La Sinistra Comunista Internazionale

In the Near East, world imperialism pursues yet another massacre, destruction of capital, fixed and variable, material and human resources. In an attempt to slow down its inexorable and final historical collapse, the capitalist system, personified by the various imperial state actors and regional extras, stages the annihilation of the Palestinian proletariat. The proletarian powder keg of the Near and Middle East represents a mortal danger to all bourgeoisies in the area, be they Arab, Palestinian, Israeli. The great imperial molochs (U.S.A., China, Russia), always in competition with each other, are no longer able to establish a stable world order and impose it on their vassals.

Therefore, an immediate peace-making ‘normalisation’ operation is needed. In the face of the horrendous massacres of recent months, we communists certainly do not remain indifferent. The blood spilled by proletarians in the Near East is added to that spilled all over the world every time the working class has tried to raise its head. We know that yet another carnage is brewing and that this is the fruit of a long period of global bourgeois counter-revolution and false and illusory propaganda by the renegade pseudo-left parties. We also know that the only way to reverse the trend of a future generalised imperialist war and the current regional conflicts is to practice revolutionary defeatism, both in Ukraine and in Palestine. Only the resumption of the international class struggle can stop the massacres of proletarians.

It is precisely in order to avert the outbreak of new proletarian uprisings that the capitalist system keeps up the level of destructive violence through local conflicts, in order to spread terror and distrust in its own strength among the proletarian class, divided and entrenched in each individual nationalism fighting against the others. So, the first step is to break the cage of nationalisms. Proletarians have no homeland and do not have to fight for one, not even a Palestinian one. A Palestinian state in the Near East would only be an instrument of class oppression in the hands of the Palestinian bourgeoisie, whether secular or Islamic. Instead of strengthening the Palestinian proletariat, it would be a useful apparatus for the control and exploitation of the Palestinian working class, in competition with the states in the region (bourgeois “fraternal enemies”)it would be born weak and economically dependent, and the levels of exploitation of wage labour could only increase. Hamas, pursues its hegemonic aims on the Palestinian proletariat: this force, the expression of a fraction of the Palestinian bourgeoisie, is a candidate to lead the future Palestinian state governed by Islamic laws in competition with the ANP, another, bourgeois political entity, already strongly discredited in the eyes of the Palestinians for being on good terms with the Israeli government (it has guaranteed public order in the West Bank for it) and for managing more or less lawful trafficking in its administration.  The slaughter of Palestinians that has been taking place since 1948 will leave a deep feeling of revenge on the social ground, in the younger generations. But this hatred will have to find its target, the proletarians will have to identify their class enemy, the bourgeoisie. For Hamas the time is counted, the unmasking will be complete if, internationally, agreement is found in the formula ‘two peoples two states’. Probably the territory of Gaza will be claimed entirely by Israel, at which point the nascent Palestinian state will be reduced to a patch of land, West Bank and little else. But even this solution is unworkable for Israel. Israeli settlers (500,000) would have to be expelled from the West Bank at an unbearable political price. Equally impractical is the solution of a single state absorbing the Palestinian population, which would then constitute a considerable percentage (today the Arab-Israeli population is close to 20%). So, the ‘leftists’ who advocate these positions delude the Palestinian proletariat and strengthen the control over it by the Palestinian bourgeoisie (one of the most corrupt on the planet). They forget these gentlemen that the Palestinians are also divided into social classes and our solidarity goes exclusively to the proletariat. In Israel too, of course, there are social classes and we must only turn to the Israeli proletariat even if it seems impossible to do so today. Hamas and the Israeli state have the same interests that conflict with the interests of the proletariat, both Israeli and Palestinian.

Soldiers, Israeli proletarians and reservists, refuse to fire on your Arab brothers. Break the cage of nationalism. Israeli nationalism, the shaky support on which every government has always rested, which sees enemies everywhere, which keeps the Israeli proletarians hitched to its bourgeois chariot, must be beaten. Fraternisation then, that is the watchword! Although strongly in the minority, there are phenomena of insubordination within the army that must be kept under observation.

The only way out for the proletariat of the entire Near East region is to solidarise with the struggle of the Palestinian proletariat by taking to the streets, going on strike, attacking their government, denouncing the false ‘Arab solidarity’ with the Palestinians.

The first enemy for every proletarian to fight is their own bourgeoisie: Italian proletarians, the current conflicts burden the daily living conditions of all proletarians already impoverished by the world economic crisis. Opposing the war means striking for wages, for the reduction of working hours, against the participation of the Italian state in ‘Peace’ missions in the various areas of the world, against the production of armaments and the increase in state military spending, it means blocking the sending of weapons to war zones.

Italy is running the ‘Aspides’ mission, i.e. the patrolling of shipping along the Red Sea to defend the right to free movement of goods and against the missile attacks of the Houthi, Yemeni rebels, whose military actions have targeted Israeli ships and ships bound for Israeli ports. Our imperialism stands as the defender of its own and international capital.

The working class must declare war on war, and it must do so as a class for itself, led by its party, the world communist party. Only the world proletarian revolution will stop the imperialist war. The alternative is not ‘peace or war’ but ‘war or revolution’. The Palestinian question will only be resolved by the victorious communist revolution; the rest is useless reactionary chatter by those who vague about opportunities for shortcuts. They are, indeed, opportunists.

There is no other alternative.

18/02/2024