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Support Iran against the Israeli Terrorists and the U.S. and Australian Imperialist Rulers Behind Them!

Photo Above: Huge crowds rally in Iran’s capital, Tehran on 20 June 2025 to oppose Israeli attacks
Photo: Xinhua

Support Iran against the
Israeli Terrorists and the U.S.
and Australian Imperialist
Rulers Behind Them!

20 June 2025 – Israel is one week into its massive military attack on Iran. While continuing to murder and starve to death the Palestinian people in Gaza and unleash terror against the Palestinian people of the West Bank, the Israeli military is now raining death upon the people of Iran. With the support of her allies in Yemen, Iran is bravely fighting back. She and her Ansar Allah (commonly referred to in the West as Houthi) allies have launched 100% justified drone and missile strikes on Israel. But they are facing extremely difficult odds because Israeli forces are receiving huge support from the U.S. imperialists and their Australian and other allies. U.S. president, Donald Trump, has demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender” and threatened to unleash direct U.S. strikes against Iran. However, even now, the U.S. is greatly assisting the Israeli attack. U.S. officials have admitted that the U.S. military is shooting down Iranian retaliatory missile strikes. A U.S. official also stated that the U.S. provided “exquisite” intelligence to Israel to enable its attack on Iran. Moreover, in the days before Israel’s assault, the U.S. quietly delivered to the Israeli military hundreds of Hellfire laser-guided air-to-ground missiles that have been crucial to the attacks. Additionally, the U.S. helped modify the F-35 stealth fighters that it had earlier provided Israel so that they would be able to reach Iran without the need for mid-air refuelling on the way.

This is a war between, on the one hand, the U.S., Australian and other Western imperialists and their Israeli attack dog and, on the other, Iran, a country that while under capitalist rule is resisting the imperialist bullies that economically oppress her and aim for her total subjugation. In such a war, we must stand with the trodden-on country fighting to maintain its independence from imperialism – we must stand for the defence of Iran! The Israeli-Western imperialist attack on Iran – the country that alongside Yemen’s Ansar Allah government has been supporting the Palestinian resistance – is part of their broader war against the people of Gaza. Standing with the Palestinian people means standing with Iran against the Zionist butchers and all the imperialist ruling classes behind them.

Our resolute support for Iran against Israel and its imperialist masters does not mean that we approve of the Iranian government. Far from it! Iran is ruled by a capitalist exploiting class whose domination of society is enforced by an anti-secular regime that subjugates women and brutally persecutes leftists. However, the imperialist Western powers and their genocidal Israeli attack dog are much greater enemies of the working class masses of the world, the peoples of the Global South and the toiling classes of Iran. The final and most ruthless stage of capitalism, imperialism, involves the ruling classes of a handful of richer capitalist countries – principally the U.S., Germany, Japan, France, Britain, Australia, Italy, Canada and Spain – exploiting and robbing the masses of the poorer capitalist countries at an even more extreme rate than that with which they exploit workers in their own countries. Imperialist regimes enforce this plunder by unleashing against those who defy them a combination of military attacks and starvation economic sanctions. They also fund and train the military and political activist campaigns of various proxy movements in these countries. In the 21st century, such Western imperialist operations within the Middle East, North Africa and West Asia alone have killed millions and millions of people. This includes through the U.S./British/Australian invasions and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, NATO’s 2011 regime change attack and subsequent meddling in oil-rich Libya, the Western powers’ successful proxy war against the former, more independent, Syrian government, their proxy war against Yemen, their support for their Israeli attack dog’s genocidal attacks on the Palestinian people and their murderous sanctions on Iraq and then Iran. They have caused even more suffering by the poverty, division and corruption that they have created through their plundering and associated neo-colonial interference operations. Assisted by their two direct military interventions that sought to beat into shape a pliant regime in that country, Australia’s capitalist rulers have plundered tens of billions of dollars from neighbouring East Timor’s rich oil and gas resources resulting in that country having the fifth highest rate of child undernourishment in the world (and the highest in Asia next to war-ravaged Yemen). Put another way, Australia’s exploiting class have killed thousands upon thousands of East Timorese infants over the last two and a half decades by causing them to starve to death.

If the Israeli regime and their U.S. masters succeed in severely weakening Iran – the more so if they achieve their more ambitious goal of precipitating a pro-Western regime change there – then it would embolden the imperialists to intensify their oppression of other Global South countries and more aggressively attack others who defy them. On the other hand, every blow that Iran can land against Israel and their imperialist backers can only encourage the masses in the countries oppressed by imperialism to rise up against neo-colonial tyranny. Moreover, any setback or embarrassment that the imperialist Western rulers and their Israeli attack dog suffer in their campaign against Iran will open up greater opportunities for the working class, dispossessed First Peoples and embattled racial minorities within the Western countries to resist their own oppression. That is why it is in the very interests of the working class, Aboriginal people, Asian, Middle Eastern and African-based minorities and all the other oppressed of this country to stand 100% with Iran in this conflict.

Israel’s largest oil refinery burns after the complex in Haifa was struck by a precise and powerful Iranian missile strike on 15 June 2025.
Photo: The Gaza/Facebook page

Australian Imperialist Regime Sides with Attack on Iran

As the guiding hand behind Israel, the U.S. regime is unashamedly cheering on the Israeli assault. For their part, Australia’s imperialist rulers, like their counterparts ruling Western Europe, Japan and Canada, are also publicly backing Israel. Although they speak of “de-escalation”, they have made it clear that such “de-escalation” must be entirely on Israel’s and the Western powers’ terms. Thus acting prime minister, Richard Marles stressed that “we specifically call on Iran to exercise restraint in their actions so as not to risk any broader conflict.” In other words the Australian government want Iran to simply cop the Israeli aggression and not hit back! Moreover, both extreme war-monger Marles and foreign minister Penny Wong have sided with the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran by speaking of “Israel’s right to defend itself”. They have also sought to legitimise Israel’s aggression by labelling Iran’s efforts to build a ballistic missile (and allegedly in the future a nuclear) deterrent “a threat to international peace and security.” As if the possession of nuclear weapons by the maniacal Zionist regime that is conducting a genocide of the people of Gaza is not the actual, real “threat to international peace and security”! Or that the possession of a huge nuclear arsenal by the Australian imperialists’ U.S. senior partner, which is not only the only regime to have ever dropped nuclear bombs on humans before but has directly killed up to ten million people in countless military attacks ever since – is not an even more terrifying “threat to international peace and security”! It is only because the Albanese Labor government and its counterparts ruling Western Europe, Japan and Canada are worried that Israel’s brazen attack on Iran will provoke such resistance and anti-Western sentiment that it will “destabilise” Western imperialist domination of the world that they speak of the need to “prioritise dialogue and diplomacy”.

The Australian ruling class’ verbal support for Israel’s aggression is exceeded by their military, economic and ideological support. With the backing of all the parties currently in parliament – from the far-right parties, to the Liberals, to the ALP to the Greens – Australian governments have imposed a myriad of sanctions on Iran over the years. These prevented her from acquiring the weapons that she so badly needs to defend herself today. The Australia regime’s sanctions, which include a prohibition of the export to Iran of “certain kinds of graphite, raw metals, semi-finished metals, and software for integrating industrial processes”, have also hurt Iran’s economy, thus making her less able to resist U.S./Israeli aggression. These punitive measures and the hype around them have helped manufacture the ideological “justification” for today’s full-scale assault on Iran. Just last October, the Labor government added further sanctions on Iran.

Australia’s capitalist ruling class is aiding the U.S./Israeli assault in still more direct ways. The joint U.S./Australia Pine Gap spy base near Alice Springs downloads information from two U.S. spy satellites. This base has been transmitting the spy data to Israel to pinpoint its air, missile and artillery strikes on Gaza – thus ensuring that the strikes kill people rather than fall in empty space. Given that U.S. officials have boasted that they have given Israel “exquisite” intelligence to enable its attack on Iran, there is little doubt that the Australia-hosted Pine Gap base is also being used to aid the U.S./Israeli assault on Iran. The Australian regime has also participated heavily in attacks against the Yemeni Ansar Allah allies of the Palestinian and Iranian peoples. Several Australian troops are stationed in the Middle East assisting the U.S.-led operation against Yemen. Meanwhile, an Australian air base in the Northern Territory has been used by aircraft providing air-to-air refuelling of U.S. B2 stealth bombers on their way to bomb Yemen. Just as consequentially, the Australian regime has listed Hamas, Hezbollah and Ansar Allah as “terrorist” organisations. That means that people in this country are unable to make the donations that these groups require to buy the weapons that they so desperately need to wage their resistance against the Zionist terror machine. Additionally, Australian companies sell weapons and supplies to the Israeli military.

What we must do is build workers’ political strikes to oppose each of the methods by which the Australian ruling class is backing the U.S./Israeli war on Iran and Gaza. To lay the basis for such struggles, we need to win over to the cause the most politically advanced and respected worker activists; and then invigorate their commitment to this fight by involving them in rallies calling for support for both Iran and Palestine. To help build such demonstrations, we call on our readers to raise placards at the mass pro-Palestine rallies that emphasise the need to combine defence of Palestine with defence of Iran. Let us also raise slogans demanding: Lift all sanctions on Iran! Close Pine Gap! Australian military get out of the operation attacking the Yemeni allies of Iran and Gaza – troops out of the Middle East! No air-to-air refuelling from Australian bases of U.S. bombers attacking Yemen! Remove Ansar Allah, Hamas and Hezbollah from the “terror” listing! Stop Australian arms sales to Israel!

Resist the Imperialist-Puppet New Regime in Syria!

