Are the fundamentalists anti-imperialist?
The so-called “Muslim fundamentalists” are not, in fact, anti-imperialist. At present they have conflicts with America over Iraq and Palestine, but they have repeatedly shown themselves willing to collaborate with US and British imperialism in the past. Bin-Laden and the Jehadi groups received training and weapons from the US CIA to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan at the exact same time that the US funded Saddam Hussein against fundamentalist-ruled Iran. The Israeli secret police originally funded Hamas to undermine secular and socialist-influenced Palestinian movements such as the PLO. In earlier years British imperialism used the Muslim Brotherhoods against the independence movements in Egypt and India, leading in the second case to massive communal conflicts during Independence in 1949. In other words, the issue raised by the WTC is not “war between East and West” but a growing confrontation between different groups of capitalists who are, however, UNITED against the working c
