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Hello,
I'd like to present you a statement of the WPB regarding the
attacks in the USA.
Dirk Adriaensens.
Statement of the Political Bureau of the
Workers' 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 Mobutušs in power people
subordinate to the US, who would not hesitate to massacre their own people, away
from the camerašs. 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 Nazišs 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 Ģ freedom
fighter ģ, 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.
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