Lula’s backstab of Venezuela is meant to precede new imperial war escalations. Get ready to fight back.
Rainer Shea
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Lula’s backstab of Venezuela is meant to precede new imperial war escalations. Get ready to fight back.
As imperialism and fascism self-destruct, they’re going on a rampage that’s soon to become even more aggressive than it already is. And there are actors, like Brazil’s president Lula, who assist in this assault while portraying themselves as allies of justice. This week, the Brazilian government blocked Venezuela from joining the BRICS economic grouping, going against the wishes of Russia and the other genuinely anti-imperialist states. The betrayal hasn’t just let Washington keep economically strangling Venezuela’s people; it’s also extended the lifespan of the Zionist industrial slaughter machine within Palestine. The lesson to take from this is that BRICS, though absolutely worthy of support, is not alone capable of defeating the imperial beast; the economic aspect is only one front within this struggle, which also requires military resistance. This is what forces like Russia understand.
The longer the empire lives, the longer Zionism lives, which is what makes Brazil’s betrayal all the more heinous. The price of this setback is the loss of more souls, in Palestine and in elsewhere. We must keep this reality in mind as the hegemon tries to expand the destruction into a new big war, with the empire’s preferred next opponent being China.
Washington’s proxy wars have failed, and China continues to weaken its economic grip, but this week has shown that the empire maintains important assets. In addition to Lula, it has Modi, who vetoed the entry of Pakistan and Turkey into BRICS.
America’s PSL; the European CPs that functionally act as social democratic parties; the CPs throughout the broader globe that adhere to a hardline Trotskyist view of geopolitics; all of them have abandoned the Donbass people by vilifying Russia’s action. These forces remain a problem, since they have potential to lead Palestine supporters in a fundamentally imperialism-compatible direction. They’re being challenged, though, by the communist parties which are principled on anti-imperialism. And ultimately the principled elements will win against the opportunist parties, like how the Bolsheviks defeated the opportunists in the Second International.
Will the empire get its new big war by the end of this year? If it does, Iran will be in place to severely cripple the U.S. war machine. China and the DPRK will also be ready to subdue the hegemon, which Russia and the Axis of Resistance have already greatly weakened. So monopoly finance capital will intensify its war against the USA’s own people, using the election as an opportunity for creating more January 6 events and suppressing dissent.
likely to put the neocon deep state agent Mike Pompeo in his cabinet again.
The only thing that can let us survive the state’s next assaults, and then overthrow this state, is a project for mass mobilization which has actual strength behind it. We need to build substantial connections with the unions, and with the other revolution-compatible mass elements. We need to expand our united front with the forces inside the existing structure, from military personnel to lower-level capitalists, which have reasons for turning against monopoly capital. We need to master secret work, and train our cadres for defense against whatever attacks our enemies direct at us. Only a practice as broad and diligent as this can let our organizations stay operational amid extreme repression, and to fulfill our part in imperialism’s downfall.
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The Feds' response has been a scandal of inadequacy and ineptness. FEMA, as was the case during Katrina, two decades ago, is nowhere to be seen in Ashville, NC, and other afflicted areas, precisely where it is most urgently needed.
Meanwhile, while the US Gov sends Ukraine and Israel tens of billions in aid, including huge sums to assist the Zionist entity to conduct a ghastly genocide— Kamala boasts about giving wiped out hurricane victims an insulting $750!
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