Palestine - September 18, 2024

The terrorist attack on Lebanon by US Imperialism and Zionism has deepened the war of extermination against the Palestinian nation

For the destruction of the Zionist-fascist State of Israel!

As the Palestinian unions are calling:

For an international general strike

The indiscriminate attack by Zionism, blowing up the pagers and walkie-talkies of thousands of politicians and militants of the Palestinian cause in Lebanon and their families for the past two days, is a large-scale terrorist action with the killing of civilians indiscriminately. We are witnessing the continuation of the Zionist war of extermination in Gaza, this time in Lebanon.
The attack there has begun, not only with border skirmishes, but also with terrorist methods of cyberwarfare. For now, it is not the army of the State of Israel that is entering to invade Lebanon. They want to reduce or avoid their own casualties. That is why they are intimidating the people of Lebanon with a method of terror.
It is revealed that the State of Israel is a true terrorist state at the service of USA business and the imperialist oil companies throughout the region.

This cyberwarfare attack shows the fact that all high-tech advances are a by-product of the imperialist states' investment in the war industry. They want to prevent at any rate their soldiers from returning home in "black bags" and therefore increasingly promote terrorist acts of murder and sabotage from afar. But they cannot fully resolve this issue because the territories must be occupied with infantry and cavalry. That is why today, in Gaza, the fight is taking place in the forma of a heroic civil war, fought by the resistence from beneath the rubble. This has prevented one of the most powerful armies on the planet from settling in that small territory.
The terrorist military methods of Zionism used in Lebanon are intended to further weaken Hezbollah and prevent any attack attempt to the State of Israel. They also prepare the ground for future invasions by Zionism in a full-scale war, which is already a total one.
But the resistance in Gaza has not given up. Its struggle has spread to the West Bank and received enormous support and solidarity from workers and oppressed peoples around the world.

While mourning its dead, which amount to + 29 according to the Lebanese press, along with more than 3,200 wounded and mutilated, Hezbollah still continues without declaring war or entering into open combat against Zionism, which it only threatens with short-range missiles that never reach their destination.
Hezbollah has not prepared the forces it controls for a siege warfare and direct intervention against the State of Israel, to fight alongside its siblings in Gaza and the West Bank. They, along with Assad, the Iranian theocracy and Russia (which has one of its most powerful military bases in Tartus, south of Syria), are in charge of encircling the Palestinian people, so that all the masses of the region do not directly enter the fight.
They, the Arab and Muslim bourgeoisies, are part of the “peace summits” sponsored by the den of bandits of the UN and now organized by China and Russia. The role of these negotiating boards is to force Hamas and the resistance to surrender, to impose the “peace of the cemeteries”, something that they have not yet achieved since the Palestinian masses do not abandon their fight. The joint forces of the Arab bourgeoisies, Putin and al-Xi Jinping are not there to make the heroic resistance succeed, but to make it surrender with the gun to the head of Zionism.
The people of Gaza are still waiting for the famous “large-scale counterattack” to the state of Israel that Iran promised when Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas, was assassinated two months ago on Iranian territory. At the time he was murdered, Haniyeh had no official custody or any security measures, an issue that the Iranian theocracy has not yet explained.

The massacred people of Gaza are asking themselves: “Where are the Arab countries, as they do not show solidarity with us?” Almost a year of the counter-revolutionary war and martyrdom in Gaza, we must call things by their name. Too many lies have been told during the massacre of Zionism against the Palestinian nation.
The truth is that from Iran, Lebanon and Syria, the Shiite bourgeoisie, disguised as friends of Palestine, is fencing the resistance. After a year of massacre, with Gaza demolished and destroyed, this is already more than clear. They did not enter the war to fight side by side with the Palestinian masses. They have only made verbal threats and sent a couple of missiles with advance notice. Meanwhile, from Egypt, Qatar, etc., the Sunni bourgeoisie openly supports Zionism.
Not to mention the sectors of the global left, whether Stalinists, or renegades to Marxism, who continue to clamor for the existence of “two states” in occupied Palestine, or supporting the Zionist “opposition” against Netanyahu, as if it were an ally of the Palestinian people, when it is nothing more than the other hand of the executioner holding the same sword.

