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Huge mass mobilizations have risen in 1000 cities in the United States and hundreds of cities on 5 continents, in rejection of capitalism and the measures taken by the imperialist government of Donald Trump. These measures have further aggravated the global crisis of capitalism because they strengthen the global dynamics and perspective towards stagflation as you can read here. 

At the same time, the political agreements launched by Donald Trump to placate the revolutions that are going through the world also fail: The revolutionary wars continue to develop both the 3rd Intifada surrounded by huge mobilizations in favor of Palestine around the world that face the cowardly bombardments of the Israeli army that no longer dares to enter Gaza by land. The revolution in Yemen continues to pit Israel and NATO against each other, and Ukraine's revolutionary war against Putin's invasion of cowardly bombing continues, because Putin's armies have stalled in the Ukrainian Donbass, held back by the valiant resistance of Ukraine's national liberation army.

The mobilizations around the world against the U.S. government are part of this global revolutionary process that has been developing its third wave since 2011. In the face of this process of global mobilization, the top leaders of the Progressive International, the Democratic Party senator for Vermont, Bernie Sanders, and the Minister of Finance of Greece under the Syriza government, Yanis Varoufakis, have come out to develop events and demonstrations in which they call on world activism to support "progressive" coalitions. a policy of class collaboration" justified under the claim that there is a "rise of the global far right"

Sanders and Varoufakis do not hold these events to support revolutions, nor revolutionary wars. On the contrary, they raise a pacifist policy with hypocritical calls for "Peace". And they call for confronting the so-called "Reactionary International", for the Conservative Political Action Conference that brings together the handful of global right-wing governments such as Trump, Milei, Bukele, Orban or Meloni. What do the leaders of the Progressive International propose to defeat the "oligarchy"? They propose the old reformist strategy of the struggle against capitalism by means of elections and ballot boxes, an "electoralist" policy of obtaining deputies or senators, within the regime of bourgeois democracy.

In the service of this policy, he has convened conferences called "SOCIALISM" in the United States. The U.S. and Great Britain, in which they call for support or join capitalist coalitions, or directly imperialist ones such as the U.S. Democratic Party. or the Labour Party of Great Britain. 99% of the global left, the social democrats, Stalinists, ex-guerrillas, and ex-Trotskyists have joined this policy of the Progressive International and develop it all over the world by adapting the slogans to the reality of their countries or regions where they act. If you want to read about the Progressive International click here.

Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez Attempt to Deflect Revolution in America

In the United States, Bernie Sanders, together with New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) of the "progressive" wing of the Democratic Party, are holding rallies across the country under the slogan "Fight the Oligarchy." In these events, Sanders together with the leader of the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) group call for a fight for Medicare for all, a Green New Deal, a federal minimum wage of $15 an hour, free college tuition and taxes for the richest Americans, harshly criticizing Trump and the billionaires who run politics in the United States. Who are the "oligarchy" according to Sanders and AOC? They are the "right" embodied by the binomial Donald Trump and Elon Musk, according to the "progressives" the center of the struggle must be against the "right", all over the world.

In turn, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is a leader of the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA), the largest reformist left-wing group in the United States. It acts "inside" the Democratic Party. The mass events are a sign of the advance in the consciousness of the people of the United States with broad sectors that want to confront the oligarchy that governs their country and the entire world,but Sanders and Ocasio Cortez intend to divert and push the people back towards the Democratic Party of the United States. an imperialist party representing the 1% oligarchy of Wall Street, the Pentagon, and the Global Corporations. You cannot fight the oligarchy with a political party that is representative of the oligarchy. It has been just 6 months since the Democratic Party left power and under its mandate thousands of Americans fell into poverty, and workers saw their wages fall as a result of inflation, while the Pentagon provided weapons to bomb and murder thousands of Palestinians in Gaza.

Can you get Medicare for All, better wages by voting for Democratic Party officials as Sanders and AOC claim? Can capitalism grant concessions such as health for all, better wages, or stop attacking nature? The promises of Sanders and AOC are false because capitalism cannot grant concessions in any country in the world, not even in the imperialist countries where there are more profits for the imperialist bourgeoisie because they exploit the workers of the whole world. ` Today capitalism is collapsing and entering a trend towards stagflation, which makes it impossible to make conquests anywhere. Capitalist governments come to the rescue of the Corporations and the oligarchs of the 1%, but they will never come to the rescue of the millions who suffer hunger, poverty and unemployment in the 5 continents. That's why, when Sanders and AOC come out to promise Medicare for All, wage raises, or improvements in the green economy, they are simply lying.

