Breaking news - October 1, 2024

The fascist troops of Zionism, upholded by US imperialism, are advancing with tanks and artillery to invade southern Lebanon

The State of Israel and its counter-revolutionary offensive
must be defeated!

Palestine, Lebanon and the entire Middle East
must be the grave of Zionism and imperialism!

As we are writing this article, the Zionist-fascist state of Israel, with airstrikes and bombings in southern Beirut, is deepening its war of demolition and extermination, which has spread from Gaza to the West Bank and now to southern Lebanon.
This would be the fourth Zionist invasion of Lebanon in the last 50 years. Nobody assures that the state of Israel will remain on the southern border, but quite the opposite.
It is not only Zionism that is directing the political and military operations already underway in southern Lebanon. The one who also commands this operation is the butcher Biden, a true Nazi who has declared that “humanity is safer without the leadership of Hezbollah alive.”
What a paradox and cynicism: the greatest terrorists and organizers of the greatest genocides ever experienced by human civilization, talk about being the guarantors of the security of the planet. How cynical!

Today, Zionism is expanding its counter-revolutionary front. In a war of occupation, for now in southern Lebanon, it seeks to finish dismantling the political and military apparatus of Hezbollah, the most important political party in that country.
The Hezbollah leadership, together with the Iranian theocracy, had been betting on a “peace plan” in Gaza in meetings and agreements with US imperialism and Zionism. Qatar, Russia and now China were also involved in these negotiations…
It has been a year since the terrible massacre in Gaza. Until now, while the Palestinian people are being massacred, the leadership of Hezbollah and the Iranian Ayatollahs have prevented the opening of all fronts of the war of liberation against the Zionist occupation troops. But the State of Israel, the armed wing of imperialism, does not forgive and has extended its battle front.
One year was given to Zionism, which never had any intention of negotiating, but rather the opposite: its aim was always to crush and ethnically cleanse Gaza and the West Bank. The dead are the exploited Palestinians.

This allows Zionism to advance today and seek to expand its military radius of action because, despite the brutal genocide against the Palestinian masses, it has not yet managed to impose itself either in Gaza or in the West Bank. There, despite widespread famine, the massacre of more than 200,000 men, women and children, the demolition of cities, camps, hospitals and schools, and the expulsion of more than a million inhabitants of Gaza from their homes, the resistance has not given up and receives the support of the entire Palestinian people.
In the West Bank, every attempt by Zionism was repelled by the resistance, which is attacked by Netanyahu and Biden's troops, and from behind by the Palestinian Authority and the PLO.
The Palestinian people are imposing a mass civil war over the conventional method of warfare, as we have discussed in an extensive article in this newspaper. They are dispersed patrols that coordinate with each other and receive supplies from the same people to which they belong and defend.

The attack on Lebanon is because for a year now Zionism (which has dropped the same amount of explosives and bombs on Gaza as the US did during each year of World War II) has not been able to take the territory from the resistance. The confirmation of what we are saying here is the cynicism of Netanyahu, who claims that to win the war he has to remove the entire population from Gaza to isolate the resistance.

The Arab bourgeoisies such as Hezbollah and Iran’s in particular, along with those of Qatar and Egypt, as we have been saying, betted on a “peace plan” with USA and gave Zionism time to carry out massacres in occupied Palestine, forcing the Palestinian masses to pay the high price of suffering a Holocaust at the hands of the Zionist offensive. The truth must be told and this is the truth. The Arab and Shiite bourgeoisies betted for negotiation; Zionism betted for total war and the massacre of the Palestinian people.
It was clear that by murdering high authorities of Hezbollah and even those of the Iranian theocracy and Hamas abroad, the State of Israel sought to establish order and limits for its “partners” at the negotiating table.
Let us be clear: after a year, only the brave Yemeni masses have entered into an total war against Zionism and imperialism, giving a sound support to the Palestinian people…

And now… Zionism is going after everyone, dismantling Hezbollah’s communications system from within, murdering Iranian military leaders as we have already said, and threatening to invade Lebanon.
From now on, any response will be a belated response with a dubious outcome if all the masses of the Maghreb and the Middle East and the international working class do not intervene and enter the processes of revolution.

