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Vol. 82/No. 11 March 19, 2018
Socialist Workers Party: No nuclear weapons!
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced March 1 that Russia is
developing new nuclear weapons that he says are capable of evading U.S.
missile defenses. This comes shortly after the Pentagon said it would
produce nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missiles. The U.S. rulers
seek to protect their dominant position in the world imperialist order
and advance their predatory interests.
For decades the Socialist Workers Party has fought for Washington’s
immediate, unilateral nuclear disarmament. The party believes that all
other governments that possess nuclear weapons — China, France, India,
Israel, Pakistan, North Korea, Russia, the U.K. — should get rid of
them, and those that seek to acquire them — like Iran — should stop.
Disarming the nuclear arsenals of the capitalist rulers is a burning
necessity for workers worldwide. The expansionist drive of the
capitalist class, seeking markets and profits at the expense of their
rivals, always bears the threat of war and destruction. The U.S. rulers
are the only ones to have ever used nuclear weapons — in Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
Revolutionaries have no need for such weaponry. “No one should have the
right to produce nuclear weapons, much less the privileged right
demanded by imperialism to impose its hegemonic domination,” explained
Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in his biography My Life.
“We have never considered the idea of fabricating nuclear weapons,
because we don’t need them,” Castro said in 2005.
“We possess a weapon as powerful as nuclear ones and it is the magnitude
of the justice we are fighting for,” he said. Cuba’s working people made
a socialist revolution that is worth defending. And they have proved
over decades that they have the capacities to defend this working-class
conquest from Washington’s relentless efforts to overthrow it.
“A world free of nuclear weapons would create better conditions for
working people to advance our struggles,” said a statement issued by SWP
national campaign director John Studer on Jan. 30. “There is no better
reason to build a movement capable of overturning capitalist rule and
replacing it with workers power than to be able to take nuclear weapons
out of the hands of the propertied owners and end the possibility of
their use.”
— Terry Evans
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