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2026-01-25 06:25:12

Fascist US ICE Agents Publicly Execute Man in Minneapolis for Filming Them

A man has been summarily executred by US federal immigration officers in Minneapolis during ongoing enforcement operations sparking protests and renewed calls from local leaders to end the federal deployment.

The incident occurred around 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue Saturday morning as federal agents, part of a broader immigration crackdown known as Operation Metro Surge, confronted a man on a snow-covered street. Video circulating on social media shows people wearing masks and tactical gear wrestling with the man before multiple gunshots are heard, and he falls to the ground.

The Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said the man was shot by a federal agent and later died at a hospital.

Nothing illegal, suspicious

Other videos showing the beginning of the confrontation demonstrate that the man was standing by, recording the ICE agents in the middle of what is presumed to be an arrest, and he did not appear to be doing anything unusual.

An ICE agent came up to the man and started shoving him before the remaining agents joined in and started brutally assaulting the man, kicking him as he fell on the ground, before at least two agents pulled out their handguns and fired over six shots at the victim.

Armed victim?

There were claims that the victim was armed, though there is no evidence that he pulled out his gun or pointed it toward any of the officers. There was a brawl in which the man was repeatedly pepper-sprayed, and even then, the squad, upwards of six agents, did not successfully subdue him, pointing to inefficient training.

The footage shared widely online and aired on cable TV shows agents grappling with the man in the snow before gunfire begins. Shortly after shots are heard, the individual falls to the ground. Another angle in a video obtained by Drop Site News shows that the man was instigated and illegally approached by the ICE agents before he was shot and killed.

In the videos, one agent says, “he’s got a gun,” but the footage shows that the gun was on the victim’s waistband and was not drawn. Only one agent saw the gun as the man was being assaulted, then the man was shot several times by several agents, even after he died.
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2026-01-26 05:55:11

Antonio García: ‘A National Agreement Is Required’

In the last week, Antonio García, first comandante of the ELN, gave interviews to journalists from the United Kingdom, France and the United States; Here we present a selection of his responses, about the kidnapping of President Maduro, the resistance to imperialist aggression and the political solution to the conflict.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NEWSPAPER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

[1] What impact does the arrest of Nicolás Maduro have on the political and military strategy of the National Liberation Army?

AG: The impact is not for the ELN, but for international legislation, since any president of any government, who does not share the policy of the United States, can be attacked and kidnapped by the American military forces. It also sets a precedent for the application of extraterritorial justice, destroying the sovereignty of the judicial systems of other countries, putting an end to the existence of Nation States.

For the ELN it is the reaffirmation of the existence of flesh and blood imperialism and that it does not distance itself from wars, to deal or understand with other States, legitimizing the right to defense and the fight of resistance.

[2] In the case of a direct military intervention by the United States in Venezuela, what would be the position and reaction of the ELN?

AG: The ELN at various times in its history has been linked to international solidarity, the José Antonio Galán National Pro-Liberation Brigade, which would give rise to the ELN, was created to link itself to fighting with the Cuban people, in the October crisis in 1962. We also had comrades supporting the struggle in Nicaragua, El Salvador and other processes.

We are an Organization linked to the struggle of the National Liberation Movements of the world and we listen when they call us, to support the struggle of the people, we are not interventionist, when they call us we support in solidarity and therefore we place ourselves under the orders of those people and processes. We do not direct anything where it does not belong to us.

FRENCH PRESS AGENCY (AFP)

[3] What changes for you as a structure that operates on the border, the fact that Nicolás Maduro is no longer the president of Venezuela? Is it true that you are or were in Venezuelan territory and began your return to Colombia?

AG: The location of the ELN structures is defined by the strategic plan, Colombia’s land borders are 5 and two oceans. Due to its configuration, for each of them there is a definition in the plan, the same with the seas and rivers, no one ‘puts their eggs in one basket’. What happened in Venezuela affects the continent because the American troops kidnapped a President, who even made Petro change his speech.

The ELN is focused with priority on Colombia. The government and the military have always said that I spend my time abroad, that is not new, if I told them now that I was abroad, they would say that I was in Colombia. What I do specify is that there is no exodus in the ELN and it is attentive to threats.

[4] Alias ​​Iván Mordisco proposed a union of guerrillas to fight against the United States, will you accept?

AG: As soon as the demobilization dissident groups began to form, they were told that we agreed to talk when they were unified, so as not to talk to each faction, but they could not join and it became complex. If it is to defend the Homeland against the foreign aggressor, we will find ourselves in the fight.

MAX BEARAK FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES

[5] Has the ELN been increasing its military capabilities in anticipation of offensives by Colombian and US forces?

AG: The generation and creation of capabilities with the application of technology in our weapons is not new, that cannot be improvised, the State military has realized, it is no longer a secret, we have been developing that plan for more than 10 years in our military industry, in various types of weapons.

[6] Are you still open to dialogue with President Petro, or do you feel that he has abandoned the peace process with the ELN?

AG: The ELN speaks to the country, it presents its proposal for a National Agreement to all political and social forces, to all candidates for the next government; Of course, Petro is part of the political game in the composition of forces in the next elections. Now it is about going beyond a dialogue, to build a more in-depth route that allows overcoming both the country’s structural crisis and the social, political and armed conflict.

We have already seen that all governments have fallen short in their peace policies and a national agreement is required that makes this possible, a truly constituent process that has the strength to produce the changes that the regime and the political class block in parliament.

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2026-01-25 06:13:52

World Mourns Michael Parenti, Marxist Voice Against Empire Dies at 92

The global left is mourning the death of Michael Parenti, the influential Marxist scholar, historian, and public intellectual whose work exposed the mechanics of capitalism, imperialism, and ideological power with unmatched clarity. Parenti passed away on January 24 at the age of 92, leaving behind a body of work that shaped generations of scholars, organizers, and anti-imperialist movements across the world.

For decades, Parenti stood apart from mainstream academia and political life, refusing to dilute his analysis or bend his language to liberal respectability. He wrote not to impress institutions, but to arm people with understanding.

Working-class roots, uncompromising politics

Born in 1933 in New York City to a working-class Italian American family, Parenti often said that his political commitments were grounded not in abstraction, but in lived experience. Class was not something he discovered in theory; it was something he grew up inside.

He earned a PhD and taught political science and history, but his outspoken Marxism and anti-imperialism meant he was steadily pushed to the margins of elite academia. Rather than retreat or conform, Parenti chose independence: lecturing widely, writing prolifically, and speaking directly to union halls, community centers, activist spaces, and international audiences.

He lived modestly, avoided think-tank careers and corporate funding, and kept his private life largely out of the public eye. He was a husband and a father, including to journalist and political analyst Christian Parenti, but he never cultivated a public persona rooted in biography. What mattered to him was the work.

