Newssheet No.6 - 2025

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Editorial

Marxist-Leninist Communist Parties fail to recognize divisions within the bourgeoisie.

The second tenure of Donald Trump as President further accentuated divisions within the bourgeoisie, both on the national and international scale. These fractures stemmed from conflicting interests in global trade alignments and domestic cultural battles, highlighting the inability of some Communist analyses to fully grasp the shifting dynamics of capitalist power structure. His presidency brought to light sharp fractures within the capitalist class, dividing corporate elites, financial magnates, and industrialists over issues such as globalization, trade policies, and cultural politics. These divisions, while evident to political observers, were either underestimated or outright ignored by many Marxist-Leninist analyses, which failed to adapt their theoretical framework, the “illusory” ideology of “Marxism-Leninism”, which was created by Stalin and the now defunct and dissolved Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), to present day capitalist reality.

The failure to recognise divisions within the bourgeoisie between the bourgeois nationalists like Trump and the bourgeois internationalists led by finance capital, especially Wall Street, by Communist Parties, which adhere to the “illusory” ideology of “Marxism-Leninism”, which was created by Stalin and the defunct and dissolved Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU),is retarding working class emancipation for socialism. It is a failure to utilize every division within the bourgeoisie in relation to both the ‘national’ and the ‘international’ in the interests of the working class. The “Marxist-Leninist” Communist Parties only see working class struggle in terms of the bourgeois democratic electoral cycle within the ‘national. These Left organizations are ‘obsessed’ with the “Parliamentary Road to Socialism” within the ‘national’. They become blind to the ‘international solidarity’ of the working class in the form of “Proletarian Internationalism” and how to organize it. Marx and Engels call for “Workers of the world, Unite”, is paid lip service. The ‘unity’ of the bourgeoisie at the levels of the ‘national’ and the ‘international’, irrespective of the divisions, must be opposed by the ‘unity’ of the working class so that the latter can become emancipated. This is the task. The “Marxist-Leninist” Communists must not solely mobilize their forces to combat the ‘national’ bourgeois government whatever its hue within the bourgeois democratic political system and its electoral system but point out that government policies concerning “working people” are only sops aimed at maintaining the existence of monopoly capitalism, the capitalist system. It means that capitalism exists to serve the interests of the capitalists and not the working class. The task of the ‘national’ bourgeois government is make obscure the divisions with the ruling bourgeois class, both within the ‘national’ and ‘international’. It knows that a divided bourgeois ruling class cannot fully ‘defend’ capitalism. Capitalism is in a state of crisis. This is the present case with the division between the bourgeois nationalists, led by Trump, and the bourgeois internationalists led by finance capital, which is causing a crisis and shows that it is unfit to rule and, more importantly, does not serve the interests of the working class.

The task that has befallen Scientific Socialism, which Engels called the theory of the working class, is to expose these divisions so as to forward working-class emancipation for socialism. The task that the working class is having to engage in is not only opposing, confronting and challenging the ‘national’ bourgeois government within the bourgeois electoral cycle, but also a divided ruling bourgeois class so as to emancipate themselves from economic exploitation and show “revolutionary politics” in the interests of humankind and a ‘civilised world’.

Every division within the bourgeois ruling class must be investigated, explained and presented to the working class as it would lead to the transformation of capitalism into socialist society.  

 

Palestine Question

The Palestinian issue has reached a critical conjuncture due to the ‘policies’ of the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” (Netanyahu’s words). Barbarism is now the name of the game in the war against Hamas which is affecting the Palestinian people. A policy of ‘forced starvation’ of the Palestinian population coupled with ethnic cleansing at its core is what is driving the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” to escalate its war. The ‘war’ against Hamas has turned into a war against the Palestinian people seeking refuge in the Gaza Strip. Its latest military ‘operation’ is called “Operation Gideon Chariots”. This is a biblical reference and shows that the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” is using ‘Judaism’ to justify its action. This shows that Judaism is a reactionary religion.

The action of the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” has resulted in differences within the ‘International Community” which has given it absolute and conditional support economically, politically and militarily. The Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” has come under ‘criticism’ from the UK, France and Canada. It is a breaking of the ranks with the USA still giving absolute and unconditional support to the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State”. Trump’s policy on Gaza is similar to and supported by the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State”. These ‘differences’ mean that the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” can no longer claim the moral high ground in its war against Hamas which is affecting the Palestinian people.

The objective of the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” is to create a Greater Israel. It means the expulsion of the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip and the West Bank which the Zionists call “Judea and Samaria” by whatever means necessary. This is the ‘goal’ of the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State”. This is the reason why the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” cannot recognise Palestinian statehood. The differences within the “International Community means that Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” will eventually be forced to recognise some form of Palestinian statehood in relation to United Nations (UN) Resolutions and to act in accordance with international humanitarian law.

The barbaric conduct of the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” shows itself in using aid as a weapon of war, using starvation as a weapon of war, cutting off power and energy as a weapon of war, destroying the social infrastructure of the Gaza Strip, destroying the physical infrastructure of the Palestinians forcing them to evacuate and live in tents. This is not a war against Hamas. It is a war against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” barbarism on the Palestinians is akin to the Nazis treatment of the Jews though on a smaller scale. The Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” has not learnt the lessons of history. It has not learnt that no nation can be free when it oppresses another.

The Palestinian Question and the war against Hamas brings to the fore the barbarism of the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State” and the present absolute and unconditional support for it by Trump and US monopoly capitalism. The differences within the “International Community” shows that those who now express ‘doubts’ must take appropriate action against the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State”. It is time for actions, deeds, to support the Palestinian people against the barbarism of the Zionist, fascist “Jewish State”. It is time for the implementation and formation of a Palestinian statehood and not simply recognition of its right to self-determination.

 

Socialist Theory – Public Ownership  

 The case for Public Ownership is propagated by the Left especially the “Marxist-Leninist” Communist Parties. Public ownership or state ownership premised on nationalization of the means of production is regarded as a ‘remedy’ for the ills of capitalism like inflation and the cost-of-living crisis. Public ownership reduces prices and the cost of living for the working class under capitalism. The ‘debate’, essentially, is between capitalist privatization and Public ownership.

