For a Worldwide Anti-Imperialist United Front! Workers, Anti-Imperialists, Russia, China – Unite!
Defeat Israel/US and all Imperialist Criminals! Defend Iran, Cuba, Palestine and the Donbass!
Today’s attack on Iran is a major escalation towards all out regional war in West Asia, in pursuit of the Greater Israel project. Symbolically, Israel attacked Iran on Purim, the most militaristic of the Jewish religious festivals, which supposedly involved Jews slaughtering large numbers of would-be gentile killers in ancient Iran (Persia). This is akin to the Zionist regime citing ‘Amalek’ from the Torah to ‘justify’ the extermination of Palestinians in Gaza – a restatement of the genocidal religious fanaticism of today’s Zionist imperialism. Which paradoxically was founded by non-believers, who nevertheless regarded ancient religious texts as their licence for genocide right from the start. It is reminiscent of the mythology of Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa invasion of the USSR in 1941. The Trump administration effectively committed itself pretty much from the start to support for this project. But now they may have bitten off more than they can chew.
The home-grown version of Trump’s own strategy for US imperialism is retrenchment in the Western Hemisphere, with the outrageous aggression against Venezuela, the kidnapping of Maduro, and the starvation blockade of Cuba, aiming at a ‘takeover’, meaning a small-scall version of Hitler’s 1941 USSR invasion in the Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean against the island workers state. Irrespective of these important complexities and nuances in the relations between the imperialist aggressors, we say: Victory to Iran! Defeat Israel and the US! Defeat Trump’s deadly attack on the Cuban Revolution!
This is the content behind MAGA’s sometime claim to be opposed to the neocon ‘forever wars’ that the US has waged mainly in West Asia since the collapse of the USSR, mainly on Israel’s behalf, beginning with the duplicitous green light US Ambassador April Glaspie gave to Iraq’s Saddam Hussein to seize Kuwait in 1990, which led to the 1991 first major US attack on a Middle Eastern country for Israel. The first of several – revealed by Wesley Clark in 2007 – continuing with Iraq in 2003, Libya in 2011, and the decade-long covert US -funded Jihad against Assad’s Syria that concluded in early 2025, accompanied by Israel’s genocide of Gaza Palestinians, now spreading to the West Bank.
Now we have another Ziocon war against Iran, for colonial conquest, or ‘regime change’, and the restoration of the Pahlavi monarchy. This was the objective of the Mossad -armed and funded attempted ‘colour revolution’ at the beginning of 2026, as the US, on Israel’s behalf, engineered a major attack on Iran’s currency and sought to exploit the resulting plight of the population to take control of Iran. But after a short period of turmoil, the population, including many who are not fond of Iran’s clerical leadership, turned on the provocateurs and rightly rallied to defend Iran against the Mossad/US puppet killers.
Trump’s rise to power, ‘America First’ rhetoric notwithstanding, was funded by Netanyahu’s Likud party in Israel, and it appears that he is a puppet dancing on a string, impaled by his deep involvement in the Epstein child-sex trafficking operation. This is evidently part of the Zionist lobby’s means of cementing effective Israeli control of US West Asia policy, and to a considerable degree that in West Europe as well, including Britain, as the central role of Peter Mandelson as the ideological/practical centre of Blair and Starmer’s regime’s show – the Iraq invader and the Gaza genocidaire.
In the case of the United States, the contradiction between Trump’s sometimes isolationist words, and his subservience to the imperialist bourgeoisie’s cult of Zionism is stark and has fragmented his base. The projected war against Iran, which has now started, has only 20% approval among the US population, which is incredibly low. The evident passive mutiny among the 4000-strong crew of the aircraft carrier Gerald R Ford, sabotaging hundreds of onboard toilets and leaving it swimming in sewage, is another indication of popular opposition within the military to this war for the Greater Israel imperialist project.
It is good that Iran effectively defeated Israel in the 12-day war of June 2025: Netanyahu was reduced to pleading with Trump to secure him a ceasefire as one-third of Tel Aviv suffered severe damage from Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal. They hardly even used their most potent hypersonic missiles and still Israel had to back off. Though at the beginning of the war Iran suffered from a treacherous surprise attack and several leading figures including from its military defence forces were murdered, it soon recovered – the attackers completely failed to eliminate its civilian nuclear facilities, which are mendaciously portrayed as being somehow connected with nuclear weapons. And since then, Russia and China, who regard Iran as an important ally and partner in BRICS, have supplied Iran with much more powerful conventional weaponry, including more advanced hypersonic missiles and much improved air defence, and military aircraft. Iran has threatened to respond to US and Israeli aggression by retaliating against Israel and US bases throughout West Asia, in Iraq, Qatar and other Gulf states, Syria, you name it.
It is to Iran’s cost that the semi-pacifistic, humanistic religious beliefs of its clerical leaders, centred on Imam Ali Khamenei, rejects the idea of possessing nuclear weapons even for self-defence. Over the last few decades, they could easily have obtained them and if they had they would now be impossible for the US and Zionists to attack. That, along with their penchant for neo-liberal, capitalist economics and repeated illusory attempts to negotiate with their enemies, are legitimate reasons to criticise the clerical regime from the left. But irrespective of that, we need an anti-imperialist united front to defend Iran urgently and defeat this imperialist aggression.
It is very much in the interest of the world working class that the workers’ movement comes to Iran’s defence. Most of the US population is opposed to this aggression – we need political strikes against it, in the US and elsewhere. Despite Starmer’s public refusal to allow US bases in Britain to be used for this attack – a concession to popular opposition – there is information indicating that British intelligence is involved in this just as it is involved in the reactionary pro-Nazi proxy war in Ukraine against the Russian-speaking people of the Donbass. Socialists must militantly oppose all such imperialist aggression and also welcome such assistance as adversaries of the imperialist West, such as the Chinese deformed workers state, Russia, etc, are able to give to Iran. We need a massive anti-imperialist united front, a unified fist to defeat this imperialist aggression and lay the basis for a renewed offensive for world socialism against the declining US empire, the Zionist regime, and their imperialist allies and lackeys.
