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NO NUCLEAR BULLYING!

by justpeace87

Resist US Imperialist Wars of Aggression and Nuclear Bullying!

Statement of the ILPS on the the 81st Anniversary of the US Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Read last year’s statement

Download the primer: Nuclear Weapons, US Imperialism, and the Fight for Just and Lasting Peace

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle marks the 81st anniversary of the US nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with renewed vigour to struggle against the US war machine and the threat that nuclear-armed imperialist states pose to the world today. The League calls on its members to expose the hypocrisy of the US, “Israel”, and other Western nuclear-armed states in using supposed “prevention of nuclear proliferation” to wage wars of aggression against their rival states like Iran all while increasing their own nuclear stockpiles to catastrophic levels.

On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States obliterated the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively with nuclear weapons – the only time it has been used against civilians. The ground temperature reached up to 4000 degrees Celsius (7,200 degrees Fahrenheit), killing over 200,000 people. The reason for the bombing was not to end the war, as the Soviet Union’s victory over Japan in occupied Manchuria would have proven to be decisive for surrender. Rather, it was to solidify the United States as the top imperialist power that was not afraid to use nuclear weapons in war, especially the rising socialist and national liberation movements at the close of World War 2.

The subsequent proliferation of nuclear weapons after World War II, its use for intimidation by imperialist powers such as the US, and its contrasting use for resistance by socialist countries and/or those asserting their national sovereignty such as the USSR and DPRK is covered in our statement last year, which is hyperlinked here.

Last year’s anniversary occurred shortly after the Twelve-Day War, where the US and ”Israel“ attacked Iran under the pretext of ‘non-compliance with its nuclear obligations to the IAEA’. Since then, the United States and “Israel” have launched yet another war of aggression against Iran and other forces within the Axis of Resistance such as in Lebanon and Yemen.

It is clear that their true intention is to conquer Iran, the fulcrum of the Axis of Resistance that prevents full US-Zionist domination of the region. The Islamic Republic of Iran has, since its founding, expressed publicly that it never intends to build a nuclear weapon and has asserted its right to develop a civilian nuclear energy and research program. Such fear-mongering against Iran is hypocritical when “Israel” possesses several of its own without the oversight of the IAEA. It is even more hypocritical when Trump has threatened to attack Iran with “the biggest attack since World War II,” a direct reference to the its own nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons is unrealistic and tantamount to supporting imperialist hegemony when the United States still holds one of the largest nuclear arsenals in the world. Instead, we call for the US to be disarmed of all nuclear weapons as it is historically proven to be the #1 threat to the world’s people and the leading factor of the nuclear arms race. ILPS once again calls to build broad alliances and wage militant struggle to end US imperialism, the number one nuclear terrorist in the world, as a step towards ending the imperialist system as a whole and therefore the logic that gives rise to the existential threat to humanity that nuclear weapons are.

We can achieve genuine just and lasting peace in this world once imperialism, the biggest driver of war and weapons of mass destruction, is crushed, swept, and thrown into the dustbin of history. 81 years later, the League calls to continue our efforts to intensify the struggle and broaden our international united front against US imperialism, forward our struggles of national liberation and sovereignty, and fight for a socialist future that would make complete disarmament of nuclear weapons even a possibility.

Signed,

International League of Peoples’ Struggle

Resist US Imperialist Wars of Aggression and Nuclear Bullying!

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!