What has greatly assisted the U.S./Israeli assault on Iran is the takeover of Israel’s neighbour, Syria, last December by far-right-dominated, pro-imperialist “Rebels”. The former Ba’ath Party government led by Bashar al-Assad, although presiding over a state that served the interests of a section of the capitalist class and Syria’s privileged military and state bureaucracy, had tried to maintain independence from the imperialist Western powers. The Ba’athist government facilitated the flow of arms to Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, was allied with Iran and Russia and maintained a close friendship with socialistic China. Although the Assad government’s concrete support to the Palestinian struggle did not reach the levels of its strongly pro-Palestine rhetoric, it nevertheless hosted the bases of several Palestinian resistance groups and refused to maintain any relations with Israel. By contrast, the new imperialist-subservient Syrian regime has proclaimed its wish for friendly ties with Israel and has begun talks with Israel aimed at normalising relations. Most significantly, the new regime has driven out Palestinian resistance groups from the training bases that the former government had allowed. This includes driving out Islamic Jihad, Gaza’s second strongest resistance group, from their base in Syria and arresting two of their leaders. The new regime is also impeding the flow of weapons to Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Thus the new Syrian regime led by “former” Al-Qaeda in Syria leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani (who now calls himself Ahmed al-Sharaa) has not only harmed Palestinian resistance forces but is helping Israel to protect its northern, Lebanese, flank. In all these ways, combined with the confidence that Netanyahu can now have that Israel’s Syrian neighbour will not take action against it in solidarity with Iran, last December’s takeover of Syria by the pro-Western “Rebels” greatly emboldened the Israeli government to attack Iran and intensify its genocidal onslaught against Gaza.

These “Rebels” were only able to triumph because of the massive support that they received from the U.S., British, French, German, Australian and other Western imperialists and their Turkish, Israeli, Qatari, Saudi, Jordanian and Emirati regional allies. These countries imposed such severe economic sanctions on Syria when it was ruled by the previous, more independent, government that it ended up squeezing the previous government and grinding down the Syrian people’s will to resist the imperialist proxy forces. The imperialist powers and their regional allies also poured huge amounts of arms, training, intelligence, supplies and money to their “Rebel” proxies. At crucial times, including through direct U.S. and Turkish participation in their “Rebels” final offensive, the meddling powers also backed their Syrian proxies with direct military action. The regime that the imperialists installed, which is dominated by Al Qaeda-derived anti-secular fanatics, has begun to implement its long-promised, extreme “free market” agenda. It is carrying out a Donald Trump-Elon Musk-style mass firing of public sector workers and has vowed to “open up” Syria to domination by Western capital and that of the imperialists’ Turkish, Saudi and Qatari regional allies. Most notably, the new regime is massacring Syria’s minorities, imposing mandatory dress codes on women and otherwise crushing women’s rights. However, opponents of the new Syrian regime’s slaughter of minorities and subservience to imperialism and Zionism have launched an armed resistance. All supporters of Palestine and all opponents of the U.S./Israeli assault on Iran must support this insurgency and any opposition to the new regime’s attacks on workers and women. Weakening of the pro-imperialist, new regime will allow Palestinian resistance forces an opportunity to establish underground bases in Syria and will enable arms to get through to Iran and Gaza’s Hezbollah allies. We must demand that the Australian regime ends its training and technology cooperation with the Turkish military , which both through direct occupation of northern Syria and arming of the Syrian regime keeps the pro-imperialist Syrian regime in power.

Plunder and World Domination

Holding the world’s third largest oil reserves, imperialist powers have long sought to ensure that a puppet regime rules Iran. When Iran’s then Mosaddegh government moved to nationalise Iran’s oil wealth that was being plundered by the British predecessor to BP, the British and U.S. regimes engineered a coup to overthrow this government in 1953. Although Iran’s current theocratic government oversees the capitalist exploitation of Iranian workers, it does not allow Iran’s resource wealth to be sufficiently plundered by the imperialists for the latter to tolerate it. Moreover, the imperialists’ agenda extends beyond grabbing Iran’s resource wealth. Through either bringing to power a subservient regime in Iran, or at minimum greatly weakening her, the U.S. seeks to ensure its stranglehold over the oil wealth of the entire Middle East. It also seeks the domination of a region that is strategically located at the intersection point of the world’s three most populous continents. After the overthrow of the former Syrian government, Iran – other than for brave but tiny and war-ravaged Yemen – is the last remaining Middle Eastern country that maintains political independence from the Western powers. This and Iran’s efforts to protect her independence by backing imperialism-resisting forces in the region is not acceptable to the U.S. ruling class and its Zionist henchmen.

Australia’s capitalist class does not have significant economic interests in the Middle East. However, it is siding with the Israeli-US forces against Iran not out of subservience to the U.S. but out of its own predatory interests elsewhere in the world. Australia’s capitalist bigwigs are the main neo-colonial plunderers of the South Pacific and also engage in imperialist exploitation in neighbouring southeast Asia and beyond. However, they need the U.S. as the great power guarantor of this imperialist looting and thus want U.S. power to be protected – including in the Middle East. Moreover, there is a particular aim of the Western imperialist campaign against Iran that the Australian rulers are particularly sympathetic to. To understand this we need to note that Iran is the last remaining country in the region – other than Yemen – that is significantly closer to socialistic China than it is to the imperialist Western powers. For the imperial powers this is a big problem given both Iran’s oil wealth and the fact that she is the second most populous country in the strategic Middle East after Egypt. In seeking to greatly weaken Iran, the U.S. and its allies are simultaneously striking a blow against Red China. Ideally, they would install a subservient regime in Iran that would allow them to establish military bases targeting China near her southwestern flank.

Although Australia’s capitalists gain fat profits from their exports to China’s still-booming economy, they want socialistic rule in China crushed as much as their fellow imperialist counterparts do – and for identical reasons too. The mutually beneficial cooperation between China’s giant, socialistic state-owned enterprises and countries in the Global South is undermining the ability of the imperialist ruling classes to continue to super-exploit those countries. Already, China’s economic cooperation with countries in the South Pacific and beyond is causing Australian corporations to lose profits in the region – and they not happy about it! Even more significantly, the capitalist powers are terrified that especially given the disgruntlement amongst their own people, if average incomes in China were to continue to catch up with those of the richest countries and reach those levels in say two or three decades time, then the masses in their own countries will be demanding socialism too. Therefore, even though China’s cautious, national-centred rulers do nothing to consciously encourage the struggle for socialism abroad, the stunning successes of socialistic China in improving the lives of her people is a ticking time bomb that threatens to blow up capitalist rule worldwide if it is not first defused or contained. And the imperialist rulers are only too aware of this threat! That is why they are doing everything possible – from overt military pressure on China in the South China Sea and elsewhere to propaganda campaigns to backing of anti-communist groups within China to anti-China economic measures to targeting China-friendly countries for regime change – to undermine socialistic rule in China.

Most of the U.S. ruling class backs the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in large part because they know that victory over Iran would advance their campaign to crush socialistic China. However, some of the MAGA far-right factions are less enthusiastic about U.S. involvement in this war because they believe that the U.S. should not be distracted by wars unless they are directly aimed against Red China or Cuba or other workers states. Sharing some of the Far Right’s logic, sections of the Australian ruling class, while still backing the war on Iran, are quietly concerned that the U.S. is getting distracted from what they want their mafia godfather to be solely focussed on: squeezing socialistic China – or as they like to euphemistically put it “maintaining American engagement and leadership in the Pacific”. However, although there are differences in strategy, all the different ruling class factions of the various imperialist countries want the destruction of socialistic rule in China. But for the very same reasons that their own rulers are hostile to socialistic China, the working classes of Australia and the other imperialist countries must stand for the unconditional defence of the Chinese workers state. Despite the fragile, deformed and incomplete nature of China’s transition to socialism, the existence of a workers state in the world’s second most populous country is a great conquest for the worldwide struggle against capitalism and imperialism. We must mobilise in action here to demand: U.S./Australia military get out of the South China Sea! Resist Australia’s rapid, anti-China military build up! No to anti-China tariffs and export bans! No to restrictions on Chinese Apps and Chinese companies! Down with the lying propaganda attacks on China over Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and treatment of Uyghurs!

Iranian Leftists Need to Be the Most Resolute Defenders of Iran against Imperialism and its Zionist Henchmen

Any regime change in Iran brought about by the imperialist-Israeli attack would not only be bad for the whole world, it would be a disaster for the Iranian masses. The resulting regime would be a subservient one that would facilitate the theft of a large part of Iran’s resource wealth by her new imperial masters. And as the last imperialist-facilitated regime change in the Middle East proves – the one in Syria – it would hardly spell good news for Iran’s women and minorities either! Indeed, in order to enforce the impoverishment of the country’s toiling classes by the imperialist looters, a new pro-Western regime would need to incite all manner of social reaction. In particular, it would need to divert the masses’ frustrations by whipping up extreme ethnic chauvinism against Iran’s various smaller communities.

On the other hand, a victory for Iran in this conflict would boost the morale of Iran’s toiling classes. They would say to themselves: now that we have defeated the imperialist tyrants let us make short work of our local oppressors too. A victory for Iran over the imperialists and their Israeli attack dog could thus open the door to the type of regime change that the Iranian masses actually need: the triumph of the working class on a militantly anti-imperialist agenda. That is why genuine leftists in Iran must work hard to support Iran’s defence. At the same time they must agitate for measures that would, while strengthening Iran’s war effort, advance the struggle towards a socialist system. For example, they should advocate for expropriating the capitalists in key sectors to strengthen the operation and coordination of the war economy. Iranian leftists should also use the political space that they will be able to carve out through being part of the anti-imperialist forces to advance the struggle towards an anti-imperialist, pro-working class, pro-women’s rights transformation of Iran. For example, they could hold rallies under the banner of “pro-working class secularists for the defence of Iran against imperialism and its Zionist henchmen”; and include in the demonstrations the active participation of women defying the theocratic government’s dress code. Given the needs of the war effort and the masses’ determination to defeat the imperialist-Israeli attack, the government would find it very hard to get away with cracking down on such mobilisations. Genuine Iranian leftists should also form anti-imperialist defence guards to mercilessly crush any groups or individuals who engage in agitation supporting the imperialist-Israeli attackers, or who otherwise obstruct Iran’s war effort. In this way, they will not only contribute to the defence of Iran and win the hearts of the anti-imperialist minded masses but will be able to start to establish organs of workers-leftist power.