Exposing the class nature of “democracy”

Parenti’s most enduring academic contribution was his systematic critique of liberal democracy under capitalism. In his landmark book Democracy for the Few, first published in 1974, he argued that capitalist democracies are not neutral systems open equally to all, but class-structured states in which economic power overwhelmingly determines political outcomes.

He showed how elections, courts, media, and state institutions consistently serve the interests of capital, while popular demands are managed, diluted, or suppressed. Democracy, he argued, is tolerated only so long as it does not threaten property relations.

“Power is not evenly distributed in society,” Parenti wrote. “Those who own and control the productive wealth tend to dominate the political life of the nation.”

The book became a formative text for students and activists worldwide, prized for its clarity and refusal of liberal illusion.

Imperialism without disguise

Parenti was equally influential for his work on imperialism and US foreign policy. In books such as Against Empire and To Kill a Nation, he dismantled the idea that Western wars are motivated by humanitarian concern or democratic ideals.

Instead, he traced intervention, sanctions, and regime change to material interests: control over resources, labor, strategic territory, and global markets. He showed how human rights discourse is selectively deployed, how compliant client states are shielded from scrutiny, and how resistance is pathologized as extremism.

One of Parenti’s most quoted observations remains painfully current: “The essential function of imperialism is not to civilize or democratize, but to maintain a global system of inequality.”

His analysis helped anti-war and anti-imperialist movements reject moral distraction and focus on structure rather than spectacle.

Anti-anticommunism and historical honesty

In Blackshirts and Reds, Parenti confronted Cold War anticommunism as an ideology rather than an analysis. He did not deny repression or failure in socialist states, but he exposed how capitalist violence is normalized while socialist experiments are judged by impossible moral standards.

He insisted on historical comparison: asking why fascism is treated as an aberration while capitalism’s own mass violence, including colonialism, slavery, sanctions, structural deprivation, is rendered invisible or inevitable.

The book reopened serious discussion of socialism’s achievements in literacy, healthcare, women’s participation, and social welfare, at a time when such discussions were considered politically taboo.

Media, ideology, and manufactured consent

Long before “media literacy” became fashionable, Parenti laid bare the structural bias of corporate media. In Inventing Reality, he explained how ownership, advertising, sourcing, and elite consensus shape what is reported, how it is framed, and which voices are excluded.

He stressed that propaganda does not require overt censorship. It works through repetition, omission, ridicule, and selective outrage, teaching audiences what to ignore as much as what to believe.

This work made Parenti a cornerstone of critical media studies, especially among activists seeking to challenge war narratives and economic myths.

A scholar of struggle, not accommodation

What distinguished Parenti was not only what he argued, but how he lived. He never treated radical politics as a career ladder. He accepted marginalization rather than compromise and continued to speak plainly when euphemism was rewarded.

His lectures, many of which circulated widely online, are remembered for their warmth, humor, and devastating precision. He trusted ordinary people to grasp complex ideas without academic gatekeeping.

In doing so, Parenti helped bridge the divide between scholarship and struggle, restoring confidence in class analysis at a time when it was being hollowed out or replaced by moral abstraction.

An enduring legacy

Michael Parenti did not found a school or cultivate disciples. His influence traveled differently: through dog-eared books, shared lectures, study circles, movement spaces, and quiet moments of recognition when the world suddenly made sense.

At a time of renewed imperial violence, deepening inequality, and ideological confusion, his work remains unsettlingly relevant.

He once wrote: “The first step in the struggle for social justice is to understand the nature of the system we are up against.”

For generations of working-class intellectuals, organizers, and scholars across the world, Michael Parenti helped make that understanding possible.

His voice is gone. His clarity remains.

source: Al Mayadeen
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2026-01-25 06:21:15

Why Western Left Fails to Grasp the Link Between Imperialism, Zionism, and ‘Regime Change’ in Iran

When the Israeli spy agency Mossad called for riots in Iran on its Farsi-language social media on January 1, almost no one in the West took notice.

Yet the very next day, former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made his famous intervention, openly calling for riots in Iranian cities and wishing a Happy New Year to “every Iranian in the streets – and “also to every Mossad agent walking beside them.”

After that, there was little justification for critics of Western foreign policy to ignore the role of foreign intelligence agencies and terrorist elements in the events that followed.

Nevertheless, a widespread reluctance persists to confront the involvement of Mossad – and indeed the CIA and MI6 – in the two days of riots between January 8 and 9.

The Western left has largely failed to understand the “regime-change” alliance linking Mossad, Pahlavist monarchists, the cult-like terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq, and a wide array of CIA-backed “opposition” groups – almost all based in the US, with a smaller presence in the UK and across Europe.

Few have grasped that Britain’s MI6 has also played a role in this sinister “regime-change” project targeting Iran. Instead, many on the Western left tend to interpret these attempts as a “freedom struggle,” viewing them as expressions of popular agency or even as a working-class or trade-union uprising. They are not.

What follows is an examination of the multifaceted errors, misunderstandings, and intellectual degradation displayed by far too many leftists – from the liberal and secular left to the revolutionary left, including those who claim to be anti-Zionist or supporters of the Palestinian liberation movement.

Before proceeding, however, it is necessary to briefly outline the correct framework for understanding the role of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

It is the world’s leading anti-imperialist state and the tip of the spear in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine. One need not take my word for this, nor even that of Sayyed Ali Khamenei or General Qasem Soleimani.

Instead, one should listen to the words of the leaders of the Palestinian Resistance themselves.

Here is the martyr Yahya Sinwar in 2019: “If not for Iran’s support for the resistance in Palestine, we would not have obtained these capabilities [rockets and the technical means to produce homegrown rockets]. Indeed, our [Arab] nation has deserted us in our difficult moments, while Iran has supported us with weapons, equipment and expertise.”

And here is the former Hamas chief, Martyr Ismail Haniyeh, on International Quds Day in 2020

“The essence of [our] strategy is the resistance project. Complete resistance, including the armed military resistance at the top. From here, I salute all the components of the nation that embrace and support the choice of resistance on the ground in Palestine… I am particularly specifying the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has not faltered in supporting and funding the resistance financially, militarily, and technically. This is an example of the Republic’s strategy that was established by Imam Khomeini, may God have mercy on his soul.”

Against the Islamic Republic (and the Palestinian Resistance) are, first and foremost, the Zionist colonists in Palestine and their main supporters, the US and the UK.

We also need to note the Iranian self-styled “opposition,” which takes the form of the monarchist supporters of the former Shah who want to install his son as the new king. Then there is the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO, aka People’s Mujahedin of Iran/National Council of Resistance of Iran)

The MKO is a designated terrorist group based in Albania, a NATO member state, where it maintains a troll farm alongside other operational infrastructure.

