Since 2014, we have been engaged in an important discussion with the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) regarding various issues. Among them are the nature of imperialism; becoming a defender of a “multi-polar world”; the imperialist character of Chinese and Russian investments and influence in the Islamic Republic of Iran and across the world; the policies of the Iranian regime and its despotic and anti-democratic government; the meaning and essence of the independence of Iran; the right to self-determination of the oppressed nations, not only generally but in the current historical moment, especially the Kurdish nation in Iran and the nations of the Near and Middle East; the revolutionary and anti-imperialist role of the proletariat while the role of Iranian bourgeoisie is counter-revolutionary and only anti-American but not anti-imperialist; the role of women in the democratic struggle and in the transformation process in Iran; and other fundamental aspects related to the strategy and tactics of our Conference.

The parties and the organisations of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML) have concurred on various occasions that the divergent positions held by the Party of Labour (Toufan) of Iran on these aspects over recent years differ substantially from our founding manifesto, our platform of struggle and the ideological and political guidelines of our Conference.

We inform the proletariat and the people of Iran, and all the militants of our parties and organisations, the democratic and anti-imperialist movement, and the forces and organisations of the popular camp that, as a result of this debate and refusal of the Party of Labour (Toufan) of Iran to rectify its positions, it has placed itself outside the ranks of our Conference– a decision we underscore as being its sole responsibility.

We call on all Marxist-Leninists, and revolutionaries in different countries to undertake more vigorously our fundamental tasks of the struggle against imperialism and for socialism, to defend Marxism-Leninism uncompromisingly, to combat old and new ideas alien to the interests of the working class, and to carry on tenaciously the struggle for the objectives and demands of our peoples. We, the CIPOML, as the representative of the proletariat, the main force against all imperialist aggressions and privileges, strongly condemn the aggressions of US imperialism and Israeli Zionism against Iranian people, and call on the proletarian revolutionaries of Iran to establish their proletarian party and unite with us.

All imperialists and reactionaries will be defeated, and we, the proletariat and the peoples of the world will win!

International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)
30th Plenary Session

With the political responsibility we assume as the revolutionary vanguard of the working class and the peoples and committed to strengthening the struggle to put an end to capitalism and fight for socialism, the organisations and parties that make up the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML) have successfully concluded the work of its 30^th Plenary Session.

An objective analysis of world reality has led us to note the deepening of the fundamental contradictions of our era, the intensification of the general crisis of the capitalist-imperialist system, and the multiple negative consequences it imposes on the lives of the peoples. We live in a world that offers nothing good to workers, youth, and women from the popular sectors; a world in which the old desperately clings to power, even though it is rotten from within.

Inter-imperialist confrontation determines the course of the main events on the international stage. Its growing intensification bodes nothing favourable for the peoples; on the contrary, it brings about a slowdown of the world economy, the overexploitation of the working class, increased imperialist plunder, the intensification of violence against oppressed nations and dependent countries, the development of localized wars that may become more frequent, and the real risk of a military conflict of global proportions.

The capitalist-imperialist system, determined to extract the maximum profits and divide up domination of the planet, directly attacks the living and working conditions of the working masses and the peoples, and also causes irreparable damage to the environment.

The decline that U.S. imperialism has been experiencing for years, and its desperate drive to preserve its zones of influence and protect the interests of the monopoly groups that sustain its power, have brutally intensified its aggressiveness, openly manifested in the economic, commercial, political, and military spheres, as we have recently seen in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

China is currently the only imperialist power with the capacity and the will to challenge U.S. imperialism for hegemony. However, mutual recognition as rivals competing for world predominance does not eliminate the contradictions that both maintain with other imperialist powers and developed capitalist countries, nor does it cancel their struggles to preserve their own zones of influence.

We view with concern and repudiate the growing militarization of society, which cuts across the economic, political, and social spheres. The governments of the major powers and of many dependent countries subordinate their budgets, public policies, and forms of governance to preparations for confrontation, strengthening repressive apparatuses, criminalizing protest, and normalizing the military presence in areas that previously belonged to civilian life.

In this context, there is an advance of right-wing and openly fascist forces, which exploit the crisis to promote hate speech, restrict rights, divide workers and peoples, and shore up authoritarian projects in the service of big capital.

But in this world, protagonism is not found solely among the owners of capital. The working class and the peoples are carrying out significant protest actions that clearly demonstrate the advance of the class struggle. In the face of the Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people, millions of voices have been raised on all continents, denouncing the barbarity and demanding an end to relations with Israel and the Zionist occupation. Likewise, austerity policies, subjugation to foreign powers, the curtailment of democratic rights, and other expressions of the reactionary offensive have met with a firm response in the streets. The working class, youth, women, and broad popular sectors are mobilizing, rejecting these attacks and reaffirming their determination to achieve profound changes that improve their living conditions and open the way to a different future.

It is evident that mass movement struggles are being revived worldwide, along with the growing protagonism of youth in various countries. And when the masses find in struggle the path to win rights and confront their class enemies, they advance with greater determination, raise their levels of organization, and transform their indignation into a force capable of disputing the direction of society.

We live in a conflict-ridden world, but at the same time these are better times for the work that our parties and organizations carry out with a view toward organization and the triumph of the proletarian revolution and socialism.

It is imperative to work for the development and strengthening of a broad global anti-imperialist and anti-fascist movement; to keep aloft the banners against war, for peace, and for international solidarity among peoples; against the violence generated by the prevailing system. Our ultimate objective is to achieve the social and national emancipation of workers and peoples, a goal that can only be fulfilled with the working class in power.

For our parties to fulfil their mission of becoming the revolutionary vanguard of the workers, they must be strengthened in all respects –ideological, political, and organizational– and actively engage in political and social struggles.

The 30^th Plenary Session of the CIPOML reaffirms the commitment of its members to the working class and to the oppressed peoples and nations of the world. We advance firmly toward fulfilling the responsibilities imposed upon us by history.

November 2025

In the Final Declaration adopted by the 29^th Plenary Session of our Conference, held in October 2024, we stated that “the world is going through a complex moment, characterized by the deepening of the general crisis of the capitalist system. Inter-imperialist confrontation, the dispute among monopolies and states of the most developed capitalist-imperialist economies have advanced to the point that they have turned to war as the means to resolve their divergences.
[…] The negative social effects produced by capitalist exploitation are met with the repudiation of workers, youth, women, and peoples. Massive mobilisations, workers’ strikes, and popular uprisings are taking place against the austerity policies implemented by bourgeois governments, whether liberal, neoliberal, social-democratic, or “progressive”.”

The current economic, political, and social scenario shows that these and other problems, inherent to the nature of the prevailing capitalist-imperialist system, have intensified. We live in a convulsed world, where the fundamental contradictions of the era are exacerbated.

One of the most distinctive features of today’s international arena is the intensification of the aggressiveness of U.S. imperialism. Donald Trump’s presence in the White House has deepened inter-imperialist contradictions—including those with its traditional allies—since his slogan “Make America Great Again” is, in practice, a cry of war from the most powerful international monopolies and the most reactionary sectors of the U.S. imperialist oligarchy, aimed at recovering the spaces the United States has lost on the world economic and political stage in recent years.

His tariff policy opened a new chapter in the trade war. Although it is designed to increase U.S. fiscal revenues and, mainly, to strike the economies of its strongest competitors in international trade, the negative effects are also being felt —and will continue to be felt— within the United States itself.

It is estimated that, in the medium and long term, this tariff policy will reduce U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by about 6% and wages by approximately 5%.

With higher tariffs, production costs rise and the prices of products become more expensive in domestic and international markets, so it is workers who ultimately bear the consequences of this policy: in practice, their purchasing power is reduced and real wages fall.

The countries most affected are those with economies dependent on exports of manufactured goods or agricultural products to the United States.

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) foresees that—because of this U.S. policy and similar reactions by other countries—a slowdown in world trade will occur. Other international bodies have forecast a decrease in the growth rate of the world economy for 2025 and 2026.

The forecast for growth in merchandise trade in 2025 is 2.4%, compared to 2.2% in 2024; however, the WTO projects that in 2026 the growth of goods trade will slow markedly, to 0.5%.

Donald Trump has revived the blunt use of the threat of military intervention as an instrument to subjugate those who express disagreement or resist his interventionist policies. He warned that he could intervene militarily to “recover” control of the Panama Canal; he has expressed himself in similar terms regarding his intention to annex Greenland and the North Pole. His threats against Russia persist and he attempts to reach an agreement with it to divide up Ukraine. He provides economic and military support to Israel to devastate Palestine, among other actions.

