On Saturday, June 21, the US became directly involved in the war that Israel had declared on June 13/6 on Iran by attacking military targets, nuclear and oil transport logistics sites, in addition to the assassination of several military and political leaders. With the so-called “midnight hammer” operation, the US bombed nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan. Two days later, at the time this article was going to press, the Trump administration announced an alleged ceasefire, which has not yet been confirmed by either Israel or Iran.

The Iranian parliament recommended closing the Strait of Hormuz, a decision ultimately taken by the regime's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Twenty percent of the world's daily oil consumption passes through this strait, a key place for international trade, especially for Europe, the United States and also for China. Therefore, if the conflict extends over time, the economic consequences at world level will be very important, since this tends to produce an increase in the price of oil, which makes freight rates more expensive, leading to an increase in general prices which lead to an increasing inflationary pressure in the midst of a world recession.

Some Iranian regime officials will meet with Putin seeking to strengthen alliances. Iranian missile attacks on Israel continue, which is causing an acceleration of a political crisis within the enclave and doubts about where Netanyahu's policies are leading them.

By intervening, the US is trying to save its partner Israel and reconfigure the Middle East, plunged into a situation of decomposition of US imperialism and the desperation of the imperialist enclave of Israel, which is experimenting the weakening of its power in the region. In this world situation, these military attacks express that imperialism cannot keep up its rule by means of the institutions created in the post-war period and must appeal to military power to achieve tactical triumphs, but which create scenarios of greater world upheaval. Even some of Trump's advisors recommended him not to get involved, since they have a greater threat within their own borders, namely the conflicts triggered by the anti-immigration policy.

We are witnessing a trend towards generalized war, in which American imperialism in decline intends to maintain its world hegemony without having managed to close the development of an open world crisis since 2008. In addition, the processes of assimilation of the former workers' states into the capitalist system, as the situation shows, are becoming more and more catastrophic. The bursting of the unstable equilibrium opens an endless number of political and social processes that imperialism tries to settle with warlike preparations and attacks on the masses and to which we must respond with the preparation of revolutionary processes, to stop the warmongering tendencies and come up with a working class and socialist solution by defeating imperialism and its national agents. We must develop an international struggle to involve a large part of the proletariat in the debate of the international problems and the tasks that arise from them.

We are for the military triumph of Iran against imperialism and the enclave of Israel, but we do not defend the Iranian regime; we appeal to the independent organization of the proletariat, which is the only class interested in defeating its executioners. It is a central task to reclaim the anti-imperialist slogans and confront the sui generis Bonapartist regimes of the Middle East; these puppet bourgeoisies of imperialism are traitors to the Palestinian cause. They are traitors to any idea of national liberation, even of their own countries, leading with their bourgeois nationalist experiments, whether nationalist or Islamic, to the total prostration to imperialism, to the violent repression of the workers and the poor people and to the territorial decomposition of the artificial semi-states created in the post-war period, as we see today in Libya, Syria, Lebanon or Iraq.

The proletariat of the Middle East and the Maghreb must confront their governments and expel imperialism from the region, and destroy the enclave of Israel and thus stop the genocide in Gaza, forming a Federation of Socialist Republics of the Middle East and the Maghreb as a state form of the international dictatorship of the proletariat. The proletariat of the imperialist countries must defeat their governments and stop the war. The Russian and Ukrainian proletariat must fight together to defeat the process of assimilation of the former workers states and transform this war into a war of revolutionary self-defense. The Chinese proletariat must enter the scene against the process of assimilation and join the workers' struggles all over the world. In short, we must seek the intervention of the workers' battalions in all countries, independently, so that, with the methods and organization of the class, we manage to stop the massacre of a new world war, to which they want to lead us.

For an International Conference for the reconstruction of the IV International

Given the magnitude of the crisis, the acceleration of the war preparations and the consequences that this will have for our class, it becomes urgent to call for an International Conference with the currents that still advance the dictatorship of the proletariat. We make this call from the need to make steps forwards in the opening of a debate within the Trotskyist currents; to regroup the vanguard behind a revolutionary program and to be able to intervene in the international situation as a revolutionary leadership that aims to the rise of a new generation that takes up the historic tasks of building the world party of the revolution which in this epoch is the reconstruction of the Fourth International.

COR Chile – LOI Brasil – COR Argentina

Se mantiene el asedio genocida del enclave de Israel sobre el pueblo Palestino. A dos meses que el enclave sionista rompiera el cese al fuego limitado, retomando sin cesar las masacres, Netanyahu anuncia los planes para invadir y vaciar Gaza de gazatíes con la intención de expulsarlos o aniquilarlos, propagandiza insertar asentamientos de colonos y ejercer el control político y militar directo de la franja de la mano del imperialismo. Enconado en este objetivo, no permite el ingreso de alimentos y medicinas a la franja, lo que ya está provocando la muerte por inanición de niños y cientos de víctimas que no pueden ser asistidas, además de continuar con el ataque a hospitales, e infraestructura, y suma a diario más y más muertes de palestinos.

