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8/31/2025 Break the illegal US-Israeli Siege on Gaza! We extend our firm Solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla!Read Now The Maghreb Sumud Flotilla, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition*, Global Movement to Gaza, and the Sumud Nusantara set sail on Aug. 31st united under a common goal: to break the illegal siege on Gaza by sea, open a humanitarian corridor, and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people converging toward Gaza in the largest coordinated civilian flotilla in history.
People from over 44 countries are launching ships for the flotilla. Learn more, donate, volunteer or support the the Global Sumud Flotilla here: globalsumudflotilla.org Flotillas carry the mission to deliver life-saving aid to Gaza, but also to urgently to break the siege and end the genocide. It is the US-backed, Israeli calculated genocidal campaign of extermination which has created the manufactured famine and forced dependency on foreign aid in the first place. The people’s material solidarity with Gaza exposes the moral bankruptcy of all states that have normalized relations with “Israel” to serve their own imperialist and puppet state agendas. The Flotilla builds on decades of Palestinian resistance and international solidarity. It is first and foremost the Palestinian people and their resistance that will end the siege on Gaza. It is their steadfastness in the face of great sacrifices that inspires the people to grow our solidarity with that resistance, and to spread condemnation of the Zionist entity and its US imperialist backers towards the end of the occupation. We support the sovereign right of Palestinians to return to their land and assert their self-determination with national, economic, and food sovereignty. The creativity and courage of the people to stand up and fight for humanity in the face of relentless US-led war and attacks should inspire hope and fuel further action. No international institution should rely on the permission of the Zionist entity to bring aid, to break Stage 5 famine, but instead should act in every possible way to bring in needed aid. No matter how technologically advanced and ruthless the US war machine gets, the people's resistance will blaze the path forward until victory. The liberation struggle in Palestine paves the way for for just peace. Resist US-Led War Movement extends our solidarity to this effort. Long Live the Just Struggle of the Palestinian People! From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will be Free! 8/10/2025 No to US Military Expansion: Talisman Sabre & the Escalation for War in Asia-PacificRead Now Joint statement written by NAILS (National and Anti Imperialist Liberation Solidarity, Australia (NAILS) and Resist US-Led War Movement
As the Talisman Sabre exercises conclude in Australia, we can plainly see the US agenda for military expansion and domination in our region. These are Australia's largest multi-domain (army, navy, air force etc) exercises, with over 40,000 military personnel deployed, major tactical exercises, and over 19 countries participating for 3 weeks across US and Australian military areas. These exercises are dangerous for our communities and stoke the fires of inter-imperialist war in our region. From the bases, exercises, military storage, and arms sales, the US-Australia alliance has been a pillar of the US Indo-Pacific military strategy, to contain and attack its rival, China. We must understand the history and interests of the US using Asia Pacific to plunder our resources, and use our land for staging military aggression. We must also speak out against all forms of US military expansion in our country and in our region. The capitalist crisis of the 1920s led to the Great Depression, exposing a contradiction between shrinking markets and unchecked overproduction. This crisis triggered global fallout and ultimately led to World War II. Since then, US imperialism has repeatedly brought the world to the brink through WWII, the Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, the Middle East, and now tensions with China, North Korea, and Iran. Backed by nuclear weapons, a vast military-industrial complex, and dominance over global finance, the US enforces control through force when so-called "diplomacy" fails. Today, it's preparing for war with China to reassert dominance in global commodity and debt markets. The narrative is being set: Trump accuses China of sabotaging the US economy, and US defense officials warn of a Taiwan invasion by 2027. US military presence in the Philippines is growing, with 9 bases now, including new ones near Taiwan and the South China Sea. Australia plays a key role as a military rear base for the US in the Pacific, as it did in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Its rare earth minerals are also vital for US weapon production. US infrastructure on Australian military bases is being expanded to support western aspirations in the