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12/28/2025 Fight back and unite against the US-led war build up in Asia Pacific (statement from Forum in Iwakuni, Japan December 2025)Read Now  Greetings, friends and comrades. I am speaking today on behalf of the Resist US-Led War Movement. We are a global network of peace and anti-war organizations and individuals spanning Asia, the Pacific, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and North America. We unite under shared principles to resist U.S.-led war and militarism, and to build a just peace.
We are honored to be part of this peace forum today and congratulate the organizers on 20 years of resistance against the Iwakuni base. Look at our world today. It is beset on nearly every corner by wars, by the preparations for greater war, by a militarization that has devastating effects on peoples' lives and livelihoods. The United States, still the number one threat to peace and stability in the world, is now more isolated than at any point in its history. Its economic strength is waning, and so it is betting everything on its military might. Yet this empire is desperate and vulnerable. Every day people experience horrific crimes at the hands of the US military. We must understand its strategy to expose its inherent aggressive interests and build a mass movement to end US imperialism once and for all. The root cause of of modern war is imperialism. So if we want to fight war and build a just and lasting peace, then we need to fight to end US imperialism. And to do so, we need to understand the strategy and tactics and the current flash points and fronts of today's wars. The most deadly and horrific manifestation today is the US-funded Zionist genocide of Palestine. It is enabled by near-endless U.S. funding. It is part of a strategy to control the flow of oil and gas, relying on the genocidal Israeli occupation, as well as the Gulf monarchies and Turkish allies. The US uses the same logic to try to destabilize states and destroy movements that stand in its way. This has led to regime change in Syria, bombing campaigns in Yemen, and aggression toward Iran. The militant steadfastness of the Axis of Resistance, across Palestine, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran, holds this predatory system back. This resistance has sparked world-wide solidarity and struggle for the right of oppressed people everywhere to self-determination, liberation and return. In Europe, the US still wields the NATO alliance in its proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. This war has fueled the rise of pro-war fascist movements in response to this crisis and a "rearm Europe" drive by European Union. In Africa, U.S. Africa Command plays the old colonial role, plundering resources. The recent ejection of U.S. and French bases from Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso has scared the empire into its age-old strategy: covertly supporting armed paramilitaries to violently reassert control. Its hands are in the genocidal proxy wars in Sudan and the Congo, in a spree to extract and control gold, oil, and minerals. In Latin America, the U.S. actively prepares to invade Venezuela, eyeing the biggest oil reserves in the world, while propping up repressive lap-dog regimes such as in El Salvador and Argentina that trap their economies in neoliberal misery. Even the Arctic and outer space are not spared from this competition for resource grabs and military positioning. This trillion-dollar global US-led war machine drains public funds that should be providing healthcare, education, and housing for working people. And now, we must consider the primary front: here in Asia and the Pacific. Ever since the U.S. declared its “Pivot to Asia” to counter the rise of China, this has been the main front of US imperialism's existential struggle for survival. Here, the “Island Chain Strategy” is the foundation of the US's Indo Pacific Strategy. Overall the US Indo-Pacific strategy aims to further squeeze the Pacific for what they call "untapped resources" through a strategic military build up. It callously reduces entire countries to pawns on a Pacific chessboard. We are in the First Island Chain right now, a line curving from the Philippines and Malaysia, up through Okinawa and Japan, to South Korea, with both ends meeting at Taiwan, the imperialists' hub for semiconductors. These countries host the US's most significant bases: 43,000 personnel in South Korea, 30,000 troops in Okinawa, and tens of thousands cycling through the Philippines. They host the most deadly missile systems: THAAD, Tomahawk, and now the Typhon system. In line with the US pivot to Asia, the US with Japan as its willing partner, continually roll out new bi-lateral and multilateral agreements. The Japan-US-Korea alliance (JAKUS) and the Japan-Philippines-US trilateral alliance (JAPHUS) expands the US military's network of alliances allowing US and Japanese troops to drag Korea and the Philippines into US war preparations against China. These alliances formalize regular war games, intelligence and missile systems. These measures are not defensive, but amount to an iron web of alliances in East Asia in preparation for war against China. The US's reliance on Japan is exemplified by the ongoing build-up of the Japanese military, far beyond self-defense - amounting to a drastic change to its constitution, at the behest of the United States. The reliance also looks like the critical positioning of U.S. bases, such as in Iwakuni, which serve as launching pads for American military operations. The US cannot play out its Indo-Pacific strategy without Japan being its most loyal ally. Therefore, the local struggle of people in Iwakuni resisting a U.S. base is a great contribution to the global movement against U.S.-led war. Your resistance, here in Iwakuni, is significant to the people of the world. All around the world, the people living near these bases, these radars, these drills, are put directly in the line of fire. They are already bearing the brunt of the wars of aggression the US is preparing to wage. Let’s be clear: overseas U.S. military bases are not instruments of defense. They are foundational outposts of US imperialism. Their core purpose is to be a staging ground to prepare for, provoke, and wage wars of aggression. They transform host nations into front-line targets. Their presence is a daily regime of intimidation, violence, human rights violations, sexual abuse. It means contamination and sickness, the theft of Indigenous lands, environmental destruction. Bases destroy local economies and self-determination. They intentionally put oppressed communities, rural, Indigenous, and island peoples in sacrifice zones for Washington’s wars. And we have had enough! Now, Trump's recent tour in Asia has intensified the process of militarization in the Asia Pacific. Despite boasting of being a president of "peace," and taking credit for fake "peace deals", Trump is pushing an "America first" military strategy, aggressively pushing US ally countries to increase their military spending, the same way he bullied the European countries in NATO to increase their military spending. The so-called "rules-based order" is in pieces. What remains is a military budget of almost a trillion dollars to enforce imperialist aims with a fascist head of state to back up an aggressive, US-led war strategy around the world. This funds Trump's fascist today inside and outside the US. The military budget bill would codify many of Trump's unlawful executive orders into law: use of active-duty troops along the U.S.-Mexico border, building nuclear reactors for "national security", and using the military against US citizens and migrants. It would fund the US forces deployed and extrajudicial strikes on fishermen in the Caribbean. Continued funding for the evidenced war crimes against Palestinians. Our task is clear, we must build solidarity across struggle as we fight to cut the imperialist tentacles of the war machine in each of our nations. The war making states and the war profiteering corporations are connected internationally. Our movements must also be coordinated so we can tackle the weapons and war supply chains and fight together against shared targets. Together, our united front can defeat US-led war and militarism and in its place, build a just and lasting peace. How do we do that? For Resist US-Led war - our movement has launched campaigns to expose and shut down the US military bases. We have waged fights targeting the weapons and war companies including the arms manufacturers, weapons expos, the logistics hubs, airports and seaports that transfer weapons and military equipment, the mining companies and component supply chains, and the big tech companies enabling a cycle of weapons production. We have campaigned to cancel the multinational war games like Balikatan, Freedom Shield, and RIMPAC. We are inspired by the Italian doc workers who have shut down their ports to refuse to let weapons flow to the Zionist entity for genocide against the Palestinian people. We are inspired by the people of Ecuador who have blocked new bases from being built. By the Venezuelan people forming militias and using people power to defend their land and sovereignty. We are inspired by the Japanese and Okinawan people fighting against the imposition of American bases on your land. We are inspired by the peoples movements in the Philippines and Vieques who have already fought and won struggles to remove military bases from their territories. Together, we will break and shatter the US's overstretched war machine and forge new bonds of peace, liberation, and international solidarity. Long live international solidarity! Long live the struggle for a just and lasting peace! 12/10/2025 ¡Para ganar la independencia y los derechos populares, Fin al Control Colonial! ¡Resista a la Guerra Liderada por Estados Unidos!Read Now El Día Internacional de Acción confronta la militarización actual de nuestras naciones y lucha por el fin del control colonial e imperialista.
