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5/22/2026 Resista los Ataques de EE. UU. y Une al Pueblo en Solidaridad y Defensa de la Revolución CubanaRead Now  Después de seis décadas de guerra híbrida criminal, Washington está intensificando su camino hacia una agresión militar inminente.
El 1 de mayo de 2026, una nueva orden ejecutiva presidencial de EE. UU. amplió las sanciones para atacar a cualquier entidad o individuo considerado "colaborador material" del gobierno cubano, autorizando sanciones secundarias contra instituciones financieras en todo el mundo y reforzando las restricciones energéticas para la adquisición de combustible. Esta orden criminaliza la propia supervivencia económica, forzando a bancos y proveedores extranjeros a cortar el comercio de alimentos, medicinas y productos básicos con toda una nación. Como ha afirmado acertadamente el presidente cubano Díaz-Canel, esta "maniobra política, carente de toda base legal, tiene como único propósito engrosar el expediente que están fabricando para justificar la locura de una agresión militar contra Cuba". La supuesta "amenaza" de Cuba, filtrada a Axios a través de "información de inteligencia" estadounidense que alegaba la adquisición de 300 drones iraníes y aviones de ataque, fue desmentida en el mismo artículo, señalándose que era puramente una contingencia defensiva en caso de que EE. UU. atacara primero. La administración Trump está sentando las bases políticas para la guerra, claramente como parte del cerco imperialista a la soberanía cubana. El pueblo cubano tiene el derecho absoluto e inalienable de defender su soberanía nacional contra el terrorista imperialista más grande del mundo, Estados Unidos. Tras las nuevas sanciones, el 14 de mayo de 2026, EE. UU. solicitó acusar a Raúl Castro, diputado de la Asamblea Nacional y héroe de la Revolución Cubana, resucitando una vieja excusa de décadas relacionada con el derribo en 1996 de dos aviones de "Hermanos al Rescate". Los medios estadounidenses los presentaron como un "grupo humanitario", pero en realidad estaba dirigido por el agente de la CIA José Basulto, quien violó repetidamente el espacio aéreo cubano lanzando propaganda antigubernamental, y había recibido claras advertencias. Los pilotos cubanos actuaron en defensa de la integridad territorial, un derecho que EE. UU. reclama hipócritamente para sí mismo a diario. La orden de acusación contra Raúl Castro fue aprobada intencionalmente por el gobierno estadounidense el 20 de mayo de 2026, 124 años después de la llamada declaración de independencia de Cuba, vinculada al Tratado de la Enmienda Platt. Ese acuerdo otorgaba a EE. UU. el derecho a intervenir en asuntos cubanos y permitía al gobierno estadounidense arrendar o comprar tierras para establecer bases navales en la isla. Esto ejemplifica la insultante nostalgia neocolonial del gobierno estadounidense y la Doctrina Monroe que están rescatando como su visión para una América Latina completamente dominada por los intereses de EE. UU. Condenamos estos actos más recientes de intimidación imperialista. Estados Unidos se apresura a inventar justificaciones para una invasión, para cumplir el objetivo declarado del régimen Trump de derrocar al gobierno cubano. Los intervencionistas respaldados por EE. UU. verían morir a miles de cubanos y lo aplaudirían criminalmente, exigiendo que los cubanos se dejen aplastar sin responder, sin defenderse, sin honrar más de 150 años de lucha. Cuba no es un estado fallido, como insiste la campaña de presión estadounidense; es, de hecho, una nación bajo asedio. Al crear crisis energéticas intensas, desafíos sanitarios y prolongados apagones, EE. UU. busca desestabilizar el tejido social cubano mediante el bloqueo aplastante, sembrar descontento y provocar disturbios internos. Aunque hay protestas en las calles de Cuba, existe claridad de que la raíz de los problemas que enfrenta Cuba hoy es una crisis fabricada por la guerra híbrida de EE. UU. contra Cuba. Enfrentando intentos de asesinato, complots de la CIA, medidas coercitivas unilaterales ilegales y estrangulamiento, durante más de sesenta años, una pequeña isla bajo el embargo económico más brutal de la historia moderna ha prevalecido y sigue siendo un recordatorio constante del fracaso de EE. UU. para destruir el proyecto socialista cubano. Cuba ha construido salud universal, educación gratuita y una esperanza de vida que rivaliza con el Norte Global, sin las medidas de austeridad del FMI, los ajustes estructurales del Banco Mundial ni el dominio corporativo estadounidense. Ahora Washington, con la visita del director de la CIA, John Ratcliffe, a La Habana y filtraciones de inteligencia diseñadas para preparar el terreno político para la guerra, acelera su histeria mediática anticubana, favorable entre la comunidad de exiliados cubanos, programada para intentar rescatar el voto republicano meses antes de las elecciones de mitad de mandato en EE. UU. Conocemos los signos de una acción militar inminente por parte de EE. UU. El 21 de mayo, el portaaviones USS Nimitz fue desplegado en el sur del Caribe para preparar ataques, tras ejercicios militares conjuntos entre EE. UU. y Brasil. Tras haber presenciado la acumulación previa de fuerzas, vigilancia y despliegue militar preparando los ataques ilegales de EE. UU. contra Venezuela e Irán, los signos de la escalada estadounidense son claros. Aunque el pueblo cubano nunca ha tenido la ventaja militar en todos los años de lucha por su independencia revolucionaria, defendiéndose de los ataques estadounidenses, cada vez ha superado en inteligencia y maniobra a los imperialistas y ha mantenido su revolución. Mientras Trump y su clique fascista de multimillonarios intensifican los intentos de derrocar la soberanía e independencia de Cuba, el país tiene derecho a la autodefensa y a defender su autodeterminación por cualquier medio necesario. El pueblo cubano no se rendirá. Debemos solidarizarnos con ellos y con su resistencia en la brutal lucha que se avecina. Todas las fuerzas anti-guerra deben preparar movilizaciones de emergencia el mismo día o al día siguiente de un ataque militar directo de EE. UU. Pero no debemos esperar para planificar acciones solidarias. Llamamos a todos nuestros miembros a unirse a la semana de acción de la campaña No a la Guerra contra Cuba del 28 de junio al 4 de julio. Continúen apoyando los esfuerzos para enviar asistencia energética y ayuda médica de socorro a Cuba. Campañeen contra el bloqueo criminal y por la defensa de la soberanía de Cuba y de toda América Latina contra los últimos asaltos estadounidenses. Por la paz en las Américas, debemos defender a Cuba contra la guerra imperialista de EE. UU. EE. UU. considera una amenaza a cualquier país que se atreva a resistir su agenda. Sin embargo, nosotros, como movimiento popular contra la guerra liderada por EE. UU., debemos movilizarnos contra la agresión estadounidense y en defensa firme de la causa cubana por una paz justa y duradera en las Américas. ¡No a la guerra contra Cuba! ¡Viva la Revolución Cubana! ¡Manos fuera de Raúl Castro! ¡Abajo el bloqueo criminal! 5/22/2026 No War on Cuba! Resist US Attacks and Rally the People in Solidarity and Defense of the Cuban Revolution!Read Now  Resist U.S. Attacks and Rally the People in Solidarity and Defense of the Cuban Revolution!
