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Internationalism No. 83, January 2026 Pages 1, 4 and 5 The Trump Doctrine and the Unknowns of Imperialist Europeanism It is said that the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) – the document that formalises the Trump Doctrine in foreign policy – marks a break with 80 years of transatlantic relations following the Second World War. Moreover, in our Marxist analysis, for more than twenty years we have been writing about a new strategic phase ; for almost a decade, about the crisis in the world order ; for a couple of years, about the wars of the crisis in the world order , and since the beginning of Donald Trump’s new term, about an Atlantic crisis . That this crisis is now at a turning point is a fact; the extent and permanence of its strategic consequences in the future remain open questions. Whether Trump’s NSS is conceptually up to the task of American imperialism is debatable. This is where the unknowns lie: in the relative decline ...

Internationalism No. 81, November 2025 Page 5 The Gaza Declaration , signed on October 13 th in Sharm El-Sheikh in the presence of Donald Trump and around twenty heads of State and government from European and Islamic countries, established a fragile truce in a conflict that had gradually spread throughout the region, from Lebanon to Syria, Iran, and, finally, Qatar, with the Israeli raid on September 9 th . The attack on Qatar represented a turning point in the war, calling into question Washington's security guarantees to its Arab regional allies. Just a week later, Riyadh announced a military pact with Pakistan, which implies that Islamabad will provide its nuclear umbrella to the Saudi monarchy. Euro-Islamic coalition for Trump's plan Since last spring, Saudi Arabia, together with France, has been promoting a diplomatic initiative for the recognition of a Palestinian State at the UN, with the aim of providing a political framework for...

Internationalism No. 80, October 2025 Page 7 According to Herzi Halevi, former chief of staff of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza : Not once in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice [...] This isn't a gentle war. We took the gloves off from the first minute . According to The Times of Israel , a newspaper close to the Netanyahu government, Halevi's estimate is close to that provided by Palestinian sources of 64,000 dead and 165,000 wounded and, according to intelligence reports from Tel Aviv, 80% of those Palestinians killed so far [...] are civilians . The war in Gaza represents the bloodiest chapter in the Hundred Years' War in Palestine. The conflict has taken the form of a series of duels that Tel Aviv has engaged in successively: from Lebanon to Syria, from Yemen to Iran; from the confrontation with the components of...

There are three further aspects of the internationalist battle which require attention. The first regards our class forces. In comparison with 1967, wage-earners in the North African and Middle Eastern area which extends from Morocco to Iran, including Turkey, have risen in number from 20 to 120 million and amount to two thirds of the working population, with a quarter of them belonging to the industrial proletariat. This interweaves in the Gulf petro-monarchies with sizeable Indian and Asian immigration, often forming the absolute majority of the labour force. It is understandable that only an internationalist position can conceive of the unity of such a vast proletariat in North Africa and the Middle East, but it is also possible to glimpse the force it could express if organised and oriented by a revolutionary strategy. In 1967, Arrigo Cervetto rejected the argument that the relations of force were not favourable to the proletariat in the Middle East. Wage-earners already accounte...

This first quarter-century has seen an epochal turning point in inter-power relations, triggered by China's very rapid imperialist development. Arrigo Cervetto recognised this process from the very early 1990s: Today history has sped up its pace to an unpredictable extent. [...] Analysis of the sixteenth century, as the century of accelerations and rift in world history, is a model for our Marxist vision ( La mezza guerra nel Golfo [The Half War in the Persian Gulf], January 1991). The course of imperialism was speeding up, and China's very rapid rise was opening up a new strategic phase with the new century. The United States, the leading power in the world, is being challenged by an antagonist with comparable economic strength which, moreover, openly states that it wants to provide itself with a "world class" military force within the next decade. Favoured by the 2008 global crisis and also by the pandemic crisis, China has forged ahead with its rapid rise for ...