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12/10/2025 ¡Para ganar la independencia y los derechos populares, Fin al Control Colonial! ¡Resista a la Guerra Liderada por Estados Unidos!Read Now El Día Internacional de Acción confronta la militarización actual de nuestras naciones y lucha por el fin del control colonial e imperialista.
En este Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos y aniversario de la firma del Tratado de París de 1898, el Movimiento de Resistencia a la Guerra Americana rechaza vehementemente el legado imperialista de este tratado de 1898. El Tratado de París consolidó el imperialismo estadounidense más allá del continente norteamericano e inició el período extremadamente violento de expansión, colonialismo y neocolonialismo en fuera de los Estados Unidos. Su legado se refleja ahora con mayor potencia en la continua expansión militar, ocupación y guerras de agresión que Estados Unidos libra violentamente en un intento por imponer su poder hegemónico sobre las tierras, los recursos y las vidas de los pueblos. Resistencia se une a los pueblos amantes de la paz del mundo para reafirmar nuestra decisión de denunciar y oponernos a todos los aspectos de la guerra y el imperialismo liderados por Estados Unidos, inspirándonos en el largo y orgulloso legado de las luchas de liberación nacional que han combatido incansablemente al imperialismo estadounidense desde antes, durante y después de 1898. El imperialismo estadounidense ha utilizado su poderío militar para expandir violentamente sus fronteras desde la creación de Estados Unidos. Libró una guerra de genocidio contra los pueblos indígenas del continente, viéndose obligado a enfrentarse a los numerosos pueblos que se alzaron en armas para defender sus tierras de los invasores coloniales. Al llegar a la costa del Pacífico, el imperialismo estadounidense comenzó a planificar su ascenso como potencia naval y a buscar nuevas conquistas coloniales, utilizando las mismas armas de guerra que libró contra los pueblos indígenas de Norteamérica y contra los pueblos de otras naciones y territorios del Pacífico, el Caribe y Centroamérica. La Guerra Hispano-Americano vio a Estados Unidos, una potencia imperialista en ascenso, derrotar a España, una potencia imperialista en declive, y, por lo tanto, reclamar los territorios coloniales españoles. El Tratado de París de 1898 transfirió el control colonial de España a Estados Unidos sobre Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam y Filipinas. Además, el Congreso estadounidense aprobó una resolución conjunta ese mismo año para anexar fraudulentamente Hawái, que ya se encontraba bajo ocupación militar y control colonial de facto desde la intervención estadounidense en 1883. Esto marcó el nacimiento de Estados Unidos como imperio global, y fue a través del saqueo y la militarización de estas tierras que comenzó a consolidarse como la principal superpotencia terrorista que sigue siendo hoy. Estados Unidos utilizó estratégicamente su nuevo control colonial sobre estos países para enriquecerse mediante el robo de recursos naturales y la fuerza laboral de sus pueblos, y para posicionar a sus fuerzas armadas en lugares estratégicos. Hoy, por ejemplo, Estados Unidos está reuniendo todo su poderío militar para invadir la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. Armas probadas en ejercicios militares en Hawái, Guam y Filipinas se están utilizando para asesinar extrajudicialmente a civiles en el Caribe, y las tropas se están concentrando en Puerto Rico, preparándose para un asalto a gran escala. Hasta el día de hoy, Puerto Rico, Guam, Filipinas, Cuba y Hawái continúan enfrentando la opresión de Estados Unidos, ya sea mediante el colonialismo continuo a través de la "estatalidad" en el caso de Hawái o "territorio no incorporado" (bajo ocupación ilegal por Estados Unidos), Guam y Puerto Rico; y el neocolonialismo a través de gobiernos títeres respaldados por Estados Unidos en el caso de Filipinas; o mediante un brutal régimen de sanciones económicas y un bloqueo estadounidense en el caso de Cuba. Si bien cada uno de estos países enfrentó muchos años de saqueo y explotación imperialista incluso antes del Tratado de París, 1898 marcó una nueva ofensiva de opresión contra los pueblos que ahora viven directamente bajo el colonialismo estadounidense. Esto implicó el desmantelamiento de la economía, la devaluación de la moneda y el subdesarrollo intencional de la salud, la infraestructura, la educación y otros servicios públicos.Como resultado de las economías orientadas a la exportación y dependientes de las importaciones de estos países, la población se enfrenta a un desempleo generalizado, duras condiciones laborales en plantaciones agrícolas, minas y trabajo doméstico en casas de colonos y edificios gubernamentales coloniales, así como a una precaria situación de vida, lo que ha obligado a millones de personas a emigrar al extranjero para sobrevivir. El saqueo de los recursos ha deprivado a la población de su soberanía alimentaria e hídrica, mientras que la contaminación y otras degradaciones ambientales han provocado enfermedades generalizadas, desnutrición y otros problemas de salud. Las extensas bases militares, los ejercicios y las pruebas con fuego real en las tierras y aguas de estos países resultan en la destrucción del medio ambiente, la profanación de tierras indígenas sagradas, la violencia sistemática contra las mujeres, el encadenamiento económico al complejo militar-industrial estadounidense y, en última instancia, la colocación de comunidades enteras en el punto de mira de una guerra mundial liderada por Estados Unidos. Además, las campañas de propaganda militar se dirigen directamente a la juventud de estas naciones para inculcar un nacionalismo estadounidense reaccionario u otros sentimientos de falsa benevolencia hacia Estados Unidos con el fin de reclutar personas, especialmente jóvenes, para luchar en guerras de agresión estadounidenses y sofocar su historia patriótica revolucionaria. Sin embargo, si bien cada uno de estos países enfrentó una violencia severa contra su pueblo, la destrucción del medio ambiente y el saqueo de sus recursos, han persistido firmemente en su resistencia al imperialismo estadounidense. El pueblo filipino, tras haber obtenido su propia victoria contra el colonialismo español antes de la invasión estadounidense, luchó contra todos los regímenes títeres estadounidenses que han gobernado el archipiélago, expulsó con éxito todas las bases militares oficiales estadounidenses del país durante la década de 1990 y continúa librando una guerra popular por la plena liberación nacional. El pueblo puertorriqueño, desde la rebelión del Grito de Lares de 1868 contra España, ha luchado contra todas las formas de colonialismo estadounidense, tanto en el archipiélago como en el continente norteamericano, expulsó con éxito a la Marina estadounidense de Vieques en 2003 y continúa resistiendo las brutales medidas de austeridad económica de la Ley de Supervisión, Administración y Estabilidad Económica de Puerto Rico (PROMESA). Los pueblos de Guam y las Islas Marianas del Norte continúan luchando contra la presencia militar estadounidense, como el sistema de misiles Aegis, y el fin de los ejercicios militares conjuntos en su territorio, a la vez que resisten el control económico sobre sus recursos mediante la minería submarina y otros esquemas extractivos. El pueblo hawaiano nunca ha cesado en su lucha por la independencia contra los invasores estadounidenses desde la resistencia unida bajo el reinado de la reina Liliuokalani, rechazando la llamada "estatalidad" y librando campañas para poner fin al arrendamiento de bases militares estadounidenses en el archipiélago y a los ejercicios militares de la Cuenca del Pacífico, entre otros. El pueblo cubano alcanzó la victoria en la Revolución Cubana de 1959 y ha defendido su construcción socialista contra todos los intentos de intervención estadounidense, desde la fallida invasión de Bahía de Cochinos hasta el bloqueo estadounidense actual, e incluso ha ofrecido combatientes por la liberación en solidaridad con las guerras anticoloniales de Angola, Namibia y Sudáfrica. Cada una de estas naciones ha luchado y se ha sacrificado valientemente por la liberación de su tierra y su pueblo y para expulsar la maquinaria de guerra estadounidense de sus países de origen. Los pueblos tenemos que seguir rechazando el Tratado de París como la herramienta del colonialismo y la guerra liderada por Estados Unidos que es. El imperialismo estadounidense está en declive, pero su maquinaria bélica continúa con sus ataques mortales. La nueva Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional de Trump se dirige a los mismos países que Estados Unidos se apoderó mediante el Tratado de París y más allá, centrándose en asegurar el acceso a cadenas de suministro y minerales críticos, especialmente en Asia y el Pacífico, aumentando su presencia militar y superioridad técnica, y utilizando la fuerza letal para afirmar el dominio estadounidense en el hemisferio occidental, avivando las llamas de otra posible guerra mundial mientras las guerras indirectas respaldadas por el imperialismo se extienden para promover los intereses estadounidenses en todo el mundo. Los pueblos amantes de la paz del mundo deben unirse con los pueblos de Filipinas, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawái, Cuba y todas las naciones que luchan por la liberación del imperialismo estadounidense para exponer y oponerse al legado del Tratado de París y luchar por lograr una paz justa y duradera y el fin del imperialismo estadounidense. ¡Vea el guia de accion y únase al día de acción para unirnos y luchar por el fin del control colonial y la independencia ahora! 12/10/2025 End Colonial Control and Resist US-Led War to Achieve independence and People’s Rights!Read Now International Day of Action Confronts Current Militarization of our Nations and Struggles to End of Colonial and Imperialist Control
On this International Human Rights Day and the anniversary of the signing of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the Resist US-Led War Movement vehemently rejects the imperialist legacy of this 1898 treaty. The Treaty of Paris cemented US imperialism beyond the North American continent and began the extremely violent period of US overseas expansion, colonialism, and neo-colonialism. Its legacy is now reflected most clearly in the continued US military expansion, occupation and wars of aggression which the US violently wages in an attempt to impose hegemonic power over peoples land, resources and lives. Resist joins with the peace loving people of the world in reaffirming our decisiveness to expose and oppose every aspect of US-led war and imperialism, drawing upon the long, proud legacy of national liberation struggles that have ceaselessly fought US imperialism since before, during, and after 1898. US imperialism has used its military might to violently expand its borders since the inception of the United States itself. It waged a war of genocide against the Indigenous people of the continent, being forced to face the many peoples who took up arms to defend their land against the colonial invaders. Upon reaching the Pacific Coast, US imperialism began planning its ascent to becoming a naval power and began seeking out new colonial conquests, using its same tools of war that it waged against indigenous North American peoples against the peoples of other nations and territories across the Pacific, the Caribbean, and into Central America. The Spanish-American War found the US, a rising imperialist power, defeating Spain, a declining imperialist power, and therefore laying claim to Spain's colonial territories. The 1898 Treaty of Paris signed over colonial control from Spain to the US of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines. Additionally, the US Congress passed a joint resolution