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Stop Imperialist/Zionist Attacks on Iran

by justpeace87

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Statement of the ILPS

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle vehemently condemns the US, Zionist, and other imperialist foreign meddling in the internal affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the violence instigated within the country in another attempt to destroy the Iranian nation and control its natural resources, as they are doing in Venezuela and are attempting to do in Greenland. The ILPS stands with the people of Iran as they stand united against imperialist aggression and defend their hard fought-for self-determination so that any decision on Iran’s future is one made by the Iranian people themselves.

At the start of the new year, protests began mounting across the country demanding an end to government inefficiency and calling for more effective economic policies to help stave off the crippling effects of US sanctions on the livelihoods of working people and small business owners in the country. Sanctions imposed by the US have led to drastic shortages in basic goods such as medicine, building materials, and access to credit, and has led to skyrocketing inflation on other goods. US officials, most notably US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, have openly declared the intent of US sanctions to be the destruction of economic livelihood of the people so as the accelerate uprisings against the Iranian government to assist in its overthrow.

Yet, these public demonstrations calling for economic reforms were very quickly co-opted by other people, some openly claiming to be part of Iranian groups opposing the government of the Islamic Republic and others not claiming or hiding their organizational affiliation, who used the demonstrations to call for the overthrow of the current government. Simultaneously, masked provocateurs began using melee weapons, explosives, and even guns to attack government buildings, mosques, businesses, and assault police and civilians, killing many.

As these violent attacks increased, Iranian military and eventually the military was deployed to end the sabotage. The increase in state forces to quell the violence was used by the leaders who co-opted the economic reform-oriented demonstrations to inflame passions against the police and government, calling out more people to the streets and using larger protests as cover for deadlier riots by masked provocateurs.

Exploiting the situation and relying on a lack of clarity in Western media about the situation on the ground, both US and Zionist public figures began calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic and openly acknowledged the presence of CIA and Mossad operatives in Iran directing the violent attacks and threatening renewed military strikes such as those launched against Iran this past June. US President Trump made threats to assassinate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and ordered a US aircraft carrier to be moved to the region. US and Zionist figures took to social media saying “we are with you,” making reference to a promise for military strikes should a regime-change attempt be made by the people.

In response to these open threats of invasion and acknowledgement of Western-backed intervention, the Iranian government made the decision to shut off internet in an attempt to halt these violent messages to provocateurs (mostly done through social media companies based in the US like Meta and X) and cut off communication between riot leaders. The government then called for a nationwide mobilization on January 12 under the banner of “National Solidarity and Honoring Peace and Friendship” in which over 6 million people took part. After this overwhelming show of mass unity of Iranians, including those from some opposition parties, against provocateur violence and foreign intervention, the previous protests calling for the overthrow of the government quickly died down.

Yet, Western news has still been awash in a media firestorm claiming that Iranian police and military have killed thousands of peaceful protesters and referring to the country as a “bloodbath” and with Iranian opposition forces and Western corporate media even referring to the current situation as an “Iranian Holocaust.” These outlets have relied almost entirely on people outside of the country, most notably exiled opposition figures and even the son of the former US-backed Shah, the fascist monarchy that ruled the country with an iron fist and gave the US, UK, and “Israel” full access to the country’s oil reserves. A closer look at the sources used in media stories show that they come from agencies with proven links to the US State Department or other agencies: Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA), Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), Tavaana, the Iran Disinformation Project, and the Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.

Despite Western media’s near complete blackout over the US-Zionist genocide of Palestine and its attempt to block the horrifying images of hospital bombings, children being torn apart by airstrikes and tanks, forced starvation, environmental catastrophe, and other crimes inflicted on the people of Gaza, the world has born witness to the brave work of journalists and everyday Palestinian people getting out these images despite total internet shut downs by the Zionists. Yet, despite their near-monopoly on satellite and surveillance technology and control over news airwaves and social media, the combined force of US intelligence gathering and its media empire have failed to show anything close to incontrovertible evidence of their claims of supposed massacres committed by the Iranian military, notwithstanding the use of force and arrests to quell provocateur violence.

Official reports from Iran expose the scale and intentionality of such provocateur violence, marking a clear rupture from the organized and demand-oriented nature of initial protests. Rioters deliberately targeted government centres and public infrastructure – among them over 180 ambulances nationwide, bus stations, fire trucks, and medical facilities – alongside banks, commercial centers, and private property. Mosques and other religious sites were also violently attacked, with nearly half of those targeted in Tehran destroyed. A further 26 residential homes in Tehran were set ablaze. The cities of Shiraz and Rasht endured similar destruction; in Rasht, two nurses were tragically martyred when rioters attacked a medical facility. Such an assault on life, livelihood, and essential services is incompatible with a pursuit of improved living standards, and bears the unmistakable fingerprints of Zionist and US sabotage.

The Western imperialist propaganda offensive against Iran has nothing to do with the concern for human rights and democracy for the Iranian people but is instead an inseparable tool of violent regime change and further plans for imperialist war by the fascist Trump regime with the help of its Zionist puppet in West Asia, to ultimately control and steal Iran’s vast natural resources. While the UN Human Rights Council called for an emergency session on Iran, the same UN stalled inactive as a genocide was (and still is) carried out on the Palestinian people and as the President and First Combatant of Venezuela were kidnapped following the murder of nearly 100 Venezuelans at sea. Trump’s threats to launch military strikes against Iran if “peaceful protesters are killed” by the government comes as Trump’s fascist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers brutally killed a US protester standing in solidarity with migrants facing racist and xenophobic violence, detention and medical neglect while imprisoned, and enforced disappearance and deportation.

