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On Friday, May 16, and Sunday, May 18, the Resist US-Led War Movement officially launched the Second Edition of the Anti-Militarism Agenda (AMA). Over 200 participants joined the online sessions across both days to learn about the updated structure and expanded content of the Agenda.
The events featured speakers from global members and allies of the network who shared on their struggles and campaigns and how people can act in solidarity with their fights — demonstrating how a united mass movement can confront and dismantle the shared enemy of U.S. imperialism. Speakers from groups Madres Contra La Guerra, Lutte Pour le Changement, Prutehi Guåhan, Korea Peace Now, ILPS Canada, the Arab Group for the Protection of Nature, and VETO highlighted the devastating impacts of U.S. militarism on communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Palestine, the Netherlands, Guåhan (Guam), Korea, Canada, and beyond. They shared a wide range of resistance strategies—from grassroots organizing, advocacy, mass campaigns against military alliances to armed struggle—showing how people across different contexts are fighting back, grounded in their histories, experiences, and local conditions. Speakers emphasized that in every war, it is the people—especially the working class and oppressed communities—who bear the heaviest burdens. Meanwhile, those who profit are government officials, military generals, arms manufacturers, bankers, and corporate elites. U.S.-led wars displace Indigenous peoples, destroy farmland and food systems, exacerbate the climate crisis, and uphold global economic domination by the U.S. “In Guåhan, our decolonization has been stalled for over 126 years, and our people have endured countless harms since the United States took colonial control of our land,” said Naek Flores of Prutehi Guåhan. The launch showcased both the diversity of tactics and unity in the goal of dismantling US militarism of the global anti-war movement and demonstrated how campaigns on the ground are actively addressing the 14 core calls to action of the AMA which reflect years of collaboration and lived struggle. “While we do see the U.S. war machine growing more violent and vicious, it is only because it is becoming more desperate to survive. It may boast of high-tech advancements, but no weapon or tactic has ever truly defeated the people,” said Rhonda Ramiro, from the Resist US-Led War Movement Secretariat. Reflecting on the successes of the first edition of the campaign—where members and allies mobilized against the Rim of the Pacific military exercises, NATO summits, arms fairs and expos, transnational weapons corporations, and overseas U.S. bases—the second edition of the AMA emerges as an even stronger tool for mass movement building. It aims to interconnect and strengthen struggles against war and militarism worldwide, in the urgent and necessary fight for a just and lasting peace. You can rewatch the launch at our YouTube channel on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv3Eq2m4Whc Download and read the AMA 2025 at: https://www.resistusledwarmovement.com/antimilitarismagenda2025.html Register an Action for the Anti-Militarism Agenda: https://forms.gle/Mr8HJ11Meaby5o3w5 Engage in speakers' calls to action: https://drive.proton.me/urls/G192FBT2DM#Ds272sUdS5UK
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5/16/2025 Support the Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determination and Just Peace on the 77th anniversary of the nakbaRead NowOn the 77th anniversary of al-Nakba, the Resist US-Led War Movement stands in unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle against settler colonialism, Zionism, and the war of aggression waged by the Zionist entity of "Israel" and the United States against their very existance as a people.
Resist US-Led War on the Palestinian People On May 15, 1948, nearly 750,000 Palestinians were violently displaced from their homes, and over 20,000 were brutally killed. This day, known as al-Nakba — "the catastrophe" — marks the beginning of a relentless campaign of ethnic cleansing and occupation. Since then, the Zionist regime has continued its war of annihilation against the Palestinian people, propped up by the United States, the primary funder of Israel’s military machine. Today in Gaza, the Nakba continues through the current genocide, armed to the teeth with high tech weapons for mass killing paid for by US foreign military financing and arms sales. "Israel" is the largest recipient of US military aid in history. Since October 7, 2023 alone, the US has provided over $30 billion in military assistance to support Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza. This aid supplies Israel with lethal weaponry from major US arms manufacturers such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman. As recent as November 2024, Israel signed a $5.2 billion deal with Boeing to acquire 25 F-15 fighter jets — aircrafts that, along with Boeing’s GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs, have been used extensively to strike civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and schools, during Israel’s renewed genocide campaign following Palestinian resistance operation of al-Aqsa Flood. Just between October and November 2023, "Israel" received 2,000 Hellfire missiles which have been regularly deployed by the Israeli Air Force in its bombardment of the Gaza Strip. These companies shower "Israel" with weapons so as to see them tested and advertized to other militaristic states, making them all complicit in the genocide. Support the Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determination and Just Peace Just as they rose in resistance in 1948, the Palestinian people continue to fight back against Zionism and US imperialism. Their armed resistance and any form of protest is branded as “terrorism” by the same imperialist powers that have historically vilified peoples' revolutionary movements. But the ongoing genocide against Palestinians exposes the real terrorists: the "Israeli" state and its chief sponsor and the number one terrorist in the world, the US. In the face of brutal oppression, the Palestinian people have taken up arms in a just struggle for liberation, sovereignty, and self-determination. These aspirations and the Zionist drive to suppress them are at the center of the conflict, making the Palestinian resistance a genuine force for just and lasting peace. We call on all peace loving people around the world to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their resistance, a resistance rooted in the fight for a just peace, an end to Zionism and US-backed aggressive forces in the region. From rallies and protests to actions targeting weapons manufacturers profiting from the ongoing genocide in Palestine, we build a movement against US-led war and affirm the right of all nations and oppressed peoples to defend themselves against reactionary violence and imperialist aggression. Engish below, Español abajo, Português abaixo, Français en dessous
No to imperialist war! Workers of the world, unite for a just and lasting peace! On this International Workers’ Day, Resist US-Led War Movement uplifts the struggles of workers around the world against wars for plunder and profit! Workers and War Growing inter-imperialist conflicts and wars of aggression have unleashed widespread brutality and suffering on workers and other toiling people, subjected semi-colonial countries to greater national oppression and further intensified the exploitation of the workers in all countries. The imperialist countries are now preparing to fight for the re-division of the world. The US, as the main imperialist power, has directly financed wars of aggression and counterinsurgency against the working people of Palestine, Philippines, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and so many more just in the past year. The U.S is now also preparing for hot war with China, the biggest threat to its hegemony since WW2. Factories and fields are bombed, infrastructure is destroyed, and workers are left to rebuild amid rubble. Workers are the first to suffer from sanctions, inflation, and austerity imposed to fund war, while the same governments slash wages and social programs. We reject the lie that imperialist war brings security. Especially in times of acute economic crisis, war is seen as a way out for the imperialists. They whip up nationalist chauvinism against so-called "enemies", resort to war, genocide and fascist killing and displacing millions, to divert people's attention from the crumbling economic and political crisis. Militarization and war have always been a profitable business for the monopoly capitalists. Preparations for war include a sharp increase in the budgets for "defense" in all imperialist countries and their puppets. The same governments that slash social programs and suppress workers’ rights pour billions into militarization, diverting resources from healthcare, education, and infrastructure. The war profiteers like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX, and Northrup Grumman, thrive on this exploitation, conscripting workers to produce instruments of death while denying them fair wages, safe conditions, and rights. Meanwhile, the weapons they build are made from minerals extracted through brutal exploitation methods that break the bodies of workers and devastate the environment in the communities they live in. From factory floors to mining communities to battlefields, workers are used as pawns in a profit-driven machine for war and militarism. Workers and the fight for Just Peace Workers are confronting mass unemployment, skyrocketing inflation, and cuts to social services that come in the wake of every war economy even as they are the first to be targeted for military conscription for wars they did not choose and do not want. Working people of the world shoulder the struggle for just peace and lead the fights for liberation against US military oppression, towards national liberation and sovereignty. Workers resist by refusing to load weapons onto ships, holding solidarity strikes with peoples resisting militarization, and directly fighting back against the attacks on their communities during military aggression. As the global anti-war movement rebuilds its strength, we must link arms with workers, in a united front against US-led war. Together, we can wage mass resistance to disrupt the war machine and win a just peace, refusing to fund, build and deploy the weapons to fight wars for the rich. No to imperialist war! Workers of the world, unite for a just and lasting peace! Español ¡No a la guerra imperialista! Trabajadores del mundo, ¡únense por una paz justa y duradera! ¡En este Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, Resist US-Led War Movement levanta