Bulletin N°59 2025 Where are we?
"Gaza will never carry the white flag of surrender. Neither the Zionists nor any other criminal force will ever succeed in breaking the will of resistance in Gaza."
These words, spoken in February 2025 by Georges Abdallah, resonate today more than ever. Facing the worst genocide of the 21st century , as well as the horror of colonization and a blockade for nearly 20 years, and subjected to various deadly attacks for years, the Palestinian people of Gaza are today facing US and European bombs, famine, displacement, massacres, ethnic cleansing—in short, genocide. But the Palestinian people remain standing, united around their national resistance, and refuse to abandon their land, Gaza, and Palestine.
This fact has thwarted all the plans of the Western imperialists and their Zionist lackeys who, for two years, have been striving in vain, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent lives lost to Zionist barbarism, to wipe Gaza and its people off the map, in order to destroy all anti-imperialist resistance in the Arab world.
The Palestinian National Resistance, with the help of the international solidarity movement, has achieved ceasefires that can be considered victories.
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood has profoundly upset and continues to profoundly upset the balance of power, bringing immeasurable progress to the Palestinian cause and its struggle for national liberation, as well as to the struggle of the Arab peoples for emancipation and liberation. Certainly, the coming years will prove the truth of these statements.
October 7, 2023, revealed the current situation to those who are willing to see. More than ever, the empty rhetoric of shared blame, two-state solutions, peace between "Israelis" and Palestinians, and the refusal to support the Palestinian armed resistance are becoming clear to more and more workers for what it truly is: cowardice in the face of history and the proletariat, a position that validates Zionist colonialism. As Elsa Triolet said, "barricades have only two sides." We are either on the side of imperialism or against it.
News from the Resistance in Gaza
The Palestinian resistance in Gaza remains strong, disciplined, composed of more than 20,000 fighters and possessing an effective chain of command.
The armed resistance forces still control the terrain; and genocide and famine, far from weakening the resistance, legitimize and strengthen it. Deadly ambushes against the Zionists take place daily, and the reality is far more costly than the 900 dead soldiers claimed by Israel.
There are probably thousands of dead, tens of thousands of soldiers physically injured (amputees) and/or psychologically and unfit for combat, as Israeli sources defying censorship are beginning to reveal.
The resistance factions remain united and politically active. They are not fighting a last stand, but are evolving their practices in line with the political situation, in a war of guerrilla warfare and attrition, where the Israeli army has become bogged down in the sands of Gaza.
On July 17, Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, summarized the Brigades' current missions, stating: " The current strategy of the Al-Qassam Brigades leadership is to cause maximum losses in the enemy ranks through point-blank operations and to work towards capturing Zionist soldiers. " The ambushes have since multiplied with significant success.
Another proof that the Palestinian resistance remains strong is the fact that it remains firm in its positions in the negotiations, despite internal and external pressures, and that it does not retreat from its red lines in the struggle for a ceasefire on the conditions of the resistance. A weakened and virtually destroyed resistance would not make this choice, even less so if it did not know that it had the support of a majority of the population.
At the beginning of July, the Israeli political power announced its decision that the Israeli army would completely occupy Gaza; whereas the army leaders would have preferred to continue as before, that is, to bomb and shoot starving civilians; indeed, the losses for the occupation army in this scenario are much lower.
Now, if the Resistance was weak, why then take the risk of occupying Gaza, and thus legitimizing it even more, while offering its flank to the guerrilla war waged by the Resistance? The government of the Zionist colonial state, weakened and divided on the surface but united around the survival of Zionism, chose the path of total war, thus marking the final chapters of its existence. All the Zionists opposing the continuation of the war are not allies but simply Zionists who have chosen another path for the survival and development of the colonial state, they are trying to save the day. Indeed, October 7 marked the beginning of the end of the Zionist project; and that of the concept of Israel, as a state for the Jews of the world, where they would be safe, economically and militarily. All of this is today shattered, shattered by the offensive of October 7.
BRICS and Gaza: No support beyond rhetoric
A detailed analysis of the positions and practices of the BRICS member countries in the face of the ongoing genocide in Gaza reveals a blatant contradiction between their official discourses, often centered on international law, multilateralism and the sovereignty of peoples, and their concrete actions.
In fact, the BRICS have not taken any strong joint measures: no sanctions, no severance of diplomatic or economic relations, no embargo, nor even a symbolic suspension of cooperation with Israel.
On the contrary, for the majority of them, commercial relations, particularly in the strategic areas of energy, surveillance technologies, infrastructure or armaments, continued, or even intensified, in 2024 and 2025.
South Africa is certainly an exception with its complaint to the ICJ, but this very positive action is being undermined by the continuation of coal exports to Israel and other trade relations.
The diplomatic doublespeak underscores a fundamental truth: despite their rhetoric about a "multipolar world order," the leaders of the BRICS countries are primarily defending the interests of their capitalists. They are simply an imperialist bloc rivaling the Western bloc; this rivalry, moreover, being more or less significant depending on the state, in this sense, the BRICS are not a cohesive whole.
