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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