1). Origins of Anti-Communism.
In Europe after
the Napoleonic wars, the prevalent conditions of the majority of the population,
was abject poverty. This gave rise to political struggle, within each and every
European Country by the workers, in an effort to emancipate themselves, and to
better their living conditions. This
impetus gave birth to the first workers parties, thus a Socialist ideology came
into being through the writings of Charles Fourier, Henry de Saint Simon, and
Robert Owen, these writers gave outlines to an imaginary future idealistic
society, however, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their Communist Manifesto
of 1848 described this as Utopian Socialism. Nonetheless it was the Marxist
thought that finally formulated Socialism.
With the coming
of the Industrial revolution in European Countries, primarily in Britain and
France, and later on in Germany, new markets and raw materials were on demand
by the Capitalist. This led to the
colonizing of countries in Asia, Africa, and in the Americas. The greed for raw
materials obtained in these colonies culminated into an Imperialist war. Germany a late comer on the scene demanded a
bigger share to be on par with Britain and France.
After Karl Marx
death in 1885, Friedrich Engels along with other Socialists formed up the
Second International. At different meetings of this International, resolutions
were passed, in order to stop the impending imperialist war. These resolutions
called upon all the parties that participated, to agitate among the working class
so that workers will not enlist in armies if such war comes about. The French
and German Socialists, found excuses not to abide by these resolutions, and
this were to bring a splinter within the socialist movement that still exists
to this day.
The First World War brought about
radical changes namely:
· The
Austro Hungarian and Ottoman Empires ceased to exist.
· In
Russia, to the chagrin of the bourgeois states around the World, the Great
October Revolution ushered a new workers state, and the Soviet Union was
created, in what before was the Tsarist Empire.
· Defeated
Germany collapsed with the war reparation it was made to pay by the victorious side namely France, Britain and the USA.
2). Anti-Communism is a bourgeois
phenomena.
Anti-Communism
is bourgeois phenomena this was the direct consequence of the anti-Sovietism stance
taken by the bourgeoisie, from the very beginning of the USSR.14 Nations intervened
without success in the civil war that ensued after the victory of the Bolshevik
Revolution.
Anti-Communism
in the 1930’s found a new hot bed in NAZI Germany, and most of the NAZI
propaganda of that time, is still being recycled over and over again today.
After the dismantling of the Soviet state in
beginning of the 1990’s, and with the fall of the Berlin Wall, anti-communism
found a new impetus. The extreme right once again came into the scene in
Eastern Europe and in some of the republics that formed the Soviet Union. Communist
Parties in Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and in other former Socialist states or Soviet Republics, came under fire, in
some cases the name communist became illegal, so were communist insignia, and
to add insult to injury proposals to equate Communism with Nazism were brought
forward.
3). Origins of Islamophobia.
The racist policies, in most Western
European countries, result mainly, from their servitude towards US imperialism.
Laws are being enacted within these countries aimed at persons of Islamic
beliefs, under the excuse of a war on terror. It has been proved that Islamic
fundamentalism is being financed and supported by the US, and its’ allies in
the Middle East, namely the Zionist state of Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Anti-Islamic roots have origins from the
Imperialist policies of Britain and France way back prior to the First World
War, when they viewed the Middle East as
region rich in Petroleum, and with these aims, planned the setup of a Jewish
State in Palestine so to ensure their hold on these lands .
The division of the Ottoman lands in the
Middle East after the First World War, at Versailles. Britain
and France held on to territories belonging to Syria, Iraq, Palestine, and to
other territories in the Persian Gulf, giving what remained to the Wahhabis to
form Saudi Arabia.
Much later after the Second World War, a
democratically elected Mohammad Mosaddegh Government in Iran was deposed by an
Anglo-American covert operation after the Mosaddegh Government had nationalized
Iran’s natural resources. This was the first time the US had overthrown a
foreign government.
In 1965 over two million communists were
estimated to have been massacred in Indonesia in the CIA backed coup against
the Sukarno Government, all members belonging to the Indonesian Communist Party
were hunted down and if caught murdered. In
his book “The Struggle of a Muslim Communist”, Hasan Raid a survivor of this massacre
gives an account of this and of the relations that exists between Islam and
Communism.
The unjust Partitioning of Palestine by
the UN also comes into the picture. When the state of Israel was created on
Palestinian lands. Massacres were committed by the Zionists after they took
hold of these lands, in an ethnic cleansing drive against the Palestinian
population,
The unjustified aggression against Iraq,
in the 1990’s with blatant lies, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass
destruction, and the fact that this war was not sanctioned by the U.N. are examples
of Imperialism’s need for Islamophobia.
George H.W. Bush the US President and
the British Premier Tony Blair were behind this imbroglio, and should be brought
to justice as war criminals.
The war against Afghanistan, again The
US used another excuse, this time the September 11th 2001 attack, on the World
Trade Centre in New York. Today there is
more than enough evidence that shows that this could have been self-inflicted.The second Iraqi war was also fought
under the same pretences. All of this, and other more recent events, build up the
scenario behind which Islamophobia hides.
For well over 20 years Islamophobia has
been the excuse behind the imperialist wars in the Middle East. The reasons
given to justify the actions of US and its’ allies for the criminal wars are
the acts of terror committed by Islamic fundamentalism. While the Israeli’s
genocidal policy against the Palestinian people is completely ignored.
Western Liberals and some leftists are
supporting the Imperialist intervention in the Middle East, on the basis of
encouraging secular democracy, and for the advancement of women rights. The US
had spent trillions of dollars in the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, yet
US Imperialism is not concerned on how their Saudi ally treats women.
4). Islamophobia and the so called left.
In Malta like in
other European Countries, around 60% of the population does not distinguish
between Islam and Islamic fundamentalism. To a large number of Maltese every
Muslim person is a terrorist, even more so, they do not believe that IS, ISIL
or Al Qaeda are US creations, and that these terror groups are financed, and
armed by the CIA, the Saudis and Israelis. The support that the Maltese public
used to give to the Palestinians has waned because of this hysteria.
Like most
Liberals, some of the Leftists in Malta also subscribe to this fear. They even
deny that imperialism exists, and take the side of the US, in aggressions likes
the ones in Libya, Iraq, and Afghanistan, claiming that the US and NATO are
defending the world from Islamic terror, they go as far as claiming that the
West had liberated Libya and Iraq from a dictators, while completely
disregarding the fact, that the only liberation that these aggressors were
contemplating, was relieving the Libyans and Iraqis from their natural
resources namely petroleum. Some Leftists here in Malta even boasted that they
were very pleased; with the NATO attack on Libya.
Both
Anti-Communism and Islamophobia are myths that bourgeoisie use for their hidden
agendas, to retain their class supremacy and continue to plunder other
countries resources around the globe The
truth is that Islamic fundamentalism is not for the good of Muslim Societies
around the world, the same goes with Anti-Communism. It is not there to protect
the working class both are tools of the Bourgeoisie in their imperialistic
quest for the plunder of world resources.
