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!
JUST PEAce COMMITTEE 