Anti-Imperialism, Anti-Racism

Imperialist Hypocrisy, Nationalism & Repression after Paris Terror Attacks

Far-right forces have seized on terrorist attacks by ISIS/Al Qaeda, like the 13 November attacks in Paris (Above Left), to promote their extreme racist agenda. The Paris attacks carried out by ISIS were indeed cruel, cowardly attacks on innocent civilians. However, the condemnation of the attacks by the Western capitalist rulers and their media is the height of hypocrisy – given their own horrific crimes. Photo, Above Right, shows the hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz in flames after U.S. aircraft repeatedly bombed the hospital on 3 October 2015, killing at least 22 and up to as many as 50 civilians. The only reason that this barbaric war crime received any media coverage is that the hospital was run by the French NGO, Médecins Sans Frontières. MSF reported that they desperately contacted U.S. and Afghan authorities by agreed channels to tell them that the hospital was being bombed but the U.S. military continued their precise bombing of the hospital for at least a further half an hour. At the height of their occupation of Afghanistan, the U.S, French, German, British and Australian imperialist forces were every seven weeks murdering as many civilians as were killed in the Paris attacks! Meanwhile, during their intense bombing of Libya to impose regime change there, the U.S., French and British imperialists – backed by Australia’s capitalist rulers – killed thousands of Libyan people. Photo, Below Left, shows a man and a child found dead in residential buildings that were destroyed in a 19 June 2011 NATO air strike on the outskirts of the Libyan capital. Of course, there was never any blanket media coverage of these attacks the way the Paris attacks have been covered in the media nor any officially organised mourning for the victims. Was the Opera House ever lit up in the colours of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Syria to mourn the civilian victims of Western imperialist atrocities? Gruesome attacks by white supremacist terrorists like the murder of 77 people in Norway on 22 July 2011 by neo-Nazi, Anders Breivik (Below Right) also never got the same condemnation and overwhelming media coverage as the Paris attacks.
Far-right forces have seized on terrorist attacks by ISIS/Al Qaeda, like the 13 November attacks in Paris (Above Left), to promote their extreme racist agenda. The Paris attacks carried out by ISIS were indeed cruel, cowardly attacks on innocent civilians. However, the condemnation of the attacks by the Western capitalist rulers and their media is the height of hypocrisy – given their own horrific crimes. Photo, Above Right, shows the hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz in flames after U.S. aircraft repeatedly bombed the hospital on 3 October 2015, killing at least 22 and up to as many as 50 civilians. The only reason that this barbaric war crime received any media coverage is that the hospital was run by the French NGO, Médecins Sans Frontières. MSF reported that they desperately contacted U.S. and Afghan authorities by agreed channels to tell them that the hospital was being bombed but the U.S. military continued their precise bombing of the hospital for at least a further half an hour. At the height of their occupation of Afghanistan, the U.S, French, German, British and Australian imperialist forces were every seven weeks murdering as many civilians as were killed in the Paris attacks! Meanwhile, during their intense bombing of Libya to impose regime change there, the U.S., French and British imperialists – backed by Australia’s capitalist rulers – killed thousands of Libyan people. Photo, Below Left, shows a man and a child found dead in residential buildings that were destroyed in a 19 June 2011 NATO air strike on the outskirts of the Libyan capital. Of course, there was never any blanket media coverage of these attacks the way the Paris attacks have been covered in the media nor any officially organised mourning for the victims. Was the Opera House ever lit up in the colours of Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or Syria to mourn the civilian victims of Western imperialist atrocities? Gruesome attacks by white supremacist terrorists like the murder of 77 people in Norway on 22 July 2011 by neo-Nazi, Anders Breivik (Below Right) also never got the same condemnation and overwhelming media coverage as the Paris attacks.

