Happy birthday, Jose Maria Sison! (February 8, 1939)

A founder and longtime leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Jose Maria Sison was born to a landed family in Cabugao, in the province of Ilocos Sur. Interested in communism from a young age, Sison became politically involved in his college years, joining the original Filipino Communist Party in 1962 and rising to its executive committee in 1963. However, he ultimately split from the party over his support for Mao Zedong Thought. Sison's new party quickly eclipsed the old, and soon began a guerilla war against the government of the Philippines under the auspices of the New People's Army. Sison was imprisoned from 11977 to 1986, resuming his chairmanship of the CPP upon release. He served in a consultative role in peace negotiations between the communists and the government, and left his role as chairman in 2022. He wrote extensively on Marxism and revolution before dying in December of that year.

"As a revolutionary, you are expected to work hard, make sacrifices and be ready to give your life if necessary to uphold, defend and advance the revolutionary cause."

"Revolutionaries never die, they continue to live through their revolutionary successors. Let us turn our grief to revolutionary courage."

—Jose Maria Sison, 1939-2022

Jose Maria Sison, "The Guerilla is Like a Poet"

The greatest Filipino of the past century bereaved us peacefully last night.

Prof. Jose Ma. Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines, passed away at around 8:40 p.m. (Philippine time) after two weeks confinement in a hospital in Utrech, The Netherlands. He was 83.

The Filipino proletariat and toiling people grieve the death of their teacher and guiding light.

The entire Communist Party of the Philippines gives the highest possible tribute to its founding chairman, great Marxist-Leninist-Maoist thinker, patriot, internationalist and revolutionary leader.

Even as we mourn, we vow continue to give all our strength and determination to carry the revolution forward guided by the memory and teachings of the people’s beloved Ka Joma.

Let the immortal revolutionary spirit of Ka Joma live on!

December 17, 2022

“ . . . progressives within the church should increase their ranks, strive to change the pro-imperialist and reactionary character and tendencies of the institutional church and officialdom and let the entire church become both a spiritual and social instrument for the liberation of the oppressed and exploited people. There is an ample basis in the teachings of the church, in the tradition of Filipino revolutionary priests, and in the example of Catholic religious leaders elsewhere for the religious progressives of today to persuade the bishops, priests nuns, and the entire laity to take an active part in the just and noble movement to complete the struggle for national freedom and democracy.”

Jose Maria Sison, The Role of the Church in Social Change (1986)

Rest In Peace, Jose Maria Sison, writer, theorist, and revolutionary.

February 8th 1939 - December 16th 2022

The Death of Jose Maria Sison (Joma)

Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, has died after two weeks of hospitalization. This news has led millions all over the world to mourn, as many count him as a freedom fighter. He is known for drawing up a thorough analysis of Philippine society through collective study and struggle that led other young cadre of the old Communist Party to leave and form their own. This analysis led the basis for the ongoing anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, anti-feudal revolution in the Philippines.

The CPP was especially relevant to the Unification Church as Marcos was ousted and the CPP taking power became an increasing threat. 

The CPP and the National Democratic movement were vital to the popular movement built up around ousting Marcos. Following the People Power Revolution, which ousted Marcos in 1986, the Unification Church’s institutions flooded the Philippines, organizing conferences with influential cultural figures, as well as active and retired agents of US and Philippine military and intelligence agencies. These conferences played a major role in forming the general counterinsurgency program of the Philippines following Marcos, which consisted of pro-US propaganda on the TV, radio, and education system, that also prepared Filipinos to have their labor exported abroad, as well as arming and developing autonomous anti-communist vigilante groups as the Philippine military slowly develops with the the active aid and mentorship of the US. This was all alongside ramping up neoliberal policies with empty or very limited land reforms, which of course increases the Philippine economy’s dependency on exporting Philippine labor. 

The Philippine Government has had an unending string of bad presidents following Marcos, coming from wealthy bureaucrat capitalist families that control the military, government, and economy, and secure the role of semi-feudalism and peasant exploitation in society, all while shamelessly using vigilante and vigilante-style tactics on those combatting their corrupt governments, from members of Communist organizations to LGBTQ+ activists, priests and nuns, teachers, social workers, etc. All of this violence has continually fed the movement for national democracy with a socialist perspective.