Yemen is the only people who have entered the battle alongside their Palestinian brothers. But they are not alone: the US working class has opened a new front of combat. In USA, the rebellious youth and the student movement have risen up, and now the Black movement is taking to the streets, while dozens of US unions are coordinating common actions of international struggle with the Palestinian unions, openly repudiating fascist Histadrut trade union and demanding its expulsion from all workers' organizations in the world.
Palestinian resistance fighters must know who their best allies are and who their enemies are; who ties their hands in their fight and isolates them, and who is fighting to break the siege around their heroic struggle.

The battle of Gaza and all of occupied Palestine is one of the last, but decisive, battles in the chain of revolutions that has shaken the entire Maghreb and the Middle East since 2011.

We insist, we are facing a decisive battle. Imperialism has released its gendarme, the State of Israel, out from its cage so that it can finally establish a counterrevolutionary order in the entire region, strategically crushing the uprisings of the Arab and Muslim masses in the Middle East.
If Zionism wins and imposes itself with massacres and fascism in Palestine and by invading Lebanon, imperialism will have reestablished secure control of the oil routes (even what it failed to achieve with two invasions of Iraq), stabilizing its domination with the direct support of all the Arab bourgeoisies, of Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Algeria, etc. and with the Iranian bourgeoisie surrendered to USA.

This action by the State of Israel is aimed at exterminating the heroic Palestinian masses. Without this, there would be no imperialist “peace” in the region.
In the Middle East, the Yemeni nation continues to fight, after it could not be defeated by the invasion of 7 armies servile to USA under Saudi Arabia command. In Iraq, the masses were in a pre-insurrectionary state because they had just expelled US imperialism. In Lebanon, Zionism suffered a monumental defeat in the 2006 battle, which expelled the state of Israel troops while in recent years there have been huge mass mobilizations against the government chaired by Hezbollah, against the high cost of living, hunger and looting.
Now it is Zionism's turn to put things in order in the region. Russia and the butcher al-Assad have already done so in Syria at everybody's expense. There is a bastion of counterrevolution.

The current Zionist offensive, which is almost a year old, follows the victory of the counterrevolution in Syria, where imperialism manager to contain the chain of revolutions starting in 2011 that had swept through North Africa and the Middle East.
This defeat strengthened Zionism as a direct agent of imperialism in the region. In the last years of partitioned and occupied Syria of the fascist- Assadist regime, a new invasion of Zionist settlers from all over the world arrived to the State of Israel, occupying new Palestinian lands and expelling entire families from their homes.
This is what explains October 7, 2023: this was a heroic defensive action by the Palestinian resistance against this new Nakba that Zionism had initiated in the Palestinian territory in the last 3 years. It was the left, subservient to Zionism and imperialism that condemned this action and sent its “condolences” to the fascist settlers who, since the age of 16, have been carrying rifles to kill Palestinians, even when they are having fun at electronic parties.

Imperialism has now once again brought out the State of Israel as its gendarme that had been unable to intervene directly during the mass offensive of 2011, when Tahrir Square in Cairo was taken; the oppressed Tunisians, Algerians and Yemenis were tsking part in revolutionary actions; the workers and people of Bahrain rose up; in Benghazi, Libya, there was a fight against Gaddafi, the lackey of the City of London; the exploited of Sudan rose up; and the workers and people of Syria were in a revolutionary boiling, fighting only 30 blocks from al-Assad's government house in Damascus.
USA knew that if they had resorted to Zionism at that time to defeat this chain of revolutions, all the masses of the region would have united to crush it. The US preserved the State of Israel and used other agents and allies to defeat each revolutionary process. This is what it did through Russia, Turkey and with counterrevolutionary excrescences of the Arab and Muslim bourgeoisies. US imperialism itself was not able to intervene either, because it had just been defeated in its two invasions of Iraq.
Now, with the revolutions in the Maghreb and the Middle East contained, imperialism must definitively stabilize the region with the fascist boot of Zionism. That’s because new rebellions threaten the stability of the Maghreb and the Middle East, where 80% of the energy that powers the world economy comes from.

