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Trump assembles cabinet of fascist repression and imperialist war

Democratic Rights, economics, english, Far Right, Fascism, Global Inequality, News, politics, politics & economics, War, World War / November 13, 2024

By Patrick Martin

The two priorities of the incoming administration are preparing for war with China and arresting and deporting millions of migrants.

In a rapid-fire series of appointments and announcements, fascist President-elect Donald Trump is assembling an administration in his own image. There are only two criteria for the nominees so far announced: complete alignment with the fascist policies Trump seeks to put into place and unquestioning personal loyalty to the would-be dictator.

January 20, 2025 will thus mean not merely the re-entry of the former president into the White House but the installation of a regime with his aides and stooges in charge of all the levers of power, committed to using these powers against all domestic opposition from the American people and against whatever countries Trump chooses to target for subversion, blockade or open warfare.

As Trump prepares to rapidly implement his plans, the Biden administration, which is in power for another two months, is doing absolutely nothing to alert the population, let alone take measures to stop the massive assault on democratic rights. Biden, who is welcoming Trump to the White House on Wednesday, is acting as if it is his responsibility not only to guarantee Trump’s succession but to help implement his policies.

The contours of the new Trump-led regime are demonstrated in the nominations made public or leaked to the media over the past three days. Nearly all of Trump’s top national security appointments have been made public:

For secretary of state, US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida
For national security advisor, Representative Michael Waltz, also of Florida
For Ambassador to the United Nations, Representative Elise Stefanik of New York
For CIA director, former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, a Republican congressman from Texas before he joined the first Trump administration
For secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, former head of the ultra-right Concerned Veterans of America (funded by the Koch Brothers) and longtime co-host of the Fox News program “Fox & Friends”

From a policy standpoint, all are fervent advocates of confrontation with China and giving the US military a “free hand” in any open conflict: opposing any restrictions on the use of violence against targeted populations, including civilians and children.

This is particularly apparent in the surprise selection of Hegseth, who went unmentioned in media speculation about Trump’s potential pick to head the Pentagon. Now a major in the Army Reserve, Hegseth deployed to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba during the Bush administration’s “war on terror,” then volunteered for the war in Iraq, where he commanded platoons in Baghdad and Samarra. He later served as a counterinsurgency instructor for the Army in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Having previously led groups of 50 to 100 soldiers, Hegseth is now being tasked to run the Pentagon, the largest military organization in the world, with 3.5 million people, including 2.1 million active duty and reserve soldiers, 750,000 civilian staff and 650,000 contractors. His qualification, however, is his role as an advocate for military war criminals.

In 2019, while on the “Fox & Friends” talkshow, the ultra-right program of which Trump is an avid viewer, Hegseth led a campaign for the exoneration of three soldiers convicted or awaiting trial before military courts for war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The crimes included the summary execution of unarmed prisoners and the murder of children and old men.

After meeting with Trump, Hegseth summarized the president’s approach as follows: “The benefit of the doubt should go to the guys pulling the trigger.” Trump issued pardons, called each murderer personally to commiserate with the “injustice” done to them, and boasted publicly of overriding the decisions of top military commanders, who had felt it necessary to mount a few token prosecutions to offset revelations of the avalanche of atrocities committed by US forces in both wars.

This will be the administration’s approach, not just to individual soldiers who commit war crimes but to policies that require war crimes for their implementation. The incoming president signaled this by announcing the appointment of former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee as US Ambassador to Israel. Huckabee is a Christian fundamentalist, who has provided religious justification for the crimes committed by the state of Israel, declaring in the past, “There’s really no such thing as a Palestinian.” He is an all-out supporter of the genocidal policies of the Netanyahu government, which seeks to make “no such thing as a Palestinian” a brutal reality.

The other group of nominees announced this week will be tasked with carrying out Trump’s planned war at home, which involves the rounding up of millions of undocumented immigrants, imprisoning them in concentration camps and deporting them as quickly as possible. The principal perpetrators of this dictatorial policy include:

For “border czar,” a new White House position, Thomas Homan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the first Trump administration and a longtime advocate and defender of mass deportations
For deputy White House Chief of Staff for Policy, Stephen Miller, who was responsible for immigration policy in the first Trump administration. Miller spearheaded such measures as separation of children and families, mass detention, and the “Remain in Mexico program,” which effectively blocked asylum seekers
For Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem. The Republican governor, a one-time hopeful to become Trump’s running mate, is a vehement advocate of violence against migrants crossing the US-Mexico border, once sending dozens of South Dakota National Guard troops to Texas at the request of that state’s governor. She will be in overall charge of repressive agencies, such as the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Secret Service.

The regime that Trump and Miller are devising and that Homan and Noem will enforce will make the detention camps used against Japanese Americans during World War II look like child’s play. According to Homan, the problem of separating children and their parents, which aroused fierce popular opposition during Trump’s first term, will be solved by deporting entire families, whether or not some of the family members are American citizens.

Trump aides were already reportedly drafting executive orders that he will sign on January 20, 2025, as soon as he is inaugurated, to establish a terror regime directed against migrants. This will include revoking Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Central America, many of them longtime residents of the United States with American citizen children.

The incoming administration plans to use military resources in the anti-migrant campaign, meaning that migrants could be detained by military personnel on military bases, and that military flights could become a major factor in transporting migrants to their countries of origin or other countries willing to accept them.

Trump is also seeking to push through his appointments without Senate confirmation. The New York Times reported that “Mr. Trump insisted on social media that Republicans select a new Senate majority leader willing to call recesses during which he could unilaterally appoint personnel, a process that would allow him to sidestep the confirmation process.”

A report Tuesday in the Washington Post, headlined, “Trump is planning a border crackdown. Biden already started one”, traces the continuity between the two administrations:

Trump stands to inherit enforcement tools from the Biden administration that are even more powerful than the policies at his disposal last time. Biden administration officials, for example, have implemented emergency border controls this year that essentially ban asylum for migrants who enter unlawfully. While Trump’s Remain in Mexico policy provided asylum seekers with access to U.S. courts, President Joe Biden’s asylum restrictions afford no such process, allowing US officials to summarily deport migrants and threaten them with criminal prosecution if they return.

Just four years ago, the Republicans responded to the defeat of Trump with ferocious denunciations, followed by an attempted coup. The Democrats, in contrast, are doing everything they can to chloroform the population and prevent at all costs a popular mobilization against the incoming administration. On Tuesday, the day before Trump’s visit to the White House, Biden issued a few anodyne tweets on Veterans Day, while saying nothing about the fascists Trump is planning on putting in charge of the state apparatus.

From the standpoint of the Democratic Party, what Obama referred to as the “intramural scrimmage” within the ruling class is over, and it is the task of the Democrats to ensure, as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it in an interview with the New York Times, the “success” of the new president.

There is no suggestion that the Biden administration should take any action to defend the rights of the more 70 million people who voted against Trump, or for that matter the more than 70 million people who voted for him. Their sole concern is to ensure the continuation of the central policy of the Biden administration itself: the escalation of war against Russia in Ukraine.

Indeed, according to White House aides, the US-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine will be the sole focus of the meeting between Biden and Trump in the White House. The Democrats want to ensure that the pipeline remains open for billions in US military and economic aid, and continuing to permit the Kiev regime to engage in provocative strikes with US and NATO weaponry on targets deep within Russia, including Moscow, despite the risk of a widening and even nuclear war.

In the final weeks of the failed presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats would make noises about Trump as a threat to democracy, and highlight the threats of mass roundups, the targeting of political opponents, and the policy measures outlined by the Trump-backed 2025 Project, a 900-page manual for social counterrevolution.

Now that Trump is moving rapidly to implement these plans and has appointed two top aides, Stephen Miller and Thomas Doman, who actually contributed to the 2025 Project, the Democrats have dropped such protests and declared themselves committed to a “peaceful transfer of power.” This really means: We will do nothing to oppose the implementation of dictatorship against the American people.

There must and will be mass opposition to the policies Trump is preparing. But this opposition must not be straitjacketed by the Democratic Party, which like the fascist Republican Party, is an instrument of Wall Street and American imperialism. The opposition to Trump must be led by the working class, based on a socialist program, and spearheaded by the building of a new revolutionary leadership, the Socialist Equality Party.

[This article was originally published in wsws.org here Here on October 13, 2024]

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War, inequality and dictatorship: The critical issues excluded from the 2024 election

Democratic Rights, english, Far Right, Fascism, politics, politics & economics, War, World War / November 5, 2024

By WSWS Editorial Board.

The 2024 US presidential election is unfolding under conditions of unprecedented crisis and social breakdown. There is a pervasive sense that the political system is dysfunctional, incapable of responding to the needs of the people and heading toward violent domestic conflict.

With Election Day only 72 hours away, the political climate is rife with rumors of conspiracy. There is widespread expectation that the result of the election will be inconclusive, and—whatever the vote totals—Trump and his fascist co-conspirators will not accept an unfavorable outcome. The level of uncertainty and menace that surrounds the election process reflects the extent of the breakdown of American democracy.

It is evident that the political culture of the United States has hit rock bottom. Trump’s semi-coherent stream of consciousness chauvinist filth is pitched to all that is debased and reactionary in American society. Kamala Harris epitomizes the cynicism and hypocrisy of a party that resorts to the platitudes, clichés and tropes of identity politics as a cover for the interests of the corporate-financial elite and the conspiracies of the intelligence agencies. Her defense of American imperialism, above all, the full support for the genocide in Gaza, exposes her as a representative of a criminal capitalist oligarchy.

The idea of a “lesser evil” in this context is an absurdity. While one candidate promotes fascism, the other is running on a platform that includes support for war and genocide. Under these conditions, the choice is not between greater and lesser evils but between two paths to catastrophe. For all the mudslinging, the divisions between Trump and Harris are insignificant compared to the gulf that separates both parties from the working class.

The profound issues that affect the lives of millions are systematically ignored in this campaign. This is because they all arise from a basic source, unconditionally defended by the entire political establishment: the capitalist profit system. Moreover, none of the central issues confronting workers in the United States can be addressed outside of a global movement of the working class. The 2024 election starkly poses the alternatives: capitalist barbarism or the reconstruction of society on the basis of socialism.

1. The escalation toward nuclear war

The elections are unfolding under conditions of escalating global war. Behind closed doors, there are discussions of massive expansion of war, whoever is in the White House. Prominent members of the oligarchy, like JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, are declaring that “World War III has already begun.” The United States is investing an unprecedented $1.7 trillion in upgrading its nuclear arsenal—a bipartisan commitment that will advance regardless of the election’s outcome.

The central priority of the four years of the Biden administration has been war—first, the instigation of the war against Russia in Ukraine, then the genocide in Gaza, both fully backed by Harris. With unlimited US weapons pouring into Israel with the full support of both the Democrats and Republicans, the US is complicit in the slaughter of tens of thousands in Gaza and the West Bank. A major escalation of the war against Iran could take place even in the weeks between the election and Inauguration Day in January. The Pentagon announced Friday that the White House has ordered additional US military forces to the Middle East, including B-52 bombers, fighter jets and Navy destroyers.

The posturing of Trump—who has called for the “obliteration” of Iran and for Israel to “finish the job” in Gaza—as an opponent of war is nothing short of ludicrous.

World war requires the subordination of all of society’s resources to war. The lead article in the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs, a leading publication of US geopolitical strategy, appears under the headline, “The Return of Total War.” The author, Mara Karlin of the Brookings Institution, writes:

In both Ukraine and the Middle East, what has become clear is that the relatively narrow scope that defined war during the post-9/11 era has dramatically widened. An era of limited war has ended; an age of comprehensive conflict has begun. Indeed, what the world is witnessing today is akin to what theorists in the past have called “total war,” in which combatants draw on vast resources, mobilize their societies, prioritize warfare over all other state activities, attack a broad variety of targets, and reshape their economies and those of other countries.

The “prioritization of warfare over all other state activities” means the ruthless subordination of the working class to war. Everything must be sacrificed on the altar of war and the vast resources required to wage it.

2. Economic crisis, social inequality and oligarchy

A principal factor in the ever more ruthless operations of imperialism is the escalating crisis of American capitalism. US debt has exploded to nearly $36 trillion. The price of gold is at record levels, reflecting intense pressures on the dollar.

The ruling class has sought to stave off the economic crisis through a series of massive bailouts of the banks, including in 2008 and in 2020, the first year of the pandemic. This has only reproduced the crisis at a higher level, while contributing to an enormous increase in social inequality.

Wealth concentration in the United States has reached grotesque levels, with a tiny elite controlling more wealth than the bottom half of the population. The wealth of US billionaires is now more than $5.5 trillion, up nearly 90 percent since the beginning of the pandemic. The extreme concentration of wealth is defended by both parties, and the election campaigns of Harris and Trump are fueled with unprecedented sums of money from the rich.

Inflation has eroded real wages, making essential goods—from food to housing—unaffordable for millions. Close to one-third of all households and one-half of renter households spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing. Total consumer debt stands at nearly $18 trillion, a record high, including $1.75 trillion in student loan debt.

The working class is facing a massive social crisis that includes layoffs, school closures and a healthcare system on the brink of collapse. In education, the recent expiration of emergency funding has led to firings of educators and the shuttering of schools, affecting millions of students.

3. Fascism and the threat of military-police dictatorship

Through the Trump campaign, the Republican Party is developing a political movement that is acquiring a more openly fascist character. Alongside the normalization of genocide and nuclear war, fascism is being normalized in American politics.

Indeed, Election Day on November 5 will mark only one moment in an escalating crisis of the entire political system. Trump is already promoting the narrative of a “stolen election.” He is inciting violence and conspiring to reject, through legal cases and actions by state and local governments, any result that does not lead to his victory. If elected, Trump has threatened to deploy the military against “the enemy within” and organize the deportation of tens of millions of immigrants.

In recent weeks, Harris referred occasionally to Trump as a “fascist,” but this was quickly dropped. The Democrats’ focus, as expressed in Harris’s “closing argument”this week, is on maintaining “unity” with the Republicans to suppress opposition at home and wage war abroad. Their central concern is not the growth of the fascist right but the breakdown of the whole political system and the danger of a movement from below.

