Where do revolutionary socialists stand?
It is worth remembering what comrades were saying in the aftermath of 9/11. This is part of the statement issued by the American socialist organisation Solidarity on September 13, 2001: The repression of democratic freedoms and civil liberties will be limited only by the population’s will to resist. For partisans of social justice, now must not be the time to hide, but to stand up for democracy and the values of our struggle-a struggle for a world organized to truly value all human life, rather than profit. [8] Democratic rights and civil liberties lie at the heart of a socialist programme. We stand in solidarity with all those opposed to the war on civil liberties as with those fighting oppression and military occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere Bush and Blair set their sights on. The campaign against the global assaults on civil liberties is fundamental to the strategic development of the anti-war, global justice and socialist movements. Marxists have sometimes been critici