From threats against Iran for maintaining and developing its nuclear programme, he moved to bombing three Iranian nuclear plants as part of “Operation Midnight Hammer”, launched in June 2025 against that country’s nuclear infrastructure, with the aim of strengthening Zionist Israel’s attacks in its offensive against Iran.

U.S. imperialism is not only the main support of the Zionist genocide in Gaza and of military interventions in countries of the region such as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and Iran; it is the planner and director of these Zionist actions. Trump stated that he planned to turn the Gaza Strip into the “Riviera of the Middle East,” which would mean the displacement of all its inhabitants, thus coinciding with Netanyahu’s aims.

This plan to seize Gaza is part of a broader project intended to divide and dismember the states of the region within the framework of what is called “the new Middle East,” along religious, communal, and ethnic lines, in order to perpetuate U.S. domination in the region, guarantee “Israel’s” supremacy over its neighbours, and neutralise other rival imperialist forces, specifically China and Russia.

The ceasefire in Gaza, approved on October 9, does not imply the arrival of peace either in Gaza or throughout Palestine. Zionist Israel maintains the threat of continuing its military operations—and, in fact, they have persisted in the area. Israel does not renounce its plans to occupy all Palestinian territory. Netanyahu’s regime has felt enormous international pressure rejecting the genocide, and that was one of the factors influencing its decision to accept the cessation of military operations.

Since late August, the United States has deployed a naval fleet to the Southern Caribbean, which has been denounced as preparations for an invasion of Venezuela.

Racist, white-supremacist, and xenophobic ideology guides U.S. anti-immigration policy. More than a hunt for undocumented migrants, a war has been declared against them. Here the fascist profile of the most aggressive faction of the oligarchy headed by Trump is revealed.

The force of the repressive apparatuses acts against millions of workers who generate wealth both for that country and for their countries of origin. The brutal actions of ICE police against migrants are provoking open rejection, both within the United States itself and internationally.

These events have developed in such a way that they no longer constitute only a conflict between migrants and the U.S. government, but between the workers and the people of the United States against their own government. The militaristic vision with which it acts in international relations is also being applied internally: faced with protests spreading across several states, Trump has labelled some cities as war zones and has sent military troops to control the population.

U.S. imperialism has declared war on its own people.

It is evident that the process of decline of the United States as the hegemonic power began almost a decade ago. At present, China is the only power with the capacity and the intention to dispute this hegemony with U.S. imperialism.

In 2010, China became the second-largest economy in the world. Currently, the difference between the shares of the United States and China in world GDP is only about 6%, in favour of the former (25% and 19% respectively). It is estimated that in the next ten years, China’s GDP will surpass that of the United States. In the same period, India would position itself as the third-largest economy on the planet.

However, if GDP is adjusted for Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), China is already the largest economy in the world. Under that parameter, the ten largest economies are: China (19%), the United States (15.2%), India (7.75%), Japan (3.65%), Germany (3.11%), Russia (2.84%), Indonesia (2.56%), Brazil (2.31%), France (2.18%), and the United Kingdom (2.17%).

China’s share of global industrial production in 2024 was 31.6%, ranking first, while the United States’ share was 15.9%, ranking second. Then come Japan (6.5%), Germany (4.8%), and India (2.9%).

The material and technical base of Chinese industry is profoundly new and superior to that of the United States and other Western powers because it has been built over the last decade on cutting-edge technologies, modern infrastructure, and state planning oriented toward innovation. While Western industries carry aging structures, high costs, and fragmented processes, China has developed integrated industrial ecosystems that combine artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced manufacturing, and digital logistics chains. This technological base, consolidated in strategic sectors such as microelectronics, green energy, and automated production, constitutes its greatest advantage today.

The United States and China control 25% of world trade in exports and imports. The United States accounts for approximately 13% of the total volume, while China accounts for 12%. According to WTO information, China leads in goods exports with 14.2% of world trade, the United States is second with 8.5%, followed by Germany with 7.1%. In imports, the United States ranks first with 13.2% of global volume, followed by China with 10.6% and Germany with 6.1%.

China’s financial capital spans all five continents. According to the Grant Continent portal, China is currently the world’s largest bilateral creditor, lending more than the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank combined. In the last twenty years, China has provided 240 billion dollars in “emergency financing.” In doing so, it has replaced the United States in the “rescue” of low- and middle-income countries that are in debt.

In public loans and those with state guarantees alone, an analysis of 620 official loans reveals a commitment of 418 billion dollars in collateralized loans between 2000 and 2021. For the year 2025, it has scheduled payments of 22 billion dollars.

Regarding the Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves, the predominance of the U.S. dollar continues, although it has been losing ground. In 2000, around 71% of total reserves were in U.S. dollars; by the end of 2024 they had fallen to around 58%, that is, a decline of 13 percentage points.

Another very important fact in this regard is that 88% of operations in the foreign exchange market are conducted in U.S. dollars.

An important issue to consider is that, although the dollar remains the most used settlement currency, China is the country that trades the most and has adopted the policy of establishing the yuan (or renminbi) as the currency for its commercial transactions.

U.S. imperialism regards China as its main enemy. To confront this situation, the United States has articulated a comprehensive strategy covering the military, economic, political, technological, and diplomatic spheres. It works to ensure its presence and dominance in the Indo-Pacific, a region Washington considers the centre of strategic competition.

To that end, the United States is actively working to create and strengthen alliances, security pacts, and joint military operations to form a containment front against China:

• AUKUS: A security pact with Australia and the United Kingdom focused on the transfer of nuclear-powered submarine technology.
• Quad: A security dialogue with Japan, India, and Australia to cooperate in maritime and non-traditional security.
• Alliance with the Philippines: Strengthening the Mutual Defence Treaty, including the reactivation of military bases in the Philippines to counter Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea.
• FONOP (Freedom of Navigation Operations): Naval and air operations carried out by the U.S. Navy in areas near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea, seeking to challenge its territorial claims.

In addition, the United States maintains support for Taiwan through the supply of sophisticated weaponry and issues frequent public warnings about possible Chinese military intervention on the island.

China, for its part, confronts U.S. imperialism’s containment policy through actions and policies that span the domestic and external economic spheres and international relations.

It works to expand its presence and relations on the world stage. The Belt and Road Initiative allows it to make multimillion-dollar infrastructure investments (ports, trains, roads) in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe, securing resource supply chains and creating new markets for its products.

In recent years it has strengthened political ties and economic and financial cooperation with Russia, and together they have steered BRICS action in line with their own geopolitical interests. Both countries share the objective of reforming the international order dominated by U.S. imperialism and, in its place, exercising greater influence.

China conducts intense regional cooperation, promotes trade and economic pacts such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), to cement its position as the centre of the Asia-Pacific economy.

Together with other countries, it promotes a policy of de-dollarisation in international commercial transactions and the use of the yuan or renminbi.

In hotspots of tension, China responds with demonstrations of force and legal measures. It also acts in the military arena. It promotes the militarisation of artificial islands in the South China Sea and maintains military, diplomatic, and economic pressure on Taiwan to reaffirm its territorial claims. Recently, on September 3, 2025, China demonstrated its enormous war-making capacity, particularly technological developments in the military industry.

With a military budget of 270 billion dollars for 2025, China ranks second in military spending, surpassed only by the United States, whose budget amounts to 962 billion dollars for the same year.

The countries of the European Union have lost relative weight and influence on the world stage compared to previous decades. This is not an absolute loss; the EU, as a whole remains a significant power.

The Eurozone’s GDP growth rate has consistently been lower than that of the United States and China. This translates into a reduction of the EU’s share of world GDP. It has lagged in investment in key technologies (such as artificial intelligence and semiconductors) and faces lower labour productivity compared to the United States, affecting its long-term competitiveness.

The energy crisis and abrupt supply-chain disruptions after the invasion of Ukraine and the pandemic highlighted the EU’s vulnerability and its dependence on external sources of energy and raw materials, weakening its global negotiating position.

In Africa, Latin America, and Asia, Europe has lost influence on China, Russia, Turkey, and even India, which have expanded their economic and political presence.