The attempts at regime change and justification for renewed military strikes against Iran cannot be separated from the continuity of US, Zionist and Western fascism and their desperate imperial offensive to confront rivals, preserve global hegemony and secure control over natural resources. US-Zionist strikes in June were justified through false and hypocritical claims of Iran producing nuclear weapons, while this time the excuse has been on the protection of human rights in the country. In both scenarios, the US and Zionists have relied on the same hybrid warfare strategy of false media narratives to manufacture consent for strikes, attempts that failed both times. This offensive is advanced with the support of the US’s European allies, who arrogantly condemn the Iranian government, while brutally suppressing popular uprisings on their own soil.

The ILPS stands with the Iranian people in their continued fight to defend their sovereignty from imperialist intervention. ILPS stands arm in arm with the toiling people of the world and all those fighting for liberation in denouncing the attacks against Iran and exposing the attempts to overthrow the Iranian government and replace it with a US and Zionist-friendly puppet as what happened in Syria and is threatening to happen in Venezuela. Only a broad anti-imperialist united front of the people, expressed through mass organizations, national liberation movements, and anti-imperialist governments, can withstand the rising fascist offensive and imperialist wars for plunder and usher in a bright future for all humanity.

No War on Venezuela!

by justpeace87

Condemn the Capture of President Maduro and US Invasion of Venezuela!

Statement of the ILPS

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle vehemently condemns the blatant invasion of Venezuela by US military forces that bombed military and civilian targets and culminated in the illegal capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. This act is the latest in a months-long campaign by the Trump regime to blockade and wage war on the Venezuelan people in order to seize their sovereign land and resources and enact regime change in Venezuela that will bow to US economic interest.

It is unclear as of this writing how many deaths and injuries were caused by the US airstrikes, but what is clear is the complete disregard for civilian lives by the US. This utterly exposes their false justification of acting on behalf of “peace and freedom” for the people of Venezuela. Previous US airstrikes off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia have already killed over 100 people and damaged the economic livelihood of Venezuela’s fishing sector.

This aggression did not start with Trump’s escalation over the past few months but instead follows years of systematic aggression by the previous Trump, Biden, Obama, and Bush regimes since Venezuela declared its complete independence from US economic dominance of its oil sector and elected Hugo Chavez as President. The capture of Maduro to stand trial within a US court for so-called “Narco Terrorism” mirrors the same fate of Panamanian President Manuel Noriega who, after years of ruling under US patronage, was overthrown and captured during the 1989 US invasion of Panama and tried in the US. This latest act is in line with Trump’s declaration of his “New Monroe Doctrine” that is merely a resurrected name for the same US imperialist strategy to openly confront its economic rivals like China and Russia and maintain its position as number one imperialist power in the world.

The US has repeatedly made clear through its actions that it is the number one violator of international law and most dangerous imperialist in the world today, with the capture of Maduro being just the latest example. This follows the US and Zionist war against Iran, the complete US support for the genocidal Zionist onslaught against Palestine and all of West Asia, recent airstrikes impacting civilian areas of Nigeria, and many more examples of US complete disregard for international law and unbridled violence to desperately hold onto its crumbling position of world imperialist hegemon.

The people of Venezuela are rallying to defend their sovereignty. The masses have taken to the streets en masse and armed themselves to boldly stand up against foreign imperialist aggression to defend their country. The Venezuela government has mobilized to defend the people and respond to the US aggression. The people and government of Venezuela have called on the people of the world to stand in solidarity with their fight to defend their land and the victories of the Bolivarian Revolution. ILPS calls on its members to answer this call and take to the streets and outside of US embassies to express mass indignation against US imperialist aggression. The League stands with the people of Venezuela and the wider region of Latin America and the Caribbean in the defense of sovereignty, economic livelihood, and the struggle for just and lasting peace.

No War On Venezuela!

Stand Against the US-Led Imperialist Offensive in Latin America and the Caribbean!

Take To The Streets!

Signed,

International League of Peoples’ Struggle

Palestine is our Compass

by justpeace87

Palestine is United, Undefeated, and the Compass of the World! – International League of Peoples’ Struggle

Statement of the ILPS on the Occassion of the Al Aqsa Flood Anniversary 2025

The International League of People’s Struggle joins the Palestinian people and all freedom loving people of the world in celebrating the second anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood operation against the US-Zionist occupation, and calls on all of its members to heighten their solidarity to end the genocide of the Palestinian people. The Al Aqsa Flood campaign exposes in stark terms the apartheid of occupation on Palestinian lands and achieved through the capture of “Israeli” captives by resistance forces the weakness of the overweening power of Zionist fascism.

The US-Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people has raged on for the past two years. At least 65,000 are confirmed dead from bombardment, shelling, and indiscriminate gunfire from the Zionists. Hundreds of thousands more are still missing under the rubble or have been systematically starved to death by occupation forces. Aid has been deliberately blocked and used as a weapon to lure people in Gaza into death traps to be shot by the combination of Zionist soldiers and the US special forces of the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” that amounts to nothing more than a mercenary gang under the control of “Israel.” Complete destruction of sanitation systems, healthcare facilities, food production areas, and other crimes have had the goal of manufacturing an ecological disaster in Gaza to force the people to either die or leave to make way for Zionist resettlement of the area under the patronage of Western financial investors.