Prior to becoming a combatant, Sison was a professor and organizer in the old Communist Party. He organized among students and in his workplace. He is remembered for being a jovial, delightful man who never stopped organizing for the Philippine revolution, even after imprisonment and being exiled from the land he fought for. 

Today the Philippine revolution grows with thousands of combatants on all major islands of the Philippines, and growing bases among the peasantry and support among the working masses. The National Democratic revolution wages on, fighting on behalf of workers, LGBTQ+ people, women, seafarers, peasants, children, etc., despite the increased bombings and strafing in the countryside, despite the countless revolutionaries and activists who have been murdered the past few years by the police and army using Moonie-owned SNT Motiv weapons. 

These weapons are not the only way the Unification Church is complicit. The continued anti-communist murders of thousands of people in the Philippines is the ongoing legacy of the UC's organizing in the late 80s. CAUSA actively supported and organized vigilante groups, including Alsa Masa, a group responsible for the murder of thousands. 

The New People’s Army continues to swell with people who love the people. As the Revolution Selfie documentary remarks, more people get involved with the revolution because of Jesus than Marx. It was the Christian value of loving your neighbor that led so many to take up this struggle.

It was this Christian value that Sison embodied. And now Sison’s legacy lives on brilliantly in the people’s continued struggle. 

I hope we will all do what we can to support those on the front line fighting imperialism, as their fight is our own. The only way we can take down the enemy here is by having the enemy fall down all over the world.

Long live international solidarity!

Seasonally relevant video of Jose Maria Sison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PtaI-Ly9Js

Jose Maria “Ka Joma” Sison photographed with PFLP freedom fighter Leila Khaled.

tankie is when person is clearly left wing but i still don't like them

this is unironically what it means. the person doesnt even have to be left wing. tankie just means 'guy i don't like' and everyone trying to claim it means something specific or real is lying. people will literally call anyone a tankie. ilhan omar? tankie. alexander dugin? tankie. deng xiaoping? tankie. roger waters? tankie. leon trotsky? tankie. jose maria sison? tankie. jeremy corbyn? tankie. hugo chavez? tankie. noam chomksy? tankie. greta thunberg? sure why not, tankie. you can just say anything. danny devito is a tankie. jerma is a tankie. sam bankman fried is a tankie.

and when everyone is a tankie... no one will be

"Cultural work is an important and necessary part of the working class movement. To be able to rise as the vanguard in the national democratic revolution, the proletariat must wage struggles and win victories not only in the economic and political spheres but also in the cultural sphere. The workers must shake off the deadening influence of decadent bourgeois and feudal culture that outrightly denigrates them or subtly distracts them and at the same time glorifies those who oppress and exploit them. The workers and their own cultural workers must create their own proletarian revolutionary culture."

-Jose Maria Sison

Recommended reading list, for people just getting into Marxism:

• The principles of Communism, by Frederich Engels

• Constructive Criticism: A Handbook, by Gracie Lyons

• Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer, by Jose Maria Sison

• Marxism-Leninism-Maoism: Basic Course

• On Authority, by Frederich Engels

• Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, by Frederich Engels

• On Principle & on Contradiction, by Mao Zedong

• Anarchism or Socialism, by Joseph Stalin

• The State and Revolution, by Vladimir Lenin

• “Left Wing” Communism: An Infantile Disorder, by Vladimir Lenin

• The National and Colonial Questions, by Vladimir Lenin

• The Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination, by Vladimir Lenin

• Dialectical and Historical Materialism, by Joseph Stalin

• Urban Perspective - CPI (Maoist)

These are all very interesting and informative texts, and most have easily searchable audiobooks on YouTube if you're interested! Have a wonderful day! The rise of the proletariat is inevitable, have faith in the masses!

The Socialist Unity Party and Struggle-La Lucha newspaper join revolutionaries and partisans of labor in the Philippines and around the world in mourning the passing of Comrade Prof. Jose Maria Sison.

Ka Joma was a warm and humble man. He loved poetry and song, karaoke, and culture. He had a wonderful sense of humor and a kind, grandfatherly presence. And he was a revolutionary giant in word and deed, a true communist leader whose work inspires and is studied by millions in the Philippines and on every continent.

In his amazing life, from the University of the Philippines to the streets of Metro Manila, from the forests of Cagayan to the dungeons of the Marcos dictatorship, and in decades of exile from his beloved homeland, he forged and guided one of the most enduring revolutionary movements in the world today.

