The poverty created by capitalist imperialism on a world scale combined with an insane drive for profit by the capitalists leaves us in a world where outright slavery is not a thing of the past and where sexism is still alive and well.

Capitalism is a system of legalized exploitation, discrimination, war, oppression, and environmental degradation. In this capitalist world enough food is produced but people go hungry. We work if we are lucky, but the riches produced by our labor go into the pockets of the wealthy. Yet it is the working class youth that are sent to go fight and die so that U.S. oil monopolies can get direct control trillions of dollars worth of oil under the Iraqi sand. Meanwhile those same capitalists use their control of the government and the economy to keep the U.S. economy dependent on detrimental fossil fuels. In doing so the capitalists have brought on global warming, an environmental and human catastrophe that has only just begun.

Just as the main classes of the capitalist countries are divided between the interests of the capitalist class and its drive for profits at the expense of the working class, the interests of the world are divided between those of the weak, poor, and subjugated nations on the one hand and the interests of the capitalist classes of the rich imperialist countries on the other.

While the working class of the capitalist countries around the world often face clubs, tear gas, and even bullets and torture chambers for organizing to assert our interests against those of the capitalists; So to do the leaders of the weaker capitalist countries face the wrath of the imperialist capitalist class when they try to assert their power to control their own resources.

In the 1970s Iraq nationalized its oil fields. This helped the Iraqi people by taking a chunk of the profits made off of oil out of the hands of the international oil monopolies and instead keeping them in Iraq. This money helped pay for free healthcare and education. As such this was a socialist measure carried out by Saddam Hussein’s capitalist government. It was also a measure that stood up to the interests of the rich and powerful nations. For both reasons socialists supported the nationalization of Iraqi oil while those measures infuriated the imperialists.

This is the essence of the U.S. war against Iraq and Sudan. Sudan is a country that stood up to the murderous and anti-democratic U.S.-Anglo invasion of Iraq.

Ignoring all of this radical Zionist Becky Johnson has been calling for war and occupation against Sudan. Now here she states on Sudan, "Sadly, since much of this is Arab on Arab violence and oppression, very few people in the world seem to give a damn."

Yeah right, Becky Johnson cares about "Arab on Arab" violence like American anti-black racists care about "Black on Black" violence and how Apartheid South Africa warned of "Black on Black" violence if Apartheid was destroyed.

While Becky Johnson bangs the drums for an invasion of Sudan, she refuses to join the calls of human rights activists for an end to billions of dollars in U.S. aid to the repressive regimes in Egypt, Jordan, and Israel.

The U.S. government started the current destabilization program against Sudan after they opposed the first U.S. war against Iraq to save America's repressive oil puppet monarchy in Kuwait. They are the cause of the war and should get out of Sudan now.

The U.S. never solves human rights problems through invasions. U.S. imperialism is guilty of many crimes, from the murder of 3 million Vietnamese with the U.S. war in Vietnam, to hunger, as well as the degradation of the planet itself.

America’s so-called concern for human rights can be seen in the past US interventions in Iraq. Saddam Hussein’s Ba’ath Party first came to power in 1963. Immediately after taking power, based on lists provided by the CIA, they rounded up 5,000 leftists and trade-union leaders and murdered them. After the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait we were shown pictures of Iraqi Kurds killed by poison gas in the U.S. media. What we were not told is why the US was silent when this was happening and the fact that the US supplied the gas to kill the Kurds and to kill Iranians in the Iran-Iraq war. While we are now told of the Iraqi repression of the Kurdish people we are not told of how the Turkish government is carrying out the same policies of genocide against the Turkish Kurds, and doing it with U.S. weaponry.

Now with over 100,000 Iraqis dead, and climbing, Becky Johnson would have us believe that an occupation of Sudan would solve their problems. Nonsense.

Likewise U.S. imperialism will never solve the question of women’s liberation in the Middle East or anywhere else for that matter. Women’s rights to the extent they have been gained in the United States have come about as a result of struggle against the U.S. government by the women’s rights movement that was born out of the radicalization against the U.S. war in Vietnam.

Unlike the US supported governments and forces in the Arab World, Iraqi women before the U.S. invasion had many rights found nowhere else in the Arab World except in the Asian republics of the former Soviet Union. Over 50% of Iraqi doctors were women. Iraqi women were allowed to walk unescorted in the streets. They were allowed to drive. Iraqi women could even freely criticize men. In addition Iraqi women had the right to work and control their own funds. This is in stark contrast to the treatment of women under the repressive U.S. backed governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia where women have no rights what-so-ever.

The U.S. ruling class hates governments like Libya, Venezuela, and the former government of Iraq who use(d) the profits of their oil resources partly to benefit the people with social programs. Likewise they love governments like that of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that strip the people of all their rights and keep the oil profits in the hands of the international oil monopolies and their corrupt local servants. Today in the United States we face unemployment, homelessness, and a lack of health care. The billions of dollars the U.S. is squandering on killing Iraqis to steal their resources should be spent to benefit the working class and poor of the United States.

For the cancellation of the third world debt to stop the theft of resources by the rich countries against the poor! Abolish the World Bank and IMF. Abolish child labor and slavery around the world! Pass the ERA!

End U.S. military aid to the repressive governments of Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Nepal, Columbia, and Israel! U.S. hands off of Venezuela, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Cuba, and North Korea! U.S. Troops Out Of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti!

Instead of waging war and exploitation on the world, let us follow Cuba’s model of sending doctors and humanitarian aid!