Bulletin février mars 2025 What Trump's Latest Statements Tell Us
Update
Donald Trump has again made several thunderous statements on Palestine, announcing the rest of his program: the non-return of hypothetical Gazan refugees and hell if the hostages... As if hell wasn't already the situation in Gaza.
He thus definitively poses as the leader of what his supporters called, in the days of the socialist countries, the free world and which can only be described as the Western imperialist bloc. And with each outing, he tramples a little more on the so-called international law to which he never refers, but which his adversaries (Trump has no enemies among the Western imperialist leaders) make the alpha and omega of "democracy," adversaries who are curiously more and more moderate, even silent, with each new announcement from the tenant of the White House.
As we have already written, the project that Trump reveals to the world is nothing new; it has been the Zionist project since at least the beginning of the 20th century. Simply, it is said loud and clear, which was not the case before, except on the part of fascist leaders like Smotrich or Ben Gvir. It is essential to repeat this when, in our media, certain "journalists," like Gilles Bouleau of Bouygues (TF1), try to make people believe that this is something new that no one had thought of until now.
The Palestinians are not sheep
. It must be repeated. Trump can talk, France-Info can debate the technical feasibility of his "project," Netanyahu can instruct his army to prepare "the evacuation of volunteers," nothing, absolutely nothing is certain. On the contrary, the statements of the head of the so-called international community only increase the resentment of the people against Western imperialism and the determination of the Palestinians to stay in their homes, to defend their land and their history, even at the cost of their lives. As
in 1948 at the time of the illegitimate partition of Palestine, the leaders of the Western world advocate a future without ever consulting the Palestinians, that is to say, the main stakeholders. The Palestinians in Gaza are no more afraid of Trump than they are of the Zionists. They know that the truce is precarious, that war could resume at any moment, and many young people are joining the armed resistance.
The balance of power in the world
. Workers and peoples around the world are not left out. Demonstrations of solidarity continue unabated, particularly in the Western world, but also in Latin America, Morocco, and, more recently, India and Pakistan.
Within the Western imperialist world, the strength of movements is most often linked to the active presence of trade unionists, particularly class-based trade unionists. This is particularly true in Great Britain or Italy, Norway, Sweden, or Greece, where the trade union movement is very involved, even if the central leaderships, when they are social democratic, look the other way. One aspect of the battle in France is the absence of all the confederal leaderships of these solidarity movements. Apart from a few statements every 36th of the month, the CGT stands out for its limited presence in rallies in solidarity with Palestine or those to free Georges Abdallah. And even the statements of their bête noire Trump do not provoke any specific reaction in terms of mobilization.
The deeper meaning of Trump's approach
It is important to understand where Trump is going with this. First of all, in terms of form, his all-out declarations are not necessarily intended to be followed by action but to occupy the field permanently, subject after subject. The ideological role of the new proxies of US multinationals is to ensure that they are at the origin of everything discussed in their world, the Western imperialist bloc. It must be said that, for the moment, this has been successful.
Fundamentally, Trump and his friends have, for some time now, noted the loss of influence of the West in the world and therefore of the United States, which is at its head. Their goal, to "remake" themselves, is to organize things in a radically different way from the way they were before. This requires regaining control, including at the expense of their allies, who must now only serve to "make America great again." To regain control, they must break the old two-party system developed since the fall of the Soviet Union. And this begins by installing chaos in a worm-eaten, infected, and completely corrupt system. Even in his international policy statements, Trump has a domestic political goal.
What is striking is that the analyses of his adversaries, or at least those who speak out, in the Western sphere, all revolve around a single explanation: "Trump is a half-crazy Nazi who must be prevented from causing harm." This chaos is analyzed only in light of the mental derangement attributed to Donald Trump. Few points of view aim to connect all the events that dot it to tactical elements articulated with the reality of his strategic objective. As for the proposal for ethnic cleansing of Gaza, obviously scandalous, the left, in France and elsewhere, criticizes it as such but unfortunately without questioning the interest for Trump, with this intolerable as well as unrealizable initiative, to give a breath of fresh air to Netanyahu after the Israeli defeat revealed by the ceasefire and after the ceasefire: the Gazans are still standing.