After six decades of criminal hybrid warfare, Washington is escalating toward imminent military aggression. On May 1, 2026, a new U.S. Presidential Executive Order broadened sanctions to target any entity or individual deemed a "material supporter" of the Cuban government, authorizing secondary sanctions against financial institutions worldwide and reinforcing energy constraints on fuel procurement. This order criminalizes economic survival itself, coercing foreign banks and suppliers to cut off food, medicine, and basic trade with an entire nation. As Cuban President Díaz-Canel has rightly stated, this "political maneuver, devoid of any legal basis, aims solely at padding the dossier they are fabricating to justify the folly of a military aggression against Cuba." The so-called "threat" from Cuba, leaked to Axios via U.S. "intelligence" alleging acquisition of 300 Iranian drones and attack planes, was exposed within the same article as purely defensive contingency in case of a U.S. attack first. The Trump administration is laying the political groundwork for war, plainly part of the imperialist siege on Cuba's sovereignty. The Cuban people have an absolute and inalienable right to defend their national sovereignty against the world's largest imperialist terrorist, the United States. Following the new sanctions, on May 14, 2026, the U.S. called to indict Raúl Castro, deputy of the National Assembly and hero of the Cuban Revolution, reviving a decades-old pretext accusation involving the 1996 shootdown of two "Brothers to the Rescue" planes. The U.S. Media portrayed them as a "humanitarian group" but in realitity was headed by CIA operative José Basulto, who repeatedly violated Cuban airspace dropping anti-government propaganda, and had been given clear warnings. The Cuban pilots acted in defense of territorial integrity, a right the U.S. hypocritically claims for itself daily. The Cuban pilots acted in defense of territorial integrity, a right the U.S. hypocritically claims for itself daily. The pursuit of the indictment order on Raul Castro was intentionally approved by the U.S. government on May 20, 2026--124 years after Cuba’s so called declaration of independence tied to tied to the Platt Agreement. This agreement gave the U.S. the right to intervene in Cuban affairs and allowed the U.S. government to lease or buy lands to establish naval bases on the island. This exemplifies the U.S. government's insulting neocolonial nostalgia and the Monroe Doctrine they are uplifting as their vision for a Latin America completely dominated by U.S. interests. We condemn these most recent acts of imperialist intimidation. The United States is scrambling to invent justification for an invasion, to meet the Trump regime’s stated goal to overthrow the Cuban government. U.S.-backed interventionists would watch thousands of Cubans die and criminally applaud it, demanding that Cubans allow themselves to be crushed without responding, without defending themselves, without honoring more than 150 years of struggle. Cuba is not a failed state as the U.S. pressure campaign insists, it is in fact a nation under siege. In creating intensive fuel crises, healthcare challenges, and prolonged brown outs, the U.S. aims to disrupt the social fabric of Cuban society through the crushing blockade, sow discontent and spark internal unrest. While there are Cuban protests in streets, there is clarity that the root of the problems Cuba faces today is a manufactured crisis by the U.S. hybrid warfare against Cuba. Facing assassination attempts, CIA plots, illegal unilateral coercive measures and strangulation, for over sixty years, a small island under the most brutal economic embargo in modern history has still prevailed and been a continued reminder of the failure of the U.S. to destroy Cuba's socialist project. Cuba has built universal healthcare, free education, and a life expectancy rivaling the Global North, without IMF austerity, World Bank structural adjustment, or U.S. corporate domination. Now Washington, with CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Havana and leaked intelligence designed to lay the political groundwork for war, the U.S. is accelerating its anti-Cuban media hysteria, favorable among the Cuban exile community, timed to try and rescue the Republican vote months before the U.S. midterms election. We know the signs of imminent military action by the U.S.. On May 21, the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier was deployed to the southern Caribbean to stage for attacks, following joint U.S.-Brazil military exercises. Having just witnessed the precursory build up of forces, surveillance, and military deployment preparing for U.S. illegal attacks against Venezuela and Iran, the signs are clear of U.S. escalation. While the Cuban people have never had the upperhand militarily in all the years of winning their revolutionary independence, defending themselves from the U.S. attacks, they have every time outsmarted and outmaneuvered the imperialists and sustained their revolution. As Trump and his fascist billionaire clique ramp up attempts to topple the sovereignty and independence of Cuba, the country has a right to self-defense and to defend its self-determination by any means necessary. The Cuban people will not surrender. We must stand with them and their resistance in the brutal fight ahead. All anti-war forces should prepare emergency mobilizations the same day or immediate next day following a U.S. direct military attack. But we should not wait to plan solidarity action. We call on all our members to join the week of No War on Cuba Campaign action June 28-July 4. Continue supporting efforts to send energy assistance and medical relief aid to Cuba. Campaign against the criminal blockade and for defense of the sovereignty of Cuba and all of Latin America against the latest U.S. assaults. For peace in the Americas, we must defend Cuba against U.S. imperialist warfare. The U.S. views as a threat any country that dares resist its agenda. However we as a people's movement against U.S.-led war, must rally against U.S. aggression and in firm defense the Cuban cause for a just and lasting peace in the Americas. No War on Cuba! Long Live the Cuban Revolution! Hands off Raúl Castro! End the Criminal Blockade!  Mientras Estados Unidos lanza más guerras, los trabajadores soportan el peso de su consequencia
El año 2026 ha marcado una fuerte escalada de la guerra liderada por Estados Unidos. A solo tres días de comenzado el año, las Fuerzas Especiales Estadounidenses invadieron Venezuela y secuestraron al presidente Maduro, utilizando Trinidad y Tobago y Puerto Rico como plataformas para esta operación, tras haber asesinado a cientos de personas con ataques de lanchas en el Caribe. Mientras tanto, Estados Unidos continúa apoyando plenamente al Israel sionista y su política de aniquilación total contra Líbano, Palestina, Yemen y toda Asia Occidental. Esta política sirve a la aspiración de Israel de un "Gran Israel" en contra de los pueblos de la región y señala a Irán como el principal obstáculo para la hegemonía estadounidense en Asia Occidental. En Asia-Pacífico, los preparativos bélicos siguen acelerándose mientras se invierten miles de millones de dólares en ejercicios militares multinacionales y en armar a regímenes títeres de Estados Unidos, los cuales a su vez usan esas armas para imponer una represión fascista contra sus propias poblaciones. En África, Estados Unidos sigue financiando y apoyando a fuerzas paramilitares para controlar recursos y ejercer influencia estratégica, colocando a la maquinaria de guerra estadounidense en el centro de las peores crisis humanitarias en Sudán, la República Democrática del Congo y muchos otros países. A medida que Estados Unidos se hunde más en la crisis, perdiendo poder económico, acceso a mercados y siendo superado en innovación tecnológica, principalmente por China y otras potencias emergentes, desata guerras con la débil esperanza de recuperar su antigua dominación global. Mientras más desesperado se vuelve por sobrevivir y mantener su control sobre recursos y trabajo saqueados, la maquinaria de guerra liderada por Estados Unidos se vuelve cada vez más violenta y cruel. El peso de las guerras lideradas por Estados Unidos siempre ha recaído sobre los hombros de los trabajadores, y en este momento de la historia no es diferente. Los trabajadores son bombardeados, ametrallados, heridos y asesinados cuando Estados Unidos desata sus guerras de agresión. Los trabajadores estadounidenses son enviados a luchar contra trabajadores de otros países, todo en nombre de abrir el camino para que la clase imperialista explote aún más la tierra y los