The Steering Committee of the League of Revolutionaries
for a New America

While the world watches in horror the bombing of Lebanon, the United States rushes a shipment of rockets and bunker-busting bombs to Israel.
The context of the conflict is the U.S. strategy to dominate the countries that produce energy resources, especially oil. To implement this strategy, the U.S. will destroy any country or people that gets in its way. This strategy is causing polarization and instability that can lead to catastrophic war. The suffering of the people in Gaza and Lebanon has galvanized the masses in the Middle East and is raising the moral indignation of everyone who respects humanity and justice.
The American people cannot depend on the Republican or Democratic Parties to change this strategy. They are the representatives of the corporations, the big banks, and the ruling class. This ruling class is dragging the world into something horrible, a war of unimaginable destruction. It is our sons and daughters who have to do the fighting for these banks and corporations and our taxes pay for it. Already, in Iraq we have lost 2,600 soldiers dead and upwards of 18,000 wounded; Iraqi dead number over one hundred thousand. We cannot do it overnight, but we must put a stop to this madness.

Revolutionaries in the U.S must develop the independent thinking of the American masses by working with them in their fight against the corporations. Through this process the masses will understand that their interests and the interests of the corporations are not the same. This would be a first step in putting the America people along a path to confronting our true enemy – the 3% of the U.S. population that lives off the plunder and suffering of the rest of the American people and the world.

As powerful as the U.S. is, it does have an Achilles heal: our government will not solve our lack of housing, jobs, health, destruction of the environment, and deteriorating living standards because the U.S. is pouring money into the war machine, Only a fight for power can make the rulers the ruled and put the “bottom rail” on top. Only then can we begin to solve the problems that threaten world destruction.

 

August.2006.Vol16.Ed5
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