For decades the massacre of Palestinian proletarians by the State of Israel has been causing bloodshed in Gaza and around with at least 70 thousand recorded deaths, in a Middle East that is increasingly tormented and being shaken to its core day by day. For over two years now, amidst almost total indifference, a bloody „internal“ conflict has been dragging on in Sudan with hundreds and thousands of deaths and refugees, in an Africa that has long been the stage for ever greater penetration by the most powerful imperialisms or those aspiring to be so, always ready to fuel or extend „civil wars“ in one country or another, selling arms to win „advantage positions“, bombing local populations to „bring them democracy“ (the recent US bombings in Nigeria are advertised as the „defence of innocent Christians“!). In the East, the western and eastern borders of India are just as many hotbeds of unresolved contrasts and in the so-called Indo-Pacific and between the North and South China Seas, wars and local squabbles alternate with growing tension between the old and new imperialisms (USA and China over Taiwan, but not only). The crucial Red Sea artery, along which, between its two extremities at the Suez Canal and the Straits of Bab-el-Mandeb, gigantic container vessels, oil tankers and military convoys navigate, is still a bone of contention (not by chance at the end of 2025 Israel was the first State in the world to recognise the independence of the separatist Somaliland already proclaimed in 1991, whilst the clash between Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates reignites). Central and South America live in a state of constant instability, as the „backyeards “ of US imperialism (another old story, now reinvented with the attack on Venezuela), which has no scruples about dropping bombs here and there, under the pretext of the… „war on the drugs trade.“
Briefly, to the north and south, east and west, the transit routes of raw materials and more or less strategical corridors are a mass of exposed nerves of the capitalist world (the „best, and always improvable, of all possible worlds“ for fine souls!), a prey to the pressure of economic structural crisis, of the over-production of goods, capitals and human beings, which has dragged on for decades getting worse and worse, with no consistency if not the preparation for a third world bloodbath – because military warfare is the explosive manifestation of trade war that has been going on for decades with the USA, Germany, Russia and China, followed by all the other national capitalisms, competing savagely against one another… And the pathetic appeals to international law, to the „Peaceful Coexistence amongst Peoples“ and other such rubbish typical of bourgeois ideology, are revealed to be what they really are when faced with the law of the strongest: mere scrap paper.
And what about „Europe“? Whilst no great prospects of a truce are to be seen in the other bloody war between NATO-Ukraine and Russia, the concern of a „Europe“ which, after having been an obedient vassal of the USA for seventy years, now finds itself caught with its trousers down, is both pathetic and at the same time revealing. Busy as it is in the vain and chaotic endeavour to put its own house in order (!), where things are not going at all as well as the official rhetoric would like us to believe, its one-time father figure has turned its back on it, slapped it around the face and is making it pay a hefty bill for decades of „aid“. In fact, as „a united political entity“ (we have demonstrated this several times) „Europe“ doesn’t exist and never has: it has merely been a desperate attempt to create an economic market able to face up (with a number of internal contradictions) to a world market at first in full post-war expansion and then in a profound crisis from the mid-1970s onwards. Faced with this crisis, „Europe“, deprived of the USA’s support-control, reveals itself to be what it always has been and will be: a jungle of nationalisms, the expression of competing national capitals. And, if there really is common ground amongst them, it is at one and the same time (closely interwoven) the preparation for a new, future world war and the repression of any form of dissent: the two things proceed together emblematially.
And so we are witnessing a race to re-arm and this tells us openly how things stand. There is no more talk (except in some feeble twitch of „Europeism“) of a „joint European army“: but each State, in its function as the armed branch of national capital, is increasing its military spending and drawing up plans and prospects for rearmament – from Germany, planning to reintroduce „voluntary military service“ and posing the question of how to update its logistic network to the need for military transport, to France, which is starting to prepare hospital departments for receiving the wounded with corresponding reserves of plasma, and so on from State to State (even Switzerland, the historical champion of neutrality, is now discovering with concern that it does not have sufficient defences!). At the same time, security policies are spreading and intensifying with the introduction of new crimes and new regulations, strategies and repressive practices to be tried out immediately in the field, with special divisions and tools of control, identification procedures and black lists. In the ruling class, the approach of actual war scenarios evokes the simmering fear (ever present and an integral part of the democratic dictatorship exercised everywhere in the second postwar period) of a widespread and organised return to the stage of a proletariat that up to now has suffered more or less passively the crude exploitation it has been subjected to daily by capital in its search for profit; but which, under pressure from a growing deterioration of its living and working conditions, will be induced to return to the path of open defensive battle, and, with this, rebellion and the refusal to go off and slaughter or suffer slaughter – the path of revolutionary defeatism, against all States, against all preparation for war or war fronts, against all nationalisms and patriotisms, against all the bourgeoisies – first and foremost our own.
And it is here that, as always, the question of the revolutionary party arises, the only class force able to organise and direct the inevitable rebellion against a capitalist status quo that at this point means mere suffering and tragedy, destruction and slaughter. We work to strengthen and establish this force internationally: against all, more or less ingenuous pacifism and hypocritical reformism, against open enemies and false friends, against „sincere democrats“ who defend any measures dictated by capital’s State, against the last-minute patriots, against sovereignists and nationalists and against populists of all shades who neglect all class perspectives – so that the daily battle of resistence may be transformed into attack, when the objective conditions return to make this possible, against a mode of production that can finally be thrown into the trash can of history.
3/1/2026