recursos, y obtenga ganancias de la reconstrucción de la infraestructura que ellos mismos han destruido. En Gaza, los trabajadores han visto sus medios de vida y trabajo completamente destruidos, ya que Israel diezmó deliberadamente la industria pesquera local y redujo la tierra cultivable a escombros tóxicos, destruyendo el 95% de sus matorrales y el 97% de sus árboles. En Cuba y Venezuela, las sanciones estadounidenses han frustrado el crecimiento económico y la autosuficiencia, bloqueando el acceso a maquinaria, tecnología y atención médica de los que dependen las personas. Desde diciembre, las fuerzas navales de Estados Unidos han incautado múltiples buques cisterna con destino a Cuba, dejando a la isla en un estado de casi colapso, con escasez de electricidad y muchas industrias operando a niveles mínimos. En Irán, los trabajadores de refinerías de petróleo y los trabajadores de la salud han sido especialmente blanqueados, ya que Estados Unidos ataca intencionalmente la infraestructura civil en su guerra de agresión. Incluso cuando las bombas no caen sobre sus hogares ni las tropas marchan por sus calles, la clase trabajadora se ve obligada a soportar el peso de la especulación capitalista, que eleva artificialmente los precios de los bienes para exprimir mayores ganancias de la guerra. Como hemos visto con la guerra de agresión de Estados Unidos contra Irán, el aumento de los precios del combustible ya ha provocado incrementos en los precios de las necesidades básicas en muchos países, como alimentos enlatados, pan, agua, jabón y detergente en todo el Sudeste Asiático y América Latina. Allí donde Estados Unidos ha apuntalado sus regímenes títeres, a menudo mediante métodos encubiertos de guerra como sanciones o financiamiento de golpes de estado, los trabajadores sufren una superexplotación en forma de bajos salarios y jornadas laborales insoportables a manos de las corporaciones multinacionales estadounidenses, mientras que los ejércitos títeres respaldados por Estados Unidos los oprimen bajo la bota del fascismo. Mientras los Trabajadores Sufren, los Imperialistas Obtienen Ganancias Los capitalistas buscan constantemente nuevas tierras y mano de obra para explotar. Cuando no pueden asegurarlas mediante la coerción económica, recurren a la guerra. Por lo tanto, las guerras no solo son rentables en su ejecución (a través de la producción de armas y la extracción de recursos), sino que también son esenciales para la supervivencia del propio sistema capitalista. La expansión mediante la violencia es un intento de resolver las contradicciones internas del sistema abriendo nuevos mercados, capturando mano de obra barata y materias primas, y restaurando temporalmente la rentabilidad en tiempos de crisis. La militarización y la guerra siempre han sido empresas rentables para los capitalistas monopólicos y las clases gobernantes imperialistas. En todos los países imperialistas y las semicolonias que Estados Unidos planea usar como peones en guerras futuras, los preparativos bélicos se caracterizan por aumentos masivos en los presupuestos de defensa. Los mismos gobiernos que recortan programas sociales, suprimen los derechos de los trabajadores y aplastan los movimientos democráticos destinan miles de millones a la militarización, desviando recursos vitales de la atención médica, la educación, la vivienda y la infraestructura pública que los trabajadores y las comunidades oprimidas necesitan urgentemente. Las corporaciones transnacionales de armas, tecnología y minería se alimentan directamente de las guerras lideradas por Estados Unidos. Obligan a los trabajadores a producir armas de guerra utilizadas para causar una destrucción masiva, mientras les niegan salarios dignos, condiciones de trabajo seguras y derechos básicos para organizarse. Las armas que fabrican dependen de minerales extraídos mediante la superexplotación y el saqueo, lo que devasta el medio ambiente y se basa en condiciones de trabajo horribles, manteniendo a los trabajadores en espacios claustrofóbicos a menudo expuestos a sustancias químicas tóxicas sin la protección adecuada. Todos los Trabajadores, Únanse Contra las Guerras Imperialistas Los trabajadores enfrentan desempleo masivo, inflación disparada y recortes a los servicios sociales que llegan a raíz de la economía de guerra. Las guerras imperialistas solo benefician a la clase dominante. Por lo tanto, la clase trabajadora es la más interesada en ponerles fin, porque pagan con sus vidas para mantener vivo este sistema imperialista. En muchos países, los trabajadores del mundo ya están tomando la iniciativa en la lucha por una paz justa, la liberación nacional y la soberanía contra la opresión militar estadounidense. A través de organizaciones obreras combativas, huelgas que atacan directamente a la maquinaria de guerra y acciones solidarias con los pueblos oprimidos, los trabajadores están resistiendo de múltiples formas: negándose a cargar armas en barcos, bloqueando las cadenas de suministro militares, tomando las armas contra activos militares estadounidenses y también construyendo los misiles que apuntan a las bases de Estados Unidos en Asia Occidental. El movimiento global contra la guerra debe asegurar que sea parte integral de la lucha de los trabajadores, porque son los trabajadores quienes soportan los impactos más graves de la guerra y quienes tienen el poder de detenerla. Debemos forjar coaliciones combativas y alianzas amplias que conecten el tema de la guerra con las preocupaciones cotidianas de la clase trabajadora, desde las semicolonias que reciben las bombas hasta las comunidades migrantes y la clase trabajadora en los centros imperialistas, para recuperar lo que nos ha sido robado por los señores de la guerra de la clase imperialista y marchar hacia una paz justa y duradera. ¡No a la guerra imperialista! ¡Trabajadores del mundo, únanse por una paz justa y duradera!  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! 4/29/2026 The anti-war movement across the U.S. vehemently condemns the Toboso Massacre enacted by the U.S.-backed Armed Forces of the Philippines and joins the fight for justice for the victimsRead Now SIGN ON: tinyurl.com/Antiwarnegros19
April 29, 2026 - Anti-war organizations across the U.S. vehemently condemn and join the fight for justice for the victims of the most recent massacre enacted by the U.S.-backed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on April 19. We are grieving the loss of 19 beautiful, vibrant and dedicated individuals and raise the alarm at the forced displacement of more than 653 residents from 168 households in peasant communities in the region of Negros Occidental in the Philippines. Among the confirmed killed are beloved Filipino American activists Lyle Prijoles from California and Kai Sorem from Washington State. Lyle and Kai are part and parcel of our anti-war struggles here in the U.S., the belly of the beast and we are outraged at their murder. The attack took place while over 10,000 U.S. soldiers are currently deployed to the Philippines for the Balikatan war drills and under the context of longstanding military alliances, military aid and counterinsurgency training of the Philippines by the U.S. The evidence mounting that this was indeed a massacre by the AFP violating international humanitarian law, with U.S.-made and funded artillery and aircraft, can not be covered up by the clumsy lies of the latest counterinsurgency force in the Philippines - the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC). We extend our deepest condolences to the families and friends of: 1. Roel Sabillo, 19, resident of Barangay Tabunac, Toboso 2. R.J. Nichole Ledesma, 30, community journalist from Bacolod City 3. Alyssa Alano, councilor, UP Diliman Student Council 4. Maureen Keil Santuyo, 24, member, National Network of Agrarian Reform Advocates (NNARA-Youth) 5. Errol Wendel, 24, member, Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura 6. Jemina Gumadlas, 15, resident of Sitio Plarending, Barangay Salamanca, Toboso 7. Lyle Prijoles, 40, of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines, from San Franciso, California (USA) 8. Kai Sorem, 26, from Seattle, Washington (USA) 9. Dexter Patajo, 17, Sitio Buklog, Barangay Lalong, Calatrava, Negros Occidental Based on the initial information we have gathered, they were killed despite the fact they were unarmed or non-combatants. Among them are a journalist, a student leader, peasant organizers, overseas human rights workers and local residents. Two of the victims were minors. We also honor red fighters of the New People's Army who fought the fascists to their last breath. They are: 1. Roger Fabillar (Ka Tapang), who served as NPA commander of the