thegalievthought

[thegalievthought]

Towards Republics:

A Revolutionary Revival of The Revolutionary Republics

The past five years have proven to be extraordinary. The flames of revolution have burned brighter than ever since the turn of the millennia. With this, the imperial world grips tighter, too. Even still, from Africa to the Middle East, from the Americas to Asia, we see the rejection of the imperial system, especially that of US imperialism. This starkly contrasts the relative 'peace' of the 90's and 2010's. In five years, we have seen wars fought and ended, we've witnessed genocides start, and the world's reaction (and non-reaction) to those genocides ring around the globe. Especially in what we consider the Imperial core. In Europe, we see an unprecedented break in the bloc, with the foreign policy of many of the European powers turning sharply from set US doctrine. France and Britain, both imperialist powers, have an unprecedented change in their policy towards Israel and relations between the Zionist state and France and Britain are turning decidedly colder as they both state they can no longer 'ignore' Israel's crimes. On the other hand, states like Germany and Poland refuse and break and, along with the US, continue to support the Zionist entity even despite pressure from the working class in their countries. 

The apartheid entity's genocide in Gaza has proven to be embers on brush and caused unrest in many countries over the inaction or outward support of their governments for Israel, as well as dividing the Western imperial bloc over the issue. This unrest is also apparent in the occupied Turtle Island (North America). Canada, The United States, and Mexico have all faced unrest over the issue of Israel. Unrest in the latter two countries has only been increased by the growing US reaction. The unrest over the issue of Israel, US economic weakness, exploitation of culture war issues, and broader Imperial losses in the previous years have fueled the reactionary right of the United States to throw the Imperial Boomerang abroad. The Biden administration's failure to maintain dominance in the Sahel, the end of the imperial occupation of Afghanistan, as well as its failure to cripple or destroy Ansrallah in Operation Prosperity Guardian were apparent failures of American Imperial policy abroad—the latter two, which became major talking points of the American reactionary movement. The aforementioned unrest over the inaction of the Democratic party, in particular over the genocide in Gaza, and the growing culture war divide between the reactionary and non-reactionary sections of the Proletariat have left the United States of America grappling with their Imperial, Economic, and Racial, Sexual and Ideological positions. This was the United States's position before the conclusion of the 2024 election. After this, most of these issues expanded, and the embers were set on fire. The Trump Administration launched another operation to counter Yemen's blockade of Israel unsuccessfully.

Cultural war issues were put at the forefront of politics, and the US made several financial mistakes that caused economic unrest worldwide that we still do not know the consequences of. The US weakened its foreign policy even further by alienating its disjointed bloc and pulling away from the world stage. The implementation of far-reaching reactionary policies further fanned the flames of the volatile and uncertain situation in the US. In the summer of 2025, these flames are only growing. The reactionary government of the United States is using the Department of Homeland Security and its subordinate agency, ICE, as secret police to launch mass deportations across the country and targeting primarily Chicanos, Latin Migrants from all over the Americas and Indigenous people. These mass deportations have culminated in riots and action against the forces of the reactionary ICE, DHS and local police that support them. In Houston, San Antonio and Los Angeles, protests have been significant and fierce against ICE and the Reactionary government, with the largest protests in AL turning into clashes against DHS agents, local law enforcement and the National Guard against the mass deportations. 

The recent events leave high tensions at a boiling point and an uncertain future. Leaving many asking a simple question. What is to be done? I set out to look to the historic Revolutionary Republics for a solution to the US national question and the place of the historic Revolutionary Republics in current revolutionary politics. Let's begin by discussing what I mean by the "Revolutionary Republics". This is quite simple, referring to the historic proposals of revolutionary independent republics based on the self-determination of peoples and decolonisation of the occupied lands of the US and including but not limited to the general Land Back movement, the proposal of the Republic of New Afrika and Aztlan. These movements share basic goals of decolonisation, self-determination, anti-racism, and usually some revolutionary tendency of Marxism or Socialism. These movements found their basis in the revolutionary movements of the 60s and 70s. Although not as prominent today, these movements and the framework give us lessons to learn from and a political line to move towards for the decolonisation of the United States. We must move towards the Revolutionary Republics.  

The reactionary violence perpetrated by The imperial bourgeois class in America, both in its occupied territories and abroad, with the support of the white proletarian labour aristocracy in recent years, has led to the current head of the dire need to solve the fundamental questions of the matter of decolonisation of the United States (and the Americas more broadly). The African, Chicano, and Indigenous Americans make up around 45% of the American working class, not accounting for the imported labour and exported US industry. In the day of their original conception, the working class was far more dominated by white workers than it is now. Yet still, both the Black Working class and Chicano Working class strove for their rights as human beings for self-determination and the decolonisation of the Imperial US State. In our modern day, with mass deportation and a further fascist and reactionary movement in the US pushing towards the reality of an even harsher modern Jim Crow and the framework for genocidal removal of Chicanos and Native Americans from their occupied lands has made this political line a necessity. For the defence of Chicano, African and Indigenous communities, the rightful self-determination of these peoples, and to right the wrongs of the settler colonial United States before the settler movement gets even worse. 

First, let us look at the Republik of New Afrika. The Republik of New Afrika was first conceptualised at the Black Government Congress in 1968 after the fallout of the Detroit Riots in 1967. The Malcolm X Society and the Group on Advanced Leadership proposed the idea. At the conference, they set out and drafted a constitution and a declaration of independence and agreed on the Republic's borders. They also established a provisional governmental body, appointing Robert F. Williams as its first president. Robert was living in exile in China at the time of appointment, where he worked with Chairman Mao and educated the Chinese on the Black Liberation Movement. Well, he kept cultivating it with the lessons he learned there. In 1968, a delegation of The Republik of New Africa travelled to China, where Robert accepted his position. In this form, the Republik of New Africa was a significant component in the Black Power movement, with major parties like the BPP, BLA, and more supporting it and making liberation a primary goal. 

Today, the Republic still plays a massive part in Black Culture and revolutionary thought. The Republic of New Afrika must be established to represent the Africans who were kidnapped to the continent and their right of self-determination alongside the indigenous peoples that once called the occupied land of the Republic home. 

Aztlan was founded as an idea in very similar circumstances. The racism and oppression that Chicanos and Mexicans faced in the '60s were very similar to the plight of their African brothers fighting Jim Crow with very identical enemies. The white terrorist group the KKK hunted for Mexicans and 'guarded' the border in Texas, California, and other states, giving them free rein to lynch Chicanos and Mexican migrant workers.

At the same time, many of the same ways the white system disenfranchised and took away the rights of black people, both historically and today, also affect Chicanos and Latin migrants.  With this background, the manifesto of Aztlan was published in 1969 titled Plan Espiritual de Aztlán. Which set out a seven-part manifesto for the foundation of Aztlan and the protection of the rights of the Chicano people. 1. Unity, 2. Economy, 3. Education, 4. Self-Defense, 5. Institutions 6. Cultural 7. Political Liberation. These were the main points set out in the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan. Unity calls for the unity of Chicanos, the working class, and the middle class (and other groups) to be united in the liberation of Aztlan, setting out a similar unity principle as set out by Mao and Lin Biao in the doctrine of People's War. Economy calls for economic independence so that the Chicano working class should own their means of production for a more equal economic system based on the distribution of the economic resources. Education called for teaching Chicano history from a Chicano perspective. Self-defence calls for the right of the Chicano community to protect their communities and families from the outside threats of white hate groups, the fascist police and the military and calls for the formation of principled revolutionary defensive bodies. Institutions state that the Republic should serve the necessary means for all people in the Republic to live a full life and for the welfare of the people. And the restitution for past economic slavery. Culture calls for the rights and respect of Chicano culture and its right to exist. Political liberation calls for the Chicano to form revolutionary parties and bodies to liberate themselves. Recognising that the two white supremacist parties will never care for the rights and self-determination of the Chicano, it states the Chicano must follow the struggle for political liberation separately from the mainstream white supremacist capitalist politic. 

Many critics of Aztlan and Chicano nationalism exist both without and with valid points. One of the valid criticisms of the Chicano movement came from the Indigenous peoples. In the foundation of New Africa and Aztlan, the Indigenous peoples' will was not addressed appropriately, and we in the modern day must listen to and address them. The indigenous peoples must be allowed to pursue their rights as humans and workers to create their nations and have separate paths in the decolonisation of America! Indigenous peoples must have a voice and be listened to. Their rights must be respected, and the reparations in both the land that they were exterminated from and the economic, sexual and political slavery they have been forced under for the last 500 years be faced. Reparations for these horrid crimes must be made. The decolonisation and the whole writing of this paper means nothing if Aztlan and New Afrika do not listen to the indigenous peoples who were here first. Chicano culture specifically must be decolonised, and the role their ancestors played in the settler colonialism in the continent must be realised. The road ahead is long, and we must listen to our indigenous comrades lest this be for nothing at all. The decolonisation of America can only be achieved when the settler culture and settler systems are destroyed and a cultural revolution of decolonisation and cultural revival has occurred. 

So then, what is to be done? The answer is simple. Modern revolutionary bodies set forward and set in stone the political line of decolonisation, self-determination, economic liberation, and cultural revolution through the revolutionary tactics of people's war. The establishment of revolutionary provisional bodies led by the people for the self-defence and determination of the people and to set forward political education against settlers and reactionism. Whether the decolonisation of the Americas will follow the line I have put forward here is hard to say. I also do not know whether the historic republics will face a revival or be left to the past. However, I see them, at least in their goals and frameworks, as the guiding light we need to set forth for the liberation of the Americas. We must stand as educated and principled revolutionaries to liberate the Americas, and to do this, we should look toward the Republics. 

We must set forward and either change the current parties, i.e. turn the non-revolutionary bodies (PSL, DSA, CPUSA) into revolutionary bodies headed by our political line set here for the total decolonisation of the United States and have it set that our revolutionary bodies are set in the total economic liberation of all oppressed people in the Americas and that our revolutionary organisation are firmly set to the destruction of the settler culture and systems of the Americas. We also need to find our revolutionary bodies to safeguard the political line set forward here and provide self-defence and revolutionary education to the oppressed peoples of the non-revolutionary bodies that do not embrace the correct and revolutionary political line.  

The reactionary forces in America are stronger than ever, and fascism is here; it is the duty of all workers to combat this and protect their communities, and this revolutionary political line should be that framework. This framework is brief and relies on some teachings from the revolutionaries in Asia, mainly Chairman Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and others. We must look to the victories of their political line and their failures as both revolutions fell into reactionism and capitalist degeneration after their deaths and in the case of China becoming an imperialist superpower like the Soviet Union. We must secure the decolonial revolution and safeguard it afterwards because a new era of capitalism and settlerism must not take root in the Americas once the revolution is victorious. 

In conclusion, I implore you to take action both in the streets as part of the revolutionary body and in educating the existing settler systems and the revolutionary lines I use to inform this document. Read Mao, Read Ho Chi Minh, and attend revolutionary education groups if possible. And in those endeavours, keep this political line in mind: total decolonisation of the Americas towards the republics.  

[thegalievthought]

Towards Republics:

A Revolutionary Revival of The Revolutionary Republics

The past five years have proven to be extraordinary. The flames of revolution have burned brighter than ever since the turn of the millennia. With this, the imperial world grips tighter, too. Even still, from Africa to the Middle East, from the Americas to Asia, we see the rejection of the imperial system, especially that of US imperialism. This starkly contrasts the relative 'peace' of the 90's and 2010's. In five years, we have seen wars fought and ended, we've witnessed genocides start, and the world's reaction (and non-reaction) to those genocides ring around the globe. Especially in what we consider the Imperial core. In Europe, we see an unprecedented break in the bloc, with the foreign policy of many of the European powers turning sharply from set US doctrine. France and Britain, both imperialist powers, have an unprecedented change in their policy towards Israel and relations between the Zionist state and France and Britain are turning decidedly colder as they both state they can no longer 'ignore' Israel's crimes. On the other hand, states like Germany and Poland refuse and break and, along with the US, continue to support the Zionist entity even despite pressure from the working class in their countries. 

The apartheid entity's genocide in Gaza has proven to be embers on brush and caused unrest in many countries over the inaction or outward support of their governments for Israel, as well as dividing the Western imperial bloc over the issue. This unrest is also apparent in the occupied Turtle Island (North America). Canada, The United States, and Mexico have all faced unrest over the issue of Israel. Unrest in the latter two countries has only been increased by the growing US reaction. The unrest over the issue of Israel, US economic weakness, exploitation of culture war issues, and broader Imperial losses in the previous years have fueled the reactionary right of the United States to throw the Imperial Boomerang abroad. The Biden administration's failure to maintain dominance in the Sahel, the end of the imperial occupation of Afghanistan, as well as its failure to cripple or destroy Ansrallah in Operation Prosperity Guardian were apparent failures of American Imperial policy abroad—the latter two, which became major talking points of the American reactionary movement. The aforementioned unrest over the inaction of the Democratic party, in particular over the genocide in Gaza, and the growing culture war divide between the reactionary and non-reactionary sections of the Proletariat have left the United States of America grappling with their Imperial, Economic, and Racial, Sexual and Ideological positions. This was the United States's position before the conclusion of the 2024 election. After this, most of these issues expanded, and the embers were set on fire. The Trump Administration launched another operation to counter Yemen's blockade of Israel unsuccessfully.

Cultural war issues were put at the forefront of politics, and the US made several financial mistakes that caused economic unrest worldwide that we still do not know the consequences of. The US weakened its foreign policy even further by alienating its disjointed bloc and pulling away from the world stage. The implementation of far-reaching reactionary policies further fanned the flames of the volatile and uncertain situation in the US. In the summer of 2025, these flames are only growing. The reactionary government of the United States is using the Department of Homeland Security and its subordinate agency, ICE, as secret police to launch mass deportations across the country and targeting primarily Chicanos, Latin Migrants from all over the Americas and Indigenous people. These mass deportations have culminated in riots and action against the forces of the reactionary ICE, DHS and local police that support them. In Houston, San Antonio and Los Angeles, protests have been significant and fierce against ICE and the Reactionary government, with the largest protests in AL turning into clashes against DHS agents, local law enforcement and the National Guard against the mass deportations. 

