TURN on the television or newspaper these days message that's rather obviously being hammered home. From the Olympic boycott to the Cuban refugees, a clear lesson is intended for workers in the West — there is a major threat to world peace and it comes from the Soviet Union.
We are told that the United States, the last defence of the so-called 'free world', is being undermined by the military Soviet Union. The Soviet Afghanistan has been the starting point for an orchestrated of the 'free munism.
But the Soviet Union is not responsible for the increase in international tension. campaign is a smokescreen for an increasingly aggressive stance by US imperialism. The plans for the creation of the Rapid Deployment Force to intervene in hotspots like Nicaragua, and El Salvador were in existence well before Russian tanks rolled in to Kabul.
Despite their workers states are not taking such an aggressive stand. This is because the Soviet Union is based on an entirely different socio-economic system to that of the West.
The abolition of the private ownership of industry and finance means that simple profit cannot be the driving force of its economy. Soviet Union does not have massive investments abroad which it has to protect powerful arms lobby aiming to gain out of war.
pick up a and there's determined policy ambitions of the. of vul cauca propaganaa campaign in aerence the USSR. West' against the spectre of comLames Iran, bureaucratic distortions the the The There is no However, unlike in the early stages of the Soviet state immediately after the 1917 Revolution, the Soviet Union's foreign policy 1s not by solidarity and the need to spread the proletarian revolution to the rest of the world.
The policy of 'peaceful coexistence' with the capitalist countries was elaborated by Lenin's successors after the revolution had failed to spread to other advanced capitalist countries, and when the workers' state had developed bureaucratic deformations. The 1S to maintain the privileges within the Soviet upholding the status quo on a world scale, but especially in those areas immediately bordering This was the motivation for the invasion of Afghanistan at Christmas temot to stabilise' the whole region Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries I LIC WORe Soviet invasion could have been motivated by the drive for profit, defence of markets or exploitation of raw materials. The demands of the Afghan masses, and the imminent victory reactionary forces, might have spilled over into Soviet Union itself. There peoples inside the USSR, many of whom share a cultural affinity with the people of Afghanistan. Stability and the status quo were the two major reasons for the Soviet invasion.
Similar considerations apply to the USSR's nuclear deterrents. It is purely a defensive reaction to the imperialist countries' threats oi war the Warsaw Pact will remain necessary as has nuclear working class resoles socialists aim of this up its threats of wai saw Pact.
Union by is no need to oppose it.
— a misguided atopposed unkey that the But Army. are Islamic The American spearheaded - by • warheads pointed at the workers' states. No big capitalists make money out of arms production Soviet Union, it is just a drain on material In this situation of developing global conflict do not remain neutral military blocs like NATO threaten the lives of every worker, and are motivated by profits and greed. Military blocs between the workers' states are only necessary as long as imperialism keeps until this threat has disappeared we defend the existence of the WarThere is no Soviet war drive as such, so there Military actions of the Soviet bureaucracy, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956 and of developments that could have led years socialist democracy, and hence must certainly be the way to challenge the revolutionary role of the Soviet leadership is to support the removal of the bureaucracy, not to undermine the gains of the Russian Revolution among which is the existence of the Red Without that military force, the Vietnamese, Cuban and other revolutions would have been quickly snuffed out by imperialism.
war drive is aggressive and profiteering — if death and destruction lies in its path that makes no difference at all, profits are The real danger to the world working class lies in the imperialist war drive the US, the defensive manoeuvres of the Soviet Union.
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