Esto se da en el marco de una orientación del imperialismo norteamericano de retomar su debilitada hegemonía mundial, buscando pactos regionales con las descompuestas burguesías y lumpenburguesías como la de Arabia Saudita, la de Siria o la del Líbano, etc, quienes intentan restablecer un nuevo equilibrio ya que el que estableció la postguerra mediante el nakba y la misma creación del enclave de ocupación imperialista, se encuentra hecha añicos. Ruptura del equilibrio que fuerza al imperialismo también a buscar imponer condiciones a los ex estados obreros para semicolonizarlos como en Ucrania, o la guerra arancelaria para disputarle el comercio mundial a China.

En el plano interno el gobierno de Trump viene teniendo una línea de persecución y represión ante las manifestaciones en apoyo a Palestina, chocando abiertamente con amplios sectores de la juventud norteamericana e inmigrante, con epicentro en las universidades. Y es que esta crisis de hegemonía del amo yanqui provoca la absorción de las contradicciones mundiales en su seno abriendo procesos de lucha de clases donde la poderosa clase obrera norteamericana puede desempeñar un papel primordial para detener la maquinaria de guerra con los métodos obreros.

También se verifica que las instituciones de posguerra como la ONU se encuentran en la total decadencia al no poder dar una salida reaccionaria como la de dos estados entre Israel y Palestina, mientras caen asesinados decenas de médicos y rescatistas vinculados a organismos internacionales, con el aval silencioso o cínico de los representantes del imperialismo europeo, que aparece como “un actor de reparto” ante la orientación de la administración Trump.

Trump ha llevado una línea agresiva para imponer nuevas condiciones en el reparto mundial, en la búsqueda de asimilar a los ex estados obreros al sistema capitalista, además de una nueva relación capital trabajo.

Las burguesías árabes y del medio oriente han mostrado su rol pérfido en el conflicto, incluidas las direcciones palestinas como las de la ANP, las que buscan poner paños fríos y evitar que escale la solidaridad con el pueblo Palestino.

Además de su propia descomposición interna Israel se enfrenta a la resistencia palestina y de las masas árabes aisladas o contenidas por sus direcciones burguesas. Es el proletariado mundial con sus métodos debe encabezar la solidaridad con la resistencia y el pueblo palestino, en especial en los países imperialistas que deben detener la máquina de guerra.

¡Viva la resistencia palestina!

¡Por la destrucción del estado de Israel!

¡Por una federación de republicas socialistas de medio oriente y el Magreb!

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Em novembro do ano passado, um importante debate sobre condições de trabalho se impôs, superando as bolhas da internet, que foi a discussão sobre a escala 6x1, impulsionado pela deputada Erika Hilton (PSOL), que apresentou projeto de lei na câmara dos deputados.

O tema mobilizou forças políticas em todos os espectros políticos - contra e a favor - e trouxe à ordem do dia a pauta sobre as condições de trabalho, e consequentemente ataques diretos aos trabalhadores como forma de garantir os lucros da burguesia e recuperar a produtividade, em um momento de aprofundamento da crise capitalista, marcada entre outros justamente pela queda dos índices mundiais de produção.

Porém, a discussão posta com a proposta da deputada psolista se dá de forma rebaixada, localizada nos marcos do parlamento burguês e acompanhando as próprias políticas de flexibilização do patronato. O que está implícito no bojo dessa medida são: a redução de jornada com a redução de salário, lay-off, banco de horas e o arrocho salarial.

As escalas de trabalho sofrem alterações ou mudanças de ritmo e tempo de acordo com as necessidades e interesses dos capitalistas, cujo processo produtivo já emprega inúmeras jornadas de trabalho na perspectiva da divisão social do trabalho. Essas escalas são negociadas nas mesas dos burocratas sindicais, que estão há tempos afastados dos locais de trabalho, logo de suas bases e colados ao Estado, conciliando-se com patrões enquanto atuam como muro de contenção da luta de classes.

Como contraponto a essa política patronal, a política que se impõe é a da ESCALA MÓVEL DAS HORAS DE TRABALHO - em que todo o trabalho disponível, deve ser distribuído entre toda a força de trabalho disponível, sem qualquer redução salarial, e essa luta deve ser levantada não através das instituições da burguesia como o parlamento e o judiciário, mas através de nossos métodos históricos de luta, e sempre sob a luz da independência de classe.

Para isso, mais do que atos de rua isolados, é preciso que os sindicatos e centrais sindicais tomem a frente desse processo, tomando para si o protagonismo dessa luta, porém, diante da política deliberada de contenção da luta de classes, empreendida pelas direções sindicais e políticas da esquerda eleitoral, se torna urgente a necessidade de recuperação dos sindicatos dessas camarilhas que se apossaram do nosso instrumento de luta e o transformaram em seu meio de vida, desviando toda a luta histórica para as instituições burguesas, advogando que migalhas em meio aos destroços, devem ser consideradas como vitórias.

