Weekly Worker 425 (28/3/02) - Imperialist War No, Class War Yes

Weekly Worker 425 - Towards a Socialist Alliance Party!

In this week's Weekly Worker, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain;

Imperialist War – No
Class War – Yes

Capitalism and war are inseparably linked. Peace under this system is 
nothing more than a pause between bloodletting.

Unless the working class and popular masses of the planet put the struggle 
against capitalism itself at the core of the fight for peace, we are doomed 
to a cycle of one conflict after another. Perhaps culminating in the 
destruction of our species and the very planet that sustains it. This is the 
stark truth that any popular movement must face up to, as it mobilises 
against the Bush administration’s ratcheting up of tension against Saddam 
Hussein’s Iraq.

This is why communists and revolutionary socialists must have a programme 
that goes beyond simply opposing the next war, or against the latest 
technical innovation in barbaric weapons of mass destruction. If the source 
of war in the contemporary world is the profit system, then the fight for 
peace is a fight against capital.

From the end of World War II, the danger of war was almost exclusively 
generated by the geo-political rivalry of the two superpower representatives 
of competing social systems: the USA and the Soviet Union. When smaller, 
regional conflicts came along, they were often portrayed as little more than 
‘proxy’ duels in the context of our bipolar world.