International Viewpoint Archive

The Fourth International’s English-language review, from 1982

Against Imperialist Intervention — Declaration

International Viewpoint No. 14, 4 October 1982 · p 7 · 210 words

Middle East France

Against imperialist intervention

It has taken the massacres in the Sabra and Chatila camps for The new mission of the "Intervention Force" will not serve Reagan, Mitterrand and Pertini to pretend to have discovered the interests of the Palestinian people any better than the last. that the Palestinians are threatened with veritable genocide by Who can think that the American marines, yesterday the instruBegin and his fascist Lebanese friends. ments of imperialist massacres in Vietnam, today in Central

In the name of a hypocritical "peace" which they construct- America, can protect the oppressed in Lebanon? ed through the American Habib plan the three heads of state Who can believe that the French paratroopers, the police of have decided to send their contingents of the "Intervention imperialism in Africa and the Caribbean colonies, the Indian

Ocean and the Pacific, can act in Lebanon against the interest

We, internationalist militants in France, Italy, and the United of imperialism and its Zionist bridgehead in the Middle East? States, denounce this new dispatch of imperialist troups to the Their presence will only serve to reconstruct a strong LebanMiddle-East under the pretext of guaranteeing the security of the Palestinian refugees and Lebanese

What has been

As of August American, French tragedy was possible and foreseeable.

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