region. Imperialist competition between US and China is the primary feature that impacts the strategy of Australia’s collaborator ruling class to support US imperialist tactics. Darwin already hosts an annual rotation of up to 2,500 US Marines and there are plans to increase the number further. In December 2024 Japanese troops joined the US Marines in Darwin. Under the US Force Posture Initiatives, the US defence force is in various stages of spending between $490 and $970 million to expand Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) bases in Darwin and Katherine, including command centres, barracks, and hangars. Maritime security analyst Bec Strating said the growing US investment in northern Australia was in recognition of the region's geographical proximity to the Asia-Pacific. Other recurring international military exercises conducted across northern Australia have also expanded in recent years including Exercise Talisman Sabre, Kakadu, and Predator's Run. These events aim to develop military preparation and cross compatibility of the participating militaries primarily against China being the main competitor in the Indo-Pacific commodity and debt market and against and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, an independent country standing up against imperialism. The US is secondarily waging a genocidal war in West Asia with US-Israel aggression against Iran and the Axis of Resistance. In Europe, on the 3rd front, the US.-NATO led war in Ukraine against Russia has been going on for nearly 3 years, with key US imperialist interests to control Ukraine's key raw materials (earth minerals, oil, and gas). In 2005, Talisman Sabre involved just the US and Australia, while in 2025 it is hosting 19 countries in its largest ever iteration. They include a focus on rehearsing the deployment of lethal force and interoperability — the sharing of military communications and assets between nations. Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025 (TS25) will be the 11th biennial exercise, hosted in Australia. It consisted of live fire exercises and field training exercises incorporating force preparation activities, amphibious landings, ground force maneuvers, and air combat and maritime operations. In 2022, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) revealed RAAF Base Tindal, outside of Katherine, would host rotations of six nuclear-capable US B-52 bombers. Although US and Australian military figures have remained silent over when those deployments will begin. Last year (2024) the Northern Territory hosted the biggest ever military Exercise Pitch Black, featuring thousands of personnel and 140 aircraft from 20 nations, including the United States, Japan, India, Indonesia, and Great Britain. The US imperialist power is tailoring its war-fighting tactics and capabilities to the unique geography of South-East Asia, the South-China Sea, East China Sea and the Indo-Pacific, which are potential hot spots. The involvement of Indonesia, Japan, and India in this military exercise clearly shows that the US-dominated comprador ruling class of these countries are taking sides in a geopolitical power struggle between China and the US. As the US ramps up its military presence in the Northern Territory and its naval presence in Western Australia, some of Australia's closest Asian neighbours are increasingly concerned about being drawn into the US-China regional rivalry. The US military umbrella is also being stretched beyond Australia and Indonesia with the most recent and largest in its history Talisman-Sabre exercises currently being at sea in Indonesian waters and in North Queensland and Northern Territory where military testing of new missiles and weapons are under way. They will utilise a number of locations, including both Defence and non-Defence training areas. These locations provide a realistic test of how a large military force should function in a broad area of operations. TS25 will leverage locations and ranges for all domains of military operations: air, land, maritime, space, and cyberspace. This not only threatens safety and security here in Australia, but to maintain operational secrecy, the locations used and destroyed are remote and often untouched natural areas of Australian bush land, destroying an untold number of flora and fauna in its wake. The people of Australia are suffering under increasing cost of living pressures, unable to afford food or housing. Meanwhile, our government is pouring our taxpayer money into increasing our military, throwing hundreds of billions on AUKUS submarines and another 10 billion dollars commissioning new warships from Japan. Along with this, the Australian government has taken an active part in QUAD (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue; a strategic partnership between Australia, India, Japan, and the United States) and SQUAD (along with Philippines, United States and Japan), putting the lives of common Australians at risk being part of the US imperialist war effort. At the same time US