Both parties are deeply implicated in the dismantling of democratic rights and the turn to dictatorship. The Biden-Harris administration has itself overseen a wave of arrests and expulsions of students protesting against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Both parties support the militarization of the state to quash dissent, whether that means cracking down on anti-war protests or mobilizing the police against striking workers.

4. The COVID-19 pandemic and environmental collapse

It is now nearly five years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the greatest social and health crisis in the modern period. In the last election four years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic was the central issue—the focus of the fascistic agitation of the Republicans and pledges to “follow the science” by the Democrats. In this election, the ongoing pandemic has been entirely ignored, referred to only in the past tense, even as hundreds of people die every day.

The death toll since the last election is staggering: Over 1.2 million Americans have died from COVID-19-related causes, including over 400,000 deaths under Trump (through January 2021) and more than 800,000 under Biden. This figure is part of a global toll of 24 million excess deaths in the past four years. Tens of millions of people in the US, according to official figures, have been impacted by Long COVID.

This colossal level of death and debilitation is the direct consequence of ruling class policy. The Biden-Harris administration fully implemented Trump’s criminal “herd immunity” policy, and in May 2023 allowed the expiration of emergency funding for COVID-19 relief, leaving hospitals and clinics overwhelmed, understaffed and underfunded.

At the same time, climate change is driving unprecedented ecological disasters, including two major hurricanes that have hit the United States over the past two months, producing devastating floods. Scientists warn of an escalating and existential crisis, but neither party will address the issue in a serious way, as any genuine response to climate change would threaten the interests of the corporations that fund both parties. The Democrats have abandoned even their token gestures, while the Republicans openly dismiss climate change as a hoax.

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The political system in the United States is thoroughly sclerotic and undemocratic. Every aspect of its structure—from ballot access laws aimed at third parties, to the domination of money, to the role of the corporate media—is designed to systematically exclude any genuine expression of the interests of the working class.

Over the past year, there have been powerful demonstrations of mass social anger and opposition. Millions have protested the US-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. Workers have launched strike action in critical industries, including the ongoing strike by 33,000 workers at Boeing, a major military contractor and aerospace company, which the trade union apparatus is working desperately to shut down before Election Day.

The central issue is the development within the working class of a socialist political leadership. The crisis must be addressed at its root, and the root of the crisis is the capitalist profit system. And in an era of transnational corporations, global imperialist war and a global pandemic, there is no national solution. The international working class is the most powerful force on the planet, but it must be armed with a political program that articulates its real interests.

The Socialist Equality Party, as part of the International Committee of the Fourth International, is spearheading the fight for the establishment of the political independence of the working class on the basis of a socialist program and policies.

The SEP insists that the only way forward is for the working class to break with the Democratic and Republican parties and build an independent political movement, based on an international, anti-capitalist, and socialist program. Opposition to inequality, war and dictatorship requires the conquest of political power by the working class, in the United States and throughout the world, and the complete reorganization of society.

[The above article was originally published in the WSWS.org here on November 01, 2024]

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“பாலஸ்தீன மக்களை அழிப்பதாக“ ஐ.நா. எச்சரித்து வருகையில், இஸ்ரேல் ஜபாலியா அகதிகள் முகாமில் இனச்சுத்திகரிப்பை நடத்தி வருதிறது

Fascism, In Tamil, Obituary, War, World War / October 23, 2024

By Andre Damon.

மொழிபெயர்ப்பின் மூலக் கட்டுரையை இங்கே காணலாம்.

வடக்கு காஸாவில் எஞ்சியிருக்கும் 400,000 பாலஸ்தீனியர்களை வன்முறையில் இடம்பெயரச் செய்யும் நோக்கில், இஸ்ரேல் அதன் இனச்சுத்திகரிப்பு நடவடிக்கையைத் தொடங்கி இரண்டு வாரங்களுக்குப் பின்னர், இஸ்ரேலிய பாதுகாப்புப் படைகள் (IDF) தினசரி படுகொலைகள் மற்றும் வேண்டுமென்றே பட்டினி போட்டு வதைத்து வருவதற்கு மத்தியில், திங்களன்று ஜபாலியா அகதிகள் முகாமிலிருந்த மக்களை துப்பாக்கி முனையில் வெளியேற்றியது.

இனப்படுகொலையை வழிநடத்தும், ஆயுதமளிக்கும், நிதியளிக்கும் மற்றும் மேற்பார்வையிடும் அமெரிக்காவின் பிரதிநிதியான வெளியுறவுத்துறை செயலர் ஆண்டனி பிளிங்கன், படுகொலைகளை நேரில் மேற்பார்வையிட இஸ்ரேலுக்கு பயணித்தபோது இந்த காட்சிகள் இடம்பெற்றன.

ஜபாலியா அகதிகள் முகாமின் இடிபாடுகளில் இருந்து வெளியேற்றப்படும் நூற்றுக்கணக்கான மக்களை நோக்கி இஸ்ரேலிய துருப்புக்கள் ஆயுதங்களை நீட்டுகின்ற ட்ரோன் காட்சிகளை, IDF திங்களன்று வெளியிட்டது.

“ஒழுங்கமைக்கப்பட்ட பாதைகள் வழியாக அப்பகுதியில் இருந்து பொதுமக்கள் பாதுகாப்பாக வெளியேற இஸ்ரேலிய இராணுவம் அனுமதிக்கிறது” என்று அதன் செய்தித் தொடர்பாளர் அவிச்சே அட்ரே டுவிட்டர் X இல் ஒரு இடுகையில் இன சுத்திகரிப்பு நடவடிக்கையின் வீடியோவைப் பகிர்ந்து கொண்டு பெருமை பீற்றிக் கொண்டார். உண்மையில், பல்லாயிரக்கணக்கான ஆண்கள் சுற்றி வளைக்கப்பட்டனர், அதே நேரத்தில் பெண்களும் குழந்தைகளும் துப்பாக்கி முனையில் தெற்கு நோக்கி நகர நிர்பந்திக்கப்பட்டனர்.

“நாங்கள் குண்டு வீச்சுக்களாலும், தாகத்தாலும், பசியாலும் மரணத்தை எதிர்கொள்கிறோம்” என்று ஜபாலியா முகாமில் வசிக்கும் ரேட் என்பவர் ராய்ட்டர்ஸிடம் கூறினார். “ஜபாலியா அழிக்கப்படுகிறது, குற்றத்திற்கு சாட்சிகள் இல்லை; உலகம் தன் கண்களைக் குருடாக்கிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறது” என்று அவர் மேலும் தெரிவித்தார்.

திங்களன்று 41 பேர் கொல்லப்பட்டது உட்பட, 17 நாட்களுக்கு முன்னர் தாக்குதல் தொடங்கியதில் இருந்து வடக்கு காஸாவில் இஸ்ரேலிய படைகள் 650 பாலஸ்தீனியர்களை இதுவரை கொன்றுள்ளன. “வடக்கு காஸாவில் இனப்படுகொலை அதன் தெளிவான வடிவத்தில், உலகின் முழு பார்வையில் கட்டவிழ்ந்து வருகிறது” என்று பாலஸ்தீனிய ஆணையம் ஞாயிற்றுக்கிழமை ஒரு அறிக்கையில் தெரிவித்துள்ளது.

ஆக்கிரமிக்கப்பட்ட பாலஸ்தீனப் பிரதேசங்களில் உள்ள ஐ.நா மனித உரிமைகள் அலுவலகம், இஸ்ரேலிய இராணுவத்தின் உத்தரவுகள் “கட்டாய இடப்பெயர்வுக்கு இட்டுச் செல்வதாகவும், காஸாவின் வடக்குப் பகுதியில் உள்ள பாலஸ்தீனிய மக்களை மரணம் மற்றும் இடப்பெயர்ச்சியின் மூலம் அழிக்கக் கூடும்” என்றும் அதன் மிக அப்பட்டமான வார்த்தை பிரகடனங்களில் ஒன்றில் தெரிவித்துள்ளது. “இது குறிப்பாக ஜபாலியா, பெய்ட் லஹியா மற்றும் பீட் ஹனூன் போன்ற இடங்களை சுற்றியே உள்ளது” என்று அந்த அறிக்கையில் மேலும் தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது.

“அக்டோபர் 6 க்குப் பின்னர் இருந்து இரண்டு வாரங்களாக, இஸ்ரேலிய இராணுவம் வடக்கு காஸாவில் பாலஸ்தீனியர்கள் வாழ்வதை சாத்தியமற்றதாக்கும் நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுத்துள்ளது, அதேவேளையில் அப்பகுதியிலுள்ள ஒட்டுமொத்த மக்களையும் இடம்பெயரச் செய்ய மீண்டும் மீண்டும் உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளது.” மேலும், “இஸ்ரேலிய அதிகாரிகள் வடக்கு காஸாவிற்குள் அனைத்து அத்தியாவசிய பொருட்களும் நுழைவதை தடுத்துள்ளனர்” என்பதையும் அந்த அறிக்கை குறிப்பிடுகின்றது.

அது மேலும் “இஸ்ரேலிய இராணுவம் அனைத்து அப்பாவி மக்களும் வடக்கு காஸாவிலிருந்து வெளியேற வேண்டும் என்று கோரியுள்ள அதேவேளையில், அப்பகுதியில், குறிப்பாக ஜபாலியா முகாமிலும் அதைச் சுற்றியுள்ள பகுதிகளிலும் இடைவிடாது குண்டுவீச்சு மற்றும் தாக்குதலை இராணுவம் தொடர்ந்து நடத்தி வருகிறது” என்று குறிப்பிட்டது.

“பாலஸ்தீனிய ஆண்கள் இஸ்ரேலிய இராணுவத்தினரால் காவலில் தடுத்து வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ளனர். அவர்கள் தன்னிச்சையான தடுப்புக்காவல் மற்றும் சித்திரவதைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்படலாம் என்ற அச்சத்தை எழுப்புகிறது” என்று ஐ.நா. அறிக்கை குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளது.

UNRWA இன் ஆணையர் ஜெனரல் பிலிப் லஜாரினி, “முற்றுகையின் கீழ் உள்ள மக்களுக்கு மருந்து மற்றும் உணவு உள்ளிட்ட முக்கியமான பொருட்களுடன் மனிதாபிமான பணிகள் வடக்கை அடைய இஸ்ரேலிய அதிகாரிகள் தொடர்ந்து மறுத்து வருகின்றனர்” என்று கூறினார். “எஞ்சியுள்ள தங்குமிடங்கள் மிகவும் நெரிசலாக உள்ளன, சில இடம்பெயர்ந்த மக்கள் இப்போது கழிப்பறைகளில் வாழ வேண்டிய கட்டாயத்தில் உள்ளனர்” என்று அவர் மேலும் கூறினார்.

இஸ்ரேல் “இராணுவ நோக்கங்களை அடைவதற்காக மனிதாபிமான உதவிகளை மறுத்து ஆயுதமாக்குகிறது” என்று லாஸ்ஸாரினி குற்றம் சாட்டினார். “தப்பி ஓட முயற்சிக்கும் மக்கள் கொல்லப்படுகிறார்கள், அவர்களின் உடல்கள் தெருக்களில் விடப்படுகின்றன,” என்பதையும் அவர் சேர்த்துக் கொண்டார்.

கமால் அட்வான் மருத்துவமனையின் இயக்குனர் ஹுசாம் அபு சபியா இஸ்ரேலிய இராணுவம் மருத்துவமனையை முற்றிலுமாக முற்றுகையிட்டுள்ளதாகவும், அதன் ஊழியர்களை வெளியேறுமாறு உத்தரவிட்டுள்ளதாகவும் கூறினார். “மருத்துவமனையின் இரத்த அலகுகள் முற்றிலுமாக தீர்ந்துவிட்டன,” என்று அவர் திங்களன்று ஒரு அறிக்கையில் தெரிவித்தார். “நோயாளிகளுக்கு முன்னுரிமை சிகிச்சை முறையை நாங்கள் செயல்படுத்தி வருகிறோம். இதுதான் யதார்த்தம்” என்று அவர் குறிப்பிட்டார்.

வடக்கு காஸாவில் இந்தோனேசிய மருத்துவமனைக்கு அருகில் ஒரு செவிலியர் ராய்ட்டர்ஸிடம், “இராணுவம் மருத்துவமனைக்கு அடுத்துள்ள பள்ளிகளை எரிக்கிறது, யாரும் மருத்துவமனைக்குள் நுழையவோ அல்லது வெளியேறவோ முடியாது” என்று கூறினார்.

உத்தியோகபூர்வ இறப்பு எண்ணிக்கையின்படி, இஸ்ரேலிய துருப்புக்களாலும், குண்டு வீச்சுக்களினாலும் குறைந்தபட்சம் 42,500 பாலஸ்தீனியர்கள் கொல்லப்பட்டுள்ளனர். மேலும் 10,000 பேர் இதில் கணக்கிடப்படவில்லை. இஸ்ரேல் வேண்டுமென்றே பட்டினியை ஏற்படுத்தி, தொற்று நோய்களை பரவ விட்டதன் விளைவுகளைக் கணக்கிட்டால், நிஜமான இறப்பு எண்ணிக்கை 186,000 தாண்டக்கூடும் என்று தி லான்செட் ஜூலையில் அறிவித்தது—இதன் அர்த்தம் நிஜமான இறப்பு எண்ணிக்கை இப்போது நூறாயிரக் கணக்கில் இருக்கக்கூடும் என்பதாகும்.

இனப்படுகொலையில் அமெரிக்கா தனது நேரடித் தலையீட்டை ஆழப்படுத்தி வருவதால் வடக்கு காஸாவில் மொத்தப் பட்டினி மற்றும் முழுமையான இனச் சுத்திகரிப்பு (”தளபதிகளின் திட்டம்” என்று குறிப்பிடப்படுகிறது, இஸ்ரேலின் தேசிய பாதுகாப்பு கவுன்சிலின் முன்னாள் தலைவரான ஜியோரா எய்லாண்டால் உருவாக்கப்பட்டது) நடைமுறைப்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளது.

