THE ILLUSIONS IN ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE, THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE RESISTANCE IN IRAQ
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The imperialist aggression and occupation in the Middle East and in Iraq cannot be dealt separate from the USA's and other international monopolies, oil and arm monopolies interests and from the USA's aim to establish the world hegemony through the hegemony on the oil reserves and supply routes.

Imperialism is the primary source of reaction

The rivalry and hegemony war between the imperialist monopolies and forces in the world do not only occur on the basis of economy and politics. It may evolve in military forms according to the strategic targets and the level of dealings. Generally, the attacks, threats, occupations and wars against the new colonies, underdeveloped and dependant countries are reflected as the deployment of democracy and the rescue of the peoples from dictators by the imperialist and liberal ideologists. In the conditions of the imperialist threat, occupation and war, the reformists, revisionists and the leftist forces, which reject the revolutionary path, repeat these slogans as "the collapse of the status quo". Furthermore, there appear to be someone who theorises that the characteristics of imperialism have changed, the centre of reaction is the reminders from the medieval time and religious ideology.

In the Balkans, despite the presence of Serb cruelty and massacres, KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army), the armed forces of the Albanians in Kosovo, has dumped its arms because of the impositions from US and the other imperialists. And thereafter, they stepped back from their position of independence and anti-imperialism. Its collaborationist status, today, can be described as "gradual restoration" or "acquiring some rights towards the presence of a state" under the shadow of the USA. What is more interesting here is that, the Albanian communists and PLA (Party of Labor of Albania), which pursued a fundamental and honoured ideological and political struggle against the modern revisionist CPSU and CPC (and therefore stood against its economical, political and military consequences), had acknowledged the KLA's collaboration with US for so-called interests of Albanians of Kosovo. However, it is well known to the communists of the world that today's severe conditions, catastrophe and devastation of the country are the consequences of opening the doors of socialist Albania to the foreign capital under the political, economical and military siege.

The "leftists" of Bosnia-Herzegovina defend and legitimate the presence of imperialist occupants in their country. They state that there would not be a need for occupants only if the ethnic and national conflicts end. Thus, the characteristics of imperialism, which is generating source of fascism and racism, and the tie between the regional reactionary forces and the ethnic conflicts, are not wanted to be seen. These class collaboration theories, first of all, show the historical and actual nationalist and chauvinist influence on the revolutionary and progressive parties. There are dramatic examples of these deviations in the Balkans. Secondly, it leads to illusions of seeing the foreign patronage and interference as the solution to national and ethnic conflicts and hatred rather than believing in the peoples' self-potency, activity and struggle.

Of course, here we should persistently point at the resistance in Iraq, which continues with a great will power and heroism despite the unequal army forces and imperialist gangsters' siege, and its regional and international consequences and motivational influence on peoples. In fact, lessons should be taken accordingly when thinking about the post 1956 revisionist "peace theories" grounded on exaggerated "war danger" analysis that prevented communist parties from revolutionary requests.

Some of the European revolutionary and progressive parties are, yet, confining themselves to the generalisations of "developing the class struggle in the country" instead of carrying out their actual political tasks on concrete politics and activities against the imperialist aggression and occupation in Iraq, and therefore, experiencing political spontaneity in a vulgar and conspicuous form.

It is commentated that US and British imperialists' occupation of Iraq, the threats against Iran and Syria, and the aggression of GME (the Greater Middle East Project) is an intervention to the reactionary Arab regimes and the status quo of the region. The flagships of this idea are the reformist and liberal parties, NGOs, bourgeois and petit-bourgeois ideologists of the imperialist countries, and the so-called leftist parties and intellectuals of occupied and threatened countries. It was so shameful to see that ICP (Iraqi Communist Party), carrying red flags in the streets, celebrated the occupation, as a result of which Saddam dictatorship was defeated, and took part in the council which was formed by US as the representative of the Shiites. Undoubtedly, instead of fighting against the occupants and calling for resistance, the so-called "leaders of proletariat" will pay the price throughout the history for their action of supporting the occupation.

From the beginning, the traditional Kurdish organisations, KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) and PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan), have been the main political and social supporters of the occupation. As the strategic and tactical military and US political forces they have "successfully" fulfilled their duty diplomatically and regionally. The USA has now been building a major military base in Southern Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan), because they see Southern Kurdistan as their main and most trustworthy ally in the region. The developments indicate an ethnic conflict and hatred between the Kurdish population and Arabs who resist the occupation.

The PKK , which, for long time, opposed the concept of New World Order, has interpreted the US intervention as "the collapse of status quo" and "democratic colonialism". And their attitude to the war was "neutral" which led them not to participate in any anti-war demonstration and struggle. Moreover, some of the columnists who write to the patriotic press deemed a progressive role to imperialist denying the reactionary characteristic of imperialism.

The new petit-bourgeoisie theorists had said that: "The progressive and revolutionary role of capitalism against feudalism had interrupted by the October revolution and the presence of socialist block. Capitalist imperialism had begun to play again this historical role since the cold war ended." Saying so, they have declared the religion, which corresponds to social reaction, and feudal reaction, who also co-operates with imperialism, as the main source of the world reaction. And blatantly, they advocate the "progressiveness" of imperialist globalisation, which is the prime source of imperialist war and colonialism, capitalist barbarism and atrocity, and the demolition of productive forces.

However, Lenin, hundred years ago, clearly manifested the corrosion and political reaction of imperialist capitalism, the economical and political roots of imperialist war, colonialism and occupations: "From the liberator of nations that capitalism was in the struggle against feudalism, imperialist capitalism has become the greatest oppressor of nations. Formerly progressive, capitalism has become reactionary; it has developed the forces of production to such a degree that mankind is faced with the alternative of going over to Socialism or of suffering years and even decades of armed struggle between the "great powers for the artificial preservation of capitalism by means of colonies, monopolies, privileges and national oppression of every kind." (Lenin, C. W., V. 21, Socialism and War). Le-nin's theoretical prudence had been proved several times during the imperialist world wars, imperialist hegemony and competitive dogfights. Some of the countries headed for socialism, after national liberation struggles, for a period of time, they had be-come independent countries. But, after the defeat of socialism, some of the independent countries had developed relationships with imperialism which led to some sufferings. And today, imperialist capital, with imperialist globalisation attacks, wants to wipe out all economical, political and military obstacles in order to control the sources of the world and maximise its profit.

The imperialist aggression and occupation is a result of the economic laws of

capitalism

The imperialist aggression, occupation and war in the Middle East is a necessity of implementing the political and military policies desired by the imperialist capitalism's economic laws and the movements of capital rather than the special policy, desire and tendencies of Bush and Blair bandits.

Capitalism's law of maximum profit, in combination with the conditions of structural crisis of capitalist imperialism in the last quarter of the century, has made inevitable the international organisation of production and the capital for multinational monopolies. Thus the imperialist states, besides protecting their monopolist interests, have started re-designing their own imperialist policies and military strategies in order to gain new spheres of domination.

As comrade Stalin pointed out:

"It is precisely the necessity of securing the maximum profits that drives monopoly capitalism to such risky undertakings as the enslavement and systematic plunder of colonies and other backward countries, the conversion of a number of independent countries into dependent countries, the organization of new wars - which to the magnates of modern capitalism is the "business" best adapted to the extraction of the maximum profit - and, lastly, attempts to win world economic supremacy." (Joseph Stalin: Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, The Basic Economic Laws of Modern Capitalism and of Socialism)

This is exactly what is happening today in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Caspian Basin and the Balkans. As Marx said, there is no crime that capitalism will not commit for the maximisation of profit.

The imperialism will use political and military hegemony as a suitable tool and make them inevitable for economic supremacy. In today's conditions where the organisation of the capital and production is internationalised, the imperialist states, imperialist army and navy would not only stay as the repression and governing tools of the financial oligarchy's domination upon the working class and toiling masses of their country. But, at the same time, they will play the role of tool of rivalry for increasing the political yoke on the world's toiling people, safeguarding the supremacy of the multinational monopolist groups on the world capitalist economy and the new spheres of domination.

Due to international organisation of capital and production, today's form of protecting and functionalising the financial-economic supremacy is the development of tighter and stronger political and military hegemony. Contrary to all liberal balloons of lies, in order to implement the monopolist-capitalist economic policies the imperialist states are developing strategies and organisations for the needs of effective supremacy and aggression throughout the world.

Here where it comes the effective role played by the imperialist states for the internationally organised capital to transfer the profit, to freely move in the financial network, to abolish the obstacles preventing the payment of debts and to realise "structural harmonization".

Of course, the imperialist bandits would try to ensure political and social support through various pretexts and ideological motives, from their own people in the first place and in the world. Intervention in the civil war, implementing peace, economical catastrophe and likewise 'ingenuous' pretexts are some of the motives expressed by US in the concept of militarist aggression and war planned as the role of the NATO in the last ten years for the implementation of the New World Order, which is the meaning of their strategy of world hegemony in the name of imperialists. The whole world witnessed that US and other imperialists based their reasons for war and military occupation on these "white lies" in this period.

Under the conditions of temporary setback of the world revolution, although the intensity of imperialist attacks is a cyclical factor, in essence, the new colonialism has not only intensified during the imperialist globalisation, it is also a reality that the ascending methods of classical colonialism are put in circuit based on economical emancipation. It is an expression of the greater military presence of US and expansion that its military investment and bases have covered a majority of the world's countries in this period. After the completion of the EU's political and military unity a parallel development will be reflected within the military investment and hegemony of the French or German imperialism.

This development is also relied on the monopolistic possession of nuclear and conventional weapons technology which leads to widening gap between the military powers in the imperialist world. Today, the petty-imperialist and new-colonial countries are forced to take shelter in different imperialist centres and provide them military bases behaving differently from what they did in the following years of the second imperialist war, during which time they were taking shelter in the NATO, US war mechanism. The countries of the world are being turned into the military bases of the hegemonic imperialist powers. Undoubted-ly, this show of strength is not the arbitrary and individual policies of the imperialist politicians, but it is a reflection of imperialist monopolist groups' financial and economic slavery forcefully carried out against the peoples, and the escalation of militarism for dominating the world.