in the same year to fraudulently annex Hawai'i, which already was under US military occupation and de facto colonial control since the U.S. intervention in 1883. This marked the birth of the US as a global empire, and it was through the plunder and militarization of these lands that it began to build itself up into the number one terrorist superpower that it remains today. The US strategically used its new colonial control over these countries to enrich itself through the theft of natural resources and the peoples' labor power, and position its military in strategic locations. Today for example the US is mustering its full military might to invade the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Weapons tested in military exercises in Hawaiʻi, Guam, and the Philippines are being used to extrajudicially kill civilians in the Caribbean and troops are staging in Puerto Rico, preparing for a full-scale assault. To this day, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, Cuba and Hawai’i continue to face oppression by the US, be it in the form of continued colonialism through "statehood" in the case of Hawai'i or "unincorporated territory" (under illegal occupation by the US), Guam, and Puerto Rico; and neocolonialism through US-backed puppet governments in the case of the Philippines; or a brutal regime of economic sanctions and a US blockade in the case of Cuba. While each of these countries faced many years of imperialist plunder and exploitation even before the Treaty of Paris, 1898 marked a new offensive of oppression on the peoples now living directly under US colonialism. This involved the gutting of the economy, currency devaluation, and intentional underdevelopment of health, infrastructure, education, and other public services. As a result of the export-oriented and import-dependent economies of these countries, the people face widespread unemployment, harsh labor conditions on agricultural plantations, mines, and domestic work in settler-owned homes and colonial government buildings, and very precarious livelihood, which has forced millions of people to migrate abroad for economic survival. Resource plunder has deprived the people of their food and water sovereignty while pollution and other environmental degradations have led to widespread disease, malnourishment, and other health defects. Extensive military bases, exercises, and live-fire tests on the lands and waters of these countries result in destruction of the environment, desecration of sacred indigenous land, systematic violence against women, economic shackling to the US military-industrial complex, and ultimately the placing of whole communities in the crosshairs of a US-led world war. Additionally, military propaganda campaigns directly target youth from these nations to instill reactionary US nationalism or other feelings of false benevolence towards the US to recruit people, especially youth, to fight in US wars of aggression and quash their revolutionary patriotic history. Yet while each of these countries faced severe violence enacted on their people, environmental destruction, and plunder of their resources, they have steadfastly persisted in their resistance to US imperialism. The Filipino people, having won their own victory against Spanish colonialism before the US invaded, fought against every US-puppet regime that has ruled the archipelago, successfully ejected all official US military bases from the country during the 1990s, and continue to wage a people's war for full national liberation. The Puerto Rican people, since the 1868 Grito de Lares rebellion against Spain, has fought against all forms of US colonialism, both on the archipelago and on the North American continent, successfully ejected the US Navy from Vieques in 2003, and continue to resist the brutal economic austerity measures of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). The people of Guam and the Northern Marianas continue to fight against the US military presence, such as the Aegis missile system, and the end of joint military exercises on their territory, while resisting the economic stranglehold over their resources through deep sea mining and other extractive schemes. The Hawai'ian people have never ceased their fight for independence against the US invaders since the united resistance under Queen Liliuokalani, rejecting so-called "statehood" while waging campaigns to end the lease of US military bases on the archipelago and ending the Rim of the Pacific military exercises, among others. The people of Cuba achieved victory in the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and have defended their socialist construction against all attempts of US intervention, from the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion until the US blockade of today, and have even offered liberation fighters in solidarity with the anti-colonial wars of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. Each of these nations have bravely fought and sacrificed for the liberation of their land and people and to eject the US war machine from their homelands. The people must continue to reject the Treaty of Paris as the tool of colonialism and US-led war that it is. US imperialism is on its decline, yet the US war machine lashes out in its death throws. Trump's new National Security Strategy targets the very countries the US grabbed through the Treaty of Paris and beyond, with its focus on securing access to critical supply chains and minerals especially in Asia and the Pacific, increasing its military presence and technical superiority, and using "lethal force" to assert US dominance in the Western Hemisphere, stoking the flames of another possible world war while imperialist-backed proxy wars spread to enact US interests across the world. The peace-loving peoples of the world must unite with the people of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i, Cuba, and all nations fighting for liberation against US imperialism to expose and oppose the legacy of the Treaty of Paris and fight to bring about just and lasting peace and the end of US imperialism. See the toolkit and join the day of action to stand up together and struggle for the end of colonial control and independence now! 12/7/2025 The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act: MAGA Fascism and Trillions for the War IndustryRead Now The Resist US-Led War Movement sounds the alarm on the latest iteration of the $1 trillion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and new National Security Strategy (NSS) under the Trump regime.
US Presidents produce a NSS once every term. The NSS serves to present the U.S. war strategy and guides US led war strategy for the period.The one released by trump this December, is the first since Biden’s 2022 document, and lays out the military approach of the MAGA Trump policies. The new National Security Strategy boasts that the Trump administration "began strengthening our military with $1 trillion of investment and "got our allies to contribute more to our common defense", however it is with this massive spending bill that Trump seeks to codify many of his MAGA priorities, and the bi-partisan war machine. The NDAA is the largest military spending bill that is passed annually with Republican and Democrat support to fund the US military, research and development, weapons production, soldiers salaries and often incorporates major new policy decisions. The final version goes through a "conference" to reconcile House and the Senate versions likely in December (or January if Congress can't finalize it, which could trigger another government shut down). This $1 trillion,will fuel the US budget for war, give military equipment and deploy soldiers against migrants in the US, fuel genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and will arm an aggressive imperialist US strategy for war against Venezuela, Iran, and across the Asia Pacific to provoke China. Our movements should closely monitor the NDAA results and prepare ourselves to unite and fight against this terroristic and genocidal US war machine. Convergence and the Hidden Consensus The current stage of the NDAA bill has competing US House of Representatives and Senate versions for FY2026, typical of the US military budget process, but notably revealing a less than unified defense strategy and more a stark reflection of a fractured political landscape, where the military budget serves as a proxy for ideological warfare of two parts of the same elite and a vehicle for entrenched corporate interests. Despite their stark differences in tone and partisan adornment, both bills reveal an underlying consensus that support US imperialism.
The Senate Bill The Senate version, passing with a strong bipartisan majority of 77-20, presents a facade of consensus built on a foundation of keeping the military policy status quo. Its key interests are: The bill's extensive "Pentagon Reform and Modernization" provisions, which repeal over 100 statutes to "streamline" acquisition, are a massive giveaway to major defense contractors. Framed as "efficiency," these measures systematically dismantle oversight and regulatory hurdles and a more profitable pipeline for weapons systems from contractors to the Pentagon. The establishment of "Portfolio Acquisition Executives with expanded authority" concentrates power, reducing accountability and increasing the industry's influence over procurement. This policy would take the Trump admin's "Transforming the Warfighting Acquisition System" memo and the proposed "FoRGED Act" to create high-level roles within the U.S. Department of Defense giving executives have significantly expanded authority compared to their predecessors, to streamline foreign military sales and weapons acquisition processes. By requiring briefings before any troop withdrawal from Europe or South Korea and extending Ukraine security assistance, the Senate bill is a direct rebuke of the "America First" politics of the Trump administration which is distancing itself from rules based order and racing to a more aggressive and outright imperialist foreign policy. It codifies a bi-partisan commitment to a forward-deployed, alliance-heavy foreign policy, protecting the institutional interests of the State Department and Pentagon leadership against executive branch whims. This means more terrifying exercises, more drone and missile strikes and more intense experiences of militarism by the people in the regions. Provisions for an artificial intellegence "sandbox", a new "Biotechnology Management Office," and expanded cyber authorities show a focus on co-opting and institutionalizing commercial tech innovation for military purposes fueling the most profitable war profiteers in the history of US war - high tech corporations. This serves the interests of both Silicon Valley and strategists within the Pentagon, ensuring the defense establishment maintains its technological edge by absorbing, privatizing and contracting to, rather than competing with, the private sector. The House Bill: By contrast, the House bill, passed along strict party lines, is a manifesto of the current Republican majority's priorities, where national defense is explicitly fused with the Trump administration's domestic political agenda. Its provisions expose a different set of interests: The bill's most telling feature is the codification of 15 Trump-era executive orders. This transforms a defense authorization into a vehicle for implementing highly partisan cultural and fascist immigration policies, such as "Ending Radical DEI Programs" and enforcing border-related emergency declarations. The interest here goes beyond a "defense budget" to the cultural re-engineering of the military itself, aligning it with a specific MAGA political platform. The inclusion of "The Golden Dome for America" further signals a prioritization of Trump's signature, although fictional, promises.