Northern Negros Front 2. Sonny Boy Caramihan, 28, from IBarangay Bagonbon, San Carlos City; 3. Rene Villarin Sr, 57, Barangay Marcelo, Calatrava, squad leader; 4. Pedro Bonghanoy, medical officer, Barangay Libertad, Escalante City; 5. Arnel Javoc, 32, from Barangay Lalong, Calatrava; 6. Joros Caramihan y Ramos, 18, from Don Salvador Benedicto; 7. Maria Clarita Branzuel Blanco (Ka Sanim/Pat), Political Instructor; and 8. Genevieve Balora (Ka Raia), from Bacolod City, district Party cadre 9. Labskie Purisimia Enustacion, 33, of Sitio Tinibawan, Barangay Bug-ang, Toboso 10. Jocel Gimang, 18, of Sitio Bautista, Barangay Malasibog, Escalante City The Toboso massacre is also significant since it is the first time in the country’s history that two foreign human rights advocates have been killed in an encirclement and suppression campaign by the Philippine Army and its paramilitary forces. Lyle Prijoles with International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP) and Kai Sorem with Anakbayan South Seattle had long supported the campaign in U.S. Congress to significantly reduce military aid to the Philippines owing to extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and massive displacement of rural communities. Negros, along with Samar and Bicol, was declared as a site of “lawless violence” by Memorandum Circular No. 32 (MC32) by then president Rodrigo Duterte in 2018. The memorandum was released following several extrajudicial killings of peasants and activists, including the nine members of the National Federation of Sugar Workers massacred in Sagay on October 20, 2018. Scores have been killed in Negros Island because of joint military and police operations, with the Sagay 9 massacre as a prime example of the culture of impunity trashing the rule of law and Philippine obligations under international humanitarian law. The Toboso 19 massacre is but a repeat of the Escalante massacre, September 20, 1985, in Escalante, Negros Occidental where government paramilitary forces gunned down civilians engaged in a rally in commemoration of the 13th anniversary of the declaration of martial law, during the dark days of the Marcos Sr. fascist dictatorship. It is no coincidence that this bloodshed occurred as the U.S. and Philippines' militaries conduct the annual multi-lateral Balikatan ("Shoulder-to-Shoulder") military exercises. Balikatan was launched in 2001, initially justified under the global war on terror and concentrated on counterinsurgency operations. Over time, Balikatan and dozens of other annual U.S.-Philippines military exercises evolved into mechanisms for interoperability, logistics integration, and strategic positioning. Since their beginning, the Balikatan exercises have fostered numerous human rights violations against the Filipino people. In addition to the massacre in Toboso Negros, three people were killed and two were injured in a region near the locations of the Balikatan exercises in Zamboanga City, Mindanao, including a 12-year-old Moro child, during a joint operation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) in the early morning of April 23, 2026. This December 2025, the U.S. PERA "Philippines Enhanced Resiliancy" Act was passed through bipartisan support in the National Defense Authorization Act in Congress giving "$2.5 billion in U.S. security assistance" to the Philippines to "deepen U.S.-Philippines defense cooperation and strengthen the defense capabilities and interoperability of the U.S.-Philippines Alliance to meet growing threats in the Indo-Pacific". This has embedded US doctrine, command structures, and operational dependence into the Armed Forces of the Philippines, which is using this playbook to kill the peasant masses struggling for their land and livelihood, and those who choose to fight alongside them. This kind of U.S. military funding, training, and support for the AFP shows the direct culpability of the U.S. military and government in the war crimes and violence committed in these massacres. While the genocide rages in Gaza, ceasefire violations continue in Lebanon and the hybrid-warfare against Iran continues in West Asia, the Zionist forces of Israel also are complicit in the massacre in the Philippines. Public records show that Israeli defense companies have supplied the Philippines with drones, radar systems, patrol vessels, and thousands of assault rifles used by police and military units. These partnerships reinforce security approaches centered on surveillance, rapid neutralization of targets, and combat-style engagement. These incidents point to a pattern of intelligence-driven raids conducted in civilian areas under the framework of “counter terrorism,” blurring the line between law enforcement and combat. The U.S. has directed conducted or backed similar massacres under so-called "combating narco terrorism" boat strike operations in the Caribbean and Pacific against Venezuelan, Colombian and Trinidadian individuals, as well as the murders in the bombings of peasants in Esmeraldas, Ecuador and the murder of five young people in Colcabamba, Peru this week by the Peruvian military under so-called "anti-trafficking" military operations. The Anti-War movement must join the fight against the military aid, exercises and U.S. military-backed operations that are not only preparing the national armies of US neo-colonies for future wars but are already emboldening fascist forces to be used by U.S. puppet government against their own people. We join the calls of our comrades in the Philippines national democratic movement for Justice for the Negros 19 in Toboso and the victims of the massacre in Zamboanga City. We demand an immediate and independent investigation into the AFP’s April 19th attack and into US funding and support for the brutal, fascist Ferdinand Marcos Jr. administration. And we honor those who served the people until their last breath. Signed, Resist U.S.-Led War Movement, United National Antiwar Coalition, Antiwar Action Network, Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, Diaspora Pa’lante Collective, Labor for Palestine, Prutehi Guahan, Black Alliance for Peace, Palestinian Youth Movement, Workers World Party, International Action Center, International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines - U.S., Juventúd Unida en la Diáspora, International League of People's Struggle - U.S. Call to Action: Justice for the Negros 19! Contact your congress members with info here: https://tinyurl.com/Negros19-Advocacy-Toolkit
4/29/2026 El movimiento contra la guerra en todo Estados Unidos condena enérgicamente la masacre de Toboso perpetrada por las Fuerzas Armadas de Filipinas, respaldadas por Estados Unidos, y se une a la lucha por la justicia para las víctimasRead Now AÑADE SU ORGANIZACIÓN AQUÍ: tinyurl.com/Antiwarnegros19
29 de abril de 2026 – Las organizaciones antiguerra de todo Estados Unidos condenan vehementemente y se unen a la lucha por la justicia para las víctimas de la masacre más reciente cometida por las Fuerzas Armadas de Filipinas (AFP), respaldadas por Estados Unidos, el 19 de abril. Lamentamos la pérdida de 19 personas hermosas, vibrantes y dedicadas, y damos la alarma por el desplazamiento forzado de más de 653 residentes de 168 hogares en comunidades campesinas de la región de Negros Occidental, en Filipinas. Entre los confirmados como asesinados se encuentran los queridos activistas filipino-estadounidenses Lyle Prijoles, de California, y Kai Sorem, del estado de Washington. Lyle y Kai son parte integral de nuestras luchas antiguerra aquí en Estados Unidos, el vientre de la bestia, y estamos indignados por su asesinato. El ataque ocurrió mientras más de 10,000 soldados estadounidenses están desplegados en Filipinas para los ejercicios de guerra Balikatan, y en el contexto de alianzas militares de larga data, ayuda militar y entrenamiento en contrainsurgencia que Estados Unidos proporciona a Filipinas. La creciente evidencia de que esto fue efectivamente una masacre de las AFP que viola el derecho internacional humanitario, utilizando artillería y aeronaves fabricadas y financiadas por Estados Unidos, no puede ser encubierta por las burdas mentiras de la última fuerza de contrainsurgencia en Filipinas: el Grupo de Trabajo Nacional para Poner Fin al Conflicto Armado Comunista Local (NTF-ELCAC). Expresamos nuestras más profundas condolencias a las familias y amigos de: 1. Roel Sabillo, 19 años, residente de Barangay Tabunac, Toboso 2. R.J. Nichole Ledesma, 30 años, periodista comunitario de Bacolod City 3. Alyssa Alano, concejal, Consejo Estudiantil de la UP Diliman 4. Maureen Keil Santuyo, 24 años, miembro de la Red Nacional de Defensores de la Reforma Agraria (NNARA-Youth) 5. Errol