las luchas de los trabajadores de todo el mundo contra las guerras por el saqueo y el lucro! Los trabajadores y la guerra El aumento los de conflictos interimperialistas y las guerras de agresión han desatado la brutalidad y el sufrimiento de los trabajadores, han sometido a los países semicoloniales a una mayor opresión nacional y han intensificado aún más la explotación de los trabajadores en todos los países. Los países imperialistas se preparan ahora luchar por el nuevo reparto del mundo. EEUU, como principal potencia imperialista, ha financiado directamente las guerras de agresión y la contrainsurgencia contra el pueblo trabajador de Palestina, Filipinas, Somalia, Siria, Yemen y tantos otros sólo en el último año. Los EE.UU. ahora también se está preparando para la guerra activa con China, la mayor amenaza a su hegemonía desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Se bombardean fábricas y tierra agrícola, se destruyen infraestructura y se deja a los trabajadores reconstruir entre los escombros. Los trabajadores son los primeros de sufrir las sanciones, la inflación y los impuestos de austeridad para financiar la guerra, mientras los mismos gobiernos recortan los salarios y los programas sociales. Rechazamos la mentira de que la guerra imperialista aporta la seguridad. Especialmente en tiempos de crisis económica extrema, la guerra se ve como una salida para los imperialistas. Provoca el chovinismo nacionalista contra los llamados «enemigos», recurren a la guerra, al genocidio y a la matanza fascista y desplazan a millones de personas, para desviar la atención de la gente de la crisis económica y política que se desmorona. La militarización y la guerra siempre han sido un negocio para los capitalistas monopolistas. Los preparativos para la guerra incluyen un fuerte aumento de los presupuestos para «defensa» en todos los países imperialistas y sus países títeres. Los mismos gobiernos que recortan drásticamente los programas sociales y suprimen los derechos de los trabajadores invierten miles de millones en la militarización, desviando recursos de la salud, la educación y la infraestructura. Las empresas que lucran de la guerra, como Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX y Northrup Grumman, prosperan con esta explotación y reclutan trabajadores para producir instrumentos de muerte mientras les niegan salarios justos, condiciones seguras y derechos. Mientras tanto, las armas que construyen están hechos con minerales extraídos mediante brutales métodos de explotación que destruyen los cuerpos de los trabajadores y perjudica al medio ambiente de las comunidades en donde viven. Desde las fábricas, a las comunidades mineras, a los frentes de batalla, los trabajadores son utilizados como peones en una máquina de guerra y militarismo impulsada por el lucro. Los trabajadores y la lucha por una paz justa Los trabajadores se enfrentan al desempleo masivo, a una inflación desorbitada y a los recortes de los servicios sociales que acompañan a toda economía de guerra, incluso cuando son los primeros que son elegidos para el reclutamiento militar en guerras que no elijan ni desean. Los trabajadores del mundo siguen adelante en la lucha por una paz justa y dirigen las luchas por la liberación contra la opresión militar estadounidense, hacia la libertad y la soberanía nacional. Los trabajadores resisten por rechazar a cargar armas en los barcos, celebrar huelgas de solidaridad con los pueblos que se resisten a la militarización y luchar directamente contra los ataques a sus comunidades durante la agresión militar. A medida que el movimiento mundial contra la guerra reconstruye su fuerza, debemos de unir nuestras armas a las de los trabajadores, en un frente unido contra la guerra dirigida por Estados Unidos. Juntos, podemos avanzar una resistencia masiva para desbaratar la maquinaria de guerra y conseguir una paz justa, negándonos a financiar, construir y desplegar las armas para luchar guerras para los ricos. ¡No a la guerra imperialista! Trabajadores del mundo, ¡únense por una paz justa y duradera! Português Não à guerra imperialista! Trabalhadores do mundo uni-vos , por uma paz justa e duradoura! Neste Dia Internacional dos Trabalhadores, o Movimento Resist US Led War exalta as lutas dos trabalhadores em todo o mundo contra as guerras por exploração e lucro! Trabalhadores e Guerras Os crescentes conflitos interimperialistas e as guerras de agressão desencadeam brutalidade e sofrimento generalizados contra trabalhadores e outras classes produtiva, submetem os países semicoloniais a uma opressão nacional ainda maior e intensificam a exploração dos trabalhadores em todos os países. Os países imperialistas preparam-se agora para lutar pela redivisão do mundo. Os EUA, como principal potência imperialista, financiaram diretamente guerras de agressão e contrainsurgência contra os trabalhadores da Palestina, Filipinas, Somália, Síria, Iêmen e muitos outros, apenas no ano passado. Os EUA também se preparam para uma guerra direta com a China, a maior ameaça à sua hegemonia desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Fábricas e campos são bombardeados, a infraestrutura é destruída e os trabalhadores são abandonados para reconstruir em meio aos escombros. Os trabalhadores são os primeiros a sofrer com as sanções, a inflação e a austeridade impostas para financiar guerras, enquanto os mesmos governos cortam salários e programas sociais. Rejeitamos a mentira de que a guerras imperialistas trazem segurança. Especialmente em tempos de crise econômica aguda, a guerra é vista como uma saída para os imperialistas. Eles incitam o chauvinismo nacionalista contra seus "inimigos", recorrem à guerra, ao genocídio e ao fascismo, matando e deslocando milhões de pessoas, para desviar a atenção da população da crises econômica e política. A militarização e a guerra sempre foram um negócio lucrativo para os capitalistas. Os preparativos para a guerra incluem um aumento acentuado nos orçamentos para "defesa" em todos os países imperialistas e seus fantoches. Os mesmos governos que cortam programas sociais e restringem os direitos dos trabalhadores investem bilhões na militarização, desviando recursos que poderiam ser investidos nas áreas da saúde, educação e infraestrutura. Os especuladores da guerra, como Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX e Northrup Grumman, prosperam com essa exploração, recrutando trabalhadores para produzir instrumentos de morte, negando-lhes salários justos, seguridade e direitos. Enquanto isso, as armas que eles constroem são feitas de minerais extraídos por meio de métodos brutais de exploração que destroem os corpos dos trabalhadores e devastam o meio ambiente nas comunidades em que vivem. De fábricas a comunidades de mineração e campos de batalha, os trabalhadores são usados como peões em uma máquina movida pelo lucro para a guerra e o militarismo. Trabalhadores e a luta pela Paz Justa Os trabalhadores enfrentam desemprego em massa, inflação galopante e cortes nos serviços sociais que caraterísticas de todas economias de guerra, mesmo sendo os primeiros a serem alvos de recrutamento militar para guerras que não escolheram participar e não desejam lutar. Os trabalhadores do mundo todo assumem a luta pela paz justa e lideram as lutas pela libertação contra a opressão militar dos EUA, com o objetivo da libertação nacional e à soberania. Os trabalhadores resistem recusando-se a carregar armas em navios, realizando greves de solidariedade com os povos que resistem à militarização e combatendo diretamente os ataques às suas comunidades durante agressões militares. À medida que o movimento global contra guerra reconstrói sua força, devemos unir forças com os trabalhadores, em uma frente unida e ampla contra a guerra liderada pelos EUA. Juntos, podemos construir uma resistência em massa para desmantelar a máquina de guerra norte americana e conquistar uma paz justa, recusando-nos a financiar e construir as armas para lutar na guerra dos ricos. Não à guerra imperialista! Trabalhadores do mundo, unam-se por uma paz justa e duradoura! Français Non à la guerre impérialiste ! Travailleurs du monde entier, unissez-vous pour une paix juste et durable ! En cette Journée internationale des travailleurs, Resist US-Led War Movement soutient les luttes des travailleurs du monde entier contre les guerres extractivistes et impérialistes ! Les travailleurs et la guerre Les conflits inter-impérialistes croissants et les guerres d'agression ont déclenché une brutalité et une souffrance généralisées sur les travailleurs et les classes dominées. Ils soumettent les pays semi-coloniaux à une plus grande oppression nationale et intensifie l'exploitation des travailleurs dans tous les pays. Les pays impérialistes se préparent aujourd'hui à imposer une nouvelle division du monde. Les États-Unis, en tant que principale puissance impérialiste, ont directement financé au cours de l'année écoulée des guerres d'agression et de contre-insurrection contre les travailleurs de Palestine, des Philippines, de Somalie, de Syrie, du Yémen et de bien d'autres territoires. Les États-Unis se préparent également à un conflit armé avec la Chine, qui constitue la plus grande menace pour leur hégémonie depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Les usines et les champs sont bombardés, les infrastructures sont détruites et les travailleurs doivent reconstruire au milieu des decombres. Les travailleurs sont les premiers à souffrir des sanctions, de l'inflation et de l'austérité imposées pour financer la guerre, tandis que les mêmes gouvernements réduisent les salaires et les services sociaux. Nous refusons le mensonge selon lequel la guerre impérialiste apporte la sécurité. En période de crise économique, les impérialistes considèrent la guerre comme une issue de secours. Ils attisent le chauvinisme nationaliste contre de prétendus « ennemis », recourent à la guerre, au génocide et au fascisme, tuent et déplacent des millions de personnes, afin de détourner l'attention des politiques réactionnaires et d'austérité. La militarisation et la guerre ont toujours été des activités lucratives pour le capitalisme. Préparer la guerre requiert une forte augmentation des budgets de « défense » dans tous les pays impérialistes et chez leurs pantins. Les mêmes gouvernements qui réduisent les services publics et suppriment les droits des travailleurs déversent des milliards dans la militarisation, détournant les ressources allouées à la santé, l'éducation et aux infrastructures publiques. Les profiteurs de guerre comme Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX et Northrup Grumman s'enrichissent sur cette exploitation, en enrôlant des travailleurs pour produire des armes tout en leur refusant des salaires équitables, des conditions de vie dignes et des droits. Pendant ce temps, les armes qu'ils construisent sont fabriquées à