Terrorism and anti-terrorism

The Capitalist regime uses Terrorism and anti-terrorism to force the Proletariat into the Third Imperialist War

Following the terrifying massacres in the United States, the regime's spokesmen, both Right and Left, are loudly proclaiming that the war which is about to happen, or rather the war which has already begun, is between the North and South, between us - the rich, and them - the poor. A war to protect our civilization, Capital's civilization.

The incurable conflicts shaking capitalism are not really between States but are to be found inside capitalism, they are between the Rich, they are crises of over-production, of too much wealth produced and dumped on the market. It is not a simple battle between who has too much and who has too little. The present conflict is not a national or cultural battle, it is a class war, between the most modern classes in the most modern countries: a war between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. The world is not divided into rich and poor countries, but between an international propertied bourgeois class and an international dispossessed working class, who are going to have to fight an all-out war, in the North as well as in the South.

The often terrible sufferings which subjected peoples like the Palestinians, Algerians, Chechens, Kurds and hundreds of others have to endure is almost invariably the consequence of a clash between their imperial protectors; they are wars by proxy. Palestinian and Jewish proletarians are forced to cut each other to pieces in a game which encompasses far more than a few kilometers of stony desert (seen by many of them as a prison, a place which holds them hostage, since many would willingly get out if only they could), a game which drives them into poverty, terror, division and hatred. The Palestinian and Jewish bourgeoisies may be accomplices in all this but the strings are pulled from Wall Street, London, Paris, Rome, Riyadh, etc.

The deep economic crisis – according to statistics the worst since 1960 – which now even has the leading capitalist country America in its grip with ensuing stock market crashes, is increasingly pushing the various states into a confrontation. The tension between the colossal, contemptible egos of the rich classes is growing inexorably and a power struggle is being fought out between Europe, Japan and the United States; between the various components of the cowardly European bourgeoisie about to adopt a single currency; and between the Europeans, Japanese, Americans and the great imperialisms which are emerging in Asia.

Faced with this crisis and this inter-imperialist conflict, for too long constrained within the limits of commercial disputes, capitalism must at a given moment seek a military resolution. The general war will be between the imperialist powers, between the biggest imperialist powers, just as happened during the First and Second World Wars. It is War which lurks behind the diplomatic hypocrisies, military alliances and declarations of solidarity. Militarism is the true face of capitalism, and particularly of the capitalist democracies.

Whoever hijacked the Boeings it was certainly the right moment in terms of propping up Capitalism, just as the choice of targets – a military building and buildings full of workers – will make it much easier to weld together the opposed classes of American society. Bearded priests are playing their part in tricking the disinherited masses of the poor countries by channeling their class rebellion into nationalism and religious fanaticism.

But the working class in the North of the World has nothing to gain from supporting this war either. Rather than safeguarding its miserable, non-existent privileges as citizens of the rich West, all it can really expect from the war is death and increasing poverty; as they should already know from the experience of two terrible world wars and two no less terrible post-war periods.

In Italy too everybody has leaped to attention at the order from above, everybody, parties, journalists and corrupt trade unions. "War has been declared" they say "we must respond. Against whom? You'll be told later, but one thing is for certain, soon it will be you proletarians who will have to fight it"! In Great Britain the New Labour government immediately backed the American war effort both diplomatically and militarily whilst at the same time unleashing a few of its 'Left-wing' backbenchers to provide an official anti-war opposition.

To the bourgeois war – which is first and foremost a war against the workers struggle and a reaction against communism – the proletariat opposes the principle of international working-class solidarity. Workers have to oppose this war but neither cursing it nor relying on pressure of public opinion is enough; what is needed is to oppose bourgeois power with the power of a mobilized working class.

But without their party the workers are but putty in the hands of the bourgeois sorcerers and opportunists who hypnotize them with their imbecile, warmongering rhetoric, encouraging a racist, religious and chauvinist perspective. To prevent the war what is needed is a defensive class organization which is large, well-trained and combative. And a communist party is needed to lead it as well, because only in a revolutionary war between classes for the overthrow of the infamous capitalist regime, which feeds off the exploitation of wage labour, will the proletariat be able to prevent the further survival of its ancient enemy.