The U.S. government has shamelessly and horrifically declared that it will expel millions of doomed Palestinians, slaughtered in its 16-month-long Holocaust with Israel, even from the ruins left by this Holocaust, driving them toward the most horrific deserts of displacement, starvation, and humiliation. What has been voiced by Trump and echoed in the media is precisely the operational plan, strategy, and mechanism that the most savage faction of the U.S.-Israeli bourgeoisie has prepared and implemented in advance. Everything that has been carried out in Gaza by the genocidal Zionist army, with the comprehensive support of U.S. and European military arsenals since the second week of October 2024, and everything that has befallen its inhabitants, are interconnected links in this ultra-anti-human chain of displacement. The scenario cooked up by the neo-Nazi bourgeoisie of the United States is not limited to this. It speaks of redrawing the map of the Middle East and achieving a series of interconnected objectives: erasing the right to life and social identity of 8 million Palestinians from the world’s geography, stamping a final end to any dialogue on the self-determination of these millions of people—something even referred to as “ethnic cleansing” in the deceptive rhetoric of the bourgeoisie. Forcing the octopus-like Islamic capitalist regime of Iran to accept the U.S.-prescribed order, challenging China’s dominant role in the region as a fundamental, strategic, and central goal—all of these are interconnected components of this scenario. A plan that carries with it the explosive contradictions of global capitalism today. Perhaps the accumulation of these very contradictions has led all media outlets, circles, parties, and even the working masses of the world to debate the feasibility or impossibility of it. A debate that, due to its fixation on this very wrong question, is profoundly sterile and misleading.
What must capture the attention, protest power, and problem-solving capacity of workers worldwide is not the feasibility or impossibility of Trump’s delusions, but a conscious confrontation with the foundational strategy of the United States, Israel, the savage regime of Iran, the Turkish government, Arab states, the nationalist and pan-Islamist Palestinian bourgeoisie, and the entire ruling and opposition bourgeoisie of the region and the world. The focus must be on laying stone upon stone to nurture, grow, and solidify the backbone of a vibrant, regional, internationalist, and anti-capitalist workers’ movement. This movement must rise against the capitalist order and its oppressive structures, forging a path toward liberation and equality.
The internet is abuzz with the boastful rhetoric of those who flaunt their intellect, discussing the feasibility or infeasibility of Trump’s bluster, singing lullabies to the ears of the working masses, and paralyzing the budding sprouts of their effective uprising against the storm of neo-Nazi assaults on the day of Trumps, Netanyahus, Bidens, all governments, and the entire capitalist system. When Trump, following Israel’s chain of genocides in Palestine and Lebanon with American-made bombs designed to melt human flesh, triggers earthquakes of destruction in Palestine and Beirut, speaks of ‘America owning beautiful Gaza,’ ‘turning Gaza into a hub of commerce, tourism, and investment for American trusts,’ when he bellows about the forced displacement of two million Palestinians into a desert of death, when Netanyahu hails these blood-soaked, ominous roars as a grand historical decree, when Trump sneers with a smirk of human mockery, howling that there is no need to send the American army, as Israeli rulers will hand Gaza over to him, when everywhere is filled with these threats and ultimatums, what room is there for discussing the possible and the impossible??!!
Every child shielded from the brainwashing of capitalism knows that these beasts will commit as much genocide and Holocaust-like atrocities as they can in the realm of human slaughter. Why should there be any doubt about this? The possibility or impossibility of any genocide, occupation, or savage bourgeois assault on livelihoods, healthcare, education, the environment, basic human rights, and the fundamental political and social freedoms of workers is determined solely by the capacity of the workers’ struggle, resistance, and consciousness. The vile, occupationist, and anti-human dreams of the U.S. government regarding Palestine can only be rendered impossible and thwarted by the uprising, protest, praxis, and powerful initiative of the workers of the world. Otherwise, these dreams will be realized.
