RESIST U.S.-LED WAR MOVEMENT

9/21/2026

On the occasion of the 45th International Day of Peace we renew the call to: Defeat U.S. Imperialism, the Main Threat to World Peace! Build the Movement to Win a Just and Lasting Peace!

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On the Occasion of the 45th International Day of Peace, Renew the Call to Defeat U.S. Imperialism, the Main Threat to World Peace! Build the Movement to Win a Just and Lasting Peace!

As the United Nations (UN) marks the 45th International Day of Peace, wars of aggression, occupation, and intervention span the globe, waged principally by the U.S. and its proxies to seize territory, resources, and markets. Peoples everywhere face the devastating impacts of war: genocide, famine, poverty, and forced displacement. The UN's commemoration under the banner of "investing in peace" does not name the main enemy of peace in the world--U.S. imperialism and the monopoly capitalists the system protects. Instead, "investing in peace" offers the false solution that peace can be bought, without ending the root causes of war.

Every anti-people war today is a direct product of imperialism, and the only way to end these wars is to end imperialism. That begins by taking stock of the U.S.-led war strategy and building support for the just struggles against imperialist war and the economic system driving it. This statement aims to provide an overview of U.S.-led war developments in the last year, the resistance rising against it, and the forces fighting to win a just and lasting peace in the world.

The Current Situation of U.S.-Led War

Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has used its role as the leading imperialist superpower to unleash war to expand markets and counter any threat to the profits of its ruling class. Now, facing the greatest crisis in its 250-year existence, with its share of the global economy reduced by nearly half since 1960, the U.S. is lashing out with devastating wars, conflicts, and aggression. The U.S. is waging war on three main fronts: against its self-declared enemies of Russia in Europe, Iran and the Axis of Resistance in West Asia, and China and the DPRK in the Asia-Pacific. Yet the arms of U.S.-led war reach every corner of the world, producing regional wars of aggression and other proxy wars. In Latin America for example, the U.S. is already waging intensified economic warfare and military interventions to reassert control over the resources, markets, and governments of a region it has long treated as its backyard. In Africa, it is working to counter the fast-growing strategic alliances between Russia and China, particularly with governments that reject U.S. and European military installations on their soil. Whether through sanctions, blockades, military buildups, or direct intervention, the U.S. acts to shore up its dominance and the profits of its ruling class as its hegemony erodes. As the crisis deepens, U.S.-led war grows more reckless.

West Asia

In West Asia, the U.S. continues to wage devastating wars. Zionist Israel, a de facto U.S. military base and attack dog in the region, continues its genocidal war against the Palestinian people, with at least 71,000 killed by official statistics and hundreds of thousands still buried under the rubble. A so-called ceasefire was signed in October 2025, but Israel has violated it more than 1,200 times, killing more than 1,000 Palestinians, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, restricting vital aid, and blocking all reconstruction by preventing heavy machinery from entering the Strip. The U.S. has refused to recognize a single violation. Instead, it rewarded this campaign of genocide by welcoming Netanyahu onto the "Board of Peace" and proposing a "development" project for Gaza, with power point slides of high-rises built over the dead bodies of Palestinians.

The U.S.' decades-long campaign of sanctions and economic warfare against Iran culminated in an all-out war at the end of February 2026, in which the U.S. and "Israel" deliberately bombed the main state in region opposing the unrestricted domination of West Asia by the U.S. and a staunch supporter of the national liberation struggles in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and beyond. The operation "Epic Fury" unleashed by the U.S. and "Israel" killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and hit at least 24 of Iran's 31 provinces, killing between 9,044–18,371 Iranians this year. Among the dead were more than 160 children killed on the first day of the war, when the U.S. bombed the Minab girls' school.

Lebanon has become a second front in the war, being intensely targeted by Zionist forces. A full Israeli ground invasion left the Israel in control of roughly 20 percent of Lebanese territory and drove over one million Lebanese from their homes. Israeli forces have since killed more than 4,300 people in Lebanon and wounded over 12,000, damaging or destroying about 90,000 houses and leaving roughly 600,000 people still displaced. Even at the height of the campaign, a single day of strikes in May killed at least 31 people, including six children, as "Israel" issued around 50 displacement orders covering villages and the major city of Nabatieh.

The forces fighting for national liberation and in defense of their sovereignty continue to resist valiantly and have dealt massive blows to the U.S. war machine. Iran retaliated with missile and drone strikes against U.S. military bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, destroying key military infrastructure and equipment in the region. It also closed the Strait of Hormuz, gaining massive economic leverage against the U.S. war machine. Hezbollah struck northern "Israel" in solidarity with Iran and continues to resist the Israeli ground invasion, which has not been able to advance since May. Ansar Allah took control of the Bab el-Mandab Strait and the entire western coast of Yemen by repelling new attacks by U.S.-backed Saudi Arabia, securing another economic chokepoint. Across Palestine, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran, the many fronts of the Axis of Resistance combine to keep the region from being torn apart by Zionist expansionism and U.S. pillage.

Asia and the Pacific

Since declaring its "Pivot to Asia" in 2012 to counter China's rise, the U.S. has made the Asia-Pacific its main theater of militarization and war preparation. The "Island Chain Strategy" is the cornerstone of that effort, mapping out forward outposts, missile stations, and supply routes along China's periphery. Communities beside U.S. bases, radar systems, and weapons depots would be in the line of fire in any conflict and already bear the costs of the buildup.

In Korea, a large U.S. presence of over 28,000 troops and regular joint exercises keep threatening, and rehearsing, an invasion of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In March 2026, about 18,000 South Korean troops joined the Freedom Shield exercise alongside U.S. forces, even as the U.S. was launching its war on Iran. In March 2025, live-fire training ahead of Freedom Shield near Pocheon bombed a civilian area, injuring 43 people and badly damaging 163 buildings, including a church. The August 2026 Ulchi Freedom Shield also showed how the U.S. treats the exercises as a bargaining chip when hours before the drills began, Trump ordered the Pentagon to "substantially reduce" them, linking his displeasure to South Korea's refusal to join U.S. action against Iran.

In the Philippines, Balikatan 2026, the largest annual U.S.-Philippine exercise, included island defense, air superiority, anti-ship missiles, and even the deployment of a mid-range Tomahawk missile, signaling preparations for a large-scale sea, air, cyber, and land conflict in the coming U.S. war on China. These preparations align with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy, in which the Philippines plays the role of a forward operating base, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" from which to stage and launch that war. The war on Iran showed that the U.S. would not think twice about gambling with the safety of its Pacific allies when it suits its selfish interests, since these weapons and war games make host countries magnets of conflict and place bullseyes on them. To streamline its supply chains for AI and war production, the U.S. has also announced its intention to build a 4,000-acre industrial hub in the Luzon Economic Corridor. This is part of Pax Silica, a coalition formed to counter China's strength in tech manufacturing, particularly chips and the rare earths that go into them. For the Philippines, that means forking over sovereignty of its own resources and labor to peg them to U.S. interests,becoming a supplier for a rival bloc's supply chains and a possible target in any war the U.S. starts with China.

Across the Pacific islands, U.S. military exercises and installations in Hawaii, Guam, and other island nations occupied by the U.S. continue to grow and expand, even as severe natural disasters such as floods and typhoons cause widespread displacement and loss of livelihood. The military is first in line for funding and protection from the American government, while the people are left to find solutions on their own.

Also part of the U.S. strategy in the Pacific are the junior imperialist powers, particularly Japan and Australia, who are preparing for war in step with the U.S. Japan is in the midst of a rapid military buildup, looking to scrap its landmark peace constitution which only allows its military to operate in self defense, with prime minister Takaichi declaring that a Chinese attack or military blockade on Taiwan could constitute an "existential threat" to Japan’s survival. On the islands of Okinawa, close to Taiwan, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces are deploying several, missile units, and military spending has doubled in the past three years. Together with the U.S., the Japanese government is strengthening military cooperation with Asian countries to contain China, and Japan had its largest-ever participation in Balikatan in 2026. Australia, meanwhile, added $4.6 billion for the AUKUS submarine construction yard at Osborne, bringing its total contribution to $8.5 billion, continuing to play its key role as a U.S. logistics hub for weapons and equipment, specially of the nuclear type.

In the midst of growing war preparations the peoples of Asia and the Pacific continue to fight for liberation from the U.S. grip, whether through the struggle for formal independence or against the puppet regimes that put their peoples' sovereignty up for sale to get a share of military development and war profits. In Korea, peace and progressive organizations continue to protest the joint exercises and demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops, an end to U.S. wartime control of the Korean military, and de-escalation of tensions with the DPRK, toward a formal end to the Korean War, which remains at a stalemate. In the Philippines, national democratic and people's organizations are mobilizing against Balikatan, the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement sites, and the turning of the country into a staging ground for war on China, including by rejecting the use of their land for massive data center and AI hubs under Pax Silica. In Okinawa, Japan, and across the Pacific islands like Guam and Hawaii, communities are fighting the expansion of bases, missile deployments, and militarized land grabs. These struggles are part of the regional resistance refusing that the peoples of the Asia and the Pacific be used as pawns and cannon fodder in a war for U.S. profit.

Europe

In Europe, the U.S. still wields NATO as its main tool of war, even as the fight over spheres of influence between the U.S. and its European allies has opened rifts within the organization. The alliance remains the vehicle for the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine and for the rearmament drive now sweeping the continent. More recently at its Ankara summit, NATO announced billions in arms deals in an open attempt to appease the Trump administration.

The Russia-Ukraine war has settled into a protracted war of attrition in the Donbas with no end in sight. As the U.S. pushes the EU to fund the West's proxy war, the bloc has approved a €90 billion loan for Ukraine and rolled out its twentieth round of sanctions against Russia. Germany has agreed to cooperate with Ukraine on drone production, and Britain plans to deliver 120,000 drones to Kyiv. Spending and rearmament have accelerated across the continent under the U.S.-backed "Re-Arm Europe" campaign. Even as it relocates troops from Europe to the regions where it is waging direct wars, the U.S. is considering deploying additional nuclear weapons in European countries to reassure NATO allies, a move that pushes the region closer to nuclear war.

This drive toward militarism is mirrored by the electoral advance of the far right, with the full support of the Trump administration. From the Alternative for Germany's victory in Saxony-Anhalt to the broader rise of far-right parties in France, Italy and elsewhere, their share of the European vote has grown from roughly 5% in 1995 to over 23% today.

Yet the cracks within NATO show that the alliance is far less united than it was during the Cold War. When Trump demanded U.S. control of Greenland and moved to impose escalating tariffs on Denmark until they sell the island, seven European leaders issued a joint statement of condemnation. Spain, meanwhile, blocked support for the U.S. operation against Iran, prompting Secretary of State Marco Rubio to declare that the alliance itself must be "re-examined." This opens the opportunity for a movement rooted in the working people of Europe to widen those cracks and demand an end to the war drive led by the U.S. and European imperialists. The growing peace movement of workers, migrants, and others continues to push back against NATO and the war preparations against Russia led by the G7 powers. Anti-war coalitions consistently mobilize against NATO summits, anti-migrant and fascist policies, and the deployment of new weapons on European soil.

Africa

Africa remains a target of massive resource plunder and proxy war by the U.S. at a time when China and Russia have significantly deepened their strategic alliances across the continent. The U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) plays the counterrevolutionary, anti-people role once held by European colonial powers and Western-backed apartheid states. When U.S. and French forces were ejected from their bases in the Sahel states of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, Washington fell back on its age-old strategy of covertly arming and backing paramilitary forces to claw back influence, working hand in hand with European allies, particularly France. They also maneuvered to strike military deals with willing governments of other countries on the continent, such as Kenya.

In Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the genocidal proxy wars bear the handprints of the U.S., with the Pentagon and its allies at times arming opposing sides simultaneously. This is a deliberate strategy to stoke chaos and keep the flow of gold and other strategic minerals running into the hands of U.S. and allied multinational corporations.

In Sudan, around El Obeid in North Kordofan, escalating drone warfare on both sides has put hundreds of thousands of civilians in the crosshairs of a war that outside powers continue to arm. The war has resulted in a death toll estimated from 150,000 to 400,000, including at least 4,400 people killed inside El Fasher over three days in October 2025. It has displaced 9.3 million people inside the country and pushed another 4.4 million abroad. In the DRC, the Rwanda-backed M23 has continued its campaign of terror despite a so-called ceasefire brokered by the U.S. in December 2025, exposing the U.S.-brokered peace as meaningless, a stunt to bolster Trump's narrative as the "president of peace," while its true aim was to secure US access to critical minerals in the country. In 2025 the war recorded over 300 civilians killed by M23 in a single month and estimates of internal displacement range from five million to over seven million.

Besides stoking proxy wars within African nations the U.S. has also carried out over 200 airstrikes alongside the Somali government throughout 2025 and 2026. These operations, framed as collective self-defense, under the guise of fighting a “war on terror", target areas near Bulo Burti. For years, the U.S. has involved itself in Somali affairs and bears responsibility for pushing the nation into its current state. Rather than easing tensions, the U.S. has intentionally destabilized the country by supporting unpopular separatist movement in Somaliland, and propping up puppet comprador governments, in order to gain access to important shipping lanes in the Horn of Africa and establish another military base in the region.

Still, the people of Africa continue to sow the path of sovereignty and independence. Since ejecting U.S. and French troops and bases, the anti-U.S. governments of Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have begun to integrate their markets, undo the bondage of French and U.S. finance capital, and start industrializing. This shows that the struggle against imperialist militaries is a struggle for genuine democracy and livelihood and following the tradition of the Pan-African and socialist revolutions of the 20th century continue to tread a future of Africa for Africans.

Latin America

Since the second Trump administration took power, the U.S. has intensified and added bare-faced military offensives on top of the hybrid warfare, sanctions, and psychological operations that marked its policy toward Latin America in past decades. So-called “reconsideration” of military presence in the Western Hemisphere is a return to the gunboat diplomacy that characterized US colonization of foreign nations at the end of the 19th century. It represents the same Biden-Obama strategy but with more brute force, far more desperate implementation, and without even the facade of respecting US alliances.

The invasion of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela with the aim is to install a compliant government in Venezuela, roll back Chinese and Russian influence, and bring down the Bolivarian revolution resulted in U.S. forces seizing President Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores from a Caracas compound in an operation that killed more than 100 Venezuelan and Cuban soldiers on January 3 2026. Maduro now faces trumped up narcotrafficking charges in New York while being illegally held in a prison in Brooklyn.

After the invasion, the U.S. blocked all Venezuelan oil bound to Cuba, and Trump signed Executive Order 14380 in late January 2026, declaring Cuba an extraordinary threat and authorizing tariffs on imports from any country that directly or indirectly supplies oil to Cuba. By March, Cuba had received no oil imports in over three months, cutting its fuel supply by about 90%. Cuba produces only about 40% of the crude it needs, so the cutoff hit every part of Cuban's daily lives like transportation and refrigeration of food. The national grid collapsed three times in March alone, leaving millions in the complete dark. Blackouts of up to 20 hours have forced hospitals to suspend non-emergency operations, while fuel shortages limit ambulance services. More than 100,000 patients, including 11,000 children, are waiting for surgeries delayed by outages and with some being conducted with flashlights.

The U.S. also continued to prop up right wing aligned governments in Latin America blatantly interfering in their election processes. Before Argentina's October 2025 midterms, the Trump administration tied a $20 billion currency swap and $20 billion in private bank loans to a strong result for Javier Milei. In Colombia, Ecuador and Peru the U.S. lauded the right wing victories and swiftly integrated these new administrations into the Shield of the Americas, a political coordination alliance created by the U.S. to further cement its role as master of these governments under the guise of combating narcotrafficking.

Amid interventions, invasions, and escalating economic warfare, the people's resistance against the new "Donroe Doctrine" has also intensified. The Cuban and Venezuelan people continue to defend their historic revolutions through their communes, militias, and popular organizations. In Puerto Rico, the movement against U.S. bases and foreign-backed mega projects such as Essencia continues to gain momentum, while in Argentina, thousands have mobilized against Milei's anti-worker labor reforms. In Bolivia, miners and Indigenous communities have mobilized en masse to resist the fullscale plunder of the country, braving the threats posed by the state of exception under President Rodrigo Paz. Peasant, Indigenous, and student movements across the region are also rejecting militarization, debt, and dependency, and continental solidarity with the pro-sovereignty positions of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela is growing.

To Win a Just Peace: Defeat U.S. Imperialism, Support National Liberation Struggles!

Taken together, these flash points show the vast reach of the U.S. war machine. But they also show that wherever this machine is present, the people are confronting it.

The oppressed nations look to cut the chains of imperialism shackled on them by their puppet administrations that suppress their liberation and give away their sovereignty. Independent countries defend their sovereignty against every form of imperialist intervention. All of them engaged in a common fight against imperialist war and for a just and lasting peace.

As the UN commemorates its 45th Peace day we call on the anti war movement worldwide to continue to mobilize in support of national liberation struggles and those on the frontlines of the fight against U.S. militarism from Palestine, to Sudan, to Cuba and Iran to the imperialist heartlands uniting with all who suffer the impacts of war and militarism. The combined efforts of all sectors of society in all of these fronts, led by the most exploited classes and peoples most oppressed by militarization, make up the broad united front that can challenge US-led war to its core. Only by ending imperialism will the root causes of war and militarism be gone, and only this united front of all the world's peoples, winning their liberation one struggle at a time, can end imperialism.

Join the Resist U.S. Led War Movement and other organizations in mobilizations at the UN General Assembly to raise the demands of the people for a just and lasting peace against imperialism and all reaction.

9/20/2026

Yemen Strikes a Blow Against U.S. Imperialist and Zionist Designs

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The Resist US-Led War Movement applauds the Ansar Allah movement's momentous victories in Yemen against the US-backed and heavily armed Saudi military and mercenary forces. With an unbreakable unity of purpose, Ansar Allah with its Yemeni Armed Forces allies defied the double onslaught of decades-long sanctions and renewed military attacks to secure sovereign control over the entire western coast of Yemen. This achievement deals a blow to US imperialist and Zionist designs for the region and carries the Yemeni people one step forward in the struggle for the liberation of their entire country.

The successful Ansar Allah operation was launched in the broader regional context of the U.S.-Zionist wars of aggression on Palestine and Iran that have engulfed all of West Asia. Since the start of the US-Zionist genocide on Palestine, Yemen has been a beacon of international solidarity. As a staunch link in the Axis of Resistance, Yemen's Ansar Allah movement has fired on ships intending to dock at Israeli ports, fired at Zionist military facilities in occupied Haifa, and even launched missiles at the U.S. aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman in order to effectively carry out an economic blockade of the Red Sea and inflict major impacts on the Israeli economy. In retaliation, both the Biden and Trump regimes carried out murderous aerial assaults against Yemen in 2024-2025, conducting more than 1,600 bombings on both military targets and in civilian populated areas which killed at least 300 people and injured hundreds more. This followed years of sanctions imposed by the U.S. and war launched in 2015 by the U.S.-armed lapdog Saudi Arabia which had subjected Yemen to extreme famine and starvation, air raids, destruction of infrastructure, and mass displacement, resulting in the deaths of at least 200,000 people. While Ansar Allah and Saudi Arabia had established a tenuous truce in 2022, the U.S. continued its suffocating sanctions on Yemen. That the Yemeni people persisted in demonstrating their solidarity with Palestine under the severe collective punishment that they themselves were experiencing is a testament to their unwavering solidarity.

Renewed fighting between Saudi Arabia and Ansar Allah restarted following the breakdown of the U.S.-Iran MOU in July, which had been aimed at extending a 60-day ceasefire across all fronts, an agreement which was incessantly violated by the U.S., "Israel," and other imperialist proxies and puppets of the U.S. in the Gulf. While the U.S. launched new attacks on Iran and the Zionist attacks on Iran and Lebanon continued, Saudi Arabia launched missile strikes on Yemen's Sanaa Airport. In response, Ansar Allah launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes against Saudi airport and energy infrastructure, repelled a weak and fragmented ground offensive by the U.S.-armed and Saudi-backed Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), outsmarted the Saudi air assault, and enacted a naval blockade of the Bab al-Mandab Strait. In a matter of days, Ansar Allah successfully beat back the Saudi-aligned forces to secure control over the key western coastal areas of Mokha, Dhubab, and Mayyun Island, giving them dominance over the vital Red Sea shipping corridor. Despite having hundreds of U.S.-supplied fighter jets and far more heavy artillery than Ansar Allah, Saudi Arabia and its divided, mercenary allies were quickly defeated by the Ansar Allah forces, who were determined to reclaim the sovereign land of all of Yemen for the Yemeni people.

This victory has far-reaching consequences for West Asia and beyond. With Iran's control over the Strait of Hormuz and now Ansar Allah's control over the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the Axis of Resistance holds two of the world's most critical maritime chokepoints. Together, roughly 35% of global trade of food supplies, gas and oil--including Saudi oil--flows through these two Straits. The Axis of Resistance can exert even greater pressure on global maritime traffic by blocking shipments or imposing fees for passage through the Straits, without imposing an outright blockade by selectively allowing countries which do not support the U.S.-Zionist wars to pass through. This also further weakens key U.S. ally Saudi Arabia by cutting off both the east and west passages for its oil exports, compounding the monarchy's vulnerability after the military rout it just suffered.

Once again, the Axis of Resistance has clearly exposed the weaknesses of U.S. imperialism's reliance on military firepower, puppets and proxy forces motivated only by the drive to expand profits. With this victory in Yemen, Ansar Allah has hammered home the lesson that the struggle of the people of Iran, Palestine, Yemen, and Lebanon, rooted in the defense of national sovereignty, will triumph over imperialist and Zionist aggression and occupation. The anti-war movement must stand in solidarity with the people of Yemen as they fight to defend their victory and for the liberation of their country from all outside forces.

8/25/2026

Esencia No Va, Stand with the Puerto Rican people against the newest neocolonial project in the country

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Esencia No Va, Stand with the Puerto Rican people against the newest neocolonial project in Country

The Resist U.S.-Led War Movement stands with the Puerto Rican people in their resistance against the continued use of their land for U.S. militarism, colonial extraction, and the profit-driven agendas of the billionaire class. This onslaught is most recently embodied in the approval of "Proyecto Esencia," a $2 billion neocolonial Riviera for billionaires, authorized on August 1, 2026, while the country faces one of its most severe water and energy crises in decades and continues to be used as a military outpost for U.S. invasions across Latin America and the Caribbean.

