A party manifesto
For proletarian defeatism on both fronts of the bourgeois wars
For the international brotherhood of workers

From Ukraine to Gaza – passing through Nagorno Karabakh and all the trouble spots ready to ignite, from the Balkans to Taiwan – capitalism promises an apocalypse of war.

On both sides of the fronts, the bourgeois political regimes – be they democratic or authoritarian or disguised behind the most varied ideologies, from religious to falsely socialist ones – blame the war on the adversary, his politics, his civilization: Russian-Chinese authoritarianism, US hegemonic culture, Islamic extremism, Zionism…

Instead, capitalist economic interests hide behind these ideological screens. When ideological bombing is not enough, the bourgeoisies have no qualms about resorting to terrorist massacres to convince the proletarians that there is a foreign enemy to fight. The modern capitalist war is distinguished from all previous ones by claiming victims mainly among civilians, that is, among the proletarians.

The global economic crisis of capitalism is determining the ignition of more and more conflicts and the tendency towards a third imperialist conflict. The overproduction that has afflicted senile, so-called Western capitalisms since the mid-seventies, is now also manifested in the no longer young Asian capitalisms, starting with China, which for three decades have kept world capitalism afloat.

The inexorable advance of the crisis exacerbates competition between companies and capitalist States: the war goes from commercial to military. As in peace, bourgeois companies and States ask their workers for economic sacrifices to win in economic competition, in war they ask to sacrifice their own lives for the supposedly superior interests of the country.

The workers’ struggle against exploitation, to prevent competition against each other with lower wages and worse working conditions, is the first step towards their joint international action, and therefore towards opposition to the imperialist war which capitalism is leading all humanity.

Only the international unity of the working class can prevent or stop the war. But it is not based on vague references to moral values, in the name of social peace and good feelings, in the manner of the Churches or the hypocritical appeals of politicians, but rather on the need to fight together in defense of one’s own conditions and of life itself against a an enemy that is first and foremost internal, that is, against its own national bourgeoisie and its political regime. For this reason, in all countries the bourgeoisies indicate to the workers an external enemy, which would be the cause of their suffering, to be fought.

The Palestinian proletarians are cannon fodder for the interests of the Palestinian bourgeoisie, which for decades has used them by bargaining with part of the Arab-Middle Eastern bourgeoisies and with the world imperialist powers that back them. Even the proletarians of Israel are victims of their bourgeoisie, of its need to build its own capitalist living space, supported by US imperialism, and will be forced by it into a regional and global conflict, in which tens of thousands will die, if they will not be able to overthrow it politically with the revolution.

The Palestinian proletarian masses will put an end to their suffering not by pursuing the objective of "free Palestine" from the "Jordan to the sea", but with the international workers’ revolution against all the national regimes in the area: from Iran to Egypt, from ’Iraq to Lebanon, from Syria to Turkey. Only a social revolution of the proletarian class that makes a clean sweep of the bourgeois regimes and their interests will be able to allow the true peaceful coexistence of workers today divided by ethnic groups and religions by the bloody machinations of the murderous bourgeoisies.