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BAP: FIFA and the IOC must ban the US and Israel from international sport + petition

Black Alliance for Peace Launches Petition Drive Calling on the U.S. and Israel to be Excluded from All International Sporting Events for Crimes Against Humanity and Domestic Repression


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June 30, 2025 - The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) calls for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to withdraw the invitations for the United States to host the World Cup in 2026 and the International Olympics in 2028. Ajamu Baraka, the director of BAP’s North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights states:

“There are two factors that make this call imperative. The environment of fear and political repression in the United States directed toward individual travelers to the U.S. and even those in transit to other nations has resulted in a number of nations issuing travel advisories against travel to the U.S. The other factor that is even more egregious is the lawlessness of the U.S. and Israel who are engaged in an ongoing genocide against the occupied Palestinian population of Gaza.”  

With tens of thousands of people from around the world who would like to attend the World Cup and the Olympic games, the U.S. has become a dangerous place to visit, especially for people of color. But as the petition points out, “anyone suspected of residing in and/or visiting the United States with or without “proper” documentation, including U.S. citizens, are being harassed, questioned about their political beliefs and even detained without due process.”

But the fact that the U.S. and Israel continue to operate as rogue states completely rejecting all of the normal constraints on lawless international behavior by engaging in unprovoked attacks on sovereign nations such as Lebanon and Iran and a barbaric slaughter of occupied Palestinians in Gaza and the murder of thousands in the West Bank by settlers and the Israeli Army, disqualifies both nations of hosting and participating in events involving the community of civilized nations.

Both FIFA and the IOC have previously denied hosting of, and participation in international events for nations and governments who have acted in ways they deemed antithetical to their stated core values of human rights and anti-discrimination.  

There is no more horrific example of the violation of FIFA, IOC and civilized values than what the world is witnessing today in Gaza.

FIFA and the IOC must be consistent. There must be accountability with one human rights standard for all!  Ban the U.S. and Israel, withdraw the invitations to host these events in the U.S.

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The petition below can be signed atactionnetwork.org/petitions/no-world-cup-or-olympics-in-us  (1,163 have signed so far) 


The North-South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights:  peoplecenteredhumanrights.com




En Español abajo, Em português abaixo, En français ci-dessous

Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Must Demonstrate a Commitment to Universal Human Rights by Banning the United States and Israel from Hosting or Participating in International Sporting Events

The United States has become dangerous for members of the global community, and specifically for non-white/non-European people. The world is witnessing massive violations of human rights and the Constitution of the United States as masked agents using unmarked vehicles raid work places, homes, and places of public assembly to incarcerate and disappear Black, Brown, and Indigenous people and, in too many cases, denying them legal representation and basic information as to their whereabouts and wellbeing to their families and attorneys.

Under the current U.S administration anyone suspected of residing in and/or visiting the United States with or without “proper” documentation, including U.S. citizens, are being harassed, questioned about their political beliefs and even detained without due process. This repressive environment has created a sense of insecurity and anxiety for travelers to the U.S. including students, and even some diplomats of “foreign nations.” Even individuals while in transit to other countries have been subjected to harassment and intimidation.

But this is just part of the story.

The State of Israel, with direct assistance from the United States, is committing gross and profound violations of human rights and international law through military adventures, and carrying out an ongoing genocide in addition to other war crimes including, but not limited to collective punishment and starvation. This is on top of Israel’s eight decade pogrom of apartheid against the Palestinian people, as well as a perpetual disregard for the sovereignty and self determination of the Lebanese, Yemeni, Syrian, and Iranian people and their respective governments and bodies of leadership. The global community, everyday, witnesses Israel’s wanton slaughter of people and pillage of lives with the full endorsement of the United States which continues to fund, arm, and promote Israel’s tactics of terror and barbarity.

Both FIFA and the IOC have previously denied the hosting of, and participation in international events for nations and governments who have acted in ways they deem antithetical to their stated core values of human rights, anti-discrimination and global sustainability. For instance, both IOC and FIFA banned Germany and Japan from international competition following the second world war. Additionally, IOC banned the Republic of South Africa from participating in the Olympic Games from 1964 to 1992 due to the nation’s racist system of apartheid, and FIFA banned the nation from participating in its matches between 1961 and 1992 for the same reason. And, more recently, the IOC has instituted a standing ban on the Russian Federation from participating in its summer and winter games due to what is deemed an illegal invasion and occupation of Ukraine.

This raises the question as to why FIFA and IOC are affording the United States and the State of Israel with preferential treatment over other nations who have been and are currently sanctioned and banned from competition and the hosting of international sporting events for violations of the core values of both bodies.

Therefore, we, the undersigned, as members of the global community and people/institutions of conscience demand that FIFA and IOC withdraw the United States and the State of Israel from hosting or participating in international competition events until such time that both nations demonstrate a willingness to adhere to each agency’s core values and further operate in ways that adhere to international law and human rights.

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Federación Internacional de Fútbol Asociación (FIFA) y el Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI) deben demostrar un compromiso con los derechos humanos universales prohibiendo que Estados Unidos e Israel organicen o participen en eventos deportivos internacionales

Estados Unidos se ha vuelto peligroso para los miembros de la comunidad global, y específicamente para las personas no blancas/no europeas. El mundo está siendo testigo de violaciones masivas de los derechos humanos y de la Constitución de Estados Unidos, mientras agentes encapuchados que utilizan vehículos sin identificación allanan lugares de trabajo, hogares y lugares de reunión pública para encarcelar y desaparecer a personas negras, morenas e indígenas, y en demasiados casos, negándoles representación legal e información básica sobre su paradero y bienestar a sus familias y abogados.

Bajo la actual administración estadounidense, cualquier persona sospechosa de residir y/o visitar Estados Unidos con o sin documentación "apropiada", incluidos ciudadanos estadounidenses, está siendo acosada, interrogada sobre sus creencias políticas e incluso detenida sin debido proceso. Este ambiente represivo ha creado una sensación de inseguridad y ansiedad para los viajeros a Estados Unidos, incluidos estudiantes e incluso algunos diplomáticos de "naciones extranjeras". Incluso personas en tránsito hacia otros países han sido sometidas a acoso e intimidación.

Pero esto es solo parte de la historia.

El Estado de Israel, con asistencia directa de Estados Unidos, está cometiendo graves y profundas violaciones de los derechos humanos y del derecho internacional mediante aventuras militares, y llevando a cabo un genocidio en curso, además de otros crímenes de guerra que incluyen, pero no se limitan a, castigos colectivos y hambruna. Esto se suma a las ocho décadas de pogromo de apartheid de Israel contra el pueblo palestino, así como a un perpetuo desprecio por la soberanía y autodeterminación del pueblo libanés, yemení, sirio e iraní, y sus respectivos gobiernos y cuerpos de liderazgo. La comunidad global es testigo, día tras día, de la matanza indiscriminada y el saqueo de vidas por parte de Israel, con el pleno respaldo de Estados Unidos, que continúa financiando, armando y promoviendo las tácticas de terror y barbarie de Israel.

Tanto la FIFA como el COI han negado anteriormente la sede y la participación en eventos internacionales a naciones y gobiernos que han actuado de maneras que consideran contrarias a sus valores fundamentales declarados de derechos humanos, no discriminación y sostenibilidad global. Por ejemplo, tanto el COI como la FIFA prohibieron a Alemania y Japón competir internacionalmente después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Además, el COI prohibió a la República de Sudáfrica participar en los Juegos Olímpicos desde 1964 hasta 1992 debido al sistema racista de apartheid del país, y la FIFA lo excluyó de sus competiciones entre 1961 y 1992 por la misma razón. Y, más recientemente, el COI ha establecido una prohibición permanente contra la Federación Rusa para participar en sus juegos de verano e invierno debido a lo que se considera una invasión y ocupación ilegal de Ucrania.

Esto plantea la pregunta de por qué la FIFA y el COI están otorgando a Estados Unidos y al Estado de Israel un trato preferencial sobre otras naciones que han sido y están actualmente sancionadas y prohibidas de competir y albergar eventos deportivos internacionales por violaciones de los valores fundamentales de ambos organismos.

Por lo tanto, nosotros, los abajo firmantes, como miembros de la comunidad global y personas/instituciones de conciencia, exigimos que la FIFA y el COI retiren a Estados Unidos y al Estado de Israel de la organización o participación en eventos de competencia internacional hasta que ambas naciones demuestren voluntad de adherirse a los valores fundamentales de cada agencia y además operen de manera acorde al derecho internacional y los derechos humanos.

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A Federação Internacional de Futebol (FIFA) e o Comitê Olímpico Internacional (COI) Devem Demonstrar Compromisso com os Direitos Humanos Universais, Proibindo os Estados Unidos e Israel de Sediar ou Participar de Eventos Esportivos Internacionais

Os Estados Unidos tornaram-se perigosos para os membros da comunidade global, especialmente para pessoas não brancas/não europeias. O mundo testemunha violações massivas dos direitos humanos e da Constituição dos Estados Unidos, com agentes mascarados, utilizando veículos sem identificação, invadindo locais de trabalho, residências e locais de reunião pública para encarcerar e fazer desaparecer pessoas negras, pardas e indígenas e, em muitos casos, negando-lhes representação legal e informações básicas sobre seu paradeiro e bem-estar para suas famílias e advogados.