Public ownership or state ownership where the state has ownership and control of the means of production due to nationalization leads to the state monopoly system under capitalism. Is “public ownership” a viable economic concept? Engels in “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific” thinks not. This is what he says:

“…The modern state, no matter what its form is essentially a capitalist machine – the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital. The more it proceeds to the taking over of productive forces, the more does it actually become the national capitalist, the more citizen does it exploit. The workers remain wage-workers – proletarians. The capitalist relation is not done away with…State ownership of the productive forces is not the solution to the conflict… (passim)

Public ownership or state ownership of the means of production due to nationalization is not the solution to the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat within capitalism. Public ownership does not resolve the “capitalist relation” according to Engels. For Engels, it is socialism, “socialized productive forces”, that resolves the “capitalist relation”.

The Left, especially the “Marxist-Leninist” Communist Parties, see public ownership as the solution for the working class under capitalism until socialism is reached. This position cannot be substantiated by Science. It is incorrect and goes against Engels position.  All the Left does in calling for public ownership under capitalism is to leave the capitalist system intact. Public ownership becomes a distraction and a diversion instead of a solution to the “conflict”. The Left, especially the “Marxist-Leninist” Communist Parties should propagate to the working class that the transformation of capitalism into socialist society is imperative rather than public ownership under capitalism. This is the task.   

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Newssheet No.5 – 2025

 

Mayday Greetings

Global Messenger sends Mayday greetings to all workers of the world. The main task is still Marx and Engels slogan of “Workers of the world, Unite”. Proletarian Internationalism is an imperative for the workers of the world to confront the present crisis of monopoly capitalism caused by the ‘spat’ between the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists” within “mature capitalism” in the stage of Globalization. Proletarian Internationalism is necessary for the transformation of capitalism into socialist society. A Luta Continua.

Editorial – Economic nationalism in the stage of Globalization

President Trump’s economic policy of tariffs has ‘destabilized’ global monopoly capitalism. Many bourgeois commentators and politicians and even those of the Left have stated that this ‘destabilization’ has led to “the end of the era of Globalization”. Is this position correct?

For Global Messenger, capitalism is in the second stage of its monopoly development. The first stage being the stage of Imperialism. The present stage of Globalization is grounded in three laws of capitalism. The main economic law is the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation through its four features: concentration, centralization, the organic composition of capital and the industrial reserve army. The second law is the “absolute General Law of Capitalist Accumulation”, which for Marx, is when the capitalist accumulates vast amount of capital while at the same time the working class and the workers become increasingly impoverished. These two economic laws have as their premise what Lenin called “a universal law of capitalism”, discovered by Marx in the latter’s remarks on mature capitalism. The following is Lenin’s understanding from “Critical Remarks on the National Question”:

“Developing capitalism knows two historical tendencies in the national question. The first is the awakening of national life and national movements, the struggle against all national oppression, and the creation of national states. The second is the development and growing frequency of international intercourse in many forms, the breakdown of national barriers, the creation of the international unity of capital, of economic life in general, politics, science, etc.

“Both tendencies are a universal law of capitalism. The former predominates in the beginning of its development, the latter characterizes a mature capitalism that is moving towards its transformation into socialist society…”

For Lenin, the “beginning” of capitalism is dominated by “bourgeois nationalism” which proclaims national sovereignty and the sanctity of the nation state. The period of “mature capitalism” is dominated by the “international unity of capital” among other factors. It can be characterized as “bourgeois internationalism” which reflects the present stage of Globalization.

The present stage of Globalization sees ‘division’ within the ruling bourgeois class in the advanced capitalist countries between the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists”. This is how the “universal law of capitalism” affects the behaviour of the bourgeoisie. The “bourgeois nationalists” are for maintaining nationalism, national sovereignty, national economy and the nation state. The “bourgeois internationalists” are for the internationalization of economic life and creating the international unity of capital and the break-down of national barriers, as with the European bourgeoisie in the form of the “European Union”.

In the “beginning” of capitalism, manufacturing and industrial capital dominated the national economy. In “mature capitalism”, the stage of Globalization, finance capital demanding the internationalization of the productive forces and the break-down of national barriers dominates the global capitalist economy led by US finance capital based in Wall Street. The above provides the context within which an analysis of Trump’s economic policy of tariffs has ramifications for the global capitalist economy and the effects on the workers, the working class.

In which ‘camp’ does Trump and Musk belong to - the “bourgeois nationalists” camp or the “bourgeois internationalists” camp? Trump and his cohorts belong to the camp of “bourgeois nationalists” and are antithetical, to say the least, to the “bourgeois internationalists”. Trump’s economic policy of tariffs has been described by the Guardian newspaper as “economic nationalism”. It is correct. This “economic nationalism” is the basis of Trump’s slogans of “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) and “America First”.  These slogans are the calling card of American “bourgeois nationalism” by its major proponent, Trump, the self-confessed white supremacist, fascist and convicted felon, to influence the working class to carry out its agenda.

Trump with his “economic nationalism” want to regress US monopoly capitalism, at present dominated by finance capital, representing “bourgeois internationalism” in the form of “neoliberalism”, to the “beginning” of capitalism where manufacturing and industrial capital were dominant and in this ‘goal’ he has the support of most of the American working class. It is leading to tensions and division within the American bourgeois ruling class between the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists”. The American “bourgeois nationalists” are imposing their will concerning “economic nationalism” – a policy of tariffs – on the global capitalist economy. This is leading to disruptions within the global capitalist economy and is affecting finance capital who are spearheading the “bourgeois internationalists” cause of “neoliberalism” and “Free Trade”.

The operation of this “universal law of capitalism” show itself in the ‘battle’ between the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists” in the epoch of “mature capitalism”, the stage of Globalization. The “bourgeois nationalists” are faced with tensions and differences within their own camp on how to proceed with “economic nationalism”, as is happening in the USA. The “bourgeois internationalists” in America have not come out fully against the “bourgeois nationalists” and the latter’s onslaught on the “international unity of capital” in the stage of Globalization expressing “mature capitalism”, apart from the ‘instance’ on the bonds market, which was firing a warning shot against “economic nationalism” – the policy of tariffs. This ‘instance’ led to the “bourgeois nationalists” headed by Trump back-tracking on their policy. The “bourgeois internationalists”, headed by finance capital, slightly flexed its muscle, in this ‘instance’ concerning the bonds market, for Trump, on behalf of the “bourgeois nationalists”, to back-track on their onslaught on the “bourgeois internationalists” support for “neoliberalism” and “Free Trade”. The ‘reaction’ of the “bourgeois internationalists” to Trump and the “bourgeois nationalists” with their MAGA and “America First” slogans is muted due to the support of most of the American working class for the latter.

