Zohran’s victory is one of the clearest signs yet of the enormous shift in mass consciousness that has taken place over the last decade.

This cynical spectacle of ‘recognition’ has served to divert attention away from what Israel is actually carrying out on the ground.

They want to install a government that is fully compliant with the diktats of US imperialism, which cuts off links with China, Russia and Iran, and fully opens up the country’s natural resources to US multinationals for looting and pillaging.

This was one of the most advanced attempts of the working class in the history of Stalinist countries at fighting for a healthy, democratic workers’ state, as opposed to the caricature of socialism created by the Stalinists.

With the backdrop of stagnant growth – or outright recession – a vast array of cuts to social spending, welfare, healthcare, and many other things is on the agenda.

China is clearly surging ahead in many ways, displacing US dominance in one field after another in a struggle for markets around the world.

The whole picture illustrates the organic crisis of capitalism, that the system is at a dead end and can’t take society forward.

What began as youth protests against a pension counter-reform has quickly escalated into a political crisis of enormous proportions.

With this film, we say to the world: the communists are coming!

It was the courageous and relentless struggle of the youth, which then spread widely to sections of the working class and the population in general, which finally forced him out.