The war in Ukraine has reaffirmed the European Union’s subordination to the geopolitical agenda of the United States; NATO, dominated by Washington, continues to set the course of European military action. Under U.S. pressure, they have substantially increased their defence budgets, committing to raise military spending in the coming years. Nevertheless, important contradictions persist between the EU, its member states, and U.S. imperialism itself, especially in the economic, commercial, energy, and diplomatic arenas. Germany, without distancing itself —much less confronting the United States— seeks to take advantage of the situation for its own benefit.

France and several sectors in Germany speak of the need for a “European strategic autonomy” that does not fully exist, but which expresses divergences with the United States. French President Emmanuel Macron proposes strengthening a European pillar within NATO; and there are countries —such as Poland and the Baltic states— that show greater belligerence and favour a joint response against Russia.

In the context of the war in Ukraine, the process of militarisation of life in the EU has deepened, encompassing the economic, institutional, budgetary, cultural, and other spheres.

Most member states steadily increase their defence budgets; many countries have adopted the goal of 2% of GDP in military spending, aligning with standards promoted by NATO; the EU allocates its own funds to military research and development, something unprecedented a decade ago.

Although NATO remains the main security framework, the EU has created its own mechanisms: Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO), launched in 2017, which groups dozens of joint defence projects—military mobility, drones, command systems, maritime surveillance, etc.; the European Defence Fund (EDF), which finances the development of weaponry, military technology, and defence innovation projects; and the EU Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC), which acts as an embryonic structure of a European headquarters and manages military missions abroad.

The development of the BRICS+ group generates expectations in various sectors. Today it has significant economic and political weight and projections for the coming years are greater.

The BRICS+ member countries represent 55.61% of the world’s population; they contribute 42% of world GDP in PPP terms and 40% of global trade. They slightly exceed the G7’s nominal GDP (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). The strength of this group is mainly due to the presence of China.

It is estimated that they will maintain a potential annual growth rate above 4% compared to 2% for the G7, which will further expand their share of the global economy.

The emergence of this group responds to the intrinsic process of capitalist development and accumulation. It is not —as sectors of revisionism and reformism present it— an “alternative development model” for peoples, much less an “anti-imperialist” alliance. It is an association of states and economic groups seeking to expand their investments, control markets, access raw materials, and broaden their spaces for accumulation in a world where the United States plays the role of hegemonic power.

Within it, tensions and disagreements are expressed. Russia and China steer it in line with their own geopolitical interests; India fears that the instrumentalisation of the group by China and Russia will affect its own interests, and it is not the only case. The countries in the group are united by special interests affected in the context of a common international scenario.

In this group, the special needs of its members combine with the geopolitical projects of imperialist powers such as China and Russia. Therefore, tensions between the BRICS and the West should be understood as a manifestation of inter-imperialist contradictions.

The world economy maintains a slow pace of growth. The global recession that some forecasts had set for 2025 has not occurred; however, growth remains below pre-pandemic rates.

International organisations such as the IMF, the World Bank, and UNCTAD project low growth rates for 2025 and 2026, ranging from 3.0% to 2.7%.

The most developed capitalist economies (the United States, the euro area, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom) project the lowest growth rates: 1.5% and 1.6% in 2025 and 2026, respectively.

The risk of recession persists in the euro area; projected growth is 0.8%–1.0%, bordering on a situation known as “technical stagnation.” Germany’s responsibility in this situation is significant: in 2024 its economy fell into recession (-0.2%) and growth projections for this year are barely 0.1%. Germany is considered the engine of European industry.

The highest growth—led by India and China—again concentrates in the so-called emerging economies of Asia (4.1% in 2025 and 4.0% in 2026).

Although there is no full agreement among different sources on the evolution of industrial production, moderate growth is expected for 2025. Some estimates place it between 2% and 3%, with downside risks if clashes among the most developed capitalist economies persist or new disruptions occur in supply chains. As background, it should be noted that industrial production growth was between 1% and 1.6% in 2023, and between 1.8% and 2.6% in 2024, according to various sources.”

According to the WTO, the volume of world merchandise trade will grow by 2.4% in 2025, which is unlikely. Earlier estimates set growth at 0.9% for this year and 0.5% for 2026. The jump in projections for 2025 is due to the effects of front-loading (imports brought forward ahead of tariff increases), but that will fade in 2026, when the new tariffs take full effect.

No improvements in workers’ living conditions are in sight. In some regions they will worsen due to the decline in the purchasing power of wages, growing labour precariousness, job losses, and forced migration, among other factors.

In May, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) updated projections for global employment growth this year, from 1.7% to 1.5%. While it projects that the global unemployment rate will remain around 5%, one problem is job quality, pay, and stability.

There are marked differences in levels of employment, unemployment, and underemployment depending on regions, levels of development, and population groups. Youth unemployment is high: it will remain between 12% and 13%. Regions such as Latin America and the Caribbean have informal employment rates exceeding 50% in several countries. Only 46.4% of women of working age worldwide were employed in 2024, compared with 69.5% of men.

U.S. tariff policy puts tens of thousands of jobs at stake. The ILO estimates that around 84 million jobs in 71 countries are directly or indirectly linked to U.S. consumer demand. The Asia-Pacific region accounts for 56 millions of those jobs. Canada and Mexico have the highest proportion of exposed jobs (17.1%).

Technological advance —particularly the introduction of Artificial Intelligence into production processes— drives a development of the productive forces oriented toward increasing labour productivity and extracting surplus value. In the hands of capitalists, AI is not implemented to free up labour time or improve the life of the working class, but to reduce labour costs, intensify control over the production process, and deepen competition among capitalists. Its introduction accelerates the historical tendency to substitute living labour with dead labour, generating structural unemployment and enlarging the industrial reserve army, which in turn pushes wages downward and further precarizes working conditions.

Moreover, AI becomes an ideological and disciplinary instrument. Digital platforms, algorithmic surveillance, and automated management of work allow more exhaustive control over the rhythms, movements, and behaviours of workers, while reinforcing new forms of exploitation, such as gig work or short-term “independent” contracts instead of permanent full-time jobs.

This situation forces the labour movement to develop organisational and struggle forms capable of effectively confronting the new modalities of work organisation imposed by capital.

At the same time, these technologies make it possible to advance mechanisms of mass population control, such as facial recognition and other surveillance systems. It is no coincidence that the military sphere was the first target of AI development: its research and funding have been strongly driven by defence needs and geopolitical competition. Today, the major Chinese and U.S. tech monopolies dominate this strategic sector.

The accelerated environmental degradation the planet is experiencing is the responsibility of the capitalist system. It is expressed today in increasingly extreme climate disruptions: unprecedented heat waves, devastating floods, massive wildfires, and an accelerated loss of biodiversity. These phenomena are not isolated events or simple “natural cycles”; they are the direct result of an economic model based on unlimited exploitation of resources and unrestrained accumulation. The most developed capitalist countries have historically been the main responsible parties for greenhouse-gas emissions, excessive fossil-energy consumption, and the expansion of polluting industry. Although they represent a minority of the world’s population, they concentrate most of the ecological footprint and have built their wealth on a pattern of production that ignores the limits of the planet.

Their executing arm is the monopolies and large transnational corporations, whose economic and political power allows them to impose highly polluting practices in pursuit of profit. Companies in the energy, mining, agribusiness, and transport sectors have been central protagonists in the destruction of ecosystems, mass deforestation, the expansion of polluting infrastructure, and the systematic obstruction of deep environmental policies. While they externalize environmental costs onto communities and the most vulnerable countries, they continue promoting an extractives model that intensifies natural disasters and deepens the global climate crisis.

The exploitation of so-called rare earths reveals the profound contradiction of so-called “green capitalism,” which promises an ecological transition without questioning the accumulation logics that produced the environmental crisis. The production of “clean” technologies —such as electric cars, high-capacity batteries, or wind turbines— depends on intensive mineral extraction whose procurement involves destruction of ecosystems, contamination of soils and waters, and abusive labour conditions in dependent countries. Thus, under the discourse of sustainability, the great powers and corporations shift environmental and social costs to other regions, reproducing neo-colonial relations while presenting themselves as climate leaders. Far from being an emancipatory alternative, this “green capitalism” covers up new forms of dispossession and deepens dependence on aggressive mining, showing that there will be no environmental justice without transforming the very foundations of the economic system.

Right-wing, far-right, ultra-conservative, fascist, and proto-fascist forces continue gaining ground in several regions of the planet. This is a trend present for several years, which currently manifests with greater aggressiveness.

The explanation for their growth lies in the ability of the most reactionary sectors of the international bourgeoisie to manipulate and exploit, for their benefit, economic and social problems produced by the capitalist-imperialist system itself, such as job losses, migration, or processes linked to the development of interculturality and the emergence of movements that claim sexual, gender, age-related rights, among others.

