anti-Militarism Agenda (2025)
With 2026 Latin America and the Caribbean Addendum
BACKGROUND
Militarism is the systematic use of military violence to advance the interests of the state and its ruling class while repressing the resistance of the people. It is the result of the political and ideological engineering of war to be inevitable. Militarism is a product of and intrinsically tied to the global modern imperialist political-economic system.
In today’s global geopolitical situation, three “fronts of US-Led war” have emerged, aimed at preserving sole US hegemony: the US-Western alliance including NATO for Eastern Europe against Russia; the US-Israel-Gulf-Turkish alliance against Iran; and an iron web of alliances in the Pacific including the Australia-UK-US (AUKUS), Japan-South Korea-US (JAKUS), Japan-Philippines-US (JAPHUS), and Japan-Australia-India-US (Quad) against China and the DPRK. At the same time, US-led war and aggression also operates all over Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
As always in war, it is the people, especially the working peoples of the world, who are gravely affected–not the government executives, military generals, bankers, business owners or weapons suppliers who profit. Wars of aggression displace indigenous people, destroy arable land for farmers and food production, contribute to the climate crisis, function to keep poor nations oppressed under US economic domination, and target revolutionaries through state repression by their local reactionary ruling class and imperialist puppet masters.
Militarism also breeds and relies on oppressive social outlooks and hierarchies. Patriarchy portrays masculinity as aligned with militarism, domination and strength, and femininity as pacified, weak and needing protection, resulting in gender based oppression that can be weaponized to promote militarism and use women’s bodies as a means of social and militaristic control while using rape as a weapon of war. Patriarchy and militarism both view women as collateral damage and easily exploitable rather than as a pivotal part of society and its functioning.
White supremacy and racial oppression create a system of power and prejudice to justify war, occupation, and militarization as a tool of national oppression. These and other anti-people ideologies lead to widescale violence in people's everyday lives while depriving the vast majority of power, creating fertile ground for militarism to operate on behalf of the small minority of imperialists and war profiteers.
The war makers deliberately oversimplify narratives on war today into “good vs evil,” “democracy vs authoritarianism,” “peacemakers vs terrorists” to hide their true interests and intentionally demobilize and isolate movements for genuine peace. Erased from the narrative are the history of the roots of these conflicts and the competing interests at stake for imperialist countries which use militarism and war to secure control over territory, natural resources, and markets in a multi-polar world. The mass media and imperialist mouthpieces hide and downplay peoples' resistance as insignificant, or otherwise demonize it as terrorism.
State fascism is bred, armed and directed by war-making powers as a form of foreign intervention. Imperialist governments use their puppet states to wage wars on their behalf, as has been happening with the US-led war between the Ukrainian government and the people of the Donbas region since 2014 long before the war against Russia started, and in many other areas of the world. The brutal US-Zionist genocide in Palestine has laid bare the relentless violence of the US imperialist-backed Zionist entity, being fiercely opposed by militant resistance of the Palestinian people. Wars of aggression and fascism therefore have a strong connection and must be struggled against simultaneously.
As more wars break out and the people face intensified repression, it is as important now as it ever has been to strengthen movements against wars of aggression and to build solidarity with peoples movements asserting their collective democratic rights, self-determination, and social and national liberation.
What is the AMA?
The Anti-Militarism Agenda campaign unites anti-war, anti-imperialist and pro-peace forces around the world to identify the people’s priorities to address imperialist wars and other wars of aggression. The Resist US-Led War Movement consulted with movements around the world: from the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Cyprus, Australia, Puerto Rico, Togo, Kenya, South Sudan, Guahan, the Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands, Hawai'i, and Palestine.
The Agenda is designed as a collection of "Calls to Action," key struggles being waged around the world by a variety of people and organizations. The targets presented in these calls are meant to be confronted through globally coordinated actions. They are pressure points of US-led war, not just manifestations of the war machine's power, but struggles of the people that can be won. By presenting them in this way, they show both the impacts that they have on the people and the ways that people are already resisting them. Beyond a mere description of how US-led war and militarism impact the people, the Anti-Militarism Agenda is a tool for coordinated action around the world to fight arm-in-arm against US-led war.
The Anti-Militarism Agenda includes political education, advocacy, mass mobilization and anti-war mass movement and network building to expose the interests of the US war machine and its allies and proxies around the world, fight against the biggest targets responsible for today’s wars of aggression, and advance our united anti-war anti-militarism agenda towards building a just peace.
Resist US-Led War carried forward the first edition of the Anti-Militarism Agenda from the start of 2023 until now. After two years of experience in campaigns and network building, the Agenda led to mass movement confrontations against targets like the Rim of the Pacific military exercises, NATO, arms fairs and expos, transnational weapons corporations, and overseas US bases. The campaigns and struggles on the ground in each context bring life to the movements, while the Agenda provides a platform for coordination and solidarity among our struggles. At the start of 2025, Resist re-initiated the campaign to coincide with the re-election of Trump to the US presidency and the rapid new developments in the world situation as the US-led war machine unleashes extreme levels of barbarity against its rivals and the peoples of the world.
The components of the Anti-Militarism Agenda itself have also been updated so as to include new means for Resist members to initiate their own plans to carry out the calls of the agenda and coordinate with others to make it a genuine movement-building effort. The campaign includes 1) the Agenda 2) Calendar of Days of Action and Solidarity, 3) Campaign Toolkits and 4) Ongoing Campaigns within the Calls to Action of the Agenda
We express our gratitude and acknowledgements to the consultations with organizations fighting everyday for just peace that collectively brought the agenda to life:
Korea Peace now, Asia-Wide Campaign against U.S.-Japanese domination and aggression of Asia, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance, ILPS Canada, ILPS Kenya, Mathare Social Justice Center, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) Australia, Ground Zero campaign against Aerial Bombings, Boriquas Con Palestina, Juventud Unida para la Independencia (JUPI), Madres Contra la Guerra, Veterans For Peace, About Face, Hoopae Pono Peace Project, Jewish Voices for Peace Hawai'i, Le Centre d'Action pour le Développement Rural (CADR), ILPS Asia Pacific, ILPS Latin America, Nodutdol, Asia Pacific Research Network, Peoples Coalition for Food Sovereignty, Union of Cypriots, Lutte peur le Changement (LUCHA), Diaspora Pa'lante Collective(DPC)
Globally Coordinated Tactics for Movement Building
Unite to fight against US-Led War - Build a multi-national, multi-sectoral and multi-issue mass movement in resistance to all manifestations of US-led war and militarism
People around the world have always waged resistance against war and militarism. From the towns and cities reduced to rubble, to sanctions and food blockades depriving people of their means of livelihood, to militarist ideologies that engender violent attacks against youth and women, to ethno-nationalist and fascist subjugation of oppressed peoples and nations, to imperialist societies with bloated military budgets, to the twin threats of nuclear destruction and climate breakdown, the people fight back to defend their land, livelihood, dignity and sovereignty. As rural people, trade unionists, people of faith, youth, women, LGBTQ people, environmentalists, teachers, artists and indigenous people, we can link our struggles together across anti-war and anti-militarism movements.
Shut down the war machine - Take action to expose, target and halt all the forces of the US-led war machine at all possible points, through internationally coordinated actions:
From the mining extraction, production, testing, transport, exercises and ultimately the deployment of bombs, drone strikes, missile attacks, artillery and other weaponry, the war machine, the entire cycle of war production contaminates communities, takes its toll on health, and destroys land and livelihood for generations to come. Communities have the power and always have resisted the militarization of their land, water and communities. As the war machine is spread out, we can target the industry at many points no matter where we are in the world and collectively shut it down!
US Out of Everywhere- Unite peace movements around the world with the demands of liberation movements struggling for self-determination, peace and justice:
US-led war most greatly affects those living within the colonial and neocolonial countries at the mercy of foreign military presence and local puppet rulers. For oppressed peoples, peace is not abstract but instead tied inextricably to economic self-determination and political sovereignty. All those who fight for peace must uplift the calls for sovereignty of all peoples against imperialist domination. We must expose the imperialist governments and wage a united struggle from within imperialist societies in solidarity with the people most impacted by war and militarism.
Struggle for a just peace- The people united can overturn the system of imperialism at the root of war, occupation and militarism and fight for viable alternatives that engender peace.
Build just peace through justice, social equity, and solidarity amongst peoples, including the recognition of the right to self-determination, economic, and food sovereignty, and self-defense of nations and oppressed peoples from reactionary aggression and violence. Build peace through genuine sustainable development, job creation, and the health and well being of our communities.
Through linking the grassroots struggles against US-led war and militarism, exposing the many fronts of attack that we are confronting, the Anti-Militarism Agenda is a shared platform that shows, through our unity and through peoples' struggle, we can help build the movement for a peaceful world, a world without war and militarism.
CALLS TO ACTION
Outline
1. End All Wars of Aggression and Imperialist Wars
End the Zionist Genocide and Onslaught of West Asia!
The utterly fascist Zionist entity has been unmasked and unleashed as the most vicious expansionist project in the world today, completely armed and protected by the US. This was a genocidal force in the making since its seizures of Palestinian lands in the early 20th century and establishment as "the state of Israel" on this land in 1948. In response to the heroic Al Aqsa Flood national liberation operation of the Palestinian resistance, the Zionist entity launched its ultimate extermination campaign, killing tens of thousands in a matter of months while systematically displacing and starving the entire population of Gaza and laying siege to the West Bank alongside armed settlers. The Zionists used their extermination war to justify bombings, assassinations, and occupation of Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen while eyeing an ultimate war against Iran in its expansionist quest to establish "Greater Israel". This is a US-Zionist war of aggression against all of West Asia that threatens to catastrophically devastate the entire region if not stopped. In response, the liberation forces of the Axis of Resistance wage an unrelenting fight in defense of their peoples' lives and self-determination, acting as a united movement against US-led war in the region.
End the Proxy War in Ukraine!
This is a proxy war waged by the US and NATO to weaken Russia with the soldiers of Ukraine, the latter being used as a puppet government and military force of US-NATO. Despite varying accounts of numbers from different sides, the war has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and led to millions of displaced and refugees, while inflation has skyrocketed due to the privatized and wasteful global supply chains the war has exposed. While the Trump regime has signaled intention for drawing back direct US support to focus on its other fronts of aggression, NATO members continue to pump weapons onto the battlefield, and both still harbor the goal to strategically weaken Russia while Ukrainians and Russians keep dying with few prospects for peace in sight. With many refusing orders to deploy to the front line and mass protests across the world calling for an end to the bloody conflict, the demand to end the war is growing by the day.
Stop US Preparations for War with China!
The US has taken every move to paint the economic, diplomatic and military rise of China as “aggressive”, engendering a new Cold War mentality and preparing public support for a future war. The US arming of Taiwan to protect the world’s largest semiconductor producer is the strongest factor escalating the tensions between the two superpowers, while the arming and basing of US troops in nearby Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines brings tensions to a boil. Aggressive US war games and military exercises in the South China Sea with the militaries of these countries, along with those on the nearby Korean Peninsula, aim to provoke the US's most powerful rival into what would be the most destructive war in human history. It is the peoples' movements, resistance and urgent demands for diplomacy and just peace instead of war that must grow and deepen in order to restrain full on inter-imperialist war from breaking out between the US and China.
2. Resist Military Occupations
Resist Zionism, End the Occupation and Liberate Palestine from the River to the Sea!
The Zionist entity has developed to deadly precision the infrastructure of occupation against the people and land of Palestine through military checkpoints, home demolitions, enforced disappearances and mass detention, political assassinations, and genocidal wars with the full military and diplomatic backing of the US. Zionism is a racist and fascist ideology driving settler-citizens to enact violence and forced displacement against the indigenous people to steal and destroy their land to the benefit of the occupation state. All Palestinian resistance to occupation, from appeals to the UN to the armed resistance, have been brutally repressed by the Zionists with indiscriminate and deliberate targeting of civilians. The Zionists have also actively advised and armed other similar movements around the world where the people continue to fight for liberation from occupation, demonstrating that the occupation and liberation struggle of Palestine is intrinsically linked with settler colonialism and resistance to it worldwide. The Palestinian people and their resistance inspire the whole world with their steadfast advance of their struggle to end the genocide, free the prisoners, defend their land, defeat Zionism and win their freedom.
Free Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, Guahan, and All Pacific Islands from US Domination!
Whether states, “Administrative Territories,” "Compact of Free Association," "Commonwealth" or otherwise, these nations are modern colonies and military strongholds of the US. Their economies are bled dry, their indigenous people are not awarded their historic land and water rights, and the US treats them as mere military outposts for its war posturing interests. Puerto Rico is littered with depleted uranium and chemical residue from bomb tests at Vieques and other communities exposed to radiation and subjected to deliberate medical neglect by the US. Hawai’i houses more military sites than any US state and hosts the unwelcomed and invasive Rim of the Pacific biennial joint military exercise. Guahan’s use as a lily pad stop for military refueling has left its economy neglected and its citizens without any say in their country’s political status. The many islands of Micronesia face rising sea levels with no mitigation from the US while the health and environmental legacy of nuclear testing, and ongoing missile testing in US military bases claim the lives of generations. While the US militarizes the land, settlers continue to displace the people of the land through modern-day colonial projects masking as tourist attractions and resort-style gated communities meant to enact land grabs and justify further military expansion. The people continue to fight to practice their indigenous culture, language and traditions, and to resist cultural erasure, military occupation and passive genocide of their people.
End All US-backed Settler Colonial Regimes!
The US was born through a genocidal settler colonial project, the legacy of which is the ongoing economic, health, and political crisis due to theft of land and extermination campaign by settlers and occupation of indigenous lands. Today, the US not only continues to repress the struggle for indigenous sovereignty within its self-proclaimed borders while maintaining de facto colonial control over a number of lands in the Caribbean and the Pacific. It also gives overt support, advising, and military arms to other settler colonial regimes around the world based on its own experience as a colonial power. The most blatant and brutal of these regimes currently is the Zionist entity of "Israel." India's fascist Hindutva movement has used ethno-religious violence to displace and occupy the people of Kashmir, one of the most sought-after sources of fresh water reserves in the world. Morocco has used US and Zionist weapons and advising in their decades-long occupation of Western Sahara, a land brimming with untapped uranium and nitrate deposits. For over 50 years, the Turkish state has utilized a fascist settler movement to militarily occupy the northern half of Cyprus, a key strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean that houses key military bases of multiple NATO states. Indonesia has used weapons purchased from the US in its own militarized settlement of West Papua, a resource-rich island of timber and agricultural resources. Each of the colonial regimes mentioned utilizes brutal methods of racist domination, state repression, extrajudicial killings, cultural destruction and historical erasure of the colonized peoples' existence on their land, and a violently fanatic settler movement to maximize settlers as the fascist mass base of the colonizing regime in power. Yet, indigenous people are still struggling for land, sovereignty, and fighting against imperialist mining, testing of weapons, overt military destruction, and ultimately for their people's full liberation.
3. End Military Alliances
Resist NATO and Demilitarize Europe!
Since its founding, NATO has always played a key role in the US's rise to number one imperialist and war maker in the world. With the addition of Finland and Sweden in 2023 and 2024, NATO has provocatively expanded eastward to Russia's borders, bringing 3.3 million allied troops under command of the US-led alliance with 40,000 in Eastern Europe alone since the fall of the Soviet Union. NATO's "Washington Declaration," forged during its 75th anniversary in 2024, called for its members to increase their military spending, modernize and expand their nuclear arsenals, invest billions in the purchase of drones and high tech weapons, conduct more frequent and large-scale military exercises, and pledge billions more to continue arming Ukraine. Over 90,000 troops were mobilized for Steadfast Defender 24, NATO’s largest military exercise, and tens of thousands are being mobilized for exercises in the Arctic. NATO's expansion goes beyond Europe, with the opening of NATO offices in Japan and Jordan, and cooperation with Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea, to counter the rise of China, which NATO has explicitly named as a threat. But NATO's drive for expansion comes at a time when Trump is threatening to withdraw the US from the alliance, member countries in Europe are facing severe economic crisis and political divisions, and their people are exerting pressure to force some countries to balk at the demands for increased spending and any deeper commitment to the failed proxy war in Ukraine. The movement to resist NATO is steadily growing to end this front and tool of US-led war.
End the US-made Zionist-Gulf alliance!
As the US has pivoted to Asia, it has necessarily forged an unprecedented alliance between the repressive Gulf monarchies and the Zionist colonial regime of Israel to be its watchdog in West Asia. This has helped consolidate the violent occupation of Palestine (through divide and rule tactics of Arab countries), the murderous Saudi-led war on Yemen, and the ripping apart and impoverishment societies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Eritrea for the sake of countering Iran’s regional influence. The US and Zionist courting of the UAE to ethnically cleanse Gaza so as to reap in development profits and the mass influx of investments (including Zionist investments) to Saudi Arabia's utopian "NEOM" green development scheme exposes the true motive behind this normalization of Zionist genocide - super profits for the Gulf monarchs and US fossil fuel corporations. Yet, the majority of the people of the region see through the divide-and-rule tactics of the US and their Zionist proxies and continue to demand their governments break all ties with the Zionist entity and end all collusion with the US in their name.
Stop the G7!
The G7 countries (US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan) represent some of the world’s most powerful economies and also the most powerful militaries. They lay claim to approximately 30% of world GDP despite only containing less than 10% of the world's population. Historically led by the US, the G7 uses sanctions, military build-up, intervention, aggression, invasions and war to enforce an international order of international domination, oppression and exploitation by imperialism. Three G7 powers command nuclear arsenals and two house US nuclear bases within their borders, while Japan and Canada both allow the basing of US nuclear-capable bombers. But the cracks in the alliance are becoming more apparent, brought on by disagreements over how to deal with the failure of the G7-backed war in Ukraine and arguments over who gets the spoils of imperialist war and plunder. From inside and outside the G7 countries we must expose that no part of the G7 serves the interests of the people, keep building a stronger peace movement, and target the inter-connected war machine of the G7.
Shut Down AUKUS, JAKUS and JAPHUS and Demilitarize Asia Pacific!
The US forged unprecedented trilateral security pacts from 2021-2024 in a clear effort to integrate and fortify its military alliances in Asia and the Pacific as it builds up for war with China. Under the Australia-UK-US security pact, the US and UK will provide nuclear submarines to Australia at a cost of $368 billion, setting up an alarming threat of force towards China and a wasteful drainage of military spending for the Australian people. The Japan-South Korea-US (JAKUS) trilateral security cooperation opened the floodgates to huge joint military exercises of the three countries--the first ever since WWII. Both JAKUS and the Japan-Philippines-US (JAPHUS) pacts give the US military unrestricted access to the South Korean and Philippine military bases respectively, and give the US operational wartime command over the two countries' militaries. Overall the US Indo-Pacific strategy aims to further squeeze the Pacific for what they call "untapped resources" through a strategic military build up, including the Island Chain Strategy, imposing bases, weapons, and launching sites for war encircling China. The military alliances are bound up with neoliberal economic agreements, such as the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment corridor in the Philippines--a multi-billion dollar deal that will result in infrastructure projects that destroy the local environment and means of livelihood of the Filipino people while extracting minerals and agricultural goods for the profit of foreign corporations. While initially started as a mechanism for coordination of relief aid and not labeled as a military alliance, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) between the US, India, Japan and Australia overtly shifted into the realm of military cooperation in 2024, with the establishment of regular joint maritime patrols in the Pacific to increase inter-operability, further inflaming regional tensions. In addition to these alliances, the large list of US bilateral military agreements with countries in the region amounts to an unofficial military alliance in itself.
4. Shut Down Overseas Bases and US Commands
Close all Overseas US and Allied Bases
The US officially maintains more than 800 overseas military bases in over 80 countries, but when calculating overseas "military installations" the number nears 14,000. This is a blatant violation of peoples' sovereignty which enables the US to project imperialist power in a desperate attempt to maintain its global hegemony. The US especially uses its bases to surveil countries which refuse its imperialist policies like Cuba and Venezuela through its outposts in occupied Puerto Rico. Bases play an essential role in the US wars of aggression and intervention and in the build up to those from Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to South America. Overseas military bases are centers where American soldiers violently abuse countless women. These overseas installations commit environmental destruction and disrupt the lives of civilians in and out of the bases. Bases dump toxic chemicals that harm the health of residents and destroy the source of livelihood of millions of people. In early 2022, the US Navy was found to have leaked petroleum into Hawaiians' source of drinking water. A year before, the US Marines dumped toxic chemicals into Okinawa's civilian water system. The Philippines under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, saw the recent expansion of US bases in the Philippines, putting the Filipino people directly in harms way amidst heightening US aggression threatening war with China. Extrajudicial killings are endemic around US bases at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, and Magagoni Airfield in Kenya. Yet, foreign bases are not invincible, the people have blocked bases from being built in Korea and Japan, or expelled the US military through mass struggle in cases like Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Force base in the Philippines, the US Navy in Vieques and Culebra in Puerto Rico, refusal of the renewal of the US military base lease in Ecuador, and the recent ouster of French and US bases from Senegal, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
Shut Down AFRICOM in Every Country It Has a Stranglehold
After the overthrow of the European colonial regimes by African independence struggles, the US established AFRICOM in 2007 as the most recent geographic combatant command of the Pentagon. The US has since used it to wage the "war on terror" and impose US control on African people, land and resources. As Europe's current neo-colonial relations are weakened, the US uses AFRICOM for counter-revolutionary control and violence on the continent to try to repress the peoples' struggles for liberation, while it tries to compete with Russian influence and Chinese development investments, to hold onto the US's foothold on the continent. Despite its claim of a “light footprint,” AFRICOM is the US's 2nd fastest growing military command, with 46 various forms of US bases as well as military-to-military relations between 53 out of the 54 African countries and the United States.US Special Forces troops now operate in more than a dozen African nations. AFRICOM is responsible for devastating covert operations in Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Mali and many other countries and directs huge multi-country exercises like African Lion that expand drone warfare capabilities. Beyond its direct intervention, AFRICOM has armed and trained local warlords and has even helped some come to power where they have brutalized their own people for personal interests.
5. Fight Weapons Companies and Arms Sales
Cut Ties with War Profiteers!