What the actions of Sanders and AOC seek is to divert the powerful mobilization of the American people against Donald Trump to lead them to the dead end of elections and the ballot box. The movement led by Sanders and AOC aims to divert the powerful mobilization that the American people are carrying out against Donald Trump towards the terrain of bourgeois institutionality and elections. They seek to sustain the regime of bourgeois democracy in order to divert the struggle against capitalism and be contained within the bourgeois regime.

But the American people have begun to turn their backs on bourgeois democracy and the Democratic Party: In the last presidential election, millions did not turn out to vote, and the Democratic Party lost millions of votes, allowing Donald Trump to win the election, even though he lost votes. The break and disappointment of millions with the Democratic Party is part of the worldwide process of political revolution, in which millions around the world break with the old parties and leaderships that were the leadership of the mass movement in the preceding decades. Sanders and AOC seek to recompose the Democratic Party, trying to get a sector of activism to believe in the old imperialist party again in order to get it out of the crisis.

At the service of this strategy, the SOCIALISM 2025 Conference is convened from July 6 to 3 in Chicago, in which "progressive" activists and leaders who support the imperialist Democratic Party, "progressives" and various leftist groups that make up DSA such as Socialist Alternative (SA) of Kshama Sawant, Tempest, Red Star, etc. Bread and Roses, Reform & Revolution, Marxist Unity Group, the Socialist Majority, etc. All these groups betray the American people, calling for support for the Democratic Party. Similar events have been convened in Britain and Australia such as the SOCIALISM 2025 Conference in Britain from 3 to 6 July where Corbyn and Yanis Varoufakis are called as speakers, and the SOCIALISM 2025 event in Australia between 17 and 20 April.

What the "progressives" Sanders and AOC seek to divert them is the revolution that the United States has been experiencing for decades. The revolution has multiple expressions such as the mass mobilizations in the United States. The U.S. is expressing itself with very important struggles that radiate to the whole world such as the struggle against imperialism (with the mobilizations against the war in Iraq, or in favor of Palestine), against Wall Street Corporations (with movements like Occupy Wall Street), against racism (with movements like Black Lives Matter), against the U.S. Corporations (with the mobilizations against the war in Iraq, or in favor of Palestine), against Wall Street Corporations (with movements like Occupy Wall Street), against racism (with movements like Black Lives Matter), against the U.S. Corporations (with movements like Occupy Wall Street), against racism (with movements like Black Lives Matter), against the U.S. Corporations (with the Occupy Wall Street Movement). in favor of women's rights with the mobilizations or the "Me Too" movement, in favor of oppressed peoples or those suffering aggression (such as the mobilizations in favor of Ukraine), the unionization process or "New Unionism.

Yanis Varoufakis and Jeremy Corbyn try to divert the struggle of European workers

The policy of the leaders of the Progressive International, to divert mobilization and advances in consciousness into the dead-end of the elections, is aimed at preventing by all means the emergence of a radicalized current that tends towards revolutionary Marxism. A global revolutionary situation characterized by the crisis of capitalism and the revolutionary upsurge of the masses in the world will inevitably generate revolutionary tendencies outside the capitalist parties, which will confront the bourgeois democratic regime, and threaten to abolish capitalism. This is what these leaders desperately seek to prevent or divert.

The same is happening in Europe. In Britain, the Labour Party, which took power after 14 years, is facing a deep crisis. Keir Starmer, the current Prime Minister of the imperialist government of Britain, is already hated for his support for Israel and for the attacks on millions of working class people. The "progressive wing" of the Labour Party convened inLondon on 29/3/25 the "We Demand Change" Summit with representatives of towns and cities in Britain and Europe, in an event led by two of the most important leaders of the Progressive International: Jeremy Corbyn of England, former leader of the Labour Party of Great Britain, and Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of the Syriza government in Greece.

Varoufakis now has his own party "European Disobedience Front" and heads theMovement for Democracy in Europe 2025 (DiE25). The"We Demand Change" Summit raised slogans such as "Welfare", "No War", "Taxes on the Rich", for a fairer society for all that seeks to rebuild a "politics of hope" at the "grassroots" level, a whole program similar to the one carried out by Bernie Snaders and AOC in the US. The "We Demand Change" Summit was attended by several personalities and activists from the English and European left such as Steve North, President of the UNISON union, the General Secretary of the National Union of Educators Daniel Kebede, or Sarah Woolley, leader of the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union (BFAWU) of England.

The "Summit" "We demand change" discussed the tasks in front of the Labour government, and featured several organizations of the European left such as the current "La France Insoumise" headed by Jean-Luc Mélenchon represented by the deputy Jérôme Legavre. Also organizing the "We Demand Change" Summit were leaders of Britain's Socialist Workers Party, a group headed by Alex Callínicos and economist Michael Roberts that claims to be Trotskyist. What the Summit proposes is the "fight against the right" of the Reform UK group, omitting the reality that the Labour Party governs Britain. The leaders of the "Demand Change" Summit refuse to call it fighting the imperialist government of Starmer and the Labour Party, because according to them, that would be "playing into the hands of the right" of Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson and Reform UK.

