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In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

I am writing this letter to the young people whose awakened conscience has moved them to defend the oppressed women and children of Gaza.

Dear university students in the United States of America, this message is an expression of our empathy and solidarity with you. As the page of history is turning, you are standing on the right side of it.

You have now formed a branch of the Resistance Front and have begun an honorable struggle in the face of your government's ruthless pressure—a government which openly supports the usurper and brutal Zionist regime.

The greater Resistance Front which shares the same understandings and feelings that you have today, has been engaged in the same struggle for many years in a place far from you. The goal of this struggle is to put an end to the blatant oppression that the brutal Zionist terrorist network has inflicted on the Palestinian nation for many years. After seizing their country, the Zionist regime has subjected them to the harshest of pressures and tortures.

The apartheid Zionist regime's genocide today is the continuation of extreme oppressive behavior which has been going on for decades. Palestine is an independent land with a long history. It is a nation comprised of Muslims, Christians, and Jews.

After the World War, the capitalist Zionist network gradually imported several thousand terrorists into this land with the help of the British government. These terrorists attacked cities and villages, murdered tens of thousands of people and pushed out multitudes into neighboring countries. They seized their homes, businesses and farmlands, formed a government in the usurped land of Palestine and called it Israel.

After England's initial help, the United States became the greatest supporter of this usurper regime, ceaselessly providing it with political, economic, and military support. In an act of unforgivable recklessness, the United States even opened the way and provided assistance for the regime's production of nuclear weapons.

The Zionist regime used an iron-fist policy against the defenseless people of Palestine from the very beginning and has, day by day, intensified its brutality, terror and repression in complete disregard of all moral, human and religious values.

The United States government and its allies refused to even frown upon this state terrorism and ongoing oppression. And today, some remarks by the US government regarding the horrific crimes taking place in Gaza are more hypocritical than real.

The Resistance Front emerged from this dark environment of despair, and the establishment of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran expanded and fortified it.

The global Zionist elite – who owns most US and European media corporations or influences them through funding and bribery – has labeled this courageous, humane resistance movement as "terrorism".

Can one call a people a terrorist nation for defending themselves on their own land against the crimes of the occupying Zionists? And is helping such a nation and strengthening it, an act of terrorism?

The oppressive leaders of global hegemony mercilessly distort even the most basic human concepts. They portray the ruthless, terrorist Israeli regime as acting in self-defense – yet they portray the Palestinian Resistance which defends its freedom, security and the right to self-determination, as terrorists!

I would like to assure you that today the circumstances are changing. A different fate awaits the important region of West Asia. The people's conscience has awakened on a global scale, and the truth is coming to light.

Moreover, the Resistance Front has grown in strength and will become even stronger.

And history is turning a page.

Besides you students from dozens of American universities, there have also been uprisings in other countries among academics and the general public.

The support and solidarity of your professors is a significant and consequential development. This can offer some measure of comfort in the face of your government's police brutality and the pressures it is exerting on you. I too am among those who empathize with you young people, and value your perseverance.

The Quran's lesson for us Muslims and all of humanity, is to stand up for that which is right: "So be steadfast as you have been commanded" (11:112).

The Quran's lesson for human relations is: "Do not oppress and do not be oppressed" (2:279).

The Resistance Front advances by a comprehensive understanding and the practice of these and hundreds of other such commands – and will attain victory with the permission of God.

My advice to you is to become familiar with the Quran.

Sayyid Ali Khamenei

May 25, 2024

Excerpts from the Memories of Nouri al-Maliki, the former Prime Minister of Iraq

When Al-Hashd al-Sha'bi (Popular Mobilization Forces) was formed and when ISIS emerged and occupied Mosul and Al-Anbar provinces - of course, Al-Anbar was not fully occupied and only some parts of it had come under their occupation - American forces were present in Iraq with all their helicopters, cannons, tanks, arms and ammunition, and the so-called set up to fight terrorism. This was when their stand towards us became absolutely clear. They refused to equip our forces and they refused to supply us with helicopters and tanks. They even stopped giving us Hummer vehicles and refused to provide us with the equipment required to fight terrorism; while they (the terrorists) were equipped with certain special arms.

