Socialists: Abbott's Paris massacre response 'no solution'

Socialist Alliance released a statement: Socialists: Abbott's Paris massacre response 'no solution'.

Socialist Alliance condemns the conservative religious fundamentalist sects which promote and carry out such acts of violence. These sects are deadly enemies of democracy, justice and progress and their violent and sectarian actions weaken the real struggles for a just, equitable, democratic and sustainable future.

The Socialist Alliance also warns against and condemns any attempts by Western politicians, governments, corporate media and others to use this latest incident to whip up racist Islamophobia which is already virulent in the rich countries of the world.

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Religion is being used as a tool of oppression, rather than a source of liberation. We need to take back religion from the rich, and use it to serve the needs of the poor.

Religion has been absorbed into the ideological superstructure that hides and excuses the true horrors of Capitalism. We need to wrench religion out like we need to wrench the press from the clutches of the Capitalists.

Unless this gross global inequality and oppression is ended, Abbott's warning that there will be more terrorist acts in the future is guaranteed to be fulfilled. But the Abbott government offers no real solutions. It offers only an intensification of the deadly cycle of violence.

Socialist Alliance calls for real solutions to the cycle of violence that must include:

• Ending Australian participation in all imperialist military interventions and occupations.
• Breaking from all imperialist military alliances and closing all US military bases and facilities in Australia.
• Just reparations to the victims of all Australian military interventions.
• An end to the war on refugees and full implementation of obligations under the Refugee Convention.
• Abolition the new, undemocratic “security” laws passed by the Abbott Liberal-National government with the support of the Australian Labor Party.

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Capitalism is the true source of terror throughout the world as it bombs, starves, invades, ravages countries throughout the world. Not even Australia is immune to these horrors as neighbourhoods are emptied of poor people so that the rich can get a better view of Sydney Harbour, or water supplies and crop land are poisoned through fracking.