AUT: Florence ESF

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an</param><bigger>H</bold>ere is the leaflet we are going to distribute in=
 Florence, at the European
Social Forum.

The IBRP<bold><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger><bigger>

We can't impede the war
without felling the capitalism
down

</bold><smaller><smaller><smaller><smaller><smaller><smaller><smaller>US i=
mperialism is on the verge of once again launching death and destruction o=
n the
Iraqi population. Once again Saddam Hussein is enemy number one, threateni=
ng peace
and democracy. In reality, Saddam Hussein was very useful when he butchere=
d
thousands of Iranian and Iraqi proletarians, both on his own account and o=
n that of
the Western and Soviet imperialisms. He is also useful now (as he was in 1=
991) as a
cover for the hypocrisy of the war mongers, according to whom Iraq will ha=
ve at its
disposal weapons of mass destruction. Twelve years of embargoes and bombin=
gs
have exhausted the Iraqi population and have driven society back decades.<=
bigger>

<smaller>As in 1991 in Kosovo and Afghanistan, what is at stake is who wil=
l control oil and the
financial yield it brings. In short, the continuing global supremacy of US=
 imperialism is
in confrontation with rival imperialisms, such as the European Union, Russ=
ia, China
and Japan. In fact all these powers are showing an impatience, if not an o=
pen
opposition to the US, which forces them to buy petrol in dollars and then =
gets a huge
rake-off in financial revenues. As a result they are working towards the e=
stablishment
of an alternative petrol market, starting with petrol from Iran and Iraq. =
It is no
coincidence that both stand under a US embargo.<bigger>

<smaller>The intensification of imperialist rivalry has come about as a di=
rect result of the
capitalist crisis which, while intensifying and multiplying hotbeds of war=
, has also
intensified the global attacks on the living and working conditions of the=
 proletariat,
including increased unemployment, precarious employment, low salaries and =
the
erosion of the =93welfare=94. the =91. The working class faces super-explo=
itation to offset
falling profits and to feed growing financial speculation. An increase in =
both
exploitation and imperialist war - these are the fixed paths on the journe=
y capitalism
always takes while searching for a way out of its crises.<bigger>

<smaller>And, as ever in a period of crisis, the reformists show their imp=
otence at resolving the
enormous problems of an exploited and oppressed humanity in a world driven=
 to
destruction.<bigger>

<smaller>Genetically incapable of understanding the mechanisms of capital,=
 the reformists
deceive themselves and others as to the existence of a capitalism with a h=
uman face
(with equitable and fair trade, incomes worthy of citizens, etc). They foo=
l themselves
and others about the real nature of the state and bourgeois democracy, whi=
ch, in their
dreams, leads to a Europe more democratic and more peaceful than the US. I=
n short
they adhere to a reformism which believes it can rescue and integrate into=
 its
strategies those unions which, on both a European and global level, have a=
ccepted
and imposed on the world=92s working class daily attacks under the banner =
of neo-
liberalism.<bigger>

<smaller>Their reformism leaves itself open =97 involuntarily of course =97=
 to a ferocious
repression of the masses (as seen in Genova in 2001)<bigger>

<smaller>Neither civil society, nor any different (?!) use of bourgeois in=
stitutions or the
parliamentary parties of the left, nor the mysterious =91multitudes=92 whi=
ch simply march
along the street can realistically oppose war and exploitation.<bigger>

<bold><smaller>Only the struggle of the working class in the factories, in=
 the workplace and in the
streets can do so, and only then if it is genuinely self-organised and out=
side of and
against the union=92s logic.</bold><bigger>

<bold><smaller>Only a revolutionary party organised on an international sc=
ale, a party which has
criticised Stalinism and its heirs, can show the way to a better world.</b=
old><bigger>

<smaller>Join with us!<bigger>

<bold><smaller>The IBRP
<italic></bold>29th of Nov. 2002 </italic><bigger>


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