO DI QUESTO PAESE DI ESSERE PRONTI A PROTESTARE CONTRO LE AGGRESSIONI DEL PENTAGON DELL’IMMINENTE FUTURO L’AMMINISTRAZIONE BUSH USERA’ LA CRISI CORRENTE COME UN MEZZO PER GIUSTIFICARE UN’ULTERIORE ESPANSIONE DEL BILANCIO DI GUERRA A SCAPITO DELLA SPESA PER CASE, SCUOLE, CURE MEDICHE, POSTI DI LAVORO E ALTRE UMANE NECESSITA’ PERICOLO DI MAGGIOR REPRESSIONE Nin tutto il paese dilaghano militari, FBI, locale polizia chiudono aree urbane, bloccano ponti tunnels e strade…pericolo di una repressione interna contro le forze progressive e i movimenti dei lavoratori contro i neri i latini, gli arabi, gli asiatici e le altre comunità oppresse. Costruire solidarietà – Soccorso popolare Il popolo di N Y e il paese non possono permettere che l’amministrazione Bush giochi sui suoi sentimenti per ampliare la reazione e rafforzare la repressione. Questo non aiuterà i lavoratori e i popolo oppresso di questo e degli altri paesi IL SOLO MODO DI RISPONDERE AGLI AVVENIMENTI DI OGGI E’ QUELLO DI PRATICARE LA SOLIDARIETA’ ALLE FAMIGLIE E AGLI AMICI DEI COLPITI AL wtc E AL Pentagono, costruire una solidarietà globale dei popoli nel mondo nella lotta contro la guerra, la povertà e lo sfruttamento e approfondire il movimento di protesta contro la nuova aggressione del Pentagono. Scrivi e rispondi a iacenter@action-mail.org

Statement of the Political Bureau of the Workers¹ Party of Belgium regarding
the attacks in the United States of America

11 September 2001, 10 :20 pm

More than anything else, the attacks against the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon, which have shocked the entire world, are signs of the state of
crisis in which the world finds itself, no matter what the world leaders may
say at the high masses of the rich countries, the G8.

Since the collapse of the Berlin wall, the biggest imperialist power has
boasted to be the unchallenged policeman of this planet. For the first time,
it is now confronted with attacks on its own territory, claiming thousands
of victims. Until now, this had been the fate of the Vietnamese, Iraqi,
Yougoslav and so many other peoples at the hands of the US armed forces, and
on a much larger scale.

We share the grief of the relatives and friends of the victims and we convey
them our condolences. The American civilian victims, like the great majority
of the American people, cannot be held responsable for the barbarous
policies of their government and of the transnational corporations it
represents. At the same time, we are deeply shocked by the hypocrisy of the
US government, which bears an enormous responsibility for what has happened
today.

For more than 50 years, the US governement and the US transnational
corporations have been imposing their will on the entire world, destroying
local economies, expropriating peasants, overthrowing popular governments
and putting Pinochets, Marcoses and Mobutu¹s in power people subordinate
to the US, who would not hesitate to massacre their own people, away from
the camera¹s. By doing so, they have aroused the hatred and the revolt of
all the peoples that had become victims. Moreover, the economic crisis that
is hitting the United States is sharpening all internal contraditions in the
US.

In a world full of economic, political and military contradictions, all
hypotheses regarding the origin of these attacks may be valid.

But the superior technological level and the high degree of risk involved in
a country that is so much under intelligence coverage as is the United
States, would make one think that such an enterprise, which started off from
US soil, could never have been realized without a certain complicity from
within the secret services of the US or from other parallel organizations.

For 50 years, the secret services of the United States have been supporting
all fascist, integrist and nationalist currents to divide the people, in
order to protect the interests of the US transnational corporations and to
fight communism and the national liberation movements. They have been
recruiting, arming and training the most fascist and integrist elements of
several countries to become high level terrorists. This ranges from old
Nazi¹s recruited into the US secret services after World War II to the death
squads in El Salvador and the integrist mercenaries in Afghanistan.

With changing political alliances, these terrorists may turn against their
previous masters. This has been the case with the Saudi terrorist Osama bin
Laden, who, just a few years back, was still a « freedom fighter », a
helping hand of the US in their fight against the Soviet Union in
Afghanistan.

We cannot exclude either the hypothesis of complicity of forces of the
American extreme Right, as in Oklahoma, inspired by forces decided to push
Bush towards even harsher economic and military policies.

These attacks could also render a false legitimacy to the US governement, at
a moment when a wave of anti-imperialist protest is expanding in the whole
world, targeting precisely this government as the spearhead of capitalist
globalization, environmental destruction and a new arms race.

They may also be used to conceal the economic and social concerns of the
American people themselves, who are experiencing a rise of unemployment and
a rapid expansion of poverty in their own country.

We join the appeals aimed at preventing the US government and their allied
governments to use these attacks as a pretext for attacking countries that
have nothing to do with this terrorism, but that have been at odds with the
US government because of their independent policies ; or to use these
attacks to strengthen antidemocratic measures in the United States and
elsewhere. Such a reaction would only increase the dangers of war and of
fascism.

The people of the entire world are right to be concerned about the deeper
meaning of these attacks. They are the consequence of the sharpening of all
fundamental contradictions in society, which are rightly denounced by the
workers and the youth in the framework of the movement against imperialist
globalization. In order to resolve these contradictions, there is no other
way than to work for the unity of the struggles of the workers and the
peoples of the entire world, and to carry the demands for social justice,
genuine democracy and peace ever further. Terrorist action does not allow to
realize these objectives ; but measures of military reprisal and repression,
and the increasing racism of the imperialist governments do so even less. To
continue on the road taken by the movements of Seattle and Genua, and of the
peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America against all consequences of
colonialism and neocolonialism, is the only way to work seriously for the
future of humankind.