Dimitrios Patelis | Founding member of the Revolutionary Theory Group (Greece)
Contents
• Partial readjustment of imperialist tactics and the mafia-style dastardly raid to kidnap Venezuela’s anti-imperialist leader
• The despicable reaction of the renegades to the attempted regime change operation in Venezuela
• What does the internationalist self-sacrifice of the 32 Cuban fighters signify for the character of WWIII, and how are renegades shamefully burying it?
• On the wretchedness of immoral metaphysical ‘philosophy’ and the hypocrisy of apostates
• The vile deceit of the renegades is being repeated in the imperialist attempt at regime change in Iran
• Can class and political confrontation at the local level be detached from the stakes of WWIII?
• The need to crush both the renegades and the deception of ‘equal distances’ is vital for the movement
• In conclusion: the awakening of consciences and the escalation of the anti-imperialist struggle
Partial readjustment of imperialist tactics and the mafia-style dastardly raid to kidnap Venezuela’s anti-imperialist leader
At approximately 2:00 a.m. on 3 January, imperialist United States forces launched air raids on multiple locations throughout northern Venezuela, including the capital, Caracas. The main purpose of the attack was to arrest and kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
However, the fairy tale of US gangsters enjoying a carefree stroll in Caracas was ignominiously overturned. 1. According to information from comrades in Venezuela, the flight of six helicopters carrying special forces troops from the Delta detachment was accompanied by 150 US aircraft, including a new electronic warfare aircraft which can neutralise all telecommunications and radar tracking systems through signal jamming within a 100-kilometre radius.
The attack was not easy, triumphant or bloodless.
• Total number of deaths: On 7 January 2026, Venezuelan Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello said that 100 people were killed and around 100 others were injured in the attack.
• Military casualties: The deaths of at least 56 military personnel have been confirmed, including 32 Cuban military and police personnel stationed in the country and 24 members of the Venezuelan security forces, mainly the presidential guard.
• Civilian casualties: Reports of civilian deaths from the bombings in urban areas of Caracas and Catia La Mar have emerged, although the exact number remains under investigation.
• US casualties: The US President stated that there had been no American fatalities, but the Pentagon confirmed that seven American soldiers had been wounded, two of whom remained hospitalised following the operation.
Clearly, there has been a cover-up of US military casualties in the fighting. This is not only for reasons of public and international prestige, a cover up of the mafia-style attack With the Hollywood glamour of an ‘unbeatable, brilliant, lightning-fast, and bloodless’ operation for the invader; it is also to manipulate North American and international public opinion. After all, the US president has the right to conduct military operations without congressional approval only when the country is under direct attack.
Public acknowledgement of casualties would pose a significant risk, potentially including impeachment. In order to establish his sole authority to wage war, the Führer needs to silence any talk of US losses. WWIII requires new forms of instrumentalisation of fascism by the Axis.[1]
This brutal raid is the first instance of a partial tactical adjustment of imperialism outlined in the latest US National Security Strategy being implemented in WWIII.[2]
The despicable reaction of the renegades to the attempted regime change operation in Venezuela
What would the left, especially the self-proclaimed communists, do in a country that is completely subjugated by transnational institutions of the axis?
Did the ‘Communist’ Party of Greece mention the US’s murderous invasion of Venezuela and the abduction of the country’s legitimate president? If so, how did they respond?
According to the ‘K’KE website, on 3 January 2026, ‘Trump claimed that Maduro had been arrested and deported from Venezuela’, quoting the Associated Press ‘news’ without comment. Only brainless, uneducated mouthpieces of the axis would present the abduction of a sovereign country’s legitimate leader by imperialism as ‘deportation’. Deportation is the act of removing a foreign national from a sovereign state for reasons of public interest (administrative deportation) or as a security measure imposed by a criminal court (judicial deportation). It is a measure imposed only on foreign nationals for reasons related to national security or public order. By using this wording, the editors effectively recognise the US invader as the legitimate authority of Venezuela that is deporting Maduro!
One could argue that the authors merely reported the situation ‘according to Trump’. Fair enough. But why did they not comment on this ‘view of Trump’ in any way? Were they afraid of tarnishing it? In politics, not commenting on an issue or taking a stance already constitutes a stance on the presented opinion. This stance is, in principle, positive.
