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The following are a few introductory remarks accompanying the publication of the complete translation of the pamphlet:
This edition was actually completed in August 2025, but it was not published until the end of September that year. Because of this, some parts of it are already out of date given where things stand today.
Despite the dishonest claims made by their defenders, the armed Palestinian resistance suffered a devastating defeat, one that came at the cost of hundreds of thousands of civilian proletarian lives, while leaving behind even greater numbers of mutilated and displaced people — alongside the near-total destruction of homes, hospitals, schools, energy infrastructure, and water supplies.
The result has been a sham ceasefire under which the destruction of the Palestinian proletariat in Gaza continues more quietly and with far less visibility.
Meanwhile, attacks by settler terrorists in the West Bank have reached unprecedented levels, with the Israeli state itself acting as the chief terrorist force, openly declaring its intention to annex the West Bank while continuing to approve new expansions of the illegal settlements there.
The same aggressive and militaristic logic of expansion and devastation is now being pursued in southern Lebanon, at the same time as military operations against Iran continue. For the foreseeable future, the Israeli state appears determined to remain locked in continuous warfare as a way of postponing the resolution of its own internal contradictions, along with the broader contradictions produced by the current crisis of global capitalist production.
May 2026
From the back cover
In this edition, we have chosen to focus on October 7 not as a
“terrorist act,” nor as an “act of resistance” by Palestinian
guerrillas, but primarily as a militarized externalization of the class
conflicts running through both societies. Our aim has been to understand
how October 7 came about, viewing it as the culmination of historical
developments. To do so, we need a narrative that looks backward in time
and brings to light the contradictions within Israeli and Palestinian
societies, rather than framing the event merely as part of an
imperialist conflict. A particular concern of ours has been the triumph
of politico-military formations—detached from social struggles—over
class struggle. On the one hand, the military wing of Hamas, and on the
other, the Israeli armed forces, confine the working classes of both
sides within narrow, suffocating nationalist frameworks designed to keep
them out of the way. This brochure seeks to restore the centrality of
class struggle and historical context to the forefront. Hence, we have
decided to examine the internal dynamics of Gaza, the West Bank, and
Israel.
CONTENTS
– Prologue
– Introduction: Picking up the thread of class analysis
PART I:
– Israel as a method
– Insert: Ethnicisation and class composition in Israel
– On the concept of neoliberal apartheid
PART II:
– From the end of labour Zionism to the Palestinian semi-state
– Gaza: Flashpoint of capitalist contradictions in the Middle East
– Israel 2023: the ‘political crisis’ as a crisis of class relations
PART III
– Anti-war refusals, cracks and resistance within Israel
– INSERT: Yesh Gvul and New Profile
– Social struggles of the Palestinians: class encounters and common
refusals beyond the Green Line
– INSERT: A chronicle of common struggles beyond the Green Line since
2008
– In defence of proletarian internationalism against the dominant
ethnocentric perceptions of the left and the anti-imperialist millieu
– Appendix I: Two interviews with Emilio Minasian
– Appendix II: The Example of South Africa: A History of Racist
Management of the Proletariat