It was removed from the US list of terrorist organizations in 2012 following an extensive lobbying campaign supported by Zionist lobby networks.

In June 2023, Albanian police raided the group’s premises, seizing around 150 computer devices. The raid followed the China-brokered rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia, after which Riyadh, having long denied any connection to the MKO, was forced to withdraw its backing.

The Saudis had also denied funding the anti-Islamic Republic media outlet Iran International, but once the agreement mediated by China was signed, financial support was abruptly cut and the channel’s London office was closed.

Several months later, however, a new London office was opened after fresh funding was secured from the Zionist entity, which continues to bankroll the propaganda outlet to this day.

The case of Iran International highlights the broader ecosystem of external opposition groups targeting Iran. Many of these are financed through deniable intermediaries such as the National Endowment for Democracy and its network of affiliated agencies.

Journalist Alan MacLeod has recently documented several of these organizations in MintPress, including Human Rights Activists in Iran / Human Rights Activists News Agency, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran. There are, however, many more such entities operating within this parallel infrastructure.

Leftist take on Iran

We should begin with those “leftists” who have historically held deeply flawed positions on “regime change” and the roles of the CIA, MI6, and Mossad.

Many are already familiar with the limitations of figures such as Bernie Sanders, who spoke of an “abhorrent regime” and praised the “incredible courage” of Mossad-directed “protesters”; or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, often scathingly referred to by critics as “AOCIA”; or Jeremy Corbyn, who stated that he was “appalled by the killing of protesters”; or Zarah Sultana, who declared, “The images of body bags leave no doubt about the brutality of Iran’s repression, and a communications blackout is indefensible.”

In the UK, Owen Jones, Michael Walker of Novara Media, and many others followed the same pattern. For those who remain unconvinced on these points, I suggest consulting the sources linked in the preceding statements.

The “Mullahs”, the “Ayatollahs” and the “Islamists”

Part of the problem is that Islamophobia runs deep within the left. Often disguised as morally upright secularism, a closer look reveals much more beneath the surface.

Back in 2017, I co-edited a book on Islamophobia, which proposed a theory identifying five pillars of Islamophobia. Alongside Western states, neoconservatives, the Zionist movement, and the far-right, we argued that a fifth pillar was found within certain elements of leftist, secular, and feminist movements.

In the book, we examined the so-called pro-war left, the New Atheists, feminist groups, and strands of secularism. Back then, we concluded that:

It is clear that while some within these groups did not initially set out to campaign against the oppressive conditions faced by Muslims in the West, many have ultimately ended up there.

In this sense, we describe these movements as “social movements from above,” whose trajectories have effectively aligned them with other Islamophobic currents – whether intentionally or not.

However, the problem on the Western left runs much deeper. It permeates the core of anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist movements and is evident across the so-called ‘revolutionary’ left.

Thus, beyond the “pro-war left,” when it comes to Iran, we must also critically examine the anti-war and pro-Palestine left.

Many on the left hold anti-theist and anti-Islamic views. Perhaps tentatively at first, they eventually adopt the racist language commonly used to describe Muslims and Muslim societies.

Terms like “Mullahs,” “Ayatollahs,” and “Islamists” – the latter, as I have argued elsewhere, being popularized by Zionist ideologues and curated by none other than Benjamin Netanyahu – come to be accepted as natural descriptors.

“Islamic fundamentalism”

Another key term in left-wing Islamophobia is “fundamentalism.” In the UK, a certain current of feminists formed a group called Women Against Fundamentalism in the late 1980s.

They did not adopt a nuanced or narrow definition of “fundamentalism” limited to a small subset within religious movements. Rather, they explicitly stated (1994, p. 7) that they were referring to movements that “use religion as a basis” for political strategies.

This description covers nearly all Muslim political movements, with the exception of a handful of Westernized secular groups—almost all of which are funded by state-related interests.

By their definition, Christian liberation theology and even the Quakers, a well-known liberal Christian group, would also qualify.

It is remarkable that this Islamophobic term was deemed appropriate for an organization claiming to be progressive, but there it is. One of the key activists was Julia Bard, a member of the Jewish Socialists’ Group, raising several questions about that organization.

Others involved included Nira Yuval-Davis, who describes herself as “an anti-Zionist diasporic Israeli Jew,” a phrase that appears to legitimize the false Zionist notion that Jews outside Israel constitute a diaspora and lends political legitimacy to the concept of “Israel.”

Perhaps the best-known figurehead of Women Against Fundamentalism was Gita Sahgal, infamous for labeling the civil rights group Cage as “Jihadi,” a subject I have explored in depth elsewhere. The term “Jihadi” is yet another Islamophobic label used to demonize Muslims engaged in political life.

Maryam Namazie and the secular/feminist/communist alliance with Mossad

Gita Sahgal has also been closely associated with the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB). For example, she appeared for “evening drinks” at a 2013 meeting alongside Maryam Namazie, the spokesperson for CEMB.

Founded in 2007, CEMB is an anti-Muslim organization. Namazie, who is Iranian, was prominent in the early October 2022 demonstrations against the Islamic Republic in Trafalgar Square on behalf of CEMB.

Images of her topless protest were subsequently removed by Instagram and Twitter.

That day, she joined forces with Islamophobic monarchists and other anti-government factions. Namazie is a former leading member of the Worker-Communist Party of Iran, though as of 2017 she still identified as a “communist.”

This has not prevented her from collaborating with far-right groups through her “anti-Shariah” campaign organization, One Law for All. Among its supporters from Islamophobic networks are prominent neoconservatives like Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Caroline Fourest, as well as Zionists such as Alan Johnson, who works for the Israeli lobby group BICOM.

Additionally, various UK anti-Muslim civil society groups, including the Lawyers’ Secular Society, the National Secular Society, Women Against Fundamentalism (mentioned earlier), and British Muslims for Secular Democracy, have been involved.

One Law for All has also worked closely with far-right figure Baroness Cox, who is known for inviting Dutch Islamophobe Geert Wilders to the UK.

On January 16 of this year, Namazie published a piece on the website of the Islamophobic UK NGO, the National Secular Society, titled Iran: The Generation That Broke Faith with Theocracy.

The article echoed many of the main falsehoods circulated by Mossad and CIA-linked actors, including blaming deaths caused by foreign-backed terrorists on the police and Basij, claiming that families must pay for the bullets that killed their loved ones in order to reclaim their bodies, and more.

Left opposition and ‘workerism’

There is also a tendency to seize upon any criticism of governments in Western-designated enemy states. Liberal opposition suffices, but it’s often preferable if it can be framed as left-wing or ‘progressive’ criticism or revolt. Thus, Owen Jones has made himself appear misguided by citing Tudeh, the marginal, counter-revolutionary, and Islamophobic Iranian “Communist” party.

