[AUT] Fwd: Some reflections on the events that currently shake Iraq

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>
> Hi there,
> The draft translation in English of our article
> about
> Iraq can be read on our web site
>
<http://www.geocities.com/icgcikg/communism/drafts/iraq_uk.htm>.
>
> In this text we point out the framework of our
> analysis that is neither a philosophical one nor
> trapped into bourgeois considerations and
> explanation,
> but rather our analysis takes its roots deeply into
> our class terrain, class struggle and the need for
> the
> world bourgeoisie to repress any subversive movement
> of our class. The main issue of the war is neither
> oil
> nor strategic problems between bourgeois fractions
> of
> capital. These issues (although they also have some
> importance) are secondary for us and can only be
> considered and understood into a class framework
> starting from the satisfaction of our needs and
> capital's answer. You already know that this region
> is
> in continual turmoil considering class struggles:
>
> ?° revolution in Iran at the end of the seventies,
> ?° height years of war between Iran and Iraq in order
> to break our class movement,
> ?° massive desertion in both camps,
> ?° organization of proletarian associationism and
> class
> groups putting forward the armament issue,
> ?° the Gulf war and the uprising in the North of Iraq
> and in the South as well,
> ?° massive repression by the Iraqi Republican Guard
> thanks to the Coalition that never intervened while
> it
> had the possibilities to overthrow Saddam's regime
> ("the devil"),
> ?° continual unrest in Iraq during the nineties and,
> even in the last weeks of the Bath regime, massive
> desertion of Iraqi soldiers refusing to fight this
> war, massive looting in Baghdad, etc.
>
> Well fellows, read this article, discuss about,
> develop your comments and/or criticism; it's
> important
> to discuss this issue with the purpose to organize
> our
> class answer to bourgeois war. Please don't laugh
> about the linguistical mistakes (my English is so
> bad), this text is being to be checked and corrected
> by an English-speaking comrade.
>
> Another thing that you could also do is to look for
> the web sites, which could be interested in
> receiving
> this text and even other ones. That's a hard job
> because there are thousands of sites and only a very
> few minority of them are interesting and interested.
> This is a reflection of the situation of the
> minorities in the present time: the difficulty to
> keep
> on struggling in an ocean of reformism. That's also
> why, we will be really happy to receive your letters
> and comments. Let's keep on fighting together to
> strengthen our community of struggle!
>
> Now for ending this letter, I emphasize as follows
> some of the main quotations from our article about
> Iraq. Have a good reading:
>
> "To forget that capitalism is the unique mode of
> production that succeeded in unifying all the other
> modes of production in the history of men, this is
> to
> give all these social democrat ideologies more than
> their due, ideologies that undermine, today as
> yesterday, the camp of the proletariat and dive it
> often into false answers."
>
> "We can speak about the materialization of a process
> that generates a real world State of capital merging
> all the fractions of the bourgeoisie that defend the
> general interest of the system, its reproduction
> upon
> an always widened basis, and focusing on a point of
> gravity in order to embrace here and there
> state-controlled structures already existing."
>
> "The world State is definitely this process, this
> movement of permanent reaffirmation of the monopoly
> of
> class violence, inter-fractions struggle and
> generalized unification facing the historic enemy.
> In
> each affirmative period, the world State defines
> itself more strongly, while expressing each time in
> a
> more explicit way the organization of capital as an
> exclusive dominant power, as an exploitation force
> that, in order to secure the world social order,
> requires each time wilder levels of monopolization
> of
> violence in the hands of the bourgeoisie and
> particularly of its most powerful fraction. As a
> world
> State, capital is scared of the permanent
> catastrophe
> it produces, because this catastrophe inevitably
> provokes violent, armed and uncontrolled reactions.
> It
> is essential to defeat these reactions in order to
> maintain its domination. In these cases, it turns
> out
> that it is difficult to think in terms of country:
> the
> process that leads a more determined bourgeois
> fraction to restore order in a socially disrupted
> region, is often going beyond the commonly admitted
> bourgeois division between the States."
>
> "The number one purpose of the bourgeois fraction
> that
> led the Coalition was to put an end once and for all
> to all these proletarians who, guns in their hands,
> challenged the authority of the exploiters since a
> too
> long time. The second purpose was to get rid of
> Saddam
> Hussein and his fraction, incapable to fully assume
> this task."
>
> "The whole bourgeois fractions of the planet had
> joined forces with US Marshal Bush about the main
> purpose of this operation: to restore order in this
> region. None of the exploiters were lacking in this
> war against the proletariat and none of those who
> told
> so loudly their opposition towards this conflict
> made
> nothing at all to prevent it."
>
> "This second intervention in Iraq was not only a
> generalized war between several capitalists
> confronting each other in order to conquer the world
> and to eliminate their enemies in an out of control
> race, but also tremendously looked like a police
> operation, as there happens every day in cities like
> Sao Paulo or Rio de Janeiro, where death squadrons
> paid by rich tradesmen liquidate youngsters and
> young
> proletarians called delinquents, allowing thus to
> kill
> them more easily."
>
> "The relative ease of the invasion troops to go
> through the whole country nearly without incident,
> from the south to the north, proved only one thing:
> that proletarians in Iraq, mobilized, regimented,
> knocked into shape in barracks and sent out to the
> front in order to sacrifice their life on the altar
> of
> the homeland, these proletarians had refused to make
> it."
>
> "The invasion troops had hardly gotten rid of the
> last
> pockets of resistance, that thousands of
> proletarians
> swept into the streets, not in order to applaud
> "their
> liberators", but on the contrary to loot everything
> that could more or less represent the hated power of
> the Bath Party and Saddam Hussein."
>
> "Whereas the official line of "new Iraq" was that
> all
> the evils afflicting the Iraqi were due to the
> cupidity of Saddam's regime, the reality that the
> proletariat every day lives is still worse today
> than
> under Saddam."
>
> "No wonder therefore, if some proletarians rise up
> in
> arms against the Anglo-American troops and start
> using
> guerrilla warfare or even great scale social
> reappropriation in order to survive."
>
> "Through the targets, as well as in the daily
> guerrilla warfare led against the occupation forces,
> one can make out the windings of a proletariat that
> tried to struggle, to get organized against the
> whole
> bourgeois fractions that decided to restore
> capitalist
> order and security in the region, even though it is
> still extremely difficult to appreciate the autonomy
> of our class towards the bourgeois forces that try
> to
> control the anger, the rage of our class against
> everything that more or less represents the world
> state."
>
> "We have also to admit that the attitude expressing
> with force the lifelong position of our class -i.e.
> revolutionary defeatism- unfortunately remains
> terribly isolated into a swamp where pacifism is
> next
> to the flattest third-worldism."
>
>




		
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