The operation of the “universal law of capitalism” shows that the ‘intervention’ or ‘onslaught’ by “bourgeois nationalists” with their “economic nationalism” leads to splits and division within the bourgeois ruling class, within “mature capitalism” in the stage of Globalization. President Trump, as head of the “bourgeois nationalists” in the USA, is acting as a King with absolute Imperial power issuing decrees or executive orders to the global capitalist economy and the countries affected by such actions, and, in the process, alienating the “bourgeois internationalists”. The operation of the “universal law of capitalism” shows that there is ‘disruption of “mature capitalism” in the stage of Globalization due to the ‘intervention’ by “bourgeois nationalists” and their policy of “economic nationalism”.

What Lenin called “mature capitalism” cannot develop when faced with this division and split between the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists” within the ruling bourgeois class. The ‘smooth’ operation of this “universal law of capitalism” is ‘broken’ asunder by the spat between the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists” and the former’s “economic nationalism” onslaught on “mature capitalism” in the stage of Globalization. Can finance monopoly capitalism survive this onslaught by the “bourgeois nationalists” to proceed with Globalization? How does this affect the workers, the working class?

The stage of Globalization sees the ‘division’ between the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists” as not been conducive to the development of monopoly capitalism.  Monopoly capitalism cannot operate in an efficient and effective manner if this ‘spat’ is going on between the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists”. Capitalist globalization or “mature capitalism” is disrupted that it is causing a dysfunction within the capitalist system, for example, Trump’s “economic nationalism” – the policy of tariffs – is projected to cause a recession.

 Monopoly capitalism does not serve the interests of the workers, the working class. The ‘division’ will lead to inflation and an increase in the cost of living for the workers. They are also liable to a capitalist recession which will further make them poorer. The main task within capitalism, within monopoly capitalism in the stage of Globalization, within “mature capitalism”, is to conduct an uncompromising struggle against virulent contamination with “bourgeois nationalism” by the working class. Both the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists” use the “national”, nationalism, to tie the working class to its coattails and this must be challenged to educate the working class in “socialist consciousness”. The working class must be educated in the fact that capitalism has outlived its purpose with this ‘quarrel’ between the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists” and that the transformation into socialist society is on the horizon. The working class must be “injected” with socialist consciousness and presented with a scientific socialist ‘vision’ of socialism based on the co-operative system as advocated by Marx and Lenin.   

The stage of Globalization leads to socialism. The “advanced capitalist countries” are faced with this prospect. In the face of working-class opposition to this ‘division’ within the bourgeois ruling class, the “bourgeois nationalists” and the “bourgeois internationalists will collaborate and co-operate with each other to maintain power – economic and political. The task is to transform this situation in favour of the working class and socialism. A Luta Continua.

 

Opinion – The Gender issue

The “gender issue” must be viewed within the context of the dialectical laws of nature. The first major law that governs nature is the “law of the unity and struggle of opposites”. This is the law that governs the relation between a man and a woman in sexual terms which is the basic relation in society. It reflects the ‘division’ of the sexes. This struggle and unity between opposites, between man and woman, is crucial for the reproduction of humans with regards to sexual relations. The basic sexual relation between man and woman leads to human reproduction and the perpetuation of humans. This has been the case since day 1. All other sexual relations are regarded as ‘deviations’ from the norm. Society has frowned upon these ‘deviations’ from the norm.

Within bourgeois society, a peculiar feature arises where the ‘deviations’ are becoming ‘normalized’ and being granted democratic rights. The ‘sexual orientation’ of man to man and woman to woman, reflecting gays and lesbians, is being regarded as ‘normal’ and increasingly been granted democratic rights as for example ‘same sex marriage’ in the form of ‘civil marriages’. The Church, for example, is facing such an issue which is creating divisions within its ranks. It reflects the ‘controversy’ surrounding same sex relations, homosexuality.

Homosexuality is a ‘deviation’ from the norm which is the unity and struggle of opposites between a man and a woman. Homosexuality does not lead to the reproduction of humans. Homosexuality is a sexual orientation of man to man and woman to woman. This is not a democratic right and cannot be considered as such. Society cannot propagate homosexuality as a democratic right when it is blatantly an issue of sexual orientation. Within bourgeois society, there is a blurring and confusion of sexual identity in the name of democracy.

The same is true of ‘trans-sexuality’, who are men trying to be women and women trying to be men. This is a ‘deviation’ from the norm. A man can never be a woman and vice-versa.  The UK Supreme Court has ruled on just this matter where it stated that man cannot define himself as a woman. The definition of woman is based on biological sex. The sexual orientation of a man defining himself as a woman has no legal grounds. It has no social grounds. It has no sexual grounds. It is a ‘deviation’ from the ‘norm’. There is no such category as “trans-women”. The law is clear on that.

The blurring and hence confusion surrounding the basic sexual identity of the relation between a man and a woman within bourgeois society due to recognizing homosexuality and trans-gender people is not conducive to society’s well-being. It is antithetical to the basic dialectical law of nature concerning sexual identity and relations. It goes against the basic law of social relations, the law of the unity and struggle of opposites, concerning sexual identity and sexual relations between a man and a woman. This is the “opinion” of Global Messenger.