The subsequent guilty behaviour, accompanied by clumsy ‘corrections’, confirms the above judgement. Following widespread criticism, they replaced the legal-political verb ‘deported’ with the ‘neutral’ spatial ‘removed’, initially in the title and later in the article.
In a statement issued on 3 January 2026 regarding Venezuela, the Press Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece (‘K’KE) notes, among other things:
‘The USA is bathing Venezuela in blood as well. […] The true objective of the US imperialist intervention is to plunder the country’s energy wealth and align the region with its economic and geopolitical interests, against its competitors, Russia and China…’! In other words, the official ‘K’KE position is practically justifying the US invasion of Venezuela and ‘overthrowing of the Maduro government’ as a reasonable response to competitors such as Russia and China in the context of expected inter-imperialist conflicts over energy wealth.[3]
In other words, the official ‘K’KE position:
1. Does not explain why they label this an ‘imperialist intervention’ rather than an ‘inter-imperialist conflict’. Does the infamous ‘imperialist pyramid’ dogma, which states that ‘all countries in the imperialist stage are imperialist’, no longer apply?
2. Is justifying the US invasion of Venezuela and the ‘overthrowing of the Maduro government’ as a reasonable ‘response to their competitors’, Russia and China, in the context of expected ‘inter-imperialist conflicts to seize energy wealth’. In this position, the attempt to overthrow the government and the gangster-style kidnapping of Maduro simply seem ‘reasonable and natural’!
The Press Office of the ‘K’KE saw and heard nothing about the fierce and deadly battles aimed at seizing or kidnapping the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution and President of the country, Maduro. Or worse, they consider it justified and unworthy of mention since ‘Maduro had chosen a side, had chosen imperialists/thieves, by siding with Russia, China, etc.’!
The absurdity of these claims is clear. Given the close economic, diplomatic, political and military-technical relations with the anti-imperialist pole, how much sooner would this imperialist intervention have taken place if these relations did not exist? Of course this is a rhetorical question.
They even add that ‘Only the Venezuelan people themselves can determine the future of their country and mount a decisive response to the US imperialists.’ What does this mean in practical terms? In numerous articles and speeches by its officials, and based on the stance of its ‘brotherly’ fractionalist group (known in Venezuela and internationally as the Figuera fraction), the ‘K’KE has characterised Maduro as an illegitimate ‘social-democrat dictator’ who ‘rules through rigged elections’, ‘persecutes communists’, and ‘sells out the country to the imperialists’, and so on. In short, the ‘K’KE is in perfect agreement with the US authorities’ accusations and basically considers that ‘the dictator Maduro must be overthrown because he lacks legitimacy’!
Incidentally, the real, massive Communist Party of Venezuela (as opposed to Figuera’s ‘K’KE-aligned fraction) is the second most voted parliamentary party in the country and participates in the ruling front.
However, if Maduro ‘must be overthrown because he lacks legitimacy’, then the US’s actions in invading the country and kidnapping him are probably justified! The only ‘disagreement’ lies in a mere procedural detail: ‘Who has the right to determine developments in the country?’ In other words, who is entitled to carry out regime change: the US or the local opposition, i.e. US agents? Did the leaders of this ‘democratic opposition’ not call on the US to ‘intervene and restore order’? Here, the ‘K’KE took a clear ‘revolutionary stance’ on the process, rather than the essence: They support the overthrow of Maduro in full alignment with the axis, with one caveat: the overthrow must be carried out by the ‘local opposition’ of US agents! Let us not allow the US to take the job away from the ‘honest and guileless local opposition’.
What does the internationalist self-sacrifice of the 32 Cuban fighters signify for the character of WWIII, and how are renegades shamefully burying it?
After widespread criticism and a three-day delay, the website of the bureaucratic clergy finally deigned to write: ‘32 Cuban soldiers fell in the battle with the invaders in Venezuela’.[4] Under the headline, they once again confined themselves to republishing the Associated Press report with no comment. It seems that the bourgeois media is more reliable for our bureaucracy than the assessments of the revolutionary forces. Perhaps this love affair with the credibility of the Associated Press warrants a special clinical study.
Not a word about the significance of the sacrifice of the 32 Cubans in the battle to defend Venezuela’s president. Clearly, the bureaucratic mechanism is suffering from severe intolerance and writer’s block and will continue to do so until it comes up with a ‘new’ plausible mixture of rotten rubbish to feed to its flock. They are struggling to reconcile the inescapable fact of Cuban internationalism with the nonsense of their ‘imperialist pyramid’.