Trump and Biden are two sides of the same coin
The outraged reactions, but
It is therefore in light of this characterization: Trump = fascist and crazy, that we must look at the media and political reactions in France. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing its disagreement with the deportation of Gazans, all the left-wing parties did the same by using their usual vocabulary on the extreme right, a term which has the advantage of linking Trump and Netanyahu, and above all, we will come back to this, of making us forget the responsibilities of Biden and Macron.
We have a fourfold phenomenon: the Macronists weakly condemn, but do not denounce, do not appeal to international law or the UN Security Council; the proven supporters of Trump in the media and in the political field remain silent on his statements concerning Palestine; on the contrary, the media supposedly anti-Trump evoke these statements and question their novelty, their feasibility, etc.; and the left is screaming at the far right. It is this last phenomenon that we will now attempt to analyze.
The fixation on the far right
To summarize the left's discourse, we choose to quote a few excerpts from the speech given by Sophie Binet, secretary-general of the CGT, on February 6, during the FSU congress, a speech in which the rapprochement desired by the social-democratic leaderships of the two unions is ultimately only barely addressed, and entirely under the banner of the "fight against the far right." Sophie Binet does not define what this concept of the far right is, but she evokes a "far-right international, of Trump, Musk, Putin, Netanyahu and so many others."
Here are all the bad guys together. By focusing on Trump and Netanyahu, we forget "Genocide Joe." This position also reveals a serious misunderstanding of the mechanisms of the class struggle and the functioning of the capitalist system: "The coalition between Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the United States will accelerate the alliance between billionaires and the far right. We already saw the beginnings of this with the reactionary crusade led by Bolloré and Sterin in France, or with the benevolent neutrality of French employers towards the far right." If we decipher it, we understand that an ideological and political current (the far right) and capitalists (the term billionaire is used because it does not refer to the division of society into classes) are put on the same level in terms of role and importance in capitalist society. Worse, they make "alliances"!!! Even historical fascism has never been on an equal footing with Big Capital! The fascists, like other bourgeois or social-democratic parties, have never been anything but "agents" of Capital, according to Marx's formula. All the parties represented in the National Assembly in France are at the service of Capital; it is Capital that commands, that gives the roadmap and chooses from the wide range at its disposal, who can apply it, including if it is the "extreme right."
The rapprochement with the anti-Trump genocidaires
The consequence of this fixation on the extreme right and the manifest incomprehension of the functioning of the capitalist system is this: the left feels more or less in the same camp as the politicians representing the fringes of the Bourgeoisie opposed to Trump's vision, to his reorganization, his desire to corporatize the Western imperialist world, with a single head: the USA.
This can be translated through the defense of the European Union: "Faced with the trade war between China and the United States, Europe must change its paradigm. If we do not want our industry to be swept away, we must protect our industry, relocate and turn our agriculture and our industry towards meeting the needs of the continent's populations rather than flooding the world with low-cost chickens," Sophie Binet tells us.
When we call "Europe" in this way, a distorted word, since it does not designate the continent, but the EU, it is obviously a call for a common front, not only from the CGT and the FSU, but from all pro-Europeans.
But the EU is not enough. We must also appeal to those in the USA who are Trump's opponents. Here, one last time, is what Sophie Binet said at the FSU congress: "To fight the far right, we must link the social and societal. Kamala Harris lost because she did not address the social issue, because the Democratic Party did not address workers, limiting itself to defending democracy and values." Translation: Kamala Harris is in the same camp as us, but she made a mistake by basing herself solely on "values." The problem is that these "values" include active participation in the colonization of Palestine and the genocide in Gaza. Because Biden's USA (like Trump's later USA) are not only complicit in settler colonization and genocide, they are actors in it. This doesn't seem to bother Sophie Binet, the obvious figure of the left, who, perhaps because it doesn't interest either of the union leaderships, the FSU or the CGT, has had no words to say about Palestine. What characterizes human expression and thought is also, and sometimes above all, what is not said.
Trump and Biden: Differences and Common Points
Despite differences in approach, particularly on the vassalization of EU states, Trump and Biden are false opponents. They agree on the essentials: perpetuating capitalist society, the imperialist stage, and the supremacy of the USA. They differ only on the method. But, in a moment of decline, of an increasingly downward trend in the rate of profit, in a moment when even imperialist wars are not enough to get out of it, one is ready to continue by crushing satellite states, the other by accentuating free trade.
