Since the creation of the Israeli state in 1948, there has never been peace for the Palestinians. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, which released an estimate in May last year, some 134,000 Palestinians had been killed by the Israeli state.
In virtually every election held in every district and every state on 4 November, Democrats improved on their performance in last year’s presidential election. And in many places, they exceeded their most optimistic predictions. “No Kings” went to the polls.
The challenge for the revolutionary movement continent-wide is to build influence amid the instability of a spent economic model and seemingly scattering political memory in the whirlwind.
Our leaders talk of peace. In reality, we are witnessing the beginning of the brutality that is to come if the capitalists are allowed to blast their way through in the coming decades.
In the first week of the so-called ceasefire, the Israeli army killed 97 Palestinians. Imagine if it had been 97 Israelis killed. There would be no handwringing about the ceasefire holding. It would have been wall-to-wall justifications for Israel to continue the genocide.
Activism in neighbourhoods around Chicago shows that thousands of working people are willing to stand against the authoritarianism coming from the Trump administration in ways that elites at institutions like universities, corporations and the Democratic Party are not.
The world is rapidly changing—2025 has provided us with the strongest signs in years that the space for socialist politics is opening. Now is the time to seize the moment.