We could not even get the arms and the equipment we had paid them for. For example, instead of giving us M1 Abrams tanks, they would give us such tanks the range of the bullets of which was only 600 meters. This was the stance of Americans towards us. They removed all of their support and stopped everything and instead began to provide support to terrorist groups affiliated with ISIS. We were stuck and did not know who to turn to. We sent different commissions to Poland and Bulgaria and bought arms and equipment from them but would not give us the arms we needed on purchase and while we were engaged in a confrontation with ISIS they were just wanting to start the arms they had sold us. On the other hand, ISIS had emerged much more equipped than our forces. We had tanks but it was not a war of tanks.

ISIS forces had managed to get their hands on parts of our arms in Mosul but most of those arms had fallen into the hands of Kurds. The same was the case in Kirkuk. However, even though Kurds had taken those arms when ISIS forces headed towards them the Kurds could not confront them. It was when the Islamic Republic and our forces simultaneously entered the scene. Americans had a strongly negative stand and we were severely under pressure. I realized that I had no option but to go to Russia and meet with Putin. I asked him to give us arms and advanced fighter planes like Mig-29 and Mig-35 and other required arms and the Russians equipped us very quickly.

But the one who really helped us and met our need for weapons was Hajj Qasem (may God bless his soul). We would reach an agreement about the type of weapons and the next day they would arrive in Iraq. We were not given them for free, we paid for them. But the difference was that even though we bought weaponry from other countries, we would not get them in time and in bulk. It was only Hajj Qasem who would supply us from the Iranian Army and Revolutionary Guards Corps whenever we were in need and it was what he did that saved the situation. He provided us with the required weaponry and equipment and at the same time help us with his military experience and strategies as well as the equipment that he and his commanders would provide us with. Besides, there were some military experts that accompanied our forces and Al-Hashd al-Sha'bi forces.

We bought many different weapons, equipment, devices, and drones that were used during the war, and Iran attended to our needs. We even found ourselves in urgent need of Sukhoi warplanes and asked Hajj Qasem to sell us Iranian Sukhoi warplanes and we were sold 8 Iranian Sukhoi warplanes with the help of which we could stop many sabotage activities of ISIS.

With the help of Hajj Qasem and Abu Mahdi (may their souls be blessed) we could draw plans and strategies. Abu Mahdi undertook to clear the roads from ISIS forces and ensure the safety of the road leading to Samarra. It was a very challenging and dangerous task because the Samarra road was controlled by hardliners. I must say that it was not only ISIS we were fighting with. There were also some local tribes, which were being used by ISIS. As a matter of fact, ISIS took advantage of the existing situation and instigated these tribes.

The tribal rebels were the same Sunni tribal sheikhs and political figures who claimed they did not know ISIS. In fact, our people were fighting us, and that too in a sectarian movement. Some of them told me: In 1991, you launched an intifada against us, and we will launch an intifada against you in 2014.

Hajj Abu Mahdi (may God bless his soul) reopened this road with great difficulty because all the cities on the road to Samarra were under the control of these tribal forces and many battles took place on this road. Abu Mahdi had to open another way through gardens and orchards and pass the tanks through them; the tanks that were able to reach Samarra and besiege the bands that controlled the road.

In this way, the road was opened and traffic began to flow through it. Then, with the support and planning of Hajj Abu Mahdi and Hajj Qasem, we went to Amerli, which was under siege for 90 days. The Al-Hash al-Sha'bi groups went to Amerli and managed to drive away the hardline tribal forces who had this city under their siege. The Amerli inhabitants are Shiite Turkmens, and the inhabitants of the surrounding villages were all Sunni extremists, known for their extremist history. We finally managed to break the siege of Amerli and make normal life return to the people of this town. In short, it was through direct help and support provided by Hajj Qasem and Hajj Abu Mahdi that we could make something important happen and get rid of ISIS.

