The US/NATO threatens to launch missiles against regime
targets in Syria. The revolutionaries on the ground have
never asked for US/NATO to intervene militarily. They have asked for weapons to defeat Assad and received no heavy weapons. The US now admits that this is because it has no confdence it can prevent the Islamist elements from taking control of the war against Assad. Assads use of chemical weapons has forced the US to acknowledge that he will never make peace and is giving impetus to the Islamist opposition. The prospects oI a negotiated deal have vanished. So now US/NATO and Russia will to do a deal to remove Assad and replace him with a friendly regime that will attempt to put a halt to the Syrian Revolution and the wider Arab Revolution. We must oppose US/NATO attacks on any targets in Syria, just as we oppose Zionist attacks. We must also oppose the Russian and Chinese imperialists backing oI the Assad regime, as well as their proxy Iran. Obama plays the same old humanitarian game the US has played over and over again as an excuse to invade or bomb a country which is escaping outside the bounds of the imperialist control. The vanguard workers internationally know, from previous experience with Obamas humanitarian aid in Haiti and with US aid in Somalia, Bosnia, Serbia, Chile, Vietnam and Palestine that it is the very population the US leaders hypocritically claim to want to protect that ultimately pay the bloody price with thousands of dead civilians. The aid takes the form of bombed out communities shot up by trigger happy cowboys running up the Pentagons expenditures for their sponsors on the corporate side of the military industrial complex. Lets blow some shit up is always a good option when the economy is in the tank. At least the big munitions producers get their cut of the blood money, their stocks soar, backs are slapped and careers are made. Conscious workers know that the US imperialism has more blood on its hands than Basher Al-Assad could bathe himself with in three lifetimes. Hiroshima/Nagasaki, Central and South America, the Korean War, Vietnam, Panama, Haiti, Iraq and AIghanistan and many more; Ior over a century US imperialism has left a trail of bloody war crimes. This is not the result of bad or misguided policies by this or that administration, but is part and parcel of the highest stage of monopoly capitalism and its world wide quest Ior elusive super-profts. Workers dont need the peace of the capitalists and the pacifsts-a peace only Iound in the grave yard--The end oI imperialist war and the causes Ior war require that the working class consciously acknowledges the existing class war and organizes to defeat the class enemy, the 0.01% and their lackeys. For workers to live capitalism must die! There can be no peace so long as capitalism exists. To end imperialist war once and Ior all requires more than morally outraged peace demonstrations. Peace requires the organization of the working class at the head of all the oppressed for all-out class struggle against the main enemy, which is our own ruling class, and their system of exploitation. To win, an anti-war movement needs to be based on independent working class actions. In the US, this requires an absolute political break from the Democrats, who have proven over and over again they are the willing butchers for American imperialism. The Democratic Party has moved Iar to the right over recent decades; has historically served as the graveyard of class and social struggles, and they will continue to serve that role. Workers should organize labor political strikes against any military intervention. Not only does this mean the hot-cargoing of military goods, particularly by longshoremen, railroad workers, merchant seamen among others but workers should organize material military aid to Syrian working class revolutionary fghters. United labor actions should be organized internationally from the semi-colonial nations to the imperialist centers. A general strike movement needs to be organized to bring these war moves to an end and a fghting workers/labor party built to organize such actions in opposition to the Democrat/ Republican parties of war. US enlisted ranks need to be broken Irom the oIfcer corps and organize soldier and enlisted ranks councils to oppose US imperialist actions. Opposition to the war could be turned into a fght Ior social justice, for jobs, healthcare, education and housing for all. Carrying such a fght through to a victorious conclusion requires the Iormation oI a workers government. Workers should come to the defense of the Arab Revolution. Labor in transport should help ensure that military goods are commandeered and delivered to the Syrian working class revolutionaries of the Local Coordinating Committees (LCC) and militias, who are fghting the brutal Assad regime. Organize workers international brigades to fght in Syria alongside our class sisters and brothers! The Syrian Revolution must not be broken by the imperialists! For international labor solidarity! Workers of the world unite! All imperialist powers hands off Syria! For a workers