The Trumps are not a bunch of thugs of the ‘Hun tribe,’ Mongol, or Timurid type from the fourth or thirteenth centuries, just as the German National Fascists, the founding Zionists of Israel, the Islamic Republic, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Jabhat al-Nusra were not and are not such. They are distinct entities, representing specific class and ideological interests of capital, who enter the arena, gather around themselves the lumpen proletariat—discontented, hungry, rebellious, and defeated—and turn them into tools for their own share of power, ambition, and rule. To achieve their goals, they resort to the most horrific genocides, savagery, and acts of destruction. They warn their rivals of the end of the miracle of democracy, which deceives the masses and perpetuates capitalism, and they recommend models of governance such as Islamic, Nazi, fascist, or the most brutal dictatorships. Whether they understand or not what they say or do is irrelevant. Their words, actions, policies, thoughts, governance, strategies, civilization, barbarism, and ideology are the eruption of contradictions, the earthquake of capitalism’s decay and anti-humanism, rising from the depths to the surface, finding voice in statesmen, opposition figures, philosophers, economists, ‘Commanders of the Faithful,’ Supreme Leaders, Bidens, Trumps, Macrons, Netanyahus, Obamas, Khameneis, Le Pens, Alternatives for Germany, Scholzes, defenders of democracy, champions of civil struggle, reformers, conservatives, governments, and political parties of the day. They turn against billions of workers, against all of humanity, nature, and the environment in which humans live.
The Trumps, Musks, Bezoses, Arnaults, Gateses, and Ellisons—along with the owners of the largest industrial, financial, religious, and military holdings in Iran, the colossal owners of the most massive digital, technical, and banking trusts in Europe, America, and the world—do not belong to the entirely false category of ‘the one percent versus the ninety-nine percent.’ The world today is not a world of the one percent and the ninety-nine percent! It is a world of capitalism, a world where 80% of the Earth’s population is separated from their labor and stripped of the right to intervene in the destiny of their work and the production of their lives. It is a world of the absolute domination of capital and the capitalist class over the labor and existence of the working class, a world of the inevitable class struggle between workers and capitalists, between the two classes of workers and capitalists. Everything that Trump and his administration have proposed and done since entering the White House is a series of interconnected, contradictory efforts to challenge China’s rise to a superior economic position and to maintain America’s current standing.
The appearance of the plans, the crisis-making, the controversies, are different, but they have a single articulation, ultra-fascist anti-immigration and the expulsion of 10 to 15 million foreign workers from the United States, blowing the trumpet to seize the Panama Canal, the protest of Canada’s annexation to the United States, stamping the US seal on the Gulf of Mexico, withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, leaving the World Health Organization, cutting off “US financial assistance to spread democracy”!!, eliminating the annual budget of 40 billion dollars of the “Development Agency”, firing 10,000 human resources employed by this foundation, blocking the channels of assistance to the challenge of epidemics, pandemics, health research, medical services, emergency relief, the fight against AIDS, incurable diseases and finally the brutal displacement of several million Palestinians and the erasure of their social identity, is their entire record!!
All of this is consistent, homogeneous, as far as America is concerned, the struggle to confront the collapse of its economic dominance in the cycle of global capital appreciation and the surrender of this place to China. Forced migration and human destruction, the identity of the Palestinians seem different, but it is not. First, it is the demand emphasized by the Israeli bourgeoisie and, therefore, an indispensable link in America’s current Middle East strategy. Second, China has long increased the volume of its investment and trade with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Emirates, Iraq, Turkey, Kuwait, and Oman to one and a half times that of the United States. This has been done in conditions where the Chinese have locked the cycle of reproduction of European social capital to their own semi-finished products, raw materials, spare parts, and technologies. They have taken over 50 percent of the Latin American advance market and capital circulation, and have become the dominant economic power in Africa.