demands Australia lifts defence spending by $40b a year 'as soon as possible' to support US war effort against China. The Talisman Saber military exercises and the presence of foreign military bases in Australia have significant impacts on Indigenous communities, often disrupting their connection to ancestral lands and sacred sites. These large-scale operations, conducted in remote regions, can lead to environmental degradation, restricted access to traditional hunting and ceremonial grounds, and noise pollution that disturbs cultural practices. Additionally, the militarization of Indigenous territories raises concerns about sovereignty and the lack of meaningful consultation, as many communities oppose the use of their land for defense purposes. The exercises also risk damaging culturally significant landscapes, further marginalizing Indigenous peoples and perpetuating historical injustices tied to land dispossession and colonial military presence. Essentially such activities help reestablish the old settler colonial rule and deny the right for self-determination of Australia’s First Nations People. The ordinary people of Australia and the United States have no hatred towards any other country. We want to live in peace and want to secure our income, housing, and living. At the same time, we oppose interfering with the democratic rights of the people of any other country. The US currently leads a $1.7 trillion "modernisation" program for its expanding arsenal, perpetuating global nuclear terror and environmental devastation. As the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons in war, its refusal to disarm undermines global security, pushing rivals to maintain their own arsenals in self-defence. Every voice raised against this threat is crucial in highlighting how US imperialism holds the world hostage by nuclear blackmail. This aggression by the US imperialism and its subjugated ruling class like in Australia is only to protect the interests of US finance capital. It is with the aim of expanding this imperialist capital that the United States has attacked in the past from Korea to Vietnam, from Iraq to Afghanistan. For this purpose, they are carrying out genocide in Gaza with the help of Israeli Zionists and killing innocent civilians there. And for this same purpose, they are preparing for war against China, the victims of which will be billions of people in the world from Australia, the Philippines, Indonesia, China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Thailand, and many more. We strongly oppose this war effort and military operations such as Talisman Sabre in preparation for it and hope that the democratic peace-loving masses of Australia and the United States will unite with the freedom-loving and anti-imperialist masses of other countries around the world. Only a united struggle of ordinary democratic peace-loving people can stop and destroy the imperialist war machine. We must unite against the world’s primary nuclear threat: US-led war. Solidarity towards united struggle against imperialist aggression and a peaceful world in the future. Speech was delivered by Resist US-Led War at the International League of Peoples Struggle event, "Remembering the Bombings, Fighting US Imperialist Aggression" commemorating the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 10, 2025.
We gather today to confront one of the gravest threats to humanity: the imperialist nuclear weapons regime, led by the United States. For over 80 years, the U.S. has driven the production, proliferation, and escalation of these weapons of mass destruction, not for defense, but for domination. From the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to today’s reckless modernization programs, the U.S. has fueled a global arms race while communities worldwide suffer the consequences. The current flashpoints of nuclear tension reflect a broader U.S. military strategy and its desperate fight to remain the sole hegemonic power in an increasingly multipolar world. Today, multiple imperialist powers compete for spheres of influence and resources, yet the U.S. continues to escalate conflicts to maintain its dominance. In Eastern Europe, NATO expansion and U.S. proxy wars heighten tensions with Russia. In the Middle East, the U.S.-Israel-Gulf-Turkish alliance threatens Iran with regime change and nuclear blackmail. In the Asia-Pacific, the U.S. has woven an iron web of military alliances: AUKUS, JAKUS, JAPHUS, and the Quad, to encircle China and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). In every case, the U.S. demonizes its rivals as dictatorships or terrorists while dragging millions into wars they never chose and do not want. Yet this aggression only fuels resistance. Across the globe, people are uniting against U.S. nuclear threats, exposing the system’s victims, its profiteers, and the growing movement to dismantle it. The U.S. as the Driver of Nuclear Proliferation The U.S. did not merely create nuclear weapons, it normalized their use as tools of terror. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 were cold-blooded experiments in mass murder. The U.S. deliberately targeted these cities relatively untouched by previous bombings to test its new weapon’s destructive power on civilians. This remains one of history’s most barbaric war crimes, demonstrating U.S. imperialism’s willingness to slaughter innocents for dominance. Since then, the U.S. has driven nuclear proliferation in three key ways:
