The Worker, Vol. 40, Number 7
Contents:
I. Hands Off Iran!
II. End the Planned Misery of Settler-Colonial State Terror
Hands Off Iran!
The U.S. war machine was severely depleted by its 40-day war of aggression against the Islamic Republic. To the imperialist war machine, the highly publicized "ceasefire" was never a pursuit of genuine peace; it was a mechanical stalling tactic designed to buy time to restock munitions at local U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar.
The mask of benevolence entirely slipped when the U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally declared America the "Guardian of the Hormuz Strait" and demanded a 20 percent protection fee on all cargo.
This re-exposes the U.S. imperialist military base network not as a defender of global security as claimed, but as a vast collection agency for the financial oligarchy, reliant on maritime piracy to fund its own collapsing economy.
However, just as you cannot achieve peace abroad while maintaining a system of exploitation at home, nor can you achieve genuine democracy at home while waging imperialist wars abroad.
To protect this vertical pipeline of robbery, Western diplomats and media consistently scream "unprovoked aggression" with Iran’s legitimate defense of its own territorial waters, hoping to thought police a blockade of silence around the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is not an international waterway, but falls entirely within the sovereign maritime borders of Iran and Oman.
Figures like the German Foreign Minister play the role of the deceitful ghoul, utilizing the bourgeois sensationalism of "free transit" to demand that Iran unconditionally reopen the strait, while utterly ignoring the U.S. military's days and nights of unprovoked missile strikes on Iranian coastal infrastructure.
The most dangerous weapon is wielded by the opportunist gatekeepers of the multiparty system, where they attempt to inject artificial separation into the resistance by engineering a quid pro quo conflict.
The Pentagon war machine preaches a separation of diplomatic track for each new angel it can find dancing on the head of a pin. It does this in order to isolate, bully and blackmail the different fronts of its aggressive war program.
The Trump war program targets both established, sovereign nation-state with a formal military, a massive industrial base, and official diplomatic channels as well as grassroots national liberation movements and local defense forces who are fighting for their own specific survival—whether it is ending a decade-long blockade in Yemen or repelling an occupation in southern Lebanon, or dispatched military "trainers" to directly oversee and direct the Filipino army's counter-insurgency operations.
U.S. imperialism is driven by irreconcilable contradictions not only with the colonial and semi-colonial countries it oppresses abroad, but fundamentally by the contradictions between the U.S. reactionaries and the American people. To launch its predatory wars abroad, the U.S. ruling class must first attack the American people. They do this by extracting massive wealth from the working class (over $11,000 per family for the Pentagon budget) and suppressing them politically and economically.
Therefore, the American masses own participation in building a broad popular front against war and imperialism is not a secondary support group. It is engaged in a direct, life-and-death domestic war of liberation against the mob capitalism complex that has metastasized and dramatically worsened after occupying the halls of decision-making power for several generations.
To truly dismantle the war machine, the U.S. working class must conquer the ideological weapon of American chauvinism, destroy the internal sabotage of revisionism and social-democracy, and forge its own independent political leadership to coordinate the fundamental transformations needed to genuinely vest sovereignty in the American workers and people.
End the Planned Misery of Settler-Colonial State Terror
The Workers Party program demands a nonstop struggle against the "Big Lie" techniques of the bourgeoisie, specifically exposing how the ruling class uses high-sounding phrases—like fighting a "war on terrorism"—to deliberately obscure class antagonism, pacify the masses, and mask naked imperialist plunder.
For instance, the systematic assassination of Palestinian figures and the genocidal war against Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem are not simply matters of regional security; they are a fulcrum mechanism for the U.S.-imperialist war machine. A defeat of such a monstrosity in one crossroads is a victory across the board.
The slaughters used to install and maintain "pro-U.S." regimes are almost never explained as the fight for exporting class relations of domination and subjugation, but are instead hidden behind the "dirty fight" against terrorism.
By organizing the masses to come forward in public to lay these accusations against the imperialists and expose their crimes, this method acts as a literal spark. It breaks down isolation and pessimism, concentrates the revolutionary initiative of the masses, and fuses them into an unstoppable force capable of incinerating the imperialist machine.
The main demands of the Palestinian people and their national liberation movement are rooted in a direct material struggle to reclaim their physical homeland from military-colonial occupation.
The Palestinian resistance and its anti-imperialist allies advance the following core demands to secure their complete national sovereignty:
Complete End to the Occupation and Military Withdrawal: The absolute prerequisite for liberation is the immediate and total withdrawal of all Israeli occupying forces from Arab lands. The movement demands the complete emancipation of their homeland and flatly rejects neo-colonial "peace" compromises—such as the Camp David accords—which offer only a fake "autonomy" while keeping Palestinian territories under the permanent police and military tutelage of Israel and U.S. imperialism.