The final bill will be a product of negotiation between these competing visions, but the real, unspoken agreement is that the military-industrial complex itself and the flow of money and power it represents, remains the primary, bipartisan interest served. Even the bills to end the government shut down bolstered the US military The bills passed last week as part of the deal that ended the longest U.S. government shutdown in history include billions of dollars for major Air Force and Navy programs. This includes funds to build new aircraft carriers and submarines, facilities needed for new stealth bombers and nuclear missiles, and research and development spending to keep a major airborne command and control program alive. When millions of people were struggling with bills, basic food budgets and healthcare access, due to the stranglehold of these power plays by the duolopoly of the Republicans and Democrats, the military budget still came out ahead in the end. The 2026 NDAA process exposes a fundamental truth: the "defense" in its title is increasingly belicose and war mongering. While the American political system itself is confronted by abuses of power by the executive branch and illegal executive orders that attack migrants, order extrajudicial strikes murdering Venezuelan nationals, and a military that regularly commits evidenced war crimes and crimes against humanity, the defense budget puts the money behind this political agenda. The "rules based order" may be falling to pieces, but the military budget of the United States, driving this process will be backed by almost a trillion dollar arsenal to enforce its imperialist aims. The NDAA specifically, may codify many of Trump's unlawful executive orders, and give even more power to a fascist head of state and the ultra right wing priorities of the MAGA base. This budget continues to fuel a "war industry" that operates with minimal constraint to back up a fascist and aggressive US-led war strategy around the world. 11/29/2025 The UN Security Council Resolution on Palestine Is Not a "Peace Deal;" It's a Green Light for Genocide and OccupationRead Now The UN Security Council Resolution on Palestine Is Not a "Peace Deal;" It's a Green Light for Genocide and Occupation
The Resist US-Led War Movement condemns UN Resolution 2803 that aims to shield the Zionist occupation from accountability for its genocide and campaign of settler colonial expansion. This move will only further cement the occupation by masking it in a facade of peace, even while it continues the genocide against the Palestinian people. True peace can only come from the self-determination of Palestine, and this can only be achieved by completely ejecting the occupation forces through the people's resistance. The US-backed plan for Gaza has been approved by the UN Security Council, positioning Donald Trump in a leading role for the territory's administration. The resolution, which passed 13-0 with abstentions from China and Russia, creates a so-called "international stabilization force" and outlines a "potential pathway to Palestinian statehood" after meeting "specific goals." However, beyond its facade as a "peace plan," this US-led initiative represents a a new tactic to continue the occupation of Palestinian land and a deliberate attempt to undermine genuine Palestinian self-determination. It is a false "peace" contingent on surrender and designed to open the door for more American economic domination in West Asia. The resolution states that for two years, a Trump-led "Board of Peace" will oversee foreign troops, a panel of Palestinian technocratic "experts", and a local police force with vague pretenses of who it will consist of. The stabilization troops are tasked with "securing borders" in cooperation with a trained Palestinian police force and facilitating humanitarian aid into Gaza through coordination with neighboring Egypt and genocidal "Israel." Trump, the so-called leader of the peace board, has followed the US imperialist policy of unrelenting support for "Israel." Since Oct. 7, the US has delivered ninety thousand tons of arms and equipment on eight hundred transport planes and 140 ships. These weapons have been used to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and destroy more than 80% of all infrastructure in Gaza and 95% of all agricultural land. The Trump administration's talk of "peace in the Middle East" is empty and distracting rhetoric. In practice, US support has been instrumental in allowing "Israel" to commit hundreds of violations since the so-called October 10th ceasefire went into effect. While the US completely ignores these violations, the State Department tirelessly publicizes false claims of ceasefire breaches by Palestinian resistance forces to justify a possible return to all-out war by "Israel." The US is not dedicated to peace. It is only committed to ensuring its own flow of profit through the domination of its proxy, "Israel," and its own multinational corporations. These players each want their own piece of lucrative reconstruction contracts, along with the the extraction profits of resources and trade, all fueled by genocidal displacement. In a presentation shown to the Trump administration by industry giants on the possible benefits of the reconstruction of Gaza, logos from Tesla, Amazon Web Services, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) appear alongside bullet points about the benefit "private industry investment” may have in Gaza in terms of building out "key infrastructure" like data centers and "gigafactories." Forced Surrender is not Peace The stabilization force is also mandated to oversee the complete demilitarization of Gaza, including the permanent decommissioning of weapons held by resistance forces. This authority is backed by a provision allowing the force to "use all necessary measures," effectively demanding the surrender of Palestinian armed resistance and self-defense. The Palestinian people, living under the gun of a brutal and ongoing Zionist occupation, have never conceded their fundamental right to resist their oppressors. Yet, the UN, under the direct command of the US, actively works to deny and nullify this right. This violates the very UN Charter which explicitly guarantees all occupied peoples the right to fight for their liberation by any means necessary. The resistance factions in Gaza have condemned the measure and reaffirmed their right to resist. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) stated: "We reject the clauses related to disarmament and condemn labeling the resistance as terrorism, as this empties our people’s legitimate right to self-defense and transforms the international force from one of protection and separation into an offensive force that grants the occupation cover to continue its policies." The UN's Historical Legacy in Palestine UN resolutions, proposed by imperialist powers at the head of the UN Security Council, namely the US, UK, and France, have constantly conspired against Palestinian self-determination in favor of "Israel." The Zionist colonial project was inaugurated by the UN itself with the 1947 Partition Plan (Resolution 181), which illegitimately partitioned Palestine, at the time under British colonial mandate, to create a settler-colonial state for the Zionist movement. This act sanctioned the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine, known as the Nakba. The 1948 Nakba Zionist militias, which would later form the "Israeli" army, conducted a campaign of terror and mass expulsion. This included the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian towns and villages, with massacres in already surrendered villages like Deir Yassin and Tantura used to terrorize the native population into flight. This deliberate policy displaced over 750,000 Palestinians, the majority of the indigenous population at the time. The imperialist framework continued after Israel's 1967 military occupation of the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, which displaced 300,000 Palestinians. While the UN passed Resolution 242 after the war, with a preamble that emphasized “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war,” it was deliberately designed to be unenforceable. It also nullified Resolution 181 and removed the demand for "Israel" to give back the lands it seized past the UN partition plan, setting the precedence for UN vacillation and submission to blatant Zionist rejection and violation of international law. The core demand for "Israeli" withdrawal in Resolution 242 was deliberately weakened. Despite arguments from Arab states for a full retreat to the 1967 lines, the resolution's architects never intended this. The original language, which called for a withdrawal from "all the territories," was diluted after the "Israeli" administration persuaded the US to remove the key word "all." This omission, acknowledged by US Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, proves that the resolution was specifically designed not to force Israel to relinquish all the land it captured in 1967. As with countless subsequent resolutions, the imperialist architects ensured there would be no consequences, allowing Israel to formally annex the entirety of Jerusalem in 1980. From Haiti to Palestine: Foreign intervention disguised as peace forces The recent plan for Palestine, approved by the UN Security Council, takes inspiration from imperialist intervention other nations plagued by US intervention, exemplified by the so-called "Gang Suppression Force" (GSF) in Haiti. Just as the GSF empowers foreign troops to suppress the Haitian people under the pretext of fighting gangs, the new resolution for Gaza paves the way for a parallel structure of foreign military administration, aimed at crushing the legitimate Palestinian resistance and securing the interests of the Zionist entity and US monopoly capital. Similar to the GSF which was granted power to arrest and kill Haitian citizens at will, this new international "peace keeping force" in Gaza would be allowed to act with force to suppress any challenge to the zionist entity. As the primary sponsor of this decree, the US justifies the creation of the GSF on the gang violence that has afflicted the Haitian people for decades. While it is true that 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, the political hand of the US is directly backing these gangs. 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-US 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 US control over the Caribbean. The appointment of a foreign “Force Commander” for the GSF makes clear its function as a colonial occupation army, serving as a counter-insurgency force, designed to suppress the people’s movement for liberation and keep the country destabilized so the imperialists can continue to exploit it. The histories of Haiti and Palestine are marked by prolonged foreign subjugation. Refusing both nations their fundamental right to self-determination will never lead to stability. Lasting peace is impossible without confronting the root cause of war: the imperialist plunder of resources and the military occupation of their lands. True justice demands the recognition of self-determination, sovereign control over economic and food systems, and the right of besieged peoples to resist aggressive and violent oppression. Fighting for a People's Justice International institutions continue to abet the genocide, but the people are organizing for genuine justice. The "Right to Resist" International People's Tribunal, convened by the International League of People’s Struggles (ILPS) and a broad coalition of over 200 endorsing organizations, in Barcelona on November 22 - 23, was a bold action of solidarity with the Palestinian people's right to resist occupation and to struggle for the right to return. The Tribunal provided a space where true justice could actually be asserted. Political obstruction and structural limitations have rendered official international bodies like the ICC and UN ineffective, a catastrophic two-year period of mass violence, genocide, and environmental ruin has gone legally unchallenged. It is for this precise reason that this people's tribunal was formed to document events, outline the applicable legal principles, and demand accountability where it has otherwise been absent. While the US uses the imperialist-controlled United Nations to wield international law as a weapon to repress all forms of peoples' movements, even as it ignores it through its own actions, true peace and justice can only come through the actions and struggle of the people themselves. The Resist US-Led War Movement stands in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Haiti, and all oppressed nations against continued foreign occupation, often disguised as "peace missions." Peace-loving people across the globe must continue to take to the streets, organize protests and popular tribunals, and engage in direct action to strengthen international solidarity with these nations. 11/25/2025 Week of Action mobilizations in 50 cities demanding NO war with Venezuela! 