The aim would be to try to overcome the crisis of domination of the USA and the ‘world disorder’. Although it remains the hegemonic imperialist power since the end of the Second World War, it is very weakened. Particularly since its military setbacks, with the historic defeat in Vietnam in 1975, and the repeated failures thereafter, such as the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan following 20 years of occupation, without any favourable outcome. This is combined with the worsening of the capitalist economic crisis since that of 2007-2008, which they have not yet managed to overcome. Trump himself said, on taking office: ‘today the decline of the United States is over’, recognising the crisis they have been suffering, while affirming that he is going to solve it. This ‘solution’ is a threat of invasions and looting around the world. But with this turn he is encouraging ‘world disorder’ and a greater crisis of the capitalist-imperialist system.
Trump began direct negotiations with Putin, disowning Volodimir Zelensky, and accusing him of being a ‘dictator’ and ‘responsible for the war’. He is trying to conceal the Russian invasion of 24th of February of 2022, and is pressing for a division of Ukraine between Russia and the US, putting European imperialism aside, sidelining it from the division.
In this way, Trump shakes-up the table and breaks the inter-imperialist agreements that date back to the post-World War II period, even calling into question NATO itself. Trump would attempt a pact with Putin and Russia to establish new zones of influence, while continuing his trade clashes with China.
Russia would keep the territory it has already taken (20% of the territorial integrity of ukraine), plus Crimea, which it occupied in 2014, and the United States would transform Ukraine into a semi-colony of its own, already proposing a contract to keep the ‘rare earth’ minerals and others, saying it is to payoff the limited military aid it has given in these past three years of war, and totally ignoring the European Union (EU).
Despite the nearly 50,000 dead in Gaza, the result of the Zionist invasion and the criminal bombardments, the Palestinian people continue to resist. Israel has been occupying and bombing in pursuit of ‘ethnic cleansing’ for more than a year, but expansionist Zionism has not been able to achieve its aims of putting an end to Hamas and the resistance. Israel had to negotiate a ‘ceasefire’ and release more than 600 Palestinian prisoners, out of the 10,000 it is holding, in exchange for 90 Israeli prisoners in Gaza. This was a triumph for the heroic Palestinian resistance.
The Arab bourgeois governments, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, have rejected the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza, which is repudiated by their population.
Trump’s ‘Greater Israel’ policy abandons the imperialist ‘two-state’ policy that has been maintained since Israel’s foundation. This was the imperialist strategy to dominate the Middle East. Although this ‘two-state’ policy is false, it has served to legalise Israel’s existence. Israel has never accepted a Palestinian state and has closed off the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank (22% of its historic territory). Netanyahu and Trump, now with their ‘Greater Israel’, want to expel all Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank.
Against this offensive of the international imperialist ultra-right led by Trump, there are strong popular resistances that we must continue to promote.
We maintain our campaign of solidarity with the resistance of the Ukrainian people, without giving political support to Zelenski and saying: No to NATO! Russian troops out of Ukraine! No to the imperialist plunder of Ukraine!
Solidarity with the Palestinian resistance in Gaza and the West Bank! No to Trump’s threat of military intervention in Gaza! Total repudiation of the ethnic cleansing announced by Trump! We call for the broadest unity of international action, to recover the big international mobilisations. For a Free Palestine from the river to the sea.