கடந்த அக்டோபரில் காஸாவில் பாலஸ்தீன மக்களுக்கு எதிராக இஸ்ரேல் அதன் நிர்மூலமாக்கும் போரைத் தொடங்கியதிலிருந்து அமெரிக்க வெளியுறவுத் துறை அமைச்சர் ஆண்டனி பிளிங்கன் திங்கள்கிழமை இஸ்ரேலுக்கு வருவது அவரது பதினொன்றாவது பயணத்தைக் குறிக்கிறது. அவரது வருகையானது, இஸ்ரேலில் 100 அமெரிக்க போர் துருப்புக்களின் இறுதி நிலைநிறுத்தம் மற்றும் ஒரு மேம்பட்ட ஏவுகணை பாதுகாப்பு பேட்டரியை இயக்குவதற்கு இடையில் இடம்பெற்றது. “அந்த ஏவுகணை அமைப்பு நடைமுறையில் உள்ளது,” என்று அமெரிக்க பாதுகாப்பு செயலாளர் லாயிட் ஆஸ்டின் திங்களன்று செய்தியாளர்களிடம் கூறினார்.

இஸ்ரேலிய தரைப்படைகள் வடக்கு காஸாவில் தங்கள் இனச்சுத்திகரிப்பு நடவடிக்கையை தொடருகையில், இஸ்ரேலிய ஜெட் விமானங்கள் லெபனான் முழுவதும் மாடிக் கட்டிடங்கள் மற்றும் பிற சிவிலிய உள்கட்டுமானங்களை தரைமட்டமாக்கின. பெய்ரூட் முழுவதும் திங்களன்று 13 இஸ்ரேலிய தாக்குதல்களுக்குப் பிறகு, திங்களன்று 24 பேர் காயமடைந்ததாகவும், நான்கு பேர் கொல்லப்பட்டதாகவும் லெபனானின் சுகாதார அமைச்சகம் தெரிவித்துள்ளது.

சாஹெல் மருத்துவமனையின் கீழ் ஹிஸ்புல்லாவின் ஒரு பதுங்கு குழி இருப்பதாக இஸ்ரேல் கூறியதை அடுத்து, பீதிக்கு மத்தியில் அந்த மருத்துவமனையில் இருந்தவர்கள் வெளியேற்றப்பட்டனர். காஸாவில் உள்ள ஷிஃபா மருத்துவமனை அழிக்கப்படுவதற்கு முன்னர், பொதுமக்களுக்கு பாரிய மரணதண்டனைகள் பற்றிய அறிக்கைகளுக்கு மத்தியில் இஸ்ரேல் கூறிய கூற்றுக்களை இது மீண்டும் வலியுறுத்துகிறது.

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IMF runs into deepening debt crisis and contradictions of global capitalism

economics, english, News, politics & economics, Trade War, War, World War / October 23, 2024

By Nick Beams.

The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, has given a downbeat assessment of the global economy in her curtain raiser speech for its meetings, held together with the World Bank, this week.

She began by saying that “we should cherish the good news”—that inflation levels were coming down, at least on official figures—because “we haven’t had much of it lately.”

Even this was tempered by the observation that while inflation rates may be falling, the higher prices people feel in their wallets are here to stay and “families are angry, people are hurting.”

In what has become a central preoccupation of the IMF in the recent period, flowing from the rise in global interest rates since 2022, Georgieva directed attention to the rising levels of government debt and the need for action to bring them down.

As always, this was couched in terms of needing to maintain a gradual approach to promote fiscal consolidation and seeking to maintain social safety nets, but words cannot disguise their essential content which is to undertake major attacks on the working class and some of the poorest people in the world.

Georgieva said IMF forecasts pointed to “an unforgiving combination of low growth and high debt—a difficult future.”

The rising levels of borrowing meant that a growing share of government revenue was being used to cover interest payments under conditions of lower growth. The IMF’s Fiscal Monitor Report, a summary of which was released last week, said global government debt was expected to reach $100 trillion by the end of this year. Some $36 trillion of this debt is in the US where one in seven dollars of spending is used just to pay interest bills.

The problem extends across the world as “fiscal space keeps shrinking,” Georgieva said. “Just look at the frightening evolution of interest-to-revenue over time. We can immediately see how the tough spending choices have become tougher with higher debt payments.”

And, she continued, “we live in deeply troubled times” in which military spending may well keep rising “while aid budgets fall further behind the growing needs of developing countries.”

In its report for the meeting, the World Bank warned that global poverty reduction had “slowed to a near standstill” amid economies damaged by the pandemic and war. It noted that poverty levels in low-income countries were “higher than before the pandemic.”

On top of the slowing down of aid, Georgieva noted that major economies, driven by “national security concerns” were “increasingly resorting to industrial policy and protectionism, creating one trade restriction after another.” Trade was not going to be the engine of growth it was before, and the situation was worsening.

In 2019, the number of what the IMF called “harmful new interventions” on trade was below 1000. It has calculated this will rise to more than 3000 in 2024.

Georgieva insisted that budgets had to be consolidated involving “difficult choices” over how to raise revenues and make spending “more efficient”—always a euphemism for cuts—while making sure “policy actions are well explained to earn the trust of the people.”

Under conditions where their living standards have been hard hit by inflation and cuts in governments services and subsidies that have already taken place, that is not going to happen. This is why there is discussion in ruling circles around the world, including in the US and other major economies, about the need for the use of state forces to impose the financial dictates.

So far as “solutions” are concerned, within the framework of the global capitalist economy, the IMF chief pointed to the advances in technology, saying there was much countries could do as members of an integrated economic community. The forces of trade and technology had delivered a “hugely valuable degree of interconnectedness.”

Then, without recognising it, she ran straight into the central contradiction of the present epoch, intensified to an enormous degree over the past four decades by the globalisation of production, between the integrated world economy and the nation-state system of capitalism.

While integration had taken place, she said: “Yet still, we live in a mistrustful world where national security has risen to the top of the list of concerns for many countries. This has happened before—but never in a time of such high economic co-dependence.” [emphasis in original]

The key issue here is not that this “mistrustful world”—more accurately characterised as a world at war and advancing to World War 3—has arisen despite economic co-dependence. Rather, it is a consequence of that very integration under capitalism.

It is the result of the intensification of the contradiction between this historically progressive process with the outmoded nation-state system, which each of the imperialist powers, with the US in the lead, seeks to resolve by means of war.

It cannot be resolved under capitalism unless world war is considered be a “solution,” but only by the advance to a new and higher form of society, international socialism.

Of course, such a perspective, the only rational solution, cannot be advanced by the head of the IMF, one of the chief defenders of the capitalist order and so Georgieva advanced a totally unattainable perspective.

She said the reality of “fragmentation” should not become “an excuse to do nothing to prevent a further fracturing of the global economy” and that her appeal at the meeting would be “to work together, in an enlightened way to lift our collective prospects.”

A similar, equally bankrupt, perspective marked an editorial by the Financial Times(FT) on the IMF-World Bank meeting. Noting the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the two bodies at the Bretton Woods conference of 1944 towards the end of World War 2, it said they had “filled a void where coordination was lacking.”

As the IMF and the World Bank gathered for the annual meeting, they confronted a new set of challenges that risked undoing what has been accomplished.

The conditions of intensifying trade war, a worsening situation in developing countries, problems of climate change, shocks from the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and mounting debt problems, the FT said, underscored why global cooperation is such a “precious commodity” and that international problems “require international solutions.”

The world facing the IMF and the World Bank looked very different from today, it concluded, but the “spirit in which they were forged at Bretton Woods remains as important as ever.”

The deepening crisis of global capitalism is not “spiritual.” It is material, rooted in objective structural contradictions deriving from the private ownership of the means of production and the outmoded and reactionary nation-state system. They can only be resolved by the advance to a new and higher form of global society, that is, international socialism.

[This article was originally published here in WSWS on October 20, 2024]

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Israel expands ethnic cleansing and deliberate starvation in northern Gaza

Democratic Rights, Fascism, News, politics, politics & economics, War, World War / October 10, 2024

By Andre Damon.

One year after the start of the Gaza genocide, Israel, with the support of US imperialism, is only intensifying its extermination and ethnic cleansing of the civilian population of Gaza.

Between October 5 and 7, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of people from areas in northern Gaza as Israel continued its offensive near the Jabalia refugee camp.

Despite reports on social media that “Jabalia is being wiped out,” no death toll has been published, amid a near-total collapse of Gaza’s medical infrastructure.

“Attacks in northern Gaza, combined with mass evacuation orders, which are inconsistent with international humanitarian law, raise serious concerns about the forced displacement and forced transfer of Palestinian residents of Gaza,” the UN Human Rights office warned Monday.

On Tuesday, Israeli forces demanded the evacuation of the Kamal Adwan, Indonesian and al-Awda hospitals in northern Gaza within 24 hours.

“It is evident that there is a new plan to displace our people in northern Gaza by dismantling the healthcare system across all its sectors in this region,” said Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, in a statement. “We have informed everyone that the northern region is densely populated with a significant number of residents. We have the right to continue providing services to these people. We will remain steadfast, we will stay, and we will continue to offer medical services no matter the cost.”

He added in an interview with CNN, “What is happening is arbitrary and clear displacement of the residents from northern Gaza.” He continued, “Kamal Adwan Hospital is still the only hospital operating in the north, so putting the hospital out of service would be a big disaster for the people who need (it). There are still many patients in the hospital and there are many babies and children in the neonatal unit, so it is difficult to evacuate.”

The United Nations reported in its daily update that in northern Gaza, “more than 400,000 people are under pressure to move southward to Al Mawasi, which is already overcrowded and lacks basic services. Humanitarian access also risks becoming further constrained, particularly between southern and northern Gaza, and so are the accessibility and functionality of key humanitarian facilities within areas slated for evacuation.”

These ethnic cleansing operations are accompanied by constant bombing, artillery bombardment and shootings by Israeli troops.

The deliberate starvation of the population of Gaza is only intensifying. A report by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) found that the amount of food supplies entering Gaza in September was the lowest since March of 2023 and there was a major decline in the availability of food for children aged 6-23 months and pregnant and breastfeeding women across Gaza.

According to the report, “only five percent of pregnant and breastfeeding women had consumed dairy products, and six percent of children had eaten some meat, with these percentages plummeting to one and three percent in northern Gaza, respectively.”

In an interview with Al Jazeera, Chris Gunness, a former spokesman for the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, accused Israel of carrying out a “slaughter” of the people of Gaza.

“In the last year, we have seen Gaza transform from the world’s largest open-air prison to the world’s largest concentration camp,” Gunness told Al Jazeera.

“Today, Gaza has been transformed into an industrial-scale slaughterhouse. And I use the word ‘slaughter’ advisedly because frankly animals in most abattoirs around the world are killed more humanely than the women and children of Gaza.”

In remarks on the first anniversary of the start of the Gaza genocide, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said, “The nightmare in Gaza is now entering an atrocious, abominable second year.”

He added, “More than 41,000 [Palestinians] have been reportedly killed, mostly women and children. Thousands more are missing and believed to be trapped under the rubble. Virtually the entire population has been displaced—and no part of Gaza has been spared.”

He continued, “We are witnessing a clear intensification of military operations by Israel. Residential areas have been attacked. Hospitals ordered to evacuate. And electricity cut off—with no fuel or commercial goods allowed in. Around 400,000 people are being pressed yet again to move south to an area that is overcrowded, polluted, and lacking the basics for survival.”

He concluded, “No place is safe in Gaza, and no one is safe.”

Israel’s assault on Gaza is being accompanied by an Israeli military offensive throughout the Middle East, with a direct attack on Iran under discussion with the Biden administration in the US amid active operations in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen.

In a speech Tuesday addressing the people of Lebanon, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened the country with destruction “like Gaza.”

“You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza,” Netanyahu threatened, demanding that all resistance to Israel surrender.

Israeli strikes killed 36 people across Lebanon on Tuesday and wounded 150. Since mid-September, 1,473 people in Lebanon have been killed by Israeli strikes.

On Tuesday, Israel also carried out a strike in Damascus, Syria, killing seven civilians and wounding 11 more, according to Syrian state television.

[This article was originally published in WSWS here on 09 October 2024]

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The role of Iran’s oil and gas in US war plans against China

lead article, News, politics, politics & economics, Trade War, War, World War / October 8, 2024

By Gabriel Black.

~Given the enduring supremacy of oil and gas, countries holding large, cheap reserves of the commodity remain essential to geopolitical calculations~

The United States and Israel are on the brink of war with Iran. While the Biden administration has publicly stated that it does not want “escalation,” it has made clear that it will support Israel regardless of what Netanyahu does. Nearly every bomb dropped on Gaza and Lebanon was made in the US and given for free to Israel by the Biden-Harris administration.

Oil — *A natural gas refinery in the South Pars gas field in Asalouyeh, Iran, on the northern coast of Persian Gulf. November 19, 2015 [AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi]*

For Netanyahu, who faces multiple criminal indictments once he leaves office, this moment presents an opportunity to realize the long-held, grotesque ambitions of the Israeli ruling class: to destroy the Iranian regime through war. As the Financial Timeswarned this past weekend, “the chances of an Israeli attempt to topple the Iranian regime cannot be fully discounted.” The paper noted that last week Netanyahu declared, “When Iran is finally free—and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think—everything will be different.”

The Trump faction of the American ruling class has expressed its full backing for such a war. Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and former Middle East adviser, wrote a long post on X arguing for Israel and the US to topple the Iranian regime. He stated, “Iran is now fully exposed. … Failing to take full advantage of this opportunity to neutralize the threat is irresponsible.”

Though other sections of the ruling class have voiced concerns about the spiraling situation, the logic of their position—unconditional support for Israel’s actions—puts them on the same road toward war with Iran. The Democrats may have tactical differences with Trump about how to overthrow the Iranian regime but both salivate at the prospect of doing so.