But the most significant thing is that the left is objectively choosing Macron and Harris's side, and even the National Rally (RN) doesn't seem to be a firm supporter of the new US president. All of this finds a new opportunity to express itself with Trump's organized dismantling of USAID, one of the US propaganda and subversion agencies most used and supported by Democratic governments. What is revealed by this dismantling is not a surprise to us, who have long known the role of the CIA, particularly in Cuba, through USAID. But for many people, it is a discovery: USAID financed the color counter-revolutions, the BBC, 90% of Ukrainian newspapers, and AFP, among others. Trump is liquidating this administration most likely because it is not his cronies who are being financed in this way, but their adversaries. Nevertheless, we can only welcome this dismantling and these revelations.
It is clear that even when he dismantles one of the most obvious symbols of US imperialist interference, Trump is not approved by the left that defends USAID. Thus, Mediapart can write that "independent" journalists in Ukraine will no longer be funded and will disappear.
We have nothing to expect from either.
The USAID episode, like that of Trump's ranting about Palestine, shows us that left-wing politicians, including Sophie Binet, believe or want to believe in a difference in nature between the proxies of Trump's sensibility and those of Biden's sensibility, with great reinforcement of the biased concept of the far right. Just as the "far-right Netanyahu" invalidates the intrinsic responsibility of Zionism and the colonial project in Palestine, the "far-right Trump" validates the fact that the other proxies would defend "values" to which the labor movement could adhere.
In conclusion,
nothing could be further from the truth. In his time, Charles Fiterman, a former leader of the French Communist Party (PCF) who had gone over to the reactionary movement, developed the concept of "universal values" shared by a segment of the bourgeoisie and the labor movement. It was already a decoy, and it still is.
We have nothing to expect from Biden, nor from Trump, nor from Macron, nor from Retailleau, Hollande, Orban, or Sanchez. And no more from Binet, Roussel, or Mélenchon. The real divide is between those who want the continuation of the capitalist system, by method A, B, or C, and those who want to abolish it, the Revolutionaries. The Revolutionary Communist Party is one of the latter and does its utmost to unite and organize them.
Proletarians around the world have nothing to expect from any of the agents of Big Capital, whatever their persuasion. Clearly, the Palestinian people have understood this. Their lucidity, as much as their resistance, constitutes an irreplaceable contribution to revolutionaries around the world.
Update
Donald Trump has again made several thunderous statements on Palestine, announcing the rest of his program: the non-return of hypothetical Gazan refugees and hell if the hostages... As if hell wasn't already the situation in Gaza.
He thus definitively poses as the leader of what his supporters called, in the days of the socialist countries, the free world and which can only be described as the Western imperialist bloc. And with each outing, he tramples a little more on the so-called international law to which he never refers, but which his adversaries (Trump has no enemies among the Western imperialist leaders) make the alpha and omega of "democracy," adversaries who are curiously more and more moderate, even silent, with each new announcement from the tenant of the White House.
As we have already written, the project that Trump reveals to the world is nothing new; it has been the Zionist project since at least the beginning of the 20th century. Simply, it is said loud and clear, which was not the case before, except on the part of fascist leaders like Smotrich or Ben Gvir. It is essential to repeat this when, in our media, certain "journalists," like Gilles Bouleau of Bouygues (TF1), try to make people believe that this is something new that no one had thought of until now.
The Palestinians are not sheep
. It must be repeated. Trump can talk, France-Info can debate the technical feasibility of his "project," Netanyahu can instruct his army to prepare "the evacuation of volunteers," nothing, absolutely nothing is certain. On the contrary, the statements of the head of the so-called international community only increase the resentment of the people against Western imperialism and the determination of the Palestinians to stay in their homes, to defend their land and their history, even at the cost of their lives. As
in 1948 at the time of the illegitimate partition of Palestine, the leaders of the Western world advocate a future without ever consulting the Palestinians, that is to say, the main stakeholders. The Palestinians in Gaza are no more afraid of Trump than they are of the Zionists. They know that the truce is precarious, that war could resume at any moment, and many young people are joining the armed resistance.
The balance of power in the world
. Workers and peoples around the world are not left out. Demonstrations of solidarity continue unabated, particularly in the Western world, but also in Latin America, Morocco, and, more recently, India and Pakistan.