partir de minerais extraits selon des méthodes d'exploitation brutales, brisant les corps des travailleurs et dévastant l'environnement des communautés dans lesquelles ils vivent. Des usines aux communautés minières en passant par les zones de guerre, les travailleurs sont utilisés comme des pions dans une machine de guerre et de militarisme axée sur le profit. Les travailleurs et la lutte pour une paix juste Les travailleurs sont confrontés au chômage de masse, à l'inflation galopante et aux réductions des services publics qui accompagnent toute économie de guerre, alors même qu'ils sont les premiers à être visés par l'enrôlement militaire pour des guerres qu'ils n'ont pas choisies et qu'ils ne veulent pas. Les travailleurs du monde entier prennent en charge la lutte pour une paix juste et mènent les combats de libération contre l'oppression militaire etats-unienne, en faveur de la libération et de la souveraineté nationales. Les travailleurs résistent en refusant de charger des armes sur les navires, en organisant des grèves de solidarité avec les peuples qui résistent à la militarisation et en luttant directement contre les attaques dont leurs communautés font l'objet lors d'agressions militaires. Alors que le mouvement anti-guerre mondial reprend des forces, nous devons unir aux travailleurs pour former un front uni contre la guerre menée par les États-Unis. Ensemble, nous pouvons mener une résistance de masse pour enrayer la machine de guerre et obtenir une paix juste, qui refuse de financer, de construire et de déployer des armes pour mener des guerres pour les élites. Non à la guerre impérialiste ! Travailleurs du monde entier, unissez-vous pour une paix juste et durable ! 4/6/2025 U.S. Out of Asia and the Pacific! Joint Statement from Pacific Islander and East Asian movements against US Secretary of defense Pete Hegseth’s War TourRead Now The Resist US-Led War Movement, Asia-Wide Campaign Against US-Japanese Domination of the Pacific, BAYAN Philippines, Micronesia Climate Change Alliance, Our Commonwealth 670, and the Hoʻopae Pono Peace Project came together to oppose the first official “Asian Tour’ of US minister of Defense Pete Hegseth. The tour proved to be another provocative US-led move to further build up to war against China, putting the livelihood of working people in these occupied lands and countries at dire risk, only to achieve the US’s long term military and political interests, over which the US is rapidly losing its grip.
This tour included travel to Hawai’i, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas, Guam, Philippines, and Japan. It consisted of a series of bilateral meetings with heads of state, top military leadership, and photos with rank and file military personnel to make Hegseth appear to care for the well being of the soldiers being prepared to be sent into the slaughterhouse of war. It led to significant military and economic deals signed to further entrench US-led militarization and de facto colonialism in some of the areas, as well as to fill the pockets of imperialist multinational corporations. Yet, at every step of the way, people protested with militant rage and showed that Hegseth and the US military are not welcome in their lands. HAWAI'I- A primary area of focus for Hegsethʻs Hawaiʻi visit was to urge the expedited construction of Dry Dock 5 at Puʻuloa (“Pearl Harbor”), for the primary purpose of accommodating greater nuclear submarine capacity, in the continued escalation of the undersea nuclear arms race. Specifically, Dry Dock 5 is designed to accommodate the largest “Ohio” and “Columbia” classes of nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered submarines; each holding up to 24 Trident missiles with the destructive capacity of 240 Hiroshima blasts that could trigger a global nuclear winter. This capacity also restores Oʻahuʻs status as the primary “US” target in the event of a Pacific war. Hesgethʻs visit was marked by multiple highly spirited protests. An action at the Navy Pacific Fleet HQ near the proposed dry dock featured banners demanding an end to the prolonged illegal US occupation of Hawaiʻi and offerings of sacred kou flowers to Kaʻahupahau, the shark goddess upon whose home Dry Dock 5 is being built. “The construction of a war dock for nuclear-armed submarines in the very home of Ka’ahupahau, who is the protector of O’ahu and the keeper of peace itself, should not be acceptable to anyone,” said Laulani Teale of Hoʻopae Pono Peace Project. “It is time to end colonialism everywhere, before we all die of it.” PHILIPPINES- From Hawai`i, Hegseth traveled to the Philippines, where he was met by more protesters, who condemned the US's plans to increase its militarization of the Philippines under the false pretense of mutual defense. Prompted by the visit, Philippine Army Chief of Staff Galido commanded troops to prepare for war should China take military action against separatist moves from Taiwan. Following the visit, the US State Department announced on Wednesday, April 2, that it had approved the “possible” sale of F-16 aircraft to the Philippines. In total, the 20 aircraft will cost an estimated $5.58 billion. The visit was a stark reminder that the expansion of US bases, the deployment of troops and weapons of mass destruction, and the provocative joint military drills in north Luzon are not meant to beef up the security of the Philippines but to support the war posturing of the US. The real aim of the visit, as is the aim of the Trump administration in general, was to stoke conflict in the region and exploit it to weaken US rivals and remain the top imperialist power. The declarations of "peace" and "defending the sovereignty of the Philippines" or any other country rang hollow against the backdrop of the US's consistently aggressive behavior. The not-too-distant memory of the 1991 people's victory expelling US bases from the Philippines, while not acknowledged by Hegseth or any Philippine military official, adds urgency to the Filipino people's patriotic duty to call for the immediate expulsion of US bases and troops, in a rejection of the notion that the Philippines should ever be used again as a staging ground to attack another territory. JAPAN- In Japan, the US Defense Secretary's visit was greeted with mass protests, with calls not just for him to leave the country but boldly declaring, "Oppose the Japan-US Military Alliance!" As people took to the streets, Hegseth took part in the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima, a World War 2 battle with mythological importance to the US projection of power in the Pacific region. During his speech, Hegesth stated, "the U.S.-Japan Alliance remains the cornerstone of peace, security, and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and beyond." An official White House memo stated that Hegseth and his Japanese counterpart Nakatani, "discussed concrete steps to deepen defense cooperation across a range of areas, including through enhancing bilateral training and exercises, strengthening Alliance force posture and presence, including in Japan's Southwest Islands, and promoting defense equipment and technology cooperation." Finally, Hegseth and Nakatani announced "Phase One" of the Joint Force Headquarters between the US and Japan, ultimately cementing further joint military exercises and operations between the US and Japan, before Hegseth visited US troops at Yokota Air Base. This comes as Japan-US military cooperation is threatening the lives of the Okinawan people and others living near US bases and missile systems that paint a target on these communities' backs, especially after over a century of Japanese colonialism and war crimes against the people of Okinawa and the Ryukyu Archipelago. Hegseths' visit will further entrench the recently signed trilateral agreements between the US and Japan with South Korea and the Philippines, skyrocketing the militarization of the South China Sea and Korean Peninsula for nothing but the benefit of US and Japanese imperialists. The silent transfer of THAAD missile systems from Japan to the Persian Gulf where the US has begun a rapid military build-up posture towards Iran is a sign that Hegseth's visit to the country could have dire implications not just for the Pacific but for US aggression in West Asia as well. CNMI / Commonwealth for the Northern Mariana Islands - During Hegseth’s recent March 2025 visit, he did not disclose to local media that he was coming to Guam and refused to answer questions when confronted. The community has historically been largely left in the dark until military plans are already finalized. No community consent outside of government and agency level involvement is part of this process. While the islands undergo a number of major plans including the use of Tinian Island as a “divert airfield” in the event that Guahan (Guam) is inaccessible, the community is now being informed that yet another island, Rota, will also now be used as a storage facility, including to store fuel for the Pentagon. During Hegseth’s tour, he stated: “We are not here to debate or talk about climate change, we are here to prepare for war,” skirting and exempting the Pentagon from local and federal environmental regulations necessary to protect the people of the Marianas and throughout the Pacific in favor of “national security.” The CNMI is undergoing accelerating militarization as the United States prepares for a future war on our islands in the name of national defense. Fear is being used strategically to garner public support for more military planning as the islands face a dire economic outlook. This perspective ignores diplomacy and disarmament, diplomatic approaches to geopolitical posturing and conflict that are absolutely necessary to maintain peace in the region. This militarization is happening against the backdrop of a long history of U.S. colonialism motivated by imperial ideologies in the region, while the Indigenous Peoples of the Marianas remain underserved, economically dependent on U.S. aid and whose lives and environments are continuously transformed by U.S. “defense” goals and priorities over human health and genuine security. The lives of Chamorro and Refaluwasch peoples remains an afterthought in the overall military buildup. GUAHAN - During U.S. Secretary of Defense Peter Hegseth to Guam, he reaffirmed Guam’s strategic importance for national security and regional stability, but failed to address the real, detrimental impacts of the hyper militarization of our homelands. As our lands are destroyed and water threatened by ongoing military projects, our community continues to push for conversations around genuine security, and what that really means to those of us who have to bear the burden of military activities, including the clearing of 900 football fields of our land for buildings and parking lots, a marine base and 700-acre