Particularly in Europe and the United States, these right-wing parties have managed to present migration and multiculturalism as existential threats to national identity and security. They promote chauvinist nationalism and reject cultural diversity. They use migrants as scapegoats, blaming them for economic and social problems and even for crime.

In South America, these political currents maintain an openly anti-communist discourse, a staunch defender of neoliberal precepts (as in Argentina and Ecuador), praising U.S. imperialism and criminalizing the actions and struggle promoted by left parties and movements, as well as popular organisations.

These forces act openly against the democratic rights of workers and peoples, as well as against trade unions and left parties. They even attack institutions of bourgeois democracy itself in order to have free hands to impose their reactionary political projects, aimed at facilitating conditions that increase the rate of profit in production.

Ultra-conservative forces and fascism are a serious danger for workers and peoples, which we must confront with a policy of unity in the labour and popular movement and with democratic and left political organisations.

Reformist parties and movements and those labelled “progressive” have lost ground; however, they retain significant influence in important segments of the population in various regions. Their ability to deceive the masses is based on rhetoric that criticizes the neoliberal model and savage, inhuman capitalism, and uses left-sounding discursive elements, thereby gaining support among sectors of the working class and the population living in poverty.

A growing militarisation of society is taking place, crossing the economic, political, and social planes. Most countries subordinate their budgets, public policies, and management forms to preparations for confrontation, reinforcing repressive apparatuses, criminalizing protest, and normalizing military presence in spheres that previously belonged to civilian life.

This phenomenon is particularly visible in the most developed capitalist countries, where military power is not only a central component of foreign policy but also a structuring factor of internal order. Militarisation is not limited to expanding defence budgets or strengthening armed apparatuses; it is also expressed in the way states, the media, and large corporations shape perceptions, behaviours, and social priorities according to security logics.

The sustained increase in military spending in the United States, the European Union, Japan, China, Russia, and other imperialist and developed capitalist countries is an obvious sign. In recent decades, and especially after events such as the war in Ukraine, tensions in the Pacific, or China’s rise, Western capitalist countries have devoted increasing percentages of GDP to military equipment, technological modernisation, and the strengthening of strategic alliances such as NATO.

At the same time, militarisation advances within borders. The growing presence of heavily equipped police forces, with weapons and tactics of military origin, is an increasingly evident feature in many cities around the world. In the United States, for example, the transfer of military equipment to local police departments has led to the emergence of security forces increasingly resembling combat units. This has a direct effect on the population: the normalisation of extreme surveillance, repression of social protest, and the perception that internal conflict must be handled with instruments typical of war.

At the cultural level, militarisation operates through entertainment, education, and advertising. Industries such as Hollywood and video games maintain close relations with military-industrial complexes, reproducing narratives that glorify war, martial heroism, and technological superiority. The figure of the soldier is presented as a symbol of order, security, and patriotism, while geopolitical conflicts are simplified to legitimize military interventions or the expansion of overseas bases. This cultural penetration contributes to people perceiving force as a natural or inevitable response to international tensions.

Finally, militarisation also takes economic forms. The military-industrial complex is one of the most lucrative sectors of contemporary capitalism. Companies dedicated to developing weapons, surveillance systems, and dual-use technology pressure governments to guarantee multi-billion-dollar contracts. This alliance between state and capital makes war and preparation for war an economic engine, distorting social priorities and diverting resources that could go to health, education, housing, or combating climate change.

The world is witnessing a rise in the struggle of workers, youth, and peoples. We are living through a period of growing breadth, massiveness, and combativeness in the struggle of the masses—the most intense in more than a decade. These events have shattered bourgeois, revisionist, and reformist theorizing that still attempts to show that the working class and youth have lost the political protagonism that characterized them until the end of the last century.

On all continents, massive protest actions are taking place against austerity policies of governments, against rulers’ corruption, against war and for peace, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, against various forms of intervention that violate the sovereignty of countries —including those carried out through the customs tariffs imposed by Donald Trump— for particular demands related to wages, health, education, housing, democratic and political rights. Even in the United States there are mass protests against the xenophobic policy practiced against immigrants, against the annexationist military action in Gaza alongside the Nazi-Zionist state of Israel.

These struggles take the form of sectoral strikes, national work stoppages, street demonstrations, and popular uprisings; they demand specific claims and also raise political banners.

Solidarity with the Palestinian people and condemnation of the genocide committed by Zionist Israel have mobilized millions of men and women around the world, especially young people.

The response by workers in Italy is historic, with a general strike and massive street demonstrations. One of the most relevant aspects of this struggle was the refusal of dockworkers to handle cargo coming from and destined for Israel. That example spread to other countries as well.

The strike in Italy was an expression of political, anti-imperialist, and internationalist struggle.

Across practically all of Europe, massive protest actions have also occurred against budget cuts, the militarisation of the economy, for wage demands, and against the high cost of living; likewise, in defence of labour rights and for global causes such as environmental protection.

Mass actions have also taken place to confront ultra-right parties, as occurred in France, Germany, Austria, or Turkey, and in Brazil demanding that Jair Bolsonaro be convicted for his coup attempts. This shows the existing concern among the population about the danger represented by the rise of ultra-conservative, extreme right, and fascist parties.

The participation of youth in the struggle of workers and peoples—and particularly that of students in mobilisations with a clear political content—reaches notable expressions. In the massive mass actions and popular uprisings that have occurred in Nepal, Morocco, Indonesia, Peru, Myanmar, Argentina, Panama, the United States, Thailand, Kenya, Mali, South Africa, Madagascar, Turkey, among others, the combativeness of youth stands out, particularly the student movement. In several of these countries, youth have raised political banners, fighting corruption and defending democratic rights. In Nepal and Peru, it was the main force that brought down their governments in September and October, respectively. However, it is necessary to clarify that in Nepal the youth movement was clearly used by the right.

The struggle of agricultural workers and Indigenous peoples also stands out in several regions. In India, Brazil, Iran, El Salvador, Peru, Sudan, and Kenya, massive protest actions have occurred for their special demands.

In Latin America, Indigenous peoples maintain an important leading role in the struggle for their national rights, against large mining and oil projects, and in defence of water and the environment.

Workers, youth, women, and peoples struggle against the policies applied by the bourgeoisie and its governments, as well as against the consequences inherent to the prevailing capitalist-imperialist system. In these battles their discontent and rejection of this system is expressed, while at the same time they manifest their desire for change.

The working masses suffer the effect of a strong ideological and political offensive of imperialism and the international bourgeoisie. The result is greater ideological and political dispersion, particularly among young people who have been won over by trends such as pragmatism, hedonism, individualism, consumerism, among others, which hinder revolutionary political activity.

This offensive is carried out using the most varied means and instruments; it forms part of the exercise of ideological domination by the ruling class.

The development of communication technologies (telematics, social networks, and other virtual platforms) facilitates the proliferation of bourgeois values, the reinforcement of bourgeois ideological conceptions, and people’s alienation from their own realities.

There is an overabundance of messages on the internet that creates the fiction that people are now better informed. Fake news abounds, along with junk information consumed as if it provided innovative criteria, “revealing hidden realities.”

The world of neoliberal information is presented as the world of freedom, when in reality it is an instrument of domination.

The above should not lead us to condemn technological development, in this or any other sphere of society. We are obliged to use and take advantage of these advances and tools to disseminate our revolutionary ideas, conceptions, and policy. They can and must be means to drive our own ideological and political offensive.

For some years now, the right and the far right have spoken of the so-called “culture war,” which functions as an instrument to justify a reactionary offensive in different spheres of social life. They claim to wage a battle to defend tradition, the family, and national identity, but in reality they seek to reverse democratic advances won by feminist, Indigenous, trade-union, LGBTI, and anti-racist movements. They present these movements as external threats or “internal enemies” in order to polarize society and consolidate a disciplined political base around conservative values.

This discourse seeks not only to control the production of ideas but also to distract working masses from real economic conflicts: exploitation, precariousness, and the growing concentration of wealth. It is a political strategy intended to defend the capitalist order, erode democratic rights, and prepare conditions for increasingly reactionary and authoritarian projects.

They also promote attacks on science and promote anti-scientific viewpoints, presenting science as “indoctrination” or “ideology,” and claiming that there is no absolutely true, universal, or objective knowledge, but that every form of knowledge depends on the cultural, social, historical, or individual context from which it is produced.