The removal of the Iranian regime, while a geopolitical end in itself for American imperialism, is also a critical steppingstone in its economic and military confrontation with its chief adversary: China. All factions of the American ruling class unconditionally support Israel because they know that controlling the resource-rich Middle East—and ending the Ayatollah’s power—will significantly increase their power and flexibility in a war with China.

The importance of Iranian hydrocarbons

Iran is a large country, roughly the size of Spain, Ukraine and France combined. Eighty-nine million people live there. Compared to Iraq, its neighbor, which was invaded by the US in 2003, Iran has almost four times as many people and a far more sophisticated military and economy.

Iran has a long history of colonial subjugation, including British control over its oil industry in the first half of the 20th century, the CIA-MI6 coup in 1953 to prevent the nationalization of its oil industry and several decades of bloody rule by the US-backed Shah.

Everyone knows that Iran’s wealth primarily comes from its oil. Iran produces a little more than 3 million barrels of oil per day, about 3 percent of the world’s total. What is not as well understood, however, is the potential for Iran’s oil production to expand. Only three other countries in the world have larger reserves of commercially realistic oil (Saudi Arabia, Russia and Iraq). Additionally, Iran has the second-largest reserve of natural gas in the world after Russia.

Oil and natural gas remain the energetic bedrock of the global economy. Despite efforts to promote new alternative energies, the “energy transition” under capitalism remains a half-hearted and contradictory affair. The principal concern of the US and Europe with their investment in EVs and critical minerals is not stopping global warming but ensuring their economic and geopolitical supremacy vis-à-vis China, which has excelled in this area. Fifty-seven percent of the world’s energy comes from oil and gas, another 27 percent from coal, and just 1 percent comes from solar, a record high.

Given the enduring supremacy of oil and gas, countries holding large, cheap reserves of the commodity remain essential to geopolitical calculations. It is striking that Russia, Iraq and Iran—after Saudi Arabia—are the world’s largest holders of cheap oil reserves. Each country has been a principal target of US imperialism over the last quarter-century. The US invaded Iraq and is now on the brink of war with both Russia and Iran, the second and third largest holders of oil and gas reserves.

What is more, each of them—partially due to being squeezed and sidelined by economic sanctions—has a relatively underdeveloped oil industry, deprived of vital streams of capital and advanced technology required for production. This is evident in the case of Iraq, where after the US’s brutal invasion, American and European oil companies significantly raised production, increasing output from 2 million to almost 5 million barrels per day today.

The US oil boom’s role in imperialist strategy

Were the current US-Israeli onslaught taking place 10 or 15 years ago, the impact on global markets would be significantly worse. In the last few days, oil prices have risen by about 10 percent, the largest increase in two years since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, a dramatic shift in global oil and gas markets has tempered the effect.

In the last 15 years, the US has experienced the largest oil and gas boom in world history through hydraulic fracturing. This method allowed the US to grow from about 5 million barrels of production per day (mb/d) to over 13 mb/d. This represents about 15 percent of the world’s oil supply and is the only major source of supply growth internationally during this time.

The US ruling class is in an entirely different situation today regarding controlling global oil and gas production than when it was planning the Iraq invasion in the late 1990s and early 2000s. By being able to put a lid on oil and gas prices through fracking, US imperialism has been able to afford the loss of oil from Libya, Russia and Iran on the world market, allowing the US and its NATO allies to squeeze these countries and make plans for their regimes’ overthrow. (In Libya’s case, a “successful” plan that has led to a permanent state of civil war.)

The US oil boom, however, will not last forever. Generous estimates give it another 10 years, after which it will precipitously fall.

In his critical work Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism written in 1916, Lenin explained the importance of imperialism remaining one step ahead of its current needs. He wrote,

The more capitalism develops, the more the need for raw materials arises, the more bitter competition becomes, and the more feverishly the hunt for raw materials proceeds all over the world, the more desperate becomes the struggle for the acquisition of colonies.

To this, one could add that resources also deplete, and as they deplete, this “feverish hunt” further intensifies.

Where are the future supplies of oil and natural gas—so vital to the global economy—that will persist as other sources dry up, such as US fracking? They remain in the Middle East and Russia, with Iran, Russia, Iraq and Saudi Arabia being some of the most important future sources.

China and the US

It is important to stress that a key driver of US imperialism is the growing military and economic collision with China’s development. The US and its allies are fundamentally opposed to giving Chinese capitalism a “seat at the table” of the most advanced capitalist countries.

For several decades, China served as the cheap goods platform for the world’s major companies. But due to its own internal development—particularly in education and more advanced manufacturing processes—China has now created domestically controlled industries that seriously challenge US and European companies.

This is most obvious in the realm of automobiles, where Chinese EVs, advanced and cheaper than those of the US, have experienced rapid growth. In just a few years, China’s auto exports have gone from being a small fraction of those of Japan, the US and Germany to now overtaking all of them.

Having completely jettisoned past rhetoric of “free trade,” the US and its allies seek to prohibit Chinese corporations from playing a major role in the global economy at all costs. Confronting its own deepening economic and social contradictions, the US seeks to use its still dominant military and financial power to undermine the economic rise of China.

A central reason to control geostrategic resources like oil and minerals is not simply to profit from them but to pressure countries by denying access to this vital supply of energy and resources.

China, for its part, has much of the world’s critical mineral processing located inside the country, posing a problem for US imperialism’s war plans. However, while China has a relative advantage in critical minerals and batteries, the US has the advantage in oil and gas, at least for the next five to 10 years.

A RAND Corporation study on how the US could win a war against China noted, “If China is vulnerable to critical shortages in a war with the United States, it could be … in oil supplies, of which it imports about 60 percent and has a declared strategic reserve of just ten days.” Indeed, it is likely that one of the key reasons China was so quick to pioneer EV technology was its ruling class’s awareness of this serious weakness.

Almost all the oil China imports comes from the Middle East. Now that that oil no longer flows to the US, due to the fracking boom, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Russia, Iraq and the UAE send their oil east to China. China imports a staggering 11.4 mb/d of oil, making it the largest importer of oil in the world. China is the top recipient of Iranian oil.

Oil and World War III

Taking the geopolitical situation as a whole:

The US currently has control over global oil and gas markets more than any other country.
This level of dominance, however, has a limited window of about five to 10 years before that control significantly erodes due to the eventual decline of fracking.
The US, economically threatened, plans for a military confrontation with China centered around Taiwan.
China is strategically vulnerable when it comes to oil, relying on massive daily flows of oil from the Middle East. Iran’s largest oil export partner is China.
The Middle East and Russia, in the long term, will be the principal sources of the world’s remaining oil and gas. Iran is one of the single largest sources of undeveloped oil and gas reserves.

Taking these components together, it is evident that Iran’s oil and gas are of great interest to the United States and its partners. While many other factors go into the consideration of war, it is no accident that the principal targets of US imperialism are the most resource-rich countries in the world.

Netanyahu’s threats that Iran will “soon be free” reflect the fact that Israel, acting as a US attack dog, has been given a blank check to restructure the Middle East. The Israeli ruling class has its own distinct set of interests, but the Israeli war machine is ultimately funded, armed and driven by US geostrategic interest in the region.

This is the cold geostrategic logic that underlies the US-Israeli war against Iran and its proxies in the Middle East. The US seeks to strengthen and deepen its hold over this vital region as it prepares for a potential war against China.

For those who are disgusted by the rampage of Israel in the region and the blood-soaked, hypocritical role of the US, it is essential to understand that this war is not a “policy choice.” Capitalism, in its nationalist pursuit of profits at all costs, drives American imperialism toward a conflict that threatens the lives of billions of people. However irrational and dangerous, the American ruling class sees no other way out to its deepening spiral of economic, social and political crisis.

[This article was originally published in the WSWS here on 07 October 2024]

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Vote for the Socialist Equality Party of Sri Lanka: Advance the International Socialist Program of the ICFI

class struggles, Democratic Rights, economics, english, lead article, politics, politics & economics, World War / August 31, 2024

Statement of the Socialist Lead of Sri Lanka and South Asia (SLLA), the Revolutionary Left Faction of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) of Sri Lanka.

In the Presidential Election to be held on September 21, the working class, youth, students, peasants and the oppressed middle class have no choice between any of the capitalist, right-wing and pseudo-left parties that contest the election. The only choice is their own party, the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), the Sri Lankan section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), the World Party of Socialist Revolution, that stands alone in this election, advancing a program based on the principles of international socialism: against imperialist war, austerity and for democratic rights. A vote for SEP is an expression of approval to uphold and advance the perspective and program of the ICFI for international socialism, that can genuinely emancipate the working class from the tyranny of capital. SLLA therefore calls upon our class brothers and sisters to vote for SEP in this election.

The global capitalist crisis and its manifestation in Sri Lanka and South Asia

The profound crisis engulfing Sri Lanka or any other country in South Asia is not an isolated phenomenon but a concentrated expression of the global breakdown of capitalism. Decades of neoliberal policies, dictated by imperialist financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and willingly implemented by successive governments, have driven the working masses into an abyss of social misery. The soaring inflation, unemployment, squalid working conditions, inequality and pervasive poverty are not aberrations but the direct consequences of a global system that prioritizes profit over human need.

The capitalist ruling elite in Sri Lanka—whether under the guise of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), or any other bourgeois formation—has no solution to this crisis. They are committed to further austerity measures, deeper cuts to essential social services, and more severe attacks on the living standards of the working people, which President Ranil Wickremasinghe has spearheaded since the suppression and betrayal of the 2022 mass uprising. These parties, regardless of their superficial differences, serve the same class interests: those of the domestic and international bourgeoisie.

The working class in Sri Lanka, as in every other country, is trapped in a system that is both incapable of reform and unwilling to concede even the most basic social rights. It is a system that is inexorably driving humanity towards economic devastation, environmental catastrophe, and the threat of global war. The SEP alone insists that the solution lies not in patchwork reforms or the replacement of one capitalist party with another but in the revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist system itself.

The Global Escalation of US Imperialism: From Ukraine and Gaza to Asia

The eruption of US-NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine and the genocidal onslaught by Israel in Gaza are not isolated events but integral components of a broader strategy of global domination pursued by American imperialism. These conflicts, along with the escalating tensions in Asia, are driven by the relentless pursuit of the United States to maintain its global hegemony in the face of intensifying economic and geopolitical challenges. The working class in Sri Lanka, like workers around the world, is being dragged into this maelstrom of imperialist violence, which threatens to engulf the entire region in a catastrophic war.

In Ukraine, the US and its NATO allies have provoked and sustained a brutal conflict aimed at weakening Russia, one of the key rivals to US dominance in Eurasia. The war in Ukraine, which has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, is not about defending democracy or Ukrainian sovereignty, as Washington claims, but about advancing American strategic interests by encircling and destabilizing Russia. This conflict is pushing the world toward a nuclear confrontation with incalculable consequences for humanity.

Simultaneously, the genocidal bombardment of Gaza by Israel, fully backed and armed by the United States and other imperialist powers including Germany, is a stark expression of US imperialism’s ruthless determination to secure its dominance in the Middle East. The slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, coupled with Washington’s unwavering support for Israeli apartheid, is a crime of historic proportions, exposing the hypocrisy and barbarism of US foreign policy. The imperialist drive in the Middle East, like in Europe and Asia, is about controlling key resources and strategic territories to bolster hegemony of the Wall Street.

These aggressive moves are part of a broader imperialist strategy that is now rapidly expanding into Asia, where the US is building a vast military alliance aimed at encircling and confronting China. Sri Lanka, situated at a critical juncture in the Indian Ocean, finds itself increasingly caught in the crosshairs of this escalating conflict. As the US intensifies its military preparations against China, compelling its regional allies and partners to fall in line, Sri Lanka is being drawn into the vortex of war. The Colombo government’s increasing alignment with Washington, under immense economic and political pressure, threatens to transform the island into a frontline state in the impending imperialist war in Asia.

These interconnected conflicts—whether in Ukraine, Gaza, or the Indo-Pacific—are all manifestations of the same underlying crisis of global capitalism. The working class in Sri Lanka must recognize that their struggle is inseparably linked to the struggles of the international value producing class against imperialist war. The ICFI has called for the building of a powerful international anti-war movement, led by the working class, to oppose the US-NATO war drive, defend the rights of the oppressed in Gaza, and resist the imperialist encirclement of China. Only through the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of socialism can the descent into global war and barbarism be stopped. Only the SEP fights for this program.

The SEP’s Revolutionary Program: For an International Socialist Strategy

The SEP’s program is grounded in the principles of Marxism, as defended and elaborated by the ICFI. It is a program that uncompromisingly opposes all forms of nationalism, opportunism, and reformism, which seek to chain the working class to the capitalist state and its parties. The ICFI fights for the political independence of the working class, based on the understanding that the working class is the only social force capable of leading a revolutionary transformation of society.

Central to the SEP’s program is the principle of internationalism. The global nature of the capitalist crisis demands a global solution. The SEP rejects all nationalist illusions and insists that the struggle for socialist revolution must begin in the national arena, unfold in the international arena and be completed in the world arena. This demands the building of sections of the ICFI in each country of the world. The working class in Sri Lanka must unite with their class brothers and sisters around the world in a common fight against the capitalist system.

The SEP’s program includes:

The Establishment of a Workers’ Government: The SEP calls for the establishment of a workers’ and peasants’ government, committed to the socialist reorganization of society. This government would expropriate the major industries, banks, and financial institutions, placing them under the democratic control of the working class.
A Socialist Planned Economy: The SEP advocates for a planned economy based on social need, not private profit. This includes the nationalization of all major industries and resources, ensuring that the wealth produced by the working class is used to meet the needs of society as a whole.
The Rejection of IMF Austerity: The SEP opposes all austerity measures imposed by the IMF and other imperialist financial institutions. The party demands the repudiation of all foreign debts that have been used to impoverish the masses while enriching the capitalist elite.
Defense of Democratic Rights: The SEP fights for the defense and extension of democratic rights, including the right to strike, protest, and organize independently of the capitalist state and its political apparatus. The party also opposes all forms of ethnic and religious discrimination, recognizing that such divisions serve to weaken the working class and strengthen the ruling elite.
Opposition to Militarism and War: The SEP unequivocally opposes the militarization of society and the drive towards war, whether in Sri Lanka, US or globally. The party stands for the dismantling of the military-industrial complex including the nuclear war-heads and the reallocation of resources to meet pressing social needs.
Solidarity with the international working class: The SEP is committed to building a worldwide movement of the working class against capitalism. The party expresses full solidarity with the independent struggles of workers in every country, from the strikes in Europe and the United States to the mass protests across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Rallying youth and students in the struggle for socialism: The SEP recognizes that youth and students are a vital force in the struggle for socialism. Under capitalism, young people face a future of unemployment, precarious work, and ever-increasing levels of debt. The capitalist system offers them nothing but a life of exploitation and insecurity. The SEP calls upon youth and students to break with the bourgeois parties and movements that seek to trap them in a dead-end of reformism and identity politics, to rally behind the working class and build ICFI’s youth-wing, the International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE).