firing range complex above our island’s main water source and over the ancestral lands of Chamoru families at Tailalo’ and Litekyan. At this critical time, the conversation must shift from U.S. strategic defense to Indigenous self-determination and environmental justice. These are issues that remain overshadowed by military interest without free, prior, and informed consent of the Chamoru people. How much more must we sacrifice of our security on the ground for “national interests” as we continue to be caught in the crosshairs of wars not of our own making? As one of 17 colonies left in the world, we demand political self-determination and the return of ancestral lands. The expansion of military infrastructure, including the live-fire training range at familial ancestral lands of Tailalo’ and Litekyan (Ritidian), threatens sacred sites, endangered species, and groundwater resources. Original landowner families for more than a decade have been actively resisting the firing range complex, and thousands upon thousands in our community opposed further destruction to our lands and contamination of our water source, yet the U.S. continues to prioritize military objectives over the voices of our people. Rather than accepting the visit as a routine military engagement, Guam’s decolonial movement sees it as a reminder of the urgent need for political and land rights, environmental protection, and the dismantling of militarized colonial rule. Fight against the US-led militarization of Asia and the Pacific As the US works to put in motion ever more military agreements in Asia and the Pacific with the help of its partner imperialist and puppet governments like Japan and the Philippines, the peace loving people of the world must unite and show our mass opposition to US-led war. The fact that Hegseth's visit was met at every step of the way by protests and militant cries against US military aggression proves that the people of the Pacific see through the lies of "peace and security" that the US peddles in its build-up to war against China. A war of such proportion would instead be a nightmarish assault against all the peoples of the world as the US would rather set the whole world on fire than lose its position as the number one imperialist superpower. War is not inevitable on our islands or any of the homelands of our sibling nations and peoples, and we refuse to comply with self-serving decision-makers who use fear to promote political ideologies and ignore humanity to promote violence. Our self-determination and sovereignty are non-negotiable, and our peoples' aspirations for peace drive us to resist any move by the US or their lackeys in our government offices to propel us to kill and die in wars that they declare but none of us want.  Israel resumes the genocide and unilaterally ends the Ceasefire
The US-backed Zionist entity has resumed its genocidal war on Gaza, killing children, babies, women, and men, with intense airstrikes still ongoing. Over 100 airplanes have dropped US-made bombs on Palestinians in schools, refugee camps, mosques and residential buildings. As of the 18th of March, Gaza's Civil Defense spokesperson, Mahmoud Basal, stated that over 400 people have been martyred, while between 300 to 600 others have been injured, warning that many may succumb to their wounds due to the severity of their injuries. All this less than 2 weeks after the US sent $12 Billion in Foreign Military Financing to line the pockets of war manufacturers arming the Zionist entity tooth and nail. Since the Ceasefire was declared in January the Zionist entity has repeatedly violated it, killing at least 155 Palestinians through airstrikes and blocking all humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza Strip, while bragging openly to the international public about doing so. Counter to Netanyahu's blatant lies "that Hamas refused every deal aimed at securing a truce and prisoner releases, leaving Israel with no choice but to restart its campaign," the united Palestinian resistance organizations announced that communication with mediators is ongoing and that it is keen to complete the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire deal. When the Palestinian resistance pointed out the violations of the ceasefire agreement and refused to continue the release of Zionist settler hostages until the regime carried out their end of the agreed-upon deal, the Zionists, in collaboration with the US, spread lies about the Resistance’s actions, painting them as the ones holding up the ceasefire agreements despite clear adherence on the part of the resistance every step of the way. In truth, the Resistance has not once violated the ceasefire agreements nor retaliated against the Zionist war criminals. Israel systematically undermined ceasefire negotiations to justify restarting its genocidal war to further escalate the occupation. This month was also marked by rifts in US-Israel relations. For the first time the US engaged in secret direct negotiations with Hamas without Israel with the objective to secure the release of US soldier prisoners and explore longer term agreements. Following the exclusion of Israel from the negotiating table, Netanyahu actively worked to derail the US deal to secure the release of US soldiers. An Israeli insider admitted, “We were shocked and never expected the US to go this far.” This signals the deepening crisis of the Zionist entity as the Palestinian resistance continues to be steadfast in the fight against the colonial project, and the Israel genocidal war on the Palestinian people continues to become increasingly unpopular amongst Israelis and the international community, with ongoing protests against war profiteers and in support of the Palestinian people continuing around the world. Israel's expansion and occupation in Syria and Lebanon In addition to violating the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has continued to violate the ceasefire with Lebanon every single day since signing it November 2024. They have continued to occupy the South of Lebanon while killing dozens and destroying homes even after they were rebuilt. This has been to keep Hezbollah from continuing its solidarity strikes against the Zionist entity to stop the genocide of Gaza, even though Hezbollah has been focused solely on helping Lebanese communities in the South rebuild from Israel's recent invasion. At the same time, Israel continues to illegally occupy and destroy swaths of Syria. Israel destroyed over half the military infrastructure of the Syrian government, even as Bashar al-Assad's forces were being overthrown by US- and Turkish-backed Salafist paramilitaries in December. Israel's illegal destruction of Syrian infrastructure along the entire Southern part of the country also gives a free pathway for invading Iran, and Israel has openly claimed this is their ultimate goal. It also immediately expanded the occupation of the Golan Heights to Mt. Herman, Syria's highest peak, and has used it for surveillance and strategic planning ever since. The new Syrian regime has continued the violence that Syria has seen nonstop for over a decade, under complete support from the US. It has targeted ethnic minorities, especially Alawites. A total of 4,711 civilians have been killed, including 1,805 executed on the battlefield, since the regime came to power on December 8th. Israel inflamed tensions between the regime and Druze religious minority, helping install a Druze separatist group in the new areas of Syria it now occupies. This has allowed Israel to control more Syrian land around Palestine and Lebanon while the country's people suffer from ethnic violence. In this way, Israel engineered a situation where the anti-Hezbollah Jolanni regime initiated border clashes with Hezbollah and Lebanese military along the Southeastern Lebanese border, near Hezbollah's stronghold, aiming to deter Hezbollah from being able to intervene and continue its assault against the US-Zionist entity. US retaliation against Yemeni resistance The US's imperialist aims in the region become even more clear with its response to Yemen’s blockade of commercial ships into Zionist ports so as to break the siege and genocide. For leading the world in showing what it really means to boycott and sanction Israel, and for causing severe damage to the economy of the Zionist entity, Trump ordered the US military to launch airstrikes against Yemen, killing 50 people already with hundreds more injured. Contrary to his election promises of bringing peace, Trump ranted on his private social media site Truth Social, "We will use overwhelming lethal force ... hell will rain down upon you like nothing you have ever seen before." Unfazed, Yemen's ruling Ansar Allah movement struck back, targeting the aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman with cruise missiles and drones, continuing the months-long confrontation that US Central Command has called its most intensive naval operations since the end of World War 2. All out against the Zionist onslaught in West Asia! As long as the US can rely on Israel as an outpost for US imperialism in the region, they will fund, back and defend the genocide against Palestine and regional aggression of Israel whatever the cost. While Trump aspires for seaside resorts on the graves of a rebuilt Gaza, Netanyahu aspires to expand the zionist project to "Greater Israel." Ultimately US and Israeli moves in the region, while not fully moving at the same pace, serve the same purpose - to conquer the whole of West Asia, which can only be done by completing the genocide of Palestine. Israel's expansionist aggression is only exposing more and more its essence as a genocidal project, and forces across the region are rising against it every day. Meanwhile, the anti-war movement must continue to struggle for an end to the occupation beyond any ceasefire deal that the US and Israel have always intended to violate. We must keep fighting against every front of US-Led war and mobilize all out to join the Palestinian people for the full realization of their rights and liberation on their historic land. The Resist US-Led War Movement joins the millions of Filipinos worldwide celebrating the arrest of former President Rodrigo Duterte, on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. Duterte's arrest is a victory that was only made possible because of the relentless fight for justice and accountability waged by the Filipino people. Resist resolutely supports the people's pursuit of both accountability for the past crimes of the Duterte regime, as well as an end to those of the current president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, who continues his predecessor's militarization of rural villages, aerial bombings, strafing, hamletting and other human rights violations in his US-armed and funded counterinsurgency campaign.
