SDS and Committee to Stop FBI Repression statements on Californian repression and the wars

See also:  new-students-for-a-democratic-society.ghost.io/tag/statements/

Originally posted, March 7th, at:  new-students-for-a-democratic-society.ghost.io/national-students-for-a-democratic-society-stands-with-the-goodwin-forum-protesters-at-cal-poly-humboldt-with-rick-toledo-and-all-students-suspended-and-fired-by-the-university-for-prot/

National Students for a Democratic Society stands with the Goodwin Forum protesters at Cal Poly Humboldt, with Rick Toledo and all students suspended and fired by the university for protesting for Palestine!

Three students - Rick Toledo and two others, including a housing resident assistant - were suspended, fired, banned from campus, and are facing further discipline from Cal Poly Tech Humboldt for a student sit-in for divestment from Israel that took place on Feb 27.

On Feb 27, Students for a Democratic Society, the Young Democratic Socialists of America, and other students at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt attended a public forum with administrators in the quad calling for the university to divest from apartheid Israel. They were also demanding that the striking union staff workers get raises they were promised, as well as a noncompliance policy with ICE. The forum event itself was a concession by the school, something that administration agreed to plan only after a student sit-in for divestment on Feb 20. When it was clear that administrators had no interest in addressing their demands, the students began a sit-in in the quad, then marched to Nelson Hall where they took over Goodwin Forum. The forum takeover lasted until 1am.

Students attempted to set up another tent and create another encampment for Gaza, and administrators stole the tent. Administrators and police locked down the nearby buildings and the building's bathrooms, and manhandled anyone who came and went. They sent in police at 1am under the cover of night to threaten students with arrest. Even though students in the end complied with leaving the building, now as many as three were suspended, banned from campus, and are now fired from their jobs. Rick Toledo was falsely accused of assault, in one of many blatant lies told by administration. What’s even more shameful is that the students currently being targeted with charges also were not even the ones in the building.

It is not wrong to continue protesting for Palestine. All these students did was exercise their First Amendment right to free speech and assembly. The university promised that they would consider divestment from apartheid Israel and a sanctuary campus policy, and thus far they have delivered none of those promises. Moreover, they are now creating an atmosphere where support for Palestine can be punishable by withdrawing your degree, taking your livelihood, and leaving you without a job. We condemn these violations of the students' rights to free speech and right to express solidarity with Palestine.

We in National SDS reject administration's lies about the students, and we stand firmly with the students at Cal Poly Humboldt. Just as it was heroic to take a building for Palestine in 2024, that is still true today in 2026. The genocide has not ended, US support for Israel - now manifest in a war even on Iran and Lebanon raging on today - has not ended, and therefore the student movement for justice for Palestine has not ended. The suspensions should be lifted, Toledo and the other students should be reinstated into their classes and jobs, and the university should cease its attacks on the free speech of Toledo, the other student protesters from Goodwin Forum, and any other pro-Palestine students at Cal Poly Humboldt.

Originally posted, March 12th, at:  stopfbi.org/news/dont-charge-rick-toledo-pro-palestine-grad-student-at-cal-poly-tech-humboldt/

Don’t Charge Rick Toledo, Pro-Palestine Grad Student at Cal Poly Humboldt! Defend the Right to Speak Out for Palestine!

We invite all organizations to sign onto the following call, in defense of grad student Rick Toledo, pro-palestine student and member of Students for a Democratic Society, at California State Polytechnic University Humboldt: You can find the link here and after the statement.
 

We stand with grad student Rick Toledo of Cal Poly Humboldt Students for a Democratic Society against his arrest and targeting by the state of California for protesting on Feb 27 for campus divestment from Israeli apartheid and in support of Palestine.
 

In the middle of the night, on March 6, CPH university police officers raided the home of Rick Toledo, nearly breaking down his door, and took him into custody without bail. Though he has not been charged at this time, he is facing four counts of serious felony charges: false imprisonment, conspiracy to commit a crime, assault, and battery. These charges carry up to 14 years in state prison combined. The attorney general of California himself has signed off on a civil lawsuit complaint against Toledo, filed by the university. Just days before, Toledo had been suspended and fired from his university teaching job. His first court appearance is scheduled for April 20, 2026.
 

These rotten attacks and attempts to expel him from school and to throw him into jail stem from a one-day building occupation for Palestine done by students on Feb 27. Aside from calling for the university to divest from Israeli bonds, they also called for sanctuary policies to keep ICE off campus and for striking workers to get raises. Toledo supported this building occupation and the protesting students, and in our eyes, he did nothing wrong. He deserves not only support from students, workers, and faculty all across Cal Poly Humboldt, but from progressives and people of conscience all across the country.
 

Students at Cal Poly Humboldt have a proud history. In 2024, during the spring encampment movement for Gaza, students took Siemens Hall in the name of divestment and held it for 9 days. Millions across the world watched videos of these students courageously standing up for Gaza, in the face of brutal police repression. Now the university and the state of California have decided they want someone to pay for this heroic moment, and their target of choice is Toledo. In our opinion, this is the real reason underlying the targeting and unleashing of state repression on Toledo, for a simple campus protest.
 

We condemn this arrest, the university crackdown, and now the threat of these criminal charges. We view this as an attack on the right to speak about Palestine, as well as to protest in the name of Palestine. No matter what you believe about the situation in Palestine, we should be able to agree that students should be able to freely express their view, to protest, and to take a stand.
 

We call on all organizations to sign onto this letter, release a solidarity statement, and to demand to District Attorney Stacey Eads of Humboldt County that no charges be filed against Rick Toledo at Cal Poly Tech Humboldt. We will be mobilizing for his first court appearance, on April 20, 2026. We stand with the students of Humboldt to march for Palestine, on campus and everywhere else, and we will defend that right to the end.

Don't Charge Rick Toledo!
Protesting for Palestine is Not a Crime!
 

Steps to Take:

1. Sign Onto the Above Statement Here on behalf of your organization or as an individual, to show support for Rick Toledo.
2. Release a solidarity statement on behalf of your organization and email it to stopfbi [at] gmail  [ ] com.
3. Donate to the fund for legal fees and hardship (due to being fired from his university job) at this link here: https://chuffed.org/project/172807-rick-toledo-legal-defense-fund
4. Look out for our call to action come April 20, 2026, the date of his court appearance, to call into the District Attorney Stacy Eads' office and more.

