US attach On Iraq, With or Without The UN, Is To Be Condemned!
“In short, the attack on Iraq is a
guarantee in the U.S. government’s anti-people policy to reduce the American
fatal economic crisis and to pluck one of the world’s richest oil resources and
to ensure the flow of cheap oil to the U.S. and more than anything else, to
expand the absolute domination of the American monopolies over the entire
world’s markets at the loss of other imperialist powers.
On the other hand, as far as the
oppressed people of Iraq are concerned, who have been crushed under Saddam’s
dictatorship as well as a ten year economic sanction, attacking Iraq whether under
the U.S.’s or the United Nations’ flag, will bear no fruit for the Iraqi people
other than a greater number of deaths and destruction and more massive economic
devastation and poverty. Supposing a
regime change in Iraq, whether the future government of this country be run by
the American army and/or puppets such as the mercenary government of Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan, or
by the UN troops as in the case of Kosovo, there would be no human rights,
democracy or social justice for the Iraqi working and toiling masses.
Considering these realities, one
must know that the conflicts between American imperialism and its smaller
rivals over the Iraqi crisis is nothing but a reactionary fight within the camp
of the international bloodsucking criminals, i.e. the imperialist powers. With or without the UN’s participation, war
against Iraq is but an anti-people, unjust and reactionary war against an
oppressed people. We must stand up
against this war and expose its ugly face and objectives while defending the
Iraqi people’s right to self-determination.”
Excerpts from
the Editorial, NO. 44, Jan 2003
New Rise in The
Student Movement
The rise of the university student
protests in the past few months, especially the cross-country defying rallies
of the students on the occasion of Azar the 16th
(Student Day in Iran) during which the combatant students demonstrated the rage
and revulsion against the rule of the Islamic Republic regime by chanting
slogans such as “down with dictatorship”, “down with Khamenei”
(the supreme clergy), once again demonstrated the immense defiant energy hidden
within the country’s universities, and brought fear to the Islamic Republic
Cliques.
In recent years, the regime tried by
leaning on the deceitful mercenary Khatami, and his
alleged “reforms” to deceive the university students and to contain and direct
their demands and defiance into a favourable direction,
by resorting to its staged and masqueraded student bodies such as “Daftar Tahkim Vahdat”
(“The Office of Fostering Unity”).
The recent movements in the universities,
however, show that everyday a greater percentage of the students see through
the deceitful nature of Khatami’s plans and claims
and are becoming aware of the true role of the regime’s institutions within the
universities.
It must be noted, that whenever the
student protests have gone out of the framework of the government factions,
they have been confronted with the regime’s indescribable brutal suppression. This is an undeniable reality. Yet, another reality here,
is that without refuting the control of the government factions, the
possibility for the formation of a real and genuine student movement would not
be possible.
Excerpts from the Editorial, NO.44, Jan 2003