The church came with Spanish colonialism more than four centuries ago. It was under royal patronage. It may be said to have been an instrument of colonial policy and an adjunct of the brutal conquest of the people. And it may also be said to have been a civilizing force and a practical utilizer of colonialism as a means of carrying out the overriding spiritual mission. At any rate, the Catholic church teamed up with Spanish lay authorities in building a colonial and feudal society out of the less developed and disparate native communities and in running a theocratic state from the 16th to the 19th century. What stands out in the revolutionary anti-colonial and democratic consciousness of the people is that as a temporal or historical institution, the Catholic church, especially the friars, engaged in oppression and exploitation and that the officialdom of this church was determinedly against liberal reforms and then far more vigorously against the Philippine Revolution of 1896 whose main line was separation and independence from Spain. But the church was also composed of people who owed loyalty to it as a religious institution. And there were leaders of the church— like Father Burgos—who inspired patriotic sentiments as they demanded respect for the rights of native secular priests and suffered injustice. There were priests who joined and took active part in the Philippine revolution. Father Aglipay stood out as vicar general of the Philippine revolutionary army and as an active guerrilla leader against the US war of aggression. There is more than enough basis in Philippine history for Filipino priests to formulate and espouse a theology of liberation.

Jose Maria Sison, The Role of the Church in Social Change (1986)

From Jose Maria Sison's Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer

Honoring Chairman Jose Maria Sison

The Revolutionary Maoist Coalition has just learned that the great revolutionary leader, Jose Maria Sison (Feb. 8, 1939 – Dec. 16, 2022), has passed away at the age of 83 following a two week confinement in a Utrecht hospital in the Netherlands. 

This tragic news brings great sadness to our hearts, and we extend the sincerest condolence to Sison’s family and comrades in this painful time of mourning. 

Chairman Sison was a prolific writer, revolutionary fighter, and incredible leader in the struggle for proletarian democracy. The loss of his life is felt by all those around the world who share his fight for global emancipation from the brutal capitalist-imperialist machine. 

Comrade Joma Sison was a lifelong fighter of the revolutionary cause in the Philippines. As a youth, he participated in union organization efforts and founded the Student Cultural Association of the University of the Philippines in 1959, from which Kabataang Makabayan would be founded in 1964. These formations organized students and youth around national democracy and Marxism-Leninism. Kabataang Makabayan continues to be a major force of Filipino communist youth today. 

In 1961, comrade Sison joined the old Philippine Communist Party (Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 or PKP-1930) and was appointed as a member of the Youth Bureau and Executive Committee. From these positions, Joma attempted to correct the revisionist political line of the Lava-clique by preparing political reports on the Party’s errors. 

As the old PKP-1930 showed it was unwilling to rectify errors in political line and military strategy, Joma Sison, using the alias of Amado Guerrero, spearheaded the founding of the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1968 under the red banner of Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought. One year later, he oversaw the formation of the New People’s Army and the initiation of a Protracted People’s War in the Philippines, which continues fighting for new democracy and the liberation of workers and peasants in the country to this day. 

Later, in 1977 he and his wife, Julie, were arrested and exposed to brutal torture by the fascist Marcos dictatorship. Sison would continue providing political leadership to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA), and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) while incarcerated until his release in 1986, following the collapse of the Marcos dictatorship and the installation of the Aquino regime. 

The revolutionary principles of Sison were not abandoned, or even dampened, by his nearly decade long prison stint. Once released, Sison continued the struggle for socialist democracy by taking on the Aquino regime; exposing it for its corruption and class affiliation to the comprador bourgeois class. The Aquino government responded by exiling Joma in 1987, at which point he made his way to Utrecht, where he remained until his death. 

In the years since his exile, he has continued writing books which are invaluable to the education of Marxist-Leninist-Maoists across the world, and his continued leadership of the CPP, NPA, and NDFP have led to major gains in their fight for national democracy. 