The Right of Return: The archives recognize that the Palestinian people have been subjected to systematic displacement and forced to live in refugee camps across the Middle East. A central, non-negotiable demand is the realization of their national right to return to the historical homes, lands, and hearths that were stolen from them by the Zionist state.
An Independent State with Al-Quds as its Capital: The resistance demands the establishment of a fully independent, sovereign Palestinian state with occupied East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) as its capital. This requires a true government of the Palestinian people, completely free from foreign interference.
A Halt to Settler-Colonial Terror and Ethnic Cleansing: The movement demands an immediate end to the daily terror inflicted by extremist Israeli settlers acting with full state impunity. This includes stopping the forced displacement of Palestinians, halting the demographic alteration of occupied Al-Quds, and ending the provocative raids that violate the historical and legal status of Christian and Muslim holy sites, particularly the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Historical Agrarian and Anti-Colonial Demands: The foundation of these modern demands traces back to the early anti-colonial uprisings, such as the 1936 Arab strike. Even then, the foundational demands of the Palestinian chosen leaders were to end the imperialist mandate, stop the systematic displacement of the native population, and distribute the colonized lands back to the poor peasantry (fellaheen).
The resistance targets the political and material apparatus of international Zionism—which functions as a blind tool and gendarme of U.S. imperialism—but it does not demand the annihilation of the Israeli people or fight against the Jewish faith. The ultimate goal is to shatter the system of colonial robbery and establish a truly free Palestine.
The Palestinian people currently stand in the vanguard of the Arab peoples and the global anti-colonial movement. Their heroic armed struggle serves as a monumental historical example of a small, dispossessed people—many living as refugees in desert tents without a homeland—who refuse to be broken by the massive military machinery of their enemies. Their relentless resistance has birthed a completely new and decisive factor in the Middle East, proving that oppressed nations can successfully withstand both the brute force of foreign occupiers and the deceptive diplomatic maneuvers of the superpowers.
Because the Palestinian resistance is directed against the very spearhead of U.S. monopoly capital and international Zionism, it is the common cause of the international proletariat and all progressive mankind.
Every blow struck by the Palestinian resistance destabilizes the global architecture of imperialist plunder, proving that the reality of our era is an unbroken chain of escalating unity and resistance that will ultimately shatter the foundations of the imperialist presence.
Print Edition Volume 40 No. 7
I. Exposing the "Lobby" Fraud: The Instrument of U.S. Monopoly Capital
II. "Proud of My 0% Turnout!": A Worker's Resolute Stand Against Bourgeois Electoral Blackmail
III. Shattering the Imperialist Apparatus
IV. The Syndicate's Glitch: Why the Central Hub Demands an Open Connection
V. From Public Right to Private Plunder: The Real Estate Monopolies' Offensive
Exposing the "Lobby" Fraud: The Instrument of U.S. Monopoly Capital
Israeli Zionism is the creature and instrument of U.S. imperialism, not its master. It would wither and die without the military and financial sponsorship of Western capital. To guarantee its domination over the Middle East and its vast oil wealth, the U.S. monopoly capitalist class heavily subsidizes the Israeli state to act as a regional policeman and a dagger stabbed into the heart of the Arab peoples. Israel functions as a heavily armed military beachhead to violently enforce the predatory dictates of Wall Street and the Pentagon.
By blaming an external lobby, the bourgeoisie seeks to disorient the domestic anti-war movement and sever the vital strategic unity between the American working-class vanguard and the Palestinian national liberation struggle. The working masses must reject this petty-bourgeois illusion! To defeat the war machine, the workers must organize as an independent political force, zeroing in on the real target—the U.S. monopoly capitalist class and its two-party system—to demand an immediate end to all U.S. interference and military aid.
"Proud of My 0% Turnout!": A Worker’s Resolute Stand Against Bourgeois Electoral Blackmail
I assume this text message is meant to shame me into participating in the capitalist primary election coming up in Illinois on Tuesday, March 17. In response to that message, I would say that I am proud that my voter turnout grade is 0%. Like many in our country, I reject the monopoly capitalist elections. Capitalist elections don’t solve any of the fundamental problems that are facing our society today. Capitalist elections are used by the monopoly capitalist class to strengthen the system of privilege that maintains political power in the hands of the ruling class. Everyone knows that the politicians of both political parties are carrying the agenda of attacking the social safety net that the workers have fought hard for, everyone knows that the politicians of both political parties are carrying the agenda of national oppression and racism against the youth, immigrants, and workers that are fighting every day to defend themselves from the attacks of the government, and everyone knows that every government (regardless of Democrat or Republican) continues to wage wars of aggression against other nations and peoples all over the world. NO! I denounce these elections that attack my humanity.
I am interested in a fundamental restructuring of our current political system to break the monopolies of the Republican and Democratic political parties. I am interested, like millions and millions of fellow Americans, in fighting for mechanisms that empower the masses to participate directly in governance, moving beyond the sham of “representative” democracy.