Wendel, 24 años, miembro del Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura 6. Jemina Gumadlas, 15 años, residente de Sitio Plarending, Barangay Salamanca, Toboso 7. Lyle Prijoles, 40 años, de la Coalición Internacional por los Derechos Humanos en Filipinas, de San Francisco, California (EE. UU.) 8. Kai Sorem, 26 años, de Seattle, Washington (EE. UU.) 9. Dexter Patajo, 17 años, Sitio Buklog, Barangay Lalong, Calatrava, Negros Occidental Según la información inicial que hemos recopilado, fueron asesinados a pesar de estar desarmados o ser no combatientes. Entre ellos hay un periodista, un líder estudiantil, organizadores campesinos, defensores de derechos humanos en el extranjero y residentes locales. Dos de las víctimas eran menores de edad. También honramos a los combatientes rojos del Nuevo Ejército del Pueblo que lucharon contra los fascistas hasta su último aliento. Ellos son: 1. Roger Fabillar (Ka Tapang), quien se desempeñó como comandante del NEP en el Frente Norte de Negros 2. Sonny Boy Caramihan, 28 años, de Barangay Bagonbon, San Carlos City 3. Rene Villarin Sr., 57 años, Barangay Marcelo, Calatrava, líder de escuadrón 4. Pedro Bonghanoy, oficial médico, Barangay Libertad, Escalante City 5. Arnel Javoc, 32 años, de Barangay Lalong, Calatrava 6. Joros Caramihan y Ramos, 18 años, de Don Salvador Benedicto 7. Maria Clarita Branzuel Blanco (Ka Sanim/Pat), Instructora Política 8. Genevieve Balora (Ka Raia), de Bacolod City, cuadro del Partido a nivel distrital 9. Labskie Purisimia Enustacion, 33 años, de Sitio Tinibawan, Barangay Bug-ang, Toboso 10. Jocel Gimang, 18 años, de Sitio Bautista, Barangay Malasibog, Escalante City La masacre de Toboso también es significativa porque es la primera vez en la historia del país que dos defensores de derechos humanos extranjeros han sido asesinados en una campaña de cerco y represión por parte del Ejército filipino y sus fuerzas paramilitares. Lyle Prijoles, de la Coalición Internacional por los Derechos Humanos en Filipinas (ICHRP), y Kai Sorem, de Anakbayan South Seattle, habían apoyado durante mucho tiempo la campaña en el Congreso de EE. UU. para reducir significativamente la ayuda militar a Filipinas debido a las ejecuciones extrajudiciales, las desapariciones forzadas y el desplazamiento masivo de comunidades rurales. Negros, junto con Samar y Bicol, fue declarado como lugar de "violencia sin ley" mediante el Decreto Circular N.º 32 (MC32) por el entonces presidente Rodrigo Duterte en 2018. El decreto se emitió tras varios asesinatos extrajudiciales de campesinos y activistas, incluidos los nueve miembros de la Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Azucareros masacrados en Sagay el 20 de octubre de 2018. Decenas han sido asesinados en la isla de Negros debido a operaciones conjuntas del ejército y la policía, siendo la masacre de los 9 de Sagay un claro ejemplo de la cultura de impunidad que pisotea el estado de derecho y las obligaciones de Filipinas bajo el derecho internacional humanitario. La masacre de los 19 de Toboso no es sino una repetición de la masacre de Escalante, el 20 de septiembre de 1985, en Escalante, Negros Occidental, donde fuerzas paramilitares del gobierno acribillaron a civiles que participaban en una manifestación en conmemoración del 13.º aniversario de la declaración de la ley marcial, durante los oscuros días de la dictadura fascista de Ferdinand Marcos Sr. No es casualidad que este masacre brutal ocurriera mientras los ejércitos de Estados Unidos y Filipinas realizan los ejercicios militares anuales multilaterales Balikatan ("Hombro con hombro"). Balikatan se lanzó en 2001, inicialmente justificado bajo la guerra global contra el terrorismo y centrado en operaciones de contrainsurgencia. Con el tiempo, Balikatan y docenas de otros ejercicios militares anuales entre EE. UU. y Filipinas evolucionaron hacia mecanismos de interoperabilidad, integración logística y posicionamiento estratégico. Desde sus inicios, los ejercicios Balikatan han fomentado numerosas violaciones de derechos humanos contra el pueblo filipino. Además de la masacre en Toboso, Negros, tres personas fueron asesinadas y dos resultaron heridas en una región cercana a los lugares de los ejercicios Balikatan en Zamboanga City, Mindanao, incluido un niño moro de 12 años, durante una operación conjunta de las Fuerzas Armadas de Filipinas (AFP) y la Policía Nacional de Filipinas (PNP) en la madrugada del 23 de abril de 2026. En diciembre de 2025, la Ley PERA de EE. UU. "Ley de Resiliencia Mejorada de Filipinas" se aprobó con apoyo bipartidista en la Ley de Autorización de Defensa Nacional del Congreso, otorgando "$2.5 mil millones en asistencia de seguridad estadounidense" a Filipinas para "profundizar la cooperación en defensa entre EE. UU. y Filipinas y fortalecer las capacidades de defensa y la interoperabilidad de la Alianza EE. UU.-Filipinas para hacer frente a las crecientes amenazas en el Indo-Pacífico". Esto ha incorporado la doctrina estadounidense, las estructuras de mando y la dependencia operativa en las Fuerzas Armadas de Filipinas, que están utilizando este manual para matar a las masas campesinas que luchan por su tierra y su sustento, y a aquellos que eligen luchar junto a ellas. Este tipo de financiamiento, entrenamiento y apoyo militar de EE. UU. a las AFP demuestra la culpabilidad directa del ejército y el gobierno estadounidenses en los crímenes de guerra y la violencia cometidos en estas masacres. Mientras el genocidio continúa en Gaza, las violaciones del alto el fuego persisten en Líbano y la guerra híbrida contra Irán continúa en Asia Occidental, las fuerzas sionistas de Israel también son cómplices de la masacre en Filipinas. Los registros públicos muestran que empresas de defensa israelíes han suministrado a Filipinas drones, sistemas de radar, patrulleras y miles de fusiles de asalto utilizados por unidades policiales y militares. Estas asociaciones refuerzan enfoques de seguridad centrados en la vigilancia, la neutralización rápida de objetivos y el compromiso de tipo combate. Estos incidentes apuntan a un patrón de redadas basadas en inteligencia realizadas en áreas civiles bajo el marco del "contraterrorismo", difuminando la línea entre la aplicación de la ley y el combate. Estados Unidos ha dirigido, realizado o respaldado masacres similares bajo las llamadas operaciones de ataque con lanchas "contra el narcoterrorismo" en el Caribe y el Pacífico contra individuos venezolanos, colombianos y trinitenses, así como los asesinatos en los bombardeos de campesinos en Esmeraldas, Ecuador, y el asesinato de cinco jóvenes en Colcabamba, Perú esta semana por parte del ejército peruano bajo las llamadas operaciones militares "antitrATA". El movimiento antiguerra debe unirse a la lucha contra la ayuda militar, los ejercicios y las operaciones respaldadas por el ejército estadounidense que no solo están preparando a los ejércitos nacionales de las neocolonias estadounidenses para futuras guerras, sino que ya están envalentonando a fuerzas fascistas para que sean utilizadas por el gobierno títere de Estados Unidos contra su propio pueblo. Nos unimos a los llamados de nuestros camaradas en el movimiento democrático nacional de Filipinas por justicia para los 19 de Negros en Toboso y para las víctimas de la masacre en Zamboanga City. Exigimos una investigación inmediata e independiente sobre el ataque de las AFP del 19 de abril y sobre la financiación y el apoyo de Estados Unidos a la brutal y fascista administración de Ferdinand Marcos Jr. Y honramos a aquellos que sirvieron al pueblo hasta su último aliento. Firmado: Resist U.S.-Led War Movement, United National Antiwar Coalition, Antiwar Action Network, Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective, Diaspora Pa'lante Collective, Labor for Palestine, Prutehi Guahan, Black Alliance for Peace, Palestinian Youth Movement, Workers World Party, International Action Center, International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines - U.S., Juventúd Unida por la Independencia, International League of People's Struggle - U.S. Llamado a la acción: ¡Justicia para los 19 de Negros! Contacta a tus congresistas con la información aquí: https://tinyurl.com/Negros19-Advocacy-Toolkit
4/24/2026 Justice for all the victims of the Toboso massacre! Fight against the fascist Armed Forces of the Philippines and the U.S. imperialist military that trains, arms and funds them!Read Now  The Resist U.S.-led War Movement issues the strongest possible condemnation of the fascist and U.S. war agenda being imposed upon the Filipino people. The U.S. Marcos regime is dragging the nation closer to war through escalated war games and heightening counterinsurgency warfare.
