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International Bulletin / Issue 206 / January 2020

The imperialist jungle law is ultimately the highest and most binding law for capitalist imperialism. International law, institutions etc., in a sense there is a regulatory body, but once the status quo deteriorates, the only law in force is the right of the stronger until a new balance of power is established.

Qassem Soleimani was an official representative from Iran and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis was an official representative of Iraq. It is nothing ordinary that US imperialism killed these two representatives. From now on, it is the imperialist jungle law that rules the world. Assassinations, massacres, torture and occupation are indispensable companions of the imperialist world, without which bourgeois hegemony is inconceivable, but which „normal times" cannot take the place of established international regulation and legality. Either they are carried out as covert acts or in any way adapted to international legality. Examples are the poisoning of Yasser Arafat, Chavez, innumerable secret attacks on Castro etc. But this officially carried out attack is an action with which US imperialism breaks the usual norms.

This is about more than just a problem between the United States and Iran. This could have happened between the United States and any other country. The Middle East is targeted because it is the current center of the imperialist and regional struggle for hegemony and Iran is targeted because it is a key player for regional hegemony. With this attack, the United States sent messages to Turkey, North Korea, China, Russia and others.

Why was this assassination attempt carried out right now?

Capitalist imperialism is in a complex crisis. The economic, political and ideological crisis is intertwined, we call it the existential crisis of capitalism. The capitalist law of uneven development manifests itself with all its violence. We are currently experiencing the hegemony crisis of the capitalist imperialist system. The economic, political and legal institutions that shape the world have become ineffective. Capital and the military have become the two main instruments of the hegemony struggle between the capitalists. If things are „normal", capital becomes the determinant of hegemony, in times of crisis the military comes to the fore. War is the only means of resolving contradictions in any situation in which imperialist competition increases. In times like these, it is the state of war that determines all political, economic, legal and diplomatic relations until the new order of hegemony is established.

Capitalist imperialism was unable to overcome the 2008 crisis. US imperialism is unable, as in the past, to rule the world economy and politics and to determine the world system. That is why its entire policy is aimed at stopping this loss of power and preventing the development of competitors. It tries to protect the hegemony with military power, because with the power of capital, this is not possible anymore. Other imperialist countries also focus on the development of the war industry. The competition for new production techniques is replaced by new weapons, missiles, etc. After the start of the hegemony crisis, the regional powers tried to take advantage of the „vacuum". Iran and Turkey's efforts to achieve regional hegemony are the two most important examples of this. The main tool of this hegemony effort is the most effective use of war power.

In times of the global economic crisis, competition for the control of raw material resources is intensifying. The Middle East is one of the most important areas of fossil fuels that are of great importance for the capitalist economy. The rule over the region will be a great step in the struggle for hegemony. Iran has become the main competitor of US imperialism in the region. Based on sectarian organization, Iran established what it calls the axis of resistance in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. Qassem Soleimani was the commander of this axis and this is precisely where the symbolic meaning of this attack comes from. This is why the attack on Iran is perceived as such a major blow: the attack on Soleimani was directed against this axis and if this axis is broken, the current Iranian regime can be destroyed.

How will Iran react?

Iran will respond effectively to this attack. If this does not happen, he must adapt to the demands of US imperialism and the axis of resistance will break. Iran was left alone in the face of the attack. The EU, which stands by the United States, the weak reactions from Russia and China and the lack of intent to venture on an adventure for Iran are major disadvantages for Iran. The tendency is towards a political-military struggle to force the United States to leave the Middle East.

Under these circumstances, although there are different tendencies in the United States, the United States will use all of its power not to leave the Middle East. This may not be an instant war. It should be noted that Saudi Arabia, like Israel, is on the side of the United States against Iran and together they do not want to miss any opportunity to plunge into Iran. New attacks for the dissolution or overthrow of the Iranian mullahs regime are not removed from the agenda. There is a state of war. Once a state of war has arisen, a bullet can sometimes rule the entire process.

What is the attitude of the revolutionaries?

O course, the attack by US imperialism has to be condemned. However, the rejection of US imperialism does not mean, to support Iran's reactionary fascist regime. Some leftist movements support Iran against the United States as a requirement of anti-imperialism. These are indeed archaic leftists who are not aware of the changes in capitalist imperialism. We are in the stage of imperialist globalization. In the phase of imperialism, the national liberation struggles against colonialism and semi-colonialism had been a blow to imperialism and its followers and served to advance the working class and the oppressed to socialism. Although led by the national bourgeoisie and the main program of this bourgeoisie was to remove the obstacles to capitalist development, the national liberation struggles against imperialism were of a democratic nature because imperialism drove colonial policy by working together with the most important representatives of the reaction, the comprador bourgeoisie and the feudals. Any struggle for national liberation inevitably required a struggle against this inner reaction as well as against imperialism.