Originally posted, February 22nd, at:  new-students-for-a-democratic-society.ghost.io/national-sds-stands-in-solidarity-with-cuba/ 

National SDS Stands in Solidarity with Cuba

On January 29th, president Trump released an executive order threatening to impose tariffs on any country that provides Cuba with oil, tightening the nearly 65-year embargo and blockade on the country. These escalated sanctions and the recent U.S. intervention in Venezuela have compounded into an acute crisis that threatens the lives of the Cuban people. The U.S. continues to shamelessly wage a brutal conquest for control over Latin America to boost the profits of U.S. multinational corporations and crush the outposts of resistance to U.S. domination. Join us for our National Day of action on February 26 to demand: Hands off Cuba!

With the overthrow of the American-backed dictator, Fulgencio Batista, by the Cuban people in 1958, the U.S. has continuously tried influencing Cuban politics and has been linked with hundreds of plots for assassination and destabilization. The most blatant example of U.S. imperialist aggression against the Cuban people was in 1961 with the Bay of Pigs invasion, in which the U.S. attempted a full-scale, amphibious invasion of Cuba with the goal of overthrowing the government and reestablishing Cuba as an American colonial outpost.

These attacks on Cuba are not isolated, but a core feature of the ongoing American imperialism that’s been exacted on Latin America and the Caribbean since the issuing of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. Under both Democratic and Republican administrations, imperialist incursions across the region by the U.S. have been commonplace: the Obama administration supported the attempted coup d’etat by Juan Guido in Venezuela and the Eisenhower administration led the Bay of Pigs invasion.

It is unacceptable that Cuba must suffer under U.S. sanctions, especially when they have served as the largest exporter of doctors in the world and a beacon of hope for oppressed peoples. Trump may claim that Cuba “supports terrorism and destabilizes the region,” but we know that this accusation is merely a confession of U.S. foreign policy. Students for a Democratic Society stands in solidarity with the Cuban people and opposes U.S. economic aggression and intervention. We demand an end to the U.S. embargo and blockade on Cuba, and an end to U.S. intervention in Cuba.

HANDS OFF CUBA!
U.S. OUT OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN!

SDS Stands in Solidarity with Venezuela

On January 3rd 2026, the U.S. military bombed Venezuela and kidnapped the president Nicholas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. National SDS condemns the U.S. military and the Trump administration for this unjustified attack on Venezuela and the total violation of their national sovereignty.

Since September, the U.S. military has escalated attacks on Venezuela and the Venezuelan people. This has included the bombing of civilian ships off of the coast of Venezuela, murdering at least 80 fishermen, and seizure of oil tankers. Donald Trump’s administration and Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, have attempted to justify these cowardly attacks by spreading lies of drug trafficking and narco terrorism — all unsubstantiated. We reject this attempt at justifying military aggression and war crimes in the name of US “security”. This same bogus narrative of narco terrorism has driven Trump’s expansion of ICE.

The U.S. government and military has spread lies about Venezuela and its government for decades- as it’s also imposed sanctions, made failed attempts at regime change, and imposed blockades. At this moment we need to reject these lies and demand no war in Venezuela. We know the truth — US intervention is motivated by the US’s desire for natural resources and political control. Trump’s threats to now put Venezuela under US occupation make this clear.

SDS demands no war with Venezuela, an end to the bombings, to free Nicholas Maduro and Cilia Flores, and hands off Venezuela! National SDS calls on all of our chapters, and all students to stand with Venezuela. As the spring semester begins, students should return to campus prepared to call protests in solidarity with Venezuela and demand no war and intervention. Join us for our National Day of Action on January, 15th, to demand hands off Venezuela!

No war with Venezuela!
Free Nicholas Maduro and Cilia Flores!
Stand with Venezuela!
No War for Oil!

Originally posted, December 23, 2025, at:  new-students-for-a-democratic-society.ghost.io/sds-stands-in-solidarity-with-venezuela-against-trumps-blockade/

SDS Stands in Solidarity with Venezuela Against Trump's Blockade

National Students for a Democratic Society stands in complete and total opposition to the U.S. military's illegal seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker on Wednesday, December 10, 2025. The action was taken to enforce Donald Trump's declaration of a total air and sea blockade against Venezuela, pushing the U.S. closer to total war. The seizure goes against international law and violates the right of Venezuela to trade with other nations.

At this moment over 25% of the U.S. Navy is deployed to the Caribbean bombing innocent fishermen from Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, and Columbia. They wait on stand-by to receive orders from President Trump to strike and invade Venezuela in yet another illegal US war for oil and economic dominance. The US is attempting to implement a 21st century medieval siege on Venezuela in hopes of worsening the economic crisis so that the people will overthrow President Nicolás Maduro. This ill-fated and naïve attempt at regime change has so far been met with total failure. The people of Venezuela have made their choice, they chose to defend democracy and control their own destiny!

SDS stands with the people of Venezuela, the Bolivarian Revolution, and with democratically elected President Nicolás Maduro! SDS denounces the war mongering of the Trump administration and all its allies!

No to war!
No blood for oil, U.S. off Venezuelan soil!

NLG and IADL statements condemning the 2026 attack on Iran

The National Lawyers Guild joins the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in condemning the joint U.S.-Israeli illegal aggression on Iran

The National Lawyers Guild joins the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in condemning in the strongest terms the joint attack by the United States and Israel on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched on the morning of Saturday, February 28, 2026, amid the holy month of Ramadan. 

These attacks constitute another example of the crime of aggression, in blatant violation of article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter and the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity of states, good neighborliness and the peaceful settlement of disputes. International law clearly prohibits both the use of force and the threat to use force against the territorial integrity of any state, and it is also clear that the United States and Israel have deep disregard and contempt for these principles. These attacks further violate the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. president acted unilaterally and lawlessly — without congressional authorization and absent any imminent threat to the U.S. However, it is important to point out the failure and unwillingness of the U.S. Congress to act to respond to Trump’s other unauthorized hostilities in Iran or anywhere. As many have also pointed out there are over 50 members of Congress who have investments in defense companies and directly profit from these illegal wars. 

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has attempted to hide the fact that this aggression is being carried out to facilitate a regime change that they would find amenable to their goals of total domination of the entire region of West Asia militarily, economically and politically, and to deprive the Palestinian people under occupation and facing an ongoing genocide of support for their capacity to resist and free themselves of this unlawful occupation. We are reminded of the 12-day war of June 2025, another illegal aggression perpetrated by the same parties against Iran, which the NLG and IADL also strongly condemned. The persistent lack of accountability or any meaningful consequences for those responsible has not merely enabled further warmongering and destruction; it has entrenched a culture of impunity that effectively amounts to complicity.