In the regional imperialist blocks, a slavery political yoke is created on the basis of integration of the new colonial imperialist financial oligarchy (USA-Mexico relations). The EU is the most advanced example of this. If the EU ensures its political unity overcoming the disputes between governments -which is the aim- and realises the obligation for all governments to comply with its constitution, the French and German bourgeoisies will, in reality, be the dominating imperialist states in the union. Thus, the most developed statues of slavery in terms of the politics based on the relations of economic power will eventuate in the EU and that will be an example of new type colonialism. This has been proven sufficiently by the USA's spread of its military basis around the world and its development of the "pre-emptive war" doctrine; the French-German imperialists' urge to develop EU in the form of economic integration as well as in the dimensions of politic and diplomatic integration, and -as a result of this- their initiative to create an EU army.

An example of developing the function of the united imperialist war is the doctrine that gave the NATO the duty of military attacks in every part of the world with any pretext such as uprisings, deployment of peace, economic crisis and natural disasters. And this doctrine is based on the economic reason mentioned above. This situation has foundations beyond the cyclical reasons such as the collapse of the Soviet Union. This is sufficiently explained in the competition for the world hegemony. US is expanding its military bases worldwide and developing the doctrine of "pre-emptive war", the French-German imperialists are urging to further develop EU through political and diplomatic integration besides the economic integration, and as an inevitable result of that they have attempted to create the EU army.

This international political organisation, which develops in the period of imperialist globalisation based on the economical-financial grounds, appears in the organisation of imperialist states, in the relations of nation states within their hierarchy of political leadership from top down, in the formation of regional imperialist economic unions as one of the main tasks, which will obligatory lead to the formation of imperialist regional political unions, in the display of military bases, in the development of theories about war attacks, new discussions about protectorate colonies, in the occupation of regions which are strategically and economically important and the demonstration of its worldwide strength.

This means that the character of finance capital, together with its nature to realize capitalist exploitation without colonialism in order to defend the maximum surplus and to overtrump their rivals, makes colonialism inevitable. Nowadays this has developed further under international circumstances of capital and production.

Under terms of imperialist globalisation, the contradictions between imperialist bourgeoisie and the neo-colonial peoples became stronger, too. Surplus transfer which is realised in various ways such as the exploitation of cheap labour, the increase of foreign debts, providFDng the fields of profitable investments for the monopoly capital through privatisations, the continual increase of price differentiation during exchange of commoditFDes, the transformation of socially useful works into commodity, the transfer of surplus through the network of finance capital, etc lead to social misery and destructions in these countries and to the economic slavery of the peoples. On this basis, political and military dependency reach the dimensions of slavery. The protectorate colonialism which was brought forward once again by US and EU imperialists, and the military occupations must be added as well. This covers either strategically important regions with important resources such as oil (Iraq), or countries which are geo-strategically important for the political leadership (Afghanistan) and regions which have not yet been occupied by any hegemonic power (Bosnia and Kosovo), or without any particular reason, the countries that stand in the background or the countries in which the hegemony should be ensured under the pretext of internal conflicts (Haiti and Ivory Coast). It can also take the form of wars on the countries which are out of its political hegemony, as it can be seen in the aggression plans of US, the world imperialist system's do-minant power, on North Korea and Cuba.

The imperialist aggression and occupation in the Middle East and in Iraq cannot be dealt separate from the US and other international monopolies, oil and arm monopolies interests and from the USA's aim to establish the world hegemony through the hegemony on the oil reserves and supply routes.

The essence of the imperialist economy is based on the "absolute power" of the trusts, monopolies, unions and giant banks, "the closure of raw material resources", the expulsion of possible rivals, the bloody accumulation, concentration and centralisation of capital. The superstructure of this monopoly capitalism corresponds with political reaction. R. Hilferding said that "the financial capital will not fight for freedom but for hegemony". Objective economic laws of imperialist capitalism inevitably leads to militarism, armament, reaction, protectorate colonialism, occupation and wars. Imperialism will seek for the destruction of political independence, because under conditions of colonialism and dependency "political annexation will simplify and cheapen economic annexation". In general imperialism is the denial of democracy. Such that after September 11, it started to come clear after the occupation of the Middle East and Iraq with all of its falseness and hypocrisy without even feeling a need for formalities of bourgeois democracy.

New legal and institutional structures were created in form of organising inner reaction in order to invalidate and weaken the anger and actions of the working class and the labouring masses against the implementation of neo-liberal policies in the imperialist countries. Migrants were considered as the cause of unemployment, economic crisis, criminal incidents, cultural conflicts and even pollution. New reactionary fascist laws were introduced against migrants as well as for the "fight against global terrorism". Local and international organisations were created.

We can see what kind of democracy and peace the imperialist powers will bring to the countries they are occupying, when they even do not feel the need for the formality of bourgeois democracy at home. The implementation of a formal bourgeois democracy can only be possible together with social rights and some economical crumbs to the lower classes and stratums. It is very clear that neo-liberal attacks in recent years with the seizure of social and economical rights have lead to great social destruction, unemployment and poverty.

Violation of human rights by the imperialist world, at first by US imperialism, put humanity into shaming with pictures that cannot be covered up. The whole world has seen and condemned the pictures of torture in GuantE1namo and Abu-Ghraib and the torture scenes during the training of German soldiers on the methods of torture. US has repeatedly proven that it doesn't comply with all international organisations, agreements and treaties.

Imperialism and the world reaction are in a total assault through "anti-terror laws" against the working class and labouring masses in the world, their economical and political organisations, actions and struggles. They are questing to give legalisation and legitimisation to these assaults.

Anti-imperialist resistance front with Islamic motives in Iraq

Consideration of the resistance with Islamic motives outside the anti-imperialist struggle is the first one of the political and ideological illusions occuring on the subject of the anti-imperialist struggle in the world. Identifying the peoples' resistance with the the actions of some of the radical Islamic organisations on the civilian targets which caused reactions, avoiding from targeting NATO in the fight against the imperialist war, evading the support and solidarity with the Iraqi people with general, theoretical definitions such as "developing the struggle in one's country" are some important examples of blurriness of the consciousness and deviation of action.

A line of an effective and deterrent anti-imperialist struggle makes inevitable the political and ideological struggle against these understandings. And doubtlessly, the success of that, at first, passes from organising the political solidarity and practice.

The struggle, the resistance of the people of Iraq against US-British occupants is aiming to protect their own country, history, culture and oil resources against the aggressors. This is a national uprising, an honourable and just struggle. The forces, who resist as a national-front against the provocations of national and ethnic conflicts by imperialists, have avoided especially from civil wars despite numerous provocations and dirty methods (such as the provocative actions of British soldiers in plain cloths). Not only in the national level, but also in the world, the resistance has prevented imperialist and strategic projects and policies of US, broke its will, and become a source of great moral and confidence for the peoples of the entire world. Therefore, it is a legitimate, progressive and just war.

The resistance in Iraq is not only anti-occupant or anti-USA, but it is, at the same time, anti-imperialist. Because; the imperialist aggression, militarism, barbarity and colonialism today have been concretized or materialised on US. The USA aggression, at first, is in Iraq for the interests of the international oil and weapon monopolies carrying the US mark and, on this meaning, it is "national", but it is also in the Middle East and Iraq for the needs of the imperialist globalisation and the movement of capital and, on this meaning, it is "international". Taking out US from Iraq and its non-debateable defeat is going to be, very clearly, a heavy defeat of the entire imperialist system in the face of the peoples struggle. The covered and indirect support of the imperialist countries, international and regional imperialist organisations can only be explained with this.

Not considering the resistance as anti-imperialist, at the same time, would mean the narrowing of the peoples' anti-imperialist struggling front, not seeing the forms that it could take in connection with the political conditions and the relations of power, and the weaknesses that tend to the conciliation and collaboration. Presence of the forces that are inconsistent, uncertain and tend to conciliate within the Iraqi resistance front would not lower down the historical meaning and importance of the resistance.

Therefore, the resistance in Iraq becomes, not only of every socialist, but also of every democrat's "welcoming with love the victory which would be gained by the oppressed, dependant, unequal state against the oppressor, slavery, plunderer big 'state'", historical and political responsibility; a condition for freedom.

Since the Iraq and Palestine resistance show that US is not the only, absolute and invincible power and will in the world; the USA's imperialist war will gradually went into non-solution and process of defeat in the face of invincible will, growing strength and sanctioning action of the peoples of the Middle East. It has started to suffer from new Vietnam syndromes. Therefore, besides the new imperialist moves, it continues to apply intense ideological and political distortions, imperialist hypocrisy and demagogies in order to disgrace the anti-occupation resistance in the eyes of the peoples of the world.

Questions have increased

The entire world's questions over the imperialist war are gradually increasing:

Why US is plundering the oil, history and culture of the Iraqis? Why it is still in Iraq as their pretexts for going war and occupation are come out to be irrelevant?

In the world, 500 billion of 1 trillion dollars of annual investment on military and armament belongs to the USA. What for is this extraordinary armament? Why there are US troops or military bases in 135 countries?

How the killing of thousands of children in Iraq with marble bombs, the destruction of hospitals, the incidents of torture and rape in Abu-Ghraib and GuantE1namo could go along with humanity and human rights?

Why US do not comply with the international treaties, laws and agreements that it has also signed?

While unresolved questions get increase, the front of opposition, reaction and struggle against US and its collaborators also gets grow.