Through the Israeli occupation state, which is nothing more than an US aircraft carrier on land, imperialism has launched a total counter-revolutionary war in the region. USA has armed Zionism to the teeth, while hypocritically “lamenting the death of civilians”, as the butcher Biden does. These are “crocodile tears” to neutralize the hatred that the imperialist scoundrels of the Democratic Party, supported by the entire US establishment, has arisen in the US masses who are beginning to fight, as they did time ago in Vietnam, against the bosses of Zionism who are in the White House and the Pentagon.

There is no doubt that if the State of Israel succeeds in crushing the Palestinian nation, imperialism will also go after Iran, Hezbollah and the Shiite militias in southern Iraq, because this is how “Rome” pays back the subjects it is forced to use to quell the rebellion of the oppressed.

The battle for Gaza is where this class war is being defined. This is how it is perceived by the people of the West Bank who have begun to engage in decisive clashes against Zionism.

The “neutrality” that imperialism, its agents like the PLO and global Stalinism imposed on the Palestinian masses when more than 600,000 oppressed were massacred in Syria and all their cities were demolished, is now being paid for with tens of thousands of deaths and a genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. Imperialism centralized all its agents to stop the Syrian revolution that from Aleppo and Homs threatened to reach Damascus and Jerusalem directly.
These betrayals and backstabbings are now being paid for by the Palestinian masses. Not by those who actually betrayed, repressed or crushed the revolutionary processes in the Middle East.

The current massacre in Gaza and the West Bank, then, had several episodes. One of them was the crushing of the revolution in Egypt imposed by the military dictatorship of Al Sisi, to whom the “democratic” and “liberal” bourgeoisie of the “April 6 Movement” gave out power. This saved the southern border for Zionism, with the Rafah wall enclosing Gaza.
The ongoing massacre in Palestine also had another decisive episode, which was the genocide imposed by the counterrevolution of al-Assad and Putin in Syria. They not only crushed that revolution, but also massacred and razed Yarmouk (the camp where more than 250,000 Palestinians lived) in Damascus, while the traitors of the Stalinist and leftist currents worldwide applauded them.

US imperialism openly admits that it used al-Assad and Russia to slaughter the Syrian people that were featuring a revolution… Syria was the victory it needed to then advance with Zionism to crush the Palestinian nation

Today the people of Gaza are fighting alone in a heroic civil war, which has left more than 70 thousand dead and its cities reduced to rubble, while imperialism supplies Zionism with billions of dollars and high-tech weapons.

This was achieved through countless betrayals suffered by the revolutionary processes of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Sudan, etc., where fierce counterrevolutionary regimes were imposed, while the Ayatollahs have been cracking down the Iranian working class, which has sought the overthrow of the clerics for years, denouncing the latter “live like kings while the people live like beggars.”

Trying to come close to understanding the events of the massacre in Gaza and the deepening expansionist policy of total war of Zionism, without understanding or hiding that this battle is the decisive and final one, in which the heroic revolutionary processes that have been shaking that region for more than a decade will be defined, amounts to deceiving the masses. It means hiding the fact that imperialism and Zionism are not coming to negotiate but to crush the oppressed in this final battle.