From Cradle to Grave: The Human Cost Behind every nuclear warhead lies a supply chain drenched in blood and exploitation from which corporations are profiting in billions. Indigenous lands are ripped open for uranium, leaving behind radioactive waste. Uranium miners, and those along transfer routes from mines to military facilities, disproportionately Indigenous and poor, face radiation poisoning and early deaths. It includes workers in bomb plants, like Pantex in Texas, risk their lives assembling weapons of mass destruction. From Trinity to the Marshall Islands, the U.S. detonated 67 nuclear bombs in the Pacific alone, treating entire communities with the dystopian lie that it was "for the good of mankind". In the Pacific, babies are born with deformities from nuclear fallout. Communities where nuclear weapons were tested from New Zealand to Algeria to Nevada and New Mexico, endure cancer clusters, poisoned water, who are treated as sacrifice zones for nuclear programs of the imperialists. In Iraq, generations suffer from uranium-tipped weapons and depleted uranium in their soil, water and residential areas. Workers and "clean up" veterans sent to "decontaminate" test sites are abandoned with crippling illnesses. This environmental racism a deliberate targeting of marginalized people for imperialist greed is not a strategy for "deterrence" to avoid harm, while people are already being harmed by the existence and production of these weapons. The ultimate crime? A single nuclear detonation today would kill millions, trigger global famine, and condemn survivors to slow radiation deaths. Yet the U.S. rebuilds its arsenal instead of dismantling it. Modernization and Escalation: The U.S. Triad The U.S. is not just keeping nuclear weapons, it is making them more deadly. The U.S. plans to spend $2 trillion on so-called nuclear "modernization", The US is expanding ever leg of its nuclear triad, with new land-based missiles, stealth bombers, and nuclear armed submarines. New warheads like the B61-12 and W87-1 are designed for "usable" nuclear war with smaller, "smarter" bombs meant to make nuclear war seem "winnable." The U.S. refuses to adopt "No First Use," reserving the right to nuke anyone, anytime. The nuclear posture of the US is not for defense, it is a policy of annihilation. This modernization is a blank check for war profiteers. Corporations like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon rake in billions from Pentagon contracts. Lockheed Martin builds Trident II nuclear missiles and F-35 stealth bombers raking in $67 billion in revenue (2023) and spending $15+ million annually lobbying Congress. Northrop Grumman leads the $100 billion Sentinel ICBM program. Builds the B-21 Raider nuclear bomber. $39 billion in revenue (2023). Raytheon (RTX) produces nuclear warhead guidance systems profiting $74 billion in revenue (2023). These corporations do not care about peace they care about stock prices. They lobby for endless war while our schools crumble, people starve, and the planet burns. How We Fight Back The anti-nuclear movement of the 1980s emerged during the Cold War. Today’s struggle must be anti-imperialist, linked with global liberation movements from Kenya’s Gen-Z protests to the people’s war in the Philippines, from Palestine’s resistance to the global solidarity movement demanding a free Palestine from the river to the sea. Throughout history, people have taken courageous actions: waging divestment campaigns from institutions, taking disruptive direct action: blockading bases, occupying nuclear labs and targeting the manufacturers, and building international solidarity and mass mobilizations against nuclear threats. The UN has passed a treaty that makes nuclear weapons illegal, but the primary country threatening the world with its nuclear weapons, and the only country ever to deploy them in an act of war, the United States, boycotts the treaty. Our demand is clear: End the imperialist war machine. Redirect billions from death to life. From Hiroshima survivors to Navajo uranium miners, from Marshallese activists to the Palestinian resistance, there will always be a people’s struggle against U.S. military terror. We say No to nuclear terror. No to U.S. imperialism. Another world is possible and we will fight for it. In recent weeks the US and “Israel”, France, Saudi Arabia and region puppet regimes have been using the extreme crisis created by the forced famine, starvation policy and continued bombings in Gaza to call for the total disarmament of the Axis of Resistance as a pathway to “peace”. While the US