In short, Iran’s leftists must prove themselves to be the most resolute and determined defenders of Iran against the U.S.-Israeli attack. However, they should do so in a way that simultaneously advances towards the goal of a working class takeover of Iran. The latter struggle cannot be postponed, because unless the masses know that they are fighting for a future that’s more than simply the maintenance of the current oppressive, capitalist order, sizable parts of the Iranian masses will not fight with the energy and courage needed to defeat their imperialist attackers. This was proven last December in Syria. There, although the toiling masses had bravely resisted the imperialist proxies for years and although they largely continued to fear what a pro-imperialist victory would bring, they did not end up fighting to the bitter end, because they did not feel that they were fighting for their own social liberation as well. In the face of the overwhelming power of the imperialist Western powers and their heavily armed Israeli attack dog, the Iranian masses can only triumph by fighting with the greatest of heroism and courage. That is why the Iranian masses need to know that while fighting for their national independence against imperialism and its proxies, they are also simultaneously advancing towards their own class liberation and the associated liberation of women. It is this perspective that made the Vietnamese toilers fight with the most incredible heroism to triumph in the Vietnam War against U.S. and Australian imperialism, despite facing odds far more unfavourable than what Iran faces today.

The “Disarmament” Demand in the Service of Imperialism

The cover for Israel’s attack was provided by the Western-dominated UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The day before Israel launched its strikes, the IAEA “found” that Iran was non-compliant with the “obligations” that the capitalist powers had imposed on her to declare her nuclear fuel stocks and uranium enrichment activities. These “obligations” were imposed on Iran with the stated aim of preventing her from acquiring nuclear weapons. Thus under the cover of “disarmament” and “opposition to the proliferation of nuclear weapons”, Israel and the imperialists are committing mass murder against the people of Iran. This shows how the slogan of “disarmament” can be twisted to serve any agenda. It should therefore never be used by leftists as a general non-specific demand. This is what Russian revolutionary leader, V.I. Lenin, emphatically insisted in his crucial work written during the height of World War I, The Disarmament Slogan. In sharp contrast to general appeals for “disarmament”, we say: Disarm the imperialists and arm those resisting them!

In truth, it is likely that Iran remains some distance away from acquiring nuclear weapons. Moreover, her rulers insist that they do not seek nuclear weapons. However, for us, whether they do or not is not the point. As a country in the Global South targeted by the imperialists, Iran has a right to develop nuclear weapons. Indeed, if she already had a strong nuclear deterrence capability, the U.S. and Israel would have been much less willing to attack her. Given that unfortunately Iran does not have nuclear weapons, she needs all the conventional weapons that she can get. In particular we appeal to China, which has verbally condemned the attack on Iran, to do its socialist duty and send Iran the most potent weaponry available – including China’s advanced J-20 stealth fighter aircraft, surface to air missiles and other anti-aircraft warfare systems and ballistic missiles. Given that the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran is in good part ultimately aimed against China, this would be an act of self-defence for the Chinese workers state. China’s masses must press their leaders to abandon their futile dreams that the capitalist powers will “peacefully co-exist” with socialistic China. They must demand that their leaders instead do everything possible to resist the imperialists before they are emboldened enough to directly attack China.

The most powerful force for resisting the imperialist-Israeli onslaught against Iran are the exploited and oppressed masses of the world – including the working classes and oppressed minorities within the imperialist countries. The inspiring resistance in Los Angeles of the most militant elements opposing Trump’s deportations of undocumented workers and their efforts to form self-defence patrols obstructing the immigration cop raids gives a taste of the power of the working class and downtrodden peoples in the bellies of the imperialist beasts. Here in Australia, we must combine opposition to the exploiting class attacks on renters, workers’ real wages, the militant CFMEU workers union, and on Aboriginal people and other people of colour with opposition to this self-same ruling class support for Israel’s war on Gaza and Iran. Let’s leverage the disgruntlement of wide sections of the masses over unaffordable rents, steep power prices, lack of secure jobs, falling real wages, racist state killings of Aboriginal people in custody and racist scapegoating of non-white migrants and international students!

Consistently Oppose Imperialism: Side With Iran and the Palestinian Resistance! Oppose All Sanctions on Iran!

While the Australian regime assists Israel’s wars on Gaza and Iran and the Labor government and Liberal opposition make clear that they side with the U.S. and Israel, the Greens rightly “condemn these latest Israeli attacks on Iran”. However, the Greens have contributed to laying the political groundwork for this attack by repeatedly calling over the years for Australia and other Western imperialist regimes to take action against the Iranian state to bring “human rights”. But whether military, economic or political, any intervention by imperialist ruling classes in any country of the Global South is always driven by their predatory goals. Such actions can never serve the interests of the masses of those countries. Instead, whether military, economic or political, such actions always do harm. Yet, two and a half years ago, the Greens  went so far as to criticise the Australian government for not taking enough action against Iran. They demanded that the Australian imperialist regime impose new sanctions on Iran and declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a “terrorist organisation”. A year later, at a parliamentary committee, Greens senator David Shoebridge attacked the Australian Federal Police (from the far right!) for not making enough “foreign interference” arrests of people who make spirited social media comments criticising opponents of Iran and China!! The truth is that, although the Greens do not agree with the current war on Iran, Netanyahu and Trump have merely taken the agenda that they share with the Greens, for Western action to “express to the Iranian regime that they, and countries like them, will face consequences from the international community”, to the military level. By having been the most extreme advocate of Australian sanctions on Iran, the Greens have helped weaken Iran and make her less able to withstand today’s U.S.-Israeli attack.

Like the Greens, Socialist Alliance, Solidarity and Socialist Alternative have rightly opposed the Israeli aggression against Iran and opposed the role of Pine Gap in facilitating the attacks. Yet, while making powerful criticisms of the U.S.-Israeli aggression, none of these groups made a clear call to actually, as we do, take the side of Iran in her resistance against the Israeli-U.S. attack. Moreover, the Solidarity and Socialist Alternative groups backed the takeover of Syria by pro-imperialist “Rebels” that has done so much to enable the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Their position was a capitulation to the stance of the ALP and especially the Greens, who were the most rabid supporters in the Australian parliament of the pro-imperialist and fanatically misogynist “Rebels”. Furthermore, bending again to the Greens and its years of fervent campaigning for Australian sanctions on Iran, Solidarity, Socialist Alliance and Socialist Alternative have thus far failed to call for a lifting of the Australian sanctions on Iran since the start of the war on her. Nor have their statements on the war demanded that the Australian military get out of the operation attacking the Yemeni allies of Iran and Gaza, or called for the lifting of the Australian regime’s “terror” listing of the Hamas, Hezbollah and Ansar Allah groups that stand with Iran and Gaza. Taking such stances are well within the scope of these left groups’ programs. That they have nevertheless chosen not to emphasise these crucially relevant demands when Iran is being attacked is an accommodation to the Greens and the ACTU leaders who both refuse to make these demands.

We call on sincere leftists to break free from the influence of the Greens and other representatives of the “progressive” wing of Australian imperialism so that we can together build actions opposing every single one of the ways that the Australian ruling class is participating in the U.S.-Israeli wars on Iran and Palestine. Let us build mobilisations demanding: Lift all Australian sanctions against Iran! Close Pine Gap! Australian military get out of the operation attacking the Yemeni allies of Iran and Gaza! Remove Ansar Allah, Hamas and Hezbollah from the “terror” listing!

Sisters and brothers: history is moving fast. Now, more than ever, is the time for opponents of imperialism, exploitation and racism to stand up and fight. The capitalists’ system is decaying and causing much suffering and disgruntlement within the imperialist countries. The response of the imperialist rulers is increased union-busting, repression and racist reaction at home and ever more violent efforts to plunder and bully the Global South. The brutal assault that the imperialist Western powers and their Israeli proxy have unleashed upon Iran today gives a small taste of what they will be prepared to unleash against socialistic China in order to preserve their tyranny over the world. We truly need to sweep away the imperialist ruling classes from power through socialist revolution. Let us advance towards this goal by working hard for the defeat of the imperialist Western powers and their Israeli attack dog and the victory of Iran and the Palestinian resistance.

Anti-Imperialism, China, Communism, U.S., USSR

“Human Rights Watch” – Facilitators of Imperialist Terror, Enemies of Socialism

Photo Above, Yemen, January 2024: U.S and British forces, backed by the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand imperialists, hit Yemeni people and Yemen’s Houthi forces with deadly air and missile strikes. Human Rights Watch facilitated the attacks by producing a report accusing Yemen’s Houthis of “war crimes” for their laudable efforts to defend the people of Gaza through blocking Israel-linked shipping traversing through the Red Sea. By helping to attack actions in support of the Palestinian people of Gaza, Human Rights Watch is complicit in Israel’s ongoing Gaza genocide.