The project, approved by Puerto Rico's Permits Management Office (OGPe), is slated for roughly 2,000 acres in Cabo Rojo's Los Pozos, it would rank among the Caribbean's largest private resorts, offering 500 hotel rooms, 1,200 residences, a golf course, private airstrip, and marina. As many popular movements have pointed out and protested against, this is nothing but a new chapter in the military and political occupation of Puerto Rico by the U.S., administered by its local puppet officials and designed to benefit foreign investors while Puerto Rican communities face water rationing, austerity, and continued displacement from their land. On August 5, 2026, Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority (PRASA) announced cuts affecting more than 180,000 households and businesses in San Juan and six surrounding municipalities, citing a "historic drought." In neighborhoods like Santurce's Calle Loíza and Machuchal, some Puerto Ricans have already logged over one hundred separate days of service outages; the situation is set to worsen with the building of Esencia which estimates say will consume 1.25 million and 3 million gallons of water per day. Esencia is just one of dozens of luxury developments planned for the archipelago, as the territory's status as a tax haven and a corrupt local government that skirts environmental regulations have turned the colony into a magnet for wealthy developers looking to make a quick buck.

The water crisis, while worsened by drought, is principally caused by continued U.S. colonialism and militarism. PRASA currently loses roughly 60% of its treated water to a crumbling infrastructure of pipes and delivery systems that have languished for decades without adequate funding and under negligent management. Since 2016, the island's fiscal decisions, including those affecting water infrastructure, have been steered by the Financial Oversight and Management Board, a body appointed by the U.S. President under the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). Passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by Barack Obama in 2016, PROMESA was designed to “address” Puerto Rico’s illegal debt crisis by imposing a Financial Oversight and Management Board, otherwise known as La Junta, with full and complete authority over the fiscal policies and budgeting of Puerto Rico without any democratic decision-making from the people. For years, this board has imposed austerity measures on public agencies like PRASA.

This crisis is also a direct result of the continuing U.S. military occupation of Puerto Rico. The U.S. Department of War operates extensive installations across the archipelago, including Roosevelt Roads Naval Station and Fort Buchanan. For more than one hundred and twenty-five years of United States rule, Puerto Rico has been used as a strategic enclave for military operations in the Caribbean and Latin America. The archipelago has served as the site of military bases, training grounds, war exercises, and operations of geopolitical significance that have advanced interests unrelated to the will of the Puerto Rican people. These military bases draw heavily from the same overtaxed water sources that are now being rationed for Puerto Rican families. These bases consume millions of gallons yearly for operations, housing, and landscaping, facing no rationing and no austerity-driven cuts, allowed to build "self-sustaining water production" financed by the over $1 trillion war budget, while Boricua families are ordered to conserve water and endure repeated service outages because of the austerity measures set by the U.S. government.
Earlier this year, assets stationed in Puerto Rico were instrumental in supporting covert operations and intelligence-gathering missions tied to the invasion of Venezuela, which killed over 100 people and kidnapped President Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores. These same bases help enforce the illegal and genocidal blockade on Cuba, a sixty-year campaign of collective punishment on the Cuban people. As the Trump administration seeks to enforce its Donroe Doctrine over the Americas, Puerto Rico will be used as a staging ground for invasions just as it was used in the past century of US invasions and interference in Latin America. Under PROMESA and continued U.S. occupation, Puerto Rican territory, resources, and water are thus not being used for the benefit of its people, but as a staging ground for U.S. war crimes.

The anti-war movement has a responsibility to recognize this connection and to stand in solidarity with Puerto Rican communities resisting these projects. Let us support the demands to end PROMESA, close the military bases that drain the island's resources and serve as launchpads for intervention across Latin America, halt developments like Esencia that prioritize profit over people, and affirm the right of Puerto Rico to self-determination and independence.

To learn more, follow Resist U.S.-Led War members, Diaspora Pa'lante Collective, Juventud Unida por la Independencia and Madres Contra La Guerra, join their ongoing educational series on the impacts of ten years of PROMESA on working people, as well as their continued calls to action against these colonial structures imposed on Puerto Rico. Follow Defend Cabo Roja to learn more about the struggle against Proyecto Esencia, read their analysis and join the fight.

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Esencia No Va, Apoya al pueblo puertorriqueño contra el proyecto neocolonial más reciente en el País

El Movimiento en Resistencia a la Guerra Liderada por EE.UU. se solidariza con el pueblo puertorriqueño en su resistencia contra el uso continuo de su tierra para el militarismo estadounidense, la extracción colonial y la agenda impulsada por el lucro de la clase multimillonaria. Esta ofensiva se materializa más recientemente en la aprobación del "Proyecto Esencia", una Riviera neocolonial para multimillonarios a costo de $2 mil millones, autorizada el 1 de agosto de 2026, mientras el país enfrenta una de sus crisis de agua y energía más graves en décadas y continúa siendo utilizado como puesto militar para las invasiones militares estadounidenses en toda América Latina y el Caribe.

El proyecto, aprobado por la Oficina de Gerencia de Permisos (OGPe) de Puerto Rico, está previsto para aproximadamente 2,000 acres en Los Pozos, Cabo Rojo; se ubicaría entre los complejos turísticos privados más grandes del Caribe, ofreciendo 500 habitaciones de hotel, 1,200 residencias, un golf course, una pista de aterrizaje privada y una marina. Como muchos movimientos populares han señalado y protestado, esto solo es el capítulo actual de la ocupación militar y política de Puerto Rico por parte de EE.UU., administrada por sus funcionarios locales títeres y diseñada para beneficiar a inversionistas extranjeros mientras las comunidades puertorriqueñas enfrentan racionamiento de agua, austeridad y desplazamiento continuo de sus tierras. El 5 de agosto de 2026, la Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico (PRASA) anunció recortes que afectan a más de 180,000 hogares y negocios en San Juan y seis municipios circundantes, citando una "sequía histórica". En barrios como la Calle Loíza y Machuchal en Santurce, algunos puertorriqueños ya han registrado más de cien días separados de interrupciones del servicio de agua; se espera que la situación empeore con la construcción de Esencia, que según estimaciones consumirá entre 1.25 millones y 3 millones de galones de agua por día. Esencia es solo uno de los docenas de proyectos lujosos planificados para el archipiélago, ya que el estatus del territorio como paraíso fiscal y un gobierno local corrupto que elude las regulaciones ambientales han convertido a la colonia en un imán para desarrolladores adinerados que buscan acelerar su ganancia aún más.

La crisis del agua, aunque agravada por la sequía, es causada principalmente por el continuo colonialismo y militarismo estadounidense. PRASA actualmente pierde aproximadamente el 60% de su agua tratada debido a una infraestructura de tuberías y sistemas de distribución en deterioro que ha permanecido abandonada durante décadas sin financiamiento adecuado y bajo una gestión negligente. Desde 2016, las decisiones fiscales de la isla, incluidas las que afectan la infraestructura hídrica, han sido dirigidas por la Junta de Supervisión y Administración Financiera, un organismo designado por el Presidente de EE.UU. bajo la Ley PROMESA (Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act o la Ley de Supervisión, Administración y Estabilidad Económica de Puerto Rico). Aprobada por el Congreso de EE.UU. y firmada como ley por Barack Obama en 2016, PROMESA fue diseñada para "abordar" la crisis de la deuda ilegal de Puerto Rico imponiendo una Junta de Supervisión y Administración Financiera, conocida como "La Junta", con autoridad total y completa sobre las políticas fiscales y el presupuesto de Puerto Rico sin ninguna toma de decisiones democrática por parte del pueblo. Durante años, esta junta ha impuesto medidas de austeridad a agencias públicas como PRASA.

Esta crisis es también un resultado directo de la continua ocupación militar estadounidense de Puerto Rico. El Departamento de Guerra de EE.UU. opera extensas instalaciones militares en todo el archipiélago, incluida la Estación Naval de Roosevelt Roads y Fort Buchanan. Durante más de ciento veinticinco años de dominio estadounidense, Puerto Rico ha sido utilizado como un enclave estratégico para operaciones militares en el Caribe y América Latina. El archipiélago ha servido como sede de bases militares, campos de entrenamiento de soldados, ejercicios y simulacros de guerra y operaciones de importancia geopolítica que han promovido intereses en contra de la voluntad del pueblo puertorriqueño. Estas bases militares extraen grandes cantidades de las mismas fuentes de agua sobreexplotadas que ahora se racionan para las familias puertorriqueñas. Estas bases consumen millones de galones al año para operaciones, vivienda y jardinería, sin enfrentar racionamiento ni recortes impulsados por la austeridad, y se les permite construir "producción de agua autosostenible" financiada por el presupuesto de guerra de más de $1 billón, mientras que a las familias boricuas se les ordena conservar agua y soportar repetidas interrupciones del servicio debido a las medidas de austeridad impuestas por el gobierno de EE.UU.

A principios de este año, soldados activos estacionados en Puerto Rico fueron fundamentales para apoyar operaciones encubiertas y misiones de recopilación de inteligencia vinculadas a la invasión de Venezuela, que mató a más de 100 personas Venezolanas y Cubanas y secuestró al Presidente Nicolás Maduro Moros y a la primera combatiente Cilia Flores. Estas mismas bases militares ayudan a imponer el bloqueo ilegal y genocida contra Cuba, una campaña de sesenta años de castigo colectivo contra el pueblo cubano. Mientras la administración Trump busca imponer su Doctrina Donroe sobre las Américas, Puerto Rico será utilizado como plataforma para invasiones, tal como se usó en el siglo pasado para las invasiones e injerencias estadounidenses en América Latina. Bajo PROMESA y la continua ocupación estadounidense, el territorio, los recursos y el agua de Puerto Rico no se utilizan, por tanto, para el beneficio de su pueblo, sino como escena para los crímenes de guerra de EE.UU.

Como un movimiento contra la guerra tenemos una responsabilidad de exponer estas coyunturas y solidarizarnos con las comunidades puertorriqueñas que están resistiendo estos proyectos. Apoyemos las exigencias de acabar con PROMESA, cerrar las bases militares que consumen los recursos de la isla y sirven como plataformas de lanzamiento para la intervención en toda América Latina, detener desarrollos como Esencia que priorizan las ganancias sobre las personas, y afirmar el derecho de Puerto Rico a la autodeterminación y la independencia.

Para obtener más información, sigan a los miembros del Movimiento en Resistencia a la Guerra Liderada por EE.UU., al Diáspora Pa'lante Collective, a Juventud Unida por la Independencia y a Madres Contra La Guerra, únanse a sus serie educativa en curso sobre los impactos de diez años de PROMESA en los trabajadores, así como a sus continuos llamados a la acción contra estas estructuras coloniales impuestas a Puerto Rico. Sigan a Defend Cabo Rojo para aprender más sobre el Proyecto Esencia, leer sus análisis, y unirte a la lucha.

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8/8/2026

81 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The U.S. continues to be the main nuclear threat in the world

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On August 6 and 9, 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, instantly obliterating the cities and leaving hundreds of thousands dead upon impact. These were cold-blooded experiments in mass murder where the U.S. deliberately targeted these cities, relatively untouched by previous bombings, to test its new weapon's destructive power on a civilian population. It remains one of history's most aggressive acts of war, a stark example of the U.S.'s barbaric imperialist will. Extensive U.S. nuclear tests have also damaged the people's health and environments in many Pacific islands and atolls as well as on and near native American tribal lands, while medical tests in its clandestine laboratories have likewise damaged the health of numerous voluntary and involuntary human test subjects.

81 years after, the greatest driver of nuclear proliferation remains to be the U.S. itself. From the Cold War arms race with the Soviet Union to its current war against Iran and the the build up to war in Asia and the Pacific against China, the U.S. has repeatedly used its nuclear arsenal as a tool of intimidation to suppress adversaries and as a false justification to start wars against them. This strategy has only reinforced the lesson that nuclear deterrence may be the only reliable safeguard against American aggression.