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Extreme reactionary forces like ISIS and Al Qaeda were, actually, initially built up by Washington and Co. to serve their neo-colonial agenda but then escaped their master’s leash. Above Left: Then U.S. president Ronald Reagan meets with extreme fundamentalist Mujahedin leaders at the White House in 1985. Reagan described them as the “moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” These reactionary cut-throats were massively financed and armed by the Western capitalist powers in their barbaric, anti-communist war against the then leftist – and pro-women’s rights – Afghan government and its Soviet Red Army protectors. Among the fundamentalists backed by Washington in Afghanistan was Al Qaeda founder, Osama Bin Laden. Above Right: In May 2013, prominent U.S. senator John McCain meets Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, leader of the Al Qaeda offshoot, ISIS and other Western-backed Syrian “Rebel” leaders. After this meeting, which was covered by CNN, McCain lavished praise on Baghdadi and Co. as “moderates.” The U.S., French, British and Australian rulers only turned on ISIS over a year later after it started to attack the West’s other Syrian “Rebel” allies and after it encroached on Western interests in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Extreme reactionary forces like ISIS and Al Qaeda were, actually, initially built up by Washington and Co. to serve their neo-colonial agenda but then escaped their master’s leash. Above Left: Then U.S. president Ronald Reagan meets with extreme fundamentalist Mujahedin leaders at the White House in 1985. Reagan described them as the “moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” These reactionary cut-throats were massively financed and armed by the Western capitalist powers in their barbaric, anti-communist war against the then leftist – and pro-women’s rights – Afghan government and its Soviet Red Army protectors. Among the fundamentalists backed by Washington in Afghanistan was Al Qaeda founder, Osama Bin Laden. Above Right: In May 2013, prominent U.S. senator John McCain meets Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, leader of the Al Qaeda offshoot, ISIS and other Western-backed Syrian “Rebel” leaders. After this meeting, which was covered by CNN, McCain lavished praise on Baghdadi and Co. as “moderates.” The U.S., French, British and Australian rulers only turned on ISIS over a year later after it started to attack the West’s other Syrian “Rebel” allies and after it encroached on Western interests in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Meanwhile, it is the ongoing neo-colonial exploitation and brutal repression of “Third World” Middle Eastern, African and Asian people by the imperial powers that – in the situation where a communist alternative force is still being built up – has led some originating from these lands to seek salvation in ultra-reactionary forces like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Above Right: Nazi-like savagery! Eleven civilians including five children murdered in a U.S. attack on an Iraqi house in the town of Isahaqi on 15 March 2006. The U.S. military claimed that the civilians were killed as “collateral damage” in an attack on supposed militants in the house but even the U.S.-puppet, Iraqi colonial authorities had to admit that the U.S. troops actually shot each of the victims – including the children – in the back of the head - execution style - as “revenge” for insurgent attacks on the U.S. military. Above Left: Algerian protesters massacred by French police in Paris on 17 October 1961. The unarmed Algerian migrants demonstrated against a discriminatory curfew and against French colonial rule in Algeria. French police, many of whom had been Nazi collaborators during World War II, responded by beating to death many protesters in police stations and woods while others whom they had beaten unconscious they then drowned by throwing them into Paris’ Seine river. It is estimated that the French police massacred 200 people that day. Amongst many other outrages commited by the French imperialist state it is worth noting France’s complicity in the dark history of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis which, over the course of just 100 days, saw 800,000 unarmed civilians slaughtered, mainly by machetes. In 2008, a two year investigation conducted by the Rwandan government found that France helped the extremists who carried out the genocide and that a French force sent to establish a “humanitarian safe zone” took part in killing and raping Tutsis. “French soldiers themselves directly were involved in assassinations of Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis,” the special commission report stated. “French soldiers committed many rapes, forced sexual intercourse specifically with surviving Tutsi women. They clearly requested Interahamwe [Hutu militia] ... to kill Tutsis,” it said. “They also clearly requested to have Tutsi who had infiltrated in displaced population camps brought to them and have Interahamwe kill at least some of them. They let Interahamwe kill Tutsis under their eyes.” See “French leaders accused of complicity in Rwanda genocide”, The Telegraph, 5 August 2008 (located online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2506150/France-accused-of-complicity-in-Rwanda-genocide.html - accessed 14 March 2016). The Telegraph article continues to say: French military advisers worked closely with the Rwandan government in the years leading up to 1994. Those advisors helped draw up battle plans and military strategy for the Rwandan armed forces, including elite units which are accused of being among the first to start the killings, the report said. The French suggested a program to arm civilians to protect against opposition rebels, and then went on to train volunteers. These militia formed the core of the later genocidal infrastructure. Training and funding was also given to a department of Rwanda’s national intelligence services on how to establish a computerised database of people’s tribes, which was later used to draw up a “kill list” of Tutsis. Once the genocide had started, on April 6, 1994, France sent arms to support the genocidal government, according to the report, which heard from 120 witnesses since it was set up by President Kagame in 2006.
Meanwhile, it is the ongoing neo-colonial exploitation and brutal repression of “Third World” Middle Eastern, African and Asian people by the imperial powers that – in the situation where a communist alternative force is still being built up – has led some originating from these lands to seek salvation in ultra-reactionary forces like ISIS and Al Qaeda. Above Right: Nazi-like savagery! Eleven civilians including five children murdered in a U.S. attack on an Iraqi house in the town of Isahaqi on 15 March 2006. The U.S. military claimed that the civilians were killed as “collateral damage” in an attack on supposed militants in the house but even the U.S.-puppet, Iraqi colonial authorities had to admit that the U.S. troops actually shot each of the victims – including the children – in the back of the head – execution style – as “revenge” for insurgent attacks on the U.S. military. Above Left: Algerian protesters massacred by French police in Paris on 17 October 1961. The unarmed Algerian migrants demonstrated against a discriminatory curfew and against French colonial rule in Algeria. French police, many of whom had been Nazi collaborators during World War II, responded by beating to death many protesters in police stations and woods while others whom they had beaten unconscious they then drowned by throwing them into Paris’ Seine river. It is estimated that the French police massacred 200 people that day.
Amongst many other outrages commited by the French imperialist state it is worth noting France’s complicity in the dark history of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide Against the Tutsis which, over the course of just 100 days, saw 800,000 unarmed civilians slaughtered, mainly by machetes. In 2008, a two year investigation conducted by the Rwandan government found that France helped the extremists who carried out the genocide and that a French force sent to establish a “humanitarian safe zone” took part in killing and raping Tutsis. “French soldiers themselves directly were involved in assassinations of Tutsis and Hutus accused of hiding Tutsis,” the special commission report stated. “French soldiers committed many rapes, forced sexual intercourse specifically with surviving Tutsi women. They clearly requested Interahamwe [Hutu militia] … to kill Tutsis,” it said. “They also clearly requested to have Tutsi who had infiltrated in displaced population camps brought to them and have Interahamwe kill at least some of them. They let Interahamwe kill Tutsis under their eyes.” See “French leaders accused of complicity in Rwanda genocide”, The Telegraph, 5 August 2008 (located online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2506150/France-accused-of-complicity-in-Rwanda-genocide.html – accessed 14 March 2016). The Telegraph article continues to say:
“French military advisers worked closely with the Rwandan government in the years leading up to 1994.
“Those advisors helped draw up battle plans and military strategy for the Rwandan armed forces, including elite units which are accused of being among the first to start the killings, the report said.
“The French suggested a program to arm civilians to protect against opposition rebels, and then went on to train volunteers. These militia formed the core of the later genocidal infrastructure.
Training and funding was also given to a department of Rwanda’s national intelligence services on how to establish a computerised database of people’s tribes, which was later used to draw up a “kill list” of Tutsis.
“Once the genocide had started, on April 6, 1994, France sent arms to support the genocidal government, according to the report, which heard from 120 witnesses since it was set up by President Kagame in 2006.”