The last summit and their attitude as a bloc towards the genocide in Gaza (they did not mention the word) and their relations with the Zionist colonial state clearly highlight the fact that the BRICS will not take any initiative for the liberation of Palestine, and not even for a ceasefire.
About Rima Hassan and Western Sahara
A few days ago, Rima Hassan got tangled up in the issue of Western Sahara. She declared on X that Palestine and Western Sahara were two different situations, that by putting them on the same level, we were "mixing up two causes." For her, the Western Sahara issue stems from a conflict between Morocco and Algeria, which she considers harmful. She denies the colonial nature of Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. She contrasts "Western colonialism" with an "Arab-Arab conflict," thereby establishing an implicit hierarchy between "bad colonists" (Western powers and European settlers in Palestine) and "good colonists" (Moroccans in Western Sahara).
In one of her many posts on the subject, as she has been frequently challenged, she clumsily attempts to justify her point of view on the different natures. For her, in Western Sahara, the primary difference comes from the genocidal situation and the settlement colonization. However, there is also a substitute colonization in Western Sahara, where many inhabitants were driven out or killed to make way for Moroccan settlers.
She adds a second reason, concerning the nature of the conflict, which leaves one perplexed: " I mentioned the regional dimension to highlight that Palestine was experiencing colonization that was part of a Western imperialist colonialist agenda. This is not the case for the Sahara. "
It's a safe bet that Rima Hassan lacks an anti-imperialist political culture, and therefore does not have a good grasp of the concept of imperialism. It's likely that she discovered anti-imperialism late in life and that she draws arguments from it here and there for the Palestinian cause, without understanding the overall mechanism. Because the similarity between the two situations is quite obvious.
Morocco is a comprador state . A former colonial power, France systematically covers up the Moroccan occupation at the UN and the EU. Morocco serves as an imperialist subcontractor, similar to the Zionist colonial state in Palestine. Sahrawi resources (phosphates, fishing, renewable energy) are exploited by European and Israeli multinationals, not by the Sahrawi people.
Comparing Palestine and Western Sahara does not therefore amount to "mixing two causes", but to identifying the same colonial logic: Israel and Morocco are both regional instruments of a Western imperialist order.
Furthermore, Rima Hassan is not concerned about the fact that, since the Abraham Accords, Rabat has been a regional relay for the Zionist entity: weapons tested in Gaza are redeployed to the Sahara. The many Moroccans who regularly demonstrate their solidarity with Palestine, despite the repression, are calling for an end to this normalization agreement, signed in December 2020 by a prime minister from the local branch of the Muslim Brotherhood.
But, a few days later, after announcing that she would put aside the subject of Western Sahara to focus on Palestine, Rima Hassan decided to share a report from the NGO O-CR on the Sahrawi refugee camps, full of inaccuracies. This organization (Observatory of Refugee Camps), which she claims to have founded in 2019, is not above lying. The worst part is that the report tells us that the young activists who created the Polisario Front in 1973 and theorized the Sahrawi Revolution " transformed more or less rival tribes living in the Spanish Sahara into a people claiming a common belonging and identity, and therefore an independent territory ." In short, the Polisario Front supposedly invented the Sahrawi identity. However, this Sahrawi identity already existed, with tribes having pre-existing rivalries and agreements before Spanish colonization, historically organized in the Assembly of Forty.
One might wonder why Rima Hassan felt compelled to have her say on Western Sahara, a situation about which she knows very little, and thus revealed her lack of reference points and her position without an anti-colonialist or anti-imperialist reading grid. It is likely that the more than ambiguous position of LFI on Western Sahara is the cause, with this idea sometimes expressed by certain self-proclaimed "decolonial" currents, that settlers and colonialists can only be "white" and therefore, that Morocco cannot be. These ideas, which distance us from the class struggle (which is their goal), testify to a certain "misery of philosophy," to refer to Marx, in certain petty-bourgeois political currents.
We have written on several occasions about the link we make between the colonial situations in Kanaky, perpetrated directly by an imperialist power, and Palestine and Western Sahara, where intermediaries (European Zionist settlers or Moroccan settlers) organize things for the greater happiness of Western multinationals.
Fighting against imperialism means denouncing all colonizations
For the Revolutionary Communist Party, the best way to defend the Palestinian national liberation struggle is to combat all forms of colonization. Western imperialism is colonizing both Western Sahara and Palestine; the two situations are similar.
This episode with the MEP is yet another argument for defending Palestinian national liberation on a class basis, rejecting shortcuts. The recent victory of Georges Abdallah's release proves this. Only a struggle along anti-imperialist lines, demanding the end of the Zionist colonial state, can achieve victories and advance toward the liberation of the Palestinian nation.
In this regard, we once again commend the work of the United Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah, which has enabled the movement for the national liberation of Palestine to be amplified and strengthened. We take this opportunity to reiterate our position on the United Campaign.
For the Revolutionary Communist Party, the "Unity Campaign" must continue and set itself the objective of becoming the gathering place for all those who support the national liberation of Palestine and its armed Resistance, to make our militant contribution, in France against our capitalists and their supporters, to "free Palestine from the river to the sea."