Tear down the Bush-Mubarak-Obama walls, starting with the Rafah border

In 2006 when the Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank, under ‘international’ supervision (which included US imperialist ex-President Jimmy Carter), elected a Hamas-led government, the might of the Zionist state, US imperialism and Mubarak, were launched against Gaza to illegally blockade it. This blockade is still in place even now. An illegal wall runs through the West Bank and there are hundreds of checkpoints that keep Palestinians in concentration camps. Concrete for the checkpoints and walls and the Rafah border was supplied in part by the Egyptian capitalists who include the heads of the military. Six million Palestinian refugees have been kept from their homes since 1948. The UN has done nothing to secure the democratic rights of the Palestinians for the past 63 years; what hope is there that they can assist in any way to secure the wishes of the Egyptian revolutionary masses?

The military junta claims that the Egyptian revolution has been ‘bloodless’ yet about 600 of the masses were murdered by state forces. These killers still are free. The military of Mubarak kept the Rafah border closed while the Zionist regime launched ‘Cast Lead’ killing over 1000 innocent Palestinians. The military of Mubarak kept the Rafah border closed for the most part since 2006, thus playing a key role in the illegal and murderous siege against the over 1 million Palestinians in Gaza.

In 1989 the Berlin wall, the symbol of partnership between Stalinism and world imperialism to keep the revolutionary masses of the world separated and a large section under conditions of brutal Stalinist dictatorship, was torn down by the revolutionary masses. The time has come to tear down the symbol of capitalist dictatorship, of  brutal imperialist suppression of basic democratic rights, the walls of Bush-Mubarak, Obama, starting with the Rafah border. There are other capitalist arrangements around the world, such as between Turkey and Syria, where there is no border.

We call on the Palestinian masses, supported by the Egyptian, Jordanian, and all the masses in the region, to begin tearing down the Rafah border and all other walls and checkpoints that keep Palestinians in concentration camps. Let the rank and file of the Egyptian army show that they are no longer part of Mubarak’s army and support the freeing of the Palestinian masses. Let the rank and file soldiers show that they are not obeying orders from US imperialism; let them help dismantle the Rafah border and all the secret CIA and rendition prisons in Egypt.

That Hamas and Fatah both suppress the demonstrations of Palestinians in support of the Egyptian revolution shows that both are in the final analysis lackeys of US imperialism. It is high time that a Palestinian revolutionary working class party is established as part of the same international that the Egyptian masses and the world proletariat needs.

Let the working class and allies in the USA, UK, France and other imperialist centres rise against the imperialist wars of plunder in the Middle East and Africa.

Down with the Rafah border! For workers and rank and file soldiers committees to prepare for a revolutionary general strike to do away with every last vestige of the hated Mubarak regime.

Organize a Congress in Tahrir square of workers delegates with delegates from the rank and file soldiers, from the poor peasants, from the unemployed, from the revolutionary youth, from the Bedouin masses, to formulate the demands and programme of action of the masses and to set up a provisional revolutionary government based on the workers strike committees and revolutionary councils of action of the revolutionary masses (including the rank and file soldiers, poor peasants, youth, unemployed, Bedouin masses). Down with the military dictatorship! All power to the revolutionary councils and strike committees of the masses, centred on worker and soldier delegates!. It’s time to raise the red flag in Tahrir square and in the thousands of Tahrir squares across the planet.

To take the fight for food, work and freedom in Egypt forward to Socialism requires a national and international co-ordination of the revolutionaries in Egypt and on a world scale. We need to form a revolutionary working class party in Egypt as part of a revolutionary International, based on the lessons of the past revolutions in the world. For the purpose of setting up a revolutionary International we need a conference of revolutionary workers organizations and internationalist Trotskyists in Egypt. This is the process of the refounding of the Fourth International.

17th Feb 2011