Also, part of the bourgeois ideological offensive are the “theories” and viewpoints coming from revisionism and reformism, which, using pseudo-leftist discourse, promote viewpoints and policies functional to the capitalist system.

Not a few sectors of workers, youth, and women from popular sectors fall into the nets of these positions and—mistakenly—believe they are participating in movements that propose the revolutionary transformation of society.

Our parties must also unmask these positions, understanding that this forms part of the ideological and political struggle against factions of the same big bourgeoisie.

The current political scenario offers more favourable conditions for the revolutionary activity of our parties. Workers, peasants, youth, and women of the working classes today face a reality that allows them to see clearly what capitalism offers humanity.

This visible and undeniable reality must be used by our parties and organisations to advance in building the forces of revolution, in shaping a revolutionary mass movement, a fundamental element for the victory of the proletariat’s social revolution.

It is very important that new and large contingents of the masses understand that struggle is the path to win demands and rights, as well as to halt the plans of the bourgeoisie and imperialism, and to join the fight. However, if the revolutionary vanguard is not present in those struggles, organizing and leading them, they will not go beyond the limits imposed by trade-unionism and action intentionally directed by bourgeois and reformist parties and movements to limit the struggle of the masses.

The working class, youth, and women of the working classes and strata, and the peoples must understand that to achieve their emancipation they must rely on all forms of struggle, legal and illegal. The party of the proletariat has the obligation to organize all those expressions of struggle.

Our parties have the responsibility to assume a more leading role both in the countries where we are present and on the international stage. To achieve that role, it is indispensable to define correct orientations and policies based on Marxist-Leninist principles; however, that is not enough. It is necessary to have sufficient strength to materialize that policy, and that strength comes from the worker, peasant, youth, and working classes and strata —exploited and oppressed— who mobilize under the influence of our policy.

We will reach new and broader sectors of the masses to the extent that our parties grow numerically. The recruitment of new communists must become one of the priority tasks of our organisations.

To attract the working class, youth, and women of popular sectors to the struggle for revolution, it is essential to develop an intense and systematic dissemination of our policy, our programmematic theses, and our viewpoints on the various problems facing the world and society. A Marxist-Leninist party is inconceivable without constant propaganda of its policy and its actions. In this sense, the printed newspaper plays a fundamental role, as it allows establishing direct contact and an immediate physical relationship with the masses.

The world political scenario demands deepening unity work with the social and political forces interested in fighting imperialism and the policies of the international bourgeoisie. We work to build an international anti-imperialist and anti-fascist front that is expressed in concrete actions and struggles, both in the places where we are present and through international initiatives.

The anti-imperialist struggle takes on particular importance today, when we are witnessing a period of intensified aggressiveness of U.S. imperialism —the main enemy of the peoples— and the sharpening of inter-imperialist contradictions, which warn of the danger of a new world conflagration.

We have said it on other occasions: it is not possible to confront one imperialism by relying on another imperialism. This is how an authentic anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist position is expressed.

The international struggle of the proletariat against the capitalist-imperialist system is manifested in the class confrontation in each country, but it must be linked to actions and struggles of an international character. The working class and the peoples, in their struggle to win their emancipation, must uphold a policy of class independence.

XXX Plenary Session
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)
November 2025

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The recent incursion of the imperialist U.S. military into the Caribbean Sea, with Venezuela as its immediate target, creates a climate of war and instability that affects the entire region. The current grave threat is the continuation of interventionist policies by U.S. imperialism, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, expressed through blockades and economic sanctions, which are equally reprehensible.

From the CIPOML Plenary Session, we denounce the warmongering policy of the United States and its objectives of control and plunder over the wealth and resources of the peoples and countries of the region, especially Venezuela.

It is becoming increasingly clear to the peoples and democratic forces of the world that the so-called fight against drug trafficking brandished by the U.S. government is merely a pretext and an excuse to maintain its dominance over the region, ensure the exploitation and plunder of resources, and subjugate countries. Any truly serious effort against the crime of drug trafficking should target its main market in the United States and the big dirty business supported by reactionary governments, imperialists, and the bourgeoisie in various countries, whose financial systems launder billions of dollars every year.

The policy of demagogic lies spread by the United States to strike and plunder countries and peoples is not new. It is timely to recall its campaign launched in 2003 to convince the world that the government of Iraq supposedly possessed chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction that threatened humanity. On the basis of that pretext, they invaded the country, caused thousands of deaths, and ultimately admitted that such weapons never existed.

Threats of military aggression against the Venezuelan people are taking place in a context of a serious crisis of the world order imposed by the bourgeoisie after the Second World War. Within this framework, disputes and rivalries among imperialist powers are intensifying, which is reflected in the Caribbean.

We warn that an aggression against Venezuela could be the beginning of a broader escalation in the region, especially considering U.S. hostility toward the Colombian government, the threat of occupation under UN cover against Haiti, and the proliferation of new military bases. We condemn war crimes and violations of international law and sovereignty by the U.S. military.

Raising the banner of proletarian internationalism, we call on the workers and peoples of the world to militantly reject —and force back— the U.S. military aggression in Caribbean waters and any attempt to invade Venezuela.

From the CIPOML, we reaffirm our solidarity with the workers and the people of Venezuela and defend their inalienable right to self-determination. Likewise, we support the brother Marxist-Leninist parties that are struggling alongside the Caribbean peoples in the region.

30^th Plenary Session
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)
November 2025

The summit recently held in Egypt announced a ceasefire in the war of aggression against the Palestinian people. Israel, however, has not hesitated to violate this ceasefire through new attacks and massacres, under various pretexts.

While this solution fits within Trump’s “New Middle East” plan, which aims to eliminate resistance, it is also the result of two years of resistance in the face of a war of genocide.

This situation has placed the Palestinian cause at the centre of the international agenda, mobilising freedom-loving peoples around the world and bringing together a significant number of countries in support of this cause.

This Zionist aggression has revealed the true nature of the major imperialist powers, particularly the United States, and has exposed the impotence and complicity of many Arab and Islamic regimes.

1. The parties of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations extend greetings filled with pride, recognition, and admiration to the steadfast Palestinian people, who cling to their land and wage a valiant national resistance in all its components, as well as to all the support fronts in Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq.
2. They affirm that resistance is a legitimate right and a natural response to the occupation and total siege of Gaza, to the creeping expansion of settlements, to annexation and aggression in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the occupied territories. This confirms the correctness and legitimacy of the Palestinian people’s struggle for liberation, the return of refugees, and the establishment of their independent national state on their land.
3. They salute the position of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance, which, in the face of occupation and Zionist aggression, continues to take up arms.
4. They salute women and men around the world for their remarkable support for Palestine, its cause, its people, and its resistance, and call on them to continue their efforts to boycott and isolate the occupier, whom we consider fascist, racist, and inhuman.
5. They call on the masses and patriotic and progressive forces worldwide to assume their responsibilities at this critical historical moment in the face of a project that aims to further reshape and fragment the region in order to consolidate imperialist-Zionist domination.
6. They pay special tribute to the world working class, in many imperialist countries, which has boycotted the loading of weapons destined for the Zionist state.
7. On the occasion of 29 November, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we call on the peoples of the world to struggle for peace, to oppose war, and to defend the right of peoples to self-determination.

30^th Plenary Session
International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML)
November 2025

Since 1975, the Sahrawi people have been living under Moroccan occupation. The Moroccan regime succeeded the Spanish monarchy in oppressing the Sahrawi people, who organised all forms of resistance, including armed struggle led by the Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and the Golden Valley) until 1991. A ceasefire was then declared with a view to holding a referendum on self-determination for the Sahrawi people, in accordance with United Nations resolutions.

The Moroccan regime continues to violate this ceasefire, which the Sahrawis declared they were no longer bound to respect in 2020. This violation is due to the Moroccan regime’s insistence on preventing the referendum from being held and its promotion of a different approach, focused on granting autonomy to the Sahrawi people within Moroccan sovereignty – an approach rejected by the Sahrawi people. The Moroccan regime has mobilised all its resources, including its organic submission to US and EU imperialism and its widespread normalisation with the Zionist occupier, to impose its approach as part of a reshaping of North Africa, the Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa, regions rich in resources and of vital strategic importance. This reshaping serves imperialist objectives and perpetuates the dependence of these countries and the misery of their populations.