The Arab bourgeoisies have proven to be cowardly before Zionism, though murderers and repressors against their own rebellious peoples, as we saw in the revolutionary uprising of the masses in the region in 2011 and in particular, with the bloody coup of Al Sisi in Egypt and the massacres by al-Assad, supported in the Iranian theocracy, Hezbollah and the counterrevolutionary troops of the butcher Putin, at the Syrian revolution.

After each “peace conference” and “ceasefire” by Egypt, Qatar, Iran, Russia and China, under US command, the genocide against the Palestinian people has only deepened.

Over the past year, dozens of “peace” meetings have been held, both in Qatar and in Egypt, and most recently in China, where under US command everyone demanded that Hamas be dissolved, to hand over the hostages, and that the PLO, a lackey of Zionism, take charge of Gaza and the West Bank, with Israeli state troops inside Gaza. This “peace plan” was nothing more than the “peace of the cemeteries” and the surrender of the resistance.
The “peace” meetings in China in the last period also prove what we are saying here. They took place after the death of Ismail Haniyeh, the president of Hamas, who was “strangely” killed, alone in a house in Tehran, a matter that the Iranian government has not yet explained. At that time, the Ayatollahs promised “the mother of all battles” against the state of Israel. And as is now clear, admitted even by sectors of the Iranian government itself, they let the assassination of the president of Hamas pass, in order to hold the “peace conference” in China. An infamy. They handed over the president of Hamas in exchange for a supposed “peace”… This Is a true confession from the party involved . Of the “mother of all battles” against Zionism that Iran announced, there is not even a memory left. This is denounced by the vanguard of the Palestinian resistance in Lebanon and by the Iranian masses themselves who are taking to the streets today: You, the clerics of Iran, are responsible for the fact that the Zionist offensive has not had a response in accordance with the needs of the oppressed and massacred peoples of the Middle East!
There is the fascist al-Assad guarding the borders of the Golan Heights to the state of Israel, protected by Russia, which openly supports the plan of Zionism, just as China does, although like the bloodthirsty Biden, they tear their clothes for “peace” and call on Netanyahu “not to commit excesses” as they do all over the planet.

The problem with all of them is that the resistance did not accept either Qatar's plan yesterday, or that of Iran, China and Russia today.
But the Palestinian resistance has been encircled. Zionism does not forgive, and imperialism does even less so with its agents when they are no longer useful: now it is about massacring in Lebanon and perhaps tomorrow in Iran. This is how the masses have to pay for the cowardice of the Arab bourgeoisie that yesterday joined USA to massacre the heroic Syrian revolution and created a river of blood among the oppressed masses of the Middle East. A tragedy.

As the anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist fighters in the U.S. proclaim: "Intifada! Revolution!"

As we are closing this note, Iran has launched a barrage of missiles on the state of Israel. The US has given the order to support the Zionist state, entering directly into its military defense.
This Iranian response, totally late, when Zionism has already set foot in Lebanon and the genocide is deepening in Gaza and the West Bank, could be the beginning of a total war, if the Iranian, Iraqi and all the Maghreb and Middle East masses take it into their own hands, rising up in Egypt, Qatar, etc., against the Arab bourgeoisies who are partners of Zionism since they have already given it a free hand for a year to massacre the Palestinian people.
Otherwise, this barrage of missiles sent today by Iran and falling on the state of Israel, will be a bargaining chip for a new attempt at "negotiation" or "cease-fire", with the Islamic and Arab bourgeoisies having more authority before the masses to seek to impose the surrender of the heroic Palestinian resistance.