Weapons Trans-national Corporations (WTNCs) are companies with global operations overseeing and gaining profits from the industrial mass production of high-tech weapons of war to sustain the global militarism economy. They exist to profit from arming and re-arming state militaries to use in their wars against other countries or their own people. Global military expenditure was estimated at $2.443 trillion, in 2024, the highest level ever recorded and the steepest year-on-year increase since 2009 with the combined revenues of the top 100 largest defense companies totaling $632 billion in 2023. There are peoples' campaigns to target all of the top 5 largest companies: Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and General Dynamics. WTNCs sell their weapons to fascist governments abroad for use in surveillance, aerial bombardment, drone warfare, and the carpet bombing of countries, including the death of civilians and non-combatants while they are contracted domestically for US military aggression in today's wars. Companies like Elbit Systems, for example, are genocide factories, based in Britain with subsidiaries around the world, that manufactures Israeli weaponry which is used to subjugate the Palestinian people. They are complicit in the human rights violations and war crimes undertaken by aggressive state forces using their products to drive up the market for imperialist wars of aggression.
Shut Down Arms Fairs!
Arms fairs are events in which WTNCs show off their weapons to prospective buyers, the imperialist and other militaristic states looking to use them to violently protect their interests. These events amount to celebrations of militarism while WTNC executives brag and market the deadly use of their weapons against the people. CANSEC is North America's largest arms fair, with around 300 companies on show and even Zionist "Israel" being offered an expo space as if it were a WTNC on its own. The Netherlands Defense and Security Exhibition (NEDS) showcases these weapons in northern Europe while France's Eurosatoray is Europe's largest arms fair. The Land Forces exhibition in Australia likewise acts as a weapons shop right on the doorstep of the US's primary war theater of the Pacific. These fairs are a key component of profit-making while glorifying war and militarism at the same time.
Unite Against the Deadly War Industry Supply Chain!
In addition to supplying the war makers with seemingly endless weapons, the war industry supply chain is harmful to people at every step of the way. Mining provides the extraction of metals, rare earth minerals and petroleum by-products, leading to environmental destruction, pollution, and further militarization of communities surrounding mining sites. Weapons are tested without the consent, and sometimes without the knowledge, of local communities who suffer the toxic weapons residue and even get caught in the crossfire. The natural resources of countries are plundered instead of put to use for national pro-people industry, while workers in manufacturing plants are exploited for their labor, especially in the wide range of small-scale manufacturing around the world that these companies use. Communities harmed in the extraction zone, workers exploited in factories, and the peoples facing the guns of the final products are all impacted by the supply chain of US-led war. Resistance against the war industry supply chain takes place at the mines, factories, testing sites, research universities, and even along the shipping and distribution lanes. The supply chain is stretched out and sprawling around the world, which means that we can unite and take action against distinct parts of it in any community that touches this chain together.
6. End US Military Agreements
Resist the Aggressive US-Japan Partnership to Militarize the Asia-Pacific
Japan is the US’s most loyal ally in Asia Pacific. Military agreements forged after WWII enable the US to station more overseas troops in Japan than in any other country in the region. One-fifth of the land of Okinawa is occupied by US bases. Right-wing governments successfully pushed for constitutional changes allowing Japan to re-arm for offensive purposes, leading to rising defense spending since 2007 and a doubling of the defense budget in 2023. In line with the US pivot to Asia, the US with Japan as its willing partner, continually roll out new bi-lateral and multilateral agreements. The newly-minted Japan-US-Korea alliance (JAKUS) and the Japan-Philippines-US trilateral alliance (JAPHUS) expands the US military's network of alliances allowing US and Japanese troops to drag Korea and the Philippines into US war preparations against China. These trilateral alliances formalize regular war games, enhance military intelligence-sharing and advanced missile network integration specifically targeting China, introduce a collective security framework through the so-called “commitment to consult,” and creates an anti-China economic bloc. These measures are not defensive, but amount to iron web of alliances in East Asia in preparation for war against China.
Stop the Growing US Influence in South Asia!
The US is attempting to consolidate allies in South Asia to secure its foothold in the region. Its longstanding influence with Pakistan has dwindled as the country drifts closer to China, leading the US to deepen its relationship with India. This has intensified the bloody India-Pakistan conflict, stoked decades ago by the British, as a means to checkmate Chinese influence. India has been recruited by the US, Japan, and Australia into the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) to counter the rise of China, and in 2022 the US participated for the first time in the Indian-led MILAN multilateral naval exercise. India also joins Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the US (I2U2) in technology sharing between each of these repressive regimes. Meanwhile, China is negotiating the construction of a new naval base in Pakistan and a deep water port in Sri Lanka, both along one of the world's most crucial shipping lanes. The US responded by influencing the Bangladeshi election to ensure the election of a Western-friendly financier as President after the mass uprising in 2024 against government corruption. The US also occupies the Island nation of Diego Garcia, ethnically cleansing its indigenous people, where it operates a base used to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and is used to position forces against Iran, playing a critical role in regional surveillance and rapid deployment operations.
Build a Zone of Peace in Latin America!
The continued presence of the U.S. military in the Organization of American States (OAS) undermines the sovereignty and autonomy of Latin American and Caribbean nations, with 76 United States military bases and Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs) including in Panama, Puerto Rico, Colombia, El Salvador, and Aruba Curaçao. The US uses these bases as launching pads for regional interventions, threatening independent countries like Venezuela and Cuba or threatening military invasion of Panama. The US has provided Mexico, El Salvador and Colombia with billions of dollars in "security and counter-narcotics" amounting to a counterinsurgency war on the poor thinly masked as a war on drugs and gangs. The US used Puerto Rico as a venue for training Ukrainian military. This long lasting colonial legacy and military presence, driven by imperial interests, violates the principles of self-determination and peace. In response, the people of the region call for the complete withdrawal of foreign military forces, advocating for a future where Latin American and Caribbean nations can chart their own course free from external interference.
7. Stop Support of Puppet and Proxy Regimes
End Foreign Meddling in Internal Conflicts and Civil Wars
Foreign intervention in internal conflicts, such as those in Libya, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Syria, has intensified instability and prolonged suffering, as imperial powers and competing forces vie for control over resources and strategic influence. In Libya, the U.S.-engineered overthrow and assassination of Gaddafi led to a once-stable country being torn apart by foreign-backed militias and rival governments fighting for oil wealth, with the interventions of the UAE, Russia, and Western powers deepening chaos. With a backdrop of US counterinsurgency in Darfur and destabilization campaign in Sudan in the early years of the war on terror, the current civil war in Sudan has escalated due to foreign support for rival factions, with countries like Egypt, the UAE, Russia, and Turkey backing different sides, turning the conflict into a proxy battleground that further exacerbates the people's suffering. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, multinational corporations and foreign states exploit mineral resources, funding armed groups including US-backed Rwandan and Ugandan mercenaries to maintain control and prolong violence for imperialist gain. Syria, meanwhile, has fragmented into de facto states, with foreign powers backing different factions, resulting in a shattered nation where the civilian population bears the brunt of the destruction. Once intervention occurs, the people endure worsening conditions, as foreign involvement exacerbates conflict and deepens humanitarian crises, with the US playing the leading role in intervention and destabilization in these conflicts.
Condemn the Dismemberment of Syria and Installation of Pro-Imperialist Proxy Regimes
After decades of punishing sanctions had driven Syria into deep economic and political crisis, the US, Israel and Turkey and their proxies violently overthrew the independent, democratically elected government in Syria in just a matter of days at the end of 2024. Both Israel and Turkey have since escalated military actions in Syria, leading to significant destruction and civilian casualties. Israel conducted hundreds of airstrikes across Syria since the fall of Assad, targeting military assets and infrastructure, with intention to permanently occupy Syrian land. Simultaneously, Turkey's drone strikes in northern Syria have resulted in massive civilian deaths. They quickly imposed a new leader for the Syrian government, Mohammad al-Jolani of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an organization formerly affiliated with Al-Qaeda, and assumed control of Syria's northwest after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad. HTS has been widely condemned for severe human rights violations, including arbitrary detentions, torture, and extrajudicial executions of civilians, activists and minority groups. Syria has been dismembered, with the country's territory being sectioned off and controlled by different foreign powers. The overthrow of Assad has led to the cutting off of supply routes and material support for the Axis of Resistance, particularly in Palestine. The utter fragmentation of their country is evidence that the future of Syria must be in the hands of the Syrian people themselves free of any foreign intervention.
Condemn Anti-People Puppets and Proxies in Africa! Strengthen Solidarity with Countries Asserting Anti-Colonial Independence
The US-backed Ruto regime in Kenya is using protest bans, unwarranted arrests and imprisonment, disappearances of activists, and extra-judicial killings of hundreds of people in an attempt to crack down on widespread dissent against the crushing taxes on basic necessities being imposed on the people due to debt from World Bank and International Monetary Fund loans. In the Horn of Africa, the US continues its aggressive destabilization schemes, ranging from the arming of Ethiopia and other armed groups to wage a brutal war in the Tigray region and encourage aggression against Eritrea, to the aerial bombings of the Puntland region of Somalia under the guise of anti-terrorism security operations within the first weeks of the second Trump administration. The US’s continuing support for the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara allows for massive political repression of the indigenous Saharawi people for the potential to invest in Morocco-controlled industries in the country such as wind turbines and uranium mining. The US is stoking separatist intentions in Somaliland to win more strategic bases around the Red Sea, potentially inflaming another civil war in Somalia. In contrast, after years of US-backed or influenced coups, counter-coups and support for Al-Qaeda and ISIS-affiliated groups aimed at destabilizing and reinforcing neocolonial relationships in the Sahel region, the countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger successfully broke free from French neocolonial rule, ousted French troops, and established the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) as a regional entity asserting their national sovereignty. Senegal, Chad, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire are following suit and have demanded foreign powers leave and close their bases.
Resist US Proxies in Latin America
US arming of repressive Central American regimes, in particular Guatemala and El Salvador, has increased due to the US’s waning influence after elections in Central and South America of pro-people governments, in some cases aligned with China. So-called “Wars on Gangs” by US puppet governments have killed thousands of land defenders and poor farmers to clear territory for mining interests; with the Trump administration now labeling some of these gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, openly fascist heads of state such as Bukele in El Salvador and Millei in Argentina are emboldened to commit more human rights violations against opponents in the name of fighting gangs and terrorism. Meanwhile, US efforts to destabilize countries like Nicaragua and Cuba continue, seeking to undermine their sovereignty and support for regional solidarity. The ongoing destabilization campaigns aim to weaken these nations' resistance to imperialist pressures and disrupt their alliances, particularly with leftist governments and China.
Oppose US-Led Intervention in Haiti
Ever since the Haitian Revolution ended slavery and gained independence from France in 1804, Haiti has been in the crosshairs of western imperialism. After being ousted, French warships encircled Port-au-Prince to demand that Haiti pay 150 million gold francs ($115 billion) to French and US banks, crippling its economy for the “crime” of freeing itself from slavery and French rule. When the progressive Aristide government demanded restitution from the French for this theft in 2003, the French government helped the US orchestrate a 2004 coup, creating what Haitian activists have called a “hell on earth.” In the past year alone, over 6,000 Haitians have been killed by paramilitary death squads aligned with sectors of Haiti’s elite while over one million people have been driven from their homes. Close to half the population is suffering from acute hunger, with many on the brink of starvation. Gang rapes of women and children have become an all-too frequent weapon of terror against the population. The vast majority of the high-powered weapons used by these death squads have been smuggled in from the US. The US goal is to maintain a pro-U.S. government in power that will sell off Haiti’s mineral resources, open up the country to more foreign investment and garment sweatshops, and help solidify U.S. control over the Caribbean. But they are faced with a powerful movement demanding social justice and democratic change, a movement that has never wavered.
Confront the Rise of Fascist Regimes in Asia! Support People's Uprisings Against Fascist Puppets
The US “Pivot to Asia” has emboldened fascism across the continent and facilitated the massive expansion of US military bases in its wake. The fascist offensive by states in the region are designed, trained and implemented by US officials alongside staunch allies and fascist puppets and developed through a history of US-backed fascist dictatorships around the world. The long-time fascist state in Japan has dismantled provisions in its constitution to now allow for more offensive re-arming of its military while cracking down on peace activists fighting against the state's attempt to revise and cover-up its fascist history. Ferdinand Marcos II in the Philippines has continued the same trend of extrajudicial killings and the arrest and imprisonment of activists on trumped up charges, all while exponentially increasing spending on the military and police. The regime of Narendra Modi in India is conducting military operations and whipping up a fascist ethno-nationalist movement inside Manipur, occupied Kashmir, and Northern India on behalf of big agricultural and mineral extraction interests and as the US bribes the regime away from China’s influence with technological investment. Turkey’s anti-Kurd and anti-Syrian Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regime unleashes state violence against its people and throughout the region, protected by its membership in NATO. Still, fascist state violence is resisted daily by the people struggling to assert their self-determination, such as in Korea where the people successfully ousted President Yoon SukYeol, who had surrendered South Korea's sovereignty to US military interests while trying to eliminate the country's minimum wage and repressing trade union organizing.
8. End Counterinsurgency, So-Called "Counter-Terror" Warfare and State Repression
Stop the Terror-Tagging of Freedom Fighters and Peace Advocates!
Under the War on Terror doctrine, imperialist and reactionary regimes around the world label peoples' movements and revolutionary struggles as “terrorist” in order to suppress them through mass arrest, surveillance, psywar, abduction, torture, extra-judicial killing, and massacres. Bolstered by extensive powers conferred on them under purposely vague ”anti-terror” laws and initiatives, the US and puppet regimes' military and police have filed baseless complaints against activists and freedom fighters to justify all kinds of repression and in worst cases all out terror through bombings and deployment of military troops. Weaponizing a series of intentionally vague anti-terrorism laws with often anti-Muslim and anti-communist rhetoric, state security forces have flagrantly violated human rights and continue to evade accountability for their actions.
End US-Led Drone Strikes!
Drone strikes, carried out under the guise of the War on Terror, have caused countless civilian deaths and sowed fear across countries like Somalia, Yemen, the Philippines, Palestine, and Syria. The US ushered in the era of mass drone warfare and quickly helped export it as a key tactic of its allies. These attacks lack transparency, accountability, or justice for the families of innocent victims. Far from ensuring security, drone warfare, including undersea drones and drone swarms, causes indiscriminate killing, deepens instability and erodes international law. It is a brutal tool of imperialist violence that dehumanizes people while shielding its perpetrators from consequences.
Shut down Guantanamo Bay and All CIA Black Sites
CIA “Black Sites" are sites where prisoners are disappeared without trial for torture interrogation in locations including Thailand, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland and Romania amongst others that were never officially disclosed by the US or the governments hosting them. Guantanamo Bay has been the most infamous and largest of the Black Sites. Here, on occupied Cuban land, the US spent the last century surveilling its hemispheric neighbors, plotting overseas coups, and torturing hundreds of “War on Terror” suspects, and is now using it as a prison for deported migrants. Since inception, the detention camp at Guantanamo has amassed numerous reports of documented human rights violations within its facilities, including long-term isolation, inadequate medical care, and torture. In addition, many people imprisoned there were found to have been detained indefinitely without trial. The cost of the Guantanamo Bay detention center has amounted to half a billion US dollars a year, pulling from what could have been spent on much-needed revenue for government services for the people.
End the Murderous War on Yemen!
For decades the US undertook and backed armed aggression by UAE and Saudi Arabia in Yemen, creating the basis for one of the worst refugee crises in recent history. Coercive economic measures against Yemen led to manufactured famine of the Yemeni people, who were already suffering air raids, death and injury, loss of infrastructure and basic supplies and mass displacement. The UN estimates that at least 130,000 people have died from the lack of food, health care, and adequate infrastructure. Despite renewed attacks by the US forces against the armed resistance in Yemen, Ansar Allah continuously renewed its efforts in support of the liberation of their people and the people of Palestine causing severe damage to the economy of the Zionist entity and disrupting U.S. trading routes.
Defend the Right to Fight for Just Peace!
The US constantly violates International Humanitarian Law (IHL), standards and norms, engaging in multiple forms of aggression including economic, cyber, misinformation and manipulation. IHL calls for the protection of civilians, service providers like medical personnel, and persons who were previously involved in the armed conflict but have ceased fighting. In response, the peoples of the world are representing themselves and asserting the cause for just peace, liberation and national democracy, a right protected under IHL, which acknowledges the right to fight wars of national liberation by colonized people everywhere. The imperialist powers have never and will never give up their power unless the working people and oppressed actively and as a whole face them. Through various forms of resistance like legal advocacy, mass protests, armed struggle and solidarity amongst them, the peoples of the world have been defending their right to self-determination, economic, and food sovereignty, and self-defense of nations and oppressed peoples from reactionary aggression and violence. The democratic movements throughout the world are rising up to defend the right of every nation and people to self-determination.
Resist Racist Police Terror!
From their origins to the present day, police have existed to protect the property and power of the ruling class—wielding violence as a tool of social control, especially against poor, Black, and marginalized communities. Cops are often armed with high tech weaponry, passed down by programs sharing used military equipment. Far from being neutral enforcers of “law and order,” police regularly rely on racial profiling and arbitrary judgment to harass and kill with impunity. Everywhere, those demanding change have been beaten, gassed, shot at, and brutalized by the very militarized police forces whose injustice they protest.
9. End Joint Military Exercises and Trainings
Stop Using Our Countries for US War Games!
Military exercises are blatant shows of force designed to project the power of US-led military alliances. these exercises terrorize local communities, destroy the environment, increase violence against local and native women, create a strain on natural resources, justify continued pollution and poisoning of the oceans and waters affecting livelihood and promote the deadly tactics of the world's most violent and aggressive militaries, and their puppets. The US leads thousands of exercises through its regional commands that span throughout all continents including Antarctica.
Cancel RIMPAC!
The Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises are the largest joint maritime military exercises in the world, conducted biannually in occupied Hawai’i. The fight against RIMPAC exercises, which have been held in Hawaii since 1971, is rooted in a long history of protest by the Kānaka Maoli who view the military presence as a continuation of colonial occupation, fighting against environmental destruction, cultural erasure, and the displacement of Indigenous communities. People in the countries participating in the exercises, also wage resistance against RIMPAC -- from Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and more -- where activists are rising up against militarization of the Pacific and the role of foreign military powers in undermining sovereignty while growing their inter-operability for war. The US uses RIMPAC to strengthen the abilities of 26 of its allied militaries to wage wars of aggression around the world, as threats of war between major military powers continue to rise. Through weapons testing and war-making, defense contractors and fossil fuel corporations reap billions of dollars in profits. RIMPAC leads to environmental destruction, violence against women, and a gross neglect of the day to day needs of people all over the world by advancing US-led wars.
End the Zionist Deadly Exchange!
Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) participate in exchange programs with US police, border agents and military to share tactics of surveillance, deportation and detention. US police and military forces then go on to train other countries' military forces, including in Indonesia, Honduras, Tajikistan, South Korea, Kenya, and Bulgaria, often under programs tied to counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, and international security cooperation. These trainings have raised concerns over human rights abuses and the militarization of police forces abroad, as well as the potential legitimization of repressive regimes. Military exchange programs promote the use of the deadly tactics of state sponsored terror under the guise of counter-terrorism. The IOF exports the apartheid surveillance tactics it uses to oppress Palestinians daily to other fascist regimes to use on the most oppressed people. From the Black liberation movement in the US to the Palestinian Resistance to the rising Kenyan Gen Z movement, these programs are being confronted and can be taken apart through solidarity and mass resistance to state violence and genocide.
10. Reparations, Clean Up, and Justice for Victims of Wars and Militarism
Justice for Victims of the Nuclear Legacy
The nuclear arms race amounts to a devastating war against those who live and work along its supply chain. Nuclear weapons, deployed by the US during WWII, killed over 140,000 people in Hiroshima and over 60,000 in Nagasaki, with over 200,000 total killed from health affects of the radiation exposure and the trauma will affect families for generations to come. Nuclear testing and uranium mining have left a devastating legacy on communities, particularly Indigenous peoples, who have endured severe health impacts, including cancers and birth defects, due to exposure to radiation and secret US military-led human medical experiments. In some cases, ongoing military occupation and missile testing continue to impose daily violence upon the people. The environmental degradation caused by these activities has also led to contamination of water sources, soil, and air, disrupting traditional ways of life and economic practices, and food systems. These impacts post an existential threat to the survival of their culture as a people. Affected communities have long fought for justice, demanding reparations, compensation, and accountability for the harm done to both their people and their land. These efforts highlight the ongoing struggle for recognition and the right to health and justice, as many of these communities continue to battle governmental neglect and the legacies of deep colonial violence against their bodies and land and threats to their existence. We must never forget the human toll of the horror of nuclear weapons on the communities of Marshallese, Hibakusha, Algerians, Downwinders, clean-up veterans, plutonium production workers, and Indigenous peoples devastated by nuclear weapons. We must struggle alongside them for an end to nuclear warfare, extraction and testing. and support their solutions for remediation, health and sovereignty of their communities.
Remove all Unexploded Ordnance from Civilian Communities
Unexploded ordnance (UXO) in civilian communities poses a significant threat to safety, often leading to deaths and injuries, particularly in post-conflict regions where wars have left behind hazardous remnants. Communities in countries like Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Puerto Rico, Lebanon, Colombia, and many others have long struggled with the deadly legacy of war, facing severe neglect from governments that have failed to adequately address the risks posed by UXO. In response, local organizations and international advocates continue to fight for comprehensive de-mining efforts, even taking on clean up themselves, adequate compensation for victims, and stronger governmental accountability to ensure that these communities can live free from the ongoing threat of war remnants.
Justice for Comfort Women
Comfort women were women or girls who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers as part of a system operated by the Imperial Japanese Army in its occupied territories between 1937 and 1945. They numbered an estimated 200,000 women, primarily from Korea, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and other occupied countries during World War II, forcibly enslaved by the Japanese military for sexual exploitation. Despite decades of silence from the Japanese government, survivors have fought tirelessly for justice, demanding formal apologies, reparations, and recognition. Beyond World War II, women near current US military bases, especially in Okinawa, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea, have also faced sexual violence, prompting continued activism for accountability and protection. This legacy of modern sexual slavery is still alive in the rampant trafficking of poor and landless women to US and other military bases all around the world. These ongoing struggles highlight the intersection of historical and modern-day sexual violence against women, as communities demand justice and the end of military impunity.
