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... Meaning of Gulf War IRAQ democracy, Karl Marx explained that the new form of democracy discovered by French workers during the Paris Commune in 1871 was unique and revealed for the first time how the working class could exercise their dictatorship. The workers' democracy of the Commune, and later of the soviets, is a form through which no other class can rule.

Thus, both the bureaucratic caste and the capitalist class abhor this unique form of class rule, which is also the most democratic in history.

The fact is that Stalin and the bureaucracy he personified could come to power only by smashing Soviet democracy. It took a span of 13 years, from 1925 to the great purge trials of 1936-38—with millions jailed, starved and murdered-before the Soviet workers were finally crushed.

It seems highly unlikely that Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi people will capitulate to the Commander-in-Chief of the New World Order despite the awesome military power unleashed against them. The Iraqi regime is showing that it believes it has less to lose by fighting back.

The commitment they have made to take on the American-led imperialist Goliath flows from a belief that they can cut a better deal for Iraq by basing themseves on the militant determination of the one million-strong Iraqi army, backed up by the equally determined support of the overwhelming majority of the Iraqi people and of the Arab nation as a whole.

And last, but not least, the Iraqis' hopeful expectations are based on the opposition by the American people to the certainty that this war will take a heavy toll of dead and maimed American men and women workers in uniform.

The expected mass opposition to the Gulf war is now a reality. President Bush, with the backing of his fellow capitalists, was able to rush into this war at least partly because of the aid and assistance he received

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strike's effectiveness.