The Necessity to Organise Anti-War.

The present era of imperialism and revolution, which began at the beginning of the twentieth century, poses a continuing danger of a catastrophic world war. The dominant imperialist power of any period within the era constantly provokes and goads other rising or competing powers into waging war. Within the worldwide competition for markets, sources of raw material and spheres of influence, the dominant country maintains its superiority by adding to its vast arsenal of armaments and spreading its military and political power throughout the world. The dominant country blockades, isolates and undermines internally all countries it seeks to annex within its imperialist system of states, and directly attacks those that refuse to submit.

The present period is similar to all others within the era. The dominant imperialist power, the United States, actively engages in all those traditional types of imperialist activities and more to maintain and enlarge its worldwide military, economic, cultural and political empire. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has intensified its campaign of wars and interference against smaller countries, consolidated its military presence in Europe through expanding NATO, which it dominates, and now appears ready to single out larger and more powerful countries, in particular China and Russia, that it considers must be brought under U.S. control almost certainly through war unless the people’s anti-war movement can rise to the occasion and stop it.

Through an expanded NATO, the U.S. has brought Europe under its military control or at least into an uneasy compliance. The U.S. continues to strengthen its military presence in Europe with new bases such as the largest ever in Kosovo, which it built after dismembering and conquering Yugoslavia in its final war of the twentieth century and by positioning missile installations along the entire north/south frontier of Eastern Europe.

In Africa, the U.S.-led NATO predatory war against Libya destroyed a regime that was considered not fully annexed within the U.S. Empire. Now, the U.S. brandishes conquered Libya as a spoil of war and stern lesson to all who would defy the dominant power and cosy up to any other, especially China and Russia at this time or have aspirations of independence and sovereign rule. To ensure its continued superiority in Africa, the U.S. military has launched an extensive drone war in country after country and let loose its Special Forces and mercenaries to assassinate and terrorise the continent to ensure it remains within its sphere of influence.

In Asia, the U.S. has destroyed Iraq, annexed the Persian Gulf states, is waging war against Afghanistan and Pakistan, and is preparing similar attacks on Iran and Syria or at least their gradual strangulation and internal destruction through blockades and the use of political and military mercenaries. The U.S. is strengthening its existing military bases throughout the continent and in the South Pacific, continuously adding and consolidating bases and installations such as the new U.S. Marine base in Darwin Australia and the massive new military complex on Jeju Island in the Republic of Korea even in the face of opposition from the vast majority of the people in the area.

The U.S. has convinced the ruling circles of India that their interests are best served through joining the U.S./Japan military alliance to isolate China within Asia.

In Japan, the current dominant section amongst the militarists and ruling political class has promised the U.S. to suppress any opposition to the U.S./Japan military alliance, in particular the anti-war movement in Okinawa that wants U.S. bases removed entirely from its territory. For its own imperialist interests, the current dominant section amongst the Japanese militarists and ruling political class has for the moment decided to strengthen its war alliance with the U.S. and just recently announced the purchase of a fleet of U.S. built and -controlled F-35 stealth fighter jets. The Japanese purchase of F-35s along with other pro-war governments such as Canada effectively finances the U.S. led arms race and prods China, Russia and others to waste the people’s resources by trying to match U.S. weapons, which adds to the economic crisis pounding the world and the scale of destruction imperialist wars will bring.

The U.S. is preparing to poke China and Russia with provocations that will lead to war, most likely involving internal disputes within their countries, utilising independence movements such as those in Taiwan or Tibet, or expanding into a full-blown international conflict a regional dispute in the South China Sea between China and a smaller country. The provocation and response will set the stage for the U.S. to launch large-scale military operations.

The fact that certain U.S. monopolies have extensive economic interests with China that would be disrupted when war breaks out is overwhelmed by the reality that imperialism is inherently adventurist and anti-conscious of the mutual destruction its actions will generate. The ruling imperialist elite believe they can gain more from war than what they may lose. Besides, in the mould of the German Nazis, the U.S. ruling class considers its military power invincible. The first and second world wars proved conclusively the inhuman anti-conscious nature of the imperialist ruling class. It is driven by forces beyond the control of reason and can only be stopped by people everywhere organised into conscious anti-war anti-imperialist movements and governments.

The time to oppose imperialist war is now and not wait for a catastrophic conflict to begin. The objective reality of this era proves that imperialist war is inevitable unless the people empower themselves with an anti-war anti-imperialist movement and government.

The reality that the ruling political class in the country is extremely pro-war and fully engaged and annexed within U.S. imperialism’s global empire and war machine. Two examples give credence to this view:

Any call to use even more resources to interfere in the internal affairs of Syria and prepare conditions both within that country and internationally for a U.S. led NATO military assault and regime change, which would be one more step into the abyss of a catastrophic worldwide imperialist war.

The time to stop war is now!

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