Jim Moore

Serious times require serious politics

The worldwide outcry against the genocide in Gaza did not stop it. Appeals to “rules-based order” will not stop the bombing of Iran or the relentless escalation toward nuclear war. Only the development of revolutionary leadership in the international working class can succeed.

The struggle against war is an international question. It cannot be waged only within national boundaries, & it cannot be entrusted to any existing government. No amount of protest will stop the drive to war. The mass demonstrations of 2003 did not stop the invasion of Iraq.

This is not a warning about World War III, as though it were some future eventuality that might still be averted by appeals to reason or the election of better leaders. We are witnessing its rapid intensification. Ukraine, Gaza, Venezuela & Iran are not separate conflicts.

This war marks an irrevocable turning point. The world that existed before February 28, 2026, is gone. The criminality of the entire “rules-based international order” has been laid bare for the world to see.

The fascist lunatic Hegseth can barely contain his genocidal blood lust. His mania for mass murder only expresses in a concentrated form the political sickness eating the capitalist oligarchy alive. Workers must organize their removal from power.

Lucrative oil futures and predictive market bets on Iran war expose White House insider trading scheme wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Ukraine, Gaza, Venezuela and Iran are fronts in a single global war being waged by US imperialism and allies to reorganize the world under their hegemonic control, to abolish the residual traces of the social and democratic revolutions of the 20th century and crush any resistance

To understand why the US has been waging war—economic, covert and now openly military—against Iran for half a century, one must begin with geography. Iran sits at the intersection of three critical zones of the world economy: Central Asia, South Asia and the Persian Gulf.

We live in a world that Lenin, Luxemburg, Liebknecht and, above all, Trotsky would understand very well. The only question that ultimately matters is the development of revolutionary leadership in the international working class. The alternative is revolution or catastrophe.

The Iran war is “a crime against peace,” the most fundamental charge in the indictment brought against the Nazi leadership at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in 1945–46. Of the 22 defendants tried at Nuremberg, 13 were found guilty of waging wars of aggression.

American imperialism and the oppression of Iran wsws.org/en/articles/20… [David North @davidnorthwsws] The war that began on February 28 is the culmination of more than 80 years of American imperialist intervention in Iran and cannot be understood apart from that history. -The working class and all of humanity confront a situation that Trotsky described so prophetically on the eve of World War II. The ruling class “now toboggans with closed eyes toward an economic and military catastrophe.” -The “rules-based international order” has been exposed, once again, as a euphemism for the right of the imperialist powers to make war on whomever they choose. -In the founding document of the Fourth International, the Transitional Program of 1938, Trotsky wrote: "All talk to the effect that historical conditions have not yet “ripened” for socialism is the product of ignorance or conscious deception. The objective prerequisites for the proletarian revolution have not only “ripened”; they have begun to get somewhat rotten..." -The task of building the revolutionary leadership of the working class—the International Committee of the Fourth International and its sections—is the urgent, overriding, and inescapable political task of our time. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

The US war on Iran exposes the complete breakdown of democratic rule. There is no mechanism in place within bourgeois institutions, and no bourgeois constituency which can stop the criminality. A socialist revolution is required as a matter of urgency. wsws.org/en/articles/20…

This shameful statement bears witness to the reactionary nature of the pro-imperialist regimes across the region. The Riyadh statement: Türkiye, Azerbaijan and Arab regimes legitimize US-Israel war on Iran wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Workers and youth in South Australia speak out against war and major parties in the state election wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Australian health workers denounce Labor’s backing for US-Israeli war against Iran wsws.org/en/articles/20…

Despite “postponing” attacks on power plants, Trump expands preparation for Iran invasion wsws.org/en/articles/20…

We are in a revolutionary period, we are in a counter-revolutionary period. Which one of those tendencies will predominate? As Trotsky said in 1932-33 in the face of rising fascism, struggle will decide!

Detention facilities are not simply built in response to enforcement needs; they are part of a system in which detention itself is treated as a guaranteed revenue stream. Government policy is aligned with corporate profit interests. #immigration #ICE wsws.org/en/articles/20…