From KP22, October 27, 2001
US President George Bush has characterized the "war against terror"
initiated by the imperialist war coalition headed by the US in a number of ways:
It is a war, which all countries, all governments, all people support - or they
oppose, and are then considered enemies of the US.
It is a prolonged war, or rather, a series of wars, which will last many years,
up till 10 years.
It is a war, which is being waged on many fronts and with all means: economic,
political, propagandist, diplomatic and military.
In other words, it is a world war, started and headed by a superpower, which
at the present is the world's undisputed number one imperialist power.
The war has led to an unseen landslide of alliances and the making of new ones, a fast reshuffle of the international drawing board, a hot war in Afghanistan, war threats against numerous countries, unprecedented attacks on the democratic rights, an unseen round of rearmament, and either the implementation of, or preparation for, new attacks on the conditions of life and hard-won social and political rights of the workers and the working people. The US terror war - and war is terrorism magnified 100 or 1000 times - has created a new global situation, which will have consequences for many years in the future. It has often been said that the world will never be the same as it was before September 11. The incidents on this date gave occasion for the US to unleash the war of the monopolies and the Rich World against the world's poor.
Not one single field will avoid being affected. Politics is not the same as
before. Working in organizations will not be the same. The everyday life will
be strongly affected.
Without understanding the whole international situation, and the political and
social forces being active and waging class struggle, without understanding
the role of the imperialist powers and the role of the multinationals and the
monopolies, without understanding the actual role and character of the IMF,
the World Bank, the WTO and the UN, it will not be possible to elaborate a line,
strategy and policy that defends the interests of the working class and the
great majority. Without understanding the profound nature of the struggle that
is unfolding, the revolutionary processes which the world's peoples are living
through, without understanding the tools being in the hands of imperialism,
imperialism's strength, but also its weakness, the struggle will end in a blind
alley.
Now is the time for the popular and progressive part of Denmark to see outwards,
join with the world's peoples and their struggle, the time for the political
organizations, the trade union movement and the popular movements to take a
stand against the war, in favour of the peoples, by understanding the profound
context of the situation. It is the time when a definition of their concrete
and local tasks and efforts depends on correctly understanding the global situation.
Because everything is connected with each other: The struggle for peace is not
just a concrete struggle dealing with a concrete war, as the present one in
Afghanistan - that war is just the focus right now. Connected with it, as part
of the global terror war, are the wars being waged in Palestine, in Colombia
with the heavily US-backed Plan Colombia, in Chechnya, Kashmir and Asia. The
solidarity with the Palestinian people is part of the struggle against the war.
But also the intensified struggle for Danish secession from the EU, which is
making use of the battle against terrorism to accelerate the creation of the
EU superstate and superpower, is part of the struggle against the war, as are
the struggle for defending the democratic rights, the struggle against the offensive
of racism and reaction, and against the war budgets and rearmament at the expense
of the working people.
All this is summarized in the one big focal point that is the peoples' peace
coalition against the war and the imperialist war coalition.