Conghaileach
29th March 2003, 16:42
Open letter from Communist Party USA to all Communist and Workers'
Parties
The present moment holds the gravest dangers for a world challenged by the
most aggressive, rapacious segment of US imperialism, represented by the
administration of George W. Bush, now poised to attack Iraq in defiance of
the world's great peace majority.
Since its inception, this administration has pursued unilateral actions to
build still further a war machine that has already outstripped the rest of
the world combined. It has scrapped any international agreement that hinders
it in further tightening its strategic grasp and its control of energy
resources around the globe, and assuring ever greater profits for the US
transnational corporate sector.
But hope that a very different world can be won springs from the
unprecedented and ever-growing global resistance to the Bush
administration's drive for perpetual war. We may never know how many
millions poured into the streets on every continent, in the great February
15 upsurge. The drumbeat continues with actions big and small. A spectrum of
class and social forces is coming together in broad all-people's coalitions.
Strongly rooted in the working class, these formations increasingly reach
into the middle strata and even segments of ruling circles in many
countries.
The worldwide communist and workers party movement is fully engaged in
building these all people's coalitions, which alone are the bulwark against
the most dangerous imperialism ever. Our parties have much to learn from
each other about this mobilizing process.
The broad anti war movements have also played a key role, along with
economic considerations and inter-imperialist rivalries, in the
unprecedented resistance by UN Security Council members including France,
Germany and Russia, joined by China. While the positions of bourgeois
governments can shift quickly under the impact of perceived national
interests and pressure from Washington, their opposition to the U.S. war
drive against Iraq provides a clue to the scope of forces that can be drawn
into the anti-war movement.
The Bush administration's drive for perpetual war -- now focusing on Iraq
and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea but global in its outlook --
will unleash harrowing human and environmental consequences, imperilling
struggles everywhere for economic and social justice, freedom and democracy.
Peoples the world over, including the USA, will suffer diversion of precious
resources to war as well as environmental destruction and widespread
devastation. This drive for domination takes place in the context of a
worsening worldwide economic crisis whose already devastating effects will
be greatly multiplied by war.
The CPUSA believes it is greatly in the interest of the broad anti-war
struggle, and indeed of humanity's very future, that our parties exchange
views and experiences on this great process of coalition building which
seeks to dam the torrent unleashed by US imperialism's most dangerous
elements.
With warm comradely regards,
National Committee, Communist Party USA
March 19, 2003
Parties
The present moment holds the gravest dangers for a world challenged by the
most aggressive, rapacious segment of US imperialism, represented by the
administration of George W. Bush, now poised to attack Iraq in defiance of
the world's great peace majority.
Since its inception, this administration has pursued unilateral actions to
build still further a war machine that has already outstripped the rest of
the world combined. It has scrapped any international agreement that hinders
it in further tightening its strategic grasp and its control of energy
resources around the globe, and assuring ever greater profits for the US
transnational corporate sector.
But hope that a very different world can be won springs from the
unprecedented and ever-growing global resistance to the Bush
administration's drive for perpetual war. We may never know how many
millions poured into the streets on every continent, in the great February
15 upsurge. The drumbeat continues with actions big and small. A spectrum of
class and social forces is coming together in broad all-people's coalitions.
Strongly rooted in the working class, these formations increasingly reach
into the middle strata and even segments of ruling circles in many
countries.
The worldwide communist and workers party movement is fully engaged in
building these all people's coalitions, which alone are the bulwark against
the most dangerous imperialism ever. Our parties have much to learn from
each other about this mobilizing process.
The broad anti war movements have also played a key role, along with
economic considerations and inter-imperialist rivalries, in the
unprecedented resistance by UN Security Council members including France,
Germany and Russia, joined by China. While the positions of bourgeois
governments can shift quickly under the impact of perceived national
interests and pressure from Washington, their opposition to the U.S. war
drive against Iraq provides a clue to the scope of forces that can be drawn
into the anti-war movement.
The Bush administration's drive for perpetual war -- now focusing on Iraq
and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea but global in its outlook --
will unleash harrowing human and environmental consequences, imperilling
struggles everywhere for economic and social justice, freedom and democracy.
Peoples the world over, including the USA, will suffer diversion of precious
resources to war as well as environmental destruction and widespread
devastation. This drive for domination takes place in the context of a
worsening worldwide economic crisis whose already devastating effects will
be greatly multiplied by war.
The CPUSA believes it is greatly in the interest of the broad anti-war
struggle, and indeed of humanity's very future, that our parties exchange
views and experiences on this great process of coalition building which
seeks to dam the torrent unleashed by US imperialism's most dangerous
elements.
With warm comradely regards,
National Committee, Communist Party USA
March 19, 2003