In the most key areas of technology, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, electric vehicle production, renewable energy, battery technology and other areas, they have overtaken America. The American bourgeoisie, especially the neo-Nazis, the Trumpists, have realized that they are unable to compete economically with China and the BRICS region. This is what plays the role of an explosion point in the conditions of today’s capitalism. A situation similar to what the world was in on the eve of the second imperialist war. A war that, if it were possible to launch today with the same level of genocide and destruction, the American neo-Nazi bourgeoisie, and even its European and Japanese allies, would not hesitate for a moment to ignite it. Their insoluble problem is that such a thing is not possible. Such a war, in today’s conditions, would activate the world’s nuclear arsenals with a capacity to kill all of humanity and destroy the planet dozens of times. The war between the dominant poles of today’s capitalism cannot be of the type of the first and second imperialist wars. It must find its own form. A war of attrition in which the parties resort to all means and weapons to weaken each other, in the process of friction, they melt the working masses of the world into existence, and create a guarantee for the possible survival of capitalism. America welcomes such a war because it finds the opportunity to compensate for the inability to compete economically with other mechanisms such as sanctions, threats, bullying, the leverage of NATO, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, tariffs, and warmongering.
Trump started this war from the first day of his presidency. His Middle East policy, including the destruction of the historical human existence of the Palestinians, settling scores with the Islamic regime, is part of this war. The foundation of his strategy here is that the economy, politics, international relations, militaristic self-expression, and polar affiliations of the countries of the region must be under the control of the United States. Chinese capital should retreat in favor of American trusts, and the balance of trade between countries with China should change. The obstacles to achieving this goal should be challenged. For this, the Palestinian war with Israel must first end, and the way to end it is to destroy millions of Palestinians, deprive them of their right to life and their historical, human, and social identity, and turn Gaza and the West Bank into an island of stability for investment, trade, hotel management, and tourism by American and Zionist financial giants. A significant part of this work has been carried out by the Holocaust-causing Israeli army.
The dismantling of the Islamic Republic’s regional ambitions, most of which are disguised as implementation, must be completed. The capitalist rulers of Iran must accept one of two “options”. The first option: consign their nuclear program from start to finish, with a total cost of 40 trillion dollars, to the archives of history. They should do the same for their missile programs, and accept a humiliating disarmament by limiting their symmetric and asymmetric weapons. The second option: Be prepared to endure an Israeli military attack with bombers, American bunker-busting bombs, and the forced acceptance of the first option clauses under bombardment. The other parts of this strategy will also complement these chapters. Scenarios full of deepening contradictions whose realization on the ground is fraught with storms. The “ethnic cleansing” of Gaza will be followed by the outbreak of a new wave of resistance by the accursed Palestinians on the one hand, and more catastrophic genocides by Israel, America, and global capital on the other. Squeezing the Islamic Republic between the two options of surrender under bombardment or without bombardment will push this regime towards a last desperate stand, to create a worse crisis than before, and to launch rockets wherever they may be.
A new level of confrontation and conflict, the first consequences of which will be a more terrifying intensification of sanctions, a storm of hunger, lack of medicine, sleep deprivation, lack of water, lack of electricity, high prices, unemployment of the working masses, a more crushing collapse of the economic edifice and the capitalist cycle of valorization, tens of millions of workers becoming more and more oppressed by the pressure of exploitation and the barbarity of wage slavery, and a rise in repression in all areas of human life. In such an atmosphere, the entire region will be subjected to a storm worse than before. The neo-Nazi bourgeoisie of the United States is simultaneously trying to weaken China and the BRICS by making possible deals with Russia over the Ukraine issue, giving Putin more concessions, such as lifting sanctions, conditional partnership on America’s greater share in the exploitation of gold resources, rare earths, and underground deposits in the Arctic, reducing NATO spending, and putting more economic pressure on Europe. With the help of all these plans and scenarios, it is trying to weaken China and the BRICS, while it is unable to compete effectively economically with China. With these means and levers, it is trying to prevent the United States from falling to a lower position in the global capitalist order. What Trump and his government are doing in this regard is completely consistent with the desires, visions, and strategy of the Israeli ruler, with perhaps two exceptions. First: No part of the American bourgeoisie wants to overthrow the Islamic regime, nor has it ever done so in the past, but Netanyahu prefers it. Second: Netanyahu’s expectations for Iran to surrender are higher and more hysterical than Trump’s. The latter is willing to be flexible in exchange for the medal of victory in the nuclear dispute and preventing the regime from causing regional problems, but the Israeli government is looking for more. In the meantime, of course, Netanyahu’s decision will be the talking point.