Even more delayed was the mention of Cuba’s involvement by the ‘International Relations Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece’, notorious for its apostasy and subversive-divisive role in the World Communist Movement, which came at noon on 7 January.
What does this statement tell us?
1. It ‘condemns the latest provocative threats by US imperialism against the people of Cuba and other peoples, emboldened by the imperialist intervention in Venezuela.’
2. It ‘expresses its solidarity with the people and the Communist Party of Cuba, and extends its heartfelt condolences for the 32 Cuban fighters who lost their lives to the fire of the US military machine during the attack in Venezuela.’
3. It states that ‘The people and the Communist Party of Cuba, drawing on their revolutionary legacy, will resist subversive actions and all forms of hardship arising from the escalation of imperialist aggression [i.e. ‘all imperialists’: the US, the People’s Republic of China, Russia, Iran, etc.―note by D.P. ] in Latin America and Caribbean.’
Above, we saw how the ‘K’KE justifies imperialist intervention in Venezuela.
The most important thing, of course, is not what the document proclaims in order to muddy the waters, but what it does not dare mention: what the bureaucracy avoids like the plague. What exactly were the Cuban heroes doing in Venezuela? What was the purpose of this special mission of the Armed Forces of Socialist Cuba that cost 32 brave soldiers their lives?
The communists and the Cuban people did their duty in defending the anti-imperialist Bolivarian revolutionary process. This is what they have done since the beginning of the Chavistas’ rise to power:
• With thousands of doctors and nurses, they established and strengthened the country’s health system, training thousands of Venezuelan citizens in medical and nursing specialties.
• They carried out an unprecedented project to eradicate illiteracy and reorganise the education system with thousands of teachers.
• Thousands of Armed Forces and Security Forces personnel contributed to training and reorganising the relevant institutions in Venezuela.
In the spirit of international solidarity, Venezuela is reciprocating to the island of freedom by shouldering the main responsibility for supplying Cuba with oil. The United States has moved quickly to cut off this supply, primarily through a naval blockade and the hijacking of tankers.
The Cuban people have now done the same, at a critical stage in the escalation of WWIII when the financial oligarchy of the imperialist axis have launched a new theatre of operations. The imperialist axis led by the US, after Ukraine, Palestine, Iran, Yemen and all West Asia, the countries of the Sahel and all of Africa, and the Caucasus, is now brutally and predatorily attacking Venezuela, targeting Cuba, Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico, the Caribbean and all the peoples of Latin America.
From the perspective of the progressive forces, the most fundamental class characteristic of WWIII, which the ‘K’KE bureaucracy diligently conceals, is the urgent task of crushing the monocracy of the US-NATO-EU-Zionist imperialist axis. This involves redefining the global balance of forces and reducing imperialism’s ability to extract surplus value from the global working class in the form of monopoly superprofits (the main vehicle for which is the control of financial flows and transactions through the global currency). This must be achieved by cutting off Monopoly Capital from its regional and global sources of parasitism. This is the ABCs of Leninism in conditions of imperialism and WWIII, and of the general crisis of the global capitalist system![5]
It is exactly this brutal and barbaric aggression that urgently calls for the consolidation of all national liberation movements and anti-imperialist forces, spearheaded by global early socialism and the communists![6]
It was precisely this duty that our comrades from socialist Cuba heroically responded to when they took up arms in Venezuela, as did our fearless comrades from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (who are equally despised by every sell-out bureaucracy) in Kursk!
This is exactly what the bureaucracy is trying to cover up, ineptly conniving to deceive with vagueness and blatant lies. Exhibiting incredibly slow reflexes and in the wake of widespread criticism also of their selective mutism, they issued a statement that said nothing about the above central task to which the Cubans responded heroically.
For the bureaucrats, the 32 brave Cuban soldiers simply ‘lost their lives to the fire of the US military machine during the attack on Venezuela’! In their narrative, there is no imperialist axis on the offensive in WWIII; no irreconcilable contradictions breeding and fuelling war; no camps in this war; no united anti-imperialist front in which Cuba, the pioneering country of early socialism, is bravely and militantly participating. Instead, they depict an impersonal ‘US military machine’ that opened fire during a random attack in Venezuela, where the Cubans happened to be.