From its continued investment in nuclear weapons to its wars of aggression launched under the guise of preventing adversaries from acquiring nuclear capabilities, it is clear that the U.S. has never been concerned with the devastation these weapons unleash. Instead, it actively promotes proliferation among its allies and uses the specter of it to wage wars that have killed millions.

The Specter of Nuclear Weapons and U.S. Renewed Wars in West Asia

Since the development of nuclear weapons and their use by the U.S., the country has used rhetoric around nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction to create a pretext for war and invasions. In the 2025 and 2026 bombings against Iran, the U.S., in partnership with Israel, repeated the same move it made in 2003 when it falsely claimed that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. The WMD lie of the Bush Administration led to brutal U.S. invasion and occupation that tore the country apart, killed close to 1 million people, devastated infrastructure including hospitals and schools, and left the country's people in political chaos and dependent on U.S. oil and development corporations to this day. The U.S. wanted Iran and its people to suffer the same fate.

Iran was not targeted because it is a threat to the world and is on the path to possess nuclear weapons; Iran was targeted because it was the strongest state in the region standing up to the genocidal expansionism of the Zionist entity and because it is the main roadblock in the way of full U.S.-led domination over West Asia.

The so-called "nuclear talks" between Iran and the U.S. have never been about diplomacy or finding common ground on foreign policy goals between two equal states. Instead, the U.S., one of the largest holders of nuclear weapons in the world and the only state in history to ever use nuclear weapons in warfare, used the talks to manipulate public opinion, obfuscate the facts, and build justification for war with Iran. Trump has said his goals were to stop Iran from building a nuclear weapon, but the Islamic Republic has stated throughout its entire political existence that it has no intention to build a nuclear weapon and public inspections by the IAEA have confirmed this reality.

During the war in Iran relentless U.S. and Israeli airstrikes have targeted not only military installations but also essential civilian infrastructure, including power grids, water treatment facilities, hospitals, and food supply chains. More than 600 schools have been demolished or damaged across Iran, with over 1,000 students and teachers killed or injured. In the bombing of the Minab primary school in early March, the U.S. and Israel murdered at least168 children in a single missile attack.

Push for Further Rearmament in Asia and the Pacific

In the Asia and the Pacific, the U.S. continues its incessant build up to war against China. By arming Taiwan to protect its semiconductor supply chain, rapidly expanding military alliances and military infrastructure in Japan, South Korea, Australia, and the Philippines, and conducting provocative war games in the South China Sea and the Korean peninsula, Washington is systematically escalating tensions with its chief rival and nuclear power. These actions, from troop deployments to joint drills near China's borders, are not defensive but incendiary, pushing the world towards a potential world war between nuclear powers.

This aggressive posture is now being reinforced to the upcoming new U.S. nuclear strategy. Reports coming out in August 2026 show that the Trump administration is drafting a nuclear strategy that would expand options for using shorter-range nuclear weapons in a regional war with China and Russia. The annual U.S. nuclear posture review , a report on their policy of how and when to use nuclear weapons, comes just six months after New START, the last treaty limiting U.S. and Russian strategic arsenals, expired without renewal, leaving the two largest nuclear powers without binding limits or inspections for the first time in decades. The expansion of the use of short-range nuclear weapons by the U.S. lowers the "acceptable" nuclear threshold and pushes the use of nuclear weapons to an even more inevitable outcome of U.S.-led wars.

As part of its island chain strategy in its build up to war with China, the U.S. has enlisted Japan as a junior imperialist ally. This has led Japan, the target of the U.S. nuclear bombs in 1945, to start revising its peace constitution which currently prohibits Japan from going to war if not for self-defense. Military agreements forged after WWII enable the U.S. to station more troops in Japan than anywhere else in the region. One-fifth of Okinawa’s land is occupied by U.S. bases. Right-wing Japanese governments have pushed for constitutional changes which would allow Japan to re-arm offensively, leading to rising defense spending since 2007 and a doubling of the budget by 2023.

In line with the Pivot to Asia, the U.S. continually rolls out new agreements. The Japan-U.S.-Korea alliance (JAKUS) and Japan-Philippines-U.S. alliance (JAPHUS) expand the U.S. military’s network, formalizing regular war games, enhancing intelligence-sharing and missile integration targeting China, and creating an anti-China economic bloc. These measures amount to an iron web of alliances in preparation for war against China.

The U.S. Spends Billions on Advancing Nuclear Weapons

The United States spent a record $69.2 billion on nuclear weapons in 2025, surpassing all other nuclear-armed nations combined. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) requested $32.80 billion for FY2027, a 29% jump driven by warhead stockpile maintenance, production modernization, and nuclear triad (air, sea and land based nuclear weapons), a three-part military force structure used to deliver nuclear weapons, upgrades. The U.S. is not only "modernizing" its old arsenal but leading in the production and proliferation of new nuclear weapons.

This spending represents the largest among the nine nuclear-armed states, which together spent nearly $119 billion in 2025. The U.S. investment is part of a broader $71 billion effort to upgrade all three legs of its nuclear triad: the B-21 Raider bomber, the Columbia-class submarine, and the LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM. The FY2027 budget also supports seven simultaneous warhead modernization programs, including the B61-13 gravity bomb.

The investments show that the U.S. is planning to go far beyond maintaining an aging arsenal and is instead expanding it drastically. For instance, the NNSA aims to produce 80 new plutonium pits annually by 2030, intended for the production of new nuclear weapons. The companies set to profit from this nuclear buildup are some of the largest weapons and war transnational corporations in the world, which have also been profiting from the war of the genocide against the Palestinian people, the invasion of Venezuela and the current war against Iran. General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls Industries were awarded a joint $76.6 billion contract to build 14 new Virginia- and Columbia-class nuclear submarines. Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor for the new LGM-35A Sentinel ICBM, a program projected to exceed $141 billion in lifecycle costs, while Bechtel partners with Northrop on the missile's ground infrastructure and silo construction. Other major players include Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Boeing, which are involved in various missile systems and aerospace components across the nuclear triad.

Resist U.S. Nuclear Proliferation, Defeat U.S. Imperialism, and Assert the Right of Peoples to Defend Themselves Against U.S. Barbarism

As we pointed out in our primer "Resisting Imperialist Nuclear Threats":
"The United States brought nuclear weapons into the world and then decided to arm its allies, attempting to use these weapons to impose its will wherever it pleased. The history of nuclear warfare, from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the current three fronts of U.S.-led conflict, exposes the fundamental contradiction on the issue of nuclear weapons: while imperialist powers use atomic weapons to threaten and dominate, anti-imperialist states have developed them to prevent further war on their own people.

Meanwhile, thousands have engaged in advocacy efforts to reduce the U.S. nuclear triad, demand cleanup and compensation for damages, and block the U.S. $1.7 trillion nuclear modernization program. Although the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has accumulated 94 signatory states since it entered into force in 2021, making nuclear weapons internationally illegal, the U.S. has no vision in sight toward dismantling its arsenal or joining the treaty.

The US-led war machine has been at the head of the imperialist system for decades, therefore making it the main perpetrator and provocateur of nuclear proliferation. We must understand that the US refuses to give up its arsenal and, instead, is plowing headfirst into a potential nuclear catastrophe as a result of its imperialist agenda.

The solution is not to impose disarmament on oppressed nations, but rather the complete dismantling of the U.S. imperialist war machine and its nuclear terror apparatus."

7/21/2026

U.S.-Zionist Aggression Kills MOU with Iran and Leads to All Out War in West Asia

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While people across West Asia mobilized in the tens of millions on the streets of Tehran, Qom, Najaf, and Karbala to pay tribute to the martyred Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the U.S. and Israel hatched new war crimes against millions of people throughout the region. In the face of the new onslaught, the unity of fronts of struggle across West Asia remains unbroken and continues to resist the imperialist treachery.

The people of the world must stand with them in their resistance for genuine peace and self-determination across Lebanon, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Palestine and beyond. Resist U.S.-Led War Movement condemns the American-Zionist moves towards all out wars of aggression and urges actions by the world's people to mobilize to stop the wars and raise solidarity with the people's resistance.

The Breakdown of U.S.-Iran MOU and a Return to All out War

The breakdown of the U.S.-Iran MOU has led to the return to a full-scale U.S. war of aggression on Iran. The June 17 interim agreement, a 14-point memorandum, which was supposed to extend a 60-day ceasefire across all fronts including Lebanon, was designed to permanently end military operations. As Point 1 stated: "The United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran and their allies in the current war, by signing this MOU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other." However, with Israel already engaging in a multi-front genocidal war stretching from Gaza and the West Bank to Iraq, Lebanon, and now Iran, the agreement’s collapse confirms the lack of US genuine interest in stopping the war, only shamelessly pursuing its own economic interests at all costs.

Iran made it unequivocally clear that it would not tolerate a piecemeal implementation of the MOU, and after several violations from the first day of the agreement by both Israel and the U.S., Iran closed the strait of Hormuz several times. Tehran declared that Iran's territorial integrity would be defended and that there would not be free flow of vessels in the Strait of Hormuz until all of the MOU conditions are met. As signed in the agreement by the both the US and Iran, deviations from the full 14-point agreement, especially regarding Lebanon, would be met with disruptions to the waterway through which 20% of world oil exports pass. As of July 16th - Iran said it considered itself "no longer bound" by the MOU, due to U.S. violations.

U.S. Zionist "Peace" Efforts Mean Redistributing the War

The U.S.-Iran MOU clearly includes the cessation of hostilities on Lebanon, yet the U.S. and Israel continue pressing to remove Lebanon from the MOU negotiations. The U.S. aimed to isolate the Lebanon front while pursuing escalation on the Iran front. Although the interim agreement called for ending hostilities across all fronts, Israel insisted on retaining forces in southern Lebanon and placing conditions for withdrawal on the disarmament of Hezbollah, while Israel retained the right to bomb any target they deemed as a threat.

The Trump administration sponsored separate negotiations between Lebanon and Israel to use the sell-out Lebanese state to discuss Lebanon on separate terms. The Lebanon-U.S. framework immediately undermined the U.S.-Iran MOU’s pledge to ensure "the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon," but also laid the basis for a return to tit-for-tat strikes between the U.S. and Iran.

Just days after Israel and the U.S. launched their war on Iran on February 28, Israel invaded Lebanon and has since occupied a large swathe of the country’s south. With a subsequent U.S.-mediated Israel-Lebanon framework tying Israel’s full withdrawal to Hezbollah’s disarmament, Israeli withdrawal is essentially therefore not the starting point of the agreement, but leverage to sell out Lebanese sovereignty, normalize relations with Israel and give away the people's right to defend themselves and their land. After two days of U.S.-mediated talks in Rome, in mid July, Lebanon and Israel took steps toward implementing “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon where Israeli forces would withdraw and turn over control to the Lebanese army, under the stated intention to clear these areas of Hezbollah fighters. Trump once again repeated his proposal for the former Al-Qaeda turned Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa to send forces into Lebanon to “take care of” Hezbollah.

The Lebanese people have decried this framework as the treachery by the government that sacrifices Lebanese sovereignty under the guise of ceasefire negotiations. The Israeli occupation of the South and the bombing of the entire country is materially carrying out its Gaza strategy in yet another war. Over 4,000 people have been murdered in the attacks with over 10,000 injured. Roughly a fifth of the Lebanese population has been displaced. Sixty-four hospitals and clinics have been hit, and more than 100 health workers have been killed.