The recent events leave high tensions at a boiling point and an uncertain future. Leaving many asking a simple question. What is to be done? I set out to look to the historic Revolutionary Republics for a solution to the US national question and the place of the historic Revolutionary Republics in current revolutionary politics. Let's begin by discussing what I mean by the "Revolutionary Republics". This is quite simple, referring to the historic proposals of revolutionary independent republics based on the self-determination of peoples and decolonisation of the occupied lands of the US and including but not limited to the general Land Back movement, the proposal of the Republic of New Afrika and Aztlan. These movements share basic goals of decolonisation, self-determination, anti-racism, and usually some revolutionary tendency of Marxism or Socialism. These movements found their basis in the revolutionary movements of the 60s and 70s. Although not as prominent today, these movements and the framework give us lessons to learn from and a political line to move towards for the decolonisation of the United States. We must move towards the Revolutionary Republics.  

The reactionary violence perpetrated by The imperial bourgeois class in America, both in its occupied territories and abroad, with the support of the white proletarian labour aristocracy in recent years, has led to the current head of the dire need to solve the fundamental questions of the matter of decolonisation of the United States (and the Americas more broadly). The African, Chicano, and Indigenous Americans make up around 45% of the American working class, not accounting for the imported labour and exported US industry. In the day of their original conception, the working class was far more dominated by white workers than it is now. Yet still, both the Black Working class and Chicano Working class strove for their rights as human beings for self-determination and the decolonisation of the Imperial US State. In our modern day, with mass deportation and a further fascist and reactionary movement in the US pushing towards the reality of an even harsher modern Jim Crow and the framework for genocidal removal of Chicanos and Native Americans from their occupied lands has made this political line a necessity. For the defence of Chicano, African and Indigenous communities, the rightful self-determination of these peoples, and to right the wrongs of the settler colonial United States before the settler movement gets even worse. 

First, let us look at the Republik of New Afrika. The Republik of New Afrika was first conceptualised at the Black Government Congress in 1968 after the fallout of the Detroit Riots in 1967. The Malcolm X Society and the Group on Advanced Leadership proposed the idea. At the conference, they set out and drafted a constitution and a declaration of independence and agreed on the Republic's borders. They also established a provisional governmental body, appointing Robert F. Williams as its first president. Robert was living in exile in China at the time of appointment, where he worked with Chairman Mao and educated the Chinese on the Black Liberation Movement. Well, he kept cultivating it with the lessons he learned there. In 1968, a delegation of The Republik of New Africa travelled to China, where Robert accepted his position. In this form, the Republik of New Africa was a significant component in the Black Power movement, with major parties like the BPP, BLA, and more supporting it and making liberation a primary goal. 

Today, the Republic still plays a massive part in Black Culture and revolutionary thought. The Republic of New Afrika must be established to represent the Africans who were kidnapped to the continent and their right of self-determination alongside the indigenous peoples that once called the occupied land of the Republic home. 

Aztlan was founded as an idea in very similar circumstances. The racism and oppression that Chicanos and Mexicans faced in the '60s were very similar to the plight of their African brothers fighting Jim Crow with very identical enemies. The white terrorist group the KKK hunted for Mexicans and 'guarded' the border in Texas, California, and other states, giving them free rein to lynch Chicanos and Mexican migrant workers.

At the same time, many of the same ways the white system disenfranchised and took away the rights of black people, both historically and today, also affect Chicanos and Latin migrants.  With this background, the manifesto of Aztlan was published in 1969 titled Plan Espiritual de Aztlán. Which set out a seven-part manifesto for the foundation of Aztlan and the protection of the rights of the Chicano people. 1. Unity, 2. Economy, 3. Education, 4. Self-Defense, 5. Institutions 6. Cultural 7. Political Liberation. These were the main points set out in the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan. Unity calls for the unity of Chicanos, the working class, and the middle class (and other groups) to be united in the liberation of Aztlan, setting out a similar unity principle as set out by Mao and Lin Biao in the doctrine of People's War. Economy calls for economic independence so that the Chicano working class should own their means of production for a more equal economic system based on the distribution of the economic resources. Education called for teaching Chicano history from a Chicano perspective. Self-defence calls for the right of the Chicano community to protect their communities and families from the outside threats of white hate groups, the fascist police and the military and calls for the formation of principled revolutionary defensive bodies. Institutions state that the Republic should serve the necessary means for all people in the Republic to live a full life and for the welfare of the people. And the restitution for past economic slavery. Culture calls for the rights and respect of Chicano culture and its right to exist. Political liberation calls for the Chicano to form revolutionary parties and bodies to liberate themselves. Recognising that the two white supremacist parties will never care for the rights and self-determination of the Chicano, it states the Chicano must follow the struggle for political liberation separately from the mainstream white supremacist capitalist politic. 

Many critics of Aztlan and Chicano nationalism exist both without and with valid points. One of the valid criticisms of the Chicano movement came from the Indigenous peoples. In the foundation of New Africa and Aztlan, the Indigenous peoples' will was not addressed appropriately, and we in the modern day must listen to and address them. The indigenous peoples must be allowed to pursue their rights as humans and workers to create their nations and have separate paths in the decolonisation of America! Indigenous peoples must have a voice and be listened to. Their rights must be respected, and the reparations in both the land that they were exterminated from and the economic, sexual and political slavery they have been forced under for the last 500 years be faced. Reparations for these horrid crimes must be made. The decolonisation and the whole writing of this paper means nothing if Aztlan and New Afrika do not listen to the indigenous peoples who were here first. Chicano culture specifically must be decolonised, and the role their ancestors played in the settler colonialism in the continent must be realised. The road ahead is long, and we must listen to our indigenous comrades lest this be for nothing at all. The decolonisation of America can only be achieved when the settler culture and settler systems are destroyed and a cultural revolution of decolonisation and cultural revival has occurred. 

So then, what is to be done? The answer is simple. Modern revolutionary bodies set forward and set in stone the political line of decolonisation, self-determination, economic liberation, and cultural revolution through the revolutionary tactics of people's war. The establishment of revolutionary provisional bodies led by the people for the self-defence and determination of the people and to set forward political education against settlers and reactionism. Whether the decolonisation of the Americas will follow the line I have put forward here is hard to say. I also do not know whether the historic republics will face a revival or be left to the past. However, I see them, at least in their goals and frameworks, as the guiding light we need to set forth for the liberation of the Americas. We must stand as educated and principled revolutionaries to liberate the Americas, and to do this, we should look toward the Republics. 

We must set forward and either change the current parties, i.e. turn the non-revolutionary bodies (PSL, DSA, CPUSA) into revolutionary bodies headed by our political line set here for the total decolonisation of the United States and have it set that our revolutionary bodies are set in the total economic liberation of all oppressed people in the Americas and that our revolutionary organisation are firmly set to the destruction of the settler culture and systems of the Americas. We also need to find our revolutionary bodies to safeguard the political line set forward here and provide self-defence and revolutionary education to the oppressed peoples of the non-revolutionary bodies that do not embrace the correct and revolutionary political line.  

The reactionary forces in America are stronger than ever, and fascism is here; it is the duty of all workers to combat this and protect their communities, and this revolutionary political line should be that framework. This framework is brief and relies on some teachings from the revolutionaries in Asia, mainly Chairman Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and others. We must look to the victories of their political line and their failures as both revolutions fell into reactionism and capitalist degeneration after their deaths and in the case of China becoming an imperialist superpower like the Soviet Union. We must secure the decolonial revolution and safeguard it afterwards because a new era of capitalism and settlerism must not take root in the Americas once the revolution is victorious. 

In conclusion, I implore you to take action both in the streets as part of the revolutionary body and in educating the existing settler systems and the revolutionary lines I use to inform this document. Read Mao, Read Ho Chi Minh, and attend revolutionary education groups if possible. And in those endeavours, keep this political line in mind: total decolonisation of the Americas towards the republics.  

[thegalievthought]

Towards Republics:

A Revolutionary Revival of The Revolutionary Republics

The past five years have proven to be extraordinary. The flames of revolution have burned brighter than ever since the turn of the millennia. With this, the imperial world grips tighter, too. Even still, from Africa to the Middle East, from the Americas to Asia, we see the rejection of the imperial system, especially that of US imperialism. This starkly contrasts the relative 'peace' of the 90's and 2010's. In five years, we have seen wars fought and ended, we've witnessed genocides start, and the world's reaction (and non-reaction) to those genocides ring around the globe. Especially in what we consider the Imperial core. In Europe, we see an unprecedented break in the bloc, with the foreign policy of many of the European powers turning sharply from set US doctrine. France and Britain, both imperialist powers, have an unprecedented change in their policy towards Israel and relations between the Zionist state and France and Britain are turning decidedly colder as they both state they can no longer 'ignore' Israel's crimes. On the other hand, states like Germany and Poland refuse and break and, along with the US, continue to support the Zionist entity even despite pressure from the working class in their countries. 

The apartheid entity's genocide in Gaza has proven to be embers on brush and caused unrest in many countries over the inaction or outward support of their governments for Israel, as well as dividing the Western imperial bloc over the issue. This unrest is also apparent in the occupied Turtle Island (North America). Canada, The United States, and Mexico have all faced unrest over the issue of Israel. Unrest in the latter two countries has only been increased by the growing US reaction. The unrest over the issue of Israel, US economic weakness, exploitation of culture war issues, and broader Imperial losses in the previous years have fueled the reactionary right of the United States to throw the Imperial Boomerang abroad. The Biden administration's failure to maintain dominance in the Sahel, the end of the imperial occupation of Afghanistan, as well as its failure to cripple or destroy Ansrallah in Operation Prosperity Guardian were apparent failures of American Imperial policy abroad—the latter two, which became major talking points of the American reactionary movement. The aforementioned unrest over the inaction of the Democratic party, in particular over the genocide in Gaza, and the growing culture war divide between the reactionary and non-reactionary sections of the Proletariat have left the United States of America grappling with their Imperial, Economic, and Racial, Sexual and Ideological positions. This was the United States's position before the conclusion of the 2024 election. After this, most of these issues expanded, and the embers were set on fire. The Trump Administration launched another operation to counter Yemen's blockade of Israel unsuccessfully.

Cultural war issues were put at the forefront of politics, and the US made several financial mistakes that caused economic unrest worldwide that we still do not know the consequences of. The US weakened its foreign policy even further by alienating its disjointed bloc and pulling away from the world stage. The implementation of far-reaching reactionary policies further fanned the flames of the volatile and uncertain situation in the US. In the summer of 2025, these flames are only growing. The reactionary government of the United States is using the Department of Homeland Security and its subordinate agency, ICE, as secret police to launch mass deportations across the country and targeting primarily Chicanos, Latin Migrants from all over the Americas and Indigenous people. These mass deportations have culminated in riots and action against the forces of the reactionary ICE, DHS and local police that support them. In Houston, San Antonio and Los Angeles, protests have been significant and fierce against ICE and the Reactionary government, with the largest protests in AL turning into clashes against DHS agents, local law enforcement and the National Guard against the mass deportations. 

The recent events leave high tensions at a boiling point and an uncertain future. Leaving many asking a simple question. What is to be done? I set out to look to the historic Revolutionary Republics for a solution to the US national question and the place of the historic Revolutionary Republics in current revolutionary politics. Let's begin by discussing what I mean by the "Revolutionary Republics". This is quite simple, referring to the historic proposals of revolutionary independent republics based on the self-determination of peoples and decolonisation of the occupied lands of the US and including but not limited to the general Land Back movement, the proposal of the Republic of New Afrika and Aztlan. These movements share basic goals of decolonisation, self-determination, anti-racism, and usually some revolutionary tendency of Marxism or Socialism. These movements found their basis in the revolutionary movements of the 60s and 70s. Although not as prominent today, these movements and the framework give us lessons to learn from and a political line to move towards for the decolonisation of the United States. We must move towards the Revolutionary Republics.  

The reactionary violence perpetrated by The imperial bourgeois class in America, both in its occupied territories and abroad, with the support of the white proletarian labour aristocracy in recent years, has led to the current head of the dire need to solve the fundamental questions of the matter of decolonisation of the United States (and the Americas more broadly). The African, Chicano, and Indigenous Americans make up around 45% of the American working class, not accounting for the imported labour and exported US industry. In the day of their original conception, the working class was far more dominated by white workers than it is now. Yet still, both the Black Working class and Chicano Working class strove for their rights as human beings for self-determination and the decolonisation of the Imperial US State. In our modern day, with mass deportation and a further fascist and reactionary movement in the US pushing towards the reality of an even harsher modern Jim Crow and the framework for genocidal removal of Chicanos and Native Americans from their occupied lands has made this political line a necessity. For the defence of Chicano, African and Indigenous communities, the rightful self-determination of these peoples, and to right the wrongs of the settler colonial United States before the settler movement gets even worse. 

First, let us look at the Republik of New Afrika. The Republik of New Afrika was first conceptualised at the Black Government Congress in 1968 after the fallout of the Detroit Riots in 1967. The Malcolm X Society and the Group on Advanced Leadership proposed the idea. At the conference, they set out and drafted a constitution and a declaration of independence and agreed on the Republic's borders. They also established a provisional governmental body, appointing Robert F. Williams as its first president. Robert was living in exile in China at the time of appointment, where he worked with Chairman Mao and educated the Chinese on the Black Liberation Movement. Well, he kept cultivating it with the lessons he learned there. In 1968, a delegation of The Republik of New Africa travelled to China, where Robert accepted his position. In this form, the Republik of New Africa was a significant component in the Black Power movement, with major parties like the BPP, BLA, and more supporting it and making liberation a primary goal. 

Today, the Republic still plays a massive part in Black Culture and revolutionary thought. The Republic of New Afrika must be established to represent the Africans who were kidnapped to the continent and their right of self-determination alongside the indigenous peoples that once called the occupied land of the Republic home. 

Aztlan was founded as an idea in very similar circumstances. The racism and oppression that Chicanos and Mexicans faced in the '60s were very similar to the plight of their African brothers fighting Jim Crow with very identical enemies. The white terrorist group the KKK hunted for Mexicans and 'guarded' the border in Texas, California, and other states, giving them free rein to lynch Chicanos and Mexican migrant workers.

