Washington and London are massing troops, ships, and warplanes around Afghanistan for their next military assault in a long history of imperialist aggression around the world. Their war drive has already hit workers and peasants in that country especially hard, giving the lie to the cynical claims by U.S. officials that they will try to minimize civilian casualties in their war. Millions facing drought conditions have been cut off from needed food aid, and tens of thousand have fled their homes to find protection against the bombing they know is coming.

Working people around the world need only look two countries over, to Iraq, to see the kind of devastation, brutality, and wanton terror the U.S. imperialists are willing to inflict on humanity as they drive to reinforce their domination around the world. It is to subdue the workers of the world and their exploited and oppressed allies that the U.S. rulers are waging their war at home and abroad.

Unfortunately for the imperialists, millions of workers, farmers, and peasants around the world continue to act in their own class interests, defying the dictates from the employers and imperial Washington--the world's last and declining empire. From protests in Pakistan against the impending war by Washington and London to mobilizations of peasants in Mexico to oppose further ruination; and from strikes in the United States and Korea to the steadfast stand of the Cuban people, the imperialists must take on and defeat workers and farmers in order to salvage their outmoded and crisis-ridden system.

Wars, brutality, racism, economic depression, and assaults on workers' rights are what capitalism has to offer humanity. And working people in the United States and other imperialist countries are becoming more a part of the world the superwealthy capitalist class has created. Opportunities to unite workers and farmers--whether they be across national boundaries, between urban and rural areas, between the employed and unemployed, or along the lines of race and sex--are more open today as a result. Solidarity arising out of resistance by working people is the beginning of the answer to the imperialist drive to fascism and war.

It opens up the possibility of revolutionary struggle by millions of workers and farmers in the United States, who, in finding their own self-worth and capacities through acting together in their class interests, will find they can replace the imperialist rulers in Washington with a government of their own, eliminate capitalism, and turn the productive capacities of the United States to serve the common needs of working people around the world.
 
 
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