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At this very moment, Egyptian workers and people, toiling Muslim masses, are carrying out their resolute fight to overthrow the Mubarak government under the leadership of various anti-Mubarak organizations including the Muslim Brotherhood. For many years, workers and people have been tormented by extreme poverty due to rising prices of food and living necessaries as well as mounting unemployment. Nevertheless, Hosni Mubarak and the privileged few have intensified their expropriation of the people and enjoyed their immense wealth. Worse still, his government, under the patronage of US imperialism, has colluded with the Zionist regime of Israel in repressing the resistance of Palestinian people while imposing a cruel tyranny on the people at home. This military Bonapartist power has perpetrated all possible atrocities under its authoritarian and military rule for thirty years since 1981. Unleashing their long-standing resentment at last, Egyptian people have risen up in militant demonstrations to topple it down.

With Egyptians in the forefront, Muslim masses in the Arab world are successively rising up in struggles to overthrow the corrupt regimes of their own countries. On January 14th, Tunisian toiling masses finally toppled down Ben Ali's autocratic regime, which had forced poverty and tyranny upon them with the support of French imperialism. (He had to flee to Saudi Arabia.) This popular uprising in Tunisia has inspired Muslim people all over the Muddle East to stand up in revolt; it has raised the waves of revolutions to topple their rulers who have oppressed their 'anti-US, anti-Zionist' struggles and enjoyed their wealth. Not only in Egypt, but also in Yemen, Algeria, Jordan and Morocco, revolutionary fights are burning to overthrow the governments. Oppressed masses of Muslims are rising up in a fight based on firm solidarity among them.

We the JRCL call on Muslim people in the Middle East and all over the Islamic world: Stir up the flames of struggle against US imperialism and Zionist Israel! Based on Islamic inter-nationalism, overthrow the state power of your country! In solidarity with your struggles, we fight to smash any offensive by US imperialism to repress and divide the struggles. We advance an international antiwar struggle to foil any warmongering by the cornered Zionist regime of Israel.

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Frightened by the successive anti-government uprisings, rulers of Arab countries are using all sorts of crafty manoeuvres to placate the popular anger in order to protect themselves. Yemeni President Saleh announced his retirement 'in two years' and denied his intention to install his son as his successor (February 2nd). In a bid to assuage people's rage, he decided to raise salaries for public employees and to cut some taxes. In Jordan, King Abdullah II, flurried by a widespread struggle to demand the removal of the Prime Minister, adopted measures to increase government-related jobs for unemployed people and announced the resignation of the whole cabinet (February 1st). These responses by Arab rulers are, however, cosmetic makeshifts, which are just adding fuel to the anger of the toiling masses.

In the midst of these developments, Mubarak has the impudence to obstinately defend himself. By pressure from US and European imperialists, he had to announce the abandonment of his intention to run for the Presidential election in September; however, he is still clinging to his post by saying that his early retirement would cause the country 'to sink into deeper chaos'. He is desperate to maintain his political influence by the transfer of the Presidency to his right-hand man, Vice President Omar Suleiman. Smash his shameless attempt!

US imperialist ruler Obama is irritated at such a response by Mubarak. He has to be reminded of the 'Iranian Islamic revolution' by the successive uprisings of Muslim masses, which are spreading over the Middle East with increasing momentum. Among the few remaining allies of US imperialists in the Middle East, the existence of a pro-US government in Egypt is the most important for them. If it should collapse, Obama's present strategy to re-establish the US dominance over the region would totally go bankrupt. For this very reason, US imperialist rulers are pressing an early resignation on Mubarak in the name of an 'orderly transition' with the aim of defusing the popular uprising as early as possible. Naoto Kan's Japanese government, which is increasing its 'US dependence', is blindly following the Obama administration.

However, it is US imperialists themselves that patronized and fully supported the Mubarak and other 'pro-American' regimes until now on the pretext of 'suppressing international terrorism by Islamist radicals'. Other imperialist powers did the same. Imperialist powers did it in order to protect their concessions and benefits related to oil resources in this region, and to protect the existence of the Zionist state of Israel. Obama-led US imperialists have abandoned Mubarak, seeking for an 'orderly transition'. It is, however, for maintaining a 'pro-US government' by introducing another one whom they can put under their political control. Militant Egyptian people including the Muslim Brotherhood are aware of this US imperialist scheme; they are fighting to foil it and going forwards to the overthrow of the Mubarak government, full of their 'anti-US, anti-Zionist' fighting spirit.

No matter how hard Yankee imperialists struggle, there is no way they can repress the raging flame of struggles by toiling Muslim masses. This fact makes Zionist leaders of Israel tremble to imagine a possible ruin of their state. The Netanyahu-led fanatical Zionist regime was already desperate, witnessing the Iranian 'anti-US' government promoting its nuclear development and the Erdogan-led Turkish government beginning to reject US influences (and to cooperate with Iran) in support of Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. Now this regime is increasingly impelled to launch a war against its opponents. We fight to foil its warmongering!

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Working people in Japan, and all over the world!

In solidarity with those toiling Muslim masses in the Middle East who have successively risen up in fights to overthrow the corrupt governments of their countries and are now arousing waves of 'anti-US, anti-Zionist' struggle, let us advance an international antiwar struggle to prevent US imperialists and their patronized Zionist regime of Israel from launching another warmongering in this region.

�@We the JRCL have been organizing antiwar struggles in solidarity with Muslim fighters, who have been waging brave struggles against the brutalities of the US imperialist power and the Zionist regime of Israel, since the Bush-led US militarist empire launched a brutal aggression against Afghanistan in the name of 'war on terror' in 2001 and then an aggressive war in Iraq. In the midst of these struggles, we ardently call on those Muslim people: Organize struggles based on Islamic inter-nationalism! To those Muslims who are dauntlessly fighting 'anti-US, anti-Zionist' struggles with their faith in Islam as the backbone, we issue this call in order to fight together with them and, at the same time, to encourage them from within to overcome their limitations. With revolutionary passion, we appeal to the toiling masses, who are fighting in unity across borders and beyond sectarian antagonism between Shiites and Sunnites, to develop their 'anti-US, anti-Zionist' jihad into a struggle to overthrow the state power of their own country (whether in the form of 'pro-US' monarchy or military Bonapartism) together with anti-imperialist struggles. Now in the Middle East, Muslim people are rising up one after another to overthrow the government of their country. This eloquently speaks the reality and the advanced, revolutionary nature of our appeal.

Fighting Muslim people, we the JRCL call on you: Now is the time to advance your struggles on the basis of Islamic inter-nationalism to topple down the corrupt powers of Arab and Middle Eastern states! We the anti-Stalinist revolutionary lefts resolutely advance international antiwar struggles in solidarity with your struggles.

(February 9th 2011)