  

Newssheet No. 4 – 2025

 

Editorial – Economics and Politics in the present era of the stage of Globalization

The present stage of Globalization, in the mid-2020s, shows that monopoly capitalism is in crisis economically and politically. The crisis is not an economic crisis leading to a political crisis. It is a political crisis, first and foremost, with the election of Donald Trump, the fascist nationalist and white supremacist, with his slogan of “Make America Great Again”, to the Presidency of the United States of America, that has brought on an economic crisis with his “love” for tariffs. It means the ‘negation’ of the “rule-based international order” that has existed since the aftermath of the Second World War that saw the ‘unity’ of the international bourgeoisie of the “West” and led by US monopoly capitalism as the latter is the most powerful capitalist country in the world. “Trumpism” has led to economic differences with other countries and economic alliances like the European Union (EU) over the question of tariffs. There is a “trade war” in the making. This has led to the destabilization of the global capitalist economy.  It has led to, politically speaking, to a fractured relationship with Europe, the EU, and a tattered “Special Relationship” with Britain with the latter becoming more ‘subservient’ to Trump and appeasing him with a “State Visit” to Britain and meet the UK Monarch. “Disunity” and “differences” are characteristics within monopoly capitalism.

The economic ‘disunity’ leading to political ‘disunity’ must be considered by the working class and its political representatives, the Communists and Socialists. The political representatives must ‘educate’ the working class that this economic ‘disunity’ is costly to their economic well-being under capitalism. It is not in the interests of the working class. Only socialism will serve their economic interests.  

The political ‘disunity’ must be used by the political representatives of the working class to ‘educate’ the latter that it is not in their interests. The Communist and Socialists as the political representatives of the working class must educate and prepare the working class that it is to become the next ruling class under socialism and fulfill its political destiny whilst the capitalist are experiencing such ‘disunity’.

To ‘educate’ in a revolutionary way the working class there must be a scientific ‘vision’ of socialism as argued by Marx and Lenin who, both, advocated the co-operative system as the system of socialism which is the scientific ‘vision’ of socialism.

The Communist and Socialists at present are ‘obsessed’ with “Public Ownership” which leads to the “state monopoly” system under socialism, and, also under capitalism. This position has its roots in “Stalinism” concerning the development of the Soviet Union and after decades imploded due to its inability to meet the needs and wants of the working class. This ‘implosion’ shows that the erroneous and unscientific position of “Public Ownership” must be abandoned by the political representatives of the working class, the Communists and Socialist. These political representatives do not understand that the co-operative system arises out of the ‘womb’ of capitalism and is the natural economic system of the working class which has ‘created’ it. In contrast, the Communists and Socialists ‘obsession’ with “Public Ownership” leads to the State becoming an artificial “economic entity” which is not its ‘function’. “Stalinism”, in relation to the development of socialism in the USSR based on “Public Ownership”, led to “Historical Materialism” standing on its head instead of standing on its feet by making the State as an expression of the “superstructure” the primary factor in economic relations. This erroneous and unscientific position must be jettisoned and abandoned by the Communists and Socialists as it does not accord with the position of Scientific Socialism developed by Marx and Lenin based on the co-operative system. This erroneous and unscientific position does not accord with the principles of “Historical Materialism” as discovered by Karl Marx.

The economic and political ‘disunity’ within the international bourgeoisie, which is moving to the political “far-right”, gives space and opportunity to ‘educate’ the working class to fulfill its ‘destiny’ in the present era of the stage of Globalization.

 

Britain – The Labour Government

The aftermath of the Second World War saw the rise of Social Democracy in the form of political parties that purported to represent the working class and working people in general. Social Democracy was basically concerned with reforming capitalism in the interests of working people. Social Democracy was not preoccupied with the transformation of capitalism into socialism as the main goal of the working class. Social Democracy collaborates with capitalism to push through reforms that it sees are in the interests of working people. It sees its engagement in politics within bourgeois democracy which has been developed by the ruling bourgeois class and abides by the latter’s diktats. Social Democracy sees the short-term interests of the working class and working people but ignores its long-term interests and that is the transformation of capitalism into socialism. The Labour Party in Britain is a representation of such a political form within bourgeois democracy.

The electoral victory of the Labour Party at the 2024 General Election saw it become the government in Britain. There is a Labour government governing Britain at present. The mantra of the Labour Party was “Change” and to “serve working people”.

The Labour Party no longer represents the working class through its trade union membership but “working people”. This emphasis on “working people” allows the Labour Government to conveniently forget the class contradiction in Britain between the capitalist class and the working class. Gone are the days of fidelity to the “working class” by this Labour Government. Instead, there is fidelity to “serve working people” and in the process denying that Britain is a “class society”. This is a ‘sleight of hand’ by the opportunistic Labour Government to cover up its collaboration with capitalism. This position to “serve working people” is a denial of the fact that the Labour Party was formed by the trade unions to defend “working class interests” not “working people” within bourgeois democracy. The Labour Party has changed its position to deceive the working class. It was the trade unions that gave birth to the Labour Party to defend working class interests and the present Labour Government now “serves working people” instead of the working class. This “Change” is a ‘deceit’ by the Labour Government. This is the first point to note.

The second point to note is that its notion of “Change” means that it can attack the poor, the working poor, the physically and mentally disabled, pensioners, ‘WASPI’ women and to curb pay rises in the public sector. The word “Change” is a euphemism for an ‘attack’ on “working people”. The trade unions and its leadership who finance the Labour Party must be criticized for their ‘muted’ response to this ‘attack’ by the Labour Government. The Conservative Party is supportive of this Labour Government in this onslaught or ‘attack’ on “working people”.

The third point to note is how one commentator characterized the Labour Government as “red Tories”. The Labour Government policies culminating in its ‘attack’ on “working people” is an ‘extension’ of past Conservative governments on austerity. The Guardian calls Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of Exchequer, “Spring Statement” as “austerity in disguise”. The Labour Government is engaged in ‘neoliberalism’ prescriptions concerning “working people”. This shows how far the Labour Government has moved to the “right” and can be characterized as a ‘right-wing bourgeois democratic’ political party in the manner of the Conservative Party. The Labour Government can be aptly characterized as “red Tories”. This movement to the right shows that “Social Democracy” is bankrupt and cannot “serve working people”.

