When Harris castigated pro-Palestine demonstrators who disrupted her speech in Detroit, she wasn’t just speaking for herself or her campaign. Phil Gordon, an adviser to the vice president, said on social media that “she does not support an arms embargo on [Zionism].” (motherjones.com, Aug. 9) Harris’s position is the Democratic Party’s position. It’s the Republican Party’s position. It has the general support of the U.S. ruling class and its strategists.

Whatever other issues the Democrats and Republicans may seem to tactically differ on, there has been unwavering bipartisan support for [Zionism] since the apartheid state was created in 1948. Even the few “progressive” Democrats in Congress have, for the most part, failed to go beyond calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. And they are a small minority, which will be made smaller by the defeats — orchestrated and financed by the American [Imperialist] Public Affairs Committee — of current Congress members Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush in Democratic primary elections.

Efforts to convince the Harris/Walz team to take a pro-Palestine position, or similar attempts to exert influence on the Democratic Party platform, have little to no chance of success unless they are accompanied by massive struggles.

That’s because both the Democratic and Republican parties are capitalist political parties and are subservient to U.S. [neo]imperialism and its main ally in West Asia […].

Of course, there are reasons why millions of people want the pro-fascist former President Donald Trump to lose in November. But right now, stopping the genocide in Palestine is the foremost obligation for the global working class, especially in the U.S. That means breaking with the so-called “two-party system,” strengthening the pro-Palestine movement and building international class solidarity.