Imperialist global domination campaign advances: 
United $tates attacks Afghanistan

October 6 -- The United $tates began overt military attacks 
on Afghanistan today, bombing targets throughout 
the country, killing an unknown number of 
civilians and destroying power plants and Taliban 
government buildings. Making clear that this is a 
campaign for imperialist domination, u.s. State 
Department sources issued conflicting reports 
about the fate of Afghanistan once the united states is 
done with the bombing. One report said they are 
working with the Northern Alliance against the 
Taliban, but that it will be up to the attacking 
countries who will take power once the Taliban has 
been destroyed. 

Another report stated "Our 
particular interests are very clear -- to root out 
the terrorists. ... It’s up to the Afghan people 
to sort out what happens thereafter."(1) The U.$. 
and their allies don't care about the Afghani 
people, or the people of the many other Third 
World countries where they are waging overt and 
covert wars: the goal is global imperialist 
domination. 

Already speaking of other targets that may "need" 
to be attacked, Bush indicated that Iraq may be 
the next focus after the imperialists are done 
conquering Afghanistan. This campaign to install 
U.$.-friendly puppets in countries that have 
recently refused to do everything the united states demands 
is being waged in the name of democracy. But the 
people of the world can see that democracy is 
exactly what the United $tates opposes when it finances 
military dictatorships, arms right-wing 
paramilitary forces, and supports governments 
fighting the people's liberation struggles. 

George Bush's announcement of the air bombing 
attacks coincided with many football games on 
Sunday and it was broadcast in stadiums to 
cheering crowds. According to polls, over 90% of 
the Amerikan public supports the current u.s. war 
effort. 

Thousands of unnecessary deaths will be the 
inevitable result of this latest attack in the 
ongoing World War III being waged by the 
imperialists against the people of the world. Most 
of these deaths will be innocent civilians, like 
those killed in the World Trade Center attacks and 
like the millions of refugees fleeing Afghanistan 
who are already facing starvation. 

One million people died in the famine which 
followed Amerika's carpet-bombing of Cambodia 
during the Vietnam war. Half a million Iraqi 
children have died as a result of bombings and 
sanctions since the 1991 Gulf War. Tens of 
thousands of Afghans died in the proxy war between 
Amerika and the social-imperialist Soviet 
Union -- and this imperialist meddling laid the 
basis for the imminent catastrophic famine.

We call on all people outraged by the mass murder 
being carried out by the U.$. and those afraid of 
the global terrorism created by imperialism, to 
organize against this and all imperialist wars, 
with a realistic strategy to win.

Our current strategy must include opposing 
imperialist aggression broadly while also fighting 
winnable battles against repression at home. The 
battle against imperialist aggression will not be 
won with just the 10% of the population in the 
united states opposed to the war effort. But our work 
within the belly of the beast will support the 
struggles of the majority of the world's people, 
in the Third World, who are daily fighting the 
imperialists. At the same time we can hope to win 
some battles at home against legislation cutting 
back civil rights, expelling immigrants, and 
restricting foreign students.

In the current period, information is our tool, 
and the newspaper of the party is our vehicle. 
With it we both lead and learn from the masses, 
bringing more people and resources over to the 
cause of revolutionary struggle and unite people 
behind winnable battles. Join us on the side of 
the majority of the world's people against U.$. 
terrorism at home and around the world. 

Notes: 
1. http://www.msnbc.com/news/627086.asp?pne=msn