El llamado de Jeremy Corbyn y Yanis Varoufakis en la Cumbre "Exigimos un cambio" es a luchar "contra la derecha del Partido Laborista" De este modo, Corbyn y Varoufakis hacen un refrito de la vieja estrategia stalinista del "gobierno en disputa" según la cual cuando una coalición "progresista" llega al poder se puede dar una batalla "por dentro" para cambiar el rumbo de la coalición capitalista. Todo esto es un engaño, y la estrategia del "gobierno en disputa" es una traición a los trabajadores y el pueblo de Gran Bretaña y Europa porque un gobierno capitalista siempre defenderá el capitalismo, aunque tenga un lenguaje "progresista".

Además de los organizadores del SWP inglés, la cumbre "Exigimos un cambio" reunió a organizaciones cercanas o influenciadas por el Partido Socialista, por el stalinista Partido Comunista Británico, por varios ex- laboristas, y al Partido Verde británico, y de la organización reformista People Before Profit. Toda el evento giró en torno a rechazar todas las peticiones de un nuevo partido opuesto al Laborismo, Jeremy Corbyn, Yanis Varoufakis y Andrew Feinstein lanzaron una lista de advertencias y llamados destinados a posponer indefinidamente cualquier forma de ruptura política con el Partido Laborista. En todo caso limitar y confinar a los trabajadores y jóvenes a protestar contra los "excesos" del gobierno.

La misma preocupación que tienen Sanders y AOC en EE.UU, tienen Corbyn y Varoufakis en Europa: Evitar por todos los medios que surja una corriente radicalizada que tienda hacia el marxismo revolucionario. Por ello todo el tiempo plantearon que hablar de un nuevo partido es "prematuro" y es "poner el carro delante de los bueyes". Para Corbyn los "revolucionarios" deberían formar parte del electorado de un posible nuevo partido reformista. Andrew Feinstein, exdiputado del Congreso Nacional Africano (CNA) argumentó que la formación de un nuevo partido se produciría en un momento indeterminado simplemente mediante el surgimiento de activistas que "saldrían a las calles como nunca antes".

Along with this movement in Great Britain, in Spain Podemos has presented the candidacy of Ione Belarra, secretary general of the party, with Irene Montero as head of the list in a maneuver that comes after the political relocation that the purple formation has been carrying out since its departure from the Popular Front government of Pedro Sanchez of the Socialist Party and Yolanda Diaz of the Communist Party. Podemos seeks to relocate itself after having been left out of the distribution of ministries of the "progressive" government of Sánchez. Now Belarra, like Montero or Pablo Iglesias, are going to all the media to affirm that "Sumar is in decomposition", seeking to capitalize on the discontent with the capitalist government of Spain, placing themselves "on the left" to try to absorb the political groups that are disassociating themselves from the coalition led by Yolanda Díaz. In this framework, it is where Podemos is trying to recover electorally.

Discontent is beginning to spread in many sectors, as shown by the massive mobilization for housing that reached many cities in Spain. But Podemos is unsustainable from the workers' and people's point of view because it was part of a capitalist and imperialist government, which came to the "rescue" of Spain's richest bankers when the real estate bubble burst. while thousands of families suffered evictions. The submission to the Regime of '78, the monarchy established by the Moncloa Pact makes this traitorous European pseudo-left look ridiculous. Podemos is the expression of the policy of the Progressive International in Spain, which also applies to the Popular Front in France, Melénchon's France Insoumise, the official NPA in France, Die Linke in Germany, etc.

Let's build a revolutionary alternative

But all attempts by the Progressive International to recompose reformist alternatives will be difficult because the leaders and organizations that make it up are going through a great crisis. The crisis is caused by the world revolutionary upsurge, and the global process of political revolution that is destroying all reformist projects, and all the old leaderships that today are in a deep crisis and retreat. The time has come to end all these reformist projects and build a revolutionary organization.

From La Marx International we call to turn our backs on all these reformist organizations with a very clear message: The time has come to abandon this useless and surrendered left. Many of these comrades want to defeat capitalism and imperialism, butit is not with these reformist currents that we are going to defeat capitalism, fundamentally because it is a left that supports and defends capitalism. On the contrary, the time has come to build a revolutionary force that will put an end to this old, reformist and decomposed left. We call on you to join the project of La Marx International to regroup the revolutionaries who want to take this path, the only serious one to fight for global socialism.