Revolution Books Berkeley brought a book table and addressed the January 28 program with this statement:
Right now the US has the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and three accompanying warships are in the Middle East within “strike range” of Iran.
We stand with the people in Iran against these threats, and salute the courageous political prisoners and the people on the streets who have stood up against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
To understand what is going on there and in the world as a whole, we need to look beneath the surface of the intense and cascading events at the underlying causes for why the world is this way. We invite you to check out our books about Iran’s history, the US coup and the US attacks on the country, as well as novels and poetry. These books expose the history and the lives of the people and expose the lies we are being told by our government. We have brought the works of the Communist Party of Iran (Marxist Leninist Maoist), which has taken up the new communism developed by Bob Avakian and works by Avakian and the New Communism.
We support the courageous rebellion that started Dec 28th and the demands “Down with the Dictator,” “Down with [Ayatollah] Khamenei,” “Freedom, freedom, freedom,” which have set an example for the world. We condemn the IRI for its mass murder, arrests and terror, which justifies this mass murder lying that the protesters are “terrorists,” inspired or directed by the U.S. or Israel. This is an echo of the Trump fascists lies that the two murdered protesters against ICE were “domestic terrorists.”
Donald Trump has threatened to intervene in Iran, if protesters are killed saying, “We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”
We say NO! the US is not going to help the people, it aims to solidify its domination of the Middle East.
We in the U.S. have a special responsibility to stay alert to oppose Trump's fascist aggression on Iran and the world. A war started by the US would not only be opposed to the interests of humanity, it poses the real threat of human extinction. We strongly support the struggle of the people of Iran and the Communist Party of Iran (MLM).
The revcoms say:
Down with the Islamic Republic of Iran!
No U.S./Israeli Attack on Iran!
In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America!
This whole system is rotten and illegitimate! We need and we demand: a whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system!
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