Fourthly, this characterization of the Labour Government as “red Tories” shows their similar policies as regards the British State including its welfare component. Both want to pare the State. The Conservative Party, as the political representatives of the ruling capitalist class, support this policy of the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, as they believe in a smaller reduced State. The Labour Government, the “red Tories”, are propagating the mantra or slogan that “the system is broken”. This is an abstract statement.  The “system” in Britain is a capitalist system. It is not “broken” as the monopoly capitalists are making billions in profits. The “system” that the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, are referring to is the State and especially its welfare component. To ‘repair’ or “fix the system” the Labour government, the “red Tories”, are to pare the State especially its welfare component. The policy of the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, is to cut jobs and benefits which will affect “working people” and the working class, its essential component. The burden of “fixing the system” falls on “working people” and the working class, its essential component, and not on the capitalist class. It is an admission by the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, that the “system” cannot maintain the Welfare component of the State and the ‘State’ itself as capitalism in Britain develops into its mature stage. The slogan of the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, that “the system is broken” is a ‘deception’ that seeks to place the responsibility on “working people” and the working class, its essential component not on capitalism. The existence of the ‘Welfare State’ is to prevent the working class from ‘restructuring’ capitalism in a revolutionary way. The ‘Welfare State’ is a ‘concession’ by capitalism in Britain to “working people”, and the working class, its essential component, to prevent a socialist revolution. Capital, especially its political representatives, the Conservative Party, in Britain, is demanding that the State especially its welfare component is pared. The Labour Government, the “red Tories” are following capital’s diktat and, in the process, putting the responsibility on “working people” and the working class, its essential component.  

Fifthly, the Labour Government mantra of “grow the economy” must be analyzed. This is ‘phraseology’ by the Labour Government. It is an abstract statement. What “economy” is the Labour Government talking about? It is not a feudal economy. No one knows. Britain’s “economy” is a capitalist economy in which monopoly capital reigns supreme. Monopoly capitalism is at present doing well as shown in the finance capital, energy and retail sectors, for example. Monopoly capital is growing through making billions in profits. So, to whom is the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, referring to when ‘talking’ about “grow the economy”. The Labour Government, the “red Tories”, are referring to the public sector or public services of the State especially its welfare component. The Labour Government, the “red Tories” does not realize that the State, especially the public sector cannot be treated as a capitalist economy. Yes, the capitalist wage relation prevails within the public sector but Health, Education, and Defense, for example, cannot produce surplus value like the capitalist economy to make profits. This is the difference between the public sector and the private sector, the capitalist economy. The ‘cost’ of maintaining the public sector is affecting what the bourgeois economists call the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This enables governments of whatever hue and shade to talk about “grow the economy” in particular, the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, by paring the State and especially its welfare component, affecting “working people” who become unemployed and join the ranks of the industrial reserve army. The phraseology “grow the economy” has a double-whammy effect on “working people”. The State being pared leads to unemployment and secondly to cuts to social benefits. This is the lot of “working people” under this Labour Government, the “red Tories”.

The final point is the Labour Government mantra or “value” that it is the “party of work”. The Labour Government, the “red Tories” believe in the “dignity of work” in a similar way to the “blue Tories”, the Conservative Party, the political party of the ruling capitalist class. Both share this bourgeois ‘value’. Both are for cuts in welfare spending in order that those who are affected go into “Work” and engage in its “dignity”. The Labour Government, the “red Tories”, the party of “working people”, forget that “working people” who engage in ‘work’ under and within capitalism are economically exploited through the extraction of surplus value as discovered and pointed out by Karl Marx in “Capital”. The Labour Government, the “red Tories”, conveniently forget or ignore the ‘essence’ of the phrase the “dignity of work” which is concerned with economic exploitation under capitalism, whilst, in contrast, extol the ‘form’ of the phrase “dignity of work”. The Labour Government, the “red Tories”, separates the ‘form’ from the ‘essence’ of the phrase “dignity of work” to ensure that “working people” share in its propagation of a bourgeois value. Where is there the “dignity of work” under capitalism when the worker is subjected to economic exploitation by the capitalist. The Labour Government, the “red Tories” have some explaining to do. It is a ‘deceit’ carried out by the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, in the name of “working people”.

The Labour Government and the Labour Party have shown themselves to defend the interests of capital rather than the working class, let alone “working people”, through their phraseologies “the system is broken”, “grow the economy” and the “dignity of work”. Its ‘deceit’ must be exposed to show to the working class, and “working people” in general that it does not serve their interests both in the short-term and in the long-term. The phraseologies “The system is broken”, “grow the economy” and the “dignity of work” shows the bankruptcy of Social Democracy and its ‘values’ in Britain and its movement to the right of bourgeois politics. These ‘phraseologies’ are propagated under the ‘form’ of bourgeois nationalism. The Labour Government, the “red Tories, are virulently contaminating the working class and “working people” with bourgeois nationalism with the phrase “our country needs to grow the economy” which means that there must be conducted an “uncompromising” struggle against this disease. The Communists and Socialists must follow this advice by Lenin so as “inject” socialist consciousness into the working class so that it can fulfill its destiny, fulfill its historic role in becoming the next ruling class under socialism in the interests of humanity.  

“Working people” and especially the working class, its essential component, must firstly, be ‘educated’ that the Labour Government the “red Tories”, does not serve its interests both in the short-term and in the long-term. The Communists and Socialists must educate “working people” especially the working class by exposing the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, in its propagation of bourgeois values and the bourgeois democratic system so that working class can fulfill its destiny to be the next ruling class under socialism. The ‘failure’ to do so will result in “working people” and the working class shifting to the Right and the Far-Right in the form of Reform UK. This is the danger. Only a scientific and conscientious critique of the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, and its policies of throwing ‘sops’ to the working class and “working people” in the next four years and with an ‘injection’ of socialist consciousness to move them away from bourgeois nationalism can the working class be standing on its feet and fulfill its destiny. This is the task of the Communists and Socialists. The second task is that by “injecting” socialist consciousness into the working class and “working people”, the Communists and the Socialists must present a scientific ‘vision’ of socialism based on the co-operative system, the economic system of the working class under socialism. They must follow Lenin’s advice of “Education, Organization, Action” concerning “working people” and the working class, its essential component, in the propagation of socialism in the interests of humanity.