At the same time, many of the same ways the white system disenfranchised and took away the rights of black people, both historically and today, also affect Chicanos and Latin migrants.  With this background, the manifesto of Aztlan was published in 1969 titled Plan Espiritual de Aztlán. Which set out a seven-part manifesto for the foundation of Aztlan and the protection of the rights of the Chicano people. 1. Unity, 2. Economy, 3. Education, 4. Self-Defense, 5. Institutions 6. Cultural 7. Political Liberation. These were the main points set out in the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan. Unity calls for the unity of Chicanos, the working class, and the middle class (and other groups) to be united in the liberation of Aztlan, setting out a similar unity principle as set out by Mao and Lin Biao in the doctrine of People's War. Economy calls for economic independence so that the Chicano working class should own their means of production for a more equal economic system based on the distribution of the economic resources. Education called for teaching Chicano history from a Chicano perspective. Self-defence calls for the right of the Chicano community to protect their communities and families from the outside threats of white hate groups, the fascist police and the military and calls for the formation of principled revolutionary defensive bodies. Institutions state that the Republic should serve the necessary means for all people in the Republic to live a full life and for the welfare of the people. And the restitution for past economic slavery. Culture calls for the rights and respect of Chicano culture and its right to exist. Political liberation calls for the Chicano to form revolutionary parties and bodies to liberate themselves. Recognising that the two white supremacist parties will never care for the rights and self-determination of the Chicano, it states the Chicano must follow the struggle for political liberation separately from the mainstream white supremacist capitalist politic. 

Many critics of Aztlan and Chicano nationalism exist both without and with valid points. One of the valid criticisms of the Chicano movement came from the Indigenous peoples. In the foundation of New Africa and Aztlan, the Indigenous peoples' will was not addressed appropriately, and we in the modern day must listen to and address them. The indigenous peoples must be allowed to pursue their rights as humans and workers to create their nations and have separate paths in the decolonisation of America! Indigenous peoples must have a voice and be listened to. Their rights must be respected, and the reparations in both the land that they were exterminated from and the economic, sexual and political slavery they have been forced under for the last 500 years be faced. Reparations for these horrid crimes must be made. The decolonisation and the whole writing of this paper means nothing if Aztlan and New Afrika do not listen to the indigenous peoples who were here first. Chicano culture specifically must be decolonised, and the role their ancestors played in the settler colonialism in the continent must be realised. The road ahead is long, and we must listen to our indigenous comrades lest this be for nothing at all. The decolonisation of America can only be achieved when the settler culture and settler systems are destroyed and a cultural revolution of decolonisation and cultural revival has occurred. 

So then, what is to be done? The answer is simple. Modern revolutionary bodies set forward and set in stone the political line of decolonisation, self-determination, economic liberation, and cultural revolution through the revolutionary tactics of people's war. The establishment of revolutionary provisional bodies led by the people for the self-defence and determination of the people and to set forward political education against settlers and reactionism. Whether the decolonisation of the Americas will follow the line I have put forward here is hard to say. I also do not know whether the historic republics will face a revival or be left to the past. However, I see them, at least in their goals and frameworks, as the guiding light we need to set forth for the liberation of the Americas. We must stand as educated and principled revolutionaries to liberate the Americas, and to do this, we should look toward the Republics. 

We must set forward and either change the current parties, i.e. turn the non-revolutionary bodies (PSL, DSA, CPUSA) into revolutionary bodies headed by our political line set here for the total decolonisation of the United States and have it set that our revolutionary bodies are set in the total economic liberation of all oppressed people in the Americas and that our revolutionary organisation are firmly set to the destruction of the settler culture and systems of the Americas. We also need to find our revolutionary bodies to safeguard the political line set forward here and provide self-defence and revolutionary education to the oppressed peoples of the non-revolutionary bodies that do not embrace the correct and revolutionary political line.  

The reactionary forces in America are stronger than ever, and fascism is here; it is the duty of all workers to combat this and protect their communities, and this revolutionary political line should be that framework. This framework is brief and relies on some teachings from the revolutionaries in Asia, mainly Chairman Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and others. We must look to the victories of their political line and their failures as both revolutions fell into reactionism and capitalist degeneration after their deaths and in the case of China becoming an imperialist superpower like the Soviet Union. We must secure the decolonial revolution and safeguard it afterwards because a new era of capitalism and settlerism must not take root in the Americas once the revolution is victorious. 

In conclusion, I implore you to take action both in the streets as part of the revolutionary body and in educating the existing settler systems and the revolutionary lines I use to inform this document. Read Mao, Read Ho Chi Minh, and attend revolutionary education groups if possible. And in those endeavours, keep this political line in mind: total decolonisation of the Americas towards the republics.  

[thegalievthought]

Towards Republics:

A Revolutionary Revival of The Revolutionary Republics

The past five years have proven to be extraordinary. The flames of revolution have burned brighter than ever since the turn of the millennia. With this, the imperial world grips tighter, too. Even still, from Africa to the Middle East, from the Americas to Asia, we see the rejection of the imperial system, especially that of US imperialism. This starkly contrasts the relative 'peace' of the 90's and 2010's. In five years, we have seen wars fought and ended, we've witnessed genocides start, and the world's reaction (and non-reaction) to those genocides ring around the globe. Especially in what we consider the Imperial core. In Europe, we see an unprecedented break in the bloc, with the foreign policy of many of the European powers turning sharply from set US doctrine. France and Britain, both imperialist powers, have an unprecedented change in their policy towards Israel and relations between the Zionist state and France and Britain are turning decidedly colder as they both state they can no longer 'ignore' Israel's crimes. On the other hand, states like Germany and Poland refuse and break and, along with the US, continue to support the Zionist entity even despite pressure from the working class in their countries. 

The apartheid entity's genocide in Gaza has proven to be embers on brush and caused unrest in many countries over the inaction or outward support of their governments for Israel, as well as dividing the Western imperial bloc over the issue. This unrest is also apparent in the occupied Turtle Island (North America). Canada, The United States, and Mexico have all faced unrest over the issue of Israel. Unrest in the latter two countries has only been increased by the growing US reaction. The unrest over the issue of Israel, US economic weakness, exploitation of culture war issues, and broader Imperial losses in the previous years have fueled the reactionary right of the United States to throw the Imperial Boomerang abroad. The Biden administration's failure to maintain dominance in the Sahel, the end of the imperial occupation of Afghanistan, as well as its failure to cripple or destroy Ansrallah in Operation Prosperity Guardian were apparent failures of American Imperial policy abroad—the latter two, which became major talking points of the American reactionary movement. The aforementioned unrest over the inaction of the Democratic party, in particular over the genocide in Gaza, and the growing culture war divide between the reactionary and non-reactionary sections of the Proletariat have left the United States of America grappling with their Imperial, Economic, and Racial, Sexual and Ideological positions. This was the United States's position before the conclusion of the 2024 election. After this, most of these issues expanded, and the embers were set on fire. The Trump Administration launched another operation to counter Yemen's blockade of Israel unsuccessfully.

Cultural war issues were put at the forefront of politics, and the US made several financial mistakes that caused economic unrest worldwide that we still do not know the consequences of. The US weakened its foreign policy even further by alienating its disjointed bloc and pulling away from the world stage. The implementation of far-reaching reactionary policies further fanned the flames of the volatile and uncertain situation in the US. In the summer of 2025, these flames are only growing. The reactionary government of the United States is using the Department of Homeland Security and its subordinate agency, ICE, as secret police to launch mass deportations across the country and targeting primarily Chicanos, Latin Migrants from all over the Americas and Indigenous people. These mass deportations have culminated in riots and action against the forces of the reactionary ICE, DHS and local police that support them. In Houston, San Antonio and Los Angeles, protests have been significant and fierce against ICE and the Reactionary government, with the largest protests in AL turning into clashes against DHS agents, local law enforcement and the National Guard against the mass deportations. 

The recent events leave high tensions at a boiling point and an uncertain future. Leaving many asking a simple question. What is to be done? I set out to look to the historic Revolutionary Republics for a solution to the US national question and the place of the historic Revolutionary Republics in current revolutionary politics. Let's begin by discussing what I mean by the "Revolutionary Republics". This is quite simple, referring to the historic proposals of revolutionary independent republics based on the self-determination of peoples and decolonisation of the occupied lands of the US and including but not limited to the general Land Back movement, the proposal of the Republic of New Afrika and Aztlan. These movements share basic goals of decolonisation, self-determination, anti-racism, and usually some revolutionary tendency of Marxism or Socialism. These movements found their basis in the revolutionary movements of the 60s and 70s. Although not as prominent today, these movements and the framework give us lessons to learn from and a political line to move towards for the decolonisation of the United States. We must move towards the Revolutionary Republics.  

The reactionary violence perpetrated by The imperial bourgeois class in America, both in its occupied territories and abroad, with the support of the white proletarian labour aristocracy in recent years, has led to the current head of the dire need to solve the fundamental questions of the matter of decolonisation of the United States (and the Americas more broadly). The African, Chicano, and Indigenous Americans make up around 45% of the American working class, not accounting for the imported labour and exported US industry. In the day of their original conception, the working class was far more dominated by white workers than it is now. Yet still, both the Black Working class and Chicano Working class strove for their rights as human beings for self-determination and the decolonisation of the Imperial US State. In our modern day, with mass deportation and a further fascist and reactionary movement in the US pushing towards the reality of an even harsher modern Jim Crow and the framework for genocidal removal of Chicanos and Native Americans from their occupied lands has made this political line a necessity. For the defence of Chicano, African and Indigenous communities, the rightful self-determination of these peoples, and to right the wrongs of the settler colonial United States before the settler movement gets even worse. 

First, let us look at the Republik of New Afrika. The Republik of New Afrika was first conceptualised at the Black Government Congress in 1968 after the fallout of the Detroit Riots in 1967. The Malcolm X Society and the Group on Advanced Leadership proposed the idea. At the conference, they set out and drafted a constitution and a declaration of independence and agreed on the Republic's borders. They also established a provisional governmental body, appointing Robert F. Williams as its first president. Robert was living in exile in China at the time of appointment, where he worked with Chairman Mao and educated the Chinese on the Black Liberation Movement. Well, he kept cultivating it with the lessons he learned there. In 1968, a delegation of The Republik of New Africa travelled to China, where Robert accepted his position. In this form, the Republik of New Africa was a significant component in the Black Power movement, with major parties like the BPP, BLA, and more supporting it and making liberation a primary goal. 

Today, the Republic still plays a massive part in Black Culture and revolutionary thought. The Republic of New Afrika must be established to represent the Africans who were kidnapped to the continent and their right of self-determination alongside the indigenous peoples that once called the occupied land of the Republic home. 

Aztlan was founded as an idea in very similar circumstances. The racism and oppression that Chicanos and Mexicans faced in the '60s were very similar to the plight of their African brothers fighting Jim Crow with very identical enemies. The white terrorist group the KKK hunted for Mexicans and 'guarded' the border in Texas, California, and other states, giving them free rein to lynch Chicanos and Mexican migrant workers.

At the same time, many of the same ways the white system disenfranchised and took away the rights of black people, both historically and today, also affect Chicanos and Latin migrants.  With this background, the manifesto of Aztlan was published in 1969 titled Plan Espiritual de Aztlán. Which set out a seven-part manifesto for the foundation of Aztlan and the protection of the rights of the Chicano people. 1. Unity, 2. Economy, 3. Education, 4. Self-Defense, 5. Institutions 6. Cultural 7. Political Liberation. These were the main points set out in the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan. Unity calls for the unity of Chicanos, the working class, and the middle class (and other groups) to be united in the liberation of Aztlan, setting out a similar unity principle as set out by Mao and Lin Biao in the doctrine of People's War. Economy calls for economic independence so that the Chicano working class should own their means of production for a more equal economic system based on the distribution of the economic resources. Education called for teaching Chicano history from a Chicano perspective. Self-defence calls for the right of the Chicano community to protect their communities and families from the outside threats of white hate groups, the fascist police and the military and calls for the formation of principled revolutionary defensive bodies. Institutions state that the Republic should serve the necessary means for all people in the Republic to live a full life and for the welfare of the people. And the restitution for past economic slavery. Culture calls for the rights and respect of Chicano culture and its right to exist. Political liberation calls for the Chicano to form revolutionary parties and bodies to liberate themselves. Recognising that the two white supremacist parties will never care for the rights and self-determination of the Chicano, it states the Chicano must follow the struggle for political liberation separately from the mainstream white supremacist capitalist politic. 

Many critics of Aztlan and Chicano nationalism exist both without and with valid points. One of the valid criticisms of the Chicano movement came from the Indigenous peoples. In the foundation of New Africa and Aztlan, the Indigenous peoples' will was not addressed appropriately, and we in the modern day must listen to and address them. The indigenous peoples must be allowed to pursue their rights as humans and workers to create their nations and have separate paths in the decolonisation of America! Indigenous peoples must have a voice and be listened to. Their rights must be respected, and the reparations in both the land that they were exterminated from and the economic, sexual and political slavery they have been forced under for the last 500 years be faced. Reparations for these horrid crimes must be made. The decolonisation and the whole writing of this paper means nothing if Aztlan and New Afrika do not listen to the indigenous peoples who were here first. Chicano culture specifically must be decolonised, and the role their ancestors played in the settler colonialism in the continent must be realised. The road ahead is long, and we must listen to our indigenous comrades lest this be for nothing at all. The decolonisation of America can only be achieved when the settler culture and settler systems are destroyed and a cultural revolution of decolonisation and cultural revival has occurred. 

So then, what is to be done? The answer is simple. Modern revolutionary bodies set forward and set in stone the political line of decolonisation, self-determination, economic liberation, and cultural revolution through the revolutionary tactics of people's war. The establishment of revolutionary provisional bodies led by the people for the self-defence and determination of the people and to set forward political education against settlers and reactionism. Whether the decolonisation of the Americas will follow the line I have put forward here is hard to say. I also do not know whether the historic republics will face a revival or be left to the past. However, I see them, at least in their goals and frameworks, as the guiding light we need to set forth for the liberation of the Americas. We must stand as educated and principled revolutionaries to liberate the Americas, and to do this, we should look toward the Republics. 

