This article is adapted from a speech delivered by a Firebrand member and Iraq War veteran at a vigil for Aaron Bushnell, organized by the Denver Communists. It describes his harrowing experiences in Iraq and how they led to a life of resistance against imperialism and capitalism.
The profound courage and shocking power of Aaron Bushnell’s self-martyrdom has electrified the movement for a free Palestine, while the bourgeois media obfuscates his protest against genocide and questions his mental health. It is vitally important to honor Bushnell’s sacrifice for its political and moral clarity, and to contextualize it within the mass radicalization of workers and the oppressed.
The demand for a free Palestine has never been more popular. But what would it actually take to achieve that goal? Is it even possible under capitalism? A look at other historic liberation struggles, and an assessment of Israel’s place in the imperialist order, shows us that only a global struggle against capitalism united with a workers’ revolution in the Arab nations of the region can overthrow Zionism once and for all.
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