Once again, we note that purported negotiations that claimed to seek a peaceful resolution or to address nuclear development were used as a sham in an attempt to lower Iranian defenses, as we have seen before in the context of the invasion of Iraq. Israeli officials have openly stated that they have planned this attack over months and weeks, spanning a larger period of time than any of the negotiation rounds. Such aggression not only underlines the bad faith of the United States and Israel but also discourages nations from participating in peace talks or negotiations, when it has been made clear that these states view such negotiations only as a way to pass time until a new aggression is launched. 

This aggression follows by less than two months the U.S. attack on Venezuela and the unlawful abduction of its president and first lady, and comes amid the ongoing war threats and oil blockade imposed on Cuba. This complete disregard for the process of negotiations only encourages nuclear proliferation around the world; we further note that the United States holds the world’s largest supply of nuclear weapons and is the only state to have used them. Further, Israel is an undeclared nuclear power that routinely makes threats based on its nuclear weapons capacity. 

We note that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is still the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, while pursuing constant war and aggression against the Palestinian people targeted for genocide, Lebanon, Syria, and now, once again, Iran. The aggression is the continuation of the illegal aggression launched last year as well as a continuation of a sustained and deliberate campaign of hostile acts spanning more than 46 years – including sanctions designed to destroy the Iranian economy, coordinated cyber-warfare operations, targeted assassinations and systematic acts of sabotage. 

We urge all states to provide all necessary assistance, consistent with their obligations under international law, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Palestine, and other nations subjected to unlawful aggression by the United States and Israel,  and to condemn their  serious violations of international law, including genocide. We underline that this aggression is a threat not only to all of the peoples and nations of the West Asian region but to the future of multilateralism, international law, and the territorial integrity of states. Iran, a sovereign nation, has the clear and legitimate right to defend itself against this unlawful aggression. We urge all states to immediately implement an arms embargo on Israel and the U.S., withdraw their ambassadors, and pursue legal actions to hold their military and political officials accountable. 

We cannot rely solely on states or international institutions to end this aggression. We urge all supporters of justice, sovereignty, peace, and international law to participate in mass demonstrations and actions against the aggression on Iran, and to mobilize popular pressure to bring the aggression to an end. We urge all legal organizations, lawyers and human rights organizations to utilize domestic and international systems to hold Israeli and U.S. officials and soldiers accountable for their unlawful aggression against Iran and their acts of genocide in Palestine, as well as to support and defend organizers and social movements against state repression for their work to end war and genocide. 

The Military Law Taskforce (MLT) of the National Lawyers Guild reminds U.S. armed service members that they have the right and the duty to resist and refuse illegal orders. The MLTF pledges to support those who do so, and support service members who protest or stand against this disastrous war.

Originally posted, on February 28th, at:  nlgmltf.org/military-law/2026/mltf-condemns-unprovoked-us-israeli-attack-on-iran/ ; see also:  nlgmltf.org/military-law/2025/faq-on-refusing-illegal-orders/

MLTF Condemns Unprovoked US/Israeli Attack On Iran

The MILITARY LAW TASK FORCE of the NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD categorically condemns the unprovoked US/Israeli attack on Iran.  This is a grotesque violation of international law and the U.S. Constitution. 

Iran is a sovereign nation and a member of the United Nations as is the United States.  The UN Charter is a treaty which is the “supreme law of the land” under Article VI of the US Constitution. Article 2(4) of the  UN Charter states, “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.”

The aggression here is a crime under international law and is committed when, as here, a country attacks another that is not threatening it and is not carried out in self-defense against an attack.

There can be no justification for the attack if, as President Trump proclaimed, Iran’s nuclear weapons program was “obliterated” in another illegal act just over six months ago.

We recall that, for the past two decades or more, Netanyahu has claimed that Iran was within weeks of having a nuclear weapon. Those claims were false, however, even if true, a resolution was being negotiated when the current assault occurred.

We remind U.S. armed service members that they have the right and the duty to resist and refuse illegal orders. We pledge our full support to those who do so, and to service members who protest or stand against this disastrous war.

See also:

IADL condemns the joint U.S.-Israeli illegal aggression on Iran

MLTF FAQ on Refusing Illegal Orders

Originally posted, on February 28th, at:  iadllaw.org/2026/02/iadl-condemns-the-joint-u-s-israeli-illegal-aggression-on-iran/

IADL condemns the joint U.S.-Israeli illegal aggression on Iran

The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) condemns in the strongest terms the joint attack by the United States and Israel on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched on the morning of Saturday, February 28, 2026, amid the holy month of Ramadan. These attacks constitute another example of the crime of aggression, in blatant violation of article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter and the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity of states, good neighborliness and the peaceful settlement of disputes. International law clearly prohibits both the use of force and the threat to use force against the territorial integrity of any state, and it is also clear that the United States and Israel have deep disregard and contempt for these principles.

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has even attempted to hide the fact that this aggression is being carried out to facilitate a regime change that they would find amenable to their goals of total domination of the entire region of West Asia militarily, economically and politically, and to deprive the Palestinian people under occupation and facing an ongoing genocide of support for their capacity to resist and free themselves of this unlawful occupation. We reiterate our statements of 18 June 2025 and 23 June 2025, issued during the 12-day war of 2025, another illegal aggression perpetrated by the same parties against Iran. The persistent lack of accountability or any meaningful consequences for those responsible has not merely enabled further warmongering and destruction; it has entrenched a culture of impunity that effectively amounts to complicity.

Once again, we note that purported negotiations that claimed to seek a peaceful resolution or to address nuclear development were used as a sham in an attempt to lower Iranian defenses, as we have seen before in the context of the invasion of Iraq. Israeli officials have openly stated that they have planned this attack over months and weeks, spanning a larger period of time than any of the negotiation rounds. Such aggression not only underlines the bad faith of the United States and Israel but also discourages nations from participating in peace talks or negotiations, when it has been made clear that these states view such negotiations only as a way to pass time until a new aggression is launched. This aggression follows by less than two months the U.S. attack on Venezuela and the unlawful abduction of its president and first lady, and comes amid the ongoing war threats and oil blockade imposed on Cuba. This complete disregard for the process of negotiations only encourages nuclear proliferation around the world; we further note that the United States holds the world’s largest supply of nuclear weapons and is the only state to have used them. Further, Israel is an undeclared nuclear power that routinely makes threats based on its nuclear weapons capacity. 

