LIFT THE BLOCKADE ON
THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ!
on December 26, 1991 to be clawed back.
FOR the last eighteen months the Iraqi peo-
The army could not accept cohabitation ple have been subject to a suffocating ecowith a fundamentalist party that it had nomic blockade, which, combined with the been instrumental in repressing only the previous June. Reprisals would have been aggression during the winter of 1990-91, has inevitable.
created a food and health disaster, leading
Events succeeded one another apace: a to many deaths, mainly of children and old petition from military officers, the deployment of troops, the resignation of President Chadli, the establishment of a State ble for the actions of Saddam Hussein's dic-
Council and then the suspension of the tatorship. Imperialism is forcing the Iraqi elections.
people to pay this high price on the pretext
The coup was greeted by a widespread that it wants to punish their oppressive govfeeling of relief. The hysterical anxiety that had seized the. modernist middle humanitarian aims of its aggression against layers at the prospect of a fundamentalist way to satisfaction, government gave state of Iraq, in the context of hegemony
(although it would not be possible to talk of enthusiasm; the fact that this is an antiover the oil-producing regions of the Middle democratic coup d'etat cannot be hidden.
Even among the FIS's popular electorate there was relief that there were no victims;
down to size. In passing they want to create a party of their own that can rival the FIS. Perhaps the former ruling party, the FLN, will be buried once the FIS has been contained.
But the new government, headed by historic FLN leader Boudiaf, who has been brought back from his exile in Morocco, will lack all credibility since the ballot box has already spoken in favour of the FIS.
It is clear that the regime has simply won itself a temporary respite and that social realities will soon make themselves felt again. The FIS, or rather fundamentalism, is the moral victor of the coup which has made it the legitimate representative of the people
The FIS' leadership has been tragic consequences of the imperialist
The Iraqi people cannot be held responsiernment. This shows that the so-called
Iraq hid, in reality, a will to dominate the
Kuwait has been given back to an Emirate which is more reactionary than ever. Iraq's war had been feared. In everyday civil military power is completely destroyed. The conversations you could hear a sort of state of the devastated economy has been renunciation of democracy and popular called "apocalyptic" by the United Nation's sovereignty; there is great confusion and no clear outcome of the crisis. The most cover of the UN Security Council, imperialtense are the FIS' own militants while the ism continues to try to force that country to youth have responded to this coup that has deprived the FIS of victory with a sort of dumb anger.
demand its immediate and unconditional lift-
No reaction should be expected from the ing, as well as respect for the right to self-
FIS which, in the confrontations of last