The World Socialist Web Site is holding an emergency global webinar this Sunday, March 8, at 3:00 p.m. EDT to explain the origins of the US imperialist war against Iran, the social forces driving it and the strategy required to stop it. We urge all our readers to register to attend.
On Sunday, the World Socialist Web Site is sponsoring an international webinar to outline a strategy and program to stop the brutal imperialist onslaught against Iran. The aim of this discussion is to place the struggle against the war in its necessary historical, political and social context. The webinar will cut through the endless stream of lying propaganda and disinformation pumped out by the White House, the corporate media and all the imperialist governments.
What is unfolding before our eyes is a war of extermination against a country of over 90 million people. In one week, the United States and Israel have assassinated Iran’s supreme leader and dozens of senior officials, bombed a girls’ school in Minab—killing nearly 150 children—and struck hospitals and civilian infrastructure across the country. An unarmed Iranian frigate was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, sending 180 sailors to their death. More than 1,000 Iranians have been killed. The Trump administration boasts that this is the most lethal air bombardment in modern history. These are war crimes.
And the war is expanding—into Lebanon and across the Middle East. French warships patrol the eastern Mediterranean. Washington is arming Kurdish separatists to foment civil war inside Iran. Every imperialist power has lined up behind this criminal enterprise.
The United States has waged unrelenting aggression against Iran for over 70 years—from the CIA overthrow of the bourgeois nationalist prime minister Mossadegh in 1953, to the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities last June. This war is inseparable from the genocide in Gaza, which served as both testing ground and political precedent for the methods now being applied on a vastly greater scale.
This is not merely the product of the delusional megalomania of Donald Trump. It is the latest and most brutal of the wars launched by the United States, with the support of all imperialist governments, over the last 35 years, that is, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
This war is being waged not only against the people of Iran. It is part of a violent global war against working people all over the world.
Trump now declares that the war will end with the “unconditional surrender” of Iran. The task of the working class is to turn this war into an unmitigated and unconditional defeat and disaster for US and world imperialism.
This war will not be stopped by appeals to imperialist governments and politicians. The defense of the Iranian people and the defeat of the war criminals require the political mobilization of the global working class against world capitalism. This can be achieved only on the basis of an international socialist strategy.
The webinar will consist of a discussion and analysis of the war by an international panel of socialist experts on a wide range of historical, theoretical and political issues. The panelists will examine the causes of the war and its international dimensions.
Register today at wsws.org/iranwebinar. Inform your coworkers, family and friends. This webinar will contribute to the building of a powerful movement to stop this criminal imperialist war.