All Workers Unite Against Imperialist Wars

As the U.S. unleashes more war, workers face the brunt of its impacts

2026 has marked a sharp escalation of U.S.-led war. Just three days into the year, U.S. Special Forces invaded Venezuela and kidnapped President Maduro, using Trinidad and Tobago and Puerto Rico as launching pads for this operation after killing hundreds of people in boat strikes across the Caribbean. Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to give full support to Zionist Israel and its policy of total annihilation against Lebanon, Palestine, Yemen, and all of West Asia. This policy serves Israel’s drive for a “Greater Israel” against the peoples of the region and targets Iran as the main obstacle to U.S. hegemony in West Asia. In the Asia-Pacific, war preparations continue to accelerate as billions of dollarsare poured into multinational military exercises and into arming U.S. puppet regimes, which in turn use these weapons to impose fascist repression on their own populations. In Africa, the U.S. continues to finance and support paramilitary forces to control resources and exert strategic influence, placing the U.S. war machine at the center of the worst humanitarian crises, in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and many other countries.

As the U.S. sinks deeper into crisis, losing economic power, access to markets, and being outpaced in technological innovation, primarily by China and other emerging powers, it unleashes war in the faint hope of recuperating its former global domination. As it grows more desperate to survive and maintain its grasp on stolen resources and labor, the U.S.-led war machine becomes ever more violent and vicious.

The brunt of U.S.-led wars has always fallen on the shoulders of workers, and at this point in history it is no different. Workers are bombed, strafed, shot, and killed as the U.S. unleashes its wars of aggression. U.S. workers are sent to fight against workers of other countries, all in the name of clearing the way for the imperialist class to further exploit land and resources, and to profit from rebuilding the infrastructure they have destroyed.

in Gaza, workers have seen their means of livelihood and work completely destroyed, as Israel purposely decimated the local fishing industry and educed arable land to toxic rubble, with 95% of its shrublands and 97% of its trees destroyed. In Cuba and Venezuela, U.S. sanctions have subverted economic growth and self-sufficiency, blocking access to machinery, technology, and healthcare on which the people depend. Since December, U.S. naval forces have seized multiple oil tankers headed to Cuba, leaving the island is a state of almost collapse with electricity shortages and many industries operating at minimal levels. In Iran, oil refinery workers and healthcare workers have been especially targeted as the U.S. intentionally hits civilian infrastructure in its war of aggression.

Even when bombs aren't falling on their homes and troops marching through their streets the working class is forced to bear the brunt of capitalist speculation, which artificially raises the prices of goods to squeeze more profits out of war. As we've seen with the U.S. war of aggression against Iran, rising fuel prices have already led to price increases for basic necessities in many countries, such as canned goods, bread, water, soap, and detergent all across Southeast Asia and Latin America.

Wherever the U.S. has propped up its puppet regimes, often through covert means of warfare such as sanctions or financing coups d'état, working people experience super-exploitation in the form of low wages and unbearable working hours at the hands of U.S. multinational corporations, while U.S.-backed puppet militaries suppress them under the boot of fascism.

As Workers Suffer the Imperialists Profit

Capitalists are constantly searching for new land and labor to exploit. When they cannot secure these through economic coercion, they turn to war. Thus, wars are not only profitable in their making, through weapons production and resource extraction, but they are also essential to the survival of the capitalist system itself. Expansion through violence in and attempt to resolve the system’s internal contradictions by opening new markets, capturing cheap labor and raw materials, and temporarily restoring profitability in times of crisis.

Militarization and war have always been profitable ventures for monopoly capitalists and imperialist ruling classes. Across all imperialist countries, and the semi-colonies that the U.S. plans to use as pawns in future wars, war preparations are marked by massive increases in defense budgets. The same governments that slash social programs, suppress workers’ rights, and crush democratic movements pour billions into militarization, diverting vital resources away from healthcare, education, housing, and public infrastructure that working people and oppressed communities urgently need.

Weapons and War Transnational Corporations in the field of weapons, technology and mining feed directly on U.S. led wars. They force workers to produce weapons of war used to exact massive destruction while denying them living wages, safe working conditions, and basic rights to organize. The weapons they manufacture depend on minerals extracted through super-exploitation and plunder, which devastates the environment and relies on horrific working conditions putting workers in claustrophobic spaces often exposed to toxic chemicals without proper protection.

All Workers Unite Against Imperialist Wars

Workers are confronting mass unemployment, skyrocketing inflation, and cuts to social services that come in the wake of the war economy. Imperialist wars only benefit the ruling class. Therefore the working class has the most stake in ending them because they pay with their lives to keep this imperialist system alive.

In many countries the working people of the world are already taking the lead in the struggle for just peace, national liberation, and sovereignty against U.S. military oppression. Through militant workers' organizations, strikes that directly target the war machine, and solidarity actions with oppressed peoples, workers are resisting in multiple forms, refusing to load weapons onto ships, blocking military supply chains, and, taking up arms against U.S. military assets as well as building the missiles that target U.S. bases in West Asia.

The global anti-war movement must ensure it is part and parcel of the struggle of workers, because it is workers who bear the heaviest impacts of war and who hold the power to stop it. We must forge fighting coalitions and wide-ranging alliances that connect the issue of war to the everyday concerns of the working class, from the semi-colonies on the receiving end of bombs to the migrant communities and working class in the imperialist centers as we win back what has been stolen by the war lords of the imperialist class and march towards a just and lasting peace.

No to imperialist war! Workers of the world, unite for a just and lasting peace!