We must set forward and either change the current parties, i.e. turn the non-revolutionary bodies (PSL, DSA, CPUSA) into revolutionary bodies headed by our political line set here for the total decolonisation of the United States and have it set that our revolutionary bodies are set in the total economic liberation of all oppressed people in the Americas and that our revolutionary organisation are firmly set to the destruction of the settler culture and systems of the Americas. We also need to find our revolutionary bodies to safeguard the political line set forward here and provide self-defence and revolutionary education to the oppressed peoples of the non-revolutionary bodies that do not embrace the correct and revolutionary political line.  

The reactionary forces in America are stronger than ever, and fascism is here; it is the duty of all workers to combat this and protect their communities, and this revolutionary political line should be that framework. This framework is brief and relies on some teachings from the revolutionaries in Asia, mainly Chairman Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and others. We must look to the victories of their political line and their failures as both revolutions fell into reactionism and capitalist degeneration after their deaths and in the case of China becoming an imperialist superpower like the Soviet Union. We must secure the decolonial revolution and safeguard it afterwards because a new era of capitalism and settlerism must not take root in the Americas once the revolution is victorious. 

In conclusion, I implore you to take action both in the streets as part of the revolutionary body and in educating the existing settler systems and the revolutionary lines I use to inform this document. Read Mao, Read Ho Chi Minh, and attend revolutionary education groups if possible. And in those endeavours, keep this political line in mind: total decolonisation of the Americas towards the republics.  

[thegalievthought]

A Letter To The Comrades In The SDF

My message, to the various groups of the SDF, who are as varied as life in the sea. To those who said you would stand up, and defend and get justice for the people of the coast. Will you comply with this treaty? Can you morally do that? Now with this treaty that the American Fascist Trump put on you, you will be allies with the same terrorists who helped kill your families years ago. The same terrorists who killed hundreds of innocent people in the coast. And will be forced to by proxy be allies with the fascist Turkish government that seeks the total annihilation of the Kurdish, Armenian, and Alawite peoples. This treaty in one signature signs away all you have fought. It signs away your dignity as humans to defend the revolutions you made, it signs away your dignity as humans to defend your homes, families, and people you swore to protect. It signs away the women's revolution of the YPG and others, it is very clear that this treaty in all terms was unacceptable. To collude with the enemy in this way should have been unthinkable. Yet your leaders signed it because they would rather listen to the fascists in DC rather than you. It wasn't unthinkable in fact to them it was acceptable and I am sure the rewards to your leaders will be bountiful as all you fought for is taken away. So to you who sacrificed everything, for years in fighting to define all that you love, do not let your so-called leaders sign it over to the enemy terrorist government in Damascus. Do not let them sign away all you worked for, all you fought for, all your comrades, your brothers and sisters died for. This is not the time to stand for peace when the enemy has guns to the heads of countless innocents! Now is the time to stand up for justice, for the innocent civilians who can't stand up for themselves. Stand there are the shield against the terrorist, fascist and now that it has been seen to be Trump's aim to disarm you to help the terrorist. Stand as a shield against the imperialists in Washington DC and Tel Aviv. 

The most revolutionary endeavor is the hope for justice and peace, the offer made and the treaty signed today was not made in consideration of either. So to the comrades I address here do not stand for it. This is selling all the principles you have and all that you have left.

[thegalievthought]

A Letter To The Comrades In The SDF

My message, to the various groups of the SDF, who are as varied as life in the sea. To those who said you would stand up, and defend and get justice for the people of the coast. Will you comply with this treaty? Can you morally do that? Now with this treaty that the American Fascist Trump put on you, you will be allies with the same terrorists who helped kill your families years ago. The same terrorists who killed hundreds of innocent people in the coast. And will be forced to by proxy be allies with the fascist Turkish government that seeks the total annihilation of the Kurdish, Armenian, and Alawite peoples. This treaty in one signature signs away all you have fought. It signs away your dignity as humans to defend the revolutions you made, it signs away your dignity as humans to defend your homes, families, and people you swore to protect. It signs away the women's revolution of the YPG and others, it is very clear that this treaty in all terms was unacceptable. To collude with the enemy in this way should have been unthinkable. Yet your leaders signed it because they would rather listen to the fascists in DC rather than you. It wasn't unthinkable in fact to them it was acceptable and I am sure the rewards to your leaders will be bountiful as all you fought for is taken away. So to you who sacrificed everything, for years in fighting to define all that you love, do not let your so-called leaders sign it over to the enemy terrorist government in Damascus. Do not let them sign away all you worked for, all you fought for, all your comrades, your brothers and sisters died for. This is not the time to stand for peace when the enemy has guns to the heads of countless innocents! Now is the time to stand up for justice, for the innocent civilians who can't stand up for themselves. Stand there are the shield against the terrorist, fascist and now that it has been seen to be Trump's aim to disarm you to help the terrorist. Stand as a shield against the imperialists in Washington DC and Tel Aviv. 

The most revolutionary endeavor is the hope for justice and peace, the offer made and the treaty signed today was not made in consideration of either. So to the comrades I address here do not stand for it. This is selling all the principles you have and all that you have left.

[thegalievthought]

Another Black Man Lynched

At six, ten pm, on September, twenty-fourth, twenty, twenty-four. Another black man was lynched. For nearly thirty years, Imam Khaliifah Williams was imprisoned on death row. During those decades in prison, Imam Khaliifah faced hardships beyond what we can comprehend the constant discrimination and injustice he faced in his fight for freedom. Imam Khaliifah was an innocent man. Yet he was executed. Many would wrongly say that the evidence stacked against Imam Khaliifah would have been mountainous. However, in reality, the foundations of his death were based on two ‘witness’ testimonies from his cellmate and his girlfriend, which they both say Imam Khaliifah confessed to them. His girlfriend even said she saw him with stolen items and saw him disposing of the clothes he wore during the alleged murder, none of which were found. It’s more likely they both wanted the ten thousand dollar reward for information. Because there is no evidence that linked Imam Khaliifah to the crime physically. Twice before Imam Khaliifah had been scheduled to be murdered by the state and both were halted to do DNA testing, one in 2015 and the other in 2017. The one in 2017 was DNA testing on the murder weapon, which could not be tied to Imam Khaliifah at all; his finger prints nor any other DNA evidence were ever found on the knife. 

So instead of there being a mountain of evidence for Imam Khaliifah's guilt. There is a mountain showing that he is innocent, that he was chosen not because he was guilty but because he was black. Even up to his most recent trials, his attorney and many others have questioned jury selection and how the evidence we talked about was handled. Including DNA on the knife from mishandling by the prosecution! Imam Khaliifah's lawyers, the prosecution and the victim's family came together and agreed to a no-contest plea to change his sentence from death to life without parole also! Which the AG of Missouri Andrew Bailey refused, which lead to the recent Missouri Supreme Court case which allowed for Imam Khaliifah to be murdered despite the wants of the victim's family, despite the gross lack of evidence that Imam Khaliifah committed the crime, by the allowance of Andrew Bailey the state of Missouri made an example of Imam Khaliifah they lynched him and made him another in a long line of martyrs before him. The Republican party wanted to set an example again to the black folk to stay in their place. To not shake the nest. Imam Khaliifah Williams was murdered to make an example when his execution was entirely preventable. It went through because racist white men in Missouri wanted to see another black man die. Imam Khaliifah Williams joins the likes of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, George Floyd, reverend Martin Luther King and thousands more. If any amongst you were ever of the illusion that times had changed that black folk won't get lynched anymore, let the death of Imam Khaliifah show you. The Republican Klansmen are more than happy to not only support it when they see a black person lynched. They will do it themselves. Imam Williams didn't have to die. The death of Imam Khaliifah Williams was a lynching.

[thegalievthought]

Another Black Man Lynched

At six, ten pm, on September, twenty-fourth, twenty, twenty-four. Another black man was lynched. For nearly thirty years, Imam Khaliifah Williams was imprisoned on death row. During those decades in prison, Imam Khaliifah faced hardships beyond what we can comprehend the constant discrimination and injustice he faced in his fight for freedom. Imam Khaliifah was an innocent man. Yet he was executed. Many would wrongly say that the evidence stacked against Imam Khaliifah would have been mountainous. However, in reality, the foundations of his death were based on two ‘witness’ testimonies from his cellmate and his girlfriend, which they both say Imam Khaliifah confessed to them. His girlfriend even said she saw him with stolen items and saw him disposing of the clothes he wore during the alleged murder, none of which were found. It’s more likely they both wanted the ten thousand dollar reward for information. Because there is no evidence that linked Imam Khaliifah to the crime physically. Twice before Imam Khaliifah had been scheduled to be murdered by the state and both were halted to do DNA testing, one in 2015 and the other in 2017. The one in 2017 was DNA testing on the murder weapon, which could not be tied to Imam Khaliifah at all; his finger prints nor any other DNA evidence were ever found on the knife. 

So instead of there being a mountain of evidence for Imam Khaliifah's guilt. There is a mountain showing that he is innocent, that he was chosen not because he was guilty but because he was black. Even up to his most recent trials, his attorney and many others have questioned jury selection and how the evidence we talked about was handled. Including DNA on the knife from mishandling by the prosecution! Imam Khaliifah's lawyers, the prosecution and the victim's family came together and agreed to a no-contest plea to change his sentence from death to life without parole also! Which the AG of Missouri Andrew Bailey refused, which lead to the recent Missouri Supreme Court case which allowed for Imam Khaliifah to be murdered despite the wants of the victim's family, despite the gross lack of evidence that Imam Khaliifah committed the crime, by the allowance of Andrew Bailey the state of Missouri made an example of Imam Khaliifah they lynched him and made him another in a long line of martyrs before him. The Republican party wanted to set an example again to the black folk to stay in their place. To not shake the nest. Imam Khaliifah Williams was murdered to make an example when his execution was entirely preventable. It went through because racist white men in Missouri wanted to see another black man die. Imam Khaliifah Williams joins the likes of Emmett Till, Medgar Evers, George Floyd, reverend Martin Luther King and thousands more. If any amongst you were ever of the illusion that times had changed that black folk won't get lynched anymore, let the death of Imam Khaliifah show you. The Republican Klansmen are more than happy to not only support it when they see a black person lynched. They will do it themselves. Imam Williams didn't have to die. The death of Imam Khaliifah Williams was a lynching.

[thegalievthought]

The State of The International Proletariat

The State of The International Proletariat report May 1 2024

Yesterday April 30th marked the 49th anniversary of the liberation of Saigon by the National Liberation Front. Yesterday in Vietnam, celebrations took place reflecting the history and heroics of those who gave their lives to liberate Vietnam from France and then the American occupation government. However, like many celebrations in recent days, since 2023, there has been a shift in the focus of many celebrations. Just as much as yesterday’s celebrations were about a united and free Vietnam, too many it was also about those who were still unfree. This led to the Peoples’ War in Palestine that was reignited on October 7th in what many are calling the 3rd Intifada. And the reactionary genocide that Isreal is carrying out as revenge. Vietnam, however, is not the only nation to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their fight against apartheid. In recent days, people from all around the world have come together and drew a line to say ‘no more’. The international proletariat spearheaded these movements directly. Facing state repression and violence as a reaction to the solidarity of the working class is showing the Palestinian People, So on this the 135th International Workers Day, we wish to publish the State of The International Proletariat to examine the state of causes from the international proletariat and the world more broadly. 

We will break this down into two regions, Asia, and Africa will break this report down. We wish to now necessarily be comprehensive but give a general state of the class warfare and solidarity of class warfare as it has happened between 2023 and now.  

To begin, the first region we will be covering is Asia. Asia has been one of the most active regions in the past decades and the 2020s are no different, being a general hotbed of action. In Southeast Asia, conflicts have been smouldering. The civil war in Myanmar which started in 2021 after the Tatmadaw coup, where the military seized power from the popular bourgeois government in Myanmar. In 2023, the peoples’ war in Myanmar exploded with the various regional factions and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (the armed wing of the Myanmar National Truth and Justice Party) playing a leading role in challenging the Junta in Myanmar with its allies in the Northern Alliance. Other proletarian groups wage people’s war against the Tatmadaw, such as the People’s Defence Force and People’s Liberation Army, who are also fighting against the Junta. Various working class and bourgeoisie elements have united in this popular front against the Tatmadaw to restore democracy and, for many groups, to gain the autonomy denied to them by previous governments. Additionally, many groups in the Northern Alliance demand to separate from Myanmar and be allowed to be free and independent.

Elsewhere in Asia, typical petty imperialism continues to be prevalent. The reactionary government in Indonesia, which destroyed the revolutionary government in 1965 with the aid of the United States and United Kingdom, continues to wage its destructive and genocidal war in West Papua. The West Papua National Liberation Army continues its decades long war with the Imperialist Indonesian state. Proletarian activists, especially in Australia and New Zealand have begun to bring light to the issue bring the war and genocide in West Papua to be more than a niche geopolitical conflict that gets no attention and put pressure on the bourgeois who make millions funding Indonesias imperialist actions in the region. 

In the Indian subcontinent, tensions continue to rise, especially around the occupied Khalistan. The movement has seen a resurgence, especially after the new head of the movement, Amritpal Singh returned to India to make further moves to fight for Khalistan. In 2023, the fascist Modi government arrested him and many of his associates as part of a larger crackdown on Sikh politics internally and abroad. The Modi government allegedly attempted to assassinate Khalistan activists abroad, including Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whom the Canadian government firmly accused the Indian government of assassinating. Meanwhile, in 2024 tensions only continue to rise in India as rebel groups from Khalistan and many other such as the Naxalites who continue to fight a people’s war in India target senior members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Party of Prime Minister Modi), police and military targets with many smaller militias all over the subcontinent fighting Modi’s government for various reasons, India, in the opinion of many, is a powder-keg waiting to explode. With many smaller insurgencies only waiting to burst into a wider civil war like in the neighbouring Myanmar, 

Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the working class actively fights against foreign influence and military corruption to secure justice for Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was arrested in 2023. Demonstrations and protests in Pakistan have been common, as many want Imran Khan released and restored as Prime Minister of Pakistan. He and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have been widely popular because of challenging the norms of Pakistani politics and making real changes to the corrupt system of Pakistan. These protests remained common all the way up till the recent Pakistan general elections. Where the working class accused the corrupt military of Pakistan of rigging the elections in favour of less popular parties. Which sparked widespread outrage and demonstrations which were suppressed by the military and police.

