Since the beginning of the presidential campaign in 2000, we understood that George Bush, Jr., better known as the Texecutioner, was a real danger to the world. His father’s policy, his ultra-conservative entourage and their related views on abortion, women’s rights and the death penalty, his close ties to the oil industry and the arms industry, and his gruesome background as Governor of Texas, all led us to fear the worst. The worst has happened.
There is of course the war in Iraq. It cannot be said enough how much this war is unjustified, iniquitous, unjust and deadly. Bush looked us in the eye and lied. He has gone beyond all others in flouting international rules. What about the outcome? On a political level, it resulted in an abandonment of multilateralism, in the United Nations being discredited, as well as in abetting the theory of the so-called clash of civilizations.
Every day, anarchy increasingly reigns in Iraq. On a human level, thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians have been killed by US bombs; each day, soldiers perish in what has become the international base of terrorism. Actually, Bin Laden could not have imagined a better ally than Bush in his bloody quest. However, this war has not been bad for everybody. American capitalist companies are rubbing their hands over juicy contracts, considerable capital gains, and seizure of markets. Everything is going just fine for them. Once more, economic interests have sown death. Bush knew it from day one and has followed this logic to the end.
Facing such a murderous ideology, this war has at least enabled the emergence of resistance. Millions of us took to the streets to say no to war and occupation. These marches signaled the birth of international public opinion against the war. We have not won yet, but thanks to the mobilization and the work of our respective organizations in many countries, nobody can believe the lies of Bush anymore.
What is more, the deadly ideology of capitalism has been revealed. When you talk about Bush, what comes to mind is also an unfair and profoundly unequal economic policy which favors the interests of capital, not the interests of workers. The same policy has been applied in the European Union. Workers’ social guarantees have been downtrodden by these destructive policies. All kinds of solidarity and the systems of collective protection are under attack. The American labor market, in which American workers are constantly in a precarious position, is imposing itself on the rest of the world.
The same conditions call for common resistance and the need to build another world, a world in which the reader of these lines will not see us, the French, as opponents in the economic war but as brothers and sisters in the building of a world based on solidarity; a world in which politics happens by sitting around the table—not by deploying B-52 bombers. A world where millions of human beings who suffer from misery and AIDS have real tools to fight such plagues. A world in which decisions would not be made by Wall Street but by the people themselves. In short, a world without Bush and his clones.
Movement of Young Communists of France
Mouvement des Jeunes Communistes de France (MJCF)
www.jeunes-communistes.org
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