The naive “workerism” prevalent among large sections of the left is also noteworthy. Consequently, many leftists have circulated statements from unions in Tehran and elsewhere, attempting to leverage these as proof of genuine grassroots dissent, thereby obscuring the cover they provide to acts of terror.

One of the more sophisticated examples of this approach appeared in a piece published by Progressive International, the think tank funded in part by proceeds from the Sanders Institute, established by Bernie Sanders.

While the article offered an otherwise nuanced analysis of the forces arrayed against the Islamic Republic, it slipped into imagining that workers’ struggles in Iran might be free from foreign intervention. However, as British writer Phil Bevin demonstrates, the backing of such actions by the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MKO) terror cult seriously undermines these arguments.

It comes as no surprise that Progressive International, with its star-studded roster of intellectuals including Noam Chomsky, Jeremy Corbyn, and Yanis Varoufakis, is also a strong supporter of the recently collapsed CIA operation in northeast Syria, commonly known as Rojava.

Those involved in running Rojava are closely linked to the Sanders-Corbyn political current. Its director, David Adler, came from the Sanders Institute, and communications director James Schneider is the highly controversial former spin doctor for Corbyn. Their involvement in the “Justice for Kurds” campaign aligns seamlessly with their effective cover for CIA and Mossad-backed terror in Iran.

Anti-zionists against Islam

Here are some words from a self-proclaimed anti-Zionist and supporter of Palestinian liberation, spoken within the last fortnight.

To be clear, this is not someone who is a “watermelon” supporter of Palestinian “rights,” but a genuine supporter of the resistance and the liberation of Palestine, at least according to their public statements.

• “Yes, Israel and the USA were involved in attacking the regime during the protests, but to miss the hatred of the Iranian people for the repressive, corrupt, theocratic rule of the Mullahs is racist and orientalist. The clerical regime of Iran is bated in the blood of their own people.”
• “The clerical regime in Iran bears resemblance to fascism.”
• “I happen to believe that when religion takes over the state, it inevitably means it is repressive.”

It is truly breathtaking to hear these racist beliefs spill from the mouths of self-proclaimed anti-racists and anti-Zionists. Every term from the Islamophobic bingo card is there: “regime,” “theocratic,” “mullahs,” “repressive,” and, of course, “fascism.”

This example is just one of many that reveal how deeply Islamophobic ideas run on the left—including within anti-Zionist circles, Jewish anti-Zionist groups included.

Revolutionary socialists for Mossad terror

Here is a ‘revolutionary socialist’ posting on Facebook, a post that received 172 likes from prominent British and international leftists, including many members of Trotskyist groups such as Counterfire and the Socialist Workers Party.

The author, John Clarke, a Canadian academic and socialist activist, opened his brief piece by stating that “the struggle in Iran should be supported but, at the same time, we must speak out against US and Israeli interference and intervention.”

There seems to be no recognition that this amounts to simultaneously supporting Mossad and condemning it. Clarke goes on to acknowledge that “there is no doubt that Western and Israeli intelligence agencies are seeking to influence the movement in Iran.

Doubtless, there are also reactionary and monarchist elements on the ground who are doing all they can to ensure the struggle serves US interests.”

In reality, the original demonstrations beginning December 28 were protests over economic grievances, not protests against the Islamic Republic itself. The left appears oblivious to the internal political dynamics at play. When Pahlavists and Mossad agents showed up, they were roundly condemned by the demonstrators.

Following the two nights of rioting and terror instigated by Mossad and its recruits, million-strong marches took place in Tehran and other cities across the country. Virtually no Western leftist has acknowledged this massive display of national unity.

Most strikingly, Clarke quotes Lenin on the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, writing that Lenin “took on those who focused on the imperfect form of the struggle and stressed the way forward that it pointed to.” While true, it is utterly fanciful to compare an anti-colonial uprising in Ireland to a Mossad-orchestrated terror attack in Iran.

The latter signals the potential end of the Islamic Republic, the balkanization of Iran, and its elimination as a threat to the so-called “Greater Israel” project and the leading global supporter of Palestinian resistance.

Clarke claims socialists should offer “winning strategies,” but Mossad and CIA subversion of the Islamic Republic is a losing strategy, both for the prospects of socialist revolution and for human civilization.

It is also a surefire way to guarantee full Zionist triumph in Palestine, expansion into Greater Israel, and even further, towards a new Jewish empire.

The New Left for “nuanced” analysis

Then there is the tendency to produce “sophisticated” and “nuanced” academic-style writing that deliberately says very little. Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, an Iranian lecturer at the University of St Andrews, writes on the New Left Review blog:

“Some cast the unrest as an imminent revolutionary rupture; others as exclusively the product of foreign destabilization; still others as the delayed reckoning of a society finally pushed beyond endurance. Each captures part of the picture, but none adequately explains the dynamics of the present conjuncture. What is unfolding is better understood as the convergence of accumulated social exhaustion, acute distributive shock and a crisis of governance which the Islamic Republic no longer possesses the ideological, bureaucratic or fiscal resources to manage.”

So far, so apparently nuanced. But there is a red flag in that phrase “present conjuncture,” which signals that this account ultimately carries water for Mossad-backed terror.

This term is a staple of poststructuralist and postmodern academic work, which often tries to maintain the appearance of a radical, even Marxist, spirit. It originates from Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci’s work, later adopted by French structuralist Marxist Louis Althusser, whose “glacial grip,” as Terry Eagleton put it, was passed on to British cultural studies scholar Stuart Hall and his followers.

The problem is that by the time Hall domesticated the concept in the 1980s, it had been stripped of any recognisable Marxist or anti-imperialist politics. Now, forty years later, the term is confined to academic debates and has no practical use whatsoever for actual movements seeking to defeat imperial power.

And so it is that only a few paragraphs later, we find this:

At the same time, there is video evidence of armed protesters confronting security forces with knives, machetes, and, in some cases, firearms, supposedly indicating how years of repression have radicalized segments of the opposition.

The evidence for this claim is, of course, nonexistent. These weapons did not arise from the radicalization of Iranian citizens but were supplied by foreign intelligence agencies.

Moreover, this narrative completely ignores the open boasting by Mossad and even Mike Pompeo’s January 2nd post on X, claiming Mossad agents were on the ground. Did Sadeghi-Boroujerdi overlook this crucial information in his research? In fact, the word “Mossad” does not appear once in his piece.

The most glaring failure of analysis is the suggestion that Mossad’s involvement only strengthened the Islamic Republic’s arguments.

