ILPS on International Peace Day

September 21, 2026 by justpeace87

Wage Peoples’ Struggle for Just and Lasting Peace!Statement of the ILPS on the occasion of International Peace Day, in Collaboration with the ILPS Commission on Just Peace (Commission 4)
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle marks International Peace Day with rage and condemnation at the gross violations of peace, sovereignty, and livelihood from imperialist wars of aggression and fascist counterinsurgency campaigns being waged on behalf of imperialism all around the world. Instead of peace, the apologists of the imperialist system give us nothing but more misery and war. It is through the courageous struggles of the people erupting for national liberation in numerous countries today that will truly pave the way towards just and lasting peace in a world where imperialism has been defeated.

US imperialism has completely shed any pretenses of peace or adherence to international humanitarian law. Forty-five years since September 21 was declared by the United Nations in 1981 as the “International Day of Peace,” the world is now besieged by multiple ongoing wars due to imperialist aggression that has aggravated widespread economic crisis. In the last year since the previous International Peace Day 2025, even more wars and invasions have been initiated by the US.

Venezuela was blatantly invaded by the US on January 3, 2026, in an operation that the US said would bring “peace and stability” to the country. This came after years of US economic sanctions crippled the economy and deprived the Venezuelan of basic goods such as food, medicine, and building materials. The US kidnapped President Maduro and First Combatant Flores while killing as many as 100 Venezuelans and 32 Cubans stationed in the country. Today, the US enacts a de facto occupation of the country as it seeks to extract its oil reserves and cut it off from supporting Cuba.
Cuba is under one of the harshest blockades in the entire history of US intervention against the island. Since January 29, 2026, energy, food, and money transfers have been almost fully cut off by the US, leading to regular blackouts, shut-downs of hospitals where newborns and sick patients are put at risk of death, and forcing many institutions such as schools and government operations to limit their services. While the US callously suffocates the Cuban people, it ensures that its infamous military base and prison on Guantanamo Bay remains fully active as it tortures prisoners without charge and remains a staging ground for US wars in the Western Hemisphere.
The US continues to bomb Iran since the US-Zionist war was launched on February 28, 2026. At least 3,468 people have been reported killed and over 26,500 injured according to the Iranian Ministry of Health. The US has primarily targeted civilian infrastructure with Trump threatening to blow up “every bridge and power plant” in order to “wipe out an entire civilization” in Iran. The US has also attempted to blockade the Strait of Hormuz as a means to economically harm Iran, but has instead contributed to the global rise in oil, fertilizer, and other prices.
In Zionist-occupied Palestine, the so-called “Board of Peace,” launched on January 22, 2026, has refused to implement any of its promises for the people of Gaza. Since the October 2025 ceasefire was signed between “Israel” and the Palestinian resistance, there have been 4,889 documented “Israeli” violations leading to at least 1,381 Palestinians killed and at least 4,757 wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. This is on top of the over 73,000 documented deaths in Gaza since the genocide began, which more likely equals around 200,000 when the number of missing under the rubble is factored in. The Board of Peace promised to ensure humanitarian access to Gaza, yet only 34.9% of the agreed humanitarian and commercial truck flow has entered, and only 39.3% of the scheduled crossings from Rafah have been allowed. Approximately 34 square kilometers remain occupied by Zionist forces with more homes being demolished daily despite reports of “reconstruction” from the Board. Gaza is one of the most glaring examples of how the word “peace” can be weaponized by the forces of imperialism in their attempts to hide a genocide of their own making.
In addition to Gaza, the genocide also continues in the West Bank, where nearly 5,000 settler attacks have occurred so far in 2026 alone. This comes as the Zionist government openly arms settlers and encourages fascist frenzies of violence and pogroms against Palestinians akin to the Nazi pogroms against Jews in 1930s Germany. Over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank, with at least 250 villages affected by the burning of homes, cars, and farmland. August alone saw over 20,000 olive trees uprooted while over 120,000 square meters of cropland were destroyed in March. Despite the UN officially passing a resolution to end the Zionist occupation of the West Bank in September 2024, its own celebration of International Peace Day today is done with this resolution still failing to be implemented.
In Ukraine, the US and NATO-backed Ukrainian military continues to fight against Russian troops stationed in Ukrainian land while also firing drones deep into Russian territory. Both Ukrainian and Russian civilians have been affected, with Ukrainian communities being most impacted by this devastating NATO proxy war. According to the UN’s own estimates, hundreds of thousands of military personnel and over 16,000 civilians have been killed since the war began in February 2022. The conflict has remained relatively frozen in terms of land claimed by Ukrainians and Russian forces with Russia offering a peace agreement in exchange for territory concessions in the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine and a promise for Ukraine to not join NATO, to which Ukraine and its imperialist backers in the US and EU have pushed back against, promising even more arms transfers in the months to come. The vast amount of critical mineral reserves and agricultural land of Ukraine are greatly sought after by Western monopoly corporations.