En este Día Internacional de los Derechos Humanos y aniversario de la firma del Tratado de París de 1898, el Movimiento de Resistencia a la Guerra Americana rechaza vehementemente el legado imperialista de este tratado de 1898. El Tratado de París consolidó el imperialismo estadounidense más allá del continente norteamericano e inició el período extremadamente violento de expansión, colonialismo y neocolonialismo en fuera de los Estados Unidos. Su legado se refleja ahora con mayor potencia en la continua expansión militar, ocupación y guerras de agresión que Estados Unidos libra violentamente en un intento por imponer su poder hegemónico sobre las tierras, los recursos y las vidas de los pueblos. Resistencia se une a los pueblos amantes de la paz del mundo para reafirmar nuestra decisión de denunciar y oponernos a todos los aspectos de la guerra y el imperialismo liderados por Estados Unidos, inspirándonos en el largo y orgulloso legado de las luchas de liberación nacional que han combatido incansablemente al imperialismo estadounidense desde antes, durante y después de 1898. El imperialismo estadounidense ha utilizado su poderío militar para expandir violentamente sus fronteras desde la creación de Estados Unidos. Libró una guerra de genocidio contra los pueblos indígenas del continente, viéndose obligado a enfrentarse a los numerosos pueblos que se alzaron en armas para defender sus tierras de los invasores coloniales. Al llegar a la costa del Pacífico, el imperialismo estadounidense comenzó a planificar su ascenso como potencia naval y a buscar nuevas conquistas coloniales, utilizando las mismas armas de guerra que libró contra los pueblos indígenas de Norteamérica y contra los pueblos de otras naciones y territorios del Pacífico, el Caribe y Centroamérica. La Guerra Hispano-Americano vio a Estados Unidos, una potencia imperialista en ascenso, derrotar a España, una potencia imperialista en declive, y, por lo tanto, reclamar los territorios coloniales españoles. El Tratado de París de 1898 transfirió el control colonial de España a Estados Unidos sobre Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam y Filipinas. Además, el Congreso estadounidense aprobó una resolución conjunta ese mismo año para anexar fraudulentamente Hawái, que ya se encontraba bajo ocupación militar y control colonial de facto desde la intervención estadounidense en 1883. Esto marcó el nacimiento de Estados Unidos como imperio global, y fue a través del saqueo y la militarización de estas tierras que comenzó a consolidarse como la principal superpotencia terrorista que sigue siendo hoy. Estados Unidos utilizó estratégicamente su nuevo control colonial sobre estos países para enriquecerse mediante el robo de recursos naturales y la fuerza laboral de sus pueblos, y para posicionar a sus fuerzas armadas en lugares estratégicos. Hoy, por ejemplo, Estados Unidos está reuniendo todo su poderío militar para invadir la República Bolivariana de Venezuela. Armas probadas en ejercicios militares en Hawái, Guam y Filipinas se están utilizando para asesinar extrajudicialmente a civiles en el Caribe, y las tropas se están concentrando en Puerto Rico, preparándose para un asalto a gran escala. Hasta el día de hoy, Puerto Rico, Guam, Filipinas, Cuba y Hawái continúan enfrentando la opresión de Estados Unidos, ya sea mediante el colonialismo continuo a través de la "estatalidad" en el caso de Hawái o "territorio no incorporado" (bajo ocupación ilegal por Estados Unidos), Guam y Puerto Rico; y el neocolonialismo a través de gobiernos títeres respaldados por Estados Unidos en el caso de Filipinas; o mediante un brutal régimen de sanciones económicas y un bloqueo estadounidense en el caso de Cuba. Si bien cada uno de estos países enfrentó muchos años de saqueo y explotación imperialista incluso antes del Tratado de París, 1898 marcó una nueva ofensiva de opresión contra los pueblos que ahora viven directamente bajo el colonialismo estadounidense. Esto implicó el desmantelamiento de la economía, la devaluación de la moneda y el subdesarrollo intencional de la salud, la infraestructura, la educación y otros servicios públicos.Como resultado de las economías orientadas a la exportación y dependientes de las importaciones de estos países, la población se enfrenta a un desempleo generalizado, duras condiciones laborales en plantaciones agrícolas, minas y trabajo doméstico en casas de colonos y edificios gubernamentales coloniales, así como a una precaria situación de vida, lo que ha obligado a millones de personas a emigrar al extranjero para sobrevivir. El saqueo de los recursos ha deprivado a la población de su soberanía alimentaria e hídrica, mientras que la contaminación y otras degradaciones ambientales han provocado enfermedades generalizadas, desnutrición y otros problemas de salud. Las extensas bases militares, los ejercicios y las pruebas con fuego real en las tierras y aguas de estos países resultan en la destrucción del medio ambiente, la profanación de tierras indígenas sagradas, la violencia sistemática contra las mujeres, el encadenamiento económico al complejo militar-industrial estadounidense y, en última instancia, la colocación de comunidades enteras en el punto de mira de una guerra mundial liderada por Estados Unidos. Además, las campañas de propaganda militar se dirigen directamente a la juventud de estas naciones para inculcar un nacionalismo estadounidense reaccionario u otros sentimientos de falsa benevolencia hacia Estados Unidos con el fin de reclutar personas, especialmente jóvenes, para luchar en guerras de agresión estadounidenses y sofocar su historia patriótica revolucionaria. Sin embargo, si bien cada uno de estos países enfrentó una violencia severa contra su pueblo, la destrucción del medio ambiente y el saqueo de sus recursos, han persistido firmemente en su resistencia al imperialismo estadounidense. El pueblo filipino, tras haber obtenido su propia victoria contra el colonialismo español antes de la invasión estadounidense, luchó contra todos los regímenes títeres estadounidenses que han gobernado el archipiélago, expulsó con éxito todas las bases militares oficiales estadounidenses del país durante la década de 1990 y continúa librando una guerra popular por la plena liberación nacional. El pueblo puertorriqueño, desde la rebelión del Grito de Lares de 1868 contra España, ha luchado contra todas las formas de colonialismo estadounidense, tanto en el archipiélago como en el continente norteamericano, expulsó con éxito a la Marina estadounidense de Vieques en 2003 y continúa resistiendo las brutales medidas de austeridad económica de la Ley de Supervisión, Administración y Estabilidad Económica de Puerto Rico (PROMESA). Los pueblos de Guam y las Islas Marianas del Norte continúan luchando contra la presencia militar estadounidense, como el sistema de misiles Aegis, y el fin de los ejercicios militares conjuntos en su territorio, a la vez que resisten el control económico sobre sus recursos mediante la minería submarina y otros esquemas extractivos. El pueblo hawaiano nunca ha cesado en su lucha por la independencia contra los invasores estadounidenses desde la resistencia unida bajo el reinado de la reina Liliuokalani, rechazando la llamada "estatalidad" y librando campañas para poner fin al arrendamiento de bases militares estadounidenses en el archipiélago y a los ejercicios militares de la Cuenca del Pacífico, entre otros. El pueblo cubano alcanzó la victoria en la Revolución Cubana de 1959 y ha defendido su construcción socialista contra todos los intentos de intervención estadounidense, desde la fallida invasión de Bahía de Cochinos hasta el bloqueo estadounidense actual, e incluso ha ofrecido combatientes por la liberación en solidaridad con las guerras anticoloniales de Angola, Namibia y Sudáfrica. Cada una de estas naciones ha luchado y se ha sacrificado valientemente por la liberación de su tierra y su pueblo y para expulsar la maquinaria de guerra estadounidense de sus países de origen. Los pueblos tenemos que seguir rechazando el Tratado de París como la herramienta del colonialismo y la guerra liderada por Estados Unidos que es. El imperialismo estadounidense está en declive, pero su maquinaria bélica continúa con sus ataques mortales. La nueva Estrategia de Seguridad Nacional de Trump se dirige a los mismos países que Estados Unidos se apoderó mediante el Tratado de París y más allá, centrándose en asegurar el acceso a cadenas de suministro y minerales críticos, especialmente en Asia y el Pacífico, aumentando su presencia militar y superioridad técnica, y utilizando la fuerza letal para afirmar el dominio estadounidense en el hemisferio occidental, avivando las llamas de otra posible guerra mundial mientras las guerras indirectas respaldadas por el imperialismo se extienden para promover los intereses estadounidenses en todo el mundo. Los pueblos amantes de la paz del mundo deben unirse con los pueblos de Filipinas, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawái, Cuba y todas las naciones que luchan por la liberación del imperialismo estadounidense para exponer y oponerse al legado del Tratado de París y luchar por lograr una paz justa y duradera y el fin del imperialismo estadounidense. ¡Vea el guia de accion y únase al día de acción para unirnos y luchar por el fin del control colonial y la independencia ahora! 12/10/2025 End Colonial Control and Resist US-Led War to Achieve independence and People’s Rights!Read Now International Day of Action Confronts Current Militarization of our Nations and Struggles to End of Colonial and Imperialist Control
