Bulletin N°61 2025 What we honor today, as stated in the joint declaration of the Communist and Workers' Parties, is: " the October Revolution, which brought to light the strength of the revolutionary class struggle – the power of the exploited and oppressed – when they took center stage and advanced history towards social emancipation. This Revolution was inseparable from the great revolutionary and theorist of scientific socialism, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. "
In this intervention, we want to emphasize a fundamental question: that of imperialism, the analysis and understanding of which are vital for waging the revolutionary struggle. As the declaration of the Communist and Workers' Parties commemorating the 155th anniversary of Lenin's birth underlines: " The Leninist work [is] particularly useful at a time when the struggle between the United States and China for supremacy in the world capitalist system is intensifying; [it] opposes the identification of imperialism solely with an aggressive foreign policy or with a few powerful capitalist countries, a view that has been promoted over time by the forces of opportunism. "
We fundamentally share this analysis. Our party has devoted considerable work to characterizing what imperialism is today. This work was published in a book entitled " What is Imperialism Today? ". In it, we observe the deepening contradictions within a heterogeneous imperialist system dominated by the conflict between the United States and China for supremacy in the global capitalist system, accompanied by confrontations ranging from trade disputes to high-intensity wars, while strong trends of massive rearmament are developing.
It is from this analysis that we guide our political work, that we conduct our internationalist solidarity actions and that we participate or not in joint initiatives.
In this brief statement, we would like to reiterate our point of view on two issues:
- of the war on the territory of Ukraine
- solidarity with the national liberation struggle of the Palestinian people
Regarding the war on the territory of Ukraine , from the beginning of the war, based on our analysis of the imperialist character of the conflict, we clearly expressed that it was not a question for us of joining one side or the other, but of waging the class struggle against capitalism and imperialism, and first and foremost against our own.
We haven't changed our compass, and we continue to denounce the harmful nature of capitalism as a driver of war, and we call Russia what it is: a capitalist state. We are waging a struggle against France's membership in NATO, the military expression of the Euro-Atlantic alliance. We are fighting against plans for the rearmament and militarization of society.
Regarding Palestine , we first want to emphasize the need to properly define what is improperly called the Palestinian question, or worse still, the Israel-Hamas war. From our perspective, and as we expressed in a lengthy document entitled: " A Brief History of Palestine: Understanding and Supporting the Palestinian People's National Liberation Struggle. "
The Revolutionary Communist Party's declaration following October 7th characterized the event as a legitimate military action by the Palestinian resistance and recognized the right of the Palestinian people to fight against oppression, colonization, and apartheid. The Revolutionary Communist Party offers its full support to the Palestinian resistance, in whatever form it chooses. From our perspective, the Palestinian people's struggle is a national liberation struggle that is part of the broader anti-imperialist struggle against a colonial situation.
We do not take the event of October 7 as a fact in itself, but as an episode in a war that has lasted for 75 years and is rooted in the long history of a replacement colonization of Palestine, where the choice of the Israeli colonial government with the active support of the Western imperialist powers is the pure and simple annexation of all of Palestine, dotted with a few ghettos after the expulsion and massacre of the Palestinians.
We must truly appreciate the central role of Palestine today. The Zionist state is the advanced apparatus of imperialist Western power in the Middle East, the key to its global domination. The Palestinian question should therefore not be seen merely as the confrontation of a people with their direct enemy, Zionism, but is above all the strategic struggle of a national liberation movement which, in an unequal balance of power, must defeat an enemy armed and supported by the entire Western imperialist collective and its regional Arab allies. The recent UN vote on the resolution formalizing Trump's imperialist plan illustrates this balance of power. Algeria's vote in favor turns its back on decades of anti-colonial solidarity. The abstention of the Chinese and Russian imperialists reveals their true colors.
Peace in this region of the world will not be possible as long as the Zionist state, which has established apartheid and practices ethnic cleansing, exists in its current form. The only possible future is for the Jewish and Arab populations to live side by side in a single, secular state.
And to go down this path, we must start by demanding, first of all, an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the opening of humanitarian access, an end to the killings of Palestinians and the abuses of settlers in the West Bank, but also the departure of the occupation troops, the dismantling of settlements in the West Bank, the right of return for all refugees and an independent Palestinian state.
The existence of a colonial state prevents such peace. Israeli workers cannot be free unless they break with Zionism and objectively remain on the side of the colonizers.
Communists must grasp the reality of Zionism and the central role of Palestine in anti-imperialist struggles. In Palestine, there is only one imperialist bloc, and it is in only one camp: that of the Zionists, who are its organic extension. Facing them, a people is fighting for its national independence and shaking the foundations of Western imperialist domination in the Middle East. It is therefore not simply a matter of solidarity, but of seeing what this struggle contributes to our own emancipation within imperialist countries.
Although a broad current of solidarity with the Palestinian people has nevertheless been able to develop in France, this support has remained very dependent on a rhetoric that is primarily humanitarian, with a single moral dimension, a sympathy for a martyred people and a compassion that takes ownership of the suffering of the Palestinian people but struggles to understand the deep political roots of the Zionist enterprise of conquering Palestine.
True solidarity with the Palestinian people requires abandoning this passive and victimized view to recognize them as a people active in their own history, struggling against Zionism, imperialism and reaction, for their national liberation, a long struggle whose centrality and strategic nature for our own emancipation we must recognize.