At the same time in occupied Balochistan, both Iran and Pakistan still suppress the region heavily in 2024 strikes being carried out against Islamist separatist militias in Balochistan by Iran, causing temporary tensions between Iran and Pakistan. 

Meanwhile, in Asia, the true defining conflict of  2023 and 2024 has been the start of the Third Intifada, the subsequent genocide carried out against Palestine, by Israel and the regional conflict the war has exploded into. As we all know, on October 7th 2023, the militias of Gaza made the decision due to the continued Israeli blockade and the living situation in Gaza quickly becoming untenable due to population growth, all of which was reported by the UN in 2015. This led to the political situation in Gaza to be one of the necessary change and fast. Before October 7th already many Gazan survived on just three to eight litres of water per day. Which led to the opening battle of the third Intifada, the October 7th Attack. The attack saw various militias take the IDF by surprise and captured numerous positions and held them for many hours, only fully were the militias pushed back to Gaza a few days after October 7th. After that is when Israel cut off all resources to Gaza in what has since been declared by many workers a breach of humanitarian law. This was followed by‌ several weeks of bombing leading up to the ground invasion of Gaza and the beginning of the genocide proper by Isreal. Over the next six months, the conflict which started in Gaza had exploded to the whole region with groups like Hezb-Allah, Ansar-Allah and Kateb Hezb-Allah all striking Israel within weeks of the conflicts beginning and they still play an active and constant Role six months after the fighting has begun. But it is from Palestine and the genocide that many workers worldwide have seen hope still flourish. With statements from two factions fighting the people’s war in Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine have played major roles in the Third Intifada, making some of the most inspiring propaganda and unifying the working class in ways not seen in over three decades. And we wish to note that in all the countries and movements we have talked about so far, all of them have shown solidarity and unity with Palestine. Palestine has united the world in bravery and action. And even in America today we see the bravery inspire as students fight for what’s right in universities all over the Americas and world facing violence and repression like they did at CUNY with the NYPD forcefully beating and arresting many students at CUNY the night of April 30th. 

Palestine has, with her actions for her freedom, inspired the whole world to strive for their freedom and to support Palestine in the same. This has led to a certain uptick in activity in Georgia experiencing protests by the working class against corruption and the Russian puppet government, and in Armenia against Azerbaijan expansionism. 

And even in Sudan, a nation which has been gripped by turmoil and civil war as Russian, CAR and UAE backed Rapid Support Forces cause mass death and destruction in the country. Even their solidarity and hope remain as the people’s war led by the Sudanese Communist Party fights against both the RSF and the government to liberate Sudan, and in the Congo, which faces imperialism too from its neighbours. This May Day report is to highlight all the struggles of the 3rd world. Of all oppressed nations. However, in this year 2024, to do that is impossible without giving tremendous praise and support to Palestine. Palestine is the heart of the 3rd world. Palestine is the heart of resistance, Palestine is the heart of the working class. Which is why on this International workers’ day we must remain steadfast and stalwart in support of all people’s wars waging against tyranny and fascism. From the Philippines to West Papua, from West Papua to Myanmar, to Myanmar to Khalistan, From Khalistan and Naxal to Pakistan, from Pakistan and Balochistan to Palestine and Sudan. The whole world must be united in bravery, in solidarity. For a free world, or as Ho Chi Mihn once said. “Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty,”. This remains true today more than ever before. So long live the victory of the people’s war in Vietnam, and pass the banner of victory forward to the new generation of freedom movements. For we have a world to win. Long Live the Victory of People’s War!

Now The Internationale In Arabic

هـبوا ضحايا الاضـــطهاد ضحايـا جـــوع الاضطـرار

بـركــان الـفكـر في اتـّـقاد هــذا آخــــــر انـــفـــــجــار

هــــيا نحــو كــــل ما مـر ثــوروا حـطـموا الـقــــيــود

شــــيـدوا الكون جديد حر كــونـــوا أنــتـم الــــوجـــود

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

يـكـفي عــزاء بــــالخـيال عـــلـيـنا العــبء لا منــاص

فــيا عـــــمّــال لـــلنـضال فـــفي يـــميــنـنا الـخـــلاص

احموا الكور ضعوا الحديد و دقــــــوه على احـــــمـرار

يـريد الــشعــب أن يــسود فـــكـــوا الــــروح من اســار

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

حــكــمٌ و شــــرعٌ ظالمان مــأجـــوران لـلأغـــنــيــــاء

حــديــث فـــارغ الـمعــان ذكــــــر حــقـوق الــفـقـــراء

دعــوا الهـــزء بالــمساواة فـــلـلمـــســـــاواة طــــريــق

الـــحــقــوق بالـواجــبــات و الواجـبــات بـالـــحـــقــوق

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

أســيادنــا المــسـتـثــمرونا فــوق شـــواهــق الــعــروش

كـــم سلــبـونا الملايــيــــنا و لـم يُـــبـقـوا لــنـا الـقـروش

ذهـــــبٌ فــوق أن يُـــــحـدّ مُــصّ مــن دم الـعـــــــروق

يـــريــد الـــشعـب أن يـرد و لــم يــرد ســـوى الحقـوق

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

إنــنــا سـكـرنا مــن دخــانِ أســـيــادٍ ســـمـموا الحــــياة

أذيــعـوا دعـــــوة الأمــــان فـيـنا وســــحـق الــطــــغاة

فـللإضــراب يـا جــيـــوش فـفي إضــرابــنــا الخــلاص

أن يـأبــى ذلــك الـــوحوش فـــعـنـدنـا لــهـم رصــــاص

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

الــعـــــمال والفـــلاحـــونا جــمـيعـا حـزب الكـادحـيـن

أرض مــلــك المــنـتـجـيــنا فــمـا بـــقــاء الــخامــلــيــن

كــم تـمــزق الــــلحم مـــنـا مـــخــالــب الــمــفــترسـين

أجــلــوا سـود الغـربان عـنا تــشـرق الشمس كـل حـيـن

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

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(Ammar, A. (n.d.). “barely a drop to drink”: Children in the Gaza Strip do not access 90 per cent of their normal water use. UNICEF. https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/barely-drop-drink-children-gaza-strip-do-not-access-90-cent-their-normal-water-use)

(Al Jazeera. (2024, April 8). Anti-coup forces claim control of key myanmar border town. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/8/anti-coup-forces-claim-control-of-key-myanmar-border-town)

(Al Jazeera. (2024b, April 29). The take: Could Myanmar’s coup come to an end? https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/4/29/the-take-could-myanmars-coup-come-to-an-end) 

(Miller, G., Shih, G., & Nakashima, E. (2024, April 29). India’s Intelligence Service takes a deadly turn and stuns Washington - The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/)

(TNN / Updated: Mar 7, 2024. (2024, March 27). BJP worker hacked to death by Maoists; ninth in bastar region since last year: Raipur News - Times of India. The Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/bjp-worker-hacked-to-death-by-maoists-ninth-in-bastar-region-since-last-year/articleshow/108284527.cms)

(Al Jazeera. (2023, April 23). Amritpal Singh: Who is he and why was he arrested? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/23/amritpal-singh-who-is-he-and-why-was-he-arrested)

(Mogul, R. (2023, September 29). India raids 53 sites nationwide as crackdown on Sikh separatists deepens. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/india/india-anti-terror-raids-khalistan-intl-hnk/index.html)

(Kachmar, O. (2023, September 15). Pakistan faces rising separatist insurgency in Balochistan. New Lines Institute. https://newlinesinstitute.org/nonstate-actors/pakistan-faces-rising-separatist-insurgency-in-balochistan/)

(Davies, P. A. and C. (2024, January 17). Iran admits carrying out deadly strike on Pakistan Territory. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67999465)

(Wangge, H. (2023, March 14). Why Indonesia fails to address the west papua conflict. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/3/14/why-indonesia-is-losing-the-west-papua-conflict)

(Ahmed, M. (2024, February 29). Pakistan swears in new Parliament amid chaotic scenes as Imran Khan’s followers protests vote count. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-parliament-protest-imran-khan-126fd56bc43edbf2ae9a8499fe79867a)

(CBS Interactive. (n.d.). Pro-Palestinian protests spread, get more heated as schools’ reactions differ. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-palestinian-protests-spread-more-heated-schools-reactions-differ-israel-hamas-war/ )

(Al Jazeera. (2024a, February 17). Thousands take part in pro-Palestine protests across the world. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/17/thousands-take-part-in-pro-palestine-protests-across-the-world )

(Lisa. (2024, January 29). Sudan Communist Party and SLM-aw sign agreement in Juba. Dabanga Radio TV Online. https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-communist-party-and-slm-aw-sign-agreement-in-juba)

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The State of The International Proletariat

The State of The International Proletariat report May 1 2024

Yesterday April 30th marked the 49th anniversary of the liberation of Saigon by the National Liberation Front. Yesterday in Vietnam, celebrations took place reflecting the history and heroics of those who gave their lives to liberate Vietnam from France and then the American occupation government. However, like many celebrations in recent days, since 2023, there has been a shift in the focus of many celebrations. Just as much as yesterday’s celebrations were about a united and free Vietnam, too many it was also about those who were still unfree. This led to the Peoples’ War in Palestine that was reignited on October 7th in what many are calling the 3rd Intifada. And the reactionary genocide that Isreal is carrying out as revenge. Vietnam, however, is not the only nation to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their fight against apartheid. In recent days, people from all around the world have come together and drew a line to say ‘no more’. The international proletariat spearheaded these movements directly. Facing state repression and violence as a reaction to the solidarity of the working class is showing the Palestinian People, So on this the 135th International Workers Day, we wish to publish the State of The International Proletariat to examine the state of causes from the international proletariat and the world more broadly. 

We will break this down into two regions, Asia, and Africa will break this report down. We wish to now necessarily be comprehensive but give a general state of the class warfare and solidarity of class warfare as it has happened between 2023 and now.  

To begin, the first region we will be covering is Asia. Asia has been one of the most active regions in the past decades and the 2020s are no different, being a general hotbed of action. In Southeast Asia, conflicts have been smouldering. The civil war in Myanmar which started in 2021 after the Tatmadaw coup, where the military seized power from the popular bourgeois government in Myanmar. In 2023, the peoples’ war in Myanmar exploded with the various regional factions and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (the armed wing of the Myanmar National Truth and Justice Party) playing a leading role in challenging the Junta in Myanmar with its allies in the Northern Alliance. Other proletarian groups wage people’s war against the Tatmadaw, such as the People’s Defence Force and People’s Liberation Army, who are also fighting against the Junta. Various working class and bourgeoisie elements have united in this popular front against the Tatmadaw to restore democracy and, for many groups, to gain the autonomy denied to them by previous governments. Additionally, many groups in the Northern Alliance demand to separate from Myanmar and be allowed to be free and independent.

Elsewhere in Asia, typical petty imperialism continues to be prevalent. The reactionary government in Indonesia, which destroyed the revolutionary government in 1965 with the aid of the United States and United Kingdom, continues to wage its destructive and genocidal war in West Papua. The West Papua National Liberation Army continues its decades long war with the Imperialist Indonesian state. Proletarian activists, especially in Australia and New Zealand have begun to bring light to the issue bring the war and genocide in West Papua to be more than a niche geopolitical conflict that gets no attention and put pressure on the bourgeois who make millions funding Indonesias imperialist actions in the region. 

In the Indian subcontinent, tensions continue to rise, especially around the occupied Khalistan. The movement has seen a resurgence, especially after the new head of the movement, Amritpal Singh returned to India to make further moves to fight for Khalistan. In 2023, the fascist Modi government arrested him and many of his associates as part of a larger crackdown on Sikh politics internally and abroad. The Modi government allegedly attempted to assassinate Khalistan activists abroad, including Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whom the Canadian government firmly accused the Indian government of assassinating. Meanwhile, in 2024 tensions only continue to rise in India as rebel groups from Khalistan and many other such as the Naxalites who continue to fight a people’s war in India target senior members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Party of Prime Minister Modi), police and military targets with many smaller militias all over the subcontinent fighting Modi’s government for various reasons, India, in the opinion of many, is a powder-keg waiting to explode. With many smaller insurgencies only waiting to burst into a wider civil war like in the neighbouring Myanmar, 

Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the working class actively fights against foreign influence and military corruption to secure justice for Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was arrested in 2023. Demonstrations and protests in Pakistan have been common, as many want Imran Khan released and restored as Prime Minister of Pakistan. He and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have been widely popular because of challenging the norms of Pakistani politics and making real changes to the corrupt system of Pakistan. These protests remained common all the way up till the recent Pakistan general elections. Where the working class accused the corrupt military of Pakistan of rigging the elections in favour of less popular parties. Which sparked widespread outrage and demonstrations which were suppressed by the military and police.

At the same time in occupied Balochistan, both Iran and Pakistan still suppress the region heavily in 2024 strikes being carried out against Islamist separatist militias in Balochistan by Iran, causing temporary tensions between Iran and Pakistan. 

Meanwhile, in Asia, the true defining conflict of  2023 and 2024 has been the start of the Third Intifada, the subsequent genocide carried out against Palestine, by Israel and the regional conflict the war has exploded into. As we all know, on October 7th 2023, the militias of Gaza made the decision due to the continued Israeli blockade and the living situation in Gaza quickly becoming untenable due to population growth, all of which was reported by the UN in 2015. This led to the political situation in Gaza to be one of the necessary change and fast. Before October 7th already many Gazan survived on just three to eight litres of water per day. Which led to the opening battle of the third Intifada, the October 7th Attack. The attack saw various militias take the IDF by surprise and captured numerous positions and held them for many hours, only fully were the militias pushed back to Gaza a few days after October 7th. After that is when Israel cut off all resources to Gaza in what has since been declared by many workers a breach of humanitarian law. This was followed by‌ several weeks of bombing leading up to the ground invasion of Gaza and the beginning of the genocide proper by Isreal. Over the next six months, the conflict which started in Gaza had exploded to the whole region with groups like Hezb-Allah, Ansar-Allah and Kateb Hezb-Allah all striking Israel within weeks of the conflicts beginning and they still play an active and constant Role six months after the fighting has begun. But it is from Palestine and the genocide that many workers worldwide have seen hope still flourish. With statements from two factions fighting the people’s war in Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine have played major roles in the Third Intifada, making some of the most inspiring propaganda and unifying the working class in ways not seen in over three decades. And we wish to note that in all the countries and movements we have talked about so far, all of them have shown solidarity and unity with Palestine. Palestine has united the world in bravery and action. And even in America today we see the bravery inspire as students fight for what’s right in universities all over the Americas and world facing violence and repression like they did at CUNY with the NYPD forcefully beating and arresting many students at CUNY the night of April 30th. 