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PRESS RELEASE: Activists Mobilize across the Americas to Demand "Hands Off Venezuela," End to Military Escalation and US policy of Hybrid Warfare and Intervention November 16 – The US military has extrajudicially killed 80 people in 20 strikes that have destroyed 21 boats, in aerial strikes off the coast of Venezuela. With outrage in response to these murders and significant U.S. military buildup near Venezuela, an urgent and coordinated week of action for Venezuela from November 15-23 started yesterday, with over 50 actions across the US and a growing international response. The demonstrations, organized by over 35 organizations forming a rapid response network, are demanding no war on Venezuela, the withdrawal of the U.S. military from the Caribbean, and the establishment of a "Zone of Peace" across the hemisphere. These actions come as the U.S. deploys an aircraft carrier battle group, including destroyers, jet fighters, and nuclear submarines, to the Caribbean. The Trump administration has openly called for the military overthrow of Venezuela's President Maduro and the replacement of Colombia's President Petro, constituting a blatant violation of international law and the sovereignty of nations. The Trump administration has propagandized ‘narcoterrorism operations’ drawing together the deadly US “war on terror” framework with the devastating US “war on drugs”, both mechanisms to assert the US military agenda over working class and oppressed communities within the US and in its “spheres of influence” abroad. Activists condemn the US government's justification for the escalation. In reality, “this is a build-up to another endless U.S. war – a war to militarize the whole Western Hemisphere and reassert the Monroe Doctrine,” said Tom Burke of the Anti-War Action Network. “The strategy is a textbook example of escalating hybrid warfare. It blends military, economic, and informational tools to destabilize the adversary.” said Rhonda Ramiro of the Resist US-led War Movement. A stringent sanctions regime continues to target Venezuela’s oil industry, its primary revenue source. Recent license adjustments explicitly restrict cash payments to the Maduro government, tightening the financial noose. The economic coercion is compounded by a symbolic $50 million bounty on President Maduro, personalizing the pressure campaign. It reflects a greater crisis of US militarization of the Caribbean, as well. The reactivation of the Roosevelt Roads base in Puerto Rico as a staging ground, despite local protests, provides the strategic footprint for these operations, echoing historical uses of US territories for interventionism. US military aggression, framed as targeting Venezuela, threatens the entire Caribbean's sovereignty and stability. This pretext masks the true economic motives behind the aggression. “This move towards all-out war has nothing to do with drug trafficking, cartels or the wellbeing of Americans facing a drug crisis,” stated Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC). He continued, “Venezuela possesses the greatest known oil reserves in the world. The Venezuelan government refuses to be dominated by the U.S. and is determined to use its own oil, gas, and mineral resources for the benefit of its own people, not for US corporations.” For their stand for their self-determination, the Venezuelan people and nation are being targeted by extreme US military pressure operating in tandem with a sustained economic war. US domestic repression and militarization goes hand in hand with the extreme military aggression in the Caribbean. “We draw a direct line between militarism abroad and repression in the U.S., highlighting the contradiction of increased defense spending while critical domestic programs that impact the working class like SNAP benefits and healthcare face draconian cuts,” stated Ajamu Baraka from the Black Alliance for Peace. Meanwhile, the use of Federal troops and thousands of ICE agents in raids and mass arrests, along with massive increases in health costs and cuts to government services, are an attack on all working people in the US. Migrants from Venezuela, who have been subject to a tirade of fascist attacks, mass deportation and detention since arriving in the US, are driven to leave the country in the first place due to US sanctions and economic warfare. A full blown military conflict in the Caribbean would multiply the number of migrants arriving to the US and the economic and political crisis they are facing. Veterans who have served in America’s wars add their solidarity to the fight. "Hundreds of thousands of US veterans deeply regret having fought in illegal wars that were based on lies like the ones now being told about Venezuela," said Gerry Condon of Veterans For Peace. "We remind today's active duty GI's that they have the right and responsibility to refuse to participate in illegal wars and war crimes." The message from the growing movement is clear: it is time for the public to take to the streets to resist these government and corporate attacks on the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, and to stop the simultaneous militarization and repression of people within the United States. About the rapid response network for Venezuela: This week of coordinated mobilization is supported by over 35 organizations: United National Antiwar Coalition, Venezuela Solidarity Network, US Peace Council, All-African People’s Party-GC, All-African People’s Party, Alliance for Global Justice, Code Pink, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Communist Party USA, School of the Americas Watch, Task Force on the Americas, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota Solidarity Network of the Americas, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Workers World Party, Periodismo de Verdad, Resist U.S. Led War, Honduras Solidarity Network, Cross Border Network, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Anti War Action Network, Women Against Military Madness, Kawsachun News, Popular Resistance, International Action Center, Casa Baltimore Limay, Friends of Latin America. Veterans For Peace, Orinoco Tribune, Los Ronderos de las Redes, Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Peoples Power Assembly, Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA), Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement, Struggle for Socialism Party, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice Español COMUNICADO A LA PRENSA: Activistas se movilizan en las Americas para exigir «Manos fuera de Venezuela», el fin de la escalada militar y la política estadounidense de guerra híbrida e intervención. 16 de noviembre - El ejército estadounidense ha asesinado extrajudicialmente a 80 personas en 20 ataques que han destruido 21 barcos, en ataques aéreos frente a las costas de Venezuela. En respuesta a estos asesinatos y al masivo aumento de la presencia militar estadounidense cerca de Venezuela, ayer comenzó una semana de acción urgente y coordinada por Venezuela, del 15 al 23 de noviembre, con más de 50 acciones en todo Estados Unidos y una creciente respuesta internacional. Las manifestaciones, organizadas por más de 35 organizaciones que forman una red de respuesta rápida, exigen que no haya guerra contra Venezuela, la retirada del ejército estadounidense del Caribe y el establecimiento de una «zona de paz» en todo el hemisferio. Estas acciones se pretenden en un momento en que Estados Unidos despliega un grupo de combate de portaaviones, que incluye destructores, aviones de combate y submarinos nucleares, en el Caribe. La administración Trump ha pedido abiertamente el derrocamiento militar del presidente Maduro de Venezuela y la sustitución del presidente Petro de Colombia, lo que constituye una violación flagrante del derecho internacional y la soberanía de las naciones. La administración Trump ha propagado «operaciones contra el narcoterrorismo» que combinan el mortífero marco de la «guerra contra el terrorismo» de Estados Unidos con la devastadora «guerra contra las drogas», ambos mecanismos para imponer la agenda militar estadounidense sobre la clase trabajadora y las comunidades oprimidas dentro de Estados Unidos y en sus «esferas de influencia» en el extranjero. Los activistas condenan la justificación del gobierno estadounidense para la escalada. En realidad, «se trata de la preparación para otra guerra interminable de Estados Unidos, una guerra para militarizar todo el hemisferio occidental y reafirmar la Doctrina Monroe», afirmó Tom Burke, de la Anti War Action Network. «La estrategia es un ejemplo clásico de escalada de la guerra híbrida. Combina herramientas militares, económicas e informativas para desestabilizar al adversario», afirmó Rhonda Ramiro, del Resist US-Led War Movement. Un régimen de sanciones estrictas sigue afectando a la industria petrolera de Venezuela, su principal fuente de ingresos. Los recientes ajustes en las licencias restringen explícitamente los pagos en efectivo al Gobierno de Maduro, lo que estrecha el cerco financiero. La coacción económica se ve agravada por una recompensa simbólica de 50 millones de dólares por la captura del presidente Maduro, lo que personaliza la campaña de presión. Esto refleja también una crisis más grave de militarización estadounidense en el Caribe. La reactivación de la base Roosevelt Roads en Puerto Rico como punto de partida, a pesar de las protestas locales, proporciona la huella estratégica para estas operaciones, haciéndose eco de los usos históricos de los territorios estadounidenses para el intervencionismo. La agresión militar estadounidense, enmarcada como dirigida contra Venezuela, amenaza la soberanía y la estabilidad de todo el Caribe. Este pretexto enmascara los verdaderos motivos económicos que se esconden tras la agresión. «Este avance hacia una guerra total no tiene nada que ver con el tráfico de drogas, los cárteles o el bienestar de los estadounidenses que se enfrentan a una crisis de drogas», afirmó Joe Lombardo, coordinador adjunto de la United National Anti-war Coalition (UNAC). Y añadió: «Venezuela posee las mayores reservas de petróleo conocidas en el mundo. El Gobierno venezolano se niega a ser dominado por Estados Unidos y está decidido a utilizar sus propios recursos petrolíferos, gasísticos y minerales en beneficio de su propio pueblo, no de las empresas estadounidenses». Por defender su autodeterminación, el pueblo y la nación venezolanos están siendo objeto de una presión militar extrema por parte de Estados Unidos, que actúa en tándem con una guerra económica sostenida. La represión y la militarización internas de Estados Unidos van de la mano con la agresión militar extrema en el Caribe. «Establecemos una relación directa entre el militarismo en el extranjero y la represión en Estados Unidos, destacando la contradicción del aumento del gasto en defensa, mientras que programas internos críticos que afectan a la clase trabajadora, como los beneficios del SNAP y la atención médica, se enfrentan a recortes draconianos», afirmó Ajamu Baraka, de la Black Alliance for Peace. Mientras tanto, el uso de tropas federales y miles de agentes del ICE en redadas y detenciones masivas, junto con el aumento masivo de precios de cuidado de salúd y los recortes en los servicios públicos, es en si misma un ataque a todos los trabajadores y trabajadoras de Estados Unidos. Los migrantes venzolanos, que han sido objeto de una serie de ataques fascistas, deportaciones masivas y detenciones desde su llegada a Estados Unidos, se huyen del país, en primer lugar, debido a las sanciones y la guerra económica de Estados Unidos. Un conflicto militar en toda región del Caribe multiplicaría el número de migrantes que llegan a Estados Unidos y su crisis económica y política que enfrentan. Los veteranos que han servido en las guerras de Estados Unidos se suman a la lucha en solidaridad. «Cientos de miles de veteranos estadounidenses lamentan profundamente haber luchado en guerras ilegales basadas en mentiras como las que ahora se cuentan sobre Venezuela», afirmó Gerry Condon, de Veteranos por la Paz. «Recordamos a los soldados en servicio activo de hoy en día que tienen el derecho y la responsabilidad de negarse a participar en guerras ilegales y crímenes de guerra». El mensaje de este movimiento en expansión es claro: es hora de que la ciudadanía salga a la calle para resistir estos ataques del Gobierno y las empresas contra los pueblos de América Latina y el Caribe, y para detener la militarización y la represión simultáneas de la población dentro de Estados Unidos. Acerca de la red de respuesta rápida por Venezuela: Esta semana de movilización coordinada cuenta con el apoyo de más de 35 organizaciones: United National Antiwar Coalition, Venezuela Solidarity Network, US Peace Council, All-African People’s Party-GC, All-African People’s Party, Alliance for Global Justice, Code Pink, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Communist Party USA, School of the Americas Watch, Task Force on the Americas, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota Solidarity Network of the Americas, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Workers World Party, Periodismo de Verdad, Resist U.S. Led War, Honduras Solidarity Network, Cross Border Network, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Anti War Action Network, Women Against Military Madness, Kawsachun News, Popular Resistance, International Action Center, Casa Baltimore Limay, Friends of Latin America. Veterans For Peace, Orinoco Tribune, Los Ronderos de las Redes, Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Peoples Power Assembly, Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA), Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement, Struggle for Socialism Party, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice War Profiteers Carve Up Sudan, the People Call for Unity and Just Peace Sudan is being torn apart and over 150,000 Sudanese people have died as a result of conflict between warring factions backed by global powers who are carving up Sudan for their own profit. The Resist US-Led War Movement joins the people of Sudan and all peace loving people around the world calling for an end to the bloodshed and accountability for all war profiteers engineering genocide for the sake of their profit-making.
