Sexism
...November 22-24, 2001.
by Susan Price - Democratic Socialist Party, Australia.
In the Marxist movement, war is defined as 'politics by another means'.
The current military intervention in the gulf region by the major superpowers and their deputies, including the Australian ruling class and their military, is the result of a crisis which has been brought about by the policies of the major imperialist powers against the Third World for decades. It is a direct outcome of the failure of the capitalist system and the failure of the project of neoliberal globalisation.
This war which was given the perfect pretext by the terrorist attacks in the United States, is an acceleration of attempts by the imperialist powers to roll back the gains of the international movement against neoliberal globalisation, and instead to engage in a permanent war on the Third World.
Far from causing the economic crisis, it was already well underway in the US and Japan prior to September 11, and certainly looks set to be further aggravated in the wake of the terrorist attacks and now through this war. And once again it will be working people globally who will suffer most from this crisis.
As Fidel Castro put it in a televised speech on November 2 to the Cuban people, "Humanity must now confront three extremely serious problems, which feed off of one another: terrorism, the war and the economic crisis".The movement against neoliberal globalisation has long been fought in the countries of the South. The anti-WTO protests in Seattle, combined with the refusal of the leaders of the countries of the South to agree to the terms dictated by the countries and institutions representing the interests of the economies of the North and before them the mobilisations in Europe around the G8 summit and in Latin America meetings of the World Bank brought the campaign against neoliberal...
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