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No. 509, September 7, 1990 25¢ WfJIIlllIIS''''''UIIII'No. 509 ~X--623 7 September 1990 Reuters Vacationing Bush orders war mobilization from his golf cart. Is this the face of World War III? u.s. Oil Pirates Out of the Persian Gulf! ,BreakBlockade.ollraql SEPTEMBER 4-What's going on in the The bipartisan U.S. crusade against French president Mitterrand declares,' escalated violent anti-Arab racism at Middle East right now is a bald attempt former U.S. ally Saddam Hussein is "We have entered into the logic of war." home. by the United States to seize control of hardly about resisting aggression or The deranged Zionist rulers in Jerusa­ Bush vowed the seizure of Kuwait the world's oil supplies. Having lost its "making the world safe for democracy." lem are itching for a pre-emptive strike "will not stand," and afterstrong-arming economic predominance, Washington is Certainly not coming from the people against Baghdad with "non-conventional the feudalistic Saudi monarchy, U.S. now trying to reassert its role as imperi­ who recently slaughtered thousands of weapons." And the concentration of troops started pouring into that desert alist global policeman through brute civilians to install a puppet regime in American firepower could blow the country. Kuwait's considerable assets military force. That's what George Bush Panama. Bush says it's about defending whole region sky high. The workers of abroad were frozen, a trade embargo was. means when he talks about a "new world "our way of life." What he means is a the world have a big stake in defending placed on Iraq, and four U.S. aircraft order," echoing Adolf Hitler in the war to make the world safe for the feu­ Iraq against this imperialist onslaught. carrier battle groups were mobilized to 1930s. But in fact, the American invasion dalism ofthe oil sheiks and the profiteer­ Break the Yankee blockade! enforce a blockade (labeled "interdiction" is setting the stage for a new world war. ing of Big Oil. War, as Lenin said, is the mother of to disguise the fact that this is a blatant The consequences of Bush's war After proclaiming victory in the Cold revolution. The imperialist invasion will act of war). The stated goal was to moves are incalculable. Perhaps a quarter War, U.S. imperialism is now seeking to set the Middle East aflame as the Arab defend the house of Saud and restore million U.S. troops are in or heading for dictate terms to its imperialist rivals. masses surge into the streets in angry Sheik Jabbar al Ahmad al Sabah to the the Persian Gulf region right now. Ships Meanwhile as Gorbachev prates about protests that could topple the kings, . Kuwaiti throne. are being taken out of mothballs, 'and "collective security," Bush has used the sheiks and colonels throughout the re­ Bush & Co. just cut the ground out tens of thousands of reservists are being fig leaf of UN sanctions as a green light gion. And in this country, we have a big from under naive liberals and pacifists called up from civilian life. It's a war for a massive U.S. military operation less opportunity to stick it to this vicious: who thought they would collect a "peace mobilization on a scale not seen since the than 700 miles from the Soviet border: dangerous ruling class which first and dividend" in the "post-Cold War" world. height of the Vietnam War. Now they're A deadly noose is tightening around the foremost exploits the American working Instead of cuts in the "defense" budget, talking of launching an air war in a USSR. We call on the Soviet Union to people and minorities. supplemental appropriations are being matter of weeks, and Bush is to meet rescind its arms embargo against Iraq. Bush has jumped into a quagmire with rushed through and virtually every mili­ Soviet leader Gorbachev in a hastily The trip wires for World War III are both feet. The Arabian sands could well tary boondoggle that was under the bud­ called summit in Helsinki next weekend. pulling taut in the volatile Near East. be quicksand for U.S. rulers. Remember get ax has been resuscitated. The entire what happened to Carter's Delta Force in massive mobilization is being accom­ Iran and the Marines in Beirut. In the plished without even a pro forma Con­ name of the American young men and gressional debate, much less lip service women who will come back in coffins, to the War Powers Act as the Democrats in the name of millions ofArabs facing snap to attention whenever Bush waves the imperialist war machine, we call for the flag. sharp class struggle to bring down the To justify the American invasion, State bloody-minded American capitalists. Department ignoramus Margaret Tut­ weiler harps on "Iraqi aggression." Yeah, 50 Years After. A War for Big Oil like when Saddam Hussein went into It all started when Iraq's Hussein sent Grenada? Iraq's takeover of Kuwait is no Assassination 01 his army into the emirate of Kuwait on historical aberration: all states are built August 2 in a grab for the oil fields and on acts of aggression, What about Wil­ to fulfill Iraq's historic claim to a port on liam the Conqueror? And Iraq's Hussein Leon Trotsky the Gulf. Previously the U.S. had sup­ had more justifieation than most when he ported Iraq in the squalid eight-year Iran­ pointed out in an August 10.speech that Iraq war, supplying satellite intelligence "the colonialists, to ensure their petro­ and tanker escorts, even overlooking the leum interests...set up those disfigured Iraqis' Exocet missile attack on the USS petroleum states." Stark. But now suddenly the Iraqi strong­ The statelet of Kuwait was an imperi­ man was sitting on 20 percent of the alist legacy created by drawing artificial SEE PAGE 4 world's oil reserves. Overnight Saddam "Lines in the Sand;" as Glenn Frankel Hussein was transformed into a new wrote in the Washington Post (31 Au­ "Hitler" by the servile U.S. media. War gust). The former Ottoman Empire was propaganda against "insane Hussein" continued on page 9 NY Transit Workers Protest Firing of 300 Track Cuts Kill ,Riders and Workers WV oto As the Wall Street banks reap almost TA to impose the cuts, while trying to deaths and injuries on the tracks. Track cuts mean death for us and the $2 billion in interest payments alone chain transit workers to the dead end of At an August 24 demonstration .at riders! Six brothers were killed on the from the NYC budget, city workers and pleading with the courts and state legis­ Brooklyn Supreme Court, called by the tracks over the last two years: Daniel welfare recipients are facing massive cuts lature in Albany. 'fWU bureaucracy, a Committee support­ . Walsh, Robert Nicholson, Stewart Mel­ -imposed by black Democratic Party In contrast, the Committee for a Fight­ er responded to Hall's hot air by calling sinker; David Davis, Frank Davila.James mayor David Dinkins, the choice of the ing TWU (CFTWU), a class-struggle op­ for using union power for strike action. Byrne. No more! The TA, jiided and city's union tops. Attempting to unload position in the union, has fought to bring Hall replied that this would be "suicidal," abetted by the union tops, jeopardizes the a $300 million 1990-91 deficit onto out the entire workforce in a strike action and added that "as long as I'm the elect­ lives of thousands of passengers and transit workers' backs, the NYC Transit against the cuts and firings. At an August ed president ofthis union, we will not go workers and then blames the inevitable Authority (TA) has begun to slash jobs, , 22 union meeting, just hours before the out on strike." The CFTWU responded tragedies on dead transit workers. This attack working conditions and cut serv­ TA fired 300 provisional track workers, in a leaflet calling to "shut down the is our union! The Committee for a Fight­ ice, and is threatening another huge fare and in two leaflets on August 27 and 31, system," and suggesting: "Since Hall is ing TWU says the membership must mo­ increase. And every step of the way they the CFTWU called for a system-wide so loyal to the bosses, why doesn't he bilize now to defend all jobs. A"ny ofus have been aided by the bureaucracy of meeting to organize a strike to win im­ volunteer to join Bush's Persian Gulfoil could be next. Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local mediate rehiring ofthe fired workers and grab to make the world safe for Exxon's The provisional trackworkers were 100. Led by President Sonny Hall, the for elected safety committees throughout profits." . hired and fired in a TA "budget cut" union tops have paved the way for the the industry to halt the epidemic 'of But some so-called "militants" can't scheme to degrade the title to "Laborer" , bring themselves to utter the "s" word and pay lower wages. They were lied to and fight for a strike. "Workers' Voice," every step of the way: hired off the 1984 a newsletter of the Marxist-Leninist . trackworkers list after it expired, they To the Memory of Leon Trotsky Party, called for workers to attend an were told they'd be made permanent by Fifty years ago, on 20 August 1940, Leon August 27 protest against the firings at the TA and the TWU bureaucrats. When the TA's'Jay 'Street headquarters - in they reported to work' last Wednesday Trotsky was struck down by the blows ofan assassin acting on Stalin's orders.
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