The imperialist war "on terrorism" is affecting directly the political situation in every country both in the center and the periphery.
From the start, following 9/11, the Bush Doctrine has declared an indefinite war of aggression against all the oppressed peoples abroad, from the Middle East and Asia to Africa and Latin America, as well as against the civil liberties and social rights at home. The invasion of Afghanistan and then the war and occupation of Iraq were interconnected with Patriot Acts I and II in U.S. and a new wave of "anti-terror" laws, emergency security measures and international agreements of inter-police cooperation and surveillance in Europe and internationally.
Every struggle for freedom, bread and jobs, for civil and social rights, the mass anti war movement and the movement against capitalist globalization are confronted by the capitalists and imperialists with the violence of State repression.
As the Iraqi resistance and the Palestinian Intifada heroically fight against Occupation by imperialism and Zionism, the entire local civil population is reduced to the status of political prisoner. It is not accidental that the U.S. Pentagon plans now, after the massacre in Fallujah, to establish a high tech strategic hamlet, a concentration camp for the thousands of survivors. In Palestine the Zionist apartheid regime took the opportunity of the "war on terror" to escalate its genocidal attacks against the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank as well as against the Palestinian Arab population living inside the "Green line" in Israel, as the vicious witch hunt against the Abnaa El Balad movement and the imprisonment of its leader comrade Mohammad Kan'ane demonstrate.
In Latin America state repression is waged by the local, often Centre Left governments on behalf of imperialism and the IMF as the occupation and repression in Haiti shows as well as the repression against the landless peasant movement in Brazil and the piquetero movement in Argentina and the imprisonment of many of its fighters.
Guantanamo, the Auschwitz of the present times, is not far away from the homeland. Recently, it was revealed that in the City University of New York is at works a sinister "Homeland Security" course on "interrogation techniques" and "technology for surveillance" connected with the Homeland Security Management Institute directed by Col. John J. Perrone who previously has served as commander of the Joint Detainee Operations Group in Guantanamo.
The barbaric conditions of Guantanamo and of the Abu Ghraib Infernos are exported from and then re-imported into the metropolitan countries of North America and Europe. The Basque nationalists have a similar fate at the hands of their Spanish torturers with the active assistance of the French Police. In Greece, with the pretext of the dismantlement of the "17th of November" and ELA(Revolutionary People's Struggle) urban guerilla groups, the established legal-juridical framework has been broken, new emergency police procedures and special terrorist legislation were introduced, special courts were established and life sentences were ruled in show trials without the necessary legal evidence apart the forged testimonies provide by the Security Services of Greece, the British Intelligence and the CIA . Now the special regime of detention of the Greek political prisoners in underground confinement without any access to natural light is not different from those that made notorious the Stamheim prison in Germany and the Turkish "white" cells. They are considered neither as political nor even as common law prisoners, solely "detainees"- the same denomination as the war prisoners in Guantanamo have.
It is obvious that the new extra-legal repressive arsenal is introduced as a preventive civil war measure not just against small isolated groups of individual violence but against the entire workers' and popular movement, particularly as the world capitalist crisis is deepening and the class and national conflicts are sharpening internationally.
The Coordinating Committee for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International calls all the organizations and fighters of the international workers' movement, all the popular movements and civil rights groups to mobilize themselves in an internationally coordinated campaign for the defense of all the political prisoners and victims of imperialism from Palestine to Greece and Argentina.
The struggle against the imperialist war is indissolubly connected with the fight against State repression and against the capitalist governments at home.