Throughout the Asia and Pacific region, the US military continues to expand its military bases and conduct joint military exercises in its quest to contain its rival China. This expansion of military forces brings violence to communities living around bases or where exercises take place, especially against women, as the land is polluted by chemical spills and spent munitions. There are approximately 375,000 US troops stationed in this region, especially across Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, and India. The US military presence and weapons sales to the ruling regimes in this region also prop up fascist states and give fuel to the fire for counterinsurgency campaigns by bureaucrat capitalists and big landlords in power.
Each of these US-led wars, and the preparations for further war, are all in line with the imperialist drive for profits. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group (IMF-WBG) salivate at each new war, as it provides new forms of investment on the ruins of scorched land and destroyed livelihoods, such as funding the aforementioned “Board of Peace.” Corporate capture schemes such as Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) prey on war-torn economies to displace farmers from their land, deliberately hold back development for cost-cutting, uproot local economies that traditionally empower women, and push the toiling masses to undertake the most unsafe and undignified forms of labor or migrate abroad. There can be no peace until the people are freed from the shackles of forced starvation wages, forced migration and bonded labour. The immiseration of the masses is itself an act of unending war.
While the UN issues yet another statement calling on the people of the world to put down their arms and imagine a world without conflict, this seemingly ideal utopia of peace becomes even more insulting and hollow to the millions of people living at the forefront of imperialist attacks with no substantial pathway being offered to end the root causes of their conflicts. The root causes of war lie in the imperialist system itself, and the monopoly capitalist drive for critical minerals, oil, trade routes, finance deals, land for AI data centers, and other means for capital export. Rather than presenting any long-term solution that would lead to the end of war and conflict around the world, the UN’s messages on International Peace Day have the opposite effect, shielding the instigators of conflict and giving them a free hand to continue stoking war, occupation, theft, and genocide with no end in sight.
Any calls for just and lasting peace in the world must recognize that the imperialists and fascists will refuse to give up their arms at any cost, so they must also recognize the just struggles of the people to resist imperialism by building their own strength of arms. As the ILPS states in its primer on Wars of Imperialism and Resistance released today:
[The peoples’ movement for peace] can only be successful if it utilizes a broad range of tactics, taking full advantage of all forms of struggle where they exist, to expose and oppose the imperialists through mass democratic means. But the repressive laws of fascist and war-making states ensure that these just tactics are made illegal and crushed mercilessly. Therefore, mass movements for peace have a natural stake in offering moral and political support to the forces directly confronting the imperialists and their puppet proxies on the field of battle.
Genuine peace is not merely the momentary absence of conflict, nor is it the absence of open war in the shadow of imperialist exploitation and suffering of the masses of the world’s people. When speaking of just and lasting peace, it must be paired with social, economic, and political justice alongside solidarity amongst peoples. This includes the right to self-determination, economic self-reliance, food sovereignty, and self-defense of nations and oppressed peoples from reactionary aggression and violence. People’s war is waged for the realization of these just people’s aspirations.
While imperialist war is waged for the benefit of the few in the ruling class to profit off the resources and labor of the masses of the world, people’s wars of resistance are waged to end the untold suffering and death that imperialist war and all forms of capitalist and feudal exploitation bring in their wake. These resistance wars are alive today in Ansar Allah’s recent victories against Saudi-backed militias, expanding the liberated territory of Yemen. Iran’s defensive strikes against US-Zionist aggression have destroyed much of the US military infrastructure across West Asia, forcing the US to pull its troops back from the war that it started. The Palestinian resistance maintains its rightful and just authority to resist the genocidal Zionist occupation, refusing to give up its arms until the Zionists are expelled and a united Palestinian government is established. People’s wars continue to gain strength in the Philippines, West Papua, and Colombia, and despite unimaginable repression under the fascist Operation Kagaar, the people’s war in India refuses to give up its fight.
On this 2026 so-called “International Peace Day” marked by the UN to pacify resistance and protect imperialist interests, the ILPS acknowledges that peoples’ struggles of the masses and wars of resistance are the only path towards ending imperialist war and fascist repression. The League salutes all of those who militantly fight for land, liberation, sovereignty, and a peace that is both just and lasting.

ANSAR ALLAH WINS BIG

September 16, 2026 by justpeace87

Statement of the ILPS

Ansar Allah Wins Victories for Yemen and the World!

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle celebrates wholeheartedly the brave victories of Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement in repelling Saudi-backed mercenaries and establishing their control over more of Yemen’s territory. This is a win for the Yemeni people, for the entire Axis of Resistance of West Asia, and for all struggling peoples of the world fighting against US-Zionist imperialism.

On September 11, 2026, fighters with Ansar Allah successfully gained control over the entire western coast of Yemen, giving them control over the entire eastern bank of the Bab al Mandab waterway entrance into the Red Sea. Instead of holding their territory and facing Ansar Allah on the battlefield, the mercenary fighters, fully funded by the Saudi military that has nearly 400 US-made fighter jets and the armed strength of over 200,000 soldiers, crumbled in just around a week before Ansar Allah’s iron unity and will to liberate their land.