Palestine has, with her actions for her freedom, inspired the whole world to strive for their freedom and to support Palestine in the same. This has led to a certain uptick in activity in Georgia experiencing protests by the working class against corruption and the Russian puppet government, and in Armenia against Azerbaijan expansionism. 

And even in Sudan, a nation which has been gripped by turmoil and civil war as Russian, CAR and UAE backed Rapid Support Forces cause mass death and destruction in the country. Even their solidarity and hope remain as the people’s war led by the Sudanese Communist Party fights against both the RSF and the government to liberate Sudan, and in the Congo, which faces imperialism too from its neighbours. This May Day report is to highlight all the struggles of the 3rd world. Of all oppressed nations. However, in this year 2024, to do that is impossible without giving tremendous praise and support to Palestine. Palestine is the heart of the 3rd world. Palestine is the heart of resistance, Palestine is the heart of the working class. Which is why on this International workers’ day we must remain steadfast and stalwart in support of all people’s wars waging against tyranny and fascism. From the Philippines to West Papua, from West Papua to Myanmar, to Myanmar to Khalistan, From Khalistan and Naxal to Pakistan, from Pakistan and Balochistan to Palestine and Sudan. The whole world must be united in bravery, in solidarity. For a free world, or as Ho Chi Mihn once said. “Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty,”. This remains true today more than ever before. So long live the victory of the people’s war in Vietnam, and pass the banner of victory forward to the new generation of freedom movements. For we have a world to win. Long Live the Victory of People’s War!

Now The Internationale In Arabic

هـبوا ضحايا الاضـــطهاد ضحايـا جـــوع الاضطـرار

بـركــان الـفكـر في اتـّـقاد هــذا آخــــــر انـــفـــــجــار

هــــيا نحــو كــــل ما مـر ثــوروا حـطـموا الـقــــيــود

شــــيـدوا الكون جديد حر كــونـــوا أنــتـم الــــوجـــود

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

يـكـفي عــزاء بــــالخـيال عـــلـيـنا العــبء لا منــاص

فــيا عـــــمّــال لـــلنـضال فـــفي يـــميــنـنا الـخـــلاص

احموا الكور ضعوا الحديد و دقــــــوه على احـــــمـرار

يـريد الــشعــب أن يــسود فـــكـــوا الــــروح من اســار

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

حــكــمٌ و شــــرعٌ ظالمان مــأجـــوران لـلأغـــنــيــــاء

حــديــث فـــارغ الـمعــان ذكــــــر حــقـوق الــفـقـــراء

دعــوا الهـــزء بالــمساواة فـــلـلمـــســـــاواة طــــريــق

الـــحــقــوق بالـواجــبــات و الواجـبــات بـالـــحـــقــوق

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

أســيادنــا المــسـتـثــمرونا فــوق شـــواهــق الــعــروش

كـــم سلــبـونا الملايــيــــنا و لـم يُـــبـقـوا لــنـا الـقـروش

ذهـــــبٌ فــوق أن يُـــــحـدّ مُــصّ مــن دم الـعـــــــروق

يـــريــد الـــشعـب أن يـرد و لــم يــرد ســـوى الحقـوق

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

إنــنــا سـكـرنا مــن دخــانِ أســـيــادٍ ســـمـموا الحــــياة

أذيــعـوا دعـــــوة الأمــــان فـيـنا وســــحـق الــطــــغاة

فـللإضــراب يـا جــيـــوش فـفي إضــرابــنــا الخــلاص

أن يـأبــى ذلــك الـــوحوش فـــعـنـدنـا لــهـم رصــــاص

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

الــعـــــمال والفـــلاحـــونا جــمـيعـا حـزب الكـادحـيـن

أرض مــلــك المــنـتـجـيــنا فــمـا بـــقــاء الــخامــلــيــن

كــم تـمــزق الــــلحم مـــنـا مـــخــالــب الــمــفــترسـين

أجــلــوا سـود الغـربان عـنا تــشـرق الشمس كـل حـيـن

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

Citations: 

 (United Nations. (n.d.). Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years due to ongoing ’de-development’– UN report | UN news. United Nations. https://news.un.org/en/story/2015/09/507762)

(Ammar, A. (n.d.). “barely a drop to drink”: Children in the Gaza Strip do not access 90 per cent of their normal water use. UNICEF. https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/barely-drop-drink-children-gaza-strip-do-not-access-90-cent-their-normal-water-use)

(Al Jazeera. (2024, April 8). Anti-coup forces claim control of key myanmar border town. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/8/anti-coup-forces-claim-control-of-key-myanmar-border-town)

(Al Jazeera. (2024b, April 29). The take: Could Myanmar’s coup come to an end? https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/4/29/the-take-could-myanmars-coup-come-to-an-end) 

(Miller, G., Shih, G., & Nakashima, E. (2024, April 29). India’s Intelligence Service takes a deadly turn and stuns Washington - The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/)

(TNN / Updated: Mar 7, 2024. (2024, March 27). BJP worker hacked to death by Maoists; ninth in bastar region since last year: Raipur News - Times of India. The Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/bjp-worker-hacked-to-death-by-maoists-ninth-in-bastar-region-since-last-year/articleshow/108284527.cms)

(Al Jazeera. (2023, April 23). Amritpal Singh: Who is he and why was he arrested? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/23/amritpal-singh-who-is-he-and-why-was-he-arrested)

(Mogul, R. (2023, September 29). India raids 53 sites nationwide as crackdown on Sikh separatists deepens. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/india/india-anti-terror-raids-khalistan-intl-hnk/index.html)

(Kachmar, O. (2023, September 15). Pakistan faces rising separatist insurgency in Balochistan. New Lines Institute. https://newlinesinstitute.org/nonstate-actors/pakistan-faces-rising-separatist-insurgency-in-balochistan/)

(Davies, P. A. and C. (2024, January 17). Iran admits carrying out deadly strike on Pakistan Territory. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67999465)

(Wangge, H. (2023, March 14). Why Indonesia fails to address the west papua conflict. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/3/14/why-indonesia-is-losing-the-west-papua-conflict)

(Ahmed, M. (2024, February 29). Pakistan swears in new Parliament amid chaotic scenes as Imran Khan’s followers protests vote count. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-parliament-protest-imran-khan-126fd56bc43edbf2ae9a8499fe79867a)

(CBS Interactive. (n.d.). Pro-Palestinian protests spread, get more heated as schools’ reactions differ. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-palestinian-protests-spread-more-heated-schools-reactions-differ-israel-hamas-war/ )

(Al Jazeera. (2024a, February 17). Thousands take part in pro-Palestine protests across the world. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/17/thousands-take-part-in-pro-palestine-protests-across-the-world )

(Lisa. (2024, January 29). Sudan Communist Party and SLM-aw sign agreement in Juba. Dabanga Radio TV Online. https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-communist-party-and-slm-aw-sign-agreement-in-juba)

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The State of The International Proletariat

The State of The International Proletariat report May 1 2024

Yesterday April 30th marked the 49th anniversary of the liberation of Saigon by the National Liberation Front. Yesterday in Vietnam, celebrations took place reflecting the history and heroics of those who gave their lives to liberate Vietnam from France and then the American occupation government. However, like many celebrations in recent days, since 2023, there has been a shift in the focus of many celebrations. Just as much as yesterday’s celebrations were about a united and free Vietnam, too many it was also about those who were still unfree. This led to the Peoples’ War in Palestine that was reignited on October 7th in what many are calling the 3rd Intifada. And the reactionary genocide that Isreal is carrying out as revenge. Vietnam, however, is not the only nation to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their fight against apartheid. In recent days, people from all around the world have come together and drew a line to say ‘no more’. The international proletariat spearheaded these movements directly. Facing state repression and violence as a reaction to the solidarity of the working class is showing the Palestinian People, So on this the 135th International Workers Day, we wish to publish the State of The International Proletariat to examine the state of causes from the international proletariat and the world more broadly. 

We will break this down into two regions, Asia, and Africa will break this report down. We wish to now necessarily be comprehensive but give a general state of the class warfare and solidarity of class warfare as it has happened between 2023 and now.  

To begin, the first region we will be covering is Asia. Asia has been one of the most active regions in the past decades and the 2020s are no different, being a general hotbed of action. In Southeast Asia, conflicts have been smouldering. The civil war in Myanmar which started in 2021 after the Tatmadaw coup, where the military seized power from the popular bourgeois government in Myanmar. In 2023, the peoples’ war in Myanmar exploded with the various regional factions and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (the armed wing of the Myanmar National Truth and Justice Party) playing a leading role in challenging the Junta in Myanmar with its allies in the Northern Alliance. Other proletarian groups wage people’s war against the Tatmadaw, such as the People’s Defence Force and People’s Liberation Army, who are also fighting against the Junta. Various working class and bourgeoisie elements have united in this popular front against the Tatmadaw to restore democracy and, for many groups, to gain the autonomy denied to them by previous governments. Additionally, many groups in the Northern Alliance demand to separate from Myanmar and be allowed to be free and independent.

Elsewhere in Asia, typical petty imperialism continues to be prevalent. The reactionary government in Indonesia, which destroyed the revolutionary government in 1965 with the aid of the United States and United Kingdom, continues to wage its destructive and genocidal war in West Papua. The West Papua National Liberation Army continues its decades long war with the Imperialist Indonesian state. Proletarian activists, especially in Australia and New Zealand have begun to bring light to the issue bring the war and genocide in West Papua to be more than a niche geopolitical conflict that gets no attention and put pressure on the bourgeois who make millions funding Indonesias imperialist actions in the region. 

In the Indian subcontinent, tensions continue to rise, especially around the occupied Khalistan. The movement has seen a resurgence, especially after the new head of the movement, Amritpal Singh returned to India to make further moves to fight for Khalistan. In 2023, the fascist Modi government arrested him and many of his associates as part of a larger crackdown on Sikh politics internally and abroad. The Modi government allegedly attempted to assassinate Khalistan activists abroad, including Hardeep Singh Nijjar, whom the Canadian government firmly accused the Indian government of assassinating. Meanwhile, in 2024 tensions only continue to rise in India as rebel groups from Khalistan and many other such as the Naxalites who continue to fight a people’s war in India target senior members of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Party of Prime Minister Modi), police and military targets with many smaller militias all over the subcontinent fighting Modi’s government for various reasons, India, in the opinion of many, is a powder-keg waiting to explode. With many smaller insurgencies only waiting to burst into a wider civil war like in the neighbouring Myanmar, 

Meanwhile, in Pakistan, the working class actively fights against foreign influence and military corruption to secure justice for Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was arrested in 2023. Demonstrations and protests in Pakistan have been common, as many want Imran Khan released and restored as Prime Minister of Pakistan. He and his party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf have been widely popular because of challenging the norms of Pakistani politics and making real changes to the corrupt system of Pakistan. These protests remained common all the way up till the recent Pakistan general elections. Where the working class accused the corrupt military of Pakistan of rigging the elections in favour of less popular parties. Which sparked widespread outrage and demonstrations which were suppressed by the military and police.

At the same time in occupied Balochistan, both Iran and Pakistan still suppress the region heavily in 2024 strikes being carried out against Islamist separatist militias in Balochistan by Iran, causing temporary tensions between Iran and Pakistan. 

Meanwhile, in Asia, the true defining conflict of  2023 and 2024 has been the start of the Third Intifada, the subsequent genocide carried out against Palestine, by Israel and the regional conflict the war has exploded into. As we all know, on October 7th 2023, the militias of Gaza made the decision due to the continued Israeli blockade and the living situation in Gaza quickly becoming untenable due to population growth, all of which was reported by the UN in 2015. This led to the political situation in Gaza to be one of the necessary change and fast. Before October 7th already many Gazan survived on just three to eight litres of water per day. Which led to the opening battle of the third Intifada, the October 7th Attack. The attack saw various militias take the IDF by surprise and captured numerous positions and held them for many hours, only fully were the militias pushed back to Gaza a few days after October 7th. After that is when Israel cut off all resources to Gaza in what has since been declared by many workers a breach of humanitarian law. This was followed by‌ several weeks of bombing leading up to the ground invasion of Gaza and the beginning of the genocide proper by Isreal. Over the next six months, the conflict which started in Gaza had exploded to the whole region with groups like Hezb-Allah, Ansar-Allah and Kateb Hezb-Allah all striking Israel within weeks of the conflicts beginning and they still play an active and constant Role six months after the fighting has begun. But it is from Palestine and the genocide that many workers worldwide have seen hope still flourish. With statements from two factions fighting the people’s war in Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine have played major roles in the Third Intifada, making some of the most inspiring propaganda and unifying the working class in ways not seen in over three decades. And we wish to note that in all the countries and movements we have talked about so far, all of them have shown solidarity and unity with Palestine. Palestine has united the world in bravery and action. And even in America today we see the bravery inspire as students fight for what’s right in universities all over the Americas and world facing violence and repression like they did at CUNY with the NYPD forcefully beating and arresting many students at CUNY the night of April 30th. 

Palestine has, with her actions for her freedom, inspired the whole world to strive for their freedom and to support Palestine in the same. This has led to a certain uptick in activity in Georgia experiencing protests by the working class against corruption and the Russian puppet government, and in Armenia against Azerbaijan expansionism. 

And even in Sudan, a nation which has been gripped by turmoil and civil war as Russian, CAR and UAE backed Rapid Support Forces cause mass death and destruction in the country. Even their solidarity and hope remain as the people’s war led by the Sudanese Communist Party fights against both the RSF and the government to liberate Sudan, and in the Congo, which faces imperialism too from its neighbours. This May Day report is to highlight all the struggles of the 3rd world. Of all oppressed nations. However, in this year 2024, to do that is impossible without giving tremendous praise and support to Palestine. Palestine is the heart of the 3rd world. Palestine is the heart of resistance, Palestine is the heart of the working class. Which is why on this International workers’ day we must remain steadfast and stalwart in support of all people’s wars waging against tyranny and fascism. From the Philippines to West Papua, from West Papua to Myanmar, to Myanmar to Khalistan, From Khalistan and Naxal to Pakistan, from Pakistan and Balochistan to Palestine and Sudan. The whole world must be united in bravery, in solidarity. For a free world, or as Ho Chi Mihn once said. “Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty,”. This remains true today more than ever before. So long live the victory of the people’s war in Vietnam, and pass the banner of victory forward to the new generation of freedom movements. For we have a world to win. Long Live the Victory of People’s War!

