A-Infos (en) US, THE 3rd WORLD WAR: by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin

["Jonina Abron" <JoNina1@ameritech.net>]

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THE 3rd WORLD WAR: Message to the Anti-Globalization Movement by Lorenzo Komboa Ervin
5,000 people have been killed in a murderous attack just a few days ago,
clearly stemming from past events in the Middle East. Although the President
of the United States correctly refers to this as "acts of war", he does not tell us
that this war has been raging for many years, and is fueled by long standing
American support of Israel, acting as its military proxy. The US is "no peace
loving country," it is the world's largest salesmen of military armaments and
has its hands in most of the wars waging around the globe. 

Although millions have died around the world because of these wars,
thousands have now died in this country because of the militaristic policies of
this government, not just because of  some scapegaot "Mad Mullahs" in
Afghanistan, Iran or Palestine. The USA is the world's most hated colonial
power.  But in the name of those thousands recently killed in the USA, the
President is planning for what he calls a "global war against terrorism". This
global war, based on the new "Bush-Powell interventionist doctrine" will allow
them to assemble an international war coalition of western powers to invade,
occupy, and destroy numerous countries in the name of retaliation and
"fighting terrorism.  President Bush says that this war will last for years, and
will essentially allow political assassination of heads of state, terrorist
suspects, and other individuals and groups on the anti-American "death list" of
the CIA and military forces. This is state terrorism itself, if not outright
imperialist aggression, even if it is cloaked in the gard of "national defense."  It
could lead to World War 3 and it must be opposed.

But instead of opposing this new stage of capitalist military and political
domination, the anti-globalization movement is retreating. It is mourning,
instead of organizing. The Movement for Global Justice (and other
organizations which make up the movement) recently postponed its
demonstrations in Washington, D.C. against the International Monetary Fund
because of the attacks on September 11th. it is not clear that they intend to do
anything in this period of crisis at all, and may even be dismantling its coalition
entirely. 

Even though this act of terror in the USA could be just the beginning of an all
out war,  the anti-globalization movement, a mass movement of millions and
probably the most active anti-capitalist movement to be seen in decades, is
taking a position of neutrality, if not outright abstention. However, if they
passively stand by, these events could ultimately result in the slaying of
millions, even resulting in the use of nuclear weapons. Further,  the USA is not
immune to another attack, killing even more like at the WTC. Where does it
stop? According to Bush "if we hit them hard enough, they will give up". This
will not happen.

Because there can be no peace without social justice, we must oppose this
war on political and moral grounds. International poverty and
racial/neo-colonial  oppression are at the root of the conflict in the Middle East
and many parts of the world. The same international elite that exploit the 3rd
world and poor people at home are the same ones who would benefit from a
war. They make and sell the military armaments, they benefit from Defense
Department government contracts, and they have the coziest relationship with
the Wall Street. The International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization,
and other capitalist international institutions would love a war, and clearly
covet Middle East oil reserves, which would be theirs outright if they can take
over from those "meddlesome" Arab nationalist regimes and the oppressed
peoples of those countries. And if they can silence the anti-globalization
movement and other international movements, they can do that with ease.
Clearly this movement cannot police itself for international capitalism, no
matter the nature of this war, that is whether it seems "just" from the U.S. side.
We cannot see the world as Americans, but rather as internationalists.

It is racism and national chauvanism to only be concerned with American
deaths instead of consistent international mass murders of innocent civilians.
Using right-wing patriotism, the U.S. politicians are pushing us towards a
global catastrophe. The task of the Anarchists especially in  the
anti-globalization movement has to be to build an *anti-war* movement in
opposition to any further military engagement. This retaliation is not for the
good of the people of the USA or the rest of the world, it is for global
domination.  

This anti-war movement has to understand that it must call for an end to
international terrorism, both that of small internal non-state resistance groups
and that of nation-states. It must use its force of numbers and ability to gum up
the works to prevent what clearly could be world war 3. After a few years of
war, it will not matter who started it, the blood of civilian victims will flow like
wine or water. We need to put ourselves in harm's way to stop this military
preparedness, and prevent further attacks by the war-mongers on both sides.
Clearly, the anti-globalization movement has the numbers and the
organization to be a major factor in building an international anti-war
resistance, now whether it has the political will to do so is another matter
entirely. One thing for sure, whatever it does now will impact its legacy, and
either the victims of the future will curse its inaction or praise its bravery.  

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Lorenzo Komboa Ervin


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