Sob a atual administração dos EUA, qualquer pessoa suspeita de residir e/ou visitar os Estados Unidos com ou sem a documentação "adequada", incluindo cidadãos americanos, é assediada, questionada sobre suas convicções políticas e até mesmo detida sem o devido processo legal. Esse ambiente repressivo criou uma sensação de insegurança e ansiedade para viajantes aos EUA, incluindo estudantes, e até mesmo alguns diplomatas de "nações estrangeiras". Até mesmo indivíduos em trânsito para outros países têm sido submetidos a assédio e intimidação.

Mas isso é apenas parte da história.

O Estado de Israel, com assistência direta dos Estados Unidos, está cometendo violações graves e profundas dos direitos humanos e do direito internacional por meio de aventuras militares e de um genocídio contínuo, além de outros crimes de guerra, incluindo, entre outros, punição coletiva e fome. Isso se soma ao pogrom de apartheid de Israel contra o povo palestino, que já dura oito décadas, bem como ao desrespeito perpétuo à soberania e autodeterminação dos povos libanês, iemenita, sírio e iraniano e de seus respectivos governos e órgãos de liderança. A comunidade global testemunha, todos os dias, o massacre desenfreado de pessoas e a pilhagem de vidas por Israel, com o total apoio dos Estados Unidos, que continuam a financiar, armar e promover as táticas de terror e barbárie de Israel.

Tanto a FIFA quanto o COI já negaram a realização e a participação em eventos internacionais de nações e governos que agiram de maneiras que consideram antitéticas aos seus valores fundamentais declarados de direitos humanos, antidiscriminação e sustentabilidade global. Por exemplo, tanto o COI quanto a FIFA baniram a Alemanha e o Japão de competições internacionais após a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Além disso, o COI proibiu a República da África do Sul de participar dos Jogos Olímpicos de 1964 a 1992 devido ao sistema racista de apartheid do país, e a FIFA proibiu o país de participar de suas partidas entre 1961 e 1992 pelo mesmo motivo. E, mais recentemente, o COI instituiu uma proibição permanente à Federação Russa de participar de seus jogos de verão e inverno devido ao que é considerado uma invasão e ocupação ilegais da Ucrânia.

Isso levanta a questão de por que a FIFA e o COI estão concedendo aos Estados Unidos e ao Estado de Israel tratamento preferencial em relação a outras nações que foram e estão atualmente sancionadas e proibidas de competir e sediar eventos esportivos internacionais por violações dos valores fundamentais de ambos os órgãos.

Portanto, nós, abaixo assinados, como membros da comunidade global e pessoas/instituições de consciência, exigimos que a FIFA e o COI retirem os Estados Unidos e o Estado de Israel da organização ou participação em eventos de competição internacional até que ambas as nações demonstrem disposição para aderir aos valores fundamentais de cada agência e continuar a operar de maneiras que respeitem o direito internacional e os direitos humanos.

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La Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) et le Comité International Olympique (CIO) doivent manifester leur engagement en faveur des droits humains universels en excluant les États-Unis et Israël de l’organisation et de la participation à des manifestations sportives internationales

Les États-Unis sont devenus une menace pour les membres de la communauté internationale, en particulier pour les personnes non blanches/non européennes. Le monde assiste à des violations massives des droits humains et de l'état de droit ancré dans la constitution des États-unis : alors que des agents masqués à bord de véhicules banalisés font irruption sur les lieux de travail, les domiciles et les lieux publics pour arrêter et faire disparaître des personnes noires, racisées et autochtones, refusant dans de trop nombreux cas à leurs familles et à leurs avocats l'accès à un·e représentant·e légal et à des informations élémentaires quant à leur sort et leur état de santé.

Sous l'administration États-Uniennes actuelle, toute personne soupçonnée de résider ou de séjourner aux États-Unis avec ou sans « papiers en règle », y compris des citoyen·nes états-unien·nes légalement documenté·es, est harcelée, interrogée sur ses opinions politiques et même détenue sans procédure légale. Ce climat répressif a créé un sentiment d'insécurité et d'anxiété chez des personnes voyageant aux États-Unis, y compris les étudiant·es, et même chez certain·es diplomates de « nations étrangères ». Même des personnes en transit vers d'autres pays ont été victimes de harcèlement et d'intimidation.

Mais ce n'est qu'une partie de l'histoire.

L'État d'Israël, avec l'aide directe des États-Unis, commet des violations flagrantes et sévères des droits humains et du droit international à travers ses opérations militaires, et perpétue un génocide en plus de mener d'autres crimes de guerre, incluant, mais sans s'y limiter, des punitions collectives et l'utilisation de la famine comme une arme de guerre. Ce n'est que le point d'orgue des huit décennies d'apartheid perpétré par Israël contre le peuple palestinien, ainsi que de son mépris perpétuel pour la souveraineté et l'autodétermination des peuples libanais, yéménite, syrien et iranien et de leurs gouvernements et dirigeants respectifs. La communauté internationale est chaque jour témoin du massacre arbitraire de civils et du saccage de vies humaines par Israël, avec le soutien total des États-Unis, qui continuent de financer, d'armer et de promouvoir les tactiques terroristes et barbares d'Israël.

Tant la FIFA que le CIO ont par le passé refusé d'accueillir ou de participer à des événements internationaux organisés par des nations ou des gouvernements ayant agi d'une manière jugée contraire aux valeurs fondamentales défendues par ces organisations, à savoir les droits humains, la lutte contre la discrimination et la durabilité à l’échelle mondiale. Par exemple, tant le CIO que la FIFA ont interdit à l'Allemagne et au Japon de participer à des compétitions internationales après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Ailleurs, le CIO a interdit à la République d'Afrique du Sud de participer aux Jeux olympiques entre 1964 et 1992 en raison du système raciste d'apartheid en vigueur dans ce pays. De son côté, la FIFA a interdit à ce pays de participer à ses matchs entre 1961 et 1992 pour la même raison. Plus récemment, le CIO a interdit à la Fédération de Russie de participer à ses jeux d'été et d'hiver en raison de ce qu'elle considère être une invasion et une occupation illégales de l'Ukraine.

Cela soulève la question suivante : pourquoi la FIFA et le CIO accordent-ils un traitement préférentiel aux États-Unis et à l'État d'Israël, alors que d'autres nations ont été ou sont actuellement sanctionnées et interdites de compétition et d'organisation d'événements sportifs internationaux pour avoir violé les valeurs fondamentales de ces deux instances ?

Par conséquent, nous, soussigné·es, en tant que membres de la communauté mondiale et personnes/institutions de conscience, exigeons que la FIFA et le CIO excluent les États-Unis et l'État d'Israël de l'organisation ou de la participation à des compétitions internationales jusqu'à ce que ces deux nations démontrent leur volonté d'adhérer aux valeurs fondamentales de chaque agence et d'agir de manière conforme au droit international et aux droits humains.


More on the war in the Middle East and other news

 

Aaron Bushnell was born June 30th (he was 25 in 2024, so he must have been born in 1998?) according to:  husseini.substack.com/p/aaron-bushnell-presente 


Around July 5-6, 2025 Daniel Edrian Israeli soldier, reportedly set himself on fire and presumably passed away.  He reportedly said “I smell and see burning bodies all the time” (whose?).  According to the Quds News Network article from July 6th:  “Since the genocide began, the Israeli military reports that at least 40 active-duty soldiers, mostly reservists, have killed themselves” – husseini.substack.com/p/aaron-bushnell-presente (July 7th, with photos)  and qudsnen.co/i-smell-and-see-burned-bodies-all-the-time-israeli-soldier-commits-suicide-after-taking-part-in-gaza-genocide-and-lebanon-war/ 


Far more hospitable to the stranger than Americans? – "What If the Axis of Evil Served You Watermelon?"   www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/06/what-if-the-axis-of-evil-served-you-watermelon/


 Looking back at the "12 day war" – chrishedges.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about


Abridging free speech in Australia for "Western" imperialism and Israel:  caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/11/australia-unveils-plan-to-fight-antisemitism-by-crushing-free-speech/


Major losses for Israel in Gaza and the Red Sea this week theworker.news/2025/07/10/ansar-allah-sinks-two-ships-bound-for-israel-while-zionist-forces-suffer-major-ambush-in-gaza/ 


indi.ca/israels-worst-day-since-october-7th/


On the source of Iran casualty figures in mainstream media:  www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-casualty-counts-us-funded-groups


www.kitklarenberg.com/p/usaid-leaks-censorship-as-regime


meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/tariffs-sanctions-and-stuff


meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/intel-stuff-71025


www.nefariousrussians.com/p/to-grow-food-and-to-kill-en-masse


husseini.substack.com/p/epstein-blackmail-israel-trump-annihilates


caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/12/genocide-summer-camp-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/


Michael Tracey claims that there was never an "Epstein Files" bombshell to release:  www.mtracey.net/p/the-epstein-humiliation


www.palestinechronicle.com/zohran-mamdani-globalize-the-intifada-or-the-reinvention-of-goebbels-doctrine/


The Palestinian inhabitants were driven out of the cities of Lydda and Ramle, now in Israel, July 12, 1948.


