ILPS CALLS FOR A WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN: SHUT DOWN ALL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS!
Issued by the International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples‘ Struggle
19 September 2011
A heavy earthquake and a tsunami wave in Fukushima, Japan, on 11 March
2011 have caused the most serious nuclear catastrophe since Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. The meltdown thus caused has not yet been brought under
control to date. It can potentially make uninhabitable wide areas of the
densely populated Japanese islands, contaminate with radioactivity the
human food chain worldwide and cause the spread of debilitating diseases
for decades to come.
The Fukushima disaster has generated further protest and resistance
against the use of nuclear power worldwide and has revealed a crisis of
the entire energy policy of international financial capital.
In this situation, the International League of Peoples Struggle
(ILPS) stands with the International Coordination of Revolutionary
Parties and Organizations (ICOR) and other entities in putting forward
the following call: Organize a common international campaign for a
period of one year starting from 1 September 2011 under the slogan:
Shut down all nuclear power plants!
Imperialist governments with electric power monopolies are promoting the
local use as well as the export of nuclear power as an alternative
clean energy to avoid the climatic catastrophe purportedly caused
by the use of fossil fuels. The Japanese government, for example, has
contracts to build two nuclear power plants in Vietnam and is now trying
to export it to Turkey and other countries.
Fukushima and other major nuclear catastrophes such as Three Mile Island
in the U.S. in 1979 and Chernobyl in the Ukraine in 1986 as well as
a huge number of other potentially disastrous incidents — have clearly
proven that the production of nuclear power is incalculably risky and
uncontrollable with the current level of technology. It is also highly
vulnerable to external forces like flood waves, earthquakes, acts of
sabotage and other natural or man-made catastrophes.
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