Contrary to its frequent depiction as an internal civil war, the devastating conflict in Sudan is more accurately understood as a proxy struggle, driven by a scramble for the nation's resources, land and strategic sea ports. External powers are propping up different reactionary armies led by rival factions of the same comprador class, agents working in favor of foreign organizations and countries engaged in investment, trade, economic and political exploitation of the Sudanese masses. This war pits the two main pillars of the former Omar al-Bashir regime, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), against each other in a brutal struggle for state power. While these forces formed a temporary alliance following the 2019 mass protests to overthrow al-Bashir's 30-year rule, their partnership would soon collapse. After establishing a joint military-civilian government, both the RSF and SAF orchestrated another coup in October 2021 to seize full control of the state. The fragile alliance rapidly degenerated following failed negotiations to integrate the RSF into the state army. Tensions escalated as foreign powers lined up to support one side over the other in a war they knew would be in their favor, a war which exploded in April 2023. Origins of the RSF The crisis in Sudan, escalating over the past five years from a popular uprising that ousted former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 into a devastating full-scale proxy war in April 2023, has created one of the world's most severe humanitarian catastrophes. The war is being waged between the SAF and the RSF, whose relentless siege and urban warfare have claimed an estimated 150,000 lives. The recent RSF capture of El-Fasher in Darfur resulted in a massacre of at least 2,000 civilians, with summary executions, mass rape of women, and the murder of patients in hospitals who were recovering from wounds and diseases. This has driven 26,000 people to flee through checkpoints amid extortion and violence, adding to the over 14 million internally displaced, the largest displacement crisis globally. The nation now faces systemic collapse, with extreme shortages of food, water, medicine, and fuel; 25.6 million people face acute food insecurity, including 8.5 million at emergency levels. Nearly three-quarters of health facilities are inoperative, with diseases like cholera and measles spreading unchecked. RSF has its roots in the Janjaweed militias, which were used by the Sudanese Government in its attempts to fight the anti-government insurgency during the War in Darfur (2003-2006), a genocidal war that led to the deaths of approximately 200,000 civilians from national minorities like the Fur and Masalit. The RSF was officially formed in 2013, following a restructuring and reactivation of Janjaweed militias in order to combat rebel groups in the Darfur region, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile states, following joint attacks by Sudanese Revolutionary Front, an alliance between Sudanese factions that was created in opposition to the government of President Omar al-Bashir, in North and South Kordofan in April 2013. In September 2013, the RSF was deployed against peaceful demonstrators who were protesting the Sudanese government’s removal of subsidies on basic commodities. More than 170 people were killed in September 2013, in incidents that unmasked the Sudanese regime’s dependence on the militia to quell political dissent and marked a new evolution in the role of the RSF. Starting in 2015 and 2016, convinced of the RSF’s effectiveness as a counterinsurgency force, the regime designated the RSF as Sudan’s primary force tasked with patrolling Sudanese borders to interdict migrants’ movement. The Sudanese government made this designation within the framework of its partnership with the EU for the control of migration Under the command of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo "Hemedti," the RSF evolved into a vast, economic conglomerate controlling major gold mines, key trade routes and engaging in illicit mineral smuggling. WHO IS SUPPORTING WHOM The suffering of the Sudanese people is propped up by ever-changing alliances between the competing factions and international powers who are using the nation as a proxy battlefield to advance their own geopolitical and economic interests. The RSF's Backers The United Arab Emirates (UAE) serves as the RSF's primary international sponsor. It supplies the paramilitary force with weapons, drones, and financial support via airlifts from northern Chad. In return, the UAE secures access to Sudan's vast gold reserves from RSF mines, which are smuggled out through RSF-controlled territories, allowing the Gulf monarchy to bypass sanctions and secure its strategic resource interests. Further support comes from Chad, which provides a rear base and additional weaponry, and the Libyan National Army, which similarly offers support in exchange for lucrative smuggling rights. Recent investigations have shown that "Israeli" Mossad agents have even been advising RSF leaders at the request of the Zionist-friendly government of the UAE. The SAF's Backers The Sudanese Armed Forces are backed by a coalition countering the RSF's Gulf allies. Egypt provides the bulk of this support, supplying weapons, conducting airstrikes, and even deploying troops. Cairo's primary motive is to ensure a stable, friendly government in Sudan that will ensure steady trade through the Egypt-administered Suez Canal and support Egypt's claim and potential war efforts against Ethiopia over control of the headwaters of the Nile. Turkiye channels its own military support through Egypt, seeking to expand its influence in the Red Sea and Africa. Ukraine previously sent military trainers to the SAF as part of its NATO-backed war against Russia, (in retaliation for the RSF's use of Russian private military contractor firm, Wagner Group, mercenaries) but pulled its troops out after Russia switched sides in 2024 to gain access to a new port from the SAF. Regional destabilization efforts by US imperialists, leading to shifting proxy war alliances Several international backers of the factions reveal the purely opportunistic nature of the plunder project by certain foreign powers in Sudan, and the other national and regional interests pulled into the proxy war. Russia, which initially backed the RSF through the Wagner Group to secure gold mining concessions, has increasingly pursued a more pragmatic engagement with the SAF to secure strategic access to the Red Sea via a naval base at Port Sudan. This dynamic intensified with the UAE's robust logistical and financial backing of the RSF. The increasing support of the UAE to the RSF, in turn, prompted its regional rivals to support the opposing side. Most significantly, a shared opposition to UAE influence facilitated a military rapprochement between the SAF and Iran. This partnership marked a big reversal from Sudan's previous foreign policy. In 2016, the country had cut ties with Iran to align with Saudi Arabia and the UAE and had even begun normalizing relations with "Israel." The new military understanding led to Iran, looking to defend its national security against "Israel" and the US aligned gulf monarchies, to sell Mohajer and Shahed combat drones to the SAF which proved to be instrumental in breaking the RSF's siege of Omdurman in February 2024. While it may seem at first glance that all external actors are equally at fault for the war's atrocities, it must be remembered that the US-led war machine has worked for decades to keep the countries of North Africa and West Asia destabilized so that it could use the these power struggles in its favor. The Sudan crisis is the result of these years of schemes to ensure political chaos in the entire region while Washington, London, and Tel Aviv direct the chaos in their wider conflicts with rivals like Russia and Iran. The Military Industrial Complex Reaps Profits While the US and its European allies consistently condemn the humanitarian crisis in Sudan through official statements, their actions and investments reveal them to be direct participants in the war in Sudan. Their condemnations and targeted sanctions against the SAF and RSF ring hollow, as the very weapons they supply fuel the massacres conducted by these groups. This complicity is most evident in the supply chain leading to the RSF. The US acts as a principal arms source for the UAE, the paramilitary's main international patron. Billions of dollars in authorized sales, including a $1.2 billion package under Biden and a $1.4 billion deal under Trump, have proceeded despite the UAE systematically diverting this equipment to the RSF and bills in the US Congress condemning the sale of arms to the UAE on the basis of human rights violations. In the past month an investigation based on documents submitted to the UN Security Council confirmed that British military equipment, including small-arms target systems and engines for armored vehicles, has been recovered from RSF combat positions. The same applies to France whose military technology incorporated into armored personnel carriers made by the UAE is used on the battlefield in Sudan. As the war creates one of the world's largest humanitarian catastrophes, imperialist nations and their military industrial complex are directly implicated in arming the factions responsible for Sudan's devastation. Furthermore since 2013, the EU has allocated millions of euros in "aid" to Sudan. This financial support was in reality designated for technical resources and training programs aimed at curbing migration to Europe, a crisis that has its roots on the European colonization in Africa. The initiatives targeted migrants originating from Sudan itself, as well as those from nations like Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and other sub-Saharan African countries who use Sudan as a transit route. These EU resources were directly channeled into strengthening the capabilities of the RSF, the unit identified as Sudan's principal border control authority. All of this proves that the US and its NATO allies support either side in a proxy war of their own engineering. As long as the fighting continues, profits will flow while they can act like the saviors calling for humanitarian aid while secretly keeping the conflict raging. The People of Sudan Continue Their Fight for liberation As global powers carve up Sudan for its gold, oil, and strategic ports, the people's resistance emerges from neighborhood committees, women-led unions, refugee relief efforts, and the radical youth organizations that toppled Omar al-Bashir six years ago. Today, the Sudanese people continue their march toward a just peace, a goal that is only attainable by breaking the foreign military and economic stronghold on their nation. It is the duty of all peace-loving people to stand with them. We must mobilize against external interference and expose the military-industrial complex fueling the war. Through education, propaganda, and mass direct action, let us build the international solidarity necessary to support the liberation of Sudan and challenge the destructive policies of Western aligned governments and all imperialist forces. Resist US-Led War Movement extends our solidarity to the coalition of Anti-Imperialist organizations confronting Trump and the US agenda of plunder, militarization and neoliberalism at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit this October in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We echo the Bantah Trump Sekretariat demand: Trump and his administration are not welcome on Malaysian soil.
