Wars, ‘natural’ disasters, economic crisis... Capitalism is a dead end! We must overthrow the whole system!

With the intensification of bombing in Ukraine and Russia, and the new outbreak of barbarism in Potrovsk, the endless policy of terror and destruction continues to rain down on civilian populations. In the Middle East, the Israeli army relentlessly pursues its genocidal bombing and launches a new bloody operation, a vast plan to conquer an already ruined Gaza. The devastated territories and countless victims bear witness everywhere to the exacerbation of imperialist conflicts. Capitalist wars are inexorably bogged down on every continent, caught up in a mad logic of scorched earth, an inexhaustible headlong rush into destruction and the spread of chaos. The resurgence of the nuclear threat and the accompanying verbal escalation are a chilling expression of this.
In this context, the staging of the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, and the one in Washington with European leaders and Zelensky, offered a spectacle that obviously did nothing to change the horror of war: the divorce between the European powers and Uncle Sam, the unpredictability and discredit of American diplomacy, and the vacuity of the talks only serve to highlight the acceleration of global chaos and the historical impasse represented by the capitalist system. This nightmarish situation fuels fears and serves to justify an arms race that poses even greater threats to humanity.

On all fronts, the bourgeoisie is demonstrating that it has no future to offer other than war, misery and disasters of all kinds. In a totally irresponsible and criminal manner, under the weight of the acute economic crisis, it also shamelessly continues to destroy the environment, exacerbating global warming and a whole series of forms of pollution that directly threaten humanity, and first and foremost the poorest. Every year, the consequences are becoming more and more visible, with this summer's heatwave once again marked by mega-fires across Europe, devastating wide geographical areas, particularly in the Mediterranean arc (Spain, Portugal, Greece, southern France, etc.). This is a grim picture, a striking confirmation of the acceleration of the decomposition of the capitalist system, where all crises and disasters feed off each other in a veritable downward spiral.

Faced with this apocalyptic world, the bourgeoisie, with its back against the wall, has no choice but to launch massive attacks on all fronts, as it does everywhere else. As always, the proletariat must pay for the crisis and the war economy out of its own pocket, with its sweat and even its blood. The ruling class is thus showing that it has no real solution, no way of reversing the course of the tragedy it has created through its plundering and the competitive logic of its dying system.
Is the future then without hope? If we rely on the ruling class, its electoral promises and lies dangling ‘democracy’ and ‘social justice’ before our eyes to better conceal the impasse of its system, we are lost. On the other hand, there is indeed a social force capable of offering a real perspective: the international proletariat.

Capitalism in decline, entangled in its contradictions and generalised competition, no longer has any real reforms to offer the proletariat. It can only attack its living conditions, squeezing it ever harder like a lemon. Our class therefore has absolutely nothing to gain from this system. But because it has no particular interest other than struggle, because it is an exploited class at the heart of global production, it also has the particularity of being a revolutionary class. It alone, through the universal conditions of its exploitation, possesses the weapons to break the chains of capitalism  by abolishing its fundamental social relations, based on the exploitation of man by man.

The history of the labour movement bears witness to the creative power of the working class, the social force of its struggle, and its ability to offer a revolutionary vision for a liberated, classless society. The Paris Commune, the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the revolutionary wave of 1917-1923 show that this is not simply the dream of utopians but a real historical movement, the product of material necessity.

Today, after thirty years of stagnation, a decline in its militancy and consciousness, this same proletariat, even if its new generations are less experienced, is back on the path of struggle. During the summer of 2022, the massive movement in Great Britain, dubbed the “Summer of Discontent”, marked the beginning of a real rupture. This is in the sense that there is immense anger and a strong combativeness in struggles all over the world (which the bourgeoisie takes great care to conceal with a huge media blackout): France, the United States, Canada, Korea, Belgium... Through these struggles, described everywhere as ‘historic’, we are witnessing a spectacular return of the combativeness of the proletariat, fuelled by an underground maturation of working-class consciousness. The proletariat is no longer prepared to accept attacks without protest, as demonstrated once again by the struggles in Britain in 2022 and elsewhere thereafter, with the same slogan: “Enough is enough!”

The massive attacks that workers are once again facing must lead them to fight back. The working class has no real choice but to fight. The struggle will be long and difficult, fraught with pitfalls and obstacles erected by the bourgeoisie and the very rottenness of its system. Revolutionaries and the most militant minorities already have a particular role and responsibility in this context: to get involved, to prepare to stimulate the struggles by intervening in them as soon as possible in a decisive manner, to revive the workers' memory, to defend internationalism and class principles. Faced with intense democratic propaganda, particularly from the left and leftists, and faced with the great danger of inter-classism (those struggles in which the demands and means of struggle of the working class are drowned out by the demands of the ‘people,’ small business owners, the petty bourgeoisie, etc.), revolutionary minorities and the working class must defend their autonomy and their methods of struggle, which are the defence of communist and workers' meeting places, general assemblies, strikes and mass street demonstrations. This struggle must be as broad as possible, determined, but also and above all conscious.
WH, 1 September 2025