In the face of such circumstances, US imperialists tried but did not succeed to involve in the occupation of Iraq the collaborator states of the region and the imperialist organisations such as the UN, NATO, EU and G-8. It could not establish power and authority to dominate Iraq through protectorate government that it has formed. It could not prove the presence of chemical weapons and the connection with Al-Qaeda that it has made as the pretext of waging war. The false elections that it led to be organised failed. The reaction against the occupation of Iraq and the war has increased all over the world, at first among the people of US. The American "empire", which could not overcome these quagmire and elements of crisis, is today also failing to stop concentration of crisis by gaining new forms. The crisis over constitution is the new one of these.

On the contrary of these developments, the occupant forces are provoking the reaction and conflict against the Muslim peoples by making as pretext the bombing actions in Istanbul, Madrid and recently in London where civilian people have lost their lives. They are trying to disgrace and make ineffective the anti-occupation resistance, and weaken its international support.

It has been brought to clear by hundreds of incidents that imperialist centres of production of creating political, ideological and psychological propaganda and illusion want to lower down the influence and legitimacy of the just resistance by characterising every action and resistance in Iraq with Al-Qaeda, kidnappings for ransom or beheadings and executions whose perpetrators are unknown. Thus they went for other demagogies when their influence of propaganda at the first months of the occupation is reduced.

Madrid and London bombings

The Madrid and London bombings caused the death of innocent civilians. There is no doubt that the selection of buses, trains and undergrounds do not agree with the rules, logics and methods of the just wars, it will also shadow the rightness of oppressed and limit their indirect forces of support. It will provide an instrument of demagogy to the occupants. Such actions are contrary to the revolutionary values and the understanding of action, and therefore they cannot be accepted.

Here, it is also necessary to point out the differences between the bombing actions that carried out by radical Islamic organisations. While the attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon on 11 September aimed at the monopolies, the actions in Istanbul targeted the British capital and embassy. Doubtlessly, the death of civilians and innocent people in those places are very sad. But, at the same time, this situation can be evaluated as a result of the laws and rules of the war. But the bombings in Madrid and London are mainly different; the actions have targeted civilian areas and caused their death. Therefore, it cannot be agree with, not only the revolutionaries, but also the understanding, values and methods of violence of peoples and oppressed. It, at the same time, will put in hesitancy and distance the indirect substitute forces of support.

At the same period, what is more interesting is that there were no noteworthy agenda or reaction putted in practice in the same imperialist centres for Iraq where dozens of children, women and elderly people are everyday being killed. Yet, everyone who thinks with little bit of humanitarian view would know that the life of a Londoner, an American, a French is not worthier than a life of a Baghdadi, a Palestinian, a Kurd or an Arab. The ones, who narrow, make unbearable the world to the oppressed and exploited millions; causing the destruction and devastation of nature and productive forces, very clearly, themselves will not also be in comfort and easiness. The imperialist capitalism will feel the fear and anger of the slavery that it produces, the suburbs, immigrants' ghettos, cursed and the vagabonds. There is a famous saying of the Anatolian peoples: "If one will eat and the other one will look, than there will be a doomsday."

Under the conditions of relations of unequal forces and occupation in the Middle East, Palestine and Iraq, the violence against the imperialist aggression and war is legitimate, just and inevitable. This violence of the oppressed is very limited comparing with the war machine and militarism of the occupants, and becomes a tool of legitimate defence in the hands of the ones who suffer from aggression and rape, an inevitable right because of not having any other way then the violence. The ones, who cause this violence, want to keep the destruction, devastation and pains of the war outside their countries, are the occupant and colonial forces. So, naturally, they will be the target of the violence of the oppressed; will live the consequences of the war in their countries.

The killing of more then 100 thousand Iraqis in the Iraq war, the torture and imprisonment of hundred-thousands of Iraqis, the incidents of rape, bombing of hospitals, plundering of museums, having not making the case of investigation the USA's war crimes, genocide repression and brutality, the humiliation of Iraqis, all these very naturally have carried the violence of oppressed, which even involved unlawful and wrong targeted actions, to the centres of imperialist cities.

If imperialist bandits' aggression and oc-cupation would be considered as legitimate; their use of chemical weapons, marble bombs, and bullets with enriched uranium, all which are banned by the international agreements, than the oppressed nation and peoples' defence of their countries, resistance against the occupation is an honour-able, just and inevitable struggle. By moving from the unlawful and worn actions of some radical Islamic organisations, the announcement of the Middle Eastern peoples a criminal can never darken the reality.

Unfortunately, the imperialist centres of propaganda continue to create a great illusion by showing the resistance against the occupation as "global terrorism"; the militarist deployment and aggression on the basis of economic and politic interests of monopolies as the "clash of civilisations"; the plunder and brutality as "democracy".

P. Huntington, imperialist ideologist, has divided the world after the "cold war" into civilisations such as the West, India, China, Islam, Slav and etc. And he added that each civilisation has got to learn about living together with others; on the other hand, it would be understandable for the most "civilised west" to carry out violence against the ones who would not agree with this.

By saying "ideology of evil" during the London bombings, T. Blair announced that the cause of violence, in essence, is the "Jihad". However, both the historical facts and the Iraq reality show that the cause is the real problems produced by the imperialist capitalist world.

The imperialist bandits have realized the past wars and occupations of colonization also under the name of "bringing civilisation" to the backward societies. And people have many times experienced that this civilisation means imperialist barbarity, brutality and colonization attack. Also today, despite the striking propagandas of imperialist capital and media, the anti-war attitude in America reaches to 60%, 85% of the people in Britain believe there is a link between the blasts and the occupation of Iraq, and 80% of the people in Turkey stand against the occupation.

So what is happening in Iraq?

It was the old Iraq under the administration of Saddam dictatorship that stood against US and was under sanction between 1991 and 2003. But it was the new Iraq that resisted after the overthrow of Saddam regime and the collapse of the system constructed by him as a result of imperialist occupation. Therefore, various groups and elements of the BAATH regime -who participate in the resistance-, are no more extensions and elements of the constructed ruling regime, but are the forces resisting within the national resistance front for the birth of a new Iraq. The occupant forces are also naming the components of the resistance front as the militants of BAATH party, Islamic insurgents, foreign combatants and socialists. Except a handful of collaborating minority, traditionally collaborator Kurdish organisations, every Iraqi from different ideology, religion and religious sects did take their place in this honourable and legitimate fight. According to the datum of the occupant forces, 24 thousand resisters have lost their live. If we think that the Iraqi resistance continues by growing in spite of these losses, than it would be understood how low the numbers are given about the resisting forces.

Despite that, the numbers given about Iraq provides us some information in terms of the scale and components of the resistance. In the CIA's analyses, it is said that there is a nucleus involving approximately 20 thousand people, there they organise actions and the resistance; and the number of soldiers in the resistance goes from 200 to 250 thousand. Again the Pentagon sources point out that there are 60 daily attacks against the occupiers. And in the records of a research group in USA, Institution of International Politics, they give the monthly average numbers of deaths and wounded during the war: Between March 20th 2003- May 1st 2003 482 people, between May 1st 2003-June 28th 2004 415 people, and from June 28th 2004 to up to now 747 people. According to the official figures, USA has lost 2000 soldiers in the war that was announced as over in May 2003 by Bush, and the number of the wounded is about 15 thousand. These military losses cannot be belittled, because all these are exceedingly shown by the USA's search for 15 thousand soldiers in order to replace with the dead or wounded soldiers and its difficulty to find them, and by the increase of desertions, suicides, drug use and psychological traumas due to immorality among the USA troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Middle Eastern and Iraqui peoples' resistance breaks strategic policies and plans of US, weakens the imperialism and drag them into quagmire. This anti-imperialist struggle and the resistance against the occupation are not being disappeared through the imperialist bourgeoisie's influence and direction of propaganda. Their propagandas are not able to hide the naked realities.

In today's historical and political conditions, conducting a struggle in a consistent anti-imperialist line passes from taking clear and unhesitant stand against the imperialist occupation and aggression. And putting in practice this political task would, at the same time, mean each political currency to grow and develop the class struggle in their countries.

Development of Islamic Movement

Looking into the history of the Islamic movement, it would be seen that it, in some periods, preceded limited and deficient anti-imperialist position.

It can be said that the Islamic movement, in essence, goes along with substitution, collaboration and conciliation with the western imperialists. The progressive roles of the Islamic movement have always been limited in the national movements against the imperialist colonisation and dependency. And the numbers of these Islamic movements in deficient anti-imperialist position are also very limited.

In the beginning of 20th Century, we come across with progressive national movements with Islamic motives such as the Afghan emirates who struggled with Islamic ideology against the British occupation and Seyh Said, a Kurdish leader, who rose up against the Turkish state. However, in the same historical period, many of the Islamic currencies, in time, become the collaborators of imperialism through conciliation tendency, like Serekat Islam in Indonesia. This organisation, which was anti-colonial together with communists in the beginning of 20th Century, become the criminal partner of attacks and massacres against communists and the people under the conditions of the fascist regime of Suharto.

In the era of imperialism and proletarian revolutions, the traditional Islamic institutions and political movements went along with imperialism in collaborator and conciliatory line.

The USA who had seized control of the imperialist world after imperialist World War II, which was a war for the re-sharing of the world, founded and developed Islamic organisations and movements with their strategy of the "green line" during the time of the Cold War which US lead against the danger of communism, the socialist countries and people. They used these forces against the bourgeois-democratic Sukarno-government, the communists in Indonesia and for the downfall of Z. Ali Bhutto through a military fascistic coup in Pakistan. And the Britains have often misused the Islamic movements in India.

During the time of the "Green Line" US, the Saudi-Arabian American oil monopolies and the imperialist intelligence agencies who founded and fostered the development of the Islamic movements in the Arabic countries, in the Muslim countries belonging to the SU, in Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia. The Islamic organisations struggled actively and together with the fascist Turkish regime against the revolutionary forces at the same time when a strong anti-imperialist wave against US and their 6th armada came up in the 1960s in Turkey. The Islamic movements became the key source of ideological reactionary in fascist military coups and the social basis of the political leadership. Later, they continued to fight against the revolutionary movement together with Turkish nationalism and based on their fascist character.