11. End Economic Warfare, Food Blockades and Sanctions
Resist Killer Sanctions and Economic Warfare!
The US has unilaterally enacted economic, financial, trade and other sanctions on individuals, organizations and over 40 countries as a means to force their compliance with US policies including extreme sanctions against its rivals and countries assertive of national sovereignty, such as Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Russia and China. Under the guise of utilizing a more “humane” approach to perceived threats to US interests, sanctions are essentially another form of warfare that imposes collective punishment on entire nations, most severely hurting civilians–especially people who are already impoverished. Sanctions block countries from accessing essentials including food, vaccines and medicine, medical supplies and resources needed for providing clean water, sanitation and health care, leading to people suffering and dying from malnutrition, starvation, and preventable illness. Such dire economic conditions lead to social unrest, which is utilized by the US to further demonize the leadership of these countries and justify foreign intervention.
End the Blockade of Cuba!
For 65 years after winning its war of liberation, Cuba has endured the longest-running economic blockade of any country in the world. According to the US State Department, the US expressly sought for the blockade to result in “economic dissatisfaction and hardship,” “hunger,” “desperation,” and “overthrow of government.” It is estimated that Cuba has suffered economic losses of $1.39 trillion (accounting for inflation), as well as shortages of food, fuel, supplies and equipment and raw materials for the manufacturing of medicine. Despite the decades-long U.S. blockade, the Cuban people have demonstrated powerful forms of resistance through mass movement building, urban farming initiatives like organopónicos to ensure food sovereignty, medical internationalism by sending doctors abroad in defiance of the US-imposed economic stranglehold, and community-led efforts to develop alternative economies rooted in solidarity and self-reliance.
End Militarized Land Grabs and Privatization Schemes that Starve the People’s Livelihood!
Land displacement of rural communities is a widespread effect of war, and oftentimes wars themselves are started in the interests of expanding corporate land ownership. In Ukraine, Western aid to support agriculture has been conditioned on structural adjustment programs that have sold over 200,000 small farmers’ land to a handful of oligarchs. Food aid given to war-stricken areas is funneled through local bureaucrats or business owners to keep people relying on corrupt officials instead of their own self-sufficient production. Zionist settlers regularly destroy Palestinian farms and orchards in raids meant to capture more land for annexation by the occupation state. In Puerto Rico, militarized land grabs like those in Vieques, where the US Navy occupied large portions of the island for bombing exercises, have devastated ecosystems and local economies, while post-hurricane privatization schemes—such as the sell-off of public utilities—have deepened inequality and displaced communities. In Kenya, state-backed land seizures for infrastructure and agribusiness projects, often enforced by military or police violence, have dispossessed Indigenous communities like the Sengwer and Maasai, undermining traditional livelihoods in favor of elite and corporate interests. In every war, food, resources, sea and land are key to understanding the interests of war makers.
12. Fight Border Militarization and Criminalization of Migrants
End the Root Causes of Forced Migration
War and economic destabilization as a result of US economic and foreign policy are key factors driving forced migration, as powerful nations exploit resources and intervene in local economies, leaving many populations impoverished and vulnerable. This exploitation leads to widespread poverty, lack of opportunity, and political instability, forcing people to flee their homelands in search of safety and livelihood and forcing families to endure long-term separation. While people are migrating they are met with violence, extortion, deadly borders and sea crossings and then face xenophobia, fascist attacks, state neglect, and criminalization in the receiving country. The consequences of these systemic issues continue to exacerbate displacement, as individuals and communities are left with little choice but to migrate to escape dire conditions created by external intervention and economic collapse.
Fight for the Right of Return and Safety for Refugees from Conflict Zones
The fight for the right of return and safety for refugees from conflict zones highlights how war, the destruction of property, and widespread violence force people to flee their homes in search of safety and stability. Mass displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestine and across the Middle East stems from decades of occupation, genocide, and theft of land. Migrants and refugees flee persecution, hunger and violence and are forced to endure the journey through the Colombian jungle, riding the "Bestia" train through Mexico, or crossing the deadly Mediterranean in overcrowded boats; many are commodified, extorted, kidnapped or face sickness and harm during their journey. In Africa, wars driven by the exploitation of natural resources, especially minerals, have displaced millions, leaving refugees to face dire conditions in camps or hazardous migration routes. Refugees and internally displaced people from conflict zones—from Palestinians denied return to their homeland, to Syrians and South Sudanese living in overcrowded, under-resourced camps—face famine, epidemic illnesses and sometimes daily fascist attacks. These individuals continue to fight for recognition, safety, and the right to return to their homes, seeking justice and liberation of their homelands.
Fight Against Detention, Deportation, Border Militarization
Migrants around the world are waging urgent resistance against fascist attacks that criminalize migration and dehumanize those seeking safety and opportunity. Companies profiting off of deportation, such as private prison contractors Geo Group, Core Civic and CCA, contribute to the continued suffering of migrants, turning human lives into a commodity for profit. The fascist militarized attacks on migrants has escalated globally, with Trump's "deportation machine" enforcing brutal tactics of detention, family separation, and deportation, while targeting activists for advocating migrant rights. Similarly, El Salvador's Bukele government uses militarized repression to suppress migration and activists, and across Europe, far-right parties are exploiting migrants as scapegoats, justifying authoritarian policies through fear and xenophobia, further criminalizing migration. Activists and communities around the world call to free all migrants, end family separation, dismantle the militarized border regime and uphold dignity for all migrants in their struggle for livelihood and freedom from state violence and repression.
13. Stop Production of High Tech Warfare
Expose the Co-optation of Research and Education Programs for the War Industry!
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) university programs have provided between 36% - 54% of US weapons research to the US military since 2016. School programs have also been targeted by transnational weapons companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and many others via scholarships and internship programs as a pipeline for students into the war industry. Working class students, students of color, women and LGBTQ students in particular are targeted through recruitment campaigns to build the weapons that will destroy the lives of their compatriots around the world. Students forced to migrate to imperialist countries due to the brain drain in their homelands are co-opted by career paths in the tech, engineering and computer science programs and then conscripted to use war technologies against their own people. Education programs for collective empowerment and social benefit are deprioritized to make way for pro-war programs that keep the US-led war machine running and weapons makers rich. Youth and students are a powerful force, as well as the professionals within the industry, to disrupt and shut down the whole war system.
Halt Wasteful and Dangerous Weapons Development!
Weapons companies in the US and other industrial countries are developing extremely lethal new tools of war. Indiscriminate weapons such as white phosphorous gas and cluster bombs, despite being banned by the majority of the world's countries, are built, used, and sold by the US. Laser technology, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, hypersonic propulsion and other sectors are geared away from pro-people and socially productive usages and into an unending spiral of war spending. Defense contractors spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy influence and try to drown out pro-peace voices, yet movements continue to consistently demand the end of this dangerous weapons development and instead prioritize government spending to meet basic human needs. In recent years, US military contract spending surged to over $400 billion annually, while federal funding for key social services like housing and education has seen a sharp decline, with some programs experiencing budget cuts of up to 20%. One Lockheed Hellfire missile costs $150,000, while the people are told there is no money for food relief, education, or healthcare. Global official defense spending in 2024 alone was $2.46 trillion, with other unreported militarized funding most likely amounting to much more.
Demand the Nuclear Disarmament of Imperialist States Towards Complete Abolition!
The US’s “nuclear modernization” program alone is $1.7 trillion with an existing stockpile of nearly 5,500 warheads. If left unchecked, this weapons development has and will continue to have devastating impacts on civilians and the Earth as a whole. There were approximately 12,121 nuclear warheads worldwide as of January 2025 and almost 90 percent of them belong to two countries: the United States and Russia. The US is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons against people in an act of war, making it an untrustworthy actor in talks of mutual disarmament. Current imperialist rhetoric keeps the demand for the nuclear arms race high. One of the final, lasting nuclear non-proliferation treaties is set to expire in 2026 with no promise that Trump and Putin will re-sign it, creating conditions for the first time since the Cold War that the US would have no caps on its nuclear arsenal. As long as the number one imperialist is a world leader in nuclear arms development and maintains consistent provocative rhetoric towards its less-powerful rivals, no state will have the incentive to disarm for fear of ceding the world to a nuclear monopoly power once again. The US holds the world hostage with its nuclear terrorism, and all efforts must be aimed at demanding its disarmament while upholding the right of less powerful states to maintain their defensive nuclear arsenals until the disarming of the US paves the way towards complete abolition.
Stop JADC2, "Interoperability" Warfare, and the Use of AI and Cloud Services for the Military!
Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) is the newest military doctrine of the US and its allies. It boasts of the "interoperability" of war fighting on the land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace domains to prepare for potential world war with militaries on par with its own technological capacity after decades of counterinsurgency operations and wars against lesser-armed states. This military doctrine relies on massive amounts of data and utilizes artificial intelligence to manage target-setting, provided by lucrative contracts to the largest tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Cloud. People inside the tech industry are protesting Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services and infrastructure to Israel’s apartheid state and genocidal military for the first AI powered genocide. Despite military leaders declaring that these tactics are designed to prepare for a coming war with rival states like Russia or China, they are being used right now by the US and its allies. This has led to unrelenting AI-targeting of Palestinians by Zionist fighter jets, drone "swarms" in populated rural areas, testing of new systems in war games that crash in civilian communities, and other destructive impacts.
14. Challenge US Military Priorities
Stop the Glorification of War
US-led war and militarism, the most destructive force on the planet, requires a mask in order to hide its true nature. With military recruitment numbers at an all-time low in the US and many other of its allied countries, the horrors of war are becoming harder to avoid in the social media age. A growing movement of activists are resisting air and water shows, which have been one method through which militaries show off their weapons of war and make them look fun at "family-friendly" events to try and change their image in their favor. Military recruiters often set up operations at these events to try and take advantage of these celebrations of war machines. Hollywood, video games, children's toys, and the whole US imperialist cultural industry colludes with the Pentagon. There is a growing critique by people against the corporations literally blackmailing and bribing the industry for control of scripts, featuring of products, and setting up of virtual reality war games in exchange for funding and access to equipment and locations, effectively turning films into pro-military propaganda for the US Department of Defense.
Demand Pro-People Alternatives
President Trump promised a $1 trillion US defense budget in 2026, further bloated by budgets for other militarized departments like Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy, as well as other parts of the militarized bureaucracy of the US and its allied and puppet governments around the world. Countries all across the world are following this trend of skyrocketing military spending while cutting spending for education, healthcare, infrastructure and other social needs and public services. War develops an industry that is one of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis. War budgets are never made in the interest of the people or with their consent, while the war lobby by weapons companies spent over $50 million on US political candidates in 2024 to ensure their war profiteering interests are met. As a result, millions of people are hungry, unhoused, and landless. Fighting for these social necessities requires fighting against the system which prioritizes militarism.
Stop Predatory Military Recruitment
Repressive militaries around the world utilize racist, chauvinistic and misogynist cultures of aggression to convince young people to enlist and fight, engendering cultures of militaristic individualism over international solidarity. They lie or bribe with benefits like education tuition or skills training that often don’t serve recruits later in society. Youth of color and those from low-income and other oppressed communities are targeted especially for this reason. The US military lures migrants into enlisting as means of obtaining citizenship, many of whom then face deportation or threats by the state. Many countries enact mandatory military service for youth, while youth face forced conscription by fascist states desperate to fill their ranks. Rear Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and its "Junior" variant (JROTC) play the role of preparing youth ideologically for military service while still in their school years. Soldiers of semi-colonial countries are dragged by their imperialist masters to fight and die in wars they did not start or want. Militarism robs youth of their future and attempts to make them mindless pawns through abusive treatment by commanding officers that discourages them from disobeying orders. Youth, the future of society, do not want to be dragged into the tentacles of the war machine, and therefore play a key role in leading the movement to resist it.
Support the Health and Well-being of Veterans and Stand with those Resisting from Within!
Veterans in repressive militaries are widely mistreated, with over 33,000 houseless veterans in the US alone, demonstrating how little imperialist and other repressive states truly value the people fighting their wars on their behalf. Even though veterans are "thanked" in public discourse for risking their lives in the military, their access to physical and mental healthcare is consistently taken away due to cuts in public spending to make room for even higher war budgets. Many veterans return from combat with righteous anger at the war crimes they were forced to commit, and are silenced and subject to state repression. Others bravely raise their voices even while in active duty and choose to desert rather than serve US-led war crimes.
Fight Towards a Global System for Just Peace
The current profit- and war-oriented system of governance in the US and around the world is the number one barrier to world peace. As heroic as reform-based political campaigns are, the imperialist system at the heart of militarism must itself be challenged and rebuilt from the grassroots up. We need justice, social equity, and solidarity amongst peoples, including the recognition of the right to self-determination, economic, and food sovereignty, and self-defense of nations and oppressed peoples from reactionary aggression and violence. We must build peace through genuine sustainable development, job creation, and the health and well being of our communities. Ultimately, peace can only come through the sovereignty of all peoples won through national and social liberation to upend the root causes of war and militarism.
CLOSING: BUILD THE MOVEMENT AND BROAD ANTI-IMPERIALIST UNITED FRONT
The US-led war machine has been at the head of the imperialist system for decades, but it is not invincible and it can be defeated! It may be growing more violent and vicious, but that is only because it is growing more desperate to survive. It may be bragging about the highest of new technology within its tactics, but that is only because no other strategy or tactic of the war machine has ever beaten the people down for good. The war machine exists to keep the ruling class in power, and the biggest threat to it is the people, and they have been resisting militarism for as long as militaristic states have existed. Regardless of the time and immense sacrifice it is taking, the movement for just and lasting peace will win!
What is laid out in this agenda are key struggles being waged around the world, the pressure points of US-led war that, when struck enough times and with enough united force, have the power to deal blows to the system until it is brought down and a new one of just and lasting peace can be built. They are written to demonstrate the impacts that every aspect of US-led war has on the people, because it is in fighting back against these direct impacts that the true power of the people to change their conditions becomes clear.
Carrying out the calls of the Anti-Militarism Agenda means uniting with all who suffer the impacts of war and militarism. 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, all while refusing to load weapons onto ships, holding solidarity strikes with peoples resisting militarization, and keeping their communities fortified during military aggression. Peasants, farmers, and other rural communities are resisting the bloody counterinsurgency campaigns, rural bombings and destruction of their productive livelihood, and defending their lands and food systems while leading in the front lines of the liberation struggles against military aggression and imperialism. Women are fighting back against assault and sexual violence from soldiers, organizing their communities, raising the next generation of peace activists, and even filling the ranks of liberation fighters. Youth are combating dwindling access to education and employment, while inspiring their people with energy and steadfastness and leading the charge for a peaceful future. Indigenous peoples are fighting for their sovereignty, self-determination, and the ejection of all aggressive military operations on their lands. Migrants and refugees are refusing to remain silent and uniting with the people in their homeland and their host countries in the fight for international peace. Teachers, scientists, artists, and other professionals are refusing to have their professions forced to serve growing militarization while others face layoffs from the war economy's constant crisis, all while directing their efforts to serving the mass movement for peace and utilizing their skills for the people and not the war machine.
The combined efforts of all these sectors, led by the most exploited classes and most oppressed peoples by militarization, make up the broad united front that can challenge US-led war to its core. The Anti-Militarism Agenda of the Resist US-Led War Movement is meant to be a roadmap towards building this international united front for just and last peace, because by uniting the struggles against all aspects of US-led war and militarism, we can unite the people themselves to confront the war machine, and the imperialist system itself, in a direct challenge to its existence. Only by ending imperialism will the root causes of war and militarism be gone, and only this united front of all the world's peoples, winning their liberation one struggle at a time, can end imperialism.
Beyond a mere description of how US-led war and militarism impact the people of the world, the Anti-Militarism Agenda is a shared platform that, through diligent organization and courageous struggle, can help build the movement for a peaceful world, a world without war and militarism.
Militarism is the systematic use of military violence to advance the interests of the state and its ruling class while repressing the resistance of the people. It is the result of the political and ideological engineering of war to be inevitable. Militarism is a product of and intrinsically tied to the global modern imperialist political-economic system.
In today’s global geopolitical situation, three “fronts of US-Led war” have emerged, aimed at preserving sole US hegemony: the US-Western alliance including NATO for Eastern Europe against Russia; the US-Israel-Gulf-Turkish alliance against Iran; and an iron web of alliances in the Pacific including the Australia-UK-US (AUKUS), Japan-South Korea-US (JAKUS), Japan-Philippines-US (JAPHUS), and Japan-Australia-India-US (Quad) against China and the DPRK. At the same time, US-led war and aggression also operates all over Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
As always in war, it is the people, especially the working peoples of the world, who are gravely affected–not the government executives, military generals, bankers, business owners or weapons suppliers who profit. Wars of aggression displace indigenous people, destroy arable land for farmers and food production, contribute to the climate crisis, function to keep poor nations oppressed under US economic domination, and target revolutionaries through state repression by their local reactionary ruling class and imperialist puppet masters.
Militarism also breeds and relies on oppressive social outlooks and hierarchies. Patriarchy portrays masculinity as aligned with militarism, domination and strength, and femininity as pacified, weak and needing protection, resulting in gender based oppression that can be weaponized to promote militarism and use women’s bodies as a means of social and militaristic control while using rape as a weapon of war. Patriarchy and militarism both view women as collateral damage and easily exploitable rather than as a pivotal part of society and its functioning.
White supremacy and racial oppression create a system of power and prejudice to justify war, occupation, and militarization as a tool of national oppression. These and other anti-people ideologies lead to widescale violence in people's everyday lives while depriving the vast majority of power, creating fertile ground for militarism to operate on behalf of the small minority of imperialists and war profiteers.
The war makers deliberately oversimplify narratives on war today into “good vs evil,” “democracy vs authoritarianism,” “peacemakers vs terrorists” to hide their true interests and intentionally demobilize and isolate movements for genuine peace. Erased from the narrative are the history of the roots of these conflicts and the competing interests at stake for imperialist countries which use militarism and war to secure control over territory, natural resources, and markets in a multi-polar world. The mass media and imperialist mouthpieces hide and downplay peoples' resistance as insignificant, or otherwise demonize it as terrorism.
State fascism is bred, armed and directed by war-making powers as a form of foreign intervention. Imperialist governments use their puppet states to wage wars on their behalf, as has been happening with the US-led war between the Ukrainian government and the people of the Donbas region since 2014 long before the war against Russia started, and in many other areas of the world. The brutal US-Zionist genocide in Palestine has laid bare the relentless violence of the US imperialist-backed Zionist entity, being fiercely opposed by militant resistance of the Palestinian people. Wars of aggression and fascism therefore have a strong connection and must be struggled against simultaneously.
As more wars break out and the people face intensified repression, it is as important now as it ever has been to strengthen movements against wars of aggression and to build solidarity with peoples movements asserting their collective democratic rights, self-determination, and social and national liberation.
What is the AMA?
The Anti-Militarism Agenda campaign unites anti-war, anti-imperialist and pro-peace forces around the world to identify the people’s priorities to address imperialist wars and other wars of aggression. The Resist US-Led War Movement consulted with movements around the world: from the Philippines, Korea, Japan, Cyprus, Australia, Puerto Rico, Togo, Kenya, South Sudan, Guahan, the Marianas Islands, Marshall Islands, Hawai'i, and Palestine.
The Agenda is designed as a collection of "Calls to Action," key struggles being waged around the world by a variety of people and organizations. The targets presented in these calls are meant to be confronted through globally coordinated actions. They are pressure points of US-led war, not just manifestations of the war machine's power, but struggles of the people that can be won. By presenting them in this way, they show both the impacts that they have on the people and the ways that people are already resisting them. Beyond a mere description of how US-led war and militarism impact the people, the Anti-Militarism Agenda is a tool for coordinated action around the world to fight arm-in-arm against US-led war.
The Anti-Militarism Agenda includes political education, advocacy, mass mobilization and anti-war mass movement and network building to expose the interests of the US war machine and its allies and proxies around the world, fight against the biggest targets responsible for today’s wars of aggression, and advance our united anti-war anti-militarism agenda towards building a just peace.
Resist US-Led War carried forward the first edition of the Anti-Militarism Agenda from the start of 2023 until now. After two years of experience in campaigns and network building, the Agenda led to mass movement confrontations against targets like the Rim of the Pacific military exercises, NATO, arms fairs and expos, transnational weapons corporations, and overseas US bases. The campaigns and struggles on the ground in each context bring life to the movements, while the Agenda provides a platform for coordination and solidarity among our struggles. At the start of 2025, Resist re-initiated the campaign to coincide with the re-election of Trump to the US presidency and the rapid new developments in the world situation as the US-led war machine unleashes extreme levels of barbarity against its rivals and the peoples of the world.
The components of the Anti-Militarism Agenda itself have also been updated so as to include new means for Resist members to initiate their own plans to carry out the calls of the agenda and coordinate with others to make it a genuine movement-building effort. The campaign includes 1) the Agenda 2) Calendar of Days of Action and Solidarity, 3) Campaign Toolkits and 4) Ongoing Campaigns within the Calls to Action of the Agenda
We express our gratitude and acknowledgements to the consultations with organizations fighting everyday for just peace that collectively brought the agenda to life:
Korea Peace now, Asia-Wide Campaign against U.S.-Japanese domination and aggression of Asia, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance, ILPS Canada, ILPS Kenya, Mathare Social Justice Center, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) Australia, Ground Zero campaign against Aerial Bombings, Boriquas Con Palestina, Juventud Unida para la Independencia (JUPI), Madres Contra la Guerra, Veterans For Peace, About Face, Hoopae Pono Peace Project, Jewish Voices for Peace Hawai'i, Le Centre d'Action pour le Développement Rural (CADR), ILPS Asia Pacific, ILPS Latin America, Nodutdol, Asia Pacific Research Network, Peoples Coalition for Food Sovereignty, Union of Cypriots, Lutte peur le Changement (LUCHA), Diaspora Pa'lante Collective(DPC)
Globally Coordinated Tactics for Movement Building
Unite to fight against US-Led War - Build a multi-national, multi-sectoral and multi-issue mass movement in resistance to all manifestations of US-led war and militarism
People around the world have always waged resistance against war and militarism. From the towns and cities reduced to rubble, to sanctions and food blockades depriving people of their means of livelihood, to militarist ideologies that engender violent attacks against youth and women, to ethno-nationalist and fascist subjugation of oppressed peoples and nations, to imperialist societies with bloated military budgets, to the twin threats of nuclear destruction and climate breakdown, the people fight back to defend their land, livelihood, dignity and sovereignty. As rural people, trade unionists, people of faith, youth, women, LGBTQ people, environmentalists, teachers, artists and indigenous people, we can link our struggles together across anti-war and anti-militarism movements.