The targets of Iranian strikes are the American terrorist outposts in the Gulf, while the targets of American strikes include hospitals and civilian infrastructure

This week there has been a return to escalation of drone and missile strikes between Iran and the US on a regional scale. Iranian officials have furiously condemned U.S. military actions as blatant war crimes. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said in a post on X on Thursday that the U.S. carried out a “barbaric” attack and 211 patients “undergoing chemotherapy” were evacuated from Shahid Baghaei Specialised Hospital in Ahvaz. Later, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, called out the strikes as “war crimes” and denounced U.S. attacks on civilian infrastructure as “undoubtedly a flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the fundamental principles of international law.” Araghchi also highlighted the bombing of Minab primary school, the school in southern Iran that the U.S. and Israel bombed on the first day of the war, killing at least 168 children. The U.S. Central Command (Centcom) confirmed it had targeted command centers, air defense sites, and coastal surveillance facilities across Iran, including Bandar Abbas and Greater Tunb Island, while simultaneously restarting strikes on civilian infrastructure including grain silos and bridges, and struck close to the mourning crowds gathered in their millions to grieve the Supreme Leader. Saudi Arabia, led by the U.S. lapdog family dictatorships, struck Sanaa Airport just nine minutes before the scheduled arrival of an Iranian aircraft, as Iran proceeded to break the imperialist blockade of Yemen. This U.S. aggression has only deepened Iranian resolve to fight and continue standing against imperialist aggression on Iran, and in defense of Palestine and Lebanon, with protesters flooding the streets despite the aimed bombing.

In response, Iran has launched its own wave of powerful counterattacks, with the Khatim Al-Anbiya headquarters issuing a stern warning to the United States, declaring the Strait of Hormuz an "invincible red line" and promising the total destruction of regional infrastructure and Israeli targets in response to any American military aggression. Since the return to all out war, Iran has launched attacks on the radar systems, Patriot defense system, and fuel depots of the U.S. Army at the Ali Al-Salem base in Kuwait; communication and radar systems and Patriot facilities at the Sheikh Isa base in Bahrain; and American F-15, 16, and 35 fighter jets and MQ-9 strategic drones at the Azraq base in Jordan. Iran released a communique with a message to the people of Kuwait: "Do not allow the enemy to use your land to aggress and commit crimes against the people of Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen. Do not miss any opportunity to strike at American interests and expel the soldiers of the Great Satan from your land."

Following the renewed U.S. attacks and violations of the MOU, Iran's retaliatory strikes killed 2 additional American soldiers on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, east of Amman, Jordan, bringing the total U.S. deaths to 17, according to the U.S. Department of War. The U.S. imperialist class willfully sent these young people to be killed in the war, at bases in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain that are located thousands of miles from U.S. shores, positioned there for the sole purpose of ensuring imperialist interests of the U.S.

Iran is besieged as it continues steadfast support in defense of Palestine

Iran's staunch support for the Palestinian liberation has remained steadfast in spite of the maneuvers of the U.S. and Israel to try to divide the Axis of Resistance.

The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Palestine continues to worsen, with countless victims still trapped beneath the rubble and strewn across roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews remain unable to reach them. Since the ceasefire took effect on October 11, 2025, the toll has already reached 1,127 martyrs, 3,643 injuries, and 800 retrievals, while the overall death toll from the "Israeli" aggression since October 7, 2023, has climbed to a staggering 73,250 martyrs and 173,751 injuries, according to the Ministry of Health as of July 16, 2026. Meanwhile, Gazans live in perpetual displacement and Israel has daily violated the Trump-brokered ceasefire since it was declared last October, including severely limiting humanitarian aid flows into Gaza. Materials essential for any serious reconstruction work are blocked. Israeli forces have repeatedly moved forward from the agreed ceasefire line, which split the strip roughly evenly between Israeli- and Hamas-controlled sections, now directly occupying more than 60% of the territory and creating an expanded buffer zone beyond that.

Amid this dire reality, investment fantasy, thinly veiled as a humanitarian relief project, envisioned by Donald Trump's Board of Peace (BoP) has been rehashed from a full-scale Gaza blueprint to a tiny pilot scheme in the south of the strip. The envisaged pilot involves a temporary camp for only a fraction of Gaza's two million displaced people, with a Palestinian administration, police, and a small international security force drawn from Morocco and Kosovo, totaling 5,000 troops. The center represents little more than a concentration camp within a concentration camp, another tactic in the same genocidal strategy since the beginning of Zionist occupation. The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), a body of 13 Palestinian professionals and technocrats composed by the BoP early this year, has been barred from entering Gaza by Israel and remains based in Cairo, rendering it effectively powerless to implement any meaningful governance or recovery on the ground, fulfilling the purpose of expanding the occupation as designed.

Against this backdrop of relentless military expansion and genocide, the ceasefire itself is a mere façade for continued Israeli occupation and collective punishment. The fundamental issues in Gaza of occupation, siege, and the systematic denial of basic necessities, remain at the heart of the conflict, so any ceasefire that ties Israel's withdrawal to the disarmament of the resistance forces only entrenches Israel's control over Palestinian territory. Gaza's survivors are subjected to yet another chapter of forced displacement and deliberate starvation under the guise of a "peace" process that delivers nothing but more suffering.

We must rally in support of the liberation struggles across West Asia against ongoing U.S.-Zionist rampage

The Resist US-Led War Movement firmly condemns the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war of aggression and the expanding occupation that has brought death, displacement, and destruction across West Asia. We demand an immediate and unconditional end to all U.S.-Israeli military operations and the full withdrawal of occupying forces from every inch of Palestinian and Lebanese territory. We stand in unwavering solidarity with the people's resistance against imperialism and apartheid, recognizing that the struggle for liberation is a righteous response to decades of oppression, siege, and systematic ethnic cleansing. The so-called ceasefires, "peace" frameworks, and pilot schemes promoted by the Trump administration and the Board of Peace are nothing but smokescreens for U.S. imperialist treachery, designed to fragment the region, disarm resistance factions, and impose a new colonial order that serves Western hegemony while trampling on the sovereignty of nations.

We call on all peoples of conscience to support the just cause of the Palestinian, Iranian and Lebanese people, and fight for a West Asia free from occupation, genocide, and U.S-led war.

7/14/2026

U.S. Drives Europe Toward More Militarism and Pushes NATO Into the Pacific to Wage War on China

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U.S. Drives Europe Toward More Militarism and Pushes NATO Into the Pacific to Wage War on China

The 2026 NATO Summit in Ankara, held on July 7–8, 2026, like the 2025 summit in The Hague, focused on a leaner but more costly and deadly agenda. With only six points, NATO's final declaration of unity continues to cement the alliance as the most heavily armed, pro-U.S. offensive military alliance in the world. In the process, it bankrupts member countries, enriches weapons and high-tech corporations, and brings all nations within the U.S.-led imperialist bloc into alignment with Washington's war strategy to confront China in Asia and the Pacific.

More than any previous summit, this one demonstrates how NATO, in pursuing its mission across the three main fronts of U.S. led war, is actively waging, and gearing up for war on these three fronts set by the U.S.: against Russia, against Iran, and against China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). In doing so, it is making the world more unsafe, unstable, and violent for the people.

U.S., NATO, and the Front Against Russia: Shifting the Burden to Europe to Contain Russia

On the first front, against Russia, the U.S. is enlisting Europe to contain the threat in Eastern Europe. A stated U.S. goal at the Ankara summit was to secure increased defense spending from European allies. Washington is holding NATO members accountable to the commitment made in The Hague in 2025 to reach a defense spending target of 5% of GDP by 2035. U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker characterized the Ankara summit as the moment for allies to deliver on these pledges.

This pressure has already produced results as European NATO members weapons imports increased by 143% from 2021 to 2025 compared to the previous five-year period, with U.S. suppliers accounting for 58% of that total. At the Ankara summit alone, over $50 billion in new arms contracts were announced, with U.S. companies such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman being the main sources of these weapons, including Germany's confirmation that it would purchase U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles and Trump's declaration that he will grant Ukraine the license to domestically manufacture Patriot air defense missiles. Ankara also marks the first time the Defense Industry Forum, previously relegated to a side event at NATO summits, was included in the official program, giving U.S. weapons and war corporations an active and official role within the summit itself.

This U.S.-driven militarism, supported by European ruling classes, has nourished the rise of fascist and chauvinist forces that feed on the worsening misery of working people. They use racist and xenophobic hysteria against migrants to manufacture consent for war against other regional powers like Russia or any nation that defies imperialist domination like Iran, all while using public revenue and austerity measures for more arms and military technology.

U.S., NATO, and the Front Against Iran and the Axis of Resistance: Normalizing Relations with Israel across West Asia towards Attempting to Weaken the Popular Resistance

Hosted by Turkey and unfolding amid the U.S.'s violation of the Memorandum of Understanding with Iran, signed only a month prior, the U.S.-Zionist war on Iran was a major topic of the two-day gathering. In West Asia, U.S. imperialism continues to attempt to design the region in the image of the Zionist entity, pushing normalization with Gulf monarchies through the Abraham Accords and using NATO to ease tensions between Turkey and Israel.Turkey's geopolitical position makes it a key player in NATO's strategy on multiple fronts, with a new naval command under construction in the Bosphorus directed toward Russia, while the new NATO Corps headquarters in Adana is oriented toward Iran. Meanwhile, Turkey continues its own brutal campaigns of repression against the Kurdish people inside and across its borders, while maintaining an illegal military occupation in northern Cyprus.

The current goal of the U.S. in West Asia is to "remake" region with Israel as the dominant power so the U.S. can shift its full attention to the Pacific, where it looks to confront China.

Beyond the shallow condemnations from European allies regarding the U.S.-Zionist war on Iran earlier in the year, Mark Rutte boasted that between 4,000 and 5,000 aircraft had been launched from NATO members' bases to support attacks on Iran as of June, 2026. In response to the military actions, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) and its army conducted multiple waves of retaliatory strikes against U.S. military assets across the region. The summit happened as the U.S. bombed cities in southern Iran while Ayatollah Khamenei's funeral procession took place, and Rutte once again made clear where NATO stands, saying that the violations of the MoU were "extremely necessary."

U.S., NATO, and the Front Against China and the DPRK: The Pivot to the Pacific as the Main U.S. Strategy to Contain Its Self-Declared Biggest Enemy- China

The U.S. used the Ankara summit to advance its strategic pivot to the Asia-Pacific, pushing NATO to align more closely with U.S. interests in the Indo-Pacific theater. Since the second Trump administration took power, U.S. officials, including Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, explicitly declared that the era of the U.S. subsidizing the defense of wealthy nations is over. They framed this as an opportunity for European allies to take on greater responsibility for their own continental defense, thereby freeing up U.S. resources and focus for Asia and the Pacific region.

In recent years the participation of NATO's four Asia Pacific partners--Japan, the Republic of Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, in summit-related events, this marks a clear step toward deepening NATO's engagement with the region to counterbalance China, in accordance with the U.S. Indo-Pacific Strategy. In Ankara, discussions with these four partners focused on expanding cooperation in defense industries and advanced technologies, with the U.S. objective of supercharging the weapons supply chain and strengthening its position in the Asia-Pacific with NATO's help.

This military buildup is accompanied by weapons testing and provocations in exercises such as Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), in which many NATO members participate alongside U.S. Pacific allies, as well as Balikatan in the Philippines and Resolute Dragon in Japan.

Wherever NATO Implements Its Strategy, the People Continue to Resist

At this year's Summit, NATO members buckled to the dictates of the U.S., putting NATO even more at the service of U.S. war strategy to fulfill its war goals of supercharging war and weapons companies' production and selling the lie that militarism will bring about peace.

