Since 2011/12, with the start of the war of aggression against the Syrian people and government, who rose up in heroic resistance, imperialist plans began to suffer significant setbacks. The first of these was precisely that the lie of their invulnerability and omnipotence was exposed, a myth established since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the bombing of Belgrade.
The anti-imperialist popular resistance in Syria, supported by Russia, shattered the imperialist plans, which had somewhat greater success in Ukraine in 2014 with the imposition of the fascist junta in Kiev—via a color revolution, the so-called Euromaidan. However, the anti-fascist Russian-Ukrainian people of Donbass once again thwarted the imperialist plans, which had come to believe the lies of their spokespersons and ideologues, like those who claimed that “there is no alternative” and that “the end of history” had arrived.
These strategic defeats inflicted on Euro-Atlantic plans, defined by a national, popular, anti-imperialist, and anti-fascist resistance, marked the beginning of a new era; an era of resistance by oppressed peoples against the typical instruments of neocolonialism (based on destabilization, regime changes, disintegration or fragmentation, etc.) that serve to relieve pressure in the imperialist center by shifting its crisis to the periphery of the system.
Likewise, in the imperialist countries themselves, popular movements and struggles emerged as a result of the economic crisis, which opened a period of politicization and organization. This forced the ruling classes to resort to repression, to make efforts in the field of propaganda and information, and to redirect demands into a framework that could be managed from above, which took on a dual character: reformism and reaction. In this way, they were able to stabilize their internal front.
Although the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the socialist bloc, as well as the partial and temporary setback of national liberation movements in the colonies and neocolonies, provided a significant lifeline for imperialism—which had been in crisis since the 1970s—the inexorable decay of this system is once again coming to the surface. And it becomes visible once again through the imperialism’s preferred method of attempting to resolve its bankruptcy, which is none other than war, and yet war has also been the starting point of countless revolutions.
Iniciativa Comunista welcomes this new anti-imperialist gathering, held in the wake of the successes of the Confederation of Sahel States in their independence and their fight against terrorism; under the roof of the Senegalese people who have defeated the puppet Macky Sall; and on the shoulders of revolutionary Pan-Africanism, the legacy of great figures such as Amílcar Cabral, Titina Silá, Samora Machel, Agostinho Neto, Josina Muthemba Machel, Muammar El Ghadaffi, El Uali Mustafá Sayed, and a long list of men and women who continue to celebrate years of immortality. We are confident that it will be a successful event and that it will contribute to defining the path to victory for the peoples over imperialism.