General Qasem Soleimani: Iconic Martyr of the Century

"This is a national emergency. Since the beginning of the year, 147 people have been murdered in Palestinian society. The epidemic of crime and violence is the result of years of government neglect and the failure of the Israeli police to confront organized crime and collect illegal weapons.

A society where entire neighborhoods are left to the mercy of armed gangs is a society that is unsafe for all of us. When the government abandons the safety of Palestinian citizens, it weakens the safety of everyone. This crisis is a systematic failure that affects us all. We are all harmed by this violence, and we all have a role to play in stopping it.

We are building a joint Jewish-Palestinian response to this crisis because silence is not an option. We will continue organizing, disrupting, and building power together until organized crime is confronted with the urgency it demands. We demand decisive enforcement against criminal organizations, the collection of illegal weapons, and real safety and dignity for everyone."

File:Phoenix Memo.pdf

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A Bahraini court has handed down 10-year jail sentences to 12 people in separate cases for expressing support for Iran’s retaliatory attacks against American bases in Persian Gulf Arab countries.

As part of a broader crackdown, Bahrain also revoked the citizenship of 69 people in April. "The ministry in a statement listed the dozens stripped of their citizenship, which it said included dependents, adding they 'were found to have supported hostile Iranian acts, including colluding with foreign entities.'"

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"But when they sensed Our might, behold, they fled from it."

Surah Al-Anbya 21:12

The failure of legislative reform and the capture of the state apparatus by finance capital has demonstrated that spontaneous mass movements (such as 50501 and No Kings) alone cannot dismantle the machinery of U.S. imperialism. The ruling class possesses the structural power to absorb dissent while maintaining its dominance. To overcome this, the working class requires a vanguard party: a centralized, disciplined organization capable of transforming local grievances into a coherent revolutionary program. The question is not whether we should form a party, but whether we have the courage to form a party capable of defending the working class against the imperialist state in all its forms.

From Trade Union Consciousness to Political Revolution

The American worker, left to his own devices under capitalism, develops only "trade union consciousness": the desire for better wages and conditions (single-payer healthcare) within the existing system rather than revolutionary political consciousness. Spontaneous protests lack the theoretical depth to challenge the root cause of exploitation: private ownership of the means of production. A vanguard party provides the necessary theoretical framework to connect the isolated struggles (mass incarceration, housing insecurity, toxic air pollutants) into a unified attack on the system itself.

Through democratic centralism, the party ensures that once a line is decided through democratic debate, all members execute it with unity of action, preventing the fragmentation that allows the state to pick off movements one by one. Without this discipline, resistance remains reactive rather than strategic. This discipline does not mean imposing orders from above; through the Mass Line, the party aggregates the scattered opinions of the working class into coherent demands and returns them as policy.

Why We Must Not Support Democrats or Republicans

In America, the Democrats and Republicans present themselves as rivals. This is a fraud designed to confuse the working class. In reality, they are cut from the same cloth. The American two-party system functions as a mechanism to limit political imagination to choices sanctioned by capital. Both Democrats and Republicans serve as managers of bourgeois rule, oscillating between soft reformism and open reactionism depending on the mood of the ruling class.

Supporting either party reinforces the legitimacy of a system designed to exclude working-class interests. A vanguard party must operate independently of the Democratic and Republican establishments. Any attempt to work within their framework dilutes revolutionary goals and subjects the movement to bourgeois control. The goal is not to elect representatives who manage capitalism more efficiently, but to build independent working-class power capable of expropriating the oligarchy.

The State Machine and the Art of Conspiracy

We must confront the threats: the FBI, the spies, the courts, the police. It is naive to believe that building a genuine threat to capital will occur without severe consequences. History demonstrates that the U.S. state utilizes a comprehensive apparatus to neutralize revolutionary organizations. Agencies such as the FBI and CIA have a documented history of infiltrating, disrupting, and dismantling leftist groups. Modern digital surveillance adds new layers of risk to organizing efforts. The state will employ tools like RICO statutes, anti-riot laws, and restrictive assembly rights to criminalize revolutionary activity.