In Turkey, host of this year's summit, this resistance took to the streets where thousands protested the warmongering convention. Demonstrators rallied in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, carrying banners with calls such as "NATO wants war, workers want peace" and "Budget for the people, not for NATO."

Continuing with its anti people agenda Turkish authorities in partnership with NATO imposed a ban on demonstrations and launched widespread crackdowns. More than 100 people were detained during an anti-NATO protest in Ankara just days before the summit began, and earlier operations saw over 200 individuals arrested, including a journalist, lawyers, an academic, and a union official, with authorities issuing warrants for 241 people.

In 2024 (Washington D.C.) and 2025 (The Hague), the Resist U.S.-Led War Movement, together with its allies, built the Resist NATO campaign that mobilized thousands across Europe and the U.S. This year, in partnership with its allies in the International People's Front and the International League of People's Struggle, we are participating in the Resistance for Just Peace and Liberation campaign. From April 2026 to November 2026, the campaign is organizing several activities, including webinars, anti-NATO actions, a Festival of Resistance for Peace, Democracy and Liberation (Brussels, 28 August), and the International Peoples' Tribunal on Cyprus (Brussels, 13–14 November), which will expose British and Turkish crimes on the island and the continued occupation of the territory by NATO forces. You can get to know more about the campaign and engage with it by following @ILPS.europe

History makes clear that as long as NATO exists, the conditions for a just peace can never develop. The only solution is for the people to resist NATO and fight for a just and lasting peace until it is achieved!

Resist NATO!
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7/3/2026

250 Years of U.S. Wars On The People: A history of U.S. wars and people's resistance for just peace over two and a half centuries of American imperialism

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The Great Sioux Wars, "The Custer Fight", Charles Marion Russell, 1903

For two and a half centuries, the United States has waged war to expand its empire across continents and oceans, from the land theft of North America to wars of aggression in the jungles of Southeast Asia and the deserts of West Asia. The U.S. has the deaths of millions people across the world on its hands. This long history of military intervention has consistently been met with resistance. 250 years of U.S.-led war must come to an end through the decisive action of the people, united in struggle to win their self-determination, freedom from US imperialism and a just peace.

Wars of Colonization and Westward Expansion (1775–1850s)
America's military history begins with the Revolutionary War (1775–1783) against Britain, followed by the Quasi-War with France, the First Barbary War, and the War of 1812. But the true engine of early U.S. expansion was the violent dispossession of Indigenous peoples through campaigns like the Northwest Indian War and the Seminole Wars, alongside the Mexican-American War (1846–1848), which seized vast territories from Texas to California. These conflicts were galvanized through the ideology of "Manifest Destiny," the doctrine that American settlement across the continent was inevitable and righteous, while committing genocide against Indigenous people and stealing Native land. Ethnic cleansing became the formal policy of the nascent United States under the the Indian Removal Act of 1830, with wide spread barbaric tactics used including famine, displacement, kidnapping, torture, and enslavement. Between 12-15 million Africans were kidnapped and enslaved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the Americas, from the 1500's to 1866, enriching slave holding elites, with millions dying in the Middle Passage.

Civil War & Monroe Doctrine (1860s–1910s)
The American Civil War was waged from April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865, a struggle between dominant classes that put ordinary people to the front lines to fight a war for them. This period also includes the Spanish-American War, through which the US acquired overseas territories. as well as later interventions like the Philippine-American War, killing almost a million Filipinos and using intense torture techniques and genocidal policy to "kill anyone over the age of 10" in effort to extinguish the people's resistance. The Banana Wars in Central America and the Caribbean were waged through U.S. intervention to maintain its sphere of influence and to secure the Panama Canal (which opened in 1914), for the benefit of big agricultural corporations like the United Fruit Company. These wars co-opted or derailed the independence struggles of countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America from European colonization to grab territory and spheres of influence, especially declaring Latin America as the property solely of the United States empire. Battles against the European colonizers were fought and won by Indigenous resistance like in the case of the Battle of Little Bighorn, during the Great Sioux War in 1876.

World Wars (1917–1945)
The US entered World War I late (1917) and used the war to export capital for the reconstruction of Europe and take over spheres of influence since it was the imperialist least materially affected by the war. It was World War II that transformed the nation into a global superpower. Deploying overwhelming industrial and military might across both the European and Pacific theaters, the U.S. emerged in 1945 as the world's preeminent capitalist power. Responding to the inter-imperialist battles, revolutionary wars also took advantage of the crisis to take socialist state power for the first time in history in 1917 in the Soviet Union and anti-colonial movements took hold worldwide, setting the stage for the coming Cold War. WWII was even more deadly than WWI, killing 60 million people and destroying a huge amount of property. But it also resulted in the rise of several more socialist countries and a great wave of national liberation movements, especially those of the Chinese revolution and Vietnam.

Cold War (1945–1991)
The wartime alliance with the Soviet Union quickly dissolved into ideological confrontation, as U.S. leaders viewed any challenge to capitalist hegemony as a threat to their newly won global dominance. The Cold War was actually a series of hot localized proxy wars, which included the big U.S. wars of aggression in Korea (1950–1953), Vietnam (1955–1975), the US-supported Israeli wars on Palestine, and the anti-Soviet wars in Angola, Ethiopia, Nicaragua and Afghanistan. These wars caused the death of millions of people, far exceeding the number of those killed in World War I. The U.S. killed millions, justifying intervention as anti-communist containment. In Latin America, Washington orchestrated coups, backed dictatorships in Chile and Argentina, and invaded Grenada. The 1965 Indonesian massacres, which claimed at least 1.5 million lives, were actively facilitated by US intelligence to secure oil interests and crush the left. These conflicts, coupled with relentless economic blockades against Cuba and economic warfare against sovereign nations, represented an imperialist campaign to suppress national liberation and socialist aspirations through wars of aggression.

The Period of Unipolar Dominance (1991-2012)
The 9/11 attacks provided the pretext for a permanent "War on Terror" that would reshape U.S. military engagement for the 21st century. Under neoconservative doctrine, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003), the latter based on fabricated claims of weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. The real motives of the Bush regime and the so-called neoconservatives were to take over the second largest oil resources of the world in Iraq, keep secure the US dollar as the currency of oil transactions, increase US control over Saudi Arabia and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), use US military bases in centrally located Iraq to control the entire Middle East and remove Iraq as a threat to the US-Israeli collaboration. In this period, the U.S. deployed troops to Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, Congo, Gabon, Rwanda and the Central African Republic. Drone warfare, covert operations, and support for allied regimes have extended operations across Libya, Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Iran, while US- Israeli genocidal offensive in Gaza continue massacring civilians. Rather than peace, the post-9/11 era has seen an expansion of the U.S. global military footprint, with 14,000 of military installations worldwide and massive annual defense budgets.

Multipolar Decline (2012- Present)
The period spanning the 2010s and 2020s has been defined by the fracturing of the US-led unipolar order, with China's rising economic and military power and the emergence of rival economic blocks like BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), prompting the U.S. to launch its strategic military "Pivot to Asia". Deepening crisis of neoliberalism under U.S. imperialism fueled the rise of a distinctly US fascist movement embodied by Trump, and the international "Rules Based Order" faced existential challenges, with any guise of U.S. democracy laid bare by the genocide in Gaza.

In this period the U.S. waged war on 3 major fronts; against China and the DPRK in Asia using a web of alliances in Asia including JAKUS (Japan, Korea and the US) and JAPHUS (Japan, Philippines and the US) and AUKUS (Australia, the UK and the US); against Russia using NATO (North America Treaty Organization) and Ukraine as proxy; and against Iran and the Axis of Resistance using Israel. Flashpoints included the Syrian civil war, the grinding campaign against ISIS amid ongoing Iraqi instability, genocidal proxy wars in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, War on Terror drone campaigns in Somalia, Mali and Pakistan, the humiliating US defeat in Afghanistan, the proxy war in Ukraine, the genocidal war against the Axis of Resistance in Gaza, and escalating war games against China, while the US simultaneously maintained blockades against Cuba and Venezuela and conducted extensive military exercises, training and war drills to expand their interoperability worldwide.

These conflicts are waged through advanced technological means including long-range land, sea, and air missiles, massive drone and counter-drone warfare, cyber warfare (notably in hybrid warfare against Iran and Venezuela), and the integrated JADC2 command network, yet they are continually undercut by resilient resistance by state forces and people's warfare tactics on land, water, and air.

Resist to defeat U.S. led war
Throughout these 250 years, resistance has remained constant. Nations like Cuba and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have survived decades of blockade, subversion, and military encirclement, upholding socialist sovereignty against U.S. aggression. Palestine, Iran, Venezuela, and others invoke national independence to resist U.S. economic blackmail and political impositions. The two and a half centuries have shown that history, in the end, and the terms of peace do not belong to the colonizer, the empire, or to genocidal regimes. Instead they belong to the anti-colonial armed struggles in the colonies and semi-colonies, to the Vietnamese victory over U.S. forces, to the defense of Iran and the Axis of Resistance, to the anti-war solidarity movements everywhere that have contested U.S. empire.

The US will not win "peace through strength". It will be the people's mass resistance that will overcome American militarism with the material force of the struggle for peace based on justice and self-determination.

6/23/2026

Statement on Iran-U.S. MOU

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The Resist US-Led War Movement salutes Iran and the Axis of Resistance for its continuous struggle and victories against US imperialist war. The Iranian people's steadfast unity showed that the years of sanctions, assassination of their leaders, bombing of their homes and schools, and murder of their school children by the US-Zionist warmongers can be defeated by a people resolved to defend their national sovereignty and independence. This victory is a significant contribution to the struggle of all peoples to end US-led wars and their root, US imperialism. As such, we in the movement for a genuine, just peace have a responsibility to stand in steadfast solidarity to defend it while also working to put an end to the continuing US-Zionist attacks on Lebanon and Palestine.

Throughout the war, the Trump regime showed that the only card it had to play was its military--and just a few weeks into the war, it became clear that the so-called "most lethal military in the world" and its most lethally-armed Zionist attack dog would fail to topple Iran, which exploited US weaknesses not only militarily, through the targeting of US bases and assets in the region, but also economically, by taking control of the Strait of Hormuz and targeting key oil infrastructure of US allies in the Gulf. Diplomatically, the US also grew more and more isolated, with its allies in Europe and Asia refusing to help it militarily in this war of choice. Iran thus succeeded in forcing the US to make major concessions in negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with the final terms of a deal to be settled after a period of 60 days after the MOU is signed including: permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon; removal of the US naval blockade on Iran; $300 billion for reconstruction of Iran; termination of all sanctions on Iran; agreement to not impose any new sanctions and to not deploy additional forces in the region; directing the US Dept of Treasury to grant waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation; and unfreezing or lifting restrictions on funds and assets of Iran.

Not to be trusted, the US and Israel have continued their acts of aggression even during negotiations and despite the ceasefires in Lebanon and Palestine, showing how flimsy any words and agreements made by the US and Israel are. This includes the deadly Zionist airstrikes in the South and Bekaa Valley of Lebanon in recent days which have killed dozens of people, and the incessant killings of civilians in Palestine. This even includes the Trump regime's continued and constant threats to return to full scale war. In response to these violations, Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again showing that it won't back down amidst U.S.-Zionist continued aggression against the people of West Asia.

