MAY 18-20 ACTION DAYS AGAINST THE G-7

As a show of global solidarity, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle joins the International People’s Front in the upcoming People’s Summit and Mass Actions from May 18-20 in Kyoto and Hiroshima, Japan. We call on all member organizations, country chapters, and allied networks to participate in the International Days of Action Against the G-7 on the said dates. 

Monopoly capitalist greed, imperialist competition, and wars of aggression have brought the world’s people and the planet to the brink of unprecedented existential crisis. In this context, the US, especially with its imperialist allies and agents in the Group of 7 (G7), relentlessly wage wars of aggression in many forms against competitor powers and against the peoples of the world.  Bearing the brunt of the horrors of war are the people, especially the working class, who are killed, displaced, malnourished and starved, and left to deal with the poisoning, plunder and destruction of land, food systems, and natural resources in the aftermath.

The US-imperialist alliance of the world’s largest western economies, which alone account for only 10% of the world’s population but over half of global net wealth at over $200 trillion, will gather to pursue their economic agenda, while attempting to whitewash the history of war and nuclear annihilation. The G7 countries represent the rich and powerful minority over the poor and less powerful majority of the world.  It is an institution of global economic and political supremacy.

The objectives of the activities are:

1. Expose and oppose how the G7 promotes militarism to facilitate economic expansionism in the multiple fronts of US-led war in the world
2. Highlight and generate support for people’s resistance to the G7, imperialist war and militarism
3. Build the movement against US-led wars; military bases, troops and exercises; weapons and weapons testing including drones and nuclear arms; and all manifestations of the pivot to Asia

The series of mobilizations will peak on May 20 with a protest march in Hiroshima.