To survive these threats, the vanguard party must maintain strict security culture. This includes vetting members rigorously, compartmentalizing information, and training cadres to recognize infiltration tactics. Vulnerability to state agents is not a sign of weakness to be hidden, but a risk to be managed through discipline. True security culture demands material simplicity and the rejection of privilege, as alienation from the masses leaves the organization isolated and vulnerable. A party that cannot protect itself from penetration cannot lead a revolution.

Overcoming Apathy: Turning Despair into Action

Under late-stage capitalism, social alienation is not merely a byproduct but a deliberate strategy employed by the ruling class. Workers are systematically isolated by economic instability, racial divisions, and geographic displacement, creating a landscape of polarization where collective resistance is impossible. The parasitic ruling class relies on this disorganization to maintain hegemony, promoting a culture of hyper-individualism that frames systemic failures as personal shortcomings.

The vanguard party serves as a "school for communism" designed to shatter this isolation. It functions not only to organize but to educate: taking the scattered, raw grievances of individuals (unemployment, pollution, incarceration, etc.) and synthesizing them into a coherent analysis of the capitalist mode of production. Through the Mass Line, the party helps workers realize that their suffering is not unique or accidental, but a shared class experience rooted in exploitation. This transformation turns passive despair into active political agency.

Apologists for the status quo claim that the American working class is inherently too apathetic or fractured to organize. This view ignores the reality that apathy is often a rational response to years of failed leadership. When movements remain uncoordinated, they inevitably fail, reinforcing the belief that change is impossible. A disciplined party breaks this cycle by demonstrating that organized struggle yields results.

Conclusion

Comrades, the choice is stark. The formation of a vanguard party is not merely an ideological preference; it is a defensive requirement in the face of encircling imperialist power. The establishment parties will co-opt dissent, federal agencies will seek to penetrate leadership, and legal systems will weaponize oppression. The ruling class has no unity, no theory, and no purpose other than greed. Only through a centralized, theoretically grounded, and security-conscious organization can the working class navigate these threats. Without such a structure, the working class remains fragmented and vulnerable to the slow-motion catastrophe of late capitalism.

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Ho Chi Minh. (1960). The Path Which Led Me To Leninism.

Harvey, D. (2014). Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism.

Hersh, S. M. (1974, Dec 22). "Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years." The New York Times.

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Louisiana stands as the "canary in the coal mine" for the United States, exposing the terminal decay of capitalism at its imperialist stage where the fusion of finance capital and the state has forged a sacrifice zone dedicated to extracting profit at the direct expense of human life and ecological viability. The convergence of petro-monopolies, a captured judiciary, a bloated prison-industrial complex, and accelerating environmental collapse demonstrates that the system can no longer sustain the conditions necessary for its own reproduction; this is not merely a series of policy failures but the structural inevitability of late-stage imperialism where the ruling class prioritizes accumulation over survival. In this landscape of slow-motion catastrophe, the logic of capital has superseded the logic of survival, creating an uninhabitable zone akin to the fallout of a nuclear explosion where the working class is left to manage the consequences of decisions made by a distant, insulated elite. Louisiana serves as a definitive case study where the extraction of value from both resources and human bodies has reached a terminal phase, illustrating how finance capital accelerates the decay of late capitalism by transforming a territory into a parasitic sinkhole for the benefit of the oligarchy while the very foundation of the system crumbles around it.