On this International Human Rights Day and the anniversary of the signing of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, the Resist US-Led War Movement vehemently rejects the imperialist legacy of this 1898 treaty. The Treaty of Paris cemented US imperialism beyond the North American continent and began the extremely violent period of US overseas expansion, colonialism, and neo-colonialism. Its legacy is now reflected most clearly in the continued US military expansion, occupation and wars of aggression which the US violently wages in an attempt to impose hegemonic power over peoples land, resources and lives. Resist joins with the peace loving people of the world in reaffirming our decisiveness to expose and oppose every aspect of US-led war and imperialism, drawing upon the long, proud legacy of national liberation struggles that have ceaselessly fought US imperialism since before, during, and after 1898. US imperialism has used its military might to violently expand its borders since the inception of the United States itself. It waged a war of genocide against the Indigenous people of the continent, being forced to face the many peoples who took up arms to defend their land against the colonial invaders. Upon reaching the Pacific Coast, US imperialism began planning its ascent to becoming a naval power and began seeking out new colonial conquests, using its same tools of war that it waged against indigenous North American peoples against the peoples of other nations and territories across the Pacific, the Caribbean, and into Central America. The Spanish-American War found the US, a rising imperialist power, defeating Spain, a declining imperialist power, and therefore laying claim to Spain's colonial territories. The 1898 Treaty of Paris signed over colonial control from Spain to the US of Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guam, and the Philippines. Additionally, the US Congress passed a joint resolution in the same year to fraudulently annex Hawai'i, which already was under US military occupation and de facto colonial control since the U.S. intervention in 1883. This marked the birth of the US as a global empire, and it was through the plunder and militarization of these lands that it began to build itself up into the number one terrorist superpower that it remains today. The US strategically used its new colonial control over these countries to enrich itself through the theft of natural resources and the peoples' labor power, and position its military in strategic locations. Today for example the US is mustering its full military might to invade the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Weapons tested in military exercises in Hawaiʻi, Guam, and the Philippines are being used to extrajudicially kill civilians in the Caribbean and troops are staging in Puerto Rico, preparing for a full-scale assault. To this day, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, Cuba and Hawai’i continue to face oppression by the US, be it in the form of continued colonialism through "statehood" in the case of Hawai'i or "unincorporated territory" (under illegal occupation by the US), Guam, and Puerto Rico; and neocolonialism through US-backed puppet governments in the case of the Philippines; or a brutal regime of economic sanctions and a US blockade in the case of Cuba. While each of these countries faced many years of imperialist plunder and exploitation even before the Treaty of Paris, 1898 marked a new offensive of oppression on the peoples now living directly under US colonialism. This involved the gutting of the economy, currency devaluation, and intentional underdevelopment of health, infrastructure, education, and other public services. As a result of the export-oriented and import-dependent economies of these countries, the people face widespread unemployment, harsh labor conditions on agricultural plantations, mines, and domestic work in settler-owned homes and colonial government buildings, and very precarious livelihood, which has forced millions of people to migrate abroad for economic survival. Resource plunder has deprived the people of their food and water sovereignty while pollution and other environmental degradations have led to widespread disease, malnourishment, and other health defects. Extensive military bases, exercises, and live-fire tests on the lands and waters of these countries result in destruction of the environment, desecration of sacred indigenous land, systematic violence against women, economic shackling to the US military-industrial complex, and ultimately the placing of whole communities in the crosshairs of a US-led world war. Additionally, military propaganda campaigns directly target youth from these nations to instill reactionary US nationalism or other feelings of false benevolence towards the US to recruit people, especially youth, to fight in US wars of aggression and quash their revolutionary patriotic history. Yet while each of these countries faced severe violence enacted on their people, environmental destruction, and plunder of their resources, they have steadfastly persisted in their resistance to US imperialism. The Filipino people, having won their own victory against Spanish colonialism before the US invaded, fought against every US-puppet regime that has ruled the archipelago, successfully ejected all official US military bases from the country during the 1990s, and continue to wage a people's war for full national liberation. The Puerto Rican people, since the 1868 Grito de Lares rebellion against Spain, has fought against all forms of US colonialism, both on the archipelago and on the North American continent, successfully ejected the US Navy from Vieques in 2003, and continue to resist the brutal economic austerity measures of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA). The people of Guam and the Northern Marianas continue to fight against the US military presence, such as the Aegis missile system, and the end of joint military exercises on their territory, while resisting the economic stranglehold over their resources through deep sea mining and other extractive schemes. The Hawai'ian people have never ceased their fight for independence against the US invaders since the united resistance under Queen Liliuokalani, rejecting so-called "statehood" while waging campaigns to end the lease of US military bases on the archipelago and ending the Rim of the Pacific military exercises, among others. The people of Cuba achieved victory in the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and have defended their socialist construction against all attempts of US intervention, from the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion until the US blockade of today, and have even offered liberation fighters in solidarity with the anti-colonial wars of Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. Each of these nations have bravely fought and sacrificed for the liberation of their land and people and to eject the US war machine from their homelands. The people must continue to reject the Treaty of Paris as the tool of colonialism and US-led war that it is. US imperialism is on its decline, yet the US war machine lashes out in its death throws. Trump's new National Security Strategy targets the very countries the US grabbed through the Treaty of Paris and beyond, with its focus on securing access to critical supply chains and minerals especially in Asia and the Pacific, increasing its military presence and technical superiority, and using "lethal force" to assert US dominance in the Western Hemisphere, stoking the flames of another possible world war while imperialist-backed proxy wars spread to enact US interests across the world. The peace-loving peoples of the world must unite with the people of the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Guam, Hawai'i, Cuba, and all nations fighting for liberation against US imperialism to expose and oppose the legacy of the Treaty of Paris and fight to bring about just and lasting peace and the end of US imperialism. See the toolkit and join the day of action to stand up together and struggle for the end of colonial control and independence now! 12/7/2025 The 2026 National Defense Authorization Act: MAGA Fascism and Trillions for the War IndustryRead Now The Resist US-Led War Movement sounds the alarm on the latest iteration of the $1 trillion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and new National Security Strategy (NSS) under the Trump regime.
US Presidents produce a NSS once every term. The NSS serves to present the U.S. war strategy and guides US led war strategy for the period.The one released by trump this December, is the first since Biden’s 2022 document, and lays out the military approach of the MAGA Trump policies. The new National Security Strategy boasts that the Trump administration "began strengthening our military with $1 trillion of investment and "got our allies to contribute more to our common defense", however it is with this massive spending bill that Trump seeks to codify many of his MAGA priorities, and the bi-partisan war machine. The NDAA is the largest military spending bill that is passed annually with Republican and Democrat support to fund the US military, research and development, weapons production, soldiers salaries and often incorporates major new policy decisions. The final version goes through a "conference" to reconcile House and the Senate versions likely in December (or January if Congress can't finalize it, which could trigger another government shut down). This $1 trillion,will fuel the US budget for war, give military equipment and deploy soldiers against migrants in the US, fuel genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, and will arm an aggressive imperialist US strategy for war against Venezuela, Iran, and across the Asia Pacific to provoke China. Our movements should closely monitor the NDAA results and prepare ourselves to unite and fight against this terroristic and genocidal US war machine. Convergence and the Hidden Consensus The current stage of the NDAA bill has competing US House of Representatives and Senate versions for FY2026, typical of the US military budget process, but notably revealing a less than unified defense strategy and more a stark reflection of a fractured political landscape, where the military budget serves as a proxy for ideological warfare of two parts of the same elite and a vehicle for entrenched corporate interests. Despite their stark differences in tone and partisan adornment, both bills reveal an underlying consensus that support US imperialism.
