Translated "Avante!" article by Angelo Alves, Member of the PCP Political Committee and of the International Department

The passing of the tenth anniversary on September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks, in the USA, had an overwhelming media coverage impact. Which does not mean the date should not have been remembered .Obviously, such attacks ought to be remembered and condemned.

And the same must be taken into account for other great terrorism acts in History, as the Pinochet fascist coup on September 11th 1973, conceived and took shape as conspiracy with the North-American Administration, in which 40 000 people were killed; the Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear holocaust, perpetrated by the USA, in 1945, responsible for the death of 300 000 people; the Nazi-Fascism crimes, responsible for some of the greatest atrocities known in History in which there were millions of victims; Iraq’s and Afghanistan wars which, according to “under” estimates, have taken the life from about a million people; or, more recently, the Libya aggression and invasion war by NATO, which in two single days killed so many people as the September11 victims (round 2000).

What is to be discussed is the authentic political and ideological campaign, organized under the September 11 pretext. On analyzing the “official ceremonies”, the speeches, the TV hundreds of hours, produced for this occasion, as well as tons of written paper, one comes to the conclusion, on these current days events, was not a trustworthy and honest on the events, as alias, is demonstrated, at first sight, that the fact of upon 10 years, an overall scientific research has been avoided and the clearing up on all the causes and those responsible for the twin towers and the Pentagon attacks, and to carry on, insisting on an “official version” with plenty of contradictions, acting in conspiracy against all those who contest the “official version”.

But, beyond insisting on the “official version”, the September 11 ceremonies were an
unequivocal proof of how , 10 years after, the main imperialist powers and their leader circles ( highlighting the USA, so well symbolized by Obama’s and Bush’s photo and speeches) use this sad event in order to process a revue and an increased reediting of the thesis which were behind one of the most cruel decades of Humanity’s recent History. But this is not all. What was in progress these last days – with the special commitment of Obama, the Nobel Peace Prize – was a gigantic whitening operation on imperialism’s committed crimes during these 10 years and a reaffirmation of the dominant classes, in unison, and that the interventionist, bellicose and criminal USA’s and its ”allies” policy is to be carried on and intensified. All in the name of the so-called “fight against terrorism” and the “Islamic terrorists”.

The very same “Islamic terrorists” who have returned currently to their “mother’s womb” and assume important positions within the North-American and NATO’s Imperialism wars, as the case in Afghanistan , in which the USA are involved in a vast “corrupt” operation, concerning Taliban leaders, in order to perpetuate their
colonial rule over this country, or within Libya, where “cooperation” among the NATO forces and the Islamic groups, linked to the Maghreb Al-Qaeda was recognized by the USA itself and in which, the Tripoli rebel military command has been handed over to Abdel Hakim Belhadj, an old USA “enemy”, who, according to himself, was tortured by the CIA and subsequently handed over to the Libyan authorities.

But all this has occurs owing to a leading reason. The World did not change on September 11, it is changing swiftly, along with capitalism’s very deep crisis, which obliges the capital and its mercenaries to create the most obscure conspiracies in order to contradict its economic and political decline.