On the Fall of the Dutch Government
We hereby share a statement published by the Communist Committee of Netherlands.
The recent fall of the Dutch government is yet another clear example of the sharpening contradictions within imperialist bourgeois democracy. The media, ever loyal servants of capital, present it as a purely political issue—a crisis over migration policy, a coalition rupture, or clashing personalities. But from a revolutionary perspective, we recognize it for what it truly is: a symptom of rotting imperialism and the dying carcass of the parliamentary system.
Bourgeois Democracy in Crisis
Like all parliamentary regimes in the West, the Netherlands is not ruled by the people, but by a small clique of bourgeois politicians who serve the interests of monopoly capital. This ruling class hides behind “coalition politics” and “liberal values” while imposing austerity, militarism, and xenophobic migration policies at home, and neocolonial domination abroad.
The recent collapse of the government—caused by disagreements over asylum restrictions and budget issues—is no exception. It reflects growing contradictions within the bourgeois class: between liberals trying to manage the crisis and reactionary forces who seek to deepen it through nationalism and repression. Neither of these factions represent the interests of the proletariat or the oppressed.
The GL–PvdA Illusion and Palestine
Amid the collapse, many on the so-called “left” turn toward GroenLinks–PvdA; a bourgeois alliance masquerading as a progressive force. But this alliance is nothing more than a safety valve for imperialism. Its role is to absorb the discontent the working class and divert it toward the dead-end path of parliamentary reforms.
Nowhere is their betrayal clearer than in their stance on Palestine. As the genocidal war against Gaza continues—funded and armed by the EU and the Dutch military-industrial complex—GL–PvdA offers hollow words and symbolic gestures. They condemn Israeli “excesses” while continuing to support the imperialist structures that enable occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.
There is no neutral ground in the face of genocide. The Dutch government—past and present—is complicit in the crimes against the Palestinian people. And GL–PvdA, loyal to NATO and imperialism, is an accomplice—not a challenger—of this machinery of oppression.
Crisis of Legitimacy and Class Rule
The Dutch working class and migrant population face worsening conditions: stagnant wages, unaffordable housing, increasing precarity, and a growing repressive apparatus. The fall of the government is not a crisis for the people—it is a crisis of legitimacy for the bourgeois class.
The ruling class can no longer govern in the old way. Its institutions are broken, and its ability to rule through consensus is crumbling. The fascist right is gaining ground. Not because it offers solutions, but because the system itself is collapsing under the weight of its contradictions.
Chairman Mao taught us that “all reactionaries are paper tigers.” The Dutch ruling class, with all its royal traditions and technocratic masks, is no exception. Its institutions are falling apart. Its promises of democracy are hollow. Its alliances are disintegrating.
Crisis of Legitimacy and Class Rule
The Dutch working class and migrant population face worsening conditions: stagnant wages, unaffordable housing, increasing precarity, and a growing repressive apparatus. The fall of the government is not a crisis for the people—it is a crisis of legitimacy for the bourgeois class.
The ruling class can no longer govern in the old way. Its institutions are broken, and its ability to rule through consensus is crumbling. The fascist right is gaining ground. Not because it offers solutions, but because the system itself is collapsing under the weight of its contradictions.
Chairman Mao taught us that “all reactionaries are paper tigers.” The Dutch ruling class, with all its royal traditions and technocratic masks, is no exception. Its institutions are falling apart. Its promises of democracy are hollow. Its alliances are disintegrating.
The Role of Revolutionaries
Harbor no illusions: a new election or a new coalition will not solve this crisis. The proletariat has nothing to gain by replacing one group of bourgeois managers with another.
Instead, revolutionaries in the Netherlands must seize this opportunity to agitate, educate, and organize. The people must be shown the limits of legalism, the lie of parliamentary reformism, and the necessity of building a revolutionary movement rooted in the masses.
We must wage ideological struggle against the false hope spread by revisionists and NGOs. We must lay the foundations for the establishment of a real proletarian party, guided by Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism. We must also link the daily struggles of the oppressed with the broader strategic task: the overthrow of the imperialist Dutch government and the construction of a true people’s government.
The Old Is Dying
Across the world, the imperialist order is collapsing. From Gaza to the streets of Rotterdam, from Manila to Paris, the people are rising up. They reject the lies of the old world and demand liberation.
The fall of the Dutch government is not a setback—it is a sign. A sign that the old forms are exhausted. A sign that revolutionaries must advance. The chance to build a new future—without imperialism, without oppression, without compromise—lies ahead of us.
DO NOT FALL FOR THE LIES, UNMASK THEM!
BOYCOTT THE ELECTIONS!