and Zionists blame the resistance for the crumbling ceasefire talks, today, the US-”Israel” and Arab reactionary regimes are using the failed ceasefires to justify the full military take over and occupation of Gaza. The true intent of "Israel" regarding ceasefires is clear. The Zionists were always the ones to undermine the efforts for a just peace in the region. They want total domination of West Asia, not peace. Since 1948, "Israel" has used ceasefires to expand its occupation “Israel” has never upheld ceasefires. It has provoked wars through overwhelming violence to impose ceasefire lines that it never intends to respect. The 1947 UN partition plan imposed unilaterally on the people of Palestine drew borders for an “Israeli state” that Zionist armed gangs immediately violated and seized more land through the Nakba. A 1967 ceasefire allowed “Israel” to occupy the West Bank and Gaza, effectively expanding its borders even further.  Zionist expansion into Syria After the 1967 ceasefire between “Israel” and Syria, “Israel” would militarily occupy the land it stole in the Golan Heights. The recent ceasefire between “Israel” and Syria did nothing to address the additional Syrian land that “Israel” stole around Mt. Hermon in late 2024. The Zionists have always sought to expand the borders of “Israel” and violated every ceasefire of each military aggression they started to achieve this.  “Israel” - Hezbollah ceasefire November 2024 A November 27, 2024 ceasefire was supposed to end “violent attacks,” but “Israel” has continued sporadic strikes on Lebanon. Under the initial terms of the agreement that brought about a ceasefire between “Israel” and Hezbollah in November, the former was to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon by January 26. But “Israel” refused to pull back its military, and the deadline was pushed to February 18. Even after the February deadline “Israel” breached the agreement once again and kept troops in five “strategic” locations in the Lebanese southern border. Claiming that it is targeting Hezbollah, “Israel” continued to bomb Lebanon. Eight months after the ceasefire, the IOF admitted to having committed around 500 airstrikes since the truce came into effect in November 2024, reportedly killing more than 230 Hezbollah fighters, destroying thousands of rockets, 90 launchers, 20 headquarters, five weapons production sites, training camps, and other infrastructure, and killing 80 civilians. “Israel”- Hamas Ceasefire - January 2025 One month after the Ceasefire went into effect, the “Israeli” occupation had violated the ceasefire agreement more than 350 times, an average of 10 violations per day. By March, “Israel” had committed 962 violations, reaching an average of 23 violations a day. Blaming Hamas for violating the ceasefire, the Zionist entity relaunched its all-out genocidal campaign in March 2025. Since then, “Israel” has declared most of Gaza a no-go zone, forcing expulsions amid attacks and blocking all humanitarian aid, once again exposing its settler colonial nature. Over 87 per cent of the Gaza Strip remains within the “Israeli”-militarized zone, under displacement orders, or both as of 30 July 2025. This Ceasefire agreement brought significant resistance wins and major prisoner exchange. However, the resistance harbors no illusions about “Israel’s” intentions to violate ceasefires, given the settler-colonial nature of Zionism. Yet these agreements and negotiations remain a crucial part of the long struggle for liberation. Periods of reduced violence are strategically used to reorganize, restrengthen, and secure the release of Palestinian prisoners from Zionist jails as part of negotiated deals. As the Prisoner’s Media Office noted during the latest exchange, when hundreds of Palestinian prisoners were liberated: “The honorable exchange taking place today is a living expression of the strength of our national project, which views the liberation of detainees as a unifying national achievement and a right that will not be compromised, regardless of the sacrifices. These moments have come as the fruit of the sacrifices of our people in all arenas and the persistence of the resistance in fulfilling its promise to our detainees and people. The current exchange deal, “Flood of the Free,” represents a milestone in our struggle and an added victory to the long march of liberation, affirming that the will for freedom is stronger than all the jailer’s chains.” “Israel” - Iran Ceasefire - June 2025 On June 13th "Israel" provoked a war of aggression that Iran had no role in starting, and once again showed itself to be the most dangerous entity in the region and the most utterly fascist and genocidal force in the world today. While “Israel” had some initial success with precise strikes, it did not reach its main objectives in the war: destroying Iran's nuclear program and weakening national unity towards a regime change. Meanwhile, Iran's missile attacks broke through “Israel's” defenses, breaking the myth of the Iron Dome’s invincibility. After