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Answer the Scaremongering and Hysteria by Strengthening the Resistance to War Crimes and State Terror

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Answer the Scaremongering and Hysteria by Strengthening the Resistance to War Crimes and State Terror

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Answer the Scaremongering and Hysteria by Strengthening the Resistance to War Crimes and State Terror

– Statement of the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), August 14, 2006 –

The revelations by Home Secretary John Reid of an alleged foiled “terrorist plot” which would have brought “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” have been met with huge scepticism.

            RCPB(ML) condemns the government for its fostering of chaos and hysteria on this issue, as has been consistently done in conjunction with its fraudulent agenda of the so-called “war on terror”. We also condemn the propaganda implicating the Islamic religion and world outlook in the genesis of terrorism.

            It is very convenient for the government and its propaganda machine that all the details of any plot and its discovery are kept in their hands as a security issue. While the government deliberately will not rely on the people to discuss matters of security, of the origin and definition of terrorism, and draw their own conclusions, it nevertheless attempts to sow divisions and suspicion against Islam and the Muslim community. However, the conclusion which a wide section of the people are coming to, based on both recent and historical experience, is that the state is behind the promotion and commission of acts of terror directed against the people.

            The whole scenario of the terrorist plot and its thwarting has been used to attempt to divert attention from the crimes of the warmongers, subvert the growing movement to end these crimes and prepare the ground for measures which further violate the exercise of human rights. The scenario attempts to contribute to an atmosphere of strife and conflict while paving the way for an escalation of the aggression, war and state terror of the Bush-Blair imperialist programme.

            Falling short of a terrorist atrocity with attendant loss of life, the “foiled plot” has come precisely at a time when the outrage of the people’s movement was reaching unprecedented levels and a great militancy against the US-Israeli aggression, state terror and crimes against humanity in the Middle East. Indeed, the monopoly media have fallen over themselves to whip up hysteria on the “plot” and swamp completely the coverage of the atrocities against the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples. At the same time, this hysteria has an aim of justifying the demonisation and racist targeting of entire communities, those which are predominantly Muslim in particular.

            The Home Secretary for his part preceded his “announcement” with a speech the previous day to the Demos think-tank in which he created a spectre of “Islamic terrorists” in order to call for a curb on freedoms guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. He has followed it up by signalling that the government intends to revive plans to detain “suspects” without charge for up to 90 days.

            The “war on mass terrorism” was announced by Tony Blair minutes after 9/11, as a stark refusal to deal with the serious problems that the people of Britain and the world’s people are actually facing. Time and again, the state has attempted to subvert the growing unity of the people’s movement of resistance against fascism and war and their determination to deal with the problems of society by relying on their own strength and energies. But the government’s credibility in these matters is in serious crisis after the experience of Forest Gate and the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, and its desperation is increasing. Tony Blair is setting a very dangerous context of a battle of values to incite the people to divide and justify the trampling of human rights and the state’s acting with impunity.

            In these circumstances, RCPB(ML) calls on the working class and people to answer the scaremongering and hysteria of the government and its mouthpieces and agencies by strengthening the resistance movement to the war crimes and state terror of the imperialists. This will be a contribution to turning things around and turning the tide of reaction and retrogression. Through deepening the exposure of the Blairite doctrine of “civilised British values” and combating and condemning the speculations floated by the monopoly-controlled media, we can defeat the attempts to subvert and undermine the movement. We too are the resistance! We too take up responsibility to end the crimes of war and fascism and to defend humanity! Young Muslims and those that espouse Islam have no reason to be apologetic about their world outlook, and the government must stop targeting them!

Answer the Scaremongering and Hysteria by Strengthening the Resistance to War Crimes and State Terror!

Forward Together in Defence of the Rights of All!

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