“Acknowledging foreign interference does not mean endorsing the claim that the nationwide protests were purely foreign-engineered. A widespread uprising rooted in years of social and economic hardship cannot be reduced to external intelligence machinations—even if Israeli and US agencies sought to hijack it. What they chiefly achieved was to provide a convenient alibi for repression, reframing the protests as a continuation of the June war, thereby justifying a state of exception under the guise of national security.”

This is a truly awful way to describe an assault on the very foundations of the Islamic Revolution. Unsurprisingly, Sadeghi-Boroujerdi resorts to the racist label “Islamist” in his analysis of the Republic.

He closes his post by lamenting a “rapidly narrowing space for political agency.” Yet in this context, the idea of “agency” reeks of one of the key CIA talking points routinely deployed in regime change operations, an agenda tied closely to a specific intelligence agency.

In the end, there is no way around it: the international left is, at best, providing cover for and advancing Zionist efforts to destroy the Islamic Republic – and with it, the material defense of the Palestinians.

At worst, they are direct collaborators in the Zionist assault on Iran and, by clear extension, in the genocide in the Levant. And if they are Iranian, they are traitors to their own people.

David Miller
Source: Press TV
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Why Western left fails to grasp the link between imperialism, Zionism, and ‘regime change’ in Iran

The Western left fails to grasp the “regime-change alliance between Mossad, CIA, Pahlavist monarchists, MKO terror cult, wrongly interpreting orchestrated riots and terrorism as legitimate protests.

^PressTV

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2026-01-25 06:07:24

“Yet Another War of Extermination” – Letter by Anarchist Prisoner Luca ‘Stecco’ Dolce (Italy)

Now that the masses all over the world have expressed their solidarity with Gaza, I’d be curious to know how social scientist Elias Canetti(1) would describe his concept of the “masses” in such a technological, warmongering and at the same time, exterminating age as ours. He says that mass society exists in the mind of human beings before it materially expresses itself. If ancient societies chose certain social and economic forms of mere subsistence, it was because they deliberately chose not to use bureaucratic or authoritarian methods: they foresaw their dangers. Our ancestors, therefore, were perfect political animals, aware and active observers of the community’s social life.

So what are these squares and streets full of people today, if in our daily lives we go back to the riverbed of a life organized and imposed by others?

Now that the “truce” in Gaza is divulged and imposed with the stamp of the army boot and the mediatic hype on the Flotilla, now that they are silencing and dampening the surge against the massacre, how to transform it into an action going beyond the manifestation and expression of opinions? Power uses human emotions as a can opener; often, the former gives its best in its “delayed reaction” empathic emotion and during “emergencies”, and it coagulates in peaks of scorn. A humanity which is nevertheless still alive despite all the efforts to atomize it. Its more progressive components are proving united in the face of the evidence of an extermination. Over the reaction timing, we should reason at length. Unfortunately, we haven’t yet understood in depth how deceitful and blackmailing the tactics of the enemies of life are, to what extent do commodities and quiet living manage to recuperate the movements, even sincere ones, at least here in Europe. In order to be more incisive and longsighted they have to doggedly overcome exactly the traps scattered over the ground of the struggle, which have the precise function of making everyone go back to the wishy-washy pen of the democratic morals, to issues such as the use of liberating violence or not, to inaction. Let’s move from emotions to self-organizing and direct action. If the roads of freedom are hindered, revolutionary movements of the past teach us opacity and going underground.

All the hypocrisy of the States and their various national authorities is before everyone’s eyes, there is no “truce” happening, there is no resolution of the conflict or peace talks. These lies told us are the same used in different historical periods, they are a support to the continuation of the Zionist, colonialist projects of Israel, of the West and of those States collaborating with them for mere geo-economical interests.

The colonial “reconstruction” market is huge and walks in parallel to the Ukraine issue. Egypt, for instance, has kept on selling food, cement, fertilizers and other raw materials to Israel throughout these years. The facade of solidarity put on by many countries is just the outcome of cynical calculations. Taiwan supports colonial settlements in the West Bank by building an hospital for them in Sha’ar – Binyamin.

In parallel, the deportations of Palestinians from Gaza, defined as “evacuations” by charter flights to South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, carry out another tactic of displacement, leaning on informal migratory processes now controlled by crime groups, rendering opaque the market of human beings; monetizing and brutalizing a practice used forever by humans, migration. Again, as many other times before, the push to leave is induced by an all-systemic violence.

The whole world knows the role played by the United Nations, an organization within which we note a few distinguished brave and impartial persons, who however cannot act from the inside against a mechanism created on purpose by the winners of WWII, which in decades has only showed its desire to maintain the status quo and the philanthropy of American and Western imperialism and that coming from emerging countries, also colonialist in their turn.

Another trick. Let’s remember the wars in Yugoslavia and Somalia. The policymakers dictating the military agenda on Gaza are the political grandchildren of those who, on November 2nd, 1917, concretely opened the road to the Zionist projects.

Speaking of Italy, its presence in Palestine is in the new base at Kiryat Gat, 20 kms. away from the Gaza Strip, where in a re-edition of the “coalition of the willing”, similar to that happening on the Ukraianian front, operates through the C.M.C.C. (Civil-Military Coordination Centre). Led by Gen. Sergio Cardea, commander of COVI, created in 2007 to manage crisis areas, and now – together with his cronies – is asking for some waste paper from the U.N. justifying this operation.

This institution has been created to implement the “Peace plan” by amerikan Trump. Here we find tech platforms such as Palantir, Maven, Datamiur, tasked to improve american air strikes in the Middle East. The creation of ISF (International Stabilization Force) with troops from different countries will impose terror as the life regime of the Palestinians.

This same technological system is used against migrants within 100 km radius from American borders. We now know that AI is used to create targets to hit in Gaza while at the same time operates on the deportation of undesirables from the U.S.

Whereas, on Nov. 20th., the Foreign Affairs Italian minister discussed whether the CoESPU (International policing school run by Italian military police) facility, set within the “Ederle” army base in Vicenza, could be the best location for the training of 3000 future Palestinian mercenary cops, controlled by this coalition and IDF.

Civil and military industry

These last few months, several newspapers competed against each other in denouncing the connivence between military and civil industry, about how they are making profits with the wars now happening. Almost daily new ties between vested interests are exposed in the entire technowar chain, its history, its political and civil affiliations, who the responsible are, in a few words, how the world network of contracts, collaborations, experiments, scientific breakthroughs is articulated, all of which are dual use, all of which are for control and social repression.

Gaza and Ukrainian front, the favelas in Rio, the climate crisis, the Sudanese uprising are all perfect places in which to experiment and advertise their sophisticated gadgets and experiments in a social panopticon architecture, for buying and selling amongst States and firms.