Yet the Palestinian people continue to fight on. October 7 2023 launched the heroic Al Aqsa Flood national liberation operation that pushes the Palestinian resistance to fight back until today, and the people in general to remain steadfast on their land by any means necessary. While the Trump-backed “Peace Plan” that the US and Zionists have offered to the resistance attempts to destroy the political power of Palestine over Gaza, the resistance remains united and clear eyed in their responses at the negotiating table and on the battlefield. Meanwhile, the people of the West Bank have continued to rise up and resist the attempts of the Zionist military to implement their annexation plans as the people fight to keep Palestine united as one.

The Zionist regime is near collapse and more isolated than anytime before with the fascist Netanyahu regime fully exposed for its utterly corrupt and bloodthirsty character, while the inherently genocidal nature of the Zionist settler colonial project in Palestine throughout its entire history is on the minds of more people around the world than ever before. As the resistance and the people remain steadfast to the principles of self-determination and ending the genocidal war led by the US and Zionists, the people of the world continue to pressure their governments to cut their ties with the Zionist entity in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Longtime supporters of the Zionist entity have been forced to cancel arm shipments after having been pressured by mobilization of the people of their countries, while popular governments such as Colombia have cut all ties diplomatically, and independent anti-imperialist governments such as Iran and Yemen continue to confront the Zionists openly in solidarity with Palestine as part of the Axis of Resistance.

The ILPS recently launched the “Right to Resist” International People’s Tribunal for Palestine to contribute to the global solidarity efforts of the Palestinian people, after calling for the convening of such a Tribunal during its 7th International Assembly. The Tribunal, to be held in Barcelona this November 22 – 23, will have witnesses testifying to the horrors of the US-Zionist genocidal crimes of ecocide and forced starvation, but also to the steadfastness of the Palestinian people to remain on their land by any means necessary.

The US and Zionists have been unable to break the will of the resistance and the people. The global solidarity movement taking to the streets, and even the seas in the case of the Global Sumud Flotilla, have continued to unite with their numbers swelling in hundreds of thousands to fight for an end to the genocide, break the siege, and assert the right to resist.

October 7th is a beacon for all national liberation movements and anti-imperialist struggles that shows what is possible when a people stand united and with a will to give any sacrifice as a price for freedom. This October 7th 2025, the world must continue to stand with Palestine.

SURFACE ALL THE DISAPPEARED!

by justpeace87
Surface All the Disappeared! Fight Fascist State Terror!


Statement of the ILPS on the Occasion of Day of the Disappeared 2025


On the occasion of the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (August 30, 2025), the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) remembers and honors the victims of this brutal and systematic practice. Enforced disappearance is not an isolated crime but a deliberate policy of state terror aimed at demobilizing, silencing, and eliminating popular organizations and the people in general.

This reality reflects the cruelty of state terrorism as a tool for the ruling class to maintain control in a capitalist system that thrives on exploitation and oppression. Forced disappearance is an extreme expression of class struggle, where state forces acting in defense of bourgeois interests, resort to repression and enforced silence to crush the organization of working people and democratic resistance.

Historically, enforced disappearances became widespread in Latin America during the 1970s and 1980s, under military dictatorships that emerged in several countries in the region. These regimes were part of what became known as Operation Condor, a coordinated repressive effort among several governments, led by the United States, to eliminate political opponents and leftist movements.
This policy of disappearances drew heavily from the French military doctrine developed during the 1950s and 1960s, particularly during the Algerian War. French officers trained military personnel across Latin America, exporting counterinsurgency strategies. These tactics were later adopted and expanded by the United States, forming doctrines centered on systematic repression, including enforced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial killings. The notion of “counterrevolutionary war” or “anti-communist war” became central in military manuals across the continent, explicitly outlining methods such as detain, torture, assassinate, and disappear opponents even after death.
Argentina’s Dirty War in the 1970s is one of the most infamous examples, where thousands were disappeared by the military junta. In Chile, Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship also employed enforced disappearances as a core repressive tool. In El Salvador during the 1980s civil war, government forces and death squads disappeared thousands of guerrillas and civilians suspected of supporting the resistance. In Peru, more than 40,000 people were disappeared and  exterminated in the 1980s–a practice that continues today, targeting organizations such as the Communist Party of Peru and the Tupac Amaru  Revolutionary Movement. Even now, families are denied the remains of their loved ones, with disappearance enshrined in Peruvian law.
In Guatemala, enforced disappearances reached unimaginable extremes during the armed conflict, particularly in the 1980s. The infamous Military Diary or Death Dossier unearthed in 1999 documented 183 cases of disappearances between 1983 and 1985, including photographs and accounts of torture. Guatemala has the highest record of enforced disappearances in Latin America, with more than 45,000 victims.
The School of the Americas (SOA), now WHINSEC–played a central role in exporting this doctrine. Established in 1946, it trained thousands of Latin American military and police officers in counterinsurgency, intelligence, and torture techniques. Many of them were later implicated in gross human rights violations, including enforced disappearances. Today, the French and US doctrines remain embedded in the military strategies of repressive states, reinforced by US Southern Command operations and security programs across the region.
The scale of these crimes is staggering. The President of Colombia recently acknowledged that as a result of such policies, more than one million people have been murdered in Latin America over the past 30 years. These strategies have also been deployed in coups such as in Honduras, in operations against Nicaragua and Cuba, and in repeated  interventions in Venezuela–consolidated under the so-called Lima Plan, which forms part of US preparations for a potential world war.
In the Philippines, thousands of people have disappeared since the implementation of martial law in the 1970s. In Indonesia, during the massacres of 1965-66, forced disappearances were used to eliminate members of the Communist Party and other people considered “dangerous.” During the “Years of Lead,” the Moroccan government also carried out enforced disappearances of political dissidents. And today they practice persecution, imprisonment and disappearance, in collusion with the Macron government of France, against the members and leaders of the Saharawi Republic.
​​ Under the aegis of US imperialism, fascist regimes in Pakistan have prospered over many decades. In order to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s, the US and Saudi Arabia worked with the military dictator General Zia-ul Haq to establish an extremist jihadi culture in the country. Thousands of madrissas were established and weaponized, with violent sectarianism flourishing, resulting in blood baths over and over again. At the same time, the context of militarism was to contain the influence of the Iranian Shite Islamic revolution in the country. In the decades since, all forms of dissent whether from the peasantry, working class or those fighting for self-determination, national liberation and/or people’s rights are forcefully suppressed. To-date thousands of people have been disappeared especially those demanding rights in Balochistan.
In Turkey, in the context of the conflict with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), Turkish security forces have been accused of enforced disappearances of Kurds.
Elsewhere, enforced disappearances continue as a weapon of fascist and imperialist repression. In Palestine, Zionist forces systematically abduct and disappear Palestinians, leaving families without any information on the fate of their loved ones. In Kenya, activists opposing the US-backed Ruto regime face abduction and disappearance by security forces. In India, under Modi’s fascist regime, disappearances and extrajudicial killings are central to its counterinsurgency war against indigenous peoples and revolutionary movements, often burning bodies to erase evidence.
These are not isolated acts. They are part of a systematic policy to eliminate all resistance to imperialist hegemony. Enforced disappearances exemplify fascism–a violent mechanism imperialist powers and their client states use to maintain control. The struggle against enforced disappearances is inseparable from the struggle against imperialism, fascism, and all forms of class exploitation. We urgently call on all peoples to unite against these crimes, demand justice, and hold perpetrators accountable. Only through collective resistance, truth-seeking, and solidarity can we end enforced disappearances and build a world founded on dignity, justice, and genuine freedom.
We must act decisively against the current extension of US imperialism’s preparations for a third world war.
For the memory of the disappeared and for the struggle of the oppressed against the oppressive capitalist regime!
Long live the struggle of the peoples!
For our disappeared–neither forget nor forgive!
YANKEES GO HOME!