The Senate Bill The Senate version, passing with a strong bipartisan majority of 77-20, presents a facade of consensus built on a foundation of keeping the military policy status quo. Its key interests are: The bill's extensive "Pentagon Reform and Modernization" provisions, which repeal over 100 statutes to "streamline" acquisition, are a massive giveaway to major defense contractors. Framed as "efficiency," these measures systematically dismantle oversight and regulatory hurdles and a more profitable pipeline for weapons systems from contractors to the Pentagon. The establishment of "Portfolio Acquisition Executives with expanded authority" concentrates power, reducing accountability and increasing the industry's influence over procurement. This policy would take the Trump admin's "Transforming the Warfighting Acquisition System" memo and the proposed "FoRGED Act" to create high-level roles within the U.S. Department of Defense giving executives have significantly expanded authority compared to their predecessors, to streamline foreign military sales and weapons acquisition processes. By requiring briefings before any troop withdrawal from Europe or South Korea and extending Ukraine security assistance, the Senate bill is a direct rebuke of the "America First" politics of the Trump administration which is distancing itself from rules based order and racing to a more aggressive and outright imperialist foreign policy. It codifies a bi-partisan commitment to a forward-deployed, alliance-heavy foreign policy, protecting the institutional interests of the State Department and Pentagon leadership against executive branch whims. This means more terrifying exercises, more drone and missile strikes and more intense experiences of militarism by the people in the regions. Provisions for an artificial intellegence "sandbox", a new "Biotechnology Management Office," and expanded cyber authorities show a focus on co-opting and institutionalizing commercial tech innovation for military purposes fueling the most profitable war profiteers in the history of US war - high tech corporations. This serves the interests of both Silicon Valley and strategists within the Pentagon, ensuring the defense establishment maintains its technological edge by absorbing, privatizing and contracting to, rather than competing with, the private sector. The House Bill: By contrast, the House bill, passed along strict party lines, is a manifesto of the current Republican majority's priorities, where national defense is explicitly fused with the Trump administration's domestic political agenda. Its provisions expose a different set of interests: The bill's most telling feature is the codification of 15 Trump-era executive orders. This transforms a defense authorization into a vehicle for implementing highly partisan cultural and fascist immigration policies, such as "Ending Radical DEI Programs" and enforcing border-related emergency declarations. The interest here goes beyond a "defense budget" to the cultural re-engineering of the military itself, aligning it with a specific MAGA political platform. The inclusion of "The Golden Dome for America" further signals a prioritization of Trump's signature, although fictional, promises.
The final bill will be a product of negotiation between these competing visions, but the real, unspoken agreement is that the military-industrial complex itself and the flow of money and power it represents, remains the primary, bipartisan interest served. Even the bills to end the government shut down bolstered the US military The bills passed last week as part of the deal that ended the longest U.S. government shutdown in history include billions of dollars for major Air Force and Navy programs. This includes funds to build new aircraft carriers and submarines, facilities needed for new stealth bombers and nuclear missiles, and research and development spending to keep a major airborne command and control program alive. When millions of people were struggling with bills, basic food budgets and healthcare access, due to the stranglehold of these power plays by the duolopoly of the Republicans and Democrats, the military budget still came out ahead in the end. The 2026 NDAA process exposes a fundamental truth: the "defense" in its title is increasingly belicose and war mongering. While the American political system itself is confronted by abuses of power by the executive branch and illegal executive orders that attack migrants, order extrajudicial strikes murdering Venezuelan nationals, and a military that regularly commits evidenced war crimes and crimes against humanity, the defense budget puts the money behind this political agenda. The "rules based order" may be falling to pieces, but the military budget of the United States, driving this process will be backed by almost a trillion dollar arsenal to enforce its imperialist aims. The NDAA specifically, may codify many of Trump's unlawful executive orders, and give even more power to a fascist head of state and the ultra right wing priorities of the MAGA base. This budget continues to fuel a "war industry" that operates with minimal constraint to back up a fascist and aggressive US-led war strategy around the world. 11/29/2025 The UN Security Council Resolution on Palestine Is Not a "Peace Deal;" It's a Green Light for Genocide and OccupationRead Now The UN Security Council Resolution on Palestine Is Not a "Peace Deal;" It's a Green Light for Genocide and Occupation
The Resist US-Led War Movement condemns UN Resolution 2803 that aims to shield the Zionist occupation from accountability for its genocide and campaign of settler colonial expansion. This move will only further cement the occupation by masking it in a facade of peace, even while it continues the genocide against the Palestinian people. True peace can only come from the self-determination of Palestine, and this can only be achieved by completely ejecting the occupation forces through the people's resistance. The US-backed plan for Gaza has been approved by the UN Security Council, positioning Donald Trump in a leading role for the territory's administration. The resolution, which passed 13-0 with abstentions from China and Russia, creates a so-called "international stabilization force" and outlines a "potential pathway to Palestinian statehood" after meeting "specific goals." However, beyond its facade as a "peace plan," this US-led initiative represents a a new tactic to continue the occupation of Palestinian land and a deliberate attempt to undermine genuine Palestinian self-determination. It is a false "peace" contingent on surrender and designed to open the door for more American economic domination in West Asia. The resolution states that for two years, a Trump-led "Board of Peace" will oversee foreign troops, a panel of Palestinian technocratic "experts", and a local police force with vague pretenses of who it will consist of. The stabilization troops are tasked with "securing borders" in cooperation with a trained Palestinian police force and facilitating humanitarian aid into Gaza through coordination with neighboring Egypt and genocidal "Israel." Trump, the so-called leader of the peace board, has followed the US imperialist policy of unrelenting support for "Israel." Since Oct. 7, the US has delivered ninety thousand tons of arms and equipment on eight hundred transport planes and 140 ships. These weapons have been used to murder hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and destroy more than 80% of all infrastructure in Gaza and 95% of all agricultural land. The Trump administration's talk of "peace in the Middle East" is empty and distracting rhetoric. In practice, US support has been instrumental in allowing "Israel" to commit hundreds of violations since the so-called October 10th ceasefire went into effect. While the US completely ignores these violations, the State Department tirelessly publicizes false claims of ceasefire breaches by Palestinian resistance forces to justify a possible return to all-out war by "Israel." The US is not dedicated to peace. It is only committed to ensuring its own flow of profit through the domination of its proxy, "Israel," and its own multinational corporations. These players each want their own piece of lucrative reconstruction contracts, along with the the extraction profits of resources and trade, all fueled by genocidal displacement. In a presentation shown to the Trump administration by industry giants on the possible benefits of the reconstruction of Gaza, logos from Tesla, Amazon Web Services, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) appear alongside bullet points about the benefit "private industry investment” may have in Gaza in terms of building out "key infrastructure" like data centers and "gigafactories." Forced Surrender is not Peace The stabilization force is also mandated to oversee the complete demilitarization of Gaza, including the permanent decommissioning of weapons held by resistance forces. This authority is backed by a provision allowing the force to "use all necessary measures," effectively demanding the surrender of Palestinian armed resistance and self-defense. The Palestinian people, living under the gun of a brutal and ongoing Zionist occupation, have never conceded their fundamental right to resist their oppressors. Yet, the UN, under the direct command of the US, actively works to deny and nullify this right. This violates the very UN Charter which explicitly guarantees all occupied peoples the right to fight for their liberation by any means necessary. The resistance factions in Gaza have condemned the measure and reaffirmed their right to resist. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) stated: "We reject the clauses related to disarmament and condemn labeling the resistance as terrorism, as this empties our people’s legitimate right to self-defense and transforms the international force from one of protection and separation into an offensive force that grants the occupation cover to continue its policies." The UN's Historical Legacy in Palestine UN resolutions, proposed by imperialist powers at the head of the UN Security Council, namely the US, UK, and France, have constantly conspired against Palestinian self-determination in favor of "Israel." The Zionist colonial project was inaugurated by the UN itself with the 1947 Partition Plan (Resolution 181), which illegitimately partitioned Palestine, at the time under British colonial mandate, to create a settler-colonial state for the Zionist movement. This act sanctioned the systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestine, known as the Nakba. The 1948 Nakba Zionist militias, which would later form the "Israeli" army, conducted a campaign of terror and mass expulsion. This included the depopulation and destruction of over 500 Palestinian towns and villages, with massacres in already surrendered villages like Deir Yassin and Tantura used to terrorize the native population into flight. This deliberate policy displaced over 750,000 Palestinians, the majority of the indigenous population at the time. The imperialist framework continued after Israel's 1967 military occupation of the remaining Palestinian territories of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War, which displaced 300,000 Palestinians. While the UN passed Resolution 242 after the war, with a preamble that emphasized “the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war,” it was deliberately designed to be unenforceable. It also nullified Resolution 181 and removed the demand for "Israel" to give back the lands it seized past the UN partition plan, setting the precedence for UN vacillation and submission to blatant Zionist rejection and violation of international law. The core demand for "Israeli" withdrawal in Resolution 242 was deliberately weakened. Despite arguments from Arab states for a full retreat to the 1967 lines, the resolution's architects never intended this. The original language, which called for a withdrawal from "all the territories," was diluted after the "Israeli" administration persuaded the US to remove the key word "all." This omission, acknowledged by US Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, proves that the resolution was specifically designed not to force Israel to relinquish all the land it captured in 1967. As with countless subsequent resolutions, the imperialist architects ensured there would be no consequences, allowing Israel to formally annex the entirety of Jerusalem in 1980. From Haiti to Palestine: Foreign intervention disguised as peace forces The recent plan for Palestine, approved by the UN Security Council, takes inspiration from imperialist intervention other nations plagued by US intervention, exemplified by the so-called "Gang Suppression Force" (GSF) in Haiti. Just as the GSF empowers foreign troops to suppress the Haitian people under the pretext of fighting gangs, the new resolution for Gaza paves the way for a parallel structure of foreign military administration, aimed at crushing the legitimate Palestinian resistance and securing the interests of the Zionist entity and US monopoly capital. Similar to the GSF which was granted power to arrest and kill Haitian citizens at will, this new international "peace keeping force" in Gaza would be allowed to act with force to suppress any challenge to the zionist entity. As the primary sponsor of this decree, the US justifies the creation of the GSF on the gang violence that has afflicted the Haitian people for decades. While it is true that over 6,000 Haitians have been killed by paramilitary death squads aligned with sectors of Haiti’s elite, while over one million people have been driven from their homes, the political hand of the US is directly backing these gangs. The vast majority of the high-powered weapons used by these death squads have been smuggled in from the US. The US goal is to maintain a pro-US government in power that will sell off Haiti’s mineral resources, open up the country to more foreign investment and garment sweatshops, and help solidify US control over the Caribbean. The appointment of a foreign “Force Commander” for the GSF makes clear its function as a colonial occupation army, serving as a counter-insurgency force, designed to suppress the people’s movement for liberation and keep the country destabilized so the imperialists can continue to exploit it. The histories of Haiti and Palestine are marked by prolonged foreign subjugation. Refusing both nations their fundamental right to self-determination will never lead to stability. Lasting peace is impossible without confronting the root cause of war: the imperialist plunder of resources and the military occupation of their lands. True justice demands the recognition of self-determination, sovereign control over economic and food systems, and the right of besieged peoples to resist aggressive and violent oppression. Fighting for a People's Justice International institutions continue to abet the genocide, but the people are organizing for genuine justice. The "Right to Resist" International People's Tribunal, convened by the International League of People’s Struggles (ILPS) and a broad coalition of over 200 endorsing organizations, in Barcelona on November 22 - 23, was a bold action of solidarity with the Palestinian people's right to resist occupation and to struggle for the right to return. The Tribunal provided a space where true justice could actually be asserted. Political obstruction and structural limitations have rendered official international bodies like the ICC and UN ineffective, a catastrophic two-year period of mass violence, genocide, and environmental ruin has gone legally unchallenged. It is for this precise reason that this people's tribunal was formed to document events, outline the applicable legal principles, and demand accountability where it has otherwise been absent. While the US uses the imperialist-controlled United Nations to wield international law as a weapon to repress all forms of peoples' movements, even as it ignores it through its own actions, true peace and justice can only come through the actions and struggle of the people themselves. The Resist US-Led War Movement stands in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine, Haiti, and all oppressed nations against continued foreign occupation, often disguised as "peace missions." Peace-loving people across the globe must continue to take to the streets, organize protests and popular tribunals, and engage in direct action to strengthen international solidarity with these nations. 11/25/2025 Week of Action mobilizations in 50 cities demanding NO war with Venezuela! 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PRESS RELEASE: Activists Mobilize across the Americas to Demand "Hands Off Venezuela," End to Military Escalation and US policy of Hybrid Warfare and Intervention November 16 – The US military has extrajudicially killed 80 people in 20 strikes that have destroyed 21 boats, in aerial strikes off the coast of Venezuela. With outrage in response to these murders and significant U.S. military buildup near Venezuela, an urgent and coordinated week of action for Venezuela from November 15-23 started yesterday, with over 50 actions across the US and a growing international response. The demonstrations, organized by over 35 organizations forming a rapid response network, are demanding no war on Venezuela, the withdrawal of the U.S. military from the Caribbean, and the establishment of a "Zone of Peace" across the hemisphere. These actions come as the U.S. deploys an aircraft carrier battle group, including destroyers, jet fighters, and nuclear submarines, to the Caribbean. The Trump administration has openly called for the military overthrow of Venezuela's President Maduro and the replacement of Colombia's President Petro, constituting a blatant violation of international law and the sovereignty of nations. The Trump administration has propagandized ‘narcoterrorism operations’ drawing together the deadly US “war on terror” framework with the devastating US “war on drugs”, both mechanisms to assert the US military agenda over working class and oppressed communities within the US and in its “spheres of influence” abroad. Activists condemn the US government's justification for the escalation. In reality, “this is a build-up to another endless U.S. war – a war to militarize the whole Western Hemisphere and reassert the Monroe Doctrine,” said Tom Burke of the Anti-War Action Network. “The strategy is a textbook example of escalating hybrid warfare. It blends military, economic, and informational tools to destabilize the adversary.” said Rhonda Ramiro of the Resist US-led War Movement. A stringent sanctions regime continues to target Venezuela’s oil industry, its primary revenue source. Recent license adjustments explicitly restrict cash payments to the Maduro government, tightening the financial noose. The economic coercion is compounded by a symbolic $50 million bounty on President Maduro, personalizing the pressure campaign. It reflects a greater crisis of US militarization of the Caribbean, as well. The reactivation of the Roosevelt Roads base in Puerto Rico as a staging ground, despite local protests, provides the strategic footprint for these operations, echoing historical uses of US territories for interventionism. US military aggression, framed as targeting Venezuela, threatens the entire Caribbean's sovereignty and stability. This pretext masks the true economic motives behind the aggression. “This move towards all-out war has nothing to do with drug trafficking, cartels or the wellbeing of Americans facing a drug crisis,” stated Joe Lombardo, Co-Coordinator of the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC). He continued, “Venezuela possesses the greatest known oil reserves in the world. The Venezuelan government refuses to be dominated by the U.S. and is determined to use its own oil, gas, and mineral resources for the benefit of its own people, not for US corporations.” For their stand for their self-determination, the Venezuelan people and nation are being targeted by extreme US military pressure operating in tandem with a sustained economic war. US domestic repression and militarization goes hand in hand with the extreme military aggression in the Caribbean. “We draw a direct line between militarism abroad and repression in the U.S., highlighting the contradiction of increased defense spending while critical domestic programs that impact the working class like SNAP benefits and healthcare face draconian cuts,” stated Ajamu Baraka from the Black Alliance for Peace. Meanwhile, the use of Federal troops and thousands of ICE agents in raids and mass