Joma Sison will forever be regarded as one of the greatest revolutionaries of our era. We remember what another great revolutionary, Mao Zedong, once said: to die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work and die for the fascists is lighter than a feather — comrade Joma’s death is certainly weightier than Mount Tai. We encourage all members of the RMC, and Maoists everywhere, to make an in-depth study of his life and theoretical contributions, which include great works such as: “Organizational Guide and Outline of Reports”, “Rectify Errors and Rebuild the Party​​​​​​​”, Stand For Socialism Against Modern Revisionism, Specific Characteristics of Our People’s War, Basic Principles of Marxism-Leninism: A Primer, Philippine Society and Revolution, Upsurge of People’s Resistance in the Philippines and the World, On the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, and countless others. 

We are confident that the revolutionary forces of the Philippines will carry on the legacy of comrade Sison by continuing their fight against capitalism-imperialism, semi-feudalism, and modern revisionism in order to establish true democracy by means of proletarian revolution. We, too, must carry on this legacy of the great Sison if we are to truly honor his life and convictions. Whether we be in the Philippines, the so-called united states, Peru, Ghana, Puerto Rico, or Palestine; Joma Sison is an inspiration and model for the type of people we must be in order to win our liberation.  

Jose Maria Sison, rest in power!​​ Long live Joma Sison!  Long live the Filipino masses!  Long live People’s War in the Philippines! 

Signed, 

Revolutionary Maoist Coalition – Chicago Revolutionary Maoist Coalition – District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia Revolutionary Maoist Coalition – New York/New Jersey Revolutionary Maoist Coalition – Arkansas

U.S. & Nato Mastermind and Enginner Armed Conflict Between Russophobe Ukrainian Regime and Russia

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This commentary by Jose Maria Sison (Joma) is regarding US & NATO Violations of Original Minsk Agreement and Minsk Agreement II. Sison, until his recent passing, was the Chairperson Emeritus of the International League of Peoples' Struggle. This statement was from February 26, 2022.

It is a matter of history that the Soviet modern revisionists from Khruschov to Gorbachov and Yeltsin had the illusion that, if the Soviet Union took the road of capitalist restoration, bourgeois populism and bourgeois pacifism, the Cold War and the threat of a nuclear war would end, Russia would go back to the European homeland, join the Council of Europe and enjoy the “dividends” of peace like the US and its NATO partners. Thus, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine as the founders of the Soviet Union decided to co-sign the original Minsk Agreement in 1991 in order to dissolve the Soviet Union and form the ephemeral Commonwealth of Independent States in exchange for the assurances of the US, NATO and the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) that the human rights and democratic rights of the former Soviet republics, their peoples, various nationalities, institutions, parties, organizations and individuals would be respected and that NATO would not recruit from the former Warsaw Pact members and expand to the borders of Russia. So soon after the original Minsk Agreement, the US and NATO started war in Europe by destroying Yugoslavia, turning so many former Warsaw Pact member-states into NATO members, setting up missile and anti-missile bases to threaten Russia with nuclear obliteration in a matter of minutes from Eastern Europe, expanding the NATO to the borders of Russia and instigating violent incursions into Russian territory and emboldening so-called color revolutions to facilitate the spread of arms sales and capital from the US and Western Europe. The US and NATO masterminded, engineered and openly funded from the US embassy in Kyiv the Maidan protests in 2013 and the bloody coup d’etat against the pro-Russian government in 2014 in order to bring to power the Russian-hating Bandera-type fascists (the National Socialists of Ukraine), the political descendants of Nazis, and a new breed of Zionist fascists, all servile to the US and West European monopoly capitalism and the NATO. Thus was institutionalized a Russophobic and neo-fascist regime in Ukraine in 2014. Why the delay in the US and NATO in making trouble in Ukraine, from 1991 to 2013-14? Modern Ukraine was created by the Bolsheviks soon after the October Revolution and became one of three republics (together with Russia and Belarus) that founded the Soviet Union or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1922. More than 22 per cent of the total Ukrainian population in 2014 was of Russian nationality, who have comprised the majority in the Donbass region since pre-Soviet times and were either a majority or significant minority in major cities because Russian engineers and industrial workers had migrated to Ukraine to help in its industrialization in the time of the Soviet Union. Upon coming to power in 2014, the Russophobic, chauvinist and fascist rulers in Kyiv engaged in acts of discrimination (including prohibition of the Russian language in Russian communities) and violent attacks against Ukrainian citizens of Russian nationality, including military offensives against the Donbass region and vigilante attacks in a number of major cities. Since 2014, the Ukrainian fascists have been able to kill so many Russians and destroy their homes and workplaces and cause the reduction of the overall Russian population in Ukraine from more than 22 to 17 per cent (or by more than three million) by forcing them to seek refuge in Russia and other countries as refugees. The predominant Russian people of the Donbass region have suffered the main brunt of fascist attacks. In unilateral acts of aggression, the Kyiv chauvinists and fascists have killed more than 14,000 people (mostly civilians) in the last eight years. Out of these, more than 7.5 thousand cases have been filed against the Kyiv authorities in the European Court of Human Rights. Homes, factories, schools, hospitals and other social infrastructure have been destroyed by artillery fire and bombs. And yet the US and EU imperialists deny and obscure these facts as they harp on the line that Russia is the aggressor to Ukraine. Under the direction of the US and NATO, the purpose of the fascist attacks on the Russians in the Donbass region and other parts of Ukraine is not only to unleash anti-Russian chauvinism but to denigrate and insult Russia as impotent against the relentless NATO expansion. But the Russian people in the Donbass region have courageously resisted and established the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk in accordance with the principle of national self-determination, despite US and fascist slander against them as “terrorists” and “fascists”.

