No to planned US military intervention on terrorism in Nigeria!

We are vehemently opposed to the planned drone attacks by the United States’ military on terror groups in Nigeria, while we equally oppose the maiming of lives and properties by the terror groups themselves. We hold that the imperialist military intervention being contemplated by the United States will exacerbate the heightening rate of tensions in the country. We hold that the imperialist powers themselves and the twin forces of exploitation, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, with their neo-liberal policies being implemented by successive regimes of the ruling class should be held responsible for the underlying basis for terrorism in Nigeria.

We contend that just as the imperialist intervention of France in Northern Mali is currently amplifying tensions in the West African sub-region, the intervention of the United States will herald an era of unimaginable chaos and crisis. Already, terror groups in Nigeria with links with the Mali rebels have been laying siege on Nigerian military convoys to Mali and this will explode with a direct military intervention by the United States.

We call on workers, youth and poor masses to build mass –based and democratically controlled defence committees up to armed self-defence under the control of the communities, to repel and liquidate terrorist elements everywhere. We are equally opposed to the current intervention of France in Mali and demand that the Jonathan regime immediately withdraw troops from Mali. We are opposed to the terror forces currently holding Northern Mali by the jugular and demand that the Tuareg people should be democratically allowed to determine their future through a referendum. We hold that the independent movement of workers and the poor for system change in Mali is the key to the current crisis in that country.

We call on the leadership of the trade union movement (NLC,TUC) and the mass organizations in the workers and youth movements(JAF,UAD,LASCO,ERC,CLAPS) to reject this planned intervention and be prepared to lead mass opposition against the planned US imperialist military intervention and the ongoing French intervention in Mali .This must be in an international solidarity and struggle of the working people in Nigeria, the entire African continent, France and the whole Europe with the entire world against war and terror to fight for a worldwide democratic socialist solution of determined resistance and overthrow of capitalism and imperialism to herald an egalitarian milieu wherein the enormous resources of humanity would be utilized for the fundamental interests of the world working masses.

We call for the building of action committees nationwide by workers, youth, students and the poor to resist the artificial fuel scarcity and imminent fresh fuel price hike, non-implementation of minimum wage, mass unemployment, education attacks, etc in a determined mass movement including national mass protest rallies ending up in a two-day general strike, for a start. We call further that the action committees to take initiative beyond the legendary and reactionary incapacity of petit-bourgeois trade union bureaucrats and struggle for system change.