“Human Rights Watch” – Facilitators of Imperialist Terror, Enemies of Socialism

7 April 2024: Today, in the course of giving his Israeli ally the gentlest of slaps on its wrists for murdering aid workers, Britain’s foreign minister, David Cameron, referred to Israel as “a proud and successful democracy.” This compliment was given while Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people of Gaza! And while the Israeli regime is forcing the Palestinian people in the West Bank to live under brutal Apartheid conditions! As for the capitalist ruling class of Britain itself and that of the U.S., Australia, Germany, France and other “Western democracies”, their self-description as “liberal-democracies” supposedly gave them the license to invade Iraq and kill hundreds of thousands of her people on the basis of a false pretext; and today to arm, support and help direct Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It is in the name of “standing up for democracy” that these Western ruling classes are threatening China in the waters of the South China Sea off her own coast and massively arming the anti-China, Western-puppet Taiwanese regime. And it is supposedly a quest to “defend our democratic values” that is driving the Western regimes to engage in a massive military build-up towards war against socialistic China and her North Korean socialistic ally. Here in Australia, the capitalist rulers believe that their status as a supposed “Western democracy” allows their state institutions to continue to strip Aboriginal children from their families and culture in the name of “child protection” and their governments to impose curfews and compulsory “income management” schemes discriminatorily targeting Aboriginal people. Australia’s capitalist government thinks that its self-proclaimed status as a “democracy” allows it to maintain housing policies that enable the capitalist bigwigs that they serve – and other wealthy individuals – to rip off huge fortunes from speculative property investments and exorbitant rents, while shoving millions of low-income renters into poverty and sometimes even homelessness. All of this is supposedly acceptable, because the people are said to have “freely” decided themselves through “democracy”.

However, the truth is that in these “Western-style democracies” the masses are not truly deciding. To be sure, the “democratic” form of capitalist tyranny is preferable to other, still more repressive, forms of capitalist rule. For it allows the working class masses to more easily organise resistance against their own exploitation. However, in truth, the democracy that exists in capitalist “liberal democracies” is only a “democracy” for the capitalist class. Just like other forms of capitalist rule – like fascism, military dictatorship, absolute monarchy and theocratic dictatorship – the “democratic” form of capitalism is still in essence the dictatorship of the capitalist class over working class people. For in the “democratic” form of capitalist state as in the fascist form, the enforcement arms of the state – the police, army, courts, prisons and bureaucracy – are themselves tied to the financially dominant capitalist class and inevitably serve the exclusive interests of this class. This remains the case no matter who wins elections. Moreover, although “parliamentary democracy” under capitalism allows “one person one vote”, the means to shape public opinion – and in the end that means how people vote too – overwhelmingly resides with the super-rich capitalists. It is this class that owns the media. It is they who, in great disproportion to their numbers, have the financial resources to fund political parties, pay for political advertising, hire lobbyists and establish “independent” think tanks. Whereas in the fascist and military dictatorship form of capitalist rule, capitalist interests are enforced mostly through naked force, in the “democratic” form of capitalist rule, capitalist power is, in the first instance, mostly enforced through deception (and when this doesn’t work, they can of course revert to brutal repression and, if necessary, will even seek to overthrow their own “democracy” and replace it with the fascist form of capitalist rule).

Of all the different means of deception that the capitalists have at their disposal, their most effective tools are their supposedly “independent”, “human rights organisations”. These are especially crucial for the capitalists of the richer, imperialist ruling classes to make their “own” masses support their predatory interests abroad. Among such “human rights organisations”, there is one that stands out for its level of influence, Human Rights Watch (HRW). When the mainstream Western media or a Western ruling class politician wants to attack an overseas enemy of the capitalist ruling class that they serve, the “credible source” that they will most often quote is HRW. This in turn boosts the authority of HRW.

HRW’s number one aim is to vilify the socialistic states: the Peoples Republic of China, Cuba, the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK – “North Korea”), Vietnam and Laos. HRW also targets any other state that happens to be in the gun sights of the U.S.-led Western imperialists. In 2011, HRW played a key role in facilitating the NATO operation in Libya to overthrow the government of Muammar Gaddafi, who the Western imperialists had decided was not bowing down enough before their demands to be allowed to continue to rule such an oil-rich country. In the lead up to the NATO intervention in Libya that began on 19 March 2011, HRW unleashed a torrent of hyped-up “reports” of alleged human rights atrocities by the Libyan government that provided the “human rights cover” for NATO’s intervention.  There was, for example, this “report” that HRW released just six days before NATO’s terror bombing was unleashed: https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/03/13/libya-end-violent-crackdown-tripoli. Then as NATO continued to rain death upon the people of Libya, HRW produced more “reports” of supposed atrocities by Libyan government forces (for example: https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/06/29/libya-gaddafi-forces-occupy-hospital-terrify-patients-and-staff ) that served to justify the continuation of the blood-soaked Western imperialist, “regime-change” operation.

Tripoli, Libya, 19 June 2011: Doctors stand near the bodies of a man and a child killed when NATO destroyed yet another residential building in the Libyan capital during their neo-colonial 2011 military intervention in Libya. Through greatly hyped-up and one-sided “human rights reports” in the days leading up to the NATO attack, Human Rights Watch’s propaganda provided the “human rights” “justification” for the brutal NATO onslaught.
Photo: Ivan Sekretarev/AP

The Devious Nature of
Human Rights Watch’s “Even Handedness”

To give themselves credibility, HRW will occasionally also report on human rights violations by the U.S. and other Western ruling classes. But they will mostly only report problems that everyone already knows about and which have been substantiated many times over. That way their “exposés” of human rights atrocities of Western capitalist regimes do minimal damage. In contrast, when HRW launches an attack on China, Cuba or another socialistic state, or on a capitalist state that is being too independent of the Western imperialist rulers, they will produce either entirely new claims or spread, as fact, highly disputed claims made by others – most of which are usually completely unsubstantiated or simply plain lies. Moreover, whenever attacking supposed human rights violations in a workers state or other country in the firing sights of Western imperialism, HRW will not only use the most extreme language as possible but will always make their shrill statements in the context of accusing the targeted state of having an “abysmal human rights record”. By contrast, whenever HRW feels compelled to acknowledge human rights problems in Western capitalist countries they use moderate language and emphasise that the issues occur in the context of the state having an otherwise “strong record of protecting civil and political rights”. Having a “strong record of protecting civil and political rights” is precisely how the Human Rights Watch (HRW) World Report 2022 described the human rights record of Australia’s capitalist regime. The very regime whose special forces murdered dozens of Afghan civilians in cold-blooded, racist executions during their war-crime-ridden participation in the two decade-long U.S./NATO occupation, whose racist police and prison guards have killed, or otherwise caused, the deaths of hundreds of Aboriginal people in custody over the last three decades and which brutally imprisons asylum seekers in offshore hell-holes.

The full range of HRW’s methods of deception were unleashed during their propaganda campaign buttressing the 2011 NATO operation in Libya. For example, HRW acknowledged that NATO killed civilians during their Libya operation but greatly downplayed the numbers. HRW stated that NATO killed “at least 72 civilians”, when even other pro-Western sources acknowledge that the NATO airstrikes killed at least several hundred civilians – and other sources report the number of civilians killed by NATO in the thousands. In contrast, HRW greatly exaggerated the number of civilians killed by the Gaddafi government enemies of NATO.

As well as greatly downplaying the numbers of civilians killed by NATO, HRW despicably praised NATO for supposedly making genuine efforts to protect civilians during its 2011 Libya intervention! Check out this disgusting HRW apology for NATO war crimes in Libya disguised as a “criticism”:

“NATO says it took extensive measures to minimize civilian harm, and those measures seem to have had a positive effect: the number of civilian deaths in Libya from NATO strikes was low given the extent of the bombing and duration of the campaign. Nevertheless, NATO air strikes killed at least 72 civilians, one-third of them children under age 18. To date, NATO has failed to acknowledge these casualties or to examine how and why they occurred.”

“Unacknowledged Deaths”, 12 May 2012, HRW website

The truth is that the 2011 NATO regime-change operation that HRW deviously facilitated with its “human rights” reports not only directly killed thousands of civilians in air strikes but produced a horrific, new imperialist-created “order” in Libya. That “order” immediately resulted in murderous racist violence against black African residents of Libya. In the following years, it produced multi-sided sectarian violence and clashes between rival warlords that killed tens of thousands of Libyan people. Human Rights Watch has a lot of blood on its hands!

HRW followed its Libya playbook when “reporting” on the upheaval in Syria that erupted in 2011. Initially the anti-government protests in Syria had a multi-directional quality. But by early 2012, the U.S.-led imperial powers had taken effective political hegemony of the movement and turned it into an armed proxy war aimed at toppling Syria’s Bashar al-Assad government and replacing it with one more subservient to the Western imperialists. As they poured arms, intelligence and training into their armed proxies, HRW filled the information space with one-sided, hyped-up and often false reports accusing Syrian government forces of horrific crimes. Without ever openly stating their intentions, HRW were key propagandists who justified the imperial powers’ proxy war to subordinate Syria. This proxy war caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Syrian people and the forced displacement of millions more. HRW has much complicity in this carnage!

Today, HRW are at it again! This time they are facilitating the attacks of the U.S., British, Australian and other Western imperialists against the most effective international solidarity actions with the embattled Palestinian people over these last six months – the Yemeni Houthi actions to stop Israeli related shipping from traversing the Red Sea. As the U.S.-led imperialist powers took political steps to justify their impending air strikes against the Yemeni supporters of the Palestinian people, HRW provided the “human rights” justification for the attacks by despicably accusing the Yemeni Houthis of “war crimes” for the Houthis’ laudable actions to resist the Gaza genocide by targeting Israeli-linked shipping. To be sure, with Israel’s ongoing genocide of the people of Gaza obvious to most of the world, HRW also has to make stern criticisms of Israel. If they did not do so, they would lose all credibility and thus all ability to serve Western imperialism. However, by equating resistance actions in support of Israel’s victims with Israel’s genocidal terror, HRW is obscuring the one-sided genocide that is taking place. To facilitate attacks on pro-Palestinian resistance actions when a horrific slaughter of Palestinian people is taking place is to be complicit in the mass murder of the Palestinian people. Therefore, HRW shares responsibility for the slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.

