The Comintern and the Palestinian Question
This article was written three years ago, in the immediate aftermath of the tragic events of October 7, 2023. It was precisely that unprecedented escalation of violence in the Middle East that served as the impetus to turn to the historical roots of the conflict and analyse the Palestinian question from the standpoint of proletarian internationalism. The significance of this work today, three years later, has only grown. The past years of endless bloodshed, destruction, and “geopolitical” games have clearly demonstrated that bourgeois nationalism – both in the form of Zionism and in the form of jihadism – leads the proletarian masses into a dead end. It serves as an excellent tool in the hands of world imperialism, which continues to pit peoples against each other to preserve its dominance in the region. The historical experience of the 1920s debates described in the article reminds us of the main point: the genuine emancipation of wage workers is unattainable within a nationalist paradigm. Only the joint class struggle of the Arab and Jewish proletariat against their oppressors and all kinds of imperialist puppet masters is capable of breaking the vicious circle of hatred. Today, this internationalist appeal of the Comintern sounds not like an archival slogan, but rather as the only possible and vitally necessary strategy for the emancipation of the working class.