Why are they doing this? Because they can’t bring themselves to say out loud what they’ve been whispering to their flock for years: that supposedly no socialist country exists in the world today, not even Cuba. That in the imperialist stage, supposedly all countries automatically become imperialist and/or pursue imperialist policies. That supposedly, the Leninist distinction between imperialist, dependent, etc. countries is meaningless and ‘anyone who sets anti-imperialist tasks believes in the ‘theory of stages’ and is an ‘opportunist who stands under the banner of the bourgeoisie’![7]
On the wretchedness of immoral metaphysical ‘philosophy’ and the hypocrisy of the renegades
We have to draw attention to the fact that when, amid the rapid escalation of the most class-based of all previous wars, WWIII, some spout unscientific and unfounded slogans such as ‘All countries are imperialist/thieves’ and exclaim, ‘I condemn imperialism no matter where it comes from’, they are simply admitting their alignment with the most wretched moral-political ‘philosophy’ of the bourgeoisie and the vulgar ideological constructions and dogmas of reactionary abstract humanism and ‘non-violence’.
Logically and methodologically, this slogan is equivalent to the proven hypocrisy of the bourgeois platitude, ‘I condemn violence no matter where it comes from’! The latter clearly states one thing: ‘I reject any version of rebellion and revolution from below, the working class and the people. Therefore, in practice, I accept the monopoly on the use of violence (as defined by Max Weber) by capital organised into a state and by the ruling class, and its state and non-state instruments!’ How does this happen? Very simply, violence is detached from the objective historical, economic, and social causes that give rise to it―inequality, the satisfaction of some people’s needs at the expense of others, exploitation, oppression, competition, and alienation―and is transformed into an abstract evil that is both omnipresent and omnipotent.
So, according to this metaphysical conception of violence, what remains? Only one ‘solution’: its metaphysical excommunication and exorcism―the moralising of the ethical ‘rejection of violence no matter where it comes from’. Such metaphysical slogans depoliticise the people by abstractly generalising that ‘all politics is violent and dirty’, and therefore ‘all revolutionary movements are violent and unacceptable’.
How does this bureaucracy understand imperialism within the framework of the anti-Leninist, irrational dogma of the ‘imperialist pyramid’? In a similar way to the metaphysical dogma of abstract bourgeois ‘anti-violence’.
Imperialism is detached from the objective, concrete, historical, economic and social causes that give rise to it: when and where it emerges (in which countries) the stage of development of the productive forces, the stage of development of the relations of production of capital (concentration and centralisation of production, subordination of industrial capital to banking and finance, etc.), the level of correlation between the extensive and intensive development of capital that affects global inequality in a certain way, to what extent vestiges of pre-capitalist structures still exist, the emergence of a handful of rentier-parasite countries (Lenin), the establishment of a mechanism for extracting surplus value on a global scale through monopoly superprofits and the consequent use of the world as prey for colonialism and neo-colonialism.
In fact, what is ignored here is the effect that the rise and fall of the global revolutionary process, socialist revolutions, and associated anti-imperialist movements and revolutions have on the conditions and limits of the capitalist system.
Thus, imperialism turns into a dead letter, it becomes synonymous with capitalism in general―an omnipresent, all-encompassing abstract ‘evil’! It is so a historically abstract that it is ultimately identified with capitalism in general, since monopoly is deliberately identified with ‘joint-stock companies’, a form of capital characteristic of early capitalism in Venice, for example. Consequently, they consider that ‘the economic essence of monopoly capitalism, i.e. imperialism, is considered to be the formation and domination of all the basic sectors of a capitalist economy by large joint-stock companies (monopolies).[8] Thus, the concept of imperialism becomes overstretched and redundant. This confusion is exacerbated by the deliberate deception of equating the terms ‘imperialist stage’ and ‘imperialist state’!
Thus, according to this anti-Leninist, metaphysical conception of imperialism held by our opportunists, only one solution remains: the metaphysical excommunication and exorcism of imperialism, in other words, the abstract moralising of ‘rejecting imperialism no matter where it comes from’. This unequivocally rejects any real anti-imperialist, national liberation or anti-colonial struggle, uprising or revolution from below by the working class or peoples. In practice, they therefore accept the monopoly of imperialist war waged by interstate entities with claims to global governance, the financial oligarchy based in imperialist countries and the aggressive US-NATO-EU-Zionist axis! At the same time, this opportunism―the fifth column of the axis―slanders and discredits the forces of socialism and anti-imperialism, undermining any hope and prospect for humanity!