When the fire of the Syrian revolution was dying out, the Islamophobic left-wing currents and the social-imperialist parties looked the other way. They kept silent about the genocide. They applauded the victory of al-Assad and Putin as the “lesser evil” and all off them joined the “anti-terrorist front”, accusing the revolutionary masses of Syria of being “ISIS”, “barbarian peoples” and “NATO agents”, when the US was the one who had organized the massacre.
They treated the exploited revolutionaries of Syria as “terrorists”, as imperialism does today with Hamas and Hezbollah in Gaza and Lebanon as a justification for massacring the Palestinian people. In Syria, this farce was meant to support Putin and al-Assad who did the “dirty work” by means of a war of extermination and the partition of that nation, also with Turkey guarantee.

All these currents are concealing from the Palestinian people that the victory of the US and their agents in Syria was a crucial victory of counterrevolution to advance in the final war against Palestine. They have lied. They have deceived the masses in the Middle East and internationally and slandered a heroic revolution,  which being already chrushed allows Zionism to go all over occupied Palestine.

The imperialist ourgeoisie and its general staffs knew how to read the situation perfectly and to distinguish their enemy classes that were rising up in revolutionary actions in Syria. There, they focussed all their forces and all their agents capable of intervening: the Islamic guard of Iran, Hezbollah, the killer Putin, always ready to massacre, together with al-Assad... all off them under US command. Now that life has given its verdict, the spokesmen of imperialism and the bourgeoisie in the ranks of the workers' movement have a lot to explain... Certainly a whole lot, because they are jointly responsible for the isolation that the masses of Gaza and the West Bank suffer today.

Everybody cann read the precise inform that the former US Secretary of Defense for Middle East policy, Andrew Exum, told in a hearing before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the US Congress.
In these public statements, he clearly states that the US “in 2015 spoke with the Russians to save al-Assad who was about to fall,” according to this miserable murderer, at the hands of “terrorism”… Let us clarify that with the excuse of “terrorism” more than 600 thousand workers and exploited were murdered through a genocide in Syria and more than 100 thousand prisoners are rotting in the fascist dungeons of the jackal Al Assad.

Life has shown the great infamy and betrayal meant by the lies of the “Bolivarian” and “Islamic” bourgeoisies, the Stalinist currents, the social-imperialist parties and the chorus of ex-Trotskyists, who hung on to the “anti-terrorist front” recruited by US imperialism to massacre a great revolution and and covered it up.

There was also no shortage of movements that told the Syrian masses that if they pressured enough the US imperialists to send them weapons, this revolution could succeed.

They were two sides of the same coin that covered up the massacre that the US organized in Syria. We are not the only ones who say so; the US admits it with their former Defense Secretary, directly in charge of the American misdeeds in the Maghreb and the Middle East.

Why would al-Assad and Putin, who have a military base just a few miles from Gaza, attack Zionism now, if they saved the Golan Heights and crushed a revolution that threatened to reach Jerusalem?

In its statements, this US pirate tells the American Congress the truth, once the “silence of the cemeteries” has been imposed in Syria, and freely states that they also had made a pact with Al Qaeda so that in their territory they would control the partisans who were expelled from the different cities of Syria and taken to Idlib.

Thus, US imperialism, which did got their hands stained with blood, made its subjects do the “dirty work” that, on the other hand, the United States could not do because it was just coming from a phenomenal defeat in Iraq at the hands of the Iraqi masses and the American working class, who refused to go to die for the oil companies' business in the Middle East.

Today the veil has fallen and the curtain is drawn. The actors in the tragedy against the revolutionary processes in the Middle East are showing their true faces. These actors created the conditions for the Zionist monster to be launched by imperialism into a war of extermination against the Palestinian people and to impose order throughout the Maghreb and the Middle East.