The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations;

– Affirms its principled support for the Sahrawi people in their struggle and their just and legitimate aspiration for self-determination, including the complete liberation of their territory and the establishment of their nation-state.

– Condemns the systematic violations and attacks perpetrated by Morocco against the Sahrawi people and its activists, whether through forced displacement, violations of their rights or various forms of repression.

– Condemns imperialist interventions and the manipulation of UN resolutions aimed at rewarding the Moroccan regime for its shameful positions, particularly those concerning the Palestinian cause and its regional role, with the aim of further enslaving the region and its peoples.

– Calls on all progressive forces around the world to support the Sahrawi people in order to end the occupation and allow them to freely decide their own destiny.

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The Sudanese people have recently suffered an escalation of the reactionary war waged against them, particularly since the coup orchestrated by the two reactionary pillars: the army of the ousted regime, led by Burhan, and the Janjaweed militias, led by Hemedti. The already impoverished population is paying a heavy price and enduring systematic atrocities such as forced displacement, famine, rape and murder. Among the most recent are the horrific massacres perpetrated in El Fasher, Bara and other areas of Darfur by the Rapid Support Forces after the army’s shameful and cowardly withdrawal. This withdrawal left defenceless civilians exposed to appalling violations, similar to those that took place and continue to take place in Gaza and the territories occupied by Zionist Nazism.

What the Sudanese people are suffering is punishment for their uprising and struggle for liberation against the reactionaries who ruled them for decades and turned against them. These reactionaries, represented by the army and the Rapid Support Forces, are the representatives of the parasitic and rentier classes, supported by regional and international powers working to fragment Sudan and confiscate its resources and wealth, as part of plans to reshape, divide and further enslave the region. As always, the criminal forces that intervene, finance and arm are the same ones that are working to set the entire region ablaze. We are talking about the Zionist state, the puppet and treacherous regimes of the United Arab Emirates and American imperialism.

The International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations (CIPOML), while monitoring developments in Sudan and the region,

– Condemns the reactionary war being waged against the Sudanese people and joins all voices calling for an immediate end to hostilities and emergency humanitarian aid for the populations of the affected areas.

– Holds the Rapid Support Forces, a creation supported by the United Arab Emirates and backed by local, regional and imperialist gangs of looters and bandits, fully responsible for the recent crimes.

– Reaffirms its full solidarity with the Sudanese people and their revolutionary and progressive forces in their just struggle to overthrow the two branches of the anti-patriotic regime, whose only concern is to remain in power at the cost of death, starvation and displacement of millions of innocent people.

– Calls on all free men and women around the world to support forgotten Sudan. Its oppressors are exploiting global concern for events in Gaza/Palestine to perpetrate the most heinous crimes against it, crimes that amount to genocide.

All our solidarity with the people of Sudan.

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XXX. Plenary Session

Strengthening European imperialism is not the answer to the current situation. The imperialist EU does not mean peace and security, but the opposite. This has been clearly demonstrated by the war in Ukraine and support for Israel’s genocide in Palestine.

We say Neither Trump, nor Poutine nor European “defense”!

With the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the USA, international conflicts, including those between the USA and the EU, have dramatically intensified. Trump is the representative of the currently most aggressive sections of US capital, who want to stop and reverse the decades-long decline of US imperialism in a violent way and to make US imperialism “great again”. To mobilize great parts of society for the aims of imperialism, we can observe an accelerating fascization in the USA and worldwide.

All this is an expression of the increasing contradictions between the imperialist powers like USA, EU, China, Russia. Especially the rise of the capitalist and imperialist China has heated up the competition and struggle for world economic domination. Trump and several of his administration officials have always referred to China as the USA’s “strategic” enemy. It is the only major imperialist power that can challenge US hegemony, especially if it can develop alliances.

To win this struggle US-Imperialism has made an important change in his foreign relations. Trump seeks for an agreement with Russia on Ukraine to redistribute this country and his important resources. US-Imperialism seeks to weaken the links between Russia and China and to create new alliances. By doing this he open shows the real aim of the war in Ukraine: A battle over land and resources in which Ukrainian soldiers are dying on behalf of US and EU capital, not for “freedom or democracy”. How fragile these attempts of US-imperialism to create new alliances are, we can see, when the Trump-administration threatens Russia with new blockades and higher tariffs, because Russian imperialism took advantage of the situation to occupy larger parts of Ukraine. It’s a deal between robbers at the expense of the peoples.

For the imperialist countries in Europe, especially Germany and France, this change means a weakening of their influence.

In Ukraine they have tried to be an important player in the deal of the robbers. They too wanted to gain the control over the raw materials, cheap energy and to extend their sphere of influence. They have made high investments by selling weapons, giving loans, incitement of war to bring defeat to Russia. Now they are in a fear not to participate in the division of the loot.

Their answer to this new situation is more weapons, more militarization and more austerity policy. EU has now approved a package of 800 billion Euros for armaments, while it continues to cooperate closely with NATO warmongering alliance. At the same time all European countries increase their military budget. Germany for example has approved an additional budget of 1.000 billion Euros. France is offering its atomic weapons as a protection shield for Europe, but under the control of French imperialism. Great Britain seeks to have more military cooperation with EU. Although EU membership was rejected in a referendum in Norway in 1994 by the majority of the people, Norway’s ruling class is now under the pretext of “security” striving for EU membership.

EU and Great Britain encourages Ukrainian leadership to continue, intensify and prolong the war. But the “European unity” is fragile because of the competition between the imperialist countries. France and Germany are struggling against each other for the leadership in Europe. Italy with the ultra-reactionary Meloni-government tries to install special relations to Trump, like Hungary too. With this reactionary policy of militarization fascist and racist forces are in the rise in whole Europe.

All this threatens the working class and the people in whole Europe. With fascization, capital wants to subordinate the working class to its policies and at the same time weaken it through division and hatred. They have to pay – with social cuts, lowering wages, extending work time, worsening living conditions and in case of war with their lives – as we can see in Ukraine.

We as Marxist-Leninist parties and organizations in Europe call on the working class and the peoples to unite against this policy on their backs and to fight against it together, for bread, freedom, peace and friendship among peoples – instead of misery, fascism, rearmament and wars of plunder.

Only the unity and struggle of the working class and the oppressed people against the barbaric capitalist-imperialist system will open the way for fundamental changes in the conditions of labour and social life.

Neither Trump, nor Poutine or European “defense”!

No to national unity behind warmongers!

No to militarization and fascization!

CIPOML European parties and organisations:

Organization for the Construction of the Communist Workers Party of Germany (Arbeit Zukunft)

Communist Party of Albania

Communist Workers’ Party of Denmark – APK;

Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist) – PCE (m-l);

Workers’ Communist Party of France

Communist Platform of Italy

Labour Party (EMEP), Turkey,

Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Group, Norway

One of the most important concrete bases for the realisation of the leadership of the working class is its success in uniting the exploited and oppressed classes and strata in broad alliances to form anti-imperialist democratic popular fronts against imperialism, bourgeois reaction, fascism and war in individual countries and on an international scale.

3. For millions of people around the world, life under capitalism is a daily struggle for survival. While the profits of the monopolies and finance capital reach new highs and the fortunes of billions grow, ordinary people struggle against the effects of the pandemic, inflation, rising prices and the cost of living. Capitalism’s ever-increasing exploitation of labour and plunder of the planet’s resources and raw materials threatens the existence and future of the people. Imperialist wars, together with capitalism, have created climate and environmental disasters and the largest global flows of refugees and migrants in this century.

4. The economic, environmental, social, energy, health and political consequences and recurring shocks of capitalism are increasingly intertwined. They influence and deepen each other. The reactionary measures of the bourgeois state apparatus are increasing as they drop the “democratic” mask. They are bringing right-wing extremism and fascism right into government offices, peddling and promoting new variants of the class betrayal of revisionism. For the peoples, the increasing militarisation of the whole economy of the capitalist and imperialist states means deepening poverty, intensifying authoritarianism and reaction, increasing the danger of fascism and war. The financial oligarchy is facing an impending crisis, which it can only overcome by taking over the spoils of its rivals and by increasing imperialist rivalry.