18 April 2024: Palestinian people survey the damage in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip following yet another murdering Israel strike.
Photo: Xinhua

Funded and Led By Wealthy Western Capitalists
and Serving Their Class Interests

Although HRW would like to portray itself as a “grassroots” organisation standing up for “human rights”, it is the very opposite of that. Headquartered in the U.S., HRW is a multi-hundred million dollar operation funded by super wealthy American and other Western donors and corporations. It is indeed run like a corporation. The outfit’s CEO, Kenneth Roth, is paid an annual salary package in excess of $A1.05 million per year (!!) … hardly the practice of an organisation that claims to be devoted to “bringing greater justice and security to the oppressed around the world”! For the last two years, HRW’s annual revenue averaged over $A163 million per year – overwhelmingly from contributions from rich donors and millions more from fundraising events.

HRW goes to great lengths to hide exactly who the wealthy donors and corporations backing it are. Despite its frequent criticism of various adversaries of Western imperialism for “lack of transparency”, HRW is itself a very shadowy organisation. One massive donor to HRW that the organisation has had to confirm is anti-communist billionaire, George Soros. In September 2010, HRW announced that Soros would be donating a massive $US100 million to the group over ten years. That means that this leaching hedge fund manager, known for his extreme criticisms of socialistic China and his earlier funding for the political forces that destroyed the East European and Soviet workers states through capitalist counterrevolution, has been providing a large proportion of HRW’s funding. Indeed, such corporate bigwigs also make up a big and leading part of HRW’s Board of Directors. Like Soros, many of them extracted their wealth from the especially parasitic finance sector. Thus, one of the two Co-Chairs of HRW’s Board is co-founder and General Partner of venture capitalist group Index Ventures, Neil Rimer. The other Co-Chair, Amy Rao, is a former CEO of a Silicon Valley company. Many of the Board’s Vice Chairs are also bigwigs of investment firms, including the chairman of Japanese financial services company, Monex Group, Oki Matsumoto. This HRW Vice Chair owns $A180 million of shares in his company. Another Vice Chair is Principal at financial services firm KME Consulting, Kimberly Marteau Emerson. Emerson had earlier worked in Bill Clinton’s administration as a senior political appointee and as a spokesperson for the U.S. State Department; which exemplifies the close links between the HRW and the U.S. regime. Indeed, one of the only officers in HRW’s Board who has not been a corporate bigwig is the former U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria and the Republic of Congo, Robin Sanders. Meanwhile, the Australian in the HRW Board and indeed a Vice Chair of the Board, is one of the two owners and co-chairs of Australian private equity firm, CHAMP Private Equity, Joseph Skrzynski. Skrzynski, who was once also the chairman of SBS, is known for his ownership of extravagant beach-side mansions in Palm Beach and Elizabeth Bay.

Given that it is both funded by capitalist tycoons and other wealthy Western donors and led by corporate bigwigs it is little surprise that HRW takes a political line of strident opposition to the workers states created through the overthrow of capitalism. Indeed, anti-communist opposition to socialistic states goes to the very roots of HRW. HRW began in 1978 with Helsinki Watch – an organisation formed to support anti-communist forces seeking to overthrow the workers states then ruling the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. This fundamental purpose of HRW, to provide the “human rights” cover to forces seeking the counterrevolutionary overthrow of socialistic states, has not changed to this very day.

With HRW, together with the rest of the imperialist ruling classes, having succeeded in destroying the former Soviet and East European workers states, their focus has now turned to the goal of destroying the remaining workers states. That HRW has gained much greater prominence in recent years is a reflection of the increasing desperation of the imperialist rulers to achieve this goal. With socialistic China’s spectacular successes in lifting her people out of poverty and improving the economic and cultural lives of her population such a stark contrast to the periodic economic crises, stagnant real wages, growing homelessness, divided societies, social malaise and decay of the capitalist world, the imperialist rulers know that they must destroy socialistic rule in China in order to ensure their own tyrannies at home. They are looking to the likes of HRW to rise to the occasion and spearhead the “human rights propaganda” front of their all-sided Cold War against Red China and the other socialistic states. And unfortunately, HRW is indeed rising to the task! HRW has played a lead role in selling the lie that Red China is persecuting her Uyghur minority and blares anti-communist, anti-PRC propaganda over Tibet, Hong Kong, COVID and a whole lot of other matters.

It is notable that HRW lists the Ford Foundation as one of their key partners. Established in 1936 by the big-time capitalist Ford family that owned the Ford Motor company, the Ford Foundation has always been devoted to buttressing capitalist rule and opposing communism. It worked closely with the CIA to both spread anti-communist propaganda and to assist CIA covert interference operations around the world. In the 1960s, the Ford Foundation trained elite students in Indonesia in both pro-capitalist political and economic ideology and anti-communist military operations. These students would play an important role in the CIA-backed, 1965 far-right coup in Indonesia that saw the Indonesian military and anti-communist mobs slaughter between one million to two million Indonesian communists, trade unionists, women’s rights activists and members of the Chinese and other minority communities. That HRW and the Ford Foundation should today be working closely together is thus completely natural. It is a bond between organisations that serve the same masters – the U.S. and other Western capitalist classes – share the same anti-communist ideology and have similar blood-soaked histories of providing the “human rights” and “pro-democracy” cover for hideous imperialist-orchestrated terror.


Separately and Independently
Serving Western Imperialist Interests

It is worth noting that the biggest single backer of HRW, liberal billionaire George Soros, happens to be a favourite hostile target of the reactionary far-right sections of the Western ruling classes. The far right of the capitalist establishment and its liberal wing, exemplified by the likes of Soros and HRW, truly hate each other on many issues. However, when it comes to China and other socialistic states, these feuding wings of the imperialist ruling classes – and the mainstream conservatives in between – unite as one to oppose these workers states. And they also unite as one to oppose most other states that refuse to submit to the “rules-based world order” – which, in practice, is really a “might is right” tyranny – created and dominated by the U.S. and its junior imperialist partners.

In Australia, too, we see such collaboration between the organisations and representatives of the different ruling class-supporting factions in order to advance the interests of the capitalist class – especially when it comes to attacking the socialistic states. Thus, the ALP, the Teal “independents”, the Liberals and the Far-Right parties will openly cooperate to advance the Australian capitalist regime’s aggressive, U.S.-allied, military buildup targeting socialistic China. They also come together to push through legislation and other measures that allow the regime to forcefully repress and intimidate any people from Australia’s Chinese community and beyond who dare to make statements positive about the PRC. Often such collaboration extends to the Greens – such as in making lying attacks on China and North Korea over “human rights violations” or in preventing the PRC-sponsored, language-teaching Confucius Institutes from teaching Chinese language in Australian schools (the latter McCarthyist campaign was actually driven by Greens politician, David Shoebridge).

As well as open collaboration between the squabbling wings of Western ruling classes (and the social democratic organisations supporting them), they coordinate behind the scenes. You can bet that senior U.S. ruling class politicians and CIA and State Department officials are making clear to leaders of HRW what they would like the “independent human rights organisation” to emphasise. Often this may be done in an informal manner such as when they run into each other at social functions or at events promoting one of the political forces that they both support. However, for the most part, HRW does not take direct orders from the U.S. regime. There is no overall conspiracy as such. For HRW doesn’t need to receive direct orders! What makes HRW, other prominent Western “human rights” NGOs, all the arms of the U.S. and allied regimes, the different factions of the U.S., British, Australian and other U.S.-allied ruling classes, all the mainstream Western media and all well-funded think tanks in Western countries (like Australia’s ASPI and Lowy Institute) all sing basically the same tune is that they are all institutions ultimately controlled by, often directly funded by and always serving the interests of the very same people – that is, the closely-allied, Western imperialist exploiting classes. In other words, all these institutions and organisations are designed to serve either the U.S. capitalist class or allied capitalist ruling classes – like the Australian one. The fact that they are all not, for the most part, acting together in a giant conspiracy but rather act independently for the same cause, each with their own separate emphasis and nuances and sometimes even openly bickering with each other on the details, actually makes them all the more effective in advancing the predatory interests of the U.S., British and Australian imperialist ruling classes and their allies. For this makes it easier for the likes of HRW to claim that they are “independent”, “non-partisan” organisations.

HRW likes to present itself as a grass-roots organisation supporting the under-dog that is driven by nice, compassionate people who truly care about “human rights”. But the truth is that Human Rights Watch is an incredibly rich organisation directly funded by American and other Western capitalists and by wealthy, upper-middle class Western individuals. It is led by corporate bigwigs and dedicated to serving the predatory interests of the mass murdering, genocide-in-Gaza-supporting, U.S, British, Australian and allied imperialist ruling classes. We must push back against and discredit the extremely harmful, pro-imperialist propaganda that is being spouted out by Human Rights Watch! This includes through exposé’s of HRW’s deeds facilitating war-criminal-ridden, Western interventions in Libya and Syria; and now through providing the “human rights” cover for U.S./British/Australian/Canadian/New Zealand attacks aimed at crushing Yemeni support for the embattled Palestinian people of Gaza. We must also encourage any current, or former, volunteers and staff working for HRW, who mistakenly thought that they were joining a genuine human rights organisation and who are now disgruntled, to blow the whistle on the highly secretive organisation, expose all its funding sources and make the public aware of all of HRW’s connections to Western regime officials and unsavoury, imperialist-backed “rebel” groups in socialistic countries and other Western-targeted states. We in Trotskyist Platform also call on all genuine opponents of capitalism and imperialism to build street protests and pickets against Human Rights Watch. Let us work hard to obliterate blood-soaked Human Rights Watch through all political means available!

