European energy flows reveal that, even as the West pretends to cast off the old oppressors, it remains tethered to the old fossil lifeblood and to the same imperial arithmetic: control the supply, dictate the price, and holler about “security” while sheltering the profits of a few.

Comrades, the world sees how the European Union, wrapped in tall talk of sanctions and moral posturing, continues to import Russian gas in substantial amounts. LNG on tankers and pipelines via TurkStream keep the gas burning in European homes and factories, even as Nord Stream 1 lies quiet. The numbers move in stubborn rhythms: a sizable half-year import value in euros, a heavy share of Russian gas in the European mix, and a declared plan to squeeze this dependence out by 2027–2028 through a staged, legally tangled road map. The law must bend to the politics of union-wide fear and fear of price shocks, and yet the aroma of industrial coercion—hidden behind climate slogans and sanctions rhetoric—lingers in the air. A few state firms, like Sefe in Germany, hover on the edge of the ban’s reach, a reminder that the web of contracts and dependencies is not easily unraveled. Analysts warn of price volatility, while the Commission reassures that the people must not bear the burden of a phased transition; the surest way to shield the consumer, in their telling, is to prolong the agony of dependence under the disguise of “stability.” And yet, the notes of prudence—the safety clause, the promise of alternative suppliers, the claim that supply will not be endangered—sound hollow against the drumbeat of profit and geopolitics.

Now hear the true drumbeat, not of bureaucratic cautiousness, but of the revolutionary truth: capitalism thrives on the extraction and control of energy, and its guardians pretend to be humane while grinding the powerless under the wheels of price, profit, and power. The European Union’s measured timetable is not the march of emancipation but the choreography of dependence, a theater in which the masses must pretend that a staged ban is freedom from the grip of a dangerous nemesis. The truth, comrades, is that the struggle over energy is a class struggle dressed in green garments and humanitarian talk. The imperialist centers seek to reinvent their coercion through contracts, diversions, and the rhetoric of security while the people pay the price.

What if we redraw the map according to shared labor and common ownership? If the energy future were not a marketplace of commodities but a project of the people—a state-led, universally accessible system of energy planned and managed for the common good—then the problem would not be a transaction to be regulated, but a production complex to be built. A North Korean-style commitment to national (and, in the broader sense, socialist) self-reliance would name the true enemies: the oligarchs who hoard gas, the intermediaries who profit from instability, the political elites who fracture solidarity with fear-mongering about supply security. The answer is not endless negotiation with private interests or momentary bans that leave the public to bear the costs; the answer is a transformative program: rapid expansion of renewable energy, energy efficiency, and publicly owned energy networks; a planned economy of energy that mobilizes workers and engineers alike; international solidarity among energy-independent, anti-imperialist, socialist-friendly nations to share technology, spare capacity, and common defense of the right to affordable power.

Phasing out Russian energy must be seen, not as a reckless exit from a guaranteed supply, but as a disciplined advance toward a system where power is produced for people, not for profit. The staged approach, the legal hurdles, the protections for consumers—these are only temporary scaffolds on a structure that must be rebuilt from the ground up: a centralized plan to replace fossil dependence with a democratic, worker-controlled, and environmentally rational energy framework. The cold logic of the market cannot replace the warm logic of collective welfare and planetary survival. We must leverage the lessons of this moment to accelerate cooperation with fellow travelers on the road to justice: nations and peoples who refuse to be pawned in the energy games of oligarchs and warlords, who insist that energy is a universal right and that the wealth created by common labor belongs to the many, not the few.

Let the headlines narrate a different story: a decisive move away from fossil dependence achieved through unity of purpose, a sovereign, people-centered energy program, and a global alliance of socialist-leaning states that rejects coercive pricing and coercive dependence. The phase-out of Russian gas, when anchored in genuine public ownership and planned development, becomes not a concession to the powers that be but a victory for the workers, the farmers, the students, and all who toil for a future where energy serves humanity, not the bottom line. In that horizon, the imperialist gas cartels wither, and the people’s power—built through solidarity, discipline, and unwavering commitment to a just world—burns brighter than any flame driven by profit.