The sending of hundreds of thousands of soldiers to Saudi Arabia and the accumulation of tons of armaments in the Gulf can only lead to a murderous, ruinous and devastating war — a war that can only benefit the arms merchants, the oil companies and the banks.
Such a US intervention has never been seen since the Vietnam War. Such a military adventure has never involved so many soldiers from European countries since the Algerian war.
The peoples of the world have no interest in a war against the peoples of the Arab region.
We are not the ones who waited until August 1990 to denounce the fact that Saddam Hussein is a dictator — a dictator yesterday still supported by the French, British and American governments in particular — nor did we wait until the invasion of Kuwait to denounce the massacre of the Kurds or the war against Iran.
But it is not by engaging in a war against the Iraqi people that a solution will be found to the rights of peoples, or by using a food blockade that will starve the inhabitants of Kuwait and Iraq without affecting Saddam Hussein. This blockade is already an act of war, it is an element of the "logic of war".
On Saturday, October 20, in the United States, there will be a national day of demonstrations organized by all those who do not want a new Vietnam in the Middle East. We therefore call on all those forces who want peace everywhere in the world to demonstrate on October 20, at the same time as the US anti-war movement, their rejection of the war. We call on them to step up their campaign against the war after this first international day of action.
We can and must act massively before it is too late:
• Against the Gulf War
• For the immediate lifting of the blockade
• For the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all foreign troops from the Gulf region.
United Secretariat of the Fourth International, October 3, 1990.