Contribution of Revolutionary Communist Party of France

Intervention of the Revolutionary Communist Party of France for the ECA conference, 15 February 2026

 

Dear comrades,

The Revolutionary Communist Party of France would first like to thank the New Communist Party of the Netherlands for organizing this teleconference today. 

Dear comrades,

The subject of this conference takes place in the complex context of the transformation of imperialist wars into peace processes, or conversely, the transformation of precarious peace into open military conflicts or interventions. This current situation allows our Party to make an initial point regarding our subject today. Since war is the military continuation of bourgeois policies and not their cessation or suspension, the peace negotiated by the bourgeoisie is also the continuation of the same military interests as before, in a new form.

Within the contradictions of the global imperialist system, peace agreements and the outbreak of armed conflicts are neither isolated events nor wars between peoples, but the development of social contradictions in the form of political and military conflicts or agreements. The various conflicts within the worsening current imperialist crisis demonstrate this first point.

Thus, for four years now, the inter-imperialist war in Ukraine, pitting different bourgeoisies with military and economic interests against each other, primarily those of Russia, the EU, and the US, has been the subject of predatory negotiations to obtain a peace that is most advantageous to certain monopolies and detrimental to others.

Since November 2025, we have seen a confrontation between the peace plans proposed by the US and those proposed by the imperialist EU.

In the US plan, half of the Russian Central Bank's reserves under sanctions, currently frozen, would be allocated to the reconstruction of Ukraine — with US monopolies claiming 50% of the profits on future investments —while, until now, Moscow wanted to recover all of these assets.

The other half, according to this plan, would be devoted to Russian-American projects, particularly energy projects involving the reconstruction of gas pipelines following the destruction of Nord Stream 2. On the EU side, following a loan of €90 billion (€60 billion for military support, €30 billion for the state budget), the member bourgeoisies are seeking accelerated EU membership, the use of seized Russian financial capital, and a greater share in Ukraine's reconstruction plans.

Comrades,

These contradictions over Ukraine also remind us of imperialist negotiations and confrontations over other so-called peace processes around the world. We think, for example, of Syria, where the so-called “peace process” between the Turkish bourgeoisie and the Kurdish national movement, which has been going on for months now, is also showing its true nature at a time when civilians and minorities are being massacred by the reactionary bourgeois regime of HTS in January 2026, and the city of Kobanè is under siege. In both of these peace processes, various monopolies are investing in order to reap the lucrative benefits they will bring.

In the case of the French bourgeoisie, we are thinking of the CMA-CGM monopoly's mega-contract for the operation of the Syrian port of Latakia for thirty years, which is only a starting point in view of the delegation of French entrepreneurs in October 2025 with the new government. This French delegation, led by the MEDEF employers' union, was the first in Europe to make an official visit to Damascus.

Finally, in Venezuela, the US bombings and military attacks against the Venezuelan people on Saturday, January 3, 2026, as well as the kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, have now turned into arrangements and negotiations between the weakened Venezuelan monopolies and the US monopolies. On the social front, while transnational corporations were associated with Venezuelan oil capital, as was the case with Total, Chevron, and Repsol, a reform of the hydrocarbons law passed on January 22 paves the way for an imperialist carve-up of the rent.

Recent negotiations and threats of US military intervention against Iran foreshadow similar instability in the future, ranging from military aggression at the expense of the peoples of the world and their sovereignty to supposed peace and ceasefires between different bourgeoisies for the imperialist redivision of resources and spheres of influence. In the case of Iran, the key role of the Strait of Hormuz in the international flow of oil plays a crucial role.

These various developments now bring us to a second point. Within the imperialist system, peace agreements resulting from bourgeois conflicts today involve more than just the direct belligerents, as the end of conflicts means that imperialist alliances and their member bourgeoisies must find new contracts and compromises. The example of the Middle East is particularly clear here.

The Turkish bourgeoisie and the Kurdish national movement are indeed the two actors in the so-called “peace process,” but the US, France, and Israel are actively integrating themselves into these developments according to their own interests in order to profit from them. In Ukraine, too, the contradictions between the US and the bourgeoisies of the EU show that a bourgeois peace agreement is also an agreement for different national bourgeoisies to profit from the situation outside of the military actors alone. The alternation between imperialist war and imposed peace is therefore an alternation between bourgeois military policies of redistributing capital and spheres of influence and imperialist international policies of carving up territories at the expense of the peoples.

In complex and often mystified situations, our party considers, thirdly, that it must avoid two attitudes that are harmful to our construction within the working class. On the one hand, and in line with the analyses mentioned above, rejecting outright any peace agreement in imperialist wars on the grounds that it only serves profits; on the other hand, accepting these peace agreements unconditionally so that the war can end. Our party believes that communists must know how to orient their strategic objective, the social revolution, according to the different tactical stages imposed on us by the wars and peace agreements in which our bourgeoisie participates, by building an autonomous class position in order to advance our own slogans within these agreements, denouncing their bourgeois content. On this last point, we will take the example of Palestine.

The recognition of a Palestinian state, pronounced at the UN on September 22, 2025, by the representatives of the French bourgeoisie, required us to construct our own intervention on this subject, based on a class position.

Thus, our party defended and continues to defend the recognition of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem (Al-Quds) as its capital, but with a series of conditions that only popular and workers' struggles can impose on our monopolies. In this case, it is a question of imposing the free choice of the political representatives of such a state and the paths of its development. To be sovereign, this state must have control and free choice over its sovereign powers, primarily legal and military. Such a state is impossible without the immediate, unconditional dismantling, by all necessary means, of all Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.

Finally, we demand recognition of the Palestinian people's right to armed resistance against the Zionist occupation as legitimate and just, both now and after the establishment of a State of Palestine, as well as the release of prisoners held in Israeli prisons and the right of refugees to return to their homes in accordance with UN Resolution 194.

All of these conditions therefore entail a tactical struggle that allows us to move forward and build peace agreements that take into account imperialist contradictions and their development, without falling into an attitude of refusal to engage politically on the part of our party and its class on this issue, or into naive acceptance.

Dear comrades,

In light of these three points, our party finally concludes that consistent internationalism must first and foremost target our own imperialism, French imperialism, whose monopolies are expanding globally and playing a major role in the struggle for influence, at the expense of the peoples of the world and the working class in France.

Fighting against our bourgeoisie therefore means fighting for the right of peoples to self-determination, as our imperialism is in no way a “vassal” of the US but a full participant in contemporary contradictions, whether these contradictions take the form of military conflict or peace agreements. The proliferation of imperialist aggression and dismemberment around the world demonstrates that only the working class and its party are capable of ensuring the full independence of peoples, through the harmonious development of the productive forces under socialism, the only system capable of providing the necessary defenses against the global system of imperialist states. It is by building our party, starting with the workplace section as its foundation, that we will have the capacity to defend the peoples against the maneuvers of our monopolies and to build our own conditions for peace through class struggle.

No wars between peoples, no peace between classes! 

No illusions about imperialist peace; peace is built through struggle!