The roadmap of the American-Israeli bourgeoisie for the Middle East, and the forced result of the ongoing conflicts between governments and global capital poles in the region, is to create a hell that is more fiery, more terrifying than before. A hell in which hundreds of millions of workers will be sacrificed in its flames. In such a situation, the most urgent task before every worker in the Middle East is to react to this devastating tsunami of aggression and aggression, to prepare for the campaign. What we have witnessed and are witnessing over the years, especially the last year and a half, is the opposite. It is unbelievable and disgusting. Several million Palestinian workers have been reduced to ashes and annihilated in the crematoriums of America, Israel, Europe, and the world of capital, their real liberation campaign has been confiscated by the pan-Islamist, Palestinian and Arab nationalist bourgeoisie. But no real, socially effective, radical, anti-capitalist protest was formed, launched, or demonstrated by any section of the global working class against this holocaust. In most European and American cities, millions of people took to the streets, raised their voices in protest, circled around, and continued this for 18 months. But none of these protesters ask themselves what the result of this controversial campaign was?? The volume of bombs sent by the United States to drop on the cursed Palestinians was reduced by a kilo?!! The number of non-stop bombings by the Israeli army in Gaza and Lebanon was reduced by one?!!
Did the wave of massacre of tens of thousands of Palestinian children by American, European, Israeli bombers, and the capitalist international stop roaring for a second?!! Did the intensity of the earthquakes created by the Zionists, American, Israeli, and their partners in Palestine decrease a little?!! Did a bite of bread, a sip of water, a pill of medicine reach the lives of the millions of bombed and burned Palestinian masses?!! None of this happened. Was it better than nothing? Of course, yes, it was better than nothing, but this question and answer are equally vulgar. A key, historical and deeply human question must be answered. Was it destined that all these street demonstrations, university sit-ins, and stomping on the pavements would have no results? Would they have no effect on any of the genocides, the atrocities of the Israeli state, its allies, and its supporters? The answer is certainly a resounding no. The protests could have led to results, victories. Let us remember that the protesters were generally working men and women, young people from working-class families. Instead of just marching in the streets, standing in the squares, this crowd could have gone to factories, transportation networks, ports, schools, stadiums, large stores, every center of work and production, every gathering place of the working masses, entered these environments, centers, talked to the workers, and revived the image of the moment, the moment of genocide, the bloodbath of children, the destruction wrought by capitalist rulers in the memory of every worker. Seek help from them, call for comradeship, solidarity of the members of your class to confront this Holocaust. Repeat this every week, every day. In the process of meetings and discussions, get to know the more suffering, more militant, more courageous, more aware workers, try to strengthen your ties with them, insist on their role in stopping the cycle of work and production throughout the country, on the continent, in the largest parts of the world. All of this could have been done, done. Let us think about what if hundreds of work centers in each country were closed, if the ruling beasts of the bourgeoisie of several continents saw the wave of anger, rage, and rebellion of tens of millions of workers in the form of chain-like closures of centers of production, education, treatment, transportation, and trade, how they would find their world of existence captured by an earthquake. Of course, they would resort to repression, but it did not work, they would retreat, and put pressure on Netanyahu and Biden and the genocidal army. Were these things possible or not?? Would it work or not?? It is a question that can only be answered at the end of months of their deliberate, intelligent, bold and anti-capitalist work. The tragedy is that no one was even willing to start this campaign, to test it once and only once in its life!!. It may be said that even if such a campaign were possible, if it were successful, it would have benefited Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the predatory regime of Iran and the like!! The issue is exactly the opposite. The fertilization, growth, organization of such a movement was the praxis, conscious, glorious issuance of this manifesto that several million Palestinian workers, several million Israeli workers are part of the global working class. Their liberation from the clutches of the barbarity and holocaust of the Zionist, neo-Nazi, pan-Islamist, nationalist, democratic bourgeoisie is the task of the world labor movement, they must hand in hand with the help of the workers of the world to determine the fate of their work, production, and life. All sections of the world’s misanthropic bourgeoisie must give up on them.