The Bankruptcy of the NPP and FSP: No Alternative for the Working Class

In the midst of the deepening social crisis in Sri Lanka, parties like the National People’s Power (NPP) and the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) pose as alternatives to the established bourgeois parties. However, their history, programs and political activities reveal that these organizations are fundamentally opposed to the interests of the working class and serve only to prop up the capitalist order.

The NPP, led by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), a right-wing party of the capitalist establishment, claims to represent a “progressive” alternative to the traditional parties, yet its entire political orientation is toward the preservation of capitalism. The JVP’s program is rooted in the same nationalist and reformist outlook that has characterized its politics since its inception. The NPP offers no genuine solution to the catastrophic conditions facing the masses. It proposes mild reforms within the framework of capitalism, failing to address the systemic causes of the crisis. The NPP’s calls for anti-corruption measures and a more “efficient” capitalist state are nothing more than attempts to conceal the root causes of the bourgeois crisis and divert the growing anger of the working class into safe channels that do not threaten the existing order.

Moreover, the NPP’s chauvinist history, including its role in supporting the communalist war against the Tamil population, exposes its inability to unite the working class across ethnic lines. Its record demonstrates that it cannot be trusted to defend the democratic rights of all workers. Instead, it seeks to foster illusions in the possibility of a “clean” and “fair” capitalist government, a delusion that only serves to disarm the working class in the face of escalating social attacks. If and when they are in power, the NPP will strengthen the capitalist oppression on the working class, in line with imperialist demands.

The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), which broke away from the JVP in 2012, similarly fails to provide a revolutionary alternative. While the FSP engages in more radical rhetoric and criticizes the JVP for its “betrayals”, it remains fundamentally committed to a nationalist and populist perspective. The FSP, like the NPP, advocates for reforms within the capitalist system rather than its overthrow. Its program is based on the false premise that the Sri Lankan state can be pressured to act in the interests of the working class if enough “progressive” forces are mobilized.

The FSP’s nationalist orientation also places it in opposition to the internationalist principles that are essential for the liberation of the working class. It seeks to channel workers’ struggles into the dead-end of parliamentary politics, where they can be more easily controlled and dissipated. The FSP’s alliance with trade unions, which are deeply integrated into the state apparatus and function as tools of capitalist control, further underscores its role in maintaining the status quo.

The SEP/ICFI Perspective on the Tamil National Question

SEP- Sri Lanka and the ICFI have a principled and historically grounded perspective on resolving the Tamil national question—one that stands in stark contrast to the bankrupt nationalism of the Tamil bourgeoisie and the chauvinism of the Sinhalese ruling elite. The SEP insists that the democratic rights of the Tamil people can only be secured through the united struggle of the entire working class in Sri Lanka—Sinhalese, Tamil, and Muslim—based on an internationalist and socialist program.

The roots of the Tamil national question lie in the reactionary partition of British India in 1947, which left behind a series of communal conflicts and unresolved national questions across South Asia. In Sri Lanka, the Sinhala ruling elite has long exploited ethnic divisions to maintain its class rule, systematically discriminating against the Tamil minority to divert social discontent and prevent the unification of the working class. This culminated in the brutal civil war, in which successive governments waged a genocidal campaign against the Tamil population, culminating in the massacre at Mullivaikkal in 2009.

The SEP categorically rejected the separatist perspective of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which sought to establish an independent capitalist statelet in the North and East of Sri Lanka. The LTTE’s program, rooted in Tamil bourgeois nationalism, offered no solution to the oppression of the Tamil masses. Rather, it served to divide the working class and align the Tamil struggle with various imperialist powers. The LTTE’s strategy of appealing to India and imperialist powers for support was fundamentally opposed to the interests of the Tamil people and led to the organization’s eventual defeat.

The SEP, in contrast, upholds the right of the Tamil people to the democratic right to put an end to all forms of national oppression, which is the essential progressive content of the right to national self-determination. However, the SEP insists that the realization of this right cannot be achieved through the formation of a separate capitalist state, which would simply create new forms of capitalist exploitation, class oppression and imperialist domination. Instead, the SEP fights for the unity of the Sinhalese and Tamil working classes in the struggle for the perspective of a United Socialist States of Sri Lanka and Eelam, as part of the broader fight for a Socialist Federation of South Asia and Internationally.

This perspective is based on the understanding that the liberation of the Tamil people, like that of the Sinhalese, can only be achieved through the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of socialism. The SEP stands for the abolition of the unitary state constitutional structure imposed by the Sri Lankan bourgeoisie on the working class of all ethnicities and for the establishment of a federation of socialist republics, which would guarantee full equality and democratic rights for all nationalities. This is inseparable from the struggle to build an international socialist movement that unites workers across South Asia and globally against imperialism and capitalism.

The SEP’s program for resolving the Tamil national question is thus fundamentally opposed to all forms of nationalism and chauvinism. It is a perspective that recognizes that the oppression of the Tamil people is not an isolated issue but a manifestation of the broader contradictions of the capitalist system. The SEP fights to unite the working class across ethnic lines, in a common struggle for a socialist future, where the democratic rights of all peoples are fully realized. Only through the revolutionary overthrow of capitalism can the historical injustices faced by the Tamil people be rectified, and a lasting solution to the national question be achieved.

Building ICFI Sections across South Asia

The crisis of capitalism is global, and nowhere is this more evident than in South Asia, a region plagued by deep-seated social inequality, ethnic conflicts, and the ever-present threat of imperialist war. The ruling classes across the subcontinent—from India and Pakistan to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka—have proven utterly incapable of resolving these crises. Instead, they have resorted to intensifying exploitation, whipping up nationalist and communal divisions, and suppressing the struggles of the working class. In this context, the necessity of building sections of ICFI in every country in South Asia is not merely an organizational task but a life-and-death question for the working class.

The working class in South Asia, numbering in the hundreds of millions, is the only social force capable of leading the struggle against capitalism and imperialism. However, for this potential to be realized, the working class must be armed with a revolutionary socialist program that transcends national borders and unites workers across the region and globally. The ICFI, with its unbroken continuity of Trotskyism and its principled opposition to all forms of nationalism and opportunism, provides the necessary leadership for this historic task. The building of ICFI sections across South Asia is indispensable for educating advanced sections of the working class and mobilizing them around the perspective of permanent revolution—the understanding that the democratic and social tasks in semi-colonial countries can only be achieved through the socialist revolution, led by the working class and extending internationally.

Mobilizing the Industrial Power of the Working Class

Central to the success of this revolutionary struggle is the mobilization of the immense industrial power of the working class through the methods of class struggle: strikes, factory occupations and general strikes. Across South Asia, workers are engaged in daily battles against brutal exploitation, wage theft, unsafe working conditions, and the dismantling of social protections. Yet, these struggles are repeatedly betrayed by the traditional trade unions, which have long been integrated into the capitalist state and function as instruments of class collaboration. These unions, tied to the ruling parties and nationalist agendas, serve to stifle and divert the militancy of the working class into dead ends, preventing any challenge to the capitalist system.

In response, the ICFI advocates for the establishment of independent action committees, or rank-and-file committees, within every workplace and community. These committees, controlled by workers themselves, must be built outside the bureaucratic grip of the official unions. They are the means through which workers can democratically organize their struggles, link up with other sections of the working class, and prepare for the revolutionary seizure of power. These committees are not simply vehicles for economic demands but are the foundational structures of dual power, laying the groundwork for a workers’ government that would expropriate the capitalists and reorganize society along socialist lines.

Power to the Working Class: The Path Forward

The task of these action committees extends beyond the workplace. They must become centers of political education, training workers in Marxist theory and the lessons of historical struggles, while exposing the reactionary role of all bourgeois and petty-bourgeois parties. They must also act as conduits for international solidarity, linking the struggles of workers in South Asia with those of their class brothers and sisters worldwide, particularly in the advanced capitalist countries. The International Workers’ Alliance of Rank and File Committees, established by the ICFI has undertaken this task of materializing international working class unity.

The struggle for power must be rooted in the understanding that the working class, led by the revolutionary party, organizing its methods of struggle, is the only force capable of resolving the immense social and democratic issues facing the masses. The action committees must evolve into organs of direct workers’ power, capable of challenging the bourgeois state and establishing a workers’ government based on socialist principles.

In every country of South Asia, the necessity of building sections of the ICFI as the revolutionary leadership of the working class and mobilizing workers through action committees is urgent. The alternative is the continued descent into barbarism—poverty, environmental catastrophe, communal bloodshed, and world war. The ICFI alone offers a way forward, and the necessary leadership, based on the principles of international socialism and the unity of the working class across all national, ethnic, and religious divisions. The ICFI section of the United States contests the upcoming presidential election, against the capitalist Democratic and Republican parties, with the same internationalist and socialist program. The future of South Asia, and indeed the world, depends on the ability of the working class to seize power and reorganize society along socialist lines.

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අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී පිටුබලය ලත් ගාසා තීරයේ ඊශ්‍රායල් සමූල ජන ඝාතනය: ලැන්සෙට් වෛද්‍ය සඟරාව පලස්තීන මරන සංඛ්‍යාව 186,000ක් ලෙස ගනන් බලයි

class struggles, lead article, politics, World War / July 9, 2024

ජෝර්ඩන් ෂිල්ටන් විසිනි

මෙහි පලවන්නේ ලෝක සමාජවාදී වෙබ් අඩවියේ 2024 ජූලි 9 දින ඉංග්‍රීසි බසින් පල වූ, ‘Imperialist-backed Israeli mass murder in Gaza: Lancet medical journal estimates Palestinian death toll at 186,000’ යන ශීර්ෂය යටතේ ජෝර්ඩන් ෂිල්ටන්විසින් ලියන ලද ලිපියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය යි. පරිවර්තනය සුනිල් ප්‍රනාන්දු විසිනි.

සම-සමාලෝචනය කරන ලද ලැන්සෙට් (Lancet ) වෛද්‍ය සඟරාවේ විශ්ලේෂනයකට අනුව, ඊශ්‍රායල පාලන තන්ත්‍රය ගාසා තීරයේ පලස්තීනුවන්ට එරෙහිව මාස නවයක ජන සංහාරයේදී මිනිසුන් 186,000ක් මරා දමා ඇත, එය සංගත මාධ්‍යවල ප්‍රසිද්ධියට පත් වූ මුලු ප්‍රමානයට වඩා බෙහෙවින් වැඩි ය.

බිහිසුනු සංඛ්‍යාලේඛනයෙන් අදහස් කරන්නේ, ප්‍රදේශයේ යුද-පූර්ව ජනගහනයෙන් සියයට 8 ක් පමන ගුවන් බෝම්බ ප්‍රහාරවලින් මරා දැමීමට, සාගින්නෙන් මිය යෑමට හෝ මූලික වෛද්‍ය ප්‍රතිකාර නොමැතිකම හේතුවෙන් රෝග හෝ නිදන්ගත සෞඛ්‍ය ගැටලුවලට ගොදුරු වී ඇති බවයි.

මහජන සෞඛ්‍ය විද්‍යාඥයින් විසින් භාවිතා කරන ලද ගතානුගතික ක්‍රමවේදයක් මත පදනම් වූ මරන සංඛ්‍යාව, ගාසා ජන සංහාරය හා එය නිෂ්පාදනය කර ඇති ම්ලේච්ඡ ධනේශ්වර පද්ධතියට නැවතීමේ තිත තැබීම සදහා ගෝලීය යුද විරෝධී ව්‍යාපාරයක ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් ජාත්‍යන්තර කම්කරු පන්තිය මැදිහත් වීමේ හදිසි අවශ්‍යතාවය යලිත් අවධාරනය කරයි. .

වාර්තාවේ ඇඟ සීතල කරවන ඇස්තමේන්තුව එහි ආරම්භක ලක්ෂ්‍යය ලෙස ගෙන ඇත්තේ අධ්‍යයනය සකස් කරන අවස්ථාවේ ගාසා හි සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය විසින් වාර්තා කරන ලද නිල මරන සංඛ්‍යාව වන 37,396 වේ. මෙම සංඛ්‍යාව නිසැකවම දැවැන්ත අඩු ගනනය කිරීමක් බව එය සඳහන් කලේය. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානය විසින් ඇස්තමේන්තු කර ඇති පරිදි ගාසා තීරයේ සියලුම ගොඩනැගිලිවලින් සියයට 35ක් පෙබරවාරි මාසය අවසන් වන විට විනාශ වී ඇති අතර, අවම වශයෙන් මල සිරුරු 10,000 ක් සුන්බුන් යට වැලලී ඇති නමුත් ලැන්සෙට් අධ්‍යයනයට ඇතුලත් කර නොමැත.

අධ්‍යයනයට අනුව, “මෑත ගැටුම්” වලදී වක්‍ර මරන සංඛ්‍යාව සාමාන්‍යයෙන් මුලු සෘජු මරන සංඛ්‍යාව මෙන් තුනේ සිට 15 ගුනයක් දක්වා පරාසයක පවතී. සෑම සෘජු මරනයක් සඳහාම වක්‍ර මරන හතරක් යන පහල අන්තයේ සූත්‍රය ගාසා ජන සංහාරයට අදාල කරමින් වාර්තාව දල වශයෙන් වින්දිතයන් 186,000 ක් පිලිබඳ එහි බිහිසුනු නිගමනයට පැමින ඇත.

