Open letter from Communist Party USA
to all Communist and Workers' Parties

The present moment holds the gravest dangers for a world challenged by 
the most aggressive, rapacious segment of US imperialism, represented by 
the administration of George W. Bush, now poised to attack Iraq in defiance 
of the world's great peace majority.

Since its inception, this administration has pursued unilateral actions to 
build still further a war machine that has already outstripped the rest of 
the world combined. It has scrapped any international agreement that 
hinders it in further tightening its strategic grasp and its control of 
energy resources around the globe, and assuring ever greater profits for 
the US transnational corporate sector.

But hope that a very different world can be won springs from the 
unprecedented and ever-growing global resistance to the Bush 
administration's drive for perpetual war. We may never know how many 
millions poured into the streets on every continent, in the great February 
15 upsurge. The drumbeat continues with actions big and small. A spectrum 
of class and social forces is coming together in broad all-people's 
coalitions. Strongly rooted in the working class, these formations 
increasingly reach into the middle strata and even segments of ruling 
circles in many countries.

The worldwide communist and workers party movement is fully engaged in 
building these all people's coalitions, which alone are the bulwark against 
the most dangerous imperialism ever. Our parties have much to learn from 
each other about this mobilizing process.

The broad anti-war movements have also played a key role, along with 
economic considerations and inter-imperialist rivalries, in the 
unprecedented resistance by UN Security Council members including France, 
Germany and Russia, joined by China. While the positions of bourgeois 
governments can shift quickly under the impact of perceived national 
interests and pressure from Washington, their opposition to the U.S. war 
drive against Iraq provides a clue to the scope of forces that can be drawn 
into the anti-war movement.

The Bush administration's drive for perpetual war — now focusing on Iraq 
and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea but global in its outlook — 
will unleash harrowing human and environmental consequences, imperilling 
struggles everywhere for economic and social justice, freedom and 
democracy. Peoples the world over, including the USA, will suffer diversion 
of precious resources to war as well as environmental destruction and 
widespread devastation. This drive for domination takes place in the 
context of a worsening worldwide economic crisis whose already devastating 
effects will be greatly multiplied by war.

The CPUSA believes it is greatly in the interest of the broad anti-war 
struggle, and indeed of humanity's very future, that our parties exchange 
views and experiences on this great process of coalition building which 
seeks to dam the torrent unleashed by US imperialism's most dangerous 
elements.

With warm comradely regards,

National Committee, Communist Party USA
March 19, 2003