Shut down the war machine - Take action to expose, target and halt all the forces of the US-led war machine at all possible points, through internationally coordinated actions:
From the mining extraction, production, testing, transport, exercises and ultimately the deployment of bombs, drone strikes, missile attacks, artillery and other weaponry, the war machine, the entire cycle of war production contaminates communities, takes its toll on health, and destroys land and livelihood for generations to come. Communities have the power and always have resisted the militarization of their land, water and communities. As the war machine is spread out, we can target the industry at many points no matter where we are in the world and collectively shut it down!
US Out of Everywhere- Unite peace movements around the world with the demands of liberation movements struggling for self-determination, peace and justice:
US-led war most greatly affects those living within the colonial and neocolonial countries at the mercy of foreign military presence and local puppet rulers. For oppressed peoples, peace is not abstract but instead tied inextricably to economic self-determination and political sovereignty. All those who fight for peace must uplift the calls for sovereignty of all peoples against imperialist domination. We must expose the imperialist governments and wage a united struggle from within imperialist societies in solidarity with the people most impacted by war and militarism.
Struggle for a just peace- The people united can overturn the system of imperialism at the root of war, occupation and militarism and fight for viable alternatives that engender peace.
Build just peace through justice, social equity, and solidarity amongst peoples, including the recognition of the right to self-determination, economic, and food sovereignty, and self-defense of nations and oppressed peoples from reactionary aggression and violence. Build peace through genuine sustainable development, job creation, and the health and well being of our communities.
Through linking the grassroots struggles against US-led war and militarism, exposing the many fronts of attack that we are confronting, the Anti-Militarism Agenda is a shared platform that shows, through our unity and through peoples' struggle, we can help build the movement for a peaceful world, a world without war and militarism.
CALLS TO ACTION
Outline
- End All Wars of Aggression and Imperialist Wars
- Resist Military Occupations
- End Military Alliances
- Shut Down Overseas Bases and US Commands
- Fight Weapons Companies and Arms Sales
- End US Military Agreements
- Stop Support of Puppet and Proxy Regimes
- End Counterinsurgency, So-Called "Counter-Terror" Warfare and State Repression
- End Joint Military Exercises and Trainings
- Reparations, Clean up, and Justice for Victims of War and Weapons Industry
- End Economic Warfare, Food Blockades and Sanctions
- Fight Border Militarization and Criminalization of Migrants
- Stop Production of High Tech warfare
- Challenge US Military Priorities
1. End All Wars of Aggression and Imperialist Wars
End the Zionist Genocide and Onslaught of West Asia!
The utterly fascist Zionist entity has been unmasked and unleashed as the most vicious expansionist project in the world today, completely armed and protected by the US. This was a genocidal force in the making since its seizures of Palestinian lands in the early 20th century and establishment as "the state of Israel" on this land in 1948. In response to the heroic Al Aqsa Flood national liberation operation of the Palestinian resistance, the Zionist entity launched its ultimate extermination campaign, killing tens of thousands in a matter of months while systematically displacing and starving the entire population of Gaza and laying siege to the West Bank alongside armed settlers. The Zionists used their extermination war to justify bombings, assassinations, and occupation of Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen while eyeing an ultimate war against Iran in its expansionist quest to establish "Greater Israel". This is a US-Zionist war of aggression against all of West Asia that threatens to catastrophically devastate the entire region if not stopped. In response, the liberation forces of the Axis of Resistance wage an unrelenting fight in defense of their peoples' lives and self-determination, acting as a united movement against US-led war in the region.
End the Proxy War in Ukraine!
This is a proxy war waged by the US and NATO to weaken Russia with the soldiers of Ukraine, the latter being used as a puppet government and military force of US-NATO. Despite varying accounts of numbers from different sides, the war has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and led to millions of displaced and refugees, while inflation has skyrocketed due to the privatized and wasteful global supply chains the war has exposed. While the Trump regime has signaled intention for drawing back direct US support to focus on its other fronts of aggression, NATO members continue to pump weapons onto the battlefield, and both still harbor the goal to strategically weaken Russia while Ukrainians and Russians keep dying with few prospects for peace in sight. With many refusing orders to deploy to the front line and mass protests across the world calling for an end to the bloody conflict, the demand to end the war is growing by the day.
Stop US Preparations for War with China!
The US has taken every move to paint the economic, diplomatic and military rise of China as “aggressive”, engendering a new Cold War mentality and preparing public support for a future war. The US arming of Taiwan to protect the world’s largest semiconductor producer is the strongest factor escalating the tensions between the two superpowers, while the arming and basing of US troops in nearby Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines brings tensions to a boil. Aggressive US war games and military exercises in the South China Sea with the militaries of these countries, along with those on the nearby Korean Peninsula, aim to provoke the US's most powerful rival into what would be the most destructive war in human history. It is the peoples' movements, resistance and urgent demands for diplomacy and just peace instead of war that must grow and deepen in order to restrain full on inter-imperialist war from breaking out between the US and China.
2. Resist Military Occupations
Resist Zionism, End the Occupation and Liberate Palestine from the River to the Sea!
The Zionist entity has developed to deadly precision the infrastructure of occupation against the people and land of Palestine through military checkpoints, home demolitions, enforced disappearances and mass detention, political assassinations, and genocidal wars with the full military and diplomatic backing of the US. Zionism is a racist and fascist ideology driving settler-citizens to enact violence and forced displacement against the indigenous people to steal and destroy their land to the benefit of the occupation state. All Palestinian resistance to occupation, from appeals to the UN to the armed resistance, have been brutally repressed by the Zionists with indiscriminate and deliberate targeting of civilians. The Zionists have also actively advised and armed other similar movements around the world where the people continue to fight for liberation from occupation, demonstrating that the occupation and liberation struggle of Palestine is intrinsically linked with settler colonialism and resistance to it worldwide. The Palestinian people and their resistance inspire the whole world with their steadfast advance of their struggle to end the genocide, free the prisoners, defend their land, defeat Zionism and win their freedom.
Free Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, Guahan, and All Pacific Islands from US Domination!
Whether states, “Administrative Territories,” "Compact of Free Association," "Commonwealth" or otherwise, these nations are modern colonies and military strongholds of the US. Their economies are bled dry, their indigenous people are not awarded their historic land and water rights, and the US treats them as mere military outposts for its war posturing interests. Puerto Rico is littered with depleted uranium and chemical residue from bomb tests at Vieques and other communities exposed to radiation and subjected to deliberate medical neglect by the US. Hawai’i houses more military sites than any US state and hosts the unwelcomed and invasive Rim of the Pacific biennial joint military exercise. Guahan’s use as a lily pad stop for military refueling has left its economy neglected and its citizens without any say in their country’s political status. The many islands of Micronesia face rising sea levels with no mitigation from the US while the health and environmental legacy of nuclear testing, and ongoing missile testing in US military bases claim the lives of generations. While the US militarizes the land, settlers continue to displace the people of the land through modern-day colonial projects masking as tourist attractions and resort-style gated communities meant to enact land grabs and justify further military expansion. The people continue to fight to practice their indigenous culture, language and traditions, and to resist cultural erasure, military occupation and passive genocide of their people.
End All US-backed Settler Colonial Regimes!
The US was born through a genocidal settler colonial project, the legacy of which is the ongoing economic, health, and political crisis due to theft of land and extermination campaign by settlers and occupation of indigenous lands. Today, the US not only continues to repress the struggle for indigenous sovereignty within its self-proclaimed borders while maintaining de facto colonial control over a number of lands in the Caribbean and the Pacific. It also gives overt support, advising, and military arms to other settler colonial regimes around the world based on its own experience as a colonial power. The most blatant and brutal of these regimes currently is the Zionist entity of "Israel." India's fascist Hindutva movement has used ethno-religious violence to displace and occupy the people of Kashmir, one of the most sought-after sources of fresh water reserves in the world. Morocco has used US and Zionist weapons and advising in their decades-long occupation of Western Sahara, a land brimming with untapped uranium and nitrate deposits. For over 50 years, the Turkish state has utilized a fascist settler movement to militarily occupy the northern half of Cyprus, a key strategic island in the Eastern Mediterranean that houses key military bases of multiple NATO states. Indonesia has used weapons purchased from the US in its own militarized settlement of West Papua, a resource-rich island of timber and agricultural resources. Each of the colonial regimes mentioned utilizes brutal methods of racist domination, state repression, extrajudicial killings, cultural destruction and historical erasure of the colonized peoples' existence on their land, and a violently fanatic settler movement to maximize settlers as the fascist mass base of the colonizing regime in power. Yet, indigenous people are still struggling for land, sovereignty, and fighting against imperialist mining, testing of weapons, overt military destruction, and ultimately for their people's full liberation.
3. End Military Alliances
Resist NATO and Demilitarize Europe!
Since its founding, NATO has always played a key role in the US's rise to number one imperialist and war maker in the world. With the addition of Finland and Sweden in 2023 and 2024, NATO has provocatively expanded eastward to Russia's borders, bringing 3.3 million allied troops under command of the US-led alliance with 40,000 in Eastern Europe alone since the fall of the Soviet Union. NATO's "Washington Declaration," forged during its 75th anniversary in 2024, called for its members to increase their military spending, modernize and expand their nuclear arsenals, invest billions in the purchase of drones and high tech weapons, conduct more frequent and large-scale military exercises, and pledge billions more to continue arming Ukraine. Over 90,000 troops were mobilized for Steadfast Defender 24, NATO’s largest military exercise, and tens of thousands are being mobilized for exercises in the Arctic. NATO's expansion goes beyond Europe, with the opening of NATO offices in Japan and Jordan, and cooperation with Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea, to counter the rise of China, which NATO has explicitly named as a threat. But NATO's drive for expansion comes at a time when Trump is threatening to withdraw the US from the alliance, member countries in Europe are facing severe economic crisis and political divisions, and their people are exerting pressure to force some countries to balk at the demands for increased spending and any deeper commitment to the failed proxy war in Ukraine. The movement to resist NATO is steadily growing to end this front and tool of US-led war.
End the US-made Zionist-Gulf alliance!
As the US has pivoted to Asia, it has necessarily forged an unprecedented alliance between the repressive Gulf monarchies and the Zionist colonial regime of Israel to be its watchdog in West Asia. This has helped consolidate the violent occupation of Palestine (through divide and rule tactics of Arab countries), the murderous Saudi-led war on Yemen, and the ripping apart and impoverishment societies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Eritrea for the sake of countering Iran’s regional influence. The US and Zionist courting of the UAE to ethnically cleanse Gaza so as to reap in development profits and the mass influx of investments (including Zionist investments) to Saudi Arabia's utopian "NEOM" green development scheme exposes the true motive behind this normalization of Zionist genocide - super profits for the Gulf monarchs and US fossil fuel corporations. Yet, the majority of the people of the region see through the divide-and-rule tactics of the US and their Zionist proxies and continue to demand their governments break all ties with the Zionist entity and end all collusion with the US in their name.
Stop the G7!
The G7 countries (US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan) represent some of the world’s most powerful economies and also the most powerful militaries. They lay claim to approximately 30% of world GDP despite only containing less than 10% of the world's population. Historically led by the US, the G7 uses sanctions, military build-up, intervention, aggression, invasions and war to enforce an international order of international domination, oppression and exploitation by imperialism. Three G7 powers command nuclear arsenals and two house US nuclear bases within their borders, while Japan and Canada both allow the basing of US nuclear-capable bombers. But the cracks in the alliance are becoming more apparent, brought on by disagreements over how to deal with the failure of the G7-backed war in Ukraine and arguments over who gets the spoils of imperialist war and plunder. From inside and outside the G7 countries we must expose that no part of the G7 serves the interests of the people, keep building a stronger peace movement, and target the inter-connected war machine of the G7.
Shut Down AUKUS, JAKUS and JAPHUS and Demilitarize Asia Pacific!
The US forged unprecedented trilateral security pacts from 2021-2024 in a clear effort to integrate and fortify its military alliances in Asia and the Pacific as it builds up for war with China. Under the Australia-UK-US security pact, the US and UK will provide nuclear submarines to Australia at a cost of $368 billion, setting up an alarming threat of force towards China and a wasteful drainage of military spending for the Australian people. The Japan-South Korea-US (JAKUS) trilateral security cooperation opened the floodgates to huge joint military exercises of the three countries--the first ever since WWII. Both JAKUS and the Japan-Philippines-US (JAPHUS) pacts give the US military unrestricted access to the South Korean and Philippine military bases respectively, and give the US operational wartime command over the two countries' militaries. Overall the US Indo-Pacific strategy aims to further squeeze the Pacific for what they call "untapped resources" through a strategic military build up, including the Island Chain Strategy, imposing bases, weapons, and launching sites for war encircling China. The military alliances are bound up with neoliberal economic agreements, such as the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment corridor in the Philippines--a multi-billion dollar deal that will result in infrastructure projects that destroy the local environment and means of livelihood of the Filipino people while extracting minerals and agricultural goods for the profit of foreign corporations. While initially started as a mechanism for coordination of relief aid and not labeled as a military alliance, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) between the US, India, Japan and Australia overtly shifted into the realm of military cooperation in 2024, with the establishment of regular joint maritime patrols in the Pacific to increase inter-operability, further inflaming regional tensions. In addition to these alliances, the large list of US bilateral military agreements with countries in the region amounts to an unofficial military alliance in itself.
4. Shut Down Overseas Bases and US Commands
Close all Overseas US and Allied Bases
The US officially maintains more than 800 overseas military bases in over 80 countries, but when calculating overseas "military installations" the number nears 14,000. This is a blatant violation of peoples' sovereignty which enables the US to project imperialist power in a desperate attempt to maintain its global hegemony. The US especially uses its bases to surveil countries which refuse its imperialist policies like Cuba and Venezuela through its outposts in occupied Puerto Rico. Bases play an essential role in the US wars of aggression and intervention and in the build up to those from Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to South America. Overseas military bases are centers where American soldiers violently abuse countless women. These overseas installations commit environmental destruction and disrupt the lives of civilians in and out of the bases. Bases dump toxic chemicals that harm the health of residents and destroy the source of livelihood of millions of people. In early 2022, the US Navy was found to have leaked petroleum into Hawaiians' source of drinking water. A year before, the US Marines dumped toxic chemicals into Okinawa's civilian water system. The Philippines under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement, saw the recent expansion of US bases in the Philippines, putting the Filipino people directly in harms way amidst heightening US aggression threatening war with China. Extrajudicial killings are endemic around US bases at Camp Simba, Manda Bay, and Magagoni Airfield in Kenya. Yet, foreign bases are not invincible, the people have blocked bases from being built in Korea and Japan, or expelled the US military through mass struggle in cases like Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Air Force base in the Philippines, the US Navy in Vieques and Culebra in Puerto Rico, refusal of the renewal of the US military base lease in Ecuador, and the recent ouster of French and US bases from Senegal, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
Shut Down AFRICOM in Every Country It Has a Stranglehold
After the overthrow of the European colonial regimes by African independence struggles, the US established AFRICOM in 2007 as the most recent geographic combatant command of the Pentagon. The US has since used it to wage the "war on terror" and impose US control on African people, land and resources. As Europe's current neo-colonial relations are weakened, the US uses AFRICOM for counter-revolutionary control and violence on the continent to try to repress the peoples' struggles for liberation, while it tries to compete with Russian influence and Chinese development investments, to hold onto the US's foothold on the continent. Despite its claim of a “light footprint,” AFRICOM is the US's 2nd fastest growing military command, with 46 various forms of US bases as well as military-to-military relations between 53 out of the 54 African countries and the United States.US Special Forces troops now operate in more than a dozen African nations. AFRICOM is responsible for devastating covert operations in Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Mali and many other countries and directs huge multi-country exercises like African Lion that expand drone warfare capabilities. Beyond its direct intervention, AFRICOM has armed and trained local warlords and has even helped some come to power where they have brutalized their own people for personal interests.
5. Fight Weapons Companies and Arms Sales
Cut Ties with War Profiteers!
Weapons Trans-national Corporations (WTNCs) are companies with global operations overseeing and gaining profits from the industrial mass production of high-tech weapons of war to sustain the global militarism economy. They exist to profit from arming and re-arming state militaries to use in their wars against other countries or their own people. Global military expenditure was estimated at $2.443 trillion, in 2024, the highest level ever recorded and the steepest year-on-year increase since 2009 with the combined revenues of the top 100 largest defense companies totaling $632 billion in 2023. There are peoples' campaigns to target all of the top 5 largest companies: Lockheed Martin, RTX, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, and General Dynamics. WTNCs sell their weapons to fascist governments abroad for use in surveillance, aerial bombardment, drone warfare, and the carpet bombing of countries, including the death of civilians and non-combatants while they are contracted domestically for US military aggression in today's wars. Companies like Elbit Systems, for example, are genocide factories, based in Britain with subsidiaries around the world, that manufactures Israeli weaponry which is used to subjugate the Palestinian people. They are complicit in the human rights violations and war crimes undertaken by aggressive state forces using their products to drive up the market for imperialist wars of aggression.
Shut Down Arms Fairs!
Arms fairs are events in which WTNCs show off their weapons to prospective buyers, the imperialist and other militaristic states looking to use them to violently protect their interests. These events amount to celebrations of militarism while WTNC executives brag and market the deadly use of their weapons against the people. CANSEC is North America's largest arms fair, with around 300 companies on show and even Zionist "Israel" being offered an expo space as if it were a WTNC on its own. The Netherlands Defense and Security Exhibition (NEDS) showcases these weapons in northern Europe while France's Eurosatoray is Europe's largest arms fair. The Land Forces exhibition in Australia likewise acts as a weapons shop right on the doorstep of the US's primary war theater of the Pacific. These fairs are a key component of profit-making while glorifying war and militarism at the same time.
Unite Against the Deadly War Industry Supply Chain!
In addition to supplying the war makers with seemingly endless weapons, the war industry supply chain is harmful to people at every step of the way. Mining provides the extraction of metals, rare earth minerals and petroleum by-products, leading to environmental destruction, pollution, and further militarization of communities surrounding mining sites. Weapons are tested without the consent, and sometimes without the knowledge, of local communities who suffer the toxic weapons residue and even get caught in the crossfire. The natural resources of countries are plundered instead of put to use for national pro-people industry, while workers in manufacturing plants are exploited for their labor, especially in the wide range of small-scale manufacturing around the world that these companies use. Communities harmed in the extraction zone, workers exploited in factories, and the peoples facing the guns of the final products are all impacted by the supply chain of US-led war. Resistance against the war industry supply chain takes place at the mines, factories, testing sites, research universities, and even along the shipping and distribution lanes. The supply chain is stretched out and sprawling around the world, which means that we can unite and take action against distinct parts of it in any community that touches this chain together.
6. End US Military Agreements
Resist the Aggressive US-Japan Partnership to Militarize the Asia-Pacific
Japan is the US’s most loyal ally in Asia Pacific. Military agreements forged after WWII enable the US to station more overseas troops in Japan than in any other country in the region. One-fifth of the land of Okinawa is occupied by US bases. Right-wing governments successfully pushed for constitutional changes allowing Japan to re-arm for offensive purposes, leading to rising defense spending since 2007 and a doubling of the defense budget in 2023. In line with the US pivot to Asia, the US with Japan as its willing partner, continually roll out new bi-lateral and multilateral agreements. The newly-minted Japan-US-Korea alliance (JAKUS) and the Japan-Philippines-US trilateral alliance (JAPHUS) expands the US military's network of alliances allowing US and Japanese troops to drag Korea and the Philippines into US war preparations against China. These trilateral alliances formalize regular war games, enhance military intelligence-sharing and advanced missile network integration specifically targeting China, introduce a collective security framework through the so-called “commitment to consult,” and creates an anti-China economic bloc. These measures are not defensive, but amount to iron web of alliances in East Asia in preparation for war against China.
Stop the Growing US Influence in South Asia!
The US is attempting to consolidate allies in South Asia to secure its foothold in the region. Its longstanding influence with Pakistan has dwindled as the country drifts closer to China, leading the US to deepen its relationship with India. This has intensified the bloody India-Pakistan conflict, stoked decades ago by the British, as a means to checkmate Chinese influence. India has been recruited by the US, Japan, and Australia into the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD) to counter the rise of China, and in 2022 the US participated for the first time in the Indian-led MILAN multilateral naval exercise. India also joins Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the US (I2U2) in technology sharing between each of these repressive regimes. Meanwhile, China is negotiating the construction of a new naval base in Pakistan and a deep water port in Sri Lanka, both along one of the world's most crucial shipping lanes. The US responded by influencing the Bangladeshi election to ensure the election of a Western-friendly financier as President after the mass uprising in 2024 against government corruption. The US also occupies the Island nation of Diego Garcia, ethnically cleansing its indigenous people, where it operates a base used to invade Iraq and Afghanistan, and is used to position forces against Iran, playing a critical role in regional surveillance and rapid deployment operations.
Build a Zone of Peace in Latin America!
The continued presence of the U.S. military in the Organization of American States (OAS) undermines the sovereignty and autonomy of Latin American and Caribbean nations, with 76 United States military bases and Cooperative Security Locations (CSLs) including in Panama, Puerto Rico, Colombia, El Salvador, and Aruba Curaçao. The US uses these bases as launching pads for regional interventions, threatening independent countries like Venezuela and Cuba or threatening military invasion of Panama. The US has provided Mexico, El Salvador and Colombia with billions of dollars in "security and counter-narcotics" amounting to a counterinsurgency war on the poor thinly masked as a war on drugs and gangs. The US used Puerto Rico as a venue for training Ukrainian military. This long lasting colonial legacy and military presence, driven by imperial interests, violates the principles of self-determination and peace. In response, the people of the region call for the complete withdrawal of foreign military forces, advocating for a future where Latin American and Caribbean nations can chart their own course free from external interference.
