08 October 2001
The South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns the bombing of Afghanistan by the United States of America.
The US attacks will maim and kill innocent civilians and pepertuate their poverty and suffering. This will affect women and children in particular who are already suffering terribly in the hands of the militias in Afghanistan.
The September 11 attacks were a tragic tale of terrorism and the perpetrators must be brought to book within international law and justice based on admissible evidence and the principle of innocent until proven guilty+IB0-. No matter what the provocation of the September 11 attacks was, there is no justification for launching a war against Afghanistan or any other country. Two wrongs do not make a right.
These attacks occur without any discussion of global terrorism at the United Nations General Assembly and by the peoples of the world generally. The US uses the UN at its convenience and undermines it at will. The SACP understands the September 11 attacks as not just against the US, but against human civilisation. Then all people of the world should have a say in the appropriate response to these attacks. For the SACP this response must be building global solidarity with people around the world struggling against war, poverty and exploitation and deepening the movement to protest unilateral aggression from whatever side.
The SACP calls on South Africans to be actively mobilised as churches, mosques, political organisation, etc. against the US and for world peace. This mobilisation will require working the together of all South Africans in a single movement for global peace and global justice. The SACP salutes efforts by the people of the US, Japan, Western Europe and other parts of the world for their actions to stop the US war on Afghanistan. In the long term, the international working class movement and the people of the world must intensify the struggle for the transformation of the UN and the struggle against capitalism and US imperialism.
CONTACT
Mazibuko Kanyiso Jara (surname Jara)
Department of Media, Information and Publicity
South African Communist Party
Tel - 011 339 3621
Cell - 082 886 3528
Email - sacp1@wn.apc.org