by Revolutionary Worker

About the author: Revolutionary Worker is a publication of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.

Between June 1993 and March 1994, fighting flared between U.S. invaders and Somali people who hate them. Hundreds of Somalis died as U.S. helicopter gunships raked neighborhoods with machine-gun fire and missiles.

Urgent Truths

This clash illustrates some basic ABCs about the world today: The intervention of U.S troops cannot improve the conditions of the masses of people in the world. The U.S. rulers are imperialists. Even when military actions are packaged as “pure humanitarianism,” the rulers of the United States have sent their soldiers to fight for profit and domination.

These are truths that urgently need to be learned and spread.

Under both George Bush and Bill Clinton, the United...