IN America after 11 September 2001 terrorism as a word started to function as communism in the 1950s. It stands in the way of the people and they are prepared to abandon their rights for the shake of the fight. The FBI and other secret services started to harrass aartists and activists. This might just be the beginning…

Is it enough for the worldwide alliance to fight the international terrorist organisations or it should rather abolish the causes of terrorism? The article that was first published in 1986 shows that the US has long been aware of the nature of the danger but always acts according to its special inetrests.

Tribal logic based on national, ethnic or religious bias always leads to inhuman and violent attitudes, in the Middle East and in other conflict. The starting point for any left-wing opinion is to distinguish between the opressors and the eopressed.

Eight years after their failure in Somalia, the Americans are again prepared to return to the African country. In the early 1990s, they blamed the UN for their lack of success.

Many commentators see the causes of Islam-linked terrorism in cultural and religious conflict. These, however, are only aspectsof nationalism. Within the cultural, religious and nationalclothes, however, deeper social, political and strategic contradictions can be found.