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And the resistance does not come from "people from all types of various different political, ethnic, religious, etc. backgrounds". It is made up of Sunni Arabs who kill people for being Shi'a or Kurdish.

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That's the social base of the resistance speaking. The resistance say it themselves: it's not an anti-imperialist movement, it's a Sunni-Arab-supremacist movement.

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Increasing numbers of "leftists" are operating solely on opposition to U.S. imperialism...This tends to lead towards enlisting in the global anti-American coalition....headed by French and German imperialism, Chirac and Shroeder, the Bourse and the Deutschebank.

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Numerous posters seem to be making a false assumption: that you must support U.S. imperialism or else the Ba'athist-Wahhabi resistance.

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In Iraq, the occupation and the "resistance" are not the only forces. There is also the Iraqi working class, which has taken advantage of certain postwar openings to expand its organization and fight for its rights.

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The backbone of this "resistance" (despite denials by many on the left) is made up of groups of political Islamists and Baathists. This "resistance" is extremely reactionary, backward and right wing. It is a bourgeois resistance which has nothing to do with the interests of the Iraqi people. When we classify this "resistance" as a right wing, as bourgeois, we do not mean, as many leftist groups claim, that the individuals involved in it are not workers or deprived people. What we do mean is that the organised, armed "resistance" as a social and political movement is a bourgeois movement. It pursues extremely reactionary objectives, it offers a very reactionary alternative to the current bourgeois authority and uses very reactionary methods to realize its objectives.

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Revolutionary Marxists reject lining up with the US or EU in their increasing rivalry for world domination. (That's part of how you can tell who can be accurately described as revolutionary.)

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Sunnis urged to join Iraqi police

Senior Sunni Muslim clerics in Iraq have urged their followers to join the country's security forces.

Sunnis form the bulk of the anti-US insurgency, which frequently attacks the police and army.

Until recently, many Sunni clerics had branded the security forces as US collaborators.

The army and police are largely dominated by Shias and Kurds.

Ahmed Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai of the Association of Muslim Scholars said Sunni membership was necessary to prevent the forces falling into "the hands of those who have caused chaos, destruction and violated the sanctities".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/middle_east/4403337.stm

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Death at 'immoral' picnic in the park

Students are beaten to death for playing music as Shia militiamen run amok

The students had begun to lay out their picnic in the spring sunshine when the men attacked.

“There were dozens of them, armed with guns, and they poured into the park,” Ali al-Azawi, 21, the engineering student who had organised the gathering in Basra, said.

“They started shouting at us that we were immoral, that we were meeting boys and girls together and playing music and that this was against Islam.

“They began shooting in the air and people screamed. Then, with one order, they began beating us with their sticks and rifle butts.” Two students were said to have been killed.

Standing over them as the blows rained down was the man who gave the order, dressed in dark clerical garb and wearing a black turban. Ali recognised him immediately as a follower of Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shia cleric. Ali realised then that the armed men were members of Hojatoleslam al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army, a private militia that fought American forces last year and is now enforcing its own firebrand version of Islam.

The picnic had run foul of the Islamist powers that increasingly hold sway in the fly-blown southern city, where religious militias rule the streets, forcing women to don the veil and closing down shops that sell alcohol or music.

Far from disavowing the attack, senior al-Sadr loyalists said that they had a duty to stop the students’ “dancing, sexy dress and corruption”.

“We beat them because we are authorised by Allah to do so and that is our duty,” Sheik Ahmed al-Basri said after the attack. “It is we who should deal with such disobedience and not the police.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7374-1537512,00.html

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