ගාසා තීරයට හෙලන ලද දැවැන්ත බෝම්බ ප්‍රමානය සහ අන්ත අසරන ජනගහනයට ආහාර, වෛද්‍ය සැපයුම්, ඉන්ධන සහ අනෙකුත් මූලික අවශ්‍යතා ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරීමේ ඊශ්‍රායල ආන්ඩුවේ ම්ලේච්ඡ ප්‍රතිපත්තිය සැලකිල්ලට ගෙන, වක්‍ර මරන අනුපාතය බෙහෙවින් වැඩි විය හැකිය. එබැවින් මරන සංඛ්‍යාව ලැන්සෙට් ඇස්තමේන්තුවට වඩා දස දහස් ගනනක් හෝ සිය දහස් ගනනක් විය හැකිය. ලැන්සෙට් විසින් උපුටා දක්වන ලද “මෑත ගැටුම්” පරාසය තුල ම වන සෑම සෘජු මරනයකටම වක්‍ර මරන 10ක අනුපාතයක්, මරන 400,000 කට වඩා වැඩි යැයි ඇස්තමේන්තු කරනු ඇත.

මෙම පරිමානයෙන් සමූහ මරන පිලිබඳ සංසන්දනාත්මක උදාහරන සොයා ගැනීමට, ඉතිහාසයේ වඩාත්ම කුරිරු පාලන තන්ත්‍රවල අපරාධ සිහිපත් කිරීම අවශ්‍ය වේ. යුරෝපයේ යුදෙව්වන් සමූලඝාතනය කිරීම සහ ජර්මානු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය සඳහා “ලෙබෙන්ස්‍රාම්” (lebensraum- ප්‍රසාරනය සඳහා ඉඩ හසර ලබා ගැනීම) නිර්මානය කිරීම අරමුනු කරගත් පූර්ව සැලසුම් කල ආක්‍රමනකාරී ව්‍යාපාරය වූ සෝවියට් සංගමයට එරෙහි නාසීන්ගේ සමූලඝාතන යුද්ධය අතරතුර, යුදෙව්වන් සමූලඝාතනය කිරීමේ වගකීම පැවරූ Waffen-SS Einsatzgruppen විසින් පලමු මාස හය තුල ඇස්තමේන්තුගත 500,000ක් ඝාතනය කලේය.

එක්සත් ජනපදය, ජර්මනිය සහ අනෙකුත් අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී බලවතුන්ගේ අධි බලැති අවි අඛන්ඩව ගලා ඒමට ස්තුතිවන්ත වන්නට ඊශ්‍රායලයට පලස්තීනුවන් මෙතරම් පරිමානයෙන් මරා දැමීමට සහ ආබාධිත කිරීමට සහ ගාසා තීරයේ යටිතල පහසුකම් මකා දැමීමට හැකි වී තිබේ. රාත්තල් 2000ක බෝම්බ 14,000ක් පමන මෙයට ඇතුලත් වන අතර, ඉන් එකක් ගොඩනැගිලි කිහිපයක් සමතලා කිරීමට ප්‍රමානවත් වේ. රෝහල් සහ ප්‍රාථමික සෞඛ්‍ය පහසුකම් ඉලක්ක කර ගැනීම සහ ජල පිරිපහදු කිරීම, අපද්‍රව්‍ය සහ අනෙකුත් මූලික යටිතල පහසුකම් විනාශ කිරීම මගින් වක්‍ර මරන සංඛ්‍යාව අවිවාදිත ලෙස ඉහල ගොස් ඇත. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයට අනුව, ගාසා තීරයේ රෝහල්වලින් තුනෙන් එකක් සහ ප්‍රාථමික සෞඛ්‍ය පහසුකම්වලින් සියයට 30ක් පමනක් යම් ප්‍රමානයකට ක්‍රියාත්මක වේ.

පලස්තීනුවන්ට ආහාර, ජලය සහ අනෙකුත් ආධාර හිතාමතාම ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කිරීම බොහෝ දහස් ගනනක් සාගින්නෙන් මන්දගාමී මරනයට නිරාවරනය කර ඇත. සාගින්න මට්ටම් පිලිබඳ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ අනුග්‍රහය ලත් නවතම ඒකාබද්ධ ආහාර අදියර වර්ගීකරන වාර්තාවේ, ජාත්‍යන්තර විශේෂඥයින් සොයා ගත්තේ ගාසා වැසියන් පස් දෙනෙකුගෙන් එක් අයෙකුට වඩා “දින ගනන් ආහාර නොගෙන සිටින” අතර “ව්‍යසනකාරී” ආහාර අනාරක්ෂිත මට්ටම්වලට මුහුන දෙන බවයි. ජනගහනයෙන් අඩකට වඩා වැඩි පිරිසකට නිවසේ කෑමට ආහාර නොමැති අතර, සියයට 96ක් IPC හි පස්-අදියර පරිමානයේ 3 වන අදියර වන “අර්බුද” මට්ටම්වල ආහාර අනාරක්ෂිතභාවයට මුහුන දෙති.

මනුෂ්‍යත්වයට එරෙහි මෙම අපරාධ සිදු කරනු ලබන්නේ අන්ත දක්ෂිනාංශික සියොන්වාදී තන්ත්‍රය විසින් සිදු කරන හැඟීම් විරහිත ගනන් බැලීමෙනි. කෙසේ වෙතත්, අගමැති බෙන්ජමින් නෙතන්යාහුට සහ ඔහුගේ ෆැසිස්ට් තන්ත්‍රයට ඔවුන් කරන ආකාරයටම කටයුතු කල හැක්කේ ඔවුන් අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී බලවතුන්ගේ කොන්දේසි විරහිත සහයෝගය භුක්ති විඳින නිසා පමනි.

එක්සත් ජනපද ජනාධිපති බයිඩන්, ජර්මානු චාන්සලර් ෂෝල්ස් සහ අනෙකුත් අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී නායකයින් ඊශ්‍රායලයේ යුද්ධායුධ ගබඩාව මුදල් මගින් මිලදී ගත හැකි අතීශය විනාශකාරීම ආයුධවලින් පිරී ඇති බව සහතික කර ඇතිවා පමනක් නොවේ, ඔවුන් යුදෙව්-විරෝධීන් ලෙස අපකීර්තිමත් අයුරින් ගර්හා කල බොහෝ යුදෙව්වන් ඇතුලු, සමුල ජන සංහාරයේ සියලුම විරුද්ධවාදීන් නිශ්ශබ්ද කිරීම සඳහා පුලුල් මර්දනයක් දියත් කර ඇත.

එම දේශපාලන නායකයන් සහ ඔවුන් විසින් මුදලින් මිලට ගෙන ඇති සංගත මාධ්‍යයන්හි ඔවුන්ගේ හොරනෑ, ඊශ්‍රායලයේ යුද අපරාධවල පරිමානය වසන් කිරීමට සහ යුක්ති සහගත කිරීමට වෙහෙස නොබලා වැඩ කර ඇත. ඔක්තෝම්බර් මස අගදී, ඊශ්‍රායල ප්‍රහාරයෙන් සති තුනකට අඩු කාලයකින් පසු නිල මරන සංඛ්‍යාව 6,500ක් ලෙස ගාසා සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය විසින් ලබා දුන් විට, “පලස්තීනුවන් භාවිතා කරන සංඛ්‍යාව පිලිබඳව තමාට විශ්වාසයක් නොමැති” බව බයිඩන් ප්‍රකාශ කලේය. අලුතින් තේරී පත් වූ බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය අගමැති කීර් ස්ටාර්මර් පසුගිය වසරේ ගුවන් විදුලි සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාවකදී කුප්‍රකට ලෙස ප්‍රකාශ කලේ “ආත්‍ම ආරක්‍ෂාවේ” නාමයෙන් ගාසා තීරයට විදුලිය, ජලය, ඉන්ධන, වෛද්‍ය සහ ආහාර සැපයුම් කපා හැරීමට ඊශ්‍රායලයට “අයිතිය” ඇති බවයි.

ඔවුන්ගේ ඉලක්කය වී ඇත්තේ පසුගිය සියවසේ අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී ලෝක යුද්ධ හා සැසඳිය හැකි පරිමානයෙන් මරනය හා විනාශය සාමාන්‍යකරනය කිරීමයි. ධනවාදයේ සමහන් නොකල හැකි ප්‍රතිඝතිකතා, වෙලඳපොලවල්, අමුද්‍රව්‍ය සහ සූරාකෑම සඳහා ශ්‍රම සංචිතවල තම පාලනය සුරක්ෂිත කර ගැනීම සඳහා ලෝකය නැවත බෙදීමක නිරත වීමට ඇමරිකානු සහ යුරෝපීය අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය පොලඹවන බැවින්, ඔවුන් තම ආර්ථික හා භූ දේශපාලනික අවශ්‍යතා ලුහුබැඳීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් කිසිදු බාධාවක් නොඉවසනු ඇත.

ගෝලීයකරනය වූ ආර්ථිකය සහ ලෝකය ජාතික රාජ්‍යවලට බෙදීම අතර සහ නිෂ්පාදන මාධ්‍යවල පුද්ගලික හිමිකාරිත්වය සහ එහි සමාජ ස්වභාවය අතර ප්‍රතිවිරෝධතා, සෑම අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී රටකම පාලක ප්‍රභූන්ට, එකිනෙකාට එරෙහිව සහ ලොව පුරා කම්කරු පන්තියට එරෙහිව, යුද්ධය මගින් “ඔවුන්ගේ” ධනේශ්වර පන්තියේ අවශ්‍යතා ඉටු කිරීමට බල කරයි.

එලෙසම, එක්සත් ජනපදය, ජර්මානු, බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය සහ ප්‍රන්ස අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය ද, රුසියාව අර්ධ යටත් විජිතයක් කර ගැනීම සහ එහි ස්වභාවික සම්පත් කොල්ලකෑම සඳහා, ඔවුන්ගේ අතිමහත් බහුතරය තරුනයන් වූ යුක්‍රේනියානුවන් 500,000 කගේ සහ රුසියානුවන් දස දහස් ගනනකගේ ජීවිත බිලිගත්, රුසියාවට එරෙහි යුක්‍රේනයේ යුධගිනි මැලයට ඉන්ධන සපයා ඇත. ඔවුන් ආසියා පැසිෆික් කලාපයේ චීනය සමග යුද්ධයට ද ඊට නොඅඩු ආක්‍රමනශීලී ලෙස සූදානම් වෙමින් සිටිති. මෙම ගැටුම් මානව ශිෂ්ටාචාරයේ අවසානය සනිටුහන් කල හැකි මහා න්‍යෂ්ටික ගිනිමැලයක් දක්වා සර්පිලාකාරව වර්ධනය වීමේ අනතුර ඔවුන් වැලඳ ගනියි.

අද සිට, බයිඩන් වොෂින්ටනයේ ඔහුගේ සෙසු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී යුධකාමීන් සමග නේටෝ සමුලුව පවත්වනු ඇත. ඉදිරි දින තුන තුල, ගැටුම නේටෝව සහ රුසියාව අතර සෘජු යුද්ධයක් බවට පත් වීම සහතික කරමින්, නේටෝ භූමි භටයන් යෙදවීමේ පදනම මත, අවදානම්කාරී ලෙස යුක්‍රේනයේ යුද්ධය උත්සන්න කිරීමේ සැලසුම් ඔවුන් අවසන් කරනු ඇත. අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී බලවතුන් එමගින් පැහැදිලි කරන්නේ ඔවුන්ගේ කොල්ලකාරී අවශ්‍යතා මගින් නියම කරන ඕනෑම තැනක ගාසා තීරයේ මරන හා විනාශයේ මට්ටම් පිලිගැනීමට තමන් සූදානම් බවයි.

නේටෝ සමුලුවෙන් සති දෙකකට පසුව, ගාසාවේ පලස්තීන ප්‍රශ්නයේ “අවසාන විසඳුම” පිලිබඳ කොන්ග්‍රසයේ ඩිමොක්‍රටික් සහ රිපබ්ලිකානුවන්ට ප්‍රගති වාර්තාවක් සැපයීමට නෙතන්යාහු වොෂින්ටනයට පැමිනෙනු ඇත. ඉරානය ඉලක්ක කර ගනිමින් බලශක්තියෙන් පොහොසත් මැද පෙරදිග මත තම ආධිපත්‍යය තහවුරු කර ගැනීම සඳහා කලාපය පුරා යුද්ධයක් සූදානම් කිරීමේ කොටසක් ලෙස එක්සත් ජනපද අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය සමුල ජන සංහාරයට දක්වන වැදගත්කම අවධාරනය කිරීමට ඔහුට ද්විපාර්ශ්වික ආරාධනයක් ලබා දෙන ලදී.

ලෝක සමාජවාදී වෙබ් අඩවිය සහ සමාජවාදී සමානතා පක්ෂය ජූලි 24 දා වොෂින්ටනයේ පෙලපාලියක් සහ මහජන රැස්වීමක් කැඳවයි. මෙම පෙලපාලියේ අරමුන බයිඩන්, නෙතන්යාහු සහ ඔවුන්ගේ සෙසු යුද අපරාධකරුවන්ට ගමන් මග වෙනස් කරන ලෙස ආයාචනා කිරීම නොවේ. ඒ වෙනුවට, එය ජන සංහාරයට සහ තුන්වන ලෝක යුද්ධයක් වර්ධනය කිරීමට විරුද්ධ වීමේ එකම යථාර්ථවාදී මාර්ගය ඉදිරිපත් කරන කම්කරු පන්තිය තුල ජාත්‍යන්තර යුද විරෝධී ව්‍යාපාරයක් ගොඩනැගීම සඳහා පදනම දමනු ඇත. පහත සඳහන් මූලධර්ම මත උද්ඝෝෂනය සංවිධානය කෙරේ.