The lesson here is not that US imperialism and Zionist occupation and aggression are treacherous, that we already knew. The more important lesson is that the peoples' struggles of Iran and the Axis of Resistance are stronger than the paper tiger. The people's struggles endure because they are rooted in the defense of dignity, sovereignty and collective survival. This lesson resonates with all the oppressed peoples of the global south, who recognize that it is they themselves who have the right to determine their nation's own destiny, not any outside force. Iran and the Axis of Resistance have clearly exposed the limits of US imperialist power, demonstrating that Iran's sovereignty cannot simply be bombed into surrender and the alliance with US imperialism that the gulf states so passionately forged has proven to be paper thin and that puppetry with the US does not win security or independence.

This is because US imperialism, with its war machine and its lackeys, like Israel, is the main obstacle to genuine peace in the world. War will exist as long as imperialism exists, and the resistance forces in West Asia continue to pose one of the greatest challenges to this economic system led by the U.S., a system that supports the existence of the settler colonial and genocidal entity of Israel. It is the duty of the peace loving people of the world to rally in support of this people's resistance, to act in solidarity with this force which is fighting against full US domination in the region.

The peace movement must protest U.S. and Zionist embassies, take to the streets, shut down US military bases, blockade arms shipments to Israel and the Gulf monarchies, target the war profiteers enabling these genocides and wars against the people of West Asia and the world, like Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, PALANTIR, Bell and RTX or multinational mining and tech companies that build the systems and provide the natural resources for the weapons of war. The people will not rest until every imperialist force is driven out of West Asia and the world.

6/3/2026

The Contradictions of Imperialism and Flashpoints of US-Led War

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All across the world, some form of war proliferates. There are active kinetic wars, the preparations for greater war, staging for war, war games, and other forms of militarization that cause devastating effects on peoples' lives and livelihoods. The US is an imperialist power in decline, finding itself more isolated than ever, yet precisely because it is in decline it is desperately trying to cling to its position as the number one hegemon in the world, making it the number one threat to peace and stability in the world. With its economic strength waning and China's rising, it turns to its only other option to cling to power--that is its military, an immense complex that consumes nearly $1 trillion in spending this year and which Trump recently proposed to increase to $1.5 trillion next year, far far larger than the nearly $9 billion of the next 10 largest militaries combined in the world after itself.

All counter-revolutionary wars today are a direct outcome of imperialism. The only way to end these wars is to end imperialism, and to do that, the people must resist and fight against them, up to the waging of revolutionary wars waged by liberation movements to end imperialist exploitation and oppression. This is a just and necessary response to imperialist wars and the exploitative system that they protect. What other option do oppressed peoples and nations have in the face of such a system? Today i will provide a few points of analysis of the contradictions inherent to imperialism to help us understand the root causes of war and militarism toward the building of an international united front for just and lasting peace.

The Contradictions of Imperialism and Flashpoints of US-Led War

One contradiction is between the workers and the monopoly capitalist ruling class. The latter always seeks to maximize its profit, and this will always be by laying claim to the labor power of workers who sell their labor power in order to survive. In this relationship, workers experience constant skyrocketing inflation, unemployment, food shortages, and forced migration while the profiteers in government hold the power of the state to start new wars for their own gains.

Another contradiction of imperialism is that between oppressed nations and peoples on one hand, and the imperialist countries on the other. The imperialist ruling class is never satisfied with exploiting the labor of just the workers within its own countries. Its endless drive for profit pushes it to violently expand. In this way, wars will always be instigated by imperialist states to grab the land and resources of other nations and peoples. In trying to secure more labor to exploit and more land and resources to plunder, the US has installed new puppets or strengthened their sitting lap dogs or ensured chronic instability in countries like the Philippines, Haiti, El Salvador where puppets are more than willing to enter new deals to sell off our land, build new bases, open up special economic zones for the manufacturing of weapons and war technology, or rent out prisons to cage deported migrants from the US and use arms supplied by the US and military trained by the US to violently suppress people who rise up and resist.

In its colonies like Puerto Rico and Guahan, the US has drastically increased its military presence, by reopening former installations like Roosevelt Roads in Puerto Rico where they brought in F-35s and 15,000 troops to stage for the attack on Venezuela; or by increasing the scale and frequency and types of war drills practiced in military exercises in Guahan to practice for a future war with China. To secure their spheres of influence in the neocolonies, the US has updated old frameworks like the Monroe Doctrine in tandem with launching new initiatives like the Shield of the Americas, to regain or hold on to access to land, minerals, transport routes, agricultural production, and cheap labor by formalizing alliances with willing governments in Latin America and the Caribbean to arm and expand military operations under the guise of controlling the flow of migration and drugs. The US has devised new schemes like the Pax Silica initiative, to secure its dominance in chips, AI and high tech by controlling supply chains, critical minerals and industrial hubs in the US and in the allied countries under the guise of mutual economic security, when it is really about subjugating the economies of its puppets and even its imperialist allies to the priorities of Washington. The US has forged a multitude of bilateral Status of Forces Agreement and other multilateral military agreements with countries stretching from the arctic through Europe, down through Latin America and across Asia and the Pacific to ensure US forces can operate, train and even conduct operations on the sovereign soil of other countries with or without the establishment of formal bases. And the US continues to try to impose its vision of a new middle east and greater israel, using its zionist attack dog to commit genocide of the Palestinian people and wage war on Lebanon and Iran. All of this fuels poverty, starvation, and lack of jobs and livelihood--and forces people to flee and migrate to Europe, Canada and here to the US. As I look around this hall, I see many people who are here as a result of these conditions, members of diaspora communities driven here because of imperialist greed and then subjected to the fascist repression faced by all the working people in this country.

Nations will never take this blatant oppression lying down forever, and so another inherent contradiction of imperialism is that between the imperialist states and those asserting their national independence from foreign aggression and wars of intervention. Under this imperialist system, in just the last year we have seen the drastic escalation of this contradiction. This has looked like the bombings and invasions, kidnappings or assassinations of resistant leaders with the intent to install leaders more willing to comply with the US dictates. We saw the attack on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores; the US-Zionist ongoing war on Iran; the extreme strangling blockade on Cuba and aggressive threats to invade and take over the country; the threats against Nicaragua and Colombia and the meddling in the elections of the latter. On the flip side, we have also seen nations in the Sahel--Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger – taking advantage of weakness of French imperialists to eject their former colonizers.

Since these countries are actively pushing back against unilaterally imposed sanctions, attempted coups, and other destabilization machinations of the imperialists, both the workers of the world and oppressed nations striving for liberation can find a friend in these states keeping imperialism at bay. Iran especially has shown that the US can be checked, as Trump scrambles to eek out a win against a country he has not been able to defeat.

Finally, we see the intensifying competition between the biggest imperialist powers heightening all of the other contradictions. In fact, the key contradiction in the world that is driving US-led wars and aggression is the US competition with China. As they battle for land, resources, markets and labor power, they engage in tariff wars, proxy wars, propaganda wars, wars of aggression, wars of counterinsurgency against resistance in various countries, and fascist repression of their own people and by their puppets, all of which further immiserates the masses in their wake. For example, The Korean Peninsula is one of the key flashpoints in the US's war drive in the Pacific. The US is infuriated that it has not been able to defeat the DPRK's socialist construction for nearly 75 years. 62 military bases in the South facilitate a massive US aggression conducting 274-275 military exercises a year. The Demilitarized Zone between South Korea and the DPRK is the most militarized border on the planet, with the US-backed Korean War between the two never having formally ended. Despite years of advocacy for peaceful reunification from the DPRK, the US puppet regime in Seoul has constantly prepared for war for decades.

The South China Sea is the other key flashpoint in the Pacific. As China expands its influence over the key trading routes and basing areas of the waterways, the US goads Southeast Asian countries into accepting its patronage to drag them into an open war with China. The Philippines is the key US outpost in this regard. Drawing on the revolutionary spirit of the historic anti-US resistance, the Filipino people waged a long campaign that successfully closed all the US bases in the former US colony. However, Philippine laws like the Visiting Forces Agreement and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement brought the US military presence back. Recent military sites under the legal auspice of EDCA are nearly all in line with the First Island Chain's path through the coasts of the country facing China. Japan's recent bilateral mutual defense treaty with the Philippines and the trilateral JAPHUS treaty including the US also shows Japan's willingness to bolster the US presence on the archipelago, and just last month for the first time since WWII, Japan sent troops to the Phlippines to participate in the annual US-led multi-lateral war exercises Balikatan, trainings which include rehearsals for beach landings of Taiwan. And a recent launching of a Tomahawk missile across the archipelago. Around these sites of militarization, communities mobilize to fight back against the killings of peasants and people in fishing communities, violence against women, and the de facto martial law of the fascist US-armed Philippine military.

The many Pacific Island nations, caught in the iron web of the US "Island Chains", face massive expansion of military bases and live-fire exercises and dwindling social spending. With new exploration contracts being offered for deep sea mining and claims by large plundering seafood corporations of "illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU)" fishing against small fisherfolk, the US in particular has heavily militarized the area, providing state of the art coast guard boats, helicopters and training services to local militaries, mostly through the US colonial presence on the Marshall Islands US Coast Guard base. Yet the many people of these strong island nations have banded together over the many years to challenge base construction and the expansion of exercises at every step of the way through coordinated advocacy and mass mobilization.

While these conflicts already cause great violence, instability, and displacement for people in the countries in which they occur, this rivalry also has the potential to turn regional wars of aggression into full-blown world war in the direct clash for endless profit.

Together, these many flashpoints of struggle demonstrate the vast spread of the US war machine. But it also shows how this machine, at every single stage that it rears its ugly head, can be confronted and is challenged by the people of the region, arm in arm with an international movement against US-led war.

The contractions of imperialism continue to heighten and the people stir and unite as US imperialism finds itself stretched beyond control. The exploited working and toiling classes of the people are confronting their exploiters in each of their countries. The oppressed nations are hammering at their imperialist chains and confronting the puppet regimes gatekeeping their liberation. The independent countries of the world are holding fast to their sovereignty against all forms of imperialist intervention. Together, they all find themselves in a common fight for peace and self-determination as inter-imperialist competition and rising peoples' movements drive the US towards its inevitable downfall. Along with wide scale mass mobilizations against US bases, joint exercises, and US-led counterinsurgency campaigns, armed liberation movements against the fascist regimes carrying out the will of US-led war fight on fiercely in the Philippines, Palestine, India, West Papua, and beyond.

The time is ripe to bind our struggles together, wage militant struggle in each country to win a just and lasting peace. Together, we will break and shatter the US's overstretched "Island Chains" and Donroe Doctrines and forge new bonds of peace, liberation, and international solidarity.

5/28/2026

¡No al Estado de Sitio en Bolivia! ¡Rodrigo Paz, Marioneta de Trump, Renuncia Ya!¡Solidaridad con el Pueblo Boliviano en Pie de Lucha!

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El pueblo boliviano, particularmente los trabajadores, campesinos y pueblos indígenas, ha estado movilizándose, bloqueando carreteras y resistiendo durante más de tres semanas. Se levantan como pueblos indígenas que rechazan el saqueo de su tierra por parte de extranjeros como una continuación del colonialismo. Las protestas han convergido en la exigencia de la renuncia del presidente Rodrigo Paz, quien asumió el cargo en las elecciones de agosto de 2025 después de que Evo Morales fuera inhabilitado para postularse debido a un caso penal dirigido políticamente en su contra.