Duterte's war on the Filipino people Under the guise of his "war on drugs," Duterte orchestrated the killing of an estimated 30,000 people, waging a war on the poor and working people of the country while continuing to serve as an imperialist puppet. He did this all with US-provided weapons given to the Philippine National Police or in some cases directly into the hands of Duterte's private death squads. Anchored on Duterte’s Executive Order 70, which established the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, the Armed Forces of The Philippines and Philippine National Police implemented the joint counterinsurgency plan “Kapanatagan” (“Security”), unleashing vicious attacks on any person they deemed to be “communist” and organizations tagged as “communist fronts.” The anti-people policies spearheaded by Duterte and modeled after U.S. counterinsurgency strategies led to tens of thousands enforced disappearances, extra judicial killings and victims of torture and harassment by state forces. In 2017 Duterte declared Martial Law in the Bangasamoro region of Mindanao under the justification of the US's own designation of Mindanao as the so-called "Eastern Front of the War on Terror" by former US President Bush. Duterte oversaw five months of ruthless aerial bombardment, displacement, curfews, checkpoints, among other increased human rights violations. These acts displaced more than 200,000 people and paved the way for US imperialist exploitation of the natural resources in the region which holds the largest deposits of oil and natural gas in the Philippines worth hundred of billions in US dollars. Marcos: New puppet, continued attacks on the people Like his predecessor, Marcos Jr continues Duterte's legacy of terror on the people and subservience to his US warlords. His whole of nation approach to national security and counter-insurgency, another strategy model from US counter-insurgency doctrine, calls for the militarization of civilian agencies and functions, subsuming all the branches of government to military objectives and national security goals. Under Marcos, extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and fascist terror continue to be a nationwide policy. Marcos came to power with full support from his US backers. What he needed to steamroll his Presidential campaign to victory was to build an unsteady relationship with the Duterte family to win over Duterte’s voter base. Upon consolidating power, Marcos decided to dispose of Duterte by prosecuting the arrest warrant of the ICC. This amounts to the US puppet Marcos cutting the strings with Duterte so that he can make full use of the ruthlessly militaristic state machinery that he inherited from Duterte, who in turn inherited it from decades of US overlordship. In April 2024 during the Trilateral Summit in Washington DC attended by the Philippines, Japan, and the US, Biden revealed his budget request for $128 million for Military infrastructure projects under the Enhanced Defense cooperation Agreement (EDCA)— Far more than the $109 million allocated by the U.S. in the last 10 years combined - with all bases being built in strategic locations facing China, including a military site being built at ground zero in Marawi City seven years after the siege ended. This skyrocketing militarization of the Philippines at the behest of the US war machine is the mantle that Marcos has willingly taken up to protect his own semi-feudal, semi-colonial economic and political interests using the Filipino people and land as a pawn in the US strategy of war against China in the process. The people’s fight for justice continues Just as the anti-US base movement of the Filipino people led decades of systematic campaigns against US military presence and formally ousted the US bases in 1992, the struggle for National Democracy and for an end to US military occupation of the Philippines continues to be one of the biggest obstacles to the US strategy of directing its puppet government to aid in its build-up to war against China. With the expansion of US military presence in the Philippines under Marcos, the peace-loving people of the world must stand and unite with the Filipino people's struggle against their country being used as a pawn of US-led war. While Marcos may have been the one to execute the arrest warrant against Duterte for his own political interests, it was the people who fought against every blow of the overwhelming fascist offensive of Duterte to bring this case to reality. It is the people, and only the people, who will realize justice, accountability, and lasting peace. Justice for the victims of the drug war! Cut military aid to the US-Marcos regime! US out of the Philippines! 3/9/2025 Unite and fight against Trump’s Militarized immigration attacks and fascist terrorRead NowThe International Migrants Alliance (US) and the Resist US-Led War Movement echo the peoples call, from the migrants inside and across the U.S. region resisting their detention at Guantanamo bay, and the 50,000 Cubans protesting outside to condemn use of the illegal decades-long occupation of Cuba in Guantanamo Bay by the US military, amidst the slew of fascist immigration executive orders since Trump came into office.
Militarized immigration enforcement and fascist terror The Trump administration has used US military bases and the so-called "whole of government immigration crackdown" to put shackled immigrants on U.S. military planes for deportation fights and sent at least 127 migrants in February to the U.S. lockup at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The former/recent detainees described "small, windowless cells, constant lighting hindering sleep, inadequate food and medical care, and verbal and physically violent abuse from staff," labeling the conditions as "a living hell." The executive order of the President aims to prepare Guantanamo Bay to expand its capacity to transfer 30,000 migrants there. The Trump administration has also expanded federal agents’ arrests of people in the U.S. without documentation and abandoned programs like Temporary Protective Status (TPS) or the asylum process that gave some permission to stay. Just like his previous term, Trump inherited an immigration system used by both Democrats and Republicans for terrorizing and tearing apart migrant families to advance their profit-driven political projects. While this current moment recalls the horrors of voice recordings of crying children after being torn away from their families during Trump’s first term, or the images of migrant children being kept in literal cages inside warehouses, it must be remembered that this policy has been documented since at least US President Clinton’s mass deportation campaigns. Past President Biden deported around 1.5 million people, Bush Jr. deported around 2 million, while Obama deported a staggering 3.2 million, earning him the name “Deporter in Chief.” Conditions in detention facilities have been kept nightmarish by each of these Presidents as well, with over 50 deaths reported between 2017 and 2021 alone (and many more likely to have been not reported), and migrants suffering disease, starvation, and abuse by detention staff. Now Trump plans to expand ICE detention capacity to 151,500, with overall mass deportation plans that could reach a cost of $27 billion in its first year. Truly, Trump’s war on migrants is a war launched against the people long ago, but from his campaign threats during the election to his actions in his first month in office, it’s clear that things will only get worse, with the Guantanamo Bay detention of migrants signalling the worst.. Trump's openly fascist immigration policies target migrants and left-leaning movements equally as "enemies of the state," wielding repression and criminalization as militaristic tools to build up a narrative aligned with the Bush and Obama era’s "War on Terror" doctrine. Trump's targets, lumped into the category of "terrorists," have included everything from student activists fighting for Palestine, migrants at the border, loosely identified “Marxists” and “woke radicals,” and drug cartels operating within Mexico itself. Deploying ICE and CBP but also DHS, FBI, DEA, and ATF agents to round up migrants and other scapegoats, the War on Terror policy continues, with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth describing the base at Guantanamo Bay as “the front line of the war against America’s southern border.” Using the racist trope of "guarding against an invasion," the US is using the Southern Command of the US military to deploy forces, with an overall border program that is estimated to exceed $1 billion. Since Trump’s second term began and he immediately declared a “National Emergency” and closed the border, about 6,500 new active duty forces have been ordered to deploy to the southern border. Before that, there were about 2,500 troops already there, largely National Guard troops on active duty orders, along with a couple of hundred active duty aviation forces. In fact, Trump's "Whole Government Immigration Crackdown" is part of his shock and awe policy scapegoating immigrants for falsely causing the economic crisis that is underpinning the racist and xenophobic attacks of his administration and everyday Americans suffering the failure of both parties’ neoliberal, neoconservative, and fascist policies. A history of torture, intervention and impunity From Guantanamo Bay, the US spent the last century surveilling its hemispheric neighbors, plotting overseas coups, and torturing hundreds of “War on Terror” suspects. Since inception, the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay has faced ongoing legal, political, and international scrutiny regarding its operations. In the wake of Spain’s defeat in the 1898 Spanish American War, the US promised Cuba its freedom; it came with heavy caveats, including access to the 45-square-mile military base. Established in 1903, Guantanamo Bay has been under U.S. control for over a century, despite its location on Cuban soil. The US held Haitian asylum seekers in Guantanamo Bay starting in the early 1990s, being picked up by the US Coast Guard, and held without due process in the detention facility. Guantanamo Bay gained international notoriety in the early 2000s as a detention center for terrorism suspects. Numerous reports have documented human rights violations within its facilities, including long-term isolation, inadequate medical care, and documented torture. In addition, many people imprisoned there were found to have been detained indefinitely without trial. The cost of the Guantanamo Bay detention center has amounted to half a billion US dollars a year, pulling from what could have been spent on much-needed revenue for government services for the people. Such is the cost of the “War on Terror” forcibly paid for by taxes of people in the US, including undocumented immigrants. Militarism and forced migration are a cycle caused by imperialism War and militarism contribute greatly to forced migration. In the first 9 months of 2023, over 100 million refugees were displaced by war and conflict throughout the world, and this was before the genocidal Israeli war on Palestinians in Gaza even started. US imperialism and imperialist countries continue to wage and prepare for wars while subjecting the people of their colonies and neo colonies to policies of economic plunder that put their people into poverty. Local reactionary and fascist rulers wage war against their own people, often at the behest of these same foreign imperialist interests who provide them weapons, training and a cut of the future profits to enact brutal counterinsurgency wars. War devastates local economies and forces people and whole families to migrate for better opportunities abroad, fleeing violence, climate crises, and political repression as well, leaving them with no real choice - either starve or die at home or gamble on highly exploitative jobs far away from their family with still little chance of maintaining a sustainable livelihood. Forced starvation through blockades and sanctions has been a favored tactic of US imperialism - in Venezuela, Cuba, Afghanistan and many other countries. In Venezuela alone, these sanctions caused the people to be deprived of food and medicine, led to the death of over 100,000 and forced thousands to flee the country. The US is retaliating against Venezuela for asserting their sovereignty. Not only do they prohibit US-Venezuela trade, they coerce the entire world economy into ceasing exchange as well. But the Venezuelan people have frustrated attempts to break their sovereignty and continue to struggle to build a nation free of US imperialism in spite of crushing sanctions. One migrant, José, was detained in Renton, WA and recently transferred to Guantanamo from a detention center in Texas, alongside others deemed a “high-threat.” Contrary to the Trump administration’s blatant lies about the migrants being transferred to Guantanamo, José is a beloved father, husband, brother, son, and friend who fled violence from his homeland and supported his family and migrant community in Washington state. The Trump administration has cowered to the collective people power and removed all Venezuelans from Guantanamo Bay on Thursday, February 20th including José. He was then deported from Guantanamo Bay back to Venezuela. His family, IMA, and a community of migrant activists have been fighting alongside him for his freedom every step of the way. The fight is not over, we need to demand justice for the atrocities that José has had to live through at the hands of the US imperialist state. JUSTICE FOR JOSÉ! Many migrants and refugees from war are suffering fates similar to the “War on Terror” detainees at Guantanamo Bay and other US Black Sites around the world. In the end, war makers and fascists will always need a scapegoat to falsely lay blame on, subject to unimaginable torture, and, when no longer needed, disappear into the world where their fates become unknown. Such is the inherent relationship between militarism, forced migration, detention and mass incarceration, and fascist rule under the imperialist system. Who profits from these attacks? Who profits from this violence? The private prison executives that want the prospect of lucrative new detention center deals, since Trump's mass deportation plans would massively expand the largest immigration detention system in the world. Over 90 percent of all people detained by ICE in the U.S. are held in private detention facilities today. Who else benefits? The use of Guantanamo for Trump's mass deportation program gives the US the excuse to maintain its military outpost in the Caribbean after over 2 decades of “War on Terror” imprisonment, using the military base to stake out US influence over resources and riches to extract from the Caribbean and across the continent. Struggling to end the illegal military occupation and shut down Guantanamo Bay Where there is systematic oppression, there will always be peoples’ resistance. The enduring occupation of Guantanamo Bay has been a source of mass opposition, with Cuba asserting its sovereignty and the US maintaining its military presence. Though the US maintains around 750 military bases throughout the world, Guantánamo is a base in a sovereign nation whose government has described US presence as an “illegal military occupation.” For more than half a century, the government and people of Cuba have been demanding the return of the occupied territory in Guantanamo and an end to military activities in the area. They argue that the US military presence on their territory is not only illegal under international law but also violates the principles of self-determination of peoples. The mass protests of 50 thousand Cubans last month to demand the US withdrawal and oppose the US government's ongoing interference against Cuba's sovereignty are a powerful show of the people's willingness to struggle against the US’s fascist anti-migrant agenda and its illegal military occupation. There are growing mass protests across the US of migrant communities rejecting the militarized ICE enforcement in their communities, at the border, at detention centers, and all the way back to our homelands. This growing resistance shows that both in the host countries and in their home countries, migrants will struggle for an end to the US intervention in US colonies and neo-colonies. The people of the world have had enough of the policies that subject their people to the neoliberal plunder that forces their people into poverty and compels them to migrate. Migrants, survivors of detention, and all other peace-minded people will continue to fight against the abuse, detention, family separation and exploitation of Trump’s fascist agenda. In this way, the migrant justice and peace movements must be arm in arm, united in the struggle for a bright future out of the hands of the war profiteers and fascist strongmen!  The Resist US-Led War Movement asserts its grave concern over the looming war clouds and rising global military spending that overshadow US President Trump's so-called "Ukraine Peace Plan." What attempts to come across as a criticism of a vain and endless war in Ukraine by Trump hides instead a recalibration of US military priorities to other fronts of war while bluffing European powers into ramping up their war production and preparations for more severe conflicts to come. The War in Ukraine has just passed its third anniversary. Since then, over 58,000 Ukrainians and Russians have died with over 250,000 wounded, the majority of them Ukrainians. This is in addition to over 14,000 killed in the 2014-2022 Ukrainian Civil War. An estimated $155 billion in damages has been met on Ukrainian infrastructure, and approximately 2.4 million hectares of farmland has been damaged, leading to $1.5 billion lost for farmers in the country. 