7. Stop Support of Puppet and Proxy Regimes
End Foreign Meddling in Internal Conflicts and Civil Wars
Foreign intervention in internal conflicts, such as those in Libya, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Syria, has intensified instability and prolonged suffering, as imperial powers and competing forces vie for control over resources and strategic influence. In Libya, the U.S.-engineered overthrow and assassination of Gaddafi led to a once-stable country being torn apart by foreign-backed militias and rival governments fighting for oil wealth, with the interventions of the UAE, Russia, and Western powers deepening chaos. With a backdrop of US counterinsurgency in Darfur and destabilization campaign in Sudan in the early years of the war on terror, the current civil war in Sudan has escalated due to foreign support for rival factions, with countries like Egypt, the UAE, Russia, and Turkey backing different sides, turning the conflict into a proxy battleground that further exacerbates the people's suffering. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, multinational corporations and foreign states exploit mineral resources, funding armed groups including US-backed Rwandan and Ugandan mercenaries to maintain control and prolong violence for imperialist gain. Syria, meanwhile, has fragmented into de facto states, with foreign powers backing different factions, resulting in a shattered nation where the civilian population bears the brunt of the destruction. Once intervention occurs, the people endure worsening conditions, as foreign involvement exacerbates conflict and deepens humanitarian crises, with the US playing the leading role in intervention and destabilization in these conflicts.
Condemn the Dismemberment of Syria and Installation of Pro-Imperialist Proxy Regimes
After decades of punishing sanctions had driven Syria into deep economic and political crisis, the US, Israel and Turkey and their proxies violently overthrew the independent, democratically elected government in Syria in just a matter of days at the end of 2024. Both Israel and Turkey have since escalated military actions in Syria, leading to significant destruction and civilian casualties. Israel conducted hundreds of airstrikes across Syria since the fall of Assad, targeting military assets and infrastructure, with intention to permanently occupy Syrian land. Simultaneously, Turkey's drone strikes in northern Syria have resulted in massive civilian deaths. They quickly imposed a new leader for the Syrian government, Mohammad al-Jolani of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an organization formerly affiliated with Al-Qaeda, and assumed control of Syria's northwest after the ousting of Bashar al-Assad. HTS has been widely condemned for severe human rights violations, including arbitrary detentions, torture, and extrajudicial executions of civilians, activists and minority groups. Syria has been dismembered, with the country's territory being sectioned off and controlled by different foreign powers. The overthrow of Assad has led to the cutting off of supply routes and material support for the Axis of Resistance, particularly in Palestine. The utter fragmentation of their country is evidence that the future of Syria must be in the hands of the Syrian people themselves free of any foreign intervention.
Condemn Anti-People Puppets and Proxies in Africa! Strengthen Solidarity with Countries Asserting Anti-Colonial Independence
The US-backed Ruto regime in Kenya is using protest bans, unwarranted arrests and imprisonment, disappearances of activists, and extra-judicial killings of hundreds of people in an attempt to crack down on widespread dissent against the crushing taxes on basic necessities being imposed on the people due to debt from World Bank and International Monetary Fund loans. In the Horn of Africa, the US continues its aggressive destabilization schemes, ranging from the arming of Ethiopia and other armed groups to wage a brutal war in the Tigray region and encourage aggression against Eritrea, to the aerial bombings of the Puntland region of Somalia under the guise of anti-terrorism security operations within the first weeks of the second Trump administration. The US’s continuing support for the Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara allows for massive political repression of the indigenous Saharawi people for the potential to invest in Morocco-controlled industries in the country such as wind turbines and uranium mining. The US is stoking separatist intentions in Somaliland to win more strategic bases around the Red Sea, potentially inflaming another civil war in Somalia. In contrast, after years of US-backed or influenced coups, counter-coups and support for Al-Qaeda and ISIS-affiliated groups aimed at destabilizing and reinforcing neocolonial relationships in the Sahel region, the countries of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger successfully broke free from French neocolonial rule, ousted French troops, and established the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) as a regional entity asserting their national sovereignty. Senegal, Chad, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire are following suit and have demanded foreign powers leave and close their bases.
Resist US Proxies in Latin America
US arming of repressive Central American regimes, in particular Guatemala and El Salvador, has increased due to the US’s waning influence after elections in Central and South America of pro-people governments, in some cases aligned with China. So-called “Wars on Gangs” by US puppet governments have killed thousands of land defenders and poor farmers to clear territory for mining interests; with the Trump administration now labeling some of these gangs as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, openly fascist heads of state such as Bukele in El Salvador and Millei in Argentina are emboldened to commit more human rights violations against opponents in the name of fighting gangs and terrorism. Meanwhile, US efforts to destabilize countries like Nicaragua and Cuba continue, seeking to undermine their sovereignty and support for regional solidarity. The ongoing destabilization campaigns aim to weaken these nations' resistance to imperialist pressures and disrupt their alliances, particularly with leftist governments and China.
Oppose US-Led Intervention in Haiti
Ever since the Haitian Revolution ended slavery and gained independence from France in 1804, Haiti has been in the crosshairs of western imperialism. After being ousted, French warships encircled Port-au-Prince to demand that Haiti pay 150 million gold francs ($115 billion) to French and US banks, crippling its economy for the “crime” of freeing itself from slavery and French rule. When the progressive Aristide government demanded restitution from the French for this theft in 2003, the French government helped the US orchestrate a 2004 coup, creating what Haitian activists have called a “hell on earth.” In the past year alone, over 6,000 Haitians have been killed by paramilitary death squads aligned with sectors of Haiti’s elite while over one million people have been driven from their homes. Close to half the population is suffering from acute hunger, with many on the brink of starvation. Gang rapes of women and children have become an all-too frequent weapon of terror against the population. The vast majority of the high-powered weapons used by these death squads have been smuggled in from the US. The US goal is to maintain a pro-U.S. government in power that will sell off Haiti’s mineral resources, open up the country to more foreign investment and garment sweatshops, and help solidify U.S. control over the Caribbean. But they are faced with a powerful movement demanding social justice and democratic change, a movement that has never wavered.
Confront the Rise of Fascist Regimes in Asia! Support People's Uprisings Against Fascist Puppets
The US “Pivot to Asia” has emboldened fascism across the continent and facilitated the massive expansion of US military bases in its wake. The fascist offensive by states in the region are designed, trained and implemented by US officials alongside staunch allies and fascist puppets and developed through a history of US-backed fascist dictatorships around the world. The long-time fascist state in Japan has dismantled provisions in its constitution to now allow for more offensive re-arming of its military while cracking down on peace activists fighting against the state's attempt to revise and cover-up its fascist history. Ferdinand Marcos II in the Philippines has continued the same trend of extrajudicial killings and the arrest and imprisonment of activists on trumped up charges, all while exponentially increasing spending on the military and police. The regime of Narendra Modi in India is conducting military operations and whipping up a fascist ethno-nationalist movement inside Manipur, occupied Kashmir, and Northern India on behalf of big agricultural and mineral extraction interests and as the US bribes the regime away from China’s influence with technological investment. Turkey’s anti-Kurd and anti-Syrian Recep Tayyip Erdoğan regime unleashes state violence against its people and throughout the region, protected by its membership in NATO. Still, fascist state violence is resisted daily by the people struggling to assert their self-determination, such as in Korea where the people successfully ousted President Yoon SukYeol, who had surrendered South Korea's sovereignty to US military interests while trying to eliminate the country's minimum wage and repressing trade union organizing.
8. End Counterinsurgency, So-Called "Counter-Terror" Warfare and State Repression
Stop the Terror-Tagging of Freedom Fighters and Peace Advocates!
Under the War on Terror doctrine, imperialist and reactionary regimes around the world label peoples' movements and revolutionary struggles as “terrorist” in order to suppress them through mass arrest, surveillance, psywar, abduction, torture, extra-judicial killing, and massacres. Bolstered by extensive powers conferred on them under purposely vague ”anti-terror” laws and initiatives, the US and puppet regimes' military and police have filed baseless complaints against activists and freedom fighters to justify all kinds of repression and in worst cases all out terror through bombings and deployment of military troops. Weaponizing a series of intentionally vague anti-terrorism laws with often anti-Muslim and anti-communist rhetoric, state security forces have flagrantly violated human rights and continue to evade accountability for their actions.
End US-Led Drone Strikes!
Drone strikes, carried out under the guise of the War on Terror, have caused countless civilian deaths and sowed fear across countries like Somalia, Yemen, the Philippines, Palestine, and Syria. The US ushered in the era of mass drone warfare and quickly helped export it as a key tactic of its allies. These attacks lack transparency, accountability, or justice for the families of innocent victims. Far from ensuring security, drone warfare, including undersea drones and drone swarms, causes indiscriminate killing, deepens instability and erodes international law. It is a brutal tool of imperialist violence that dehumanizes people while shielding its perpetrators from consequences.
Shut down Guantanamo Bay and All CIA Black Sites
CIA “Black Sites" are sites where prisoners are disappeared without trial for torture interrogation in locations including Thailand, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland and Romania amongst others that were never officially disclosed by the US or the governments hosting them. Guantanamo Bay has been the most infamous and largest of the Black Sites. Here, on occupied Cuban land, the US spent the last century surveilling its hemispheric neighbors, plotting overseas coups, and torturing hundreds of “War on Terror” suspects, and is now using it as a prison for deported migrants. Since inception, the detention camp at Guantanamo has amassed numerous reports of documented human rights violations within its facilities, including long-term isolation, inadequate medical care, and torture. In addition, many people imprisoned there were found to have been detained indefinitely without trial. The cost of the Guantanamo Bay detention center has amounted to half a billion US dollars a year, pulling from what could have been spent on much-needed revenue for government services for the people.
End the Murderous War on Yemen!
For decades the US undertook and backed armed aggression by UAE and Saudi Arabia in Yemen, creating the basis for one of the worst refugee crises in recent history. Coercive economic measures against Yemen led to manufactured famine of the Yemeni people, who were already suffering air raids, death and injury, loss of infrastructure and basic supplies and mass displacement. The UN estimates that at least 130,000 people have died from the lack of food, health care, and adequate infrastructure. Despite renewed attacks by the US forces against the armed resistance in Yemen, Ansar Allah continuously renewed its efforts in support of the liberation of their people and the people of Palestine causing severe damage to the economy of the Zionist entity and disrupting U.S. trading routes.
Defend the Right to Fight for Just Peace!
The US constantly violates International Humanitarian Law (IHL), standards and norms, engaging in multiple forms of aggression including economic, cyber, misinformation and manipulation. IHL calls for the protection of civilians, service providers like medical personnel, and persons who were previously involved in the armed conflict but have ceased fighting. In response, the peoples of the world are representing themselves and asserting the cause for just peace, liberation and national democracy, a right protected under IHL, which acknowledges the right to fight wars of national liberation by colonized people everywhere. The imperialist powers have never and will never give up their power unless the working people and oppressed actively and as a whole face them. Through various forms of resistance like legal advocacy, mass protests, armed struggle and solidarity amongst them, the peoples of the world have been defending their right to self-determination, economic, and food sovereignty, and self-defense of nations and oppressed peoples from reactionary aggression and violence. The democratic movements throughout the world are rising up to defend the right of every nation and people to self-determination.
Resist Racist Police Terror!
From their origins to the present day, police have existed to protect the property and power of the ruling class—wielding violence as a tool of social control, especially against poor, Black, and marginalized communities. Cops are often armed with high tech weaponry, passed down by programs sharing used military equipment. Far from being neutral enforcers of “law and order,” police regularly rely on racial profiling and arbitrary judgment to harass and kill with impunity. Everywhere, those demanding change have been beaten, gassed, shot at, and brutalized by the very militarized police forces whose injustice they protest.
9. End Joint Military Exercises and Trainings
Stop Using Our Countries for US War Games!
Military exercises are blatant shows of force designed to project the power of US-led military alliances. these exercises terrorize local communities, destroy the environment, increase violence against local and native women, create a strain on natural resources, justify continued pollution and poisoning of the oceans and waters affecting livelihood and promote the deadly tactics of the world's most violent and aggressive militaries, and their puppets. The US leads thousands of exercises through its regional commands that span throughout all continents including Antarctica.
Cancel RIMPAC!
The Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises are the largest joint maritime military exercises in the world, conducted biannually in occupied Hawai’i. The fight against RIMPAC exercises, which have been held in Hawaii since 1971, is rooted in a long history of protest by the Kānaka Maoli who view the military presence as a continuation of colonial occupation, fighting against environmental destruction, cultural erasure, and the displacement of Indigenous communities. People in the countries participating in the exercises, also wage resistance against RIMPAC -- from Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and more -- where activists are rising up against militarization of the Pacific and the role of foreign military powers in undermining sovereignty while growing their inter-operability for war. The US uses RIMPAC to strengthen the abilities of 26 of its allied militaries to wage wars of aggression around the world, as threats of war between major military powers continue to rise. Through weapons testing and war-making, defense contractors and fossil fuel corporations reap billions of dollars in profits. RIMPAC leads to environmental destruction, violence against women, and a gross neglect of the day to day needs of people all over the world by advancing US-led wars.
End the Zionist Deadly Exchange!
Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) participate in exchange programs with US police, border agents and military to share tactics of surveillance, deportation and detention. US police and military forces then go on to train other countries' military forces, including in Indonesia, Honduras, Tajikistan, South Korea, Kenya, and Bulgaria, often under programs tied to counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics, and international security cooperation. These trainings have raised concerns over human rights abuses and the militarization of police forces abroad, as well as the potential legitimization of repressive regimes. Military exchange programs promote the use of the deadly tactics of state sponsored terror under the guise of counter-terrorism. The IOF exports the apartheid surveillance tactics it uses to oppress Palestinians daily to other fascist regimes to use on the most oppressed people. From the Black liberation movement in the US to the Palestinian Resistance to the rising Kenyan Gen Z movement, these programs are being confronted and can be taken apart through solidarity and mass resistance to state violence and genocide.
10. Reparations, Clean Up, and Justice for Victims of Wars and Militarism
Justice for Victims of the Nuclear Legacy
The nuclear arms race amounts to a devastating war against those who live and work along its supply chain. Nuclear weapons, deployed by the US during WWII, killed over 140,000 people in Hiroshima and over 60,000 in Nagasaki, with over 200,000 total killed from health affects of the radiation exposure and the trauma will affect families for generations to come. Nuclear testing and uranium mining have left a devastating legacy on communities, particularly Indigenous peoples, who have endured severe health impacts, including cancers and birth defects, due to exposure to radiation and secret US military-led human medical experiments. In some cases, ongoing military occupation and missile testing continue to impose daily violence upon the people. The environmental degradation caused by these activities has also led to contamination of water sources, soil, and air, disrupting traditional ways of life and economic practices, and food systems. These impacts post an existential threat to the survival of their culture as a people. Affected communities have long fought for justice, demanding reparations, compensation, and accountability for the harm done to both their people and their land. These efforts highlight the ongoing struggle for recognition and the right to health and justice, as many of these communities continue to battle governmental neglect and the legacies of deep colonial violence against their bodies and land and threats to their existence. We must never forget the human toll of the horror of nuclear weapons on the communities of Marshallese, Hibakusha, Algerians, Downwinders, clean-up veterans, plutonium production workers, and Indigenous peoples devastated by nuclear weapons. We must struggle alongside them for an end to nuclear warfare, extraction and testing. and support their solutions for remediation, health and sovereignty of their communities.
Remove all Unexploded Ordnance from Civilian Communities
Unexploded ordnance (UXO) in civilian communities poses a significant threat to safety, often leading to deaths and injuries, particularly in post-conflict regions where wars have left behind hazardous remnants. Communities in countries like Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Puerto Rico, Lebanon, Colombia, and many others have long struggled with the deadly legacy of war, facing severe neglect from governments that have failed to adequately address the risks posed by UXO. In response, local organizations and international advocates continue to fight for comprehensive de-mining efforts, even taking on clean up themselves, adequate compensation for victims, and stronger governmental accountability to ensure that these communities can live free from the ongoing threat of war remnants.
Justice for Comfort Women
Comfort women were women or girls who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese soldiers as part of a system operated by the Imperial Japanese Army in its occupied territories between 1937 and 1945. They numbered an estimated 200,000 women, primarily from Korea, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, and other occupied countries during World War II, forcibly enslaved by the Japanese military for sexual exploitation. Despite decades of silence from the Japanese government, survivors have fought tirelessly for justice, demanding formal apologies, reparations, and recognition. Beyond World War II, women near current US military bases, especially in Okinawa, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea, have also faced sexual violence, prompting continued activism for accountability and protection. This legacy of modern sexual slavery is still alive in the rampant trafficking of poor and landless women to US and other military bases all around the world. These ongoing struggles highlight the intersection of historical and modern-day sexual violence against women, as communities demand justice and the end of military impunity.
11. End Economic Warfare, Food Blockades and Sanctions
Resist Killer Sanctions and Economic Warfare!
The US has unilaterally enacted economic, financial, trade and other sanctions on individuals, organizations and over 40 countries as a means to force their compliance with US policies including extreme sanctions against its rivals and countries assertive of national sovereignty, such as Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Russia and China. Under the guise of utilizing a more “humane” approach to perceived threats to US interests, sanctions are essentially another form of warfare that imposes collective punishment on entire nations, most severely hurting civilians–especially people who are already impoverished. Sanctions block countries from accessing essentials including food, vaccines and medicine, medical supplies and resources needed for providing clean water, sanitation and health care, leading to people suffering and dying from malnutrition, starvation, and preventable illness. Such dire economic conditions lead to social unrest, which is utilized by the US to further demonize the leadership of these countries and justify foreign intervention.
End the Blockade of Cuba!
For 65 years after winning its war of liberation, Cuba has endured the longest-running economic blockade of any country in the world. According to the US State Department, the US expressly sought for the blockade to result in “economic dissatisfaction and hardship,” “hunger,” “desperation,” and “overthrow of government.” It is estimated that Cuba has suffered economic losses of $1.39 trillion (accounting for inflation), as well as shortages of food, fuel, supplies and equipment and raw materials for the manufacturing of medicine. Despite the decades-long U.S. blockade, the Cuban people have demonstrated powerful forms of resistance through mass movement building, urban farming initiatives like organopónicos to ensure food sovereignty, medical internationalism by sending doctors abroad in defiance of the US-imposed economic stranglehold, and community-led efforts to develop alternative economies rooted in solidarity and self-reliance.
End Militarized Land Grabs and Privatization Schemes that Starve the People’s Livelihood!
Land displacement of rural communities is a widespread effect of war, and oftentimes wars themselves are started in the interests of expanding corporate land ownership. In Ukraine, Western aid to support agriculture has been conditioned on structural adjustment programs that have sold over 200,000 small farmers’ land to a handful of oligarchs. Food aid given to war-stricken areas is funneled through local bureaucrats or business owners to keep people relying on corrupt officials instead of their own self-sufficient production. Zionist settlers regularly destroy Palestinian farms and orchards in raids meant to capture more land for annexation by the occupation state. In Puerto Rico, militarized land grabs like those in Vieques, where the US Navy occupied large portions of the island for bombing exercises, have devastated ecosystems and local economies, while post-hurricane privatization schemes—such as the sell-off of public utilities—have deepened inequality and displaced communities. In Kenya, state-backed land seizures for infrastructure and agribusiness projects, often enforced by military or police violence, have dispossessed Indigenous communities like the Sengwer and Maasai, undermining traditional livelihoods in favor of elite and corporate interests. In every war, food, resources, sea and land are key to understanding the interests of war makers.
12. Fight Border Militarization and Criminalization of Migrants
End the Root Causes of Forced Migration
War and economic destabilization as a result of US economic and foreign policy are key factors driving forced migration, as powerful nations exploit resources and intervene in local economies, leaving many populations impoverished and vulnerable. This exploitation leads to widespread poverty, lack of opportunity, and political instability, forcing people to flee their homelands in search of safety and livelihood and forcing families to endure long-term separation. While people are migrating they are met with violence, extortion, deadly borders and sea crossings and then face xenophobia, fascist attacks, state neglect, and criminalization in the receiving country. The consequences of these systemic issues continue to exacerbate displacement, as individuals and communities are left with little choice but to migrate to escape dire conditions created by external intervention and economic collapse.
Fight for the Right of Return and Safety for Refugees from Conflict Zones
The fight for the right of return and safety for refugees from conflict zones highlights how war, the destruction of property, and widespread violence force people to flee their homes in search of safety and stability. Mass displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestine and across the Middle East stems from decades of occupation, genocide, and theft of land. Migrants and refugees flee persecution, hunger and violence and are forced to endure the journey through the Colombian jungle, riding the "Bestia" train through Mexico, or crossing the deadly Mediterranean in overcrowded boats; many are commodified, extorted, kidnapped or face sickness and harm during their journey. In Africa, wars driven by the exploitation of natural resources, especially minerals, have displaced millions, leaving refugees to face dire conditions in camps or hazardous migration routes. Refugees and internally displaced people from conflict zones—from Palestinians denied return to their homeland, to Syrians and South Sudanese living in overcrowded, under-resourced camps—face famine, epidemic illnesses and sometimes daily fascist attacks. These individuals continue to fight for recognition, safety, and the right to return to their homes, seeking justice and liberation of their homelands.
Fight Against Detention, Deportation, Border Militarization
Migrants around the world are waging urgent resistance against fascist attacks that criminalize migration and dehumanize those seeking safety and opportunity. Companies profiting off of deportation, such as private prison contractors Geo Group, Core Civic and CCA, contribute to the continued suffering of migrants, turning human lives into a commodity for profit. The fascist militarized attacks on migrants has escalated globally, with Trump's "deportation machine" enforcing brutal tactics of detention, family separation, and deportation, while targeting activists for advocating migrant rights. Similarly, El Salvador's Bukele government uses militarized repression to suppress migration and activists, and across Europe, far-right parties are exploiting migrants as scapegoats, justifying authoritarian policies through fear and xenophobia, further criminalizing migration. Activists and communities around the world call to free all migrants, end family separation, dismantle the militarized border regime and uphold dignity for all migrants in their struggle for livelihood and freedom from state violence and repression.
13. Stop Production of High Tech Warfare
Expose the Co-optation of Research and Education Programs for the War Industry!