Indigenous Peoples Fight for their Future

by justpeace87

Indigenous Peoples, Fight for our future! Intensify the fight against imperialist war, plunder, and oppression!

ILPS Commission 10

Indigenous Peoples are now facing a great challenge– wars of aggression are erupting worldwide, as Global North powers like the United States ramp up military capacity to defeat rivals like China and Russia and emerge as the world’s most powerful. In order to realize their aspirations, imperialist powers are colluding with fascist and tyrannical governments forcing nations to align with the most powerful camps, quell our resistance as Indigenous Peoples, and force the oppressed and exploited to be cannon-fodders for war. 

In an effort to salvage a system deeply entrenched in crisis, war and militarism are utilized not only to assert and redraw territorial divisions of the world, but to heighten the plunder of the world’s natural resources, mostly found in our ancestral lands.

In many countries across different regions, Indigenous Peoples suffer the loss of their ancestral lands in place of foreign corporate interests and profit. Large-scale megadams take over our lands and squeeze our rivers dry while foolishly hiding behind “green energy,” colonial conservation projects are put in place against the right to ancestral lands, and reforestation and climate resilience are used as cover-ups for environmental plunder. This is the case for countries such as Kenya, Tanzania, India, and many others.

The defense of ancestral lands is now being criminalized under the pretext of “counter-terrorism”. Such narratives aim to paint Indigenous Peoples resistance as invalid, criminal, and terroristic, and thus erases the need to address the question of ancestral lands and self-determination. 

Since 9/11 in 2001, over 140 countries have passed “counter-terrorism” laws– a pretext muddled with racism and ethnic oppression. Laws are being weaponized to silence Indigenous Peoples’ resistance, cut off access to financial resources and paralyze organizational operations, imprison Indigenous leaders, and reduce Indigenous Peoples to mere common criminals. The worst of these are seen in Chile, the Philippines, Manipur, and other Global South countries wherein there are strong Indigenous Peoples movements. 

These laws should be exposed as tools of corporate power, land monopolists, and fascist states. Push for the repeal and scrapping of these laws, and hold accountable the powers behind the criminalization of Indigenous Peoples’ resistance.

At its worst, tyrannical governments ramp up their military capacities, the global arms industry is exporting war in the Global South, and people’s taxes are used to hold Indigenous Peoples at gunpoint, bomb our communities, and destroy our lands. Where Indigenous Peoples resistance is strongest, so is the onslaught of imperialist-backed counterinsurgency wars and repression. Armed encounters are staged to justify the murder of civilians, hors de combat, and widespread displacement in the name of Indigenous Peoples. 

In India, the Modi regime’s Operation Kagaar has killed 300–400 people in two years, most of them Adivasi peasants. Indigenous Adivasis are uprooted from ancestral lands for military expansion. The Modi government now rushes to fulfill its pledge to end Maoism by year’s end.

In the Philippines, the Marcos government’s National Action Plan continues the previous regime’s Whole of Nation Approach. Indigenous communities in Southern Tagalog, Mindanao, and Visayas face aerial bombings, strafing, hamleting, forced evacuations, harassment, and coerced surrenders, while the war serves as a cover for corruption of public funds.