In this context, we must again note the complicity of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is not acting as a neutral party but instead to provide pretexts for those engaged in illegal acts of war and aggression. In a near-repeat of the events of 13 June 2025, when the IAEA issued a resolution against Iran in disregard of all available evidence only hours before the Israeli bombing began, on 27 February 2026, the IAEA issued a statement claiming that it was “unable to verify” whether Iran was continuing heavy enrichment, pointing out what it claimed to be an underground facility in Isfahan, and demanding Iran allow its inspectors to enter closed, secure facilities. Once again, the IAEA’s disturbing role in the U.S.-Israeli aggression on Iran betrays the stated function of the agency in the interests of an undeclared nuclear power and the only country in the world to have used nuclear weapons in war.

We note that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is still the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, while pursuing constant war and aggression against the Palestinian people targeted for genocide, Lebanon, Syria, and now, once again, Iran. The aggression launched today is the continuation of the illegal aggression launched last year as well as a continuation of a sustained and deliberate campaign of hostile acts spanning more than 46 years – including sanctions designed to destroy the Iranian economy, coordinated cyber-warfare operations, targeted assassinations and systematic acts of sabotage. 

We urge all states to provide all necessary assistance, consistent with their obligations under international law, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Palestine, and other nations subjected to unlawful aggression by the United States and Israel, as well as to serious violations of international law, including genocide. We underline that this aggression is a threat not only to all of the peoples and nations of the West Asian region but to the future of multilateralism, international law, and the territorial integrity of states. Iran, a sovereign nation, has the clear and legitimate right to defend itself against this unlawful aggression. We urge all states to immediately implement an arms embargo on Israel and the U.S., withdraw their ambassadors, and pursue legal actions to hold their military and political officials accountable. 

We cannot rely solely on states or international institutions to end this aggression. We urge all supporters of justice, sovereignty, peace, and international law to participate in mass demonstrations and actions against the aggression on Iran, and to mobilize popular pressure to bring the aggression to an end. We urge all legal organizations, lawyers and human rights organizations to utilize domestic and international systems to hold Israeli and U.S. officials and soldiers accountable for their unlawful aggression against Iran and their acts of genocide in Palestine, as well as to support and defend organizers and social movements against state repression for their work to end war and genocide. 

See also: 

iadllaw.org/2026/02/the-international-association-of-democratic-lawyers-condemns-the-u-s-onslaught-against-cuba-and-its-oil-supply/

iadllaw.org/2026/01/iadl-condemns-us-imperialist-aggression-against-venezuela/

iadllaw.org/2026/01/iadl-condemns-illegal-u-s-aggression-against-venezuela-statement-of-the-bolivarian-republic-of-venezuela/

iadllaw.org/2025/09/joint-statement-calling-for-the-relocation-of-the-un-headquarters-away-from-the-united-states/

Some statements and actions against the US wars – March 2026

Some upcoming events are listed at:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/2026/02/an-update-for-week-8-of-2026-history-of.html and I hope to post a new update shortly.  

Today is International Women’s Day:  durhamspark.blogspot.com/search/label/women's liberation , durhamspark.blogspot.com/search/label/women , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/03/toufan-party-of-labor-of-iran-on.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/03/bap-on-march-8th-antioch-tn-shooting.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/03/veterans-for-peace-honoring.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/11/scintilla-women-of-october-revolution.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/11/scintilla-alexandra-kollontai-communist.html , blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/womens-day-2026 , [ theworker.news/2026/03/08/long-live-international-working-womens-day-2026/ ] , [ cpcml.ca/publications2026/260308-IWDStatement.pdf ] [in Berlin – kristenghodsee.substack.com/p/rage-becomes-resistance-part-ii ] , etc.  

[Added later:

The 73rd death anniversary of JV Stalin was March 5th:  piattaformacomunista.com/index.php/5-marzo-1953-5-marzo-2026-viva-stalin/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin ; March 5th is also the anniversary of Churchill’s famous post-WWII speech:  www.rt.com/news/633862-churchill-fulton-cold-war/ and www.rt.com/news/633873-was-iron-curtain-really-beginning/ 

March 8, 2014:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

[DST began today in the US; to consider:  troubledminds.substack.com/p/the-hour-that-never-existed-a-sunlight ]

March 9–10th in 1945:  www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/06/the-rubble-of-gaza-and-the-ghosts-of-tokyo/ and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo

March 4–10th in 1956:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Georgian_demonstrations

March 11, 2011, another event I 'witnessed' on the news at night:  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tōhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami (東北地方太平洋沖地震 , 東日本大震災 , 東北関東大震災 , 東北・関東大地震 , 東日本巨大地震 , etc.)

"Iran deploys Lego VIDEO in PR war against US" – www.rt.com/news/634174-iran-us-lego-video-pr-war/

NPR portrays Trump and the Republicans as threats to US "democracy," it has covered some of the war crimes allegedly carried out by Israel, and NPR admits that the new war is very unpopular with the American public, yet their coverage seems to be very biased to serve what some have termed the 'Epstein coalition.'  And NPR covers Palestinian suffering but they condemn Palestinian resistance; I'm not sure if they even covered the recent non-violent Palestinian resistance.  I've been avoiding NPR lately, so maybe I've missed coverage, but judging from what I have heard, they are doing a great deal of propaganda work for Trump and Israel.  The BBC is similar, delegitimizing the Iranian "regime" as the US and Israel kill huge numbers of Iranian civilians and carry out war crimes, delegitimizing Hezbollah (though Israel constantly violated the Lebanon ceasefire, which the BBC even covered), covering up damage taken by the US and Israel, covering up public anger about the War in the "West," etc. but is more distant, as if the UK is not collaborating with the US and Israel.  I was listening the night when they reported breaking news, Israel (only) was 'preemptively' bombing Iran (to preempt the negotiations in Oman, I wondered, but soon afterward they reported that the US was also taking part). After the long lead up to the wars started by Bush and Cheney the Ukraine and Ramadan wars seemed surprising, though I thought that Trump was planning to attack Iran again soon.  It is also due to how the lead up to the new wars was portrayed.  It didn't seem like Trump prepared adequately for a massive war.  At 5pm today they did propaganda work for Trump regarding the attack on Venezuela (covering an International Women’s Day protest against the government, implying that there are political prisoners; Peralta is now in country I see) and earlier they defended the VOA, etc. (a US propaganda station "serves" Cuba, the VOA demonstrates proper journalism for benighted regions of the world, etc. said a guy who once worked in Durham).  NPR agrees with Trump on so much, he is fulfilling their greatest imperial dreams abroad, so why the hostility?  NPR deserved the loss of its Federal funding, though it works for the government and the "Epstein class."  The "Europeans" have to thread a needle, they say (like NPR itself?), and the woman from Brookings says that first of all, the Europeans (meaning their rulers) all want the Iranian government to be overthrown.     

