Category: Region
When the inter-imperialist conflict between the USA and China intensifies
The following article analyses the background of the inter-imperialist confrontations that shake the world from an internationalist point of view. It has been published two days before the opening up of the Pandora’s box of generalizing imperialist warfare by the joint US-Israeli military attack on Iran under the pretext of conducting “preemptively” a “defensive war” and even of the blatant lie of “assisting” the “Iranian people” to liberate itself from the Mullah regime.
Whereas internationalist analyses and statements of positions on the significance of the current world-wide escalation are forthcoming in separate articles, we recommend the following text published by the Istituto Onorato Damen.
H.C., March 16, 2026.
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US Military Intervention on Venezuela – Apropos of an Acceleration of the Tendency towards a General War
Resuming the presentation of statements on and analyses of events of international impact by groups or individuals from the internationalist communist Left that seem relevant for debate, we (re-)publish the following statements on the background and significance of the US intervention which, at the beginning of the year, culminated in a spectacular military operation on Venezuela’s soil and the abduction of the presidential couple:
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The Communique on the US attack on Venezuela by the IGCL (January 4, 2026)
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The I.O.D.‘s statement Venezuela Contested by the Predators of Imperialism (January 12, 2026)
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R. Victor‘s analysis “VIVA LA MUERTE!” About the US military intervention in Venezuela (January 24, 2026)
H.C., 08 February 2026.
Escalation of the War over the Near and Middle East – First Internationalist Statements
As the atrocious massacre and starvation of the inhabitants of what is left of the Gaza Strip, after 19 months of relentless destruction and killing since Hamas’ terrorist assault on Israeli dwellings and kibbutzes of October 7, 2023, and the increasingly brutal repression of the Palestinian population on the West Bank, had come under increasing pressure both ‘domestically’ and internationally – especially following the renewed Israeli blockade since March 19 (1) – the Netanyahu fraction has taken the flight forward into an open and direct military confrontation with its regional arch-enemy, the Islamic Republic of the Ayatollahs.
The Israeli surprise assault on Iran of June 13, prepared long in advance and exerted in tandem with its US American master, opens up the Pandora’s Box of a regional imperialist conflagration with global implications and may therefor pose urgent questions to internationalists. (2)
First and foremost, this new belligerent escalation confronts internationalist minorities with their responsibilities. In the following, we therefor reproduce the first two proletarian internationalist statements that we have been able to find, as contributions to a necessary debate:
1. The statement by the ‘Circolo Internazionalista’ from Italy: The Flames of Imperialism are Increasing, published June 13, 2025;
2. The statement by FD, Battaglia Comunista (affiliated to the Internationalist Communist Tendency) of June 14, 2025: Israel’s Attack on Iran, but not only.
Henry Cinnamon, June 16, 2025.
1 Even seasoned defenders of the State of Israel in the “democratic West”, like for instance the Dutch and German bourgeoisies, saw themselves prompted towards an hypocritical change of tone in face of rising domestic anger against the barbarity exerted in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank that undeniably is on the account of their Israeli “friend”.
2 We have tried to develop one regarding the US-Israeli alliance in our brief editorial of June 15.
Israel’s Attacks on Iran’s Nuclear Facilities, Military Defenses and Key Regime Figures – Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?
Editorial
At the dawn of Friday 13 June 2025 the Israeli army and intelligence have started a massive military assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities, high echelon military commanders of the Iranian regime, and key nuclear scientists.
According to Israeli sources some 200 military airplanes have been used to bomb over 100 targets on Iranian soil. Next to targeting a considerable number of the geographically dispersed sites related to the Iranian nuclear program, among which the Uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, six nuclear scientists and a number of the highest ranking army and Revolutionary Guard Corps commanders have been eliminated, among which key figures to the presumed negotiations with the USA on controlling the country’s nuclear development in order to prevent it from obtaining nuclear weapons’ capabilities.
The War in Ukraine: I.O.D. on the US-Turnaround and Europe’s Difficulties
In the following article, L. Procopio of the ’Istituto Onorato Damen’ develops on the turnabout in US international policies since the start of Trump’s second term, at the hand of the US negotiations with the Kremlin on the war in Ukraine, keeping the notorious ‘European diplomacy’ at bay. Under the pretense of bringing about “piece” and setting an end to this war, the stage is set for still larger imperialist confrontations.
The article is a follow up to The Trump Menace: Proof of Strength or of Great Fragility? (G. Paolucci, March 5, 2025) which we took up recently on this site.
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Germany’s Early-Election Campaign: A Dispute over Competence in Racism and Inhumanity
On the same day as the US presidential elections resulted in Trump’s win of a second turn in the White House, the long ailing coalition government of SPD, FDP and the Green party in Germany was finally terminated, giving rise to early parliamentary elections on February 23, and the perspective of a “rightist” turn, notably by strengthening the right-wing extremist AfD at the federal level.
Previously, broad street demonstrations throughout the country against political extremism and racism, in particular against anti-immigration and anti-refugee tendencies “in defence of democracy” had emerged, as a secretive conference on deportation plans of migrants had been publicly revealed – however without preventing significant electoral gains of the AfD in the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia last autumn.
So, the stage for the electoral campaign for the Bundestag had already been prepared as the murderous car attack of December 20 on a Christmas market at Magdeburg, committed by a Saudi immigrant (who appeared to have a notorious track record of harassment and intimidation), fanned the flames of racism and xenophobia and gave rise to an instrumentalisation of the political tribunes of German officialdom and its contesters that is beyond the pale.
Syria: The Fall of Damascus
A Statement by F.D. (Battaglia Comunista)
(Written before the fall of the Assad regime, updated version of December 8)
The civil war has restarted in an already devastated Syria. The perpetrators of this renewed war against Assad come from the jihadist galaxy of the entire Middle East, such as the former al-Qaeda members led by Hayat Tahrir al Sham and Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, “disciple” of al Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraqi territory, and of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the caliph who proclaimed himself a descendant of Mohammed and head of the Islamic State before he met his death. They are the ones who lead the military coalition of groups such as the pro-Turkish ones, the various jihadist militants from the Caucasian areas, Uzbek militiamen, remnants of ISIS and even the Muslims (Uighurs) from Chinese Xinjiang.
This jihadist galaxy which began an assault on Assad’s government occupied Aleppo and a vast amount of territory in no time, effectively establishing itself as a powerful army capable of waging a civil war against a central government which is the vassal of Russian imperialism.
Discussion on ‘Gaza: The Horror and its Lies’
At the French language web blog GRAND LARGE CRITIQUES a commentary has appeared on the article Gaza: The Horror and its Lies, whose translation we’re pleased to take up here, followed by the reply of the author:
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Commentary on the text by Raoul Victor about Gaza (Lejardinier, September 11, 2024)
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The Motivations of Hamas (Raoul Victor, November 3, 2024)
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