The Imperialist-Capitalist Chain is Melting! Let it Burn!
Mücadele Birliği (Struggle Unity, Türkiye)
Comrades, all those who refuse to kneel before the altar of Capital!
Look around you. Look with eyes unclouded by the fog of liberal media. What do you see? Chaos? No. Chaos is a word for the blind. What you are witnessing is the meltdown of imperialist-capitalist world order.
The imperialist-capitalist chain is not merely rattling; it is shattering. But a chain this heavy does not break in silence. It sounds like the thunder of artillery in the Donbass. It sounds like the scream of drones over Kiev. It makes a noise like the missiles striking Tel Aviv, Haifa, and the US bases in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries. It sounds like the suffocating silence of the dying children in Gaza, in Sudan, and the Sahel.
They lie to us. They claim that these are “regional conflicts.” They tell us this is a “defense of democracy.” But we know the truth. The Third World War is not a future threat. It is here. It is now. It began long ago. Essentially, this Third World War was launched by the US on September 11, 2001, against the world working class, oppressed peoples, socialist countries, revolutionary-communist movements, and revolutionary-democratic governments striving for socialism. And at its core, it is a Global Civil War waged between the decaying imperialist-capitalist system and workers and peoples across the globe―in short, a struggle for the very existence of humanity.
To understand where we stand in 2026, we must correct the historical record. The Third World War did not begin in 2022 with tanks rolling toward Kiev. Nor did it begin in 2014. It began on September 11, 2001. That was the day the United States―the undisputed chieftain of global plunder―declared war. Not on “terror,” not on a man in a cave (who was actually its own puppet), but against the world working class and oppressed peoples. It was a proactive, global counter-revolutionary offensive against the oppressed peoples, against socialist bastions, and against every sovereign power that dared to utter the word No. The reason why the US and other imperialist states initiated this war is that their hegemony has entered a period of collapse.
For a quarter-century, this war has been a singular, continuous process. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Palestine―these are not separate entries in a history book. They are the same blood, the same profit, the same desperate attempt by the US-led hegemony to arrest the clock of history. They are trying to freeze time because time is no longer on their side.
Comrades, let us look at the internal mechanics of this madness. Why this sudden escalation? Why this rush toward nuclear fire? Because the capitalist mode of production―that ancient, rusted machine of exploitation―has reached its physical and historical limits. It can no longer breathe through “normal” exploitation. It can no longer promise a “better tomorrow” to the youth of Paris, London, or New York. Despite all their aggressive policies, the imperialists have been unable to halt this process of collapse.
When a system can no longer grow, it begins to devour itself. We have moved from classical colonialism to that of Neo-colonialism, and from there to the stage of full economic subjugation. In a desperate bid to survive, they are implementing policies of full economic subjugating to intensify exploitation. Look at the maps of 2026 published by the White House. Look at the open, shameless claims on the resources of Greenland. Look at the strategic strangulation of the Panama Canal. Look at the predatory obsession with Venezuela’s oil and Iran’s sovereignty. The aggressive policies they have declared regarding Venezuela, the war on Iran, Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are direct results of this. These are not diplomatic maneuvers; they are confiscation orders. They are now attempting to turn this global civil war into a total Third World War.
The recent statements they have made regarding socialist Cuba―the Commune of the Century―reveal that all these wars are conducted with the aim of erasing socialism from the face of the earth.
This aggression is the panic of a predator that has run out of forest. The “solid” has not only melted into air; it has ignited into a revolutionary storm. We are living through the violent birth pangs of a new world. Humanity is suffering the labor pains of transitioning to a new age―a classless and borderless era. And yes, birth pangs hurt. They feel like dying. But they are the absolute opposite of death. Humanity is finally giving birth to itself. The march is for a free world without borders.
Now let’s talk about the front lines. In Syria, they’ve installed their own religious-fascist gangs in so-called power. They’ve brought yesterday’s ISIS/Al-Qaeda remnants into the Presidential Palace in Damascus. They’ve paved the way for gangs that accept everything Israel says, and they’ve liquidated Rojava. So what’s the result? Despite all that support, the gangs can’t gain control of the situation. The Syrian people are shaking this so-called government to its foundations. Even within the gang groups, anti-Zionist regime actions are taking place.