arrests, along with massive increases in health costs and cuts to government services, are an attack on all working people in the US. Migrants from Venezuela, who have been subject to a tirade of fascist attacks, mass deportation and detention since arriving in the US, are driven to leave the country in the first place due to US sanctions and economic warfare. A full blown military conflict in the Caribbean would multiply the number of migrants arriving to the US and the economic and political crisis they are facing. Veterans who have served in America’s wars add their solidarity to the fight. "Hundreds of thousands of US veterans deeply regret having fought in illegal wars that were based on lies like the ones now being told about Venezuela," said Gerry Condon of Veterans For Peace. "We remind today's active duty GI's that they have the right and responsibility to refuse to participate in illegal wars and war crimes." The message from the growing movement is clear: it is time for the public to take to the streets to resist these government and corporate attacks on the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, and to stop the simultaneous militarization and repression of people within the United States. About the rapid response network for Venezuela: This week of coordinated mobilization is supported by over 35 organizations: United National Antiwar Coalition, Venezuela Solidarity Network, US Peace Council, All-African People’s Party-GC, All-African People’s Party, Alliance for Global Justice, Code Pink, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Communist Party USA, School of the Americas Watch, Task Force on the Americas, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota Solidarity Network of the Americas, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Workers World Party, Periodismo de Verdad, Resist U.S. Led War, Honduras Solidarity Network, Cross Border Network, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Anti War Action Network, Women Against Military Madness, Kawsachun News, Popular Resistance, International Action Center, Casa Baltimore Limay, Friends of Latin America. Veterans For Peace, Orinoco Tribune, Los Ronderos de las Redes, Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Peoples Power Assembly, Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA), Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement, Struggle for Socialism Party, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice Español COMUNICADO A LA PRENSA: Activistas se movilizan en las Americas para exigir «Manos fuera de Venezuela», el fin de la escalada militar y la política estadounidense de guerra híbrida e intervención. 16 de noviembre - El ejército estadounidense ha asesinado extrajudicialmente a 80 personas en 20 ataques que han destruido 21 barcos, en ataques aéreos frente a las costas de Venezuela. En respuesta a estos asesinatos y al masivo aumento de la presencia militar estadounidense cerca de Venezuela, ayer comenzó una semana de acción urgente y coordinada por Venezuela, del 15 al 23 de noviembre, con más de 50 acciones en todo Estados Unidos y una creciente respuesta internacional. Las manifestaciones, organizadas por más de 35 organizaciones que forman una red de respuesta rápida, exigen que no haya guerra contra Venezuela, la retirada del ejército estadounidense del Caribe y el establecimiento de una «zona de paz» en todo el hemisferio. Estas acciones se pretenden en un momento en que Estados Unidos despliega un grupo de combate de portaaviones, que incluye destructores, aviones de combate y submarinos nucleares, en el Caribe. La administración Trump ha pedido abiertamente el derrocamiento militar del presidente Maduro de Venezuela y la sustitución del presidente Petro de Colombia, lo que constituye una violación flagrante del derecho internacional y la soberanía de las naciones. La administración Trump ha propagado «operaciones contra el narcoterrorismo» que combinan el mortífero marco de la «guerra contra el terrorismo» de Estados Unidos con la devastadora «guerra contra las drogas», ambos mecanismos para imponer la agenda militar estadounidense sobre la clase trabajadora y las comunidades oprimidas dentro de Estados Unidos y en sus «esferas de influencia» en el extranjero. Los activistas condenan la justificación del gobierno estadounidense para la escalada. En realidad, «se trata de la preparación para otra guerra interminable de Estados Unidos, una guerra para militarizar todo el hemisferio occidental y reafirmar la Doctrina Monroe», afirmó Tom Burke, de la Anti War Action Network. «La estrategia es un ejemplo clásico de escalada de la guerra híbrida. Combina herramientas militares, económicas e informativas para desestabilizar al adversario», afirmó Rhonda Ramiro, del Resist US-Led War Movement. Un régimen de sanciones estrictas sigue afectando a la industria petrolera de Venezuela, su principal fuente de ingresos. Los recientes ajustes en las licencias restringen explícitamente los pagos en efectivo al Gobierno de Maduro, lo que estrecha el cerco financiero. La coacción económica se ve agravada por una recompensa simbólica de 50 millones de dólares por la captura del presidente Maduro, lo que personaliza la campaña de presión. Esto refleja también una crisis más grave de militarización estadounidense en el Caribe. La reactivación de la base Roosevelt Roads en Puerto Rico como punto de partida, a pesar de las protestas locales, proporciona la huella estratégica para estas operaciones, haciéndose eco de los usos históricos de los territorios estadounidenses para el intervencionismo. La agresión militar estadounidense, enmarcada como dirigida contra Venezuela, amenaza la soberanía y la estabilidad de todo el Caribe. Este pretexto enmascara los verdaderos motivos económicos que se esconden tras la agresión. «Este avance hacia una guerra total no tiene nada que ver con el tráfico de drogas, los cárteles o el bienestar de los estadounidenses que se enfrentan a una crisis de drogas», afirmó Joe Lombardo, coordinador adjunto de la United National Anti-war Coalition (UNAC). Y añadió: «Venezuela posee las mayores reservas de petróleo conocidas en el mundo. El Gobierno venezolano se niega a ser dominado por Estados Unidos y está decidido a utilizar sus propios recursos petrolíferos, gasísticos y minerales en beneficio de su propio pueblo, no de las empresas estadounidenses». Por defender su autodeterminación, el pueblo y la nación venezolanos están siendo objeto de una presión militar extrema por parte de Estados Unidos, que actúa en tándem con una guerra económica sostenida. La represión y la militarización internas de Estados Unidos van de la mano con la agresión militar extrema en el Caribe. «Establecemos una relación directa entre el militarismo en el extranjero y la represión en Estados Unidos, destacando la contradicción del aumento del gasto en defensa, mientras que programas internos críticos que afectan a la clase trabajadora, como los beneficios del SNAP y la atención médica, se enfrentan a recortes draconianos», afirmó Ajamu Baraka, de la Black Alliance for Peace. Mientras tanto, el uso de tropas federales y miles de agentes del ICE en redadas y detenciones masivas, junto con el aumento masivo de precios de cuidado de salúd y los recortes en los servicios públicos, es en si misma un ataque a todos los trabajadores y trabajadoras de Estados Unidos. Los migrantes venzolanos, que han sido objeto de una serie de ataques fascistas, deportaciones masivas y detenciones desde su llegada a Estados Unidos, se huyen del país, en primer lugar, debido a las sanciones y la guerra económica de Estados Unidos. Un conflicto militar en toda región del Caribe multiplicaría el número de migrantes que llegan a Estados Unidos y su crisis económica y política que enfrentan. Los veteranos que han servido en las guerras de Estados Unidos se suman a la lucha en solidaridad. «Cientos de miles de veteranos estadounidenses lamentan profundamente haber luchado en guerras ilegales basadas en mentiras como las que ahora se cuentan sobre Venezuela», afirmó Gerry Condon, de Veteranos por la Paz. «Recordamos a los soldados en servicio activo de hoy en día que tienen el derecho y la responsabilidad de negarse a participar en guerras ilegales y crímenes de guerra». El mensaje de este movimiento en expansión es claro: es hora de que la ciudadanía salga a la calle para resistir estos ataques del Gobierno y las empresas contra los pueblos de América Latina y el Caribe, y para detener la militarización y la represión simultáneas de la población dentro de Estados Unidos. Acerca de la red de respuesta rápida por Venezuela: Esta semana de movilización coordinada cuenta con el apoyo de más de 35 organizaciones: United National Antiwar Coalition, Venezuela Solidarity Network, US Peace Council, All-African People’s Party-GC, All-African People’s Party, Alliance for Global Justice, Code Pink, Chicago ALBA Solidarity, Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition, Peace and Solidarity Commission of the Communist Party USA, School of the Americas Watch, Task Force on the Americas, Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Minnesota Solidarity Network of the Americas, Sanctions Kill Campaign, Workers World Party, Periodismo de Verdad, Resist U.S. Led War, Honduras Solidarity Network, Cross Border Network, National Network on Cuba, Black Alliance for Peace, Anti War Action Network, Women Against Military Madness, Kawsachun News, Popular Resistance, International Action Center, Casa Baltimore Limay, Friends of Latin America. Veterans For Peace, Orinoco Tribune, Los Ronderos de las Redes, Diáspora Pa’lante Collective, Peoples Power Assembly, Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA), Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement, Struggle for Socialism Party, Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice War Profiteers Carve Up Sudan, the People Call for Unity and Just Peace Sudan is being torn apart and over 150,000 Sudanese people have died as a result of conflict between warring factions backed by global powers who are carving up Sudan for their own profit. The Resist US-Led War Movement joins the people of Sudan and all peace loving people around the world calling for an end to the bloodshed and accountability for all war profiteers engineering genocide for the sake of their profit-making.