The Fission of Finance Capital and the State

Monopoly capitalism has fused industrial and bank capital with the state apparatus, creating a financial oligarchy that dictates policy in Louisiana. The judiciary is no longer an independent branch of government; it is a direct instrument of the petro-capitalist oligarchy, confirmed by investigations revealing federal judges holding stock in companies like Chevron and Exxon while presiding over cases against them. When the state apparatus protects the interests of the monopolies against coastal communities, the "democratic" republic reveals itself as a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The Louisiana state government is not a neutral arbiter but the Executive Committee of the Bourgeoisie, structurally bound to protect petro-monopolies at the expense of public welfare.

The Export of Capital and the Parasitic State

Imperialism is a system where finance capital seeks new markets and resources, often creating parasitic states that rely on extraction rather than production. The state of Louisiana has become a dependency of the global oil monopoly. The state of Louisiana abandoned its duty to provide for the people and instead functions as a mechanism to manage the surplus population created by the cyclical crises of the extractive industry: funding expansions of Angola and other prisons during oil booms while cutting social services during busts. Prioritizing the short-term profits of the shrimp/oil lobby over the long-term survival of the nation's children and working class is the ultimate sign of a reactionary regime incapable of managing even its own territory.

Reformism vs. Revolutionary Necessity

The failure of Senate Bill 356 to mandate real-time air monitoring is a prime example of why reformism should be rejected. Its defeat by lobbyists proves that within the capitalist framework, genuine reform is impossible when it threatens profit margins. The legislature acts as a "talking shop" that debates minor adjustments while the machinery of death operates unimpeded. The LOCAETA study further reveals that even "green" technologies like Carbon Capture and Storage often fail to deliver local co-benefits, proving that technological fixes under capitalism only serve to extend the life of the polluting industries. The working class must dismiss the idea that voters can simply "vote out" bad politicians like Landry. The system has lost the capacity to manage its own territory. As long as the petro-capitalist monopoly controls the media, the funding of campaigns, and the economic lifelines of Louisiana, the political superstructure remains rigidly aligned with the base of oil extraction. Reform is impossible; only a radical rupture of the system can address this crisis.

Ideological Hegemony and False Consciousness

The ruling class maintains power not just by force, but by controlling ideas (hegemony), preventing the working class from recognizing their shared class interests. Landry framed the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion Project cancellation as protecting "fishing culture," pitting working-class fishermen against environmental survival, dividing the working class along identity lines rather than uniting them against the industry destroying both their livelihood and their homes. The manipulated nostalgia of "place attachment" preventing migration only serves to keep the workforce trapped in a dying asset rather than organizing for systemic change. Cultural narratives and resistance to migration serve as ideological buffers, blunting class consciousness and delaying revolutionary organization. A disciplined vanguard party is required to link the struggle against toxic emissions with the struggle against mass incarceration and unemployment, raising consciousness and transforming scattered grievances into a coherent revolutionary program.

The State as an Instrument of Repression

The convergence of mass incarceration and environmental destruction highlights the dual nature of the capitalist state: it must exploit the labor of the body and suppress (incarcerate) the body. The state is essentially a special body of armed men used to suppress the working class. The "law and order" policies of Jeff Landry are not about safety; they are about disciplining the proletariat in the face of economic stagnation. The high cancer rates and the lack of monitoring are forms of slow violence, a structural equivalent to the physical violence of the police. You cannot separate the "health crisis" from the "class war." The police, the courts, and the toxic air are all components of a unified apparatus designed to maintain the dominance of the petro-monopoly.

Louisiana represents the terminal phase of U.S. imperialism operating on domestic soil. Just as U.S. imperialism extracts value from the Global South, it now cannibalizes its own internal periphery, proving that the crisis is universal and cannot be solved within national borders. Louisiana is not simply "failing"; it is functioning by design under late capitalism. The judiciary is corrupt, the legislature is captive, the environment is sacrificed, and the working class is imprisoned. The fusion of finance capital and the state, the parasitic extraction of resources, and the repression of the surplus population creates a self-destructive loop. Reform is impossible because the ruling class has made itself indispensable to the destruction of the territory itself. The path forward requires the organized dismantling of the petro-capitalist order, the dismantling of the prison-industrial complex, and the establishment of a planned socialist economy that prioritizes the metabolic repair of the Earth and the liberation of the oppressed classes. The crisis is no longer a question of policy adjustment, but of class capacity.