In 1995:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre


The Apache helicopter attack that killed two reporters from Reuters and many other civilians in the Al-Amin al-Thaniyah, New Baghdad part of Baghdad, Iraq, the subject of Collateral Murder (made public by WikiLeaks April 5, 2010), was July 12, 2007:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007,_Baghdad_airstrike






Watch the recent "US INTERVENTION AND SALVADORAN RESISTANCE from ARENA to Bukele" webinar at:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Z5eB0ECcM



Sent out late on July 4th and originally posted June 29th at:  unac.notowar.net/2025/06/29/message-from-tehran-iran-will-resist-will-fight-back-and-shall-never-surrender/  The post and the email aren't exactly the same:



UNAC and BAYAN (Philippines), along with our membership, organized actions across the US and around the Globe to protest Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran to and to support Iran’s successful resistance to those attacks.   On this site, we have listed 70 actions in around 65 different cities, and more than 250 endorsements.     


Although there was a temporary “Ceasefire” in the U.S. / Israeli effort to destroy Iran, many groups internationally were determined to stay mobilized. The horrific genocide in Palestine, both in Gaza and the West Bank continues. Plots against Iran continue.


There were more than 70 actions around the world posted by United National Antiwar Coalition - UNACpeace.org based on a call for a week of actions June 21 to 28 from Global Resistance.


Internationally resistance actions were held from Philippines, Bangladesh and Japan to Norway and Denmark. Across Canada there were actions in Vancouver to Hamilton Ontario.


In the U.S. the week of actions stretched from Portland Oregon to NYC, Philadelphia and Boston. Mobilizations across the Mid West included Chicago and Minneapolis to across the state of New York in Albany, Rochester and Buffalo to Atlanta and Richmond in the South.


All actions are listed at: here [ unac.notowar.net/actions-june-28-international-day-of-action-against-war-on-iran/ ]


Message from Tehran: ‘Iran Will Resist, Will Fight Back and Shall Never Surrender’

June 29, 2025


The following messages from Global Resistance for Peace and Justice and its co-founder, Hamid Shahrabi, based in Tehran were issued on June 28, 2025.

To all organizations and individuals who responded to our call for international actions on June 28 in solidarity with Palestine and Iran, we extend our sincere gratitude for your participation. Your engagement in these actions reflects your commitment to just struggles, and while we recognize that you do not seek acknowledgment, we wish to express our appreciation for your support.

We would like to especially thank the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and BAYAN-Philippines for not only providing their support but also actively organizing these important solidarity actions.

Today, just a few hours ago, millions of people in Tehran gathered to honor martyrs who have lost their precious lives during the 12 days of Israeli/United States brutal bombardments. This tribute included several of our high ranking military leaders, great scientists and numerous innocent civilians, including many children.

The gathering conveyed a strong message of resilience: that Iran is committed to defending its sovereignty and will respond to aggressions. The message was, that Iran will resist, will fight back and shall never be surrounded. In fact, it echoed the same message which was passed earlier by the brave supreme leader of Iran, who has stood firm at the forefront of the historical liberation struggles of our heroic nation.

This situation highlights a fundamental difference between those who advocate for human rights and dignity and those who pursue dominance and exploitation. Our struggle is deeply rooted in the values of liberty, peace, sovereignty and national integrity. In contrast, our adversaries resort to violence and oppression in their pursuit of power and racist supremacy.

So, we invite all who seek to understand the realities on the ground to recognize that Iran remains steadfast in its commitment to its sovereignty and will respond to any acts of aggression, regardless of the aggressor, including the United States, which is one of the most powerful empires in history.

Dear comrades,

This is a historical conjuncture, a decisive moment in the long struggle between the oppressor and oppressed, a battle in which Iran is proudly holding the banner of the oppressed people of the South, while its adversaries represent the camp of savage oppressors.

Let us have no doubt that we shall prevail in this crucial battle. The resoluteness of the Iranian people in defending their nation, backed by your indispensable support through international solidarity actions, shall guarantee our final triumph, a perspective that shall be realized sooner than what our adversaries may even think.

Thank you for your support once again.

In Solidarity,

Hamid Shahrabi – GRPJ co-founder

Long live Iran!






Originally posted atnepajac.org/natoprotesthague.htm



UNAC Joined and Helped Organize Protests Against the Recent NATO Summit in The Hague


Antiwar forces flooded into The Hague in the Netherlands prior to the NATO 2025 summit to protest the meeting of this aggressive, imperialist military alliance. A People’s Summit was held by the Resist NATO Coalition. UNAC members are part of the Resist NATO steering committee.  Other anti-NATO meetings were held by the Global Women United for Peace Against NATO (GWUAN), also represented on the Resist NATO steering committee, the No to war - No to NATO Network and other groups. All groups joined together for a mass protest in the Hague on Sunday, June 22 that drew an estimated ten thousand people.

A group of people holding signs

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The NATO summit itself was held in The Hague on June 24 - 25 and happened in an atmosphere of crisis in NATO. NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is being lost and the leading NATO power, the US, has been questioning its role in that war preferring to turn its attention towards its main, self-declared enemy, China. Some other NATO member states have also started to question their role in Ukraine. US talk of withdrawing its support for the Ukraine war has been used as a bludgeon against the other NATO member states to get them to spend more on their militaries and they passed a proposal to increase military spending to 5% of their Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2035. This at a time when the European countries are going through sever economic problems and discontent is rising among the people as social programs are being cut while military spending increases.

Also, the NATO summit took place after the start or the Israeli/US attack on Iran, which along with their continuing genocide against the Palestinian people has exposed the true nature of the Zionist regime, the US and their NATO allies to the entire world. The attack on Iran refocused the anti-NATO forces and the actions against NATO also called for “Hands off Iran.”

More than 200 people attended the Resist NATO People’s Summit, mostly young, and many recently politicized people. The conference heard an important greeting and message of support from Ambassador Jorge Valero Briceno, the Venezuelan ambassador to the European Union. There were keynote addresses, panels and workshops throughout the day including one co-led, by UNAC coordinator, Joe Lombardo along with Rhonda Ramiro of the Resist US-led War Movement who is also a UNAC leader, on Defying Rising Militarism and Fascism. Another packed workshop called Organizing Women Against War and for Just Peace was co-led by UNAC and GWUAN leader Pippa Bartolotti, Ulla Klotzer from GWUAN and Donna Denina of the International Women’s Alliance (IWA). GWUAN also showed its slide show at the conference, which depicted women from countries throughout the world holding messages against NATO (click here for slide show).

After the march and rally GWUAN also held its own hybrid meeting with a full room of people in The Hague and many more from around the world through a zoom link. Women spoke in person and through Zoom about the fight against NATO and against war in their own countries.

Unlike past NATO summits, there was not much talk about Ukraine. Instead, there was a concentration on keeping the organization together and Ukraine would have been a divisive issue. They gave into the US demand that the various NATO members increase their military spending to 5 % but this is to happen over a 10-year period and Spain refuse to commit to this target. The focus of the Unite[d] States is shifting towards China, so they need to have the other NATO country play a bigger role in NATO and in its war against Russia for this to happen. Their increased military spending at the expense of social programs in their countries is meeting with resistance. During this period of crisis in NATO and among the Western imperialist power we must re-double our efforts to end this imperialist alliance and for peace.


BAP on the anti-austerity demonstrations in Kenya 2024-2025

Sent out in the afternoon on July 10th and originally posted at:  blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/bap-stand-with-kenya-gen-z-movement 



See also:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya_Finance_Bill_protests




The Black Alliance for Peace Stands Unequivocally Behind Kenya’s Youth Upholding Resistance Against U.S. Puppet State Imperialism and Neo-Liberalism


In June 2024, Kenya was racked by youth mobilizations, referred to as the Gen Z Movement protests, as that nation’s young people rose up against the neo-liberal austerity measures enacted by the U.S. lackey president William Ruto. In typical fashion, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had demanded increased taxation and funding cuts to a country whose leadership has privileged the dictates of imperialism over its own people. Kenya’s police killed 60 people during those 2024 actions but the popular struggle resulted in the plans for taxation being cancelled.


On the first anniversary of these actions the young people rose up again in opposition to the Ruto government which sent its troops to Haiti at the behest of the U.S. government, and which was designated a major non-NATO ally in gratitude for its posture as a vassal state. Kenya’s police state is again killing those who oppose, including journalist Albert Ojwang, who died in police custody, and more recently Boniface Kariuki, ostensibly for protesting Ojwang’s assassination.


The Africa Team of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and the organizing arm of the U.S. Out of Africa Network (USOAN) once again stands in solidarity with the masses of Kenyans fighting against the neo-liberal austerity schemes and obedience to U.S. imperialism. Despite the fascist repression, the youth of Kenya are fearless in their resolve and persist in declaring and exposing the illegitimacy of the compradors of neo-colonialism.


The Gen-Z Movement represents the offspring or torch bearers of the unfinished revolution of the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (KLFA), known also as the Mau Mau, whose valiant fight paved the path toward defeat of their British colonizers in 1960. Gen-Z are the political cubs of their predecessors Comrades Dedan Kimathi, Mzalendo Bildad Kaggia, Wasonga Sijeyo, Pio Gama Pinto, and Mzalendo Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, true revolutionary heroes who stood firm in the fight for the genuine independence of Kenya.


BAP and the USOAN are clear that for the movement to decolonize Kenya to be complete the running dogs of imperialism must be driven from office and the neo-colonial economic structures must be dismantled allowing a truly sovereign Kenya to be established, untethered to the U.S.-EU-NATO Axis of Domination.