The Labour Government, the “red Tories”, must be criticized for its attack on “working people”, the working poor of the working class, the sick and the poor, and the mentally and physically disabled. The trade unions must be criticized for their muted response to the draconian measures of this Labour Government, the “red Tories”. The Left, the Communists and the Socialists, must ‘educate’ the working class and the trade unions that the Labour Government, the “red Tories”, no longer stands for the interests of “working people” and the working class both in the short-term and in the long-term.  Social Democracy as a political force with bourgeois democracy is bankrupt and is moving to the Right and in the process tarnishing the Left. It drives the working class and “working people” to the Right and not to gravitate towards the Left.  This is the crux of the matter for the next four years until the next General Election. This is the “Change” in the forms of the slogans “the system is broken”, “grow the economy” and the “dignity of work” that “working people” and the working class are going to undergo under this Labour Government, the “red Tories”, for the next four years which is good news for the British bourgeoisie, the ruling class in capitalist Britain. The Labour Government, the “red Tories”, are serving the interests of capital rather than propagating its ‘value’ to “serve working people” especially to “serve” the interest of the working class, its essential component. This is the political ‘deceit’ of the Labour Government, the “red Tories”.

Newssheet – No. 3 – 2025

 

Editorial

Trumpism and the divisions within the International bourgeoisie

In recent years, the phenomenon of Trumpism has not only reshaped American politics but has also sent ripples through the ranks of the international bourgeoisie. This political movement, characterized by its nationalist rhetoric, populist appeal, and challenge to the established order, has exposed and exacerbated existing fractures within the global capitalist class. Trumpism is the dictatorship of the billionaire oligarchy on behalf of the ruling bourgeois class in America. It propagates bourgeois nationalism and patriotism and embraces fascism. This has its expression in the slogans “America First” and “Make America Great Again”. This propaganda has led to schisms with its European ‘allies’ especially on economic matters and the war in Ukraine. This schisms or divisions within the global or International bourgeoisie has led to the denigration of the “rule-based international order” set up by the Imperialist Powers in the aftermath of the Second World War.

On one hand, we observe a faction of the bourgeoisie that aligns with Trump’s ideals, embracing protectionist policies and a retreat from globalism. These individuals and entities, often tied to traditional industries or regions affected by globalization, find solace in the promise of economic nationalism and the dismantling of trade agreements perceived as unfavourable. Their support for Trumpism stems from a desire to reclaim perceived lost economic dominance and to shield domestic markets from foreign competition.

Conversely, another significant segment of the global bourgeoisie remains staunchly committed to the principles of free trade, open markets, and international cooperation. These actors, typically entrenched in multinational corporations and financial institutions, view Trumpism as a threat to the very fabric of the global economy. They argue that protectionist policies hinder economic growth, disrupt supply chains, and foment geopolitical instability. For them, the interconnectedness of the world economy is an asset, not a liability, and Trump's isolationist tendencies present a formidable challenge to their interests.

This ideological schism within the bourgeoisie is not merely a theoretical debate but has tangible implications for economic policies and international relations. As Trumpism continues to influence political discourse, the divisions within the capitalist class are likely to deepen, leading to a more fragmented and contentious global economic landscape.

In this context, the future of international capitalism appears uncertain, as the struggle between nationalist and globalist factions within the bourgeoisie plays out on the world stage. The outcome of this struggle will undoubtedly shape the contours of our economic and political systems for years to come.

Trump seeks peace in the Ukraine but is supporting the fascist “Jewish State” (Netanyahu’s words) unconditionally and absolutely in the latter’s war against the Palestinians. This expresses a ‘contradiction’ in the position of Trump and Trumpism in the political sense. On the one hand, Trump propagates ‘peace’ and on the other hand, he propagates ‘war’.  With regards to Gaza, Trump wants to turn it into the “Riviera” of the Middle East and the displacement of the Palestinians leading to what the United Nations has called “ethnic cleansing” and a denial of Palestinian sovereignty and self-determination. With regards to the war in the Ukraine, Trump and Trumpism has shown that the ‘peace dividend’ is profitable for US monopoly capitalism whilst Trumpism ‘peace negotiations’ with Putin and Russia have caused schisms and divisions with the European bourgeoisie and affecting the military alliance NATO. Despite this, in general, war is profitable for the capitalists, especially, monopoly capitalism, specifically in the form of finance capital. “Freedom and Democracy”, the calling card or slogans of the international bourgeoisie, are linked to ‘war profits’.

The main goal of Trumpism, as it is with US monopoly capitalism, is ‘confrontation’ with China as the latter is the main economic competitor to American monopoly capitalism. Trumpism expresses  “uni-polarity”, in the form of the dominance of US monopoly capitalism, while the rest of the international bourgeoisie bows down to it in homage, in the stage of Globalization. The above is, at present, the ‘essence’ of Trumpism and its relations with the international bourgeoisie  in the stage of Globalization.

 

Socialist Theory – “Uni-polarity” or “multi-polarity”

Monopoly capitalism is in the second stage of its development, the stage of Globalization. The stage of Imperialism ended in the 1980s with the Reagan/Thatcher axis which put monopoly capitalism onto the path of neoliberalism and the absolute domination of finance capital. The International Left including the ‘Marxist-Leninist Communist Parties, have failed to recognise the above fact and still cling to and maintain the concept of Imperialism even though Lenin’s definition of Imperialism is out-dated and irrelevant in the stage of Globalization. Nevertheless, the International Left still clings to the concept of Imperialism to analyse objective capitalist reality by re-defining Imperialism even though this is dialectically not feasible.

The International Left, especially the Communists, are now talking about the “Uni-polarity” and “multi-polarity” of Imperialism in the twenty-first century. The ‘notion’ “uni-polarity” refers to the USA as the dominant superpower of Imperialism dictating to the world, dictating to global capitalism. The ‘notion’ “multi-polarity” refers to the ‘opposition’ provided by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries together with the Global South to the “uni-polarity” of American Imperialism and other Imperialist countries like Britain, France and Germany. It is an attempt to cling to the concept of Imperialism by re-defining it and the struggle against it.

