SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) “Either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration, a vast cemetery; OR, the VICTORY OF SOCIALISM, that is, the conscious struggle of the international proletariat against imperialism.” Rosa Luxemburg
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Musicians, Actors, Artists Sign Petition Demanding Roger Waters Be Allowed to Perform in Frankfurt - World Socialist Web Site
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In a March 16 post on his social media accounts, Roger Waters wrote that his lawyers were taking steps to make sure that his shows in Munich and Frankfurt took place as contracted. He wrote, “I am taking the unprecedented step of appealing to the law to protect me from the unconstitutional actions of two authorities which seem to rely upon the fundamentally false accusation that has been made against me; namely that I am antisemitic.”
Waters added: “I want to state for the record and once and for all that I am not and never have been antisemitic and nothing that anyone can say or publish will alter that.” He concluded by insisting that he did not need to “keep making my position clear on this issue,” and he was confident that “truth and the law will prevail and that these authorities will not succeed in denying any of my basic human rights.”
The growing support for Roger Waters among artists, musicians, writers, actors, film directors and others reveals that the campaign to silence him rests on a very thin pro-Zionist and pro-imperialist foundation. Meanwhile, the brazen lies being spread about Waters are themselves evidence of the desperate effort by the ruling powers to keep the broad public from being exposed to political positions and ideas with which many would no doubt agree.
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Stop the War in Ukraine! Mobilize the International Working Class against Imperialism! - World Socialist Web Site
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The March 18 demonstration, which coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, has been called by a wide array of progressive and reformist organizations, including the Answer Coalition, Code Pink and The People’s Forum. The demonstration’s demands include the call for the abolition of NATO, opposition to war with China, and support for the allocation of resources to meet social needs at home. These demands are directed toward the Democratic Party, with the aim of pressuring this imperialist organization of the ruling class to negotiate an end to the war that it instigated. The IYSSE opposes this orientation. Nevertheless, the IYSSE views the demonstration, despite its political limitations, as a positive expression of the expanding and growing movement against the escalating US-NATO war against Russia.
There is a fundamental difference between this demonstration and the reactionary “Rage Against the War Machine” rally held last month which was organized on the basis of an alliance with the extreme right and openly neo-Nazi forces. The IYSSE denounced and opposed that event. The claim that an anti-war movement can be built with anti-Semites and fascists is as absurd as it is politically reactionary and dangerous. The main effect of the February 19 rally was to disorient and pollute public consciousness and obscure the fundamental political, social and class chasm separating left-wing opposition from the extreme right.
In endorsing and participating in the demonstration on March 18, the IYSSE seeks to advance a revolutionary socialist strategy that directs the anti-war movement toward an open struggle against capitalism, based on the political mobilization of the working class.
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For the international unity of the working class!
Workers and youth must reject all justifications for war based on the obsolete concept of “national defense.” This applies to both Russia and Ukraine. The drive of imperialism to a Third World War will not be stopped through the support for any capitalist nation-state. This is because imperialist war arises out of the fundamental conflict between a global economy and the capitalist nation-state system itself.
The IYSSE fights for the unity of workers throughout the world, including in Russia and Ukraine, in a common revolutionary movement for socialism. This will make possible the rational, planned development of global resources and, on this basis, the eradication of poverty and the raising of human culture to new heights.
The development of the war raises great dangers for young people and for all of mankind. However, the IYSSE bases its program not on despair, but on revolutionary optimism that derives from the understanding that the same contradictions of capitalism that produce imperialist war also produce the growth of the international working-class struggle, the basis for social revolution.
The great challenge is to connect this growing objective movement of the working class with the fight against war, to combine opposition to imperialism to opposition to inequality, exploitation, environmental degradation, dictatorship and the capitalist system that is the root of all the crises confronting mankind.
The IYSSE is currently holding meetings in the US and throughout the world to discuss a socialist and internationalist strategy for opposing the Ukraine war. We urge those participating in the March 18 demonstrations to contact the IYSSE and the Socialist Equality Party.
Join the International Youth and Students for Social Equality! Stop the reckless drive toward nuclear war! Take up the fight for a socialist future without poverty, exploitation, war and all forms of oppression!
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