Britain: Terror Comes To Manchester - War Comes Home
Statement of the RCIT Britain, 23.05.2017, https://rcitbritain.wordpress.com
On Monday the 22nd May at 10.35 pm, while Aria Grande a pop singer was giving a performance at the Manchester Arena, a lone suicide bomber suspected of being a member of Daesh caused an explosion. He killed himself and 22 other people who were attending the performance. 59 innocent bystanders were injured among them several children. [1]
The British supporters of the Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) unreservedly denounce this cowardly and reactionary attack on innocent people including migrants and refugees from Muslim countries. Daesh/IS never select military targets but attack innocent victims who have no connection to the imperialist bombing campaign in Syria and other Arab countries like Libya, Iraq and Yemen.
This is not the first time that Daesh have brought the terror campaign back home to Europe. We reemphasise what our international organization already said in its reaction to the attacks in Brussels in March 2016:
“The Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT) unequivocally condemns these attacks as utterly reactionary. Like the Paris attack, indiscriminate deadly violence was directed not against a military target but against ordinary civilians. The ruling class of the imperialist powers will use these attacks to justify and intensify its reactionary offensive against the oppressed peoples of the Middle East, as well as its repressive policies domestically targeting the working-class in general and Muslim migrants in particular.
This attack clearly demonstrates yet again the reactionary character of Daesh/IS. This hateful organization wages war mainly against oppressed people, not against imperialism or reactionary regimes. The RCIT repeats that it is the task of the workers and peasants organized in popular militias to wage the struggle against Daesh/IS. Workers and the oppressed must oppose any actions by the Great Powers and their allied butchers, like Assad, since it is the imperialists and their dogs who are the biggest terrorists of all, and they are cynically using the struggle against “terrorism” only as a pretext to advance their own interests. We say: Fight Daesh by fighting its causes – the exploitation and wars of the Great Powers and their crony dictators in the Middle East!” [2]
This attack must not be used by the capitalist state to increase its dictatorial attacks on migrants and refugees. The RCIT Britain reiterates its principled opposition to all forms of racism and oppression and for the defense of democratic rights. We will continue to campaign for open borders and defend the democratic rights of migrants and other oppressed sections of the working classes.
The RCIT Britain reemphasizes the absolute necessity for European workers, migrants and youth to unite in the struggle against racism, state oppression, and attacks on democratic and social rights. Furthermore, it is urgent that we mobilize in order to drive the Great Powers out of the Middle East. We also call upon the workers and oppressed to support the Arab Revolution against the dictatorships and the refugees of the Middle Eastern wars who wish to come to Europe.
We warn against May and the Tories using this terrible event to shore up her struggling campaign for the 8th June election with racist propaganda. The workers movement must make sure that she can not utilize this as a kind of Thatcher's Falklands/Malvinas moment!
We put forward the following demands to unite the working class against all forms of racism and Imperialism.
* No to Daesh and its terrorist attacks!
* Against any “State of Emergency” regime and mobilization of the army!
* Fight racism and repression directed towards Muslim migrants in Britain and the whole of Europe!
* Drive Britain and all other Great Powers out of the Middle East! Support the Resistance against the imperialist aggressors!
* Support the Arab Revolution against the region’s dictatorships!
* Open the Borders of Europe! Down with the EU’s Iron Wall against refugees!
* Forward in the building of a revolutionary World Party!
Footnotes
1) See e.g. http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/suspected-attack-in-manchester-live-updates/ar-BBBq69L?ocid=SK2MDHP
2) https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/brussels-attack/
On our position on recent terrorist attack in Europe see:
RCIT: Terror in Brussels: The War comes Home. Daesh-Terror is the Result of Imperialist Terror! Oppose any State of Emergency and Repression against Muslim Peoples in Europe! 23.03.2016, https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/brussels-attack/
RCIT: Terror in Paris is the Result of Imperialist Terror in the Middle East! Stop France’s and other Imperialist Powers’ Warmongering! No Mobilization of the Army inside France! Defend the Muslim Peoples against Chauvinist Hatemongering and State Repression! 14.11.2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/terror-in-paris/
RCIT: World Perspectives 2016: Advancing Counterrevolution and Acceleration of Class Contradictions Mark the Opening of a New Political Phase, Theses on the World Situation, the Perspectives for Class Struggle and the Tasks of Revolutionaries (January 2016), 23 January 2016, http://www.thecommunists.net/theory/world-perspectives-2016/
RCIT: Increasing Instability and Militarization in the European Union. On the Tasks of Revolutionaries in the New Political Phase which has Opened in Europe after the Terrorist Attack in Paris, 08.12.2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/militarism-in-eu/
RCIT: France after the Attacks in Paris: Defend the Muslim People against Imperialist Wars, Chauvinist Hatemongering, and State Repression! 9.1.2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/statement-paris-attacks/
Michael Pröbsting: France: “Communist” Party fails to Vote in Parliament against Imperialist War in Iraq! 15.1.2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/french-pcf-iraq-war/
Michael Pröbsting: After the Paris Attack: Socialists must Join Hands with Muslim People Against Imperialism and Racism! Reformist and Centrist Forces try to derail the Workers Movement by Failing to Stand up for Solidarity with the Muslims and Against Imperialist War-Mongering! 17.1.2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/france-defend-muslims/
Michael Pröbsting: The Racist Character of Charlie Hebdo and the pro-imperialist campaign “Je Suis Charlie”. Solidarity with Muslim People! NOT Solidarity with Charlie Hebdo! 17.1.2015, http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/europe/racist-charlie-hebdo/