AGAINST WAR: NOT PACIFISM, BUT CLASS MOBILIZATION!

Comrades, workers,

The massacres and destruction of entire cities being razed to the ground, which we are witnessing in Gaza today and have been witnessing in Ukraine for a long time, are closely reminiscent of the imperialist world conflict of the last century.

Genocide in particular is nothing new in bourgeois society, which has never hesitated to carry it out, even if it has very often been minimized, denied, and hidden with the complicity of the press. This time, that has not been possible.

The trade war with the proclamation of import tariffs, promoted by the United States and then reflected by the other imperialist powers, and the ongoing clash over energy supplies, are also precursors of the armed conflict that is brewing.

It is the end of the illusion of progress and peaceful development that capitalist society claims to bring. Everywhere, there are calls for rearmament, and in the face of the US, China, and Russia, even “peaceful” Europe, led by Germany and France, is preparing for war, directing increasingly large portions of state budgets toward this end, taking them away from what would be needed for an acceptable life for the working classes. In a few years, they will be ready, and there will soon be incidents that will trigger warmongering propaganda to induce the proletariat to take sides. Soon, images of death and destruction, which do not seem too far away, together with news reports, even false ones, will become part of everyday life in our countries, with young proletarians enlisted and sent to the front.

But this fate is not inevitable. If the working class is able to react by refusing solidarity with its own states and ruling classes, mobilizing against the sacrifices imposed on it and in the perspective of its own emancipation through revolution, the rush towards war mobilization can be stopped.

Comrades, workers,

It will not be demonstrations, however courageous, such as the one recently staged by the so-called “flotilla,” nor will it be the feeble pacifist propaganda supported by the parties of the so-called left, that will put an end to the massacres we are witnessing. Only the preparation and unfolding of the revolutionary movement of the working classes can stop the third imperialist war. Only with the revolutionary overthrow of the regime of Capital (a regime of exploitation, death, and destruction) can all wars finally be stopped forever.

There can be no peace as long as the regime of Capital remains in place.

Workers must orient themselves towards this perspective and mobilize, rebuilding their own organizations for economic defense and rediscovering the leadership of the political party of the class, against the false parties of the left and the collaborationist unions.

October 3, 2025
International Communist Party
(The International Communist)