US troops out of the Middle East!
https://themilitant.com/2021/03/06/us-troops-out-of-the-middle-east/
March 15, 2021
Statement by Willie Cotton, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New
York City public advocate, March 3.
Working people and our unions should demand the immediate and
unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops, warships and bombers from
the Middle East. The Socialist Workers Party campaign condemns the Feb.
25 airstrikes Washington unleashed in Syria that killed at least 17 people.
At home and abroad, the U.S. rulers, like every other capitalist
government, uphold the interests of the ruling capitalist families. From
their military interventions to their trade conflicts and the punishing
sanctions they inflict, everything they do abroad is an extension of
their drive to defend their profits at home. They attack our jobs, wages
and working conditions here. And it’s our class they use as cannon
fodder in their wars and military operations.
The working class needs our own program on every question, including our
own foreign policy.
The starting point is the fact that workers and farmers around the world
share the same class interests. Solidarity with the struggles of working
people everywhere has to be our watchword, from the protests and strikes
by the toilers in Myanmar to those in Iran and Iraq.
All the imperialist and capitalist governments intervening in the
Mideast are an obstacle to working-class solidarity and organization
there. The SWP demands not only Washington, but all outside capitalist
powers — both Washington’s allies and rivals, from London to Moscow,
Tehran and Ankara — withdraw their forces now.
The only force capable of resolving the crisis confronting workers and
farmers in Iraq, Syria, Iran and elsewhere in the region is working
people. Only they can win their own emancipation.
Working people in the U.S. can help by acting to force the U.S. rulers
to get their bloody hands off Iran now and end their punishing sanctions
that hit workers and farmers hardest.
Successive U.S. administrations have used Washington’s vast military
might to brutally enforce their will. Both the Democratic and Republican
parties are the parties of imperialist war. Workers need to build a
party of our own, a labor party, that will say: Not one penny, not one
person for the capitalist rulers’ wars!
The way to stop imperialist wars once and for all is to lead the working
class — the one great progressive class today — to overturn the rule of
the capitalist warmakers here in the belly of the beast and replace it
with a workers and farmers government. Such a government would join
battles by fellow working people around the world to end capitalist rule
— the source of all exploitation, oppression and war.
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