As a consequence of the violent attacks of the Kyiv fascists on Russian citizens of Ukraine, the overwhelming Russian population in the Crimean Peninsula decided in a referendum to take it back from Ukraine to Russia. This peninsula was a gift of Krushchov to Ukraine in 1954 in order to let it have an outlet to the Black Sea. After all, the Soviet Union was still existent. Russia’s lawful recovery of the Crimean Peninsula became the reason for the US and its G-7 partners to remove Russia from the G-8 and impose sanctions on Russia. Because of the heroic resistance of the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and because of the limited but highly potential support of Russia, the Ukrainian fascists and their US and NATO sponsors agreed to the Minsk II agreement of 2015 (Package of Measures for the Settlement of the Conflict) which recognized the autonomy of said people’s republics, provided for ceasefire and prohibited the Kyiv fascists from bringing heavy artillery and other weapons at a certain distance from the Donbass region. But under the instigation of the US and NATO, the Kyiv fascists have constantly violated the ceasefire under Minsk II agreement and attacked the Donbass region, using weapons supplied by the US and NATO. In recent months and weeks before the current special military operation to destroy military facilities in Ukraine, the Kyiv fascists shelled daily the civilian communities of Donbass and used attack drones, heavy equipment, missiles, artillery and multiple launch rocket systems. The killing of civilians, the blockade, the abuse of people, including children, women and the elderly have not stopped. Despite constant and repeated reminders of Russia to the US and NATO through the NATO-Russia Council and the OSCE, the US and NATO have aggressively accessed Ukraine to the NATO in practical terms and in brazen violation of the original Minsk Agreement and other related agreements. The US and NATO have integrated in the its command and control system the armed forces of Ukraine and have actually used Ukrainian airfields and other military bases close to the borders of Russia and Belarus to engage in military training and exercises and install equipment for surveilling and threatening the two neighbors of Ukraine deep within their own territories. The US and NATO have obstinately designated Russia as their enemy despite Putin’s repeated offers of a new agreement to limit the strengthening of security by a state or international organization at the expense of the security of others. As late as December 2021, the Russian Federation handed over to its supposed Western partners a draft agreement between itself and the US on security guarantees as well as a draft agreement on security measures with NATO member states. But the US and NATO were already obsessed with a blitzkrieg to attack the Donbass region and provoke Russia. Since then or even earlier, Russian and the people’s republics have been forewarned of the aggressive plan of the US and NATO. In the current time of the Biden presidency, the US and the UK have been the most aggressive in providing weapons and military training to the armed forces of the Kyiv regime, issuing provocative statements against Russia and accusing it of invading the Ukraine long before the current special military operation declared by Russia. In fact, the Russian military forces stayed within their own territory before the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation and Putin took the long overdue step of recognizing the independence and sovereignty of the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk on February 21, 2022 and ratifying the Treaties of Friendship and Mutual Assistance with said republics on the ground that the Ukrainian fascists and US and NATO sponsors have themselves wantonly violated and nullified the Minsk agreements. Even as the US and all its NATO partners take a common posture of opposing Russia and supporting the fascist-ruled Ukraine, the US has its very own interests that only its British valet can best understand and agree with. It has been making the war provocations against Russia in Ukraine in order to assert and reinvigorate its hegemony over NATO and Europe, promote its own economic, political and military interests, favor its own oil and fracking interests, stop the Nord Stream 2 and prevent Germany and other West European countries from accessing gas from Russia and advance the geopolitical and hegemonic interests of the US in its inter-imperialist contradictions with Russia and China. Many people are apprehensive that a direct inter-imperialist war can arise between Russia and the US-NATO combine as a result of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, especially because the former has advantages over the latter in a war short of using nuclear weapons. But there are certain factors that are at work to determine calculated and measured steps by all sides. Among these factors are the contradictory