Tuesday 1 October 2013

AUCPB Statement on Syrian conflict

NO TO MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA! NO TO A GLOBAL CATASTROPHE!

Documents of the Central Committee of the AUCPB
09.09.2013
Statement by the Central Committee of the AUCPB

The majority of citizens in the United States, besides the U.S. government do not want military intervention in Syria. A military intervention in Syria, according to surveys, is only supported by 12% of Americans. Also against U.S. military aggression and the participation of their own countries in the war, are up to 68 % of French people, 77 % of Germans and most people around the world. In five cities across the U.S. there have been protests, including a picket of two hundred people at the walls of the White House in Washington. An unprecedented phenomenon was the protest of military personnel against a new imperialist war. So, the soldiers and officers of the 193rd Rocket Artillery Brigade in the Greek city of Elefteropuli issued an open letter in which they demanded non-participation of Greece in the Syrian venture. Dozens of U.S. military service personnel put up on social networks their own photos with improvised placards against a war in Syria. "I didn’t join the Navy to fight for "Al-Qaeda", "I do not want to be involved in the civil war in Syria", "Leave Syria alone!", they wrote. "Sailors , see what your comrades think of Obama's alliance with "Al- Qaeda" against Syria" - a call not to fight in Syria posted on the official website of the U.S. Navy.

For the imperialist forces, an incursion into Syria is the last salvation from total economic and political collapse. The capitalist economy is falling apart, the bourgeois governments in panic are unfurling a few social programs, corporations, are stopping factories under the pretext of their "loss", and throwing out thousands of people. The indignation of the working people is rolling on, and all over the world are organized mass protests and strikes. The capitalists respond to them with bullets and tear gas.

The imperialist government of Barack Obama is trying to extinguish the anger of American workers, pouring over it the blood of the Syrian people, while sending an unconscious hatred of capitalism over to the image of a "foreign enemy." ( Hypocrisy because Syria never threatened and does not threaten U.S. security.) By their preparations for war, the imperialist governments, and U.S. satellites, only create new pockets of protest, generate resentment and hatred that will lead eventually to the total collapse of imperialism.

It is clear that the U.S. government is preparing not just another intervention in a weaker state to seize its natural resources and markets – it is also preparing for a new world war .

Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the "Big -20 in St. Petersburg (5-6 September), expressed support by Russia for Syria in the U.S.-Syria conflict. On the one hand, to a certain extent this is delayed aid to the Syrian people and opposition to U.S. aggression, and on the other - to protect the interests of the Russian big bourgeoisie, which has its business in Syria. ( Russia has big contracts for the supply of arms to that country). It would be good to believe that the Russian leadership did not make a deal with the United States, agreeing to replace Bashar al-Assad for a U.S. stooge, which is so pressing for Barack Obama. Although the bourgeoisie has internationalized and, as a rule, always stands united in any international conflict.

In Syria, there are stocks of chemical weapons, and a nuclear research centre. American bombings could lead to radiation and chemical contamination of vast areas of the planet, and disruption for many years to the ecological balance. The consequences would be disastrous for the world. The fact that the chemical and atomic centres of Syria will become targets U.S. Air Force, there can be no doubt - several years earlier, the U.S. government declared its readiness to bomb a nuclear research centre and a nuclear power plant in Iran.

The main task for today 's progressive forces of the world and Russia is to prevent intervention in Syria, to prevent a global catastrophe. On the preparation by the imperialists of a new world war, the workers of all countries and continents are to respond with a strong growth unity and solidarity, and if war starts - to direct the anger of the peoples against the governments who started it.

08.09.2013
AUCPB

No comments:

Post a Comment