Technological advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have been used to further up the ante of fascism and state terrorism. Surveillance systems and intelligence units are reinforced with AI and are utilized to map networks of Indigenous activists, track online and mobile activity, and force fascist propaganda into our daily lives. In areas of conflict, AI powers unmanned drones and satellite systems that conduct reconnaissance operations, track gatherings, and assist in target selection for airstrikes and ground assaults. Not to mention the fact that AI operation severely impacts the environment.

These facts warrant an extra critical and nuanced approach to AI and technology, and must be done to weigh its supposed benefits vis a vis its role in the bloody wars against Indigenous Peoples and civilians.

Counterinsurgency and “anti-terrorism” wars carry out a bloody rampage against the people, not only those engaged in armed resistance, but more so civilians and unarmed dissenters. The blurring of lines between the civilian population and armed freedom fighters are clear violations of International Humanitarian Law, and shows how these governments will shoot at anyone in sight. Yet these never-ending wars against liberation movements are never-ending precisely because they fail to address historical injustice, oppression and exploitation – the roots of why Indigenous Peoples and most marginalized populations take up arms in the first place. 

The combined onslaught of imperialist-led wars, land theft and plunder, and rights violation however seemingly insurmountable are but reflections of a global system in crisis. We must use this as an opportune time to greatly advance our work in consolidating our movement, strengthening our unities, and moving forward in our national struggles and building global solidarity as Indigenous Peoples. 

Indigenous Peoples, Fight Back Against Imperialist Wars of Aggression!
Fight for the right to ancestral lands! End imperialist plunder!

Pushback against criminalization! Oppose terror laws! 

Fight for the right to resist! Uphold International Humanitarian Law!  Read with translations: https://www.ipmsdl.org/statement/indigenous-peoples-fight-for-our-future-intensify-the-fight-against-imperialist-war-plunder-and-oppression/

No More Hiroshimas!

by justpeace87

ILPS Global Day of Action for Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day

Background Context:

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the barbaric bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle joins the Japanese people and all peace loving peoples in commemorating the event and in condemning the continuing nuclear proliferation threat from the US and its imperialist allies.

The US has constantly intimidated and blackmailed the whole world into submission using nuclear armaments. Despite many multilateral treaties passed to try and stop the growth of nuclear weapons, such as the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty, 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, multiple versions of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and 2021 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the US has either not signed, has found loopholes around, or simply ignored these and continued its aggression and provocative threats of “nuclear readiness” against its rivals. The US has also threatened its rival countries that were suspected, sometimes baselessly accused, of developing nuclear weapons such as Libya, Iraq, Iran, and others.

There are believed to be close to 4,000 active nuclear weapons in the world today, with the total number including reserve stockpiles numbering over 12,000 as of the beginning of 2025. Belgium, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, and Türkiye all host land-based nuclear weapons of the US. South Korea, Australia, Japan, multiple states within the NATO alliance, and other countries are believed to host US nuclear aircraft or submarines.

Even without a single nuclear weapon ever being used in an act of war, their existence harms many peoples and communities along their supply chains. Uranium miners are subject to harmful radiation and are often recruited from rural working class and peasant communities with few other options for livelihood. Exposure to these mines and the waste from many enrichment and manufacturing sites also reaches the wider communities living near these areas, such as throughout the Congo, Niger, Namibia, Kazakhstan, and parts of Australia, Canada, Russia, China, and the US. Most of the world’s uranium is mined on indigenous land.

Thus, instead of calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons now, we instead call for the US to be disarmed of its nuclear weapons so that the historic nuclear threat it has posed to the world’s people and many states is no longer the leading factor of the nuclear arms race.

Call for International Day of Action:

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki and honoring the thousands of innocent lives lost, the surviving victims with their long-term suffering and their fading memories as silent witnesses to the horror of nuclear bombs under imperialist aggression, the ILPS calls on all the world’s peoples to intensify their struggle against US imperialism and its barbaric and terrorist policy of producing, maintaining, using and threatening to use nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction. 80 years is enough.

The following calls can be issued during these actions:

  • End US Nuclear Terrorism!
  • No More Hiroshimas! No More Nagasakis!
  • Stop the Imperialist Drive for Nuclear Weapons!
  • End US Wars of Aggression!
  • Fight Against Imperialist Wars!
  • Hands Off Iran!
  • Hands Off DPRK!
  • Down with US Imperialism!
  • Fight for Just and Lasting Peace!

GLOBAL SOUTH, RESIST NATO!

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Article by ILPS Secretary General Azra Sayeed

Read and sign the Resist NATO Unity Statement here

As a Pakistani, I have borne daily witness to relentless exploitation by Western imperialism. The lives of Pakistani workers and farmers, like those of millions across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, are defined by misery, hunger, landlessness, under-employment and untreated illness by imperialist design.

Imperialist powers, led by the U.S., have ensured that our nations remain shackled to debt, dependency, and violence. And now, as NATO extends its tentacles into the Asia-Pacific under the guise of “security,” we must recognize this for what it is: a recolonization project, dressed in the language of “democracy” and “stability”.

US-NATO has spent decades plundering our lands, propping up puppet regimes, and waging wars—both hot and cold—to maintain their stranglehold over our resources and our futures. NATO’s 2030 initiative seeks to dramatically expand the alliance’s global reach while designating both Russia and China as existential threats. The plan calls for deepening military ties with US states far beyond the north Atlantic, from Colombia to Kuwait, militarizing space, maintaining aggressive forward deployment of forces, expanding nuclear capabilities, and conducting increasingly provocative war games in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Iran-Israel conflict, the genocide in Palestine, the military buildup in the South China Sea, the US troop deployments in the Philippines, and the NATO summit itself are all part of a coordinated imperialist strategy led by the United States and its allies to crush liberation movements and preserve a dying global order.

