Tag: imperialism

US STRATEGY TO PRESERVE THE ELITE

by justpeace87

Trump’s National Security Strategy & National Defense Strategy: “America First” Means Putting the US Ruling Elite Above All

📝 An analysis piece by ILPS-US

🌐Full analysis: https://tinyurl.com/ILPS-On-NSS-NDS

As an imperialist nation, the overall goal of the US is to retain its number one spot among imperialist powers by ensuring US monopoly capitalist interests. Each new administration lays out their National Security Strategy (NSS) as a program to set the direction, strategy and tactics they will carry out. The National Defense Strategy (NDS) then follows to lay out the implementation priorities carried out by its military-industrial complex.

The opportunity is ripe to grow the mass movement against US imperialist war. Across different classes, sectors and issues, people can be drawn into the struggle by linking the US’ neglect of people’s basic needs to the prioritization of war. Students are faced with limited options to continue paying for higher education or serving in the military or becoming ICE agents. Many education fields are also geared towards working for war profiteers or surveillance. Migrants are forced from their homelands as their countries are ravaged by US wars of aggression and corporate plunder. Workers experience the brunt of the economic crisis and have a central role to play in strengthening the anti-war movement in the US. We all have a stake in the fight and must work together – joining forces with people of faith working for peace, environmental groups concerned about the impacts of militarism, and more. By taking joint action around concrete demands to fight back against US militarism, the movement can build its strength and create even greater change.

Stop Imperialist/Zionist Attacks on Iran

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.

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!

Canada Out of NATO

by justpeace87

STATEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE OF PEOPLES’ STRUGGLES (ILPS)—CANADA, July 10, 2018
CANADA OUT OF NATO! JUST PEACE FOR THE PEOPLES EVERYWHERE!
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, of which Canada is a member state, is holding a Summit of Allied Heads of State and Government chaired by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels on July 11 and 12. Prime Minister Trudeau is attending. The ILPS-Canada opposes this military alliance as it operates to defend the richest states and the global ruling class, maintain the oppressive and exploiting global system, deter peoples’ movements for liberation and just peace, and interfere in the internal affairs of many countries, causing genocide, fratricide, crises and instability. It engages in nation-destruction rather than nation-building.
Prime Minister Trudeau claims that, “For more than six decades, NATO has proven itself to be a major contributor to international peace, security, and stability – essential for economic growth and prosperity.” His government has increased military spending, adopted an aggressive stance, deepened its partnership with the US and made greater commitments to NATO.
The ILPS argues, on the contrary, NATO has been an aggressive force and a factor for instability and insecurity for most of those years. NATO is intensifying and increasing militarization. It is demanding that more of the peoples’ treasuries pay for it. This is good for arms trade, military-industrial complex, and various repressive and aggressive states. However, it contradicts principles and norms of sovereignty, social justice and human rights and the just aims of peoples’ movements fighting for their and liberation.
NATO is an alliance of 29 states in Europe. Based on the North Atlantic Treaty signed in 1949, it was constituted as a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party.
The role and function of NATO has been evolving to meet the developing political and economic aims of the most powerful states and the wealthy elites they serve, with the US at the head of the pack. State-to-state conflicts absent, it was mobilized for forcefully managing political developments in Eastern Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union: the UN authorized NATO interventions in the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s and it bombed Bosnian Serbs in the Bosnian War and Belgrade in the Kosovo War. NATO intervened in Afghanistan later, Canadian forces leading the mission. Today Eastern and Central Europe are focal points for NATO, where there are several candidates for membership including the Ukraine. The number of NATOs bases and armaments in those regions is rising, and the presence of Canadian forces there is growing. Lately, for instance, a lot of effort has been put into backing the Ukrainian state against internal dissenters in the Crimea, resulting in increased tensions with Russia. The Canadian PM states: “Leaders will also address Russia’s aggressive and illegal actions, and Prime Minister Trudeau will reaffirm Canada’s support for Ukraine.”
Clearly, NATO does not operate only in case of a real threat or attack against its member states. News casts have broadcast its aggressive language with terms such as “pre-emptive strike” and “deterrence” for years. It has circulated suspicions and speculations about its enemies. It has provoked or exacerbated terrorist activity in the name of Islamism, and continually deployed to interfere in internal conflicts, as the member states pick sides and work to sustain one faction while suppressing another. The 2018 Summit aims to increase cooperation and security measures among member states.
This is an ever-more dangerous situation for the peoples of the world. It is in the best interests to condemn NATO and the bloody state politics that supports it. The ILPS is working to support and build peoples’ movements for just peace, sustainable economic security, social and national liberation, and human rights. We call for solidarity and unity among the peoples and more cooperation in struggles for our common aims. This is what must be done to enhance peace and security in the world.
Canada, out of NATO! Oppose militarization and aggression!
Just and Lasting Peace!
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