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Fellow proletarians and comrades,
For weeks now the butchers of the Israeli army have been ploughing ahead with their decade-long criminal demolition job: using the pretext that Hamas must be destroyed, yet another horrific blood bath of Palestinian proletarians has occurred. To a greater or lesser extent, all States within the area (idle words and pathetic declarations count for nothing) and all the bourgeois factions – both lay and fundamentalist – responsible for this tragic Middle-eastern cul de sac (be they supporters of Al Fatah, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood or the theocratic Israeli state – it matters not) closed a blind eye to what has been going on.
The dreadful truth of the matter is that no-one wants Palestinian proletarians: in peacetime they are exploited for their labour, and in wartime they are a rich source of cannon-fodder for war-hungry imperialist powers. That is all: the obscene truth of the matter.
As long as the suicidal logic of national and nationalist bourgeoisies prevails, there will never be a solution to the Middle-eastern puzzle (one of the most poisonous of all post-war imperialist legacies). There will be no peace for as long as aggressive bourgeoisies – more or less a direct expression of north American imperialism (Israel), or those in a strong bargaining position as a result of spiralling oil revenues (all Arab states, ‘moderate’ and non; or ‘extremist’ states like Iran) – continue carving out areas of influence in the annual carnival of carnage served up by rival imperialist powers. There will be no lull in the veritable holocaust of the proletarian and proletarianised masses in the entire area as long as the horizon is dominated by abominable nationalist and religious ideologies and as long as world capitalism is allowed to pursue its insanely destructive course.
The Gaza massacres – and the blood of hundreds of proletarians – only serve to confirm that the obscene monster called capitalism must be destroyed. Only the proletariat – the class that has no reserves and recognizes no homeland, the class whose claim to liberation is human, and human only – can accomplish this. And it can do so only by openly resorting to a classist – not nationalist – perspective, a class struggle against all bourgeois factions, a drastic boycotting of all war efforts, in order to shatter once and for all the damnable vicious circle of proletarian massacres. Only the dictatorship of the proletariat, established at long last after centuries of domination by blood-drenched capital, will be able to sweep away the tragic consequences and problems wrought by a century of imperialist devastation. But this will only be possible if the proletariat of European and north American metropolises finally succeeds in breaking all ties with its own national bourgeoisies; and if it once again wages an open class struggle, independently of any bourgeois or nationalist formation, under the determined lead of its own party, newly exhumed after decades of frightening counter-revolution – and then manages to finally seize power and establish its own class dictatorship, a necessary bridgehead towards a classless society, a society which is at last human: communism.
International Communist Party
(Internationalist Papers – Cahiers Internationalistes
– Il programma comunista)
Jan 2008
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