Defend
the Palestinian People
Israeli Rulers Prepare
All-Out War
Behind
all
the talk of non-existent cease-fires,
the sudden trips by top U.S. officials
to the Near East and Israeli calls to
“remove” (assassinate) Yasir Arafat lies
the fact that the Zionist leaders are
systematically gearing up to launch a
full-scale attack on Arafat’s
Palestinian Authority (PA). The PA was
the make-believe government set up in
the Occupied Territories by the 1993
Oslo “peace” accord in order to police
the Arab masses and put an end to the
first intifada (uprising). The
whole Oslo “peace” fraud was a product
of the U.S.-dominated New World Order in
the aftermath of the collapse of the
Soviet Union.
The idea that
the NATO chiefs who bombed Belgrade and
Baghdad could or would somehow pressure
Israeli warmongers into making
concessions is a dangerous illusion.
Class-conscious
working
people around the world must defend the
oppressed Palestinian people against the
Zionist oppressors, all the more so in
an outright war. Trotskyists
look
to the international working class to
defend the Palestinian Arab people whose
rights and lives have been trampled on
by the Zionists’ jackboot. Defeats for
imperialism around the world will have a
direct impact in the area. A proletarian
upheaval against the decrepit Arab
regimes anywhere in the Near East would
directly threaten both the Zionists and
the Arab puppets of imperialism. Israeli
Rulers Prepare All-Out War (Summer
2001)
Oil Rig
Catastrophe in Brazil
Petro-Bosses’
Privatization
Means Workers’ Blood!
The 40-story Brazilian oil
platform was the world’s largest when it
went into production last year. But
despite the most advanced technology, the
bosses’ drive to increase profits made the
rig a death trap. Eleven workers died as a
result of the explosions which destroyed
the P-36 platform on March 15. The
frenetic privatization drive of the
state-owned Petrobrás (Brazil Oil) company
has meant mass layoffs and an all-round
assault on workers’ health and safety.
More than 80 workers have been killed in
the last three years. The Class Struggle
Caucus led by the Liga
Quarta-Internacionalista do Brasil calls
in this leaflet for strike action to stop
the capitalist murder. Petro-Bosses’
Privatization
Means Workers Blood (21 March 2001)
“Zapatour” in
Foxlandia, Police Beat Demonstrators
in Cancún, UNAM Students Expelled
Fox Drops the Mask
Since his election last
July, Mexican president Vicente Fox has
posed as the incarnation of democracy.
But on February 27 in Cancún the mask
came off, as federal and local police
beat protesters outside a meeting of the
World Economic Forum. In the capital,
the National University administration
decreed the expulsion of six leaders of
the Strike General Council (CGH).
Meanwhile in the maquiladora
plants on the northern border workers
are waging a bitter struggle against the
bosses’ gun thugs of the corporatist
pseudo-unions. Now there is a new media
circus around the Zapatista caravan to
Mexico City. Even Fox claims to support
the “march for peace,” while Zapatista
National Liberation Army (EZLN) leaders
call on Congress to legislate autonomy
for Mexico’s Indian peoples. The Grupo
Internacionalista warns that “autonomy”
under the military boot is a fraud. Only
workers revolution can liberate the
peasantry and indigenous peoples from
centuries-old oppression. Fox
Drops
the Mask (8 March 2001)
China: For Workers
Political Revolution to Defeat
Capitalist Counterrevolution!
ICL Still
Caught Between Shachtman and Trotsky
In numerous diatribes
against the League for the Fourth
International, the International
Communist League has claimed that the Stalinist
bureaucracies led the
counterrevolution that put the bourgeoisie
in power from East Germany to the Soviet
Union, and are supposedly leading the
counterrevolution in China today. After
four years of vociferously arguing this
anti-Trotskyist position, suddenly last
summer the ICL fell strangely silent. We
alerted our readers that once again the
ICL was about to change its line on a
fundamental question for Marxists. Now
we have it: taking a half-step backward,
the ICL says that in the end the
Stalinists do and don’t, will and won’t
lead the counterrevolution. As it
ricochets to the right, the ICL is
caught in a quandary: how to keep up a
pretense of Trotskyism while turning
toward Shachtmanite Stalinophobia.
<>Part 1: ICL
Still
Caught Between Shachtman and Trotsky
(March 2001)
Part 2: ICL
Decrees:
No More "Reiss Factions" (March
2001)
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