Massive revolutionary uprisings in the Maghreb and the Middle East…
And great betrayals

Today other “supporting actors” are also showing up and being exposed, but they are just as decisive as the main actors. They are the scoundrels of the old World Social Forum and the renegades of the Fourth International, openly subjected to Stalinism, who supported, together with the US, the massacre of al-Assad and Putin on the Syrian masses. They are stained with blood… There will be no forgetting, no forgiving.
They were the ones in charge of paralyzing and preventing the solidarity of the world masses with their brothers and sisters in Syria. They applauded the defeat of the revolution and made the murderer Putin, who does the “dirty work” for imperialism throughout the world, pass as an “anti-imperialist ally” of the masses.

A revolting Syria, with the masses taking Homs, Daraa, marching on Aleppo, would have been today the greatest revolutionary support for massacred Gaza… The traitors who prevented this have to be called traitors. That is what they are.

These currents also claimed the Kurdish YPG and the PKK, which, according to them, were fighting in Syria against the “terrorists” and imperialism… Today they are under the orders of the US and their military bases in northern Syria, guarding the oil pipelines for the imperialist oil companies. Not a single rifle, not a single militiaman to fight the masses of Gaza came out of the YPG and the traitors of the Kurdish Communist Party. Do not hide. Show your faces.

Unfortunately, we were right… We are facing a tragedy. This is not the time for subjective praise, only for claiming that we told the truth and fought for it in the civil war, which all the lackeys of the bourgeoisie and imperialism reviled and hid from.

It is time to make such a betrayal to be paid expensively by its authors because it is the one that is being once more committed in Palestine. It is time for the Palestinian masses to recognize who prepared this counteroffensive of Zionism so that today they suffer a massacre like that of the Syrian revolution.

When the Palestinian masses in the West Bank enter the fight, they have already recognized that the PLO is an agent of Zionism, being the advance guard of the repression of the best fighters in that region of occupied Palestine.
As we stated previously, the exploited and martyred of Gaza have wondered: “where are the Arab bourgeoisies?” They deserve a fair answer. They deserve the truth so that they can distinguish who are their allies and who are their enemies.
The first task in a war is to recognize the enemy. That is the “Achilles heel” of the enormous and heroic resistance of the Palestinian people.

It is time for us to do justice for the massacre in Syria against the scoundrels of the “anti-terrorist front” of the world left that made Putin and the executioners of the Syrian revolution appear as their allies.

All of them, all together, on October 7th, a year ago, sent “condolences” to the Zionists who were taken hostage or fell in the defensive struggle of the Palestinian resistance against the forces occupying their territory. Now, those who sent their condolences to the fascist Netanyahu must show their faces! Show your faces! Explain why you denied the Palestinian people and their organizations the right to self-defense when facing the new counterrevolutionary Nakba that had already begun. Explain it.

The day after October 7, a debate took place in Argentina between the five presidential candidates running for election. One of them was Milei, the current president, who was competing mainly with the Peronist candidate. Representatives of two minor bourgeois parties and the left of the FIT-U, with its candidate Myriam Bregman of the PTS, were also present. From the mouth of  Milei, Netanyahu’s agent, and also from all the bourgeois politicians and the FIT-U itself, came the same condolences to the Zionist settlers, and the “condemnation” of the self-defense action of the Palestinian resistance… They have to explain it. They have sent condolences to Zionist counterrevolutionary forces that would make Hitler’s SS pale in comparison.

These currents condemned the action of October 7, calling it a “terrorist” one, though Hamas and Hezbollah are political parties with armed forces that defend their nation that has been occupied. We have profound political differences with these two currents, as is clear even in this note, but we recognize them as such and call for them to be recognized as belligerent forces and for arms and supplies to be sent to them so that they can recover their nation…
The reformist left was out of time: they had remained in the “anti-terrorist front” with which they justified the crushing of the Syrian revolution… and ended up hanging on Netanyahu. We do not forget. Show your faces. Now, it is your time to explain.

The Syrian war, then, was an episode of the civil war in the entire region that has not ended because today it is being defined today in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine.

