Imperialists have no solution except to launch new attacks

The Group of 8 – the US, Germany, Britain, Canada, France, Russia, Japan and Italy – met in Japan in the backdrop of a worsening global economic crisis. They discussed a wide range of issues, including the spike in oil prices, the food crisis, and climate change. They could not agree on the real cause of the problems, which is the capitalist-imperialist system itself. They could therefore not agree on any solutions either. 

The G8 consists of the most powerful imperialist states, which together control 70% of the world's economic output. Whenever they meet, they discuss the burning problems of the world, but always from the angle of their own narrow interests.  While they pretend to be discussing ways to save the world from this or that disaster, they actually plot how to impose their imperialist agenda on the rest of the world.

At the recent summit in Japan, climate change and the dangerous deterioration in the natural environment were among the main items on the agenda. The multinational and monopoly corporations of the G8 countries are the biggest culprits in terms of destroying nature in their pursuit of maximum profits at all times. The G8 summit could not come up with anything more than a so-called "shared vision" of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 – which is nothing more than an empty dream as long as the capitalist imperialist system remains alive. Similarly, they could offer nothing to solve the problems of inflation except to issue pious appeals to food producing and oil producing countries to produce more and hoard less!

As members of the G8 are imperialist powers in their own right, they also have contradictions among themselves. In the recent summit in Japan, it is reported that several hours were spent in arguing among themselves about what action to take against Zimbabwe, where Mugabe has won an election unopposed. The usual arrogance of the Anglo-American imperialists was on display as they pushed for economic and financial measures to weaken Zimbabwe, as punishment for not bowing to western dictate.

The working class and peoples of the world have to be vigilant against new aggressive designs and nefarious plots being cooked up by the imperialist powers, with the US at the head.  The imperialist bourgeoisie will inevitably respond to the crisis of capitalism by unleashing new wars, new attacks against the rights of workers and rights of nations and peoples. The working class and oppressed peoples must make use of the crisis to turn the tables on the imperialists and capitalist rulers, by exposing their crisis-ridden system and organising to put an end to it.