Mücadele Birliği (Struggle Unity, Türkiye)
We are living through a period of intense and open transformation, the era of the revolutionary transition to socialism. We identified this period as “new era” which includes the global civil war between the world proletariat and laboring people, and the imperialist financial capital and comprador bourgeoisie at the end of the last century.
On the other hand, this is the process of “full annexation” by imperialism. This is no longer the classic model of indirect domination through alone. Today, monopoly capital, in its crisis-ridden decay, moves to directly and totally subsume dependent nations, dismantling the last vestiges of their sovereignty to plunder their resources and absorb their markets completely. This is imperialism in its most aggressive, desperate, and naked form.
The deepening crises of the capitalist system have given rise to a global revolutionary situation. The inherent contradictions of capitalism are exploding simultaneously across the globe—from the battlefields of economic war to the occupied territories of nations fighting for liberation. This is not a series of isolated conflicts, but a single global civil war between the camp of international capital and the emerging camp of the global proletariat and oppressed peoples.
In the face of this burgeoning revolutionary potential, the imperialist beast has shown its true face: fascism! It can no longer rule solely through the deceptive veneer of bourgeois democracy. Consequently, it increasingly relies on its sharpest weapon: fascism.
As is well known, the Communist International (Comintern) based its analysis of fascism on the study of monopoly capitalism. Thus, to understand fascism’s global situation today, we must start from the current state of monopoly capitalism, finance capital, and the capitalist mode of production worldwide.
Fascism’s class basis is monopoly capital; its essence is a counterrevolutionary, anti-communist movement. While its forms vary by country and era, this core remains.
In the 90 years since the Comintern analyzed fascism, capitalist commodity production, the social productivity of labor, and the development of productive forces have reached unprecedented scales. Parallel to this—and as its result—capital accumulation and its concentration in the hands of a few monopolies have grown to magnitudes incomparable to Lenin’s era of imperialism.
This historical development has generated staggering wealth on one pole and staggering misery on the other. The contradiction now shakes capitalism to its foundations. The productive forces, having outgrown the capitalist mode of production that encases them like a suffocating shell, are fracturing it at every seam. The great social upheavals we witness today stem from this contradiction demanding resolution by humanity itself. Across the world, the working class, laborers, and oppressed peoples are rising against capitalism. Today, proletarian revolutions advance on a world scale.
It’s also well-known fact that NATO admitted that “the 21st century would be a century of uprising” at the end of 90’s. After that, on September 11, 2001, US imperialism formalized this by declaring a “global civil war.”
Monopoly capital, now concentrated in a handful of imperialist powers, can no longer sustain its growth through old methods of exploitation (e.g., indirect “dependency”). To survive, it imposes “full economic annexation” on nations within the capitalist system.
U.S. hegemony and imperialism are collapsing. The revolutionary situation has emerged globally. Social revolutions and popular uprisings are an actual fact on every continent. To halt this, monopolies deploy fascism as a counterrevolutionary weapon, mobilizing transnational fascist forces (e.g., Boko Haram, ISIS, neo-Nazis). In this sense, fascism now operates as an “international reactionary front”.
Fascism is not an aberration; it is the terror tool used by dying capitalism against the world revolution. We see it in the rise of ultra-nationalist, racist, and authoritarian forces, both as formal state power in some countries and as a paramilitary and ideological reserve army for capital everywhere. Its purpose is to crush dissent, disorganize the working class, and violently suppress any revolutionary development.
Therefore, the fight against imperialism and the fight against fascism are two fronts in the same war. However, to believe that one can successfully wage an anti-imperialist struggle without it being inherently anti-capitalist is a fatal error. Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism. To fight the consequence without fighting the root is to tend to the symptoms while the disease rages on. A struggle that merely seeks a “fairer” deal within the imperialist system, or a more “sovereign” capitalism, is doomed to fail.
True liberation can only be achieved by confronting the capitalist system itself. The task of revolutionaries is to arm the masses with this understanding, to build a united front against the twin horrors of imperialism and its fascist enforcers, and to advance the struggle towards its only logical conclusion: the overthrow of the capitalist order and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat on a world scale. The global civil war is here. Our duty is to win it.
The international communist movement must practically build an international front against the imperialist attacks on peoples. The international communist movement must practically form an international front against the imperialists’ attacks on the people.
We see that working peoples and young revolutionary forces are fighting voluntarily against fascism and the forces of counter-revolution. We know of the international fighters fighting for the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics. Revolutionaries, including our comrades, rushed to Rojava to fight against ISIS and the fascist Turkish state. In the past, we know that the International Brigades were formed against Franco fascism. We know about the international fighters, including our comrades, who fought for the Palestinian Revolution against Israeli Zionism in Palestine. But now, unfortunately, very little of this movement is organized and most of it is unorganized, spontaneous.
It has become the unenviable task of the international communist movement to reverse this situation, to give an organized expression to this international solidarity, to give life once again to the internationalist revolutionary spirit of comrades Fidel and Che.
Venceremos!