El conflicto escaló desde las protestas contra el Decreto Neoliberal 5503, que eliminó los subsidios a los combustibles, agravando la crisis económica y de combustible, y después contra la Ley de Tierras 1720, que atentaba contra la propiedad de los pequeños productores, hasta convertirse en una exigencia generalizada de renuncia del presidente, hasta el momento se presume que 4 campesinos perdieron la vida durante los desbloqueos y sólo el pasado martes, unos 25 arrestados. Aun así, el pueblo continúa exigiendo la renuncia del presidente Paz.

El expresidente Evo Morales, quien proviene de una familia aymara indígena de campesinos de subsistencia en Isallawi, Cantón Orinoca, y fue líder de un sindicato campesino, logró importantes reformas en la sociedad boliviana en apoyo a los sectores pobres y oprimidos.

Durante los 14 años de su presidencia (2006-2019), la pobreza extrema en Bolivia se redujo a más de la mitad, aumentó la matriculación en la educación primaria y secundaria, y las lenguas indígenas pasaron a formar parte del currículo escolar. Nacionalizó la industria del gas natural, desafiando a las multinacionales que explotaban el país y redistribuyó esa riqueza para financiar servicios sociales e infraestructura, reformando fundamentalmente las estructuras neoliberales y racistas de Bolivia, dictadas por la clase dominante blanca neocolonial según los dictados de Estados Unidos. La presidencia de Morales marcó una nueva constitución y declaró a Bolivia como un Estado Plurinacional, reconociendo su diversidad indígena y enfatizando la descolonización del país.

Contexto: Del golpe de 2019 a la crisis actual

En 2019, un golpe inconstitucional derrocó a Evo Morales, involucrando a Jeanine Áñez, Luis Fernando Camacho (oligarquías agroindustriales de Santa Cruz), Carlos Mesa y Jorge "Tuto" Quiroga (conocido operador y colaborador de la CIA). El gobierno transitorio de Añez, generó una crisis económica aún mayor, corrupción, desmanteló empresas estatales y saboteó sectores nacionalizados, desviando la riqueza del país lejos de las necesidades del pueblo.

2020: Tras el golpe contra Morales, la derechista Jeanine Áñez, asumió como presidenta interina, hasta que la movilización popular forzó nuevas elecciones, en la que tuvo que presentarse Luis Arce Catacora quien ganó el proceso electoral representando al MAS, llegando al poder Arce se encargaría de la proscripción de Evo Morales.

Hoy, las protestas responden a amenazas urgentes contra el sustento y la dignidad del pueblo boliviano.
Medidas económicas y privatización: Tras varias semanas de marchas masivas y bloqueos de carreteras, los trabajadores bolivianos lograron forzar al recién inaugurado gobierno neoliberal de Rodrigo Paz a derogar el controvertido Decreto 5503, conocido popularmente como "gasolinazo", que eliminaba los subsidios a los hidrocarburos en Bolivia, elevando los precios hasta un 162%.

Privatización de la tierra y aumento de precios: Sin embargo, el gobierno de Paz respondió con nuevos Decretos 5516, 5517, 5518 y 5598, que privatizan recursos estratégicos individualmente, dividiendo la privatización por sectores, buscando dividir el movimiento. Una medida rechazada por el sector campesino fue la Ley 1720 (Marinkovic), que permitiría la confiscación de pequeñas propiedades campesinas como garantía bancaria, beneficiando a los grandes empresarios agroindustriales de Santa Cruz que llevaron a cabo el golpe de 2019. Fue impulsada y aprobada en tiempo récord en la Asamblea Legislativa en aproximadamente 10 días, sin consultar a los campesinos que se verían drásticamente afectados por esta ley.

Crisis de servicios básicos: Los precios de la gasolina subieron un 100% (de 3,74 a 6,96 bolivianos) y la mala calidad dañó los motores. El Banco Central anuló toda la Serie B de billetes tras un accidente aéreo, provocando pánico económico. El costo de los alimentos básicos se disparó tras la eliminación de subsidios y se permitió la importación de productos extranjeros, socavando la soberanía. En comparación con las políticas de nacionalización del gobierno de Evo Morales, el país experimenta una crisis de servicios básicos porque el gobierno quiere vender el país a empresas transnacionales en lugar de proteger a su población.

Corrupción e inestabilidad: Autoridades del Gobierno terminaron implicadas en el denominado caso de tráfico de cocaína escondida en volúmenes de exportación de madera conocido como el caso de la "Narco Madera", Asimismo, en el caso de 32 maletas llenas de Cocaína ingresadas con supuestos pasaportes diplomáticos en el aeropuerto de Viru Viru, la impunidad de estos casos también generó rechazo en la población. Por otro lado, en el proceso de captura de el Narcotraficante paraguayo Sebastián Marset que gozaba de la protección del Gobierno Boliviano de Arce y Rodrigo Paz, personal de la policía boliviana, fiscales y jueces, se vieron involucrados en la desaparición de cajas fuertes, relojes y dinero pertenecientes a Marset, todo esto a la fecha no se ha esclarecido completamente y no hay responsables, mostrando una total impunidad del narcotráfico y la corrupción del gobierno. Esto motivó aún más al pueblo boliviano a seguir luchando.

Movilización popular y creciente unidad y militancia de la lucha

Primera fase fue la Marcha por la Tierra en donde Miles de indígenas marcharon desde Pando (norte de Bolivia, frontera con Brasil) hasta La Paz, en el occidente boliviano: campesinos e indígenas caminaron miles de kilómetros durante tres semanas defendiendo la tierra y la vida. Llegaron con niños, ancianos y adultos mayores; el pueblo de La Paz se solidarizó con comida, albergue y curaciones. El gobierno se negó a negociar con ellos, calificándolos de "desestabilizadores y vándalos con fines políticos".

Escalamiento de la lucha: La Central Obrera Boliviana (COB) se unió, con la demanda del incremento salarial y contra la privatización de ENDE (que provee electricidad). Tras dos semanas de protesta constante en las ciudades de La Paz y Cochabamba, las clases populares de la ciudad de El Alto (que tiene una historia revolucionaria desde la Guerra del Gas de 2003) lanzaron los bloqueos de protesta y rodearon La Paz, extendiéndose luego a otras ciudades como Sucre y Potosí y Santa Cruz.

Todos los sectores se unieron a la lucha y comenzaron a movilizarse, incluidos transportistas, mineros, campesinos, la clase media y maestros. La resistencia está organizada y unida. Hubo un pacto entre trabajadores, campesinos y sectores movilizados de que nadie traicionaría la lucha hasta el final. Por ejemplo, cuando el gobierno comenzó a negociar bonos con los maestros, las bases de los profesores rechazaron el acuerdo de la dirigencia y continuaron participando de la movilización.

El, 27 de mayo, las madres salieron a las calles declarando: "¡Cuando el pueblo tiene hambre, las madres salen a luchar!" Otras tácticas incluyen huelgas de hambre, movilizaciones obreras y marchas diarias al Congreso. El pueblo está en lucha y ha pasado un punto de no retorno para exigir sus derechos y derrotar al régimen neoliberal de Paz y sus conspiradores.

Represión letal contra el pueblo respaldada por el fascismo estadounidense

En lugar de dialogar y negociar con los dirigentes sindicales y las organizaciones populares, el gobierno emitió órdenes de arresto contra dirigentes de la Central Obrera Boliviana (COB), tratándolos como "vandalos" y "desestabilizadores". Actualmente, el ejecutivo de la COB enfrenta una orden de captura, que supuestamente no sería ejecutada por el Gobierno para facilitar el diálogo, pero no existen garantías reales porque la orden de aprehensión sigue vigente, y el pueblo no cree en la palabra del Gobierno.

Hubo tres intentos de represión y desbloqueo por parte del Gobierno: el 14 de mayo, en Rioseco, y el 16 de mayo en la ciudad de El Alto, ambos derrotados por las protestas populares. El 23 de mayo, el gobierno intentó abrir un llamado "corredor humanitario" para romper los bloqueos, pero llegó armado por los militares y masacró a varios campesinos que eran parte de las protestas. Aunque el gobierno niega haber asesinado a los campesinos, ha sido probado por informes forenses y otras pruebas contundentes la victima del comunario de Aroma, y el pueblo se ha indignado aún más, radicalizando aún más la lucha. Desde que iniciaron los conflictos existen al rededor de 100 detenidos, y solo el martes pasado se registraron 25 nuevos arrestos.

También existen organizaciones de derecha como la Unión Juvenil Cruceñista, la Resistencia Juvenil Cochabamba y la Resistencia Kilómetro Cero, compuestas por jóvenes fascistas que creen y buscan la supremacía política y racial de las élites blancoides. Han comenzado a hacer amenazas. La comisión de derechos humanos ordenó al Estado boliviano desmantelar estos grupos tras el golpe de 2019, pero ellos continúan rearticulándose y amenazando al pueblo, incluso intentando despejar caminos enfrentándose a los campesinos. Debido al ocultamiento y cerco mediático, la prensa informa sobre ataques contra el gobierno y retrata a los dirigentes sindicales como vándalos, pero oculta la represión y las muertes de manifestantes.

Espacios urgentes de lucha en este momento

Estado de excepción: El gobierno prepara un inminente estado de excepción. El 25 de mayo, el gobierno anuló la Ley 1341, que protegía los derechos fundamentales durante los estados de excepción (pero limitaba la duración a 60 días y requería aprobación legislativa). Esta anulación permite declarar un Estado de Sitio sin garantías constitucionales, otorgando impunidad para reprimir con el ejército y la policía. El día de ayer 27 de mayo en la noche, se denunció la llegada de un Avión militar del Gobierno Estadounidense al aeropuerto de Cochabamba, y se procedió al corte de luz en toda la región del Trópico de Cochabamba, lugar donde se encuentra resguardado el Ex Presidente Evo Morales. Por estas razones el movimiento popular que realiza una vigilia nocturna en Lauca Ñ, redobló los esfuerzos de seguridad para proteger la vida del exmandatario y líder cocalero. Si se declara un estado de sitio, el Gobierno de Paz encajaría en la figura de dictadura.

Amenaza a Evo Morales y las Federaciones campesinas del Trópico de Cochabamba: Tras quedar en evidencia el proceso de Proscripción de Evo Morales y el movimiento campesino, él permanece protegido por organizaciones sindicales en el trópico cochabambino. Y corre el riesgo de ser capturado y extraditado a Estados Unidos por casos armados de narcotráfico y otros; algunos informes ya indican que la DEA estadounidense está colaborando con el gobierno boliviano en planes de "extracción" ilegal, similar al caso del presidente Maduro en Venezuela. Sin embargo, la movilización y rebelión del pueblo boliviano en las calles aún impiden realizar está invasión extranjera en territorio boliviano, lo que protege el futuro y la tierra de los pueblos oprimidos en la sociedad boliviana.

Exigencias del movimiento:

Renuncia de Rodrigo Paz
Convocatoria a elecciones en 90 días si el presidente renuncia.
Constituir un nuevo Gobierno que respete la Constitución y defienda la Economía Popular
Levantar la Proscripción electoral de Evo Morales y del movimiento campesino, para garantizar la representación de la base popular en el gobierno, el pueblo no quiere elegir sólo entre opciones de derecha, eso no es Democracia.
Alto a las masacres, persecución judicial de dirigentes y criminalización de la protesta.
No al Estado de excepción con impunidad para matar, restablecimiento de la Ley 1341 que regula y protege derechos fundamentales en Estados de Excepción.
Alto a las medidas neoliberales: de privatización de la tierra, empresas estatales, defensa de salario según la canasta familiar y fuentes de empleo para el sustento del pueblo.

Para más información, sigue la página de Facebook de la Asamblea Popular Itinerante API y el ILPS Bolivia.

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