The situation is different in the era of imperialist globalization. The imperialists are forcing colonial countries to create new types of financial-economic colonies in order to integrate them into the world market following their own interests. Where economic, political and diplomatic forces are not enough, military forces are deployed. The invasion of Iraq is only the result of such a process and is similar to the brutal massacre of Gaddafi by NATO, which attacked Libya once the civil war broke out. In contrast, the leap in Turkey's financial and economic colonization, which started with an official from the World Bank who enforced 15 laws in 15 days immediately after the breakout of the crisis in 2001, was a „peaceful" example of the use of economic and political violence.

The rulers who oppose the measures of imperialism have absolutely no progressive quality, on the contrary, they try to maintain their reactionary fascist rule. For this reason, if the struggle against imperialism is not combined with the struggle against this reactionary fascist rule, it falls in the reserve of reaction and fascism in the name of anti-imperialism. To stand for Saddam in Iraq or Assad in Syria means to fall into such a line.

The situation in Iran is similar. The reactionary fascist mullah's regime in Iran is a people's enemy. The mullah regime is capitalist. A handful of rich people are ruling. Hundreds of people were massacred in the recent popular uprising against petrol price hikes. The mullah's regime keeps East Kurdistan under colonial yoke. It pursues an anti-people policy in both Iraq and Iran. The fascist mullahs' regime is behind the attacks on the popular uprising in Iraq. It is also responsible for the attacks that took place in South Kurdistan after the independence referendum. This regime is neither anti-imperialist, nor anti-capitalist, not democratic, and it carries out reactionary fascist repression against the people. It competes with US imperialism for regional hegemony. The only interest of the people in Iran and the region is not to defend the side of imperialism or the side of the reactionary regime, but to unite on the third front with the aim of an anti-capitalist order on the axis of the struggle for political freedom against both sides. The people's resistances against the regime are getting lost in a reactionary nationalist delusion because of the US attacks which therefore have to be strongly rejected.
 

 

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International Bulletin / Issue 206 / January 2020

The imperialist jungle law is ultimately the highest and most binding law for capitalist imperialism. International law, institutions etc., in a sense there is a regulatory body, but once the status quo deteriorates, the only law in force is the right of the stronger until a new balance of power is established.

Qassem Soleimani was an official representative from Iran and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis was an official representative of Iraq. It is nothing ordinary that US imperialism killed these two representatives. From now on, it is the imperialist jungle law that rules the world. Assassinations, massacres, torture and occupation are indispensable companions of the imperialist world, without which bourgeois hegemony is inconceivable, but which „normal times" cannot take the place of established international regulation and legality. Either they are carried out as covert acts or in any way adapted to international legality. Examples are the poisoning of Yasser Arafat, Chavez, innumerable secret attacks on Castro etc. But this officially carried out attack is an action with which US imperialism breaks the usual norms.

This is about more than just a problem between the United States and Iran. This could have happened between the United States and any other country. The Middle East is targeted because it is the current center of the imperialist and regional struggle for hegemony and Iran is targeted because it is a key player for regional hegemony. With this attack, the United States sent messages to Turkey, North Korea, China, Russia and others.

Why was this assassination attempt carried out right now?

Capitalist imperialism is in a complex crisis. The economic, political and ideological crisis is intertwined, we call it the existential crisis of capitalism. The capitalist law of uneven development manifests itself with all its violence. We are currently experiencing the hegemony crisis of the capitalist imperialist system. The economic, political and legal institutions that shape the world have become ineffective. Capital and the military have become the two main instruments of the hegemony struggle between the capitalists. If things are „normal", capital becomes the determinant of hegemony, in times of crisis the military comes to the fore. War is the only means of resolving contradictions in any situation in which imperialist competition increases. In times like these, it is the state of war that determines all political, economic, legal and diplomatic relations until the new order of hegemony is established.

Capitalist imperialism was unable to overcome the 2008 crisis. US imperialism is unable, as in the past, to rule the world economy and politics and to determine the world system. That is why its entire policy is aimed at stopping this loss of power and preventing the development of competitors. It tries to protect the hegemony with military power, because with the power of capital, this is not possible anymore. Other imperialist countries also focus on the development of the war industry. The competition for new production techniques is replaced by new weapons, missiles, etc. After the start of the hegemony crisis, the regional powers tried to take advantage of the „vacuum". Iran and Turkey's efforts to achieve regional hegemony are the two most important examples of this. The main tool of this hegemony effort is the most effective use of war power.

