1Th May: The only alternative is revolutionary and socialist

Declaration of the Socialist International League (LIS) for International Workers' Day

thirty five years ago, after the fall of the USSR, The bourgeois classes around the world announced a new era of peace, prosperity and progress. But the world has gone and is going in the opposite direction.The barbarity of capitalism falls on the working class and the vast majority of humanity. The social conquests of the postwar are progressively dismantled. The environment is being plundered like never before. The most basic democratic rights are attacked, while xenophobic and reactionary tendencies expand. Colonialism dusts off its worst cruelties, like in Palestine. Old and new imperialist powers are fighting over the distribution of the planet and, for it, multiply the arms race and resort to new wars of conquest. Trump, Putin and Netanyahu are today the most emblematic faces of imperialist and colonial criminality.

Those on the left exalt or claim “multipolarism” as an alternative to Trumpism and as a possible path to peace, They have an inverted view of reality. Precisely the existence of several imperialist poles drives war policies. American imperialism, that after the fall of the USSR aspired to world domination, saw its ambitions frustrated by the rise of Russian imperialism and, especially, of the new Chinese imperialist power. Donald Trump responds to American decline with a radical nationalist turn (America First): break with the old “multilateral” structures of capitalist globalization, trade wars, monopolistic control of America (piracy in Venezuela, threatens Cuba), offensive in the Middle East relying on the Zionist monster, direct negotiating relationship from positions of strength with the other imperialist poles for the distribution of the zones of influence, including Ukraine. The crisis between US imperialism and European imperialisms is a reflection of this turn. European rearmament, starting with Germany, is its consequence.

In this global imperialist competition there are no “good imperialisms”, nor fields to defend or to which to attribute a progressive role.All imperialist powers, old and new, They are enemies of the working class and oppressed peoples. They all trample on their rights to self-determination. for them, the rights of the people are just currency. The abstentions of Russia and China at the UN regarding Trump and Netanyahu's colonial plan for Palestine, in exchange for EE concessions. THE. about the war in Ukraine, They are an example of this cynical bartering.

Opposing all imperialist poles means unconditionally defending all the oppressed peoples that they attack or invade., regardless of the aggressor imperialism and the political leadership of those peoples.Unlike other organizations, The LIS does not apply “double standards”. We unconditionally defend the Palestinian people against Zionist genocidal barbarism, with political independence from Hamas. We unconditionally defend Iran against US-Zionist aggression, while we fight his theocratic regime from the perspective of Iranian workers and youth. We unconditionally defend Lebanon against the invasion and massacres perpetrated by the State of Israel from a position independent of the faltering Lebanese government and the political strategy of Hezbollah.. We unconditionally defend Ukraine and its right to resist invading Russian imperialism, while opposing Zelensky's bourgeois government and defending the right to self-determination of the populations of Donbass. In all cases, We link national liberation struggles to a socialist perspective, the only one capable of fully guaranteeing the self-determination of peoples.

A new generation has taken to the streets and squares of the world against the genocide in Palestine.It is the same generation that mobilizes in the US. THE. contra Trump, who opposes European governments, to its complicity with Zionism and its arms race, and that in various countries in Africa and Asia it has risen up against oppressive regimes until they have been overthrown.. Getting ahead of this generation is a task of the international working class.

The international working class is an immense potential force, but lacks self-awareness. Their conscience has suffered a profound setback on a global scale due to the responsibility of their political and union leaderships.. Returning that consciousness and providing it with a revolutionary program is the task of revolutionary Marxists around the world..

The historical space of reformism has long been exhausted.First with the end of the economic boom, then with the fall of the USSR and finally with the great capitalist crisis of 2008. The current competition between armed imperialisms has definitively buried it. The old and new reformist left (Sánchez, Lula, Latin American bourgeois or petty bourgeois nationalism) They periodically try to revive the illusion of reforming capitalism. But their governments end up managing counter-reforms. The so-called “radical” left that participate in these governments suffer strong setbacks (like in Italy, Greece or currently in Spain). And it is often the most reactionary forces that benefit from these failures..

It's time, so, of a revolutionary left.The historical dilemma of humanity is between revolution and reaction, between socialism and barbarism. Global polarization processes reflect this contradiction. It is about putting the working class in tune with that dilemma. Only a left independent of failed reformism can do it., of ministerial ambitions, of constitutional illusions and subordination to imperialist diplomacy. A left that, in every fight, connect immediate demands with an anti-capitalist perspective: a government of workers based on their own strength and organization.

The International Socialist League (LIS) works on a global scale to build that left and a new revolutionary International that organizes the most combative vanguard of the working class and youth.Building this match is difficult, but it is the only way to a different future for humanity. Unlike other organizations, we do not resort to sectarian proclamations. We are committed to patient unity around a common Leninist program among diverse organizations and currents.. Rigor in principles and rejection of sectarianism: that is the method that has allowed the international development of the LIS, present in forty countries and on all continents. It is the method that we propose to revolutionary Marxists around the world..

Against all imperialisms, old and new

For the defense of all oppressed peoples and their resistance

For the international socialist revolution

For a new revolutionary international