The most recent bombing of Iran by the United States and Israel is another link in a long chain of imperialist violence and a brutal reality: competing capitalist powers fighting for dominance over land, resources, trade routes, and profits.
It is no surprise that Trump and his warhawks chose to bomb Iran. The Democrats' silence on this attack shows their greenlighting of it. Despite his talk of being the “Peace President,” Trump and co are at the helm of expanding military actions with no end in sight: Venezuela, Ukraine, Greenland, Canada, Cuba etc. Everywhere we look the world’s ruling classes are sharpening their knives to defend markets, oil fields, shipping lanes, and geopolitical advantage.
Imperialism is not an accident. It is a natural outgrowth of capitalism itself. As capitalism’s crisis continues to worsen, sanctions, proxy wars, regime change operations, and direct military strikes are what the bosses turn to.
The bombing of Iran must be understood in this global context: as a warning sign of escalating rivalry between the U.S. and China, Iran’s ally. This may spiral into a regional war — and beyond that, toward a catastrophic world conflict.
Who Pays the Price?
Workers in Iran, Israel, the United States, China, and across the globe will be told to wave flags and defend “national interests.” They will be conscripted, displaced, bombed, and impoverished. They will be turned into cannon fodder while corporate executives and political elites calculate profits and power from a safe distance.
The same system that closes hospitals, underfunds schools, and drives up the cost of living suddenly finds limitless money for missiles and military bases. The same politicians who preach austerity at home demand unity behind war abroad. Racism and nationalism are used to divide working people and convince them that their enemy is a worker in another country — rather than the ruling class that exploits them all.
The Only Solution is a Communist Revolution!
The path forward lies not in choosing one capitalist camp over another, but in building international solidarity against a system that breeds war. Only a mass international movement will crush the racist and sexist profit system that concentrates wealth in the hands of the few, and replace it with a system run by workers, who will harness the enormous potential of all and distribute the fruits of their labor according to need.
PLP has been at the forefront of the communist movement for over 50 years, immersing ourselves in militant working-class struggles in the schools, universities, hospitals, factories, military and churches! We advocate that only a mass international movement of millions fighting directly for communist economic relations will destroy capitalism, its racist artificial borders and its endless imperialist wars! Fight back against these bombings! Fight for communism! Join PLP today!