BAP remains unequivocal in the demand for U.S. imperialism to cease propping up the Ruto regime, for the unconditional and immediate release of our Kenyan family detailed and jailed during these protests, and for reparations to be dispensed to the family and loved ones of those killed by the state and their goons.


Forward to expelling AFRICOM from the entire continent!


Forward to dethroning the comprador class in Africa!


Forward to one united, socialist Africa!


No Compromise!


No Retreat!


La Flamme – US-DRC-RD Rwanda Tripartite Mining Agreement: An imperialist maneuver to better legitimize the plundering of the Congo

See also:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extractivism   


\This translation with notes was sent out July 1st:



Ferñent


"A Free Union of the Free Peoples of Africa. Internationalist solidarity of the workers"

July 2025


US-DRC-RD Rwanda Tripartite Mining Agreement:

An imperialist maneuver to better legitimize the plundering of the Congo


from La Flamme, organ of the Communist Party of Benin [ www.la-flamme.org/ ]


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The ongoing signing of a military and security agreement between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the United States for the settlement of the conflict between Rwanda and the DRC is an extremely serious event. Behind the discourse of cooperation and security lies a new form of imperialist domination. It is, no more and no less, a disguised return to the old colonial protectorate system which, yesterday as today, has as its sole purpose the subjection and exploitation of the Congolese people. Since its formal independence in 1960, the DRC has known nothing but wars, foreign interventions and chronic instability. This chaos is not the result of chance: it is cleverly maintained by the imperialist powers in order to keep their hands on the immense wealth of the Congolese subsoil. Cobalt, coltan, copper, iron, manganese, diamonds, gold, uranium, lithium, rare earths... are all strategic resources coveted by capitalist monopolies to run their industries and fuel their technological transition. But these riches do not benefit the Congolese people in any way. On the contrary, they are a source of war, misery and desolation, with more than 6 to 8 million deaths in thirty years in the east of the country. In this predatory system, Paul Kagame's Rwanda plays the role of subcontractor. For decades, this country, supported, financed and protected by the Western powers, in particular the United States, France and Belgium, has served as a military and logistical support point for the occupation and plundering of the eastern provinces of the DRC. The crimes committed by armed groups such as M23, supported by Kigali [capital of Rwanda], are widely documented. Yet the major powers turn a blind eye, as these crimes guarantee them indirect but safe access to Congolese minerals, under the guise of "official" supply chains. It is in this context that the regime in Kinshasa [capital of the DRC], weakened, corrupt and totally dependent, chooses to reach out to its executioner in order to sign a mining agreement with the United States, Rwanda's main protector, and with Rwanda as well. As a result, the DRC will institutionalize its own domination. This imminent agreement, presented as a security partnership, is nothing more than a protectorate treaty, like those signed at the time of colonization by African kings who were duped or coerced. It is in no way aimed at the protection of the Congolese people, but at securing imperialist interests in the region, to the detriment of the partisans of Pierre Mulélé [a revolutionary who had been Minister of Education in Lumumba’s cabinet] [DS – August 11, 1929 in Malungu, now Kwilu – Mobutu had him brutally tortured/mutilated alive in public and thrown into the Congo River October 3 or 9, 1968 according to:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Mulele ] and the sovereignty of the country. Let us remember that a year ago (February 2024), the European Union signed an agreement with Rwanda on sustainable value chains for raw materials while the war was in full swing in the DRC with Rwanda's involvement alongside the M23 rebels.


And it is proven and documented by the UN and NATO countries that Rwanda is arming the M23 and plundering the DRC's mineral resources in return. And so, this kind of agreement is so horrible that European Deputies voted a resolution in February 2025 to demand the suspension of this agreement, the freezing of budgetary and military aid to Rwanda and the M23. The United States also called on Rwanda to stop the aggression against the DRC, and even threatened it with sanctions. But here, practically the same people are now working on a mining agreement on the DRC. As a result, this agreement will legitimize Rwanda's aggression against the DRC in a more serious way. It makes Washington an arbiter in a conflict in which it is clearly judge and jury. In reality, the victim (the DRC) is under the guardianship of the protector of his executioner (Rwanda). It is a real politico-diplomatic scandal that shows the degree of alienation of some African leaders. What the DRC-USA-Rwanda agreement organizes is the continuation and legalization of the international network for plundering Congolese resources, with the imperialist powers of NATO, their predatory multinationals, as its conductor, and Kagame's Rwanda as its regional servant. The Congolese people, instead of being masters of their own resources, become hostages of a globalized mafia system that transforms their wealth into a curse. In the face of this new neocolonial aggression, African revolutionaries and patriots must learn the lessons of history. Real independence is achieved neither by military agreements with the imperialists, nor by appeals for help to those who organize our subjection. The only viable path is that of organized resistance, breaking with imperialist alliances and building active solidarity among African peoples in struggle against neocolonialism. This necessary leap forward requires the rejection of any reformist illusion and the overthrow of puppet regimes that sell off national sovereignty in the name of "security" or "cooperation". In conclusion, this agreement under negotiation is not a solution for peace in the Congo: it is a further step in the plan of the dismemberment, occupation and plunder of this martyred country. Like Patrice Lumumba, Pierre Mulélé or Laurent-Désiré Kabila, fighters for the true independence of the country, the Congolese people are called upon to mobilize to put an end to this new imperialist diktat to which President Tshisekedi is submitting. Sovereignty is not begged. It is won in struggle, defended in organization, and consolidated in the consciousness of the popular masses. It is the duty of progressive forces in Africa and around the world to stand with the Congolese people to demand an immediate end to this imposed war, the withdrawal of all foreign forces, and the full restoration of their sovereignty.


Friday, June 27, 2025

More statements on the June 2025 "Western" aggression against Iran and True Promise III + protests 6/28

It seemed like Trump was planning to attack Iran, and then he did.  Why should Iran, Russia, or China trust Trump in negotiations now?  "Negotiation" equalsurrender as in 1945 now?  It has been argued that this war was planned, whether Trump or Harris won in 2020.  Note that Biden and the EU did not want to/could not restore the JCPOA nuclear deal that Trump tore up in his first term, helping Netanyahu and Trump in starting this war.  I think Biden wanted Iran to give up its missileand "proxies" too (again like Trump, totasurrender to Israel and the US?).  NPR and maybe even more so the BBC pivoted from spending a lot of time discussing the "Western" fantasy that a short bombing campaign by Israel was likely to topple the government of Iran to saying that Trump hasn't proven that Iran's nuclear facilities were destroyed by the US bombing, which he indeed has not proven, but they care about this question a great deal.  Are they trying to make Trump look bad, or do they want this "12 day war" to be the equivalent of the first Iraq War, in the 90's, but on a much faster time table?  The only way to "denuclearize" Iran would be to invade and occupy a country that is larger and better defended than Iraq was in 2003 or Syria was in recent years.  The government of Iran might have more popular support than the Baathist countries had when they were invaded as well.  Send in the infiltrated and probably corrupted IAEA to spy (there have been charges against the inspectors) as in Iraq in the 90's?  NPR was a cheerleader for NATO's attack on Libya and the hidden war in Syria and now they are so supportive of war with Iran on the behalf oIsrael.  I've been avoiding their false news, but I heard little to no discussion of legality, whacountries have and do not have known nuclear weapons programs in the Middle East (onlIsrael has nuclear weapons, many of them, and apparently uses them to blackmail the world), the covered up issue of freedom for Palestine, the NPT, the great damage incured by Israel so far, whether thiis the beginning of a period of constant and open Israeli and "Western" attacks on Iran rather than a temporary endingIsrael's great influence over the major parties, Trump believing Netanyahu rather than 'his own' and very expensive agencies, realism about what aerial bombing could accomplish, and whether the American public wants this war, apart from "MAGA" opposition to such "internationalism."  On NPR's 6pm discussion program Sunday June 22nd people from the CFR or whatever called the Spanish-American War an early example or the beginning of US "internationalism."  Did they only cover "MAGA" opposition only to make Trump and the Republicans look 'bad' and to foment division in Trump world?  They mentioned Thomas Massie, but not "MTG" or the few Democrats (Tim Kaine?! with Ro Khanna, etc.?) opposed to the war, other than those who complained that the Trump administration didn't discuss the war with them adequately beforehand.  They make "anti-war" only a position on the right or the "far right," and then bemoan when the warmongering Democrats losing elections.  The pro-NATO and warmongering "middle class" will rise again, after Trump, some guy said on the 22nd.  NPRetc. goes on and on about how "authoritarian" Trump-Vance are, but then fully back his war, wartime being a very good excuse to impose "authoritarianism," as in 2001.  The Bulwark had something about 'going to war with the Trump you have' about a week ago.  What happened to George W Bush and Cheney's negative reputations A few day ago the BBC's morning news presenter made sure to say that not alIraniansupport their government when he was interviewing a pro-government or patriotic Iranian woman, as the BBC makes sure to say that the Israeli government would deny the genocide charge when a guest brings it up, while the BBC doesn't do that when Americans or Europeanare portrayed as backing NATO warmongering, etc.  They don't platform the anti-war left.  It won't happen, but if only the Vatican, the Iranian Ayatollah, the Sunni leadership, the Orthodox, the varied Leftsetc. could cooperate and take decisive collective action osome kind for the cause they claim to value, not that great sacrificearen't being made and endured.  The news medistopped talking about the number of dead in Gaza, and the Israel-US "aid" foundation says that the regular aid massacreare not really happening.  Are they being carried out by American mercenaries?  They barely discuss the number of dead Israeli soldiers, though far lower than the Arab and Iranian death toll, not yet at the depths the US, etc. reached over 35 years The new 9/11 conspiracy, the new 'with us or against us,' the new Afghanistan and Iraq war(from the 90's to recent years), the new lying government and media, the new torture program, the new US mercenary outrage in Iraq, the new genocide, alover shorter time, and there is 'no' need for "truth" this time. because only the Uand Western European media pretend not to know what is going on?  There ia need for "truth," but what the mainstream media here won't or can't say is apparently out in the open in the Israeli media.  The Downing Street Memos again?  Vote for Biden and then Harris they said, ignore their wars.  Even John Kerry didn't have to run on that record in 2004?  It waalso revealed that Israel and the NATO countrieare surprisingly weak without constant US support.  No "pivot" away from Western Asia, ever since Obama?