5. The uneven and fragile recovery of international capitalism after the crisis of 2020, aggravated by the pandemic, was interrupted in 2022, also as a result of the measures taken against the crisis. While the inflation rate continues to rise, albeit at a slower pace, the growth rate of the economy, industrial production and the volume of trade fall in 2023 and 2024 at world level and, with minor exceptions, in individual countries. The general trend of declining growth rates has pushed the economies of Europe, especially Germany and the UK, and some African countries into stagnation, with some countries even experiencing two consecutive quarters of negative growth. China’s industry was able to grow by 1.2%, 0.3% and 1.6% in the three quarters of 2024, while industrial production in the ‘euro area’, together with the volume of trade – not to mention imports, which grew by 0.5% in the second quarter alone – fell by -0.9%, -0.4% and -0.4% in the three quarters of this year. In Japan, after a sharp fall of -5.2% in the first quarter, industrial production grew by 2.1% and +0.4% in the second and third quarters respectively, while in the USA it fell by -0.4% in the first quarter, grew by a small percentage of 0.6% in the second quarter and fell again by -0.2% in the third quarter. It would not be wrong to say that there is a risk of recession in the world due to the problems observed in the most advanced capitalist economies, such as the USA, whose industrial production grew negatively in two of the three quarters of 2024 and did not even reach 1% in the second quarter, China, whose growth rate was below 1% or barely above, and the Eurozone, which grew negatively in all three quarters of 2024.
The economies of the BRICS countries, the USA and China, which have been able to maintain a certain level of growth with declining rates, are unlikely to be the engines of a new recovery of the international capitalist economy in the near future. Uncertainties and fluctuations in the world economy are widespread and international imperialist financial organisations such as the IMF and the World Bank believe that the decline in the growth rates of the US and Chinese economies, for example, will continue in the coming years.
The protectionist, tight monetary and “austerity” policies pursued by the capitalist states are accumulating the elements of a future economic crisis, leading to an escalation of unemployment and a decline in investment, with inflation rates, especially energy and food prices, still higher than before the pandemic, even if they seem to be under control.
The trade in raw materials, especially food, works to the detriment of the dependent countries and their peoples, and the burden of debt is borne by the labourers. The asymmetry between income and wealth is growing; the monopolies are increasing their profits enormously, while the real wages and incomes of the poorest and poorest strata are falling. These are all symptoms of the crisis, which is deepening and increasing insecurity. At the same time, they aggravate the general crisis of capitalism with the intensification of the rivalry between the imperialists and even the war in Ukraine.

6. In several Latin American countries, openly neo-liberal governments were replaced by so-called progressive governments, as in Venezuela. This created great expectations among workers, youth and the people. They took advantage of the people’s desire for change by using a demagogic, populist discourse with left-wing rhetoric. However, these so-called progressive governments are basically a bourgeois political current, an instrument of big capital to separate the masses from the political influence of the revolutionary left and to create a social movement functional to the ruling capitalist system.

The danger of a major imperialist war from an increasingly aggressive and violent world imperialism is growing.

7. The imperialist powers are fighting each other for the distribution and control of the wealth of society and nature and do not hesitate to drag the world into a new large-scale war, shifting the costs of war onto the shoulders of the working people. The merchants of death make huge profits from the rapidly growing war industry, armaments, swelling military budgets and local wars and conflicts.  The rivalry between the imperialists is intensifying with new economic sanctions, escalating trade wars, military rearmament and extensive military exercises near each other’s borders.

8. Although Trump has expressed different views, both sides in the two-year inter-imperialist war between the USA/NATO/EU and Russia in Ukraine, in which thousands of victims have been killed, seem ready to escalate the war in a controversial direction. In addition to the tonnes of weapons, military equipment and personnel they have already poured into the flames of war in Ukraine. The European Parliament is now allowing Ukraine to use this military support to extend the war into Russian territory. Ukraine’s admission to NATO is no longer a promise for the future, but a real negotiation. With the expansion of NATO to include Sweden and Finland in Scandinavia, NATO will be along the entire European border with Russia, and Europe will be full of USA military bases from which the USA can operate as it pleases.  Russia, for its part, is steadily escalating its war effort, with major consequences for the Ukrainian and Russian working class and people. And with a Kremlin government talking about using tactical nuclear weapons and strengthening its regional alliances, not to mention China, which would rather see a USA-Russia war in Europe than a direct USA-China war in Asia.

Many government leaders in the European Union (EU) are openly preparing the working class and the European peoples for a direct war against Russia within the next 5 years and trying to paralyse the class struggle with fear and uncertainty. The imperialist war and war drums have increased nationalist tendencies throughout the region.

9. In the Middle East, Zionist Israel is increasingly isolated and exposed after months of genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem. This is leading its government to become more and more desperate and aggressive, with the danger of spreading the war to neighbouring countries and the region.
The USA, the economic and military guarantor of the Zionist apartheid regime in Israel, is fighting for the survival of Israel as its strategic pivot in the Middle East, no matter how many Palestinian lives it costs. At the same time, Russia, which is increasingly resisting the domination of the USA imperialism, is working for more influence through its alliances in the region, especially with Iran and its presence in Syria. The same applies to the imperialist power China through its own increased influence in the region.
The aims of American imperialism in the Middle East are certainly not limited to supporting Israel and its expansion. Besides guaranteeing and supporting Israel and its existence and aims, the USA also manipulates and uses it as a means to achieve its own strategic and tactical aims, which include weakening and destroying the anti-American forces in the region. In addition to Israel, American imperialism is using all the unresolved national, religious and sectarian problems of the Middle East and the problems between the countries, especially those competing for regional power, to reshape the region. With the possibility of the war spreading beyond Palestine and Lebanon, the Middle East is pregnant with developments of a different and more advanced dimension than what has happened so far.
In order to support the Israeli terrorist state and to suppress the growing protests of many countries and peoples of the world against the Zionist genocide, the G7 summit in June adopted the USA ceasefire plan and accused the Palestinian resistance of not accepting it. For months, USA imperialism and the Zionist apartheid state of Israel have blocked UN ceasefire proposals unless they unilaterally support Israel’s war, while thousands continue to be murdered, injured and over 1½ million displaced under constant bombardment. Israel has refused to comply with UN demands to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, instead continuing its war crimes while ignoring the presence of the UN peacekeeping force and expanding the war into Lebanon. These actions have contributed to the growing questioning of imperialist international institutions such as the UN. Its weakening is another sign of the growing contradictions between the imperialist powers. The people of the world have never been able to put their fate in the hands of such international institutions.

10. The Palestinian people continue to resist against Israel and are supported by people all over the world. The Israeli Zionism has not been able to achieve its goal of ending the resistance and forcing the people of Gaza to be totally abandoned. With the support of the Western powers, Israel continues its genocide and has extended its attacks to Lebanon.  The struggle of the Palestinian people for the liberation of their land and homeland, the return of refugees and displaced persons and the establishment of an independent, democratic and secular state with Jerusalem as its capital is just.

11. The struggle against the imperialist war and the threat of war is an urgent task. We raise the banner of international solidarity of the working class and the people in the struggle against imperialism, its wars and reaction, so that the warlords cannot set the workers against each other under the reactionary banner of nationalism. It is an inseparable part of the class struggles against the consequences of the neo-liberal economic policies and the social and democratic struggle in all countries for social and national liberation. We raise the banner of peace, the aspiration and hope of the people of the world, as part of the anti-imperialist struggle and creating a movement for peace among the working class, women, youth and the people.

The anti-imperialist struggle must be directed against all imperialism

12. Imperialism has not changed its character, although the balance of power between countries is changing in recent years with the uneven development of imperialism. This is especially evident in the rivalry between the USA and China. The USA imperialism is the undisputed military supremacy and is becoming more and more aggressive. The USA, with its deep class and racial contradictions, growing poverty and political polarisation among the people, is trying to export its political and economic problems against growing resistance. On the other hand, imperialist China, which is struggling to expand its spheres of influence in order to increase its economic development despite the growing class contradictions, is trying to take a place in the international institutions according to its economic and military power in the imperialist world order.

13. China and Russia have strengthened their partnership and alliance with new economic, political and military agreements. At this stage they need each other and the leaders of the two imperialist powers make no secret of their intentions. As the Chinese leader has said, “changes are taking place that we haven’t seen in a hundred years, and we are the ones leading them together”.

The expansion of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) by 4 more countries this year is being launched as “a process towards a new international multipolar world order of peaceful coexistence and justice among the imperialist powers for the benefit of the peoples and nations of the world”.  But BRICS+ is not a bloc or an organisation with an anti-imperialist function. It is an association that includes imperialist powers and more or less advanced capitalist countries, some of them “countries on the threshold” of becoming imperialist. The emergence of these countries on the world stage, their attempts to break the current imperialist order will inevitably lead to new conflicts and wars.

