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Pictured: Occupied Palestine, June 2025\u2014 Two thousand Jewish and Palestinian protesters marched in Haifa against the Zionist genocide in Gaza. Amid escalating protests, Israeli activists have attempted to illegally bring desperately needed supplies into Gaza as it is battered by a fierce winter storm and disastrous flooding.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Year in Review<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

With this issue, we close a momentous year for the international working class and our International Communist Workers\u2019 Party (ICWP).
\nSome moments are highlights.<\/strong>
\nIn March, our small Tel Aviv collective gathered its courage. It brought communism to masses protesting the continuing Gaza genocide. Now meetings overflow with new friends and recruits who are spreading Red Flag further.
\nA high school student in Kariega (South Africa) organized 250 classmates to fight for a math teacher. She brough 18 of them to ICWP\u2019s May Day event. She joined the party and continues to give powerful leadership to our work.
\nThe ICWP garment collective in Bengaluru (India) mobilized Hindu and Muslim workers, including undocumented Bangladeshi workers, to join the May Day celebration. Defying the ruling party\u2019s anti-Muslim fascists, they wore red Sari and red Hijab to show that \u201cthe colour of communism unites people of different cultures.\u201d
\nYounger comrades took charge of the ICWP website. New friends in Los Angeles are gathering with us to discuss communism. Some write for Red Flag and help with articles.
\nWe happily welcomed comrades\u2019 babies into our global communist community.
\nOther moments have been profoundly sad. <\/strong>
\nWe have lost so many class siblings to imperialist bombs, bullets, disease, and starvation in Palestine, the Caribbean, Sudan, Congo. So many lost to floods, fires, poisoned air, and other environmental disasters caused by capitalism\u2019s ruthless drive for maximum profits.
\nOver a thousand migrants died crossing the central Mediterranean this year. Two hundred fifty died in Latin America from January to June, trying to reach the US. In the USA we see neighbors kidnapped and deported. Dozens have died in custody.
\nMany of us are mourning the deaths of treasured ICWP comrades and friends in Gqeberha (South Africa), California (USA), and elsewhere.
\nHow can we best characterize this momentous year? <\/strong>
\nOne aspect is the rapid intensification and consolidation of international fascism. We call it \u201cfascism\u201d when rotten, decaying capitalist governments expose their system\u2019s true nature as a violently racist and viciously sexist class dictatorship.
\nPrevious US presidents, from Obama to Biden, implemented fascist policies on the downlow. Mass deportations, drone strikes, expanded executive power, and more. Trump does more of the same, but loudly and proudly, to build a mass fascist base.
\nTrump embraces open fascists like the Zionist Netanyahu, Argentina\u2019s Milei, Hungary\u2019s Orban, India\u2019s Modi, and Russia\u2019s Putin. His administration eggs on western Europe\u2019s most racist neo-Nazi parties in the name of \u201cpreserving [white] European culture.\u201d He rants appallingly against African workers. He mocks white workers with populist rhetoric while slashing benefits they need like food stamps and health insurance.
\nBut it is in apartheid Occupied Palestine that the stark reality of genocide has most exposed the essentially fascist character of capitalism and imperialism. It\u2019s the \u201cGaza Effect.\u201d What we see in Gaza is what capitalists are prepared to do to us all.
\nBecause the main aspect of 2025 was a massive upsurge of outrage against that genocide.<\/strong> In Great Britain and Europe, in Asia and Africa and the Americas. On college campuses and in the streets. Most significantly, the Gaza genocide galvanized large groups of industrial workers into political strikes. These sparked general strikes with political and economic demands and slogans.
\nIn Great Britain, older workers were arrested for opposing genocide by holding signs supporting Palestine Action. That kind of repression exposed more capitalist rulers and stimulated broader protests. The \u201cGaza Effect\u201d has politicized many workers and youth who hadn\u2019t previously paid much attention.
\nInter-imperialist conflicts continue to intensify. The war in Ukraine is increasingly deadly. One third of the US Navy is in the Caribbean. Trump threatens all-out war on Venezuela. Armed conflicts still rage in Myanmar, Kashmir, Ethiopia, Syria, and more.
\nWhen the masses are in motion, what communists do (or fail to do) matters more than ever. Our party made modest advances this year. We must prepare to do even better in fighting for communism in 2026, especially among industrial workers and soldiers.<\/p>\n

Read Genocide in Palestine Demands Communist Revolution<\/em> <\/b>here<\/a><\/p>\n

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