All of this almost nullifies the work carried out in the last decade by the antiwar movement. Even the official propaganda itself slaps our faces with the magnitude of the techno-industrial complex.

Questions to be asked are: where is the difference? In the quantity or the quality of information? Or else: what to do with it and towards which goals and perspectives should it be used?

Seeing that Elbit Systems is at the centre of the struggle of Palestine Action, it must be said that it is news of just a few days ago that Germany – after a 100 day break of weapon transactions to Israel – has started again sending supplies. The most important thing are the spare parts by Renk for the well-known Merkava tanks. The tank engines by MTU, based in Baden-Wurttemberg, never had a problem bypassing the embargo via USA.

With this new start, Elbit Systems will sell LMS ammunitions to Berlin for 700 million euros. Gundbert Scherf, company CEO, has promised that from 2026 on, the firm will manufacture between ten thousand and twenty thousand combat drones.

This German example is emblematic because it should shake all people who believed blindly that democratic States would have any real problem interrupting the conflict and sanctioning the Israeli state. We know that every war is profitable, both in its destructive phase as in that of reconstruction.

In between, the carnage fattens the wallet of industrialists and political class alike. The struggle against militarism must continue without a pause and with a continuous critical vision, carrying the praxis of denounce and agitation towards a non-stop campaign of action and subversive social upheavals of vast proportions.

Behind the class enemy’s lines

One of the often-forgotten main characters of the critique to militarism and its industry is the worker. That mass of human beings which, in all industrialized countries, create and forge the chains and gears useful to the ruling class to bite and massacre at will their subjects. Nationalist propaganda, racist culture, drive for conquest, fictional fear of foreigners, economic-territorial hegemony does the rest.

How to break the bond between this huge workforce blackmailed with a dish of lentils and the illusion of a quiet and pacific existence? How to reduce the moral gap that should move the conscience to desertion, even before that of the soldiers, of the workers manufacturing and setting up the war machine?

The ruling class knows very well how to break up the internationalist class solidarity. In Italy we have a clear example, happening in an inland colony such as the insular region of Sardinia, where the weight of the war is heavy in that economically deprived land. On one side, for example, we have the workers of Euroalllumina in Iglesiente, where the firm Rusal, owned by a Russian oligarch, is in dire straits due to the war sanctions imposed and 300 million euros of investments slated for the upgrading of the plant and the safety of the storage depot, blocked.

On the other side, a few kilometres away, in Domusnovas, the German firm RWM is asking Region Sardinia a permit to double up the area of the facility, since its main product are bombs sold for years to Saudi Arabia in its war against Yemen.

The markets these days are thriving due to European policies (and not only) for rearming and strengthening the military forces. Contradictions are emerging clearly and once again the trade unions are wavering between a rhetoric of job protection tout court and the critique towards the war industry that in the last few months has brought to strikes for Gaza, blocking harbours or general strikes of one day, which didn’t manage to spread and invite to radical desertion of the warmongering industry, of chemical ones, labs, etc. To do so would be “to take a step in the dark” which in turn would crack their facade of responsible protectors of wage work and of the national industrial and economic division.

Also in other Italian industries these contradictions emerge in an unmistakable way, seeing the strong war rhetoric in fashion now, banged from every drum.

A society such as ours today, strongly patriarchal and in its visions about the world, imposes on us the dichotomy cold war/hot war, in which “peace” is in reality simply the “absence of war”. This concept of society reveals itself in these “pauses” of war through treaties, “ceasefires”, memorandums etc.

If these talks can somehow interrupt a conflict, in reality they are only the demonstration of the power of some, using terms and arguments showing “weakness” in those “defeated” in the field or put with their back against the wall between the economic clamp and the miltary-strategic one.

Retreat, defeat, disarm and then again words such as trench, assault, are all terms that lead the war imaginary towards Heraclitus’ concept of war, that war is “father of all and king of all”.

Again in Germany and Italy, the automotive industry, in crisis due to international competition, will be reconverted to fit the new, giant European rearmament plan; meanwhile, from Poland to Sweden, from Croatia to France, the draft is re-instated, whether compulsory or voluntary; in Italian schools and universities militarism is ever more present. The institutional, reformist Left wavers between the façade of an anti-war position and the attempt to ride the wave of the movements against war and genocide in Gaza. The mass amnesia on what this ruling class said after the Russian attack and October 7th in Palestine, in reality should alert everybody about the double game played and the rhetoric of these gravediggers of every radical or revolutionary exuberance. For every act of liberating violence happening in society, the institutional, reformist Left immediately sides up with the moralizing choir against armed struggle, “terrorism”, “bad teachers”, against the outburst of those not caught up in the net of hypocritical moralization.

Millions of workers and students, young and old, are pushed towards a mentality of warmongering fear. Selected experts on the public square explain the truth – of the ruling class: humans are aggressive by nature, the thirst for power is innate in human beings. Avoiding in this way a mobilization of the consciences against war, society is locked up in this grip.

Historians, anthropologists etc. such as Lawrence H. Keeley(2), introduced into the public discourse arguments to consolidate the idea that, since the dawn of mankind, humans have fought an “endless war”, strengthening the ever-present and “consolatory” Hobbesian philosophy. The interpretations of moats and walls, of some hunting weapons, of symbols of villages and cities of the Palaeolithic or Neolithic, seen as tools for defence only against external enemies, always ready to assault and prey. According to these explanations, therefore, everything can be linked to a fratricidal war.

Nothing could be more false.

Today we are surrounded and addicted to images, symbols, representations, objects, philosophies, communication campaigns inducing and bringing us all back to war.

Workers, scientists, technicians are immersed in a competitive, nationalist, terrorist rhetoric, in which “progress” is the son of productivism, of power and money.

This century-long nightmare is perhaps starting to slowly crack open: we must feed the dream, the re-enchantment of a new imagination of the world.

We can discuss at length about necropolitics, ecocide, totalitarianism, and write tomes about it all, keeping our hands supple and our limbs and muscles soft. It can prove useful in order to send a message against the suffocating dome of modernity and its crimes, but if we don’t make individual choices, potentially shared by others, bringing action to the forefront of thought, nothing will ever change. We will only count our bitter tears.

It’s a time of tense nerves and subversive smiles mocking the common enemy after the effort and the risk taken.

Internationalist struggle, anti-colonialism and revolution

The Palestinian resistance and the Sumud paradigm have created a deep gash in the world. In the heads of the powerful there is envy and hatred because those who live by the tenets of the “strong man” know full well how to recognize bravery and tenacity in the adversary; this is also one reason why their answer is so merciless and total. The challenge and the zeal abash the desire of power of an entire system. Those in power know that the Resistance won’t stop and that others will imitate it, with other formulas and perspectives, but they will draw inspiration from it. Then, the fearful master will use all historical and technological tactics to unhinge it, to annihilate it from the roots up.