Won't the very heavy smoke from burning Iranian oil infrastructure make targeting harder for the US and Israel?  The BBC pointed out that the smoke is also a serious health hazard for the Iranian civilians Trump, Netanyahu, and the BBC claim to care about so much.  The BBC has been interviewing members of its Persian Service, anti-government Iranians, and the occasional pro-government academic, while NPR basically won't talk to anyone who favors a government targeted by the US, whether under Trump or Biden.

[The BBC's Jeremy Bowen faults the Iranians for not fighting on the Empire's terms and quickly losing, unlike the Vietnamese and the American revolutionaries and the BBC and NPR are covering up the damage Iran is inflicting on the US, Israel, and the NATO countries, probably benefiting Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. Iran's resistance could even save the US from Trump.]

[ fair.org/home/covering-for-international-abusers-media-reverse-victim-and-offender-in-iran/ ]

[ electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/illegal-war-iran-wins-applause-leading-brussels-media-outlet ]

[ www.rt.com/news/630665-bbc-bans-maduro-kidnapped-term/ ]

[ jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-bbc-pushes-the-case-for-an-illegal ]

[ the307.substack.com/p/how-an-atrocity-propaganda-campaign ]

[ jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-bbc-editors-must-one-day-stand ]

[ www.mintpressnews.com/x-users-find-their-real-names-are-being-googled-in-israel-after-using-x-verification-software-au10tix/290703/ ]

According to WRAL there was an anti-war march in downtown Durham last weekend (organized by PSL?) and another (Machadoist Iranian-American?) pro-war demonstration in downtown Raleigh around the same time.

Stop the war on Iran! - throughout the US (but they didn't list the actions in Raleigh, Brunswick, etc.): www.answercoalition.org/iran and engageddefendersfordemocracy.substack.com/p/action-ops-rallies-for-science-and

Reportedly there were demonstrations against Trump's new war of terror March 7th at 2pm at Raleigh's Moore Square (organized by PSL), somewhere in Cary (organized by Cary Indivisible), and at Asheville's Pack Square; in Charlotte (at the CLT Military Entrance Processing Station) at 12, etc.

  

There is a regular (?) vigil in Brunswick, Maine and there was a protest March 7th at 1:30pm at the intersection of Route 1 and Pleasant Street: went2thebridge.substack.com/p/no-one-wants-to-die-for-israel and went2thebridge.substack.com/p/u-r-here

There will be a monthly vigil at 1:30pm April 11th in Farmington, Maine and May 2nd in Lewiston, Maine (bordering Veterans Park, at the corner of Main and Lincoln streets):  brucegagnon177089.substack.com/p/hands-off-iran

Stop bombing Iran – Hands off Palestine & the Middle East was March 7th at 12pm, marching to the US Embassy in London, UK: palestinecampaign.org/events/demonstration-stop-bombing-iran-saturday-7-march/  Stand with Palestinian Women was March 6th at 6pm at Downing Street in London:  palestinecampaign.org/events/stand-with-palestinian-women/

Masar Badil, UNAC, etc. are calling for protests against the US wars on International Quds Day/Al-Quds Day ("Jerusalem Day;" روز جهانی قدس or Ruz Jahâni Quds in Persian), marked on the last Friday during Ramadan, March 13th:  [ masarbadil.org/en/2026/03/7720/ and] unac.notowar.net/emergency-call-to-action-against-us-aggression-and-wars/

Will the next pro-Democratic Party No Kings protest, March 28th, condemn US warmongering? '

From Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement pour une Paix Juste ( justpeaceadvocates.ca ) in Canada: actionnetwork.org/letters/withdraw-canadian-soldiers-assisting-us-aggression-on-iran [On YouTube at: www.youtube.com/@justpeaceadvocates ]

www.justpeaceadvocates.ca/statement-condemnation-of-the-illegal-and-unjust-war-on-iran-by-the-united-states/

cpcml.ca/TML2026/T56005.HTM#1

theworker.news/2026/02/28/us-imperialism-israel-attack-iran-and-assassinate-khamenei-iran-defends-itself/

[ theworker.news/2026/03/06/lebanese-resistance-strikes-israel-as-war-against-us-zionist-aggression-expands/ ]

adc.org/adc-condemns-unauthorized-u-s-war-on-iran/

blackallianceforpeace.com/bapstatements/condemns-war-on-iran

iadllaw.org/2026/02/iadl-condemns-the-joint-u-s-israeli-illegal-aggression-on-iran/

www.veteransforpeace.org/pressroom/news/2026/03/01/veterans-peace-condemns-us-attack-iran

The Green Party of California?

On Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, 86 (April 19, 1939 in Mashhad, Iran – February 28, 2026 in his Tehran office?):  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Khamenei and khamenei.ir 

["The martyrs are a beacon of our collective struggle against occupation and imperialism" – masarbadil.org/en/2026/03/7710/ ]

[ uspeacecouncil.org/cuba-denounces-and-condemns-new-escalation-of-the-economic-siege-imposed-by-the-united-states/ ]

[ thecradle.co/articles/exclusive-ansarallah-official-says-yemen-in-declared-state-of-war ] 

[The Cradle is on Twitter and YouTube:  www.youtube.com/@thecradlemedia ]

[ english.iswnews.com – old website?]

Slightly edited –

Received in the morning on March 7th:

POP OPPOSES TRUMP’S WAR ON IRAN

Statement by Lawrence Hamm, Chairman, People’s Organization for Progress. 

The People’s Organization for Progress is unequivocally opposed to the U.S. war against Iran. This war is one of the most stupid, dangerous, and tragic actions taken by the Trump administration so far and should immediately be brought to an end.

Not one more person should die in this war. Turn the ships around and bring our troops home now. 

