Does Republican Congressman Ron Paul offer anything that can
truly be called a "revolution", or is he more of the same from the capitalists'
ranks? Should workers and students in the anti-war movement, or in general,
give him support in any way?
The world situation is one of increasing political and economic instability, social polarization, and the ravages of war and famine. Across the planet, layoffs, cuts in social services, and the merciless squeezing of the working class and poor is on the order of the day. But there is an opposite side to these counter-revolutionary tendencies: the revolutionary movement of millions of people who are saying “enough is enough!”
After
Blackwater USA’s recent street shoot out in Baghdad, the role of mercenaries in Iraq has
received extra attention in the media. Although they have played a key
role in the occupation of Iraq, these
“private security contractors” have for the most part flown under the
public radar. During the 1991 Gulf War, the troop-to-private
contractor ratio was about 60 to 1. Now they outnumber uniformed
troops, more than doubling the actual size of the occupation force.