We urgently condemn the military operations conducted by the 79th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army in Brgy. Salamanca, Toboso, Negros Occidental, on April 19. These operations killed 19 individuals including NPA fighters and civilians including journalists, peasant organizers and cultural workers and forcibly displaced more than 653 residents from 168 households. Already the Filipino people in the Philippines and around the world are decrying this war crime and are raising up the names of caring and courageous individuals who were there, side by side, with the rural peasants of Negros struggling in defense of their land including Alysa Alano, Roger “Ka Jhong” Fabillar, RJ Nichole Ledesma, Lyle Prijolesand Roel Sabillo. All anti-war activists can and should raise the call for justice for the victims of the Toboso massacre and all victims of the counterinsurgency terror and Balikatan war exercises in the Philippines! This massacre occurred amid the Balikatan exercises, and was fueled by millions of dollars of direct U.S. military aid and weapons with repression tactics by the U.S. trained repression and counterinsurgency forces: The Armed Forces of the Philippines and the National Task Force to End local Communist Armed Conflict. As mentioned by Bayan international Liaison Officer, Sarah Raymundo, on our latest Counter-Attack episode, ”Initially justified under the global war on terror, these exercises concentrated on counterinsurgency operations, particularly in Mindanao. Over time, Balikatan and Salaknib evolved into mechanisms for interoperability, logistics integration, and strategic positioning. This has embedded U.S. doctrine, command structures, and operational dependence into the Armed Forces of the Philippines. What is misleading about these exercises is that they are often presented in civil and humanitarian terms, such as disaster response and community support. However, according to reports from rural communities, these activities overlap with combat and counterinsurgency capabilities." The U.S.-backed AFP is ramping up brutal counterinsurgency operations against peasants and those fighting back against land grabbing and state terror. The brutality of the recent massacre in Negros is a direct consequence of the same aggressive U.S. war policy that underpins the massive war games occuring now across the country. According to KARAPATAN secretary general Cristina Palabay, “We are deeply concerned for the safety and well-being of the residents, especially reports of intimidation and harassment by the military in communities that have long been affected by the state operation are not new.” What happened in Negros was not an isolated incident but a clear reflection of systemic militarization and state violence. “As this expands in rural areas, the existence of both the logic of control and suppression in urban communities is also noteworthy.” The yearly Balikatan exercises, along with more than 500 other U.S.-directed war games, have done nothing to “protect” the Philippines territorial sovereignty in the West Philippine Sea, instead the U.S. has ramped up military agreements, troop stationing and active support for the AFP counterinsurgency, amounting to a U.S. military occupation of the country through partnering with its corrupt puppet leader Bong Bong Marcos Jr. These war games and U.S. presence transform the Philippines into a prime target should the U.S. and China go to war. This danger becomes even bigger as the U.S. pushes to build an ammunition factory, a plane and ship refueling hub, and an “Economic Security Zone” for microchip production facilities including the recently signed Pax Silica initiative, which sells out land and resources to foreign war production efforts. The national democratic struggle in the Philippines remains the main deterrent to complete U.S. domination and the main obstacle to the plans of the U.S. to use the Filipino people as cannon fodder in an imperialist war of aggression. The Filipino people will continue to resist and fight for national liberation in the face of escalating U.S. war. The Resist U.S.-led war movement calls for an immediate end to the Balikatan exercises, which serve as a pretext for U.S. military intervention, violate Philippine sovereignty, and exacerbate human rights violations. All countries that claim to value human rights and peace must immediately withdraw participation. We also echo the demand for an immediate and independent investigation into the AFP’s April 19th to 20th attack, in what can only be called a massacre. We also demand that families, as well as their lawyers and human rights advocates, be given full access to their loved ones’ remains without any threat, interrogation, harm, or intimidation. No to U.S. war drills! Cancel Balikatan! End the counterinsurgency terror! Justice for the Negros 19! 4/8/2026 A desperate U.S. and Israel resort to massacres immediately violating ceasefire as Iran crushes U.S. war objectivesRead Now The peace movement must continue building solidarity with Iran and the regional resistance, taking to the streets to call for the end of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran.
Not even 24 hours after the announcement of a ceasefire between Iran and U.S.-Israel, the latter has violated several points on the agreement, notably the continuation of the aggression against Lebanon and the entry of Zionist drones in Iranian airspace. These continued violations only prove how desperate the US is in the face of an enemy it cannot defeat. It became clear to the Trump regime that it is unable to topple the Islamic Republic, which enjoys mass support in Iran, and which found ways to hurt the US not only militarily, through the targeting of U.S. bases and assets in the region, but also economically, by taking control of the Strait of Hormuz and targeting key oil infrastructure of U.S. allies in the Gulf. The human cost of this U.S.-Israeli war of aggression, with the support of the Gulf monarchies, has been staggering. As of April 7th, 3,636 people have been killed in Iran since the war started on February 28, with at least 254 children among the dead. The U.S. and Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and other medical facilities, schools, including the targeting of a girls' school in Minab that killed over 170 children in a single strike, and energy facilities, which led to widespread fires and toxic air in major cities like Tehran, a metropolis of over 10 million people. In Lebanon alone, Israeli strikes have killed 1,530 people since March 2, including at least 129 children, while more than 400 Hezbollah fighters have also fallen. In Iraq, at least 117 people have been killed. As the U.S. grows more isolated, with its allies in Europe and Asia refusing to help it militarily in this war of choice, Iran is able to impose its demands on the imperialist beast that underestimated its military capability and strategic thinking. Instead of ceding to the sovereignty of Iran, the U.S. and Israel choose instead to pursue a path of military destruction and massacres. But all the military might of the U.S. has proven to be ineffective in defeating the steadfastness of the people who continue to bravely give their lives to defend their land and nation. If the ceasefire with the U.S. announced by Iran on April 7th stands, it constitutes a strategic victory for Iran. This victory should open the way for negotiations on a permanent agreement to be held in Islamabad, based on a ten point framework proposed by Tehran. The truce, confirmed by Iranian authorities, includes initial commitments such as non-aggression guarantees, continued negotiations on the immediate and unconditional lifting of all illegal sanctions against Iran, and the full expulsion of U.S. military forces from the region. The actual implementation would represent a historical defeat to the imperialist project of domination in West Asia. Nevertheless, after a month and two weeks of war, Iran and the resistance forces in Iraq and Lebanon have emerged from the conflict showing once again that despite decades of hybrid warfare, economic sanctions, and media smears against the Islamic Republic, it has been able to develop indigenous technology able to resist imperialist war and win against it. Built by the masses of Iranians, these defense systems have transformed the country into a formidable threat to imperialist hegemony, capable of downing and combating even the so called "invincible" F-35s. The same people who built these systems formed human chains on bridges and outside power plants this week to defend their nation from Trump's threats to "wipe out an entire civilization." In the face of genocidal rhetoric and military onslaught, the Iranian masses stood firm, proving that no advanced weapons system or economic blockade can break a people united in resistance. The ten points proposed by Iran, which will form the basis of the negotiations, prove that Iran gained the upper hand against the self proclaimed "most lethal and technological military in the world." As Trump scrambled to find an exit from a war he could not win, and as his attempts at regime change through decapitation of Iranian leadership resulted in the masses of people rallying around the Iranian flag, Iran emerged from the conflict with de facto control of the Strait of Hormuz and is now using that control to collect fees in Yuans from vessels that wish to use this maritime route, in order to finance reconstruction from war damages. The demands to which the U.S. has agreed as a framework for negotiations are further proof of Washington's defeat, as they include several provisions the U.S. has historically refused to even consider. The ten point plan includes:
These just demands see Iran continuing its legacy of support to the Palestinian and Lebanese people by demanding that Lebanon is included in the ceasefire and also the lifting of brutal sanctions imposed on Iran since the 1970s. These measures were not based on credible threats but rather false claims of nuclear weapons production and also as punishment for Iran’s fight against US domination and support for national liberation movements in West Asia such as in Palestine, Lebanon, and Yemen. Despite Donald Trump calling the ten point agreement "a workable basis on which to negotiate," and despite the Pakistani defense minister, who helped broker the deal, stating that Lebanon would be included in the ceasefire, the White House and the Zionist entity have since backtracked on their own affirmations. U.S. officials have asserted that "the points do not match what Mr. Trump was referring to" and that "Lebanon is not part of the ceasefire." This position directly contradicts what all other parties involved have stated, with the sole exception of Israel, which reportedly begged Trump to remove Lebanon from the ceasefire at the last minute. Just hours after the U.S. Israeli war on Iran's ceasefire was announced, Israeli forces launched strikes on several densely populated commercial and residential areas in central Beirut without warning, killing hundreds of people and wounding more than 1,000 others. This blatant act of terror and violation of the very ceasefire the U.S. claimed to support proves once again that the U.S. war machine and its lackeys, like Israel, are the main obstacles to genuine peace in the world. War will exist as long as imperialism exists, and the resistance forces in West Asia continue to pose the greatest challenge to this economic system led by the U.S., a system that supports the existence of the settler colonial and genocidal entity of Israel. It is the duty of the peace loving people of the world to rally in support of this people's resistance, the line standing against full U.S. domination in the region. The Resist U.S.-Led War Movement calls on its members and allies to target the war profiteers enabling these genocides and wars against the people of West Asia and the world, like Boeing, Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin, PALANTIR, Bell and RTX or multinational mining and tech companies that build the systems and provide the natural resources. Protest U.S. and Zionist embassies, take to the streets, shut down U.S. military bases and blockade arms shipments to Israel and the Gulf monarchies. The people will not rest until every imperialist force is driven out of West Asia and the world.  by the Resist US-Led War Movement
After 15 months of daily violations of the so-called ceasefire between "Israel" and Hezbollah, on March 2nd Israel began an intensified bombardment campaign against the Lebanese people.Through "evacuation orders," bombardment, and attempts at ground invasion, the Israeli military has expanded its assault to more Beirut neighborhoods as well as a much larger portion of southern Lebanon and eastern Lebanon, displacing over 700,000 and killing an estimated 886 people including 111 children, 67 women, and 38 medical workers as of March 16th, mimicking strategies used during the Palestinian Nakba. In the past weeks, the popular resistance forces in Lebanon have opened a new front to defend against the brutal Zionist and US war of aggression that currently targets Iran but ultimately seeks to plunder and dominate all of West Asia. Hezbollah and other national liberation movements in Lebanon, Iraq, and beyond are fighting not only in defense of Iran but, more importantly, in defense of their land and for the liberation of their people. As history has shown, imperialist powers, from France and Britain to the United States, as well as the Zionist project, have brought only destruction and suffering to the people of Lebanon and West Asia. The division of the Arab world under the Sykes-Picot agreement between imperialists in 1916 to carve up the region, British colonization of Palestine, and French colonization of Lebanon directly paved the way for the Balfour Declaration, in which the British promised the land of the indigenous Palestinian people to the European colonialist Zionist movement. Throughout this history, the Lebanese people never accepted foreign domination. Their struggle for self-determination culminated in Lebanon asserting its independence on November 22, 1943, leading to the formal end of the French mandate. Yet despite achieving political independence, Lebanon remained burdened by the sectarian power-sharing system imposed by France, and by borders drawn by colonial powers to divide and weaken Arab nationalist sentiment. These artificial borders were meant to fragment a population united by language, culture, and anti-colonial aspirations. Today’s resistance is a continuation of that brave, decades-long anti-colonial struggle. From its inception, "Israel" has targeted the Lebanese people With a long shared border, Israel has repeatedly bombed, invaded, and displaced the people of Lebanon throughout the years. In 1948, when the Arab-Israeli war led to the creation of "Israel" and the Nakba, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forced from their homes, with over 100,000 Palestinians seeking refuge in neighboring Lebanon. Today, approximately 479,000 Palestinian refugees are registered with the UN in Lebanon, with approximately 45% living in the country’s 12 refugee camps. Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism and apartheid has to this day denied Palestinian refugees worldwide their UN stipulated right of return and reparations under UN Resolution 194. In 1982, Israel conducted an invasion and the brutal siege of Beirut. For nearly three months, Israeli forces relentlessly bombed the city, cutting off food, water, and electricity to hundreds of thousands of civilians. An estimated 17,000 to 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinians were killed, the vast majority civilians, with entire neighborhoods leveled. During this invasion, Israeli-allied militias, with direct IOF support, committed the Sabra and Shatila massacre, slaughtering up to 3,500 Palestinian refugees in just three days. Though the resistance forced Israel to withdraw to a self-declared "security zone" in the south in 1985, the Zionist occupation continued for 15 years. During this period, Israel maintained the prison camp at Khiam where thousands were tortured, subjected border villages to daily raids and shelling, and killed over 1,500 Lebanese. The resistance finally forced a full and historic Israeli withdrawal in 2000, bringing hundreds of thousands of displaced people back to their lands. However, Israel continued to violate Lebanese sovereignty with constant overflights and border provocations, leading to the July War in 2006. This 34-day conflict killed more than 1,200 people in Lebanon, a third of them children, and displaced nearly one million. Under the newly applied Dahiya doctrine, Israel deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure across the entire country, bombing Beirut's airport, ports, roads, bridges, fuel storage tanks, factories, and entire neighborhoods in the southern suburbs. In the south, 300 buildings were destroyed and 130,000 people displaced overnight. Villages were systematically reduced to rubble, and cluster munitions dropped in the war's final hours left millions of unexploded bombs that continue to kill farmers and children to this day. As puppet governments and international institutions fail the Lebanese people, the popular resistance defends its land and sovereignty While the people of Lebanon have borne the weight of Zionist aggression for decades, international bodies and puppet governments have proven to be agents of imperialist and Zionist interests in the region. In 1983 for example, the May 17 Agreement, a US-brokered deal signed under Lebanese President Amine Gemayel, would have established full diplomatic relations with Israel in exchange for a partial withdrawal, but popular pressure from the Lebanese National Movement and the resistance forced the agreement's collapse, breaking with the comprador desire for normalization. Similar to the puppet governments, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), initially established in the 1970s during the brutal Lebanese Civil War, has sided with the Zionists and US imperialist interests while presenting itself as a neutral actor. By equating Lebanese and Palestinian national liberation forces with the fascist paramilitaries backed by the US, France, and Israel, the latter were able to operate with impunity and terrorize the people using weapons provided by the same foreign powers that armed UNIFIL itself. The result was that the genuine forces fighting for peace through national liberation were directly attacked and blamed for disrupting the UN's so-called "peace" mission. This travesty is being repeated today with the Lebanese governments own call to spark internal conflict against and disarm Hezbollah. It was the military operations of the resistance, a campaign of ambushes, tunnel networks, and direct military action, that in 2000 finally forced the Israeli occupation to withdraw from Lebanese land it had been holding since the 1980s. This historic victory was only possible because of the broad support of the masses of Lebanese people that are part of and support the