Sources:

The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.

LOCAETA Data Explorer: Industrial Emissions and Decarbonization

Reshaping Coastal Louisiana

Forty Years of Change in Louisiana’s Wetlands

Lenin, V. I. (1917). Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

Luxembourg, R. (1900). Reform or Revolution?

Gramsci, A. (1971). Selections from the Prison Notebooks.

Foster, J. B. (2000). Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature.

Davis, A. Y. (2003). Are Prisons Obsolete?

The police in Dorset are not "public servants"; they are the armed apparatus of the landlords and capitalists, using their monopoly on violence to crush a spontaneous, autonomous form of social organization. The police narrative of "protecting the community" is a facade for protecting property rights and enforcing social conformity.

The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, specifically Section 64, was legislation designed to dismantle the free party and rave culture in the 1990s. By granting police the power of warrantless entry and the authority to seize the means of production (sound systems and generators) without judicial oversight, the law ensures that the state can unilaterally dismantle any gathering it deems threatening. The crushing of a de-commodified gathering with riot gear demonstrates that the law exists solely to enforce economic hierarchy, while its continued application in 2026 to destroy community events reveals a deliberate continuity of state policy aimed at suppressing non-conformist youth culture.

To enforce this suppression, the state relies on ideological smokescreens like the "violent and hostile reception" and "lack of medical care" narratives. The violence was not inherent to the rave; it was produced by the state's decision to deploy a militarized force against an unarmed, peaceful crowd. The safety argument is a lie; the real goal is to destroy the space that exists outside the capitalist market.

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This crisis is not a bug; it is a feature of the system. The contradiction between the forces of production (advanced agricultural technology and global supply chains) and their relations with monopolistic ownership, imperialist geopolitical maneuvering, and reactionary state policy is not a result of "market fluctuations" or "natural disasters." It is a structural outcome of capitalist accumulation, imperialist intervention, and the deliberate dismantling of social safety nets to transfer wealth from the working class to the capitalist class.

The parasitic rentier capitalists are a financial oligarchy acting in concert. The surge in fertilizer and fuel prices is directly tied to the illegal conflict in the Middle East, specifically the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. imperialist apparatus utilizes its military dominance to disrupt these global supply chains, creating artificial scarcity. This artificial scarcity is then exploited by domestic monopoly capital to extract excess profits. This is not an accidental conflict but imperialist maneuvers designed to secure markets and resources for the core capitalist powers. The resulting spike in fertilizer and fuel prices is the cost of imperialism paid by the working class.

We should have no patience for the liberal defense of "fiscal responsibility" or "fraud prevention." H.R. 1, "One Big Beautiful Act," is legislative violence and a direct attack on the working class; cutting $187 billion from SNAP, removing eligibility for lawful immigrants, and expanding harsh work requirements. The state is not a neutral referee; it is the executive committee of the bourgeoisie. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins attributes the loss of 4.3 million beneficiaries to "fraud" and a "better economy." Data from 2023 contradicts these claims; fraud is less than 1% of total participants. These are common tactics of bourgeois ideology to shift blame onto the victims of the system. This bill shifts costs to states and incentivizes the denial of benefits to eligible people; a system where survival is contingent on the ability to navigate bureaucratic hurdles and meet arbitrary demands for labor. This underscores the necessity of proletarian democracy to replace the current bourgeois state apparatus; the working class cannot simply "vote" for better food stamps.

Smaller farms are disproportionately affected by the current rates of fertilizer when compared to larger farm operations, leading to an acceleration of polarization of the countryside, driving smaller farms into bankruptcy and the consolidation of land in the hands of agribusiness giants. This data confirms Lenin's law of the differentiation of the peasantry, splitting the working class even further into a rural bourgeoisie and proletariat. The 30-50% overuse of fertilizer exposes the capitalist drive for maximum yield while ignoring ecological limits and the environmental impact (nitrous oxide emissions, water pollution). Farmers "apply far more fertilizer than required" as an "insurance policy," a symptom of the irrationality of capitalist production where profit motives override ecological stability.