Now The Internationale In Arabic

هـبوا ضحايا الاضـــطهاد ضحايـا جـــوع الاضطـرار

بـركــان الـفكـر في اتـّـقاد هــذا آخــــــر انـــفـــــجــار

هــــيا نحــو كــــل ما مـر ثــوروا حـطـموا الـقــــيــود

شــــيـدوا الكون جديد حر كــونـــوا أنــتـم الــــوجـــود

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

يـكـفي عــزاء بــــالخـيال عـــلـيـنا العــبء لا منــاص

فــيا عـــــمّــال لـــلنـضال فـــفي يـــميــنـنا الـخـــلاص

احموا الكور ضعوا الحديد و دقــــــوه على احـــــمـرار

يـريد الــشعــب أن يــسود فـــكـــوا الــــروح من اســار

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

حــكــمٌ و شــــرعٌ ظالمان مــأجـــوران لـلأغـــنــيــــاء

حــديــث فـــارغ الـمعــان ذكــــــر حــقـوق الــفـقـــراء

دعــوا الهـــزء بالــمساواة فـــلـلمـــســـــاواة طــــريــق

الـــحــقــوق بالـواجــبــات و الواجـبــات بـالـــحـــقــوق

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

أســيادنــا المــسـتـثــمرونا فــوق شـــواهــق الــعــروش

كـــم سلــبـونا الملايــيــــنا و لـم يُـــبـقـوا لــنـا الـقـروش

ذهـــــبٌ فــوق أن يُـــــحـدّ مُــصّ مــن دم الـعـــــــروق

يـــريــد الـــشعـب أن يـرد و لــم يــرد ســـوى الحقـوق

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

إنــنــا سـكـرنا مــن دخــانِ أســـيــادٍ ســـمـموا الحــــياة

أذيــعـوا دعـــــوة الأمــــان فـيـنا وســــحـق الــطــــغاة

فـللإضــراب يـا جــيـــوش فـفي إضــرابــنــا الخــلاص

أن يـأبــى ذلــك الـــوحوش فـــعـنـدنـا لــهـم رصــــاص

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

الــعـــــمال والفـــلاحـــونا جــمـيعـا حـزب الكـادحـيـن

أرض مــلــك المــنـتـجـيــنا فــمـا بـــقــاء الــخامــلــيــن

كــم تـمــزق الــــلحم مـــنـا مـــخــالــب الــمــفــترسـين

أجــلــوا سـود الغـربان عـنا تــشـرق الشمس كـل حـيـن

بـجـموع قـوية   هبوا لاح الظفر

غـــد الأمـمــية   يـوحد الــبشــر

Citations: 

 (United Nations. (n.d.). Gaza could become uninhabitable in less than five years due to ongoing ’de-development’– UN report | UN news. United Nations. https://news.un.org/en/story/2015/09/507762)

(Ammar, A. (n.d.). “barely a drop to drink”: Children in the Gaza Strip do not access 90 per cent of their normal water use. UNICEF. https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/barely-drop-drink-children-gaza-strip-do-not-access-90-cent-their-normal-water-use)

(Al Jazeera. (2024, April 8). Anti-coup forces claim control of key myanmar border town. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/8/anti-coup-forces-claim-control-of-key-myanmar-border-town)

(Al Jazeera. (2024b, April 29). The take: Could Myanmar’s coup come to an end? https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/4/29/the-take-could-myanmars-coup-come-to-an-end) 

(Miller, G., Shih, G., & Nakashima, E. (2024, April 29). India’s Intelligence Service takes a deadly turn and stuns Washington - The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/29/india-assassination-raw-sikhs-modi/)

(TNN / Updated: Mar 7, 2024. (2024, March 27). BJP worker hacked to death by Maoists; ninth in bastar region since last year: Raipur News - Times of India. The Times of India. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/raipur/bjp-worker-hacked-to-death-by-maoists-ninth-in-bastar-region-since-last-year/articleshow/108284527.cms)

(Al Jazeera. (2023, April 23). Amritpal Singh: Who is he and why was he arrested? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/23/amritpal-singh-who-is-he-and-why-was-he-arrested)

(Mogul, R. (2023, September 29). India raids 53 sites nationwide as crackdown on Sikh separatists deepens. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/29/india/india-anti-terror-raids-khalistan-intl-hnk/index.html)

(Kachmar, O. (2023, September 15). Pakistan faces rising separatist insurgency in Balochistan. New Lines Institute. https://newlinesinstitute.org/nonstate-actors/pakistan-faces-rising-separatist-insurgency-in-balochistan/)

(Davies, P. A. and C. (2024, January 17). Iran admits carrying out deadly strike on Pakistan Territory. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67999465)

(Wangge, H. (2023, March 14). Why Indonesia fails to address the west papua conflict. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/3/14/why-indonesia-is-losing-the-west-papua-conflict)

(Ahmed, M. (2024, February 29). Pakistan swears in new Parliament amid chaotic scenes as Imran Khan’s followers protests vote count. AP News. https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-parliament-protest-imran-khan-126fd56bc43edbf2ae9a8499fe79867a)

(CBS Interactive. (n.d.). Pro-Palestinian protests spread, get more heated as schools’ reactions differ. CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-palestinian-protests-spread-more-heated-schools-reactions-differ-israel-hamas-war/ )

(Al Jazeera. (2024a, February 17). Thousands take part in pro-Palestine protests across the world. Al Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/17/thousands-take-part-in-pro-palestine-protests-across-the-world )

(Lisa. (2024, January 29). Sudan Communist Party and SLM-aw sign agreement in Juba. Dabanga Radio TV Online. https://www.dabangasudan.org/en/all-news/article/sudan-communist-party-and-slm-aw-sign-agreement-in-juba)

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Statement by the Lebanese Communist Party On a Joint Meeting Between 9 Other Parties on the issue of Israeli Apartheid and Palestinian Genocide☭

The communist parties in the Arab countries (the Jordanian Communist Party, the Iraqi Communist Party, the Lebanese Communist Party, the Palestinian People’s Party, the Egyptian Communist Party, the Unified Syrian Communist Party, the Sudanese Communist Party, the Kuwaiti Progressive Movement, the Moroccan Progress and Socialism Party, and the Bahraini Progressive Platform) held a meeting Exceptionally on Wednesday, December 20, 2023.

The meeting discussed the continuation of the bloody and comprehensive Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territories, especially the crimes of genocide in the besieged Gaza Strip, and the goals of this aggression, including plans to displace the Palestinians and efforts to liquidate their national cause, and defining the joint work tasks of these parties, in order to continue confronting the risks.

The current seriousness of liquidating the Palestinian issue, the threat to the security and safety of the region and our Arab peoples, and the great challenges that exist as a result of that.

The meeting of the Communist Parties in the Arab countries paid high tribute and appreciation to the heroic resistance in all the occupied Palestinian territories, and to the legendary steadfastness of the Gaza Strip in the face of aggression and the unprecedented war of extermination to which the Palestinian people have been exposed since the seventh of last October, and to which they have been victims until now. More than (20) thousand martyrs, male and female, most of them children and women.

The meeting reaffirmed the legitimate right of the Palestinian people and their national forces to resist the occupation and settler gangs, and to resort to all forms of struggle, including popular and armed resistance, to curb aggression, end the occupation, and extract full national and human rights, first and foremost, the right to liberate their homeland. Return, self-determination, and the establishment of an independent national state with Jerusalem as its capital.

The meeting also saluted the massive Arab and international protest movements and activities, the overwhelming popular anger at the heinous aggression and crimes of the Zionist occupation, and the unprecedented solidarity around the world with the struggle of the Palestinian people and their legitimate and just human and national rights. He also saluted the role of the communist, leftist and progressive forces in these protest and solidarity movements.

After an extensive and in-depth discussion, the communist parties in the Arab countries participating in this meeting agreed to reaffirm the following:

The state of silence of the international community regarding the Zionist-American aggression against the Palestinian people, and the genocide and various other war crimes it has committed and is still committing, and its complete inability to bear its responsibilities and take practical and tangible measures to curb this aggression and its practices, which constitute a gross and flagrant violation of all international laws and conventions, The failure to assist and rescue Palestinian civilians has always been and continues to be a factor encouraging America and its ally, the Zionist occupation - the colonial and racist settler - to continue their aggression and horrific crimes, and even constitutes a cover for all of that.

This is in addition to the continued state of official Arab impotence (and complicity), which has prevented a unified Arab position that rises to the level of supposed dealing with the extent of the aggression and massacres to which the Palestinian people are exposed and the dangers to their national cause, and to the security and sovereignty of the Arab countries, even within the limits of providing humanitarian aid. Sufficient supplies for the victims of the aggression in the Gaza Strip and ensuring its delivery to them.

In this context, the meeting expressed its condemnation of some political regimes’ identification with the forces of Zionist-American aggression and cooperation with their military allies in the region.

The continuation of the Zionist occupation, and the continuation of its crimes against the Palestinian people, with the support of American imperialism, NATO, and Arab reactionary forces, is the root of the suffering and problems of the Palestinian people and the peoples of the region, and the source of their lack of security and stability. As a result, conflicts will continue, people will be deprived of living in peace, and they will remain in danger of falling into a spiral of all-out war.

The international community (represented by the UN Security Council, the United Nations, and its organizations and agencies) must bear its actual responsibilities in a concrete way to bind the Zionist occupation to international laws and conventions, foremost among which is the “Fourth Geneva Conventions for the Protection of Civilians in the Occupied Territories and in Times of War and Armed Conflict,” as well as guaranteeing the rights of the Palestinian people. .

Some countries, among our historical friends, are required to make more effective use of their regional and international standing to intervene and exert the maximum types of international pressure to curb the practices of the Zionist occupation and support the legitimate national and human rights of the Palestinian people.

Accordingly, the extraordinary meeting of the communist parties in the Arab countries calls on the United Nations Security Council, all United Nations bodies and international organizations, as well as all countries that are friends of our peoples and supporters of international peace and security, to intervene urgently and begin using their regional and international standing and all their capabilities, in order to quickly move and put pressure on... The fascist Zionist aggression against the Palestinian people, a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire, a complete lifting of the siege on the Gaza Strip, and ensuring that supplies, needs and relief aid reach it. As well as putting a final end to the terrorist and racist practices of the Zionist occupation against the Palestinian people, its expansionist ambitions and its continuing threats to the security, capabilities and national sovereignty of the peoples and countries of the Arab region, including the repeated military attacks on Syria and Lebanon.

The meeting also addresses all communist and leftist parties, progressive and democratic forces, the peoples, solidarity movements and supporters of national liberation, and all those who believe in the values of freedom, justice and free people in the entire world, calling for the necessity of continuing to take to the streets and squares and expanding and escalating protest movements through all possible means, to put pressure on governments. Their countries and the international community, and organizing popular mobilization for the struggle against the occupation because of Zionist aggression.

Based on all of this, the communist parties in the Arab countries participating in the meeting stressed the urgent tasks of their work and joint struggle, in accordance with the following current priorities:

First: Working to expand and intensify the political and combat movement, officially and popularly, and by all possible means and forms, to put pressure at all levels - in the region and in every country in the world - in order to quickly:

A) Confronting and curbing the Zionist-American military aggression against the Palestinian people and the genocide campaign to which it is being subjected and thwarting its goals, and obliging the Zionist occupation to a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire.

B) Breaking the siege imposed on the Palestinian people, especially the Gaza Strip, and ensuring the entry of all humanitarian supplies, aid, and basic needs to the Strip and all its institutions, and to all the besieged Palestinians.

C) Move globally to expose the crimes of the Zionist occupation, which rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity, end its impunity, and demand that the International Criminal Court open an immediate investigation into these crimes, and prosecute and prosecute the leaders of the Zionist occupation and the leaders of the countries that support its crimes.

Second: Providing all types of tangible support to the Palestinian people and their valiant resistance, politically, morally, materially, media, culturally, and other possible types of support, and strengthening the Palestinian national narrative in the face of the Zionist narrative and the media disinformation machine - of the American-Zionist-Western alliance - throughout the world... etc. In addition to penetrating misleading or ambiguous political circles, especially in Western Europe and America.

Third: Expanding and escalating all forms of official, popular and institutional solidarity with the Palestinian people in every Arab country, at the regional and global levels, and constantly striving to place the Palestinian issue and the attainment of national and human rights for the Palestinian people at the top of the agenda of coordination meetings and meetings of communist, leftist and progressive parties on all sides. levels in the world.

Fourth: Make every effort to exert tireless pressure to support the achievement and strengthening of Palestinian national unity, on the basis of the unity, steadfastness and resistance of the Palestinian people to the occupation, and a commitment to defending their full national and human rights.

Fifth: Emphasizing the right of the Palestinian people to resist, liberate their homeland, and obtain all their national rights, foremost of which is their right to self-determination and the establishment of their independent, fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of all Palestinian refugees in accordance with United Nations Resolution 194 issued in 1948.

Sixth: Begin organizing various pressure activities and events to expand and strengthen the comprehensive boycott of the Zionist occupation entity and all its products, institutions and media at all levels, withdraw investments from it and impose sanctions on it, as an occupation, settlement and terrorist entity.

Seventh: Resisting normalization with the Zionist occupation entity, and demanding the cancellation of the humiliating normalization agreements with it, permanently and not only in connection with the issue of aggression and ceasefire.

Eighth: The meeting condemns the expansion of the Zionist aggression against Lebanon and Syria and the targeting of their lands, and affirms their right to liberate the occupied territories in northern and eastern Syria, the Golan, the Shebaa Farms, and the Kafr Shuba Hills in Lebanon. The meeting also condemns the continuation of economic sanctions and the unjust siege imposed on the Syrian people. It also condemns all attempts to displace the Palestinian people to Egypt and Jordan, and calls for confronting this dangerous criminal project.