Anti-Imperialism, U.S., USSR

Initial Statement on Conflict in Ukraine

24 February 2022: Below is a summary of Trotskyist Platform’s position on the conflict in Ukraine:

Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Palestine:
Victims of U.S., Australian and NATO War Machines

The Main Threat to the World’s People and the Main
Enemy of the Australian Working Class is Not Putin’s Ambitious
Capitalist Regime But the U.S., Australian and Other Western Imperialists

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Oppose Western Imperialism’s Provocative and Hypocritical
Interference in Ukraine And Oppose Sanctions Against Russia!
No NATO Expansion! No Western Arms to Ukraine!

For Unity of the Russian and Ukrainian Working Classes
Against Both their Capitalist Rulers!

For the Right to Self-Determination of the Persecuted
Russian-Speaking People in Donbass and All Ethnicities of the Former USSR!

Anti-Imperialism

Defend Iran Against Imperialist Attacks!

U.S., AUSTRALIA GET OUT OF IRAQ, THE PERSIAN GULF & AFGHANISTAN! U.S. OUT OF SYRIA! LIFT ALL SANCTIONS ON IRAN NOW!

DEFEND IRAN
AGAINST IMPERIALIST ATTACKS!

9 January 2020 – The U.S. regime and its allies are threatening a new all-out war in the Middle East. Driven by their predatory capitalist agendas their latest target is the people of Iran. Last week, a U.S. strike killed top Iranian military leader, Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani had been commander of Iran’s Quds Force which had helped ex-colony Syria to stave off an attempt by Washington to use proxies to impose regime change on that country. However, the U.S. murder of the Iranian Major General is not about one person. It is a provocation driving towards war on Iran.

The U.S. has been heading towards war with Iran ever since the hard-right Trump regime re-imposed much harsher sanctions on Iran in 2018. Then last July, Washington’s British allies brazenly seized an Iranian civilian ship off the coast of Gibraltar. This was followed up by the U.S. increasing its naval presence in the Strait of Hormuz off Iran’s southern coast. Done under the guise of protecting merchant shipping against the threat of Iranian responses to the Gibraltar ship seizure, it was actually aimed at tightening the military screws on Iran. These screws were tightened several turns further just days before the killing of Soleimani when U.S. airstrikes killed at least 25 members of an Iraqi Shiite-based militia sympathetic to Iran, the Kataib Hezbollah.

Although the Australian regime has been somewhat wary of being drawn into a new war it has joined in the war drive against Iran. In August, prime minister Scott Morrison agreed to deploy a naval frigate and surveillance aircraft to join the U.S. operation in the Strait of Hormuz. The ALP Opposition supported the deployment as “appropriate.” Now, just as the U.S. war threat against Iran has been ratcheted up to its highest level in decades, these Australian forces will actually be deployed next week. Meanwhile, Australia has 300 troops in Iraq, which nominally train the Iraqi forces but, actually, help to maintain Western imperialist domination of that country that they have so brutally devastated.

Western media have been at pains to highlight that after Iran responded to Soleimani’s assassination with missile strikes against U.S. bases in Iraq, Trump avoided an immediate military response. However, the U.S. president announced still harsher sanctions on Iran as well as the deployment of further U.S. troops to the region. The U.S. regime wants to bring Iran to heel because it wants no force who will hinder their total domination of this oil rich and geographically strategic region. And they are prepared to kill a lot of people to achieve these goals! However, they understand too that Iran has a much more powerful military than Iraq had. Any all out U.S. war with Iran will see a lot of American troops getting killed. They are well aware too that much of the American population is sick of being part of distant wars, especially given that thousands of troops were killed by the Iraqi people’s resistance to the U.S.-led occupation. That is why an all out assault on Iran would likely have to be preceded by a massive propaganda campaign. Beware of hyped-up and concocted horror stories about some particular Iranian “atrocity” that the U.S. and their allies will try to find to justify war! Let’s never forget how the U.S., British and Australian regimes and mainstream media lied that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to launch their heinous invasion in 2003!

WE MUST STAND WITH WEAKER, ECONOMICALLY DEPENDANT IRAN
AGAINST THE IMPERIALIST BULLIES!

Since the U.S. assassination of Soleimani was carried out at Baghdad Airport, that missile attack was also a blatant violation of Iraq’s sovereignty. In the same attack, the U.S. also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a leader of an Iraqi Shiite based militia sympathetic to Iran. The Iraqi parliament responded to the U.S. murder of Soleimani and Muhandis by voting to eject U.S. and other Western troops out of the country. However, the arrogant, U.S. and Australian imperialists have said that they will not leave.

After the U.S. killed Soleimani and Muhandis, millions took to the streets in angry protests in both Iraq and Iran. In Iran the masses are furious at not only this latest intervention but at decades of being battered by Western imperialism: from the 1953 British and U.S. engineered coup that overthrew Iran’s Mosaddegh government – that had moved to nationalise Iran’s oil wealth that was being plundered by the British predecessor to BP – to the suffering caused by years of sanctions. In Iraq, it is still fresh in people’s minds that though the capitalist dictatorship under Saddam Hussein was certainly oppressive, the U.S./Australian/British invasion brought death, increased sectarian divisions and a serious deterioration in the position of women. The imperialist invaders killed tens of thousands of Iraqi people during their first Gulf War slaughter in 1991, they caused the premature deaths of nearly two million Iraqi people – mainly infants – as a result of the subsequent sanctions and then either killed by their own hands – or through the sectarian Sunni-Shia conflicts that they caused – over a million more Iraqi people since then.

Let us solidarise with the people in Iraq and Iran opposing the imperialist presence in the region and the threat of another calamitous U.S. led war! Let us stand with Iran against U.S. and Australian military threats! U.S./Australia get out of Iraq and all of the Middle East! Lift all sanctions on Iran now!

It is true that just like their American and Australian counterparts, the Iranian state oversees a capitalist system where workers are exploited. And just like the nearby U.S.-allied regimes in the Gulf and Saudi Arabia, the Iranian government oversees the intense oppression of women and brutally cracks down on leftists. However, it is very wrong to equate Iran on the one hand and the U.S. and its imperialist allies on the other. Iran is a weaker, economically dependant country which is weighed down by the stranglehold over world markets by the rich capitalist powers. And although links to socialistic China allow her to gain some level of independence, the continued domination of much of the world economy, capital and access to technology by the Western powers stifles her. Moreover, it is not Iran that is going around invading other countries as the U.S. and Australia regimes have done in Vietnam, Iraq, Somalia, East Timor, Afghanistan and Libya, to name just a few. Nor is it Iran that has been orchestrating dozens upon dozens of coups to overthrow overseas governments, including in Indonesia in 1965, Chile in 1973, East Timor in 2006 and Bolivia in 2019. No, that is the work of the U.S., Australian and other Western imperialists who are the greatest threat to the entire world’s peoples. That is why the working class people of the world have a clear side with Iran against the rich capitalist powers. As Lenin famously put it in an article written two years before the 1917 Russian Socialist Revolution:

“…if tomorrow, Morocco were to declare war on France, India on England, Persia or China on Russia, and so forth, those would be “just”, “defensive” wars, irrespective of who attacked first; and every Socialist would sympathise with the victory of the oppressed, dependent, unequal states against the oppressing, slaveowning, predatory “great” powers.”

Socialism and War, V.I. Lenin, 1915

So we must defend any action that Iran takes against imperialist provocations – including the recent missile attack on U.S. bases. We must also support Iran acquiring whatever weapons that she needs for self-defence.

STANDING BY IRAN AGAINST IMPERIALISM
IS IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING CLASS PEOPLE

In response to the recent events, Greens leader Richard Di Natale took a neutral position: “We condemn the actions of the Iranian Government, just as we condemn the provocative, illegal assassination undertaken by the US Government. We urge all sides now to show calm and restraint.” You can expect too that various social-democratic, nominally Marxist groups, while weighting their criticism more strongly towards the U.S. than the Greens do, will call for “both sides”, which means Iran too, to negotiate and show restraint. However, calling on Iran to negotiate is not going to ward off a U.S. attack, which at bottom is driven by the interests of U.S. corporate bigwigs. Indeed, any sign of weakness shown by Iran by “showing restraint” or offering concessions may well only embolden the predatory imperialists. Moreover, to call for Iran to give concessions to U.S. demands to weaken its military support to groups – like Palestinian resistance groups, the Houthi rebels in Yemen etc – that in some way resist U.S. (and its Saudi and Israeli allies) marauding around the region is to act to help Washington achieve part of its aims in a “peaceful” manner.

If anyone concerned about the interests of the toiling classes thinks that they should be neutral in any conflict between the U.S. bloc and Iran they should compare the implications of an Iranian victory in any conflict versus that of a victory of the U.S.-led imperialists. Should Iran, with backing of class conscious workers around the world, be able to successfully resist a U.S.-led assault this would encourage the resistance of all the world’s people suffering under imperialism. This includes the Palestinian people bravely resisting the murdering U.S.-backed Israeli forces and all the peoples of Asia, Africa, the Pacific and Latin America robbed by Western capitalist powers. On the other hand, should the U.S. and its allies prevail that will have the opposite effect. It would encourage them to launch new wars in the region. Globally they would be emboldened to launch still more direct attempts to overthrow the anti-colonial Maduro government in Venezuela and the socialistic state in North Korea. The U.S., British and Australian rulers would be encouraged too to further intensify their backing of the pro-colonial, rich people’s opposition in China’s Hong Kong.