පලමුව, යුද්ධයට එරෙහි අරගලයට ඩිමොක්‍රටික් සහ රිපබ්ලිකන් යන සංගත(වාදී) පක්ෂ දෙකෙන් කොන්දේසි විරහිත හා ආපසු හැරවිය නොහැකි බිඳීමක් අවශ්‍ය වේ.

දෙවනුව, සමූල ජන සංහාරයට සහ යුද්ධයට එරෙහි ව්‍යාපාරය ජාත්‍යන්තර විය යුතු අතර, සෑම රටකම සහ සෑම මහාද්වීපයකම කම්කරුවන් ඔවුන්ගේ පොදු පන්ති අවශ්‍යතා මත එක්සත් කල යුතුය.

තෙවනුව, යුද්ධයේ මූලික හේතුව වන මූල්‍ය ප්‍රාග්ධනයේ ආඥාදායකත්වය සහ ආර්ථික ක්‍රමය අවසන් කිරීමේ සටන හැර යුද්ධයට එරෙහි බරපතල අරගලයක් තිබිය නොහැකි බැවින් යුද්ධයට එරෙහි සටන ධනේශ්වර විරෝධී හා සමාජවාදී විය යුතුය.

මෙම මූලධර්මවලට එකඟ වන සියලුම කම්කරුවන් සහ තරුනයින් ජූලි 24 වෙනිදා වොෂින්ටනයේදී අප හා එක්වන ලෙස අපි තරයේ දිරිමත් කරමු.

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කොලඹ ක්‍රියාකාරී කමිටුවේ ප්‍රකාශය.

යුක්‍රේනයේ SBU රාජ්‍ය ආරක්ෂක සේවය විසින් පසුගිය අප්‍රේල් 25 දින අත්අඩංගුවට ගනු ලැබ අධි ආරක්ෂක සිර ගෙයක රඳවා සිටින, බෝල්ෂෙවික් ලෙනින්වාදීන්ගේ තරුන රැකවල (YGBL) සංවිධානයේ නායක බොග්ඩාන් සයිරොටියුක් වහා නිදහස් කරන ලෙසත්, ඔහුට එරෙහි සාපරාධී චෝදනා හකුලා ගන්නා ලෙසත් කොළඹ ක්‍රියාකාරී කමිටුව බලකර කියා සිටී.

බොග්ඩාන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත්තේ නැටෝ අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයේ සාපරාධී යුද්ධයට එරෙහිව හතරවැනි ජාත්‍යන්තරයේ ජාත්‍යන්තර කමිටුව හා ලෝක සමාජවාදී වෙබ් අඩවිය විසින් ගෙන යනු ලබන උද්ඝෝෂනය තුල ඔහු ඉටු කරමින් සිටි ප්‍රමුඛ ක්‍රියා කලාපය නිසා බව කොළඹ ක්‍රියාකාරී කමිටුවේ පිළිගැනීමයි.

බොග්ඩාන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට පසු යුක්‍රේනයේ ෆැසිස්ට්වාදී සෙලෙන්ස්කි ආන්ඩුව ලෝක කම්කරු පන්තියේ සමාජවාදී විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය වන ලෝක සමාජවාදී වෙබ් අඩවිය (ලෝසවෙඅ) යුක්‍රේනය තුල තහනම් කලේය. YGBL හි ලේඛන සදහා ලෝසවෙඅ වේදිකාවක් විය. මෙය, යුද්ධයට එරෙහි වීමට කම්කරු පන්තියට ඇති ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී අයිතියට එල්ල කළ මාරක පහරක් ලෙස හඳුනා ගන්නා අපි, කම්කරුවන්ගේ ස්වාධීන ජාත්‍යන්තර ප්‍රකාශන මාධ්‍යයක් ලෙස පැවතීමටත්, අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයේ ලෝක යුද්ධ වැඩ පිළිවෙලට එරෙහිව ජාත්‍යන්තරවාදී සමාජවාදී ඉදිරි දර්ශනයක් මත ලෝක කම්කරු පන්තිය සංවිධානය කිරීමට හා අදහස් ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමට හතරවැනි ජාත්‍යන්තරයේ ජාත්‍යන්තර කමිටුවට හා ලෝසවෙඅ ට ඇති අයිතිය පැහැර ගැනීමට අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන් ප්‍රමුඛ අර්බුද ග්‍රස්ත ධනපති ආණ්ඩුවලට ඉඩ නොදී මෙම ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර විරෝධී ප්‍රහාරයට එරෙහිව පෙරට එන ලෙසත් ලෝක කම්කරු පන්තියෙන්, සියලු පීඩිතයන්ගෙන් හා ශිෂ්‍යයන් ඇතුළු තරුණ ප්‍රජාවෙන් අපි ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.

25 හැවිරිදි බොග්ඩාන්ට එරෙහිව රාජද්‍රෝහී චෝදනා නඟා ඇති යුක්‍රේන ෆැසිස්ට් තන්ත්‍රය, බොග්ඩාන් පසුගිය දෙවසර පුරා “ලෝක සමාජවාදී වෙබ් අඩවිය නම් රුසියානු ප්‍රචාරක හා තොරතුරු ඒජන්සියක නියෝජිතයන් විසින් පවත්වා ගෙන යනු ලබන ප්‍රකාශනයක පල කිරීම් සූදානම් කිරීමේ නියැලී සිටි” බව කියා සිටියි. ලෝසවෙඅට එරෙහිව එල්ල කරන මෙම අභූත මඩ ප්‍රහාරය හෙළා දකින කොක්‍රික, බොග්ඩාන්ට ද, ලෝක සමාජවාදී වෙබ් අඩවියට ද එරෙහිව මේ ඔසොවා ඇති මර්දන හස්තය බිඳ දැමීම සමස්ත ලෝක කම්කරු පන්තිය ක්ෂණික ව මුහුණ දී සිටින අභියෝගයක් බව කියා සිටී. මාරක අර්බුදයක කිඳී, ලේ ගංගාවන් හරහා පිහිනා අර්බුදයෙන් එතෙරවීමට මංමුලා සහගත ප්‍රයත්නයක යෙදී සිටින ලෝක අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය, ගාසා සමූලඝාතනවලට එරෙහි ශිෂ්‍ය හා මහජන විරෝධතා නීති විරෝධී කරමින් හා උද්ඝෝෂකයන් සිරගත කරමින් යුද විරෝධීන්ට හා සමාජවාදීන්ට මේ මොහොතේ එල්ල කරමින් සිටින ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර විරෝධී අශිෂ්ඨ ප්‍රහාරයේ කුළු ගැන්වීමක් මෙම ප්‍රහාරයෙන් සනිටුහන් කෙරෙයි. එහි අර්ථය වන්නේ, අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයේ කුරිරු යුද සැලසුම් පරාජය කල හැකි එකම බලවේගය ජාත්‍යන්තර කම්කරු පන්තිය ලෙස හඳුනා ගනිමින්, එහි ඒකාබද්ධතාවය සඳහා බොග්ඩාන් ද, හතරවැනි ජාත්‍යන්තරයේ ජාත්‍යන්තර කමිටුව ද, ලෝක සමාජවාදී වෙබ් අඩවිය ද ගෙන යන අරගලය තවදුරටත් දරා සිටීමට අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයට හා එහි සහායකයන්ට නොහැකි වී ඇති බවයි.

ගෝලීය නිෂ්පාදනය හා ලෝක වෙලඳපොල ද, ඒ මත ආධිපත්‍යය දරා සිටින ධනපති ජාතික රාජ්‍ය පද්ධතිය ද අතර මෝරා වැඩී ඇති ප්‍රතිවිරෝධයන්ගේ ආතතියෙන් මිරිකී ඇති සමස්ත ලෝක ධනපති පර්යායේ අර්බුදය, පෙර නො ඇසූ විරූ තරමේ සමාජ අසමානතාවයක් ලෙසත්, දෙවැනි ලෝක යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව පසුගිය සියවසේ මැද භාගයේ ගොඩ නංවන ලද පාලන ක්‍රම, ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්මුති, අන්තර් රාජ්‍ය සංවිධාන හා දේශසීමා ඇතුළු සමස්ත පර්යාය ම සුනුවිසුනු කරමින් අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී බලයන් ලෝක යුද්ධයක දිශාවට වේගයෙන් ඇද දැමීමක් ලෙසත් ප්‍රකාශයට පත් වෙමින් පවතී. අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය හා එහි බළල් අත් ලෙස ක්‍රියා කරන ධනේශ්වර තන්ත්‍රයන් සන්ත්‍රාසයට පත් ව සිටින්නේ මෙම ලෝක යුද්ධ ප්‍රයත්නයට එරෙහිව වේගයෙන් වර්ධනය වෙමින් පවතින මහජන ව්‍යාපාරයේ ඉදිරි ගමන පිළිබඳව ය. ලෝක යුද්ධයේ මාවත හැර යා හැකි වෙනත් මාවතක් නැති, පසුබැසීමට ඉඩක් නැති අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය එකී මහජන ව්‍යාපාරය තුලින් සමාජවාදී විප්ලවයේ අවතාරය දැකීම අරුමයක් නොවේ. ලෝකයේ රටක් රටක් පාසා ආණ්ඩු ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී අයිතීන් තලා දැමීම කරා පැනගෙන සිටින්නේ එකී තතු මත ය. ලංකාවේ පාලක පන්තිය එක දිගට තබමින් සිටින ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍ර විරෝධී ආඥාදායක පියවරයන්ට ඔවුන් තල්ලු කෙරෙන්නේ ද එකී අර්බුදයේ කොන්දේසි විසින් ම ය.

දශක තුනකට වැඩි කාලයක් පුරා සෑම දිනක ම යුද වැදී සිටි ඇමරිකානු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය දැන් නැටෝව මෙහෙයවා ගනිමින් න්‍යෂ්ටික ලෝක යුද්ධයක් කරා වේගවත් පියවර තබමින් සිටී. යුක්‍රේන බලල් අත යොදා ගනිමින් රුසියාව සමඟ යුද වැදීම, මැද පෙරදිග දී ඊශ්‍රායලයේ අපරාධකාරී නෙතන්යාහු ෆැසිස්ට් තන්ත්‍රයේ සමූලඝාතනවලට ආයුධ, මුදල් හා රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික සහාය පිදීම, එම අපරාධවලට එරෙහිව නැඟෙන කම්කරු, ශිෂ්‍ය උද්ඝෝෂන නීති විරෝධී කිරීම හා උද්ඝෝෂකයන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම අඛණ්ඩව සිදු කෙරේ. ඊට සමගාමීව යුරෝපයේ, ආසියාවේ හා ලෝකය පුරාමත් ආණ්ඩු ස්වාධීන මහජන ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වයන් නීතිවිරෝධී කිරීමේ හා ක්‍රියාකාරීන් දඬුකඳේ ගැසීමේ නියැලී සිටිති. ඊනියා යුක්තියේ මෙහෙයුම නාමයෙන් ලංකාව තුල ද එම වැඩ පිළිවෙල ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමේ සැලසුම් මෙහෙයවා ඇති අතර, මෑතක දී කොළඹ ක්‍රියාකාරී කමිටුවේ කැස්බෑව උද්ඝෝෂණයේ උද්ඝෝෂණ පත්‍රිකා අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට හා එහි ක්‍රියාකාරීන්ට බලපෑම් හා තර්ජන කිරීමට පොලීසිය මැදිහත් වූයේ ද මේ තතු යටතේ ම ය.

මේ අනුව, බොග්ඩාන් සහෝදරයා අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට එරෙහිව නැඟී සිටීම වූ කලී හුදෙක් තරුණයෙකුගේ, සමාජවාදී ජාත්‍යන්තරවාදී විප්ලවවාදියෙකුගේ, ජීවිතය හා නිදහස පිලිබඳ ප්‍රශ්නයක් පමනක් නොවේ. එය ලංකාවේ ද, මේ කලාපයේ ද, හා සමස්ත ලෝකයේ ම ද කම්කරු පීඩිතයන්ගේ ජීවිත හා නිදහස පිලිබඳ ප්‍රශ්නයකි.

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ජුනි 10, 2024

මෙහි පලවන්නේ ලෝක සමාජවාදී වෙබ් අඩවියේ 2024 ජුනි 10 දින පල වූ ‘For a mass demonstration on July 24 in Washington D.C. to protest congressional invitation for Netanyahu’ යන හිසින් කල ප්‍රකාශයේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය යි. පරිවර්තනය සුනිල් ප්‍රනාන්දු විසිනි.

සෙනසුරාදා, ඊශ්‍රායල හමුදා විසින් සමස්ත සමූල ජනඝාතනය තුලම සිදු කල ජන සංහාර අතරින් තවත් එක් ඉතා බිහිසුනු ක්‍රියාවක් සිදු කරන ලදී. මධ්‍යම ගාසා තීරයේ නුසෙයිරාට් සරනාගත කඳවුරට එල්ල කල ප්‍රහාරයෙන් පුද්ගලයන් 274 දෙනෙකු මරා දැමූනි. මියගිය සංඛ්‍යාවට අවම වශයෙන් ලමුන් 64 ක්, කාන්තාවන් 57 ක් සහ වැඩිහිටි පුද්ගලයින් 37 ක් ඇතුලත් වේ. තවත් 680 දෙනෙකු තුවාල ලබා ඇත.

2023 නොවැම්බර් 5 වන දින ගාසා සමූල ජන සංහාරයට එරෙහිව වොෂින්ටන් ඩී.සී. හිසහන සේවකයන් ලෙස වෙස්වලාගෙන සිටි ඊශ්‍රායල හමුදා වෙඩි තබමින් කඳවුර පුරා වැටලීම් මාලාවක් සිදු කලහ. මෙම සංහාරය “ප්‍රාන ඇපකරුවන් මුදාගැනීමේ” මෙහෙයුමක් ලෙස පෙනෙන පරිදි සිදු කරන ලදී. කෙසේ වෙතත්, බේරාගත් සෑම ප්‍රාන ඇපකරුවෙකු සඳහාම, විශේෂිතව ඊශ්‍රායල ප්‍රාන ඇපකරුවන් තිදෙනෙකු සහ එක් එක්සත් ජනපද පුරවැසියෙකු ඇතුලුව, පුද්ගලයන් 68 දෙනෙකු බිහිසුනු ලෙස ඝාතනය කරන ලදී.