Ninth: The meeting stressed the need to follow up on its outcomes, put them into practice, continue coordination between its parties, and follow up on urgent work tasks at the level of the common priority issues mentioned in this statement.

Communist parties in Arab countries

December 20, 2023

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The Question of Venezuelan Social-Imperialism

Are Venezuela's threats against Guyana Social-Imperialism? Lenin used Social-Imperialism ok in simple terms of a nation that is Socialist in deeds or name (for example the ruling party of Venezuela is ostensibly socialist in character at least historically) however in deeds In either policy as a rule or in a particular action do imperialist deeds.

But what does this mean? And how is it important to Venezuela's confrontation against the Socialist nation of Guyana? Well, let's start with why Venezuela wants the region. Well, the dispute comes from firstly imperial sources, this dispute predates an independent Guyana and is namely a dispute between Venezuela and the United Kingdom. In 1899 the British Empire which at the time controlled Guyana as a puppet awarded “the entire mouth of the Orinoco River and the land on either side to Venezuela; it granted to the United Kingdom the land to the east extending to the Essequibo River.” When Guyana gained independence in 1966 all countries involved Except the signed the Geneva Agreement which said that all parties should come to a peaceful, practical and satisfactory decision on the status of the Essequibo. Which never happened. However, the treaty said if a stalemate happened then a relevant international organ Could step in as a mediator which happened in 2020 when the ICJ took the case. Guyana filed the case with the ICJ and the majority of judges agreed the court has jurisdiction to take the case further with Guyanana. First, the ICJ needed to have a case to decide if this was in the ICJ's jurisdiction. And if so, what timeline did it have jurisdiction over. in that case for the first ruling it was ruled 12 to 4 that the ICJ had jurisdiction based on the 1966 Geneva agreement that it has the authority to arbitrate over the award given in 1899, “that it has jurisdiction to entertain the Application filed by the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on 29 March 2018 in so far as it concerns the validity of the Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 and the related question of the definitive settlement of the land boundary dispute between the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela;” However there was a judge who disagreed notably with four Judge Gevorgian, Which for the sake of accuracy here is the entire dissenting opinion.

“Dissenting opinion of Judge Gevorgian Judge Gevorgian disagrees with the Court’s conclusion that it has jurisdiction to entertain Guyana’s claims. In his view, the Court’s Judgment undermines parties to the Court’s jurisdiction. The Court has made the unprecedented decision to exercise jurisdiction on the basis of a treaty that does not even mention the Court and contains no clause referring disputes to it. This is especially problematic as one of the Parties has consistently refused to submit the present dispute to the Court, and the dispute concerns national interests of the highest order, such as territorial sovereignty. In particular, Judge Gevorgian considers that Article IV (2) of the Geneva Agreement does not empower the Secretary-General of the United Nations to issue a legally binding decision as to the means of settlement to be employed by the Parties. The contrary conclusion reached by the Court is not supported by the text of the Geneva Agreement or by the Agreement’s object and Purpose. In Judge Gevorgian’s view, the object and purpose of the Geneva Agreement is to help the Parties reach an agreed settlement to their dispute. As such, the Secretary-General has a non-binding role similar to that of a conciliator or mediator, entrusted with facilitating the Parties’ attempts to reach an agreed solution, but not empowered to impose a means of settlement on them.”

End opinion.

For the second case, the court however was unanimous in its decision that “that it does not have jurisdiction to entertain the claims of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana arising from events that occurred after the signature of the Geneva Agreement.” Meaning for things such as an invasion voted on by the Venezuelan parliament to annex the disputed territories it had no jurisdiction to arbitrate or to arbitrate any deals made after the 1966 Geneva Agreement.

Anyway, now Venezuela is considering military action against another socialist in-character state, And one at that with one of the largest indigenous populations on the continent because of imperial agreements made by Europeans who didn't own the land (rightfully) then and definitely not now. So that begs the question of whether Venezuela is threatening action against another sovereign socialist state (that is I should note backed by the US and NATO) Over an imperialist agreement Social Imperialism? In my opinion, yes. Ignoring the fact that Venezuela, despite its socialist character is still a settler colonial state, its aggression against Guyana is Certainly social imperialism despite the submission Guyana has shown to the US (ostensibly because of the colonial past of the nation and submission being 'voluntary'.

However especially now as Brazil another 'socialist' in character nation moves to confront Venezuela and make a regional war we must understand and condemn Venezuelan Social Imperialism and stand with Guyanana and yes recognise that if the US intervenes on behalf of Guyana that is Imperialism and needs to be similarly combatted social imperialism is not justified against other socialist in character states without a justified cause or reason such as Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia. Venezuela does not have that Justification. And I must firmly say that to the International working class and anti-imperialist movements worldwide particularly those in the occupied Palestine, Yemen, and Lebanon to stand with Guyana as Venezuela moves to occupy what is at this point land owned by a majority indigenous nation in the Americas this is by all rights no matter what any European agreements were made, whatever colonization took place. Guyana's land furthermore the entirety of the Americas (occupied Turtle Island) belongs to those indigenous people and not settlers or mixed indigenous people who act in part as settlers. Ostensibly we must support Guyana against social-imperialism not only because of Imperialism's barbaric nature but also because of the hundreds of years of history of this very colonialism and imperialism being wrought on the indigenous people and their right to the land being verily ignored like that of the ignored right to Palestinians to their land. Moreover, this is not just an anti-imperialist struggle, it also needs to be the start of a larger struggle for decolonisation which never happened in the occupied Americas.

[thegalievthought]

The Question of Venezuelan Social-Imperialism

Are Venezuela's threats against Guyana Social-Imperialism? Lenin used Social-Imperialism ok in simple terms of a nation that is Socialist in deeds or name (for example the ruling party of Venezuela is ostensibly socialist in character at least historically) however in deeds In either policy as a rule or in a particular action do imperialist deeds.

But what does this mean? And how is it important to Venezuela's confrontation against the Socialist nation of Guyana? Well, let's start with why Venezuela wants the region. Well, the dispute comes from firstly imperial sources, this dispute predates an independent Guyana and is namely a dispute between Venezuela and the United Kingdom. In 1899 the British Empire which at the time controlled Guyana as a puppet awarded “the entire mouth of the Orinoco River and the land on either side to Venezuela; it granted to the United Kingdom the land to the east extending to the Essequibo River.” When Guyana gained independence in 1966 all countries involved Except the signed the Geneva Agreement which said that all parties should come to a peaceful, practical and satisfactory decision on the status of the Essequibo. Which never happened. However, the treaty said if a stalemate happened then a relevant international organ Could step in as a mediator which happened in 2020 when the ICJ took the case. Guyana filed the case with the ICJ and the majority of judges agreed the court has jurisdiction to take the case further with Guyanana. First, the ICJ needed to have a case to decide if this was in the ICJ's jurisdiction. And if so, what timeline did it have jurisdiction over. in that case for the first ruling it was ruled 12 to 4 that the ICJ had jurisdiction based on the 1966 Geneva agreement that it has the authority to arbitrate over the award given in 1899, “that it has jurisdiction to entertain the Application filed by the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on 29 March 2018 in so far as it concerns the validity of the Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 and the related question of the definitive settlement of the land boundary dispute between the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela;” However there was a judge who disagreed notably with four Judge Gevorgian, Which for the sake of accuracy here is the entire dissenting opinion.

“Dissenting opinion of Judge Gevorgian Judge Gevorgian disagrees with the Court’s conclusion that it has jurisdiction to entertain Guyana’s claims. In his view, the Court’s Judgment undermines parties to the Court’s jurisdiction. The Court has made the unprecedented decision to exercise jurisdiction on the basis of a treaty that does not even mention the Court and contains no clause referring disputes to it. This is especially problematic as one of the Parties has consistently refused to submit the present dispute to the Court, and the dispute concerns national interests of the highest order, such as territorial sovereignty. In particular, Judge Gevorgian considers that Article IV (2) of the Geneva Agreement does not empower the Secretary-General of the United Nations to issue a legally binding decision as to the means of settlement to be employed by the Parties. The contrary conclusion reached by the Court is not supported by the text of the Geneva Agreement or by the Agreement’s object and Purpose. In Judge Gevorgian’s view, the object and purpose of the Geneva Agreement is to help the Parties reach an agreed settlement to their dispute. As such, the Secretary-General has a non-binding role similar to that of a conciliator or mediator, entrusted with facilitating the Parties’ attempts to reach an agreed solution, but not empowered to impose a means of settlement on them.”

End opinion.

For the second case, the court however was unanimous in its decision that “that it does not have jurisdiction to entertain the claims of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana arising from events that occurred after the signature of the Geneva Agreement.” Meaning for things such as an invasion voted on by the Venezuelan parliament to annex the disputed territories it had no jurisdiction to arbitrate or to arbitrate any deals made after the 1966 Geneva Agreement.

Anyway, now Venezuela is considering military action against another socialist in-character state, And one at that with one of the largest indigenous populations on the continent because of imperial agreements made by Europeans who didn't own the land (rightfully) then and definitely not now. So that begs the question of whether Venezuela is threatening action against another sovereign socialist state (that is I should note backed by the US and NATO) Over an imperialist agreement Social Imperialism? In my opinion, yes. Ignoring the fact that Venezuela, despite its socialist character is still a settler colonial state, its aggression against Guyana is Certainly social imperialism despite the submission Guyana has shown to the US (ostensibly because of the colonial past of the nation and submission being 'voluntary'.

However especially now as Brazil another 'socialist' in character nation moves to confront Venezuela and make a regional war we must understand and condemn Venezuelan Social Imperialism and stand with Guyanana and yes recognise that if the US intervenes on behalf of Guyana that is Imperialism and needs to be similarly combatted social imperialism is not justified against other socialist in character states without a justified cause or reason such as Vietnam's intervention in Cambodia. Venezuela does not have that Justification. And I must firmly say that to the International working class and anti-imperialist movements worldwide particularly those in the occupied Palestine, Yemen, and Lebanon to stand with Guyana as Venezuela moves to occupy what is at this point land owned by a majority indigenous nation in the Americas this is by all rights no matter what any European agreements were made, whatever colonization took place. Guyana's land furthermore the entirety of the Americas (occupied Turtle Island) belongs to those indigenous people and not settlers or mixed indigenous people who act in part as settlers. Ostensibly we must support Guyana against social-imperialism not only because of Imperialism's barbaric nature but also because of the hundreds of years of history of this very colonialism and imperialism being wrought on the indigenous people and their right to the land being verily ignored like that of the ignored right to Palestinians to their land. Moreover, this is not just an anti-imperialist struggle, it also needs to be the start of a larger struggle for decolonisation which never happened in the occupied Americas.

[thegalievthought]

🚨 Footage documenting the moment when the occupation launched a strike targeting Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital.

The Hospital is the only Palestinian hospital for cancer patients in the Gaza Strip.

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The Palestinian War Issue 3: White Phosphorus

Israel's use of White Phosphorus has been well documented over the past 4 days of fighting with video and photographic evidence being shown of Israel dropping WP on Gaza a highly populated city which is a war crime under international law as you do not target or use within a certain distance to settlements so that civilians do not stumble upon unignited compounds and get injured like a 2000 degree time bomb. White phosphorus can go unreacted for hours or days after it is dropped and is highly toxic if dropped in water white phosphorus is soluble in water which is extremely toxic to drink. So white phosphorus when dropped in a highly dense place like Gaza the potential for contact burns with white phosphorus which I will spare you from looking at. You also have the risk of secondary burns as the fire caused by WP spreads and the destruction of homes and other necessary infrastructure due to fire. A fire that is incredibly difficult to put out as WP when reacted with air needs to either burn out or be submerged in a liquid it can be dissolved or generally deprived of oxygen which when responding to Israeli airstrikes multiple times hours will and has left Gaza medical and fire staff unprepared to deal with the massive destruction caused when WP is dropped on Gaza. Moreover, this still doesn't account for the possibility of WP poisoning the water supplies of parts of Gaza. 

White phosphorus use on civilians is a war crime but it's also banned by the majority of the world. In 1972 the UN entered a vote to ban White phosphorus citing its inhumanity and propensity for collateral damage. Key however Israel and the United States voted no on the resolution while most of the countries of the world voted yes. Israel's vote in 1972 was proven right when in 1973 Israel was accused of using White phosphorus in the Ramadan War. Then in 2006 during the invasion of Lebanon Israel was accused of using white phosphorus again and near civilians. Which it later in 2006 admitted to. The Haaretz reported “Israel has acknowledged for the first time that it attacked Hezbollah targets during the second Lebanon war with phosphorus shells.” - Haaretz Oct 22, 2006 Then again in 2009 Israel was accused by multiple major news sources like Al Jazeera accusing Israel of using white phosphorus against Gaza. Israel's history of using white phosphorus especially near and against civilians is well documented. As well as Israel admitting to war crimes multiple times. Its use by Israel over the decades of war and occupation has been well documented by both Palestinians and foreign journalists and by Israel itself. With zionist media like Haaretz which we cited earlier covering them. Israel is not new to accusations of war crime; it targets civilians regularly and the accusations against Israel pile so high you could make a house for Israel to bomb out of all the paper used to document their crimes. But white phosphorus is especially egregious in the ways Israel chooses to care out its crimes as white phosphorus is max damage, max collateral and max I think worse of all max trauma for the victims. So I'm not here to argue that this is especially cruel of the zionist state, it's not, I'm not here to argue that this is out of the norm for Israel again it's not. I'm here to argue this cruelty and flagrant disregard for human life is the norm for Israel the use of white phosphorus is not the exception to the rule, but rather that the use of white phosphorus and the war crimes Israel uses it to commit is the IDF running as normal that Israel is once again a genocidal state with a total disregard to the lives of civilians, especially arab civilians. So my overall point in writing this small piece is to show Israel's disregard for human life and why you should remember that disregard when you see the media talk about Israel's right to self-defence because as of October 10th 2023 in the past 4 days, Israel has dropped white phosphorus on Gaza three of the four days. 

Moreover, Israel is a terrorist genocidal state.

The Leninist Review 

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🇵🇸 The RNN Guide to the Palestinian Resistance.

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We hope that this guide serves as a useful reference for those becoming aware of the reality of the daily resistance in Palestine.

Together, we are united until liberation.