One can sense panic and demoralization on the left. Trump’s election and the rise of right-wing populist copycats like Pierre Poilievre in Canada could give the impression that there is a shift to the right in society in general. That would be to misunderstand the situation.

The question of Palestine and the crisis in the Middle East is a class question.

Our ruling classes are ready to drag us all into war to protect their imperialist interests.

The same capitalist forces which support Israeli imperialism also oppress and exploit workers here. 

“May you live in interesting times”: this saying, supposedly taken from an ancient Chinese curse, sums up our epoch. Anyone who imagined they could live a simple, quiet life is in for a disappointment.

Driven by the same sense of urgency, we founded the RCP because this work cannot wait. Every day, the crisis of capitalism brings more and more people to the realization that the system must be overthrown. There is a ferment in the consciousness of millions, as the impasse of capitalism becomes ever more keenly felt.

At the time of writing, on April 22, we are emerging from a tense week in which the Middle East has come very close to exploding into a regional war. After exchanging missiles, Iran and Israel have tacitly agreed to conclude the current round of attacks. But the Middle East remains a powder keg, with no shortage of potential sparks.

The NDP motion on arms exports to Israel is just the latest joke played by the Canadian political parties on the Palestinian people.

Yet the leaders of the Palestine movement continue to harbor illusions about the political class.

We have to tell it like it is: all parties have Palestinian blood on their hands.

Revolutionary times call for revolutionary solutions. Capitalism is driving society off a cliff. With mass poverty, environmental destruction, war, and genocide—this system has to go. That is why we are founding the Revolutionary Communist Party!

“The world political situation as a whole is chiefly characterized by a historical crisis of the leadership of the proletariat.” These lines, which date back to 1938 with Trotsky’s Transitional Program, could have been written yesterday. The present epoch is marked by a glaring contradiction: the immense revolutionary energy, yet the total absence of a political leadership capable or even willing to channel it into the struggle against the capitalists and their bankrupt system.