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) university programs have provided between 36% - 54% of US weapons research to the US military since 2016. School programs have also been targeted by transnational weapons companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and many others via scholarships and internship programs as a pipeline for students into the war industry. Working class students, students of color, women and LGBTQ students in particular are targeted through recruitment campaigns to build the weapons that will destroy the lives of their compatriots around the world. Students forced to migrate to imperialist countries due to the brain drain in their homelands are co-opted by career paths in the tech, engineering and computer science programs and then conscripted to use war technologies against their own people. Education programs for collective empowerment and social benefit are deprioritized to make way for pro-war programs that keep the US-led war machine running and weapons makers rich. Youth and students are a powerful force, as well as the professionals within the industry, to disrupt and shut down the whole war system.
Halt Wasteful and Dangerous Weapons Development!
Weapons companies in the US and other industrial countries are developing extremely lethal new tools of war. Indiscriminate weapons such as white phosphorous gas and cluster bombs, despite being banned by the majority of the world's countries, are built, used, and sold by the US. Laser technology, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, hypersonic propulsion and other sectors are geared away from pro-people and socially productive usages and into an unending spiral of war spending. Defense contractors spend hundreds of millions of dollars to buy influence and try to drown out pro-peace voices, yet movements continue to consistently demand the end of this dangerous weapons development and instead prioritize government spending to meet basic human needs. In recent years, US military contract spending surged to over $400 billion annually, while federal funding for key social services like housing and education has seen a sharp decline, with some programs experiencing budget cuts of up to 20%. One Lockheed Hellfire missile costs $150,000, while the people are told there is no money for food relief, education, or healthcare. Global official defense spending in 2024 alone was $2.46 trillion, with other unreported militarized funding most likely amounting to much more.
Demand the Nuclear Disarmament of Imperialist States Towards Complete Abolition!
The US’s “nuclear modernization” program alone is $1.7 trillion with an existing stockpile of nearly 5,500 warheads. If left unchecked, this weapons development has and will continue to have devastating impacts on civilians and the Earth as a whole. There were approximately 12,121 nuclear warheads worldwide as of January 2025 and almost 90 percent of them belong to two countries: the United States and Russia. The US is the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons against people in an act of war, making it an untrustworthy actor in talks of mutual disarmament. Current imperialist rhetoric keeps the demand for the nuclear arms race high. One of the final, lasting nuclear non-proliferation treaties is set to expire in 2026 with no promise that Trump and Putin will re-sign it, creating conditions for the first time since the Cold War that the US would have no caps on its nuclear arsenal. As long as the number one imperialist is a world leader in nuclear arms development and maintains consistent provocative rhetoric towards its less-powerful rivals, no state will have the incentive to disarm for fear of ceding the world to a nuclear monopoly power once again. The US holds the world hostage with its nuclear terrorism, and all efforts must be aimed at demanding its disarmament while upholding the right of less powerful states to maintain their defensive nuclear arsenals until the disarming of the US paves the way towards complete abolition.
Stop JADC2, "Interoperability" Warfare, and the Use of AI and Cloud Services for the Military!
Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) is the newest military doctrine of the US and its allies. It boasts of the "interoperability" of war fighting on the land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace domains to prepare for potential world war with militaries on par with its own technological capacity after decades of counterinsurgency operations and wars against lesser-armed states. This military doctrine relies on massive amounts of data and utilizes artificial intelligence to manage target-setting, provided by lucrative contracts to the largest tech companies such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Cloud. People inside the tech industry are protesting Project Nimbus, Google and Amazon’s $1.2 billion contract providing cloud computing services and infrastructure to Israel’s apartheid state and genocidal military for the first AI powered genocide. Despite military leaders declaring that these tactics are designed to prepare for a coming war with rival states like Russia or China, they are being used right now by the US and its allies. This has led to unrelenting AI-targeting of Palestinians by Zionist fighter jets, drone "swarms" in populated rural areas, testing of new systems in war games that crash in civilian communities, and other destructive impacts.
14. Challenge US Military Priorities
Stop the Glorification of War
US-led war and militarism, the most destructive force on the planet, requires a mask in order to hide its true nature. With military recruitment numbers at an all-time low in the US and many other of its allied countries, the horrors of war are becoming harder to avoid in the social media age. A growing movement of activists are resisting air and water shows, which have been one method through which militaries show off their weapons of war and make them look fun at "family-friendly" events to try and change their image in their favor. Military recruiters often set up operations at these events to try and take advantage of these celebrations of war machines. Hollywood, video games, children's toys, and the whole US imperialist cultural industry colludes with the Pentagon. There is a growing critique by people against the corporations literally blackmailing and bribing the industry for control of scripts, featuring of products, and setting up of virtual reality war games in exchange for funding and access to equipment and locations, effectively turning films into pro-military propaganda for the US Department of Defense.
Demand Pro-People Alternatives
President Trump promised a $1 trillion US defense budget in 2026, further bloated by budgets for other militarized departments like Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy, as well as other parts of the militarized bureaucracy of the US and its allied and puppet governments around the world. Countries all across the world are following this trend of skyrocketing military spending while cutting spending for education, healthcare, infrastructure and other social needs and public services. War develops an industry that is one of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis. War budgets are never made in the interest of the people or with their consent, while the war lobby by weapons companies spent over $50 million on US political candidates in 2024 to ensure their war profiteering interests are met. As a result, millions of people are hungry, unhoused, and landless. Fighting for these social necessities requires fighting against the system which prioritizes militarism.
Stop Predatory Military Recruitment
Repressive militaries around the world utilize racist, chauvinistic and misogynist cultures of aggression to convince young people to enlist and fight, engendering cultures of militaristic individualism over international solidarity. They lie or bribe with benefits like education tuition or skills training that often don’t serve recruits later in society. Youth of color and those from low-income and other oppressed communities are targeted especially for this reason. The US military lures migrants into enlisting as means of obtaining citizenship, many of whom then face deportation or threats by the state. Many countries enact mandatory military service for youth, while youth face forced conscription by fascist states desperate to fill their ranks. Rear Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and its "Junior" variant (JROTC) play the role of preparing youth ideologically for military service while still in their school years. Soldiers of semi-colonial countries are dragged by their imperialist masters to fight and die in wars they did not start or want. Militarism robs youth of their future and attempts to make them mindless pawns through abusive treatment by commanding officers that discourages them from disobeying orders. Youth, the future of society, do not want to be dragged into the tentacles of the war machine, and therefore play a key role in leading the movement to resist it.
Support the Health and Well-being of Veterans and Stand with those Resisting from Within!
Veterans in repressive militaries are widely mistreated, with over 33,000 houseless veterans in the US alone, demonstrating how little imperialist and other repressive states truly value the people fighting their wars on their behalf. Even though veterans are "thanked" in public discourse for risking their lives in the military, their access to physical and mental healthcare is consistently taken away due to cuts in public spending to make room for even higher war budgets. Many veterans return from combat with righteous anger at the war crimes they were forced to commit, and are silenced and subject to state repression. Others bravely raise their voices even while in active duty and choose to desert rather than serve US-led war crimes.
Fight Towards a Global System for Just Peace
The current profit- and war-oriented system of governance in the US and around the world is the number one barrier to world peace. As heroic as reform-based political campaigns are, the imperialist system at the heart of militarism must itself be challenged and rebuilt from the grassroots up. We need justice, social equity, and solidarity amongst peoples, including the recognition of the right to self-determination, economic, and food sovereignty, and self-defense of nations and oppressed peoples from reactionary aggression and violence. We must build peace through genuine sustainable development, job creation, and the health and well being of our communities. Ultimately, peace can only come through the sovereignty of all peoples won through national and social liberation to upend the root causes of war and militarism.
CLOSING: BUILD THE MOVEMENT AND BROAD ANTI-IMPERIALIST UNITED FRONT
The US-led war machine has been at the head of the imperialist system for decades, but it is not invincible and it can be defeated! It may be growing more violent and vicious, but that is only because it is growing more desperate to survive. It may be bragging about the highest of new technology within its tactics, but that is only because no other strategy or tactic of the war machine has ever beaten the people down for good. The war machine exists to keep the ruling class in power, and the biggest threat to it is the people, and they have been resisting militarism for as long as militaristic states have existed. Regardless of the time and immense sacrifice it is taking, the movement for just and lasting peace will win!
What is laid out in this agenda are key struggles being waged around the world, the pressure points of US-led war that, when struck enough times and with enough united force, have the power to deal blows to the system until it is brought down and a new one of just and lasting peace can be built. They are written to demonstrate the impacts that every aspect of US-led war has on the people, because it is in fighting back against these direct impacts that the true power of the people to change their conditions becomes clear.
Carrying out the calls of the Anti-Militarism Agenda means uniting with all who suffer the impacts of war and militarism. 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, all while refusing to load weapons onto ships, holding solidarity strikes with peoples resisting militarization, and keeping their communities fortified during military aggression. Peasants, farmers, and other rural communities are resisting the bloody counterinsurgency campaigns, rural bombings and destruction of their productive livelihood, and defending their lands and food systems while leading in the front lines of the liberation struggles against military aggression and imperialism. Women are fighting back against assault and sexual violence from soldiers, organizing their communities, raising the next generation of peace activists, and even filling the ranks of liberation fighters. Youth are combating dwindling access to education and employment, while inspiring their people with energy and steadfastness and leading the charge for a peaceful future. Indigenous peoples are fighting for their sovereignty, self-determination, and the ejection of all aggressive military operations on their lands. Migrants and refugees are refusing to remain silent and uniting with the people in their homeland and their host countries in the fight for international peace. Teachers, scientists, artists, and other professionals are refusing to have their professions forced to serve growing militarization while others face layoffs from the war economy's constant crisis, all while directing their efforts to serving the mass movement for peace and utilizing their skills for the people and not the war machine.
The combined efforts of all these sectors, led by the most exploited classes and most oppressed peoples by militarization, make up the broad united front that can challenge US-led war to its core. The Anti-Militarism Agenda of the Resist US-Led War Movement is meant to be a roadmap towards building this international united front for just and last peace, because by uniting the struggles against all aspects of US-led war and militarism, we can unite the people themselves to confront the war machine, and the imperialist system itself, in a direct challenge to its existence. Only by ending imperialism will the root causes of war and militarism be gone, and only this united front of all the world's peoples, winning their liberation one struggle at a time, can end imperialism.
Beyond a mere description of how US-led war and militarism impact the people of the world, the Anti-Militarism Agenda is a shared platform that, through diligent organization and courageous struggle, can help build the movement for a peaceful world, a world without war and militarism.
2026 AMA Addendum on Latin America and the Caribbean
This appendix was developed in consultation with various organizations, members, and allies of the Movement to Resist the U.S.-Led War:
Trinbago for Palestine, Venezuela Explicada, Processo de Comunidades Negras, Pesquisa e Assessoria Sindical e Popular (CEPASP), Dossiê Acre, Asamblea Popular Itinerante (API), Movimento de Mulheres Pela Paz na Palestina, Fórum Popular da Natureza (FPN), International League of People’s Struggles - Latin America, ILPS Bolivia, Zone of Peace Campaign, Black Alliance for Peace
Calls to Action
1. Dismantle the Monroe Doctrine! Latin America and the Caribbean belongs to its people!
The kidnapping of President Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores by the U.S. on January 3, 2026, has brought sharp focus to the political and economic interests of the U.S. in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This act of aggression demonstrates that the U.S. is no longer even paying lip service to the international rules-based order established in the post-Second World War period. However, the kidnapping was not solely about gaining control over Venezuela’s rich oil resources; it was also a move to claim dominion over all of LAC. Recent U.S. documents, such as the 2025 National Security Strategy and the 2026 National Defense Strategy, have brazenly laid out U.S. claims to the “western hemisphere.” The U.S. has made it clear that it will aggressively fight any “foreign hostile incursion” meaning any country that dares to challenge U.S. imperialist domination of the region, whether through "better investment opportunities" or solidarity with countries fighting for national independence.
Trump's proclaimed "reassessment" of America's hemispheric military posture is essentially a reaction to the deepening crisis of imperialism that has plagued the U.S. since the 1970s and grown far more acute over the last two decades. While U.S. monopoly capital is still the main enemy of the peoples of the world, its global standing as the main imperialist is declining at an accelerating rate. The U.S. share of global economic output has plunged from around 40 percent in 1960 to roughly half that figure today. In Latin America U.S. shares of investment and trade partnership have decreased drastically in the last two decades particularly as countries turn to China for more advantageous deals. Currently China is the second largest trade partner of Latin America, with the U.S. being the first, and the European Union the third. From August 2024 to August 2025, China accounted for 20.9% of LAC exports (excluding Mexico), surpassing the U.S. (16.4%) and the European Union (12.4%).
The history of the dozens of U.S. intervention operations in Latin American and the Caribbean is one that relied on death, devastation, torture, and ruthless exploitation. The current U.S. escalation in Latin America marks a return to the gunboat diplomacy that characterized U.S. colonization of foreign nations at the end of the 19th century. It represents the same Biden-Obama strategy but with more brute force, far more desperate implementation, and without even the facade of respecting international law. Obama, Biden, and Bush each pursued and enacted regime change in Latin America, in places like Honduras and Haiti to weaken their rivals' influence in the region. Trump, in his turn, is pushing so-called “commercial diplomacy,” using direct military threats and actions against Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, and other countries to force rivals out of the territory and eliminate popular resistance and independent governments. In other cases, he co-opts the fascist ruling classes in allied countries, pushing the U.S. economic agenda through economic bribes or force.
In Venezuela, for example, the U.S. has moved from years of hybrid warfare, waged through economic sanctions and psychological warfare, to direct intervention. This invasion, that led to the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, aimed at destroying the Bolivarian revolution in order to curb the influence of rivals such as China, Russia, and Iran and resulted in the deaths of over 100 Venezuelan and Cuban troops. At the same time, the U.S. is increasing its support for fascist puppets elsewhere in Latin America, including Bukele in El Salvador and Milei in Argentina, while violently destabilizing Haiti by shipping weapons to anti-people paramilitary groups. Domestically, these foreign interventions are paired with a fascist onslaught against migrants within U.S. borders. The U.S. continues to occupy Puerto Rico and use it as the tip of the spear in its invasion of Venezuela, it also threatens further intervention against Cuba as it increases its regime of sanctions leading the island near to collapse and widespread power outages for their refusal to bow to imperialist dictates.
But as the U.S. scales up its aggression and war, the people’s resistance also rises, along with the need for solidarity with them. The Resist US-Led War movement is adding this addendum on Latin America and the Caribbean to the Anti-Militarism Agenda as a tool for education on the escalating U.S. tactics of intervention in LAC. Most fundamentally, however, it serves to highlight the people’s historic and current resistance to the U.S. desire to transform this region into a backyard that would sustain imperialist spoils through the plunder of the region’s natural resources and the exploitation of its people’s labor. LAC has been, and will continue to be, a bastion of anti-imperialism, from the victorious Bolivarian and Cuban revolutions and the fight against U.S.-backed bloodthirsty dictatorships in the 20th century, to the current fight against fascist agents returning to power and the struggle for native and peasant land.
This addendum has been developed in consultation with several organizations, members and allies of the Resist US-Led war movement.
Trinbago for Palestine, Venezuela Explicada, Processo de Comunidades Negras, Pesquisa e Assessoria Sindical e Popular (CEPASP), Dossiê Acre, Asamblea Popular Itinerante (API), Movimento de Mulheres Pela Paz na Palestina, Fórum Popular da Natureza (FPN)
2. Hands Off Latin America and the Caribbean: Stop using the War on Drugs to expand military presence in LAC and interfere in its internal affairs.
The long-standing U.S. “War on Drugs” has for decades served as a pretext for military expansion and interference in LAC. From Nixon’s designation of narcotrafficking as a national security threat, to Reagan’s narcoguerrilla theory to today’s “hybrid warfare” framework, recent escalations are being conducted under the guise of counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism dubbed “narcoterrorism.” The violence associated with Mexican cartels has been driven largely by demand from the United States drug market. The 2026 SOUTHCOM posture statement names 13 regional organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. It launched “Operation Southern Spear,” a new U.S. mission with the stated aim of dismantling drug networks operating throughout Latin America. The initiative gives an official name and expanded strategic framework to a campaign that the U.S. military has already been implementing in the region. This U.S. military terror has included joint U.S.-Ecuadorian bombings of farmers by framing them as drug traffickers and wide spread military disappearances of Ecuadorian youth; the January 3 military operation that took hostage Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and first combatant Cilia Flores; extrajudicially killing over 100 people through military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific waters; military style execution of Peruvian youth accused of drug trading; and the recent threats to kidnap former Bolivian President Evo Morales which demonstrate a pattern of direct military intervention.
Similarly in Mexico, the U.S. has escalated its War on Drugs operations against the cartels. The U.S. has taken advantage of armed conflict between drug cartels, by inserting CIA forces (as was recently documented when 2 undercover CIA agents were killed in a car crash) and using the anti-drug operations to destabilize and sustain unrest against the progressive government. The violence associated with Mexican cartels has been driven largely by demand from the United States drug market, but the measures to control it focus on stemming production and transport abroad. The war on drugs serves as counterinsurgency to attack the people's resistance movements for land and social justice. Communities that are targeted are assaulted twice, first by the violence of drug cartels, and second by the state- backed war on drugs.
The push for a Status of Forces Agreement in Paraguay to allow more US military, jungle warfare training in Panama, and Ecuador’s attempted constitutional change to allow foreign bases all confirm that the U.S.’s true goal is not drug control or any kind of public safety as these incursions have only furthered the harmful impacts of violent crime on communities. Instead, this phase of escalated War on Drugs and War on Terror is enforcing a modern Monroe Doctrine to expand U.S. geopolitical dominance in Latin America, through a politics of extermination, bringing in the military forces for extrajudicial action, expanding formal military bases, and taking over civilian infrastructure like ports and airports and communities for military staging for these operations.
The U.S. has enlisted the region’s militaries as its partners in militarized international drug enforcement, including those which are themselves implicated in drug corruption.The Trump strategy has again employed Latin America’s right wing U.S. puppet governments and their militaries into a continent-wide expanded military force, deepening further militarization. For example, in Ecuador, president Daniel Noboa, has pursued militarized crackdown with widespread human rights abuses. The high rates of de-facto military occupation of villages, using civilian infrastructure for staging anti-drug operations and the military kidnapping, disappearances and murder of civilians characterizes Ecuador's US-backed war on drugs. Communities cite complaints of the military camping out in their towns, and living in immense fear given the tragic rate of 9000 extrajudicial killings each year, adding to 25 homicides in Ecuador every day.
Ultimately today’s policy of foreign intervention and military counterinsurgency in combating "narcoterrorism" has caused widespread destabilization and damage to the social fabric of communities. The true root of the drug crisis lies not in the cartels which are a symptom of a disintegrated and export economy, due to the destabilization of the countries through military intervention over decades, and CIA involvement in planting the drug trade itself. Today's neoliberal crisis of the economies,shaped by U.S. trade policies, restructuring liberalization programs, and international debt,from the 80's onwards, led to substituting the cultivation sustainable agricultural production with coca production. Forms of drug control, like Plan Colombia, spread glycosphate over the Colombian countryside and destroyed crops, which damaged the productivity of the land.
The people are resisting this military offensive and promoting genuine alternatives like illicit crops substitution program (PNIS) in Colombia that center community autonomy and humanitarian peace agreements that truly promote self-determination and sustainable livelihood, not militarization. If the people of LAC can control their own land and produce sovereign production economies and stable livelihood for the landless farmers, that would be the biggest contribution to stemming the dangerous drug trade.
3. End U.S. intervention in foreign elections and defeat U.S.-backed fascist and puppet allies.
The U.S.'s latest involvement in Latin America’s political elections is part of a long tradition of U.S. interference from economic sanctions to covert operations to overthrowing governments. Today, the U.S. is meddling in elections to push a surge towards the right to shape the political landscape and pave the way for U.S. economic interests in LAC.
At the recent Counter Cartel Conference in March, White House security adviser Stephen Miller said that the United States would "not cede an inch of territory in this hemisphere," describing a doctrine that leans on "hard power, military power, [and] lethal force." The U.S. knows how to enlist the fascist element of the ruling class and bureaucrat capitalists inside Latin America in order to get its dominion over the Western Hemisphere and is using a series of significant national elections to try to eliminate any political resistance in the governments. Due to the stage of the crisis of U.S. decline, it is seeking to enlist fascist Latin American and Caribbean leaders loyal to the U.S. in the war over trade routes, resources as its hegemony becomes contested by China's rising influence on the continent and people's resistance.
After about 10 years of so-called Pink Tide governments in Latin America, the fascist right wing is positioning to take power in most countries. However, several key elections in 2026 are contested spaces where the people are asserting their resistance to this trend. In cases where progressive candidates are poised to win, like Iván Cepeda in Colombia, the U.S. is actively meddling, criminalizing President Guztavo Petro as part of the drug cartels, to try and install puppets committed to facilitating Trump’s agenda.
In Brazil, faced with the return of the son of former fascist president Jair Bolsonaro, the election in October will determine whether social democrat Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secures another term, or if the far-right regains power. While both candidates have served up Brazil's rare earth minerals and made investment deals that benefit the U.S. imperialists, Bolsonaro has shown it will hand off the entire country's future to U.S. imperialism, while Lula has resisted Trump's trade wars and called for national defense over the return of the Trump gun boat diplomacy.
In Bolivia, key Trump ally Rodrigo Paz has been in office for less than six months as of this writing and already suffered a major electoral setback and faced massive worker strikes in response to his attempt to eliminate fuel subsidies.Over the first three weeks of May, the Bolivian people have waged mass countrywide strikes, particularly among miners, campesinos and Indigenous peoples against neoliberal reforms of president Rodrigo Paz demanding his resignation. The Shield of the Americas has been employed as a tool of continent-wide counterinsurgency where Marco Rubio has called these protestors terrorists and vandals and backed up the repressive Bolivian forces calling to "defend the rule of law," when in fact those protesting from the peasant and Indigenous communities are the ancestral and constitutional stewards of Bolivia's land and resources. But the U.S. active media warfare against this rebellion by the Movimiento al Socialismo and recent plots to assassinate or extradite former president Evo Morales are clear signs that the U.S. is aligned with the fascist right wing in the country and they will illegally interfere in Bolivia to promote them.
