Mounayer
Statement by the Central Committee
of the Syrian Communist Party
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| Michael Mounayer |
Capitalism’s general crisis is deepening and aggravating in spite of all attempts by the imperialist forces to get out of it at the expense of the peoples. All the symptoms for this general crisis have recently become clear, especially when it interlocked with the periodic economic crisis, not seen by the world since 1929, that swept all over the capitalist centers.
The recent course of events proved that World Imperialism, US imperialism in particular, now will try to solve the crisis, or alleviate its impact, by accelerating the aggressive military actions.
With disregard to those who directly carried out the September 11th action on New York and Washington, the imperialist circles undoubtedly used these attacks to justify their aggressive military acts which aim at absorbing the social and political tension stemming from the deep economic crisis.
The pre-September 11th period witnessed a stepped-up wave of mass protests against the policies of the imperialist circles, and even in several of these countries, many of these protests reached the stage of street battles, as in Quebec, Gothenburg and Genoa, Italy. Hundreds of people were wounded and some killed. The Western governments used brutal methods to suppress these protests, something that they have not used for decades. What draws attention to these protests is that they were under clear and forthright slogans of "Down with capitalism!" Communists played a prominent role in these protests which proved the falsity of the cry that there is "the end of Communism!" said by George Bush Sr. at the beginning of the 90’s, after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Socialist countries in Eastern and Central Europe.
All events proved the failure of the efforts for creating a US-led New World Order. Such imperialist efforts for creating a unipolar world were aborted by the forces of the other pole, the toiling people, in addition to the internal differences of the imperialist world and the frenzied competition to get a lion's share of the booty, which rarified the imperialist forces and the contradictions between them. The mightiest of imperialist powers began losing some of its economic positions while facing other imperialist powers, particularly in Western Europe.
In order to maintain its leading position in the imperialist camp, US imperialism deemed it necessary to carry out a military strike in order to unite the imperialist forces, on the one hand, and to weaken the positions of its staunch allies, on the other hand. At this stage, it chose to direct its strike towards Central Asia and beyond the Caucasus in order to dominate the Caspian Sea region, one of the richest oil regions of the world. Dominating this rich oil region is the great momentum for the 21st century, a very dangerous period of economic and military confrontations.
Resisting imperialism by individual terrorism is not effective. Only a broad-based revolutionary movement can resist and put an end to imperialism. Individual terrorism could shackle this movement instead of developing it, as has happened many times in history. Now we see that the basic danger stems from imperialist state terrorism which has killed millions of innocent people. The entire 20th century stands witness to these catastrophes caused by such terrorism on mankind.
After the downfall of Hitler’s Germany and Nazism, the US became the bastion of terrorism in the world. It inaugurated such bestiality as when it dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, wars of aggression and support to the ugliest terrorist forces all over the world, even using biological and bacteriological weapons during the wars in Korea and Vietnam, violation of the sovereignty of the Dominican Republic and Grenada, and the support given to such fascists as Pinochet of Chile, Somoza of Nicaragua, Suharto of Indonesia, the Black Colonels of Greece and many others. In the US, imperialist terrorism is being used against its own citizens whose attitudes do not please the most reactionary imperialist circles.
It is now mindless to mention that US imperialism is the main buttress supporting the dirtiest contemporary Fascist forces like World Zionism. Were it not for the US imperialist absolute support, the Zionists would not have dared to commit repeated crimes against nations like the Arab and Russian nations. The Zionist capital constitutes an important part of the US ruling junta.
Now, under the circumstances of USA frenzied campaigns against the peoples of the world, the importance of achieving the slogan calling for the formation of a broad anti-imperialist front is increasing. Because this is the only successful way for curbing imperialism and rescuing mankind from the danger of annihilation.
This task requires unification of the ranks of anti-imperialist forces of all different ideological and political orientations. Because when we face our main enemy, we should put aside all of the minor differences for the sake of unity of all forces of goodness.
As far as our region is concerned, the Imperialist and Zionist pressures are increasing. There are some circles here that call for an actual capitulation to the Imperialist and Zionist dictates under the pretext of the "new world climate". They are promptly trying to liquidate the brave Palestinian uprising, "Intifada" and its outcome which forms an important transformation in the course of each Arab national liberation movement. Such defeatist attempts are confronted by an ever-growing resistance by the Arab masses and their brave patriotic forces who are struggling for national sovereignty. Here we should appreciate the principled Syrian stand, which rejects the different imperialist dictates and extortions.
Within this context, there were, during the last period, various pressure attempts on the Syrian national line under different pretexts and by several trends. But in spite of all such attempts, the Syrian national stand remained firm and tenacious. In order to strengthen and solidify this honorable stand, it is necessary to pay more attention to the interests of the masses, the main pillar of the Syrian national position. It is also necessary to seriously defend the national production and state sector, which is the backbone of this production, against the continued restriction attempts to covert liquidation by the new bourgeoisie representatives who are closely allied with imperialism. Their allegation that modern economy means an economy free from state intervention, are disproved by the developed capitalist states for maintaining their vital economic sectors. A clear example is the steps the US recently took to back important economic sectors.
But the imperialists have one set of rules for their countries and another set of rules that they recommend, in order to exhaust all such countries economically, and then control them politically.
Here we should point to the importance of the inclination by the Syrian political leadership, to broaden the democratic freedom of the masses and their national progressive masses through continued consecutive procedures and strengthening of the National Progressive Alliance. Such broadening is the cornerstone of solid national unity. In addition, respecting the rule of the law and the broad dialogue among all the national forces, has an important role in solidifying the Syrian honorable national stand.
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