Comprised of 11 countries--Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Timor-Leste (scheduled to join in October 2025)--ASEAN in its declaration aims to "promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law in the relationship among countries of the region and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter." Yet Malaysia has rolled out the red carpet to Donald Trump, the backer of the genocide in Palestine, where the US war crimes of genocide, ecocide, targeting civilians, and blocking humanitarian aid have all been exposed to the whole world, amidst growing Palestine protests by the Malaysian people. Hosting President Trump at the ASEAN Summit undermines the publicly critical stand against Israel and the genocide in Palestine that Malaysia has taken. The US is significantly escalating militarization of Southeast Asia through expanded aid, increased scale and frequency of joint military and war drills in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, new weapons system deployment, troop basing and hyper investment in mining, semiconductors, microchips and other components for weapons under the guise of 'supply chain resilience. This buildup, which includes hosting weapons expos in Malaysia, occurs amidst rising regional tensions that threaten to destabilize the area. While Southeast Asian states are pursuing military modernization through these deeper defense partnerships, they remain reluctant to openly side with any power in the increasingly polarized geopolitical environment. In spite of the rapid US build up to war in the region, the ASEAN Summit will serve as a stage for Trumps false "peace maker" propaganda stunts. Politico reported last week that Trump’s participation at ASEAN was contingent on whether the bloc would hold an official ceasefire ceremony with him at the helm, after July, when Trump shared a characteristically unilateral announcement that he had "ended a war between Thailand and Cambodia." Thousands were displaced by the border skirmishes, and today clashes persist despite the agreement, due to a decades-long colonial legacy of disputed borders that remains unresolved. Without any genuine peace achieved, Trump leveraged the situation for credit and political concessions. A truly peaceful and independent Southeast Asia cannot be realized if any of the countries in the region remain subservient to US imperialism, the primary source of global instability. On paper ASEAN Indo Pacific Outlook promotes an "Indo-Pacific region of development and prosperity for all," but in reality the ruling classes of ASEAN countries facilitate the exploitation of their land and people through policies that cater to US and Chinese economic pressures. The US-China trade relationship, until very recently the largest in the world, is decoupling rapidly. The pressure will build massively on “connector” countries like those in Southeast Asia that are seen by the US now as the lengthening of China’s supply chain, with ASEAN the largest export market of China. Southeast Asian economies are squeezed by flooding Chinese export dumping on the one hand and US tariff war on the other. Workers are impacted by layoffs, suppressed wages, and chronic underemployment. The people have resisted this prolonged crisis with militant protests in the Philippines and Indonesia where workers, farmers, and youth confront blatant government neglect and corruption. Furthermore, the drive for AI and automation, which Malaysia touts itself as a regional leader of, if not controlled by workers, simply creates more efficient systems of exploitation. We echo and support the coalition's demands against the US: Military
10/14/2025 CEASEFIRE WON THROUGH RESISTANCE! STRENGTHEN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE FOR A JUST PEACE.Read Now The October 2025 ceasefire stands as a resounding victory for the steadfast Palestinian resistance and a decisive exposure of the Zionist entity’s political and military failure. After two years of a brutal campaign of annihilation, mass displacement, and genocidal violence, the Zionist objective to break the will of Palestine has been shattered against the the courage of the people and their resistance. This steadfastness which resulted in the triumphant liberation of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners from the Zionist jails, including 250 high-level political prisoners serving life sentences, on October 13, 2025. This act is a direct result of the resistance’s strategic strength.
The Palestinian masses and their resistance forces hold no illusions about the character of the Zionist entity, a settler-colonial, genocidal project that will do everything it can to undermine the Palestinian right to self determination and liberation. Therefore, this agreement is not a concession to the enemy but a tactical necessity in a long war of liberation. Such periods are strategically utilized by the resistance to regroup, rearm, and further secure the release of Palestinian prisoners from Zionist concentration camps. The unity and popular joy surrounding the prisoners' return demonstrates the invincible spirit of the Palestinian national struggle. However, without the full liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea, any cessation of violence is only a temporary pause. It cannot represent a durable peace, because the Zionist project depends on the war and demise of the Palestinian people for its existence. The path to this point has exposed the true nature of the conflict. Zionism stands unmasked as a fascist, colonial project, supported by an Israeli political consensus that rejects a Palestinian state. The staggering scale of U.S. complicity is clear: over $21.7 billion in military aid since October 2023 has enabled a genocide the world has watched for two years, facilitated by a complicit Western media. The inhumane forced starvation has already killed over 455 people since 2023, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, and 98% of the land has been deemed unlivable. With the ceasefire, aid can enter Gaza, but the terms of its enforcement are subject to the whims of US president Donald Trump and international institutions who were unwilling to act earlier to stop the genocide. As of this writing, the Zionist entity has already unilaterally declared that it will allow only 300 aid trucks to enter Gaza rather than the 600 stipulated in the agreement. Under these genocidal conditions, the Palestinian Resistance factions have tactfully negotiated the ceasefire deal, from the starting point of Trump's 20 point plan, a thinly veiled Israeli plan for furthering its colonial project. This comes as an urgent means to end the genocide and secure an Israeli withdrawal and prisoner exchange, while biding time for further negotiations in the framework of Palestinian national unity, rejecting the trap of Trump and Netanyahu trying to force the Palestinian resistance to disarm and sell out sovereignty to a foreign colonial leadership body. It should be noted that "Israel" has violated every ceasefire that it has signed with Palestine, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen. "Israel's" long-standing strategy of crushing diplomatic alternatives and unleashing military operations like Protective Edge and Cast Lead forged a generation that burst through the military blockade imprisoning Gaza on October 7. This pause provides a crucial opportunity for the resistance to bring essential aid to a traumatized people all while refusing to surrender. The global landscape has shifted dramatically since October 7, 2023. Public disgust with the US role is palpable, and solidarity must not wane. We must escalate pressure through concrete measures: targeting the weapons manufacturers and war profiteers, more states implementing arms embargoes and diplomatically isolating Israel, halting public investment in companies complicit in genocide, and enforcing international law against all complicit states, as per the Genocide Convention. While this ceasefire is a necessary step forward, it is not the liberation that the Palestinians and all free people deserve. Liberation remains a long process and the struggle must continue towards it. This moment is a testament to the resilience of the Palestinian people and a call to strengthen our solidarity with their march forward to ultimately achieve a free Palestine from the River to the Sea. 10/7/2025 Two Years Since Al-Aqsa Flood, uphold the rights of the Palestinian people to freedom, return and self-determinationRead Now Resist the occupation! Break the siege! Two Years Since Al-Aqsa Flood, uphold the rights of the Palestinian people to freedom, return and self-determination (SPANISH + FRENCH BELOW) ENGLISH -- October 7th, 2025, marks two years since the Al Aqsa Flood operation of the Palestinian national liberation struggle . This operation was a response to decades of occupation and a Zionist campaign of ethnic cleansing, fully backed by US imperialism, since its inception in 1948. It follows a long history of Palestinian struggle for self-determination and a just peace, marking a new stage in its resistance. In response to the operations on October 7th 2023, “Israel” launched its ultimate extermination campaign. It killed tens of thousands in a matter of months, a death toll that now amounts to hundreds of thousands, 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 in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen, while eyeing an ultimate war against Iran in its expansionist quest to establish "Greater Israel." This extermination campaign is fully backed by the US, which has armed "Israel" to the teeth and provided ideological and political support for all its attacks against the people of West Asia. For the last two years, the liberation movements of the Axis of Resistance have waged an unrelenting fight in defense of their peoples' lives and self-determination, acting as a united movement against the US-led war in the region. At the core of this united front and fueled by popular support, the Palestinian resistance fights a war of the oppressed masses against a far more brutal and heavily armed occupying force. With immeasurable sacrifices and steadfastness, the Palestinian people hold onto their land and confront the Zionist entity, a de facto US outpost in West Asia, which is used as a crucial asset in the imperialist quest for resources, markets, trade routes and profits in the region. The fight of Palestinians has prompted a resurgence in global solidarity with the struggles for national liberation. In the last two years, people have taken to the streets in the millions, engaged in direct action to stop the flow of weapons to Israel, staged strikes and walkouts, blocked arms shipments on their way to Israel, and taken it upon themselves to break the siege and deliver humanitarian aid through flotillas. The actions of the Global Sumud Flotilla are a shining example of this solidarity and the inhumanity of the Zionist response to act of humanitarianism, let alone militant resistance. Alongside mass solidarity actions in the streets, the seas, and in the halls of government and corporate power, people have intensified the struggle against their own reactionary regimes aimed at liberating their nations from the neocolonial chains of US imperialism. Leading the fight are those that have struck deep into the Zionist entity, as seen in the actions of Yemen, Iran, and the resistance forces in Lebanon. Meanwhile, western governments and their puppets around the world have stayed silent, provided limitless military aid and weapons to Israel, and promoted "peace deals" that normalized the existence of "Israel" and refuse to address the root causes of the war: the occupation of Palestine