Palestine - February 26, 2024
USA
Soldier Aaron Bushnell immolated himself in front of the Zionist embassy in Washington, shouting “Free Palestine!”
Biden and Netanyahu are his actual murderers!
A tragic but brave action... The heroic support of this US soldier to the Palestinian nation is travelling around the world.
Socialists, however, affirm that his fight against the genocide in Palestine should have been channeled to organize thousands of common soldiers within the United States.
A brave man has fallen in an individual action resulting from the desperation of millions of workers and oppressed peoples of the world who are trying to save lives in martyred Gaza. For that, heroes like Aaron Bushnell are needed, but for organizing the masses to defeat Biden and Netanyahu's counterrevolutionary offensive against the Palestinian people.
The best tribute we, the forces that fight for the victory of the Palestinian nation, can pay to Aaron Bushnell is to call for setting up committees of common soldiers and workers in the US, recognizing the Palestinian resistance in Gaza as a belligerent force and uniting all the Palestinian masses of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and Jordan to enter the fight despite and against the collaborationist bourgeoisies colluded with Zionism and the murderer Biden, which tie the masses’ hands to fight.
At the ports and as does the brave Yemeni nation, all shipments of cargoes with supplies and weapons for the Zionist state of Israel must be paralyzed.
To the brave anti-imperialist fighters: the Palestinian cause needs them alive to organize millions to crush Zionism.
The masses of the world must take this sacrifice as a banner but to put millions and millions into the streets in the US and throughout the planet.
If the workers and people of US America win the streets massively, they would have in their hands the possibility of making Palestine a victory like Vietnam and Iraq yesterday.
Solidarity with the Palestinian nation needs all its heroes fighting. Today a tribute Is paid to a brave man who has fallen. It was Biden, Netanyahu and their counterrevolutionary forces who have dragged him into his anti-imperialist despair and his death, just as they murder thousands of Palestinians.
The global reformist left and the social-imperialist parties have tried to lead mass actions around the world to trust in that den of bandits of the UN, which supports the fascist state of Israel, and its International Court of Justice, which declared that “there is not yet a genocide in Gaza.”
Aaron's desperation is the same as that of more than one and a half million Palestinians who are surrounded, in the midst of widespread famine in Gaza.
Union bureaucracies around the world have refused to call for joint and unitary international action by all the world's workers. They have not even made a fundraiser from the unions to march to Gaza to break the siege imposed by Zionism and bring food and solidarity to the massacred people.
The forces of the brave and heroes are needed to defeat so many traitors to the cause of the world proletariat and the anti-imperialist struggles of the oppressed peoples.
Aaron Bushnell will not be forgotten.
US American youth will multiply their fight in the streets for a thousand fold. The workers and oppressed people of the world need them in the streets, sieging Wall Street.
In 2011, Mohamed Bouazizi, plunging into desperation, immolated himself in Tunis because he was not allowed to sell vegetables from his cart to survive, even though he was a computer technician. This could not be forgotten. It was the spark that set the entire Middle East on fire with a revolutionary uprising that shocked Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, the Iraqi masses...
Let the workers and common soldiers in the US revolt!
Let the siege of Gaza be broken!
It is Wall Street, the imperialist butchers, Zionism and its counterrevolutionary forces which deserve to be set on fire!
For the workers and oppressed peoples of the world to live, imperialism must die!
As we finish this note, Jordanian soldiers and pilots, risking their lives, drop food on Gaza. That is the way to ensure that Aaron Bushnell's death is not in vain!
Editorial Committee of “International Workers' Organizer”,
organ of the Collective for the Re-foundation of the Fourth International / FLTI |