This is what the partisans still resisting al-Assad in Syria and the repression of al-Qaeda in the rearguard also need to recognize. In Idlib province, the al- Julani government has launched a fierce attack with mass arrests to prevent the Syrian masses from taking an independent course and marching off to fight alongside their siblings in Gaza and the West Bank.

The battlefield conditions must be recognized by the Yemeni masses who heroically give their lives for the Palestinian cause, the revolting Iraqi people, and decisively the workers and rebellious youth of the United States who have taken upon their shoulders the struggle for the victory of the Palestinian nation.

Today, the battle for Palestine is therefore being fought on two fronts: in Gaza, the West Bank and the Middle East, and in the US, which is the vanguard of the enormous international solidarity that is spreading around the world in support of the Palestinian masses. There, in the US, a new “Vietnam” is emerging, standing in the very belly of the imperialist beast.

For now, Iran and Hezbollah have prevented the opening of all combat fronts to help the masses of Gaza, the West Bank and now Lebanon… They have been promising the “mother of all battles”, as the coward Saddam Hussein did, and they are only giving Zionism time to massacre.

There is no time to lose. It is the exploited masses of Lebanon, its anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist fighters who must take the resistance and the response to the war into their own hands.

Before it is too late: open the fronts! Break the siege of Gaza! Put an end to the Arab bourgeoisies collaborationist with Zionism!

The exploited masses must take the war of national liberation into their own hands so as to leave no trace of the Zionist-fascist state of Israel and to conquer a free Palestine from the river to the sea, which would be a fulcrum for the Federation of Workers' and Peasants' Republics of the Maghreb and the Middle East, without imperialist pirates to plunder it or lackey bourgeoisies to enrich themselves in a sea of millions of hungry people who live with black gold under their feet.

The Israeli state's attack on Lebanon: a terrorist action and the spearhead of a total war of imperialism in the entire region

As we write this note, the handies of the custodies guarding the funerals of the Lebanese martyrs have just exploded, with a dead toll of 9 and hundreds wounded.

The cynicism of the Arab, and Shia un particular bourgeoisies is remarkable. They are more afraid and terrified of the Palestinian masses in Lebanon entering with their weapons to break the siege of Gaza, than of the continued killing of tens and hundreds of their own people. They know that entering into an open offensive would mean the entry of millions of exploited people into the direct struggle alongside Gaza. The armed masses in independent actions would take over the banks and put all the funds to buy weapons and supplies for the resistance. They would put the land and the entire economy into production so that the hungry people of Gaza can feed themselves. They would leave the businessmen without food so that the Palestinian people can eat. Hence the bourgeoisie terror of the masses entering into the civil war against Zionism and imperialism, in a generalized and independent way.

Setting up a Palestinian National Assembly and a joint War Command of the Palestinian trade unions, partisans, refugee and supply committees would put on the agenda not only the generalisation of civil war and revolution, but also the uprising of the masses in the region and internationally.

For a Palestinian National Assembly with delegations from the West Bank, Jordan and Palestinian fighters from Lebanon, to declare total war against the extermination war of Zionism and the US imperialists!

For the expropriation without compensation of the imperialist banks and oil companies that plunder the wealth of hungry peoples!

As we have argued throughout this note, we are facing THE battle; a decisive battle that will define the fate of the masses in the entire Middle East and also of the international working class. An imperialist victory in the region would be a hard blow that would strengthen the colonizing offensive of imperialism throughout the colonial and semi-colonial world. It would also strengthen it to deal hard blows to the working class of the metropolises.

The battle for Gaza is therefore a battle of the entire world working class. The Palestinian trade unions have issued a new appeal repudiating the Histadrut and its latest marches. This courageous denunciation is the best response to the counter-revolutionary mobilisations of Zionism, which mourns its dead and wants to recover its hostages, but celebrates the massacre in Gaza and applauds the imprisonment of more than 10,000 Palestinians tortured in the concentration camps of the State of Israel.

