All over the world, peoples and states are fighting hard to defend themselves from imperialist attack. What is missing as this global war unfolds is a meaningful movement on the home front in the imperialist heartlands.
Comrade Joti Brar speaks at the founding conference of the British chapter of the Anti-Fascist International, which took place on Saturday 5 September in Bolivar Hall, central London.
As part of a session focused on imperialism and war, she draws attention to the heightened war drive of the imperialists that is pushing us ever deeper into a third world war. This is not a policy choice, it is the inevitable result of contradictions that are inherent in the global capitalist economic system – contradictions that have created an economic crisis of overproduction so deep as to threaten the very survival of the western monopoly-financier elites. This is a systemic crisis from which the ruling capitalist class has no rational way out; its only answer is war, death, destruction and looting on an immense scale.It is becoming clearer by the day that the billionaires are prepared to sacrifice hundreds of millions of workers to maintain the financial enslavement of the world’s peoples. The continued existence of their predatory system is the greatest threat that humanity faces today.The requirement to act in the interests of profit rather than the interests of people explains why there is “no reverse gear” on the part of the British and American Nato warmongers. No matter how insane their plans become or how much blood is shed in apparently unwinnable and endless wars, they will not abandon their drive into global war. They are incapable of letting up because to do so would be to sign their system’s death warrant. Across Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe and Oceania, Joti points out how every corner of our world is either being militarised by the imperialists, or being forced onto a war-ready footing in response to imminent imperialist threat.As this titantic struggle unfolds, we must give every possible support to the Axis of Resistance – all those states, movements and peoples that are opposing the imperialists’ attempts to subjugate and loot their countries. It is right to join the call to “Globalise the Intifada” – against zionism, Banderite fascism, neoliberal stooge regimes and the direct forces of imperialist colonisation. These are the same forces enforcing brutal austerity and draconian and increasingly fascist repression on workers here at home. Our struggles for peace, liberty, dignity and prosperity are connected, and our enemy is the same.We must recognise that what is lacking most in the epoch-defining struggle now unfolding between the forces of Anglo-American/Nato-led imperialism on the one hand and the anti-imperialist camp on the other is a meaningful movement on the home front.In Britain, the controlled opposition in and around the Labour party has kept the working class in servitude, policing an ‘official’ antiwar movement, an ‘official’ Palestine solidarity movement, an ‘official’ anti-austerity movement and ‘official’ trade unions. In this way, workers are kept powerless and imperialism is left free to continue perpetrating its wars and genocides across the globe – to the detriment of British workers also, who are suffering ever worsening conditions of life while being prepared to become disposable cannon fodder for the war machine. A machine whose ultimate goal is to preserve and entrench our own wage-slavery.We are supporting the launch of the Anti-Fascist International with the aim of helping it to become a much-needed anti-imperialist antiwar movement. Let us work together to help the British working class to remember and begin to use its immense power in its own interests and against those of our common class enemies. Join the Anti-Fascist International and help to build the movement we so desperately need: one that will sincerely and energetically fight against zionism, fascism, militarisation and imperialist war. That will work to combine rather than fragment our efforts. That will work to expose (not reinforce) the endless propaganda lies (about Russia, China, Iran, Palestine, the DPRK, the Sahel, Venezuela, Cuba etc …) that are being fed to the people every day. And will aim to build a mass campaign of non-cooperation with every aspect of the war machine in Britain.
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