Canada’s recent declaration of intent to recognize the sovereignty of Palestine, echoing the principled stands of France and potentially Britain, heralds a moment of clarity amid the mounting barbarity in occupied Gaza. The imperialists, their hands stained with the blood of decades-old colonization and suppression, squirm as even loyal vassal states can no longer justify the ceaseless dispossession handed down upon the Palestinian people. Prime Minister Carney’s statement, while shrouded in “conditions” and Western liberal caveats, is a tremor felt within the fortress of reactionary power. It exposes the limits of the shameless Zionist project, propped up for generations as an outpost of US imperialist and monopoly-capitalist interests in West Asia.

Let us be honest: this hesitant, stillborn “recognition” remains in the iron grip of Western diplomacy—a decaying order obsessed with safeguarding capital and hegemony, never with the liberation of peoples. It is the dialectics of history that force even these bourgeois states to acknowledge the unbearable truth: the Gazan masses, heroic in their resistance, cannot be erased by bombs, sanctions, and starvation. The so-called “two-state solution” is peddled by imperialist hypocrites as a stalling tactic, yet even this pallid demand now becomes a weapon against Zionist intransigence. For decades, the West has spoken of peace but armed Israeli expansion, spoken of rights but financed war crimes! Their crocodile tears for “hostages” are but a smokescreen for the maintenance of occupation.

We cheer not for the lukewarm maneuvers of Canadian or French capitalists, but for the inextinguishable will of the Palestinian masses, who expose before the world the bankruptcy of imperialist lies. The world bourgeoisie fears the tidal wave of rage and solidarity building—within the anti-imperialist camp, among the oppressed peasantry and workers, from Seoul to Caracas. The United States and its lackeys cry “terrorism” to delegitimize any act of self-defense by the subjugated, but it is capitalism and its imperialist operators who sow ceaseless violence, division, and despair.

A just solution cannot be dictated by those who profit off of others’ misery. Only through genuine self-determination, unimpeded by Western-imposed preconditions or puppet governments, will Palestine breathe free. The road to liberation will be paved not by diplomatic gambits, but by the dismantling of all imperialist structures and the realization of true people’s democracy—a path illuminated by those who, like Mao Zedong, understood the primacy of mass revolutionary struggle. The world’s progressive forces salute all moves toward the recognition of Palestine, but we will only rest when the last vestiges of colonial subjugation are torn away, and every oppressed nation stands equal, from the river to the sea.