In times of the global economic crisis, competition for the control of raw material resources is intensifying. The Middle East is one of the most important areas of fossil fuels that are of great importance for the capitalist economy. The rule over the region will be a great step in the struggle for hegemony. Iran has become the main competitor of US imperialism in the region. Based on sectarian organization, Iran established what it calls the axis of resistance in Iraq, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon. Qassem Soleimani was the commander of this axis and this is precisely where the symbolic meaning of this attack comes from. This is why the attack on Iran is perceived as such a major blow: the attack on Soleimani was directed against this axis and if this axis is broken, the current Iranian regime can be destroyed.

How will Iran react?

Iran will respond effectively to this attack. If this does not happen, he must adapt to the demands of US imperialism and the axis of resistance will break. Iran was left alone in the face of the attack. The EU, which stands by the United States, the weak reactions from Russia and China and the lack of intent to venture on an adventure for Iran are major disadvantages for Iran. The tendency is towards a political-military struggle to force the United States to leave the Middle East.

Under these circumstances, although there are different tendencies in the United States, the United States will use all of its power not to leave the Middle East. This may not be an instant war. It should be noted that Saudi Arabia, like Israel, is on the side of the United States against Iran and together they do not want to miss any opportunity to plunge into Iran. New attacks for the dissolution or overthrow of the Iranian mullahs regime are not removed from the agenda. There is a state of war. Once a state of war has arisen, a bullet can sometimes rule the entire process.

What is the attitude of the revolutionaries?

O course, the attack by US imperialism has to be condemned. However, the rejection of US imperialism does not mean, to support Iran's reactionary fascist regime. Some leftist movements support Iran against the United States as a requirement of anti-imperialism. These are indeed archaic leftists who are not aware of the changes in capitalist imperialism. We are in the stage of imperialist globalization. In the phase of imperialism, the national liberation struggles against colonialism and semi-colonialism had been a blow to imperialism and its followers and served to advance the working class and the oppressed to socialism. Although led by the national bourgeoisie and the main program of this bourgeoisie was to remove the obstacles to capitalist development, the national liberation struggles against imperialism were of a democratic nature because imperialism drove colonial policy by working together with the most important representatives of the reaction, the comprador bourgeoisie and the feudals. Any struggle for national liberation inevitably required a struggle against this inner reaction as well as against imperialism.

The situation is different in the era of imperialist globalization. The imperialists are forcing colonial countries to create new types of financial-economic colonies in order to integrate them into the world market following their own interests. Where economic, political and diplomatic forces are not enough, military forces are deployed. The invasion of Iraq is only the result of such a process and is similar to the brutal massacre of Gaddafi by NATO, which attacked Libya once the civil war broke out. In contrast, the leap in Turkey's financial and economic colonization, which started with an official from the World Bank who enforced 15 laws in 15 days immediately after the breakout of the crisis in 2001, was a „peaceful" example of the use of economic and political violence.

The rulers who oppose the measures of imperialism have absolutely no progressive quality, on the contrary, they try to maintain their reactionary fascist rule. For this reason, if the struggle against imperialism is not combined with the struggle against this reactionary fascist rule, it falls in the reserve of reaction and fascism in the name of anti-imperialism. To stand for Saddam in Iraq or Assad in Syria means to fall into such a line.

The situation in Iran is similar. The reactionary fascist mullah's regime in Iran is a people's enemy. The mullah regime is capitalist. A handful of rich people are ruling. Hundreds of people were massacred in the recent popular uprising against petrol price hikes. The mullah's regime keeps East Kurdistan under colonial yoke. It pursues an anti-people policy in both Iraq and Iran. The fascist mullahs' regime is behind the attacks on the popular uprising in Iraq. It is also responsible for the attacks that took place in South Kurdistan after the independence referendum. This regime is neither anti-imperialist, nor anti-capitalist, not democratic, and it carries out reactionary fascist repression against the people. It competes with US imperialism for regional hegemony. The only interest of the people in Iran and the region is not to defend the side of imperialism or the side of the reactionary regime, but to unite on the third front with the aim of an anti-capitalist order on the axis of the struggle for political freedom against both sides. The people's resistances against the regime are getting lost in a reactionary nationalist delusion because of the US attacks which therefore have to be strongly rejected.