The fascist and USA-orientated shah regime was brought down by a rebellion under the political and ideological leadership of the Islamic movement and the Islamic Republic of Iran was founded. Iran became the financial, political and ideological centre of an international Islamic movement in the Middle East and around the Islamic world.

After its first year, the Islamic Republic of Iran started a total physical destruction war against the progressive and revolutionary forces. Today there is still a reactionary dictatorship who has declared war against the revolutionary movement and the Kurdish national movement by its counterrevolutionary practices and its policies.

In the last quarter of the 20th century the National Liberation Front Mora in the Philippines and the People's Fighter in Iran followed the anti-imperialist line. Nowadays, the Palestinian organisations Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who show a deep trend towards reconciliation, and the Hezbollah in Lebanon, are ideologically seen reactionary, but politically seen anti-imperialist, even if deficient. Although they are ideologically seen to be anti-communist and have actually religious roots, they do not tend to attack revolutionary forces under the prevailing circumstances.

After 1998 Al-Qaeda started to lead some of the pan-Islamist organisations who were fighting for the withdrawal of the American soldiers from the Muslim countries and US from the Holy Land. These organisations organized armed attacks on US forces; mainly, CIA forces, military objections in Saudi-Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and Egypt. Although the politic pan-Islamist Islamic organisations have a pan-Islamic reactionary attitude against the US aggression and the occupation, are they politically to be identified as enemies of the USA.

The worldwide decrease of the revolutionary wave, the weakening of the revolutionary and communist movements in the Muslim countries, the ongoing occupation of Palestine and the Islamic-ideological influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the region lead to an accumulation of anger against the imperialist aggression and the occupation and made them join the ranks of these Islamic currencies that filled the political and ideological gap which occurred.

Nowadays there is no other alternative in Iraq expect the armed struggle against the occupation. The BAATH nationalists, the radical-Islamic forces and the patriotic, socialist and progressive forces continue to show us with their brave actions that the USA can be beaten.

Doubtlessly is the enmity to the USA and Great Britain a deficient anti-imperialist enmity. Imperialist occupation and aggression, barbarianism and cruelty are shown concretely by the USA. The occupation is one concrete reflectance. However, the resisting forces in Iraq have not been supported financially and military by other imperialist forces in their struggle against the American-British occupation. The biggest support and solidarity came only from the people who are against war on Iraq and the revolutionary forces.

MLCP considers the USA and the other imperialist collaborating political Islamic movements in Turkey, in the region and other countries as the main enemy of the revolution and the struggle. She fights against those Islamic forces that attack continuously the revolutionary and communist movement and is of the opinion that the pan-Islamic currencies are strategically seen, no anti-imperialist forces.

For these currencies, non-Muslim people in the region and all over the world are enemies, too. This is why they do not hesitate to attack civil people and they are open for national and religious conflicts.

The USA's attack strategy under the new international circumstances and the insufficient engagement of the revolutionary and communist movement against the imperialist aggression and occupation resulted in the orientation of Muslim people on religion and nationalist, traditional ideology and politics. This will and the demands caused that some bourgeois and petty bourgeois currencies took an Islam-based attitude towards the USA and imperialism, particularly towards the occupation. The outcomes of this current political and ideological hegemony of the Islamic movement have shown themselves in the theoretical and political line of the communist and revolutionary parties.

The revolutionary parties and anti-imperialist forces should, from an objective point of view, not hesitate to form temporary alliances with the deficient anti-imperialist Islamic currencies which will strengthen the struggle and will be a big slap in the face of the USA and imperialism and which will not have revolutionaries as well as people as their target.

Certainly are they alert to stay politically awake and faithful to their principals because the pan-Islamic ideology dreams of the past, is reactionary and the pre-capitalist dominant class ideology. She is used today as well to guarantee the leadership of capitalism and to mislead and weaken the masses of people.

Under the imperialist globalization conditions, contradictions for profit between the US and EU imperialists on the one side and the bourgeois parties, who want to save their own reactionary interests, and the military gangs in the neo-colonialist countries on the other side can sometimes result in violence. These groups, who are said to be nationalists, form a bourgeois opposition in order to defend their current political status and their political dominance. The imperialist forces use violence against these governments, who are in their way of realizing their new plans and their new political structures, and show that they can bring down governments with coups and provoke wars, threats and reactionary mass movements. These kinds of attacks which started with the punishment of Noriega changed into wars against Taliban, Saddam, Aristide and Milosevic. With reactionary mass events in Georgia and the Ukraine the same targets were tried to be realized and the next on the list are the Mullahs in Iran and the Syrian government on the list.

The working class, the people and their revolutionary parties should not take side in the conflict between the reactionary degenerated bourgeois opposition and the imperialist aggression; in the contrary they should follow an independent revolutionary line and especially under the conditions of occupation concentrate on the fight against imperialist aggression. Additionally, we should consider that one part of the Baath movement might end their resistance under circumstances of a possible reconciling, although it supports the bourgeois nationalist Baath movement nowadays.

More will power and more struggle for solidarity with the peoples of Iraq and the Middle East

The Brazilian declaration, made in the summer of 2005 by Arabian and Latin American countries, states a protest against US and British imperialists' world hegemonic war and the occupation of Iraq.

The anti-imperialist wave, led by F. Castro and Chavez in Latin America, is growing. The USA's influence on its "back yard" is in a period of being dissolved and weakened.

The Shanghai Organisation, which Russia, China and some Central Asian countries take part in, is a sign which shows that they will stand with force against the US strategies and politics for building its dominance in the World as well as in the Middle East.

Uzbekistan wants USA to abandon the military bases which it built in the country.

But against all these developments, the US imperialists' various strategic and tactical moves continue. These moves can be seen in its increased concentration on diplomacy, politics and the military over Iraq and the Greater Middle Eastern Project. It can especially be seen in the new relationships it is trying to forge with Turkey. The Middle East is an area where US has experienced more than one crisis. By observing the course of the relationship between Europe and Turkey, it is also gaining the conditions for getting what it wants. The US President Bush's new Security Counsel Stephen Hadley made his first contact abroad with Turkey. He held important meetings with Turkish Prime Minister R. Erdogan and General Chief of the Staff H. Ozkok. The 'war on terror', Iraq, Syria, Iran, Israel-Palestine and the Lebanon crisis, which are subjects on the Hadley's agenda, are also on the agenda of Turkey. The US-Turkey contradictions, the competition over the oil and supply routes (with Russia, the EU, China, Iran and the US), and the Israel-Palestine and Kurdish problems are all weighing down on Turkey.

President Bush's "1 March has passed, let's leave it to the historians" statement points to the US' need for Turkey for the Greater Middle Eastern Project, its strategic direction and politics.

After the civilian and military imperialist war staffs meeting on the "war against terror, Iraq and Afghanistan" in US, meetings with Turkey increased. CIA president Porter Goss says: "Until now, we had relied on allied secret service partnerships for operations outside the US and the gathering of intelligence. From now on, we are going to carry out operations with our own staff on-ly. We are going to carry out missions under very different guises. We are going to be in areas where noone would ever dream of".

Recently, two US generals, General James Jones and John Abeyzaid, held meetings on "security problems" during the visit to Turkey. They attended the official opening ceremony of the "Centre for Perfection in Anti-terrorism" (TMMM), which was decided to be formed as a result of the NATO meetings in Istanbul in June 2004. The TMMM, which is posed as the centre for anti-terrorism in the Greater Middle Eastern Project, is actually going to be the US centre for training and military in the Middle East against the anti-imperialist forces. The war on terrorism, international terrorism, kidnapping, holding hostage, fighting against suicide bombings, categories of terrorism, intervening in social incidents, etc., are activities to be studied there.

The US' influential interference in the decision to start negotiations between Turkey and the EU on 3rd October, is interesting.

The direction of these political developments gives clues of the "strategic partnership" between the US, Israel and Turkey, and of the "strategic partnerships" between the US, Israeli, Iraqi and Kurdish political parties. The threats to Lebanon and Syria are being carried out directly and over the states of the region.

After the referendum over the constitution in Iraq, the US, which is being dragged into a period of defeat in the Middle East and Iraq, will continue to prepare and try manoeuvres and policies to bring new military and political assaults.

The dynamics of anti-imperialist struggle and its possibilities are growing in the world. To bring these to the fore, and to get it moving in an organised way, is the historical and political responsibility of all anti-war, anti-imperialist, progressive, revolutionary and communist parties. Therefore, the duty to bring the results of anti-imperialist and anti-occupation platforms and conferences to concrete actions and practices cannot be delayed any longer.

MLCP believes in the need for an international coordination or an international relationship to develop a common political will and action among the anti-imperialist centres and platforms in the world and in various regions. In these terms, a united anti-imperialist intervention and struggle on a regional level will also advance the anti-imperialist struggle both in each different country and on the international arena. This will also create the possibilities and conditions for revolutionary and communist parties to become politically, ideologically and organisationally closer upon the real relations on the road to the world communist movement's international unification.

The US' and other imperialist forces' aggression and the results of the occupation on the Middle East and Iraq, in their naked and striking form, had reflected on the imperialist metropolises as well. And once more it proved that "the people who oppress another people cannot be free too". And so, today, the fate of the working class and toilers in imperialist countries and the working class and toilers in undeveloped countries, and the fate of oppressed nations and peoples, is shared even more. Therefore, the solidarity of the working class, toilers and oppressed of the world with the peoples of the Middle East, and the sharing together of their struggle, will also mean that they fight for their own freedom and their future.