Haiti stated it will hold its first general election in more than a decade in the second half of 2026, however the country has been completely destabilized by U.S. weapons. This crisis has made it nearly impossible to have a functional government, where UN, Kenyan, American and now Chadian military forces constantly intervene in Haiti's sovereignty.
A security mission backed by the UN has been running since 2024, but it has done little to improve public safety. The foreign intervention erodes democracy and the safety of the Haitian population while U.S. billionaires rake in profits from private security contracts.
In Chile's presidential election, the progressive Gabriel Borich lost to José Antonio Kast, a right-winger who expressed nostalgia for the 17-year U.S.-backed military dictatorship of General Agosto Pinochet. Even before taking power, Kast was invited to affiliate with Trump’s Shield of the Americas. In Perú, right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori is in the lead in an election rife with widespread fake news, terror tagging of left candidates and voters as well as ramped disinformation following the impeachment and detention of progressive president Pedro Castillo and the corruption cases that removed Dina Boluarte from office.
Over the decades, the U.S. has backed dictatorships, planted puppet governments, conducted regime change operations and flooded LAC with bribes, threats and military operations. This meddling in today's electoral space aims to try and shape the regional governments from the Pink Tide a decade ago to a hand picked set of US-puppets. However, from the uprisings in Bolivia to the land defense campaigns in Brazil, the people have always resisted these anti-people governments and continue to raise the call Yanki Fuera [U.S. Out!]!
4. End the expansion of U.S. military hubs and bases in Latin America and the Caribbean—our countries are not launching pads for imperialist war!
The U.S. National Defense Strategy envisions a more permanent, large-scale military presence in the region, including ongoing exercises and trainings and a push to open new or reopen former military bases.
A key case in point was the January 3 regime change operation on Venezuela, which required the largest build up of warships and forces in the Caribbean in generations, and the use of bases and civilian infrastructure across the region. This buildup led to the concentration of naval assets in the Caribbean, which at its peak included eight destroyers, two guided missile cruisers, two nuclear-powered submarines, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, and numerous support vessels. Operation Southern Spear and Operation Absolute Resolve, from August 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, is estimated to have cost at least $4.7 billion in government funds. "Operation Absolute Resolve" involved more than 150 aircraft: fighters, bombers, surveillance platforms, refueling tankers, and drones launched from at least 20 bases across the Western Hemisphere. During the Caribbean naval buildup, most forces relied on the civilian port of Ponce, in Haiti, as their home base. They also used civilian infrastructure to station radars in Trinidad and Tobago. And the U.S. has rapidly brought Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico back into service to support F-35s and brought in 15,000 American troops to stage for the invasion of Caracas.
While on paper the U.S. acknowledges very few U.S. overseas military bases in Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.S. has developed Status of Forces Agreements (SOFA) or access agreements to operate American forces for equipment deployment, training, and military operations without formal U.S. bases being established in many countries. New SOFA deals proliferated in the end of 2025 and start of 2026 to massively expand troop, training and staging presence in the continent. The U.S. secured military deals with Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago in December 2025. In these deals the U.S. has also exploited civilian infrastructure, seen in Trinidad and Tobago, where radar stations and U.S. troops using airports have staged cover for operations, including surveillance and preparation for bombing Venezuela. The Comalapa International Airport in El Salvador has seen significantly increased activity by MQ-9 Reaper drones and AC-130J Ghost Rider gunships operating in the eastern Pacific. Recent U.S. flyover operations and so-called “humanitarian extraction” exercises violently disrespect the sovereignty of Venezuela, a move firmly rejected by the popular masses.
In March 2026, Paraguay approved a defense measure for the temporary deployment of US troops for joint operations. The bill also gives the U.S. criminal jurisdiction over American troops while in the country, promoting a concerning geopolitics of impunity. Last August, Paraguay received its first ever US foreign military sale of Northrup Gruman's AN/TPS-78 Advanced Capability (ADCAP) ground-based long-range air surveillance radar,. This in addition to a new hyper scale data center to increase Paraguay's capacity for cyber operations and being used as a hub for further interference on the continent.
Recent agreements also included the “temporary” deployment of US air force troops to Ecuador despite Ecuadorians having rejected in a referendum the establishment of foreign military bases in November 2025. Peru's congress also granted authority to deploy US military and intelligence personnel to operate armed in the country after a request from the White House. The US has signed similar agreements with Guyana, the Dominican Republic and Panama, while other countries in the region have already been drawn into the military buildup against Venezuela through existing U.S. bases in Puerto Rico, Honduras and Cuba, and surveillance hubs at airports in El Salvador, Aruba and Curaçao. For countries that are not onboard with the U.S. Monroe Doctrine and interests, U.S. gunboat diplomacy is an implicit threat that the US military is right nearby and ready to be deployed.
Naval Station Guantánamo remains illegally occupying Cuba, with the capacity to host warships destroyer-sized or larger. The U.S. is financing new installations like the a coastguard on the protected Gorgona Island in the pacific off Colombia, without consultation with the Indigenous territories or the Afro-descendant community councils. In Colombia in Palenquero, there is an agreement for Blackhawk maintenance and training at the Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base.
This policing surveillance approach elevates U.S. involvement from drug enforcement collaboration to full military alliance as discussed in the War on Drugs section, exemplified by proposed Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) in Trinidad and Tobago, modeled on Jamaica's system, where ZOSO correlates with increased extrajudicial killings by police and military.
The people have historically risen up to defend the life and territorial rights of the local communities most directly affected by all forms of US military installations. Decades of organizing drove the U.S. Navy out from Vieques and Culebra in Puerto Rico, and Ecuadorians mobilized to defeat constitutional referendums that would have allowed U.S. military bases to be built in Ecuador's territory. These victories prove that a truly sovereign Latin America, as a Zone of Peace, without foreign bases or militarized international policing is possible if we fight for it.
5. End the murderous U.S. financing and training of militias and puppet governments against Indigenous Peoples and land defenders
Latin America remains the most unequal region in the world in terms of land tenure. Just 1.3% of landowners control over 70% of all agricultural land, while the vast majority of peasants and rural workers live in plots often under five hectares, struggling to survive with no access to credit and markets dominated by monoculture crops that they are forced to sell at a much lower price. This concentration of land is a direct product of colonization in which large estates, whether colonial haciendas, export-oriented agribusiness plantations, or modern corporate land grabs, have enjoyed state protection, infrastructure investment, and legal advantages, while peasant and Indigenous communities have been systematically displaced and criminalized for tilling the land. This extreme concentration of land creates a reserve army of dispossessed rural workers who have no choice but to labor for low wages on the lands that their ancestors have tilled for generations.
In this context the U.S. perpetuates a murderous financing apparatus that arms militias and puppet governments waging war against Indigenous Peoples and land defenders, driven by the pursuit of critical minerals such as lithium, copper, gold, and rare earth minerals, essential for military technologies, electronics, and the global green energy transition. It does so by financing weapons, training fascist state forces, contracted private security forces and paramilitary militias, interfering in elections, and supporting regimes that grant mining concessions after displacing peasants and Indigenous communities. This legal and military apparatus, entrenched in the puppet politics of many countries in Latin America, has a direct legacy in the School of the Americas, the U.S. military training center that for decades instructed Latin American officers in counterinsurgency doctrine and torture techniques. Through these channels, U.S. multinational corporations are financing a war against Indigenous Peoples, conducted by puppet regimes that Washington arms and trains. Latin America accounts for more than 80% of the assassinations of land defenders in the world, with Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil leading the statistics. Climate schemes like carbon trading, cap and trade, and other market-based mechanisms serve as the "green" extension of this same murderous financing apparatus, funneling resources away from the people, tilling and caring for the land by channeling capital into extractive industries, militarization, and financial speculation of land. Backed by the same institutions that profit from displacement, these programs often criminalize traditional stewardship, enable land grabbing, and reward the transnational corporation interests that financed the original violence.
Large-scale agribusiness corporations (Cargill, Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), among other transnational fruit, coffee, palm oil, and soy conglomerates) are direct beneficiaries of unequal trade and the violent dispossession of peasants and indigenous peoples. This happens through cheap land and labor gained by forced displacement when paramilitary violence clears Indigenous and peasant communities for monoculture export crops, through unequal trade agreements that criminalize family farming by eliminating tariffs on industrial agricultural exports while maintaining barriers on the basic grains peasants have grown for centuries, through contract farming and debt traps that lock farmers into cycles of debt, and through super-exploitation of rural workers who survive displacement and end up working 12–16 hour days for poverty wages without contracts or safety equipment.
Yet despite this relentless assault, Indigenous peoples and peasants continue to defend their land. In Brazil, at the Tapajós River basin, the Munduruku, Apiaká, Kayapó, and other Indigenous nations, alongside riverside peasant communities, physically blockaded mining barges and the facilities of U.S. company Cargill , and occupied federal agencies to halt the São Luiz do Tapajós and other mega-dam and open-pit gold mining projects that would have flooded ancestral cemeteries and poisoned their lifeblood waterways with mercury. Farmworkers and peasants in the state of Pará carry forward a legacy forged in resistance against the land expropriations enabled by the U.S.-backed dictatorship. Today, they continue to evolve their strategies, using land occupations, popular tribunals, and grassroots education to challenge ongoing dispossession. In the countryside of Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia, peasants have staged national strikes with hundreds of thousands participating. And across Latin America, peasants and the people reclaim territories seized by agribusiness and mining interests via occupation. While facing down paramilitary gunmen armed with U.S.-traced weapons, these movements and people reclaim and cultivate the land.
6. End the so-called "Shield of the Americas."
The Shield of the Americas, a coalition announced on March 7, 2026, in Doral Flroida by Donald Trump alongside right-wing Latin American leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Chile's president-elect at the time José Antonio Kast, is not a genuine alliance among sovereign and independent nations. Rather, it is a U.S.-led mechanism to further exercise U.S. dictates through its puppets in Latin America. The Shield of the Americas operationalizes the "enlist and expand" Western Hemisphere strategy laid out in the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy, which aims to "enlist" partner nations to control migration and stop drug flows while "expanding" U.S. preeminence using military operations to forcefully edge out its competitors in the region and secure strategic assets. The fascist-aligned leaders involved in this "alliance" are willing to subordinate Latin American defense forces to Washington's strategic interests instead of serving the needs of the region's peoples. The Shield of the Americas has its precedent in a long and bloody history of U.S. interventions in Latin America through the narrative "war on drugs", from the Cold War-era anti-communist pacts like the Rio Pact (1948) to the counterinsurgency operations of Plan Colombia (2000-2015) and the Mérida Initiative (2007-2021), providing funding for military equipment under the war on drugs frame, which supported Latin American militaries to commit widespread human rights violations, including torture, disappearances and state-backed killings. All have consistently militarized the region, protected U.S. corporate interests, and attempted to eradicate people's movements resisting U.S. imperialism, and many, like the Shield, under the pretense of the war on drugs and combating external threats to Latin American countries.
7. Hands off Cuba and Venezuela! Defend Cuba and Venezuela's Sovereignty!
As the primary countries in Latin America challenging U.S. domination over the region’s resources, people, and land, while also resisting the broader U.S.-led imperialist offensive, Cuba and Venezuela have become the main targets of an escalating U.S. campaign against the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
In Venezuela, this escalation took the form of direct military aggression. In a blatant act of invasion, the U.S. carried out attacks against civilian and military areas of Caracas, the capital, as well as the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira, killing over 100. According to testimonies, the parts of Caracas that were not bombed were hit by sound and thermal weapons, with planes and helicopters flying overhead. A large portion of the population continues to suffer psychological trauma from the invasion, and many women lost their children during the assault. Following the attack, President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores were captured and are now being illegally detained in a New York prison, facing fabricated charges of "narco-terrorism." These actions are the culmination of a decades-long hybrid war waged against Venezuela ever since the Bolivarian Revolution's victory in 1999. Through sanctions, intervention attempts, and media warfare, U.S. imperialism has relentlessly targeted not just the government, but the entire nation and its people. The Trump administration dramatically escalated this aggression during its first term, imposing devastating oil sanctions in 2019, unilaterally recognizing coup leader Juan Guaidó as so-called "interim president," and freezing Venezuelan state assets abroad. Continued under Biden, these measures severely crippled Venezuela's economy, blocking access to food, medicine, and basic commodities while strangling the country's ability to participate in international trade.
In Cuba, the Trump administration intensified its criminal blockade by signing an executive order on January 29, declaring a national emergency and authorizing new economic sanctions on any nation engaging in oil trade with the island. This move came shortly after U.S. military actions in Venezuela, which was historically Cuba’s main oil supplier and was forced to halt shipments to the island. Moreover, the U.S. has illegally seized oil tankers suspected of sailing to Cuba, from the Caribbean Sea as far as the Indian Ocean, and has declared further economic warfare against any state that does business with Cuba. This immense escalation of the decades-long blockade has triggered one of the most severe energy crises in Cuba’s history. Civilian and commercial flights have been limited due to jet fuel shortages, weakening freedom of movement and the country’s ability to import goods. Electricity cuts have impacted private homes, schools, hospitals, and economic production, pushing existing hardships to suffocating levels. As of this writing, the U.S. has also issued an indictment against Raúl Castro, former president of Cuba and former First Secretary of the Communist Party, a similar strategy used against Maduro before the U.S. invasion on Venezuela.
In both cases, the attacks come as a response to Venezuela and Cuba’s assertion of national sovereignty, transferring wealth to their people, choosing the path of independence and practicing international solidarity. Despite economic collapse and currency devaluation of its currency, widespread inflation and other economic and humanitarian problems caused by U.S. unilateral sanctions, Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution reorganized life with people at the center building communes. These nationwide self-governing bodies, rooted in the Bolivarian Revolution, coordinate food production and distribution, mutual aid, and crisis response at the street level, while serving as a political base for popular resistance. These structures buffered the worst impacts of sanctions during 2016–2021 and the COVID-19 crisis. The El Maizal Commune, one of the larger self-governed rural communes with 28 communal councils, produces food, manages collective labor, and runs political and technical training schools.
Similarly, Cuba’s socialist model has produced notable successes in public health, sports, and education. Among its public health achievements are international medical brigades, advanced research, pandemic response, service to under served populations, South-South cooperation initiatives, and the world’s highest doctor-to-patient ratio. These gains stand as a direct challenge to U.S. domination, and as a testament to why Cuba and Venezuela remain targets of imperialist escalation.
8. Stop the Zionist incursion in Latin America
The U.S. war agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean is becoming increasingly intertwined with the strategic and military expansion of Zionism and its proxies in the region, turning Latin America into a new hub for intelligence cooperation, resource extraction, and arms sales. This new front of Zionist expansion repeats the settler-colonial nature of its occupation in West Asia, exemplified by Israel’s growing influence over Patagonia’s natural resources. Leveraging free trade and investment incentives under Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei, Israel’s state-owned water company, Mekorot, which manages 80 percent of Palestine’s water resources and has been accused of systematic water theft against Palestinians, has secured concessions over the water supply of thirteen Argentine provinces, largely concentrated in the mineral-rich Andean region. Zionist weapons and technology companies have also embedded themselves within local police forces through cyber-surveillance partnerships and private security contracts. Argentina has replaced its traditional FAL rifles with Israeli Arad rifles, while Peru has acquired Elbit Systems’ PULS artillery rockets, weapons developed and “tested” in occupied Gaza before export. Fascist U.S. puppets like Jair Bolsonaro (president of Brazil from 2019-2022) expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military and visited the Western Wall with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while Argentine President Javier Milei, a self-described “fanatic of Israel,” has vowed to relocate Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem and pledged his “unalterable commitment to the state of Israel and its people in the fight against Islamic terrorism, for peace and freedom.”
Despite Zionist attempts to expand its influence, the movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people has grown exponentially in Latin America since October 7, 2023. Thousands have poured into the streets of São Paulo calling for an end to diplomatic ties between Brazil and Israel, and Lula’s government terminated military partnerships with the Zionist entity. In Colombia, Gustavo Petro has denounced Israel’s crimes against humanity and moved to fully cut ties with the Zionist state by banning major energy shipments to Israel’s war machine. In Cuba and Venezuela, the people and their revolutionary governments have continued their longstanding support for the Palestinian people and their revolutionary movement, from recognizing Palestine as a nation to offering refuge to those fleeing Israel’s massacre campaigns.
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Calls to Action
- Hands off Latin America!: Stop using the “war on drugs” to expand the military presence in Latin America and interfere in its internal affairs.
- End U.S. intervention in foreign elections and overthrow U.S.-backed fascist allies and puppet regimes.
- End the expansion of U.S. military centers and bases in Latin America and the Caribbean: our countries are not launching pads for imperialist war!
- End U.S. funding and training of murderous militias and puppet governments against indigenous peoples and land defenders.
- End the so-called “Shield of the Americas.”
- Hands off Cuba and Venezuela! Defend the sovereignty of Cuba and Venezuela!
- End Zionist encroachment in Latin America
1. Dismantle the Monroe Doctrine! Latin America and the Caribbean belongs to its people!
The kidnapping of President Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores by the U.S. on January 3, 2026, has brought sharp focus to the political and economic interests of the U.S. in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This act of aggression demonstrates that the U.S. is no longer even paying lip service to the international rules-based order established in the post-Second World War period. However, the kidnapping was not solely about gaining control over Venezuela’s rich oil resources; it was also a move to claim dominion over all of LAC. Recent U.S. documents, such as the 2025 National Security Strategy and the 2026 National Defense Strategy, have brazenly laid out U.S. claims to the “western hemisphere.” The U.S. has made it clear that it will aggressively fight any “foreign hostile incursion” meaning any country that dares to challenge U.S. imperialist domination of the region, whether through "better investment opportunities" or solidarity with countries fighting for national independence.
Trump's proclaimed "reassessment" of America's hemispheric military posture is essentially a reaction to the deepening crisis of imperialism that has plagued the U.S. since the 1970s and grown far more acute over the last two decades. While U.S. monopoly capital is still the main enemy of the peoples of the world, its global standing as the main imperialist is declining at an accelerating rate. The U.S. share of global economic output has plunged from around 40 percent in 1960 to roughly half that figure today. In Latin America U.S. shares of investment and trade partnership have decreased drastically in the last two decades particularly as countries turn to China for more advantageous deals. Currently China is the second largest trade partner of Latin America, with the U.S. being the first, and the European Union the third. From August 2024 to August 2025, China accounted for 20.9% of LAC exports (excluding Mexico), surpassing the U.S. (16.4%) and the European Union (12.4%).
The history of the dozens of U.S. intervention operations in Latin American and the Caribbean is one that relied on death, devastation, torture, and ruthless exploitation. The current U.S. escalation in Latin America marks a return to the gunboat diplomacy that characterized U.S. colonization of foreign nations at the end of the 19th century. It represents the same Biden-Obama strategy but with more brute force, far more desperate implementation, and without even the facade of respecting international law. Obama, Biden, and Bush each pursued and enacted regime change in Latin America, in places like Honduras and Haiti to weaken their rivals' influence in the region. Trump, in his turn, is pushing so-called “commercial diplomacy,” using direct military threats and actions against Venezuela, Cuba, Mexico, and other countries to force rivals out of the territory and eliminate popular resistance and independent governments. In other cases, he co-opts the fascist ruling classes in allied countries, pushing the U.S. economic agenda through economic bribes or force.
In Venezuela, for example, the U.S. has moved from years of hybrid warfare, waged through economic sanctions and psychological warfare, to direct intervention. This invasion, that led to the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, aimed at destroying the Bolivarian revolution in order to curb the influence of rivals such as China, Russia, and Iran and resulted in the deaths of over 100 Venezuelan and Cuban troops. At the same time, the U.S. is increasing its support for fascist puppets elsewhere in Latin America, including Bukele in El Salvador and Milei in Argentina, while violently destabilizing Haiti by shipping weapons to anti-people paramilitary groups. Domestically, these foreign interventions are paired with a fascist onslaught against migrants within U.S. borders. The U.S. continues to occupy Puerto Rico and use it as the tip of the spear in its invasion of Venezuela, it also threatens further intervention against Cuba as it increases its regime of sanctions leading the island near to collapse and widespread power outages for their refusal to bow to imperialist dictates.
But as the U.S. scales up its aggression and war, the people’s resistance also rises, along with the need for solidarity with them. The Resist US-Led War movement is adding this addendum on Latin America and the Caribbean to the Anti-Militarism Agenda as a tool for education on the escalating U.S. tactics of intervention in LAC. Most fundamentally, however, it serves to highlight the people’s historic and current resistance to the U.S. desire to transform this region into a backyard that would sustain imperialist spoils through the plunder of the region’s natural resources and the exploitation of its people’s labor. LAC has been, and will continue to be, a bastion of anti-imperialism, from the victorious Bolivarian and Cuban revolutions and the fight against U.S.-backed bloodthirsty dictatorships in the 20th century, to the current fight against fascist agents returning to power and the struggle for native and peasant land.
This addendum has been developed in consultation with several organizations, members and allies of the Resist US-Led war movement.
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2. Hands Off Latin America and the Caribbean: Stop using the War on Drugs to expand military presence in LAC and interfere in its internal affairs.
The long-standing U.S. “War on Drugs” has for decades served as a pretext for military expansion and interference in LAC. From Nixon’s designation of narcotrafficking as a national security threat, to Reagan’s narcoguerrilla theory to today’s “hybrid warfare” framework, recent escalations are being conducted under the guise of counter-narcotics and counter-terrorism dubbed “narcoterrorism.” The violence associated with Mexican cartels has been driven largely by demand from the United States drug market. The 2026 SOUTHCOM posture statement names 13 regional organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. It launched “Operation Southern Spear,” a new U.S. mission with the stated aim of dismantling drug networks operating throughout Latin America. The initiative gives an official name and expanded strategic framework to a campaign that the U.S. military has already been implementing in the region. This U.S. military terror has included joint U.S.-Ecuadorian bombings of farmers by framing them as drug traffickers and wide spread military disappearances of Ecuadorian youth; the January 3 military operation that took hostage Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and first combatant Cilia Flores; extrajudicially killing over 100 people through military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific waters; military style execution of Peruvian youth accused of drug trading; and the recent threats to kidnap former Bolivian President Evo Morales which demonstrate a pattern of direct military intervention.