3.7 million are internally displaced in the country with 6.7 displaced abroad. Yet for 3 years, the US and Western leaders have refused to come to the table for peace talks, instead promising Kiev endless supplies of weapons so that it could win the war in their favor, regardless if they had to fight it down to the last Ukrainian soldier. Yet, all this took an unexpected turn in Washington, DC. In a shocking White House meeting covered by international press, Trump berated Ukrainian President Zelensky for relying too much on US military aid, for forcing conscripts to the front lines, for not thanking the US enough for its aid, and for "gambling with World War 3." Zelensky was then officially asked to leave the White House, notably without signing the much-spoken of mineral deal between the US and Ukraine that Trump had touted as the key dealbreaker for continuing military aid to the country. Instead, Trump froze all military aid to Ukraine the very next day. The TV-style drama of this incident truly was unprecedented in the history of US foreign policy meetings, but beyond the public entertainment factor that Trump has made the hallmark of his political tactics there exist deeper truths to what this moment represents for the current state of US-led war strategy. It is necessary to break down the different aspects of Trump's public accusations of Zelensky. First, it is indeed true that Ukraine has been facing a crisis in its soldiers' will to fight over the past year, with mere inches of territory being traded back and forth for every dozen or so fighters killed. War deserters have been rounded up and imprisoned, with many forced back to the front lines. The war has devastated the country, and there seems to be no end in sight as neither side has made significant gains in relation to the amount of fighters who have been killed on either side. Ukraine spent 36.7% of its GDP on its military in 2023, yet that only amounted to $65 billion, showcasing on the one hand how devastated its economy in general has been with social spending at all-time lows for its civilian population, and on the other hand how utterly reliant it has had to have been on foreign powers up against Russia's $109 billion at just 5.9% of GDP the same year. This leads into other aspects of Trump's tirade: relying "too much" on the US and, according to Trump and Vice President Vance, not being personally "thankful" enough to the President. Both of these accusations speak to a fundamental feature of the relationship between the US and Ukraine. The US is an imperialist power, and as such prefers to wage the majority of its wars through puppet regimes in countries on the periphery of its geopolitical influence while it enjoys the "peace" of being able to plunder the rest of the world through investment schemes and wage war against its exploited and oppressed people at home. Ukraine is one of these puppet regimes and has been ever since the CIA-backed "Maidan Revolution" in 2014 that overthrew Ukraine's independent government and installed one more friendly to Western influence and investments that immediately started a bloody 8-year civil war against Russian-speaking Ukrainian separatists in the Eastern Donbas region. NATO's Secretary General in 2021 promised eventual NATO membership to Ukraine, therefore solidifying a US and EU puppet regime right on Russia's doorstep to be the sacrificial lamb when Russia invaded in 2022 to protect its shrinking buffer zone between it and a military alliance that has existed to destroy it since the end of World War 2 and had looked for whatever reason possible to provoke a war against it that its own soldiers would not have to fight in. The current bloody war in Ukraine provided the golden opportunity. Kiev has fought both the 8-year civil war and the as-of-now 3-year Russia-Ukraine war with US and EU member-provided weapons. That is the nature of it being a puppet state. Such a state must exist in complete reliance on its imperialist master. When Trump berated Zelensky for this, he was hiding his own country's role in encouraging further war and military aid (including millions of dollars worth during Trump's first term) in order to weaken Russia's growing influence without sacrificing US soldiers. The difference now is that the US President has other priorities for his other puppets. The blanket support for the Zionist assault on Palestine and West Asia with fully-loaded US weapons could not be a starker difference in public messaging, but underneath the surface this puppet relationship is completely the same. Imperialists only care for their puppets when they are useful, and they are tossed aside and bled dry for what they are still worth (like Trump's rare earth mineral deal) when they no longer are. Zelensky and the rest of the Kiev regime are now paying the price for selling their sovereignty to US overlordship. To add insult to injury, Kiev's government took Trump's bating language at face value, and made a public statement thanking Trump for his supposed efforts to end the conflict, desperately hoping this would win back favor with the narcissistic President. This came a day after Zionist leader Netanyahu publicly did the same, calling Trump "the most pro-Israel President in American history." Regardless of the political charades being played, the puppets will always rush to lick the boots of the puppet master. The final accusation of Trump towards Zelensky requires the most critical eye of all of them. Who really is "gambling with World War 3?" The US has tried to use Ukraine against Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union, using its age-old strategy of turning ethnic and national groups against one another. The US and its NATO allies have spent decades turning Ukraine against its nuclear-armed neighbor while using neoliberal schemes to dismember the economies of both. If anyone has been gambling with World War 3, it is the US. In fact, Trump's surprising abandonment of its puppet regime in Ukraine becomes less surprising upon looking at the other ways in which he is gambling globally with a potential World War 3. Freezing military aid to Ukraine comes a day after Trump unfroze $12 billion in aid to the Zionist military to continue violating its ceasefire with the Palestinian resistance and continue its genocidal assault while continuing its expansionist drive in Syria, Lebanon, and towards Iran. It came a day before Trump's aggressive tariffs towards multiple countries, including China, another nuclear-armed power the US has spent years decoupling its economy from so that it can wage war without losing profits. The stopping of aid to Ukraine allows the US to pivot further into its militarization of the Asia Pacific where the US aims to contain its main competitor and adversary, China. The recent Trump's freeze on global foreign aid, while exempting security aid to the Philippines to continue its war build up with Marcos as another puppet and the unfreezing $870 million in security assistance programs for Taiwan show the US's strain and stretching beyond the front of US led war with Russia, and the need to pivot forces to the pacific. Once again, in the gambling, Ukraine is only a pawn, the US is the true gambler. Finally, Trump's gamble is not just with the US's rival superpowers like China and Russia. By making such a public scene of Zelensky, he gambled with European NATO members' decisiveness to keep the war in Ukraine going at any cost. Trump's cabinet criticized NATO members at the recent Munich Security Conference, saying that members should be paying 5% of their GDP on military (a percentage higher than what the US even spends itself). Taking the bait, European members made promises to arm both Ukraine and themselves to the teeth without US support, with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer calling for a "coalition of the willing" to arm Ukraine until it wins against Russia and Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas reigniting calls for an "Army of Europe" that would take the place of NATO. Stocks of European weapons manufacturers rose exponentially after these announcements, with Rheinmetall up 15%, Leonardo up 17.3%, Thales up 16.7%, BAE Systems up 14.3%, and Saab up 11.6%. Regardless of what agreements the US makes with Russia, the war in Ukraine will most likely not be ending anytime soon. Despite the dramatic row Trump's White House meeting with Zelensky caused amongst US allies, in the end the war makers and war profiteers all got what they wanted - a reason to crank out more guns and fighter jets and new opportunities for using them (and therefore buying more). Far from bringing peace, this will only bring more unnecessary deaths. It will also bring more damage to infrastructure and farmland, and with even more of Ukraine's public funds going to war spending, this will mean more devastated livelihood for the people. The war profiteers of Europe are willing to throw the entire population of Ukraine into the slaughterhouse of war or the hellsscape of economic ruin just to maintain their status quo of power and to keep the war industry booming. How should the peace movement respond to this moment? Of course, an end to the dire conflict should be welcomed, as the people deserve an end to the constant death and destruction of their country. But we must be wary of how any war ends, with foresight to how the war profiteers will use it to start another conflict as soon as they can. The most important thing to remember is that our government leaders are not interested in peace, especially not Trump who is just using an opportunistic moment to re-evaluate the US's war strategy. In the end, it is the people who make peace since the people are the ones most impacted by wars of aggression and militarism in all its forms. Our leaders will continue these public charades to try and fool us, but we must continue to raise our demands and take them to the streets where we can stand united against the US-led war machine. NATO and other US allies have never been this at odds with each other, so the peace movement must take advantage of this moment and expose the cracks. This movement will always be more united than the war makers ever can be! Finally, these imperialist machinations of the US show just how little it cares about the people living in the nations being oppressed by their puppet regimes. The peace movement must be firmly united with these movements for national liberation from semi-colonial oppression. Only then will the arbitrary moves of strongman governments like the US be challenged from the only force that can challenge them - the people themselves. This united movement is the only path towards just and lasting peace. 2/23/2025 Cut ties with war profiteers! Boeing, Textron Aviation, and Lockheed Martin's deadly plane crashes victimize the people of the world for profit.Read Now Since the start of 2025, a total of 85 people have died in major U.S. aviation incidents.