Bemoaning shrimpers remaining in the NC General Assembly building in Raleigh long after winning on their issue (defeating a coastal fisheries conservation bill) on WUNC at 12pm -- this is what democracy looks like (even if harmful) ? 



They threaten to fine or arrest people "trespassing" on any railroad tracks in NC.  I've heard that they poison the land, kill or harm turtles, and park trains where people need to cross to get to school, etc.



June 26th 1A at 10am discussed a new program that gave four tech executives from Palantir, etc. a high rank in the military reserves.  Some critical guy from Wired went on about Russia as a "disinformation" superpower, what if China unleashes an "evil ChatGPT" on the US (the current ChatGPT isn't evil enough?), "AI" is the greatest invention in human history (inventionlike fire, cooking, flaked stone tools, agriculture, writing, steam power, relgion, ideology, and electronics did lot in historyfor better or worse), etc. 



The FBI, National Guard, and Los Angeles Sheriff department searched the home of Chicano activist Alejandro Orellana June 12th and held him for a day:  fightbacknews.org/articles/drop-the-conspiracy-charges-against-la-anti-ice-protester-alejandro-orellana and www.stopfbi.org




en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_war



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_strikes_on_Iranian_nuclear_sites



[ tariqeltahrir.org/2025/06/25/long-live-the-axis-of-resistance/



masarbadil.org/2025/06/5966/



samidoun.net/2025/06/samidoun-brussels-joins-delegation-to-iranian-embassy-in-brussels/



samidoun.net/2025/06/samidoun-condemns-u-s-zionist-aggression-on-iran-urges-solidarity-unity-and-action/ ]







1.  Iranian foreign ministry statements:  en.mfa.gov.ir/portal/newsagencyshow/699  There was something I wanted to post here last week.


"Individuals and entities in the sanctions list of the Islamic Republic of Iran:"  en.mfa.ir/portal/viewpage/15045


Find the IRIMFA on Twitter/x, Telegram, Instagram, and Facebooken.mfa.ir/portal/viewpage/14751


The IRIMFA's photos and videosen.mfa.ir/portal/tabbedalbumsnew?at=photo






2.  Sent out by UNAC, the US Peace Council, the WWP, and othersince June 20th:


All Out, International Days Of Resistance Against War On Palestine, Iran And West Asia - in 50 cities


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 U.S. / Israeli war on Iran, U.S. decades of sanctions, sabotage, encirclement continues. 

The genocidal Israeli attacks in Gaza escalate.

 

Hour by hour the situation with the Israeli/US war against Iran is changing.  Perhaps there is a ceasefire.  Iran has always said that if Israel stopped its attacks, they would stop their response against Israel.  But even if there is a ceasefire, we can be sure that Israel and the US will never abandon their plans for “regime change” in Iran.  They will continue their genocidal attacks against the Palestinians.

 

Israel's Iron dome defenses failed again and again after the Zionist's June 13 unprovoked, surprise massive bombing of Iran. As destruction and deaths mounted in Israel, the US overtly joined the attacks and bombed the locations of Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites with bunker buster bombs.  Many analysts in Iran, and now even in the US, claim that the material and equipment had already been moved from these sites.  After the US bombing, Iran retaliated against US bases in Qatar.  Additionally, there has been great push back by people in the US and around the world against the aggression of Israel and the US.

 

Israel has seen that it can be hit, and when Israelis ran to their bomb shelters, their racism was exposed as they did not allow Palestinians or foreign workers from Asia and Africa into the shelters.  Thousands of Israelis fled to the ports and airports to escape the country.  For the first time they experience what they are doing to the Palestinians on an hourly basis. Israel is vulnerable and Iran has shown they can defend themselves from planned US/Israel destruction.   

 

 

So, whether the bombs are temporarily quiet or not we must remain in the streets.  Many actions have been held throughout the week and many more are planned through this weekend and beyond. Join an action.  Plan an action. Continue the fight for real peace.

 

 

Endorsing Organizations: United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), BAYAN – Philippines, U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), International Action Center (IAC),  Popular Resistance, House of Latin America, Workers World Party (WWP), Bronx Antiwar, Syria Support Movement International (SSM), Chicago Antiwar Coalition (CAWC),  Arab Group for Protection of Nature, Roots for Equity, Diaspora Pa’lante,  Nidal Seattle, Resist US-Led War,   Kliusang Magbibukid ng Pilipinas, Aotearoa Philippines Solidarity, International Women’s Alliance, Veterans for Peace Chapter 55, Red Ant Collective, Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Emegenetics, Peaceworks Brunswick ME,  North American Climate, Conservation and Environment(NACCE), Al Quds Committee NY,  Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace, Detroit Antiwar Committee, Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network, National Lawyers Guild International,  Socialist Action Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change, Tariq el-Tahrir Youth and Student Network, MN Antiwar Committee and many more




US INTERVENTION AND SALVADORAN RESISTANCE from ARENA to Bukele

(in English and Spanish)


A Webinar by Friends of Latin America

Monday, June 30 at 7pm Eastern/5pm Central America time


Click here to register


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Please join Friends of Latin America, UNAC, and others to take a deep dive into El Salvador. We will hear from Salvadoran partners about their country’s history since the US-funded bloody war of the 1980s, the peace process, FMLN governments, and the rise of Bukele. Learn what social movements are doing to resist the current repression, and discuss how international solidarity can support the Salvadoran people in their struggle for self-determination and liberation.


Speakers include:


Marisela Ramírez-Bloque de Resistencia y Rebeldía Popular;


Samuel Ramírez-Movimiento de Víctimas del Régimen (MOVIR);    


Claudia O’Brien Moscoso-North-South Project for Peoples  Centered Human Rights


        Simultaneous Interpretation (English/Spanish) will be provided.


https://friendsoflatinamerica.org/2025/06/23/from-arena-to-bukele/






3.  From Toufan:



 [Hands off Iran graphic]  

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Communique No. 2
The Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)
The criminal U.S. imperialism has entered the Israeli war against Iran by bombing the peaceful nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Let us condemn this crime and blatant violation of the rights of nations!
Early this morning, Sunday, June 22, following the bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites by American fighter jets, the United States officially entered Israel's war against Iran.
We strongly condemn the brutal military aggression by the United States against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities; an act committed in blatant and unprecedented violation of the most fundamental principles of the UN Charter and the rules of international law.
The U.S. imperialist military aggression against the territorial integrity and national sovereignty of a UN member state—carried out in criminal collusion with the genocidal Zionist regime of Israel—once again reveals the peak of barbarity, depravity, and criminality that defines U.S. policy toward the freedom-seeking, peace-loving, and independence-minded people of Iran.
The military assault by U.S. imperialism on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities not only constitutes a flagrant and undeniable violation of the United Nations Charter—particularly Article 2, Paragraph 4, which prohibits the use of force and calls for respect for the territorial integrity and sovereignty of states—but also violates UN Security Council Resolution 2231. It deals a devastating blow to the nuclear non-proliferation regime, committed by a permanent member of the UN Security Council.
It has now once again become clear to all that a government which occupies a seat as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council adheres to no rules or ethical standards. And in pursuit of the interests of an artificial, genocidal, and occupying Zionist regime, commits crimes and violations of law without restraint.
The world now witnesses that it was U.S. imperialism which, amid a diplomatic process, trampled upon the principles of diplomacy and supported the aggressive actions of the law-breaking, genocidal Zionist regime of Israel. Now, in continuation of Israel’s violations and crimes - Israel being the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East—the United States has itself launched a rogue and dangerous war against the people of Iran.
Once again, the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan) strongly condemns the criminal aerial assault by the United States on Iran, which could mark the beginning of a large-scale, devastating regional war, an extension of the ongoing aggressive war waged by Israel against Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and others.
The war that the United States has now officially launched is an aggressive, illegal, and unjust war that violates all international laws and is being waged to preserve U.S. dominance within the current global order.
Iran’s act of self-defence in response to this military aggression is legitimate and just. It is a defence of the country’s territorial integrity and national sovereignty, and it falls fully within the framework of international law and the universally recognised right to self-defence.
The aggressors have no right to claim self-defence. We must stand firmly and resolutely against the U.S.  and Israeli aggressors and raise high the flag of resistance.
No to the military aggression of American imperialism against Iran!
Down with the U.S. imperialism; the world’s biggest state terrorist and the biggest violator of the r and human rights and rights of nations!
Hands off Iran and the Region!
 