We are opposed to this war as are the majority of Americans. We don’t want another war for oil. We don’t want another regime change war. We don’t want another forever war like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. We want peace. 

It is an illegal war since it is not a war declared by Congress. According to the Constitution it is Congress, not the President, who has the power to declare war.

This is a war of imperialist aggression. Iran did not attack the United States and posed no threat to this country. The U.S. attacked Iran first. In this conflict it is our country that is the aggressor.

 Dr Martin Luther King when discussing the Vietnam War said the greatest purveyor of violence                 in the world was the U.S. government. That was true then and it is true today. 

 The U.S. is the purveyor of state terror. The Trump administration acts like a mafia state with little regard for domestic and international law. He kidnaps Venezuela’s president and holds him for ransom, for a cut of the oil business. 

He kills the president of Iran, knock him off to get him out of the way. He strangles countries like Cuba with economic sanctions, so he can take over their territory. 

This war is totally unnecessary and in part is one of Trump’s own makings. It has already caused the needless loss of not only American and Iranian lives but also the lives of people in other countries in the region.

POP opposes the war with Iran because it is paid for with funds that could have been used for our domestic needs, such as health care, education, jobs, and housing. It is not only paid for in tax dollars it is paid for with lives. 

 Rich people benefit from these wars, but their children don’t fight in them. Barron Trump will not be fighting in Iran. It is the sons and daughters of the working class, poor folk, black people, Latinos, and other minorities who make up the majority of those who will fight and die in Iran and other wars for empire.  Trump’s recent attack on Iran began a few days ago but it has already become a regional conflagration. In a region already roiling from Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians, and Trump’s attack on Iran last year, the U.S. and Israel decided to strike Iran again. 

  In retaliation Iran has struck back at U.S. forces and also bombed Israel, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Syria. This conflict has the potential of escalating further and dragging us into a world war. 

 Despite Trump’s pronouncements, he bears responsibility for bringing the U.S. into this conflict. He says this is about nuclear weapons. However, he withdrew the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal that was in place that kept Iran from developing nuclear weapons. 

 However, most people know this war is not about nuclear weapons. Iran is one of the major producers of oil. This is yet another war for oil. This is a war about U.S. dominance and empire. 

 Iran is the biggest obstacle to Israel’s hegemony in the region. Israel has been urging the U.S. to go to war with Iran for decades. This war is about Israel’s hegemony in the region and the establishment of Netanyahu’s goal of a “greater Israel,” which he announced at the United Nations. 

  Many understand that this war is about distraction. This is a war to draw our attention away from the Epstein files, which is shaping up to be perhaps one of the biggest scandals in American history. A scandal which many believe could implicate President Trump and several of his cabinet members in various types of criminal activity. 

 The People’s Organization for Progress urges people to take every action necessary to bring this unjust war with Iran to an end. People should utilize every tool available to express their opposition to this war. In the fight for peace there is something everyone can do. 

 We should take to the streets and protest now and keep the protests up until the war in Iran ends.  Demonstrations took place this weekend in cities and towns across the country. 

 There will be another massive wave of No Kings protests across the U.S. on Saturday, March 28th. A No Kings protests is scheduled for that day beginning 12:00 noon at the Lincoln Statue, 12 Springfield Avenue in Newark, NJ. 

 People should participate in these protests and use them as an opportunity to demonstrate opposition to Trump administration’s foreign policy toward Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti, Congo, Sudan, South Africa, and other countries. 

 We should engage in economic initiatives such as boycotts, divestment, and sanctions. We should boycott and divest from companies whose products and services are used to support these unjust wars. 

  We should pressure our elected officials to take a stand against the war and pass legislation to bring it to an end. We should write, call, text, email, and meet with our congressional representatives and let them know about our opposition to the war. 

 POP calls on all congressional representatives to vote in favor of the war powers resolutions sponsored by U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), Rep Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Ro Khanna (D-CA). 

 These bills require the removal of U.S. Armed Forces from the conflict in Iran and that future military action against Iran must be authorized by Congress. 

 We must use our votes for peace. We should vote for anti-war candidates and vote against those that are pro-war. As we fight to end the war in Iran let us also work to change our political-economic system, an imperialist system, that profits from and drives us to war. These wars are not only policy choices they are systemic in nature.

For more information contact the People’s Organization for Progress at (973)-801-0001

 

Received in the evening on March 3rd:

