The Harris-Walz ticket will not change the U.S. commitment to war and imperialism. In fact, it will expand it under the cover of domestic liberalism.
Tim Walz is a retired master Army sergeant amd long-time member of the National Guard. He has voted to fund almost every way the U.S. has fought since 2007. He has actually voted to the right of many Democrats when it comes to funding U.S. wars.
The Democratic Party has changed killers. Kamala Harris, a cop lover, former prosecutor, and a woman who has praised Zionism and rode shotgun to Genocide Joe in the slaughter of 40,000 Palestinians, is now the Presidential rival to Donald Trump. In one of her first official acts as presidential candidate Harris lauded Israel’s right to “self-defense” and attacked protesters in Washington standing up against genocidaire Benjamin Netanyahu’s fascist appeal to the U.S. Congress.
by Puntorojo Editorial Collective
by Puntorojo Editorial Collective · Published June 7, 2024 · Last modified July 29, 2024
The People’s Conference for Palestine was held from May 24th-26th in Detroit, Michigan, home to one of the largest Arab communities in the country. Over 3,400 activists from around the world attended the conference, including a large representation of multi-generational Palestinians from the diaspora. The Steering committee of 15 different organizations, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, Students for Justice in Palestine, The People’s Forum and The ANSWER Coalition among others, described the goal of the conference as being “to serve as a space to assess, strategize and prepare for what is required for us in the next phase of the struggle”. And they achieved these goals.
by Puntorojo Editorial Collective
by Puntorojo Editorial Collective · Published April 21, 2024 · Last modified June 7, 2024
In 1922 the League of Nations issued its Mandate for Palestine which gave the British formal ruling power of the country. The Mandate was part of the carving up of the Middle East territories by western capitalist states after World War I in the so-called Sykes-Picot Agreement. The Mandate was issued at a time when about 78 percent of the indigenous population was Arab or Muslim, and about 9 percent Jewish.
The Mandate also made good on the “Balfour Declaration” of 1917. Lord Balfour, an antisemitic British imperialist, promised the Jewish Zionist movement that Britain would support a homeland for the Jews in Palestine. The Middle East was strategically chosen to further Britain’s dominance in the oil-rich region. As scholar Rashid Khalidi notes, the League of Nations Mandate was an “extraordinary gift to the Zionist movement…the clear implication…is that only one people in Palestine is to be recognized with national rights: the Jewish people.”
These two events effectively made the Jewish Zionist movement a junior partner of Western imperialism. Zionist colonization of historic Palestine was given the full blessing of western capitalist ruling classes who sought to push Jews out on their own nations, while creating a foothold of western power and influence in the Middle East.
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by Puntorojo Editorial Collective · Published April 16, 2024 · Last modified April 21, 2024
The Marxist theory of imperialism argues that capitalist states necessarily seek to conquer and expropriate people, territories, states and nations outside of their own. From that premise, Marxists defend the right of self-defense and self-determination for all countries under imperialist attack. Thus, “Defend Iran” must now be the rallying cry of Marxists everywhere.
Israel and the United States are the imperial aggressors in a war against the people of Iran. Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that saw the popular overthrow of the US-installed and backed Pahlavi monarchy of “Shah of Iran” Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the US has been waging undeclared war against the state and people of Iran. After the attacks of 9-11-2001, then President George W. Bush declared a new era of “generational” imperial warfare starting with Iraq, Iran, and North Korea–deeming the three nations the “Axis of Evil”.
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by Puntorojo Editorial Collective · Published February 9, 2024 · Last modified March 1, 2024
Today, we are living in an historic moment. All over the world, and here in the United States, people are rejecting their government’s support for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Millions in the Arab world, in the Global South, and in the West have taken to the streets to say No More War/End the Israeli Occupation/Free Palestine. But the leaders are not listening to the majority voices. When 60% of Americans are calling for a ceasefire and only a dismal few representatives have come forward to actually introduce and support legislation calling for a ceasefire, the system is beyond broken. Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is even accusing people who support Palestinians of being agents for Russia, and President Genocide Joe Biden has proudly declared himself a Zionist while sending billions of dollars to Israel to kill more Palestinians. It is time for us, the people, to refuse once and for all, to be the silenced majority.
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by Puntorojo Editorial Collective · Published January 23, 2024 · Last modified July 11, 2024
Building an open revolutionary movement and party is non-negotiable under the unsustainable
global capitalist and imperialist system that keeps billions of people around the world in poverty,
oppression, exploitation, violence, and environmental catastrophes.
On August 19-22, thousands of working people are traveling to Chicago to protest Biden and the Democratic Party that has been arming and enabling the Zionist occupation of Palestine and the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.
People across the world have taken action to oppose the Palestinian genocide, as well as the ongoing and imperialist-driven genocides in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in Yemen. The Biden Administration, the Democratic Party, and the aligned Republican Party have responded to protest movements by unleashing state repression and police violence. “Cop Cities” are being built all over the country with the intent to strengthen and build up the state’s armed forces in preparation for the rebellion of the people as they continue to strip away all our rights. The hard right turns being taken by the ruling class is also emboldening far right and fascist forces to take action.
La presentación por Sudáfrica de un caso de genocidio contra el Estado de Israel ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia de los Países Bajos la semana pasada arrojó una luz crucial sobre las horribles condiciones que siguen soportando los Palestinos. Desde que Israel comenzó su guerra contra Gaza en octubre, más de 23.000 Palestinos han muerto, más de 50.000 han resultado heridos y 1,8 millones de personas han sido desplazadas de sus hogares. Más de 9.000 niños Palestinos han muerto. Gaza está al borde de la hambruna. Las enfermedades proliferan en Gaza.