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THE ILLUSIONS IN ANTI-IMPERIALIST STRUGGLE, THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE RESISTANCE IN IRAQ
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The imperialist aggression and occupation in the Middle East and in Iraq cannot be dealt separate from the USA's and other international monopolies, oil and arm monopolies interests and from the USA's aim to establish the world hegemony through the hegemony on the oil reserves and supply routes.

Imperialism is the primary source of reaction

The rivalry and hegemony war between the imperialist monopolies and forces in the world do not only occur on the basis of economy and politics. It may evolve in military forms according to the strategic targets and the level of dealings. Generally, the attacks, threats, occupations and wars against the new colonies, underdeveloped and dependant countries are reflected as the deployment of democracy and the rescue of the peoples from dictators by the imperialist and liberal ideologists. In the conditions of the imperialist threat, occupation and war, the reformists, revisionists and the leftist forces, which reject the revolutionary path, repeat these slogans as "the collapse of the status quo". Furthermore, there appear to be someone who theorises that the characteristics of imperialism have changed, the centre of reaction is the reminders from the medieval time and religious ideology.

In the Balkans, despite the presence of Serb cruelty and massacres, KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army), the armed forces of the Albanians in Kosovo, has dumped its arms because of the impositions from US and the other imperialists. And thereafter, they stepped back from their position of independence and anti-imperialism. Its collaborationist status, today, can be described as "gradual restoration" or "acquiring some rights towards the presence of a state" under the shadow of the USA. What is more interesting here is that, the Albanian communists and PLA (Party of Labor of Albania), which pursued a fundamental and honoured ideological and political struggle against the modern revisionist CPSU and CPC (and therefore stood against its economical, political and military consequences), had acknowledged the KLA's collaboration with US for so-called interests of Albanians of Kosovo. However, it is well known to the communists of the world that today's severe conditions, catastrophe and devastation of the country are the consequences of opening the doors of socialist Albania to the foreign capital under the political, economical and military siege.

The "leftists" of Bosnia-Herzegovina defend and legitimate the presence of imperialist occupants in their country. They state that there would not be a need for occupants only if the ethnic and national conflicts end. Thus, the characteristics of imperialism, which is generating source of fascism and racism, and the tie between the regional reactionary forces and the ethnic conflicts, are not wanted to be seen. These class collaboration theories, first of all, show the historical and actual nationalist and chauvinist influence on the revolutionary and progressive parties. There are dramatic examples of these deviations in the Balkans. Secondly, it leads to illusions of seeing the foreign patronage and interference as the solution to national and ethnic conflicts and hatred rather than believing in the peoples' self-potency, activity and struggle.

Of course, here we should persistently point at the resistance in Iraq, which continues with a great will power and heroism despite the unequal army forces and imperialist gangsters' siege, and its regional and international consequences and motivational influence on peoples. In fact, lessons should be taken accordingly when thinking about the post 1956 revisionist "peace theories" grounded on exaggerated "war danger" analysis that prevented communist parties from revolutionary requests.

Some of the European revolutionary and progressive parties are, yet, confining themselves to the generalisations of "developing the class struggle in the country" instead of carrying out their actual political tasks on concrete politics and activities against the imperialist aggression and occupation in Iraq, and therefore, experiencing political spontaneity in a vulgar and conspicuous form.

It is commentated that US and British imperialists' occupation of Iraq, the threats against Iran and Syria, and the aggression of GME (the Greater Middle East Project) is an intervention to the reactionary Arab regimes and the status quo of the region. The flagships of this idea are the reformist and liberal parties, NGOs, bourgeois and petit-bourgeois ideologists of the imperialist countries, and the so-called leftist parties and intellectuals of occupied and threatened countries. It was so shameful to see that ICP (Iraqi Communist Party), carrying red flags in the streets, celebrated the occupation, as a result of which Saddam dictatorship was defeated, and took part in the council which was formed by US as the representative of the Shiites. Undoubtedly, instead of fighting against the occupants and calling for resistance, the so-called "leaders of proletariat" will pay the price throughout the history for their action of supporting the occupation.

From the beginning, the traditional Kurdish organisations, KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) and PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan), have been the main political and social supporters of the occupation. As the strategic and tactical military and US political forces they have "successfully" fulfilled their duty diplomatically and regionally. The USA has now been building a major military base in Southern Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan), because they see Southern Kurdistan as their main and most trustworthy ally in the region. The developments indicate an ethnic conflict and hatred between the Kurdish population and Arabs who resist the occupation.

The PKK , which, for long time, opposed the concept of New World Order, has interpreted the US intervention as "the collapse of status quo" and "democratic colonialism". And their attitude to the war was "neutral" which led them not to participate in any anti-war demonstration and struggle. Moreover, some of the columnists who write to the patriotic press deemed a progressive role to imperialist denying the reactionary characteristic of imperialism.

The new petit-bourgeoisie theorists had said that: "The progressive and revolutionary role of capitalism against feudalism had interrupted by the October revolution and the presence of socialist block. Capitalist imperialism had begun to play again this historical role since the cold war ended." Saying so, they have declared the religion, which corresponds to social reaction, and feudal reaction, who also co-operates with imperialism, as the main source of the world reaction. And blatantly, they advocate the "progressiveness" of imperialist globalisation, which is the prime source of imperialist war and colonialism, capitalist barbarism and atrocity, and the demolition of productive forces.

However, Lenin, hundred years ago, clearly manifested the corrosion and political reaction of imperialist capitalism, the economical and political roots of imperialist war, colonialism and occupations: "From the liberator of nations that capitalism was in the struggle against feudalism, imperialist capitalism has become the greatest oppressor of nations. Formerly progressive, capitalism has become reactionary; it has developed the forces of production to such a degree that mankind is faced with the alternative of going over to Socialism or of suffering years and even decades of armed struggle between the "great powers for the artificial preservation of capitalism by means of colonies, monopolies, privileges and national oppression of every kind." (Lenin, C. W., V. 21, Socialism and War). Le-nin's theoretical prudence had been proved several times during the imperialist world wars, imperialist hegemony and competitive dogfights. Some of the countries headed for socialism, after national liberation struggles, for a period of time, they had be-come independent countries. But, after the defeat of socialism, some of the independent countries had developed relationships with imperialism which led to some sufferings. And today, imperialist capital, with imperialist globalisation attacks, wants to wipe out all economical, political and military obstacles in order to control the sources of the world and maximise its profit.

The imperialist aggression and occupation is a result of the economic laws of

capitalism

The imperialist aggression, occupation and war in the Middle East is a necessity of implementing the political and military policies desired by the imperialist capitalism's economic laws and the movements of capital rather than the special policy, desire and tendencies of Bush and Blair bandits.

Capitalism's law of maximum profit, in combination with the conditions of structural crisis of capitalist imperialism in the last quarter of the century, has made inevitable the international organisation of production and the capital for multinational monopolies. Thus the imperialist states, besides protecting their monopolist interests, have started re-designing their own imperialist policies and military strategies in order to gain new spheres of domination.

As comrade Stalin pointed out:

"It is precisely the necessity of securing the maximum profits that drives monopoly capitalism to such risky undertakings as the enslavement and systematic plunder of colonies and other backward countries, the conversion of a number of independent countries into dependent countries, the organization of new wars - which to the magnates of modern capitalism is the "business" best adapted to the extraction of the maximum profit - and, lastly, attempts to win world economic supremacy." (Joseph Stalin: Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR, The Basic Economic Laws of Modern Capitalism and of Socialism)

This is exactly what is happening today in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Caspian Basin and the Balkans. As Marx said, there is no crime that capitalism will not commit for the maximisation of profit.

The imperialism will use political and military hegemony as a suitable tool and make them inevitable for economic supremacy. In today's conditions where the organisation of the capital and production is internationalised, the imperialist states, imperialist army and navy would not only stay as the repression and governing tools of the financial oligarchy's domination upon the working class and toiling masses of their country. But, at the same time, they will play the role of tool of rivalry for increasing the political yoke on the world's toiling people, safeguarding the supremacy of the multinational monopolist groups on the world capitalist economy and the new spheres of domination.

Due to international organisation of capital and production, today's form of protecting and functionalising the financial-economic supremacy is the development of tighter and stronger political and military hegemony. Contrary to all liberal balloons of lies, in order to implement the monopolist-capitalist economic policies the imperialist states are developing strategies and organisations for the needs of effective supremacy and aggression throughout the world.

Here where it comes the effective role played by the imperialist states for the internationally organised capital to transfer the profit, to freely move in the financial network, to abolish the obstacles preventing the payment of debts and to realise "structural harmonization".

Of course, the imperialist bandits would try to ensure political and social support through various pretexts and ideological motives, from their own people in the first place and in the world. Intervention in the civil war, implementing peace, economical catastrophe and likewise 'ingenuous' pretexts are some of the motives expressed by US in the concept of militarist aggression and war planned as the role of the NATO in the last ten years for the implementation of the New World Order, which is the meaning of their strategy of world hegemony in the name of imperialists. The whole world witnessed that US and other imperialists based their reasons for war and military occupation on these "white lies" in this period.

Under the conditions of temporary setback of the world revolution, although the intensity of imperialist attacks is a cyclical factor, in essence, the new colonialism has not only intensified during the imperialist globalisation, it is also a reality that the ascending methods of classical colonialism are put in circuit based on economical emancipation. It is an expression of the greater military presence of US and expansion that its military investment and bases have covered a majority of the world's countries in this period. After the completion of the EU's political and military unity a parallel development will be reflected within the military investment and hegemony of the French or German imperialism.

This development is also relied on the monopolistic possession of nuclear and conventional weapons technology which leads to widening gap between the military powers in the imperialist world. Today, the petty-imperialist and new-colonial countries are forced to take shelter in different imperialist centres and provide them military bases behaving differently from what they did in the following years of the second imperialist war, during which time they were taking shelter in the NATO, US war mechanism. The countries of the world are being turned into the military bases of the hegemonic imperialist powers. Undoubted-ly, this show of strength is not the arbitrary and individual policies of the imperialist politicians, but it is a reflection of imperialist monopolist groups' financial and economic slavery forcefully carried out against the peoples, and the escalation of militarism for dominating the world.