Editor's Note: We enthusiastically publish this resolute defense against bourgeois electoral blackmail. Opportunists will inevitably attack your proud rejection of their sham elections, demanding submission to the "lesser evil" of the capitalist parties. Let them howl! Your letter is a principled act of class self-defense. By shattering the illusion of capitalist pluralism and boldly demanding Democratic Renewal, you strike a decisive blow against the revisionist attempt to herd workers into the voting pens of our exploiters.
Shattering the Imperialist Apparatus
Rejecting the treacherous illusions of "Imperialist Pacifism" and the twin capitalist parties of war, the working class is advancing its political offensive through class consciousness and proletarian internationalism. Uniting with Latin America's liberation movements, the masses must enforce a Democratic Foreign Policy:
Total Military Expulsion: The unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops and the complete dismantling of SOUTHCOM.
End the Economic Siege: The immediate lifting of all blockades, categorically rejecting starvation as an instrument of statecraft.
Abolish the Instruments of Plunder: The complete cancellation of crushing foreign debt and unequal treaties designed to enforce neo-liberal privatization.
To conquer true peace, the working class must seize political power, expropriate the U.S. monopolies, and establish a socialist society completely free from the exploitation of man by man.y man.
The Syndicate's Glitch: Why the Central Hub Demands an Open Connection
A highly paid CBS interviewer—acting as a loyal data-collecting sensor for the exact same empire dropping bombs on Iran—sits down with Iran's Foreign Minister. Instead of discussing the bombing, she broadcasts a frantic, pre-programmed error alert because Iran has restricted its internet access! To understand this fake outrage, we must look past her "user-friendly" talk about "global connection" and examine the facts.
1. The Forced Disconnect When a giant empire attacks, information is a weapon. By demanding that Iran keep its digital borders open during an unprovoked invasion, the attacker wants Iran to hand over its nervous system so the empire's military software can easily track targets, spread panic, and guide missiles. The throttled bandwidth brings severe daily hardship to the Iranian people, but this blackout is a direct extension of the bombing's brutality itself. By dropping explosives, the empire forces the network to shut down.
Yet the people do not simply endure this just to survive; they actively defend their country's sovereignty. They organize neighborhood relief without as many digital signals, sustain their local communities, and physically rally to keep their society functioning. By doing so, they willingly pull the plug on the enemy's data-weapons, proving that their true resilience lies in their physical solidarity against the empire's hardware.
2. The Decades-Old Physical Firewall But here is the most staggering glitch in this broadcast. This same interviewer, who generates synthetic panic about Iranians being "digitally isolated," hides a massive secret. Her own attacking government has maintained a strict, hardwired "airgap" against Iran for decades! Long before these bombs fell, the empire built an impenetrable physical firewall around its own people. It has legally forbidden its working class from crossing the border to scan the unedited reality with their own eyes and strictly blocked peaceful trade.
3. Crashing the Imperialist Mainframe Why force this physical block on their own people? Because the wealthy rulers are terrified of the unencrypted truth. The state constantly broadcasts hateful programming to justify its war, but this code is failing to format the minds of the working people at home. The military aggression and endless propaganda do not prove the empire has successfully brainwashed its public; rather, they act as a desperate firewall designed merely to shield the decision-makers from their own citizens. The ruling class knows that if people could travel and trade freely, real human contact would instantly crash the state's false narratives and short-circuit the imperialist war machine.
But this period will not last forever. By standing strong and raising their fists against these forced hardships, the defending nation is paving the way for victory. When the imperialist assault is finally defeated, the digital lines can be safely reopened. Iran will then be able to restore its own standards and rebuild its society according to the true principles of its own system—a future of genuine freedom and resilience that we must all help to bring online.
What they call "democracy" is really just the freedom for the powerful to run their exploitative algorithms without interference. To bring a future of genuine freedom online, we must recognize that the hateful messaging is a product of the very same U.S. ruling class that launched this aggression in the first place. Our duty is to direct our active political energy against these decision-makers, exposing their digital lies and organizing ourselves to crash their war machine from the inside. Only by defeating the war machine at home can we truly reopen the lines of global solidarity.
From Public Right to Private Plunder: The Real Estate Monopolies' Offensive
To mask the loss of public units, the state forces residents into the private sector using chronically underfunded rent vouchers, which essentially function as government-guaranteed subsidies underwriting private landlord profits. Concurrently, public housing sites are privatized into "mixed-income" developments, deliberately displacing low-income families to accommodate lucrative middle-income renters.
Furthermore, the state employs dictatorial regulations—such as "one strike" eviction policies and mandatory "community service"—to remove long-term residents. Once these policies force the masses into the streets, the victims are actively criminalized by cities that pass laws to ticket, arrest, and prosecute them for the "crime" of being homeless. Ultimately, through these measures, the capitalist class treats the public housing infrastructure—built by the labor of the working class—as plunder, expropriating public land to be privatized and turned over to real estate speculators and bankers at bargain-basement prices.