From the beginning, the U.S. orchestrated this war, arming “Israel” to the teeth, green-lighting its attacks, and intervening when it found a smokescreen to finally launch a direct aggression on Iran. The US is repeating the same move that it made in 2003 when it falsely claimed that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons. What followed was a brutal US invasion and occupation that tore the country apart, killed close to one million people, devastated the infrastructure including hospitals and schools, and has left the country’s people in political chaos and dependency to US oil and development companies to this day. The US wants to see Iran and its people suffer the same fate.

But as with Iraq, the US has committed an act that will drag it further down in its own spiraling collapse. The US under Trump is mired in a deep political and economic crisis from being overstretched and engaged in endless wars. This attack on Iran exacerbates the crisis, as the US will pour even more money into waging war, either directly or by continuing to arm Zionist “Israel” to do its bidding.

This brings us to NATO’s expansion and influence in the Asia Pacific. In 2011, Hillary Clinton, then U.S. Secretary of State, openly declared the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia,” framing it as an embrace of the region’s “strategic importance.” But we know what “strategic importance” really means: domination. The U.S. does not engage with the Asia-Pacific as equals; it seeks to control it. The so-called “Indo-Pacific Strategy” is nothing but a blueprint for militarization and resource extraction.

The very term “Indo-Pacific” is a calculated insult. It binds together two fascist allies—the U.S. and India—under the banner of containing China. India, a state that massacres its own people in Kashmir and brutalizes indigenous communities in mineral-rich regions, is now Washington’s favorite enforcer in the region. Meanwhile, the U.S. demands that North Korea denuclearize while it stockpiles thousands of warheads and has conducted 192 nuclear tests in the Pacific alone. The hypocrisy is staggering.

France, a self-proclaimed “Pacific nation,” has no business in our waters, yet it maintains a permanent presence in colonial military outposts like New Caledonia and French Polynesia, and wages war games in Asia Pacific like RIMPAC in Hawai’i, Balikatan in the Philippines and La Pérouse across 9 pacific nations. The U.S., for its part, has turned the Pacific into an armed camp, with installations from Okinawa, to the Philippines, to Guahan, to Palau, to Diego Garcia. This is evidence that NATO has no interest in defence, but represents a bloody marriage between the US and European imperialists and the puppet governments of countries in the Asia Pacific, doing the bidding of the West.

Last year, NATO took its most brazen step yet: the formal inclusion of the “Indo-Pacific Four” (Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea) into its summit. It was the culmination of years of creeping militarization, now codified in the 2024 Washington Declaration, which explicitly labeled China as an “enabler” of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

This is not diplomacy, it is a declaration of war against national liberation movements and anti-imperialist nations.

Of the three major conflict fronts in the world today, two are in the Asia-Pacific: the U.S.-China cold war and the genocide in Palestine and assault of the US on the sovereign nation of Iran. And yet, Western leaders speak of “stability” while fueling arms races and backing apartheid regimes.

US-NATO’s expansion is about plunder of our resources, especially minerals. In 2023, NATO publicly identified 12 critical minerals essential for its war machine. Who controls these minerals? Not the West. China produces 69% of the world’s graphite; bauxite, the main mineral used in aluminum metal production, is concentrated in Australia, China, and India.

This is why indigenous lands in India are being seized. This is why Adivasi communities and Maoist rebels are slaughtered—not because they are “terrorists,” but because they stand in the way of corporate theft. The same logic applies to deep-sea mining, the next frontier of ecological destruction. The Pacific Ocean, already scarred by nuclear testing, is now being carved up for its mineral wealth. The U.S. will drown entire ecosystems in pursuit of profit.

The need for global resistance

The cracks within NATO—over Ukraine, over Israel—are real, but they will not dismantle imperialism on their own. The people must force them open. We have seen glimpses of this power: the millions who marched against the Iraq War, the workers’ strikes in India, the Palestinian resistance that refuses to die. But posters and protests alone will not save us.

We must organize and we must fight, linking arm-in-arm with oppressed and exploited people around the world. The colonizers will not relinquish power willingly. If history has taught us anything, it is that empires only fall when they are broken by the masses.

The choice is ours: Submit to a new century of colonial horror, or rise up and reclaim our future. The time for resistance is now.

Signed,

Azra Sayeed, ILPS Secretary General

Support African Liberation

by justpeace87

Long Live the Struggles for African Liberation, Self-Determination, and Anti-Imperialist Unity!

The African Liberation Day commemorated every May 25 stands as a symbol among African peoples and all oppressed nations struggling against colonialism, imperialism, and neocolonial domination.

This day traces its roots from the 1958 Conference of Independent African States in Accra, Ghana that gathered newly liberated nations asserting their independence and forging solidarity. It was formalized in 1963 with the founding of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), now known as the African Union (AU), as a day to recognize the struggle of African peoples in resisting centuries of slavery, colonization, and exploitation.

The ILPS Commission 10 raises fists in solidarity with our African brothers and sisters across the continent and the diaspora. African Liberation Day is not only a celebration of past victories—it is a living, breathing reminder of the ongoing struggles for independence, land, and self-determination faced by oppressed peoples worldwide under the imperialist and neocolonial domination.

For Indigenous Peoples and National Minorities across the globe, African Liberation Day reinforces the inalienable right to self-determination. The historic struggles in Africa against apartheid in South Africa, colonialism in Algeria, and today’s plunder of the Congo’s mineral wealth by Chinese, US, and EU corporations, mirror the struggles of Indigenous Peoples and national minorities resisting militarization and mining, fighting land dispossession resisting occupation, and resisting extractivism and settler colonialism.

