Workers League - Behind the US invasion of Somalia - Mehring Books

But once the vote was out of the way and the ruling class, by means
of its two-party system and its media manipulation of public opinion,
had selected its chosen representative, the war was launched. Overnight,
hundreds of millions of dollars were allocated and thousands
of youth were sent to fight without any public debate. The political
eunuchs in Congress gladly ceded their constitutional prerogatives to
the White House and the Pentagon. They did not even mount the
pretense of a congressional debate, such as that which preceded the
war on Iraq. The two political parties which had just engaged in
months of mutual mudslinging were in total accord. And this farflung
operation, which has vast implications for the working class in
the United States and around the world, was carried out by a lame
duck government that had just been routed and humiliated at the
polls!
18. The unbridled militarism which increasingly dominates American
politics has the gravest implications for the American working
class. A capitalist nation which imposes colonial slavery on workers
and oppressed peoples abroad is compelled to attack the democratic
rights and conditions of life of workers at home. The watchword of
all class-conscious workers must be: US hands off Somalia!
19. It goes without saying that the official trade union organizations
will hail the subjugation of Somalia. For our part, the Workers
League stands on the side of the Somali masses and all oppressed
peoples in the struggle against US imperialism. There is no doubt
that the drive to recolonize the oppressed countries will generate
massive resistance around the world. The people of Africa, Asia and
Latin America will not accept enslavement by imperialist conquerors.
20. The ultimate end of this adventure, and of military interventions
to come, will be a bloody catastrophe for US imperialism.
American workers can prevent themselves from being dragged into
this disaster only through the organization of an independent political
struggle against American capitalism.
21. Long ago the Fourth International warned that the world
would be brought face to face with the volcanic eruption of American
imperialism. That time is at hand. The way forward in the fight
against militarism, depression and the attack on democratic rights is
the struggle for the international unity of the working class on the
basis of the program of world socialist revolution.
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