and ongoing violation of the Palestinian people's right to their land and self-determination from the river to the sea. The Zionist entity, with the full backing of US imperialism, labels the legitimate resistance of the Palestinian people and their solidarity allies as "terrorists." This is the same slander used by the US to condemn revolutionary movements across the globe. However, the ongoing genocide in Gaza has exposed the true genocidal and colonial nature of the settler-colonial state of Israel and its principal backer, US imperialism. The Zionist entity and its settler colonial project are now more ideologically and politically isolated than ever. As a result of the Palestinian resistance operations and the growing solidarity movement, "Israel" faces an unprecedented crisis with millions worldwide now recognizing that the mantle of terrorism rests not with the resistance, but with the genocidal regime and its imperialist patron. This global awakening is manifested in mass protests and a strengthening anti-imperialist movement. It is shown by figures like Netanyahu speaking to an emptied room at the UN and actions of progressive governments, such as Colombia's, in cutting diplomatic ties with Israel. These developments signal important steps toward the inevitable failure of their settler colonial project and the certainty of the Palestinian people's victorious liberation. As we commemorate the second anniversary of the Al Aqsa Flood, the Resist US-Led War movement calls upon all peace-loving people to intensify solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, the main force in the fight for a liberated Palestine and peace in West Asia. Through mass protests, strikes, blockades, and other democratic means, we will take to the streets! We will show our unwavering support, demand an end to the siege and genocide, and continue building political and moral support for the Palestinian struggle for a just and lasting peace. FREE PALESTINE! END THE SIEGE! BREAK THE BLOCKADE! ARMS EMBARGO NOW! ¡Resiste la Ocupación! ¡Rompe El Asedio! Dos años después de la inundación de Al-Aqsa, defendamos los derechos del pueblo palestino a la libertad, el retorno y la autodeterminación. El 7 de octubre de 2025 se cumplen dos años de la operación de inundación de Al Aqsa de la lucha de liberación nacional palestina. Esta operación fue una respuesta a décadas de ocupación y a una campaña sionista de limpieza étnica, totalmente respaldada por el imperialismo estadounidense, desde su inicio en 1948. Es la continuación de una larga historia de lucha palestina por la autodeterminación y una paz justa, y marca una nueva etapa en su resistencia. En respuesta a las operaciones del 7 de octubre de 2023, Israel lanzó su campaña de exterminio definitiva. Mató a decenas de miles de personas en cuestión de meses, una cifra que ahora asciende a cientos de miles, mientras desplazaba y privaba de alimentos sistemáticamente a toda la población de Gaza y asediaba Cisjordania junto con colonos armados. Los sionistas utilizaron su guerra de exterminio para justificar bombardeos, asesinatos y la ocupación en Líbano, Siria y Yemen, mientras contemplaban una guerra definitiva contra Irán en su afán expansionista por establecer el "Gran Israel". Esta campaña de exterminio cuenta con el pleno respaldo de Estados Unidos, que ha armado a Israel y ha brindado apoyo ideológico y político a todos sus ataques contra la población de Asia Occidental. Durante los últimos dos años, los movimientos de liberación del Eje de la Resistencia han librado una lucha incansable en defensa de la vida y la autodeterminación de sus pueblos, actuando como un movimiento unido contra la guerra liderada por Estados Unidos en la región. En el centro de este frente unido, impulsada por el apoyo popular, la resistencia palestina libra una guerra de las masas oprimidas contra una fuerza de ocupación mucho más brutal y fuertemente armada. Con sacrificios inconmensurables y firmeza, el pueblo palestino se aferra a su territorio y se enfrenta a la entidad sionista, un de facto puesto avanzado estadounidense en Asia Occidental, que se utiliza como un activo crucial en la búsqueda imperialista de recursos, mercados, rutas comerciales y ganancias en la región. La lucha de los palestinos ha impulsado un resurgimiento de la solidaridad global con las luchas por la liberación nacional. En los últimos dos años, millones de personas han salido a las calles, han participado en acciones directas para parar el flujo de armas a Israel, han organizado huelgas y paros, han bloqueado los envíos de armas en camino a Israel y se han encargado de romper el asedio y entregar ayuda humanitaria mediante flotillas. Las acciones de la Flotilla Global Sumúd son un claro ejemplo de esta solidaridad y de la inhumanidad de la respuesta sionista a los actos de humanitarismo, y aún más a la resistencia militante. Junto a las masivas acciones de solidaridad en las calles, los mares y en los cedes del gobierno y el poder corporativo, el pueblo ha intensificado la lucha contra sus propios regímenes reaccionarios, con el objetivo de liberar a sus naciones de las cadenas neocoloniales del imperialismo estadounidense. En la frente de la lucha, son aquellos que han golpeado profundamente la entidad sionista, como se ve en las acciones de Yemen, Irán y las fuerzas de resistencia en el Líbano. Mientras tanto, los gobiernos occidentales y sus títeres en todo el mundo han guardado silencio, han proporcionado ayuda militar y armas ilimitadas a Israel, y han promovido "acuerdos de paz" que normalizan la existencia de "Israel" y se niegan a abordar las causas profundas de la guerra: la ocupación de Palestina y las actuales violaciones del derecho del pueblo palestino a su tierra y a la autodeterminación desde el río hasta el mar. La entidad sionista, con el pleno respaldo del imperialismo estadounidense, califica de "terroristas" la legítima resistencia del pueblo palestino y sus aliados solidarios. Esta es la misma calumnia que utiliza Estados Unidos para condenar los ntos revolucionarios en todo el mundo. Sin embargo, el genocidio en curso en Gaza ha expuesto la verdadera naturaleza genocida y colonial del Estado colonial de asentamiento de Israel y su principal apoyo, el imperialismo estadounidense. La entidad sionista y su proyecto colonial de asentamiento están ahora más aislados ideológica y políticamente que nunca. Como resultado de las operaciones de resistencia palestina y el creciente movimiento de solidaridad, "Israel" enfrenta una crisis sin precedentes y millones de personas en todo el mundo reconocen que el manto del terrorismo no recae en la resistencia, sino en el régimen genocida y su patrón imperialista. El mundo se ha despierto y moviilza en en protestas masivas y un movimiento antiimperialista cada vez más fuerte. Lo demuestran figuras como Netanyahu, quien habló en una sala vacía de la ONU, y las acciones de gobiernos progresistas, como el de Colombia, al cortar relaciones diplomáticas con Israel. Estos acontecimientos señalan pasos importantes hacia el inevitable fracaso de su proyecto colonial y la certeza de la liberación victoriosa del pueblo palestino. Al conmemorar el segundo aniversario de la inundación de Al Aqsa, el movimiento "Resistir la Guerra Liderada por EE. UU." hace un llamamiento a todos los amantes de la paz para que intensifiquen su solidaridad con el pueblo palestino y su resistencia, la principal fuerza en la lucha por una Palestina liberada y la paz en Asia Occidental. Mediante protestas masivas, huelgas, bloqueos y otros medios democráticos, ¡saldremos a las calles! Demostraremos nuestro apoyo incondicional, exigiremos el fin del asedio y el genocidio, y seguiremos fomentando el apoyo político y moral a la lucha palestina por una paz justa y duradera. ¡PALESTINA LIBRE! ¡FIN DEL ASEDIO! ¡ROMPA EL BLOQUEO! ¡EMBARGO DE ARMAS YA! Résistons à l'occupation ! Brisez le siège !
Deux ans après le déluge d'al-Aqsa, défendons les droits du peuple palestinien à la liberté, au retour et à l'autodétermination. Le 7 octobre 2025 marque les deux ans de l’opération Déluge d'Al-Aqsa, menée par la lutte de libération nationale palestinienne. Cette opération était une réponse à des décennies d’occupation et à une campagne sioniste de purification ethnique, pleinement soutenue par l’impérialisme américain, depuis son début en 1948. Elle fait suite à une longue histoire de lutte palestinienne pour l’autodétermination et une paix juste, marquant une nouvelle étape dans sa résistance. En réponse aux opérations du 7 octobre 2023, « Israël » a lancé sa campagne d'extermination ultime. Il a tué des dizaines de milliers de personnes en quelques mois, un bilan qui s'élève désormais à des centaines de milliers, tout en déplaçant et en affamant systématiquement toute la population de Gaza et en assiégeant la Cisjordanie aux côtés de colons armés. Les sionistes ont utilisé leur guerre d'extermination pour justifier les bombardements, les assassinats et l'occupation du Liban, de la Syrie et du Yémen, tout en envisageant une guerre ultime contre l'Iran dans sa quête expansionniste d'établir un « Grand Israël ». Cette campagne d'extermination est pleinement soutenue par les États-Unis, qui ont armé « Israël » jusqu'aux dents et ont apporté un soutien idéologique et politique à toutes ses attaques contre les populations d'Asie occidentale. Depuis deux ans, les mouvements de libération de l'Axe de la Résistance mènent un combat acharné pour la vie et l'autodétermination de leurs peuples, agissant comme un mouvement uni contre la guerre menée par les États-Unis dans la région. Au cœur de ce front uni et nourrie par le soutien populaire, la résistance palestinienne mène une guerre des masses opprimées contre une force d'occupation bien plus brutale et lourdement armée. Au prix de sacrifices incommensurables et d'une détermination sans faille, le peuple palestinien s'accroche à sa terre et affronte l'entité sioniste, véritable avant-poste américain en Asie occidentale, utilisé comme un atout crucial dans la quête impérialiste de ressources, de marchés, de routes commerciales et de profits dans la région. Le combat des Palestiniens a suscité un regain de solidarité mondiale avec les luttes de libération nationale. Ces deux dernières années, des millions de personnes sont descendues dans la rue, ont mené des actions directes pour stopper l'afflux d'armes vers Israël, ont organisé des grèves et des débrayages, ont bloqué des livraisons d'armes à destination d'Israël et ont pris l'initiative de briser le siège et d'acheminer l'aide humanitaire par flottilles. Les actions de la Flottille Mondiale Sumud illustrent parfaitement cette solidarité et l'inhumanité de la réponse sioniste aux actes humanitaires, sans parler de la résistance militante. Parallèlement aux actions de solidarité massives dans les rues, sur les mers et dans les couloirs des gouvernements et des grandes entreprises, les peuples ont intensifié la lutte contre leurs propres régimes réactionnaires, qui cherchent à libérer leurs nations des chaînes néocoloniales de l'impérialisme américain. À la tête de ce combat se trouvent ceux qui ont profondément ancré l'entité sioniste, comme en témoignent les actions du Yémen, de l'Iran et des forces de résistance au Liban. Pendant ce temps, les gouvernements occidentaux et leurs marionnettes à travers le monde sont restés silencieux, ont fourni une aide militaire et des armes illimitées à Israël et ont promu des « accords de paix » qui ont normalisé l'existence d'« Israël » tout en refusant de s'attaquer aux causes profondes de la guerre : l'occupation de la Palestine et la violation continue du droit du peuple palestinien à sa terre et à l'autodétermination, du fleuve à la mer. L'entité sioniste, avec le