The expansion into the BRICS+ is an undeniable victory for China as it sees its geopolitical influence grow. China is by far the largest economic power in BRICS+ and is behind many of the initiatives that cut across these countries, from the Belt and Road project to the Shanghai-based New Development Bank.

14. Russia is increasing its influence and presence in various regions. In Africa, where, in addition to the ‘invasion’ of Chinese capital, Russia is offering military power: arms, advice and training, etc., and even its own army of mercenaries, in exchange for raw materials and political influence in future conflicts. Russia is capitalising on the righteous anger of the peoples of the region against the cruel exploitation of ‘Western’ imperialism, especially that of France. In the context of the multifaceted crisis in Africa and the neo-colonial system, there has been a resurgence of military coups that do not bring any fundamental change for the peoples. Above all, they reflect the fact that in the current situation of economic, political, ideological, social and military crisis of capitalism, the bourgeoisie has chosen to march towards the fascisation of the neocolonial powers.

15. The working class and the peoples cannot rely on one imperialist power in their struggle against another – they have to intensify the struggle against all imperialism. The thesis of the so-called “multi-polarism”, which claims that there are belligerent and aggressive imperialist countries and progressive imperialist countries in which the people can rely on for national liberation, is false. It is not enough to fight only against the hated US imperialism, because even if it is weakened or even destroyed, other imperialists will continue to plunder and oppress the peoples. The task of the working class and the peoples is to build broad unions and anti-imperialist fronts against imperialism by confronting all imperialists in the struggle for national and social liberation. A bloody lesson, which has been repeated too many times in history, is not to trust one imperialist power in the struggle against another, no matter what progressive phrases it may adorn itself with.

16. The objective conditions are becoming more and more favourable for the revolution in the developed imperialist and capitalist countries, where the proletarian and national social revolution is presented as a problem to be solved. We are not living in a revolutionary situation, but in many parts of the world, the workers and peoples are fighting against the bourgeoisie and its governments, fighting against the capitalist forms of exploitation and domination, looking for changes and in this struggle and search. This struggle and search, in which our parties must be at the forefront, will pave the way for new revolutionary processes and the imperialist “chain” will be broken from its weakest “link” or “links”.

17. It is the present task of the communist Marxist-Leninist parties and organisations in ICMLPO, through their work and communist propaganda and agitation, to make the popular masses, under the leadership of the working class, more and more aware that a break with the capitalist-imperialist system is the only revolutionary way to escape the consequences of capitalism, capital exploitation, fascist violence and imperialist wars.

The strengthening of the workers’, peoples’ and communist Marxist Leninist movement is an urgent task

18. Only the working class under the leadership of its party can unite with the working classes and layers who have no other choice but to fight against the exploitation and plunder of the capitalist monopolies, the suffocating dictates of the monopolies, the “free trade agreements”, the EU and the World Bank, The working class and its party must organise and build a common struggle and front against imperialism and the reactionary bourgeoisie to liberate its allies from the rule of the monopolies based on extreme exploitation and plunder and from the clutches of right-wing populists, reaction, fascism and religion. The working class and its party must strengthen its alliances and unity of struggle and action with all the peoples of the world, whether in South or North America, in Palestine, in Asia, Australia and the Arctic, who are united in the struggle against imperialism, and strengthen the alliance of the international working class and oppressed dependent peoples on a world scale. The working class is at the centre of building a broad anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist front, nationally and internationally, on the basis of the concrete conditions that can lead to the struggle for proletarian revolution. The formation of an anti-imperialist, anti-fascist united front is an urgent task.    

19. The communist Marxist-Leninist parties and organisations, no matter how big they are, must, through their daily systematic work in the working class, workplaces and trade unions, continue to root themselves and strengthen their links in the working class and labouring people, raise their revolutionary consciousness and thus transform the working class into a leading political actor in society and a political reference for the other working classes and layers and oppressed groups. In today’s conditions, when capitalism has nothing more to give to humanity and the objective conditions impose radical changes, the adjustment of the subjective conditions and the organisational work for this purpose are of fundamental importance. Today, in too many places, the working class lacks a strong Marxist-Leninist party to lead the realisation of a revolutionary process and revolution. Building new and strong Marxist-Leninist parties based on scientific socialism, bringing together communist forces, conscious workers and revolutionary intellectuals is a task that ICMLPO will continue to strengthen and considers as its necessary task.

20. No matter how many new initiatives the capitalist social system can develop, it is incapable of solving the great and fundamental problems of the working class, the people, peace and the environment, because it will always be based on profit, exploitation and contempt for humanity.

Today, when all the contradictions of capitalist imperialism are sharpening, the only way for the emancipation of the working class and the toiling peoples is the international proletarian revolution that will put an end to the rule of the bourgeoisie and capitalism. The capitalist-imperialist international order, which is characterised by the extreme exploitation, plunder and tyranny of the monopolies and which is heading towards fascism and a new world war, must be replaced by a new international order. This can only be a socialist order. Faced with imperialism and capitalism, the international working class is fighting for change, for a new society and a new international order based on scientific socialism, in which the means of production will no longer be the subject of private ownership, in which it will organise itself as the ruling class.

Our call is to the working class and the peoples of the world: Let us join the struggle against the barbarism and brutality of the international bourgeoisie and imperialism with new strength. There can be no progress, justice and peace under the dark shadow of imperialism. Only we, the working class and the peoples, united in a common front against capitalism and imperialism, can bring about a real change in our working and living conditions and in the course of a world based on exploitation and tyranny.

International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organisations

ICMLPO

The world is going through a complex moment, characterised by the deepening of the general crisis of the capitalist system. The inter-imperialist confrontation, the dispute of the monopolies and the states of the most developed capitalist-imperialist economies have developed to the point that they have seen in war the means to resolve their differences. The inter-imperialist war that is unfolding in Ukraine is not the only war conflict today; more than fifty localised wars are spreading in different parts of the world, in all of them the interests of one or the other imperialist countries, of one or the other capitalist-imperialist blocs are at stake. In all these conflicts, the workers and peoples are the main victims.

Inter-imperialist wars, wars between capitalist states and wars of aggression against the peoples are the offspring of capitalism; this system must be ended in order to achieve world peace.

The aggressive and criminal nature of imperialism is openly and cynically manifested in the genocide faced by the Palestinian people, now extended against the people of Lebanon. Israeli Zionism, US imperialism and their allies are responsible for these crimes that are claiming the lives of thousands of children, youth, women and the elderly. The workers, the youth and the peoples of the world reject genocide, we express it in massive mobilisations taking place all over the world. The flags for peace fly together with the condemnation of Israeli Zionism and its supporters.

The negative social effects caused by capitalist exploitation are repudiated by workers, youth, women and peoples. Massive mobilisations, workers’ strikes, popular uprisings are taking place against the adjustment policies implemented by the governments of the bourgeoisie, be they liberal, neo-liberal, social democratic or “progressive”. In the midst of the struggle for jobs, better wages, quality public education and health, public social security, defense of the environment, and other issues, the feeling of repudiation of capitalism and the yearning of the people for change are growing. However, this discontent of the masses is being exploited by the very people responsible for its existence: the bourgeoisie and the oligarchies.

We note the dangerous growth of the right and the extreme right in some regions of the world; fascist and pro-fascist forces have had the ability to manipulate the consciousness of the masses and to capture the governments in various countries, with apparently anti-system discourses, but in reality they are based on reactionary, racist, xenophobic and misogynist points of view. Fascism today constitutes a real danger to all the democratic achievements of humanity. As the last century has shown, it is a return to barbarism.

We warn the workers and peoples against this danger, but also against apparently revolutionary and left-wing political positions, such as ‘progressivism’, which in reality represent the economic and political interests of bourgeois factions and imperialist powers.

The XXIX Plenary Session of the CIPOML is a testimony to the development of our parties in this period. In our daily work, we have demonstrated our revolutionary commitment to the workers and peoples; however, we are fully aware that we must work better and do much more to fulfil our historic political responsibility.

Our Conference met to coincide with the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the CIPOML and, thirty years after its constitution, we continue to raise the banners of Marxism-Leninism and proletarian revolution with the same optimism and commitment. Only the social revolution of the proletariat will liberate the workers and peoples from capitalist-imperialist exploitation.

For Marxism-Leninism, revolution and socialism!

XXIX Plenary Session of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations – CIPOML

Hamburg – Germany, November 2024