The blood of the London victims is on the hands of the Anglo-American imperialism

Issued by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)

We declare our sympathies with those who were wounded and died in the bombings in London on July 7 and we extend our condolences to the bereaved families.

We do this just as sincerely as we do to the bereaved families of the 100,000 plus victims of the British ands U.S. terror in Iraq, and hope that the British working class may begin to understand a little of the nightmare that the Iraqi people have lived through since the invasion and occupation of their country by our imperialist rulers.

We call for redoubled efforts on the part of the British working class to end the illegal occupation of Iraq and the thievery of the Iraqi people’s wealth by US and British imperialism – the looting of Iraqi oil and the wholesale privatization into foreign hands of Iraqi industries and services.

This means refusing to cooperate in any way with the British war machine – be it serving in the forces, making weapons, transporting equipment or putting out propaganda. Individually, we may be powerless, but collectively, the British working class has the ultimate veto over the war – they cannot fight it without us.

We must give our full support to the Iraqi resistance, since only the defeat for the Anglo-American imperialism will put an end to its aggression in the Middle East.

Imperialism is the real terrorist; the real extremist; the real bloodthirsty murderer that will stop at nothing to achieve its aim of domination for maximization of profit. Its representatives drop indiscriminately cluster bombs all over the world without a qualm, leaving a trail of death and devastation in their wake.

In the last ten years, the innocent people of Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and Iraq have seen their housing estates, television stations, roads, bridges, railway stations and even refugee columns bombed by British and US planes.

An acknowledged tactic of the self-proclaimed fighters for "civilization" is to bomb civilian areas and then come back round 10 minutes later in order to bomb the brave emergency workers trying to rescue the injured and trapped civilians. Hospitals, ambulances, fire- stations and schools all have been targeted by these bringers of "freedom" and "democracy".

On March 19, 2003, when Anglo-American imperialism unleashed 300 cruise missiles on Baghdad, George Bush and his cohorts described it as "shock and awe" while Tony Blair called it an "act of humanity" It ill becomes these imperialist criminals to start characterizing the London bombings as the "brutal" and "evil" acts of "extremists" who want to impose their "will" on others.

The ruling class will undoubtedly attempt to use the London bombings as an excuse to pump out even more hysterically racist and the ID cards and further repressive "anti-terrorist" measures that actually are aimed at the British working class, all in the name of the "safety of the British people".

The only way we will win a world that is not tormented by crisis, poverty and war, is by overthrowing the decadent, parasitic, bloodthirsty system of imperialism, and replace it by socialism!

Death to imperialism!
Defeat for Anglo-American imperialism!
Forward to socialism!

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