Tag: anti-imperialism

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.

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!

by justpeace87

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