Office of Foreign Relations of the Party of Labour of Iran (Toufan)
June 22, 2025




4.  Originally posted at:  piattaformacomunista.com/



From Scintilla of June 2025
of the Organization for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy

No to the occupation of Gaza! Solidarity and support for the Palestinian people! We condemn the complicity of the European governments in the genocidal war!

After a year and a half of genocidal war against the Palestinians, with more than 52,000 dead and 119,000 injured, thousands of homes and dozens of hospitals destroyed, the government of war criminal Netanyahu has announced a plan for a massive invasion and permanent occupation of Gaza, with the deportation or death of two million Palestinians under attack.

This plan proves that the "self-defense" narrative has been a lie of the Israeli government from the beginning. But even in Israel there are protests and conscientious objections by soldiers.

Israel is not acting alone

Israel's plans are made possible by the policy of its protectors and accomplices, primarily US imperialism, made more aggressive by Trump's return to the White House.

Netanyahu and Trump are taking advantage of the new balance of power established in the Middle East to deal a fatal blow to the Palestinian struggle and to redesign this strategic region according to their imperialist plans. We condemn Israel's escalation of the war in Lebanon and Syria, which is also targeting Iran. This is a dangerous development that fuels instability and war throughout the region.

The plan to occupy Gaza is also favored by the silence, complicity and support of the ruling classes of the European countries. For example, between January and March 2025, Germany approved arms supplies worth €24.46 million, three times as much as in the same period last year.

Enough of the support for Israeli aggression

The workers and peoples reject the genocide and the Zionist plan, continuing to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. The demonstrations have never stopped and the Palestinian flag flies in all the cities of the world!

Workers in the ports are refusing to load ships with weapons destined for Israel; mobilizations against the presence of Israeli military monopolies in various fairs continue; followed by actions such as protests and boycotts, against the links between the monopolies and Israel, in some cases with the participation of trade unions.

In this situation we must strengthen solidarity and support for the resistance of the Palestinian people who are fighting for their own self-determination, as well as denounce and condemn the aggressive and warmongering plans of the imperialists and Zionists.

We call for a united mass mobilization against the Zionist-imperialist aggression, demanding an immediate ceasefire and an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people, the complete withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the lifting of its siege in order to provide humanitarian aid to the exhausted population, the reconstruction of their homes and the return of the population.

We condemn the support of the United States and the EU: their cooperation with Israel in all fields must stop! The EU-Israel treaty must be annulled, as must be the military and academic collaboration!

It is also absolutely necessary to denounce the military-industrial cooperation with Israel, to support the isolation and international condemnation of the Zionists, to question the presence of Zionism in every event and to denounce the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine, with attempts to dismantle collectives such as "Urgency for Palestine" in France. It is absolutely necessary to demand recognition of the independent State of Palestine.

No weapons, no money, no trains, no ships to support the criminal war against the Palestinian people! Hands off Gaza!

We must take to the streets!

These mass and coordinated actions must be closely linked to the struggle against the war policy, the rearmament plans and militarization desired by the EU and NATO, against the "security" policy and the repression with which bourgeois governments aim to control the rear of the war fronts. They must also be linked to the struggle to defend the vital interests of the working class and the working masses, for decent work and higher wages, for peace and freedom.

We are entering a period of bitter conflicts between the imperialists and open aggressions against the working class and oppressed peoples. Today more than ever we need the unity of the workers, the oppressed strata, the genuinely democratic and progressive forces, all lovers of peace, to fight against the warmongers and carry forward the historic mission of the emancipation of the working class and the liberation of the oppressed peoples.

Long live the resistance of the Palestinian people! The defense of the Palestinian people is our own defense!

With the strength of the proletariat and the oppressed peoples we will defeat imperialism, Zionism and fascism!

May 15, 2025 (77th anniversary of the Nakba)


Communist Workers' Party – Denmark

Communist Workers' Party of France

Organization for the Construction of a Communist Workers' Party of Germany (Arbeit Zukunft)

Organization for the Communist Party of the Proletariat – Italy

Marxist-Leninist Organization Revolusion and Communist Platform M-L – Norway

Communist Party of Spain (Marxist-Leninist)

Party of Labor (EMEP) – Turkey



5.  From memory, PR China worked with Pinochet's fascistic Chile, Mobutu's Zaire (now DR Congo), with Kampuchea (now Cambodia) against Vietnam, and China was on the side of the USA, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, fascistic Islamists, etc. in DR Afghanistan in the 80's, against the USSR and the PDPA government, though they also supported Afghan Maoist guerrillas.  See:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_China , Enver Hoxha's works, etc.

  

From Scintilla of June 2025
of the Organization for the Communist Party of the Proletariat of Italy

On China-Israel relations

The false statement of May 17 by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the cessation of the ongoing invasion and aggression in Gaza (in all probability spread by revisionist and multipolar schemers and swindlers to accredit an image of this country as a force for "peace and stability") has raised an interesting debate regarding the relationship between China and Israel.

It is quite evident that the position of imperialist China in more than a year and a half of genocidal war has not changed.

Beijing has continued to maintain "bright" diplomatic, commercial (about $20 billion per year) and financial relations with Israel.

It has made agreements between its state and private monopolies and the Zionist ones in the agri-food sector. It got its hands on the ports of Haifa and Hashdod, facilitating the import of weapons. It has continued to export labor to the Zionist settlements to build infrastructure and logistical support.

In addition to being the primary supplier of goods to Israel, China imports optical instruments, electronic components and chemicals from the Zionists.

At the same time, it exports technology used by the Israeli army, such as facial recognition.

The Chinese universities collaborate closely with Zionist universities.

The Chinese state plays a fundamental role in supporting the Zionist economy and war machine. It bans demonstrations of solidarity with the Palestinian people, despite the sympathy of the Chinese people towards the cause of a martyred and heroic people. It is not difficult to understand that when Beijing makes a "mess" it does so only and exclusively for its own interests and geopolitical calculations, in a situation in which the bandits Trump and Netanyahu redesign the Middle East to block Chinese expansion and in which it has become too uncomfortable to remain silent in front of the eyes of the people.

We must not expect anything good from the diplomacy of the imperialist powers, whether large, medium or small.

The anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist struggle must be carried out without relying on any of them, without trusting in their hypocritical words.





6.  From the PCMLE's En Marcha: 



Originally posted at:  pcmle.org/EM/spip.php?article13862 , in Spanish and native Quechua

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REJECT THE U.S IMPERIALIST BOMBARDMENT OF IRANIAN TERRITORY!
U.S IMPERIALISM IS BRINGING THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO A SITUATION THAT CAN END IN A NUCLEAR WAR, WHOSE CONSEQUENCES WOULD BE UNPREDICTABLE NOT ONLY FOR THE REGION, BUT FOR THE WHOLE WORLD.
 


From En Marcha #2143, June 26 to July 1, 2025
Órgano Central del Partido Comunista Marxista Leninista del Ecuador
EDITORIAL
Iran is not responsible for this situation: it has had to defend itself from the military aggression of Israel and the United States, it has endured years of a criminal economic and political blockade imposed by the main capitalist powers of the West to break its economy.
We reject the US bombing of Iranian territory
The criminal escalation of US imperialism and Israel against Iran has reached a new level with the June 21, US-led bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu intend to take the war in the Middle East to the extreme, as a way to achieve total control of the region. Trump's statements after this bombing are cynically clear: they are willing to plunge Iran into a tragedy.
Once again, US imperialism has shown that, for it, the norms of international law are worth less than the paper on which they are written. The military attack on nuclear power plants is expressly prohibited by these norms.
Israel and the US are responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of children, women, and the elderly in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and now they intend to increase that number with the civilian population of Iran. U.S. imperialism is bringing the Middle East conflict to a situation that could lead to nuclear war, whose consequences would be unforeseeable not only for the region, but for the entire world.
Iran is not responsible for this situation: it has had to defend itself from the military aggression of Israel and the United States, it has endured years of a criminal economic and political blockade imposed by the main capitalist powers of the West to break its economy.
Trump does not seek peace, he wants war! Imperialism, by its nature, is warmongering, aggressive against the peoples. The dozens of military interventions carried out by the United States and other imperialist countries around the world throughout history show this.
We strongly reject the U.S. bombing of Iranian territory. We demand that Israel and the United States immediately cease their military interventions. We condemn the genocide that Israeli Zionism is perpetrating against the Palestinian people.
Solidarity with the workers and peoples of Iran!
Solidarity with the Palestinian people!
MARXIST-LENINIST COMMUNIST PARTY OF ECUADOR
June 22, 2025


7.  Originally posted at:  pcmle.org/EM/spip.php?article13861


From En Marcha #2143, June 26 to July 1, 2025
Central Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador
Appeal to the peoples of the world:
Oppose U.S.-Israeli aggression against Iran!

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Israel's aggression against Iran, which began on June 13 with intense airstrikes and assassinations, is continuing. While the justification for the attack on Iraq was "Saddam's weapons of mass destruction," now the justification for the attack on Iran is "Iran's nuclear program."
The news agencies report that Trump has approved US imperialism's plan to attack Iran, but has not yet ordered the attack, giving Iran a "chance" to "step back" and "surrender".
The truth is that the United States has not only participated in the Israeli aggression against Iran from the beginning, but has also directed and managed this aggression.
US imperialism has launched its strategic plan to redesign the Middle East with the genocidal attack of Israeli Zionism on Gaza and, after taking a step forward in Lebanon, with the support of the Saudis and the Gulf Emirates and with the initiative of Turkey and Israel, it has achieved regime change in Syria and has targeted Iran, whose influence in the region has been limited by the weakening of its allies.
Israel, which cannot be doubted to be an aggressor, is a shock force of US imperialism, which seeks to subject the Middle East to its unconditional domination by neutralizing and excluding its rivals, including border and regime changes. It is not that it lacks its own specific interests and objectives, such as becoming the dominant regional power, and even forces the United States to achieve these objectives from time to time, but that it harmonizes its own with the objectives, approaches, and strategic plans of the United States and is used by the United States as an attacking force. Israel, which also produces weapons but receives unlimited support in terms of armaments, ammunition and space intelligence from the United States, cannot conceive of itself or its aggression without the United States, to such an extent that it was able to start bombing Iran without any concern, even though it had missile reserves for a week and ten days.
This is evident from the statements and manifestations of Trump, who has presented himself as the "commander-in-chief" of the war. It was he who called on Iran to "surrender", it was he who said that "the problem will be solved if Iran returns to nuclear negotiations and signs the agreement as he said it would be signed".
Right now, Trump and Netanyahu, US imperialism and Israeli Zionism are attacking Iran with bombs and missiles and raining blood and cruelty from the air on the Iranians, Persian, Azerbaijani and Kurdish peoples. The son of the Shah, overthrown by the Iranian Revolution in 1979, has already declared his readiness to rule Iran in accordance with the interests and directives of US imperialism.
Today, when bombs are killing the Iranian people, this is not the time to make speeches about the "reactionary nature and hostility of the people towards the mullahs" and justify US-Israeli aggression. The mullahs are undoubtedly reactionary, but the task of the moment is to stop the brutal U.S.-Israeli aggression.
We condemn the US-Israeli aggression against Iran and call on the peoples of the Middle East and the world to fight against imperialism and Zionism.
Solidarity with the workers and peoples of Iran!
Coordinating Committee of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations ICMLPO





8.  Originally posted at:  www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2025/06/26/75-progressive-organizations-condemn-us-unauthorized-strikes



75+ Progressive Organizations Condemn U.S. Unauthorized Strikes on Iran

June 26, 2025


The undersigned organizations, representing millions of their members across the country, condemn the unauthorized and unconstitutional U.S. strikes on Iran and urge Members of Congress to publicly support and vote for an Iran War Powers Resolution to prohibit and block further U.S. military force against Iran. 


Earlier this month, Israel launched illegal strikes on Iran in the heart of its capital, Tehran, killing scores of civilians. Israel carried out assassinations of top Iranian leaders and scientists, and nearly killed the lead official coordinating Iran’s diplomatic talks with the U.S. Many of these attacks killed innocent bystanders, including families that just happened to live near one of Israel’s targets. 


Under heavy pressure from Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Trump on June 21st launched U.S. airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites without Congressional authorization. These airstrikes against Iran were an act of war, while there was no immediate threat to U.S. national security. There is no military solution to security concerns around Iran’s nuclear program. These strikes were illegal, unconstitutional, and counterproductive. 


Israeli officials have shown that this is not about Iran’s nuclear program, it is about sabotaging the possibility of diplomacy and a peaceful resolution with Iran. There was no imminent threat from Iran’s nuclear program. It is in fact a war of choice. 


Let’s be clear how we got here: President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from the Iran Deal (JCPOA) in 2018 which was working and limiting Iran’s nuclear program peacefully. The recent diplomatic efforts between the U.S. and Iran were making major progress and could have resolved Iran’s nuclear program effectively, transparently, and peacefully. 


The American people do not support or want a war with Iran. Only a diplomatic resolution will safeguard U.S. interests, reflect the will of the American people, prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and avert a catastrophic and avoidable war. 


We are urging Members of Congress to condemn the unauthorized strikes on Iran, co-sponsor and vote for the War Powers Resolutions led by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) - S.J.Res. 59 - and Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA) - H.Con.Res. 38. Doing so is the only way for lawmakers to show that they stand with their constituents, for the Constitution, and for an end to all illegal and unauthorized offensive military attacks against Iran. 

 

[See the above link for the list.]






9.  Originally posted at:  www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2025/06/22/veterans-peace-condemns-us-attack-iran-calls-nationwide-prot



Veterans For Peace Condemns U.S. Attack on Iran - Calls for Nationwide Protests

June 22, 2025


Veterans For Peace condemns the unilateral, immoral, and criminal U.S. bombing on the sovereign nation of Iran.  June 21, 2025 will be remembered as the day the U.S. once again chose war over diplomacy, unleashing consequences we may come to regret. The United States deliberately carried out an unprovoked attack on the sovereign nation of Iran in total violation of the United Nations Charter, international law, and the U.S. Constitution. This is not only a provocation—this is a moral failure.


The pretext of Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons is a familiar lie. Just like Iraq in 2003, we are being dragged into war based on deliberate deception. The aggressors in this reckless escalation are the United States and Israel. They have lit the fuse for a wider regional war, putting U.S. service members and countless civilians in immediate danger. As veterans who know the tragic cost and futility of war, we urge all people of conscience to reject this madness.


VETERANS FOR PEACE DEMANDS THAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT:

  • Refrain from any further aggression against Iran
  • End U.S. Support for Genocide in Gaza
  • Stops Sending Weapons to Israel
  • Withdraw U.S. Troops and ICE from our Communities

TAKE TO THE STREETS! – We Call on Our Members, Friends and Allies to:

  • Join local and national protests against the US/Israeli war on Iran and genocide in Gaza
  • Flood Congress and the White House with calls to End the U.S. war on Iran
  • Tell your Senators and Representatives to support the War Powers Resolutions introduced in the Senate and the House, and call the White House to express your outrage (202-456-1111).

WE ADVISE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE MILITARY to:






10.  Originally posted at:  www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2025/06/09/israel-detains-madleen-veterans-and-allies-fast-gaza-un-hits



AS ISRAEL DETAINS THE MADLEEN, "VETERANS AND ALLIES FAST FOR GAZA" AT U.N. HITS 40-DAY HALFWAY POINT

June 9, 2025

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New York – The international peace movement is not waiting on governments to stop the genocide in Gaza. Tomorrow, a coalition of military veterans, religious and humanitarian organizations reaches the halfway mark in their 40-day Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza; the Freedom Flotilla boat, “Madleen” has been seized by Israelis the same day they kill 145 in Gaza; and the Global March To Gaza will walk in solidarity to the Rafah border crossing to demand the entry of aid trucks halted by Israel.

 

The demands of the Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza are:
1) Full humanitarian aid to Gaza under UN authority and
2) No more U.S. weapons to Israel. 

 

From May 22, several of the fasters have stood in front of the U.S. Mission to the U.N., on First Avenue, from 9:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. They limit themselves to 250 calories per day, an amount reported to be the average available to Gazans. They are joined by over 700 people, fasting for various lengths of time in the U.S., including people in Italy, Germany, Ireland, Canada and Hong Kong. The fast is organized by Veterans For Peace and is sponsored by 45 peace and justice organizations, led by Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA).

 

Joy Metzler, VFP member and recent graduate of the Air Force Academy, joined the fast saying, “My entire military education focused on how and why to wage war. I was being prepared to become a military professional. Now, I am watching as our government unconditionally supports the very violations of international law I was trained to recognize. I was trained to uphold the values of justice, and that is why I am speaking out and condemning our government’s complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.”

 

Russell Brown, VFP member and Viet Nam combat veteran, said, “Israel’s genocide in Palestine gives me the same sleepless nights and stress-filled days I experienced after Viet Nam, which opened my eyes to the horrors of war. Marine Corps General Smedley Butler said he was a ‘Gangster for Capitalism.’ Since Viet Nam, I have always thought of myself as having been a terrorist for the USMC and have spent my life trying to make up for it by opposing the war mongers in government, the corporate weapons manufacturers and the media covering up for them.” He added, “When I tell people I am going to eat only 250 calories a day for 40 days, many tell me I might destroy my health. But that is all most Palestinians eat every day, month after month. I ask why they don’t have the same concern for the People of Gaza. The U.S. and Israel don't even try to hide the atrocities they commit every day. The genocidal Zionists want them gone, exterminated, and the US keeps supplying Israel with the tools to do it.”

 

Phil Tottenham, a Marine Corps veteran fasting in New York for the duration said, “I used to believe the U.S.-Israeli narrative my entire life until I began researching during the 2014 Gaza ‘War’ and saw the cruelty inflicted on innocent civilians.” The VFP member added, “when I finally was able to visit the West Bank prior to Oct. 7th, I saw with my own eyes and felt with my heart how genuine and generous the Palestinians are and how they love all people, Jewish, Christian, or Muslim.  But they do not love their occupiers - who would? I also learned how vile racism towards Palestinians is intentionally taught in Israeli homes and schools and how Israel strategically separates the two peoples from each other.”

 

Kathy Kelly, board president of World BEYOND War, also in NY for the fast, said, “The midpoint of our fast comes at a dire time for besieged Palestinians, where Israel has begun the final phase of its genocide. The lives of millions are at stake. To protect the Palestinian people, the UN General Assembly must demand a complete military embargo and a ceasefire. It should also convene under the Uniting for Peace Mandate to suspend Israel from the General Assembly if it continues to flout international law. We implore the mainstream media to fully cover the Palestinians’ dire plight.” 

 

Ken Ashe, VFP member and Viet Nam combat veteran, said, “After two years in Viet Nam I questioned what all the death and destruction was for and the only conclusion I could come to was the war industry made tons of money while career officers got promotions. Herman Goering, prior to his war crimes trial at Nuremberg, explained it is easy to take people to war – just tell them there is an enemy out there and we are going to save you. I learned there is nothing in it for the average person while the rich profit greatly.”

 

Mike Ferner, former National Director of Veterans For Peace, also in NY for the fast, said, “Seeing hundreds of people  maimed, burned, and killed every day drives me crazy – just as it did when I nursed wounded G.I.s returning from Viet Nam.” He went on to say, “we simply must open humanitarian aid under UN authority and stop U.S. weapons that fuel the genocide. But beyond that, I say to the CEOs who truly govern our country: Beware! We not only condemn the slaughter of innocents in Palestine, we also condemn this system that gives your corporations the same rights as people – those Bill of Rights protections you use to shred every remnant of democracy and govern America for your benefit.’”    

 

Bios and more quotes from NYC Fasters:

 

Joy Metzler: 23, Cocoa FL, VFP member, co-founder of Serivcemembers For Ceasefire, USAF Academy ‘23 graduate, discharged as a conscientious objector citing “US aggression in the Middle East and the murderous ethnic cleansing in Palestine.”

 

Russell Brown, 77, Buffalo NY, joined the Marines in 1966; served with the 3rd Marine Division,1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment in Viet Nam 1966-67 and left the military extremely anti-war. “I joined Vietnam Veterans Against the War trying to end that horror and am now a lifetime member of Veterans For Peace, working for the justice needed for peace.”

 

Phil Tottenham: 47, Toledo OH, Marine Corps veteran, VFP member, descendant of “Old 300” original Texas settlers; took a sledgehammer to the apartheid wall in the West Bank. 

 

Kathy Kelly: 72, Geneva, IL, defied economic sanctions against Iraq by delivering medicines there twenty-seven times; lived in Iraq throughout the “Shock and Awe” bombing; lived with families in Gaza, Jenin, and Lebanon during U.S.- supported Israeli operations. Helped coordinate the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.

 

Ken Ashe: 75, Asheville NC, raised in Arizona, joined the Army in January 1969; sent to Viet Nam as a helicopter mechanic and crew chief on a Dustoff (Medevac) chopper. After struggling to reintegrate into society, got married and had two children; became politically active “When I heard George Bush talking about how Sadam Hussein needed to be stopped.”

 

Mike Ferner: 74, Toledo OH, Navy corpsman 1969-73; former member of Toledo City Council; participated in a 35-day water-only fast with Kathy Kelly to protest the 2003 Iraq invasion; author of “Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq.” Mike is a Lifetime Member of VFP and is currently under treatment for Gleason-10 prostate cancer.


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11.  Originally posted at:  www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2025/06/02/why-im-fasting-gaza


Why I'm Fasting For Gaza

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June 2, 2025


I am participating in this national fast as a testament to my solidarity with the Palestinian people and to demand an end to the ongoing atrocities in Gaza. Through the act of fasting, I seek to 1) champion the immediate restoration of humanitarian aid into Gaza under UN authority and 2) demand that U.S elected officials enforce an arms embargo on the state of Israel. 

 

I cannot, in good conscience, remain silent while weapons sourced from our own country inflict unspeakable carnage and while innocent civilians are subjected to forced starvation. This fast stands as my moral declaration of defiance—a plea for justice, peace, and the very core of our shared humanity.

 

These views are my own and do not reflect those of the Department of Defense or the Air Force.

 

Juan Bettancourt

 


 

To learn more about the Veterans and Allies Fast For Gaza CLICK HERE






12.  Originally posted at:  www.gp.org/green_party_condemns_the_bombing_of_iran



Green Party Condemns The Bombing of Iran

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The Green Party of the United States strongly condemns President Trump’s unauthorized bombing attack on Iran and the deceptive negotiations that preceded it. "A ceasefire between Iran and Israel was announced yesterday by the US. It will last 12 hours and then the war will be over. But who knows whether the end of fighting will hold? Who knows what the next few weeks will bring?"



Green Party of the United States
gp.org


For Immediate Release:
June 24, 2025


For more information:
Gloria Mattera, Media Coordinator,  media [
at gp org], 202-804-2758

Madelyn Hoffman, Co-chair, Peace Action Committee, mrhlepaix [at gmail]

Haig Hoveness, Co-chair, Peace Action Committee, hovaness [at pipeline com]



Trump’s many boasts of being a peacemaker are now discredited as his actions demonstrate that he is a reckless militarist seeking U.S. dominance over the Mideast. The consequences of this attack may include disruption of global oil supplies, further destruction in Israel, and possible escalation if Russia or China act to defend Iran.


Not content with providing a steady stream of weapons and logistical support to Israel to sustain the Gaza genocide, the U.S. has now committed an act of war by bombing Iran’s nuclear technology sites. Without any Congressional authorization, our nation is plunging into an ill-considered Mideast military adventure in support of an Israeli state that knows no limits to its territorial ambitions and openly defies international law.


“The U.S.must stop spreading the flames of war in the Mideast and compel Israel to halt its attacks on Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran. Israel will never be a safe country if it is committed to laying waste to its neighbors. An immediate cease fire should be followed by negotiations to achieve a permanent settlement of the Israeli/Palestinian dispute under United Nations auspices” said Madelyn Hoffman, co-chair of the Green Party’s Peace Action Committee. 


“A ceasefire between Iran and Israel was announced yesterday by the US. It will last 12 hours and then the war will be over. But who knows whether the end of fighting will hold? Who knows what the next few weeks will bring?" said Haig Hovaness, co-chair of the Green Party’s Peace Action Committee.


“The Green Party is the party of peace. Unlike the two dominant U.S. political parties, we oppose a militaristic foreign policy based on lies and manufactured threats. The Party calls for nationwide demonstrations and political actions protesting the latest U.S. imperial war. We must stop the U.S. war machine before it consumes us all,” added Hoffman. 


MORE INFORMATION


Green Party of the United States
www.gp.org
202-804-2758



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13.  Sent out by email the evening of June 22nd and originally posted at:  uspeacecouncil.org/



U.S. Attack on Iran Reaffirms the Need for a More Effective Global Anti-Imperialist Movement


U.S. Peace Council

June 22, 2025



The U.S. Peace Council strongly condemns the outrageous, criminal and illegal attack on the sovereign state of Iran by the United States administration of Donald P. Trump. This flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg condemnation of wars of choice, should serve as a graphic demonstration that U.S. imperialism continues to operate beyond the boundaries of law, rejecting any accountability or constraints on its behavior.


The act of war committed by the U.S. against Iran comes on the heels of its violation of another red line of civilized international behavior by the U.S., when it treacherously pretended to be engaged in a diplomatic process with Iran as a diversionary tactic to facilitate a sneak attack on Iran by Israel.


The U.S. has tried to justify its illegal bombing as an act of preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons. But it is well known by now that Iran has neither any nuclear weapons nor has had any intention of developing such weapons — at least until before the current U.S. aggression on its nuclear facilities. The fabricated claim about the “threat” of Iran’s nuclear program is just a cover for a much broader objective of eliminating Iran as one of the main pillars of global anti-imperialist resistance and transition to a new, non-hegemonic, multipolar world.


For U.S. imperialism, the problem is not Iran’s nuclear program, but its determined resistance to imperialism’s regional and global hegemony. As both Bejamin Netanyahu and Donal[d] Trump have repeatedly said, the real objective of US/Israel military aggression against Iran is a forced regime change and the partition of that country. Hence, the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities is not the end, but the beginning of an unprecedented round of aggressions in violation of the UN Charter and international law, which could lead to a much broader conflagration if not stopped immediately.


Imperialist domination is impossible without its core instrument of enforcement and control — state violence ­— with kinetic war being its most devastating form. The imperialist objective is regional domination of West Asia. It is therefore imperative that imperialist material interests undergirding war informs our understanding of the current violent attacks on Iran by the U.S. and Israel.


The U.S. instrumentalizes war to advance imperialism’s geostrategic and economic interests. The recognition of this fact should compel U.S. peace and anti-imperialist organizations to center their understanding that these interests are the driving forces for contemporary warmongering and the violence unleashed over the last few weeks against Iran. We urge the antiwar movement to embrace an anti-imperialist frame and language that strips away the official obfuscation of naked imperial interests with terms like humanitarian intervention, self-defense, or any of the other cover ups.


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Sent out by email very early on June 18th and originally posted atnew-students-for-a-democratic-society.ghost.io/national-sds-statement-no-war-with-iran/



National SDS Statement: No War with Iran!


National SDS condemns Israel’s agression and recent missile strikes on Iran. Israel’s continued attacks on Iran, beginning Thursday, are an unjustified military escalation and now threaten to provoke a wider war, endangering millions of people throughout the whole region. Israel continues to commit a genocide in Gaza with the full approval of, and continued funding by, the Trump administration. We know, as students within the US, it is our duty to continue to call for the US to end aid to Israel. Without our funding, our bombs, and our government’s political support we know the genocide could not continue - and this violent aggression against Iran would not be able to either.


Hands Off Iran!

Money for Jobs and Education not for War and Deportations!

No Wider War!

End US Aid to Israel!