We started by criticizing a group that took a step forward in protest, even if it was a sterile protest, and wanted to do something, but it got lost in the middle and did not enter the real field of struggle. The Arab-Turkish, Persian, Kurdish workers of the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East Asia and elsewhere, for whatever reason, under the pressure of physical repression by governments and the brainwashing of capital, did not even take this step, they did not show any decisive class or human reaction. This was what was seen in the past year and a half, and now the question is what will the vast mass of workers in the region, the world, the young generation of the working class do in the face of what is ahead, in the face of the storm of more violent, more destructive attacks resulting from the more rebellious explosion of the inherent crisis of capital, the terrible competition of governments, sectors, and the blockades of global capital? The Middle East, as always but deeper than ever, is the direct and indirect focus of these conflicts. The roots of the turmoil are in the existence of capitalism and the dire consequences of the clashes directly fall on the working masses.
If several million Palestinians are the targets of genocide and crimes more than any other inhabitant of the planet, it is not the atonement of their “ethnicity” or “nationality” that is the penalty for belonging to the weakest, most vulnerable part of the global working class, the penalty for their generation after generation living in one of the hottest centers of capitalist conflict, partnership, and competition. The current face of the Middle East is this: there has been no opening towards any degree of arrangement, refinement, or reform of this system from the beginning, and today even the most imaginative openings are more and more closed than ever. What has happened to millions of Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis, and Syrians so far could be the darkest and darkest future for all the working masses of the region. In the midst of such turmoil and crises, any kind of involvement in this or that government, individual, force, institution, opposition, or movement that is the flag bearer of the economic, political, civil, cultural, and legal arrangements of the capitalist octopus is nothing other than tying the noose of this system around one’s neck. Hanging onto civil, pro-democracy, human rights, and reformist movements, lining up behind nationalist, religious, and pan-Islamist forces has no other meaning than being a humble and humble foot soldier to settle accounts with various sections of the reactionary globalized bourgeoisie. A new banner must be raised, another movement must be prepared. A different perspective has been set in motion. It was necessary to become an anti-power, anti-state, anti-capital, an organized, soviet, internationalist labor force against the destructive, genocidal, and predatory power of the wage slavery system. With this movement, in every corner of the Middle East and the world, it stood up against the brutal attacks of capital, its governments, and its poles. It entered the real battlefield. A huge anti-capitalist labor movement was established in every country, region, and the entire world. Contrary to what the leftist oppositions who are fond of democratizing and editing capitalism say, establishing such a movement is the most natural, down-to-earth form of fieldwork and workers’ self-expression.
The living and present working masses are struggling against exploitation, oppression, various forms of apartheid, genocide, barbarism, liberticide, deprivation, and environmental pollution of capitalism. The tragedy is that this struggle lacks any basis, approach, or spark of anti-wage slavery. Everywhere, in all territories, in all countries, it revolves around the trimming and reforming of capitalism, changing the governance model of capital, and the removal and installation of governments. This is a situation that must undergo fundamental change. The struggles of the day must be replaced by the workers’ war over the determination of the fate of work, production, and life. What has been imposed on millions of Palestinian workers in the last year and a half by the Holocaust of Israel, America, Europe, and global capitalism has provoked reactions in the thoughts and lives of workers around the world, and has nurtured seeds in the field of their consciousness that have paved the way, even slightly, for replacing the current austerity struggles with a nationwide, class-based, and anti-wage slavery campaign. If we seize this opportunity, we can definitely make the centers of the capitalist world a hotbed of solidarity, solidarity with Palestinian workers, a movement to liberate the cursed Palestinians, and at the same time free their movement from the dominance of nationalism and pan-Islamism. The Iranian worker must also see the current situation of the Palestinian worker in the coming months, dismantle the fabric of the sham of these chained workers, and align his current campaign against the intensity of capital exploitation and the pressure of deprivation, lack of rights, and barbarities born of the wage slavery system with their current campaign and resistance.
Nasser Paydar
February 2025
Published by Anti-Capitalist Workers, Activists of the Movement for the Abolition of Wage Labor