The real question to be asked is not whether the British sailors were in Iranian or Iraqi waters. The real question is who benefits from this "provocation". The incident would seem to fit in well with the plans that imperialism has to strike at Iran's nuclear development plan.
The Pentagon is continuing intensive planning for a possible bombing attack on Iran. These preparations began already last year, by order of the President. In other words, the decision has already been arrived at. All that Bush is waiting for is a suitable opportunity to put it into practice.
A new book on Iran
has recently come out, Iran
on the brink, which is based on interviews with workers in Iran and which gives
a unique glimpse into the struggles and aspirations of the Iranian working
class. On March 6 at 6.30pm it will be launched at Housmans Bookshop in London.
Instead of listening to the advice of Baker and the Iraq Study Group to seek an exit strategy, Bush prefers to up the stakes, increasing the number of troops in Iraq and threatening both Syria and Iran. He is coming into conflict with the ruling class he is supposed to represent. Herein lies a potential political crisis of major proportions in the USA.
With slogans such as "Employment, employment, is our obvious right; job
security is our main demand" and "Unity, unity, workers, unity" Iranian workers came on the streets of Tehran on May Day. The workers from Qom were
walking at the front of the rally and carried a large placard with
"Temporary contracts must be revoked" and "End slavery" written on it.
On
the eve of the Iranian New Year [21 March] the job classification
system, one of the workers' demands in this company, was officially
implemented. Its coming into effect raises the company's workers' wages
by about 10 percent. We congratulate the workers of Iran Khodro on this
victory.
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