Today, Africa continues to be a frontline of resistance against neocolonial control through debt, military bases, and extractive industries. There is the impacts of multinational mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where child labor and environmental destruction prop up the imperialist industries’ demand for cobalt. In the Sahel, foreign troops and interventions often obscure neocolonial agendas under the guise of counterterrorism and stability. Yet, from Burkina Faso, where movements have overthrown neocolonial leaders, to Kenya, where land defenders face state violence, while rising against the claw of IMF-World Bank and its loans and policies against the poor.

We salute the revolutionary legacy of African leaders and movements—from Thomas Sankara, who declared the need for “a united front against imperialism“, to the Pan-Africanist movements that built bridges between Africa, the Caribbean, and Black liberation struggles in the Americas. We call on everyone, from the grassroots defenders of land and rights, to food sovereignty advocates, workers, Indigenous communities, and the youth to trace back and understand the radical traditions of liberation in Africa and the world.

On this African Liberation Day, ILPS Commission 10 stands supporting the struggles of African peoples for liberation and self-determination, understanding the inseparable fight from slavery, racism and discrimination to the fight for freedom against modern-day colonization, oppression and marginalization.

Long live African Liberation Day!
Long live international solidarity!
Down with imperialism and colonialism!
Forward with the struggles of Indigenous Peoples and oppressed nationalities!

Reference:
ILPS Commission 10 Secretariat
ilpscommission10@gmail.com

Workers Unite for Just Peace!

by justpeace87

No to imperialist war! Workers of the world, unite for a just and lasting peace!

On this International Workers’ Day, Resist US-Led War Movement uplifts the struggles of workers around the world against wars for plunder and profit!

Workers and War

Growing inter-imperialist conflicts and wars of aggression have unleashed widespread brutality and suffering on workers and other toiling people, subjected semi-colonial countries to greater national oppression and further intensified the exploitation of the workers in all countries. The imperialist countries are now preparing to fight for the re-division of the world. The US, as the main imperialist power, has directly financed wars of aggression and counterinsurgency against the working people of Palestine, Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and so many more just in the past year. The U.S is now also preparing for hot war with China, the biggest threat to its hegemony since WW2.

Factories and fields are bombed, infrastructure is destroyed, and workers are left to rebuild amid rubble. Workers are the first to suffer from sanctions, inflation, and austerity imposed to fund war, while the same governments slash wages and social programs. We reject the lie that imperialist war brings security.

Especially in times of acute economic crisis, war is seen as a way out for the imperialists. They whip up nationalist chauvinism against so-called “enemies”, resort to war, genocide and fascist killing and displacing millions, to divert people’s attention from the crumbling economic and political crisis.

Militarization and war have always been a profitable business for the monopoly capitalists. Preparations for war include a sharp increase in the budgets for “defense” in all imperialist countries and their puppets. The same governments that slash social programs and suppress workers’ rights pour billions into militarization, diverting resources from healthcare, education, and infrastructure.

The war profiteers like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Northrup Grumman, thrive on this exploitation, conscripting workers to produce instruments of death while denying them fair wages, safe conditions, and rights. Meanwhile, the weapons they build are made from minerals extracted through brutal exploitation methods that break the bodies of workers and devastate the environment in the communities they live in. From factory floors to mining communities to battlefields, workers are used as pawns in a profit-driven machine for war and militarism.

Workers and the fight for Just Peace

Workers are confronting mass unemployment, skyrocketing inflation, and cuts to social services that come in the wake of every war economy even as they are the first to be targeted for military conscription for wars they did not choose and do not want.

Working people of the world shoulder the struggle for just peace and lead the fights for liberation against US military oppression, towards national liberation and sovereignty. Workers resist by refusing to load weapons onto ships, holding solidarity strikes with peoples resisting militarization, and directly fighting back against the attacks on their communities during military aggression.

As the global anti-war movement rebuilds its strength, we must link arms with workers, in a united front against US-led war. Together, we can wage mass resistance to disrupt the war machine and win a just peace, refusing to fund, build and deploy the weapons to fight wars for the rich.
No to imperialist war! Workers of the world, unite for a just and lasting peace!

No to Imperialist War! Workers of the World, Unite for a Just and Lasting Peace!

Peacebuilding and Social Development!

by justpeace87

To: Media Relations Office, Global Affairs Canada 

Reply of Just Peace Committee to the Joint Statement of the G7 Foreign Ministers published on March 14, 2025

PEACEBUILDING AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR THE PEOPLE!

Upon studying the Joint Statement of the G7 Foreign Ministers of March 2025, Just Peace Committee is stunned by the foreign ministers neglect of people’s needs and commitment to warmaking. We object because it ought to address climate change and renewable energy, economic security for the poor and sustainable economic development, women’s security, and peacebuilding through de-escalation, negotiations and demilitarization.

The Foreign Ministers’ Joint Statement is dishonest, arrogant and belligerent, particularly in its positions on the Ukraine War, Haiti, the Middle East, China, Venezuela and North Korea. You talk about peaceful intentions and efforts when you have been engaged in military interventions and provocations. You talk about the G7 as a factor for peace when it is clearly a factor for war.

