Under the pressure of the world crisis of the capitalist mode of production, the situation in the Middle East is getting more critical, day by day. However it may develop in the near future, the war between Israel and Iran is, at one and the same time, a symptom and an accelerator, adding to its gravity.
The State of Israel, already committed to ethnic cleansing in and around Gaza, is performing to perfection the role it was assigned right after the Second World War by the victorious imperialist powers, first and foremost the USA and USSR closely followed by France and England: the role and function of armed gendarme, paid and supported by the interests of world capitalism, at the heart of a region bursting with crude oil, gas and other precious raw materials, as well as being a crossroads of international trade. On their part, all the local bourgeoisies (Arab or not) have done, whether laymen or bigots, corrupt and reactionary, fearful of the more powerful imperialisms, has been to hang on as hard as they can to the deposits of black gold, following the scent of money, no matter whether dollars, rubles, euros or yen.
Clearly, in the context of the world crisis, all these factors merely establish the basis for a widespread inter-imperialist conflict, destined to end up in a third world war.
Proletarians are already (and always have been) the victims of these present and future bloodthirsty scenarios. The over-production of commodities and capital, typical of this imperialist phase, also means over-production of human beings: i.e. victims to be sacrificed on the altar of the conservation of capitalism at all costs. This is a well-known fact experienced at first hand by the proletarians and proletarianising masses of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Iran, abandoned by everyone, refused by everyone, betrayed by everyone, martyred by everyone and, on top of all this, caught in the infamous trap of anti-historical nationalisms.
And the proletarians of the more powerful Euro-Asian-American imperialisms? What sort of help can they give their slaughtered brothers today, after almost a century of democratic or fascist counter-revolution, which has paralysed them in the illusion that, in the end, this is „the best of all possible worlds“?
In imperialist wars, Lenin teaches us, there are no „attackers“ or „attacked“: they are all attackers and there is only one „attacked“ - the world proletariat.
A long, hard slope has to be climbed: but there is no other way. Material facts alone (the growing difficulty of just surviving, the now explicit and openly declared betrayal of parties and trade unions in collusion with State power, the repressive turn taken by all governments, right, centre or centre-left…), will take it upon themselves to break down what was up to now a solid wall separating the proletarians of the imperialist powers from the other, growing contingents of proletarians everywhere. But this is not enough: in their rank and file, in their fights, in their great defeats and small, precarious immediate victories, what must once again make headway is the awareness of the need to move to a superior mode of production, and therefore the hard, far from short and linear path to attain it. This is and will be the prime task of the militant avant-gardes, the revolutionaries who have not been distracted by a thousand and one illusions sown over many decades of reformist and democratic, antiproletarian and counter-revolutionary practices.
At the heart of this enormous task stands the defence of revolutionary defeatism. Not just a slogan but a militant practice that must start out from the recognition that, in fact, the only element under attack is the proletariat: there are no „fronts“ to side with, there are no „main enemies“ or „privileged friends“. It is necessary to fight against all bourgeoisies and their States and in first place against our own bourgeoisie and its State.
Our Party, a minority and counter-current (especially in this situation), works amongst the rank and file of our class – the international and non national class – to develop every practical possibility of bringing these objectives onto the field:
* Organization everywhere for a radical class struggle against the State of Capital, its institutions and all its parties!
* Organization of the struggle to defend living and working conditions, to strike a hard blow at the bourgeoisie’s economic and political interests!
* Refusal to accept economic and social sacrifices in the name of the national economy!
* An open break with social peace and a determined return to the methods and objectives of the class struggle, the only real and practicable internationalist solidarity for us proletarians, both in the metropolises and in the imperialist outskirts!
* Refusal of any partisan complicity (nationalist, religious, patriotic, mercenary, humanitarian, socialist-like, pacifist...) in favour of any one State or front of States involved in the wars!
* Economic and social strike action leading to real general strikes, in order to paralyze the life of the nation and open the way for political strikes, for slowing down and preventing any mobilisation and war propaganda!
With these firm principles (and in the course of battles that it will be forced to fight) our class, the immense body of those who have no alternative for maintaining themselves but to sell their labour, will be able to reclaim independence in the fight against its historical enemy, the bourgeoisie and the intellectualoid and parasitic half classes that support it, against their State and their institutions.
But not unless the militant avant-gardes of our class get organized along the lines of these contents (and not only on the necessary but limited terrain of trade-union, environmental and social etc. issues), and attain and strengthen the party of the communist revolution, will it be possible to prepare for new actions of anti-militarism and anti-patriotic defeatism. That is:
* Letting your own State and its allies be defeated, disobeying the military hierarchy in an organized manner, fraternizing with our class brothers (also trapped in their own “fatherlands”), holding on tightly to arms and armed systems to defend ourselves in the first place and then free ourselves from the tentacles of the bourgeois institutions: transforming the war between States into a war within States, civil war, revolutionary war.
The very facts of present capitalist reality scream the urgent and tragic necessity for this work and the need for this perspective.
June 2025