In the regional imperialist blocks, a slavery political yoke is created on the basis of integration of the new colonial imperialist financial oligarchy (USA-Mexico relations). The EU is the most advanced example of this. If the EU ensures its political unity overcoming the disputes between governments -which is the aim- and realises the obligation for all governments to comply with its constitution, the French and German bourgeoisies will, in reality, be the dominating imperialist states in the union. Thus, the most developed statues of slavery in terms of the politics based on the relations of economic power will eventuate in the EU and that will be an example of new type colonialism. This has been proven sufficiently by the USA's spread of its military basis around the world and its development of the "pre-emptive war" doctrine; the French-German imperialists' urge to develop EU in the form of economic integration as well as in the dimensions of politic and diplomatic integration, and -as a result of this- their initiative to create an EU army.

An example of developing the function of the united imperialist war is the doctrine that gave the NATO the duty of military attacks in every part of the world with any pretext such as uprisings, deployment of peace, economic crisis and natural disasters. And this doctrine is based on the economic reason mentioned above. This situation has foundations beyond the cyclical reasons such as the collapse of the Soviet Union. This is sufficiently explained in the competition for the world hegemony. US is expanding its military bases worldwide and developing the doctrine of "pre-emptive war", the French-German imperialists are urging to further develop EU through political and diplomatic integration besides the economic integration, and as an inevitable result of that they have attempted to create the EU army.

This international political organisation, which develops in the period of imperialist globalisation based on the economical-financial grounds, appears in the organisation of imperialist states, in the relations of nation states within their hierarchy of political leadership from top down, in the formation of regional imperialist economic unions as one of the main tasks, which will obligatory lead to the formation of imperialist regional political unions, in the display of military bases, in the development of theories about war attacks, new discussions about protectorate colonies, in the occupation of regions which are strategically and economically important and the demonstration of its worldwide strength.

This means that the character of finance capital, together with its nature to realize capitalist exploitation without colonialism in order to defend the maximum surplus and to overtrump their rivals, makes colonialism inevitable. Nowadays this has developed further under international circumstances of capital and production.

Under terms of imperialist globalisation, the contradictions between imperialist bourgeoisie and the neo-colonial peoples became stronger, too. Surplus transfer which is realised in various ways such as the exploitation of cheap labour, the increase of foreign debts, providFDng the fields of profitable investments for the monopoly capital through privatisations, the continual increase of price differentiation during exchange of commoditFDes, the transformation of socially useful works into commodity, the transfer of surplus through the network of finance capital, etc lead to social misery and destructions in these countries and to the economic slavery of the peoples. On this basis, political and military dependency reach the dimensions of slavery. The protectorate colonialism which was brought forward once again by US and EU imperialists, and the military occupations must be added as well. This covers either strategically important regions with important resources such as oil (Iraq), or countries which are geo-strategically important for the political leadership (Afghanistan) and regions which have not yet been occupied by any hegemonic power (Bosnia and Kosovo), or without any particular reason, the countries that stand in the background or the countries in which the hegemony should be ensured under the pretext of internal conflicts (Haiti and Ivory Coast). It can also take the form of wars on the countries which are out of its political hegemony, as it can be seen in the aggression plans of US, the world imperialist system's do-minant power, on North Korea and Cuba.

The imperialist aggression and occupation in the Middle East and in Iraq cannot be dealt separate from the US and other international monopolies, oil and arm monopolies interests and from the USA's aim to establish the world hegemony through the hegemony on the oil reserves and supply routes.

The essence of the imperialist economy is based on the "absolute power" of the trusts, monopolies, unions and giant banks, "the closure of raw material resources", the expulsion of possible rivals, the bloody accumulation, concentration and centralisation of capital. The superstructure of this monopoly capitalism corresponds with political reaction. R. Hilferding said that "the financial capital will not fight for freedom but for hegemony". Objective economic laws of imperialist capitalism inevitably leads to militarism, armament, reaction, protectorate colonialism, occupation and wars. Imperialism will seek for the destruction of political independence, because under conditions of colonialism and dependency "political annexation will simplify and cheapen economic annexation". In general imperialism is the denial of democracy. Such that after September 11, it started to come clear after the occupation of the Middle East and Iraq with all of its falseness and hypocrisy without even feeling a need for formalities of bourgeois democracy.

New legal and institutional structures were created in form of organising inner reaction in order to invalidate and weaken the anger and actions of the working class and the labouring masses against the implementation of neo-liberal policies in the imperialist countries. Migrants were considered as the cause of unemployment, economic crisis, criminal incidents, cultural conflicts and even pollution. New reactionary fascist laws were introduced against migrants as well as for the "fight against global terrorism". Local and international organisations were created.

We can see what kind of democracy and peace the imperialist powers will bring to the countries they are occupying, when they even do not feel the need for the formality of bourgeois democracy at home. The implementation of a formal bourgeois democracy can only be possible together with social rights and some economical crumbs to the lower classes and stratums. It is very clear that neo-liberal attacks in recent years with the seizure of social and economical rights have lead to great social destruction, unemployment and poverty.

Violation of human rights by the imperialist world, at first by US imperialism, put humanity into shaming with pictures that cannot be covered up. The whole world has seen and condemned the pictures of torture in GuantE1namo and Abu-Ghraib and the torture scenes during the training of German soldiers on the methods of torture. US has repeatedly proven that it doesn't comply with all international organisations, agreements and treaties.

Imperialism and the world reaction are in a total assault through "anti-terror laws" against the working class and labouring masses in the world, their economical and political organisations, actions and struggles. They are questing to give legalisation and legitimisation to these assaults.

Anti-imperialist resistance front with Islamic motives in Iraq

Consideration of the resistance with Islamic motives outside the anti-imperialist struggle is the first one of the political and ideological illusions occuring on the subject of the anti-imperialist struggle in the world. Identifying the peoples' resistance with the the actions of some of the radical Islamic organisations on the civilian targets which caused reactions, avoiding from targeting NATO in the fight against the imperialist war, evading the support and solidarity with the Iraqi people with general, theoretical definitions such as "developing the struggle in one's country" are some important examples of blurriness of the consciousness and deviation of action.

A line of an effective and deterrent anti-imperialist struggle makes inevitable the political and ideological struggle against these understandings. And doubtlessly, the success of that, at first, passes from organising the political solidarity and practice.

The struggle, the resistance of the people of Iraq against US-British occupants is aiming to protect their own country, history, culture and oil resources against the aggressors. This is a national uprising, an honourable and just struggle. The forces, who resist as a national-front against the provocations of national and ethnic conflicts by imperialists, have avoided especially from civil wars despite numerous provocations and dirty methods (such as the provocative actions of British soldiers in plain cloths). Not only in the national level, but also in the world, the resistance has prevented imperialist and strategic projects and policies of US, broke its will, and become a source of great moral and confidence for the peoples of the entire world. Therefore, it is a legitimate, progressive and just war.

The resistance in Iraq is not only anti-occupant or anti-USA, but it is, at the same time, anti-imperialist. Because; the imperialist aggression, militarism, barbarity and colonialism today have been concretized or materialised on US. The USA aggression, at first, is in Iraq for the interests of the international oil and weapon monopolies carrying the US mark and, on this meaning, it is "national", but it is also in the Middle East and Iraq for the needs of the imperialist globalisation and the movement of capital and, on this meaning, it is "international". Taking out US from Iraq and its non-debateable defeat is going to be, very clearly, a heavy defeat of the entire imperialist system in the face of the peoples struggle. The covered and indirect support of the imperialist countries, international and regional imperialist organisations can only be explained with this.

Not considering the resistance as anti-imperialist, at the same time, would mean the narrowing of the peoples' anti-imperialist struggling front, not seeing the forms that it could take in connection with the political conditions and the relations of power, and the weaknesses that tend to the conciliation and collaboration. Presence of the forces that are inconsistent, uncertain and tend to conciliate within the Iraqi resistance front would not lower down the historical meaning and importance of the resistance.

Therefore, the resistance in Iraq becomes, not only of every socialist, but also of every democrat's "welcoming with love the victory which would be gained by the oppressed, dependant, unequal state against the oppressor, slavery, plunderer big 'state'", historical and political responsibility; a condition for freedom.

Since the Iraq and Palestine resistance show that US is not the only, absolute and invincible power and will in the world; the USA's imperialist war will gradually went into non-solution and process of defeat in the face of invincible will, growing strength and sanctioning action of the peoples of the Middle East. It has started to suffer from new Vietnam syndromes. Therefore, besides the new imperialist moves, it continues to apply intense ideological and political distortions, imperialist hypocrisy and demagogies in order to disgrace the anti-occupation resistance in the eyes of the peoples of the world.

Questions have increased

The entire world's questions over the imperialist war are gradually increasing:

Why US is plundering the oil, history and culture of the Iraqis? Why it is still in Iraq as their pretexts for going war and occupation are come out to be irrelevant?

In the world, 500 billion of 1 trillion dollars of annual investment on military and armament belongs to the USA. What for is this extraordinary armament? Why there are US troops or military bases in 135 countries?

How the killing of thousands of children in Iraq with marble bombs, the destruction of hospitals, the incidents of torture and rape in Abu-Ghraib and GuantE1namo could go along with humanity and human rights?

Why US do not comply with the international treaties, laws and agreements that it has also signed?

While unresolved questions get increase, the front of opposition, reaction and struggle against US and its collaborators also gets grow.

