U.S. hands off Syria!
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VOL. 31, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 2013 WWW.SOCIALISTACTION.ORG U.S. / CANADA $1 Some 1000 fast food workers walked off the job for one day on Aug. 29 in 58 U.S. cities. “We can’t survive on $7.25!” hundreds of workers and supporters chanted in New York City. In some locations, workers briefly occupied workplaces, such as in New York and Los Angeles. Workers are demanding $15 an hour pay and union recognition without retaliation. Major fast food corporations each have yearly profits exceeding $1 billion.
By THE EDITORS The Barak Obama-led march to yet another “war” suffered an important but far from definitive setback when the usual U.S. “coalition of the willing” failed to materialize in late August to lend a fig leaf of Great Power authority to what then appeared to be an immi nent U.S. attack on Syria. But Obama’s threatened deadly missile strike still remains high on the imperial agenda and requires nothing less than massive and united mobilizations of all antiwar forces to challenge it.
We wish to stress here that the term war, in the context of endless U.S. “wars” in the Middle East today and be yond, where millions are slaughtered in the name of defending America’s “na tional security” (that is, oil interests), is horribly abused. What we are look ing at today is not war in the traditional sense but rather the unilateral publicly announced and wholesale murder of in nocent people.
The “other side,” the victims of imperi alist and chauvinist domination, rarely Tony Savino / Socialist Action fire a shot in return. The kill figures Tony Savino / Socialist Action usually record a few dozen Americans dead, mostly by “friendly fire,” along side thousands or millions of the “en emy,” as in Iraq, where 1.5 million were slaughtered. The imperialist-fabricated lie, now fully exposed, that Iraq har bored “weapons of mass destruction” has come home to haunt today’s war makers.
Whatever military equipment the victims of imperialist war might pos sess is obliterated in the first hours of today’s modern “wars.” The world’s most sophisticated military behemoth is capable of mass murder and destruc tion without a single boot on the ground or incurring a single dead or wounded soldier. This is what Obama hopes to ac complish in Syria today.
The central U.S. objective is to impose a government capable of repressing the Syrian masses’ struggle for freedom and equality while simultaneously promot ing U.S. interests in Syria and the re gion. Currently, the U.S. finds itself un able to establish any “friendly” and vi (continued on page 9, in “Bloodbath in Egypt Exposes Military Rule”)
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