On January 29, American Airlines Flight 5342 collided with a Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter above the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. All 64 people on board the CRJ700 and 3 on board the helicopter were killed. The Black Hawk helicopter, is made by Sikorsky, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has been sold to governments of Saudi Arabia, "Israel", Philippines, Colombia, Mexico, Afghanistan, Republic of Korea, Taiwan and others. This infamous attack helicopter model has been used by US-backed militaries around the world to bomb entire neighborhoods, strafe whole countrysides with bullets, and land soldiers into villages to abduct and terrorize civilians under the guise of the "war on terror". February 12th, a Boeing fighter jet crashed into the San Diego Harbor. The EA 18G Growler is a Boeing "carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft". It has been used in the Operation Odyssey Dawn enforcing the UN no-fly zone over Lybia, deployed from Iraq in 2011. It was deployed as part of the Operation Prosperity Guardian attacking the Yemeni people and downing a Ansar Allah drone. February 6th, a US-Department of Defense-contracted surveillance plane crashed in Philippines, killing four people, including a US military personnel. The plane was a Beechcraft King Air 350, owned by Textron Aviation and formerly by Raytheon. The surveillance operation, which happened not far from the site of the notorious 2009 Maguindanao Massacre, is yet another event which raises serious concerns about the devastating impacts of the United States role in “counter-terror” and counterinsurgency operations in the Philippines. The recent plane crashes in San Diego, the Potomac River, and the Philippines serve as reminders of the deep-rooted imperialist system that prioritizes military interests over human lives. These crashes are not mere accidents but the dangerous consequences of unchecked of militarization and global dominance, where the lives of ordinary people are expendable to further the aims of the military-industrial complex. The military’s disregard for safety standards in its operations—whether during training exercises, military drills, or even maintenance— are just a small part of the overall death and destruction intentionally meted out by the US military through its wars of aggression all around the world. The people affected by these crashes and the people around the world on the receiving end of the bombs, strafing, surveillance, counterinsurgency programs, military exercises and proxy wars are the true front line victims of US wars of aggression. While the loss of lives by these military "accidents" are tragic, the US military has intentionally killed more than 4.5 million people in its wars since the start of the US-War on Terror, and millions more before, using weapons jets and military equipment such as the ones involved in the crashes. Weapons transnational corporations, headed by the richest class of monopoly capitalists in the world, sacrifice the lives of people around the world every single day for the sake of raking in superprofits. We must escalate further our campaigns against the Weapons TNC's and the governments who contract them to fight to end wars of aggression and build just peace.  ** This is the second of a two-part article series by the Resist US-Led War Movement on the transition between US Presidents Biden and Trump on the war record of the two and what to expect for the future
Trump has officially been inaugurated for his second term as US President. He ran on a campaign of “peace through strength” in which he played with words to appear at some times as a peace bringer and at other times as a strongman with an iron will to destroy “America’s enemies.” Trump's false promises of peace appealed to some Americans tired of Biden's aggressive and militaristic presidency. However Trump's xenophobic, chauvinist and "America First" narrative fed right into decades of War on Terror rhetoric, training many Americans to view those struggling to achieve their freedom from ages of imperialist domination around the world as "enemies." With a ceasefire signed in Palestine now that the genocidal Zionist regime has been forced to submit to the negotiating table after over a year of steadfast Palestinian resistance, many are wondering how long Trump the supposed "peace-maker" will last. Trump's Bloody First Term Trump’s foreign policy record of his first term is remembered mostly for its bravado. Trump did not wage the shock and awe campaign that Bush led into Afghanistan and Iraq, instead keeping the silent drone war going that Obama kicked into high gear in West Asia and the Horn of Africa. In a seeming show of strength, Trump dropped what he offensively called the “Mother of All Bombs” in rural Afghanistan, the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in the US military’s arsenal at the time. Trump upheld minimal airstrikes against Syria compared to Democrats Obama and Biden, but made sure that such strikes were massive when they came. He garnered both controversy and praise for meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and speaking for peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula, but silently increased US troop presence on bases throughout South Korea at the same time. He even made bold claims that the US would leave NATO if other NATO countries did not increase military spending to the alliance. What should the peace-loving people of the world and the global anti-militarism movement make of these contradictions inherent in Trump’s bravado-filled record? In short, Trump’s entire image was built around “draining the swamp” of the “deep state” of Washington DC and rising on the shoulders of American voters fed up with the endless war and disempowerment of two war-torn and utterly neoliberal Democrat administrations. Trump’s Presidential tenure has always had to have a false face of peace to it in order to maintain his voter base in the US, while blaming his political opposition for the horror and wasteful spending of the wars that he himself also kept going. Trump comes from the most savage camp of monopoly capitalists, and war has always meant big business for these profiteers. In reality, Trump holds a war record just as brutal as any former President, and he perfected the art of paying other puppets around the world to do the US’s dirty work for it. Trump led his own coup attempt in Venezuela, a brazen attack on an independent country’s sovereignty. He sent truckloads of military aid to the utterly fascist and terroristic Bolsanaro and Duque regimes in Brazil and Colombia. He tore apart families at the US-Mexico border and led a deportation campaign of terror across the US against migrants forced to flee their homelands from US-led militarization at home. Trump’s comments against NATO succeeded in encouraging NATO members to spend more money on their militaries. Before his Presidency, only two member countries were spending over 2% of their GDP on their militaries, while today 23 members spend this amount. Trump gave fuel to the wildfire that was the Ukrainian civil war through massive military aid packages to the US-puppet Kiev regime and brought NATO training camps up to the border with Russia itself, setting the stage for Russia’s counter-defensive invasion of Ukrainian territory that has led to three years of a bloody US-NATO proxy war against Russia. Trump brought the genocidal war on Yemen to new heights with his military aid to Saudi Arabia in exchange for lucrative real estate and development deals. He moved the US-Israeli embassy to Jerusalem in a brazen statement of continued support for the Zionist settler colonial occupation of Palestine. He started a trade war with China that increased military tensions and justified the Obama-initiated Pivot to Asia strategy of US militarization of the Pacific. This was the context for Trump’s assistance in the carpet bombing of Marawi City in the Philippines in which people living there have still not been able to return home, all while referring to the Philippines as “a prime piece of military real estate.” Trump unleashed racist police terror and the military on anti-racist protesters in the US during the George Floyd uprisings of 2020 and even created a new terror designation of “Black Identity Extremists" with the help of his Attorney General Jeff Sessions who had ties to the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan. Trump ended diplomatic detente with Cuba and pulled the US out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear program, steamrolling every attempt at ending some elements of the US’s inherent imperialist attitude towards other countries. In fact, he made his own utterly racist attitude on other countries well known by banning Muslims from entering the US in the first months of his Presidency while referring to countries in Africa, the Caribbean and West Asia as “shithole countries.” Trump's Expansionist and War-Mongering Future This is the pro-war legacy that Trump tried to hide during his 2024 campaign, but it is the legacy that the global anti-war movement must now prepare to throw everything it has against. Trump appears to speak with the same level of empty bravado in his threats to annex Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal. While many laugh away these very likely hollow threats, one only has to look at the vast mineral wealth of the Arctic and the profitable trade route across the Panamanian Isthmus to realize that Trump’s big business cabal would benefit greatly if he followed through on this rhetoric. Trump’s comments that there would be “Hell to pay” in Gaza if a ceasefire was not signed before his inauguration is a dark reminder that he is ready to shield the Zionist regime from any of its genocidal war crimes just as any past President has been. Had it not been for the heroic resilience and militant steadfastness of the Palestinian people, Trump would still be giving Netanyahu the green light. The mass movement for peace must be ready to continue weathering the harsh repression it has faced up until now. And with West Asia being violently redrawn by the US and Zionists in Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere, the peace movement must not give up the fight. Regarding the Palestinian solidarity movement in the US, Trump has promised to “deport Pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again,” and Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to answer if he would order the US military to shoot at protesters during his Senate confirmation hearing. Trump’s party platform also includes the ominous promise to “restore safety in our neighborhoods by replenishing police departments,” and “protecting officers from frivolous lawsuits,” responding to the many just attempts to hold murderous police officers accountable to the communities they operate it. With a rising trend of African countries declaring their intention to kick out US and French military presence, such as Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Chad, Ghana, and Ivory Coast, it is likely that Trump will double down on AFRICOM missions of US counterinsurgency across the continent and attempt US puppet coups. The people of the world must prepare to support the people of Africa in their rightful fight for sovereignty against imperialism and foreign intervention. And no where holds more potential for the spark of a third world war than in the Pacific. Trump may have pulled the US out of the Trans Pacific Partnership, but Biden’s Indo-Pacific Economic Framework provides more favorable ground for Trump-style bilateral trade wars, and Trump will wield all the military might necessary to wage them. Biden set the stage with more new Pacific military agreements than at any time since the end of World War Two, and Trump now holds this regional command structure in the palm of his hand. The Tasks Ahead In conclusion, the global mass movement for peace must be just as ready to combat the moves of Trump just as much as it did against Genocide Joe. The Trump-led Republican Party platform states clearly the intention to “ensure our military is the most modern, lethal and powerful forces in the world.” We must remember that it is not just rival states that the US war machine is gearing up to clash with, but it is also the ever-rising movement against US-led war and militarism that the US and its militaristic allies cannot ignore. Wars of aggression and militarization are causing extreme suffering and death of tens of thousands of people and pose an existential threat to life as we know it. We must bind together our movements to overcome Trump and all war profiteers and bring about the downfall of US imperialism in order to achieve a true just and lasting peace. |
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