But the echo is now worldwide, as happened in other decades with other resistances, announcing that resisting is possible and necessary. The answer from governments will be harsh and deep, we are already witnessing its disordered reactions. In USA the antifascist movement “Redneck Revolt” in North Carolina, active in the rural areas of the South struggling together with the workers for class liberation has been criminalized. Two anarchists in Texas have been arrested for an action against ICE under the provisions of the new law against “Antifa”.

In Europe we know well the repression that is acting against movements opposing the war.

But the subterranean river of struggle for freedom brings water along lines unknown by the enemy: as an underground river, it shows up and hides, remains quiet and then strikes with a roar.

In Morocco, the “Gen Z 212” movement against the government and the huge expenses slated for the construction of soccer arenas for 2030 World Cup, is claiming liberation of all detainees from the protests, also those of 2017 and are fighting poverty, environmental destruction etc.

In Tunisia the struggle against the chemical plant in Gabès producing phosphates that are carcinogenic, is mobilizing masses of youth ever angrier and more disillusioned by the ruling class.

In Madagascar, Nepal, Mongolia, mobilizations and political overthrows have happened by the strength of the struggle and its perseverance.

Europe is answering in different ways. In all of these struggles cited, the Palestinian resistance echoes strongly. In Serbia, the students against the corrupt Vucic government and Chinese multinationals destroying rivers and mountains are carrying Palestinian flags. In Poland, it is the same during demonstrations against the warmongering fascist wave.

In the European city streets youth is answering en masse.

The walls and colonial tactics, the historical-moral explanations by Zionists and capitalists are criticized in the metropolis of this old, decadent, imperial Europe; internationalist solidarity is expressing itself and reminding of past struggles.

But if all this is an indication of the current reality, if the virus of struggle is spreading in the streets, at the same time they haven’t yet managed to spill over the levees imposing their social peace, their rule of law, their prohibition on daring and dreaming something different and deeper than mere indignation.

Here then in the quiet of the anonymous night, restless hands without bonds act and strike. In France, anarchists sabotage power lines and storage facilities for raw materials in industrial areas and its war industry hotspots. In Germany, huge players such as Tesla lose millions of euros due to the electricity blackouts. On Sept.9th, 2025, an important sabotage against the military-industrial complex takes place in Berlin. In Canada, the railways have been systematically hit for years against the mining industry and its multinationals, necessary for the supply chain of raw materials needed to wage war and for the world producing and financing it.

In Greece, the comrades acting against the policies of a fascist government and mourning Kyriakos Xymitris, fallen along the road to freedom, have also relaunched the solidarity with Gaza.

Anarchists, and not only them, do not wait for a revolution to happen of its own volition, they live it ardently, studying and organizing themselves.

To sabotage and attack the system of domination certainly isn’t enough to prime a radical change, but it gets us closer to, and allows us to stare in the eyes of the life we desire, acting against an enemy that binds us to its system, from which we want to free ourselves. This free life is ever more withheld from us, we are uneducated in the capacity to choose, in pondering and activating a free will which dictates the guidelines and social rules that break the current, authoritarian ones, conscientiously choosing the routes and methods which avoid a system that is murderous, toxic, and unjust.

We need to destroy the moralistic idea of “democratic confrontation”: it moves us away from certain possibilities of struggle and I believe that the best example of insurrectionary fracture is coming in through the Indonesian riots of these last months. In response to the requests coming from the people, to their proposals for self-organization and anti-authoritarian communism, authority has manifested itself arrogant and violent. The subversive answer has been clear and precise, the democratic stunt broke down in the fires of the politicians’ houses. Their arrogance backfired on them and they became, for once, the material targets, the prey of a liberating fury.

In Europe, who keeps on producing, financing, justifying a murderous behaviour on the side of the Israeli and American State? Should an answer be given to this shamelessness and sense of omnipotence? Are the power relations within the social conflict still in their favour? And if the answer is yes, how do we turn them in our favour?

If their intent is to arm masses of youth for the future looming massacre, we know well that, historically, conscript soldiers have been the kingpin of a few revolutionary movements, at the time in which the work of rebels and subversives blended in with concrete proposals and the diffusion of revolutionary defeatism. Perhaps we won’t be able to stem the warmongering tide, but it is a duty of those fighting against the war to keep on supporting and stimulating action operating within the social fabric, with the most advanced ideas against any nationalist, racist, imperialistic mechanism.

The internal/home front must become the most alarming one for our common class enemies.

To carry forward the solidarity with Gaza and those suffering from the war of the States, we – european comrades – have the necessity to shake off some ballast.

The press campaign supporting Israel grafts itself onto a cultural hegemony of colonial and ruling forces; many of us know well the ideas of Edward Said(3) on the Orientalist thought. His articulated observation of the spiderweb limiting our view and directing it towards concepts created and stratified into historical processes of the last centuries, particularly those called “West” and “East”, advise us to tread upon uncomfortably hard paths. The role of the intellectuals, of new scientific disciplines, reinforces this historical and human division. The manacles that keep us from acting – often we don’t even feel them – separate those who, the world over, have the same need to free themselves from the common oppression, diversified as it may be, and operating differently according to the latitude in which is employed. The hybris of the scholars and that of Nations must be fought from every side.

In “The Holocaust and the Nakba”, Amos Goldberg and Bashir Bashir tell us that these two historical events are juxtaposed. In the West, though, just so we understand, a regime of memory has been built prohibiting comparisons and similitudes, which leads to think that a genocide, to be mentioned, must assume the radical form of the Holocaust. The authors suggest the way of the empathic perturbation, meaning confronting the trauma of the other to generate a new moral grammar.

The geopolitical engineering, the variable borders of which today analysts and experts, generals and racist opinion-makers are blabbing about in the news-media are numbing us using complex analysis that sometimes obscure the solidarity impetus. Freed from this ballast, what could we see?

If we observe microhistory, censored and forgotten on purpose, the events of which are almost unpronounceable, we know that the Zionist movement several times carried out tactics against subversive peasant Jews in Eastern Europe (especially Poland, Ukraine and Russia), using reactionary ideas and praxis. In Bialystok, organized anarchists, together with other supporters, defended the Jewish peasant and proletarian communities from the pogroms. After that, it was the Ukrainian Machnovist movement, between 1919 and 1921, defending the communities, and many comrades of Jewish background denounced and criticised Zionism which contains in its philosophical and cultural base also an anti-proletarian and anti-socialist reaction in the widest meaning of the term.

Today, Zionism attacks those in Israel who do not want to suffer the cultural brutalization and are forced to flee, creating a new sort of diaspora: 130,000 people already left the country between 2022 and 2024. An exodus marching in lockstep with a genocidal massacre. The reckless violence of the colonists is flooding the West Bank inside and out; Zionism works in many directions.

