We Can Prevent the Coming World War World War III is beginning! The war being waged against Syria by the US and its allies is in fact a proxy war between the US on the one hand and Russia and China on the other. If we don’t act, the world war that is developing could well destroy humanity and the earth. The American people have the key role to play in stopping this war. War is politics by other means. War is inevitable under capitalism because of the competition among capitalists. The world war now getting under way is about the competition between the US, Russia and China for markets and resources, and it is a struggle for survival among the world’s major capitalist classes. The competition among capitalist countries, and thus the drive toward war, is even more pronounced today than in the past because the world market continues to shrink as a result of advancing technology that is eliminating jobs. This is not a question of which country to side with. No country is the “good guy” in this process. We must take the side of humanity against capitalism, against the greed and lust for power that would destroy humanity and the world. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, in 2011—the United States led the world in military spending at $711 billion, or 41 percent of the world total and more than the next 12 nations combined. The US investment in military spending not only helps fuel the drive toward war, it consumes resources we need for feeding people, ending poverty, providing health care and educating our people. The American people can stop the coming world war. We can take our country away from the corporations and build a cooperative society. If we try to continue with capitalism and private property, then growing poverty, fascism, and another world war are inevitable. We should demand that our country’s resources be diverted from war to meeting our people’s basic needs.The future is up to us! (People’s Tribune July 2013.) PO Box 3524 Chicago, IL 60654 [email protected] 800-691-6888
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 15:42:44 +0000
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