resistance groups in Lebanon. These operations forced Israel to surrender occupied land without a single concession, exposing the fragility of the so-called "military superiority" and "invincible army" of Israel and sending it into forced retreat. When Israel launched its full-scale war and invasion in July 2006, expecting a swift and decisive campaign, the Zionists encountered Merkava tanks destroyed in the streets and villages of Lebanon as the resistance launched rockets that hit deep inside occupied Palestine. By the end of the July war, the Israeli Zionist military had failed to achieve a single one of its political and military objectives. Beyond the battlefield, the resistance operates a comprehensive social welfare network across Lebanon, including hospitals, schools, and the Jihad al-Binaa reconstruction foundation. In recent years, as Lebanon has been crushed by an economic collapse that international institutions have done little to alleviate, the resistance's role has expanded to providing subsidized bread, medicine, and fuel to families abandoned by a failing puppet state. The new Israeli offensive is another chapter of this settler colonial project The latest aggression by Israel is already one of the most brutal chapters in the long history of aggression against the Lebanese people. The Israeli army committed a massacre in the heart of Beirut early on 12 March, targeting a group of displaced Lebanese with drones and killing eight in the Ramlet al-Bayda beach area. A drone fired missiles near the sidewalks where scores of families displaced from various parts of the country had set up tents. The IOF has ordered the forced displacement of residents in almost the entire southern suburb of Beirut, as well as everywhere south of Al-Zahrani River. The area that Israel is attempting to forcibly expel of all residents now covers over 20% of Lebanon’s territory. Israel continues to use white phosphorus in residential areas in Lebanon. The toxic substance is used militarily to create smoke screens or illuminate targets. Its use in civilian areas is prohibited by international law because it causes severe injuries and fires difficult to control. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that tens of thousands of people from more than 100 towns and villages have received evacuation orders from Israel, which could constitute forced displacement prohibited by international law. "Collective shelters are filling rapidly, essential services are under pressure, and thousands of people remain on the move without adequate protection or assistance... Forced displacement may also amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes under international law," the statement said. Instead of fighting for its people, the Lebanese government issued a decision to ban the military activities of Hezbollah. The government added that any military activity by Hezbollah "no longer has legal coverage, and those participating in such activities will be in violation of the law," and called for immediate resumption of talks with Israel. The people must stand with the Lebanese masses striking at the heart of the Zionist occupation Once again, the Lebanese people and their resistance are taking the fight against settler colonialism and imperialism into their own hands. As rockets strike US-Israeli bases in occupied Palestine and fighters prevent Zionist helicopters from landing on their territory, they are not only targeting IOF units, they are confronting the entire Zionist project and the imperialist structure that sustains it. Just as the resistance dealt a historic blow to the Zionist entity in 2000 by forcing occupiers out of the self-declared "security zone," Iran and the resistance forces in Lebanon and Iraq are now legitimately targeting the network of US military bases across West Asia used to destabilize and launch wars on the whole region. This includes Israel itself, which functions as a de facto US military base and a launching pad for Washington's wars of aggression in West Asia. These bases have brought nothing but destruction and destabilization to the region, not the security that the US promised countries hosting them. For this reason, the resistance forces in Lebanon, opposing Israel's renewed offensive on their people, stand at the forefront of the struggle against the greatest enemy of peace in the world today: the United States and its imperialist ruling class. It is imperative that peace-loving people around the world reject these Zionist attacks in all their forms and build the broadest possible support for the Lebanese popular mass movement. In its many multitudes and tactics, this movement represents a genuine struggle for liberation, sovereignty, and a future free from US imperialist domination.  El Movimiento de Resistencia a la Guerra Dirigida por EE.UU. condena el ataque conjunto de la entidad sionista de "Israel" y los Estados Unidos contra la República Islámica de Irán. Israel nombró como objetivos el Ministerio de Inteligencia de Irán, el Ministerio de Defensa de Irán, la oficina del Líder Supremo, la Agencia de Energía Atómica de Irán y Parchín, un complejo militar iraní, incluyendo ataques aéreos en Isfahán, Qom, Lorestán, Karaj, Tabriz y Kermanshah. Los ataques reportados, lanzados desde barcos y bases estadounidenses en la región, ya han martirizado a personal del IRGC y herido a civiles. Este ataque ocurre después de años de punitivas medidas coercitivas unilaterales (sanciones) contra Irán y, en las últimas semanas, la mayor acumulación militar estadounidense en la región desde la Guerra del Golfo de 2003, con el objetivo de llevar a cabo un cambio de régimen en un país soberano.
Invitamos a todos sus miembros y a los movimientos populares en el mundo a protestar contra este ataque inmediatamente y a solidarizarse con Irán. La depravación de EE.UU. es absolutamente clara, ya que llevó a cabo los ataques en medio de las conversaciones con Irán en Ginebra, imponiendo exigencias imposibles en las negociaciones diplomáticas para distraer de sus verdaderas intenciones. El régimen de Trump vomitó mentiras descaradas sobre la intención de Irán de desarrollar armas nucleares, en la misma línea del falso pretexto de las "armas de destrucción masiva" que se usó para justificar la guerra de 2003 contra Irak. Trump también infundió miedo diciendo que el "régimen iraní busca matar" y que es una amenaza inminente para EE.UU. En las negociaciones de esta semana, EE.UU. nunca negoció de buena fe, con informes que indican que el ataque fue planeado hace meses y aprobado hace semanas, a pesar de que el congreso estadounidense no autorizó el ataque. Mientras el ministro de defensa israelí, Katz, afirma que "Israel ha lanzado un ataque preventivo contra Irán para eliminar las amenazas al Estado de Israel", los israelíes y los imperialistas son los culpables de las vidas asesinadas hasta hoy y de las que vendrán si esto escala a una guerra regional. Irán, en un acto legítimo de autodefensa, está preparado para contraatacar, habiendo ya lanzado misiles balísticos hacia Israel al momento de escribir esto. Katz dice que declaró un "estado de emergencia inmediato en todo el país", señalando planes para continuar los ataques israelíes. Este ataque conjunto entre EE.UU. y la entidad sionista prueba una vez más que la ocupación estadounidense-sionista es la fuerza más peligrosa, completamente fascista y genocida en el mundo actual, actuando como una extensión del imperialismo estadounidense en la región. Trump dijo: "Este régimen pronto aprenderá que nadie debe desafiar la fuerza y el poder de las fuerzas armadas de EE.UU.". Esto sigue a los ataques israelíes en el sur del Líbano y contra armas estratégicas de Hezbolá, por su resistencia contra la expansión sionista y los objetivos genocidas. Tras más de dos años de genocidio en Gaza y el violento cambio de régimen en Siria, que ahora coopera voluntariamente con EE.UU. y los sionistas abriendo su espacio aéreo para misiles estadounidenses y permitiendo la ocupación de su tierra por el ejército israelí, no puede haber duda sobre las intenciones de EE.UU. y los sionistas: establecer el "Gran Israel" y redibujar el mapa de Asia Occidental para garantizar un acceso sin desafíos a los recursos de la región. Irán fue atacado debido a su afirmación de independencia y oposición a los designios del imperialismo estadounidense para la región, siendo una de las expresiones más fuertes de esto su apoyo inquebrantable al pueblo palestino. La resistencia histórica de Palestina sigue siendo el corazón de este asunto. El pueblo palestino ha sacrificado más de 100,000 vidas desde el inicio de la operación Inundación de Al-Aqsa en su lucha por permanecer en su tierra y resistir la ocupación sionista. Hoy, mientras EE.UU. ataca Irán, Palestina sigue siendo bombardeada y sistemáticamente sometida a hambruna. Mientras los amantes de la paz en el mundo se solidarizan con Irán contra estos ataques descarados, debemos seguir uniendo fuerzas con el pueblo de Irán para solidarizarnos plenamente con la resistencia palestina y regional. Movimiento de Resistencia a la Guerra Dirigida por EE.UU. apoya incondicionalmente al pueblo de Irán y Palestina. Hacemos un llamado a nuestros miembros y socios en todo el mundo para que rechacen militantemente la agresión estadounidense-sionista contra Irán y para exponer y oponerse a EE.UU. como el principal terrorista en la región. Estemos listos para salir a las calles y construir amplias alianzas con todos los que luchan por el fin de las guerras lideradas por EE.UU. y la ocupación sionista y la agresión contra Asia Occidental. |