In Ukraine and Russia, the anonymous mass of deserters, wanted by the respective armies, is crossing paths with the partisans that are contributing to the hindering of the war machine on both fronts, carrying with them a gust of fresh air in this fratricidal war.

The anti-colonial struggle at the end of 19th century against the Spanish empire lead to the deportation of Filipino revolutionaries to the Montjuic prison of Barcelona, Spain. Spanish prisoners – many of whom jailed due to the long running struggle against bloody dictator Canovas – saw these men in the yard, covered with the light attire typical of their land. Within the prison solidarity mobilized immediately, because the groups acknowledged each other as comrades in the same struggle against an oppressive regime. From the windows of the cells heavy winter garment fell in the yard as a sign of closeness to the Filipino rebels, hit by one of the most ferocious and longstanding colonialist regimes.

The anti-colonialist struggles of the time, in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Korea or China, crossed with the revolutionary movements and the anarchist and socialist ideas. European comrades would leave their countries to participate in insurrections around the world. In Egypt, Algeria and Argentina, in Japan, just about everywhere national liberation struggles were conspiring and conjugating with broader ideas of revolutionary and social emancipation.

These subversive experiments created hypothesis of communal living that put in practice “the world for which we struggle”, with genuine insurrectional plans, fruit of a conspiratory age.

Ideas circulated thanks to a brisk translation activity of books and pamphlets. This ferment joined the internationalist solidarity that led the anarchist Angiolillo to kill the dictator Canovas, torturer of Filipinos and Cubans abroad and of the revolutionaries at home. The anti-colonial struggles around the world and European insurrectional movements were talking to each other, there was no UN or Human Rights Charters to which appeal to in a macabre deceit and vain hopes. They were marching together to the conquest of a long-yearned freedom, suffocated by capitalism and by the government of the sanguinary motherland.

The ideology of the “endless war” insinuates minds and hearts with its barbed wire. The violence of subjugation, where life is worth nothing and there is no shame in shooting harmless women and men, where religious hate drenched in territorial promises and racist supremacies creates that soil that erases any human empathy and fans feuds and revenges that always hit towards the bottom, never towards the top of social hierarchy, can depress and create a sense of injustice reaching the point of being perceived as a physical pain.

Today we see women and men in Gaza planting olive trees amidst the rubble, showing the world the love for the land they were born in, men that keep on harvesting olives no matter what, children digging drainage to get a dry place to play in and study, young people still resisting. The Palestinian people show us every day what dignity, tenacity, infinite practical and moral ingenuity is, all of them trained during decades of life within an open air prison.

On Nov. 28th., Fadi and Jumaa’ Tamer Abu Asi have been shot to death by the IDF because they were busy collecting scrap wood to sell in the vicinity of the infamous “yellow line”. They were 8 and 10 years old. The land of Palestine is rife with stories such as this one and they are the kind that strikes the progressive public opinion, leading it to take the side of the weak ones, somehow palatable according to a colonial European view inasmuch victim and vulnerable.

Some newspapers are willing to show the eyes of suffering children. Then there is that openly racist side, rubberstamping even the vilest homicidal and repressive practice by the Israeli state.

Both sides, in the end, are parts of a social structure holding up because even if they differ in their appearance, in reality they defend the same privileges and interests.

Of course, it is important to denounce and be outraged, but this is all part of the show allowed by the masters, which works as a safety valve to blow indignation off and then go back to sleep. Never mind waking up from the slumber and understanding what makes a person go from indignation to action. Even worse if it organizes in a long-term perspective.

The Palestinian is ok if he misses a leg and has a starving body. If he dons a kefiah and totes an assault rifle, if he throws molotov cocktails or stones, the mirror of Western acceptability cracks, be it liberal or socio-democratic.

Generally, we are used to lazily accept something only if it shows weak and harmless to our eyes.

The prisoner studying their escape plan for months and then sawing off the bars one night and splitting, upsets the hypocrite, bourgeois society. The “madman” that “point blank” explodes in “unusual” acts, smashes and drools “senselessly”, shocks for his unpredictability. The child playing and screaming “inconsiderately”, creating embarrassment, nowadays risks to be filed under “hyperactive”. The Palestinian hating those that murdered his or her family and force-fed with fear and dust, are already moralized and branded by the Western white man. The caged animal that “out of the blue” bites and wounds must be killed.

Now that the media spotlight – at least here in Italy – is fading, it is time to act with greater energy, and somehow shake up that part of society which, in various ways, has already taken a stand, but has not gone too far, has not crossed the moral boundaries imposed by the laws of the state and Christianity, and has not transformed its daily life, turning it into a battleground that is unrecoverable by the state.

We know the Italian colonialist goals in Gaza. ENI (major Italian energy company) wants the natural gas off the coast of Gaza, while the Meloni government carries on its “Mattei Plan”, which is the continuation of Italian colonialism. We know that if we begin to place a stick in ENI’s wheel, we’d have to deal with the Secret Service. If in Italy we start listening to the echo from Gaza and decide to throw the yankees overboard, imposing their economic and political hegemony in Italy since the Sicily landing in 1944, we also know that times of waterboarding, political destabilization, bombs might easily come back as in decades ago. We must be aware: you don’t play with such powers. Now that we are nearing the start of phase 2, we can already say that the people in Gaza and the West Bank will only and exclusively get policies of terror and elimination.

As I am finishing these notes, on Dec. 8th, the news is out that Belgian justice has issued an international arrest warrant against an Italian consultant acting on behalf of Elbit Systems, for some contracts stipulated with a NATO agency. Magistrates and police officers of other countries are also indicted in the proceeding.

That the activity of this or other similar companies is “clean” or “dirty” matters little. Their work remains criminal and must be stopped. This struggle must not be pursued in an emergency logic, but in that of a long running and wide campaign: we need to confront and organize. In doing so we could – in several ways – aspire to an integral liberation from the state and techno-industrial system.

Stecco – Luca

Write to Stecco:

Luca Dolce
c/o Casa Circondariale Sanremo
Strada Armea, 144
18038, Sanremo (IM)
Italia

Transliterator’s notes:

1. Elias Canetti, Bulgarian, 25 July 1905 – Died in Switzerland, 14 August 1994; author of Crowds and Power. and other titles.

2. Lawrence H. Keeley, USA, 24 August 1948 – 11 October 2017) ; author of War Before Civilization – The Myth of the Peaceful Savage.

3. Edward Said, Palestinian-American, Born in Jerusalem, 1 November 1935 – Died in New York, 24 September, USA, 2003. Professor, author of Orientalism.

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