Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz–Indigenous Peoples History of the US
Type of service: Academic Writing
Work type: Creative writing
Format: APA
Pages: 1 pages ( 275 words, Double spaced
Academic level: Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)
Discipline: History
Title: History Assignment
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Paper instructions:
Google the article “Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz–Indigenous Peoples History of the US “
Now that you have seen the 2 videos of 9/11 footage and read both the Challenge Editorial and Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s introduction, answer the following question: How is Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’s definition of terrorism so different from the way we are taught to understand terrorism after 9/11? According to Ortiz, why would we call the corporations that controlled the World Trade Center the original and true terrorists? How has the US ruling class instituted a policy of terrorism since the founding of the colonies in British North America? Do you agree with the Challenge editorial’s assertion that the US ruling class indeed created the conditions that led to the 9/11 attack? Did anyone “benefit” from the effects of 9/11? How is your own response to 9/11 after seeing the news footage impacted when you read the 2 readings that accompany this module? Give specific examples of the points that are made in both readings.
— Quote from them — in your discussion posts;
Challenge Editorial, October 3, 2001: “Terrrorism Helps U.S. Bosses Pave Way For Oil War and Police State” The horrendous murders of thousands of innocent workers on September 11 have given U.S. bosses the excuse they need to:
•Drum up a flag-waving frenzy for a war that will slaughter millions to protect Exxon Mobil’s Middle Eastern oil empire;
•Disguise this imperialist aggression as a humanitarian crusade against terrorism; •Build political support within the military and society at large for the mass casualties their oil war will require;
•Blame terrorism for the economic recession their system faces and use the bombings as an excuse to eliminate more jobs, cut back on social services, and make workers and youth accept a police state;
•Wage a virulent racist campaign against Arab workers.
Communists must organize workers, soldiers and youth to smash anti-working class mass terrorism spawned by the profit system. Regardless of the individual perpetrators’ identity, the horrific attacks that slaughtered thousands of black, white, Latino, Arab and Asian workers and others in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania on September 11 are consistent with the lethal logic of capitalism. These bombings mark an escalation of the contradictions that are hurling the world into fascism and war.The thousands who died in these attacks are war victims. But they are not the first. They join one million Iraqis killed over a decade of US bombing missions and economic sanctions. They join thousands of Palestinians, millions in Africa and Vietnam, and hundreds of thousands in Latin America. All these casualties belong to our class, the workers of the world. As long as the bosses hold power, workers will continue to reap what the billionaire terrorist war makers have sown. Organizing against terrorists big and small, from Kabul to Washington, DC, and building a mass international PLP, are the order of the day. Bush’s declaration of war is a challenge that revolutionary communists must answer everywhere. During imperialist war, communists must lead workers against their ruling class. Our job is to fight all the rulers, not to mobilize our class to choose sides among them. This is the task at hand, whether in the US, Afghanistan, Israel, Germany, Russia or Iraq. No worker should blindly follow any boss. We communists have the responsibility of uniting the workers of the world and marching forward on the road to communist revolution. This is necessary and achievable. Millions of workers all over the world hate U.S. imperialism. At present, this hatred is particularly virulent in Moslem countries. But hatred of one imperialist gang alone can’t destroy imperialism. Hatred must be converted into pro-working class politics. It can serve workers only if it becomes infused with a revolutionary communist outlook. The twin poisons of nationalism and religious fanaticism serve only to unite workers with one gang of bosses or another. As the “only super power,” the U.S. rules an increasingly unstable world. This growing instability is evident in Osama bin Laden’s and Saddam Hussein’s history as former allies of the US, former contract employees of the CIA. Saddam was used by the US to attack Iran after the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. Bin Laden is a former US “freedom fighter,” who was employed to prevent the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan. (See article ) The U.S. rulers are using their mass media to whip up patriotism, nationalism, racism and war fever. They can reach many more people than we can, and will temporarily have mass support. Many tests, including further deadly terror assaults on U.S. soil, lie ahead for the working class. A more emboldened openly right wing movement may emerge in the unions and on the campuses. Inter-imperialist rivalries will sharpen, and bosses on all sides will spill plenty of workers’ blood. U.S. rulers will use every weapon in their considerable arsenal to protect their profits, their political power, and their empire. Their anti-worker attacks will increase in viciousness. At some point they will single out our Party. None of these obstacles should stop the PLP from growing. The communist movement has always managed to thrive under the direst conditions. The only answer to mass terror, regardless of the source, remains: Build the Party. Fight for communist revolution. Do whatever needs to be done, however long it takes and whatever the cost, to help move all the world’s workers together into a collective struggle against all the world’s bosses. We must not be swayed or intimidated by the difficulty of our task. We must have confidence that we can win the working class to internationalism and revolution. Our confidence will grow as we wage an aggressive struggle in our shops and factories, schools and campuses, neighborhoods and barracks. A mass base for PLP and CHALLENGE can give political leadership to tens of thousands more. As you will see in these pages, our Party has answered the bell, and this process has made a modest beginning. “Workers of the World, Unite!” Capitalism Has Brought Centuries Of Mass Murder — U.S. Bosses Lead By Far In The Body Count. Here is a brief, incomplete summary of the working class blood shed to feed the profit system in North America:
● Hundreds of millions of Native Americans wiped out through warfare or disease since 1492;
● Tens of millions of Africans brutalized and murdered in 400 years of slavery;
● Billions of workers devastated throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America by U.S. imperialism’s drive for maximum profit;
● A status quo of racist economic and police terror against black and Latin workers within the U.S.;
● The nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 when Japan was already going to surrender;
● A 45-year long “Cold War,” in which U.S. rulers backed scores of fascist dictators in a worldwide anti-communist “crusade;”
● The CIA-backed slaughter of nearly a million Indonesian workers in 1965 as part of this crusade;
● A genocidal war in southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s that murdered at least three million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians;
● Support for death squad regimes in Central and South America, whose CIA-trained thugs murdered hundreds of thousands in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile, and Colombia.
● The butchery of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi workers in Bush Sr.’s 1991 “Desert Storm” to protect U.S. oil interests;
● The subsequent murder over the ensuing decade of a million more Iraqis—mostly children—by U.S.-imposed sanctions, a price Clinton’s Secretary of State Albright said she was “willing to pay” in defense of Exxon Mobil et al.;
● A campaign of nearly daily air bombing against Iraqi workers since 1998 by U.S. and British imperialists;
● An ongoing reign of terror against Palestinian workers by U.S.-backed Israeli bosses;
● A nearly three month-long campaign of “humanitarian” terror from the air over the former Yugoslavia in 1999 to make Caspian-related pipeline safe for U.S. and British energy giants.