The RCG statement begins: "On 11 September we witnessed the mass murder of more than 6000 people in the space of an hour. We watched as ordinary people, many with great courage faced death at the hands of hijackers." In the RCG's lexicon the military planners at the Pentagon and the bankers and stockbrokers at the WTC have suddenly become 'ordinary people'. In fact, the personnel in the Pentagon were possibly involved in the planning and implementation of the many imperialist interventions, Korea, Panama, Vietnam etc. mentioned later on for effect in the RCG statement and the bankers and stock brokers in the World Trade Centre in financing them. Killing the bankers in the WTC and the military in the Pentagon has probably saved a few, maybe more than a few, lives in some of the poorest countries on this earth.

The RCG, along it must be said with the majority of the 'left', has no class analysis. Their analysis, such as it is, is formed by their social class position and political spinelessness. Whilst we may have nothing in common politically with the skyjackers any genuine communist will support the right of representatives of the oppressed masses to carry out military attacks against imperialist targets. In the case of the targets mentioned above, whether by design or not, communists could certainly discern a class perspective to the attacks.

Let us be clear about this, the 'ordinary people' that the RCG is so cut up about worked either at the Pentagon planning death for people all over the planet or in New York at some of the most prestigious parasitic and vicious institutions in the world.

North Tower

Here were Cantor Fitzgerald who traded over 70% of US Treasury bonds. Clearstream Int., Bank of America Corp., Lehman and Deutsche Bank to name only a few.

South Tower

Here were such corporations as Siemens AG, Fuji Bank and Morgan Stanley.

Other buildings destroyed were Marriott, Commodities Exchange, Soloman Smith Barney, Custom House, North East Plaza Building and other such working class institutions.

In these firms would have been working some of the most highly paid employees and partners in the world whose financial maneuverings indirectly, and not so indirectly, kill thousands of people in the imperialised sector of the world economy every day. Of course, there would also have been caretakers and cleaners and these are the people we should empathise with.

Of course, the 'left' has taken its cue from the bourgeois media with its constant and prurient portrayal of grief stricken relatives. Most of the time we never see this when the US/UN kill people. It is just a 'body-count' of 'Charlie' or the 'Gooks'. Not 'real' people.

When the Iraqi bomb shelter, supposedly a 'command and control centre' in US military glossary, was bombed during the 1991 Gulf War was one of the few times we saw grief stricken Iraqi's and then only briefly. General Neal, later to go on to greater things in Serbia and Kosovo, 'felt comfortable' with the targeting.

It really is unfortunate about the janitors and some of the people in the planes, and unlike scum like Neal we cannot simply talk it off as 'collateral damage'. We have to be prepared for innocent 'bystanders' to get killed during attacks on imperialist bastions or give up all pretence of revolutionary struggle. War is a filthy business. On no account should the September 11 events should be described as tragic etc. or condolences offered. He who lives by the sword, so he shall perish by the sword.

The Brit left has proved to be no more than a pacifist bloc totally opposed to the violence of the oppressed. All this kind of nonsense has been heard before to condemn the PIRA. They were engaged in 'individual terrorism',
they were responsible for the British state getting more repressive, they killed civilians, they were sectarian murderers, they were alienating the Protestant working class, they had not read the Grundrisse etc. The only
thing that would have been acceptable to some of the Brit left was if wearing full military uniform, the PIRA had telephoned the Brits to have a battle at the time and place and using weapons designated by the British
Army.

That the RCG used to support the PIRA makes their present surrender to the bourgeoisie's 'war against terrorism', (believe it or not the headline on the issue of FRFI mentioned above), even more repugnant.

Does anyone seriously suggest, because that is the implication of the 'innocent people' scenario as mentioned by our old friends in the RCG, that the skyjackers should have politely asked all passengers and crew to leave so that they could have been shot down by the US air force!!

One thing which the September 11th events have indicated is that there is no communist left in Britain worthy of the name.

Most of the left are 'united' behind the CND slogan, 'Stop the War! There is a danger here of appealing to the pacifist sentiment predominant amongst the 'left' and also of pretence. There are going to be military strikes by the Yankee imperialists and their lackeys and we want them to LOSE! History shows that this is by no means an
unrealistic expectation. One, two, three, many Vietnams!!

Of course, as they did in Iraq and Serbia, the Yankees and their running dogs might simply terror bomb, but recent
history shows that, terrible as this is, unless they go nuclear the imperialists cannot win a decisive victory in this way. Analysis indicates that nearly all Serbian armour was left intact and Saddam kept his best hardware undamaged for the Republican Guard. In other words, all
the material for internal repression is still there. A politically better slogan than 'stop the war' would be 'Oppose the US/UN War Drive' or 'Hands off
Afghanistan' or just 'Down with imperialism'.