Within the Western imperialist world, the strength of movements is most often linked to the active presence of trade unionists, particularly class-based trade unionists. This is particularly true in Great Britain or Italy, Norway, Sweden, or Greece, where the trade union movement is very involved, even if the central leaderships, when they are social democratic, look the other way. One aspect of the battle in France is the absence of all the confederal leaderships of these solidarity movements. Apart from a few statements every 36th of the month, the CGT stands out for its limited presence in rallies in solidarity with Palestine or those to free Georges Abdallah. And even the statements of their bête noire Trump do not provoke any specific reaction in terms of mobilization.
The deeper meaning of Trump's approach
It is important to understand where Trump is going with this. First of all, in terms of form, his all-out declarations are not necessarily intended to be followed by action but to occupy the field permanently, subject after subject. The ideological role of the new proxies of US multinationals is to ensure that they are at the origin of everything discussed in their world, the Western imperialist bloc. It must be said that, for the moment, this has been successful.
Fundamentally, Trump and his friends have, for some time now, noted the loss of influence of the West in the world and therefore of the United States, which is at its head. Their goal, to "remake" themselves, is to organize things in a radically different way from the way they were before. This requires regaining control, including at the expense of their allies, who must now only serve to "make America great again." To regain control, they must break the old two-party system developed since the fall of the Soviet Union. And this begins by installing chaos in a worm-eaten, infected, and completely corrupt system. Even in his international policy statements, Trump has a domestic political goal.
What is striking is that the analyses of his adversaries, or at least those who speak out, in the Western sphere, all revolve around a single explanation: "Trump is a half-crazy Nazi who must be prevented from causing harm." This chaos is analyzed only in light of the mental derangement attributed to Donald Trump. Few points of view aim to connect all the events that dot it to tactical elements articulated with the reality of his strategic objective. As for the proposal for ethnic cleansing of Gaza, obviously scandalous, the left, in France and elsewhere, criticizes it as such but unfortunately without questioning the interest for Trump, with this intolerable as well as unrealizable initiative, to give a breath of fresh air to Netanyahu after the Israeli defeat revealed by the ceasefire and after the ceasefire: the Gazans are still standing.
Trump and Biden are two sides of the same coin
The outraged reactions, but
It is therefore in light of this characterization: Trump = fascist and crazy, that we must look at the media and political reactions in France. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement expressing its disagreement with the deportation of Gazans, all the left-wing parties did the same by using their usual vocabulary on the extreme right, a term which has the advantage of linking Trump and Netanyahu, and above all, we will come back to this, of making us forget the responsibilities of Biden and Macron.
We have a fourfold phenomenon: the Macronists weakly condemn, but do not denounce, do not appeal to international law or the UN Security Council; the proven supporters of Trump in the media and in the political field remain silent on his statements concerning Palestine; on the contrary, the media supposedly anti-Trump evoke these statements and question their novelty, their feasibility, etc.; and the left is screaming at the far right. It is this last phenomenon that we will now attempt to analyze.
The fixation on the far right
To summarize the left's discourse, we choose to quote a few excerpts from the speech given by Sophie Binet, secretary-general of the CGT, on February 6, during the FSU congress, a speech in which the rapprochement desired by the social-democratic leaderships of the two unions is ultimately only barely addressed, and entirely under the banner of the "fight against the far right." Sophie Binet does not define what this concept of the far right is, but she evokes a "far-right international, of Trump, Musk, Putin, Netanyahu and so many others."
Here are all the bad guys together. By focusing on Trump and Netanyahu, we forget "Genocide Joe." This position also reveals a serious misunderstanding of the mechanisms of the class struggle and the functioning of the capitalist system: "The coalition between Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the United States will accelerate the alliance between billionaires and the far right. We already saw the beginnings of this with the reactionary crusade led by Bolloré and Sterin in France, or with the benevolent neutrality of French employers towards the far right." If we decipher it, we understand that an ideological and political current (the far right) and capitalists (the term billionaire is used because it does not refer to the division of society into classes) are put on the same level in terms of role and importance in capitalist society. Worse, they make "alliances"!!! Even historical fascism has never been on an equal footing with Big Capital! The fascists, like other bourgeois or social-democratic parties, have never been anything but "agents" of Capital, according to Marx's formula. All the parties represented in the National Assembly in France are at the service of Capital; it is Capital that commands, that gives the roadmap and chooses from the wide range at its disposal, who can apply it, including if it is the "extreme right."