The National Lawyers Guild joins the International Association of Democratic Lawyers in condemning the joint U.S.-Israeli illegal aggression on Iran The National Lawyers Guild joins the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) in condemning in the strongest terms the joint attack by the United States and Israel on the Islamic Republic of Iran, launched on the morning of Saturday, February 28, 2026, amid the holy month of Ramadan.  These attacks constitute another example of the crime of aggression, in blatant violation of article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter and the principles of sovereignty, territorial integrity of states, good neighborliness and the peaceful settlement of disputes. International law clearly prohibits both the use of force and the threat to use force against the territorial integrity of any state, and it is also clear that the United States and Israel have deep disregard and contempt for these principles. These attacks further violate the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. president acted unilaterally and lawlessly — without congressional authorization and absent any imminent threat to the U.S. However, it is important to point out the failure and unwillingness of the U.S. Congress to act to respond to Trump’s other unauthorized hostilities in Iran or anywhere. As many have also pointed out there are over 50 members of Congress who have investments in defense companies and directly profit from these illegal wars.  Neither the U.S. nor Israel has attempted to hide the fact that this aggression is being carried out to facilitate a regime change that they would find amenable to their goals of total domination of the entire region of West Asia militarily, economically and politically, and to deprive the Palestinian people under occupation and facing an ongoing genocide of support for their capacity to resist and free themselves of this unlawful occupation. We are reminded of the 12-day war of June 2025, another illegal aggression perpetrated by the same parties against Iran, which the NLG and IADL also strongly condemned. The persistent lack of accountability or any meaningful consequences for those responsible has not merely enabled further warmongering and destruction; it has entrenched a culture of impunity that effectively amounts to complicity. Once again, we note that purported negotiations that claimed to seek a peaceful resolution or to address nuclear development were used as a sham in an attempt to lower Iranian defenses, as we have seen before in the context of the invasion of Iraq. Israeli officials have openly stated that they have planned this attack over months and weeks, spanning a larger period of time than any of the negotiation rounds. Such aggression not only underlines the bad faith of the United States and Israel but also discourages nations from participating in peace talks or negotiations, when it has been made clear that these states view such negotiations only as a way to pass time until a new aggression is launched.  This aggression follows by less than two months the U.S. attack on Venezuela and the unlawful abduction of its president and first lady, and comes amid the ongoing war threats and oil blockade imposed on Cuba. This complete disregard for the process of negotiations only encourages nuclear proliferation around the world; we further note that the United States holds the world’s largest supply of nuclear weapons and is the only state to have used them. Further, Israel is an undeclared nuclear power that routinely makes threats based on its nuclear weapons capacity.  We note that Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, is still the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity, while pursuing constant war and aggression against the Palestinian people targeted for genocide, Lebanon, Syria, and now, once again, Iran. The aggression is the continuation of the illegal aggression launched last year as well as a continuation of a sustained and deliberate campaign of hostile acts spanning more than 46 years – including sanctions designed to destroy the Iranian economy, coordinated cyber-warfare operations, targeted assassinations and systematic acts of sabotage.  We urge all states to provide all necessary assistance, consistent with their obligations under international law, to the Islamic Republic of Iran, Palestine, and other nations subjected to unlawful aggression by the United States and Israel,  and to condemn their serious violations of international law, including genocide. We underline that this aggression is a threat not only to all of the peoples and nations of the West Asian region but to the future of multilateralism, international law, and the territorial integrity of states. Iran, a sovereign nation, has the clear and legitimate right to defend itself against this unlawful aggression. We urge all states to immediately implement an arms embargo on Israel and the U.S., withdraw their ambassadors, and pursue legal actions to hold their military and political officials accountable.  We cannot rely solely on states or international institutions to end this aggression. We urge all supporters of justice, sovereignty, peace, and international law to participate in mass demonstrations and actions against the aggression on Iran, and to mobilize popular pressure to bring the aggression to an end. We urge all legal organizations, lawyers and human rights organizations to utilize domestic and international systems to hold Israeli and U.S. officials and soldiers accountable for their unlawful aggression against Iran and their acts of genocide in Palestine, as well as to support and defend organizers and social movements against state repression for their work to end war and genocide.  The Military Law Taskforce (MLT) of the National Lawyers Guild reminds U.S. armed service members that they have the right and the duty to resist and refuse illegal orders. The MLTF pledges to support those who do so, and support service members who protest or stand against this disastrous war.

MLTF Condemns Unprovoked US/Israeli Attack On Iran The MILITARY LAW TASK FORCE of the NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD categorically condemns the unprovoked US/Israeli attack on Iran.  This is a grotesque violation of international law and the U.S. Constitution.  Iran is a sovereign nation and a member of the United Nations as is the United States.  The UN Charter is a treaty which is the “supreme law of the land” under Article VI of the US Constitution. Article 2(4) of the  UN Charter states, “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.” The aggression here is a crime under international law and is committed when, as here, a country attacks another that is not threatening it and is not carried out in self-defense against an attack. There can be no justification for the attack if, as President Trump proclaimed, Iran’s nuclear weapons program was “obliterated” in another illegal act just over six months ago. We recall that, for the past two decades or more, Netanyahu has claimed that Iran was within weeks of having a nuclear weapon. Those claims were false, however, even if true, a resolution was being negotiated when the current assault occurred. We remind U.S. armed service members that they have the right and the duty to resist and refuse illegal orders. We pledge our full support to those who do so, and to service members who protest or stand against this disastrous war. See also: IADL condemns the joint U.S.-Israeli illegal aggression on Iran MLTF FAQ on Refusing Illegal Orders

Received in the morning on March 3rd:

Scintilla n. 158, March 2026
[ piattaformacomunista.com/index.php/scintilla-n-158-marzo-2026/ ] by the Organization for the Communist Party of the Proletariat (Italy)

Let us develop solidarity with the Cuban people, to put an end to the criminal blockade imposed by U.S. imperialism

We relaunch this appeal for Cuba, which is resisting with dignity and firmness the decades-long embargo, the cruelest ever imposed on a people, and the attempts at armed infiltration orchestrated by US imperialism and its mafia accomplices.

Support for Cuba and the rejection of the criminal and genocidal Yankee policy are developing in all areas. Also in our country, in various cities, solidarity initiatives are being organized in which our comrades actively participate.

Together with the Cuban people, for the end of the criminal blockade imposed by US imperialism!

The Cuban people are facing unprecedented material hardship. The blockade of oil supplies imposed by Trump's proto-fascist administration means that not a drop of oil is coming from Venezuela and Mexico. Surgeries in hospitals have been suspended. It is very cold and blackouts are continuous. Transportation is cut.

The noose around the neck imposed on Cuba since 1962 by the United States, through a criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade, is tightening in order to destabilize the island economically and politically.

The Trump administration's revival of the criminal "Monroe" doctrine in the Caribbean and Latin America, which aims for "regime change" favorable to the interests of U.S. monopolies, is placing an enormous burden on the shoulders of the Cuban people.

The vassals of NATO's aggressive and warmongering pact, especially the Meloni government, are following Trump's policy of "force", without a breath. They hypocritically preach peace while rearming and making themselves complicit in the embargo, aggression and genocide against the peoples.

For their part, the "friendly countries", such as China and Russia, look after their own imperialist interests and do not dare to confront the USA over Cuba. The bourgeois governments of Latin America and the "non-aligned" limit themselves to declarations, without carrying out concrete actions.

In this situation, the overwhelming majority of the Cuban population is resisting, tenaciously defending its gains and does not want to surrender to the plans of domination of the Yankee imperialists.

In the face of the threats, blackmail and aggression that the Cuban people are subjected to, one cannot hide one's head and close one's eyes.

The working class and peoples are called upon to develop a united and supportive mobilization together with the Cuban people, who want to live in peace and be the architects of their own future, continuing their anti-imperialist and democratic revolution.

The contrast between oppressor imperialism and the oppressed peoples is getting worse and worse. But in our country too little is still being done to denounce imperialist aggression and show solidarity with the Cuban people, who generously helped us during the pandemic.

It is therefore necessary to give impetus to a mass mobilization, following the example of that for Palestine.

We appeal to the forces of the workers' and trade unions' movement, to the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist realities, to the sincere lovers of freedom and peace to raise their voices and extend their actions of solidarity with the heroic Cuban people who are resisting and struggling against imperialism.

Let us multiply the initiatives at the local level, to reach a national day of denunciation and internationalist solidarity alongside the Cuban people and other peoples attacked by imperialism.

