But what would drive a young Muslim British youth of a mere 19 years to become a suicide bomber. The horrors of Iraq, the brutalities of Palestine, the atrocities of Afghanistan and the continuing terror threats by US and their British and other allies is at the root cause of people’s anger. In Iraq nearly a million people, mostly women and children have been silently killed by sanctions. And now in the two years of the Iraq war another one lakh have been killed. Over a decade of inhuman brutality!! Palestine has faced more for even longer. Thrown out of their own homes by the imperialists and their Zionist allies they are virtual prisoners in their own land for over half a century. They have been mercilessly butchered by the Israeli Zionists, backed by their US/British allies. These are only the tip of the extent of brutalities by the imperialists. Added to this, British Asians, particularly Muslims have to face continuous racist attacks and discrimination, not only by the fascist organisations but also the arms of the state. They preach hatred and turn the white population against these people. Yet, these marauders not only get away with murder, they have given themselves the license to kill more and more. In their greed for profits they maim, murder, butcher, torture and kill at random. Yet they are not only not punished they are seen as the very pillars of this civilization and have the audacity to condemn others of threatening their ‘great’ civilization.

The Muslim terrorists know nothing better than such actions as they neither understand the cause for the atrocities nor the solution out of it. The communists who know the answers are nowhere to be seen as a significant force. The setback in the communist movement worldwide and the bad name given to communism by the revisionists has resulted in people turning to any other alternative. Many a communist party have existed in these areas but are nowhere in the battle, some have turned downright reactionary.

So, with no countervailing force to the imperialists the people are turning to religion as their ideological tool to fight, and terrorism as their method. This, of course has no future. Their terrorist methods of blasting bombs in the public are counter-productive. It kills innocents instead of hitting at the perpetrators of evil. Soft targets may be an easy military option, but it is no solution. Just because innocents are killed by US/British bombs and called collateral damage, it does not mean that retaliation should be in the same vein. Possibly a number of the 55 killed in London would themselves have partici-pated in the huge anti-war demons-tration in the same city. It is indeed sad that they should now be the victims.

Besides, such actions are also politically counter-productive. It only gives an opportunity to the fascists and racists to further enhance their mass appeal inciting the whites against the Muslims and Asians. Already one Muslim has been killed in London and a number of Asians attacked all over Britain. Instead of uniting all against the war it will only act to divide the people. Of course, if the communists had been there in the forefront to fight state terror, the Muslims and other affected people would have a real alternative in this fight for justice.

Yet, notwithstanding the wrong methods used it must be strongly asserted that it is the Blairs, Bushes and their gangsters that are the real criminals responsible for the death of the innocent Londoners as they are for the innocent Iraqis, Palestinians, Afghanis, etc. The life of a white is no more precious than that of Arabs, Asians, Africans, Latinos, etc!! People’s March mourns the death of all those killed in the London Bomb blast, as it does of the lakhs killed in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere.