A joint international declaration calling for coordinated mobilization against war in Iran and MIddle East. (Greek version here)
First signatures:
KA – Communist Liberation (Greece)
PO – Workers Party (Argentina)
SEP – Socialist Workers Party (Turkey)
SWP – Socialist Workers Party (Great Britain)
TIR – Revolutionary Internationalist Tendency (Italy)
Fuerza 18 de Octubre (Chile)
GAR/Revolutionary Action Group (Mexico)
Let us organize an international mobilization and campaign
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- 1. US imperialism has embarked on a global campaign of aggression to reverse its historical trend of decline, re-consolidate its global hegemony, and ultimately encircle its primary target, China. The endeavor to radically transform the Middle East in line with the regional interests of US imperialism and Israel has entered its most aggressive and comprehensive phase, reaching today a historical breaking point. The US-Israeli aggression has evolved into a massive imperialist campaign aiming to completely liquidate centers of resistance in the region, whether they are popular movements, resistance organizations, or even regimes that do not align with Zionism and American imperialism. The ultimate and overt meaning of these strategic moves is that, for the sake of finalizing regional dominance, it is now Iran’s turn.
2, Far beyond its rich oil and natural gas reserves, Iran is one of the most critical countries in the world due to its geostrategetic position, dominance over trade routes, water and energy security, and its reserves of rare earth elements and other strategic minerals. In other words, Iran is directly in the crosshairs not only because it is at odds with the US-Israeli bloc, but also because its vast resources and opportunities whet the appetite of global capital. The aim of US imperialism is to preserve its global supremacy by establishing absolute dominance in the region militarily and politically. A potential regime change in Iran would mean the removal of the final obstacle to Zionist expansion. The lives of the Iranian people have never held value for these imperialist powers; indeed, the US Tomahawk missiles striking a school where 165 schoolgirls were massacred, the killing of hundreds of civilians, and the bombing of hospitals, civilian infrastructure, and oil refineries in a way that triggers environmental disasters is the most concrete declaration of this barbarism.
3-The scenarios presented to the Iranian people consist of foreign occupation armies, ethnic butchery, civil war, the partition of the country, and a bloody ground operation. The Iranian people know that freedom can only be won through their own independent organization and collective power. Imperialist war serves no purpose other than suffocating the voices of the poor laborers who have struggled for decades and bringing destruction. The only progressive alternative in Iran is the defeat of imperialism and the escalation of an independent struggle in which the oppressed of Iran determine their own destiny with their own hands.
4- Simultaneously with the bombardment of Iran, a fierce assault has been launched against Lebanon, while the murderous blockade of Gaza continues. As a result of brutal bombardments of Lebanon targeting civilian residential areas, nearly one million people have been displaced, hundreds have been killed and injured. Following the assassination of Nasrallah and the leadership cadre in 2024, the current goal is the total elimination of Hezbollah and the transformation of Lebanon into a state fully aligned with Western imperialism. At the same time, Iran’s attack on neighboring Arab countries that host U.S. bases, seriously damages the image of U.S. omnipotence and arrogance. The subordinate Gulf monarchies are far more dissatisfied with the United States than with Iran, as they suffer significant economic losses from a war they wanted to avoid. The façade of Dubai-style economies (speculative real estate, bubble-construction, tourism) has cracked, since it is also serving a small global Epstein-type elite. This capitalist “development,” which is even presented as a “solution” for the devastated Gaza, is based on the most extreme exploitation of modern slaves—the tens of millions of migrant workers in the petro-monarchies.Any internationalist class struggle must also include this forgotten part of the global working class.
5- The effects of a potential imperialist victory in Iran would manifest reactionary consequences across the globe. The aggression of US imperialism would make a massive leap forward. Therefore, the defeat of the US-Israeli coalition in Iran is a fundamental goal upon which all progressive forces in the world must unite in the anti-imperialist struggle. The operations currently carried out specifically against Cuba and Iran are not merely regime-change targets; they are attempts to completely liquidate the centers of resistance against US imperialist hegemony in the region and the world. Under these conditions, any kind of legitimation of the imperialist aggression as bearer of freedom for the working classes, either inside Iran or among the diaspora, is to be strongly condemned and opposed, in particular by the organisations opposing the Islamic regime from a working class standpoint. The duty of revolutionaries is to participate in the resistance against imperialist and Zionist aggression without renouncing their political independence, and showing the necessity of a new, working class leadership to merge with all workers of the region against capitalist governments, to form the mass movement of joint rebellion that can effectively wipe the presence of imperialism and Zionism from West Asia.
6- The regime of the Islamic Republic, after suppressing the labor and communist movement in the 1980s, as well as more recent workers’ and popular struggles, maintained the functioning of a capitalist economy while creating a new elite. Some structures of a welfare state were strong, under the cover of Islamic traditions and institutions, although they were gradually curtailed by neoliberal economic reforms, the opening of investments even from Western countries, with a thriving stock exchange, Special Economic Zones, and privatizations outside the oil sector. The opposing bloc to the United States, led by China and Russia, does not constitute a political and social alternative, also. On the contrary, it seeks to strengthen itself through low labor costs, and the extreme curtailment of workers’ and popular freedoms. The goal of defeating the US–NATO–EU bloc is not served—indeed, it is undermined—by the logic found in currents of the left that follow the notion that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” This represents a manifestation of political weakness and an evasion of the responsibilities entailed in the class struggles.
7- Despite Trump’s efforts to sell it as an unprecedented success, a total victory, the truth is that the aggression on Iran has encountered an unexpected resi stance, so much that now the US is compelled to ask (blackmailing) Europe’s help and even China’s, to unblock the Strait of Hormuz. Furthermore, and this is of great importance, this war is the most unpopular war ever, with little over 30% popular support inside the US. Opposition to the war on Iran can be a powerful terrain for the growth of an anti-capitalist movement in the top imperialist power. Serious contradictions are emerging within the camp of Western imperialism. Developments may take on an unpredictable dynamic, with chain reactions in a cycle of energy crisis, leading to an intensification of crisis phenomena—especially in Europe—if the war is not short. In this context, the contradictions between the United States and Europe are intensifying. It is the duty of the class-based revolutionary movement to set as its immediate goal the dissolution of NATO and the closure of all military bases that serve a murderous war machine.
- Capitalist competition rapidly drives toward global war. The prevention of mutual slaughter can only be ensured by those who have nothing to divide among themselves and who now share pain, the dead, destruction, poverty, and displacement — that is, the working classes and the peoples of the whole world. An internationalist working class movement must represent this conviction and the possibility of a revolutionary overthrow of the capitalist system.
Hands Off Iran!
Us-Zionist Israel, Get Out of the Middle East!
Forward For the Defeat of the US-Israeli Genocidal Coalition!
Stop The Bombardment of Lebanon Immediately!
End The Deadly Blockade of Cuba and Gaza!
For the revolutionary unity of the peoples of the Middle East, free from capitalist and imperialist domination!
For an international and internationalist class front against the capitalist governments and the wars of capital!
Workers and oppressed of the world, let us unite!
