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war
but
the
class war
This Saddam guy is out of control.
Hes got weapons of mass destruc- No, no no. We need to give
tion. Hes even used them against the sanctions on Iraq time
his own people! Hes a maniac dic- to work. We need to let the
tator with no respect for human weapons inspectors do
rights. Its only a matter of time be- their job. The French, the
fore they fall into the hands of Al- Germans the Russians,
Qaida and then well be facing theyve got the right ap-
NUCLEAR TERRORISM! Better get proach. We should work
him now while theres still time. for disarmament through
Bombing the hell out of Iraq is the the U.N.
only solution.
Thats right. The Security? Hah! The only security these wars are about
French, the Rus- is security for the rich, and their financial interests.
sians, the Ger- That whole war in Afghanistan, that was about mak-
mans, theyre ing it safe or oil and gas pipelines. And now, its obvi-
all letting their ous to anyone who hasnt had their entire brain turned
financial inter- to jelly by Fox News that the slimeball politicians run-
ests get in the ning the U.S. cant wait to get their hands on Iraqs oil,
way of security. the second largest oil reserves in the world. In the
name of security and fighting terrorism, these
same scumbag bureaucrats have special forces in
Colombia defending oil pipelines against Marxist
guerrillas. In these wars, the profits of the oil compa-
nies and the weapons manufacturers are secure, the
people of Iraq or Afghanistan or Colombia who are be-
ing killed in the thousands are definitely not secure.
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Youre right, the American government is act-
Ok. Ok. The Iraqi people may have ing for the safety and security of Americans...
to suffer in the short term-- ...if by Americans you mean rich people in
the U.S.. For the working class of America, the
Being starved to death government IS our security problem.
or blown up by bombs
aint just a short term
problem.
Youre a commie
--but, after all, the arent you?
American gov-
ernment is act-
ing for the safety
and security of
Americans, not
Iraqis.
3
Did somebody say revolution? Thats right. Revolution! Thats the way to go. Where the hell did you
Class struggle! Fight the capitalist system! Yeah. Just like Lenin said. And of come from? We dont
course the revolution will need a strong leadership. Thats where we come need you bureaucratic
in, the professional revolutionaries of Socialist Left Alternative Group Marx- parasites to manage the
ist-Leninist-Trotskyist-Maoist-Stalinist. We at SLAG-MLTMS have studied the struggle for us, well do
works of all the serious revolutionaries, and have perfected the science of that ourselves.
revolution. Basically, you need us to run your revolution, because without
us directing it, it is doomed to failure. Only we understand the true inter-
ests of the proletariat. So join the revolution! Join SLAG-MLTMS today! You
have nothing to lose and a world to win!
The revolution wont be directed from some central committee --that means, no more cops. No more
according to the correct interpretation of some holy books. It borders. No more private property. No
will come out of a thousand everyday struggles converging and more bosses or bureaucrats. It means
turning the whole system upside down. And you can bet that the taking control of our work, our time,
first thing well be doing is smashing the whole machinery of our lives, ourselves. It means living in
the state, not setting up a new dictatorship of party parasites freedom and equality and dignity.
to live off our work and order us around. Revolution-- Wont that be fucking amazing!
But we wont get there just by wishing for it. And we cer-
tainly wont get there by killing each other to make
some rich bastards richer. Well have to fight for it.
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Our army that now remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with
individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and non-
commissioned officers, drug-ridden, and dispirited where not near-mutinous.
[C]onditions [exist] among American forces in Vietnam that have only been exceeded
in this century by...the collapse of the Tsarist armies in 1916 and 1917.
Armed Forces Journal, June 1971
I have no country to fight for, my As long as there are rich and poor,
country is the earth, and I am a citizen governors and governed, there will be no
of the world... I am not a capitalist sol- peace, nor is it to be desired that there
dier, I am a proletarian revolutionist. I should be; for such a peace would be
do not belong to the army of the plutoc- founded on the political, economic and
racy but to the irregular army of the social inequality of millions of human be-
people. I refuse to obey any command ings who suffer hunger, outrages, the
to fight from the ruling class, but I will prison and death, while a small minority
not wait to be commanded to fight for enjoys pleasures and liberties of all kinds
the working class. I am opposed to ev- for doing nothing. On with the struggle!
ery war but one. I am for that war heart
and soul, and that is the world-wide war Manifesto of September 23rd, 1911
Written by Ricardo Flores Magon and
of the social revolution. In that war I am members of the Partido Liberal Mexicano
prepared to fight in any way the ruling Ricardo Flores Magon, a Mexican anarchist, was ar-
class may make it necessary even to rested by the U.S. government during World War I and
charged with sedition and inciting mutiny among sol-
the barricades. diers. He was sentenced to 20 years in jail.
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