Saddam Hussein: Martyr of Resistance

Dr. Ibrahim Alloush, Editor-in-Chief of the Free Arab Voice

Looking at the political scene from the restrictive lens of INTERNAL class contradictions has become too useless for explaining anything. Especially since globalism, the proper framework of analysis is international in scope. This means class struggle is only useful as a tool of analysis if you look at things in terms of globalist elites, liberal imperialist culture, and cosmopolitan Jewish hegemony versus national liberation movements, Third World peoples, and anti-imperialist movements everywhere. It's only when one adopts such a perspective that one may escape the damnation of pro-imperialist leftism, or social-democracy, that makes improving working and living conditions WITHIN a country a higher priority than doing away with imperialism. Or the damnation of the far-right which confuses the oppression international financial capital with competition from Third World workers.

Today, therefore, being anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist equal the same thing. Zionism is no longer the problem of the Palestinians. With globalism, it has become the problem of humanity. In other words, those anti-imperialist resistance movements in the periphery, from Venezuela to North Korea, and from Iraq to everywhere find themselves in trouble with Jewish/Zionist power the instant they become an impediment to imperialism and vice versa.

Indeed, Saddam has gone on to become an unparallelled hero in the hearts and minds of the Arab people. But one day he'll also be recognized as a hero of humanity who fought imperialism and Zionism to the bitter end. He never wavered or faltered. He could've sold out to save himself. He didn't. In these Jewish times, such people are very rare currency. We can all learn something from Saddam's example.

Down with the Jews!

Down with US imperialism!