Yesterday marked one year since the Al-Aqsa Flood triggered the most violent stage of the U.S.-backed zionist genocide in Palestine. We cannot say that the genocide began on that date, for it has been continuing, sometimes faster and sometimes slower, since 1948. Despite this, one year from the heroic resistance attacks of October 7, 2023, the zionist state appears to be the weakest it has been since it was founded in the murders and displacements of ‘48.
In the year since Al-Aqsa provoked the zionist drive to complete the genocide, we have been taught the meaning of revolution. Through the bravery and diligence of Hamas, the resistance coalition, and the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine we have watched as revolution has been made reality in occupied Palestine. More than that: although the forces of the enemy — our own imperialist forces, hiding behind the zionist banner — have been confronted by the forces of revolution, it is not only in Palestine that we have seen the empire challenged. Iran, Ansar Allah, Russia, Syria, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the People’s Republic of China have all contributed to the successes of Palestine.
No, we have learned the meaning of revolution at home in the United States and all its vassals, partners, and imperialist allies. In our solidarity with the besieged people of Palestine, we have all provoked the repression of the bourgeois capitalist state. It is through that repression that we have been taught the lessons of revolution.
In the last year, the movement has grown in leaps and bounds, has matured and spread from its initial blossoming among the student-radicals into every aspect of the anti-imperialist left. There is no revolutionary organizing that neglects the needs of Palestine. Should any claim to exist, we can dismiss it at once as an agent of reaction. Palestine is the forefront of the global class war, and the domestic struggle to halt imperialist violence is our front in that war.
The complacency of the liberal democrats has been shaken. Kamala Harris has replaced the tottering Biden in the left aisle of the imperialist war machine, promising to be a competent administrator of genocide, a tough policewoman who will plunge the southern U.S. border into bloody chaos, and an iron fist when it comes to repressing the anti-zionist Left. In the passenger seat of that war machine but jockeying for a place at the wheel, Donald Trump shouts a guarantee of return to form — a disastrously uncontrolled foreign and domestic policy but with the firmest commitment to completing the U.S.-zionist genocide in Palestine.
Nearly the entire capitalist class has closed ranks and united around this issue. They cannot brook the slightest dissent. Those members of the ruling class that don’t share this opinion are subjected to censorship; those of us in the working and petit-bourgeois professional classes that challenge it are arrested, fired, suspended from work, or hounded by the FBI. This is the sharpest point of contradiction, and it sharpens us as well.
We must take our lessons and carry them forward. We must train the movement to avoid arrest. We must educate the movement on strategy and ensure to record all victories and defeats so we may study them and draw lessons from them. Above all, we must organize together to form a coherent network of anti-imperialist action across the country and the larger imperialist bloc.
We stand together now to say: death to the occupiers, the colonialists, the imperialists, and freedom for the peoples of the world that work under their lash. The working classes of the big imperialist countries are learning, through this struggle, where their interests lie: not with their own, lying, bourgeoisie nor with the gifts they promise, but with the working class of the world; with the working class of Palestine.
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