interests of the US and the European Union in economic and political relations with Russia as well as with China and the still valid fear of mutually assured destruction in a nuclear war. Short of a nuclear war, Russia has a clear advantage over the US and even NATO in fighting the Ukrainian fascists and supporting the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics and the people of Russian nationality within Ukraine in terms of conventional war, economic tit-for-tat and diplomacy. In the rivalry of two imperialist powers, Russia has been relatively more sober and calculating while the US has been more frantic, provocative and aggressive in matters pertaining to Russia and Ukraine. Following its recognition of the sovereignty and independence of the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk and complying with the Treaties of Friendship and Mutual Assistance, Russia has declared a special military operation against the Ukrainian fascists, coalesced with the military forces of the aforesaid people’s republics and is now demonstrating the foolhardiness of the US-NATO and its Ukrainian fascist puppets in unleashing Russophobic attacks since 2014, drumming up war provocations and threatening to widen the scale of war to the borders and territory of Russia, After all its arrogance and braggadocio that it can be at the head of NATO and fight Russia in Ukraine and thereabouts, the US has been totally exposed as impotent in the face of the coalition of the Russia and the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. It has responded by merely calling on all its NATO allies to be ready for attacking Russia on all borders. At the same time, the US, NATO and the Group of 7 are expected to impose further sanctions on Russia and further exacerbate inter-imperialist contradictions. But Russia like China has already prepared counter-sanctions which can have adverse effects on the US and the European Union. I am most concerned that since 2014 the US and NATO have brought about in Ukraine a regime that is extremely oligarchic, chauvinist and fascist, oppressive and exploitative of the people of Ukraine, including those of Ukrainian, Russian and mixed Ukrainian-Russian nationalities. And yet this fact has been deliberately obscured by the US and NATO propaganda and overlooked by those who do not study and know the particularities of the Ukraine issue. The people of Russian nationality within Ukraine have suffered the main brunt of fascist oppression and deserve the solidarity and support from all the peoples of the world and from all other possible forces supportive of their just cause. For supporting the Ukrainian people of Russian and other nationalities against the Ukrainian fascists, Russia proves itself in a better position than its US imperialist rival which has been prodding Ukraine to join the NATO in violation of the original Minsk agreement and supplying it with weapons and pushing it to make war provocations against Russia. As a result of Russia’s special military operation in coalition with the people’s republics in the Donbass region, the offensive military capabilities of the Ukrainian fascists have been greatly degraded but these Russophobes are attacking Russian residential areas in Ukraine and misrepresenting the civilian victims in the press as Russian military troops. In the meantime, the US, NATO and the Group of 7 are reacting with vociferous statements and imposing further sanctions on Russia and further exacerbating inter-imperialist contradictions. Nevertheless, it will take some more time and further developments before there can be an all-out war between US-NATO and Russia or the Russia-China tandem. Let us not forget that the US and its NATO allies have their own contradictions. For instance, it is not a small matter that the European Union gets 40 per cent of its energy supply from Russia. Germany and its ruling politicians will be taken to account by the German people for agreeing with the US to shut down the Nord Stream 2. The peoples in the other NATO member-countries in Western Europe will also complain that they are made to give up a cheaper source of energy than what the US wants to provide. This energy issue is only one of several major issues that put the EU in a disadvantageous position by the bellicosity and aggressiveness of the US. The US will continue its strategic decline before it can plunge the world into an all-out war that can end the existence of humankind. It also remains to be seen how the European Union and people will assert their independence and attend to their own needs as the main protagonists in the new Cold War launched by US imperialism will adversely affect their respective interests in a world capitalist system that is already saturated by an excessive number of imperialist powers and whose multiple crises are rapidly worsening and driving the proletariat and people of the world to rise up in resistance. 

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