suffering serious hits, “Israel” begged Donald Trump to negotiate a ceasefire on its behalf and relied on its imperialist master to back it up as the US directly intervened in the war. While “Israel” broke the ceasefire for two days, it was forced to stop as Iran proved to have missile parity with the occupation. US-“Israel” and Resistance Factions - July 2025 Ceasefire talks In July 2025, ceasefire negotiations between “Israel,” the U.S., and Palestinian resistance factions mediated by Qatar and Egypt faced a major setback when the U.S. withdrew its negotiating team from the table. The decision came after Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, publicly accused Hamas of showing a "lack of desire to reach a ceasefire." Hamas, however, denied these claims, reiterating its commitment to the talks and stating it was "keen to continue negotiations in a way that overcomes obstacles and achieves a lasting ceasefire agreement." The proposed 60-day truce included several key provisions: a phased “Israeli” military withdrawal from Gaza (moving from west to east), a halt to aerial bombardments, unrestricted entry of food and humanitarian aid, and a prisoner exchange deal. Despite great flexibility by the Palestinian resistance, “Israel” proved to only be interested in the total and complete surrender of the Palestinian people, insisting that its primary war objective, the complete dismantling of Hamas, had not yet been achieved and therefore any kind of ceasefire deal was not worth it. “Israel” and the US’s moves prove that they are not pursuing peace. What “Israel” wants is the dismantling of all Palestinian Resistance infrastructure, including political and armed power of the axis of resistance, to have a clear path to occupy the whole of Palestine and broader West Asia. These goals are in full contradiction with the United Nations General Assembly resolution A/RES/37/43 concerning the ‘importance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination,' which endorses, without qualification, ‘the inalienable right’ of the Palestinian people to ‘self-determination, national independence, territorial integrity, national unity and sovereignty without outside interference’, and reaffirms the legitimacy of their struggle for those rights by all available means, including armed struggle. “The resistance and its weapons are a national and legal right as long as the occupation persists”, said Hamas on August 2nd, 2025. Ceasefires, Wars of Liberation, and the Fight for Just and Lasting Peace “Israel” did not start its genocide in 2023, nor did the fight for Palestinian liberation begin in the same year. Wars are not only campaigns of violence, but wide ranging political and social phenomena in which violence is used to achieve political and economic interests of not only states but whole peoples and classes. Whether those interests stand for the people and the masses that make them up, or for the narrow ranks of the minority ruling classes, defines if it is a war for domination or a war for liberation. A ceasefire is a momentary pause in direct fighting, but it is not a fundamental solution to the political and economic roots of conflict. In fact, a pause in direct fighting may open up other fronts for the ruling power to use other forms of oppression and exploitation to uphold their rule. Therefore, ceasefires are no alternative to fundamentally changing the root causes of oppression and exploitation, and fighting will keep happening until these are addressed. However, they are necessary when they give pause to the horrors of wars of aggression and allows the people time to heal and regain their strength for the fights ahead until full liberation and just and lasting peace. “Israel” is waging a war of genocide and annihilation for the benefit of the imperialist ruling elite. Palestine is waging a war of liberation for the benefit of its entire people to live on their historic land. How either approaches the question of ceasefires reflects the irreconcilable differences between the types of war that they are waging. The Palestinian, Lebanese, Iranian, Syrian and all oppressed peoples of the world have the right to fight for their self-determination and a just peace in the region, free of Zionist-US domination and any foreign interference. 8/6/2025 New OpEd: How U.S. imperialism blackmails the world with nuclear weapons, from Hiroshima to todayRead Now As we commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, Resist US-Led War and Bayan Philippines partnered to write this article, published on Mondoweiss, which traces the history of U.S. nuclear blackmail from Hiroshima to today’s three main U.S.-led war fronts! "The U.S. uses nuclear blackmail against its rivals painting them as authoritarian, dictatorships, or terrorists while it blatantly drags the people who would be affected by a nuclear catastrophe into wars they never asked for. This U.S. aggression will only breed more anti-imperialist sentiment by the people uniting against U.S. nuclear threats."  |