The BRICS countries economy is based on the capitalist mode of production. They are not socialist countries engaged in combatting monopoly capitalism in the transformation of capitalism into socialism. China is the only country which purports to be a socialist country because it is ruled by the Communist Party of China (CPC) with the ‘consent’ of its people especially its working class. There is no Chinese socialism because as Marx pointed out socialism does not allow for the existence of capitalism within socialism. The CPC is using the capitalist mode of production to raise the level of the productive forces and alleviate the people from absolute poverty which means the existence of capitalism within “Chinese socialism”. There is a capitalist class, including billionaires, existing in China without political power. The use of capitalism together with the state monopoly sector based on “Public Ownership” has turned China into the second most powerful economic power in the world after American monopoly capitalism. China and its ruling political party, the Communist Party of China, is not engaged in the overthrow of monopoly capitalism in the transformation of capitalism into social system on a global scale. China is colluding and collaborating with monopoly capitalism instead, for example, it is in discussions with British monopoly capitalism concerning a trade agreement. The countries of the Global South are using the capitalist mode of production and other modes of production and are enmeshed in the tentacles of global capitalism led by US monopoly capitalism. They are not at the stage where they, as a whole, are engaged in the transformation of capitalism into socialism, apart from South Africa, in confronting and challenging monopoly capitalism.

The ‘notions’ “uni-polarity” and “multi-polarity” cannot be applied to the stage of Imperialism but only to monopoly capitalism in the stage of Globalization. Only when it is applied to the stage of Globalization do these ‘notions’ make political sense. These notions do not sit well within the concept of Imperialism no matter how the latter is redefined. It means, as Lenin and Engels pointed out, a “concrete analysis of a concrete situation”. Thus, there has to be a “concrete analysis”, using these ‘notions’, of monopoly capitalism in the stage of Globalization which is the “concrete situation”.

 

Politics – The rise of Fascism in the twenty-first century   

The advent of the stage of Globalization due to the demise of the stage of Imperialism because of the Reagan/Thatcher axis in the 1980s and premised on neoliberalism has brought to the fore the “absolute General Law of Capitalist Accumulation”, discovered by Karl Marx. This law shows that as capital accumulates vast wealth, the working class becomes impoverished, becomes poorer. This has been the condition and experience of the working class since the Financial Crash of 2008. Austerity has been the name of the game for the working class while monopoly capitalism makes billions, nay, trillions in profit. This is the economic backdrop that determines politics.

At the political level, at the level of the political “superstructure”, the bourgeois democratic parties, the Conservatives and Social Democrats, have shown themselves not to have a ‘solution’ to the condition and experience of the workers, the working class, apart from propagating more ‘austerity’. Their economic policies are bankrupt. This situation has given space for the rise of fascist parties, the rise of fascism, or what the bourgeois media call the “rise of Far-Right parties”. The bankruptcy of the policies of the bourgeois democratic parties concerning the condition of the working class has led to the latter turning to the fascist parties to resolve its problems. The working class has not turned to Left parties, the Socialists and the Communists (this will be discussed later). The working class has not learned from the role of Fascism in the twentieth century. Fascism cannot solve the economic problems of the working class under capitalism. Fascism can only pander to working-class bourgeois nationalism in the form of Immigration – the “migrant crisis”.  This led to Immigration been utilized by the fascist parties to court popularity with the workers, the working class, working people, and leads to racism. This is the situation in Europe including Britain where bourgeois democratic elections have recorded the rise of the Far-Right parties within bourgeois democracy.

Monopoly capitalism is not in a state of crisis at present. It is making billions, nay, trillions in profit overall. Yet the fascist parties are making gains in elections within bourgeois democracy. This is due to the working-class experience that their condition is not been addressed by the bourgeois democratic parties but it perceives that it is addressed by the fascist parties especially on Immigration. This has led to the bourgeois democratic parties, the Conservatives and the Social Democrats, shifting their position further to the Right which is still not satisfactory for the working class.

Monopoly capitalism and their bourgeois political representatives have used bourgeois nationalism to tie the working class to capitalism. The fascist parties are utilizing bourgeois nationalism in the form of Immigration leading to racism by working people, by workers, for their own interests.

This shift to the Right by the working class must be addressed by the Left, the Socialists and the Communists, in a rigorous and steadfast manner. They must unite and develop a “united front” with trade unions, democrats and progressives and the workers to combat Fascism. The Left has to ‘educate’ the working class that capitalism and fascism do not serve their interest, needs and wants. Only socialism can. The problem is that the Left are ‘obsessed’ with “Public Ownership” leading to the state monopoly system as the socialist ‘solution’. The working class knows that “Public Ownership” leading to the state monopoly system, the system of socialism, failed the working class in the Soviet Union. Soviet socialism imploded because it stagnated and could not meet the needs and wants of the working class in the Soviet Union. The Left must present a ‘vision’ of socialism which Marx and Lenin defined as co-operative society based on common ownership.  As Lenin pointed out, “the system of civilized co-operators is the system of socialism” (“On Co-operation”). The Left, the Socialists and the Communists, are ignorant or do not pay attention to the position of Marx and Lenin on Socialism. This ‘ignorance’ of the Left is retarding the working class in its struggle for the transformation of capitalism into socialism and gives the fascist parties a chance to peddle their obscene wares. The Left, the Socialists and the Communists, must ditch “Public Ownership” leading to the state monopoly system and present the scientific position of Marx and Lenin on Socialism. It is only when the working class is ‘educated’ in the scientific ‘vision’ of Socialism by Marx and Lenin can it transform capitalism into socialism.

The Left must combat bourgeois nationalism and the racism that it breeds. Only then can the working-class stand on its feet. At present, it is standing on its head and being influenced by Fascism. Lenin pointed out that Communists must combat the contamination of bourgeois nationalism by the working class in an “uncompromising” way. This applies both to the capitalists and the fascists. The principle of internationalism demands that this is one of the main political objectives and is one of the means of defeating the capitalists and the fascists.

It is only when these political objectives are fulfilled can the working class, led by a united Left, can the rise of Fascism be defeated and the working class put onto the path of socialism. This is the order of the day in the stage of Globalization.

 

Newssheet No. 2 – 2025

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Editorial – Trumpism in the stage of Globalization

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The stage of Globalization of monopoly capitalism sees the rise of a new phenomenon within the ‘world’ of the ruling capitalist class, especially in America, which is setting the trend so to speak. It is “Trumpism”. What is “Trumpism”? “Trumpism” is the billionaire “oligarchy” (Biden’s word) of the ruling capitalist class in America who are embracing fascism, bourgeois nationalism and patriotism to dictate to the working class and the rest of the world as to how capitalism is going to operate to accumulate greater wealth, accumulate vast amount of capital. The billionaire’s “oligarchy” is using bourgeois nationalism and patriotism with the slogan “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) to bind the American working class to its policies in operating and maintaining capitalism in America in relation to the National Question. The billionaire “oligarchy” is going to throw ‘sops’ to the working class in America so as to show that they are taking into account workers interests while they accumulate vast amount of capital, vast amount of wealth.