Contrary to its frequent depiction as an internal civil war, the devastating conflict in Sudan is more accurately understood as a proxy struggle, driven by a scramble for the nation's resources, land and strategic sea ports. External powers are propping up different reactionary armies led by rival factions of the same comprador class, agents working in favor of foreign organizations and countries engaged in investment, trade, economic and political exploitation of the Sudanese masses. This war pits the two main pillars of the former Omar al-Bashir regime, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), against each other in a brutal struggle for state power. While these forces formed a temporary alliance following the 2019 mass protests to overthrow al-Bashir's 30-year rule, their partnership would soon collapse. After establishing a joint military-civilian government, both the RSF and SAF orchestrated another coup in October 2021 to seize full control of the state. The fragile alliance rapidly degenerated following failed negotiations to integrate the RSF into the state army. Tensions escalated as foreign powers lined up to support one side over the other in a war they knew would be in their favor, a war which exploded in April 2023. Origins of the RSF The crisis in Sudan, escalating over the past five years from a popular uprising that ousted former President Omar al-Bashir in 2019 into a devastating full-scale proxy war in April 2023, has created one of the world's most severe humanitarian catastrophes. The war is being waged between the SAF and the RSF, whose relentless siege and urban warfare have claimed an estimated 150,000 lives. The recent RSF capture of El-Fasher in Darfur resulted in a massacre of at least 2,000 civilians, with summary executions, mass rape of women, and the murder of patients in hospitals who were recovering from wounds and diseases. This has driven 26,000 people to flee through checkpoints amid extortion and violence, adding to the over 14 million internally displaced, the largest displacement crisis globally. The nation now faces systemic collapse, with extreme shortages of food, water, medicine, and fuel; 25.6 million people face acute food insecurity, including 8.5 million at emergency levels. Nearly three-quarters of health facilities are inoperative, with diseases like cholera and measles spreading unchecked. RSF has its roots in the Janjaweed militias, which were used by the Sudanese Government in its attempts to fight the anti-government insurgency during the War in Darfur (2003-2006), a genocidal war that led to the deaths of approximately 200,000 civilians from national minorities like the Fur and Masalit. The RSF was officially formed in 2013, following a restructuring and reactivation of Janjaweed militias in order to combat rebel groups in the Darfur region, South Kordofan, and the Blue Nile states, following joint attacks by Sudanese Revolutionary Front, an alliance between Sudanese factions that was created in opposition to the government of President Omar al-Bashir, in North and South Kordofan in April 2013. In September 2013, the RSF was deployed against peaceful demonstrators who were protesting the Sudanese government’s removal of subsidies on basic commodities. More than 170 people were killed in September 2013, in incidents that unmasked the Sudanese regime’s dependence on the militia to quell political dissent and marked a new evolution in the role of the RSF. Starting in 2015 and 2016, convinced of the RSF’s effectiveness as a counterinsurgency force, the regime designated the RSF as Sudan’s primary force tasked with patrolling Sudanese borders to interdict migrants’ movement. The Sudanese government made this designation within the framework of its partnership with the EU for the control of migration Under the command of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo "Hemedti," the RSF evolved into a vast, economic conglomerate controlling major gold mines, key trade routes and engaging in illicit mineral smuggling. WHO IS SUPPORTING WHOM The suffering of the Sudanese people is propped up by ever-changing alliances between the competing factions and international powers who are using the nation as a proxy battlefield to advance their own geopolitical and economic interests. The RSF's Backers The United Arab Emirates (UAE) serves as the RSF's primary international sponsor. It supplies the paramilitary force with weapons, drones, and financial support via airlifts from northern Chad. In return, the UAE secures access to Sudan's vast gold reserves from RSF mines, which are smuggled out through RSF-controlled territories, allowing the Gulf monarchy to bypass sanctions and secure its strategic resource interests. Further support comes from Chad, which provides a rear base and additional weaponry, and the Libyan National Army, which similarly offers support in exchange for lucrative smuggling rights. Recent investigations have shown that "Israeli" Mossad agents have even been advising RSF leaders at the request of the Zionist-friendly government of the UAE. The SAF's Backers The Sudanese Armed Forces are backed by a coalition countering the RSF's Gulf allies. Egypt provides the bulk of this support, supplying weapons, conducting airstrikes, and even deploying troops. Cairo's primary motive is to ensure a stable, friendly government in Sudan that will ensure steady trade through the Egypt-administered Suez Canal and support Egypt's claim and potential war efforts against Ethiopia over control of the headwaters of the Nile. Turkiye channels its own military support through Egypt, seeking to expand its influence in the Red Sea and Africa. Ukraine previously sent military trainers to the SAF as part of its NATO-backed war against Russia, (in retaliation for the RSF's use of Russian private military contractor firm, Wagner Group, mercenaries) but pulled its troops out after Russia switched sides in 2024 to gain access to a new port from the SAF. Regional destabilization efforts by US imperialists, leading to shifting proxy war alliances Several international backers of the factions reveal the purely opportunistic nature of the plunder project by certain foreign powers in Sudan, and the other national and regional interests pulled into the proxy war. Russia, which initially backed the RSF through the Wagner Group to secure gold mining concessions, has increasingly pursued a more pragmatic engagement with the SAF to secure strategic access to the Red Sea via a naval base at Port Sudan. This dynamic intensified with the UAE's robust logistical and financial backing of the RSF. The increasing support of the UAE to the RSF, in turn, prompted its regional rivals to support the opposing side. Most significantly, a shared opposition to UAE influence facilitated a military rapprochement between the SAF and Iran. This partnership marked a big reversal from Sudan's previous foreign policy. In 2016, the country had cut ties with Iran to align with Saudi Arabia and the UAE and had even begun normalizing relations with "Israel." The new military understanding led to Iran, looking to defend its national security against "Israel" and the US aligned gulf monarchies, to sell Mohajer and Shahed combat drones to the SAF which proved to be instrumental in breaking the RSF's siege of Omdurman in February 2024. While it may seem at first glance that all external actors are equally at fault for the war's atrocities, it must be remembered that the US-led war machine has worked for decades to keep the countries of North Africa and West Asia destabilized so that it could use the these power struggles in its favor. The Sudan crisis is the result of these years of schemes to ensure political chaos in the entire region while Washington, London, and Tel Aviv direct the chaos in their wider conflicts with rivals like Russia and Iran. The Military Industrial Complex Reaps Profits While the US and its European allies consistently condemn the humanitarian crisis in Sudan through official statements, their actions and investments reveal them to be direct participants in the war in Sudan. Their condemnations and targeted sanctions against the SAF and RSF ring hollow, as the very weapons they supply fuel the massacres conducted by these groups. This complicity is most evident in the supply chain leading to the RSF. The US acts as a principal arms source for the UAE, the paramilitary's main international patron. Billions of dollars in authorized sales, including a $1.2 billion package under Biden and a $1.4 billion deal under Trump, have proceeded despite the UAE systematically diverting this equipment to the RSF and bills in the US Congress condemning the sale of arms to the UAE on the basis of human rights violations. In the past month an investigation based on documents submitted to the UN Security Council confirmed that British military equipment, including small-arms target systems and engines for armored vehicles, has been recovered from RSF combat positions. The same applies to France whose military technology incorporated into armored personnel carriers made by the UAE is used on the battlefield in Sudan. As the war creates one of the world's largest humanitarian catastrophes, imperialist nations and their military industrial complex are directly implicated in arming the factions responsible for Sudan's devastation. Furthermore since 2013, the EU has allocated millions of euros in "aid" to Sudan. This financial support was in reality designated for technical resources and training programs aimed at curbing migration to Europe, a crisis that has its roots on the European colonization in Africa. The initiatives targeted migrants originating from Sudan itself, as well as those from nations like Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and other sub-Saharan African countries who use Sudan as a transit route. These EU resources were directly channeled into strengthening the capabilities of the RSF, the unit identified as Sudan's principal border control authority. All of this proves that the US and its NATO allies support either side in a proxy war of their own engineering. As long as the fighting continues, profits will flow while they can act like the saviors calling for humanitarian aid while secretly keeping the conflict raging. The People of Sudan Continue Their Fight for liberation As global powers carve up Sudan for its gold, oil, and strategic ports, the people's resistance emerges from neighborhood committees, women-led unions, refugee relief efforts, and the radical youth organizations that toppled Omar al-Bashir six years ago. Today, the Sudanese people continue their march toward a just peace, a goal that is only attainable by breaking the foreign military and economic stronghold on their nation. It is the duty of all peace-loving people to stand with them. We must mobilize against external interference and expose the military-industrial complex fueling the war. Through education, propaganda, and mass direct action, let us build the international solidarity necessary to support the liberation of Sudan and challenge the destructive policies of Western aligned governments and all imperialist forces. Resist US-Led War Movement extends our solidarity to the coalition of Anti-Imperialist organizations confronting Trump and the US agenda of plunder, militarization and neoliberalism at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit this October in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We echo the Bantah Trump Sekretariat demand: Trump and his administration are not welcome on Malaysian soil.