victory against the regime! For workers material aid to the revolution! From Tunisia to Kuwait, victory to the Arab Revolution! For workers revolution across and a socialist federation of the Middle East and North Africa! Communist Workers Group USA (CWG-US): Email: cwgclasswar@gmail.com Website: www.cwgusa.wordpress.com Class War (Paper of the CWG-US) September 3rd 2013 Labor Donated US/NATO imperialists keep your bloody hands off Syria! Mobilize to defeat Obamas war against the Syrian People and their Revolution! What we Fight For We ght to overthrow Capitalism Historically, capitalism expanded world-wide to free much of humanity from the bonds of feudal or tribal society, and developed the economy, society and culture to a new higher level. But it could only do this by exploiting the labour of the productive classes to make its profts. To survive, capitalism became increasingly destructive oI 'nature and humanity. In the early 20th century it entered the epoch of imperialism in which successive crises unleashed wars, revolutions and counter-revolutions. Today we fght to end capitalism`s wars, famine, oppression and injustice, by mobilising workers to overthrow their own ruling classes and bring to an end the rotten, exploitative and oppressive society that has exceeded its use-by date. We ght for Socialism. By the 20th century, capitalism had created the pre-conditions Ior socialism a world-wide working class and modern industry capable of meeting all our basic needs. The potential to eliminate poverty, starvation, disease and war has long existed. The October Revolution proved this to be true, bringing peace, bread and land to millions. But it became the victim of the combined assault of imperialism and Stalinism. AIter 1924 the USSR , along with its deIormed oIIspring in Europe, degenerated back towards capitalism. In the absence oI a workers political revolution, capitalism was restored between 1990 and 1992. Vietnam and China then Iollowed. In the 21st century only North Korea survives as a degenerated workers state. We unconditionally deIend the DPRK against capitalism and fght Ior political revolution to overthrow the bureaucracy as part of a world socialist revolution. We ght to defend Marxism While the economic conditions for socialism exist today, standing between the working class and socialism are political, social and cultural barriers. They are the capitalist state and bourgeois ideology and its agents. These agents claim that Marxism is dead and capitalism need not be exploitative. We say that Marxism is a living science that explains both capitalisms continued exploitation and its attempts to hide class exploitation behind the appearance of individual freedom and 'equality. It reveals how and why the reIormist, Stalinist and centrist misleaders of the working class tie workers to bourgeois ideas oI nationalism, racism, sexism and equality. Such Ialse belieIs will be exploded when the struggle against the inequality, injustice, anarchy and barbarism of capitalism in crisis, led by a revolutionary Marxist party, produces a revolutionary class-consciousness. We ght for a Revolutionary Party The bourgeoisie and its agents condemn the Marxist party as totalitarian. We say that without a democratic and a centrally organised party there can be no revolution. We base our beliefs on the revolutionary tradition of Bolshevism and Trotskyism. Such a party, armed with a transitional program, Iorms a bridge that joins the daily fght to deIend all the past and present gains won from capitalism to the victorious socialist revolution. Defensive struggles for bourgeois rights and freedoms, for decent wages and conditions, will link up the struggles of workers of all nationalities, genders, ethnicities and sexual orientations, bringing about movements for workers control, political strikes and the arming of the working class, as necessary steps to workers power and the smashing of the bourgeois state. Along the way, workers will learn that each new step is one of many in a long march to revolutionize every barrier put in the path to their victorious revolution. We ght for Communism. Communism stands for the creation of a classless, stateless society beyond socialism that is capable of meeting all human needs. Against the ruling class lies that capitalism can be made fair for all, that nature can be conserved, that socialism and communism are dead, we raise the red fag oI communism to keep alive the revolutionary tradition oI the Communist ManiIesto oI 1848, the Bolshevik-led October Revolution, the Third Communist International until 1924, and the revolutionary Fourth International up to its collapse into centrism, with the closing oI the International Center. We fght to build a new Communist International, as a world party oI socialism capable oI leading workers to a victorious struggle for socialism. 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Douglas Greenberg, Stanley N. Katz, Steven C. Wheatley, Melanie Beth Oliviero - Constitutionalism and Democracy - Transitions in The Contemporary World-Oxford University Press (1993) PDF