AND Editorial – Supporting the Revolution in India and the National Resistance in Palestine and Iran is the Most Important Task for Anti-imperialists Around the World – Second Part
We hereby share an unofficial translation of the second part of the Editorial published by A Nova Democracia (AND) on the 4th of April.
The Iranian nation confirms what the Palestinian people demonstrated so masterfully, heroically, and forcefully during the Al-Aqsa Flood: imperialism is a paper tiger, a Maoist thesis that is just as valid today as it was in the past. The war of aggression, with which Trump swore he would subdue the Islamic Republic of Iran in two weeks, has now lasted for over a month, and the results—both military and political—are disastrous for the Yankees and the Nazi-Zionists; they are humiliating failures and defeats. More than 950 Yankee soldiers have been killed or wounded, according to information released by the spokesperson for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the local press. The much-touted Yankee “air supremacy” has proven to be a myth and a fiasco that exposes all its fragilities as a paper tiger in the eyes of the oppressed of the Earth. The Iranian Resistance shot down the E-3 AWACS radar aircraft, estimated at $1.4 billion; three MQ-9 Reaper drones, the in-flight refueling tanker aircraft, and the Yankees’ stealth F-35, costing tens of millions of dollars each; three Zionist Hermes-900 intelligence drones; one Zionist IAI Eitan drone, considered of high strategic value, costing approximately $35 million. This, just in the last few days, not to mention the near-complete neutralization of their Iron Dome.
The Yankee and Zionist strategy of decapitating the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to destabilize it and thereby force its capitulation and regime change—replacing it with a vassal state like so many others in the region—has failed miserably. More than 40 Iranian officials holding leadership positions were executed by the machine of aggression, including the country’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, as well as the defense minister, the commander of the Revolutionary Guard, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, the head of national security, and several generals and high-ranking officers. Iran, however, overcame the aggressor’s strategy through its ability to boldly prepare new leaders to carry forward the cause of non-negotiable national sovereignty.
More than 30 days later, the war is unfolding as follows: Iran has complete control of the Strait of Hormuz, and Donald Trump himself suggests that he will not be able to take it back from Iran. On the 31st, he declared angrily that the Europeans must take the Strait themselves if they want oil, boasting as if the war he started were not the immediate cause of the energy collapse he brought about, and to hide the fact that he himself, and Yankee military might, are useless in the face of the fierce, heroic, and sacred Resistance of a nation and its people with a millennia-old history that produced giants like Cyrus the Great and Darius. The Yankees intend to end the war as soon as possible, provided an honorable exit is offered—which will not happen; Iran, with a firm stance of national resistance, is conversely determined to continue the war, now as a war of national resistance, until it imposes a humiliating exit on the aggressors and until it can establish political conditions in the region that will prevent new aggressions. The invasion of Kharg Island, responsible for 90% of Iran’s gas and oil production, though contemplated by the Yankees, would only exacerbate their crushing defeat, because while it is not difficult to imagine that the Yankees might achieve immediate success, it is impossible for that success to last long, and it will inevitably lead to a defeat of such magnitude that it will radically mark a turning point in the region’s reality. Iran is mobilizing the entire region and will undoubtedly launch a powerful guerrilla movement in defense of the region. The more the Americans squabble over Iran, and the longer they take to acknowledge that they have failed in all their current objectives—not to mention the humiliation they have suffered before the whole world—the higher the political costs they will have to pay, and the greater the successes for the international anti-imperialist cause.
***
In less than five years, we are witnessing, in Iran, the third major strategic defeat of U.S. imperialism in its wars of aggression. In August 2021, they were driven out of Afghanistan, retreating like desperate rats at Kabul Airport, clinging to their C-17 aircraft, completely surrounded by the masses of Afghan Resistance guerrillas, amid the roar of bombs detonated by the masses. On October 7, 2023, along with its Zionist enclave, it suffered the most significant defeat in its history in the Middle East, inflicted by the Palestinian National Resistance, in a long campaign in which the Yankee and Zionist imperialists exposed themselves as depraved genocidal maniacs, using starvation as a weapon of war, in a territory 41 km long, and yet, without achieving their goal: to destroy the Resistance and take Gaza. Now, in Iran, in 2026, it is once again taking a beating from an oppressed nation, being forced to accept a humiliating defeat that thwarts all its strategic plans or to deepen the war and reap, further down the line, an even worse defeat that only accelerates its inexorable decline.
What lies behind all these events? First and foremost, the world has entered a new era. In this era, the general crisis of imperialist decay—that is, of the system of monopoly capital—has reached unprecedented levels. On the one hand, the decomposition of the economic base is followed by the collapse of all institutions: the unprecedented demoralization of bourgeois democracy, even in the countries that built it through revolutions that are the heritage of humanity, but which, in their inevitable decline, insisted on clinging to it, boasting of being champions of “liberal democracy”; the lack of credibility of reactionary political regimes in manipulating the masses into accepting policies that embody the interests of the ruling classes to the detriment of their own; the increasing explosiveness of the masses, with mass movements on the rise across all continents and exhibiting an even greater degree of violence and radicalism; the rise of the far right and the resurgence of fascism, as counterrevolutionary measures to stabilize the decaying regime; the intensifying competition among powers and superpowers, the increase in wars of aggression, and the growing danger of a new and third world war—all to save the system of exploitation, which has been defeated by the laws of history, and to halt the overwhelming rebellion of the oppressed. On the other hand, the trend toward the unification of the international communist movement and the resurgence of major anti-imperialist waves in response to armed aggressions against oppressed peoples and nations. These are signs of a new period in which, through the strength of anti-imperialist armed struggles and the persistent People’s Wars in Peru, India, the Philippines, and Turkey, and new ones yet to be unleashed, and bolstered by the Palestinian National Resistance, the Yemeni Resistance, and the Iranian Resistance, the general counterrevolutionary offensive of Yankee imperialism—until now in decline—is moving toward its historic and irremediable bankruptcy. We are, as is proven every day, in the century of the victory of the World Revolution with the sweeping away of imperialism, all reaction, and all its horrors from the face of the Earth. It is only a matter of time!