Ukraine

You say you want prosperity, security and independence for Ukraine, yet you as NATO members and allies have interfered, stirred up conflict and played a large part in the destruction of Ukraine. Led by the US, you backed a coup against a Russia friendly president to install one who was not, encouraging fascist entities along the way. You did nothing about the attacks and exclusionary policies against ethnic Russians that went on for many years. You pushed NATO forces to encircle Russia, endangering its security and provoking it, after several warnings, to attack Ukraine. When there have been opportunities to negotiate peace before, you prevented a resolution and kept funding and supplying Ukraine against ethnic Russians and Russian intervention forces. Even now as the US and Russia are arranging a ceasefire to eastern Ukraine, the UK, Germany and Canada want to keep militarizing Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands of people have perished and around two million have fled in the three years of war. Today, as a ceasefire is being discussed between the US and Russia, you expect the dominant force, Russia, to give concessions.

West Asia (“middle east”)

We oppose the state of Israel’s merciless assault on civilians in Gaza over the past 18 months, which has killed 10’s of thousands of children and defenseless elders, women, infants and hospital staff as well as journalist and aid workers. Self-defense in response to the Palestinian resistance’s assault on Israel on October 7, 2023, was justified. Their continued cry of self-defence is false, however, because of their vicious and blanket assaults on civilians. We call for the release of all captives. We thoroughly condemn, however, the daily mass slaughter since then. We contest Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, as you should. We thoroughly condemn the US and its allies supplying arms and funds to the Israeli government; without this massive support, the genocidal campaign could not have been waged for long. The US and Canada should remove their forces from the area (Canada’s Operation Proteus). You are complicit. There is no negotiating such terrible crimes. The US and allies among you simply could have stopped assisting the slaughter if you had wanted to end it.

We express our support for the people of Syria and Lebanon, as both countries work towards peaceful and stable political futures. At this critical juncture, we reiterated the importance of Syria’s and Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. We call unequivocally for the rejection of terrorism in Syria. Israeli and Turkish forces should leave Syria. Stop supporting these actors in Syria! We condemn strongly the recent escalation of violence in the coastal regions of Syria and call for the protection of civilians and for perpetrators of atrocities to be held accountable. We stressed the critical importance of an inclusive and Syrian-led political process. We welcome efforts to eliminate chemical weapons. As for Iran, the belligerence and provocations must end. Foreign meddling, espionage and assistance to criminal and anti-government elements in other countries must stop.

We are aware that most of the G7 states possess nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons capable equipment, which makes you all great security threats. All parties should withdraw and dismantle their nuclear weapons. You and all states should sign the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Venezuela

You took part in attempts to stage coups in 2002 and 2019. The US illegally took control over Venezuela’s state petroleum enterprise, CITCO. You refused to recognize the elected leadership and presented an imposter, Juan Guaidó, whom you allowed to steal Venezuelan wealth. Canada led a hostile contingent they called the Lima Group. You spread lies. Rather than trying to support a democratic process and help the Venezuelan people, you are trying to destabilize the country and your sanctions are causing great hardship.

Haiti

The US, France and Canada have been actively meddling in Haiti, propping up unelected and anti-people leaders and training armed forces, some of whom are criminals, to suppress the people’s just movement for democracy (free and fair elections) and socio-economic development in the name of fighting gangs.

The G7 statement to “restore democracy, security and stability” in Haiti is beyond disingenuous and outrageous. It was the US, Canada and France that overthrew the democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Haiti in 2004 that has led to the political crisis and gang violence in Haiti today where there are no elected officials in the country. There has been no accountability on our countries for causing this regime change and ensuing immense suffering to the people of Haiti over the past twenty years.

China

The G7 foreign ministers’ statement demonizes China, which has not started any wars in 40 years and has the Belt and Road program that developing countries are signing onto in the desperate hope of development something that the G7 countries have denied them by blocking the New International Economic Order for fifty years. China is seen as a trust partner in development and has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in the country, for it is helping many countries with infrastructure and building high speed rail, public transit systems, health clinics, universities, etc. China is the world leader on renewable energy technologies. While China has repeatedly called for win-win solutions, it is the G7 countries that are militarizing the Indo-Pacific and constantly provoking China by sailing our warships right on their coast and arming Taiwan! Imagine if China were arming Quebec to violently separate from Canada. It is the G7 that is expressly militarizing the Indo-Pacific with the aggressive U.S. and Canadian Indo-Pacific strategies, AUKUS, NATO partners in Asia, more US bases in the region etc. It is the US that has repeatedly called China a threat and an enemy.

North Korea

At the same time, the G7 countries and their partners have been encircling North Korea and constantly conducting war maneuvers, even mock invasions. You keep the region destabilized and pose a threat with your high degree of militarization and anti-North Korea propaganda, rather than promoting peace on the peninsula and working towards a peace treat between North Korea and the US. North Korea is no threat; it has to maintain military defense because of your threats. You should contribute to demilitarizing the region.

Africa

As for Africa, the US and NATO must shut down AFRICOM and stop the interference in African countries to put and keep favoured political figures in power and have access to African assets. The US and NATO presence does not help or defend the African people.

The Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network, a collection of some 50 groups interested in just peace across Canada, rejects the Joint Statement of the G7 Foreign Ministers. It fosters militarization while posturing as pro-peace. It denies your own responsibility for destabilization, war and global insecurity. It is self-centered and alien to international law. It completely disregards the peoples’ needs. In fact, it ignores the destruction to societies for which you are in large part responsible. We, like so many others in Canada, do not want to continue on the same path. We want de-escalation and de-militarization, increased social spending, a ban on nuclear weapons and peaceful global relations for mutual gain without ideological imperatives. We want negotiated resolutions with local people involvement that help the affected people. You must begin peacebuilding and serving socio-economic development, not military development.

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