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Militant Demonstrations World-Wide Condemn US-Zionist State Terror
Statement of the Communist Party of Canada
(Marxist-Leninist), July 22, 2006
Build the Resistance to Defeat US-Zionist State
Terror!
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Demonstrators outside the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square
(left), Central London (Right)
On Saturday, July 22, dozens of cities and towns across the world held emergency demonstrations demanding an immediate end to US-backed Israeli Zionism's war crimes, crimes against humanity and crimes against peace in Lebanon and Palestine, carried out with British government complicity.
Up to 30,000 people demonstrated in London, while demonstrations were also held in Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Cities around the world where demonstrations were held included Geneva, Chicago, Beirut, Basra, Tel Aviv, Warsaw, Sydney, Stockholm, Paris, Montreal and Mexico City.
Demonstrators central london
There were large contingents of Lebanese and Palestinians, a large proportion of whom were youth, on the march in London, which was characterised by its great militancy. En route, the demonstrators marched past the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, vehemently condemning the US administration for its crimes and for giving the green light to Israeli Zionism. The demonstration ended with a rally outside the entrance to Hyde Park.
Demonstrators in Newcastle gathered at the Monument in the centre of the city. The rally, which lasted an hour, expressed the deep anger and concern of the working class and people to the very dangerous situation that has been created by Israel and the big powers which have given a green light to Israel and comes on the back of their invasion and occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. Speaker after speaker condemned the plans of the Anglo-US coalition to use the crisis to justify intervention in Lebanon and to further threaten Syria and Iran. The call of the demonstration was to step up the protests and a further public meeting has been organised in Newcastle on Thursday.
Emergency Demonstration, July 22nd in
Newcastle
Speakers include representatives from the Stop the War Coalition, Tyne Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Muslim Association of Britain (North), and trade unions and local communities.
Thursday, July 27
7.30pm
Royal Station Hotel
Next to Central Station, Newcastle
For more information contact: nestopwar@yahoo.co.uk , or call 0771 994 6814.
WDIE is reproducing below the statement of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), July 22, 2006
Build the Resistance to Defeat US-Zionist State
Terror!
Hold Harper and His Government Responsible for Crimes against the Peace, War
Crimes and Crimes against Humanity!
The Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) condemns the US and Israeli state terror against Lebanon and the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples.
The US has given Israel a green light to pursue the criminal aim of wiping out the Resistance. The stands of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his government and the European Union facilitate this 60-year genocidal colonial campaign to cleanse West Asia of Arabs and resistance to a Jewish Greater Israel. CPC(M-L) holds Harper and his government responsible for the crimes against the peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity that the US and Zionists are committing.
The danger of a wider conflict for redivision of the region is increasing. The US financed and armed fascist project in West Asia using Zionist colonizers as mercenaries to empty Palestine and Lebanon of its original inhabitants is linked to the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Syria and Iran are now being squeezed from two sides with hostile forces bent on invasion and regime change. In this way the US empire-builders are waging war directly or through mercenaries to secure pacified client states from the Mediterranean Sea deep into Central Asia, to the borders of Russia, China and Pakistan. Canadian troops out of Afghanistan! US out of Iraq! Hands off Syria and Iran!
CPC(M-L) is convinced that just as the Zionists have been unable annihilate the resistance of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, so too this attempt to eliminate the Lebanese people's resistance will fail. In this regard, CPC(M-L) denounces the current attempt to force the Lebanese to abandon their homes as a repeat of the Nakba of 1948 when Israel took over Arab lands. This must not pass!
CPC(M-L) also opposes attempts to blame the Palestinian and Lebanese Resistance for the Zionist response. It is not resistance which gives rise to oppression and crimes against humanity but US-Israeli state terror. Furthermore, when war crimes are being committed, talk of a "proportional response" is outrageous. What the Zionist forces are doing in Lebanon and Gaza is reminiscent of the revenge of the Nazis who murdered entire villages in the lands they occupied to collectively punish the people so as to eliminate the Resistance at that time. It was a morbid preoccupation with defeat then as is the US imperialist and Israeli Zionist response today.
Canadians must rely on their own strength and step up the protest movement. The world's peoples are resourceful and full of energy to resist and defeat the empire-builders. Exactly 65 years ago, few in Canada or the United States would have believed that the sacrifice of the Soviet and world's peoples would defeat the feared and invincible 110 divisions of the German Wehrmacht racing east towards the Volga with thousands upon thousands of the most modern tanks, bombers and other sophisticated military equipment. Less than two years later they would lie in ruin on the outskirts of Stalingrad, Leningrad and Moscow, heralding the end of the Nazi Third Reich.
CPC(M-L) calls on the working class and people to go all out to establish an anti-war government in Canada by bringing to power those who will uphold international law, make Canada a bastion of guaranteeing human rights and oppose the use of force to settle conflicts both at home and abroad.
Build the Resistance to Defeat US-Zionist State Terror!
Hold Harper and His Government Responsible for Crimes against the Peace, War
Crimes and Crimes against Humanity!
All Out to Establish an Anti-War Government!