වොෂින්ටන් ඩී.සී.හි කොංග්‍රසයේ ඒකාබද්ධ සැසියක් ඇමතීමට ඊශ්‍රායල අගමැති බෙන්ජමින් නෙතන්යාහුට ජූලි 24 වැනි දින කොන්ග්‍රසයේ සභා දෙකේම නායකයින් දින නියම කර ගත් දින කිහිපයකට පසුව මෙම සංහාරය සිදු විය. එය, දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධ සමය තුල හොලොකෝස්ටයෙ හි උච්චතම අවස්ථාවෙහි දී හිට්ලර්ට කතා කිරීමට ආරාධනා කිරීම හා සමානය. .

ලෝක සමාජවාදී වෙබ් අඩවිය, නෙතන්යාහුගේ පැමිනීමට සමගාමීව වොෂින්ටන් ඩී.සී.හි මහජන උද්ඝෝෂනයකින් ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වන ලෙස කම්කරුවන්ගෙන් හා තරුනයන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටී. කෙසේ වෙතත්, මෙම උද්ඝෝෂනයේ අරමුන හුදෙක් නෙතන්යාහුට විරෝධය දැක්වීම නොව, සමූල ජනඝාතනය මෙහෙයවීම, මූල්‍යකරනය, සන්නද්ධ කිරීම සහ දේශපාලනිකව යුක්ති සහගත කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඇමරිකානු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයේ සහ සමස්ත දේශපාලන සංස්ථාපිතයේ භූමිකාව පිලිබද වය.

“එක්සත් ජනපද නියෝජිත මන්ත්‍රී මන්ඩලයේ සහ එක්සත් ජනපද සෙනෙට් සභාවේ ද්විපාර්ශ්වික නායකත්වය” විසින් අත්සන් කරන ලද නෙතන්යාහු ආරාධනය, එක්සත් ජනපදයේ සහ ලොව පුරා ගාසා තීරයේ සමූල ජනඝාතන එරෙහි මහජන විරෝධයට එදිරිව කල දේශපාලන ප්‍රකෝප කිරීමකි. එය ජාත්‍යන්තර යුද අපරාධ අධිකරනයේ ඉහලම අභිචෝදකයා විසින් චෝදනා කරනු ලැබූ මිනීමරුවෙකුට දේශපාලන සහ සදාචාරාත්මක සහයෝගීතාව ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමකි.

ඒ අතරම, ආරාධනය ඇමරිකානු රජය සහ ඊශ්‍රායල පාලනය අතර සැබෑ සම්බන්ධය හෙලිදරව් කරයි. එය ප්‍රගති වාර්තාවකට සම වැන්නක් ලබා දෙන ලෙස නෙතන්යාහුගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටීමකි. “ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ආරක්ෂා කිරීම, ත්‍රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව සටන් කිරීම සහ කලාපය තුල සාධාරන සහ කල්පවත්නා සාමයක් ඇති කිරීම සඳහා ඊශ්‍රායල් රජයේ දැක්ම බෙදා ගැනීමට අපි ඔබට ආරාධනා කරනවා,” එය සඳහන් කරයි.

ඊශ්‍රායල පාලන තන්ත්‍රය “ත්‍රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව සටන් කරන්නේ” නොවේ. එය සමස්ත ජනතාවක් සමූල ඝාතනය කරමින් සිටී, එමෙන්ම එය එක්සත් ජනපද හා යුරෝපීය අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයේ මෙවලමක් ලෙස එසේ කරමින් සිටී.

ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම, සෙනසුරාදා සමූලඝාතනය සිදු වූයේ එක්සත් ජනපද හමුදාවන්ගේ සෘජු මැදිහත්වීමෙනි. ඊශ්‍රායලයේ භූමියේ යොදවා සිටින එක්සත් ජනපද හමුදා නිලධාරීන් ප්‍රහාරය සඳහා “බුද්ධි සහ අනෙකුත් සහාය” සැපයූ බව නිව් යෝර්ක් ටයිම්ස් සනාථ කල අතර පලස්තීන මූලාශ්‍ර කියා සිටියේ ඊශ්‍රායල හමුදා සැඟවී සිටි සහනාධාර වාහනය කලින් දවසේ ස්ථාන ගත කල එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් සාදන ලද “මානුෂීය” ජැටියෙන් ගොඩ බෑ බවයි. .

“මෙතරම් සිවිල් වැසියන් සංඛ්‍යාවක් මිය ගියත්, මේ ආකාරයෙන්ම තවත් මෙහෙයුම් සිදු කිරීමට ඊශ්‍රායලයට එක්සත් ජනපදය සහාය දෙනවාද?” යනුවෙන් ඇසූ විට ජාතික ආරක්ෂක උපදේශක ජේක් සලිවන් ප්‍රකාශ කලේ, “එය කිරීමට අපි ඊශ්‍රායලය සමඟ දිගටම කටයුතු කරන්නෙමු.”

නෙතන්යාහුට ආරාධනා කිරීම මගින් ඇමරිකානු දේශපාලන සංස්ථාපිතය පැහැදිලි කරන්නේ ඊශ්‍රායල පාලන තන්ත්‍රයට මරා දැමීමට ඉඩ දී ඇති පලස්තීනුවන් සංඛ්‍යාවට “රතු ඉරි” නැති බවයි. මරන සංඛ්‍යාව මේ වන විට 50,000ට ආසන්නය. සමූහ සාගින්න මගින්ද ඇතුලුව ලක්ෂ ගනනින් මරා දැමිය හැකි වුවද, එය එක්සත් ජනපද සහයෝගයට බලපානු නැත.

විරෝධතාවයට සහභාගී වීම සඳහා නියෝජිත කන්ඩායම් සංවිධානය කරන ලෙස ලෝසවෙඅ සියලුම කර්මාන්තශාලා සහ අනෙකුත් වැඩපලවල කම්කරුවන්ගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටී. ජුලි 24 විරෝධතාවය සදහා වොෂින්ටන් ඩීසී යට පැමිනෙන මේන් ශිෂ්‍යයන්ගෙන් සහ තරුනයන් ගෙන් අප ඉල්ලා සිටිමු.

මෙම පෙලපාලියේ අරමුන යුද අපරාධකරුවන්ගේ තීරන වෙනස් කිරීමට පෙලඹවීම නොවේ. ඔවුන් එසේ කරනු නැත. එය අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී යුද්ධයට එරෙහි අව්‍යාජ මූලෝපායක පදනම මත බලගතු යුද විරෝධී ව්‍යාපාරයක් ආරම්භ කිරීමට ය.

මෙම මූලෝපාය පහත සඳහන් මූලධර්ම මත පදනම් විය යුතුය:

පලමුව, ගාසා සමූල ජන සංහාරය, රුසියාවට සහ චීනයට එරෙහිව තීව්‍ර වන එක්සත් ජනපද යුද්ධයක තීරනාත්මක කොටසක් වන, එක්සත් ජනපදයේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් ලෝක අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයේ ගෝලීය පිපිරීම සමග වෙන් කල නොහැකි ලෙස සම්බන්ධ වී ඇත .

නෙතන්යාහු වෙත ආරාධනය සිදු වන්නේ, නේටෝ බලවතුන් සෘජු සහභාගිවන්නන් ලෙස යුද්ධයට අවතීර්න වෙමින් සිටින යුක්‍රේනයේ යුද්ධයේ විශාල තීව්‍රවීමක් මධ්‍යයේ ය. නේටෝ ආයුධ භාවිතා කරමින් රුසියාව තුල ප්‍රහාර එල්ල කිරීමට තමන් යුක්‍රේනයට බලය පවරා ඇති බව පසුගිය සතියේ බයිඩන් නිවේදනය කල අතර ප්‍රංශ ජනාධිපති එමානුවෙල් මැක්‍රොන් යුක්‍රේනයට හමුදා එවනු ඇති රටවල සභාගයක් පිහිටුවීමට කටයුතු කරන බව ප්‍රකාශ කලේය.

ගාසා තීරයේ ජන සංහාරයට පිටුබලය දෙන එම ආන්ඩුම යුක්රේනයේ ප්‍රොක්සි ( නියෝජක) තන්ත්‍රය සන්නද්ධ කරති. එක්සත් ජනපදය හා එහි සහචරයින් ජන සංහාරයට විරෝධය පානා දහස් ගනනක් මිනිසුන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම අධීක්‍ෂනය කර ඇති පරිදිම, අමු ෆැසිස්ට්වාදීන්ගෙන් සමන්විත යුක්‍රේන ආන්ඩුව, යුක්‍රේනයේ සහ රුසියාවේ ධනේශ්වර පාලන තන්ත්‍රවල සහ යුද්ධයේ සමාජවාදී විරුද්ධවාදියෙකු වන බොග්ඩන් සිරොටියුක් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත.

දෙවනුව, යුද්ධයට එරෙහි ව්‍යාපාරයක් කම්කරු පන්තිය තුල පදනම් විය යුතුය.

යුද්ධයේදී සටන් කර මිය යන්නේ කම්කරු පන්තිය වන අතර ඒ සඳහා ගෙවීමට බල කෙරෙනු ඇත්තේද කම්කරු පන්තියට ය. යුද්ධය නිපදවන එම ධනේශ්වර අර්බුදය, අසමානතාවයට, දරිද්‍රතාවයට සහ වැටුප්, රැකියා, සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා, අධ්‍යාපනය සහ කම්කරු පන්තියේ සියලු සමාජ අයිතීන්ට එරෙහි ප්‍රහාරයන්ට එරෙහිව වැඩෙන අරගලවල ස්වරූපයෙන්, යුද්ධය අවසන් කිරීමේ පදනම ද නිෂ්පාදනය කරයි.

තුන්වනුව, යුද්ධයට එරෙහි ව්‍යාපාරය ධනේශ්වර පන්තියේ සියලුම දේශපාලන පක්ෂ හා සංවිධාන වලින් සම්පූර්නයෙන්ම ස්වාධීන සහ සතුරු විය යුතුය.

බයිඩන් පරිපාලනය සහ ඩිමොක්‍රටික් පක්ෂය මුල සිටම සෘජුව සම්බන්ධ වී ඇත. පසුගිය සතියේ, 2024 මැතිවරනයේදී බයිඩන් ගේ රිපබ්ලිකන් විරුද්ධවාදියා, ඩොනල්ඩ් ට්‍රම්ප්, “ඊශ්‍රායලය කාර්යය අවසන් කල යුතුය” යනුවෙන් ප්‍රකාශ කලේය. ඩිමොක්‍රටික් සහ රිපබ්ලිකානුවන් සමූල ජන සංහාරය සන්නද්ධ කිරීමට සහ එයට එරෙහි විරුද්ධත්වය “යුදෙව්-විරෝධී” ලෙස අවලාද නැගීමේ දී අත්වැල් බැඳගෙන ඇත.

ඔවුන් විදේශයන්හි යුද්ධය තීව්‍ර කරද්දී, පාලක ප්‍රභූ පැලැන්තිය පැසිස්ට්වාදී හා ආඥාදායක පාලන ආකාරවලට වඩා විවෘතව හැරෙමින් සිටිති. මෙය සංගත හා මූල්‍ය කතිපයාධිකාරයේ පිලිවෙත් කෙරෙහි කම්කරු පන්තියේ සියලු විරුද්ධත්වයන් වෙත එල්ල කෙරෙයි.

හතරවනුව, සමූල ජන සංහාරයට එරෙහි සහ යුද්ධයට එරෙහි ව්‍යාපාරයක් ජාත්‍යන්තර විය යුතු අතර, සෑම රටකම සහ සෑම මහාද්වීපයකම කම්කරුවන් ඔවුන්ගේ පොදු පන්ති අවශ්‍යතා පදනම මත එක්සත් කල යුතුය.

පලමු ලෝක සංග්‍රාමය හා දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධය මෙන්ම උත්සන්න වන ගෝලීය යුද්ධය පැන නගින්නේ ලෝක ධනේශ්වර ක්‍රමයේ ප්‍රතිවිරෝධතා තුලිනි. නව ගෝලීය ගිනි ගැනීමක් වැලැක්විය හැක්කේ, සමාජයේ සියලු ධනය නිපදවන, එබැවින් ධනේශ්වර පාලක ප්‍රභූවන්ගේ කුමන්ත්‍රනවලට විරුද්ධ වීමට සමාජ හා ආර්ථික බලය ඇති ගෝලීය කම්කරු පන්තිය බලමුලු ගැන්වීම හරහා පමනි.

පස්වනුව, යුද්ධයේ මූලික හේතුව වන මූල්‍ය ප්‍රාග්ධනයේ ආඥාදායකත්වය සහ ආර්ථික ක්‍රමය අවසන් කිරීමේ සටන හැර යුද්ධයට එරෙහි බරපතල අරගලයක් තිබිය නොහැකි බැවින් යුද්ධයට එරෙහි සටන ධනේශ්වර විරෝධී හා සමාජවාදී විය යුතුය.

ඔවුන්ගේ අවශ්‍යතා සහ ධනේශ්වර ලාභ පද්ධතිය ආරක්ෂා කිරීම සඳහා, සංගත හා මූල්‍ය කතිපයාධිකාරය මනුෂ්‍ය වර්ගයා අගාධයක් කරා ඇදගෙන යමින් සිටී. පාලක පන්තියේ නොනවතින යුද්ධයට පිලිතුරු දිය යුත්තේ කම්කරු පන්තියේ නොනවතින විප්ලවයේ ඉදිරිදර්ශනයෙනි, එහි මූලෝපායික ඉලක්කය ජාතික රාජ්‍ය පද්ධතිය අහෝසි කිරීම හා ලෝක සමාජවාදී සම්මේලනයක් පිහිටුවීමයි.

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