Look at Iraq. The US is retreating from the interior, huddling toward the peaks of Southern Kurdistan, fortifying Erbil and the Harir base. This is not a position of governance; it is a “fortress” position. They are retreating to the margins because the center―the organized masses and the sovereign states―has become too hot to hold. They are no longer the masters of the Middle East; they are the saboteurs in retreat.
In particular, the clear defeat suffered by the US-Israel axis against Iran following “40 days war” has pulled the rug out from under the imperialist-Zionist alliance. In short, the ability to maintain “proxy protection” has evaporated under the weight of the Palestinian resistance and the defeats in the Sahel, and especially defeats in Iran.
Marxist-Leninist science teaches us a brutal truth: the bourgeois system will not leave the stage voluntarily. It will not have a last-minute change of heart. It will not discover justice. It will fight to the last bullet, to the last Ukrainian soldier etc. The practice they have demonstrated shows that they will resist until their very last bullet. It will burn the world if it cannot own it. This makes it mandatory for us to unite all our forces against imperialism, capitalism, and fascism, and to mobilize our entire combat capacity.
To stop this kinetic momentum of destruction, a center of gravity is required. A pole of attraction. For this, we need a worldwide vanguard, a center of attraction, an anti-imperialist and anti-fascist focal point upon which all eyes are turned. This is a power center around which the world working class, the laboring and oppressed peoples, and the youth will unite. Today, that center is being forged by the hammer of necessity. In current conditions, only the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the People’s Republic of China, and the Russian Federation can fulfill this historical task by forming the core of the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist front. The relations between these three power centers demonstrate that the possibilities for such a focal point exist. We must also include global socialist forces within this framework: the world proletariat, the women workers’ movement, the revolutionary youth movement, other socialist countries, and countries with democratic popular powers.
Despite their differences, despite their contradictions, their strategic alignment provides the “shield” behind which the new world is being born. They provide the strategic depth that allows smaller nations to breathe, and revolutionary movements to organize. This is not a mere alliance of convenience; it is the embryo of a new global architecture that refuses to bow to the imperialists’ “rules-based order.”
Comrades, we are not merely observers. We are not just theorists. We are combatants. The crisis presents us with one priority, one duty, one “obsession”: The conquest of political power by the proletariat and the working masses.
The “communist” parties of the past decayed because they traded their revolutionary programs for the comfort of parliamentary seats. They forgot that the Party is not a social club; it is a war machine. Today, we see new vanguards emerging across the East and West. We see the youth in the streets of Rome, Paris, and New York who are no longer just protesting a war, but protesting their rotten society under capitalism.
We must be blunt: Anti-imperialism without anti-capitalism is a dead end. You can change a flag and still remain a neo-colony. If the underlying capitalist relations remain, the imperialist vampire will always find a way to plug back into the vein. Our goal is not just “decolonization”―it is the total abolition of the commodity form of labor.
The speed of development is dizzying. Ten years of history are being compressed into weeks. The US is losing its grip on the Mediterranean. After the “War on Iran”, imperialist-Zionist axis are losing their “importance” all over the continents. They are losing its soul because it cannot stop the masses in their own heartland. The Palestinian resistance has acted as a detonator, triggering a global wave that the bourgeoisie cannot contain.
The historical task of the day is to ensure that this is the final war of the old world. We are not merely the analysts of this collapse; we are its architects.
The imperialist-capitalist chain is rotting in its entirety. Let it rot. Let it burn. On its ruins, we shall build a world without borders, without classes, and without the shadow of the predator.
Let others wave the flags of nations or personalities. We wave only one flag―the flag of the world working class and the oppressed peoples, stained with the blood and sweat of every worker who ever fought back.
Dawn With Imperialism!
All Power to Labor!
Now is the Time for Revolution!