Today, capitalist rulers from France to Australia are cynically seizing on the terrorist attacks to whip up patriotic fervour and a supposed “common identity” as people who embrace “liberal democratic values.” This serves to mask the fact that the capitalist ruling class exploit their “own” working class. Above Left, 5 October 2015: Air France workers storm through the gates of the company’s headquarters after the capitalist bosses announced the retrenchment of 2,900 workers. Angry workers ripped the shirts off a couple of high-ranking executives and were about to dispense a healthy dose of workers’ justice to these greedy corporate thugs when the terrified bosses were rescued by security guards and climbed over a fence to escape (Above Right). Today’s post-attacks patriotism is meant to not only dampen such class struggle but the yet more added powers that the capitalist authorities are giving themselves in the name of fighting terrorism will in the end be used against the workers’ movement, leftists and anti-imperialists.
Today, capitalist rulers from France to Australia are cynically seizing on the terrorist attacks to whip up patriotic fervour and a supposed “common identity” as people who embrace “liberal democratic values.” This serves to mask the fact that the capitalist ruling class exploit their “own” working class. Above Left, 5 October 2015: Air France workers storm through the gates of the company’s headquarters after the capitalist bosses announced the retrenchment of 2,900 workers. Angry workers ripped the shirts off a couple of high-ranking executives and were about to dispense a healthy dose of workers’ justice to these greedy corporate thugs when the terrified bosses were rescued by security guards and climbed over a fence to escape (Above Right). Today’s post-attacks patriotism is meant to not only dampen such class struggle but the yet more added powers that the capitalist authorities are giving themselves in the name of fighting terrorism will in the end be used against the workers’ movement, leftists and anti-imperialists.

Above: Melbourne, 2010: Police arrest 29 of the striking workers picketing the Visy manufacturing plant in Melbourne.
Above: Melbourne, 2010: Police arrest 29 of the striking workers picketing the Visy manufacturing plant in Melbourne.