The rapprochement with the anti-Trump genocidaires
The consequence of this fixation on the extreme right and the manifest incomprehension of the functioning of the capitalist system is this: the left feels more or less in the same camp as the politicians representing the fringes of the Bourgeoisie opposed to Trump's vision, to his reorganization, his desire to corporatize the Western imperialist world, with a single head: the USA.
This can be translated through the defense of the European Union: "Faced with the trade war between China and the United States, Europe must change its paradigm. If we do not want our industry to be swept away, we must protect our industry, relocate and turn our agriculture and our industry towards meeting the needs of the continent's populations rather than flooding the world with low-cost chickens," Sophie Binet tells us.
When we call "Europe" in this way, a distorted word, since it does not designate the continent, but the EU, it is obviously a call for a common front, not only from the CGT and the FSU, but from all pro-Europeans.
But the EU is not enough. We must also appeal to those in the USA who are Trump's opponents. Here, one last time, is what Sophie Binet said at the FSU congress: "To fight the far right, we must link the social and societal. Kamala Harris lost because she did not address the social issue, because the Democratic Party did not address workers, limiting itself to defending democracy and values." Translation: Kamala Harris is in the same camp as us, but she made a mistake by basing herself solely on "values." The problem is that these "values" include active participation in the colonization of Palestine and the genocide in Gaza. Because Biden's USA (like Trump's later USA) are not only complicit in settler colonization and genocide, they are actors in it. This doesn't seem to bother Sophie Binet, the obvious figure of the left, who, perhaps because it doesn't interest either of the union leaderships, the FSU or the CGT, has had no words to say about Palestine. What characterizes human expression and thought is also, and sometimes above all, what is not said.
Trump and Biden: Differences and Common Points
Despite differences in approach, particularly on the vassalization of EU states, Trump and Biden are false opponents. They agree on the essentials: perpetuating capitalist society, the imperialist stage, and the supremacy of the USA. They differ only on the method. But, in a moment of decline, of an increasingly downward trend in the rate of profit, in a moment when even imperialist wars are not enough to get out of it, one is ready to continue by crushing satellite states, the other by accentuating free trade.
But the most significant thing is that the left is objectively choosing Macron and Harris's side, and even the National Rally (RN) doesn't seem to be a firm supporter of the new US president. All of this finds a new opportunity to express itself with Trump's organized dismantling of USAID, one of the US propaganda and subversion agencies most used and supported by Democratic governments. What is revealed by this dismantling is not a surprise to us, who have long known the role of the CIA, particularly in Cuba, through USAID. But for many people, it is a discovery: USAID financed the color counter-revolutions, the BBC, 90% of Ukrainian newspapers, and AFP, among others. Trump is liquidating this administration most likely because it is not his cronies who are being financed in this way, but their adversaries. Nevertheless, we can only welcome this dismantling and these revelations.
It is clear that even when he dismantles one of the most obvious symbols of US imperialist interference, Trump is not approved by the left that defends USAID. Thus, Mediapart can write that "independent" journalists in Ukraine will no longer be funded and will disappear.
We have nothing to expect from either.
The USAID episode, like that of Trump's ranting about Palestine, shows us that left-wing politicians, including Sophie Binet, believe or want to believe in a difference in nature between the proxies of Trump's sensibility and those of Biden's sensibility, with great reinforcement of the biased concept of the far right. Just as the "far-right Netanyahu" invalidates the intrinsic responsibility of Zionism and the colonial project in Palestine, the "far-right Trump" validates the fact that the other proxies would defend "values" to which the labor movement could adhere.
In conclusion,
nothing could be further from the truth. In his time, Charles Fiterman, a former leader of the French Communist Party (PCF) who had gone over to the reactionary movement, developed the concept of "universal values" shared by a segment of the bourgeoisie and the labor movement. It was already a decoy, and it still is.
We have nothing to expect from Biden, nor from Trump, nor from Macron, nor from Retailleau, Hollande, Orban, or Sanchez. And no more from Binet, Roussel, or Mélenchon. The real divide is between those who want the continuation of the capitalist system, by method A, B, or C, and those who want to abolish it, the Revolutionaries. The Revolutionary Communist Party is one of the latter and does its utmost to unite and organize them.
Proletarians around the world have nothing to expect from any of the agents of Big Capital, whatever their persuasion. Clearly, the Palestinian people have understood this. Their lucidity, as much as their resistance, constitutes an irreplaceable contribution to revolutionaries around the world.