The Zionist government has unleashed a new terrorist massacre in Lebanon. Neither the Histadrut nor the fascist settlers who call themselves “opponents of Netanyahu” have organised today a general strike or a funeral in honour of those fallen in Lebanon or those massacred in Gaza and the West Bank…

The State of Israel is attacking under the orders of US imperialism. The left, which covers Zionism with a “progressive” cloak, considers as “progressive” the marches in Tel Aviv demanding Netanyahu that after the genocide in Palestine, it is time to negotiate a ceasefire and exchange hostages. The Nazi-Zionists are fighting for their own people. They consider that they have already killed enough and that the conditions are now accurate to negotiate and recover the hostages, and in any case, to attack again afterwards. As we have already said, they are mourning their dead and celebrating the genocide of millions of Palestinians buried in mass graves in Gaza. They want the release of their hostages, but they want to keep the Zionist prisons where there are more than 10,000 Palestinian hostages well closed. Let the occupier mourn their dead whil we mourn ours!

Resolving the matter of prisoners held captive in war is an inalienable right of an occupied nation subjected to genocide. The Palestinian nation has kept prisoners of war in optimal living conditions, while Palestinian prisoners are massively harassed and mutilated and even their children tortured by Zionism. We insist, resolving this matter is a right of the resistance.

If there are any Jewish fighters who support the Palestinian cause, what they can do is to burn the flag of the occupiers, raise the Palestinian flag and switch sides to fight with their weapons alongside the resistance.

Histadrut, the employer-aligned trade union, which enslaves Palestinian workers in its factories, is fighting for their own people, but is once again supporting, covering up and promoting, as it did in 1948, the Nakba in order to further dispossess the Palestinians of their land.

Every class-conscious Jewish worker can only break with this fascist and pro-employers' union and enter into struggle within and alongside the Palestinian unions. 

There will be no democracy or freedom until the State of Israel is destroyed. Everything else is a Zionist charade.

Only in this way will the different religions and ideologies of the people be able to coexist in peace in a free, secular, democratic and non-racist Palestine, without occupiers or usurpers of the land.

Today's terrorist attacks seek to create the conditions for a military attack on Lebanon along the entire Zionist line.

In Lebanon, Zionism “broke its teeth” in a mass civil war almost two decades ago. They have sworn revenge… They must guard the northern border of occupied Palestine to prevent the Palestinian masses of Lebanon, moved by the genocide and heroic resistance in Gaza, from rising up. The southern border is already covered by Al Sisi and the counter-revolutionary dictatorship of Egypt and its historic pact with the State of Israel.

Zionism and the US imperialists are forced to open and expand their fronts. In Jordan, King Abdallah II has imposed a counter-revolutionary military control on the Palestinian people in their territory. The attack on Lebanon is inevitable in order to finish surrounding Gaza, crushing the West Bank and exterminating the Palestinian nation. That is the US imperialists’ plan.

The US State Department's alleged "compassion for the dead civilians" causes hatred and indignation. They only want to wash their bloody clothes in front of the American masses who are in a state of revolt against the genocide of Zionism and the US government in Gaza.

Palestinian trade unions and the struggling US trade unions are now in a position to coordinate widespread and centralized action at international level against the Zionist genocide.

As for us, we endorse and are publishing the statement of the Palestinian trade unions, and we will promote it so that it is adopted by all workers' and anti-imperialist organisations in the world.

The fight ahead is to paralyze the counterrevolutionary war machine of imperialism and Zionism with the method of the working class: the international general strike.

The fight is for a free Palestine from the Jordan River to the Sea. It is for the Federation of Workers' and Peasants' Republics of the entire Maghreb and the Middle East.

The decisive battle is in Gaza and New York! Make way for the American working class! As the American workers shouted in 2008: Wall Street must be surrounded and besieged! The leaders of Zionism and all the murderous and plundering bandits of the planet are there.

Carlos Munzer and Milenka López, for the Editorial Board of the
“International Workers' Organizer”