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Newssheet No.11 - 2025 

 

Editorial – Bourgeois nationalism and bourgeois patriotism

 

Monopoly capitalism is in the stage of Globalization premised on the “absolute General Law of Capitalist Accumulation”, in which capitalists accumulate vast wealth, and at the same time the working class, the workers, become poorer. Monopoly capitalism is making trillions in profits whereas the workers, the working class, are faced with a cost-of-living crisis. Given this immiseration of the workers, the working class, the political representatives of monopoly capital are using bourgeois nationalism and bourgeois patriotism to make obscure this contradiction in capitalist society. For bourgeois politicians, the “Nation” becomes the fulcrum within which the working class can rally around. The ‘particular’ interest of the bourgeoisie is turned into a ‘general’ interest so that the working class can be tied to the interests of the bourgeoisie. It is an attempt by the bourgeoisie to move the workers away from “Proletarian Internationalism” and the unity of the workers to maintain its interests and rule.  

In Britain and in other countries the form of bourgeois nationalism and bourgeois patriotism is Immigration – legal and illegal. This is breeding racism within the working-class electorate and shifting it to the Right. The governing Labour Party is moving to the Right in its espousal of bourgeois nationalism and bourgeois patriotism in response to this shift by the working class. The workers, the working class, are shifting to the Right due to the disillusionment with the governing Labour Party “lite austerity” policy and use of bourgeois nationalism and bourgeois patriotism, shifting to Reform UK.  

Communists, socialists, democrats and progressives, the “Left”, must conduct an uncompromising struggle against this virulent contamination of the working class with nationalism and patriotism as Lenin advised. It means countering racism which bourgeois nationalism breeds. It means propagating the socialist alternative of “Proletarian Internationalism” so that the working class can challenge the portals of capital and develop socialism. The working class is ingrained in nationalism and patriotism due to capitalist rule, and the task at hand is to negate this state of affairs.   

 

Palestine – Trump's Peace Plan 

Donald Trump, the American President, has come up with a peace plan amid the growing divisions within the International Community over the Zionist, fascistic, and militaristic “Jewish State” (Netanyahu’s words) conduct in the Gaza strip and the West Bank.  

Trump’s peace plan is weighted in favour of Israel security concerns. It does not give a voice to the Palestinian people in their striving for national sovereignty and statehood with clearly defined territory in relation to international resolutions. It only gives a cursory glance to Palestinian statehood by talking about a “pathway”. Trump’s “the art of the deal” peace plan is not going to work because it does not only not give the Palestinians a voice, but it fails to involve the Palestinian people in the making of their own state and economy. The Palestinian people demand for self-determination is neutralized by Trump. The formation of a “board of peace” (sic) and a “technocratic government” with the Gaza Strip regarded as an “economic zone for profit” [ Trump’s business deal] is designed for this purpose. This is in the interests of the Zionist, fascistic, militaristic “Jewish State”. This is the essence of Trump’s peace plan. It is to nullify the genuine grievances of the Palestinian people for national sovereignty, self-determination and statehood. 

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is designed to bring back those ‘voices’ in the International Community who were differing from the previous US and Israeli position on genocide in the Gaza Strip and were advocating Palestinian statehood. The object of the ‘peace plan’ is to muffle as far as possible the voice of the Palestinian people and to show absolute and unconditional support for the Zionist, fascistic, militaristic “Jewish State” and its agenda for a “Greater Israel”.