Today 28 February 1856
the protagonists of the Crimean War, after three years of slaughter,
came together in Paris and through hours of huffing and puffing,
signed an armistice, which was to end on the 31 March 1856. However
both sides continued the build up their defences, but they did
managed to calm their blood lusts, and on March the 30 1856 the
Treaty of Paris was signed, and the blood soaked land got a little
respite.
Since then right
up to the present hour, the imperialists and nation states have
continued to slaughter the lives of ordinary people. Treaties have
come and treaties have gone but the power lust remains. Borders are
crossed, borders are eliminated, power structures are destroyed and
new power structures built in their place. None of this is for the
benefit of those who stand in the front line, none of this carnage is
for the benefit of the ordinary people. Through the years all that
has changed is, why the slaughter. It used to be to further or defend
the power of monarchs and imperial empires, today it is to further or
defend corporate empires, resources and markets. But the pattern is
still the same, we do the dying and the killing, they reap the
rewards.
Here we are in
2013 and they are still legitimising the destruction, while they make
arrangements to take their killing machine out of Afghanistan, they
are entering a new adventure in Mali, with warring glances at Iran.
In all the recent carnage and misery, who have been the beneficiaries? An honest assessment
would probably say, the arms industries and the oil and gas industry of the Western corporate
empire.
The madness and killing will continue as long as we keep this
greed driven system of capitalism, a system the seeks to build and
defend the personal fortunes for the few. Of course there are
alternatives, we could, as ordinary people, take control of our own
lives and build structures that see to the needs of all our people,
the type of society that we want, based on co-operation, justice,
mutual aid and freedom. That means of course that capitalism must be
destroyed.
