Richard Mellor
7-16-25
Shame on the US and the western "settler colonial bloc" in their backing and support for this genocide against the Palestinian people. This settler colonial bloc, to use Ms Albanese term are not simply complicit, or enabling the Zionist regime in this genocide; they are leading partners, more responsible than the Israelis who could not have done this without their backing, financial, military and diplomatic support in violation of basic human rights and international law.
The leaders of the western settler colonial bloc have been very eager to have the institutions of the United Nations and other international institutions defend international law when it has been violated by leaders of the former colonial countries that are now dominated by imperialist policies. African leaders like Idi Amin and others are fair game for these institutions even when, as is the case with the US, they do not support the institutions or are signatories to their agreements.
In the face of heroic sacrifices made by the Palestinian people in their decades old struggle for the right to self-determination and to return to their land and homes form which they were driven by the Zionist settler regime, it’s evident that this US/Israel offensive has lost the war as the US did in Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam. Millions of people have died in the post war period as the US replaced the former colonial regimes as the dominant plunderer of the resources of the global south
In addition, thousands of young US workers have lost their lives as cannon fodder for these defeated ventures; workers that could be trained to be productive members of US society, benefiting us all. In addition, the US population has been denied social conditions enjoyed by many other industrialized economies as the US military budget consumes trillions of our tax dollars. Afghanistan alone is said to have cost the US taxpayer a couple of trillion dollars to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. As I write, the profits of the major offense industry firms mount.
I have often said that the first victim of US imperialism is the US working class. The intense ideological warfare that spews out from the tightly controlled mass media, the institutions of capitalism like the universities, the pulpit, the entertainment industry and so on, has been very effective.
It has been so in part due to the material conditions that pertained after World War Two and the death of some 57 million people, that is often referred to as the period of the American Dream which is gone never to return. Another is the betrayal of the heads of organized labor that worship the market and see no alternative to capitalism who parroted the capitalist propaganda that the individual is center stage, you can make it if you work hard and if you don’t or if you’re poor it’s your fault.
And the failure of the left, not the Democratic Party left, but socialists, communists, anarchists and millions that would consider themselves anti-capitalist to root themselves in the working class and our communities and build a genuine mass movement at home and internationally that can defeat the global capitalist offensive and usher in a new economic and political system of production.
This Brics movement is not it. It reflects the decay of the domination of western capitalism and its ideals, but it is a positive step to witness divisions between the nations states of capitalism on an international scale.
That new economic political system on the backs of international workers movement would have to be a global federation of democratic socialist states, working in cooperation with each other for the production of human needs in harmony with the natural world not at war with it. We can’t “dominate” nature, we are an integral part of it.
It can dominate us though.
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