PREPARATIONS AGAINST THE WAR(S)
The IWA-Secretariat hereby appeals to the Sections
and Friends of the IWA to speed up the work against the capitalist wars
in general, and specifically against the coming war against Iraq. Military
”experts” expect the main air attacks to start in either December
2002, January 2003 or February 2003.
The first critical period is after December the 8th when Iraq is required
to state their weapons program and whether they have weapons of mass destruction.
There are strong forces inside the Bush administration that want to start
the war in mid December before the large number of UN weapons inspectors
are rolling into Iraq in the end of the year. The justification is as
follows: If the Iraqis say they have weapons of mass destruction, that`s
a “material breach”, and if they say that they don`t, the US
will say it`s a false statement.
Anyway, either the war starts in December or January /February the IWA
and its Sections and Friends must speed up the preparations by:
- Examining
the economical interests of the war and take action against profiting
companies.
- Making appeals
to oil-workers of not accepting speed up in oil production during a
new Gulf War
- Making preparations for general strikes/ actions against the war in case of an attack against Iraq.
Oslo the 2nd
of December 2002
Anarchosyndicalist greetings
from the IWA-Secretariat