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If the U.S. and Australian regimes get away with imposing their will on Iran, that will make them more arrogant and oppressive at home. The ruling class here would be emboldened to deepen their repression of trade union activists, further immiserate the unemployed, increase racist state terror against Aboriginal people and intensify racist vilification of refugees and migrant-based, non-white communities. That is why it is in the very interests of the working class to mobilise in action to oppose imperialist attacks upon Iran. Through protest industrial action, the workers movement can impede the war drive against Iran. To lay the basis for such action means challenging the pro-imperialist line pushed by the current leadership of the workers movement in the ALP. It also means winning the best and most influential worker activists to participating in protest actions opposing the war drive. Therefore, any protests opposing the war moves of the U.S. and Australian regimes must be built on a political line that can win over committed trade union activists – that is, on an openly pro-working class, internationalist and secular line.

OPPOSE ALL INTERVENTIONS BY U.S. AND AUSTRALIAN IMPERIALISM

Although the U.S. on the one hand and Iran and pro-Iranian Shiite based groups on the other may seem implacable enemies, at key other times they have been allies. Some pro-Iranian, Iraqi groups criminally backed, at first, the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Earlier, during the 1980s, the Iranian government was a key supporter of the U.S.-backed Afghan Mujahedin fanatics that fought an anti-communist war against the then secular, leftist Afghan government and its Soviet Red Army protectors. Then, in 2001, the Iranian state provided crucial support to the U.S./Australian/ NATO invasion of Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Russia which to some degree acts as Iran’s ally is also at the same time somewhat of a rival to Iran. During oil supply negotiations last year, Russia and Saudi Arabia co-operated in stitching a deal that sidelined and shafted Iran provoking an angry rebuke from the Iranian side.

The fact is that none of the capitalist regimes act out of any claimed principle whether that be “bringing human rights”, “spreading democracy” or “standing against imperialism.” Rather, the only thing that drives any of these capitalist states – big and small – is protecting the interests of their own respective capitalist classes. Be that as it may, one thing is absolutely sure: the horrible suffering, bloodshed and chaos in the Middle East and surrounding regions cannot be ended unless the U.S. and other Western powers are ejected from these regions. We have already spoken about some of the calamities that these forces have caused in Iraq and Iran. However, their crimes extend far beyond there. In 2011, the U.S. and NATO killed tens of thousands of Libyan people and brought “Rebel” proxies to power that have brought on-going chaos and bloodshed to that once peaceful country. Then in Syria, the U.S. and allied imperialists backed largely religious fundamentalist “Rebel” proxies to try and impose regime change there. They fuelled a conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Among the groups that they backed was not only Syria’s Al Qaeda affiliate but for a period even ISIS – which itself was created out of the strife that these imperialists had brought to Iraq. Then when the nasty little ISIS monsters turned on the Western big imperialist monsters, the U.S., Australia and others Western powers responded with airstrikes done so callously that they killed tens of thousands of civilians in the mainly Sunni-populated areas of Syria and Iraq. Meanwhile, since their 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S., NATO and Australian forces have killed tens of thousands of civilians there. The Australian troops in particular killed several Afghan children at close range, executed in cold blood many civilians and murdered unarmed prisoners. We must demand that all U.S., NATO and Australian troops get out of Afghanistan as well as all of the Middle East. U.S. out of Syria! Lift all economic sanctions on Syria as well as Iran! Oppose all intervention by the imperialist powers whether that be military, diplomatic or through the funding of proxy forces!

THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM LEADS TO IMPERIALIST WAR!
BUILD THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THIS SYSTEM!

No one should be surprised that the Trump regime is driving towards conflict with Iran. Nor at its aggressive attitude to Red China. After all Trump promised both these things during his election campaign. He also vowed to be more combative when “negotiating” with Washington’s part allies, part rivals in Western Europe. This too has occurred. Trump did, however, promise to improve relations with Russia – in good part because he hoped to use Russia against the German and French competitors of the U.S. and because he sought to bring Russia into a grand capitalist front against socialistic China. This part of Trump’s original agenda has been largely frustrated by other wings of the U.S. ruling class who don’t want to allow the up and coming Russian power to emerge as a major capitalist rival. The end result is that U.S. relations with just about everyone – other than Britain and Australia – have become pricklier and the world has become a more dangerous place.

However, there are small clots among the Left who, because of their sympathy for Russia’s capitalist rulers and their indifference to racial oppression, actually gave support (with some criticisms) to Trump in the lead up to his election. Some even condemned the anti-Trump protests during his inauguration! They basically argued that Trump would be less imperialistic. Especially after events over the last two weeks, they have been left with political egg on their faces. Of course, these “leftists” are now not about to broadcast their past softness on Trump. However, genuine leftists should expose these clots and ensure that they are completely discredited and isolated. To support, even in a critical way, a hard right-wing, extreme racist is a despicable crime for anyone claiming to be a leftist!

To be sure the problem is hardly just Trump and the rabid right-wingers. All wings of the imperialist ruling classes must be opposed. The Obama-era Iran nuclear deal unfairly curbed Iran’s nuclear program and did not give Iran complete sanctions relief. Let’s not forget too that it was this previous, more liberal U.S. regime that waged the regime change war on Libya and the proxy war in Syria. Here in Australia, it is hardly just the right-wing Liberals that are the war-mongers. It was the then Hawke Labor government that sent Australian forces to take part in the 1991 first Gulf War slaughter of Iraqi peoples. Later, the previous Rudd-Gillard-Rudd ALP government maintained the Howard government’s occupation forces in Afghanistan and backed the proxy war in Syria. Today, the ALP continues to fall over themselves to show “bipartisanship” with the Liberals on all key foreign policy issues.

What causes the drive to imperialist war is mainly not bad people and bad ideologies. Instead, it is the natural product of capitalism in the richer countries where, to counter the internal contradictions of their system, these capitalist states are forced to seek out new sources of cheap labour and raw materials and new markets to seize control of. It is notable that Trump is threatening Iran at a time when the U.S. economy is expected to weaken further. However, in targeting Iran, Washington also has other goals far beyond Iran. For one, Iran has friendly relations with China. By targeting Iran, the U.S. regime wants to put the squeeze on socialistic China. The destruction of the world’s most powerful socialistic state remains the number one foreign policy goal of the capitalist powers. The U.S. regime also wants to hit Iran to strike a blow against its emerging Russian capitalist rival. Most dangerously, by driving towards war with Iran, Washington wants to take a side swipe against its German-led West European rivals. The latter are unhappy at Trump’s abandonment of the Obama-era deal with Iran and understand this was a way to stop the French, German, Dutch and other European powers from consummating lucrative contracts with Iran. In these tensions we are seeing the dim outlines of a potential future war between rival imperialist powers. The imperialists fought two destructive inter-imperialist wars last century. Today, all sides will have nuclear weapons at the start of any new world war. We need socialist revolution in the imperialist centres of the U.S., Australia, France, Germany, Japan etc to save humanity from this truly terrifying, apocalyptic threat.

FOR PRO-WORKER, PRO-WOMEN’S RIGHTS MOVEMENTS
IN THE MIDDLE EAST THAT ARE STAUNCHLY ANTI-IMPERIALIST

To defend Iran against the imperialist bullies one does not in any way need to prettify the Iranian ruling class. Iran’s capitalist rulers exploit their own working class, brutally subjugate women, trample on the rights of Azeris, Kurds and other non-Persian ethnic groups, murder communists and cruelly persecute lesbian women and gay men. However, should the imperialists invade Iran or impose a regime-change through proxies, the oppression of the masses would deepen much further. Look at what happened in Iraq! And in Libya! Given that the imperial powers would cream off much of the country’s oil wealth and fruits of workers’ labour, not only would the masses be immiserated even more but the dominant imperialists would need to incite sectarian and ethnic scapegoating to divide the exploited masses. And we have seen the calamity that such methods have brought to the people of Iraq! On the other hand, if the predatory war drive against Iran is defeated, although the religious fundamentalist regime would initially gain a boost to its authority, before long the toiling masses would say to themselves: “now that we have repulsed the big global oppressors let us now get rid of our exploiters here at home who are, in the end, economically subordinate to these imperialists.”

In recent months there have been mass protests and riots in Iran against fuel price hikes, poverty and corruption. However, taking part in the protests have been a mixture of pro-imperialist groups (including Shah supporters and supporters of the Mojahedin-e Khalq), genuine leftists and those who are not under any definite political leadership. Given the balance of power in the world and the imminent threat of imperialist attack, any such amorphous movement can quickly coalesce into a hardened proxy movement for imperialism. On the other hand, the imminent threat of an imperialist attack puts the question of opposing imperialism more onto centre stage. This gives an opportunity for genuine leftists taking part in opposition movements to split the movements by raising clear anti-imperialist slogans. In practice this would mean combining pro-worker economic demands and demands against the capitalist ruling class with clear slogans calling for the defence of Iran against imperialist attack. The idea would be to weed out from the leftist bloc anyone who either supports the menacing U.S. forces, is neutral on the question of an imperialist attack or is too half-hearted in opposing imperialism. The aim would be to build a leftist united-front movement that is clearly pro-working class, pro-women’s rights and anti-imperialist. Such a movement would not only politically oppose the capitalist rulers but would be staunchly against pro-imperialist opposition movements and would loudly stand for the defence of Iran against the imperialist aggressors. A similar split in opposition movements, albeit accounting for different terrains, is needed in Iraq, where the current government is simultaneously subordinate to Washington and allied with Tehran, and in Lebanon, where the governments have often been uneasy capitalist coalitions of pro-U.S. and pro-Syria/pro-Iran elements.

DOWN WITH AUSTRALIAN IMPERIALISM!

For leftists and opponents of imperialism in Australia our role must be overwhelmingly focussed on opposing the Australian regime’s contribution to the U.S.-led war drive against Iran rather than on supporting any rallies backing opposition forces in Iran – even leftist-led ones. Especially in the context of escalating war moves against Iran right now, even well-intentioned protests in Australia backing leftist opposition forces in Iran can have the effect of adding to the war-drive against Iran. In a land where the local ruling class is very much part of the U.S.-led moves to put the squeeze on Iran, the best way that we can support the building of a pro-working class, anti-imperialist opposition movement in Iran is to fight to lift the imperialist pressure that is bearing down upon her.