This crucial achievement puts one of the world’s strategic trade routes–the connection between the Pacific and Indian Oceans with the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal–almost fully into the hands of the Axis of Resistance. This comes as the Strait of Hormuz remains in the sovereign control of Iran, amounting to around 35% of global trade between the two waterways.

The confrontation between Ansar Allah and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia reignited in July as Saudi missiles fired at an airline carrying Yemeni representatives from Tehran to Sana’a after attending the mass funeral of martyred Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Ansar Allah declared this an act of war and responded by launching missiles and drones to shut down Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport, following this with a naval blockade of the Bab al Mandab against ships doing business with Saudi Arabia.

The renewed fighting between Ansar Allah and Saudi Arabia spread to Yemen’s territory itself as the Saudi-backed and US-armed “Presidential Leadership Council” (PLC), illegitimately claiming leadership over Yemen from their desert bases in the east of the country, made an attempt to storm Sana’a. Ansar Allah repelled PLC forces while launching attacks on Saudi energy infrastructure in the cities of Khamis Mushait, Abha, Jizan, and Najran.

On September 10, Ansar Allah fighters captured the port city of Mokha, the largest of the port cities still held by the PLC. On September 11, Ansar Allah established control over the southern city of Dhubab and Mayyun Island lying to the north of the Bab al Mandab, effectively establishing control over the vital Red Sea coastal shipping corridor. While advancing, Ansar Allah’s government declared amnesty for any Yemenis fighting with the PLC who surrendered, an offer that many mercenaries took as they gave themselves up to the Sana’a government. Upon taking authority over these cities, Ansar Allah immediately began assessing the people’s needs. In the city of Mokha, they distributed 20,000 baskets of food and announced plans to send medical equipment from Sana’a to bolster local hospitals.

PLC forces have been shelling the territory now held by Ansar Allah, contributing to the displacement of civilians. Saudi warplanes continue to bomb Yemen as well, with 129 airstrikes carried out across Yemen in the past 48 hours alone targeting Taiz, Marib, Hodeidah, al-Jawf, Saada, Amran, and Hajjah. These indiscriminate airstrikes are all that the Saudi enemy now has left to offer as the PLC is rapidly falling apart and the kingdom’s allies, such as Pakistan and Turkiye within the recently signed Mecca Defense Pact, are unwilling to enter the Saudi-Ansar Allah war as they are well aware that they are incapable of defeating the Ansar Allah.

The Ansar Allah blockade of the Bab al Mandab has held back ships sailing for Saudi Arabia, but has kept other traffic running as normal, with 73 identifiable ships being allowed to pass on September 10 and 11, amounting to 98.6% of average traffic levels before the blockade was implemented. Yet, the Supreme Political Council of Ansar Allah warned that, “any foolishness committed against our country will be confronted even if the impact extends globally, and we remind that the region is on a hot plate, and whoever wants to start a fire must bear the consequences.”

This statement, and the actions it stems from, demonstrate the care and solidarity with the people of the world who are impacted by economic blockades in terms of shipment of food, fertilizer, energy, and other basic necessities. It must be remembered that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and other Gulf monarchies backed by the US, imposed a blockade of the Yemeni people between 2015 and 2022 in at attempt to isolate and defeat Ansar Allah, leading to the deaths of at least 223,000 farmers, pastoralists, and city-dwellers alike from starvation and malnutrition, echoing “Israel’s” own blockade and forced starvation of Gaza that continues to this day. In the hands of the imperialists, Zionists and the Gulf monarchies, blockades are a tool of genocide, conquest, war and aggression; in the hands of Ansar Allah and the resistance, it is a tool for asserting sovereignty and economic self-determination by compelling imperialist aggressor states to cease their attacks. It is also an act of solidarity with the people of Palestine as Ansar Allah’s control over the Bab al Mandab gives it further control to blockade ships doing business with the Zionist entity as well.

These recent events also highlight how world-changing events affecting global superpowers and greatly shifting power alignments in West Asia can come about through the strength of the people taking up arms and fighting, through immense sacrifice, to achieve and defend their sovereignty. The people make history through their united struggle. As the US, “Israel,” and other US-Zionist puppet states in the region maneuver to isolate and force resistance forces to disarm in Palestine, Lebanon, and Iraq, Ansar Allah’s victories in Yemen give inspiration not only to the other West Asia fighters of the Axis of Resistance, but to all revolutionary and people’s movements taking up arms against their fascist US-collaborator governments to achieve national liberation for their peoples.

The ILPS stands with the people of Yemen and salutes their fighters standing triumphant on their own land over the destroyed ruins of US-made and Saudi-provided military vehicles. The land and waterways of West Asia belong to the people, not to the imperialists nor the Zionist or Saudi fascists!

Stop Imperialist/Zionist Attacks on Iran

January 28, 2026 by justpeace87

https://peoplesstruggle.org/…/denounce-and-end-the…/

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.

Palestine is our Compass

October 7, 2025 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!

August 7, 2025 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!

July 4, 2025 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