We demand an immediate end to the blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba!

NO to any imperialist interference and aggression! Cancellation of Cuba's debts and support for the population! We defend the right of the Cuban people to self-determination!

 

Scintilla n. 158, March 2026 by the Organization for the Communist Party of the Proletariat (Italy)

Let us mobilize against the imperialist and Zionist aggression against Iran, for peace and solidarity among the peoples!

U.S. imperialism and its watchdog in the Middle East, Israeli Zionism, resumed coordinated aggression against Iran on February 28 on a large scale.

Numerous military and civilian targets, such as homes, schools, hospitals, infrastructure, in Tehran and other Iranian cities have been hit.

Over 153 girls from a primary school in Minab were massacred by Israeli bombs. Thousands of civilians have died and are injured at the moment. This is the true face of the "humanitarian and preventive intervention" of which the executioners Trump and Netanyahu speak!

The attack has been planned for months and the negotiations have only served as a cover while the military apparatus around Iran has been strengthened since the "12-day" war.

The US says it wants to overthrow the theocratic regime of the mullahs (a goal it has pursued for half a century) and to prevent Iran's nuclear program. In reality, with the war they want to consolidate their economic and political control of the region, rob Iran's energy wealth and gain geostrategic positions compared to their Chinese rival. This is to defend their declining world hegemony at all costs.

For Israel, this is the continuation of the war to strengthen the dominance of the Zionist state in the Middle East region.

The war is presented by the spokespersons of US and EU imperialism as being in the interest of the Iranian people. "When we're done with our job, take control of your government," Trump said. But the bombs and missiles launched by US imperialism and its Zionist ally will not bring democracy and sovereignty to the Iranian people. On the contrary, the labor and democratic movement in Iran has suffered a severe blow with this imperialist aggression.

Whenever the U.S. and its allies have attacked a country under the pretext of "regime change" they have brought only ruin and disasters, massacres and regimes worse than the previous ones; the wealth of the peoples has been plundered and repression has intensified.

The United States supports the most reactionary and oppressive regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and the zionist and racist Israeli state.

They are not the liberators of the Iranian people but their oppressors. The liberation of the Iranian people can only come from the working class and the popular masses themselves!

The breadth and destructiveness of the U.S.-Israeli aggression, the assassination of Khamenei, the Iranian response against U.S. targets in the Middle East, as well as the beginning of hostilities between Pakistan and Afghanistan, indicate that the war will not be short and will spread to a region that is a powder keg due to its geographical location, communication routes and sources of raw material.

The war, with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, will lead to a worsening of the economic situation, as it will have a strong impact on energy supplies, will affect key elements for world production and trade, and will increase the likelihood of a crisis on the financial markets.

The repercussions of this war, which are added to the ongoing one in Ukraine and the ongoing stagnation, will be heavy for the working masses of our country, with recession and layoffs, high inflation, further attacks on wages and democratic freedoms.

In this dramatic situation, the despicable attitude of the representatives of the EU bourgeoisie must be denounced: as in Gaza, Venezuela and Cuba, full consent to US aggression and interference, no condemnation of violations of international law!

The Meloni government is continuing to align itself with Washington's warmongering policy, calling the Iranian response, not the aggression of the US and Israel, "unacceptable". The liberal-reformist parliamentary "opposition", after having encouraged for months the same policy that resulted in this new aggression, now appeals to the far-right government for a de-escalation.

Italy's membership in NATO, a war and terror organization directed by the United States, makes us complicit in the massacres and wars wanted by Trump and exposes us to terrible risks.

We cannot remain silent! Against this new imperialist and reactionary aggression that follows the one that took place against the Palestinian people, against Venezuela, the threats against Cuba, a vibrant proletarian and popular protest must be developed in the workplaces and in the plazas, as is already happening in many countries!

We call on the working class, the working masses, the women and men who love peace, progress and freedom to strongly condemn the criminal attack perpetrated by the USA and Israel, to unite and mobilize against the imperialist war, in defense of peace among the peoples.

Let us create a broad anti-imperialist anti-fascist united front, to stop the imperialists who are fighting among themselves for a new division of the world to be carried out on the backs of the workers and peoples.

We say: enough to the denial of sovereignty and the right to self-determination of peoples, to the policy of war and to the violation of the most elementary human rights.

Stop imperialist attacks against the peoples of Iran, the Palestinian people, Cuba and Venezuela!

Italy out of NATO and the EU, close US bases! Kick the warmongers out of power!

Solidarity with the peoples oppressed and attacked by imperialism!

The path that leads to social and national liberation, to fraternity among the peoples, to peace and the well-being of the working people is the path of revolution and socialism!

www.pcmle.org/EM/spip.php?article14349 ?

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador – Member of the International Conference of Marxist-Leninist Parties and Organizations – ICMLPO

Stop the imperialist-Zionist aggression against Iran and its people

A new criminal attack has been launched by US imperialism and Israeli Zionism, this time, the victims of the bombings are Iran and its people. The pretext is the same as always: "to bring democracy", "to fight terrorism", "to liberate a people" and "to save humanity". With that speech, the United States has attacked dozens of countries on all continents, causing destruction and death.

The first fatalities of the bombing of Iranian soil were more than 60 girls from a girls' school in southern Iran and the number of victims elsewhere is growing. Donald Trump, in the speech announcing this military intervention, warned that "bombs will fall everywhere" and that "they will face certain death" if they do not surrender, and he is complying with it.

These attacks are part of the escalation of US imperialism, which arrogates to itself the role of world policeman, and correspond to a strategy of containment against those it identifies as enemies and as factors that erode its already weakened hegemony.

The final consequences of this conflict are unforeseeable. In addition to the deaths of civilians, the destruction of infrastructure and forced migration, there is a risk of a generalization of the conflict in the region, as well as its impact on the global energy market, the volatility of financial markets and the impact on supply chains, among other factors that could deepen the risks of a global economic recession.

The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador strongly condemns and rejects the criminal and terrorist attack perpetrated by U.S. imperialism and Israeli Zionism against Iran and its people. The fact that Iran is ruled by a reactionary theocratic regime is no justification for foreign military intervention; it is up to the workers and peoples of that country to decide and resolve their destiny sovereignly.

We call on the workers and peoples of Ecuador and the world to reject this imperialist-Zionist aggression and to manifest solidarity with Iran and its people.

Political Bureau of the Central Committee

Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador

February 28, 2026