In the face of such circumstances, US imperialists tried but did not succeed to involve in the occupation of Iraq the collaborator states of the region and the imperialist organisations such as the UN, NATO, EU and G-8. It could not establish power and authority to dominate Iraq through protectorate government that it has formed. It could not prove the presence of chemical weapons and the connection with Al-Qaeda that it has made as the pretext of waging war. The false elections that it led to be organised failed. The reaction against the occupation of Iraq and the war has increased all over the world, at first among the people of US. The American "empire", which could not overcome these quagmire and elements of crisis, is today also failing to stop concentration of crisis by gaining new forms. The crisis over constitution is the new one of these.

On the contrary of these developments, the occupant forces are provoking the reaction and conflict against the Muslim peoples by making as pretext the bombing actions in Istanbul, Madrid and recently in London where civilian people have lost their lives. They are trying to disgrace and make ineffective the anti-occupation resistance, and weaken its international support.

It has been brought to clear by hundreds of incidents that imperialist centres of production of creating political, ideological and psychological propaganda and illusion want to lower down the influence and legitimacy of the just resistance by characterising every action and resistance in Iraq with Al-Qaeda, kidnappings for ransom or beheadings and executions whose perpetrators are unknown. Thus they went for other demagogies when their influence of propaganda at the first months of the occupation is reduced.

Madrid and London bombings

The Madrid and London bombings caused the death of innocent civilians. There is no doubt that the selection of buses, trains and undergrounds do not agree with the rules, logics and methods of the just wars, it will also shadow the rightness of oppressed and limit their indirect forces of support. It will provide an instrument of demagogy to the occupants. Such actions are contrary to the revolutionary values and the understanding of action, and therefore they cannot be accepted.

Here, it is also necessary to point out the differences between the bombing actions that carried out by radical Islamic organisations. While the attacks on the Twin Towers and Pentagon on 11 September aimed at the monopolies, the actions in Istanbul targeted the British capital and embassy. Doubtlessly, the death of civilians and innocent people in those places are very sad. But, at the same time, this situation can be evaluated as a result of the laws and rules of the war. But the bombings in Madrid and London are mainly different; the actions have targeted civilian areas and caused their death. Therefore, it cannot be agree with, not only the revolutionaries, but also the understanding, values and methods of violence of peoples and oppressed. It, at the same time, will put in hesitancy and distance the indirect substitute forces of support.

At the same period, what is more interesting is that there were no noteworthy agenda or reaction putted in practice in the same imperialist centres for Iraq where dozens of children, women and elderly people are everyday being killed. Yet, everyone who thinks with little bit of humanitarian view would know that the life of a Londoner, an American, a French is not worthier than a life of a Baghdadi, a Palestinian, a Kurd or an Arab. The ones, who narrow, make unbearable the world to the oppressed and exploited millions; causing the destruction and devastation of nature and productive forces, very clearly, themselves will not also be in comfort and easiness. The imperialist capitalism will feel the fear and anger of the slavery that it produces, the suburbs, immigrants' ghettos, cursed and the vagabonds. There is a famous saying of the Anatolian peoples: "If one will eat and the other one will look, than there will be a doomsday."

Under the conditions of relations of unequal forces and occupation in the Middle East, Palestine and Iraq, the violence against the imperialist aggression and war is legitimate, just and inevitable. This violence of the oppressed is very limited comparing with the war machine and militarism of the occupants, and becomes a tool of legitimate defence in the hands of the ones who suffer from aggression and rape, an inevitable right because of not having any other way then the violence. The ones, who cause this violence, want to keep the destruction, devastation and pains of the war outside their countries, are the occupant and colonial forces. So, naturally, they will be the target of the violence of the oppressed; will live the consequences of the war in their countries.

The killing of more then 100 thousand Iraqis in the Iraq war, the torture and imprisonment of hundred-thousands of Iraqis, the incidents of rape, bombing of hospitals, plundering of museums, having not making the case of investigation the USA's war crimes, genocide repression and brutality, the humiliation of Iraqis, all these very naturally have carried the violence of oppressed, which even involved unlawful and wrong targeted actions, to the centres of imperialist cities.

If imperialist bandits' aggression and oc-cupation would be considered as legitimate; their use of chemical weapons, marble bombs, and bullets with enriched uranium, all which are banned by the international agreements, than the oppressed nation and peoples' defence of their countries, resistance against the occupation is an honour-able, just and inevitable struggle. By moving from the unlawful and worn actions of some radical Islamic organisations, the announcement of the Middle Eastern peoples a criminal can never darken the reality.

Unfortunately, the imperialist centres of propaganda continue to create a great illusion by showing the resistance against the occupation as "global terrorism"; the militarist deployment and aggression on the basis of economic and politic interests of monopolies as the "clash of civilisations"; the plunder and brutality as "democracy".

P. Huntington, imperialist ideologist, has divided the world after the "cold war" into civilisations such as the West, India, China, Islam, Slav and etc. And he added that each civilisation has got to learn about living together with others; on the other hand, it would be understandable for the most "civilised west" to carry out violence against the ones who would not agree with this.

By saying "ideology of evil" during the London bombings, T. Blair announced that the cause of violence, in essence, is the "Jihad". However, both the historical facts and the Iraq reality show that the cause is the real problems produced by the imperialist capitalist world.

The imperialist bandits have realized the past wars and occupations of colonization also under the name of "bringing civilisation" to the backward societies. And people have many times experienced that this civilisation means imperialist barbarity, brutality and colonization attack. Also today, despite the striking propagandas of imperialist capital and media, the anti-war attitude in America reaches to 60%, 85% of the people in Britain believe there is a link between the blasts and the occupation of Iraq, and 80% of the people in Turkey stand against the occupation.

So what is happening in Iraq?

It was the old Iraq under the administration of Saddam dictatorship that stood against US and was under sanction between 1991 and 2003. But it was the new Iraq that resisted after the overthrow of Saddam regime and the collapse of the system constructed by him as a result of imperialist occupation. Therefore, various groups and elements of the BAATH regime -who participate in the resistance-, are no more extensions and elements of the constructed ruling regime, but are the forces resisting within the national resistance front for the birth of a new Iraq. The occupant forces are also naming the components of the resistance front as the militants of BAATH party, Islamic insurgents, foreign combatants and socialists. Except a handful of collaborating minority, traditionally collaborator Kurdish organisations, every Iraqi from different ideology, religion and religious sects did take their place in this honourable and legitimate fight. According to the datum of the occupant forces, 24 thousand resisters have lost their live. If we think that the Iraqi resistance continues by growing in spite of these losses, than it would be understood how low the numbers are given about the resisting forces.

Despite that, the numbers given about Iraq provides us some information in terms of the scale and components of the resistance. In the CIA's analyses, it is said that there is a nucleus involving approximately 20 thousand people, there they organise actions and the resistance; and the number of soldiers in the resistance goes from 200 to 250 thousand. Again the Pentagon sources point out that there are 60 daily attacks against the occupiers. And in the records of a research group in USA, Institution of International Politics, they give the monthly average numbers of deaths and wounded during the war: Between March 20th 2003- May 1st 2003 482 people, between May 1st 2003-June 28th 2004 415 people, and from June 28th 2004 to up to now 747 people. According to the official figures, USA has lost 2000 soldiers in the war that was announced as over in May 2003 by Bush, and the number of the wounded is about 15 thousand. These military losses cannot be belittled, because all these are exceedingly shown by the USA's search for 15 thousand soldiers in order to replace with the dead or wounded soldiers and its difficulty to find them, and by the increase of desertions, suicides, drug use and psychological traumas due to immorality among the USA troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Middle Eastern and Iraqui peoples' resistance breaks strategic policies and plans of US, weakens the imperialism and drag them into quagmire. This anti-imperialist struggle and the resistance against the occupation are not being disappeared through the imperialist bourgeoisie's influence and direction of propaganda. Their propagandas are not able to hide the naked realities.

In today's historical and political conditions, conducting a struggle in a consistent anti-imperialist line passes from taking clear and unhesitant stand against the imperialist occupation and aggression. And putting in practice this political task would, at the same time, mean each political currency to grow and develop the class struggle in their countries.

Development of Islamic Movement

Looking into the history of the Islamic movement, it would be seen that it, in some periods, preceded limited and deficient anti-imperialist position.

It can be said that the Islamic movement, in essence, goes along with substitution, collaboration and conciliation with the western imperialists. The progressive roles of the Islamic movement have always been limited in the national movements against the imperialist colonisation and dependency. And the numbers of these Islamic movements in deficient anti-imperialist position are also very limited.

In the beginning of 20th Century, we come across with progressive national movements with Islamic motives such as the Afghan emirates who struggled with Islamic ideology against the British occupation and Seyh Said, a Kurdish leader, who rose up against the Turkish state. However, in the same historical period, many of the Islamic currencies, in time, become the collaborators of imperialism through conciliation tendency, like Serekat Islam in Indonesia. This organisation, which was anti-colonial together with communists in the beginning of 20th Century, become the criminal partner of attacks and massacres against communists and the people under the conditions of the fascist regime of Suharto.

In the era of imperialism and proletarian revolutions, the traditional Islamic institutions and political movements went along with imperialism in collaborator and conciliatory line.

The USA who had seized control of the imperialist world after imperialist World War II, which was a war for the re-sharing of the world, founded and developed Islamic organisations and movements with their strategy of the "green line" during the time of the Cold War which US lead against the danger of communism, the socialist countries and people. They used these forces against the bourgeois-democratic Sukarno-government, the communists in Indonesia and for the downfall of Z. Ali Bhutto through a military fascistic coup in Pakistan. And the Britains have often misused the Islamic movements in India.

During the time of the "Green Line" US, the Saudi-Arabian American oil monopolies and the imperialist intelligence agencies who founded and fostered the development of the Islamic movements in the Arabic countries, in the Muslim countries belonging to the SU, in Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan and South Asia. The Islamic organisations struggled actively and together with the fascist Turkish regime against the revolutionary forces at the same time when a strong anti-imperialist wave against US and their 6th armada came up in the 1960s in Turkey. The Islamic movements became the key source of ideological reactionary in fascist military coups and the social basis of the political leadership. Later, they continued to fight against the revolutionary movement together with Turkish nationalism and based on their fascist character.

