By Ali Hammoud

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For years, some Arab political forces and Stalinist parties have promoted the discourse that multipolarity is the salvation of the peoples of the region from U.S. imperialism. Imperialism is reduced to “aggressive U.S. foreign policy,” ignoring that it is a global system. This legitimizes emerging capitalist states like China and Russia, and economic blocs like the BRICS and Shanghai, which are presented as alternatives to the Western hegemonic system. It is forgotten that they are alliances of capitalist powers seeking to promote their monopolistic interests within the framework of imperialist competition.
These alliances do not represent a fundamental challenge to the capitalist system; rather, they represent a reorganization of forces within the system itself.

This deceptive discourse paralyzes the revolutionary movement in the Arab countries by deceiving the Arab working class into believing that imperialist peace will come as a result of the new balances, leaving it divided between these alliances, instead of focusing it on its role in overthrowing them.

Building revolutionary parties in the Arab region, independent of the illusion and influence of imperialist alliances, requires a program of struggle rooted in the interests of the Arab working class, away from policies that enhance and strengthen the capitalist system rather than transform it.
A correct understanding of international conflicts and imperialist wars is key to determining the form and nature of the provisional tasks of the revolutionary forces in our Arab societies.

The struggle of imperialisms and the war of extermination

The current global order reveals a profound imbalance in its political and moral structure.
The West, which claims to defend human rights, ignores the most heinous contemporary humanitarian crime in Gaza and continues to supply arms and political support to Israel. When asked about pressure and isolation, we find only superficial and symbolic measures, such as the announcement by a Scandinavian country of its withdrawal from a small settlement construction company. This is not pressure, but a diversionary maneuver to dampen popular anger and prevent mass solidarity from being transformed into political action that threatens the interests of the ruling elites.

Global capitalism does not take the side of justice or of the victims; it always takes the side of those who guarantee its domination and profits. For it, Israel is not only a military ally, but an advanced base of the imperialist project in the heart of the region. Therefore, the killing of children, the starvation of women and the destruction of homes are justified under the pretext of the “right to self-defense”, while any act of resistance is transformed into “terrorism”. These are the standards of the market and control, not the standards of justice.

The Western media, itself owned by finance capital circles, plays a key role in polishing the image. They create a narrative of “international pressure” and “international isolation”, while US banks continue to finance and facilitate the occupation’s financial operations.

Western arms companies continue to profit from Palestinian blood by selling weapons and presenting them as proven in Gaza and Lebanon. The international organizations, supposedly neutral, are subject, in their financing and will, to the political and economic blackmail of the great powers (UNRWA and the UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Banzi).

What we are witnessing today is not just a war on Gaza, but a new chapter in the global class war waged by imperialism against the people. The children of Gaza are starving because the capitalist system sees them as mere human surplus to be disposed of at no political cost. The refugees filling the Mediterranean are treated as superfluous, abandoned to their fate because they are not included in the market calculations.

Talk of Israel’s isolation is nothing more than a rhetorical deception. Israel is not isolated, but supported and strengthened. The real isolated peoples are the oppressed peoples: the Palestinians facing genocide, the Iranians crushed by both the regime and the blockade, the Syrians subjected to genocide in a civil war and at the hands of the new regime, and the workers all over the world paying the price for the crises of an economic system that knows only exploitation.

The inability to stop genocide is nothing more than the result of the structural crisis of the capitalist system itself. A system that thrives on war, feeds on hunger and reproduces colonialism in new forms.