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Middle East crisis: sleepwalking into the abyss

Middle East crisis: sleepwalking into the abyss

In Defence of Marxism


Wednesday, 21 August 2024 

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Middle East crisis: sleepwalking into the abyss

“When the leaders speak of peace, the common people know that war is coming.” (Berthold Brecht)


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The real ideas of Lenin and Trotsky

On this day in 1940, Trotsky died of injuries inflicted by a Stalinist agent. Despite the lies of Stalin’s epigones, there is nothing in Trotsky’s ideas that cannot also be found in Lenin. The two men reached the same political conclusions and led the Russian Revolution to victory in 1917, at the head of the Bolshevik Party. Both understood the necessity of world revolution; and after Lenin died, Trotsky continued to defend his real ideas and legacy against Stalin’s bureaucratic counterrevolution. It was for this reason that he was marked for death.


Lute contra o imperialismo e a guerra! Trabalhadores do mundo, uni-vos! – Declaração da ICR

O capitalismo é um sistema doente que sobreviveu ao seu prazo de validade há muito tempo. Na época de seu declínio senil, ele gera guerra, racismo, pobreza e fome. O imperialismo, o estágio mais alto do capitalismo, é caracterizado pela luta entre diferentes gangues de ladrões capitalistas pela partilha da pilhagem. Hoje, à medida que a pilhagem diminui sob o impacto da crise do capitalismo, sua luta se intensifica e vemos um impulso renovado em direção ao militarismo e à guerra.