[OccupyCU] After the Slaughter in Paris: Down with the State of Emergency, U.S./France Out of the Middle East!

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Imperialist War Engenders Islamist Terror
After the Slaughter in Paris: Down with the State of Emergency, U.S./France 
Out of the Middle East!

http://www.internationalist.org/parisslaughter1511.html

The horrific attacks against civilians in six different locations in Paris, 
France on the night of November 13 were the long-expected blowback from the 
imperialist terror bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria over the last 15 months. 
The carnage by the Islamic State (I.S.) was an assault against working people 
everywhere. Such indiscriminate terror generates mass chauvinism, putting 
Muslims and immigrants in particular at risk. It also serves as an excuse to 
escalate imperialist war, which France and the U.S. promptly did. The Islamist 
gangs which became the I.S. were armed for years by the U.S. and France. 
Moeover, the casualties in Paris caused by these "dogs of war" who have 
slipped the leash are only a fraction of those caused by their former masters, 
who have slaughtered hundreds of thousands in the Middle East. French 
president Hollande has used the attack to impose a state of emergency and to 
demand new police-state powers. While voicing mild criticisms, most of the 
French left has gone along with the crackdown. A revolutionary leadership is 
needed to mobilize workers against the war and repression, and to defend the 
threatened immigrants, refugees and millions of residents of North African and 
Middle Eastern origin from racist attacks.