Montreal | BASICS – 11 September 2011
by Steve da Silva
The death of some three thousand civilians ten years ago can no longer be claimed by the imperialists as a pretext for their endless War on Terror’. Ten years on, the world is no safer from terror – certainly not the state-sponsored terror. Not only have the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya claimed 100 times the lives of the September 11 attack, but the NATO imperialists’ shameless war in Libya – in which they helped usher into power al-Qaida elements (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group) and other unscrupulous paramilitary forces – reveals that Islamic terror groups are not the true targets of the imperialist wars of the last decade.
Here in Canada today, this was the message of anti-imperialist forces who rallied to register their dissent to the role of Canadian imperialism in the US-led global war. In Montreal, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) organized a demonstration downtown to protest Canada’s role in the wars in Afghanistan, Libya, and its shameless support for Israeli state-terror against the Palestinians.
Beginning at Cabot Square, the march was attended by some 150 people, weaving north-east through Rue Sainte Catherine and René-Lévesque passing the U.S. Consulate and Canadian Federal Government Guy Favreau Building, burning U.S. and Canadian flags along the way.
While mourning the victims of 9/11, the anti-imperialist coalition ILPS-Canada issued a statement today that also opposed Canada’s role in the War on Terror and the rampant militarism it has unleashed since then: “With U.S. forces overstretched in Iraq, Afghanistan and other such areas, the Canadian government and ruling elite have been stepping in to take up the slack. Billions of our dollars is being spent on military armaments, fighter planes, and new troops instead of schools, health care and job creation at home. The Canadian military is now planning to set up permanent military presence in up to seven countries including Senegal, South Korea, Kenya, Singapore and Kuwait, along with Germany and Jamaica.”
Chilean national heroes Salvador Allende and folk singer Victor Jara in line with images of a small fraction of the thousands of disappeared and executed under the US-backed Pinochet military dictatorship. -Parc Jeanne-Mance, Montreal | Sep 11, 2011
A couple hours earlier, some 50 Chileans and other supporters rallied at Parc Jeanne-Mance in the Plateau area of Montréal to commemorate another grave act of terror carried out on September 11…1973: The US-sponsored coup d’etat in Chile. Chilean-Quebecers rallied to mourn the torture, disappearance and execution of the thousands in Chile after the 1973 coup, which is the event that triggered the large exodus of Chilean refugees to Canada and elsewhere in the world.
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