Similarly in Mexico, the U.S. has escalated its War on Drugs operations against the cartels. The U.S. has taken advantage of armed conflict between drug cartels, by inserting CIA forces (as was recently documented when 2 undercover CIA agents were killed in a car crash) and using the anti-drug operations to destabilize and sustain unrest against the progressive government. The violence associated with Mexican cartels has been driven largely by demand from the United States drug market, but the measures to control it focus on stemming production and transport abroad. The war on drugs serves as counterinsurgency to attack the people's resistance movements for land and social justice. Communities that are targeted are assaulted twice, first by the violence of drug cartels, and second by the state- backed war on drugs.
The push for a Status of Forces Agreement in Paraguay to allow more US military, jungle warfare training in Panama, and Ecuador’s attempted constitutional change to allow foreign bases all confirm that the U.S.’s true goal is not drug control or any kind of public safety as these incursions have only furthered the harmful impacts of violent crime on communities. Instead, this phase of escalated War on Drugs and War on Terror is enforcing a modern Monroe Doctrine to expand U.S. geopolitical dominance in Latin America, through a politics of extermination, bringing in the military forces for extrajudicial action, expanding formal military bases, and taking over civilian infrastructure like ports and airports and communities for military staging for these operations.
The U.S. has enlisted the region’s militaries as its partners in militarized international drug enforcement, including those which are themselves implicated in drug corruption.The Trump strategy has again employed Latin America’s right wing U.S. puppet governments and their militaries into a continent-wide expanded military force, deepening further militarization. For example, in Ecuador, president Daniel Noboa, has pursued militarized crackdown with widespread human rights abuses. The high rates of de-facto military occupation of villages, using civilian infrastructure for staging anti-drug operations and the military kidnapping, disappearances and murder of civilians characterizes Ecuador's US-backed war on drugs. Communities cite complaints of the military camping out in their towns, and living in immense fear given the tragic rate of 9000 extrajudicial killings each year, adding to 25 homicides in Ecuador every day.
Ultimately today’s policy of foreign intervention and military counterinsurgency in combating "narcoterrorism" has caused widespread destabilization and damage to the social fabric of communities. The true root of the drug crisis lies not in the cartels which are a symptom of a disintegrated and export economy, due to the destabilization of the countries through military intervention over decades, and CIA involvement in planting the drug trade itself. Today's neoliberal crisis of the economies,shaped by U.S. trade policies, restructuring liberalization programs, and international debt,from the 80's onwards, led to substituting the cultivation sustainable agricultural production with coca production. Forms of drug control, like Plan Colombia, spread glycosphate over the Colombian countryside and destroyed crops, which damaged the productivity of the land.
The people are resisting this military offensive and promoting genuine alternatives like illicit crops substitution program (PNIS) in Colombia that center community autonomy and humanitarian peace agreements that truly promote self-determination and sustainable livelihood, not militarization. If the people of LAC can control their own land and produce sovereign production economies and stable livelihood for the landless farmers, that would be the biggest contribution to stemming the dangerous drug trade.
3. End U.S. intervention in foreign elections and defeat U.S.-backed fascist and puppet allies.
The U.S.'s latest involvement in Latin America’s political elections is part of a long tradition of U.S. interference from economic sanctions to covert operations to overthrowing governments. Today, the U.S. is meddling in elections to push a surge towards the right to shape the political landscape and pave the way for U.S. economic interests in LAC.
At the recent Counter Cartel Conference in March, White House security adviser Stephen Miller said that the United States would "not cede an inch of territory in this hemisphere," describing a doctrine that leans on "hard power, military power, [and] lethal force." The U.S. knows how to enlist the fascist element of the ruling class and bureaucrat capitalists inside Latin America in order to get its dominion over the Western Hemisphere and is using a series of significant national elections to try to eliminate any political resistance in the governments. Due to the stage of the crisis of U.S. decline, it is seeking to enlist fascist Latin American and Caribbean leaders loyal to the U.S. in the war over trade routes, resources as its hegemony becomes contested by China's rising influence on the continent and people's resistance.
After about 10 years of so-called Pink Tide governments in Latin America, the fascist right wing is positioning to take power in most countries. However, several key elections in 2026 are contested spaces where the people are asserting their resistance to this trend. In cases where progressive candidates are poised to win, like Iván Cepeda in Colombia, the U.S. is actively meddling, criminalizing President Guztavo Petro as part of the drug cartels, to try and install puppets committed to facilitating Trump’s agenda.
In Brazil, faced with the return of the son of former fascist president Jair Bolsonaro, the election in October will determine whether social democrat Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva secures another term, or if the far-right regains power. While both candidates have served up Brazil's rare earth minerals and made investment deals that benefit the U.S. imperialists, Bolsonaro has shown it will hand off the entire country's future to U.S. imperialism, while Lula has resisted Trump's trade wars and called for national defense over the return of the Trump gun boat diplomacy.
In Bolivia, key Trump ally Rodrigo Paz has been in office for less than six months as of this writing and already suffered a major electoral setback and faced massive worker strikes in response to his attempt to eliminate fuel subsidies.Over the first three weeks of May, the Bolivian people have waged mass countrywide strikes, particularly among miners, campesinos and Indigenous peoples against neoliberal reforms of president Rodrigo Paz demanding his resignation. The Shield of the Americas has been employed as a tool of continent-wide counterinsurgency where Marco Rubio has called these protestors terrorists and vandals and backed up the repressive Bolivian forces calling to "defend the rule of law," when in fact those protesting from the peasant and Indigenous communities are the ancestral and constitutional stewards of Bolivia's land and resources. But the U.S. active media warfare against this rebellion by the Movimiento al Socialismo and recent plots to assassinate or extradite former president Evo Morales are clear signs that the U.S. is aligned with the fascist right wing in the country and they will illegally interfere in Bolivia to promote them.
Haiti stated it will hold its first general election in more than a decade in the second half of 2026, however the country has been completely destabilized by U.S. weapons. This crisis has made it nearly impossible to have a functional government, where UN, Kenyan, American and now Chadian military forces constantly intervene in Haiti's sovereignty.
A security mission backed by the UN has been running since 2024, but it has done little to improve public safety. The foreign intervention erodes democracy and the safety of the Haitian population while U.S. billionaires rake in profits from private security contracts.
In Chile's presidential election, the progressive Gabriel Borich lost to José Antonio Kast, a right-winger who expressed nostalgia for the 17-year U.S.-backed military dictatorship of General Agosto Pinochet. Even before taking power, Kast was invited to affiliate with Trump’s Shield of the Americas. In Perú, right-wing politician Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori is in the lead in an election rife with widespread fake news, terror tagging of left candidates and voters as well as ramped disinformation following the impeachment and detention of progressive president Pedro Castillo and the corruption cases that removed Dina Boluarte from office.
Over the decades, the U.S. has backed dictatorships, planted puppet governments, conducted regime change operations and flooded LAC with bribes, threats and military operations. This meddling in today's electoral space aims to try and shape the regional governments from the Pink Tide a decade ago to a hand picked set of US-puppets. However, from the uprisings in Bolivia to the land defense campaigns in Brazil, the people have always resisted these anti-people governments and continue to raise the call Yanki Fuera [U.S. Out!]!
4. End the expansion of U.S. military hubs and bases in Latin America and the Caribbean—our countries are not launching pads for imperialist war!
The U.S. National Defense Strategy envisions a more permanent, large-scale military presence in the region, including ongoing exercises and trainings and a push to open new or reopen former military bases.
A key case in point was the January 3 regime change operation on Venezuela, which required the largest build up of warships and forces in the Caribbean in generations, and the use of bases and civilian infrastructure across the region. This buildup led to the concentration of naval assets in the Caribbean, which at its peak included eight destroyers, two guided missile cruisers, two nuclear-powered submarines, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, and numerous support vessels. Operation Southern Spear and Operation Absolute Resolve, from August 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026, is estimated to have cost at least $4.7 billion in government funds. "Operation Absolute Resolve" involved more than 150 aircraft: fighters, bombers, surveillance platforms, refueling tankers, and drones launched from at least 20 bases across the Western Hemisphere. During the Caribbean naval buildup, most forces relied on the civilian port of Ponce, in Haiti, as their home base. They also used civilian infrastructure to station radars in Trinidad and Tobago. And the U.S. has rapidly brought Naval Station Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico back into service to support F-35s and brought in 15,000 American troops to stage for the invasion of Caracas.
While on paper the U.S. acknowledges very few U.S. overseas military bases in Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.S. has developed Status of Forces Agreements (SOFA) or access agreements to operate American forces for equipment deployment, training, and military operations without formal U.S. bases being established in many countries. New SOFA deals proliferated in the end of 2025 and start of 2026 to massively expand troop, training and staging presence in the continent. The U.S. secured military deals with Paraguay, Ecuador, Peru and Trinidad and Tobago in December 2025. In these deals the U.S. has also exploited civilian infrastructure, seen in Trinidad and Tobago, where radar stations and U.S. troops using airports have staged cover for operations, including surveillance and preparation for bombing Venezuela. The Comalapa International Airport in El Salvador has seen significantly increased activity by MQ-9 Reaper drones and AC-130J Ghost Rider gunships operating in the eastern Pacific. Recent U.S. flyover operations and so-called “humanitarian extraction” exercises violently disrespect the sovereignty of Venezuela, a move firmly rejected by the popular masses.
In March 2026, Paraguay approved a defense measure for the temporary deployment of US troops for joint operations. The bill also gives the U.S. criminal jurisdiction over American troops while in the country, promoting a concerning geopolitics of impunity. Last August, Paraguay received its first ever US foreign military sale of Northrup Gruman's AN/TPS-78 Advanced Capability (ADCAP) ground-based long-range air surveillance radar,. This in addition to a new hyper scale data center to increase Paraguay's capacity for cyber operations and being used as a hub for further interference on the continent.
Recent agreements also included the “temporary” deployment of US air force troops to Ecuador despite Ecuadorians having rejected in a referendum the establishment of foreign military bases in November 2025. Peru's congress also granted authority to deploy US military and intelligence personnel to operate armed in the country after a request from the White House. The US has signed similar agreements with Guyana, the Dominican Republic and Panama, while other countries in the region have already been drawn into the military buildup against Venezuela through existing U.S. bases in Puerto Rico, Honduras and Cuba, and surveillance hubs at airports in El Salvador, Aruba and Curaçao. For countries that are not onboard with the U.S. Monroe Doctrine and interests, U.S. gunboat diplomacy is an implicit threat that the US military is right nearby and ready to be deployed.
Naval Station Guantánamo remains illegally occupying Cuba, with the capacity to host warships destroyer-sized or larger. The U.S. is financing new installations like the a coastguard on the protected Gorgona Island in the pacific off Colombia, without consultation with the Indigenous territories or the Afro-descendant community councils. In Colombia in Palenquero, there is an agreement for Blackhawk maintenance and training at the Captain Germán Olano Moreno Air Base.
This policing surveillance approach elevates U.S. involvement from drug enforcement collaboration to full military alliance as discussed in the War on Drugs section, exemplified by proposed Zones of Special Operations (ZOSO) in Trinidad and Tobago, modeled on Jamaica's system, where ZOSO correlates with increased extrajudicial killings by police and military.
The people have historically risen up to defend the life and territorial rights of the local communities most directly affected by all forms of US military installations. Decades of organizing drove the U.S. Navy out from Vieques and Culebra in Puerto Rico, and Ecuadorians mobilized to defeat constitutional referendums that would have allowed U.S. military bases to be built in Ecuador's territory. These victories prove that a truly sovereign Latin America, as a Zone of Peace, without foreign bases or militarized international policing is possible if we fight for it.
5. End the murderous U.S. financing and training of militias and puppet governments against Indigenous Peoples and land defenders
Latin America remains the most unequal region in the world in terms of land tenure. Just 1.3% of landowners control over 70% of all agricultural land, while the vast majority of peasants and rural workers live in plots often under five hectares, struggling to survive with no access to credit and markets dominated by monoculture crops that they are forced to sell at a much lower price. This concentration of land is a direct product of colonization in which large estates, whether colonial haciendas, export-oriented agribusiness plantations, or modern corporate land grabs, have enjoyed state protection, infrastructure investment, and legal advantages, while peasant and Indigenous communities have been systematically displaced and criminalized for tilling the land. This extreme concentration of land creates a reserve army of dispossessed rural workers who have no choice but to labor for low wages on the lands that their ancestors have tilled for generations.
In this context the U.S. perpetuates a murderous financing apparatus that arms militias and puppet governments waging war against Indigenous Peoples and land defenders, driven by the pursuit of critical minerals such as lithium, copper, gold, and rare earth minerals, essential for military technologies, electronics, and the global green energy transition. It does so by financing weapons, training fascist state forces, contracted private security forces and paramilitary militias, interfering in elections, and supporting regimes that grant mining concessions after displacing peasants and Indigenous communities. This legal and military apparatus, entrenched in the puppet politics of many countries in Latin America, has a direct legacy in the School of the Americas, the U.S. military training center that for decades instructed Latin American officers in counterinsurgency doctrine and torture techniques. Through these channels, U.S. multinational corporations are financing a war against Indigenous Peoples, conducted by puppet regimes that Washington arms and trains. Latin America accounts for more than 80% of the assassinations of land defenders in the world, with Colombia, Mexico, and Brazil leading the statistics. Climate schemes like carbon trading, cap and trade, and other market-based mechanisms serve as the "green" extension of this same murderous financing apparatus, funneling resources away from the people, tilling and caring for the land by channeling capital into extractive industries, militarization, and financial speculation of land. Backed by the same institutions that profit from displacement, these programs often criminalize traditional stewardship, enable land grabbing, and reward the transnational corporation interests that financed the original violence.
Large-scale agribusiness corporations (Cargill, Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), among other transnational fruit, coffee, palm oil, and soy conglomerates) are direct beneficiaries of unequal trade and the violent dispossession of peasants and indigenous peoples. This happens through cheap land and labor gained by forced displacement when paramilitary violence clears Indigenous and peasant communities for monoculture export crops, through unequal trade agreements that criminalize family farming by eliminating tariffs on industrial agricultural exports while maintaining barriers on the basic grains peasants have grown for centuries, through contract farming and debt traps that lock farmers into cycles of debt, and through super-exploitation of rural workers who survive displacement and end up working 12–16 hour days for poverty wages without contracts or safety equipment.
Yet despite this relentless assault, Indigenous peoples and peasants continue to defend their land. In Brazil, at the Tapajós River basin, the Munduruku, Apiaká, Kayapó, and other Indigenous nations, alongside riverside peasant communities, physically blockaded mining barges and the facilities of U.S. company Cargill , and occupied federal agencies to halt the São Luiz do Tapajós and other mega-dam and open-pit gold mining projects that would have flooded ancestral cemeteries and poisoned their lifeblood waterways with mercury. Farmworkers and peasants in the state of Pará carry forward a legacy forged in resistance against the land expropriations enabled by the U.S.-backed dictatorship. Today, they continue to evolve their strategies, using land occupations, popular tribunals, and grassroots education to challenge ongoing dispossession. In the countryside of Colombia, Ecuador, and Bolivia, peasants have staged national strikes with hundreds of thousands participating. And across Latin America, peasants and the people reclaim territories seized by agribusiness and mining interests via occupation. While facing down paramilitary gunmen armed with U.S.-traced weapons, these movements and people reclaim and cultivate the land.
6. End the so-called "Shield of the Americas."
The Shield of the Americas, a coalition announced on March 7, 2026, in Doral Flroida by Donald Trump alongside right-wing Latin American leaders of Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Chile's president-elect at the time José Antonio Kast, is not a genuine alliance among sovereign and independent nations. Rather, it is a U.S.-led mechanism to further exercise U.S. dictates through its puppets in Latin America. The Shield of the Americas operationalizes the "enlist and expand" Western Hemisphere strategy laid out in the 2025 U.S. National Security Strategy, which aims to "enlist" partner nations to control migration and stop drug flows while "expanding" U.S. preeminence using military operations to forcefully edge out its competitors in the region and secure strategic assets. The fascist-aligned leaders involved in this "alliance" are willing to subordinate Latin American defense forces to Washington's strategic interests instead of serving the needs of the region's peoples. The Shield of the Americas has its precedent in a long and bloody history of U.S. interventions in Latin America through the narrative "war on drugs", from the Cold War-era anti-communist pacts like the Rio Pact (1948) to the counterinsurgency operations of Plan Colombia (2000-2015) and the Mérida Initiative (2007-2021), providing funding for military equipment under the war on drugs frame, which supported Latin American militaries to commit widespread human rights violations, including torture, disappearances and state-backed killings. All have consistently militarized the region, protected U.S. corporate interests, and attempted to eradicate people's movements resisting U.S. imperialism, and many, like the Shield, under the pretense of the war on drugs and combating external threats to Latin American countries.
7. Hands off Cuba and Venezuela! Defend Cuba and Venezuela's Sovereignty!
As the primary countries in Latin America challenging U.S. domination over the region’s resources, people, and land, while also resisting the broader U.S.-led imperialist offensive, Cuba and Venezuela have become the main targets of an escalating U.S. campaign against the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.
In Venezuela, this escalation took the form of direct military aggression. In a blatant act of invasion, the U.S. carried out attacks against civilian and military areas of Caracas, the capital, as well as the states of Miranda, Aragua, and La Guaira, killing over 100. According to testimonies, the parts of Caracas that were not bombed were hit by sound and thermal weapons, with planes and helicopters flying overhead. A large portion of the population continues to suffer psychological trauma from the invasion, and many women lost their children during the assault. Following the attack, President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores were captured and are now being illegally detained in a New York prison, facing fabricated charges of "narco-terrorism." These actions are the culmination of a decades-long hybrid war waged against Venezuela ever since the Bolivarian Revolution's victory in 1999. Through sanctions, intervention attempts, and media warfare, U.S. imperialism has relentlessly targeted not just the government, but the entire nation and its people. The Trump administration dramatically escalated this aggression during its first term, imposing devastating oil sanctions in 2019, unilaterally recognizing coup leader Juan Guaidó as so-called "interim president," and freezing Venezuelan state assets abroad. Continued under Biden, these measures severely crippled Venezuela's economy, blocking access to food, medicine, and basic commodities while strangling the country's ability to participate in international trade.
In Cuba, the Trump administration intensified its criminal blockade by signing an executive order on January 29, declaring a national emergency and authorizing new economic sanctions on any nation engaging in oil trade with the island. This move came shortly after U.S. military actions in Venezuela, which was historically Cuba’s main oil supplier and was forced to halt shipments to the island. Moreover, the U.S. has illegally seized oil tankers suspected of sailing to Cuba, from the Caribbean Sea as far as the Indian Ocean, and has declared further economic warfare against any state that does business with Cuba. This immense escalation of the decades-long blockade has triggered one of the most severe energy crises in Cuba’s history. Civilian and commercial flights have been limited due to jet fuel shortages, weakening freedom of movement and the country’s ability to import goods. Electricity cuts have impacted private homes, schools, hospitals, and economic production, pushing existing hardships to suffocating levels. As of this writing, the U.S. has also issued an indictment against Raúl Castro, former president of Cuba and former First Secretary of the Communist Party, a similar strategy used against Maduro before the U.S. invasion on Venezuela.
In both cases, the attacks come as a response to Venezuela and Cuba’s assertion of national sovereignty, transferring wealth to their people, choosing the path of independence and practicing international solidarity. Despite economic collapse and currency devaluation of its currency, widespread inflation and other economic and humanitarian problems caused by U.S. unilateral sanctions, Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution reorganized life with people at the center building communes. These nationwide self-governing bodies, rooted in the Bolivarian Revolution, coordinate food production and distribution, mutual aid, and crisis response at the street level, while serving as a political base for popular resistance. These structures buffered the worst impacts of sanctions during 2016–2021 and the COVID-19 crisis. The El Maizal Commune, one of the larger self-governed rural communes with 28 communal councils, produces food, manages collective labor, and runs political and technical training schools.
Similarly, Cuba’s socialist model has produced notable successes in public health, sports, and education. Among its public health achievements are international medical brigades, advanced research, pandemic response, service to under served populations, South-South cooperation initiatives, and the world’s highest doctor-to-patient ratio. These gains stand as a direct challenge to U.S. domination, and as a testament to why Cuba and Venezuela remain targets of imperialist escalation.
8. Stop the Zionist incursion in Latin America
The U.S. war agenda in Latin America and the Caribbean is becoming increasingly intertwined with the strategic and military expansion of Zionism and its proxies in the region, turning Latin America into a new hub for intelligence cooperation, resource extraction, and arms sales. This new front of Zionist expansion repeats the settler-colonial nature of its occupation in West Asia, exemplified by Israel’s growing influence over Patagonia’s natural resources. Leveraging free trade and investment incentives under Argentina’s far-right president, Javier Milei, Israel’s state-owned water company, Mekorot, which manages 80 percent of Palestine’s water resources and has been accused of systematic water theft against Palestinians, has secured concessions over the water supply of thirteen Argentine provinces, largely concentrated in the mineral-rich Andean region. Zionist weapons and technology companies have also embedded themselves within local police forces through cyber-surveillance partnerships and private security contracts. Argentina has replaced its traditional FAL rifles with Israeli Arad rifles, while Peru has acquired Elbit Systems’ PULS artillery rockets, weapons developed and “tested” in occupied Gaza before export. Fascist U.S. puppets like Jair Bolsonaro (president of Brazil from 2019-2022) expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military and visited the Western Wall with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while Argentine President Javier Milei, a self-described “fanatic of Israel,” has vowed to relocate Argentina’s embassy to Jerusalem and pledged his “unalterable commitment to the state of Israel and its people in the fight against Islamic terrorism, for peace and freedom.”
Despite Zionist attempts to expand its influence, the movement of solidarity with the Palestinian people has grown exponentially in Latin America since October 7, 2023. Thousands have poured into the streets of São Paulo calling for an end to diplomatic ties between Brazil and Israel, and Lula’s government terminated military partnerships with the Zionist entity. In Colombia, Gustavo Petro has denounced Israel’s crimes against humanity and moved to fully cut ties with the Zionist state by banning major energy shipments to Israel’s war machine. In Cuba and Venezuela, the people and their revolutionary governments have continued their longstanding support for the Palestinian people and their revolutionary movement, from recognizing Palestine as a nation to offering refuge to those fleeing Israel’s massacre campaigns.