International Declaration of May 1, 2026
The defeat of imperialism and Nazism is a victory for the workers of the world
Today, with the prospect of the defeat of the US and Israel in the war against Iran, we are seeing, for the first time since the US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, the prospect of a direct military defeat of US imperialism, the greatest war machine in all history.
Trump has not been able to overthrow the government, nor to cause an internal political and social crisis in Iran, he has not been able to disarm its state-of-the-art technological military power, he has not been able to open the Strait of Hormuz, whose trade has been one of the pillars for the support of the dollar for half a century. The setback for the US does not stop there. Iran’s measure of strength, the closing of the Strait, has been acting as an element of economic warfare, of cumulative pressure for the increase in inflation, revision of growth targets and global recession, for the skyrocketing of oil prices and in train, of all other commodities that depend on it, and simultaneously also generates a liquidity crisis as a trigger for the bursting of the speculative bubble of Artificial Intelligence, whose valuation feeds on the petrodollar circuit.
The offensive against Iran does not find direct support even within the imperialist system itself. None of the G-7 governments enlisted in the military coalition, none heeded the call for the clearance of Hormuz. Spain, Italy and Britain formally opposed serving as a base for attacks on the Persian nation – these tensions are a breakdown of world rule that no afternoon tea between Charles III and Trump will resolve, while even the vassal government of Germany recognizes that the US is being humiliated by Iran.
Iran demonstrates that resistance well prepared over decades, the end of conciliationist illusions and firmness of principle can defeat even the richest and most powerful armies in all history.
Even if the cowardly and desperate Trump and Netanyahu try to reverse the humiliating defeat that marked the first two months of war with a heinous crime against humanity by carrying out a nuclear attack on Tehran, there has already been a victory of the workers of a superior qualitative importance. Champion of the Palestinian cause and the Axis of Resistance, in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen or Iraq, Iran represents the dignity of humanity against Nazis-Zionist barbarism. She is already the champion of the struggle for the right to exist of the Palestinians and of the millennial Persian civilization, against nuclear threats, wars of extermination and genocide.
Any defeat of these manifestations of capitalism could be an enormous spur to struggles against capital, which has in imperialism its phase of greatest accumulation and in fascism its most rabid watchdog. The defeat of imperialism or fascism paves the way for the defeat of capitalism.
This victory over the US and Israel is intended by the governments of the armed oppressed countries, such as China and Russia, to form a global anti-imperialist front that stimulates mass mobilization against Trump in the US and Europe, and against Zionism in the occupied territories or even in Israel, which stimulates resistance against coup d’état in Mali or Brazil. to the struggle against Milei’s enslaving policies in Argentina and Russia’s own victory against NATO in Ukraine. The defeats in Asia, Africa and Europe make the US seek to reconcentrate forces on the American continent, which tends to intensify its offensive against Latin American workers to compensate for the lost ground in the rest of the globe.
Cuba is the victim of a genocidal blockade aimed at suffocating it energetically and economically — an offensive that intensified after the imperialist intervention in Venezuela in January of this year. China and Russia are currently providing a great deal of oil and solar energy supply chain to Cuba. The anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggle must take centre stage of the workers’ struggle at this time. It must be accompanied by the struggles of the economic-union terrain: for the reduction of the working day, wage increases, renationalization of privatized companies and industrialization of the country; in the electoral political field, for the victory of Lula in Brazil, Cepeda, in Colombia and for the release of Maduro, Cilia Flores and Venezuela, now under the permanent blackmail of the Pentagon; the de-occupation of Lebanon and free Palestine from the River to the Sea.
It is in this context of imperialist coups and the response to them by the oppressed workers and peoples that we find ourselves on this May Day, aware that an anti-fascist and anti-imperialist (and therefore decidedly anti-Zionist) regroupment of the international vanguard is more urgent than ever and must be carried out as the best line of continuity with the martyrs murdered by US imperialism in Chicago in the victorious struggle at the time for the reduction of the working day. work for 8 hours. The development of technologies in the last century, such as AI itself, has made it possible to reduce the working day to a few hours a day and to much fewer days a week, but, as Marx predicted, the development of machinery in capitalism, instead of reducing, increases the working day and the precariousness of work, so capitalism parasitism leads to inhuman working hours, even in China (where it was banned) or Silicon Valley. Under the leadership of the proletariat, the effective reduction of the working day will finally achieve the broad right to free time of the dreams of the Chicago martyrs and machines, such as AI, will serve as tools for this, and not as an element of blackmail by the capitalists over the workers, as today.
All these partial victories are important steps, they represent in germ the victory of the world working class, the victory of socialism, from an incipient and broad anti-imperialist front, which is being forced into mutual cooperation so as not to be defeated in chains. But in most oppressed nations the idea of a peaceful coexistence with enemies, of a capitalist multipolar world still predominates, demonstrating that this anti-imperialist front is as incipient as it is insufficient. That is why we need an international strategic organization of communists to give effect to the anti-imperialist struggle and advance on capitalism through the world socialist revolution.