The fascist and USA-orientated shah regime was brought down by a rebellion under the political and ideological leadership of the Islamic movement and the Islamic Republic of Iran was founded. Iran became the financial, political and ideological centre of an international Islamic movement in the Middle East and around the Islamic world.

After its first year, the Islamic Republic of Iran started a total physical destruction war against the progressive and revolutionary forces. Today there is still a reactionary dictatorship who has declared war against the revolutionary movement and the Kurdish national movement by its counterrevolutionary practices and its policies.

In the last quarter of the 20th century the National Liberation Front Mora in the Philippines and the People's Fighter in Iran followed the anti-imperialist line. Nowadays, the Palestinian organisations Hamas and Islamic Jihad, who show a deep trend towards reconciliation, and the Hezbollah in Lebanon, are ideologically seen reactionary, but politically seen anti-imperialist, even if deficient. Although they are ideologically seen to be anti-communist and have actually religious roots, they do not tend to attack revolutionary forces under the prevailing circumstances.

After 1998 Al-Qaeda started to lead some of the pan-Islamist organisations who were fighting for the withdrawal of the American soldiers from the Muslim countries and US from the Holy Land. These organisations organized armed attacks on US forces; mainly, CIA forces, military objections in Saudi-Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and Egypt. Although the politic pan-Islamist Islamic organisations have a pan-Islamic reactionary attitude against the US aggression and the occupation, are they politically to be identified as enemies of the USA.

The worldwide decrease of the revolutionary wave, the weakening of the revolutionary and communist movements in the Muslim countries, the ongoing occupation of Palestine and the Islamic-ideological influence of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the region lead to an accumulation of anger against the imperialist aggression and the occupation and made them join the ranks of these Islamic currencies that filled the political and ideological gap which occurred.

Nowadays there is no other alternative in Iraq expect the armed struggle against the occupation. The BAATH nationalists, the radical-Islamic forces and the patriotic, socialist and progressive forces continue to show us with their brave actions that the USA can be beaten.

Doubtlessly is the enmity to the USA and Great Britain a deficient anti-imperialist enmity. Imperialist occupation and aggression, barbarianism and cruelty are shown concretely by the USA. The occupation is one concrete reflectance. However, the resisting forces in Iraq have not been supported financially and military by other imperialist forces in their struggle against the American-British occupation. The biggest support and solidarity came only from the people who are against war on Iraq and the revolutionary forces.

MLCP considers the USA and the other imperialist collaborating political Islamic movements in Turkey, in the region and other countries as the main enemy of the revolution and the struggle. She fights against those Islamic forces that attack continuously the revolutionary and communist movement and is of the opinion that the pan-Islamic currencies are strategically seen, no anti-imperialist forces.

For these currencies, non-Muslim people in the region and all over the world are enemies, too. This is why they do not hesitate to attack civil people and they are open for national and religious conflicts.

The USA's attack strategy under the new international circumstances and the insufficient engagement of the revolutionary and communist movement against the imperialist aggression and occupation resulted in the orientation of Muslim people on religion and nationalist, traditional ideology and politics. This will and the demands caused that some bourgeois and petty bourgeois currencies took an Islam-based attitude towards the USA and imperialism, particularly towards the occupation. The outcomes of this current political and ideological hegemony of the Islamic movement have shown themselves in the theoretical and political line of the communist and revolutionary parties.

The revolutionary parties and anti-imperialist forces should, from an objective point of view, not hesitate to form temporary alliances with the deficient anti-imperialist Islamic currencies which will strengthen the struggle and will be a big slap in the face of the USA and imperialism and which will not have revolutionaries as well as people as their target.

Certainly are they alert to stay politically awake and faithful to their principals because the pan-Islamic ideology dreams of the past, is reactionary and the pre-capitalist dominant class ideology. She is used today as well to guarantee the leadership of capitalism and to mislead and weaken the masses of people.

Under the imperialist globalization conditions, contradictions for profit between the US and EU imperialists on the one side and the bourgeois parties, who want to save their own reactionary interests, and the military gangs in the neo-colonialist countries on the other side can sometimes result in violence. These groups, who are said to be nationalists, form a bourgeois opposition in order to defend their current political status and their political dominance. The imperialist forces use violence against these governments, who are in their way of realizing their new plans and their new political structures, and show that they can bring down governments with coups and provoke wars, threats and reactionary mass movements. These kinds of attacks which started with the punishment of Noriega changed into wars against Taliban, Saddam, Aristide and Milosevic. With reactionary mass events in Georgia and the Ukraine the same targets were tried to be realized and the next on the list are the Mullahs in Iran and the Syrian government on the list.

The working class, the people and their revolutionary parties should not take side in the conflict between the reactionary degenerated bourgeois opposition and the imperialist aggression; in the contrary they should follow an independent revolutionary line and especially under the conditions of occupation concentrate on the fight against imperialist aggression. Additionally, we should consider that one part of the Baath movement might end their resistance under circumstances of a possible reconciling, although it supports the bourgeois nationalist Baath movement nowadays.

More will power and more struggle for solidarity with the peoples of Iraq and the Middle East

The Brazilian declaration, made in the summer of 2005 by Arabian and Latin American countries, states a protest against US and British imperialists' world hegemonic war and the occupation of Iraq.

The anti-imperialist wave, led by F. Castro and Chavez in Latin America, is growing. The USA's influence on its "back yard" is in a period of being dissolved and weakened.

The Shanghai Organisation, which Russia, China and some Central Asian countries take part in, is a sign which shows that they will stand with force against the US strategies and politics for building its dominance in the World as well as in the Middle East.

Uzbekistan wants USA to abandon the military bases which it built in the country.

But against all these developments, the US imperialists' various strategic and tactical moves continue. These moves can be seen in its increased concentration on diplomacy, politics and the military over Iraq and the Greater Middle Eastern Project. It can especially be seen in the new relationships it is trying to forge with Turkey. The Middle East is an area where US has experienced more than one crisis. By observing the course of the relationship between Europe and Turkey, it is also gaining the conditions for getting what it wants. The US President Bush's new Security Counsel Stephen Hadley made his first contact abroad with Turkey. He held important meetings with Turkish Prime Minister R. Erdogan and General Chief of the Staff H. Ozkok. The 'war on terror', Iraq, Syria, Iran, Israel-Palestine and the Lebanon crisis, which are subjects on the Hadley's agenda, are also on the agenda of Turkey. The US-Turkey contradictions, the competition over the oil and supply routes (with Russia, the EU, China, Iran and the US), and the Israel-Palestine and Kurdish problems are all weighing down on Turkey.

President Bush's "1 March has passed, let's leave it to the historians" statement points to the US' need for Turkey for the Greater Middle Eastern Project, its strategic direction and politics.

After the civilian and military imperialist war staffs meeting on the "war against terror, Iraq and Afghanistan" in US, meetings with Turkey increased. CIA president Porter Goss says: "Until now, we had relied on allied secret service partnerships for operations outside the US and the gathering of intelligence. From now on, we are going to carry out operations with our own staff on-ly. We are going to carry out missions under very different guises. We are going to be in areas where noone would ever dream of".

Recently, two US generals, General James Jones and John Abeyzaid, held meetings on "security problems" during the visit to Turkey. They attended the official opening ceremony of the "Centre for Perfection in Anti-terrorism" (TMMM), which was decided to be formed as a result of the NATO meetings in Istanbul in June 2004. The TMMM, which is posed as the centre for anti-terrorism in the Greater Middle Eastern Project, is actually going to be the US centre for training and military in the Middle East against the anti-imperialist forces. The war on terrorism, international terrorism, kidnapping, holding hostage, fighting against suicide bombings, categories of terrorism, intervening in social incidents, etc., are activities to be studied there.

The US' influential interference in the decision to start negotiations between Turkey and the EU on 3rd October, is interesting.

The direction of these political developments gives clues of the "strategic partnership" between the US, Israel and Turkey, and of the "strategic partnerships" between the US, Israeli, Iraqi and Kurdish political parties. The threats to Lebanon and Syria are being carried out directly and over the states of the region.

After the referendum over the constitution in Iraq, the US, which is being dragged into a period of defeat in the Middle East and Iraq, will continue to prepare and try manoeuvres and policies to bring new military and political assaults.

The dynamics of anti-imperialist struggle and its possibilities are growing in the world. To bring these to the fore, and to get it moving in an organised way, is the historical and political responsibility of all anti-war, anti-imperialist, progressive, revolutionary and communist parties. Therefore, the duty to bring the results of anti-imperialist and anti-occupation platforms and conferences to concrete actions and practices cannot be delayed any longer.

MLCP believes in the need for an international coordination or an international relationship to develop a common political will and action among the anti-imperialist centres and platforms in the world and in various regions. In these terms, a united anti-imperialist intervention and struggle on a regional level will also advance the anti-imperialist struggle both in each different country and on the international arena. This will also create the possibilities and conditions for revolutionary and communist parties to become politically, ideologically and organisationally closer upon the real relations on the road to the world communist movement's international unification.

The US' and other imperialist forces' aggression and the results of the occupation on the Middle East and Iraq, in their naked and striking form, had reflected on the imperialist metropolises as well. And once more it proved that "the people who oppress another people cannot be free too". And so, today, the fate of the working class and toilers in imperialist countries and the working class and toilers in undeveloped countries, and the fate of oppressed nations and peoples, is shared even more. Therefore, the solidarity of the working class, toilers and oppressed of the world with the peoples of the Middle East, and the sharing together of their struggle, will also mean that they fight for their own freedom and their future.

More will power and more struggle for solidarity with the peoples of Iraq and the Middle East!