Workers, Anti-Imperialists, Russia, China – Unite! Defeat Zionist-US and All Imperialist Criminals! Defend Iran, Cuba, Palestine and the Donbass!

I will talk about some of those issues later. But first I will focus on Your Party, which in a way, is a product of these contradictions, of the activities of the dominant pro-Zionist element of the imperialist bourgeoisie.

Today’s attack on Iran is a major escalation towards all out regional war in West Asia, in pursuit of the Greater Israel project. Symbolically, Israel attacked Iran on Purim, the most militaristic of the Jewish religious festivals, which supposedly involved Jews slaughtering large numbers of would-be gentile killers in ancient Iran (Persia).

This demonstration, called by the Anti Fascist International, is supported by the Consistent Democrats, and we call on all communists, socialists and class conscious workers to support it. Defend the Cuban People and the Cuban Workers’ State!

This presentation and discussion is available as a podcast, to be found here

Not just Gaza and the West Bank, but also Lebanon and Syria, repeating the US atrocities in Vietnam and Cambodia like spraying Agent Orange, which led to long term health and birth defects, and such later atrocities as those in Iraq and Serbia where NATO used depleted uranium.

It is possible now, with a considerable degree of hindsight, to say that one thing Trotsky was not able to fully anticipate with his analysis of the degeneration of the USSR, and such potential counterrevolutionary threats, is that post-capitalist relations of production could interpenetrate with capitalist relations for a extended period, and that two variants of such combined and uneven development are possible.

The founding conference of what is now, on a semi-permanent basis, known as Your Party, was a contradictory affair, but the outcome was no split, but the creation of the beginnings of what looks to be becoming a sizeable, working-class left-wing party with potential for growth.

The new issue of Communist Fight journal is out now! Its lead article is an extensive report on Your Party – the new party initiated by Zahra Sultana with Jeremy Corbyn – which held its founding conference at the end of November…

This is the prepared presentation at today’s forum (11th January 2026). A recording of the presentation and discussion is here.