soutien total de l'impérialisme américain, qualifie de « terroristes » la résistance légitime du peuple palestinien et de ses alliés solidaires. C'est la même calomnie que les États-Unis utilisent pour condamner les mouvements révolutionnaires à travers le monde. Cependant, le génocide en cours à Gaza a révélé la véritable nature génocidaire et coloniale de l'État colonial d'Israël et de son principal soutien, l'impérialisme américain. L'entité sioniste et son projet colonial de peuplement sont désormais plus isolés idéologiquement et politiquement que jamais. Du fait des opérations de résistance palestinienne et du mouvement de solidarité grandissant, « Israël » est confronté à une crise sans précédent : des millions de personnes à travers le monde reconnaissent désormais que le manteau du terrorisme ne repose pas sur la résistance, mais sur le régime génocidaire et son patron impérialiste. Ce réveil mondial se manifeste par des manifestations de masse et un renforcement du mouvement anti-impérialiste. Il est illustré par des personnalités comme Netanyahou s'exprimant devant une salle vide à l'ONU et par les actions de gouvernements progressistes, comme celui de la Colombie, qui ont rompu leurs relations diplomatiques avec Israël. Ces évolutions marquent des étapes importantes vers l'échec inévitable de leur projet colonial de peuplement et la certitude de la libération victorieuse du peuple palestinien. Alors que nous commémorons le deuxième anniversaire du déluge d'Al-Aqsa, le mouvement « Résister à la guerre menée par les États-Unis » appelle tous les peuples épris de paix à intensifier leur solidarité avec le peuple palestinien et sa résistance, principale force de la lutte pour une Palestine libérée et la paix en Asie occidentale. Par des manifestations de masse, des grèves, des blocus et d'autres moyens démocratiques, nous descendrons dans la rue ! Nous témoignerons notre soutien indéfectible, exigerons la fin du siège et du génocide, et continuerons de renforcer le soutien politique et moral à la lutte palestinienne pour une paix juste et durable. LIBÉREZ LA PALESTINE ! FINISSEZ LE SIÈGE ! BRISEZ LE BLOCUS ! EMBARGO SUR LES ARMES MAINTENANT ! 9/20/2025 The U.N. can never be a force for peace, as long as it bends to the will of U.S. imperialismRead Now The International Day of Peace was established by the United Nations (UN) in 1981 and was later designated as a day of non-violence and cease-fire in 2001. However, the UN's approach has consistently overlooked the root causes of conflict. Wars are not just acts of violence, they are political and social tools used to achieve the interests of states, peoples, or classes.
The world is engulfed in grave wars, genocides, and other monumental threats to peace caused primarily by US imperialism. Today over 90% of Gaza is destroyed. 1.7 million Palestinians have been displaced, 162,000 have been injured, 17,000 detained, 248 journalists killed, and 64,300 have been martyred, including over 20,000 children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Yet, Trump will roll out the red carpet for war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, while banning any Palestinian presence at the UN General Assembly this September in New York City. The UN will never be a true multilateral force for peace as long as it bends to the will of US imperialism, the main source of war in the world today. The world has witnessed the US use its position as a permanent Security Council member and the UN’s largest funder to systematically block every resolution demanding a ceasefire, sanctions, or an arms embargo on Israel. It has even bowed to Trump-era sabotage of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), strangling aid channels as Gaza endures a UN-declared Level 5 famine. As Trump boasts about being a “peace president,” his actions mock the very idea of international cooperation and peace while the United Nations and all the international institutions led by the US enable him to do so. “The Commission finds that Israel is responsible for the commission of genocide in Gaza,” said Navi Pillay, Chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, referencing a report on Sept 16. “It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention.” Yet, it welcomes Israel, which is actively committing genocide and intensifying its airstrikes on Gaza City, totally destroying large areas and massacring entire families as the Israeli army begins a full-scale invasion deep into the city. This is not peacekeeping, it is aiding and abetting a genocide. A Peace of the Graveyard The United Nations, set up in the aftermath of World War II, has now survived for 80 years. It has persisted through the US-Soviet Cold War and numerous limited wars since the 1950s, from the US war of aggression against the Korean people, which left a nation still divided by the 38th parallel and the truce village of Panmunjom, to the war against the Vietnamese people, and all succeeding US-initiated wars against the Afghan, Iraqi, and Syrian people. Today, it exists amidst a developing cold war and inter-imperialist rivalry, raging proxy conflicts, counterinsurgency wars, widespread military occupation and expansion, driven primarily by US aggression. While the UN's own International Day of Peace call says "From peacekeepers on the front lines of conflict, to community members, to students in classrooms around the world, everyone has a role to play", in reality the institutions of UN peacekeeping missions have long served as instruments of neocolonial control, upholding the guise of “liberal internationalism.” UN peace missions enforce a “peace of the graveyard”: one that silences resistance through military presence to facilitate a return to the status quo of exploitation, land grabs and foreign intervention for profit. In practice, the UN has become a forum where US and European interests dominate, marginalizing pro-independence movements and even whole sovereign states. This is exemplified by two key cases: the ongoing blockade of Palestinian statehood via US veto power in the Security Council, and the historic exclusion of the People's Republic of China for over two decades. From 1949 to 1971, US influence ensured the Chinese seat was held by the defeated fascist government in Taiwan, silencing the mainland Chinese government and a major anti-imperialist voice in the Cold War era. The UN similarly claims to advocate for global cooperation "through understanding, non-violence, and disarmament". However, its structure and history often don't uphold the right of nations to self-determination. Numerous UN so-called Peacekeeping Missions have been undertaken over the decades with the result of, at best, leaving things status quo and, at worst, contributing to destabilization and terrorizing the people. Current ongoing operations include long-standing missions whose widely recognizable "blue helmets" try to present an image of benign intentions over what could actually be described as blatant foreign intervention. The UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), initially established in the 1970s during the brutal Lebanese Civil War, served as a seemingly neutral actor in the war. But by equating Lebanese and Palestinian national liberation forces with fascist paramilitaries backed by the US, France, and "Israel," the latter was able to operate with impunity and terrorize the people with weapons provided by the same foreign powers that armed UNIFIL itself. The result was that the genuine forces fighting for peace through national liberation were directly attacked and blamed for disrupting the "peace" mission of the UN. The 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus resulted in nearly half the island's land being seized by the Turkish state and a puppet government, the so-called "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," that forcibly displaced the Greek-speaking Cypriots who lived there. The UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), already active for 10 years at that point, has since held silent watch over still-ruined buildings and a settler-occupying force while stifling any calls to eject the rising number of settlers from Turkiye from the land stolen from both Greek and Turkish speaking Cypriots years ago. By keeping the status quo, while claiming to be the force for peace on the island, UNFICYP in fact stifles the chance for peace by rejecting the just struggle of the Cypriot people for national liberation. From the 1990s to the 2010s, UN peace missions formed across Africa and the Caribbean that continued the trend of destabilization for the very communities that they claimed to protect. The UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) has sat idly by while the Moroccan occupation intensifies and the Polisario Front of the Saharawi people lacks genuine support from the UN. The so-called "stabilization mission" in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Interim Security Force for Abyei in Sudan have proved to be even worse actors in the communities, with multiple "peacekeepers" being exposed for crimes of bribery, looting, rape, and other violent crimes. The Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti would even spread a cholera outbreak to the island in the midst of a devastating earthquake due to severe neglect of their own sanitation facilities. These missions have also been active throughout Latin America and Asia, with historical involvement in nations including El Salvador, Nicaragua, Cambodia, East Timor, and Syria. To Achieve Just Peace: Resist US Led-War Can we truly say that the United Nations has maintained peace over these last 80 years? The answer is obvious. The roots of armed conflicts remain unaddressed and unresolved by the UN. At 80, the organization is tattered, weakened by the actions of its most powerful member. The US has abandoned the UN's most important agencies, such as UNRWA , and retreated into a selfish unilateralism, even discarding the devastating neoliberal system it once championed. Ultimately, the impulse for peace comes from the people themselves, and only they can achieve it through united struggle against imperialism and all reaction. Across the globe, people are taking action: the Global Sumud Flotilla is currently challenging the blockade of Gaza to intervene directly against the siege. The Axis of Resistance is fighting back and standing up against Zionism and US imperialism through targeting the US bases, striking Israeli military and infrastructure targets, blockading trade with the Zionist entity and waging a peoples war across Palestine. Workers are fighting back to block war supply chains, exemplified by the victorious Italian and Spanish dock worker's blockades of the Maersk shipping company to end shipments to Israeli settlements. Mass movements are targeting key war production hubs like Italy’s Leonardo, Germany's Rheinmetall and UK's DSEI showing rising dissent against the further fueling of Europe's military production. People in countries hosting US bases or with US military cooperation agreements are demonstrating and organizing to oust these installments from their land from Puerto Rico to Okinawa to Korea to the Philippines. Liberation struggles resisting US-led wars are showing that the only way to end war is to fight the systems that produce it. We join movements worldwide in exposing the US war machine, targeting the corporations and military bases that sustain it, and advancing a true anti-militarist agenda: Shut down overseas US bases and commands! Fight weapons companies and arms sales! Resist Zionism, end the occupation, and liberate Palestine from the river to the sea! End all US-backed settler colonial regimes! US out of everywhere! |