It is precisely this unscientific ‘anti-imperialist’ manipulation that is peddled by every renegade fraudster who arbitrarily labels as ‘imperialist’ not only countries dependent on imperialism with an average or below-average level of development of its productive forces, and countries that are victims of systematic colonial and neo-colonial exploitation by monopoly capital, but also those countries of early socialism that continue socialist construction with their national and historical specificities.
Any anti-imperialism under this slogan―crude deception, is labelled ‘imperialism’ and/or ‘imperialist policy’ by the bureaucracy masquerading as ‘orthodoxy’, and is unequivocally condemned and cast out.
This is not an error or the result of an insufficient understanding of Marxism-Leninism, as some well-meaning comrades continue to believe. They do not grasp the nature of the degeneration and opportunistic mutation of what remains of the ‘K’KE. It is a deliberate class stance in favour of the imperialist axis. It is a mission and a set of duties that serve the enemy!
Thus, we can see how this perverse, abstract ‘anti-imperialism’ of ‘equal distances’, like bourgeois abstract ‘anti-violence’ and ‘anti-totalitarianism’, means accepting and reinforcing the monopoly of aggression by real―not imaginary―imperialist powers and their transnational institutions. This is clearly revealed by the escalating conditions of WWIII. As we have demonstrated, ‘equal distances’ are the veil of NATO, since they practically exonerate and whitewash their own imperialist coalition―the one into which the ruling class has dragged Greece. It is in this ideological and political superstructure that the degenerated opportunist bureaucracy lives, feeds and reproduces itself. This abstract ‘anti-imperialism’ is also linked to their abstract, ahistorical ‘communism’.[9]
If they were, therefore, consistent with their pharaonic nonsense about the ‘imperialist pyramid’ and their stance of ‘equal distances’, the bureaucracy should openly denounce Cuba right now because it ‘chose an imperialist/thief’ in WWIII! In other words, they should denounce Cuba for choosing to stand with the anti-imperialist and socialist forces today, and for paying for this conscious internationalist choice with blood!
This, however, would highlight the Perissos bureaucracy’s apostasy, betrayal and disgrace even more clearly. In recent years, they have taken on the role of ‘vanguard’ in attempting to disorientate, subvert, divide and dissolve the global anti-imperialist and communist movement.
The renegades are expressing their ‘heartfelt condolences’ to Cuba, just as they did to the Syrian Communist Party in July 2025 when they buried the great anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist fighter and General Secretary of the Syrian Communist Party, c. Ammar Baghdash who was persecuted by imperialism, after they had cynically condemned him to eight months of silence and obscurity.
Their ‘heartfelt condolences’ to Cuba are therefore nothing more than ‘crocodile tears’: a bureaucratically perfunctory, fake, feigned grief designed to deceive the world once again and fulfil their ‘public relations’ obligations towards Cuba. It is also an obligation towards that section of the people and their flock who continue to honour the Cuban Revolution and every other socialist revolution and country of early socialism, despite the bureaucracy’s efforts to undermine it. Since they cannot lash out at Cuba here and now, they are concealing and silencing Cuba’s dedication to the internationalist anti-imperialist cause and the defence of popular leader Maduro.
The vile deceit of the renegades is being repeated in the imperialist attempt at regime change in Iran
Perhaps the bureaucrats made a mistake in their response to the imperialist attacks on Venezuela and Cuba. Have they adopted a more sober view of the aggression of the imperialist axis against Iran?
Consider how the same ‘yes, but’ narrative is expressed in relation to Iran:
‘The Communist Party of Greece condemns the provocative threats by the USA of a new imperialist military attack on Iran, in cooperation with the state of Israel, within the framework of broader imperialist competition […] We once again emphasize that developments in Iran must be decided by the Iranian people themselves, who are fighting for their rights against the anti-popular policies of the government and the bourgeois state. These policies have fuelled inflation, kept wages at extremely low levels, employed repression against popular mobilizations, leading to the killing of protesters, and banned the activities of the Communist Party (Tudeh) and the exercise of political rights. The people of Iran alone are competent to determine the political and social developments in their country.’[10]
Recently, a consistent ‘observation’ has emerged. The axis and its supporters always claim that the countries they target have ‘anti-popular government and state policies which have triggered inflation, kept wages very low, used repression against popular mobilisations, killed protesters, prohibited the exercise of political rights’, and so on!