• PELA ESCALA MÓVEL DE HORAS DE TRABALHO!
• PELA ORGANIZAÇÃO NAS NOSSAS ESTRUTURAS, COM NOSSOS MÉTODOS HISTÓRICOS DE LUTA E INDEPENDÊNCIA DE CLASSE!

A wave of criticism is shaking the world after Donald Trump's statements on February 4, in which he proposed the US to "take over" the Gaza Strip. This "initiative" would imply, he made it clear, the expulsion from that territory of the Palestinians who have been facing more than a year of bombardments and siege by the Israeli Defense Forces. Imperialism proposes the definitive ethnic cleansing as the "final solution" to the genocidal war of its Israeli enclave against the Palestinians, today in pause due to a truce imposed on the Zionists by the resistance.
It’s no coincidence that this despicable proposal, just another sample of the barbarism that the rotting capitalist system offers to humanity, was made at Trump's first international reception after taking office as president for the second time. The guest of honor was precisely Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of the occupying entity. Trump thus comes to the rescue of the Zionist government, which is staggering because it cannot find a way out, not only of the current conflict, but also of a historical crisis, given that Israel is the product of an imperialist institutionality typical of the post-war equilibrium, which today is creaking all over the place. Trump proposes, picking up the line of his 1st presidency, to sweep away all that old institutionality, and his proposal for the Gaza Strip, even if we may consider it not very viable, comes to put in the first place the American defense of Israel as a fundamental premise of the alleged new world order.
The imperialist hypocrites who run the European governments, as well as the sepoys of all colors in the Middle East and the rest of the globe, come out to defend international law, tear their clothes against the affront to human rights implied by Trump's statements, they shout the need to maintain the institutions of the United Nations system, which they paint as guarantors of peace but are, on the contrary, the institutions that have allowed the recent massacre in Gaza, the continuation of the war in Ukraine, the ethnic cleansings in Africa and Asia and all the outrages of the imperialist powers in recent years. Governments like that of British Labour's Christy Cooney or Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as well as the UN and EU governments, are accomplices in the expulsion of the Palestinian people from their land which is heading towards its 80th anniversary, as well as the ongoing genocide, today only on pause. The democrat, liberal and conservative gentlemen, defenders of capitalist institutionality, have nothing to offer to the proletariat and the oppressed peoples, other than a (in appearance) little less brutal version of the barbarism that Trump and his government of billionaires today offer. A version that does not cease to be framed in the militarist preparation of the bourgeois leaders in capitalist decomposition, announced by the president of the European Commission, von der Leyen, herself when she asks for the relaxation of the fiscal and debt rules of the EU to increase the defense budgets; nor does it cease to be governed by the only clear axis that imperialism has, which is the need to modify the capital-labor relation in its favor, attacking our class, as they have been applying in Poland, Ukraine and other countries.
As we have previously stated, Trump follows the idea of reclaiming the imperialist leadership lost in recent years and, on the basis of an aggressive policy at the economic level and military power, his aim is to regain the lost influence, especially against China, in different regions to try to impose a new road map -in its decline- for the world situation. His first measures have shown the limits of the U.S. productive and financial machinery, threatening a tariffs war against Mexico and Canada, which he had to put in the freezer for 30 days due to the resistance of the imperialist bourgeoisie itself, which fears that such measures could end up cracking even more the already ailing health of the U.S. economy. However, both the Trudeau government, on its way out, and the Mexican government of Sheinbaum had to subordinate themselves and give in to the request to militarize the borders of their countries. Sheinbaum shows that Trump is counting not only on Milei, Bukele and other boot-licking presidents in Latin America; the services of a decadent progressivism, willing to deploy 10,000 troops against its own people to satisfy the imperialist master, are also on offer.

Internationalist unity against imperialism
The reactions of anger and confrontation to the imperialist aggressiveness expressed by Trump have already been reflected in the demonstrations against deportations in the US itself. We can expect the youth there, as well as in Europe, to take up the struggle in favor of the Palestinian people. These anti-imperialist demonstrations are a wake-up call for the organized working class and its vanguard, which has headed very important solidarity actions, but has not managed to take the lead in these expressions of struggle. The proletariat has the strength to confront capitalism at its base, imposing the stoppage of production and its control to leave the bourgeoisie baseless and detonate the foundation of their states. Fighting against the capitalist assimilation of the former workers states and the Bonapartist governments of Russia and China -that pretend to dispute the leadership of the process of restoration to imperialism, with all the social regression that this implies-; fighting for the destruction of Israel, entity of Zionist occupation in the Middle East, and against all the bourgeois governments of the region (Arabs, Turkic and the Iranian government) accomplices of the massacre against the Palestinian people, fighting for the Federation of Socialist Republics of the Middle East as political form of the dictatorship of the proletariat: for the achievement of all these enormous tasks ahead of us, it is necessary to address the duty of settling the crisis of revolutionary leadership of the proletariat, which shows once again to be the crisis of humanity. At each step, the situation presents new elements to urgently promote the call for an International Conference for the reconstruction of the IV International and its national sections.