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Date Posted: 12:31:36 09/17/01 Mon
Author: Well Red
Subject: WTC Leaflet
In reply to: no use for a name 's message, "..." on 04:42:12 09/16/01 Sun

DON’T LET TERRORIST ATTACKS LEAD US TO SUPPORT A POLICE STATE!

CONTINUE THE FIGHT AGAINST RACISM AND WAR PREPARATIONS OF U.S. IMPERIALISM!

CHALLENGE-DESAFIO and Progressive Labor Party have always condemned terrorism. Nationalists and fundamentalists from less developed countries are the likely perpetrators of the recent hijacking-bombings, but we should be aware that these terrorists are really just trying to copy the terrorism of the U.S. bosses and its allies. The bloodbath caused by the blowing up buildings with hijacked planes full of passengers is a despicable anti-working class act. It is very much like what the U.S./NATO did during the 1999 air war against the former Yugoslavia and during the 1991Oil War against Iraq, which killed over half a million people. And the bombing in Iraq continues, with eight civilians killed yesterday by U.S. warplanes.

The U.S. bosses are already using the blowing up of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as an excuse to prepare for war and impose police state measures against all workers. Such measures have been planned by the federal government through its Hart-Rudman Commission for several years (see http://www.nssg.gov/). Workers and youth should not support greater police power and authority. These are used primarily against the working class and students!

Similarly, we must not fall for the anti-Arab and anti-Islamic racism that will soon follow. Osama Bin Laden, who some are blaming for this terrorism, was, after all, trained by the Central Intelligence Agency to wage a "holy war" against the Soviet army in Afghanistan. Islamic fundamentalism was built by the U.S. bosses and their allies in oil-rich Saudi Arabia to wage an anti-Soviet crusade in the 1980s and to protect the oil profits of Exxon-Mobil and their billionaire Saudi royal family friends. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

Workers and youth face mass job cuts as the bosses try to make us pay for their economic slowdown. Racist attacks, from gutter racists like Nazis and Klansmen, as well as "sophisticated" racist theories in universities are proliferating, leading to disunity among workers and students. If we fall for pro-police, for pro-war hysteria, for increasing racist attacks on workers from other countries or from various racial and ethnic groups within the country, we will only weaken our struggle for equality, and help the main enemy, our own bosses, in reducing our quality of life, eliminating our jobs, sowing hatred within the working class.

We in PLP fight for the unity of all workers and youth to organize a movement that will fight for a society without war makers, without racism, without oil profiteers, a society where workers produce for their needs: communism. We must not allow today’s terrorist attacks deter any of us from keeping our collective eyes on the ball. Workers of the world are our friends and allies; the capitalists, be they big capitalists in the U.S. or small capitalists in less developed countries, are our enemies. We must struggle accordingly even in the face of the tragedy of September 11, 2001.

For more information, contact www.plp.org or call 1-800-330-9953

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