ATTENTION! There is no mention of the causes of the ‘inflation, low wages’, etc. Not a word about the economic strangulation of the target country, orchestrated by imperialism through blockades and sanctions against not only the target country and its people, but also all entities, countries and companies, both public and private, that dare to cooperate with or conduct economic transactions with the sanctioned country! The intended consequence of this is a deterioration in the people’s standard of living, causing indignation and protests. This dissent is deliberately funnelled towards ‘spontaneous movements’ to overthrow anti-imperialist and anti-neocolonialist governments that are inconvenient for the axis.
Coincidence? Of course not! It is an integral part of the opportunists’ agenda and necessary for their pro-regime role in covering up imperialist crimes. The bulk of axis propaganda is crudely staged: it is not the perpetrator who is blamed for cutting off oxygen supply, but the people and their government are to blame for their own suffocation! They are implicitly but clearly always to blame, since ‘they have not yet overthrown their own government or actively helped their external ‘saviours’ to overthrow it’! Whether the government of the target country has been democratically elected by an overwhelming majority or if it enjoys legitimacy and popular acceptance is of no concern to the schemers.
Can class and political confrontation at the local level be detached from the stakes of WWIII?
It is a fact that every confrontation, every political conflict and every change in the balance of forces at national and international levels is organically intertwined with the major field of class struggle in the rapidly escalating WWIII.
Whether violent or ‘peaceful’, imperialist interventions and attempts at regime change in countries deemed undesirable by the axis of aggression through ‘colour revolutions’ (coups), the installation of the axis’s mouthpieces in power and appointed proxy regimes, or even a combination of brutal intervention and civil war, are nothing more than forms of escalation of class struggle on a global scale, organically integrated into the framework of WWIII. Under these conditions, no task of internal political confrontation within individual countries can be metaphysically detached from the broader conflict of WWIII.
For this reason, crushing the imperialist axis of aggression is of existential importance for the movement and survival of humanity. This requires forming and developing a victorious front at all levels, with communists meticulously redefining their strategy and tactics locally and globally. On this basis, any undermining of the united frontal struggle must therefore be systematically exposed and combated, regardless of the guise or label it appears under (e.g. ‘class purity’ in each individual country, neoliberal postmodern rights activism, nationalism, aggressive bourgeois atheism/anticlericalism etc.).
The need to crush both the renegades and the deception of ‘equal distances’ is of vital importance for the movement
There are no ‘equal distances’. Today, the idea of ‘equal distances’ is the loincloth covering blatant rotten subservience to the US-NATO-EU-Zionist imperialist axis.
There is no longer any room for bourgeois niceties, ‘good manners’, or ‘political correctness’ towards the exposed renegades―the traitors of the communist movement who claim to be the ‘only orthodox and consistent ones’, while acting as a fifth column for imperialism within the ranks of the movement.
The renegade Kautsky and the ‘orthodoxy’ of the Second International had chosen the same role during WWI―keeping historical proportionality in mind―and by Stinas and a significant portion of the Trotskyists-Archeio-Marxists during WWII in Greece.
Lenin, Stalin, Dimitrov and other brilliant leaders, taught us that if apostasy within the ranks of the movement during wartime is not uncovered and decisively crushed, the revolutionary movement has no chance to win!
Those who take issue with the wording of this exposure of apostasy and reject the necessity of exposing this criminal fraud simply do not understand the need for a split and purge within the world communist movement today. They are effectively calling on Lenin to rewrite his work ‘The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky’ with a ‘softer’ title, such as: ‘The Proletarian Revolution and Our Beloved Pal Kautsky’!
It’s time to put an end to delusions and confusion! The dividing line is clear and unambiguous. Many refuse to recognise this, invoking unity and the need for consensus within the left and the communist movement. Unity on what basis? On the abstract principles of ‘loving one another’ and ‘not using harsh language’? Or on ‘not calling opportunists renegades’ in case we upset the bureaucracy and those who still harbour illusions? Are the labels ‘harsh’ today, while the realities of imperialist aggression in WWIII and the opportunists’ capitulation to the axis are ‘soft and lenient’?
