Dec.
25Th 2012 X-mas Call:
Imperialism
Calls for Resistance !
Since
2001 Western Imperialism has caused a death toll of more than 1,7
million people in Afghanistan, Irak, and Pakistan. This terror has
been phrased as „war against terror“. According to the Norwegian
peace researcher John Galtung between 12 and 16 million people have
been killed by the US-empire since 1945. Since 1948, Israel, the
imperial bridgehead in the Middle East, has wiped out from the map
90% of historic Palestine. In 2011 Libya was attacked by NATO in the
course of rebellions in its neighbouring countries Tunesia and Egypt.
Today it is Syria that is on the agenda.
The
plans of the imperial warlords are in the open, accessible to the
world. US-general and late NATO-commander in chief Wesley Clark has
announced this with all necessary clarity. Only a couple of weeks
after september 11th 2001 the US general staff has been
instructed to bring about Regime Change in 7 countries: Iraq,
Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Iran. Commenting the attack
on Lebanon in 2006 ex-Secretary of State, Condolezza Rice spoke of
the birth pangs of a New Middle East.
We
stand up and say stop this procedure. The crimes must be put to an
end. We refuse to obey imperialism and its murderous lust for
Regime Change!
Our
call of January 2012 is still valid:
Stop
preparing for war! Halt the embargo policy!
Solidarity
with the peoples of Syria and Iran!
These
have been the results of US and NATO war policy by now: ten thousands
of people killed, a traumatized population, the infrastructure
being destroyed to a large extent and a failing state. These are the
results of a war being led by the USA and NATO in order to plunder
riches of Libya and to put it back into the status of a colony. Now
they are openly preparing for war against Syria and Iran, countries
of strategic impoortance and rich with natural ressources. These two
countries have ben following a policy of independence, refusing to
obey orders issued by dictating powers. Attacking Syria or Iran
can, however, lead to direct confrontations with Russia and China
wit h uncalcualable consequences.
Ongoing
threats of war, the deployment of military forces alongside the
borders to Syria and Iran as well as acts of sabotage and terror
executed by infiltrated special forces who are orchestrated by the
USA and other NATO-states in concordance with Israel keep the two
targeted countries in a constant state of emergency, meant to
destabilize and eventually destroy them. In such a cynical manner,
contemptuous of human rights the USA and the EU try to systematically
paralyze the foreign commerce and monetary transactions. This policy
aims at delibately causing profound disturbances of the Syrian and
Iran ecnomy, augmenting the numbers of unemployed pesons and
reducing the level of supply with neccessary goods. Social and
ethnical conflicts are to be sharpened that way, a civil war is to be
instigated as an eventual pretext for a planned military
intervention, This kind of embargo policy is systematically supported
by German Federal Government.
We
therefore call on all citizens, churches, parties, unions, the peace
movement to oppose such war policies with all due consequences. We
call on the German Government to:
- Stop immediatelly and unconditionally all embargo measures against Iran and Syria!
- - to clarify that it will not participate in any way i na war against the respective countries and will not allow the use of any infrastructure on German soil for US- or NATO acts of aggression!
- Committ itself on an international level to bring the policy of blackmail and war threats against Iran and Syria to an end.
It
is the souvereign right of the peoples of Iran and Syria to
exclusivley decide upon the framing of their politicial and social
orders . The maintance of peace demands that the principle of
non-interference in the inner affairs of nations be respected.
We
call to further support this call!
Translation
of document issued by Arbeiterfotografie and Freundschaft mit
Valjevo( Köln, dec 25th 2012)
(Remark
of translater: I miss a reference to the UN-Charter that calls for
the peaceful solvation of all conflicts between nations and provides
the necesary machinery for doing so. Even threateing with violence is
outlawed and the respect for national sovereignity mandatory.)