In mobilising against Canberra’s participation in U.S. moves against Iran we must understand that the Australian rulers are not merely puppets of the U.S. They are something worse than that. They form a predatory imperialist ruling class in their own right. They back U.S. wars in the Middle East because they want U.S. power to be strengthened because it is U.S. power that underwrites Australian imperialist overlordship and plunder of natural resources in PNG, Bougainville, East Timor, Fiji, the Solomon Islands and even to a degree in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Sri Lanka. Meanwhile, the Australian rulers and the U.S. rulers co-operate in pressuring socialistic China as both share a common goal of weakening the world’s most powerful socialistic country. Some on the Left, however, like to portray the Australian rulers as mere puppets of the U.S., almost as if Australia was a dependant country persecuted by imperialism. This is very distorting to the struggle as it implies that what is needed is to appeal to Australian nationhood – and even to a section of the ruling class – to unite to “achieve independence” from the U.S. Such nationalism and tying of workers to a section of their own exploiters is very harmful to the class struggle. For what we need to do is to mobilise the working class and its allies against all the capitalists.

Let us combine the struggle against the union busting, racist attacks and persecution of the poor perpetrated by the Australian imperialist rulers at home with the struggle against their predatory imperialist interventions abroad from the Persian Gulf to Iraq, East Timor, the Korean Peninsula and the South China Sea. Stand against the Australian capitalist ruling class! Stand with the people of Iran against U.S. and Australian imperialist threats!

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Defend Syria against U.S./Australian Imperialism & Their “Rebel” Proxies!

On 7 April 2017, the world’s biggest killing machine went into overdrive. The U.S. unleashed a barrage of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles against a Syrian airbase. The strike killed nine civilians – including four children. The right-wing Turnbull government could not wait to proclaim that it “strongly supports the swift and just response of the United States.” Meanwhile, the ALP Opposition was no better, calling the U.S. attack “appropriate and proportionate.”

The U.S. claims that its missile strike was retaliation for an alleged chemical attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in Syria’s Idlib Province which they have pinned on Syria’s Assad government. U.S. president Trump claims that he was motivated to attack Syria by concern for children killed in the alleged attack. What a load of rubbish! For the U.S., Australian and other imperialist rulers, the masses in the ex-colonies are completely expendable in their drive to secure control of natural resources, markets and spheres of exploitation.  Due to their barbaric willingness to disregard dangers to civilian lives in their war on ISIS, a March 17 airstrike by the U.S./French/British/Australian Coalition killed over 200 civilians in the residential Jadidah neighborhood of the western part of the Iraqi city of Mosul. Meanwhile, the racist Trump regime has shown how much concern they have for the people of the Arab and Muslim world by attempting to ban people from seven Muslim majority countries from entering the U.S. and by stopping all refugees from the war in Syria. Trump’s offensive diatribes against Muslims, Mexicans and other non-white people has incited a terrifying increase in white supremacist attacks throughout North America – including the 29 January massacre of six people at a Quebec City mosque by a fascist Trump supporter. Here in Australia, the Turnbull regime, with the support of the ALP, shows its “concern” for the well-being of children from the Middle East by imprisoning dozens of them in hell-hole detention centres in Australia and Nauru and hundreds more in community detention centres. Meanwhile, Australian regimes of various stripes oversee a racist “child protection” system that has cruelly ripped hundreds of Aboriginal children from their families in an ongoing stolen generations outrage. Continue reading Defend Syria against U.S./Australian Imperialism & Their “Rebel” Proxies! →

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Oppose All NATO/Australia Diplomatic, Military & Political Intervention in Syria! No to Neo-Colonialism: Defend Syria against the Pro-Imperialist “Rebels”

Sydney, August 5: Syrian origin youth pose for a photo in front of the Trotskyist Platform banner at the thousands strong, Hands Off Syria rally.

Oppose All NATO/Australia Diplomatic, Military & Political Intervention in Syria!

No to Neo-Colonialism: Defend Syria against the Pro-Imperialist “Rebels”

July 27 – It was disturbing footage. Picked up by Reuters and then shown on SBS and ABC News, the video which they noted on the side, “could not be independently verified,” claimed to show supposed Syriansoldiers beating captured  anti-government protesters. There was a problem, however! An email to the ABC program Media Watch noted that the accents of the troops shown in the footage were Lebanese not Syrian, that the car shown in the background had a Lebanese number plate and that the soldiers were not even wearing Syrian army uniforms.  After some research Media Watch independently verified that this was indeed not footage from Syria but from Lebanon (http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3218415.htm).  The clip that had claimed to show Syrian Army brutality turned out to be taken from a YouTube posting of a couple of Lebanese militias bragging about their actions.  What is more, the original posting to YouTube took place several years earlier in August 2008! Such is the deception being spread by the pro-Western Syrian Opposition forces. Continue reading Oppose All NATO/Australia Diplomatic, Military & Political Intervention in Syria! No to Neo-Colonialism: Defend Syria against the Pro-Imperialist “Rebels” →

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Down with All U.S./Australian Diplomatic And Military Intervention in Libya And Syria! Support the Libyan Resistance against NATO Imperialists And Their Puppets!

Let this serve as both a warning and a reprimand to those on the left who still harbour any illusions about Western imperialist-basked regime change: a child's ball haunts a deserted and gutted out street in Sirte after the horrific onslaught of 415 "Key" NATO airstrikes and untold indiscriminate shelling by the NATO-backed "rebels". The few residents that had begun to return, the UK's The Daily Mail reported in late October, stared "in disbelief at the ruins of their homes, many of which seem to have been looted by the rebels". A 26-year-old engineer said: 'Our homes have been wiped out and our friends and family lie dead in the streets.' His friend added: 'Look at this place, at the bodies/ It is an act of vengeance.' A third resident declared: 'The war is not over yet. This war has only just begun.'
Let this serve as both a warning and a reprimand to those on the left who still harbour any illusions about Western imperialist-backed regime change: a child’s ball haunts a deserted and gutted out street in Sirte after the horrific onslaught of 415 “Key” NATO airstrikes and untold indiscriminate shelling by the NATO-backed “rebels”. The few residents that had begun to return, the UK’s The Daily Mail reported in late October, stared “in disbelief at the ruins of their homes, many of which seem to have been looted by the rebels”. A 26-year-old engineer said: ‘Our homes have been wiped out and our friends and family lie dead in the streets.’ His friend added: ‘Look at this place, at the bodies/ It is an act of vengeance.’ A third resident declared: ‘The war is not over yet. This war has only just begun.’

Down with All U.S./Australian Diplomatic And Military Intervention in Libya And Syria!

Support the Libyan Resistance against NATO Imperialists And Their Puppets!

October 24 – Yesterday, the forces installed into power in Libya by their imperial puppet masters hailed the “Liberation” of the country. Yet their cold-blooded slaughter of former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, after he was captured alive only highlights that these new rulers are cut-throats whose claims to have fought for “democracy” are utter lies. Gaddafi was only one of hundreds and more likely thousands of supporters of the old order who have been executed by NATO’s “rebels.” Today, even the pro-Western Human Rights Watch was compelled to announce that the pro-NATO National Transitional Council (NTC) forces had massacred 52 Gaddafi supporters in the Libyan city of Sirte. The victims were found with their hands bound behind their backs and dumped on the lawn of the seaside Mahari Hotel. Continue reading Down with All U.S./Australian Diplomatic And Military Intervention in Libya And Syria! Support the Libyan Resistance against NATO Imperialists And Their Puppets! →

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Speakout Demands: Stop The Capitalists’ Provocations against Socialistic North Korea!

Yeongpyeong Island, Korea, December 2010: Troops from capitalist South Korea prepare for a highly provocative live fire exercise in this military outpost, lying in disputed waters.

Speakout Demands:

Stop The Capitalists’ Provocations against Socialistic North Korea!

Late last year the capitalist countries, led by the U.S., were on the verge of provoking a full-scale war with North Korea. This followed a clash on November 23 between the militaries of U.S.-backed, capitalist South Korea and the North Korean workers state. Continue reading Speakout Demands: Stop The Capitalists’ Provocations against Socialistic North Korea! →

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Upheaval in The Arab World. A CHANCE TO WIN A FUTURE BUT DO NOT LET WESTERN IMPERIALISM STRENGTHEN ITS GRIP!

Ghazl el-Mahalla, Egypt, September 2007: 10,000 workers at the Misr Spinning and Weaving mill down tools and occupy the factory in protest at management remerging on previous agreements. This action was part of a wave of workers struggle that has swept Egypt over the last five years.
Ghazl el-Mahalla, Egypt, September 2007: 10,000 workers at the Misr Spinning and Weaving mill down tools and occupy the factory in protest at management remerging on previous agreements. This action was part of a wave of workers struggle that has swept Egypt over the last five years.

  Upheaval in The Arab World

A CHANCE TO WIN A FUTURE
BUT DO NOT LET WESTERN IMPERIALISM STRENGTHEN ITS GRIP!

29 June, 2011: The masses in the Arab world have lost all fear. They have been repressed for decades by corrupt regimes. Regimes that robbed from the poor to satisfy the rich and their U.S., British, French, Italian and German masters. Regimes that ensured that a good chunk of the region’s oil wealth was plundered by the wealthy owners of Western oil corporations. Yet now the masses have had enough. They are in revolt. Continue reading Upheaval in The Arab World. A CHANCE TO WIN A FUTURE BUT DO NOT LET WESTERN IMPERIALISM STRENGTHEN ITS GRIP! →