Finally, what are some ‘consensual’ and ‘well-meaning’ people ultimately seeking today? Is it the victory of anti-imperialist and communist forces, the defeat of the axis, or is it perhaps to avoid upsetting the proven fifth column of the enemy―the most dangerous form of opportunism in WWIII?
We must put an end to well-meaning delusions! The ‘K’KE bureaucrats are not mistaken; they do not merely lack scientific revolutionary theory and understanding. They are cynically carrying out a mission to undermine the movement in WWIII. It is a mission that they have undertaken on a national and international scale.
In times of crisis and war, unity is impossible without a clear, Leninist distinction between the forces of revolution and the forces of covert counter-revolution, if we do not clearly separate our positions on matters of life and death in strategy and tactics. Lenin insisted on the need to decisively separate ourselves from Russian and Western European revisionists and opportunists. ‘Before we can unite, and in order that we may unite’ he wrote, we must first of all draw firm and definite lines of demarcation. Otherwise, our unity will be purely fictitious, it will conceal the prevailing confusion and binder its radical elimination.’[11]
The question, then, is how long we will allow this fifth column of the axis to continue to deceive and manipulate?
In conclusion: the awakening of consciences and the escalation of the anti-imperialist struggle
The escalation of WWIII is rapidly and massively awakening consciences.
The self-sacrifice of the brave DPRK soldiers on the Ukrainian front and the courageous Cuban soldiers in Caracas is becoming a beacon that illuminates the path to mobilising in the anti-imperialist struggle.
The demarcation between life and death in WWIII has long been clear to those who possess revolutionary theory and methodology for judgement and action. The forces of opportunism bear enormous responsibility for destroying the critical and creative relationship between their congregation, cadres, members and followers, and Marxist-Leninist science, as well as the corresponding consistent revolutionary attitude towards life. This hinders even the possibility of scientific research and findings being widely perceived on a large scale.
War can rouse the masses of the working class and ordinary people from their intellectual and practical lethargy. War generates events that awaken consciences more effectively and quickly than ordinary enlightenment and propaganda.
With their sacrifice, the 32 Cuban heroes upheld the honour of Cuba, early socialism, Latin America and all the peoples of the world. They clearly and practically demonstrated the scientifically substantiated demarcation in conditions of the escalating WWIII: either with the imperialist axis of aggression or with the world Anti-imperialist Communist Front.
This is precisely what the World Anti-Imperialist Platform was formed and is acting towards, with the following objectives:
1. To coordinate and develop a united front of the forces of anti-imperialism and socialism on a global scale, to crush the number one enemy of humanity: the axist of aggression of the US-NATO-EU-Zionism.
2. To expose and crush the disorientating, subversive and divisive ideological constructions and practices of the opportunists, revisionists and renegades everywhere, who act as agents of the axis within the movement, and
3. To cultivate, develop and consolidate communists around the world who are consistent in their revolutionary theory and practice. Without their pioneering and selfless internationalist struggle, no living, breathing front is possible.
This is the only consistent revolutionary and internationalist stance today.
Notes
[1] See ‘On the Relationship Between Imperialism and Fascism in the 21st Century’
[2] See ‘Changes in strategy or adjustments to imperialism’s tactics in World War III?’
[3] The USA is bathing Venezuela in blood as well. The people of Venezuela will prevail!
[4] ‘32 Cuban soldiers fell in the battle with the invaders in Venezuela’
[5] See ‘The Three Component Parts and Three Driving Forces of the Global Revolutionary Movement’
[6] See ‘Aspects of the national question and anti-imperialism during WWIII’
[7] See also ‘10 Commandments of the most volatile opportunism and revisionism’, ‘The escalation of the opportunist drift and the consequent revisions of revolutionary theory’ and ‘Renegades drifting towards the Symplegades of opportunism, shipwrecked between Scylla and Charybdis (dogmatism & revisionism)’ Part 1 & Part 2
[8] V. Opsimos, a member of the Economics Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Greece. ‘China: Capitalist Development and “Market Socialism”, Rizospastis, 4 January 2026
[9] See ‘Why does the imperialist axis adore such ‘communists’?’
[10] Department of International Relations of the Communist Party of Greece, Jan 15, 2026 ‘The KKE condemns the provocative threats by the USA of a new imperialist military attack on Iran’
[11] Lenin Collected Works, Progress Publishers, 1964, Moscow, Volume 4, pages 351-356.