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Attacks in Paris: Capitalism is Responsible Class War Against Capitalism!

by PCInt
“We are at war!”: such is the leitmotiv of government officials and politicians from the various French parties, after the deadly attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis.
But French imperialism has actually been at war long before yesterday, even though, so far, French populations were hardly suffering the repercussions in their flesh.

A little over a year ago, president Hollande proudly announced the decision to participate in the American bombings in Iraq, a decision which was followed by sending several dozens of commandos of “Special Forces” on the field; a few weeks ago, the government decided to participate in the bombings in Syria; a few days ago, it announced the sending of an air and sea group in the Persian Gulf (aircraft carriers, attack nuclear submarine and warships in protection) to intensify its participation to the war in Iraq and in Syria. Under the so-called "left-wing" government, French imperialism has pushed military aggression to a point it had not since... the governments of socialist Mitterrand.

Yet it is an old and sinister French imperialist tradition: under Sarkozy, the imperialist circles were behind the war in Libya, which plunged this country into a chaos it still has not come out of. Military interventions in Africa since the official end of colonies are countless; let us just recall the French responsibilities in the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, where hundreds of thousands died. As for colonial wars, they also caused hundreds and hundreds thousands victims.

French imperialism may be one of the most rapacious and bloody versions of imperialism, a system of domination of the planet by a handful of big capitalist centres and of states at their service; but, like its fellows, it is also at war against its own proletarians, and does not hesitate to use the most brutal violence to maintain bourgeois order and capitalist profits.

Without going back to the terrible massacres through which it responded to working class revolts throughout the 19th Century, let us remember the killing of October 1961 of hundreds of Algerian workers by the police, as they were peacefully protesting in Paris. The government just decreed the “state of emergency”, an exceptional measure created during the Algerian war, and which had already been used in 2005 during the suburb riots...

When the decision was made to participate in the bombings in Iraq, the government had called for “national unity” to support a war which it claimed to support in order to protect the French population as well as the Iraqi population against terrorist crimes; those calls for national unity among all citizens have since been repeated, and they are made today again.

They are actually calls for proletarians to unite with “their” national imperialism, that is, with capitalists who exploit them, who oppress proletarians and disenfranchised masses of dominated countries, who loot the planet and wage endless wars. National unity only serves the bourgeoisie; proletarians are always its victims, whether we are exploited at work, or used as cannon fodder.

The so-called security measures that have been constantly reinforced for months and years (vigipirate counter-terrorist plan, mobilisation of the army, massive spying of communications, etc.) have never been used to protect populations, as the last attacks demonstrate once again; they are only meant to protect the bourgeois’s interests and to defend the capitalist system by intimidating the potential “troublemakers”, and especially proletarians.

The bourgeois state is much more efficient to arrest workers who rip their boss’s shirt than to prevent terrorist attacks against Parisians; civilian victims are ever only “collateral damage” in the imperialist undertakings, under the bombs in Syria and in Iraq, as on the streets or concert venues of Paris.

But the victims's corpses are cynically used to feed the campaigns of national unity and support to the state and its forces of repression, and to generate adherence to the military campaigns. Already, politicians from the right and the left pour out martial declarations. Nothing surprising there: as loyal supporters of imperialism, they had already approved the recent French military interventions in Libya, in Africa and in the Middle East; they are also unanimous in their support of the government's actions and their call for interclassist unity.

Proletarians must not let themselves be abused by these representatives or servants of the bourgeoisie; they must not have any trust in the government or the institutions of the bourgeois state, which are at the exclusive service of their class enemies. The bloody attacks in Paris and Saint-Denis are the consequence of the criminal actions of the latter, with jihadists responding by individual terrorist acts to the imperialists’s greater scale terrorism.

For the proletariat, wanting to protect ourselves from or fight jihadist terrorism by gathering behind the bourgeois state would not only mean making ourselves the accomplices of imperialist terrorism; it would also mean accepting to remain the eternal consenting victim of capitalism. The attacks in Paris and Ankara, in Beirut or in Chad, like wars in Ukraine or the Middle East, are a foreshadowing of the future of misery, massacres and generalised wars that capitalism in crisis has in store for the proletariat and the masses worldwide.
To escape it, there isn't one bourgeois side to choose against another; there is no other solution than the destruction of capitalism, a destruction which can only be accomplished by the international communist revolution.

Because it is the social class whose exploitation capitalism lives off, the proletariat has the capacity to get rid of the capitalist mode of production and the society of injustice, oppression, wars and massacres that is built on it: all it has to do is refuse to continue to let itself be exploited, and this gigantic structure will collapse.

It is the way of the resumption of proletarian struggle, of revolutionary class war against all the bourgeoisies and all the bourgeois states; it implies to breaks the ties that have been patiently forged for decades in order to keep the proletariat locked in interclassism, to break away with the various forces and institutions of class collaboration, to give up the delusions of national unity, democracy and the state, which are maintained by a range of social shock absorbers, in order to find the class forces and weapons and to rebuild the political organisation that will lead the fight.

It is not an easy, quick or risk-free way; but the proletariat has already historically stepped into it in, when it attacked the capitalist fortresses in the past. It will need to move into it again tomorrow, on the basis of Marxist political, programmatical and theoretical positions tirelessly supported by the Communist Left, without allowing itself to be stopped or intimidated by the opponent’s blows. It will then find the strength to avenge all the victims of capitalism by definitively ending this vile system.



No to capitalist wars!

No to national unity!

For the resumption of the class struggle!

For the international communist revolution!



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