 At the International level it is the ‘domination’ of American capital over all other forms of national capital like Germany, France, and Britain for example. “Trumpism” puts American capital in the forefront of the world capitalist economy and sees its own self-interest as the primary factor, for example, the imposition of tariffs on trade with other national economies in driving the world capitalist economy. The ‘self-interest’ of the billionaire “oligarchy of America in the form of “Trumpism” determines the economic interests of other national economies of the capitalist world. At the International level, “Trumpism” is the ‘dictatorial’ rule of the American billionaire “oligarchy” over the international bourgeoisie. This is causing ‘tensions’ within the capitalist world regarding how other national economies of the international bourgeoisie react to this ‘dictatorial’ rule. “Trumpism” expresses itself as “what is good for America is good for the world”. This is the mantra of Trump and Elon Musk, the architects of American fascism. It is no longer the ‘unity’ of the international bourgeoisie, the ‘unity’ of the “International Community” that is the main question but the propagation of American fascism and nationalism in the form of “Trumpism” that is the main factor at the international level. At the political level, “Trumpism” is engaged in cohering the fascist forces of the world, like Italy and Hungary whilst maintaining cordial relations with other bourgeois nation states.  Nevertheless, in the final analysis, it is American self-interest that dictates.

The ‘differences’ that are going to arise within the capitalist world must be utilized by the working class. It must be educated in the economic fact that whilst the billionaire “oligarchy” in the form of “Trumpism” accumulates greater and greater capital, the working class becomes poorer, becomes impoverished. This is the “absolute General Law of Capitalist Accumulation”, discovered by Karl Marx, operating within the capitalist world, within capitalism in the stage of Globalization. Capitalism, especially monopoly capitalism in the stage of Globalization, does not work in the interests of the working class but in the interests of the capitalist class, is the lesson that the working class must learn to develop its own interests of socialism and for socialism.

Socialist Theory – Class consciousness

Under capitalism, those who own and control the means of production constitute the capitalist class and thus assume the role of the ruling class. Those who only have their labour-power to sell to the capitalists constitute the working class. Consciousness arises out of this class position. It is consciousness about which class a person belongs to. The ruling capitalist class is a ‘minority’ class, and the working class is the exploited ‘majority’. Class consciousness is based on this fact.

Arising out of this economic situation, arising out of this economic “base”, is a “superstructure” consisting of the political, legal, cultural, family and moral framework that reflects and represents the situation at the level of the economic “base”. As Marx pointed out the “ruling ideas” belong to the ruling class which is an expression of bourgeois consciousness under capitalism. Bourgeois consciousness is an expression of the capitalist class rule at the level of the economic base. It is the ‘particular’ interests of the ruling capitalist class that are turned into the ‘general’ interests of society, the ‘general’ consciousness of society. Bourgeois consciousness has its foremost expression in bourgeois nationalism and patriotism.  The ‘particular’ ideology of the bourgeoisie that arises as the ‘general’ interest, as the ‘general’ consciousness, is used to ‘indoctrinate’ the working class and other classes in society in ‘accepting’ and maintaining the status quo, bourgeois rule.

Working class consciousness has two sides to it within capitalism. The first side is “class consciousness in-itself” which expresses itself as bourgeois consciousness shaped by bourgeois democracy in accepting the status quo. The workers, the working class, are too busy earning a living under capitalism that they cannot engage in anything else besides bourgeois consciousness shaped by bourgeois democracy through bourgeois ideological apparatuses like newspapers, TV and radio, and other forms. For example, trade union politics is bourgeois politics, and trade union consciousness is bourgeois consciousness which is the ‘norm’ within “class consciousness in-itself” of the working class within bourgeois democracy.

The second side is “class consciousness for-itself” which manifests itself as ‘socialist consciousness’. Socialist consciousness expresses itself as working-class consciousness ready to transform capitalism into socialism and establish the “dictatorship of the Proletariat” (Marx) with a ‘vision’ of socialism based on the co-operative system. Lenin pointed out, following Kautsky when he was a revolutionary, that socialist consciousness must be “injected” within the working class because the latter does not automatically espouse socialist consciousness due to its class position. Communist must have an ‘understanding’ of these two sides of working-class consciousness to “inject” socialist consciousness within the working class and that socialism is in its interests so that the latter can transform capitalism into socialism.

 

Israel’s war on the Palestinians in Gaza    

After more than a year of an incessant, ferocious and murderous bombardment of the social and civic infrastructure of the Palestinians in Gaza under the guise of eliminating Hamas, the fascist “Jewish State” (Netanyahu’s words) has agreed to a ceasefire with Hamas under pressure from Trump and the Americans. It means that the fascist “Jewish State” has failed to achieve its war objective of the elimination of Hamas but has achieved its ‘genocide’ of the Palestinian population with over 46,000 deaths of men, women and children during this period.

The ceasefire is a victory for the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip who have ‘survived’ this murderous bombardment by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) of the fascist “Jewish State” which has virtually made the Gaza Strip inhabitable. It shows that the Palestinians are not going to be cowered by the murderous bombardment by the IDF and still uphold steadfastly Palestinian national pride and sovereignty. It is a victory for the oppressed Palestinians against the oppressor, the fascist “Jewish State”, which wants to turn Palestine into ‘Greater Israel’ and expel the Palestinians into Jordan and Egypt.

The ‘ceasefire has put a dent into the ambitions of the fascist “Jewish State” for the creation of ‘Greater Israel’. The release of all hostages held by Hamas and other Islamic militant forces and Palestinians in Israeli jails during this ‘ceasefire’ cannot lead to a resumption of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza under the guise of eliminating Hamas – the stated war objective of the fascist “Jewish State”.

The ceasefire must lead to a resumption of discussions on Palestinian rights, Palestinian national identity and Palestinian sovereignty so that the Palestinians can face a future of hope and a solution to their situation based on UN Resolutions and with the ‘consent’ of the Palestinian people.