We are in the final crisis of capitalism; the system is so parasitic that it is destroying the very basis of its own existence. The monopoly capitalists, backed by the imperialist state, are strangling the life out of the working class. The "democracy" preached is a sham, a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. The "free market" is a facade for monopoly control and state-backed exploitation; the solution lies not in minor regulatory tweaks but in a fundamental transformation of the relations of production: nationalization of key inputs, restoration and expansion of social safety nets, anti-imperialist foreign policy, and support for smallholder agriculture.

Global food bank resources:

Feeding America - Find Your Local Food Bank

The Felix Project/FareShare: England, Scotland, Wales

The Global FoodBanking Network

European Food Banks Federation

Authorized by Barack Obama on December 17, 2009, Tomahawk cruise missiles carrying cluster munitions targeted the community of Al-Ma'jalah in the Abyan province of Yemen. The U.S. government claimed the target was an al-Qaeda training camp, but investigations by Amnesty International and the Yemeni Parliamentary Committee identified the victims as civilians, including women and children sleeping in their homes; over 41-55 people were killed. Physical evidence recovered from the site, including unexploded BLU 97 cluster bomblets and missile propulsion units, confirmed U.S. involvement despite Yemeni government denials.

Supervised by Pete Hegseth on February 28, 2026, the triple-tap Tomahawk cruise missile strikes on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, targeted schoolchildren, the rescuers, and the clinic. The triple-tap strike went as follows: 1. The first strike hit the school building during class hours, collapsing the roof. 2. The second strike hit a prayer room where survivors and the school principal had gathered. 3. The third strike hit the adjacent Shahid Absalan Specialist Clinic treating the wounded. 156 civilians were killed, including 120 schoolchildren, 26 teachers, and several parents.

We must dismiss the superficial differences between these two men (Democrat and Republican; "diplomat" and war hawk) as pure bourgeois political theater. It is not about the personalities of Obama or Hegseth, but the structural necessity of their actions within the capitalist world system. These two men are two different managers for the same imperialist trust. Two faces of the same monster, the ground beneath them soaked in the blood of Yemeni civilians and Iranian schoolchildren. The Imperialist State remains unchanged; it requires war to survive. It requires the destruction of the periphery to feed the center. The "mistake" in Yemen or Minab is not an error of calculation; it is the necessary logic of capitalism.

Obama represented the phase of liberal imperialism; drones, "smart power" diplomacy, and human rights rhetoric to mask resource extraction and geopolitical dominance. Hegseth represents the phase of open, naked imperialism, where the mask has slipped and the State's violence becomes more direct, utilizing A.I. and massive conventional strikes to suppress resistance. The difference between the liberal and the reactionary is merely the difference between the velvet glove and the iron fist; both serve the same master: the monopoly capital of the United States.

The imperialist, in his desperation to crush the national liberation movement, does not hesitate to turn a school into a graveyard. These are deliberate tactics of state terror. This is not collateral damage, but calculated strategies to break the will of the Iranian population. The imperialist U.S. seeks to demoralize the Iranian resistance by destroying the means of survival and punishing those who try to save lives. The shift from Obama's "signature strike" to Hegseth's "A.I.-targeted triple-tap" demonstrates the intensification of the imperialist's struggle, resorting to increasingly brutal and indiscriminate violence to maintain control and global hegemony. The U.S. proletariat must recognize that their tax dollars are funding the massacre of Iranian children. The working class of the United States and Iran must stand in solidarity against the imperialist bourgeoisie.

Images of missile and cluster munitions point to US role in fatal attack in Yemen

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Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism

The State and Revolution

Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

Socialism and War

The Only True Struggle against Fascism is the Struggle for Proletarian Revolution