Archive for March, 2008

The memory of March 19th puts out terror in the world. On this day the human race realizes that its destiny is in the hands of a bunch of criminals and blood-suckers in the US Administration. March 19th is a message to the world that freedom, civil rights and human dignity have no value to the corporate mafia interests of the US and its allies in the world.

After five years, the lies that were broadcasted by the Bush/Cheney administration in waging its war and occupation of Iraq about WMD are exposed. Saddam Hussein was not as dangerous to his neighbors as Iraq is today, where threats to the region and the world are imminent. Today, Iraq has become the largest base of exporting terrorism to the world and a battleground for terrorist groups to settle their issues. What is even worse is that the Iraqi model of sectarian conflict and the division of people based on non-humane values has become a model for the regional countries. In other words, Iraq is the draft model of the Greater Middle East that is preached by Bush and Condoleezza Rice. Moreover, the flames of sectarian conflict have begun to engulf Iraq’s neighbors, where groups with backward mentalities are taking advantage of the situation.

Approximately one million lives have been taken, more than 4 million Iraqis have been displaced inside and abroad, unemployment rates are more than 60%, extreme poverty has overwhelmed millions of children, women and men. Moreover, the looting of billions of dollars of Iraqi wealth is to be put in the pockets of Cheney’s corporate friends and sectarian militias….

The experience of five years of war, that is still raging, tells us that the millions of people who took to the streets on the eve of war in London, Rome, Paris, Madrid, Tokyo, New York, Toronto and Sydney… failed to stop the bloodthirsty US administration from carrying out its brutal agenda.

The weak point of our movement is that we demonstrate our power only in reviving this painful anniversary once or twice a year at best, while the US Administration displays its military machinery to kill people in Iraq every day… It dictates new laws and concepts in the region and the world. It supports sectarian groups (Shi’ite and Sunni political Islamists) to preserve their interests… The US Ambassador Ryan Crocker in Baghdad grants $5 million to a sectarian militias that kill people on the basis of identity and kill women to force them to stay home every day.
Our anti-war movements, however, only raise the slogan “No to War” and believe that this is sufficient. However, there is a developing movement in Iraq that daily confronts the occupation, political Islam, terrorist groups; and raises the slogans “No Shiite… No Sunni… Ours is a Human Identity” and “No to the occupation; No to sectarian gangs.” This movement is part of the world anti-war movement that struggles every day to expel the occupation and sweep out terrorist groups from Iraqi society. This movement needs the support of the libertarian forces who lead the world anti-war movement. The anti-war movement in Japan, with MDS [Movement for Democratic Socialism] and ZENKO [National Assembly for Peace & Democracy] at its forefront, has provided unlimited support to the libertarian movement in Iraq, and has brought about a qualitative change in its position. This model is capable to change the political equation in Iraq and the region.

Without a libertarian and secular alternative in Iraq, the occupation will not end. The defeat of the occupation by the progressive and libertarian forces such as the Iraq Freedom Congress is the first step to change the political map of the region and the world. The defeat of the occupation by political Islam, whether bin Laden or the mullahs in Iran, would only mean dumping the world into the largest vortex of chaos and terrorism.

If the world anti-war movement wishes to end state terrorism, it has only one choice—which is doing just as the US Administration, Western governments and Islamic groups are doing:
supporting and funding their allies in Iraq. In other words, supporting the libertarian movement in Iraq is the only way for the peace movement to prevail, and the Iraq Freedom Congress is at its forefront.

Our choice of founding Iraq Freedom Congress on March 19th [2005] was a clear message to the world that we are determined to expel the occupation and terrorist groups from Iraq, and work to form a secular state and government that defines human beings on the basis of human identity.

Samir Adil
President of Iraq Freedom Congress
March 18, 2008

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The System is In Trouble!

The Revolutionary Autonomous Communities Newsletter Editorial

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www.copwatchla.org

Things are moving and changing, and there is potential for revolutionary change within the empire. You know that the system is in trouble when the Democratic Party is running a Black Man and a Woman for president of the US. Barak Obama himself is running with a stamp slogan of “Change.” It is without doubt that people want change. This is the reason why the Democrats (who don’t represent the interests of people of color, women, working class, unemployed, queer people or anybody who is oppressed in fact) is running these two candidates. They want to bring back into mainstream-american politics all those who dream of change.

The question is can we rely on the same government that has created these current conditions? A government that has exterminated Natives, enslaved Africans, continues to steal land and colonize people, has 2 million people behind their prisons, and maintains their power through a fascistic military state. The history of this country is one of genocide, mass torture and rape and cannot go on any longer. Is it enough to put a token president in their White House and have the people settle for the lesser of two evils?

They only see fit for people to get involved in “decision making” every four years during their elections. While the rest of the time their media is used to keep us passive and out of their institutional power structure. They rather have us in their prison and military industrial complex. We are just slaves to them, but the reality is that we DO have the power to take back our lives and our communities. Working-class indigenous people and colonized people run this empire and the world.

Revolutionary Autonomous Communities believes that we have to create our own institutions where in our neighborhoods we can organize ourselves, feed ourselves, defend and protect ourselves, educate ourselves, and change the conditions OURSELVES. We cannot wait for change to happen on its own, or for someone to bring change to our doorstep. We have to begin to build that change where we live, where we work, where we go to school, and in general wherever we are. Change will not happen by putting who they conceive to be the “right person” to rule over us.

No one individual can create the change we want to see. We need a revolutionary movement. This will only happen with the same working class, indigenous and colonized people in the forefront. That means that those who are working for a different world have to start building together. The state understands the times as well, that is why they are setting precedents and targeting those who are resisting and who are fighting for revolution. The Black Riders Liberation Party in Los Angeles and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement are some examples where the state has targeted people who are putting in work to bring about this change. The reason why they attacked the May 1st Immigrant rights march in McArthur Park is because the power structure is afraid of the growing movement.

Revolutionary Autonomous Communities (RAC) is currently building alliances with organizations with similarities to us, so we can begin laying down the foundation for a revolutionary movement within this beast that is called america. We also understand that “our solidarity with others is our best defense.” The state will seek to isolate revolutionary organizers from the people, so we have to seek to build those alliances (around principled unity, simultaneously continuing to dialogue over our differences) while we build our base in the community.

This change we dream of is urgent, but “our dreams will never fit inside their ballot boxes.”

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