The Iranian, Qatari and Egyptian working class, as yesterday that of Tunisia, Algeria and Sudan, must take in their hands the coordination of a single Intifada in all the Maghreb and Middle East together with the Iraqi and Yemeni masses.
There are the oil wells of all the imperialist companies that plunder that region of the planet, starving its peoples.
The intervention of the working class, nationalizing without compensation the imperialist oil companies and banks, would be and definitely is the most powerful missile the masses have un their hands to defeat the offensive of Zionism and imperialism. As the pro-Palestinian fighters in the US say: "Intifada! Revolution!".
That is what the preparation of a revolutionary counter-offensive of the masses is all about: confronting Zionism with the method of the workers and peasants’ revolution, a question that the Arab bourgeoisies, junior partners of the transnationals, are very far from desiring, since this would call into question their power and their partnerships with the imperialist banks and companies….

The struggle of the huge mass movement for Palestine and the destruction of the state of Israel is radicalizing all over the world

New sectors of the masses enter the fight in support of the Palestinian people, such as in India and Pakistan. As it could not be otherwise, they clash against the governments and regimes that have been looking the other way while the state of Israel massacres in Gaza and the West Bank.

In Spain, on September 27, trade union centers such as the CGT and Solidaridad Obrera called for a general strike in support of the Palestinian people. Picket lines were set up and a sector of workers adhered to this call. Important mobilizations took place in Madrid, Aragon, Bilbao, Barcelona, Valencia and other cities.
It is worth noting that CCOO, the trade union center of the Stalinist Communist Party, and the UGT of the imperialist NATO government of Sánchez and the Bourbons, did not support or call for this strike. Their lamentations for Palestine are "crocodile tears". These governments are the ones that supply from NATO to Zionism and U.S. imperialism, which has sent the Mediterranean fleet to the coasts of Gaza as a reinsurance for the state of Israel.

The Stalinist bureaucrats of the central trade union centers in France, Greece and around the world have refused to coordinate any centralized action that could hit imperialism where it hurts: its pockets and profits. That is what paralyzing the war machine of imperialism and Zionism is all about.

From the bowels of the Palestinian resistance, the trade unions of Gaza once again are making a call for the International General Strike after one year of resistance to the Zionist genocide, which we reproduce in this newspaper.
From Lebanon, the youth of the resistance -in a statement that we are also publishing, making our own and calling to reproduce worldwide- is also calling for an international general strike to stop the massacre of Zionism.
From the Collective for the Refoundation of the Fourth International / FLTI we make these two statements our own and call on all trade unions, workers', anti-imperialist and student movement organizations around the world to make them their own. The world working class must take them as its own, following in the footsteps of the American workers and youth, who are advancing the road to triumph: "For an international intifada! Open the road to revolution!".
The genocidal Biden, the Wall Street pirates, the murderer Netanyahu and the den of bandits of the UN met in New York surrounded by a huge anti-imperialist resistance of the workers and youth of the USA who have an enormous experience of combat inside the imperialist beast, as they demonstrated years ago against the Vietnam War and then against the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan. In them there are the advanced forces to stop the massacre of the Palestinian people!

The path to defeat the counterrevolutionary offensive of imperialism and the State of Israel is that of 2006, when the genocidal Zionist army broke its teeth and had to flee southern Lebanon because of the heroic national civil war of resistance of the exploited Palestinians and the Lebanese masses.

Palestine, Lebanon and the whole Middle East must be the grave of Zionism and imperialism!

Before it is too late: World General Strike to stop the genocide of Zionism and the U.S. imperialism!

The Palestinian trade unions have already made the call. Pro-Palestinian unions and workers in struggle in the U.S. have made it their own. Different trade union centers like CGT and Solidaridad Obrera of the Spanish State have already taken a step forward to conquer the International General Strike…
There is no time to lose. The setting up of an International Committee of trade unions and workers' organizations from all over the world to coordinate the struggle of the workers at world level is an imperious necessity; it is a matter of life and death. The forces to set up this International Committee are already there. This is the road so that this October 7 and the whole month, the workers and oppressed peoples can lead great combats to paralyze the war machine of imperialism and Zionism and that the worker and peasant and free Palestinian nation succeeds, from the Jordan River to the Sea.

Editorial Committee of " The International Workers' Organizer".