A statement from the Labour Party Pakistan, July 8, 2005 The Labour Party Pakistan condemns outright the horrific bombings in London yesterday and expresses our solidarity with all the victims and their families and friends.
There can be no justification on any ground for the incidents like this. This is an attack on the lives of ordinary citizens of London.
Those who have carried out these attacks have not furthered the struggle against the American and British imperialISm.
The bombings are in no way a blow against imperialist exploitation and oppression.
The majority of those killed and wounded in London will have opposed the imperialist leaders' wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, and many will have supported the huge protests against world poverty in Scotland this week....
This incident has given an opportunity to the imperialist leaders to start a fresh campaign against the ordinary Muslims in particular worldwide.
For Tony Blair, George Bush, John Howard and Co, the London bombing, like those in Bali, Madrid and 9/11 itself, is not a tragedy but an opportunity.
It is already being used to whip up "anti-terrorist" hysteria and to try to silence the now farreaching condemnation of the imperialists' wars and occupatons, in Afghanistan, Irag and Palestine in particular.
Yesterday's horrific events reveal yet again that the claims by Blair, Bush and Howard that their "war on terror" has made the world a safer place are entirely false.
In fact, the "coalition of the willing" has created more, not less, terrorism. Since the formal declaration of the war there has been an unprecedented increase in the number of major terrorist attacks.
Terrorists are not born with terrorist ideas; they are produced by lives of repression, violence, poverty and humiliation....
The Labour Party Pakistan will continue to campaign for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and for an end to Israel's occupation of Palestine.
This is the most effective way to make the world a safer place. We will also continue to expose the ideas of religious fundamentalism that it bring no relief to the lives of ordinary Muslims. Farooq Tariq, general secretary
Labour Party Pakistan