Comprised of 11 countries--Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and Timor-Leste (scheduled to join in October 2025)--ASEAN in its declaration aims to "promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law in the relationship among countries of the region and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter." Yet Malaysia has rolled out the red carpet to Donald Trump, the backer of the genocide in Palestine, where the US war crimes of genocide, ecocide, targeting civilians, and blocking humanitarian aid have all been exposed to the whole world, amidst growing Palestine protests by the Malaysian people. Hosting President Trump at the ASEAN Summit undermines the publicly critical stand against Israel and the genocide in Palestine that Malaysia has taken. The US is significantly escalating militarization of Southeast Asia through expanded aid, increased scale and frequency of joint military and war drills in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines, new weapons system deployment, troop basing and hyper investment in mining, semiconductors, microchips and other components for weapons under the guise of 'supply chain resilience. This buildup, which includes hosting weapons expos in Malaysia, occurs amidst rising regional tensions that threaten to destabilize the area. While Southeast Asian states are pursuing military modernization through these deeper defense partnerships, they remain reluctant to openly side with any power in the increasingly polarized geopolitical environment. In spite of the rapid US build up to war in the region, the ASEAN Summit will serve as a stage for Trumps false "peace maker" propaganda stunts. Politico reported last week that Trump’s participation at ASEAN was contingent on whether the bloc would hold an official ceasefire ceremony with him at the helm, after July, when Trump shared a characteristically unilateral announcement that he had "ended a war between Thailand and Cambodia." Thousands were displaced by the border skirmishes, and today clashes persist despite the agreement, due to a decades-long colonial legacy of disputed borders that remains unresolved. Without any genuine peace achieved, Trump leveraged the situation for credit and political concessions. A truly peaceful and independent Southeast Asia cannot be realized if any of the countries in the region remain subservient to US imperialism, the primary source of global instability. On paper ASEAN Indo Pacific Outlook promotes an "Indo-Pacific region of development and prosperity for all," but in reality the ruling classes of ASEAN countries facilitate the exploitation of their land and people through policies that cater to US and Chinese economic pressures. The US-China trade relationship, until very recently the largest in the world, is decoupling rapidly. The pressure will build massively on “connector” countries like those in Southeast Asia that are seen by the US now as the lengthening of China’s supply chain, with ASEAN the largest export market of China. Southeast Asian economies are squeezed by flooding Chinese export dumping on the one hand and US tariff war on the other. Workers are impacted by layoffs, suppressed wages, and chronic underemployment. The people have resisted this prolonged crisis with militant protests in the Philippines and Indonesia where workers, farmers, and youth confront blatant government neglect and corruption. Furthermore, the drive for AI and automation, which Malaysia touts itself as a regional leader of, if not controlled by workers, simply creates more efficient systems of exploitation. We echo and support the coalition's demands against the US: Military
10/14/2025 CEASEFIRE WON THROUGH RESISTANCE! STRENGTHEN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN STRUGGLE FOR A JUST PEACE.Read Now The October 2025 ceasefire stands as a resounding victory for the steadfast Palestinian resistance and a decisive exposure of the Zionist entity’s political and military failure. After two years of a brutal campaign of annihilation, mass displacement, and genocidal violence, the Zionist objective to break the will of Palestine has been shattered against the the courage of the people and their resistance. This steadfastness which resulted in the triumphant liberation of nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners from the Zionist jails, including 250 high-level political prisoners serving life sentences, on October 13, 2025. This act is a direct result of the resistance’s strategic strength.
The Palestinian masses and their resistance forces hold no illusions about the character of the Zionist entity, a settler-colonial, genocidal project that will do everything it can to undermine the Palestinian right to self determination and liberation. Therefore, this agreement is not a concession to the enemy but a tactical necessity in a long war of liberation. Such periods are strategically utilized by the resistance to regroup, rearm, and further secure the release of Palestinian prisoners from Zionist concentration camps. The unity and popular joy surrounding the prisoners' return demonstrates the invincible spirit of the Palestinian national struggle. However, without the full liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea, any cessation of violence is only a temporary pause. It cannot represent a durable peace, because the Zionist project depends on the war and demise of the Palestinian people for its existence. The path to this point has exposed the true nature of the conflict. Zionism stands unmasked as a fascist, colonial project, supported by an Israeli political consensus that rejects a Palestinian state. The staggering scale of U.S. complicity is clear: over $21.7 billion in military aid since October 2023 has enabled a genocide the world has watched for two years, facilitated by a complicit Western media. The inhumane forced starvation has already killed over 455 people since 2023, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, and 98% of the land has been deemed unlivable. With the ceasefire, aid can enter Gaza, but the terms of its enforcement are subject to the whims of US president Donald Trump and international institutions who were unwilling to act earlier to stop the genocide. As of this writing, the Zionist entity has already unilaterally declared that it will allow only 300 aid trucks to enter Gaza rather than the 600 stipulated in the agreement. Under these genocidal conditions, the Palestinian Resistance factions have tactfully negotiated the ceasefire deal, from the starting point of Trump's 20 point plan, a thinly veiled Israeli plan for furthering its colonial project. This comes as an urgent means to end the genocide and secure an Israeli withdrawal and prisoner exchange, while biding time for further negotiations in the framework of Palestinian national unity, rejecting the trap of Trump and Netanyahu trying to force the Palestinian resistance to disarm and sell out sovereignty to a foreign colonial leadership body. It should be noted that "Israel" has violated every ceasefire that it has signed with Palestine, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen. "Israel's" long-standing strategy of crushing diplomatic alternatives and unleashing military operations like Protective Edge and Cast Lead forged a generation that burst through the military blockade imprisoning Gaza on October 7. This pause provides a crucial opportunity for the resistance to bring essential aid to a traumatized people all while refusing to surrender. The global landscape has shifted dramatically since October 7, 2023. Public disgust with the US role is palpable, and solidarity must not wane. We must escalate pressure through concrete measures: targeting the weapons manufacturers and war profiteers, more states implementing arms embargoes and diplomatically isolating Israel, halting public investment in companies complicit in genocide, and enforcing international law against all complicit states, as per the Genocide Convention. While this ceasefire is a necessary step forward, it is not the liberation that the Palestinians and all free people deserve. Liberation remains a long process and the struggle must continue towards it. This moment is a testament to the resilience of the Palestinian people and a call to strengthen our solidarity with their march forward to ultimately achieve a free Palestine from the River to the Sea. |
